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Google book scanning still on hold

News Google plans to resume its library book scanning "soon," a Google spokesman said Thursday. The company had halted the scanning in August to allow copyright holders time to contact Google and opt out. At the time, the search giant said it would...

4 November 2005, 8:31

Scanning veins as a human bar code

News In Memphis, Tennessee, a small medical supply company called Luminetx has developed a new method of palm-reading that it hopes will rival fingerprinting or retinal scans as a way to perfectly identify individuals.

2 February 2006, 9:12

Scanning the mobile TV landscape

News After a lacklustre start, mobile TV is generating buzz again. Electronics makers, mobile networks and handset technology firms are betting big money that consumers on the go will soon clamour for TVs they can carry in handbags and pockets.

30 January 2006, 10:42

Bomb scanners to check UK rail passengers

News Airport-style scanning technology and x-ray machines could be introduced across the UK mainline rail network in an attempt to reduce the risk of terrorist attacks on the transport network. The Department for Transport (DfT) has yet to make a formal...

1 November 2005, 9:15

Police to test bomb-detecting body scanners

News The government and police are planning to evaluate scanning technology that can see through clothes and detect concealed bombs and weapons on people following the suicide bomb attacks on London this month.

25 July 2005, 9:50

Google presses pause on library programme

News Google will temporarily stop scanning copyright-protected books from libraries into its database, the company said late on Thursday. The company's Library programme, launched in December, involves the scanning of out-of-print and copyrighted works...

15 August 2005, 8:40

Microsoft launching book search in beta

News The book search engine performs keyword searches for books that have been scanned as part of Microsoft's book scanning project, in the same way that Windows Live Search searches the Internet, said Danielle Tiedt, the general manager of Live Search...

6 December 2006, 10:12

Iris recognition needs work, says UKPS

News Speaking at the Biometrics 2005 conference in London on Thursday, Rob Bowley, director of ID Projects with the UKPS, said the current technology must be improved to carry out more efficient biometric scanning.

21 October 2005, 9:42

Microsoft's online plans could rock industry

News In addition to that paid-for program, Microsoft plans a new Windows Live Safety Center -- a free Web-based program that allows on-demand scanning and removal of viruses. As part of its broad plans, Microsoft revealed schemes to offer for free a...

2 November 2005, 9:53

Symantec aims for online service

News The ISP licenses our product and delivers the service -- they do the scanning, disk fragmenting and other stuff that Norton SystemWorks does -- and they deliver that down the pipe," he said. By delivering security features such as virus scanning...

9 December 2005, 8:40

Yahoo to digitise public domain books

News The Authors Guild sued Google last week, alleging its scanning and digitising of copyright protected books infringes copyright, even if only small excerpts are displayed in search results as Google plans.

3 October 2005, 9:24

News.blog: Google Street View to hit Europe in 3D?

News Cummins bases his conclusion on the use of Sick laser scanning equipment, which sends a laser beam back and forth to gauge distances to nearby objects. Google wouldn't comment either on any European expansion or on 3D scanning, but both ideas are...

Tags: google, earth, maps, scanning

22 April 2008, 8:45

Microsoft 'frightened' by police hack

News Andy's computer by typing different numerically adjacent addresses in that IP range into the attack tool, then scanning the addresses to see if they belonged to a vulnerable machine. Andy with being in his bedroom, while I'm scanning for networks...

Tags: businesses, windows xp, anti, operating system

14 November 2007, 9:30

An open-source rival to Google's book scheme

News I think the project is great," said Alexander Macgillivray, Google's senior product counsel, following a presentation on the book-scanning effort. Google has made scanning books an 'opt-out' programme for publishers, meaning that they must actively...

27 October 2005, 9:47

Power-saving ideas for laptops at IDF

News Progressive scanning results in a more detailed image, but consumes much more power than an interlaced scan, Echigo said. TMD's technology, known as dynamic display power optimisation, allows the display to use progressive scanning to display...

9 March 2006, 9:26