Secure PDAs

An anonymous reader writes "This article at LinuxDevices.com introduces a unique Linux-based 'secure PDA' co-developed by IBM and Consumer Direct Link, Inc. (CDL). The Paron MPC combines the functions of a PDA, Bluetooth wireless access, cellular telephone, and biometric fingerprint recognition, along with a security-oriented hardware/software architecture. The device is claimed to be the world's first handheld wireless device with built-in biometric user authentication. The Paron is based on an Intel StrongARM SA-1110 processor and uses a Linux 2.4.x kernel and provides a GUI environment and PDA app suite based on Trolltech's Qtopia and Opera's browser much like the Sharp Zaurus."

Comments

Yeah, but -

[Cap'n Canuck]

Yeah, but will it run Doom II?

wooohoooo!!

[GeekWade]

Private p0rn!!!!

Re:BioMetric User Identification

[Anonymous Coward]

How is this fucking informative?
If MS did biometric authentication you can bet they'd store all our info in a central database somewhere. That would be something to sreac about.
Since when do we have +4 Trolls?

Re:BioMetric User Identification

[mumblestheclown]

"If MS did biometric authentication you can bet they'd store all our info in a central database somewhere."

And since when did slashdot become a place for slippery-slope knee-jerk microsoft bashing? ...

Oh, wait..

Re:BioMetric User Identification

[Anonymous Coward]

Since when do we have +4 Trolls?

You're kidding, right?

In case you're not, we've had +4 trolls since someone modded them down from +5.

G to the FP

[Anonymous Coward]

P to the prizzost

letter to ed.

[nege]

Dear Senior Taco,

Can we please change the handheld story picture to at least a palm V, which is dead sexxy?

Thanks
nege