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Friday, June 15, 2007


On May 24, 1844, the message, “What hath God wrought!” was sent by telegraph from Baltimore, Maryland, to our nation’s Capitol in Washington, DC. A new era in long-distance communications had begun. By the 1860s, the telegraph revolution was in full swing, and telegraph operators had become a valuable resource. Each operator developed his own unique signature and could be identified simply by his tapping rhythm.

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Payment card manufacturer Dynamics Inc. has purchased a state-of-the-art facility in the Pittsburgh area that will serve as its world headquarters.

The 115,000 square foot facility will contain approximately 100,000 square feet of conditioned clean room engineering and manufacturing space. Dynamics plans to configure part of the space to be able to offer card issuers personalization of its next-generation magnetic stripe cards under the Visa, MasterCard and American Express networks. The building will also contain Dynamics’ administrative and R&D departments.

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The CBORD Group rolled out version 6 of its Odyssey PCS card system that features online and mobile control of activities and sales. It also includes AdminWeb, making it easy to access current information on-the-go.

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Dynamics Inc.’s next generation magnetic stripe technology took Best of Show honors at the 2011 BAI Retail Delivery conference, held Oct. 10 to 13 in Chicago.

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Daphne Yao, an assistant professor of computer science at Virginia Tech, along with her former student, now computer science graduate student at Stanford University, Deian Stefan, have won the best paper award at the CollaborateCom 2010 International Conference on Collaborative Computing. The paper look at authentication software designed to better tell humans from bots, according to a Phys Org article.

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The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking for proposals for research projects that could yield new biometric systems that authenticate users based on their own unique movements or behaviors such as the way they type or move a mouse, according to a ZDNet article.

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The European Association for Biometrics (EAB) is focusing on a goal of driving the research and development of biometrics and building the future of the industry around a concern for end-user privacy protection.

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