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ID card scheme short on suppliers

News The government is facing calls to cancel its ID card scheme after it announced that all of the five remaining IT suppliers have now been short-listed to deliver the system. EDS, Fujitsu, IBM and Thales made the shortlist to win the five parts of...

Tags: commercial, award, contract, scheme

27 May 2008, 9:35 > More matches in News

Lords reject Web control scheme

News Last month the House of Lords embarrassed the government by rejecting key parts of the controversial identity card scheme, voting to block the ID cards bill until the costs have been scrutinised by a parliamentary watchdog, the National Audit...

3 February 2006, 9:10 > More matches in News

Color Scheme Importer

Downloads The Color Scheme Importer is a free utility for picking colors and creating schemes for your website. Just use this free color scheme importer to grab any color you want from any website. This free color scheme Importer is perfect for anyone...

28 December 2007, 10:09 > More matches in Downloads

An open-source rival to Google's book scheme

News The two companies boasted of the openness of the project on Tuesday night, but their allegiance to the open-source project is surely a strategic counterbalance to Google's scheme. When it comes to digitising books, there appears to be two stories...

27 October 2005, 10:47 > More matches in News

Scheme preys on people who mistype 'Google.com'

News The scheme is meant to take advantage of sloppy or hurried typists, given that on most keyboards the letter "k" key sits next to the "l" needed to type "Google. Security researchers have discovered an attack aimed at would-be visitors to Google.com...

28 April 2005, 16:57 > More matches in News

Freezer Color Scheme

Downloads From the developer: "If you like Dragonball Z, this Kaleidoscope Color Scheme is for you. Enhance your desktop with the appearance of Freezer, one of the Dragonball Z's most feared villains. Compatible with all versions of Kaleidoscope greater than...

24 August 2002, 0:32 > More matches in Downloads

Sony's antipiracy scheme branded 'ineptware'

News Antivirus companies are considering protecting their customers from the digital rights management (DRM) software used by Sony on some CDs. Kaspersky Lab has classed Sony's DRM software as spyware because, among other things, it can cause crashes...

7 November 2005, 9:37 > More matches in News

Microsoft Web scheme targets Google

News Microsoft will take aim at its rival Google next week with a new Web development plan. The software behemoth plans to open access to its MSN and other public Web sites to let developers assemble new applications that build on those sites -- a...

9 September 2005, 11:37 > More matches in News

Vodafone thwarts Ofcom scheme to speed up number porting

Crave An attempt by communications regulator Ofcom to reduce the amount of time it takes to port a phone number from one mobile network to another has been derailed in court, following an appeal by Vodafone and other operators.

Tags: cat, switch, technical, consumers

22 September 2008, 9:00 > More matches in Crave

Full biometrics ID scheme to reach UK by 2009

News Passports and ID cards with facial biometrics are set to hit the UK early next year -- and fingerprints are expected to be in both as well by 2009. The long-awaited passports will include a microchip that holds a digitised facial image with space...

21 October 2005, 9:54 > More matches in News

Publishers balk at Google library scheme

News Despite initial awe for Google's project to digitise and make library books searchable online, some publishers are now criticising the plan, calling it a "broad-sweeping violation of the Copyright Act".

26 May 2005, 10:39 > More matches in News

News.blog: Last.fm launches indie cash back scheme

News Back in January, social music service Last.fm announced that it would be launching something called the Artist Royalty Program that allows unsigned artists to reap royalties each time one of their songs is played through the site's ad-supported...

Tags: artist, royalty, upload, streaming

10 July 2008, 10:09 > More matches in News

Warner Music joins Nokia's 'Comes With Music' scheme

Crave After giving its back catalogue to 7digital for DRM-free MP3 downloads, Warner Music has become the third of the four major worldwide record labels to join Nokia's Comes With Music service. It joins Universal and Sony BMG in Nokia's 'unlimited free...

Tags: nokia, labels, handsets, drm

1 July 2008, 11:30 > More matches in Crave

OLPC laptop to go on sale in US

News The One Laptop per Child scheme has announced that it will make its ruggedised laptops available in the US for a limited period. The XO laptop, designed for use as an educational tool in developing countries, will be available under a scheme called...

25 September 2007, 9:00 > More matches in News

Subscriberinfo

Downloads The subscriberinfo extension allows testing of mobile sites that use the "subscriberinfo" URI scheme with Firefox. The extension rewrites URLs based on "subscriberinfo" URI scheme. The subscriber information scheme is used in mobile devices from...

27 September 2007, 13:38 > More matches in Downloads