Log Into Your Toshiba Laptop -- With Your Face
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Doug Perry
Doug Perry, former Marketing Director of http://HDTrader.com.
The number one niche classified site for Harley-Davidson motorcycle sellers, buyers, and dealers joined the gibLink team in January.
Doug was the sole force to take a non-revenue generating project site to over a million dollars a year in under four years.
Doug was also involved in the startup website http://BikerorNot.com, a social network for bikers. Now hosting over 40,000 profiles in its network and hosting a top traffic ranking.
By Doug Perry
Published on 04/30/2008
Toshiba said Tuesday that the company has added an application to several notebook PCs that will "recognize" users via the installed Webcam. The Toshiba Face Recognition software will allow users to log on to four newly designed notebooks, the Satellite U400, M300, A300 and Satellite P300.
Alternative forms of authentication have become increasingly common, as manufacturers and industry organizations attempt to go beyond just the common username/password combination. In the corporate and financial space, tools like fingerprint readers and security tokens add an additional layer of security, although early versions of fingerprint readers could be easily fooled. More complicated forms of biometrics, such as iris and retinal scanners, are more commonly used by government agencies and security systems at airports. 