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S'pore revs up again for F1 night race
News Singapore's F1 track features several alterations this year, but race teams have suited up with new tools to support backend IT systems and communications.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Data Management, Race, SingTel, Storage, AT&T Corp., telephony, team, car, Mobile platforms/communications
Interest in S'pore digital media staying strong
News update Exhibitors at upcoming Infocomm Media Business Exchange conference drop by 16 percent, but digital media sector still strong, says show organizer.
Tags: Digital media, CommunicAsia 2009, IP Television, Conference, Fiber, Telecommunications, digital media industry, Singapore, NBN, Broadband
S'pore mobile players target region
News Singapore's mobile services providers target users in developing markets across Asia-Pacific by bridging gap between high- and low-end devices.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Applications and tools, Communications, Mobile, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, phone, e-mail, video service, SMS
IBM, CSC win UK ID card biometrics contracts
News IBM will build and run the biometrics database behind the National Identity Register, while CSC will implement processing and enrollment systems, including online passport applications.
Tags: Biometrics, Business applications, IBM Corp., Home Secretary, Booth, Database, ID Card, Passport, U.K., bank
Hyundai booth raided at German tech fair
News Customs police seize flat-screen TVs from the company's booth at the IFA consumer electronics show.
Tags: Patents, Legal, Hyundai, Electronics, Booth, Cell Phone, phone, South Korean company, DVD-recorder, blog
UK authorities deny prototype intercept database
News Security experts understand that a prototype centralized database has been built, to test whether all U.K. citizens' communications information can be stored.
Tags: Data warehousing/business intelligence, Privacy, Security, Booth, Database, Spokesperson, U.K., Web, Home Office, Privacy
One million people's details could be culled from UK database
News The European Union rules the United Kingdom has violated human rights by keeping DNA details and possibly fingerprints of about 850,000 people suspected of a crime.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Data security, Database management, DNA, Crime, Home Secretary, European Court, Database, European Union, Steve Ranger
Adobe warns of shortfall, job cuts
News The software maker says the global economic woes and weak demand for its just-launched Creative Suite 4 software is adding up to sluggish sales.
Tags: Digital media, Layoffs, Earning reports/forecasts, Macworld Expo, Sales, Adobe Creative Suite, CEO, job, News.com, Adobe Systems Inc.
UK ID cards head for the high street
News The Ú.K. government plans to let customers high street outlets like the Post Office, pharmacists and photo shops to scan photos and fingerprints for ID cards.
Tags: Biometrics, Home Secretary, Card, ID Card, photograph, identity fraud, post office, managing director, Benefit, Biometrics
Thai Internet users to log on in phone booths
News Internet users in Thailand will soon be able to simultaneously surf the Web, watch music videos, make phone calls and play games on the RITS multimedia public telephone and Internet booth.
Why wireless network security deserves more scrutiny
Techguide The FBI recently demonstrated how easily someone can break WEP encryption and gain access to a secured network. Jonathan Yarden examines the critical role that security plays in wireless technology.
Tags: Networking, Mobile/Wireless, 802.11/Wi-Fi, Security, Authentication and encryption
Find out why wireless network security deserves more scrutiny
Techguide Years ago, at a computer show during the dot-com boom, I stopped by the booth of a now-defunct high-speed wireless network provider and inquired about the security of the vendor's wireless networks. Specifically, I questioned the inherent insecurity of the 802.11a standard, the prevalent wireless networking specification at the time.
BT considering downsizing interest in Maxis
News As part of its restructuring exercise to streamline its business in Japan and Western Europe, BT is seeking to divest its business in other regions including its stake in Maxis Communications (Maxis).
Asus takes user interface to the next level
News Termed 'Reality-to-Virtual', what looks like a clamshell laptop with dual LCDs is a showcase of how motion sensing can be combined with context-based displays.
Tags: Innovation, Interfaces, buses, I/O, User Interface, Video, face recognition, ASUS, keyboard, photograph, multi-touch, Computex
Linux World China 2007 and Software Freedom Day preview
Blogs Last Friday, I attended the Linux World China 2007 conference and exhibition held in the luxury Beijing International Ho...
