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Biometric and non-biometric: What's the difference?

The term biometric refers to biological data, which can be something as accessible as a fingerprint or as intense as genetic data. For our present purposes, though, you should assume I'm referring to biometric authentication, which is the use of biological characteristics to verify your identity. But the simplest and most straightforward definition is that when you're using a biometric form of mobile security, you are your password.

For a smartphone, it works like this: when you setup biometric security, you begin by providing a biological sample that is digitized and stored as...

Information wants to be free, the saying goes, and sharing online happens automatically many times. Sometimes that sharing is unintentional or undesirable. For businesses, customer information is usually tightly held—but on websites, that control is lost. Every website has third party "tags" embedded in pages to present advertising, to produce analytics, and for other reasons. Because they are part of the page, the third parties have access to the audience info. Once they have that access, they can do what they want with it. Sometimes they even sell it to competitors. Mezzobit helps companies regain control of the data shared...

Although the last 11.6-inch HP Pavilion dm1 was released in January, HP is updating the notebook again and releasing it before the end of the year. The updated, next-generation HP Pavilion dm1 will sport a new design, Beats Audio software and a new feature of the HP Premier Experience, and the upcoming AMD E-450 dual-core processor at 1.65GHz. HP has brought the popular Pavilion dm1 to light with the slogan "mobility of a netbook and the performance of a notebook." This slogan is a reference to its lightweight construction--it only weighs 3.52 lbs--but has enough power to make even 3D...