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The Dutch National Ombudsman Secures Systems With Fingerprint Recognition and Single Sign-On

The Dutch National Ombudsman wanted to improve desktop security for all employees and data related to the handling of complaints and increase the ease of use for frequently used applications, like the agency's dossier registration system, by eliminating the need for users to log in for each application. The challenge...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Single Sign-on, Fingerprint Recognition, Help Desk, It Operations

Case studies 2009-07-01

Fingerprint Security 1.0 (Mobile)

Blow away your friends and family with how cool the iPhone or iPod Touch is. Make them think that the iPhone or iPod Touch actually has fingerprint recognition capabilities. The scan will either grant access to the device or sound a loud alarm. You can control the outcome of the...

Tags: Security, Mobile, Apple iPod Touch, Fingerprint Recognition, Empire Apps

Software downloads 2009-05-20

Fingerprint Recognition System 5.1 (Windows)

Fingerprint Recognition System. Matlab source code for fingerprint recognition. Filterbank-Based Fingerprint Matching. The proposed filter-based algorithm uses a bank of Gabor filters to capture both local and global details in a fingerprint as a compact fixed length FingerCode. Matlab and Matlab Image Processing Toolbox are required.

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Matlab, Fingerprint Recognition, Luigi Rosa

Software downloads 2005-08-16

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Asus X83VB-X2

Editors' note: This review is part of our Winter 2009 Retail Roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores. With most of the laptops in our Winter 2009 Retail Review Roundup sporting a fairly uniform set of components and features, any entries that break...

Tags: Notebooks, Games, Processors, ASUS, Asus X83VB-X2, laptop computer

Product reviews 2009-03-02

Has technology evolved our language beyond recognition?

You pick up your Blackberry in the morning because your notebook has a virus. You connect to your cloud storage and retrieve a few documents to store on your drive, and grab yourself a cup of Java. I get emails every day, mostly ordinary commentary from like-minded...

Tags: Legend, RIM BlackBerry, Virus, Computer, Internet, E-mail, Productivity, Cyberthreats, Notebooks, Handhelds, Online Communications, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Lenovo IdeaPad Y530

When you're shopping for a low-priced media laptop, the Lenovo brand is not likely to come immediately to mind. After all, the company is best known for its serious, business-oriented ThinkPad line. But Lenovo has been doing some interesting things with its consumer-oriented IdeaPad line, from creating a stunningly beautiful...

Tags: Notebooks, IdeaPad Y530, Lenovo Group Ltd.

Product reviews 2008-11-26

AOV Based Fingerprint Minutiae Matching System 1 (Windows)

AOV Based Fingerprint Minutiae Matching System - Matlab source code. Minutia matching is the most popular approach to fingerprint recognition. We have developed a novel fingerprint feature named adjacent orientation vector, or AOV, for fingerprint matching. In the first stage, AOV is used to find possible minutiae pairs. Then one...

Tags: Information System, Orientation, Payroll, Microsoft Windows, Luigi Rosa, Payroll Solutions, Operational Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management

Software downloads 2008-09-01

Asus U6S A1

Taiwanese computer maker Asus is best known these days for the ultracompact and ultracheap, $399 Linux-powered Eee PC. The company also turns out some noteworthy high-end systems, such as the $1,699 Asus U6S. With a leather-covered wrist rest and brushed metal touch pad, it's a stylish ultraportable and one that...

Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Asus U6S, ASUS, Intel Core 2 Duo, laptop computer

Product reviews 2008-02-20

Lenovo: Does it have the design chops?

Lenovo: Does it have the design chops?IBM was never known for appealling notebookWhen Lenovo laptops were IBM laptops, they were known for robustness and the management software in it, not design style. Personally IBM's design is on par with Dell's design at the time. Quality-wise is better. Overall feeling it...

Tags: Notebooks, Branding, Lenovo Group Ltd., IBM ThinkPad, laptop computer, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-01-03

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

Neuro Genetic-Nearest Neighbor Based Data Mining Techniques for Fingerprint Classification and Recognition System

The proposed fingerprint classification using Data Mining technique, Neuro Genetic-Nearest Neighbor based recognition, overcomes low recognition rate, low accuracy, increased time of recovery and improves the classification rate. The proposed method involves various stages like image enhancement, line detector based feature extraction and neural network classification using Learning Vector Quantization...

Tags: Classification, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Engineering, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

White papers 2007-11-01

High Speed Image Part Recognition (IPR)

As anti-spam filters have improved in their capacity to process text based messages, spammers have learned to convey their advertisements using a number of different "Envelopes". These envelopes include documents, pdf files and graphical formats. Although it is relatively easy to construct antispam filters that read and process content embedded...

Tags: Anti-spam, COMDOM Software, Spam, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing

White papers 2007-09-18

New Google Patent would use media keywords to trigger social network connections

Published just this morning, a new Google Patent application entitled Social and Interactive Applications for Mass Media would trigger instant connections to user's social networks based on a type of audio recognition of key phrases the user encounters in broadcast or multimedia applications they are watching or listening to.By mapping...

Tags: Google

Blog posts 2007-06-07

I've got two free 'ID Vaults' for the members of ZDNet's audience who....

Two Friday's ago, I announced ZDNet's Deputy Tester of the Week program. The following Monday, in search of our first deputy testers, I offered three free copies of PPTMinimizer 3.0 to the members of ZDNet's audience who needed a utility like that for compressing PowerPoint files into more manageable...

Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, Mobile, Personal Technology, Product Giveaways, Security, Vista, Web technology

Blog posts 2007-05-29

UK politicians call for limits on student fingerprinting

UK politicians call for limits on student fingerprintingLeading UK biometrics developer refutes allegations on fingerprintingA leading UK provider of biometric technology has accused Liberal Democrat Shadow Education Secretary Sarah Teather MP of spreading "alarmist claptrap". The accusation follows her remarks to a UK Sunday newspaper on the recent...

Tags: Authentication/Encryption, accusation, UK Biometrics, Snapdragons Nursery, Sarah Teather, biometrics, fingerprint

Discussion threads 2007-04-13

Facial recognition technology shows improvement

The National Institute of Standards says that facial recognition technology can be better than human identification with accuracy rates approaching 99 percent. Iris scanning, however, could improve. The report, dubbed the Face Recognition Vendor Test FRVT 2006 and the Iris Challenge Evaluation ICE 2006, evaluates...

Tags: Security, Science, Innovation, General

Blog posts 2007-04-05

Davenport launches biometric security program

In order to keep curriculum fresh, colleges and universities have to adapt to changing times, which is why one university is developing a degree in biometric security, reports the Associated Press. The School of Technology at Davenport University in Michigan is banking on biometric security becoming a booming field...

Tags: Scanners, biometric Security, security, Davenport Co.

Blog posts 2007-03-26

Biometrics Technology in Global Security

As governments engage in the fight to combat fraud, organised crime and illegal immigration, the demand for the further development and application of biometric technologies is increasing. Today, public officials tasked with immigration, border control, criminal justice and law enforcement, have a range of sophisticated options at their disposal -...

Tags: Biometrics, Authentication/Encryption, Security

White papers 2007-01-05

Fujitsu LifeBook P1610 (Core Solo 1.2GHz, 1GB RAM, 80GB HDD)

The Fujitsu LifeBook P1610 combines the best features of ultramobile PCs (tiny size, easy-to-use touch screen) and convertible tablets (an attached keyboard, laptop-caliber performance). As with most hybrid technologies, however, the LifeBook P1610 forces you to make some compromises: its tiny keyboard makes extensive typing a challenge, and--though we'd like...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Keyboards, Fujitsu Ltd., hard drive, LifeBook P1610, Fujitsu LifeBook, tablet

Product reviews 2006-12-14

UK pubs turn to biometrics to cut crime - and it works

In the security-conscious world that we live in, even the venerable British pub is not immune from the need for identification systems. The British Home Office has identified alcohol as a major cause of violent crime. The British Crime Survey found that violent offenders were believed to be under...

Tags: drinker

Blog posts 2006-10-24