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...Nicko Van Someren was already playing with the algorithms that are now used to secure data at the world's top financial institutions. Ncipher, the company he founded with his brother Alex, has been equally precocious. In 1996, when banks and stores were unrolling cybershops, Nicko, far right, and Alex, Ncipher's CTO and CEO, respectively, saw that existing encryption technology was not up to the task. And much of it still isn't, even though IT security is a $20 billion business. In a recent survey by Deloitte & Touche, 39% of financial firms questioned said their computer systems...
...Died. Nicolas Freeling, 76, British crime writer whose Dutch detective character Piet Van der Valk and French sleuth Henri Castang propelled dozens of popular novels; in eastern France. Freeling wrote nearly 40 books and was credited with elevating the crime genre by creating probing examinations of complex personalities...
...wildlife on sale, but the wailing is coming from the Ya Shop. Here, staff take turns in belting out tunes via a karaoke system, and a kid of about 12, decked out in 1970s Elvis shades, tight, dove-gray slacks and a snow-white Kangol cap, is happily murdering Van Morrison's Have I Told You Lately. Ya Shop stocks the widest range of cheesy, fitted polyester shirts in Chatuchak (from 100 baht, or $2.50, upwards). But rather than rely exclusively on the lure of synthetic fabrics, its business card proudly boasts that the store is "near the toilets," which...
...northern province of Navarre, injuring a passing van driver, again after a telephoned warning from someone claiming to represent ETA - By Jane Walker Kremlin Controversy RUSSIA The confrontation between the Kremlin and Mikhail Khodorkovsky turned uglier, with the nation's richest man warning that hard-liners might level more charges against his Yukos oil corporation. Lawyers for Alexei Pichugin, the senior Yukos official detained on suspicion of murder, claimed investigators had spiked his coffee with drugs during interrogation. Meanwhile, a judge ruled to keep a key Khodorkovsky business associate, billionaire Platon Lebedev, in prison pending an investigation into embezzlement charges...
...students with disabilities, an alternate van service runs from 7:45 a.m. until 7 p.m., and an evening van service until 3 a.m. Both services are run on an as-needed basis...