SAP Project With German Military Stalls
News Bill Wohl, a SAP spokesman in the US, confirmed that the German Federal Armed Forces is a SAP customer but declined to give further information about the project or about the company's relations with the German Ministry of Defence, which oversees...
[November 22, 2002, 10:01]
Pray For Our Soldiers ScreenSaver
Downloads Shows equipment and men and women of the armed forces. Reminds us to be to think about their sacrifice during the holidays. An elegant patriotic screensaver with an quick download and easy install in the spirit of the Support Our Troops and Pray...
[November 22, 2004, 21:46]
US Military Invests In 'active' RFID
News And the deadline for suppliers to attach RFID tags to many of the goods they ship to the American armed forces is indeed looming. The flip side of that -- and really, our paramount concern is supporting our forces in the field -- is that we owe it...
[March 23, 2004, 13:25]
MOD: Military Spending To Favour Tech
News In a speech on Thursday to announce the publication of a white paper detailing the MOD plans for the modernisation of the armed forces, the defence secretary, Geoff Hoon, claimed new technology would be key to creating a mobile and flexible...
[December 11, 2003, 16:45]
Military VoIP Plans To Benefit Private Sector
News The aim of the original DFTS project was to unite the disparate communications networks of the various armed forces which previously had distinct systems that did not interoperate effectively. The aim was to join-up the separate fragmented networks...
[June 1, 2005, 17:30]
US Army Aims To Take P2P Into Battle
News Michael Macedonia, the chief scientist and technical director for the US Army Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation Command (STRICOM), believes that in the future armed forces could use P2P-connected equipment to rehearse a mission.
[August 30, 2001, 15:13]
Anti-war Hackers Strike The US Navy
News Virus writer and hacker activity has stepped up dramatically since the US and UK armed forces started their war against Iraq. Among those attacked are a number of US military sites, as well as commercial and political properties.
[March 21, 2003, 17:17]
Mandrakesoft Makes Acquisition
News The company's customers including Brazilian retail group Casas Bahia, insurance company Generali and the Brazilian armed forces. This won't elevate us to the status of Red Hat or Novell/SuSE yet, of course, but this is a significant growth for us...
[February 24, 2005, 15:40]
Solaris To Enlist Military Security
News Code-named Solaris Next, but expected to follow the current naming pattern and be known as Solaris 10, the future release of the server operating system will contain security features currently only found in Trusted Solaris -- a specialised...
[September 18, 2003, 11:30]
Lotus, VIA Cancel Conferences
News IBM's general manager for global government industry, Todd Ramsey, was also due to deliver a keynote, as were government officials from around the globe and representatives from the US armed forces. VIA Technologies and Lotus Development have both...
[September 12, 2001, 12:03]
University Bans Controversial Links
News School administrators have told the group, called the Che Cafe Collective, that linking to a site supporting the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC) would not be permitted because it violated federal law.
[September 26, 2002, 11:56]
HMRC Fiasco: Security Experts Predict Fallout
News Jonathan Armstrong, principal partner at law firm Eversheds, drew parallels with a similar security breaches in the US last year, when 26 million armed forces veterans' personal data was lost and when retailer TJX lost more than 90 million...
[November 23, 2007, 10:29]
Colt Lacks Plan For Its £1.5m Mobile Licence
News PMN is in talks with the UK and US armed forces for the provision of such a system. Colt has admitted it has no idea how it will use a telecoms licence it bought last year at a cost of over £1.5m. The UK-based telco splashed out £1,513,218 in May...
[February 20, 2007, 9:04]
Sun To Challenge Microsoft's Passport
News Java cards are used in the Common Access Card identification system being distributed to the 4.3 million members of the US armed forces, Sun said. Sun Microsystems chief executive Scott McNealy and corporate partners will unveil an alliance...
[September 26, 2001, 9:02]
Wearable Patents Take Off
News Xybernaut, which holds hundreds of wearable computing patents, says users of the products include employees at Federal Express and Bell Canada, and members of the US Armed Forces. A wearable-computing company specialising in wireless items this...
[May 14, 2001, 8:29]
SAP Denies Report Of Stalled Project
News Delays in a major SAP project at the German Federal Armed Forces have raised the ire of German bureaucrats, according to an article published on Thursday in the German business magazine Handelsblatt. On Wednesday, SAP competitor Siebel Systems said...
[November 25, 2002, 11:09]
Indian President Calls For Open-source Defence Software
News Under the Indian constitution, the president is also the supreme commander of the armed forces -- army, navy and air force. He had another such session with Indian and American space experts attending the Indo-US space congress at Bangalore last...
[July 8, 2004, 8:50]
Democratic Control Of Security And Intelligence Services: A Legal Framework
White Papers In the US a single Department of Homeland Security and the Homeland Security Council has been created to co-ordinate responses to Border and Transportation Security, Emergency Preparedness and Response, Chemical, Biological, Radiological and...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
U.S. Military's Computer Network Beefed Up
News In the latest of a series of changes to the command structure of the United States' Armed Forces, President Clinton has placed the U.S. Space Command in charge of defending the military's computer networks.
[October 8, 1999, 8:58]
Lessons Learned And Upcoming Research Issues In Democratic Control Of Armed Forces And Security Sector Reform
White Papers In the US, there is much resistance among the military to homeland security functions (critical infrastructure protection and control of borders), which it sees as more properly a function for law enforcement services or the National Guard, and a...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
