ievo, a developer of biometric solutions, has developed new technology that can detect attempts at spoofing fingerprint readers and has proven as much during a test by the forensic team at Police Port, according to a Build.co.u article. Among some of the features built into ievo’s matching algorithm that enables the reader to detect fake […]

Retail Pro International, a developer of retail industry management software solutions, has announced a partnership with biometric technology developer M2SYS. The new partnership will see Retail Pro’s RightPOS solution, a point-of-sale-based solution for authenticating users of a register as they process transactions and for employee time and attendance, integrated with M2SYS’s Hybrid Biometric Platform. The […]

DigitalPersona has announced that multiple KFC restaurants owned by the chain’s franchisees are improving their loss prevention programs with fingerprint biometrics. The new solution at the franchises across the Midwest and Southeast are replacing PIN-based authentication system with biometrics in an effort to reduce payroll fraud due to buddy-punching and bogus transactions at the register […]

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency at the Paso Del Norte Mexican border crossing in El Paso, Texas has begun work on a system that would see the use of biometrics to help wait times for those entering the states on foot, according to an Imperial Valley News article. The new system, which will […]

Lumidigm has announced that its Mercury line of multispectral fingerprint scanners has been chosen for integration into the Cheetah line of card readers from card reader developer Innometriks. Lumidigm Mercury multispectral fingerprint sensors capture fingerprint data beneath the surface of the skin so that dryness or even damaged or worn fingers create no problems for […]

Developed at first as master’s thesis through UCLA, Optimum Biometric Labs, a developer of biometric systems monitoring solutions, has released a report titled “Best Practices in Biometrics Performance Monitoring Programs.” The document primarily deals with standards, methods, processes, frameworks and tools that can be leveraged to obtain data to detect, diagnose, report and recover issues […]

A report released by Goode Intelligence, an information security industry research and analyst company, predicts the mobile phone biometric security products and services marketplace will grow from the 4 million users in 2011 to 39 million users by 2015. The report, Mobile Phone Biometric Security Analysis and Forecasts 2011-2015, also looks at how it sees […]

Retail Pro, a developer of retail operations management software, has announced it has struck a partnership with biometric technology developer M2SYS. The partnership will enable biometric on Retail Pro’s RightPOS, a point-of-sale-based management system that handles register security among other management tasks. The inclusion of biometric authentication will increase accountability of employees using the system, […]

Election Authorities in Islamabad, Pakistan have been working towards a voting system that would include biometrics to impede fraudulent voting, according to an article from The Express Tribune. While they have not yet finished compiling the database if eligible voters’ electoral rolls and pictures, they plan to introduce a system that would include ballot papers […]

Fujitsu has announced the creation of a new partners program designed to support sales and technology integration efforts of their vendors. The program, called PalmPartner, is designed specifically for resellers, technology-developer partners and system integrators for the PalmSecure product line and provides them with additional support in education, technical, marketing and sales support. Fujitsu officials […]