Jul 13, 2009

IBM Fights Identity Theft With Biometric Passport.

Try to change your eye color or height!

BEING A VICTIM of identity theft is no fun, but it is still possible to change your account numbers, it is a whole lot more difficult to change your eye color or height! Because of this, protecting biometric data is a particularly serious issue. Biometrics (physical measurements, voice or image and more) are used by many entities to improve authentication of the identity of passport and other ID holders.
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Jul 7, 2009

5.7M^2 PV solar panel certified

Applied Materials Sunfab get the thumbs up

ONE OF THOSE press releases that snuck by under the radar answered a year old question about solar panels, would the huge Applied Materials panels live up to their early promise? Based on the recent IEC certification of their 5.7m^2 panels, the answer is yes.
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Jul 6, 2009

Save power by aggregating I/O

Intel bunches up NICs

WITH EFFICIENCY GAINS at the CPU level becoming harder and harder to find, a lot of work has turned to the platform to squeeze out a few more watts here and there. During Research At Intel Day (R@ID), Intel was showing how to bunch I/Os intelligently for large system power savings.
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Jul 5, 2009

Intel aims for chemical sensors in phones

Mass data aggregation for the greater good

IN CASE YOU haven’t noticed over the past two or three years, Intel is very interested in sensor technology. During Research At Intel Day a few weeks ago, they were showing off technology to make air quality sensors mobile and ubiquitous.
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Jul 2, 2009

Hoopla over Chinese “Green Dam”…

an exercise in rhetoric and the bottom line

IN ORDER TO GAIN access to the Chinese market, US companies have co-operated in one way or another with government requests to restrict freedom of access to the Internet. Why are those companies pushing back now because of China’s new Green Dam web filter?
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Jul 1, 2009

Wall Street tech conferences are not immune to downturns

SIFMA goes from vibrant to bleak

AFTER HAVING ATTENDED the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association’s (SIFMA) annual technology conference in Manhattan for several years, this years event came as quite a shock. Attendance was down noticeably, and several big names were not in attendance.
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Jun 30, 2009

A look at the TJ Maxx Data Security Fiasco

The banks win.

The TJX retail chain has agreed to pay $9.75 million to the states after a huge data breach that exposed the personal information of millions of cardholders to identity thieves. They have also agreed to implement and maintain a “comprehensive information security program”, supposedly designed to safeguard consumer data at TJX. Since they already attested that they were complying with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standards, why should consumers believe them now?
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Jun 29, 2009

Battery life claims become a class action

First step, look for anyone with a laptop

IT LOOKS LIKE the killer attack lawyers are circling the big OEMs, the scent of payola in the air. If you have been following the whole battery life tiff in the news, you will not be surprised that the affair is about to become a class action.
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Jun 29, 2009

HP proves you can make a desktop worse

Pavilion PC hobbled by stupidity

JUST WHEN YOU thought PC OEMs couldn’t get any dumber, HP reaffirms that the bottom has yet to be reached with their new Pavilion PC. How any OEM could be this abjectly stupid is beyond me, but they managed to take a PC that aspires to mediocrity and make it worse.
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