HID Global has announced it has deployed a solution to the Dental Council of India (DCI) to streamline its time and attendance management system. The specific solutions provided by HID Global is the SmartID, a smart card and fingerprint reader, and EDGEPlus, controllers integrated with both card readers as well as management software from Rasilant […]

In a major move towards biometric registration of its citizens, the Mexican government has begun a project that will see the iris and fingerprint data collected from all children in the state of Guanajuato, according to a Singularity Hub article. The new collections are coming off the end of a program that began in September […]

i-Evo, a provider of biometric technology, has announced it will be demonstrating multispectral fingerprint technology from Lumidigm to show how new fingerprint technology developments can bring the biometric mode into environments it was previously unable. Specifically, i-Evo will be showing how the Lumidigm technology is capable of authenticating identities via fingerprints through latex gloves or […]

IrisGuard, a Jordan-based developer of iris recognition systems, has landed a contract for supplying the Jordanian government technology for capturing iris data of each visitor to the country, according to a Bloomberg article. Such projects are not new to IrisGuard as in 2002 they implemented a similar system in the United Arab Emirates to track […]

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a recommendation for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to better their use of biometric technology. As the DOD is budgeted to spend $3.5 billion on the technology between 2007 and 2015, the GAO was tasked with determining how much the DOD has taken standards and interoperability into […]

John Kress, a research botanist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, along with Peter Belhumeur and David Jacobs, two computer scientists from Columbia University and University of Maryland respectively, have developed an application for the iPhone that identifies plants and provides information on them from only an image taken on the phone, according […]

Among the tools U.S. armed forces had at their disposal to ensure they had the correct identity of Osama bin Laden after killing him were biometric scanners such as facial recognition, according to a Wired article. The specific tool used by military personnel to be sure they had the right person was an updated version […]

GRGbanking, a bank technology installer, has announced that they are installing palm vein readers on all 2,900 ATMs owned by the Turkey-based Ziraat Bank, according to an Asian Banking and Finance article. The new technology is expected to be popular among Ziraat customers due to it being a very secure technology that is also contactless […]

Telos Identity Management Solutions has announced the release of a new version of its Smartmatic PARmobile biometric enrollment and capture system. Some of the enhancements to the new version have Telos officials touting that it can be used in even more areas due to its increased hard drive, wireless communication capabilities, lower power consumption and […]

Voter registration in the Philippines starts tomorrow continuing through October 2012 and will include the collection of biometric data from voters for registration, according to a Malaya article. Registration of Filipino voters, who must be at least 18 years old, a resident of the Philippines for at least a year and in the place where […]