Monthly Archives: May 2016

Samsung Galaxy Tab Iris with biometric technology lands in India

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Samsung has been investing heftily in its local India research and development divisions lately and consequently, more and more interesting offers and innovations, tailor-made for the fast-growing market have started to appear. The latest such device is the newly announced Samsung Galaxy Tab Iris, which as its name suggests, is equipped with specialized iris-recognition technology.

The model is meant to be used with certain biometric-based services within the government, like Aadhaar – a centralized biometric and demographic database, operated by the Unique Identification…

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Inside Forbes: Another Life Or Death Decision For The News Business

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I often tell my wife that I embrace getting older. She asks if that includes my OCD tendencies, too. For sure, if it means a compulsion to learn from the digital past. Which brings me to PointCast, the Internet darling of 20 years ago. It was going to revolutionize online news with technology to “push” content to consumers so they didn’t have to “pull” it through browsers. Early adopters needed to download a screensaver to personalize their information flow. Rumors had Rupert Murdoch, “groping for an online strategy” (sound familiar), shelling out $450 million to buy the young company. Consumers didn’t bite. The hype faded. PointCast withered away, forced into a $7 million deal with Bill Gross, the legendary entrepreneur and venture capitalist.

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Veritas: EU Data Protection Laws To Affect All Global Firms

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European firms (including international firms from the USA and elsewhere with a European presence) now have 24 months in the race to become compliant with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The directive also addresses export of personal data outside the EU back to the USA… and elsewhere.

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