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Doncaster school tracks pupils with RFID chips

Secondary school kids are being tracked at a Doncaster school using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in their uniforms.

Cisco gives £145m backing to Wimax

Cisco will purchase mobile Wimax manufacturer Navini Networks for £145m.

How to implement role-based access control

Counsellors do it, actors do it, and people advertising on handwritten cards in telephone boxes do it. Although role playing is not common in IT departments, if they were to do more of it, it might prevent the kind of situation that analyst Rob Enderle remembers occurring at an IT company several years ago.

McDonald’s to offer free Wi-Fi in UK restaurants

McDonald's is rolling out free Wi-Fi at its 1,200 UK restaurants.

British Red Cross deploys wireless messaging to quicken relief response times

The British Red Cross Society is streamlining its response times to emergency services and local authorities during major incidents using a wireless system from PageOne.

802-11n to overtake wired Ethernet

Burton Group has released a report comparing 802.11n with Gigabit Ethernet and predicts 802.11n wireless technology will start eroding the wired Ethernet market within the next 24 to 36 months.

BT and FON aim for largest online Wi-Fi community

BT and the Wi-Fi community FON are aiming to build the world's largest free Wi-Fi community.

World’s largest Wi-Fi community the aim of BT and FON

New service will be the world’s largest Wi-Fi community with over 3 million invited to join a global community sharing broadband
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