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A Role for Smartcards in Digital Media Distribution and Digital Rights Management
Smartcards can play an enabling role in digital rights management. This paper describes innovative uses of Smartcards, interacting with both today's insecure playback devices (primarily Internet-connected personal computers) and future generations of secure rendering devices, as part of a large-scale system for digital media distribution that respects and protects the...
Tags: Smart cards, Authentication/Encryption, Digital security, Digital rights management (DRM), Ecebs, smart card, digital media, digital-rights management, PC, computer
White papers
2 Key Ways To Gain Online Shoppers' Trust
Not all of those who sell merchandise online are honest, competent and credible. How do consumers and other businesses tell the trustworthy from the bad guys on the Web? One way to help buyers feel more secure about the online merchants they shop is through digital certificates and privacy seals....
Tags: Digital security, Microsoft Corp., digital certificate, Web
White papers
Getting Past the Legal Hurdles of a Global Digital Signature Standard
The SAFE-Biopharma Association is working on a platform based on digital signatures that would preserve the security of intellectual property, business transactions, and records. The article describes this initiative and its goals. It reveals that SAFE is centered on a closed-user system that is anchored by a set of contractual...
Tags: Digital signatures, digital signature, intellectual property, agreement, security
White papers
East Maine School District: Chicago Northwest Suburbs, Illinois - Mechanical Plant Renovation Project Brings New Respect
The K-8 public school district serves parts of the communities of Morton Grove, Niles, Glenview, and Des Plaines. This part of north central Cook County has been largely developed residentially, and school-age populations are stable. The situation at the East Maine School District in Illinois is one common to many...
Tags: American Standard Inc., Illinois, DES, school district
Case studies
Upgrade of Compressed Air Control System Reduces Energy Costs at Michelin Tire Plant
Michelin North America is a branch of the Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin CGEM, a tire manufacturer headquartered in Clermont-Ferrand, France, that has 18 percent of the global tire market. The first problem was the compressor control strategy. The new control system is capable of maintaining adequate pressure differential between...
Tags: U.S. Department of Energy, DES, strategy
Case studies
How to Become One of the World's Most Influential Management Thinkers
Think you're one of the most influential management thinkers? Odds are you aren't no offense -- at least not according to Sun Media's 2007 Global Ranking. At the top of the list is CK Prahalad, who developed the concept of core competencies and wrote several groundbreaking books on corporate strategy....
Tags: Strategy, Lori Deschene
Blog posts 2007-11-09
Inventing Possibilities Limitless
Softnet Solutions production - de Smart School System is the state of the art solution, built to provide your school the technological edge to take School Management to the next level. It is a complete Enterprise Resource Planning Application and amongst one of the first of its kind for the...
Tags: DES, ERP, industry
White papers 2006-08-25
Dynamic Pricing Strategies for Yield Improvement With Smart Card Adoption in the Dutch Travel Industry
In the context of the smart card adoption in the Dutch travel industry, this paper presents the development of four propositions on using the dynamic pricing strategies for yield improvement. There are a number of bottlenecks exist in the current transport operations, by adopting the smart card, the public transport...
Tags: Smart cards, Authentication/Encryption, Digital security, smart card, revenue management, pricing strategy, industry, analysis, strategy
White papers 2006-01-11
Smart Card Authentication For Mobile Devices
While mobile handheld devices provide productivity benefits, they also pose new risks. User authentication is the best safeguard against the risk of unauthorized use and access to a device's contents. This paper describes two novel types of smart card with unconventional form factors, designed to take advantage of common interfaces...
Tags: Smart cards, Authentication/Encryption, Digital security, Handhelds, NIST, smart card, handheld, user authentication, risk, handheld device, mobile, mobile device
White papers 2005-12-28
Extended Beta-Binomial Model for Demand Forecasting of Multiple Slow-Moving Items With Low Consumption and Short Requests History
The paper considers the problem of modeling the lead-time demand for the multiple slow-moving inventory items in the case when the available demand history is very short, and a large percentage of items have only zero records. The Bayesian approach is used to overcome the mentioned problems with the past...
Tags: Bayesian, forecasting, modeling, accounting
White papers 2005-09-01
A New Solution From TI, 3M and VeriSign to Secure the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain - How Does It Fit in With Current Industry Initiatives?
Texas Instruments, 3M, and VeriSign have come together to offer a solution designed to prevent the sale of counterfeit drugs to patients. Their solution utilizes radio frequency identification RFID and public-key infrastructure PKI technologies to authenticate pharmaceuticals at the item level. Pharmaceutical counterfeiting costs the industry tens of billions of...
Tags: Authentication/Encryption, Digital security, Network security, SECURITY, ABI Research, PKI, 3M Co., pharmaceutical company, RFID, Texas Instruments Inc., VeriSign Inc., patient, supply chain, industry, radio
White papers 2005-05-31
Economic Analysis of Digital Rights Management Systems (DRMs)
MediaNet addresses the domain of digital multimedia personal communication and content distribution, as well as cooperation schemes between content owners, service providers, network access operators, and telecommunication, computer, components and consumer electronics industries. It is crucial to examine the conditions under which Digital Rights Management systems DRMs could emerge and...
Tags: consumer electronics, multimedia, telecommunications, network, industry, computer
White papers 2005-02-10
Smartcards: Enabling "Hi-Tech/hi-Touch" Interactivity in Direct Marketing Campaigns
Businesses are constantly seeking creative, innovative ways to develop their brand image, and the arrival of powerful, cost-competitive chip-based cards opens a whole new range of marketing options. Companies can now benefit from this personalized, intelligent technology to implement easily customized, interactive programs which provide tangible benefits to both the...
Tags: Smart cards, Authentication/Encryption, Sales channel, Digital security, Advertising & Promotion, Benefits, Marketing research, Branding, direct marketing, smart card, brand image, benefit, brand, marketing, chip, environment
White papers 2004-10-01
How Outsourcing Affect Bilateral Political Relations
One issue the literature neglects is how outsourcing stimulates trade (imports, exports and foreign direct investment), thereby affecting political relations. However, at least as far back as 1750, economic philosophers such as Baron de Montesquieu in his L'Esprit des Lois, argued, "Peace is the natural effect of trade." This paper...
Tags: outsourcing, DES, foreign direct investment
White papers 2004-10-01
Outsourcing Strong Authentication: The Advantages Of RSA SecurID Managed Security Service Providers
RSA Security realizes that VPN security is not made up of any one product or solution; rather, it is a process and a series of ongoing events that can be effectively outsourced. The powerful combination of RSA Security, its RSA SecurID product family and its MSSP partners offers compelling reasons...
Tags: Digital security, Network security, RSA SecurID, RSA Security Inc., outsourcing, VPN, managed security service, managed security, outsource, authentication, security
White papers 2004-09-08
An Introduction to Cryptography
Cryptography is the stuff of spy novels and action comics. Kids once saved up Ovaltine labels and sent away for Captain Midnight's Secret Decoder Ring. Almost everyone has seen a television show or movie involving a nondescript suit-clad gentleman with a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist. The term "espionage" conjures...
Tags: Digital security, PGP Corp., cryptography, movie, TV
White papers 2004-06-01
Receipt-Free Homomorphic Elections and Write-in Voter Verified Ballots
This white paper document presents a voting protocol that protects voters' privacy and achieves universal verifiability, receipt-freeness, and un-coercibility without ad hoc physical assumptions or procedural constraints (such as untappable channels, voting booths, smart cards, third-party randomizers, and so on). The paper discusses under which conditions the scheme allows voters...
Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, ballot, smart card
White papers 2004-04-01
Gambling on the Success of Smart Cards
Know in this paper that UK will be ready for EMV compliance in 2005, but technology restrictions may see the financial market doing no more than necessary to comply. Without a willingness to gamble on infrastructure investment, will the UK ever see the full potential of smart cards? Refer the...
Tags: Smart cards, Authentication/Encryption, Digital security, Financial accounting, smart card, U.K., financial market, compliance, financial
Case studies 2003-08-12
Regional Fare Policy White Paper: DRAFT
The Regional Transit Action Plan includes a task to analyze regional fare policies. It is anticipated that smart cards, which are included in the Metropolitan Atlanta Regional Transit Authority's MARTA current procurement of a new fare collection system, will be the long term basis for an integrated regional structure. This...
Tags: action plan, smart card, procurement, pricing strategy, strategy
White papers 2003-07-25
EMV: Global Framework for Smart Card Payments
This white paper examines the present environment for smart card-based payment applications, offer insight into the EMV specifications and what their impact will be, and explore the key requirements for effective, cost-efficient smart card solutions?now and in the future. These plastic cards, which are embedded with a computer chip, offer...
Tags: Smart cards, Authentication/Encryption, Digital security, Semiconductors, VeriFone Inc., smart card, computer chip, payment, chip, benefit, environment, financial, security, computer
White papers 2003-06-16