Big brother is watching, and he knows your face

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Harrison Systems Integration and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization are developing a system which will identify people through facial biometrics using a video camera. The system, which is being tested at Harrison's offices, promises to be more convenient than card or fingerprint identification systems and less expensive than iris scanning systems. A voice verification system is also in development by Harrison.

Computerized Security Sys, Product development, Personal identification products industry, Security measures, Biometry, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Harrison Systems Integration

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Digital printer satisfies a broker's need for speed

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Ord Minnett Ltd uses the portable document format for digital printers to provide customers with timely high-quality printouts of investment information. One crucial sale to the Commonwealth Bank processed information received from overseas, which was printed and bound in about six hours. SOS Printing (Australia), which produced the documents, predicts that the unique possibilities of digital printing will create growing demand.

Securities Dealers, Investment Banking and Securities Dealing, Automated Storage & Retrieval, PRINTING AND PUBLISHING, Security brokers and dealers, Printing, Services, Document management systems, Information services, Printing industry, Ord Minnett Ltd., SOS Printing (Australia)

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Added-value success story looks for the next big thing on the cards

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Hypercom, based in Australia, holds a good share of the market for electronic payment systems. The company started as a producer of telephone equipment, but fierce competition by Asian producers influenced Chmn George Wallner to diversify into point-of-sale terminals with multiple functions. He predicts that Internet telephony will have great success.

Telegraph & other communications, Specialized Telecom Services, Wired Telecommunications Carriers, Electronic Funds Transfer Systems, Software, Internet, Forecasts and trends, Marketing, Internet services, Electronic commerce, E-commerce software, Hypercom

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