"A bill introduced in the House of Representatives on Wednesday would require states to include biometric features such as retinal scans or fingerprints on encrypted microchips in driver's licenses and state-issued ID cards."

New research from TowerGroup finds that volume figures for person-to-person payments still lag far behind the heady predictions that heralded P2P's birth in the late '90s. While actual transactions between individuals will continue to grow gradually, the greatest opportunity for P2P providers-and most significant threat to the payment franchises of established financial institutions-is the ability of the P2P infrastructure to adapt to other types of markets such as business or government.

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Folks in Boston are puzzled by a recent surge in bank robberies.

"Nearly every bank in the United States runs its operations on an internal network that connects to the Internet at some point. Although the banking industry claims that its security is virtually foolproof, others say that any technology can be penetrated under the right circumstances."