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FBI's $1 billion database to store biometric data

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FBI has made public its plans to spend $1 billion on a database project to store and compare in real-time data on individuals such as fingerprints, ear lobe size, facial features, walking and talking style and iris patterns.

In one of the largest projects being undertaken by the FBI it is predicted that the database would make possible the detection of people using facial features from upto 200 yards.

But the real problems that arise are those about how to handle the mistakes made by the system. Hollywood has long before only showed us how the best of systems can be manipulated to make the life of individuals unlivable (Minority Report).


Its a question of security Vs privacy.



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December 26th 2007 @ 16:14

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Coming soon : Google Profiles

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Google will be soon making available a single access for profile information that gets reflected across all of Google's products. While the move seems like an extension to the single-sign on feature that is present with Google Accounts, this may also be more like a weaving content around the Social networking concept.

FaceBook has already shown how consistently people can be retained on the site by having applications reside alongside buddies. With OpenSocial also up and gunning, perhaps Google has a few acts up its sleeve.




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December 25th 2007 @ 07:19

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Vianet brings CCTV over 3G

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Vianet, a company specializing in mobile to mobile communication has taken the concept of CCTV to mobiles with the service running over 3G technology. The technology enables wireless monitoring of cameras and does away with the hassles of trying to find wires to lay out cameras in out of reach areas.


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December 25th 2007 @ 00:54

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IT carbon footprint calculator

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Logicalis's IT carbon footprint and power consumption calculator is a tool that enterprises can use to obtain an estimate on their power consumption and the benefits that will accrue from the use of virtualization technologies.

In recent times the issue of green data centers has cropped up quite often. IT infrastructure costs also include the cost it takes to power the data crunching machines. Scalability is one factor that gets hit when the compounded costs of data center power consumption is taken into consideration


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December 23rd 2007 @ 18:43

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Semantics in email from IBM

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Semantic search is the next technological frontier. Computers parsing information to extract information that is relevant, not just plain text matching and copy-paste but actual computation of concepts such as events, contact information, presence information etc.

Semantics has been a hot topic in general Web Search. Hakia and PowerSet are two of the major efforts to bring semantics based search mainstream. IBM has recently announced its free e-mail search tool that brings the advantages of semantics based search to emails
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December 23rd 2007 @ 12:56

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Solar energy made cheaper than Coal !

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Coal is the bane but the dark horse of the industrial world. The cheap and most obnoxious of pollutants is also the material of choice for producing electricity.

Now, Nanosolar, a privately held firm has come true on its commitment to develop solar technologies for producing electricity more cheaply than coal. The solar panel are going to be deployed in Germany for a project to deliver 1 mega watt of electricity


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December 22nd 2007 @ 13:48

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Broadband users need more choice

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The report from the Consumer Panel at OfCom has come to the just conclusion that consumers need to have more information on the realistic speeds they can expect from their net connection and also need to have a choice to make a switch in the package or opt out the contract as a whole.

The report has been submitted to the Chairman of OfCom and he also supported the changes but in abstract terms. Advertisements from ISPs usually refer to the high side of the connection speed but in reality users seldom get to enjoy those


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December 22nd 2007 @ 13:40

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Yahoo to be platinum sponsor for Apache Software Foundation

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Yahoo will be a platinum sponsor to Apache Software Foundation. The partnership will see the search giant providing financial and hardware resources to the non-profit outfit that manages some of the most high profile and collaborative open source projects on the planet.

Yahoo's committment to open source is evident in the contribution of its employees to the open source community


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December 22nd 2007 @ 10:15

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IBM acquires Solid Information Technology

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Solid Information Technology, the makers of in-memory databases will be acquired by IBM. Thus IBM adds more value to its line of data services. There are some issues here for MySQL which will now have to look for other solutions for transaction engines.

The transaction engine from Solid is what MySQL database depended on. MySQL is working on its own transaction engine called Falcon that is expected to be out with version 6.0


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December 21st 2007 @ 20:07

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GTalk talks more languages !

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Google's brought out a great new year and Christmas gift for its users with the translation bots for GTalk. So now users have to only add the bots that are specific to their language conversions and whatever is typed to the bots is converted to the other language.

The bots are named in the format that refers to the source language first and then the destination language. Also, adding the bots to the groups will enable translation within a group chat session as well


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December 21st 2007 @ 19:25

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Open sourcing router code

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Cisco and Juniper made one-upping announcements last week and it all came to naught when the fact of the announcements was brought to light. The issue started with Juniper announcing that they had open sourced their code and it was up for extension. It was later that a blogger detailed on how the process was not exactly open source as it was not possible to obtain the source code by just downloading but would require for a developer to go through lengthy un-encouraging processes to just get to see the code.

Cisco, even before the details of Juniper's announcements, announced that it would also be open sourcing the IOS code in the near future. Now, the millennium development goals would be met in the near future. The developing nations in the world would be all developed in the future as well. So, Cisco's code would also be open in the near future


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December 21st 2007 @ 03:06

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Sophisticated trojans can mimic online money transfer, pilfer funds

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This was coming. The only question was when rather that how. Trojans are now able to even mimic online transactions by noticing the activity of users during banking transactions. While the programs have not got to the level where they are able to start transactions by themselves, they lay in the background as daemon process and once the user goes online, the funds are transferred to other compromised accounts.

Not only that but the amount from the compromised accounts also keeps shifting to avoid detection. The transactions are performed so smoothly that at the banker's end its difficult to make out a human initiated transfer from a program initiated one


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December 21st 2007 @ 02:52

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Alliance for smaller chips

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Software is free on the Web. When was the last time you paid to have your mails, messages, voice, images and video uploaded onto a storage you did not own and streamed from servers you did not pay for? Well, it call comes for a price, the price of your privacy but that is another topic. The point is, more features mean more crunching (bit crunching) at the silicon level and that means more R& D in to better technology that can get those electrons past the ever shrinking layers in the transistors.

And this R& D does not come cheap. Processors are a costly business. And now, the chips giants ( Not all of them actually), have decided to form an alliance for research and development of the processors based on the 32 nanometer process. Of course, the real biggie here, Intel, has decided to chart its own path


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December 21st 2007 @ 02:37

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AMD rolls out roster of plans for coming years

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Its been a bad year for AMD. Intel has been just doing the right stuff at the right time and AMD has been finding the wrong in the right at the wrong time. I am of course referring to the much delayed Barcelona chips and more delays due to some critical bugs getting discovered.

Nonetheless, AMD execs were crooning to financial analysts at their Analyst Day with plans to bring some of the best tech to processors in the coming years. While the whole announcements included lot of code names, the important thing is this - they will be in business


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December 21st 2007 @ 02:22

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