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Dear CIO/IT managers,
This
CPTTM CIO newsletter is to bring useful news to you, CIO/IT managers in
Macau, for references without obligations, so that you can do your jobs
easier and better! Hope you like it. if you'd like to unsubscribe or
recommend your friends to subscribe, just email me at kent@cpttm.org.mo.
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Topics in this issue:
A
promising biometric technology: finger vein authentication
Recently I've came across a
very interesting biometric technology: Users
are authenticated using their finger vein (NOT fingerprint).
Why is it interesting?
- Uniqueness. It is as unique as fingerprint.
- Hard to replicate. It is easy to capture
someone's finger print (e.g., using a glass that he just held), but it
is quite difficult to capture someone's finger vein as it requires
taking an infra-red snapshot at a very close distance. Even when the
image of the finger vein is obtained, it is difficult to fake
a finger with blood flowing in the vein.
- Discourage criminals from taking your body
parts. To obtain your fingerprinter, a criminal is encouraged to cut
off your finger. In contrast, if your finger is cut off, the vein will
have no blood and won't work.
- Good accuracy. Fingerprints can be conteminated
by grease or dirt, while finger vein is not affected.
Therefore, finger vein authentication achieves a very high accuracy.
Due to these excellent features, I'd definitely consider it if I was
planning to deploy a biometric system in a high security environment.
The only disadvantage I can see is that the concept is patented. The
good news is there is a similar
technology using palm vein. So, at least you can choose from
two companies instead of one.
Top
10 technologies in 2008 by Gartner
You may take a look at the
list to plan ahead.
All
Russian schools will use Linux exclusively
According to this news,
all Russian schools will use Linux exclusively by 2009 as a cost
effective way to stop using pirated software.
Free
project management software 
If you use tools like MS
Project, you may take a look at some open source alternatives:
Open
Workbench and OpenProj.
They both run on Windows. The latter can even open and save MS project
files.
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developer newsletter, your staff may like to subscribe.
Until
next time,
Kent
Tong
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