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Cost of pilots' ID cards scheme revealed
News Spending on the wider ID cards project was revealed in the IPS accounts, which showed the IPS spent £85.1m on developing tech for the National Identity Scheme, which includes tech to support both ID cards and second-generation biometric passports...
[July 24, 2009, 8:34]
Get Safe Online membership costs revealed
News A Word document sent in error to silicon.com, ZDNet UK's sister site, has revealed that the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) has specifically been consulting only with security and online fraud experts willing to pay between £50,000 and...
[October 28, 2005, 14:25]
Revealed: Blair's broadband wake-up call
News Ed Richards, on his last day of duty as Tony Blair's senior policy adviser on media and telecommunications -- before joining Ofcom as a senior partner -- revealed on Thursday that immediately after Labour's landslide general election win in 2001...
[March 28, 2003, 15:17]
BBC's iPlayer numbers revealed
News These are just some of the fascinating facts revealed by iPlayer boss Anthony Rose, in an exclusive one-on-one interview with ZDNet UK's sister site CNET UK. During peak hours, BBC iPlayer pumps out 12GB of data every second, and seven petabytes...
[May 11, 2009, 12:06]
High-Tech Crimes Revealed review
Reviews Overall, High-Tech Crimes Revealed: Cyberwar Stories from the Digital Front is a useful and interesting -- if distinctly US-orientated -- book. Branigan is a former manager for Bell Labs Computing and Network Research, and has a background in both...
[November 17, 2004, 7:35]
Scale of online tax credit fraud revealed
News More than half of the 40,000 suspicious tax credit applications detected by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) during a six-month period last year are believed to have been made by organised criminal gangs, new government figures have revealed.
[January 17, 2006, 8:35]
Internet villain nominees revealed
News In October it was revealed that the RIAA was planning to use what it called a "licensing virus" to target users' PCs directly to stop them from using peer-to-peer online services. The BBC, music publishers and a disparate group of analysts have...
[December 23, 2002, 8:31]
EDS investigations revealed
News The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has investigated IT supplier EDS four times over the past three years, a Freedom of Information (FoI) Act request has revealed. The OGC commissioned a first investigation from accountant firm Deloitte into...
[February 16, 2005, 11:40]
Secret of Ginger to be revealed?
News Other details revealed by Kamen have been that the device takes just 10 minutes to assemble, has a price tag of less than $2,000, (£1,404) and will debut in 2002. More details on Ginger, the alleged scooter at the centre of controversy and wild...
[November 30, 2001, 9:12]
Secrets of stock spam scams revealed
Talkback I too have been recieving irritating stock spam mail. There seems to be no way to block it as a different sender, with a thereafter non-existant address and subject title is used each time - presumably computer generated.
[August 24, 2006, 11:44]
Secrets of stock spam scams revealed
Talkback I receive a whole bunch of these stock scam spam mails every single day - I get far more of those than any other form of spam. Since I'm not in the USA nor even remotely interested in investing money I don't have, it is really annoying.
[July 16, 2006, 22:58]
'10 new XP SP2 flaws' revealed
Talkback But it has been proved before that OSX is in terms of structure more robust than any version of Windows.
[November 15, 2004, 12:48]
'10 new XP SP2 flaws' revealed
Talkback While not wishing to trash Apple as they produce fine machines, I can't help thinking that if they were to take over the position of PCs as the dominant systems, they too would be the target of virus writers as they are not immune from viruses.
[November 14, 2004, 14:08]
'10 new XP SP2 flaws' revealed
Talkback I really don't want to sound like yet another mean spirited gloating Apple user but really, this is all very confusing. Here we yet yet more flaws in windows and very few of you appear to have the gumption to do anything but accept it.
[November 14, 2004, 7:22]
Secrets of stock spam scams revealed
Talkback I recommend closing down your email account and setting up a new one. Auto-Mailers can cause a lot of problems. Some of my clients have actually had their internet service shut down by their ISP due to being infected by Auto-Mailers.
[October 15, 2006, 0:43]
UK's broadband capital revealed
Talkback Whoops! Well spotted - I shall immediately lobby the editors to send me there in penance.
[August 2, 2006, 15:20]
'10 new XP SP2 flaws' revealed
Talkback If it's rubbish then why is Microsoft investigating it still? Either Microsoft states that they're still investigating and will report their findings in due time OR they call it rubbish and at the same time don't mind if the exploit code is...
[November 12, 2004, 22:07]
Windows 7 variants revealed
Blog Comment Out of his listing, he left out Home Basic. No the bozos still haven't figured out that it was confusing the first time and its going to be as confusing this time. What really makes things super stupid is that somebody released the idea that MS was...
[February 5, 2009, 13:32]
UK's broadband capital revealed
Talkback I think you'll find Carlisle is in England, not Scotland.
[August 2, 2006, 12:09]
EDS investigations revealed
Talkback I would like to think that the OGC did this type of analysis on all suppliers to the Government and therefore I am extremly pleased that these reports exist. It would have been useful if the OGC had made this clear.
[February 16, 2005, 15:16]
