Demonstrators at the ICAC 2005 Kickoff
Overview | Demonstrators | Video
ComCARE Alliance
There is currently very limited capability for multiple agencies to share emergency data across jurisdictions during an emergency. This demonstration will show that by treating safety as an enterprise - using IP technology, standardized message sets and commonly published interfaces - a group of cross-jurisdictional government and emergency response agencies can effectively generate, receive, and update emergency messages in real-time. The demonstration will show some of the leading emergency response applications in use today, including a web-based geo-spatial directory of emergency agencies called the Emergency Provider Access Directory (EPAD), web-based mapping (GIS) systems, emergency management tools and other online applications. The demonstration will show the ability for these individual applications to share standardized information across platforms, thus enabling data interoperability for emergency response.
Consumer Electronics Association
CEA's Digital Answer Man will showcase products that will be at the center of some of the key debates in the 109th session of Congress. The demo will include products that highlight the digital rights management issues in relation to the increasing mobility of content. These products will include handheld digital video recorders (DVRs), high-definition DVRs and products compatible with the Windows Media Server. The Digital Answer Man also will showcase the next phase in VoIP products, specifically those that use Wi-Fi hotspots. As an association that represents over 1,850 consumer electronics companies, CEA will showcase some of the latest and greatest technologies.
eBay
eBay will demonstrate the tools that it has developed to enable members to foster trust and stay safe in the marketplace. Specifically, eBay will demonstrate its anti-phishing tool "Account Guard" that is incorporated into the eBay Toolbar. Spoof emails almost always take you to a fake Web site, where the real damage is done. Account Guard is a tool that will indicate when you are truly on either eBay or PayPal and will warn you when you are on a potentially fraudulent Web site. eBay Toolbar with Account Guard will also let you report suspicious sites. Alerts given to eBay through Account Guard will be used to quickly alert and protect the millions of other eBay Toolbar users. eBay will also demonstrate other tools that its users can access including posting and reviewing member "Feedback" and using protective payment systems, such as "Paypal."
eBay Trust & Safety is committed to keeping the eBay Marketplace a safe, well-lit place for virtually anyone in the world to trade virtually anything. eBay fosters trust between members through the development and enforcement of rules and policies, the creation of reputation-building programs, and active efforts to prevent fraud.
Entertainment Software Association
Online Video Games
ESA will provide a demonstration and discuss consumer access to video games over the Internet using game consoles and PCs. ESA's presentation will show how gamers can play online games with their friends and other players around the world. ESA is the trade association representing the publishers of computer and video games for video game consoles, handheld devices, personal computers and the Internet.
Ericsson
Ericsson will demonstrate that mobile computing is the next technology
frontier for enterprises such as healthcare providers. Data capture and
retrieval using a handheld devices over the wireless networks by physicians,
nurses and other healthcare professionals, are enhancing patient care and
improving efficiency. The migration of informatics to wireless and mobile
applications is now fully underway. This migration from desktop platforms to
a mobile platform will have a significant impact on future healthcare
delivery systems and their globalization. Handheld computers, both Palm and
the PocketPC, currently are being used for e-prescribing, charge capture,
research, reference, and patient education, accessing daily schedules and as
clinical tools.
Multi-access means seamless mobility and best-connect services combined with
reliable performance and dependable security. These wireless networks will
give health care professionals the ability to retrieve information on demand
utilizing the best communication and data networking services available.
Federal Trade Commission
Consumer education materials from FTC will be available for attendees. FTC has worked closely with GetNetWise to foster a "culture of security" where individuals, small businesses and other organizations recognize their responsibilities related to the security of personal information and make security part of their daily routine.
Freedom Calls Foundation
The Freedom Calls Foundation, in conjunction with the Office of Telemedicine of the University of Virginia Health System propose to demonstrate two way interactive videoconferencing using IP connectivity to two military bases in Iraq. This network is used regularly to connect soldiers at Camp Cooke in Taji, and Camp Fallujah in Fallujah with their loved ones back home.
The mission of the Freedom Calls network is to build a communications network independent of military networks that deploys state of the art Wi-Fi, VoIP telephony, videoconferencing and Satcom technology to enable our troops to communicate free of charge from their base camps with their families at home by internet telephone, instant messaging and broadband video conference. The University of Virginia, along with many other providers have donated connectivity through its rural telemedicine and distance learning network to enable soldiers to connect anywhere in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Other sites throughout the nation are also participating in this initiative.
Fujitsu
Fujitsu fingerprint sensor technology can be used in many products to authenticate users for Internet and network access. For example, the recently announced Lexar JumpDrive TouchGuard is a USB flash drive that stores 256MB of data. The TouchGuard incorporates the Fujitsu MBF310 fingerprint sweep sensor, with specialized SW to control who can unlock the contents. This solution also provides allows users to log onto web sites with a swipe of their finger, instead of having to remember passwords.
Fujitsu fingerprint sensor technology can be used in many products to authenticate users for internet and network access. For example, Silex Technology America makes fingerprint sensors with the Fujitsu MBF200 fingerprint sensor. These devices out put a 500 DPI, 8-bit grayscale fingerprint image that meets today's rigorous fingerprint image quality standards. These devices can be connected to USB and PCMCIA ports in PC's, laptops, PDA's and other devices. With software from Cogent Systems, a leading supplier of fingerprint security software to the Department of Homeland Security, this solution can easily and reliably authenticate users to their PC's, an enterprise network or web sites. The solution can also be used to encrypt and decrypt files.
GetNetWise
GetNetWise is more than a Web site -- it's a Web-wide partnership of companies and nonprofit groups commited to providing common resources to help Internet users with their experiences online. GetNetWise focuses on keeping kids safe online, protecting your computer from hackers and viruses, stopping unwanted e-mail and spam and keeping your personal information private.
i-SAFE & VeriSign
A partnership of VeriSign, a leader in online security and i-SAFE America, a leader Internet safety education, the i-STIK is a revolutionary technology that provides the first digital credential for kids and teens. The i-STIK facilitates secure online two-way communications, allowing children to chat with other kids in an environment of safety and security. i-STIKs are distributed and verified through school administrators and is currently in a pilot testing program in 9 schools across the United States.
Kodak
The KODAK EASYSHARE-ONE digital camera is designed as much for sharing pictures as for taking them. The camera gives people extraordinary control over how and when they share pictures on the LCD screen, online, or as prints. Truly first-of-its-kind, the camera holds up to 1,500 favorite pictures for instant display on its crystal-clear, high-resolution, 3-inch touch screen display; allows direct picture e-mailing and online album viewing via a wireless connection to the KODAK EASYSHARE Gallery (formerly Ofoto); and takes high quality still pictures and video. No other digital camera allows such extensive ability to take, organize, share and print pictures.
The KODAK EASYSHARE Printer Dock Plus quickly and effortlessly makes real KODAK 4x6-inch pictures from nearly any digital source. People can wirelessly transmit pictures from their mobile phone cameras to the Printer Dock Plus, which also prints directly from digital cameras and memory cards all without the need for a computer.
Microsoft
Powered by Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004, Media Center PCs are complete Windows XP PCs enhanced for home entertainment. These computers represent the evolution of home PCs into digital media hubs that bring together your entertainment choices and allow you to access them with one remote control. Media Center PCs come equipped with all the necessary hardware to deliver powerful computing and an enjoyable home entertainment experience. Media Center PCs are complete entertainment PCs because they include:
- Mid-to high-end processors
- More than enough memory for your computing and entertainment needs
- High-capacity hard disks
- CD-ROM/DVD drives
- Advanced graphics and audio capabilities
- Networking connectivity
NetSmartz Workshop
The NetSmartz Workshop is an interactive, educational safety resource from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) that uses age-appropriate, 3-D activities to teach children and teens how to be safer on the Internet.
NetSmartz is unique because of its use of the latest technology and its availability to the public at no cost. NetSmartz materials provide a learning experience children will enjoy and understand.
NetSmartz will demonstrate how it uses 3D animation to create characters such as Clicky, Webster, and Nettie to teach kids about online dangers and how to avoid them using interactive games and activities.
NTT DoCoMo USA, Inc.
Japan's premier mobile communications company, NTT DoCoMo, provides wireless
voice and data communications to tens of millions of subscribers.
NTT DoCoMo is the creator of W-CDMA technology, the new de facto global
industry standard, as well as the groundbreaking mobile i-mode service.
Please come and look some of our latest features, such as mobile wallet
"FeliCa," fingerprint security, QR-code reader and much more!
NTT/Verio
NTT Communications will demonstrate embedded systems and wireless technology as it relates to IPv6 networks. The demonstration will show how IPv6 can make possible more intelligent, networked devices at lower cost and smaller size. We will illustrate this with two demonstrations. First, we will show how an IPv6-enabled micro controller connected to an IPv6-enabled Wireless Access Point can serve up real time data from a basic weather sensor. The new Internet protocol, IPv6, allows for more dynamic networking with inexpensive, commercial, off-the-shelf products. We will show the embedded micro controller to illustrate the point. Other sensors could be IPv6 enabled and employed to detect biological agents, chemicals, or radiation at a low cost. Second, we will demonstrate the Smart Premise Security System that alerts an authorized watcher of any unusual events occurring in a remote place with a real time video image of the premise being protected. The system consists of IPV6 devices: a sensor, a camera, a PDA, and management servers.
PivX
PivX will demo Qwik-Fix Pro as the next generation Windows Host-Based Intrusion Prevention software for the home and enterprise security market. With Active System Hardening, Qwik-Fix Pro is the most advanced tool for protecting Microsoft® Windows®-based desktops and servers from worms, viruses and other malware. PivX's Active System Hardening is designed and proven to block the attack vectors exploits use to compromise systems in many cases providing protection well in advance of the actual publication of the exploit. PivX will demonstrate how a typical home user's computer can be exploited compared to a Qwik-Fix Pro protected computer.
Pulver
Pulver.com will show several services demonstrating the flexibility of Internet communications:
- A wireless mobile client allowing voice and instant messaging communications via the Internet to/from anywhere in the world. Applications for use range from college campuses, distributed warehouse operations to temporary disaster/emergency operations.
- Virtual phone numbers from many international locations that can seamlessly be forwarded to Internet telephones located anywhere on the Internet. Among the things that Virtual phone numbers can provide: ex-patriots can have a simple/flexible mechanism to keep in touch with family and associates, businesses can have local/global presence with no local infrastructure.
- pulver.Communicator: a software communications package providing open, standards-based multi-mode communications including Instant messaging, Presence, conferencing and voice/video communications. Consumers and businesses can now control much more of their communications channels at a fine-grain level; the when, how and who sends communications can be put in the hands of actual users.
Qualcomm
QUALCOMM will be demonstrating its EVDO Technology.
RSA Security & i-Mature
The U.S. Congress has recognized the need to find ways to protect children from inappropriate Web sites and chat rooms as well as online predators.
However, current technical methods that aim to enforce age restrictions fall short because they do not directly determine anything about the actual person who is attempting to access a site. They only infer the user's age based on possession of an item such as a credit card, driver's license, or user authentication token.
i-Mature, an Israeli-based company, has developed an innovative technology called Age Group Recognition that can determine online, in real time,
whether a user is a child or an adult and can more reliably enforce age
restrictions.
i-Mature does this with a compact device that performs a simple, non-invasive test, which determines a user's maturity stage by examining the status of his or her finger bone.
The demonstration will feature this device (see photo) and show how access to sites can be restricted based on the recognized age group.
RSA Laboratories, the research center of RSA Security, is advising i-Mature on the system's security architecture. The companies are also evaluating the potential integration of the Age Group Recognition into user authentication systems.
SAP
SAP, Infineon, RVSI, and Zebra Technologies will work together to demonstrate how RFID and UID technologies work. RFID and UID hold the potential for innovation and business process improvements within the retail, manufacturing, aerospace, high tech companies and Federal agencies. Indeed, RFID and UID have already been used private enterprises and governmental agencies around the world. Zebra, SAP and Infineon will provide you with a demonstration of the technology and their collective end-to-end RFID solutions from tags to enterprise applications, including related hardware and software products. RVSI will demo UID technology and explain its complementary relationship with RFID.
SBC
SBC Communications, Inc. recently announced the U-verse experience - its
suite of IP-based (Internet protocol) voice, video and data services
that will give consumers greater control of and integration among their
entertainment, productivity and communications devices. The demo will
be highlighted by its IP-based video service. For example, the demo
will illustrate:
- The ability of consumers to control their TV viewing experience by displaying multiple sporting events simultaneously
- The integration capabilities of consumers' digital devices, such as sharing the content - music, video and photos - that is on your PC in the den with your home entertainment center in the living room.
Sony Connect
The demonstration will exhibit the ability to search and browse through the Sony Connect Music Store, featuring over 800,000 tracks from major and independent labels. Rich descriptive content, personalization technologies and editorial recommendations all combine to enhance the consumers' experience of navigating through a broad selection of content and discovering new music. The Connect Store is integrated into the Sonic Stage PC application, a popular jukebox application that allows users to manage their music collections locally, burn CDs and move content to portable devices to be enjoyed on the go.
Beyond the broad range of current portable devices that are compatible with the Connect Store, the Demonstration will also be showcasing the highly anticipated arrival of the Sony PSP, a multi-media portable device from Sony PlayStation. The PSP is much more than a gaming device, also doubling as a digital audio player and a video-playback device. With its incredibly rich screen display and elegant looks, the PSP -- which arrives in the U.S. in March -- will serve all portable media needs. The Demonstration will showcase the ability to purchase music from the Connect Store and playback the secure content on the PSP.
SunRocket
SunRocket Internet Phone service, available nationwide, uses regular phones and regular phone numbers. Users are able to make and receive phone calls just as they do with traditional phone service, using the simple SunRocket "gizmo" that routes the calls over a customer's existing broadband connection. SunRocket's "gizmo" allows Internet phone calling to truly be plug and play by making it incredibly easy for the customer to understand and use Voice over the Internet, a hurdle that until now has prevented the mass market from taking advantage of the technology. All the customer needs to do is plug in the gizmo and they're ready to go.
SunRocket has introduced the industry's first annual calling plan an entire year of unlimited calling for $199 with no "gotchas" like hidden fees and charges that includes a host of free enhanced features that will be part of the Technology Fair demonstration, including: free phone features like caller ID and voicemail, and free web features like distinctive rings, find me, click to call, and managing your voicemail box through the Web.
Symantec
Symantec DeepSight Alert Services deliver customized vulnerability and malicious code alerts to inform of new potential threats and proactively mitigate risks. The service delivers notification of vulnerabilities and exploits as they are identified, providing timely, actionable information and guidance to help mitigate risks before they are exploited. Symantec DeepSight Threat Management System is an industry-leading Web-based global early warning system for attacks, providing expert threat analysis and prioritization, and assessment and decision support, allowing customers to protect themselves from active, ongoing attacks.
Symbol Technologies
In the coming years, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems with their safety tags will be used more and more in airport settings to increase efficiency and improve security in a number of areas. RFID technology is starting to be used in some airports for baggage tracking. RFID safety tags are integrated into the baggage tags that can be quickly and easily read from a short distance by handheld computers equipped with RFID readers. This gives baggage handlers and security officials real-time information at their fingertips reducing lost luggage and increasing security. It vastly improves the ability to match luggage to passengers, and quickly remove luggage from an airplane if the owner does not board the plane avoiding unnecessary delays and increasing passenger safety. McCarren International Airport in Las Vegas has implemented such a system utilizing Symbol equipment. Symbol will demonstrate how RFID safety baggage tags with RFID capabilities can be generated quickly and read securely by Symbol handheld computers.
TRUSTe
TRUSTe will provide a live demonstration of our new consumer facing email accreditation seal, TRUSTe Spam Watch. The seal is currently being Beta tested on several websites by NetCreations/ReturnPath, our development partner. The TRUSTe Spam Watch seal helps consumers distinguish which companies are legitimate emailers with opt-in standards and a working, reliable unsubscribe. A "point-of-collection" seal, TRUSTe Spam Watch brings consumers peace of mind, offers a route for dispute resolution and third party monitoring of email practices. TRUSTe's email service provider partner, NetCreations/ReturnPath is a leader in permission marketing and offers best practices for respecting consumer email.
TRUSTe will provide a step-by-step demonstration of the seal in action on the current beta websites. The demo will include the validation mechanism and dispute resolution procedures. The certification process, policy checklist and test statistics will be available for members of Congress to review. TRUSTe's partner Return Path will provide best practices documentation for companies seeking information on maintaining high standards of trust in email marketing. The TRUSTe Spam Watch seal is another market-tested self-regulatory regime for building trust between consumers and businesses in the evolving networked world.
Tutor.com
Each month thousands of children receive the one-to-one academic support they need from expert tutors via Live Homework Help and Live Homework Help en Espanol. This innovative Web-based program is offered at over 700 libraries and after-school organizations for local students and their families. Children in 4th through 12th grades and college students simply visit their library or after-school center's Web site, select their grade level and the subject they need help in (math, science, social studies or English), and they are automatically connected to an expert tutor via the Internet. Students connect with tutors for one-to-one help in an online classroom where they chat, share documents, co-browse the Web and work through problems on a shared whiteboard. Students report in post-session surveys that they are improving their grades, increasing their confidence in school and recommending the service to friends and families. Libraries, schools and after-school organizations across the country are looking for funding to expand and continue this valuable program in their communities.
Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless will demonstrate its CDMA 2000 1xEV-DO "3G" technology, which is one of the fastest, fully mobile wireless Internet data solutions available. EV-DO, which supports typical speeds of 300-500 kbps and is capable of reaching speeds up to 2 Mbps, will enable broadband Internet access and a variety of high-speed data applications. Earlier this year, Verizon Wireless announced its February 1, 2005 launch of "VCAST" the nation's first 3G wireless multimedia service for consumers. Using the EV-DO network, VCAST will bring high-quality video, 3-D games and music straight to new 3G phones, delivering the fastest, most widely-available fully-mobile wireless data experience in the nation today. Verizon Wireless customers will be able to use new handsets to access VCAST's video on-demand service, viewing current news, weather, sports and entertainment programming. They will also be able to download and play cutting-edge three-dimensional games on powerful new handsets and watch music videos and short programs specifically designed for mobile phones.
Visa
The exhibit will describe and demonstrate Verified by Visa, a service developed by Visa that enables cardholders to reduce their exposure to fraud when making online purchases. Cardholders can sign up for Verified by Visa through their card Issuer and assign a password to the card. Only the Cardholder and the Issuer know the password. It is not printed on the card. Once this is complete, whenever the Visa card is used at a participating online store the purchaser must validate the purchase using the password. The demonstration will illustrate the step-by-step process of validation. It will start by simulating how a user makes an online purchase using his Visa card. Once the Visa card number is entered at the merchant's Web site, a separate window will appear from Visa asking the purchaser to validate the purchase with the Verified by Visa password. Once the password is entered correctly the merchant is allowed to complete the transaction. More than 25,000 online merchants from WalMart.com to CompUSA.com are participating.
Vonage
Vonage, the leading broadband phone company, will demonstrate the F-1000 portable Wi-Fi handset, designed by UTStarcom Inc. The F-1000, configured with Vonage's Voice over IP (VoIP) phone service, will offer mobility across 802.11b networks and will be available nationwide to Vonage subscribers during the spring/summer 2005. The F1000 Wi-Fi handset untethers consumers from their traditional phone lines. When available, the Wi-Fi phone will allow them to make calls from anywhere there is a Wi-Fi hot spot‹at home, at work, around the town; in airports, coffee shops, and hotels; and even internationally. The new SIP-enabled Wi-Fi handset disrupts the mobile communications landscape as it allows users to take advantage of the rapid growth of Wi-Fi worldwide. Vonage subscribers can use the new handset as a replacement to their fixed-line phone at home should they have Wi-Fi access, or as a complementary means of communication outside of the home when they are in range of a Wi-Fi hotspot.