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16 May 2002 |
Fluency launches VoiceXML platform for call-centres; Eckohtec launches voice portal for Virgin Mobile, 100,000 users.
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Deutsche Telecom sends 900m text messages a month, 2m of which go to fixed-lined phones via a system developed with Speechworks.
9:58:05 PM
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Logica doesn't expect it or CMG to retain the same market share in MMS as they achieved for SMS systems (50% and 31% respectively), mainly because the handset and network mfrs, Nokia and especially Ericsson (who is providing MMS for Vodafone) aren't expected to miss the boat this time. MMS (see Logica's pdf overview, courtesy of Guy Kewney's mobile treasure trove) is "seen as the next messaging gold mine", but will it be as explosive as text?
Related: Nokia looks to MMS to drive sales
9:57:06 PM
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Bruce Schneier, security guru: Biometrics: Truths and Fictions
Biometrics (finger-print, voice verification, face or eye recognition, handwriting...) are strong because they're hard to forge (mostly), and good for users who don't have to remember passwords. But they're weak because they're easy to steal. And once it's been stolen by someone, you can't be issued with a new voice.
Biometrics are powerful and useful, but they are not keys. They are useful in situations where there is a trusted path from the reader to the verifier; in those cases all you need is a unique identifier. They are not useful when you need the characteristics of a key: secrecy, randomness, the ability to update or destory. Biometrics are unique identifiers, but they are not secrets.
Bruce takes a fairly hardcore security (ie skeptic) view of biometric. Elsewhere many companies are pushing solutions hard, and Laura Guevin's survey of the voice verification field is good overview.
Elsewhere in securityland, experts say voice mail systems vulnerable
9:52:52 PM
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