Hologram
14 Stories
MasterCard unveils stealth protection
News Credit card giant launches card reader that deciphers hidden images to detect fake plastics.
Tags: Data security, Security implementation/standards
AMD in Taiwanese takedown
News The chipmaker says police raided four companies that were relabeling its processors to make low-end models look pricier.
Tags: Processors
Indian passports to go digital next year
News Country preps for e-passports and overhaul of backend infrastructure to enable better security, easier access and faster issuance of travel documents.
Tags: Local Government, Data security, Traveller, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., E-passport, Security, India, Chip, Infineon Technologies AG, Passport
Quantum holographic storage: It works
Techguide Feat shatters long-held assumptions about the information limits of matter.
Tags: Storage, R&D, Electron, Storage, Quantum Corp., Hologram, 3D, Robin Harris, Robin, laser
Holograms on handsets by 2010
News Holographic mobile handsets capable of projecting, capturing and sending 3D images have been developed by an Indian tech company.
Tags: Cellular phones, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Mobile, Hologram, 3D, processor, technology company, Silicon.com, network, 2D
Mundie: The desktop of the future is a room
News While mobile devices will be important, the desktop isn't going away. Eventually your whole office will be a desktop PC, says Microsoft's top strategy officer Craig Mundie.
Tags: Business applications, Desktops, Hologram, computer, Microsoft Xbox 360, digital photograph, financial analyst, killer application, Microsoft Xbox, desktop
GE holographic discs to sound Blu-ray death knell?
Techguide Is the death of Blu-ray, but a few years away? If GE can bring its holographic technology to the masses, then it very well may be.
Tags: Storage, Blu-ray, General Electric Co., IT Manager, Storage, DVD, Hologram, storage system, disc, optics
Xerox unveils smart-document software
News Company announced three new technologies that augment digital and paper documents, that could help make the lives of office file clerks a little easier.
Tags: Business applications
Faking out the fakers
News Faced with a tidal wave of counterfeit goods, companies are turning to secretive sci-fi technology. But crooks catch on fast.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Security Management, Sales/revenue, Brand management
Visa makes 'use once' password cards
News Two cards containing microprocessors that generate one-time passwords are being touted to Australian banks as possible replacements for tokens and passwords delivered by SMS.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Processors, Security, Card, Password, RSA Security Inc., phone, payment, Visa Inc., bank
High-definition video is the 'next big thing'
News Networking pioneer Howard Charney predicts that the Internet will spur high-definition video communications to become the "next big thing".
Microsoft aided US$900M piracy bust
News In an apparent effort to scare off would-be pirates, Microsoft is trumpeting its role in bringing down an international operation that amassed an estimated US$900 million through pirated and counterfeit copies of its software.
Judges, students put cybercourt on trial
News In a not-too-distant future, courtrooms could exist only in cyberspace, with crime scenes re-created as holograms and trial participants seeing each other only through virtual reality glasses.
Microsoft plans to give some pirates a break
News People duped into buying counterfeit versions of Windows could get free licensed copies of the operating system.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Personal applications, Piracy
