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21st September 2003 Archive

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  • Number plate recognition poised for national UK rollout

    Everywhere before you can say 'road pricing'?

    Automatic Number Plate Recognition systems are set to be deployed by police forces throughout the UK as a major plank of a campaign of "denying criminals the use of the roads." The system will link up to the DVLA, Police National Computer and a National Insurance Database, with these links alone giving it the capability of …

    Music and Media 21 Sep 2003, 15:06

  • 3G phones on their way as GPRS is exposed

    It's all political

    "It's all political," said wireless analyst Ira Brodsky. "GSM operators are behind on data delivery, although WCDMA is a step in the right direction. They should have focused on this earlier, instead of taking the incremental step with GPRS, which is stop-gap measure. Now they have to continue working out the bugs in WCDMA …

    Mobile 21 Sep 2003, 20:29