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Photos: Unearthing history at Stonehenge

News In the houses, they found flint tools, part of a dress pin and swept-away debris. New research suggests that Stonehenge was used as a cemetery for more than 500 years, much longer than previously thought.

Tags: family, ancient, walls, phase

2 June 2008, 9:21

Council flats get broadband via power line

News Residents of council flats in the West Midlands town of Solihull are to get free or subsidised broadband through their three-pin power sockets. On Wednesday, the wide area networking company CI-Net announced that it was the technology partner for...

Tags: connectivity, project, broadband, buildings

22 May 2008, 8:55

Windows-based cashpoints at risk of hijack

News Security vendor Network Box illustrated this threat by showing that only the PIN number was encrypted when information was sent from a US cashpoint to networked bank computers. Security experts have hacked cashpoints to show how easy it is to steal...

Tags: machines, cash, face, encrypted

5 March 2008, 9:16

Company trials films on flash

News Users then plug in a memory device from the company, enter a PIN code and buy or rent a movie. PortoMedia is probably the only start-up in the world inspired by the movie Carlito's Way. Company founder Chris Armstrong explains: four years ago, he...

Tags: bandwidth, stores, hard drive, titles

4 March 2008, 9:07

Cambridge event buzzes with invention

News Users create a pattern by choosing four squares on a grid (pictured) and it is this pattern which is then used to authenticate purchases or passwords, instead of a fixed PIN or password. The grid is filled with random numbers every time a password...

Tags: identify, maps, travel, businesses

10 September 2007, 10:54

Nokia and networks join mobile wallet plan

News Consumers will be able to use a phone as a wallet or as an access card simply by waving it over a wireless reader -- and in some cases punching a personal-identification number, or PIN, into the phone -- similar to how travellers in London and...

26 April 2007, 10:10

Photos: Fujitsu peers into the future

News Users need only a phone, a PIN and an access number, which is provided by the payee -- a shop assistant or an eBay seller, for example. At Fujitsu's North American Technology Forum 2007 on Friday, a developer shows off W-Wallet, a secure payment...

20 March 2007, 10:31

E-money credit cards coming to London

News Barclays customers will soon be able to use their cards in the normal chip and PIN manner; as an Oyster by placing the card on the TfL readers; or to make contactless payments at retailers around London.

14 December 2006, 9:21

Pick up the tab with a text message

News A PIN number is used to access the customer's account, and a few minutes later he receives a code back from Free Tribes that's valid for 15 minutes. Forgot your credit card? Don't have cash on you? No worries -- just use your mobile phone to pay...

30 November 2006, 9:40

Ministry of Sound takes tickets mobile

News This activated an interactive voice-response callback which confirmed the ticket request by asking the caller to authenticate their PayPal PIN. The text 'ticket' contained another PIN number which was verified at the nightclub's doors when...

30 November 2006, 9:22

UK phishing scams up by 1,471 per cent

News Quinn said fraudsters are now moving from the retailers to cash machines as chip and PIN has stopped fake cards being used in shops. Quinn added that when the research was done not all cash machines were using the chip and PIN technology, so this...

8 November 2006, 11:27

Photos: BT Labs' secret future tech

News The same network could be used to support different sorts of authentication -- such as to secure online shopping using chip and PIN cards. To show off some of the cor-blimey stuff being dreamt up by eggheads in its labs, BT has set up an...

3 October 2006, 9:14

News.blog: Women in IT pose for racy movie calendar

News The Web site also includes bios of the female models, which provide contrasting impressions to their pin-up poses. Some women are launching a rather racy calendar to promote females in IT. The IT Screen Goddesses Calendar 2006-2007, featuring...

11 July 2006, 9:22

Microsoft looks to new 'Vistagami' tablets

News Intel Vice President Gadi Singer said the market could reach 100 million units a year, but did not pin a date on that prediction. With the first Origami devices out the door, Microsoft is setting its sights on the next generation of tiny tablet PCs...

25 May 2006, 9:39

Oyster's e-money plans hit the buffers

News The company is starting to introduce chip and PIN across its 50 UK sandwich shops but would welcome a switch to contactless payments to trim the queues that can result from typical credit card payments.

9 May 2006, 9:40