ScaleMatrix, a provider of cloud-based IT services, has announced a partnership with biometric solutions developer Digitus Biometrics that will see the development of new biometric security for ScaleMatrix’s physical data centers. The upgrade will move from proximity cards, which can only tell what card was used to gain access to secured areas and server racks, […]

Google has acquired Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition (PittPatt), a seven year-old developer of facial recognition technology, though has yet to disclose terms of the deal or what the company plans to do with it, according to a Wall Street Journal article. Despite not releasing any specific plans, a spokesman for Google did release that the technology […]

Following an offer from the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) to use its database of driver license photographs and face recognition technology to help in tracking down those suspected in being involved in the Vancouver riots following their loss in the NHL Stanley Cup finals this year, British Columbia’s privacy commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, has […]

Researchers at Dermalog Identification Systems, a Germany-based biometric technology developer, have developed new technology for fingerprint scanners that would enable them to tell the difference between living and dead tissue, according to a New Scientist article. The new technique, which aims to curb frauds such as removing someone’s finger to gain access to their biometrically […]

The UK’s National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) has brought mobile fingerprinting devices to the police agencies in the UK to enable quicker identification of fingerprints without having to bring the person of interest back to the police station for identification authentication, according to a Planet Biometrics article. Though capable of identifying a person of interest […]

BIO-key International has announced that it has deployed a fingerprint-based solution for Summa Health System, an Ohio-based integrated health care delivery system that includes hospitals, health centers, health plans and a physician-hospital organization. The new solution, which complies with the Ohio Pharmacy Board two-factor authentication requirements, is replacing an older system that utilized hardware and […]

L-1 Identity Solutions has announced it has been awarded a contract from the Tennessee Applicant Processing Services program naming them the exclusive provider of digital fingerprint services for the state. The contract, which is valued at $40 million, is purported to span three years with two additional and optional one year renewals. Specifically, the systems […]

RNCOS, an industry intelligence and analysis company, has released a new report titled Global Biometric Forecast to 2012 which predicts large growth in facial recognition expecting a compound annual growth rate of 31%. Among such drivers is the ability of face recognition to act as both a verification and identification tool as it can be […]

Biometric Signature ID (BSI), a developer of gesture-based biometric solutions, has announced it has been awarded a second patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on its multi-factor gesture biometric technology used for identification authentication. The solution, called BioSig-ID, authenticates an individual’s identity via unique movements of a mouse, interactions with a touch […]

L-1 Identity Solutions and France-based Safran have announced that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has approved the proposed merger between the two companies by completing its investigation of the merger and finding no unresolved national security concerns. With the news of the approval, Safran and L-1 officials announced their intent […]