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• London Olympics gets CIO

  A chief information officer has been appointed to deliver the technology behind the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.

• UK airport begins biometric ID trial

  Manchester Airport has begun a six-month trial of biometric face recognition technology that will scan passengers and use automatic gates in an attempt to tighten border security and speed up immigration checks.

• Stolen e-passports worth millions

  Thousands of UK e-passports stolen this week are likely to sell for up to 20m on the black market, privacy experts have said.

• Mobile users like disabled PC users

  Mobile-device users find they have the same usability problems that some disabled users encounter with PCs, according to researchers from the University of Manchester.

• Scientists carve up tiny transistors to one atom thick

  British scientists have created what they claim is the world's smallest transistor, measuring one atom in thickness and 10 atoms in width.

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• City of London gets blanket Wi-Fi

  The City of London has signed an agreement to blanket the square mile with Wi-Fi access.

• Can biometrics move beyond borders?

  Countries including the UK and the US are putting biometrics at the forefront of plans to improve national border security but there are still significant issues to be solved before the technology is up to the job.

• How Hewlett-Packard can be saved

  We give incoming HP CEO Mark Hurd a few words of advice ... like ditch the Gulfstreams.

• The Net: Blazing a new data speed record

  A group of researchers have found a way to transfer the equivalent of three DVDs per second.

• Patch me happy

  Security patches are a big worry: they come out at odd times, they suck up your bandwidth, and just occasionally they break things. We look at patch management packages to ease the burden.

Reviews (3)

• Patch management: 4 packages tested

  Security patches are a big worry: they come out at odd times, they suck up your bandwidth, and just occasionally they break things. We look at patch management packages to ease the burden.

• Human Transporter sales move slowly

  'Slow' best describes the speed and sales of the much-touted Segway two-wheeler.

• Autonomic transmission

  In an industry that loves buzzwords, autonomic computing continues to attract attention. Can the promise of self-managing IT systems ever be met, and how will businesses change if that happens?

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