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- LifeSize PassPort: The First Skype-Compatible Telepresence System
- Cisco's $3 billion offer to buy Tandberg yesterday may bring Cisco a more economical telepresence solution than its own not saying much, but that's only part of the challenge of bringing the technology to the small business and our homes. On Monday, LifeSize will take a big step towards solving...
- Tags: Video Call, Skype Technologies S.A., Video, Cisco Systems Inc., HD, Passport, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-10-02
- Passport Picture 1.4.1 (Mac)
- We all need identity pictures for our passport, ID card, fitness club member card, student card, etc - sometimes several times a year. PassportPicture is designed to print your own identity picture at the exact size needed and the face of the person on the picture calibrated for specific use....
- Tags: Card, Apple Macintosh, Passport, Picture, PassportPicture
- Software downloads 2009-09-18
- Fed's RFIDiocy pwnd at DefCon
- Do you even read your own stuff?From your quote:". . . will be releasing a $50 kit at the end of August that will make reading 125-kHz RFID chips ? the kind embedded in [b]employee access cards[/b] ? trivial." emphasis addedAnd yet you go and say that this is a...
- Tags: WPA2, passport, RFID, pwnd, RFIDiocy, RFIDiocy pwnd, security, DefCon, Federal Reserve Board
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
- The future of... Passport control
- The future of... Passport control... there are more advanced passport control machines todayThe automated passport control system describes in this article has around for a while and relies on: pre-registration; payment of a fee; and probably having your iris or your fingerprint scanned. Since 2007, a new type of...
- Tags: passport
- Discussion threads 2009-08-05
- The future of... passport control
- Customs officials describe it as your ticket to get out of line. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das looks at the Global Entry Trusted Traveler program, which uses automated kiosks to help get you out of the airport and to your destination faster.
- Tags: Business Travel, Airport, Customs and Border Protection, Passport, Immigration, Sumi Das
- Videos 2009-07-26
- Elvis, your e-passport is ready!
- Elvis, your e-passport is ready!I forwarded this to the Dutch mediaLet's see whether they'll understand the severity of the issue.http://www.linkslife.co.ukthat is a joke passportRE: Elvis, your e-passport is ready!Years ago a movie called "The Net" with Sandra Bullock hit the scene, and everyone freaked. Yes it was a little over...
- Tags: Dutch Passport, e-passport, ELVIS, passport, RFID
- Discussion threads 2009-07-19
- Elvis, your e-passport is ready!
- E-passports not only threaten your personal safety traveling, the RFID chips are easy to clone and fake. How easy? Here's the picture of Elvis Presley's e-passport: The photo is taken from a passport scanner at a Dutch airport - no alarms or errors....
- Tags: E-passport, Passport, Chip, Hacker, E-passport Chip Business, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-07-19
- RFID passports: a tragedy waiting to happen
- RFID passports: a tragedy waiting to happenSpot on about RFID - bad technology choiceHowever I'm not sure RFID is required to spot the American tourist in France;-)RE: RFID passports: a tragedy waiting to happenGood read. I wonder if it is possible to slip the passport in a lightweight sleeve...
- Tags: RFID, RFID passport, passport, tragedy
- Discussion threads 2009-07-14
- RFID passports: a tragedy waiting to happen
- You're strolling in the south if France when a van stops, men burst out and in seconds hustle you into the van. "American scum!" they hiss as they hood you. But wearing a Sorbonne t-shirt and no fanny pack, how did they know? Thank your government - and a bad...
- Tags: Passport, RFID, Security, Wireless And Mobility, Biometrics, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- Passport Photo 2.1.1 (Windows)
- Passport Photo allows you to create passport size photos for a passport, license or ID.Passport Photo can create JPEG files for printing in a shop just like regular photos, and also lets you print passport photos using your own printer.At the same cost of buying a single passport photo, you...
- Tags: Passport, Microsoft Windows, Photograph, OnTheGoSoft, Passport Photo
- Software downloads 2009-01-07
- Electronic Passport Deployment in Spain
- The Ministry of Interior of the Spanish Government is in charge of issuing, through Police Headquarters and Police Stations, the ordinary Spanish passport, which is a public document, personal, individual and non-transferable. The events of September 11th, 2001 in the United States of America have accelerated the adoption of global...
- Tags: Passport, Safelayer, PKI, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Network Security, Security, Networking
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- State employee pleads guilty to passport snooping
- State employee pleads guilty to passport snoopingOuch!Did he do anything besides look?To elaborateIf all he did was look, I think the maxima are excessive. Dismissal and a fine of a few thousand dollars or so would be more than enough of a deterrent (it's not like the passport holders...
- Tags: Social Security, Operational accounting, passport, confidential information, State Employee
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- State employee pleads guilty to passport snooping
- Former State Dept. employee Lawrence C. Yontz, 48, pled guilty before a U.S. magistrate to illegally accessing hundreds of passport files, including those of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain. He didn't access Sarah Palin's passport file, presumably because she obtained a passport for the first time last year....
- Tags: Passport, Games, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- Passports worth £2.5 million stolen in van hijack
- Passports worth £2.5 million stolen in van hijackInside Jobwhat a coincidence: the driver happened to stop for a paper and candy bar right at the spot where a couple of thieves saw an opportunity to take a van with a couple of cardboard boxes in them. ;)RE: Passports worth £2.5...
- Tags: SECURITY, van, Nate, Passports worth, attack
- Discussion threads 2008-07-29
- Passports worth £2.5 million stolen in van hijack
- Graham Tibbetts of the UK Telegraph is reporting that the British Foreign Office has admitted to losing around 3,000 passports and visa stickers, which were stolen on their way from Manchester to RAF Northolt in London, where they were to be sent to British embassies. From the article: Officials...
- Tags: Passport, Van, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- MacBook Air Diary-Day 12: Tackling the storage issue
- Being somewhat of a data packrat, the MacBook Air's tiny 80GB hard drive was probably its biggest problem for me. I got accustomed to having a fairly heavy Aperture (20GB) and iTunes library (30GB) at my fingertips on my MacBook Pro's spacious 320GB HDD. The teensy MBA hard drive makes...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple MacBook, MBA, Hard Drive, Notebooks, Storage, Passport, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- The future of telecom regulation in Europe
- The future of telecom regulation in EuropeYou still need a passport to utiliza an Internet CafeWhile it may no longer be necessary to present a passport at the border when traveling in the EU, you still have to present a passport when using a computer at an Internet Cafe. Something...
- Tags: INTERNET, Telecom & Utilities, Telephony, passport, telecom regulation, Internet Cafe, telecommunications
- Discussion threads 2007-11-14
- U.K. phone retailer: 10,000 iPhones could sell in first day
- U.K. phone retailer: 10,000 iPhones could sell in first dayU.K. phone retailer: 10,000 iPhones could sell in first dayJust like the iphone was supposed to sell out in the U.S.? That was a laugh, it was a total failure on Apple's part.RE: U.K. phone retailer: 10,000 iPhones could sell in...
- Tags: Retail, U.K, Apple iPhone, first day, phone retailer, Apple Inc., phone
- Discussion threads 2007-11-02
- The Advantages of FRAM-Based Smart ICs for Next Generation Government Electronic IDs
- Electronic versions of passports and other government-issued identification documents use an Integrated Circuit IC or chip to establish a digital link between the holder and personal biometric information, such as a digitized photo, fingerprint or iris image. Designed to enhance border, physical and IT security, electronic chips ensure that the...
- Tags: Integrated Circuit, E-passport, Passport, Government, Semiconductors, Hardware
- White papers 2007-09-27
- First cloned passports, then bombs, and now ATM fraud: Security problems should plague RFID's future
- First cloned passports, then bombs, and now ATM fraud: Security problems should plague RFID's futurePassport case from RFID Blockr shields e-passportsRFID Blockr passport case is a high-quality leather case with a built in Faraday cage to block and shield RFID transmissions. It has room for six credit cards, airline...
- Tags: RFID Blockr passport case, RFID, RFID Blockr, passport, ATM
- Discussion threads 2007-09-16
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