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Bogota's brilliant Bus system .. seems to be using NFC ("HID")
1.7 million trips/day
treehugger
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FIPS 201 ended up being operating system agnostic, though implementations have all been based on the Java Card OS. There were MULTOS-approved systems when FIPS 201 first came out but agencies have exclusively deployed Java Card, says Neville Pattinson, vice president of government affairs at Gemalto.
CAC/PIV
To date U.S. government agencies have issued more than 4.8 million credentials running the Java Card OS.
fips201

Army Knowledge Online AKO..Internet Explorer 6 ..Tools > Internet Options> Advanced Tab, scroll down to the Security section. check "Use TLS 1.0" ..
.. Mozilla Firefox, go to: Tools > Options > Advanced > Encryption..
Chrome TLS1.0 by default wrench, Options, "Under the Hood" Tab, Change proxy settings,
.."Advanced" Tab, Scoll down and check TLS 1.0
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"What AKO tries to do is provide a layer of protection, so in addition to just using a password, you can supply answers to questions about yourself," he said. "Who was your first teacher, the first person you kissed' It'll be answers known only by you. ..
..one more layer of security that defeat keystroke loggers," ...

army
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Thales never sleeps

16 August 2011 Thales, ... announces the world’s first software for Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) that enables mobile payment issuers to deliver their mobile payment applications to mobile handsets Over-The-Air (OTA) in a simple, efficient and secure manner.
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Today’s mobile payments issuers have to use multiple core cryptographic function calls to build the data needed to issue a payment application and to create the secure messages required to personalize the mobile phone with the application Over-The-Air (OTA)..
Thales HSMs now provide for the first time the ability to create a secure message to personalize a payment application hosted in a GlobalPlatform Secure Element, resident in a mobile phone using a single dedicated cryptographic HSM call...
thalesgroup
paymentssecurity
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Sydney U researches smart transport:
? Does Sydney have a BusCArd Yet? Is this report worth $25?
edu
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Sydney Oyster/Opal 2014 $1B
Sydney's version of a universal public transport card .. will be called Opal...
The card will first be introduced on Sydney Ferries by December next year, she said.
.. following year it will be trains, the following year after that it will be buses  " ..
She said the system had been bought from and would be operated by the people behind London's Oyster card, and would cost just over $1E9. NSW Transport Minister Gladys Berejiklian says.
September 13, 2011 AP
smh
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Vodafone Italia and CartaSi .. launch of the Vodafone Smart Pass, a pre-paid ... NFC... .. associated to mobile phone number .. CartaSi channels... and MasterCard.
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Aug 16 2011
Motorola Gives Google Chance to Control More Secure Elements
Lower NFC Phone Shipments....
..offers Google a way to control the secure chips in more NFC phones.
Google needs ...control of the ..secure elements for its Google Wallet...trademarked .."SingleTap"
..no problem .. with the Nexus S 4G, ..so far the only phone model onboard for the wallet launch, expected next month in the US..
..ordered it with an embedded secure element from..NXP..
But for other Android phones, Google would have to make deals with handset makers or mobile operators to allow it to manage the wallet applications, ..
...willing to work with mobile operators to put the Google Wallet applications onto these SIMs, perhaps renting space on the cards from the telcos. But the Google Wallet would compete with the operators’ own wallets,..
.. Motorola, .. 11% of the U.S. smartphone market with its Android handsets and about 2% of the global phone market,.. Verizon..part of the Isis joint venture and wants to control all secure elements in the NFC phones it sells.
..Sprint, which is not part of Isis ..
nfctimes
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The Mobile Wallet Wars
mercatoradvisorygroup
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intel
.. Intel Advanced Vector Extensions Programming Reference (June 2011)... AVX2 (256-bit integer AVX instructions) and some VEX-encoded general-purpose instruction for bit manipulation et al.

'm assuming by an 8 core Bulldozer, they are actually really referring to a physical 4 core CPU that has 8 integer cores and 4 FPU cores. I think this terminology will trick a lot of people, because in reality, it is really only a quad processor that happens to have 2 integer units per core :). The extra cost of the extra integer unit per core was apparently very minimal, so cost wise the Bulldozer should be comparable to the Sandy-Bridge, just (supposedly) a lot faster! In addition to both having AVX instructions, the Bulldozer has the additional benefit of having what was once known as SSE5, but is now FMA4, CVT16 etc, although I'm not sure whether they will be beneficial for encoding.

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Some Skype distributions, like those available in China, have built-in back doors that make it possible for local officials to monitor communications.
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nearfieldcommunicationsworld

MeeGo, the Linux-based open source operating system born from the February 2010 shotgun marriage of Nokia's Maemo and Intel's Moblin and left at the altar when Nokia hooked up with Windows Phone 7, is an "unstoppable force" that speeds device-developers' time-to-market, and it stands for "love, courage, and change."

That was the message delivered at the MeeGo Conference in San Francisco on Monday by the executive director of The Linux Foundation Jim Zemlin
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conceivablytech

Japan’s Riken Advanced Institute.. ..fastest supercomputers.
The K Computer ....
..a peak 8.77 PFlop/s..sustained 8.2 PFlop/s
Peta = E15

..Tianhe-1.. November.. 4.7 PFlop/s, K does not use GPUs..It’s extremely difficult to exploit ..a GPU supercomputer.

K ... 68,544 2.0 GHz Fujitsu Sparc VIIIfx CPUs with 8 cores each, ..(548,352). Each core .. 16 (double-precision, DP) GFlop/s,.. slightly more than Intel.. Sandy Bridge..
45 nm chip .. 8 flop/clock/core.

8-core processor ...58 Watts.
currently 9.9 MWatts ..When finalized,... 10 PFlop/s ... 11 MWatts.
..human Brain .. 10 - 38 PFlop/s ... memory 3584 TB
we may be able to simulate a human brain next year or within 3 years. {i dont believe in this simulate a human at all}