Folks who are head by heels with Apple will surely know that the iPhone which is sold in China has had its Wi-Fi connectivity disabled, but all that is about to change pretty soon. It seems that a China-specific WAPI (WLAN Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure) protocol has been born, making it possible for the next iPhone to hit the market in that part of the world come with Wi-Fu support. Are you stoked yet, or are you just in a daze, wondering why do assured countries seem averse to Wi-Fi connectivity by everyday devices?

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Looks like you might be able to purchase a can of Coke using nothing but your finger the next day round, thanks to Hitachi’s “finger vein authentication” (VeinID) technology. that biometric system will rely on finger pulse recognition to find out your identity, and is safe, convenient and efficient since there aren’t any more pesky passwords or PIN numbers to remember – just place your finger and voila! whether you happen to have sufficient credit left in a linked bank detail, an ice cold can of Coke will automatically pop out. Makes us wonder whether fingers from cadavers will suddenly see an increase in price in the black market whether such technology catches on to cover more than just vending machines.

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Have you ever forgotten your password for your Bank of America (BoA) detail, and inquiry that the password be sent to your mobile phone? Well, there is a possibility that when you do that in the future, the system will track the location of your mobile phone before sending out the password. that is due to a new patent filed by the company, claiming that it is a way of minimizing risks of false authentication by ensuring that the mobile device that the password is sent to is more or less in the same location as the computer used to access the online detail. Tracking can be done is various ways such as GPS, Wireless IP geolocation, cellphone tower signal triangulation etc. Do you think that it’s a good notion to do that, or do you just feel that it’s an invasion of privacy?

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MiFi devices are quite useful, as it allows users to share 3G wireless connections by a Wi-Fi network. Sharing is certainly caring, and everybody loves Wi-Fi, but it seems there MiFi might share info that you might not want to be shared. Folks have managed to identify a flaw in MiFi devices (from both Sprint and Verizon) that could allow attackers to gain access to the GPS location of the device without the user’s knowledge by using a combination of attacks. To manufacture matters worse, the attack does not require authentication, making it a lot easier to exploit. It seems that the attacker can even download the entire device configuration, including clear text credentials, which certainly is something we’d all rather not happen.

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VESA has recently updated the Embedded DisplayPort Standard to Version 1.1a while drawing up requirements for the Video Interface to the LCD Panel in notebooks as well as various embedded applications.

eDP version 1.1a includes further definition on display authentication for protected video composition, addresses Sink device AUX channel interrupt requests, and makes enhancements to the 4-lane connector used for 3D display applications. eDP is based on the VESA DisplayPort 1.1a Standard. The DisplayPort Standard is oriented toward external applications with emphasis on interoperability amidst system vendors and interconnection cables. Newer PC chipsets and GPUs designed for notebook PCs support both DisplayPort and eDP from the same video port connections, enabling configuration options to the system integrator.

If you’re interested in the Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) Standard, that is available free of charge here. [Press Release]

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