Duke Researchers Use Photo-Acoustic "Fingerprints" to Locate Mobile Phones Indoors

Blog  |  www.fastcompany.com | Sep 29, 2009

The ability to utilize GPS has revolutionized the mobile phone industry. But GPS is not without its limitations--chief among them that the service doesn't work well indoors. Now computer engineers at Duke University have come up with a way to compensate for GPS's shortcomings.

http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/erica-westly/science-inc/novel-way-locate-mobile-phones-indoors?partner=rss

Nuance (NUAN): Invest in speech recognition

Blog  |  www.bloggingstocks.com | Jun 19, 2009

Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL), Newsletters, iPhone, <a

http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/06/19/nuance-nuan-invest-in-speech-recognition/

Drug side effect confuses US border officials - Short Sharp Science

Blog  |  www.newscientist.com | May 26, 2009

Having had my own problems with absent fingerprints and US border security, I could sympathise with a patient described in a letter to cancer journal Annals of Oncology (DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdp278) who was unable to pass customs because he didn't have any fingerprints.

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/05/drug-side-effect-confuses-us-b.html

Sticky fingerprints come in handy for day nursery entry

Blog  |  www.computerweekly.com | May 7, 2009

Fingerprint scanner access is no longer confined to highly sensitive military installations, but has now been installed in a day nursery in south London. All parents and members of staff will have to use a fingerprint scanner before gaining access...

http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-downtime-blog/2009/05/sticky-fingerprints-come-in-ha.html

AT&T's Watson wants you to talk your TV into changing the channel

Blog  |  networkmarketingsuccess.com | Oct 18, 2008

ATT's Watson wants you to talk your TV into changing the channel If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my FeedBurner Feed RSS feed. (...)

http://networkmarketingsuccess.com/blog/atts-watson-wants-you-to-talk-your-tv-into-changing-the-channel/

Blog | Cheskin Added Value

What are the merits and risks to consumers when speech recognition technology is adopted too soon? What impact if any does cultural accent have? Are the motivations of voice recognition technology on behalf of serving consumers or managing the cost containment for a company or brand?

http://www.cheskin.com/blog/blog/archives/000489.html

Robert Siciliano: Social Security Numbers Cracked, Creates Identity Theft Risk

Blog  |  www.huffingtonpost.com

Carnegie Mellon researchers were able to guess the first five digits of a Social Security number on their first attempt for 44% of people born after 1988.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-siciliano/social-security-numbers-c_b_227469.html

ascendtraining.com » Archive » Reliance on the Digital World: Voice Recognition Software

To be honest with you, there were days that I want to go back to a rotary phone and a typewriter. Things seemed so much more straightforward then. That is, until I broke my finger. REALLY broke my finger, to where my neighbor came over to assist and SHE nearly passed out.

http://www.ascendtraining.com/blog/2008/09/14/reliance-on-the-digital-world-voice-recognition-software-2/

Selling to Big Companies Blog: What Must You Do?

Must Thinking moment. I was doing a pro bono project for the publisher of a small magazine that focused on small and emerging businesses. They wanted feedback on their media kit, so I asked for a bit of background on the entrepreneurial community. They sent over a pile of reading material.

http://sellingtobigcompanies.blogs.com/selling/2008/02/what-must-you-d.html

Applied Computer Security » Blog Archive » How should authentication be described?

It is typically considered that there are three categories that authentication can fall into — “what you know,” “what you have,” and “what you are.

http://www.aks-labs.com/blog/2006/01/08/how-should-authentication-be-described.html