The FBI today said it's made a long-awaited switch from its Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) to an upgraded, faster one the FBI calls Advanced Fingerprint Information Technology (AFIT). The AFIT replacement prepares the way for going beyond fingerprint identification to other biometrics, including latent palm prints and facial recognition, the next step in the FBI's multiyear effort called the Next Generation Identification (NGI) system.
McAfee, which will soon be an Intel subsidiary, and Wind River, which already is one, Wednesday announced they are hardening the security of industrial commercial operating systems supplied by Wind River to makers of products such as automated teller machines, medical devices, TV set-top boxes and cameras.
BoxTone, an enterprise mobility management software provider, today announced new enhancements to its Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) platform that are designed to help CIOs, CISOs and other IT managers meet security and compliance regulations while managing large numbers of employee- and corporate-owned mobile devices.
Automation of security is a concept with momentum this year as some of the larger federal agencies, including the Department of Defense, National Security Agency, Agriculture and Energy, are pushing for a new direction beyond the current FISMA audit mandate for compliance.
Check fraud is an old-fashioned kind of crime, but a criminal ring with ties to Russia is using modern cybercrime techniques, including botnets, online databases of financial information and check imaging archives, to run a highly automated, multi-million-dollar counterfeit-check operation.
Microsoft next year will change its automated update process for the Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser to push out the latest version of the browser for XP, Vista and Windows 7 without the notification-style install prompt presented to the end user today.
Auto focus, auto flash, scene selection and even smile detection. Today's cameras have automated just about everything involved in snapping a picture but still require someone to point them. Not any longer. Sony has developed a base unit for cameras that swivels them around through 360 degrees and tilts them up and down to follow people in a room and, when the time is right, snap a picture.
The District of Columbia had a mess on its hands. Its streets were dirty and illegally parked cars were blocking the city's fleet of street sweepers from cleaning them up. Faced with an average of 89 illegally parked vehicles per street sweeping route, per day, parking officials were only enforcing regulations for 20 percent of the problem. Meanwhile, 40,000 pounds of oil and grease and 1,200 pounds of nitrogen and phosphorus needed clearing from roadways each month by the department of public works. Resid
Nissan's latest Skyline Crossover went on sale Monday in Japan packed with some of the company's most advanced automotive electronics technology. The sensors and computer systems in the car should make driving safer and parking easier.
If you finally caught up with Twitter and found out what all the fuss is about, you now might be wondering: what the heck is TweetDeck? In short, TweetDeck is a helpful, no-cost application that will help you get more from Twitter by sorting through messages more efficiently than the regular version of the service provided on Twitter's website.
Canadian online threat protection company BD-BrandProtect is fighting against the growing amount of dangerous e-card malware, tackling evil e-cards with a combination of automated helpmates like spiders and honeypots, and good old-fashioned human analysis.
Intel released an upgrade to its vPro bundle of automated PC management features on Monday, saying the new package delivers better IT security than the original product launched last year.
Last time, we discussed Network World’s recent IT Roadmap conference in Chicago. Network World President and Editorial Director John Gallant interviewed David Grooms, vice president and U.S. CIO of McDonalds. Grooms pointed out that McDonalds had recently made a major WAN upgrade with the driving factor being the business value that was associated with the upgrade, than the traditional financial metrics. Today, we are going to provide another example of an IT organization that makes at least some investm
A few years back management software maker BMC started its journey toward automated IT service management with the introduction of its business services management (BSM) strategy.
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IT pros at the Society for Information Management's SIMposium, taking place in Dallas this week, were told that the trend to outsource some tech work overseas is not what is taking American jobs away but the advancement of technology. As technology improves, organizations are not required to hire as many people to perform the tasks that are now automated, former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, told attendees.
Faced with poor record keeping in Uganda's public services sector, the regulator of the procurement and disposal function of the government has said that all government offices must become automated if corruption is to be stamped out.
You've probably already read the news of a company planning to use container ships as floating data centers. The plan is similar to the modular shipping container data centers. Only instead of parking them in your back lot, you moor them to a nearby pier. The company, International Data Security, is planning to deploy the first such data-ship next to Pier 50 in San Francisco.
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Two weeks after promising efficient services through automation and use of improved software, the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) has activated the Kilindini Waterfront Automated System (KWATOS) at a cost of 450 million Kenyan shillings (US$7 million).