Improving Security With Face Recognition Technology

ScienceDaily (Nov. 15, 2009) — A number of U.S. states now use facial recognition technology when issuing drivers licenses. Similar methods are also used to grant access to buildings and to verify the identities of international travelers. Historically, obtaining accurate results with this type of technology has been a time intensive activity. Now, a researcher from the University of Miami College of Engineering and his collaborators have developed ways to make the technology more efficient while improving accuracy.

Smartphones: A Bigger Target for Security Threats

Cheaters beware. In late October, Indonesian developer Sheran Gunasekera released mobile-phone software that can help someone eavesdrop on your conversations. A distrusting partner or spouse can secretly download the free application, called PhoneSnoop, onto your BlackBerry, remotely turn on the microphone, and listen to conversations held in proximity to the device.

T-Mobile USA Launches Motorola CLIQ with MOTOBLUR in Stores Beginning Today

[T-Mobile launches the first Android-powered device from Motorola, the Motorola CLIQ featuring MOTOBLUR plus a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a 3.1" HVGA full touch-screen display, a 5 PM camera, music player and a pre-installed 2GB microSD memory.]

T-Mobile USA Announces New 3G-Enabled Sidekick LX

[T-Mobile's announces the Sidekick LX featuring 3G.]

Bellevue, WA -- T-Mobile USA, Inc. today announced the newest T-Mobile® Sidekick LX™, featuring 3G for faster data speeds and enhanced mobile access to popular social media sites. The Sidekick LX, which is available for pre-order starting today via a Web-only pre-sale for existing T-Mobile customers at www.sidekick.com, also provides improved video capabilities as well as GPS-enabled Live Search. In addition to the new features, the Sidekick LX boasts its iconic swivel design in two new colors — orchid and carbon — and features the sharpest screen and thinnest profile ever delivered on a Sidekick®.

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IBM EATS PLATFORM SOLUTIONS, HALTS LICENSING OF FLEX-ES EMULATORS

IBM has taken steps to curtail two mainframe emulator systems.

IBM has halted licensing of key patents to Fundamental Software, blocking the use of IBM software on Fundamentals's Flex-ES mainframe emulators, effective November 1. The X86-based systems were popular among developers and end users; hundreds are in use. IBM's decision to halt future licensing will not directly impact the installed base, which will continue to enjoy the use of any software licensed under agreements in force at the time of installation.

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Create Automatic Backup of Wordpress Database

How would you feel if you wake up one morning and get to know that your Wordpress blog has been completely crashed up and your blog database has been corrupted the situation become more aggravate if you don’t even have backup of your blog database.

All your articles and content which you had written so far has completely been vanished. This is not less than any nightmare, right?

Breaching the Great Firewall

One of the first things I noticed upon checking into my hotel in Beijing in late October was that my personal blog was inaccessible. I was blocked by the Great Firewall of China.

It's not that the Chinese government finds my thoughts on local politics, UNC basketball, and my wife's photography to be a particular threat. All blogs on the TypePad service are off-limits, along with Google's Blogger platform, and sites including YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.

Social media has proved itself useful in organizing dissent in other countries. As the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre approached this summer, China tightened its restrictions on user-driven sites.

The Fiery Source


By ojunior on Sep 11, 2009 in Cell Phones


On June 6th 2009 we saw a new player in the smartphone market. While it has only been two months plus since the Palm Pre launched, it has received praise from both sides of the isle as being a solid device as well as the first true iPhone challenger (not killer).

Dell brings wireless recharging to laptops

The Latitude Z on wireless charging station, and wireless dock adapter on the right.

(Credit: Erica Ogg/CNET)

That Dell is releasing a new laptop for business customers is the opposite of surprising. But the fact that it contains notable features not seen in any other laptops certainly is.

September 2009

Rethinking Formal Methods

Software engineering as a discipline has gone through many phases: software crafting, formality and the waterfall process, productivity and scalability, concurrent versus sequential processes, and agility and value. Still, software developers face huge challenges. In this issue, we step back and look at some proposed

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Posted on June 10th, 2009 by Cyrill

Another of HP’s winners, it is a full HD laptop, capable of attaining the full 1,920×1,080 resolution. Deemed as an ideal replacement for an ailing desktop, it has a crisp and bright display screen at 16 inches is truly a sight to see and coupled with the BluRay optical drive, it makes movie viewing a breeze. Loaded with a 2.26 Gz processor

BenQ’s featherweight Joybook Lite U101 is Atom powered

January 9th, 2009 by laptopfly
BenQ has been off the hook for a while now, but they have finally collected themselves well in time for the CES, entering the laptop fray with their latest Joybook Lite U101. Weighing at about 1 kg, the U101 is aimed as a second notebook for the vivid user. It packs a 10.1” 16:9 WSVGA LED backlit screen supporting 1024 x 600 resolutions.

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Lenovo ThinkPad X301

Earlier this year Lenovo released their ThinkPad X300, a great notebook for the business minded. Recently, the X300 has been updated to the ThinkPad X301 model. With many improvements from its already great predecessor, you can expect great things from the X301.

The gap in Apple's MacBook lineup

The white laptop on the left is the sole MacBook left in Apple's lineup, now dominated by MacBook Pros.

(Credit: Joshua Goldman/CNET) Despite the litany of Apple announcements at the opening keynote speech of the company's developers' conference, what could turn out to be more interesting than the new products it named is what Apple didn't say Monday

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MS Computer Science Student Bags First Position in NASCON '09 Software Project Category

April 13, 2009: - Hafiz Rizwan Iqbal, an MS CS student at School of Science and Engineering, presented the ıdea of developıng an Arabıc Speech Recognıtıon System whıch would be able to ıdentıfy and correct the mıstakes from a quranıc recıtatıon. His presentation for the Software Project category landed him first position. The Project advisors are Dr. M. M. Awais, Dr. Shahid Masud and Dr. Shafay Shamail.

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Information Technology – A Definition:

We use the term information technology or IT to refer to an entire industry. In actuality, information technology is the use of computers and software to manage information. In some companies, this is referred to as Management Information Services (or MIS) or simply as Information Services (or IS). The information technology department of a large company would be responsible for storing information, protecting information, processing the information, transmitting the information as necessary, and later retrieving information as necessary.

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Information technology (IT) or information and communication technology (ICT)
is a broad subject which deals with technology and other aspects of managing and processing information, especially in large organizations. Particularly, IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to convert, store, protect, process, transmit, and retrieve information. Over the past 20 years, its prevalence has dramatically increased so that it is now a part of nearly every aspect of daily life.

Digital Divide Technology
The concept of the digital divide is becoming more and more complex as access to computers and the use of computers, changes over time. When the existence of a “digital divide” first emerged, it revolved around access to computers and related technologies. The high cost of computers create a large divide between people who could afford them, and who had access to all the advantages of a computer, and those who could not.

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