How Biometric Technology is Used in Video Surveillance by Alice Osborn
As the recent July 7th London bombings would reveal, biometric technology images from over 200,000 video surveillance cameras are key weapons against the terrorists. What makes these biometric cameras so extraordinary is that these cameras have a 360-spherical lens, called a fisheye, to follow... Using biometric technologies to identify the bombers’ faces is an accurate and cutting-edge solution. ... Biometric technologies are the foundation of a new identification solution for video surveillance.

I-RAM, M-RAM: Good Bye to Hard Drives? by Marcelo Reyes
A couple of weeks ago, one of my lab associates made a comment about the advantages of the I-RAM and its speed with respect to the hard drive. What is an I-RAM? I asked. Simple. They are a bank of DDR memories that are used as a hard drive. They are powered through a PCI port and use a SATA... This Technologies main advantage is that the chips keep the information stored even after the system is turned off, which means that computers and other devices can now be supplied with non volatile memory ready to use at the moment the devices are turned on.

Architectural Rendering by Alison Cole
Architectural rendering basically means preparing and presenting a proposed design of a building for the approval of the person who wants to construct it. It may be a commercial or a residential unit. Formerly, the architects and designers would just draw bare outline sketches of the various... With the advent of computer aided design (CAD) and the related multimedia based architectural technologies, the process of presenting how the prospective building will actually appear after it is built, has undergone a sea change.

Computer Forensics - Finding Out What The Bad Guys Did With Their Computers! by Abbie Frank
Computer forensics is a lot like the CSI investigation programs on the television. Using advanced techniques and technologies, a computer forensic scientist will reconstruct a possible crime using the data that one computer systems. This data may include email trails, files, hidden directories... Computer forensics can be used to track emails, instant messaging and just about any other form of computer related communications. ... Computer Forensics is the scientific study of computers or computer related data in relation to an investigation by a law enforcement agency for use in a court of...

Why We Can't Stop Spamming by Alan Scott
In our fast moving societies Networked digital technologies are enabling us the easy and inexpensive movement of speech and information among peoples who are strangers to each another. People may not always find unhindered movement desirable, though. ... As Larry Lessig and Paul Resnick noted out that this can be difficult information to access most of the time as no one actor, from the outset, may possess all of the required information. ... In order to determine whether any particular content should be disseminated to that particular recipient, first the decision maker should have...

Can Group Collaboration Software Meet Business Needs? by Joe Miller
According to a survey conducted by InfoTrends/CAP Ventures entitled “Content-Centric Collaboration,” 51 percent of businesspeople utilizing technology such as Microsoft Office and e-mail collaborate almost daily as a part of their business operations and need group collaboration software to... The Digital Signature displays the tracking information (the who’s, what’s, when’s, where’s, and how’s) every time you open any draft of the document from e-mail, your desktop, or any other drive on your computer.

Government IT and Citizen Buy-in by Lance Winslow
As our government attempts to streamline its self more and more we see more Information Technology systems being created, that are designed to improve efficiencies. Unfortunately, we also see that many of the people in society do not like all these new computer systems and they do not understand... Information technologies can increase the productivity and efficiency of a civilization or society and government would be wise to continue their IT initiatives, but if this is not explained properly to the US citizen then you will find that the rebellious genetics, which seem to be in most of...

Information Protection Technologies For Doctors by Liuba Ceban
If earlier mostly all information was kept on the papers, the recent informational technologies expanding growth gives medical staff the opportunity to use them in their job. We can not deny the advantages which are coming to every job with using computer and specialized software. ... At first look the health information became more vulnerable with this technologies using, as there are dangers of it’s stealing while the information is stored on the computer, as well as when it is transmitted through the Internet.

Introduction to Thomson NETg by Natalie Aranda
Thomson NETg is one of a kind global learning Enterprise offering live online classrooms and a wide range of Integrated Learning solutions. Their learning offer includes high-quality instructional content, cutting-edge enabling technologies with multiple delivery options, and a full range of... For those interested in development and IT careers, Thomson NETg offers a number of courses in Cisco (39), CIW (70), Client Server (6), CompTIA (50), Database Concepts and Technologies (3), e-Business (15), IBM (85), Internet Technologies (80), IT Management (6), Lotus (33), Microsoft (356),...

Electronic Discovery by Marcus Peterson
Electronic discovery is the detection of information in the digital format. Electronic information is retrieved from computer-based systems such as hard drives, CD ROMs, floppy disks, tapes and other electronic backup devices that may contain data. It involves the use of certain technologies... Electronic extraction has to be done by professionals using proper tools, so that the information, especially the meta-data of the document, remains intact. ... Information gathered from electronic sources can be used in litigation that can make or break companies.