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Digital ID: You shop, they snoop?
News Sun Microsystems has joined a program called Auto-ID to build wireless digital identification tags into everything from razor blades to soup cans, chief executive Scott McNealy said on Thursday. McNealy and his colleagues at Sun have eagerly...
[February 11, 2002, 9:36]
VeriSign Global Security Consulting: Security as a Competitive Differentiator
White Papers A Digital ID, sometimes called a digital certificate, is a file on the computer that identifies who the person is. One can acquire a Digital ID from a company called a Certification Authority (CA). Also, the company or organization might issue a...
[August 4, 2006, 1:00]
UK Government: Fight online fraud with free iPods
News A senior manager in the UK Department of Trade and Industry has come up with a unique alternative to the government's ID Card scheme — give everyone in the country a free iPod installed with a digital certificate.
[January 12, 2006, 16:05]
New standard fine-tunes Web ad targeting
News The standard, called the Ad-ID platform, is a Web-based method for coding any type of ad linked to a digital delivery system, such as interactive TV or on-demand cable. The Ad-ID schema could go a long way to unifying disparate digital delivery...
[September 12, 2003, 12:00]
Intel disables chip ID tracking
News Alfs said the rise of digital-signature technology has made the need for chip IDs obsolete. Intel, however, said privacy arguments were less of a factor in the decision than digital-signature technology.
[April 28, 2000, 8:42]
Digital Identity Management review
Reviews In Digital Identity Management, David Birch, founder and CEO of electronic transaction specialist Consult Hyperion, has pulled together contributions by a collection of specialists to explain the technology and usage of today's identity management...
[November 30, 2007, 11:15]
IDEAS - Identify, Engage & Assessment Statement
Talkback They both watch as the screen produces a digital ID information card of Smiff along with brief details (DOB, address, any outstanding warrants, parking fines, criminal history, last digital transaction location).
[August 14, 2008, 9:29]
Signed code: Security or censorship?
News While confirming that VeriSign can issue an Authenticode digital ID to anyone who meets certain criteria, Bob Pratt, director of product marketing for VeriSign said that today, many small, independent software developers cannot get one.
[November 27, 2000, 15:54]
Gates predicts death of the password
News Microsoft also demonstrated its own "tamper resistant" biometric ID-card software that can be used by both small and large companies to create ID cards using a digital camera, an inkjet printer and a business-card scanner.
[February 25, 2004, 7:20]
UK firm shipping 'real' PIII-based systems
News A sales rep for Digital Networks UK said that his company has obtained genuine Intel PIII chips "from a supplier who imports them from the US. The rep at Digital Networks denied this was the case, saying that the company is shipping now, not taking...
[February 11, 1999, 11:47]
Has the internet created more professional musicians?
Blog Comment However, the reality for most "professional" musicians in the digital age has been mixed, especially when taking into consideration the realities that were exposed during the earlier years of the internet being used to distribute music.
[October 11, 2007, 12:49]
HP to help with identity checks
News HP plans to launch a product on Friday that helps governments check the digital identity of citizens. It's also compatible with various biometric identification systems and incorporates public key infrastructure and digital signatures, the company...
[May 27, 2005, 9:20]
No need to burn books you can't read - DRM and public libraries
Blog Adobe is withdrawing support from these, and so the BL is insisting that its customers move to Adobe Digital Editions. So they had to fill in name and email address - to "Discover the world of digital media!
[October 14, 2008, 16:13]
International coalition hits back at spam
News Among the recommendations are technical methods for authenticating email senders by Internet Protocol address or with digital content signatures. Yahoo has backed a system known as DomainKeys for verifying the identity of an email sender with...
[June 23, 2004, 8:50]
Council offers citizens digital identities
News Bracknell Forest borough council hit the headlines Wednesday as the first in the UK to offer its citizens secure digital identities. He believes it is important that the £350m allocated to assist local authorities with developing electronic systems...
[January 25, 2001, 8:10]
Under-skin ID tags generate concerns
News The basic technology comes from Digital Angel, a sister company under the Applied corporate umbrella that has sold thousands of tags for identifying pets and other animals. Richard Seelig, vice president of medical applications at security...
[August 23, 2004, 15:05]
RFID tags may be implanted in patients' arms
News The US Department of Energy employs Digital Angel's technology to monitor salmon migration. VeriChip, a division of Applied Digital Solutions, generated headlines worldwide recently with the announcement that the Attorney General of Mexico...
[July 28, 2004, 12:00]
A guide to VoIP telephony review
Reviews VoIP works by converting speech into a digital signal, compressing it and encoding it using one of a range of speech CODECs (COder/DECoder) and breaking it into data packets that are sent over the Internet.
[July 26, 2006, 9:55]
New group aims at universal security
News Some Hollywood movie houses have been pressing for legislation that would require similar security measures in all devices that handle digital content. However, the movement has prompted concerns by some privacy and digital rights advocates.
[April 9, 2003, 12:00]
More madness from north of the border
Blog The approach trialled with Microsoft has led to the definition of a generic engagement and partnership framework which is now being applied to other world leading ICT and digital media vendors. They all get the chance to partake in "the development...
[June 19, 2007, 18:06]
