1) Introduction/Background: NXT-ID ’s aim is to provide innovative solutions in growing mobile commerce market, launching its innovative MobileBio collection of biometric solutions that secure consumers’ mobile platforms. With extensive experience in Biometric Identity Verification, Security and Privacy Encryption and Data Protection, Payments, Miniaturization and Sensor technologies. Our new project is called Smart Wallet, this product is designed to serve two main segments of the society who are the elderly and the blind people. 2) Objectives of the project: To serve the community, as the elderly and the blind represent a large segment of society by facilitate their lives and reduce their dependence on others, this wallet is able to read and calculate the amount of money and deliver the information audible. In addition, we seek to make the product available to all strata of society through its appropriate price. 3) Current situation and problem/opportunity Statement: Nowadays, so many high-end brands are coming up with new wallets with many features; lightweight, many compartments… etc. However, companies are more toward targeting a big number of customers. People with special needs such as blind or illiterate can have a customized wallet that could provide more suitable features for them. The main problem in the market we wish to fill is the availability; so many blind and illiterate people are struggling in reading the amount of the bill and then they end up by being
I have had an iPhone for about four years and I would never pick a different brand. I have never heard anyone say anything bad about his or her experience with iPhones. iPhones are one of the most popular smart-phones nowadays. It is rare when I see someone without an iPhone. I would get an iPhone because they are one of the fastest smart-phones, they work well with other Apple devices, and they have great support help if something goes wrong with the user’s iPhone.
Biometrics technology aims at utilizing major and distinctive characteristics such as behavioral or biological, for the sake of positively indentifying people. With the help of a combination of hardware and specific identifying sets of rules, a basic human attribute, automated biometric recognition mimics to distinguish and categorize other people as individual and unique. But the challenges surrounding biometrics are great as well.
Biometrics are important to not only information systems, but to information security as a subject. Today, most information is kept secure via ID cards or secret information, such as a PIN, password, pattern, etc., the downside to this type of security is the lack of a failsafe (Ashok, Shivashankar and Mudiraj)! What would happen if an ID card was lost? Or a PIN, password or pattern was leaked to individuals who were not on a “need to know” basis”? This is where the importance of biometrics comes into play.
Current authentication systems suffer from many weaknesses. Textual passwords are commonly used. Users tend to choose meaningful words from dictionaries, which make textual passwords easy to break and vulnerable to dictionary or brute force attacks. Many available graphical passwords have a password space that is less than or equal to the textual password space.Smart cards or tokens can be stolen. Many biometric authentications have been proposed.However, users tend to resist using biometrics because of the intrusiveness and the effect on their privacy. Moreover, biometrics cannot be revoked.
Rhythm and tempo are the bonds that confine my soul, for I am a servant of music. Play some beats, and I can tell an intricate story. I scrutinize songs like an ambitious writer deciphering literature, searching for new ways to interpret beats and tones. I am a hip-hop historian, fluent in the repertoire of James Brown, father of funk. My iPod is an interstate highway junction with all kinds of tracks coming together, ranging from 90s funk to the latest hits. As I absorb the groove of a song, each body part slowly begins to obey the beat as if the song is its master. My head bobs to the beating of the bass, my feet seamlessly shuffle in circular motions, my arms move in synch with my feet as if they are connected by a string, and my mind loses the reign of my body to the captivating rhythm.
Biometrics is a very beneficial and quickly growing form of technology, but with that growth comes key considerations. These considerations must take into an account the security of the system itself in respect to the privacy of the user. There are several key elements and concerns that are included in this and must be highlighted during the development of the system as well as the implementation.
I noticed the other night, by watching clients of Frog and British Library, this pub in the 13th arrondissement where I often think (see Le Point n°2128) before going to dinner at the Lotus, at the corner of avenue of Ivry and of avenue of Choisy, in the heart of Chinatown, that the use we make of the iPhone is the same as that made by Gollum with the ring in The lord of the Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien, on 1892-1973). We always have our iPhone on us, like Gollum and, later, Bilbo and Frodon. We continuously touch it, because we both want it and are afraid of losing it. The slightest doubt - a question up in air in an insignificant conversation, such as: how old is Sharon Stone? or: Is Grace Park from "Hawaii 5. 0" married? - is enough for five or six rings, I mean iPhones, to appear around the table. The iPhone stores all the memory of the world, so does the ring. As soon as we switch it on, society watches us just like Sauron watches, with his unique and vertical eye, the bearer of the ring. The iPhone conquered restaurants but also family dinners: every guest keeps his phone close to his plate. It was not possible to leave this magical object in our pocket any more, we need to leave it next to what we eat, what we drink and the people we love. The iPhone has settled among loving couples as
The first article chosen about this event was focusing on the iPhone’s newest features and how it compares to the last release of iPhones. The newest iPhones are faster, have better camera quality, and feature a structure made out of complete glass. What strikes me is that our society has taken this phone and given it such high regards so that we feel we NEED it. In the article, Manjoo quotes “And while experts said Apple’s lead might slip over time, for now, its advantage remains enormous enough to make the iPhone a must for people who think of their phones as their most important computing device — in other words, you and me and everyone we know”. This symbolizes iPhones in our culture as a cultural object, something we have highly regarded, and by definition is something that has a creator, and “has a shared significance; it has been given a meaning shared by members of the culture” (20). We feel as though we cannot live without our phones, making it a part of our daily lives, and leaving Apple with the upper hand on us.
“From little things big things grow, from little things big things grow”. When singer songwriters Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody wrote this song, they clearly understood that extraordinary results could prevail from a humble beginning. Ladies, gentlemen and Chairperson, let us link this concept to the progression of Apple’s iPhone. From its bulky and unappealing first generation model, Apple has produced what seems to be an endless stream of iPhones. Today’s iPhone 6 and 6s are more luxurious and striking than its predecessors and rightly so. Like Apple’s tenacity for supremacy, many successes have been crafted from humble beginnings. Cate McGregor, South Korea and the ordination of female priests in the Anglican Church, are three ideal representations
Introduction: With the very high demand in the market place for a musical device called the IPod, it’s no surprise that the IPhone, a hybrid of a phone and music device that it will be a big hit in the market place. This highly anticipated electronic trend setter had thousands of people waiting in line at the apple store in New York, and all over the country trying to get their hands on this iPhone. The IPod combined with a Phone, gives birth to this amazing product which has the following features: a 3.5 inch touch screen (the largest of all smart phones), Wi-Fi connectivity, the most usage time of all smart phones, i.e. talk time, internet use, or video playback, and many more impressive characteristics. The iPhone has, thereby,
Consumers Professional Credit Union (CPCU) will be creating a new product and a new service to go along with this product. The product will be a credit card reader for any mobile device. To enhance this product a mobile application will also be created. This application will be a free application, which charges a fee per transaction. However, there will be a premium option that will waive the transaction fee, as well as gain some enhanced features.
Introducing finger print scanning instead of credit cards- replace using credit cards with finger print scanners at all ATM machines and banks, this would be much safer because there is no risk in anyone taking card details and pins therefore reduces the risk of fraud and will save banks a lot of money from having to pay back to those who have been affected from fraud. Year by year card fraud and database hacking is increasing. The main reason being the outdated method of using a card and PIN. Therefore to counteract the information being stolen so easily, this project introduces the idea of integrating Fingerprint Technology into the Banking system. This can be achieved by each bank having its own encryption algorithms for fingerprints unique to its customers and thereafter update ATM machines with attaching fingerprint scanners to them.
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Biometric technology offers an alternative to the most used system currently in place in most operations: passwords or personal identification numbers (PIN). Instead of users inputting their password or PIN, users interact with a computer terminal that will scan their finger, face, voice, retina, etc. to identify them. Many of the next generation personal computer systems will have integrated biometric technology so that no external hardware is needed. In the mean time, users can buy small peripherals, like a mouse with integrated biometric technology or a small finger terminal for finger scans, to secure their personal computers.
Biometric technologies are getting better and finely tuned. The rate of false readings and errors has sharply fallen. However it still requires careful consideration and planning to implement a biometric identification system. They are most costly and complicated to implement as compared with other authentication systems. A proper evaluation of the system is important before purchasing any biometric system. A thorough risk analysis is necessary. In many cases biometrics may be overkill. Biometrics must be used if there is high level of risk involved. Customer acceptance is also important when logging on to company websites. Home users might not be ready to install biometrics on home computers for online banking.