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Below the poverty line

More than 1.4 billion people on Earth live on less than US$ 2 (EUR 1.47) per day. Interestingly many industries target this market segment, and consider the poor as the next resource for business development.

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Smart card not a major invention?

A panel of eight judges from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business was recently charged with ranking the most important inventions of the last 30 years.

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Closing the digital divide

The ITU (International Telecom- munication Union) just published its new ICT Development Index (IDI), comparing developments in information and communication technologies (ICT) in 154 countries over a five-year period from 2002 to 2007.

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Biometrics, not the alpha and omega of security

A few years ago, biometrics sounded like an exotic technology that could be added to reliable cryptography-based security-oriented portable objects like smart cards.

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