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ID Cards Scheme: Potential Suppliers Named
News Eight companies are in the running to be key suppliers for the Identity and Passport Service's National Identity Scheme. The companies named as potential suppliers for the scheme — which includes the national ID cards programme — are Accenture, BAE...
[October 23, 2007, 10:00]
Easynet's Trigger Scheme Aims To Close Broadband Divide
News A broadband demand aggregation scheme launched by Easynet on Wednesday could help to bring high-speed Internet services to parts of the UK that are currently excluded from Broadband Britain. Fielder admitted that, as with BT's trigger scheme, some...
[September 17, 2003, 18:05]
An Efficient Image Retrieval Scheme On Java Enabled Mobile Devices
White Papers The implementation of an advanced retrieval scheme is presented. This scheme is called Compact Media Retrieval on Progressive Query (CMRPQ) on mobile platforms. Image retrieval over wireless networks is a challenging research problem.
[June 21, 2006, 0:00]
EU To Introduce Own 'Green Card' Scheme
Blog Whether you see the scheme as a good thing or a bad thing, expect to see a lot of ruckus surrounding it. But since engineering and IT are the alleged focus for this scheme, what do you think of the idea?
[October 23, 2007, 13:05]
ID Card Scheme 'to Cost £5.4bn'
Talkback It's only far that the idiots behind this scheme make up any shortfall in the funding costs personally then. Spoke to a Policeman friend the other day and they have renewed their passports to keep out of the scheme as long as possible and as they...
[October 10, 2006, 10:56]
Government's Secure Shopping Scheme Condemned
News A government scheme to increase consumer confidence in buying online launched Tuesday has been overshadowed by stiff criticism from a former partner on the project. But independent e-commerce certification organisation Clicksure -- involved with...
[July 18, 2000, 12:26]
A Fair And Efficient Resource Management Scheme To Support Transient Data Recovery For Migrating Users In Wireless Multicast Networks
White Papers This paper presents a Fair and Efficient Wireless Multicast resource management Scheme (FEWMS) that effectively addresses this problem. Deployment of the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and rapid development of Universal Mobile...
[June 28, 2004, 0:00]
A Bandwidth-Based Polling Scheme For QoS Support In Bluetooth
White Papers A flexible bandwidth management scheme namely Bandwidth-based Polling (BBP) for Bluetooth is proposed. A framing structure of time is defined in BBP, and the master allocates proper number of slots for each active slave in a frame.
[November 10, 2005, 23:00]
The Electronic Product Code (EPC): A Naming Scheme For Physical Objects
White Papers This naming scheme also accommodates depth throughout the supply chain, including vehicles, pallets, containers, packages and items. The Electronic Product Code, presented in this paper, is intended to provide a simple, efficient and uniform naming...
[June 23, 2004, 0:00]
Government Broadband Scheme Abandoned
Talkback I wonder if the DTI will now require the refund of the substantlal fee paid to scheme designers AT Kearney?
[December 4, 2004, 11:19]
ID Card-scheme Reaches Procurement 'milestone'
News The IPS predicts total spending on these procurement contracts will be around £2bn — a significant chunk of the ID card scheme's £5.5bn total budget. The IPS has previously stated that the first UK citizens will receive their ID cards in late 2009...
[August 10, 2007, 8:59]
An Effective Mode Decision Scheme In Macroblock-Based PFGS
White Papers This paper presents a mode decision scheme to make a trade-off between the low drifting error and high coding efficiency, by adding a middle bit-rate loop in encoder to estimate the possible drifting error in decoder and using a R-D model to...
[September 7, 2006, 0:00]
Semantic Labelling Scheme For Web Pages
News The new ICRA scheme can be mixed with other metadata standards, such as Dublin Core. We're also working with other organisations such as trust mark operators, with the plan that their trust labels will also use the same scheme," he said.
[July 12, 2005, 16:20]
A New Efficient Integrated Routing Scheme For SDH/SONET-WDM Multilayer Networks
White Papers This paper presents and evaluates the new Weighted Integrated Routing scheme to solve the problem of dynamic routing and traffic grooming in meshed SDH/SONET-WDM multilayer networks. In optical networks, transmission rates have dramatically...
[October 21, 2004, 0:00]
Anger Over EC Medical Data-sharing Scheme
News The European Commission is about to call for proposals on how patients' medical details would be shared between its member states, with the UK almost certain to be included in the scheme. Anderson also claimed that the scheme was little more than a...
[January 26, 2007, 10:51]
Employee Home-PC Scheme Gets Revamp
News The UK government is planning a new push to encourage more companies to loan PCs to their employees for use at home, due to poor take-up of the original scheme. The Office of the E-envoy wants to increase awareness within British business of the...
[October 7, 2003, 14:00]
'Smart' Bank Card Scheme Goes Nationwide
News The national rollout of new 'smart' bank cards as part of a £1.1bn scheme to cut the UK's £424m annual fraud bill by over half is to begin this week. The 'Chip and PIN' project, which is backed by payment clearing body APACS, banks and the British...
[October 2, 2003, 16:40]
A Space-Time Block-Coded OFDM Scheme For Unknown Frequency-Selective Fading Channels
White Papers This paper introduces a space-time block-coded orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (STBC-OFDM) scheme for frequency-selective fading channels, which does not require channel knowledge either at the transmitter or at the receiver.
[October 21, 2004, 0:00]
A Simple Scalable Space-Frequency Coding Scheme For MIMO-OFDM
White Papers This paper presents a linear space-frequency coding scheme based on permutation matrices, that is scalable with number of antennas and spatial-multiplexing (SM) rate, and is easy to implement. There are several space-time and space-frequency coding...
[July 26, 2005, 0:00]
Sun Extends Start-up Scheme To UK
News The scheme was launched in the US a year ago and, six months later, it was rolled out in India and China. The scheme had already attracted a lot of interest prior to the UK launch, according to Soto. Sun's scheme is not just for technology firms...
[December 5, 2007, 16:15]
