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Sun Sets Up Scottish RFID Test Centre
News Sun is set to turn up the heat in the controversial RFID tracking tag debate by opening a centre in Scotland for European companies to test their radio tag ID systems and make sure they comply with regulatory and privacy laws.
[December 4, 2003, 9:30]
IBM Opens European RFID Test Centre
News The testing and solution centre, the third to open after similar facilities in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and Tokyo, can be used by manufacturers and retailers to test RFID technology in customer environments.
[July 6, 2004, 10:45]
German Retailer Opens RFID Test Centre
News Metro Group, the German retail chain pushing for adoption of radio frequency identification technology, opened its RFID test centre on Wednesday. The Dusseldorf-based company, which operates a range of retail outlets across Germany, said it began...
[July 8, 2004, 9:25]
World-first Test Of Mobile Phone Radiation Begins
News The hospital's Centre for Immunology will simulate mobile phone radiation and test its long-term, intermittent impact on human brain cells. Sydney's St Vincent's hospital has begun to test the long-term effects of mobile phone use in what it claims...
[January 10, 2002, 9:42]
Net Hack Activity Worsening
News PSINet Europe ran the test on an unprotected server at its Internet Data Centre in Amsterdam, and registered a total of 626 malicious attacks over the three-week period. The level of hacking activity on the Internet has been revealed after one...
[January 30, 2003, 8:56]
A Year Ago: Nationwide Puts Faith In Biometrics
News A spokesman for Nationwide said that, providing the trial was successful, the service would be introduced to its Swindon call centre shortly after the test period. Building society to test voice-recognition for telephone banking, with a possible...
[September 29, 2000, 7:02]
Dell And EMC Ally To Keep Businesses Online
News The facility means that customers of Dell, EMC and their partners can test the performance of their data over a 100km distance between Dell’s Application Solution Centre in Limerick and EMC’s Solutions Operations Centre in Cork.
[October 1, 2003, 15:55]
UK Govt Investigates Linux Savings
News The British government and IBM are kicking off nine Linux test programs in an effort to see how much money government agencies can save by switching to open-source software. IBM also announced that it is setting up a Linux competency centre in...
[October 9, 2003, 10:40]
Use These Tips To Plan A Successful Certification Campaign
News Visiting the test centre before test day.Scheduling your test day carefully to avoid work conflicts.Calling ahead to confirm the day and time of the scheduled exam. Several test takers say this boosted their retention of the material.
[March 28, 2003, 11:39]
DNA: The Wild West Of Online Tests
News Gail Javitt, law and policy director for the Genetics and Public Policy Centre at Johns Hopkins University, doesn't point specifically to DNAdirect, but said the whole enterprise of gene testing lacks uniformity when it comes to deciding which...
[May 11, 2006, 12:00]
Sun Taps Into Rise Of RFID
News Along with the middleware package, the company has announced an RFID services partnership with Capgemini and has opened a radio tag system test centre in Dallas -- all within the last month. Middleware is only a piece of the puzzle, and we hope to...
[June 1, 2004, 9:00]
Photos: Cisco Goes Racing In Italy
News One Italian manufacturing company has chosen to use one of its peripheral concerns as a test bed for converged communications. Misano World Circuit, a racetrack near Rimini, is being used as test bed for a series of communications products.
[July 19, 2007, 14:33]
UK Govt Finds Security Flaws In VoIP And Texting Technology
News Microsoft released a patch for its Internet Security and Acceleration Server on Tuesday and published ways to disable the affected service for customers who want to take time to test the software. The flaws were found by the UK's Internet security...
[January 14, 2004, 7:30]
Microsoft Tightens XP's Security
News The Release Candidate 1 (RC1) version of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows XP includes several significant changes from the test version released last year. The biggest change in RC1 is the addition of Windows Security Centre, a new tool that...
[March 18, 2004, 7:25]
Euro Satellite Navigation Takes To The Skies
News The first test satellite - the Giove-A - was launched in December last year and another five satellites will go up in the next couple of years to test the project. Galileo could allow thousands of niche applications to flourish - from bidding for...
[July 27, 2006, 12:10]
The Great 3G Data Card Road Test
News One T-Mobile 3G Communication Centre data card The O2 card also struggled with this test. We then headed along the motorway to the first services outside the city at Heston, onward to Reading -- the throbbing centre of the UK's high-tech corridor...
[November 22, 2004, 18:20]
US Lawmakers Worry RFID Will Hurt Privacy
News Pottie is involved in the Centre for Embedded Networked Sensing, which is based at UCLA and funded by the National Science Foundation. Bowen's office has also invited key members of MIT's Auto-ID Centre, a research group that has been on the...
[August 12, 2003, 15:30]
Microsoft Announces Longhorn Release Date
News In recent months, successively more advanced test versions of Longhorn have been leaked onto the Web, leading observers to speculate that Microsoft has stepped up its development work. You can read a preview of the latest test build of Longhorn here.
[May 8, 2003, 10:56]
Government Launches Open Source Test Lab
News The National Computing Centre (NCC) has set up an open source laboratory to test the viability of the technology for public sector organisations, it has announced. The aim is to help public sector bodies evaluate open source alternatives to...
[June 20, 2005, 15:00]
USB 2 Arrives In Linux Test Version
News The faster version 2.0 of the Universal Serial Bus connection technology, the centre of some controversy with Windows, has been incorporated into the latest test version of Linux. Linus Torvalds, founder and leader of the Linux operating-system...
[January 16, 2002, 11:30]
