A student at India’s Sri Kalikamba Fabricators at Moodbidri, Sheetal Kumar Jain, has developed a device he refers to as The Electrician that electronically locks the ignition of a car until a registered fingerprint has been swiped acknowledging that an authorized driver is using the vehicle, according to an Indian Cars and Bikes article. While […]

DigitalPersona has announced the release of a new Java-based application programming interface for its software development kit (SDK) One Touch, an SDK for bringing biometric authentication to software for Linux and Windows-based systems. The new kit was designed to help ease the process for software developers to add fingerprint biometric capabilities to their software and […]

The United States State Department has made inquires to India’s government regarding their Unique Identification (UID) project that intends to see each citizen of the country given a unique identification number that corresponds to the individual via biometric data, according to an article from The Hindu. Among the information the State Department is searching for […]

Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, has announced his interest in including biometric data on Social Security cards, according to a WCAX article. While Bloomberg’s interest in the enhanced social security cards is intended to increase employer’s abilities to discern whether or not an applicant is a legal U.S. citizen prior to employment, critics […]

BIO-key International has announced that it will be demonstrating its Tru-Donor ID Solution at the annual meeting of South Central Association Blood Banks in Las Vegas. Tru-Donor ID is a solution setup to identify blood donors regardless of venue utilizing fingerprint biometrics-enabled mobile devices such as smart phones. Bio-key is already involved in supporting operations […]

Precise Biometrics has announced the launch of a new embedded biometric solution touting the ease with which hardware developers can utilize the new solution to incorporate fingerprint biometrics into their own offerings. The solution, called Precise BioMatch Embedded, was designed keeping in mind the long test cycle for hardware manufacturers when they incorporate other technology […]

Fujitsu Frontech has announced the release of a new vascular scanner the company is touting as the world’s smallest and slimmest contact-free vein authentication scanner available. Officials say that the new sensor, which utilizes palm-vein authentication, has a small enough footprint that it could easily be incorporated into laptop computers and other electronic devices for […]

Lumidigm has announced they have been recognized as being among the top 300 startups in 2011 by the fundedIDEAS publication called TOP 300 STARTUPS with a ranking of 29th overall. Those honored in the publication scored in the top 300 across 14 parameters for business performance including the strength of its management team, business model, […]

The biometric collection in India associated with its National Population Register (NPR), a program being run by the Unique Identification Authority of India that includes the collection of photographs, fingerprints and iris scans during the 2011 Census, has received a poor response form the country’s citizens due to low awareness resulting from a lack of […]

TSA officials did not show up to a U.S. congressional hearing for transportation worker credentialing. The hearing was looking into why it has taken the agency so long to get a viable biometric credentialing and security check procedure in place for airline flight crews, according to a Journal of Commerce article. John Mica, the chairman […]