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RSS veinWindows 8: The 'dying gasps' of the desktop OS or the next big thing?
News In a similar vein, Quocirca's Longbottom suggests that with Windows 8, Microsoft will increasingly have to demonstrate the value of a client operating system. Just as the marketing hype around Windows 7 heads toward its... [08 Oct 2009]
Photos: Medical tech of the future, from robo-pills to cyber-surgeons
Photo It has a probe which locates a vein in the arm and a vacuum syringe which then taps the vein and draws up the blood. This is the legged camera pill, a robotic prototype developed by Scuola Superiore... [15 Sep 2009]
Finger Vein Authentication
White Paper Finger vein authentication is a new biometric method utilizing the vein patterns inside one's fingers for personal identity verification. Vein patterns are different for each finger and... [11 Jun 2009]
Photos: The future biometrics giving security a hand
Photo The latest biometric technology could let workers access buildings with a wave of their hand. This vascular pattern scanner by Identica uses infrared light to capture the unique pattern of veins and capillaries on the back of a person's... [24 Apr 2009]
Extending Lean Initiatives Across the Organization: How greater efficiencies can extend beyond the manufacturing floor and back-office
White Paper There is a need for managing the front-office with workflow processes in the same vein as managing back-office workflow for production. Business processes—from filling out a purchase request, interacting with business... [18 Mar 2009]
Marathon Oil Corporation Taps Rich Vein of Streaming Media Content for Educating and Communicating With Its Global Workforce
White Paper Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Marathon is one of the largest energy industry companies in the world. Like other multi-national enterprises, Marathon was faced with the challenge of effectively and affordably communicating with its... [21 Jan 2009]
How Zavvi lost its Virginity
Comment Technologically, the focus will be on integrating store inventory systems with the online business, although it won't necessarily spell the introduction of a 'click and collect service' in the same vein as Argos and PC... [09 Oct 2008]
Infosys launches radical retail tech services
News From being lead by its customers in the past, the company will be proactive in providing systems offerings in the same vein as Microsoft or IBM. It's less important for him to be the company's controller than to look... [01 Aug 2008]
Photos: Welcome to futuristic shopping
Photo Shown here are a palm vein scanner, a tablet PC for staff or customer use and a screen that displays customer offers. The palm vein scanner identifies customers as they enter the store to bring their... [04 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: A petabyte before I die...
Comment In the same vein I have attended conferences and company events over the past two years where the attendees have been given 4GB memory sticks, earphones, thumbprint readers, USB lights and fan attachments, USB hubs,... [14 May 2008]
Insight and Outlook, Part 9: The Defining Element of SOA - A Different Look at Governance
White Paper Many of the people talking in this vein are doing so because they want to sell one something. One has probably been hearing a lot about Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) from IBM and others in the IT industry: about... [26 Apr 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]
VERITAS Storage Foundation for Windows: The Dynamic Disk Advantage - Comparing Dynamic Disks to Basic Disks
White Paper The default disk type, referred to as basic, allows for the creation of partitions and logical drives, much in the same vein as Disk Administrator in Windows NT. When Microsoft introduced the Windows 2000 operating... [14 Nov 2007]
Good and bad year for comms
AS Analysis In a similar vein to Charles Dunstone at 42 - though admittedly Dunstone has the bread-and-butter role of being the largest retailer of mobile devices in Europe - James Murdoch can point to an interesting position in the... [12 Oct 2007]
CIO Essentials: Male techies, data breaches and web 2.0...
News In the same vein, I also consider that government should step-in to promote the deployment of IPv6 [Internet Protocol Version 6] to facilitate web integrity. Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? [18 Sep 2007]
