Thursday, June 25, 2009
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529059,00.html
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Lockheed Martin Biometric Card Scanning Service Contract
{Rockville, Md., June 22nd, 2009 -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has awarded Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] a five-year, $47 million contract to continue managing the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division’s Card Scanning Service (CSS) program. The contract covers the conversion of paper fingerprint, palm print and photo records into high-quality electronic records for the FBI.
Records processed through this program are submitted by state, local, and federal law enforcement agencies and used to populate the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) database, a national fingerprint and criminal history system maintained by the FBI CJIS Division. With this new contract, the FBI will also be able to automatically process paper fingerprint records submitted by foreign law enforcement agencies.
“We’re proud to continue our decade-long partnership with the FBI on the Card Scanning Service program,” said Barbara Humpton, vice president, Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Services. “Having secure, accessible records is a vital element in the Bureau’s ability to take quick and decisive actions for citizen safety. This new system will significantly improve how the FBI accesses traditional fingerprints as well as palm print and photo records.”
"This card scanning service contract will aid the FBI in establishing a more complete and up-to-date criminal history record in support of law enforcement and criminal justice efforts, while creating employment opportunities in West Virginia," added FBI CJIS Division Acting Assistant Director Jerome M. Pender.
Operations for the program will take place primarily in Fairmont, WV, with support from several small business partners across the country, including West Virginia-based IMTS; Communications Resource, Incorporated (CRI), a woman-owned small disadvantaged business located in McLean, Va.; Massachusetts-based Aware, Inc.; and BancTec, headquartered in Dallas, TX.
Eventually, the records processed through the CSS program will populate the FBI’s Next Generation Identification (NGI) program. NGI will further advance the FBI’s biometric identification services, providing an incremental replacement of current IAFIS technical capabilities while also introducing new functionality. Lockheed Martin is the lead industry partner on the NGI program.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security company that employs about 146,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The corporation reported 2008 sales of $42.7 billion.}
Media Contact: Kimberly Jaindl, 301-640-2053, e-mail, kimberly.jaindl@lmco.com
For additional information, visit: http://www.lockheedmartin.com/how/stories/biometrics.html
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/news/press_releases/2009/0622_FBI-Awards-LM-Biometric-Card-Scanning-Service.html
Records processed through this program are submitted by state, local, and federal law enforcement agencies and used to populate the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) database, a national fingerprint and criminal history system maintained by the FBI CJIS Division. With this new contract, the FBI will also be able to automatically process paper fingerprint records submitted by foreign law enforcement agencies.
“We’re proud to continue our decade-long partnership with the FBI on the Card Scanning Service program,” said Barbara Humpton, vice president, Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Services. “Having secure, accessible records is a vital element in the Bureau’s ability to take quick and decisive actions for citizen safety. This new system will significantly improve how the FBI accesses traditional fingerprints as well as palm print and photo records.”
"This card scanning service contract will aid the FBI in establishing a more complete and up-to-date criminal history record in support of law enforcement and criminal justice efforts, while creating employment opportunities in West Virginia," added FBI CJIS Division Acting Assistant Director Jerome M. Pender.
Operations for the program will take place primarily in Fairmont, WV, with support from several small business partners across the country, including West Virginia-based IMTS; Communications Resource, Incorporated (CRI), a woman-owned small disadvantaged business located in McLean, Va.; Massachusetts-based Aware, Inc.; and BancTec, headquartered in Dallas, TX.
Eventually, the records processed through the CSS program will populate the FBI’s Next Generation Identification (NGI) program. NGI will further advance the FBI’s biometric identification services, providing an incremental replacement of current IAFIS technical capabilities while also introducing new functionality. Lockheed Martin is the lead industry partner on the NGI program.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security company that employs about 146,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The corporation reported 2008 sales of $42.7 billion.}
Media Contact: Kimberly Jaindl, 301-640-2053, e-mail, kimberly.jaindl@lmco.com
For additional information, visit: http://www.lockheedmartin.com/how/stories/biometrics.html
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/news/press_releases/2009/0622_FBI-Awards-LM-Biometric-Card-Scanning-Service.html
Saturday, June 20, 2009
KINDLE & OTHER E-READERS
Amazon_Kindle DXEreaders, e-books, electronic_pages & e-texts is but a digital continuation of what Johannes_Gutenberg started.
Friday, June 19, 2009
The iPhone, etc.
The idea of a pocket phone and computer has been around for decades.
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/kindle/lassen/merch/night-books-1-1-lg01._V224843469_.jpg
It's just now that the tech is really making such things even more practical.
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The iPhone has been changing the world ever since June 29, 2007.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Nokia and Tesla...
Prototype Nokia phone recharges without wires
By Christopher Null
{"Pardon the cliche, but it's one of the holiest of Holy Grails of technology: Wireless power. And while early lab experiments have been able to "beam" electricity a few feet to power a light bulb, the day when our laptops and cell phones can charge without having to plug them in to a wall socket still seems decades in the future.
Nokia, however, has taken another baby step in that direction with the invention of a cell phone that recharges itself using a unique system: It harvests ambient radio waves from the air, and turns that energy into usable power. Enough, at least, to keep a cell phone from running out of juice.
While "traditional" (if there is such a thing) wireless power systems are specifically designed with a transmitter and receiver in mind, Nokia's system isn't finicky about where it gets its wireless waves. TV, radio, other mobile phone systems -- all of this stuff just bounces around the air and most of it is wasted, absorbed into the environment or scattered into the ether. Nokia picks up all the bits and pieces of these waves and uses the collected electromagnetic energy to create electrical current, then uses that to recharge the phone's battery. A huge range of frequencies can be utilized by the system (there's no other way, really, as the energy in any given wave is infinitesimal). It's the same idea that Tesla was exploring 100 years ago, just on a tiny scale.
Mind you, harvesting ambient electromagnetic energy is never going to offer enough electricity to power your whole house or office, but it just might be enough to keep a cell phone alive and kicking. Currently Nokia is able to harvest all of 5 milliwatts from the air; the goal is to increase that to 20 milliwatts in the short term and 50 milliwatts down the line. That wouldn't be enough to keep the phone alive during an active call, but would be enough to slowly recharge the cell phone battery while it's in standby mode, theoretically offering infinite power -- provided you're not stuck deep underground where radio waves can't penetrate.
Nokia says it hopes to commercialize the technology in three to five years."}
http://ca.tech.yahoo.com/blogs/the_working_guy/rss/article/3638
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericsson_Nikola_Tesla ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#Wireless_lighting ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#The_Nikola_Tesla_Company ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#Radio_remote_control ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#Other_ideas,_awards,_and_patents ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#Things_named_after_Tesla
By Christopher Null
{"Pardon the cliche, but it's one of the holiest of Holy Grails of technology: Wireless power. And while early lab experiments have been able to "beam" electricity a few feet to power a light bulb, the day when our laptops and cell phones can charge without having to plug them in to a wall socket still seems decades in the future.
Nokia, however, has taken another baby step in that direction with the invention of a cell phone that recharges itself using a unique system: It harvests ambient radio waves from the air, and turns that energy into usable power. Enough, at least, to keep a cell phone from running out of juice.
While "traditional" (if there is such a thing) wireless power systems are specifically designed with a transmitter and receiver in mind, Nokia's system isn't finicky about where it gets its wireless waves. TV, radio, other mobile phone systems -- all of this stuff just bounces around the air and most of it is wasted, absorbed into the environment or scattered into the ether. Nokia picks up all the bits and pieces of these waves and uses the collected electromagnetic energy to create electrical current, then uses that to recharge the phone's battery. A huge range of frequencies can be utilized by the system (there's no other way, really, as the energy in any given wave is infinitesimal). It's the same idea that Tesla was exploring 100 years ago, just on a tiny scale.
Mind you, harvesting ambient electromagnetic energy is never going to offer enough electricity to power your whole house or office, but it just might be enough to keep a cell phone alive and kicking. Currently Nokia is able to harvest all of 5 milliwatts from the air; the goal is to increase that to 20 milliwatts in the short term and 50 milliwatts down the line. That wouldn't be enough to keep the phone alive during an active call, but would be enough to slowly recharge the cell phone battery while it's in standby mode, theoretically offering infinite power -- provided you're not stuck deep underground where radio waves can't penetrate.
Nokia says it hopes to commercialize the technology in three to five years."}
http://ca.tech.yahoo.com/blogs/the_working_guy/rss/article/3638
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericsson_Nikola_Tesla ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#Wireless_lighting ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#The_Nikola_Tesla_Company ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#Radio_remote_control ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#Other_ideas,_awards,_and_patents ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#Things_named_after_Tesla
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
The Answer Machine? Wolfram Alpha Debuts
Web site, Once Billed as 'Google Killer,' Computes Answers to Your Questions
By NED POTTER
June 1, 2009
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=7711568&page=1
http://www.wolframalpha.com/
By NED POTTER
June 1, 2009
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=7711568&page=1
http://www.wolframalpha.com/
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