Frost & Sullivan has released a report detailing the state of the market for video surveillance and contactless biometric solutions in the Asia Pacific region. The report, titled Asia Pacific Profiles of Local Industry Participants: Physical Security, paints a promising picture of the marketplace for the technologies in region wherein many local companies have responded […]

L-1 Identity Solutions has announced the release of a new line of biometric access control solutions being touted as both high efficiency and low cost. The new offerings, called 4G V-Flex Lite, 4G CR-Pass and 4G SecureControl, were demonstrated along with other L-1 products at the Intersec Trade Fair in Dubai Jan. 16-18. While all […]

TechConnectWV, a professional coalition devoted to the growth and diversification of West Virginia’s economy through promotion of technology companies, has announced it is initiating an awards program to recognize companies involved in biometric and identity management technology whose new developments could bring new jobs to the state. The reasoning behind the coalition’s focus on the […]

Accu-Time Systems, developer of work force management systems and software, have announced the availability of its new workforce management terminal that includes an optical fingerprint reader for biometric identification authentication, according to a TMCnet article. The fingerprint readers for the system are being supplied by biometric technology developer Lumidigm and are from their Mercury line […]

The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG), a group that controls 27 gambling facilities in Ontario, Canada, is moving forward with plans to install facial recognition surveillance technology in all of its establishments by this spring, according to an article from The Star. Unlike most surveillance technology in casinos, however, these systems are not designed […]

AuthenWare has announced a reseller agreement with 2Keys Security Solutions, an information technology security company, allowing 2Keys to resell AuthenWare’s behavioral biometrics software. The software from AuthenWare is their keystroke authentication software which determines a user’s identity based off the unique patterns he types with. Among the reasons that 2Keys pursued the ability to offer […]

The research firm MarketsandMarkets has released a new study of the biometrics marketplace that projects a heavy growth rate over the next four years. Advances in Biometric Technologies and Market Analysis breaks down the various modes of biometrics such as fingerprint, iris and facial and by regions such as North America, Asia and Europe. Specifically, […]

M2SYS will take part in the 2011 National Retail Federation’s Retail Big Show expo in New York. Among the offerings they plan to showcase at their booth is Bio-SnapOn, a desktop add-on solution that supports fingerprint, finger vein and palm vein and iris recognition through M2SYS’ Hybrid Biometric Platform technology. The reasoning behind why M2SYS […]

Neurotechnology has announced the release of a new software development kit (SDK) called MegaMatcher 4.0 that combines the latest versions of many companies other single mode biometric solutions to create a multimodal one. MegaMatcher utilizes the latest versions of Neurotechnology’s fingerprint software, Verifinger; iris recognition software, VeriEye, facial recognition software, VeriLook and palmprint identity verification […]

Nuance, a speech recognition technology developer, has acquired Israel-based voice biometrics technology developer PerSay, according to a TMCNet article. As both companies have been operating in very similar fields, the resulting boost in research and deployment assets is expected to help the new company drive the voice biometrics marketplace. Read the full story here.