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Dear silicon.com...Illegal file-sharing, biometrics flying high, ID fines…
Comment More so, biometric technology introduces a consistent identification performance and contrary to the all too common rhetoric, biometric technology works and performs reliably. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? [28 Feb 2008]
Geography lessons for online retailers
Comment Companies such as Quova and Digital Element are gathering terabytes of data that further narrow the identification process down to cities and zip codes. One way of doing that is to identify exactly where they are located, says Quocirca's Louella... [09 Jan 2008]
Can biometrics secure the public's data?
Comment Ten years ago, it would have been unthinkable to have a society where bank cards had been replaced by iris identification, where passports were a thing of the past and school dinners were paid for using vein recognition. [23 Nov 2007]
BI for all
Comment Meanwhile new technologies are being deployed such as radio frequency identification (RFID) which are generating still more data. Changes are afoot in the business intelligence market as vendors aim to accommodate all types of users and companies. [18 Jul 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: We need multiple biometrics
Comment The voice and other biometric data is easy to mimic or forge, and just about everything in isolation can be assumed to provide weak identification. Written on the A1M and dispatched to silicon.com via a free LAN connection provided by my hotel... [12 Mar 2007]
Leader: Military tech trial has lessons for the private sector
Leader The need for new identification technologies is a reflection of how the battlefield is evolving. And Nato is wise to test - and most likely deploy - a number of different technologies to allow for combat identification, rather than try to track... [20 Oct 2005]
Why are Oracle and SAP fighting over Retek?
Comment Another major technology shift expected to hit retailers in the coming years is radio frequency identification, or RFID, which is at the core of a next-generation bar code system that Wal-Mart Stores, Target and other big guns are now testing. [10 Mar 2005]
Leader: Is one data leak one too many?
Leader Invariably it is not going to be where companies or cash are most at risk but where human lives will genuinely be put at risk, especially if they are jeopardised by false positive identification. It's been a week of security leaks - from military... [08 Feb 2005]
Leader: Fear not the biometric ID
Leader The results of the trials will help decide which form of physical identification should be used for a national biometric ID card-cum-passport. silicon.com this week took part in the UK government's biometric ID enrolment trial at the passport... [13 Aug 2004]
Leader: Ready or not, here comes chip and PIN
Leader There has been much debate over the security of providing a PIN versus a signature as a form of identification when making purchases with a credit or debit card. Chip and PIN has received a fair share of controversy. [11 Aug 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.08.04
Round-Up Now though it would seem US criminals have more to fear from 'chips' than 'CHiPs', with plans afoot to tag them all with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips. When the Round-Up was growing up (.spare the jokes, now) US motorbike cop show... [06 Aug 2004]
Leader: For RFID read KISS
Leader The possibilities surrounding radio frequency identification (RFID) chips - now that they are cheap enough to be placed in just about any product - are almost limitless.silicon.com columnist Peter Cochrane spelled out some of the options a few... [20 Feb 2004]
Analysis: Approaching RFID with your business head on
Comment Radio frequency identification has become a hot concept, promising to streamline how businesses track and stock inventory. But companies may need to rethink their software infrastructures in order to make RFID work as advertised, say analysts and... [20 Feb 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Biometric choices, 3G+WLAN and EMC buying VMWare
Comment However, the number of schemes - as well as the variety of different biometric identifiers in use in these schemes - will make interoperability problematic, especially if machines have to be put in place to automate the identification of... [22 Dec 2003]
Biometrics: Eyes, ears, face or voice?
Comment But he said current facial biometric projects the company is working on are producing just a one per cent error rate and that mass identification will be possible using the face in the future. The real holy grail for biometrics is identification... [15 Dec 2003]
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