• U.K. government flags ID cost increase

    The U.K. government says that passports will account for a smaller proportion of the cost of the national identity scheme’s overall cost than previously stated; introducing and producing passports containing fingerprints will cost about 70 percent of the £4.785 million budget for the National Identity Scheme for U.K. nationals

  • European Commission calls for single EU patent

    EC says that the absence of a single Europe-wide patent law is hindering the growth of technology companies in the European Union

  • Yoran: Better metrics needed for security

    Amit Yoran says that the security industry is awash in bad data, and that companies that attempt to use the metrics could take the wrong actions

  • Iris recognition on-the-move tested at Schiphol Airport

    Sarnoff Corporation promises to make it faster and easier to verify users through iris scanning technology; Schiphol Airport want to know more about it

  • Handling nuclear materials for less

    During this century, nuclear plant decommissioning in the United Kingdom will likely produce thousands of waste packages that will be retrieved, conditioned, and stored for no less than £40 billion; BNS develops new way to reduce storage and handling costs of radioactive material

  • U.S. searching for a nuclear waste graveyard

    Congress has killed the Yucca Mountain nuclear repository project, so the United States has no central location for storing nuclear waste; 50,000 metric tons of toxic nuclear waste that has already been produced by the U.S. nuclear plants; 30,000 metric tons more of nuclear waste is expected to be generated in the coming decades

  • Questions raised about private inspections of food companies

    What the mortgage meltdown did to the financial services sector, the recent salmonella outbreak has done to to food industry: critics charge that both cases exposed the inherent weaknesses of industries regulating and inspecting themselves

  • Project allowing Mexican long-haul trucks into U.S. ends

    Two years ago the Department of Transportation launched a pilot project allowing Mexican long-haul trucks to carry their cargo from the Mexican origin all the way to the U.S. destination, without transferring the cargo to an American carrier; Congress removed funding for the project from the omnibus spending bill

  • U.K. looking for a single search and rescue helicopter fleet

    The U.K. Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Transportation are planning to acquire one helicopter for both military and domestic search and rescue missions; the single SAR fleet of aircraft will succeed the existing service in 2012

  • Roche takes over Genentech for $47 billion

    Swiss drug giant pays $95 per share for 44 percent of Genetech (Roche already owns 56 percent); the combined company would be the seventh-largest U.S. pharmaceutical company in terms of market share and would generate about $17 billion in annual revenues with a payroll of around 17,500 employees in the U.S. pharmaceuticals business alone

  • EADS shows solid 2008 results

    EDAS reports 11 percent increase in revenues to €43.3 billion and a record order book for the group that stands at €400 billion; A400M program problems loom

  • F&S: Classifeye's solution offers strong authentication in a snapshot

    Frost & Sullivan gives thumbs up to Classifeye biometric solution; Classifeye has developed a solution that uses the camera built into the mobile handset; by taking a picture of two fingers with the camera, Classifeye’s solution can biometrically authenticate the user

  • U.S. airline security measures hamper exporters from the Marshalls

    Businesses in Micronesia are worried about a new TSA security directive which stipulates that freight can no longer be accepted from individual shippers, and must be forwarded through a cargo agent, consolidator, or freight forwarder

  • U.K. ID and Passport Service brings in ad men

    The debate in the United Kingdom about the merit of a national biometric ID continues, but the Identity and Passport Service is not waiting

  • Job applicants especially susceptible to identity theft

    Those who lose their jobs during an economic slow down tend to respond to dozens of ads in newspapers and on the Internet in search of a new job; they thus become more susceptible to identity theft scams