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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Windows 7 variants revealed
Blog Comment MS will put mainstream focus on home premium and pro versions. The enterprise version will be used for volume licensing, whilst business will have a one off validation key. Ultimate is intended to be a more rare version, that comes along with...
[February 4, 2009, 1:16]
Windows 7 variants revealed
Blog Comment Will the "promos and special offers" be any more real with Windows 7 than they were with Vista? Can you name a single one that was offered with Vista Ultimate which actually turned out to be real, was delivered as promised, and provided any benefit?
[February 4, 2009, 9:52]
Windows 7 variants revealed
Blog Comment Um.no. From what I've read, each version of 7 will be a logical step up from the next, unlike Vista, which was a mish mash of inclusion and exclusion of features depending on version selected.
[February 4, 2009, 11:11]
'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]
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 At least every 5-year old in the UK knows that to pluralise a word simply involves adding an S to it. One THING two THINGS. Simple, really. So take your gut's and stick them where ther Bush don't shine.
[October 25, 2006, 23:36]
Windows 7 variants revealed
Blog Comment If you want to try out the differing versions now, then V-lite for vista will also work for Windows 7.
[June 20, 2009, 18:42]
Windows 7 variants revealed
Blog Comment MS have taken the route of a mother and her nice new clean house. She wants the house kept clean and tidy and their are rules - she's not having you returning from university with your laundry bags, and vegging out on junk food, the remains of...
[February 4, 2009, 12:53]
Secrets of stock spam scams revealed
Talkback I do not live in the UK, but many of these spam stock emails are coming from outside the US which is where I do reside. Within the past 8 months I have received hundreds of these annoying emails with absolutely no interests in reading them.
[August 18, 2006, 15:34]
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]
High-Tech Crimes Revealed
Member Review What do high-tech criminals get up to, and how do the forces of law and order catch them? Steven Branigan investigates in this fascinating -- if US-biased -- book.
[November 17, 2004, 7:25]
