Congress may need to pass legislation that limits the way government agencies and private companies use facial recognition technology to identify people, a U.S. senator said Wednesday. The growing use of facial recognition technology ...
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The NHS is looking for a new CIO following the vacancy left after Katie Davis stepped down as managing director for NHS Informatics at the Department for Health in July. Katie Davis had been in the role for about a year after Christine ...
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Consumers worldwide are projected to spend some spend $2.1 trillion in 2012 on digital information and entertainment products, such as mobile phones, computing equipment, digital media and services, according to Gartner. The Gartner ...
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Mid-sized companies are increasing their outsourcing at a faster rate than large enterprises, and using a more diverse range of suppliers in doing so. Research of the Forbes G2000 from Information Services Group (ISG) revealed a 124% ...
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Experian has announced an international partnership with iovation, the Device Reputation Authority, to further enhance Experian's global fraud prevention capabilities. Iovation's advanced device recognition software, dynamic referencing and ...
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The number of new IT and business process outsourcing contracts worldwide dropped by 20% to 411 in the second quarter from 516 in the same quarter a year ago, with average contract values also sliding, a research firm said. "The market is ...
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India's first credit information company, CIBIL, also becomes the first to provide market analytics to financial institutions on a SaaS model. It was by the beginning of the new millennium and the India Shining story was just about to get ...
Under the framework of joint cooperation and exchange of expertise in the field of Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), Abu Dhabi Systems & Information Centre (ADSIC) and the Fujairah Statistics Centre (FSC) have signed a Memorandum of ...
Major retail hypermarket chain REAL, part of Metro Group, worked with IBM to launch a new electronic coupon system throughout its 320 German stores. This first-of-a-kind digital coupon system, developed with IBM Research scientists, ...
ICAP Patent Brokerage,a provider of post trade risk and information services,has announced for sale a patented multi-purpose topical analgesic cream,designed for treating arthritis,other chronic pain syndromes as well as muscle ...
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Outsourcing is becoming an increasingly complex task for CIOs – especially if you want it to be successful. Originally, the idea of handing all or parts of your IT infrastructure to a third party was to exploit economies of scale ...
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Criminals broke into an Adobe server and provided two pieces of malware with a digital certificate that attest to them being legitimate code. As a result of the breach, the company will revoke the certificate next Thursday and will update ...
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UBM Canon leading brands MD+DI, MPMN, Qmed, Plastics Today, Packaging Digest, PMPN,and Design News are excited to continue their "MedTech Trends in 2013" Webcast Series. The second in the series, sponsored by Pall, will focus specifically ...
II . Economy i. GDP figures Shanghai GDP In 2005, the GDP of shanghai municipality reached 914.395 billion yuan. The city has further optimized its industrial structure, accelerating the development of modern services and advanced ...
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Speech by the Mayor There is a great city surrounded by the Yangtze and the Jailing River; this is the City of Chongqing arising on the confluence of the 2 rivers. Chongqing has a 3,000-year long history, a trading port opened for 100 ...
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