• The government says current house swap schemes are "patchy" in nature and the new National Home Swap database will be open to all eight million tenants in social housing in England.

    BBC: Social tenants in England to get wider home swap choice

  • The National Home Swap Scheme database will allow people in unsuitable accommodation - such as a pensioner who wants to move to a smaller home - to swap for something more suitable, he said.

    BBC: Social tenants in England to get wider home swap choice

  • According to data from Zillow.com, an online real-estate database, the volume of home sales was highest in June, July or August every year since 2000.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • It uses IR, Bluetooth or RF (to the Hub) to control up to 15 devices, and is programmed using Logitech's software for PCs that pulls settings from a database of 225, 000 home entertainment products.

    ENGADGET

  • But shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper condemned changes to the DNA database, which cut the time that DNA profiles of those who are arrested but not convicted can be held, from six to three years.

    BBC: Protection of Freedoms Bill clears the Commons

  • It's not the only site in the business of making navigating the multiple online stores easier -- Clicker immediately comes to mind -- but the backend of the Flixster database of movies in theaters and at home, plus any registered digital copies is a specific advantage.

    ENGADGET: Revamped Flixster.com gives one-stop digital movie access for both UltraViolet and non-UV stores

  • To qualify for the ranking at all, each company had to have an above-average reputation score (defined as over 70) in its home market, based on Reputation Institute's global database of RepTrak scores spanning 2006 to 2010.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • By combining its existing 1m names (gathered from people who had responded to previous offers on tinned goods) with lists of similar households bought from brokers, Heinz has built up a database of 4.6m people to send a copy of At Home, a free magazine of recipes which also promotes its products.

    ECONOMIST: Hi ho, hi ho, down the data mine we go

  • Also, T-Mobile has not been able to get my 911 address correct in their system, and if I dial for help right now, the police will see the address in their database as the T-Mobile store on Broadway, some 250 miles from my home, which they insist does not exist, despite the fact that I have owned it for 20 years.

    FORBES: Unlocking Your iPhone Could Save You Big, At Home And Overseas UPDATE

  • In a Commons debate in October 2011, Home Office Minister James Brokenshire challenged the suggestion "that the more people's DNA is on the database, the more effective it is".

    BBC: DNA and individual freedom v crime prevention

  • To ram home the message, Oracle has this month released Oracle 8i, which is designed to be not just a database, but a complete platform for Internet computing.

    ECONOMIST: Software

  • And the Home Office proposes to give the police the power to take DNA from people who have convictions pre-dating the database.

    ECONOMIST: The vast police directory is trimmed, but only a little

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