Earlier this year Netproject was awarded a contract by the UK Police IT Organisation (PITO) to examine the issues of migrating to Linux computers on the desktop for police forces in England and Wales.
A government ban on the use of mobile phones while driving has been given a firm thumbs up by silicon.com readers. But at the same time most readers - 83 per cent - were against a complete in-car mobile ban that would even outlaw the use of hands...
But it admits headway needs to be made with the IT manufacturers in improving ways of using these, such as embedding card readers in PCs. But national ID cards have been used in other countries as a platform for adding other services onto them and...
VistaWindows is also a PVC window company in Australia, as one of our Antipodean readers proudly points out, though he fails to highlight quite what the company's technology angle is. And finally this week, sympathy was pretty thin on the ground...
Metro Group, the uber retailer and all round RFID enthusiast, has upgraded its RFID to Gen2 tags and readers. It also has a flagship site - known as the Future Store - which examines experimental uses of RFID.
Offshoring IT services to India can bring big benefits - but there are pitfalls for the unwary, according to silicon.com readers. In response to our Inside India special report a number of readers have told us their own experiences of doing...