Kenneth Weiss, founder of Universal Secure Registry (USR) and developer of token-based authentication technology, has announced his latest technology will be able to utilize voice recognition and can be used on mobile phones, according to an IT World article. Weiss sees the new technology, which operates as a three-factor authentication service, as a necessary security […]

Goode Intelligence, an information security research and analysis specialist, has issued a new report that details an expectation of heavy growth in the biometric products and services for mobile phones over the next five years. Specifically, Goode forecasts a total revenue generation of $30 million from biometric mobile phone products and services in 2011 with […]

The Biometrics Institute, an independent not-for-profit representing and including members from government, financial services, health care, and biometric technology providers and developers, has released a report detailing the results from its second annual Industry Survey. Among the items detailed in the report are past developments driving the marketplace, potential roadblocks, future applications and future market […]

3M Cogent has announced the release of its new BioTrust biometric logon software developed to replace traditional usernames and passwords with biometrics. The new software is designed for use with Microsoft’s Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 operating systems and utilizes facial and fingerprint recognition to replace traditional means of a variety of logins. In […]

A planned trial for new biometric technology in the Queensland area of Australia would see surveillance cameras installed throughout the area outfitted with face-recognition technology in an effort to track and find wanted criminals or other persons of interest in public spaces, according to a Courier Mail article. The trial would seek to utilize the […]

Ceelox has announced it has been issued a new patent by the U.S. Patent Office entitled “System And Method For Biometrically Secured, Transparent Encryption And Decryption.” The patent, which relates to the technology behind a biometrically enabled encryption and decryption of digital files, is used in Ceelox’ Vault, a fingerprint-based file encryption manager for either […]

Schools in the Florida Seminole County school district have decided to drop its four-year-old program involving seven schools that saw students utilizing a fingerprint-based authentication system to pay for their school lunch, according to an Orlando Sentinel article. The decision was based almost entirely on the savings dropping the system would mean for the district […]

A case for biometric technologies inclusion in mobile phones is made citing its potential in terms of addressing consumer needs for data protection, device security and inclusion in mobile services and operations in a Tech Biometric article. While some of the biometric capabilities for phones would require embedded or integrated hardware such as scanners to […]

Malaysia’s government has announced plans for the collection of fingerprint data from roughly 2 million illegal aliens in the country in an effort to curb the use of fraudulent identity documents and to better manage the growing foreign worker population, according to a Herald Sun article. The program is expected to last roughly a month […]

DigitalPersona has announced it is providing the U.are.U line of fingerprint readers to Sailormen Inc., the largest U.S. franchisee of the Popeye’s Chicken and Biscuits fast food restaurant. The solution will find its way into 148 of the fast food locations throughout Alabama, Illinois, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Missouri to be part of a […]