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Reduce multi-factor authentication costs with behavioral biometrics
Insight Behavior-based solutions can provide alternatives for organizations with tight budgets and a workforce sensitive to perceived technology intrusions.
Tags: Security, Biometrics
RFID to end lost luggage?
Insight British Airways hopes to reduce its lost luggage bill by using radio tagging.
Tags: RFID
WiMax offers inroad to mobile broadband
News A Huawei executive says WiMax presents a better way over HSPA for smaller operators to make their entry into the mobile broadband market.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, WiMax
Google: Computer memory flakier than expected
News After studying most of its servers for more than two years, Google finds that computer memory failures are much more common than expected and debunks some other myths.
Tags: Memory, Error Rate, Google Inc., Error, Memory Module, Computer, Operating System, Envisioneering Group, University of Toronto, Error Correction Code
RFID to end lost baggage
Techguide British Airways hopes to reduce its lost luggage bill by using radio tagging.
Security makes a quantum leap
News The veil has lifted on world's largest quantum encrypted network, providing a glimpse of how data could be securely transmitted in future.
Tags: Security, Data, Siemens AG, Quantum Cryptography, Vienna, Cable, Silicon.com, network, VoIP, researcher
Speech recognition gaining ground
News Decades of research and development into speech recognition technology are finally beginning to result in promising commercial signs, according to research firm Gartner.
Study: Wikipedia as accurate as Britannica
News The journal Nature says the open-access encyclopedia is about as accurate as the old standby.
Tags: Web sites
Pocket CoPilot 3.5
Reviews Excellent spoken and visual driving instructions make Pocket CoPilot our GPS navigation system of choice for iPAQ handhelds.
Assessing the bandwidth issue in your LAN
News As more applications come onto the local area network (LAN), it is time to look into simple and immediate ways to expand the network's ability to take on heavier traffic.
Some bumps on the road to Vista
News Although there have been no reports of major problems, some people have encountered obstacles in moving to the new Windows.
Tags: Microsoft Windows
Talking computers nearing reality
News Machines that listen and talk like humans are becoming a reality, many researchers and executives say. The technical kinks, high costs and application misfires that have held back the acceptance of speech recognition and activation--one of computing's Holy Grails--are being ironed out, they say. As a result, companies are coming out with a variety of products that will let consumers access databases using voice commands, or transform e-mails into one- or two-way verbal exchanges.
India working on standard for biometrics
News Government looking at national standard to provide "level-playing field", as India readies e-government initiatives based on biometric technology.
Tags: Biometrics, Data security, Security applications/tools, Privacy, E-passport, E-government, Security, India, Information Security, Card
Gates on Google
Insight newsmaker Growing clout of Web-based development is evident at Microsoft conference. But Bill Gates says he's not losing sleep.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Business applications
Amazon's S3 faces outage
News Problems with online storage service causes many sites to present broken images.
Tags: Storage, Web services, Storage, Europe, Amazon.com Inc., Outage, software, online retail company, job, network
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