Microsoft later said not crediting Kaspersky in its original announcement was the result of poor communication between the two companies. Of course, it was a Microsoft lawyer saying that…

Biometrics: Rapid advances in capturing face and iris biometrics, DNA

The Biometric Consortium Conference in Tampa is an annual event that brings together the industry, including biometrics researchers and one main constituency, the U.S. government, especially the Department of Defense and the Federal Bureau of Investigation among other agencies.

The top news from there centered on remarkable advances being made in technologies that can capture iris and face scans of people in a crowd as they move, at a distance of about 5 meters or so. It's suggested that some of this on-the-go biometrics capture is going to be used in the fight against terrorism, and might even end up one day in automated , a controversial subject…

Some other big news from the conference came in the form of companies and universities showing so-called that can accept a cotton swab with human DNA on it and spit out the individual subject's unique DNA profile in about an hour or two.