Anakam has released its Anakam.TFA version 3.0 two-factor authentication platform. From a single administration console, Anakam customers are able to configure one or more channels that include authentication via email, cell phones, PDA and mobile devices, IVR, call center, and voice biometrics. Version 3.0 introduces enhanced user profile administration features and usability improvements that allow […]

ImageWare® Systems has signed a two-year distribution agreement with iBilt Technologies, a New Delhi-based IT provider with primary focus on government IT business. Under the terms of the agreement, iBilt will distribute ImageWare’s biometric identity management solutions, including its IWS™ Biometric Engine® and IWS™ Law Enforcement suite, to the public safety market in India. iBilt […]

Fingerprint Cards’ swipe sensor technology has been chosen by CardLab ApS for the development of a new biometric secure payment card. The biometric card will have the same format in size and thickness as the standardized plastic cards in circulation today, and can be read by the magnetic stripe card readers used in existing payment […]

SmartMetric has released its credit card sized portable biometric fingerprint reader card. Using the SmartMetric Biometric card with its built in fingerprint scanner companies can now secure physical entry points and computer systems with the all-in-one biometric card. It also allows Companies to integrate biometrics into existing contactless doorway entry systems. The SmartMetric Biometric card […]

Precise Biometrics has won another project for national ID cards. The project includes licensing of the Precise Match-on-Card™ technology, which will be integrated in ID cards for all the country’s residents. The delivery will start during the first six months of 2008. Information regarding which country the order refers to cannot be communicated until next […]

austriamicrosystems’ Full Service Foundry was selected by Fingerprint Cards conduct high volume production of Fingerprint Card AB’s advanced high quality fingerprint sensor chip FPC1011C. The new sensor chip offers high image quality, 3D image with 256 gray scale values in every pixel and highly sensitive pixel amplification (HSPA) resulting in a very high signal to […]

Siemens has introduced a new multi-communication protocol reader to be released in early 2008. The Siemens PP500-EM is a heavy-duty proximity and PIN reader which can be used in any of the popular SiPass access control systems: SiPass Entro Lite, SiPass Entro and SiPass Integrated. The reader supports 2 different card technologies – 125 KHz […]

Proximex and NEC Corporation have joined together to offer integrated physical security solutions for organizations that require “real time, all the time” systems. Proximex Surveillint™, combined with the NEC® Express5800™/320Fc fault tolerant server or ExpressCluster® product family, protects organizations with the ability to discover, connect and resolve seemingly unrelated events as well as handle constant […]

E-Safetransfer has received a purchase order for 15,000 Teo by XIRING readers from the Brazilian Ministry of Finance, through its department of Internal Revenue. This contract aims to equip the Department’s employees with smart card readers in line with the PKI smart card infrastructure in Brazil. RFB is part of the Brazilian PKI initiative – […]

A milestone in port security has been reached with the passage of the 2008 Congressional spending package that includes $400 million for FEMA’s Port Security Grant program. In addition to the Port Security Grant program, the fiscal 2008 spending bill includes $8.1 million to fully fund the Transportation Security Administration’s biometric card reader pilot projects […]