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The future of biometric authentication, as the past, lies in fingerprints, FBI experts believe.Monte C. Strait, chief of the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division, said the bureau's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, with its 46.9 million digital prints of criminals, remains the nation's only large biometric repository.
New notebooks using Intel's hot new processor
Notebook computer vendors this month began announcing updates of their lines with Intel Corp.'s new Pentium M processor, code-named Dothan.
Fed clients demand scale, rigor
Matthew Calkins became a director of MicroStrategy Inc. in 1994, in his twenties, at the height of the dot-com era. He and three friends co-founded Appian Corp. of Vienna, Va., in 1999.
U.S. attorneys take Senforce on the road
The Justice Department's Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys has chosen Enterprise Mobile Security Manager 2.5 from Senforce Technologies to control wired and wireless access and mass storage on its 15,000 PCs.
New Intel mobile processor makes debut
Notebook computer vendors today began announcing updates of their lines with Intel Corp.'s new Pentium M processor, Dothan.
Gateway offers $899 rack-mount server
Gateway Inc. is branding its entry-level Celeron 9115 server as the first 1.75-inch-high rack model with RAID capability for less than $1,000.
Sony token takes on smart card
The smart card and the USB key-chain storage device have converged in the Puppy fingerprint identity token from Sony Electronics Inc.
DOD seeks to expand its robot force
The Defense Department, with about 70 robots on bomb disposal duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, is preparing to buy 163 more. 'Users are asking us for smaller and smaller robots that are easily transportable,' an official says.
Capitol Hill gets free hotspot today
On the steps of the Supreme Court, officials of the Open Park Project of Washington and Tropos Networks Inc. of San Mateo, Calif., today turned on the first pair of about six IEEE 802.11b WiFi cells and invited the public to surf.
Air Force user sparks government e-community
Weapons systems testers have been using a Web-based collaboration and content-management software to search engineering libraries by any chosen word.
Yellowstone cams aim for low-impact access
Nature doesn't unfold in 60 minutes like a TV program. But even so, 'there's something going on all the time' to fascinate wildlife biologists at the 2.2-million-acre Yellowstone National Park, said John Varley, director of the park's Center for Resources.
GPO and its Collection of Last Resort
Draft plan for preserving public access to government publications in all formats on agenda next week.<br>
E-folders let State workers access HR files anywhere
New electronic personnel folders are helping the State Department meet the strictures of the Government Paperwork Elimination Act and Bush administration demands to integrate human resources systems.
NOAA portal yields first-CLASS data
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has cranked up a dual-sited portal for retrieving environmental data from satellite and ground observations.<br>
Iomega Rev removable drive stores up to 90G
Iomega hopes the capacity of the Rev will appeal to administrators who dislike tape's retrieval intricacies.<br>
FOSE 2004 delivers techie goodies
'Government is starting to lead in its implementation of technology to change process,' Cisco Systems Inc. CEO John Chambers said during the FOSE 2004 opening address in Washington.
Kansas City nuclear facility captures expert know-how
The Kansas City, Mo., plant of the National Nuclear Security Ad-ministration has been making components for national defense systems for more than half a century. But few of its original experts are still alive, and 34 percent of workers are 50 years old or older.
E-forms on the fly at BLM
E-forms and smart cards are intertwined at the Bureau of Land Management. 'Together they reduce the cost of operations,' Bob Donelson said. 'They merge the physical with the logical.'
Gateway notebook adds rolling print sensor
The Gateway 450+ notebook PC has a new bump on its face: a ceramic fingerprint reader for biometric log-ins.<br>
Kiosks go to war to dispense spare parts
Dell Inc. has fielded a half-dozen parts kiosks that are traveling with military units in and around the Persian Gulf.<br>
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