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Airport security part 6: Skimming at airport kiosks

Airport security part 6: Skimming at airport kiosksNot just at YYZI know those kiosks at Toronto Airport, having just used one. I don't think someone added a skimmer externally. They have trained staff helping passengers, and who would spot anything amiss. Also, airports have CCTVs, so the...

Tags: airport kiosk, skimmer, airport security

Discussion threads 2008-07-28

Airport security part 6: Skimming at airport kiosks

We've talked a lot about airport security here see other links at the bottom of this article, but one thing we haven't covered yet is airport kiosks.  Not that they haven't caught my attention, there's just so much wrong at the airport, it takes time to cover it all.  Richard...

Tags: Credit Card, Airport Security, Airport Kiosk, Stiennon, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-28

Additional Resources

Analyst: Big on Motorola, Android; no love for RIM, Palm

To Stay in Business,eventually they will turn to Android.The SAME WAY did HTC and MOTOROLA.and IT will not Take Long!RE: Analyst: Big on Motorola, Android; no love for RIM, PalmRIM forever!droid is cool, but read the comments on the original article.this guy is probably waaaay off.IT Analysts are kind of...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Investment, Handhelds, droid, IT-Analysts, Motorola Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., Palm Inc., phone, Pre, v60

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Pano Logic adds remote access in version 2.6

Pano Logic has been offering desktop virtualization products since 2007 if my memory serves me well. Their take on desktop virtualization is based upon a a cute little box having ports for a monitor, keyboard, mouse and other things, called a Zero Client. The high level view is that the...

Tags: Remote Access, Virtual Desktop, Pano Logic, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-04-13

Is our resident millennial a dinosaur, too?

Is our resident millennial a dinosaur, too?Hmmm...Touché Chris... touché ;)I don't see much of an issueI'm not sure what's Zack point - bringing up the fact that a touch screen, when used by a lot of people, can be unhygienic. Keyboards are very similar, the main difference is that keyboards...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Grime, touch screen, dinosaur

Discussion threads 2009-01-13

Neocleus secure access

I'm doing my best to go through my VMworld notes and post on a few of the more interesting demonstrations seen there. While walking the trade show floor at VMworld, I saw an interesting presentation of how a type 1 hypervisor combined with isolated Windows virtual machine could add up...

Tags: Information Technology, Environment, Neocleus, Remote Access, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Telecommunications, Security, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-25

Best Buy goes kiosk

Best Buy is rolling out automated kiosks to pitch its wares to travelers in 12 major airports. The effort, dubbed Best Buy Express, will be launched with ZoomSystems. ZoomSystems makes automated stores for Apple's iPod, Sony, Rosetta Stone and Macy's. Most of Best Buy's...

Tags: best buy co. inc., kiosk, games, digital music, digital media, personal technology, consumer electronics, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-11

CLEAR has a "Senior Moment"

AP Newswire is reporting this morning that CLEAR has found a laptop  also see CLEAR Press Release that had gone missing for over a week from one of its kiosk locations that contained the “personal data” of over 30,000 enrolled members at San Francisco International Airport,...

Tags: Clear, Enrollment, Laptop Computer, AP Newswire, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-08-06

My Awesome IT Job: Senior vice president, CA

Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that love their work. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Computer Associates International Inc., Strategy, Team Management, Management, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-08-01

FBI building massive biometric database

In The Simpsons movie, Marge, Bart and Lisa's conversations are tracked by the NSA. It's not that they've been targeted as specific threats to the EPA's plans to wipe Springfield off the map but because the NSA listens to every American's conversation. That scenario -- which...

Tags: Database, FBI, Fingerprint, Pentagon, Iris, Federal Government, Storage, Databases, Government, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-12-24

Office Live Workspace narrows Google App gap while playing to MS-Office's strengths

With Web 2.0 being the rage that it is, Web-based productivity software from the likes of Google, Zoho, and WebEx appears to be getting all the buzz while Microsoft which has so far eschewed the idea of a Web-based offering. But if Microsoft's Office Live Workspace, the beta program of...

Tags: Microsoft Office Live Workspace, Google Inc., Google Apps, Document, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Corp., Workspace, Windows Live ID, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-12-10

Continental passengers can use their phone as their boarding pass

I am a frequent traveler and my general practice is to check-in on the web the day before my flight and print out my boarding pass. However, once I am ready to depart my destination and return home I am in a hotel and most of the time I cannot...

Tags: Phone, Pass, Real Estate, Advertising & Promotion, Scanners, PDAs, Telecom & Utilities, Business Operations, Marketing, Hardware, Peripherals, Handhelds, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2007-12-05

San Francisco International Airport CIO - Transcript

Dan Farber: John, Thanks for joining me. John Payne: Thank you very much for having me. Dan Farber: Now we’re at the San Francisco International Airport and you’ve been the CIO here since 2001. What’s the scope of your responsibilities at the airport?...

Tags: Security, San Francisco International Airport, Airport, Transportation, Wireless LANs, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Wi-Fi, Wireless, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2007-08-21

Is Zonbu the next revolution?

Is Zonbu the next revolution?Dell makes handhelds?Where can you get a used Dell you can hold in your hand--for $100?eBay :)http://buy.ebay.com/dell-aximThey'll even run Linux!i see alot of these on craiglist here in seattlelots of p3's and celerons with 10 gig hard drives / xp100 to 150 bucks all day long.i...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Zonbu, Linux, hardware, software, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-07-24

Hilton Hotels CIO: Tim Harvey - Transcript

Dan Farber: Tim, thanks for joining me.Tim Harvey: Thank you Dan for having me.Dan Farber: Now Hilton is a very large-scale operation, 3000 hotels, 500,000 rooms, across 80 countries. How do you manage deploying technology across such a diverse set of properties?Tim Harvey: Well Dan, it’s about trying to...

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Blog posts 2007-05-01

Hilton Hotels CIO: Tim Harvey - Transcript

Dan Farber: Tim, thanks for joining me. Tim Harvey: Thank you Dan for having me. Dan Farber: Now Hilton is a very large-scale operation, 3000 hotels, 500,000 rooms, across 80 countries. How do you manage deploying technology across such a diverse set of...

Tags: Hotel, Customer, Hilton Hotels Corp., OnQ, Internet, Data Centers, Wireless, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, ZDNet Editor

Blog posts 2007-05-01

Practice Fusion brings free, on demand service to physicians

Practice Fusion brings free, on demand service to physiciansLimitationsDocs are limited in what they can charge for a patient visit. To put ads in their face during a patient encounter is not going to be popular, even if its free. Anything that gets in the physician's face during...

Tags: PDAs, Cellular phones, Games, Consumer electronics, Hosted Services, Docs, physician, COEX, Korea IT, Seoul Korea, Korean Events Organize, IT show, information technology

Discussion threads 2007-03-17

Red Hat shouldn't write off Oracle just yet

Red Hat shouldn't write off Oracle just yetJust numbers!We are an Oracle shop with a few other Redmond Servers. Oracle is a good product but their support sucks. They themselves don;t know how it works. I wouldn;t bet on their Linux support. Redhat is doing a good job with a...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Oracle-Linux, Red Hat Linux, writeoff, Red Hat Inc., Oracle Corp., Linux

Discussion threads 2007-03-16

Encouraging Enterprise 2.0: As simple as possible, but no simpler?

Encouraging Enterprise 2.0: As simple as possible, but no simpler?Getting your options rightGood post Dion and your last paragraph is spot on. I too have problems with the do nothing strategy. I wasn't advocating it but I suspect it is what many organisations will default to. While at the BBC...

Tags: Cellular phones, Web 2.0, information technology, Enterprise 2.0

Discussion threads 2007-03-13

US Airways reservation systems glitch strands passengers

The IT systems integration of US Airways and America West has gone fairly well overall. Until Sunday. The Associated Press is reporting that the long awaited consolidation of the computerized reservation systems stumbled on Sunday. US Airways, which merged with America West...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, IT Management, General

Blog posts 2007-03-04