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EXPERT ALERTS

• Biometric Modalities Provide the Most Secure Passwords
• Potential iPhone 7 Changes That Would Resonate With Consumers
• Zika Exposes IT Gaps

MEDIA JOBS

• Sports Reporter – Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (AK)
• Breaking News/Crime Reporter – Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA)
• Energy Reporter – Houston Business Journal (TX)

OTHER NEWS & RESOURCES

• So You Want to Be a Ghostwriter…
• Blogger Events: Top Events to Attend in August
• Blog Profiles: Sports Blogs

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EXPERT ALERTS:

Biometric Modalities Provide the Most Secure Passwords
Dr. Salil Prabhakar
President and CEO
Delta ID
"I have always believed biometric modalities, such as fingerprints and iris scanning, provides us with the most unique and secure passwords that we never have to remember. The widespread adoption of fingerprints in mobile phones has proven the same. I believe, in what we can call the second phase, iris scanning technology, owing to its better security and reliability, will further advance the use of biometric technology in high-security applications in the enterprise, banking and payments."
Dr. Prabhakar, an expert in the area of biometrics -- fingerprints and iris scanning technology -- is president and CEO of Delta ID Inc., a California-based technology company he co-founded in 2011. Delta ID is the world's first company to bring iris recognition technology to mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets and laptops, thereby enabling reliable, convenient and secure e-commerce, payments and transactions. He has co-authored 50+ publications (14,000+ Google citations), two editions of the award-winning Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition, five book chapters, and eight edited proceedings. He has several patents granted and pending.
Contact: Amy McDowell, [email protected]

Potential iPhone 7 Changes That Would Resonate With Consumers
Greg Mishkin
Vice President, Telecommunications
Market Strategies International
Rumors about the removal of iPhone 7's headphone jack and other design changes have been swirling for months in anticipation of the September reveal. Mishkin is available to discuss what potential changes are poised to really resonate with consumers and which will not: "This summer has seen no shortage of analyst reports of what the soon-to-be-released iPhone 7 will look like and what features it will (and will not) possess. Continuing what has become an annual frenzy of leaks and predictions, rumors are flying about its multiple screen sizes, memory capacity, camera quality, headphone jack and water resistance. Rumors aside, customers' needs and wants vary greatly depending on their current make and model, wireless carrier and their brand loyalty."
Based in Atlanta, Mishkin earned a master's degree in business administration from Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Ga.; a master's degree in clinical psychology from University of Hartford in Hartford, Conn.; and a bachelor's degree in psychology from Union College in Schenectady, N.Y.
Website: http://www.marketstrategies.com
Contact: Nicole Burdiss, [email protected]

Zika Exposes IT Gaps
Ritu Agarwal
Information Systems Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research
University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business
"Health departments have lacked guidance to effectively strategize about appropriate IT investments, and incidents like the current Zika crisis bring the issue to the forefront. From intensive analysis of the rollout of an electronic health records system [in a nearby county], we uncovered a host of barriers and obstacles to effective use of information, including the complexity and usability of the software, the inability of the software to support certain unique public health reporting needs, the learning curve for public health workers, and the lack of standards for effective data exchange. All of this does not bode well, either for crisis response or for proactive crisis anticipation."
Agarwal is founder and Director of the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems at the Smith School and Editor-in-Chief of Information Systems Research.
Bio: http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/directory/ritu-agarwal
Website: http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/chids
Contact: Greg Muraski, [email protected]

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• Sports Reporter – Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (AK)
• Breaking News/Crime Reporter – Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA)
• Energy Reporter – Houston Business Journal (TX)

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• BLOGGER EVENTS: TOP EVENTS TO ATTEND IN AUGUST. In this monthly column, we list some events bloggers should consider attending to hone their craft: http://bit.ly/2bc7Gdi
• BLOG PROFILES: SPORTS BLOGS. Each week, PR Newswire's Audience Relations team profiles a handful of sites that do a good job with promoting and contributing to the conversation in a particular industry. In the latest installment, they take a look at sports blogs: http://bit.ly/2b8XVyf

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