Laura Rohde

IBM Corp. is looking into ways it can leverage its Blue Gene supercomputer within the company's BladeCenter line of ultra-thin blade servers, a company executive has confirmed.

The divide between software engineers and patent attorneys over the issue of software patents and the corresponding directive before the European Union was evident at a workshop held by the U.K. Patent Office (UKPO) this week in London.

The U.K. government has pulled legislation pending in the Houses of Parliament for a national identity card program using biometric technology, but promised to quickly put the bill back on the national agenda should the Labour party retain its ruling position after the May 6 general election.

As of last year, the estimated minimum cost of the impact of high-tech crime on companies based in the U.K. with more than 1,000 employees was

The European Union is considering its options after learning the U.S. is unlikely to extend the October deadline requiring European travelers to have passports with biometric capabilities should they wish to enter the U.S. without a visa. The E.U. will decide in the next couple of weeks if it will require U.S. citizens to obtain visas to travel to E.U. countries if their U.S. passports lack digitized facial data, said E.U. Commission spokesman Friso Roscam Abbing.

Electronic Data Systems Corp. (EDS) is continuing to experience problems with a welfare case management and telephony system it developed for the U.K. government and as a result, the Plano, Texas, company is having a hard time getting paid.

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Facing likely defeat in the House of Lords, the U.K. government is expected to shelve its plans for a national identity card program using biometric technology until after the next general election.