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  • Biometrics special: Who are you?

    Forgotten your password again? Read on to find out how you'll be logging on, checking in, and signing off in the very near future.

  • Govt dips into Budget for passport biometric

    The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has been allocated AU$3 million in the Federal Budget for further research into biometric passports, which could be handed out to Australians within 18 months.

  • Gates: End to passwords in sight

    For years, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has had his sights set on the password as the weak link in the computer security chain.

  • Aust Customs eyes biometric trial limits

    The Australian Customs Service is preparing its first live trials of machine-readable biometric passports, however it has been revealed that immigration authorities will only be able to extend the technology to passports issued after 1998.

  • SmartGate biometric system under question

    Irregularities in evaluations of SmartGate's over its six week trial period have raised questions about Customs Minister Chris Ellison's claims concerning the biometric passport systems' performance.

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  • Biometrics special: Who are you?

    Forgotten your password again? Read on to find out how you'll be logging on, checking in, and signing off in the very near future.

  • Microsoft boosts enterprise licenses

    Starting Oct. 1, Microsoft will move many of its most popular enterprise packages--including Office--to a new subscription system that could raise the price 33 to 107 percent.

  • .Net demystified: What you must know about MS's software scheme

    Suppose, for a moment, that everything could talk to everything else. Your calendar could get information from and supply data to your documents, or your cell phone, or someone else's calendar and cell phone. Your computer's desktop could tell you that your dry cleaning is ready or your bank account is overdrawn.

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