Under Beijing’s seven year, $6.5 billion program called the Grand Beijing Safeguard Sphere, the Chinese government has installed roughly 300,000 video surveillance units around the city, according to a Los Angeles Times article. Included in that project and in conjunction with the video cameras, China has also deployed a face recognition technology in hopes of […]

Lumidigm, a New Mexico-based biometrics company, has entered into an agreement with Methode, a technology-specific automotive supplier, to bring biometrics to new markets such as transportation. The intent behind the partnership is to utilize biometrics to increase security and convenience in common consumer products such as cars. Specifically, Methode entered into the agreement in hopes […]

Kiland Business Management Systems, a software developer, has selected AAID Security Solutions, a manufacturer and distributor of long-range RFID products, to provide them with AAID’s Ultra Long Range Radio Frequency Identification tags and readers for creating real-time inventory awareness and identifying assets. Once implemented, the RFID tagged inventory will be detected by the passive readers […]

Sagem Morpho Inc. and BIO-key International Inc. announced a technology partnership to create a high-performance biometric matching technology. Under this partnership arrangement, Sagem Morpho has invested in licensing of BIO-key technology to create a scalable and responsive fingerprint identification solutions. Technical and scientific teams from both companies are working together to optimize the fusion of […]

China Merchants Bank (CMB), one of China’s largest Banks, has selected FreeSpeech, a voice recognition technology from biometric developer PerSay, to use as biometric authentication over the phone for their customers. Once deployed, CMB will be the first bank in China to have biometric identification over the phone available to customers. CMB is hoping the […]

Sun Microsystems, a software and technology developer responsible for developing the Java programming language, has integrated their Java System Access Manager with Biometric Services Platform from Aware, a biometric systems vendor. The new product has Sun’s identity security and management combined with fingerprint, face, and iris reading technology from Aware. The new product is aimed […]

LaserCard Corp. announced a follow-on purchase order valued at $2.8 million to supply identity cards for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s National ID Card program. This brings the total value of orders received for the program since April 1, 2008 to $7.4 million. The latest order is for the continued supply of optical smart cards […]

Austin, Texas-based IMS Research reports that there will be more smart cards than people by the end of next year. By the end of 2009 the IMS projects that smart cards will have passed 7 billion, a level the global population won’t reach until 2011. IMS predicts that 10 billion smart cards are less than […]

AIM Global, a trade association and authority on automatic identification and mobility, has announced the availability of new guidelines for verification and qualification of design for RFID chips and transponders in tires. The guidelines were put together by the RFID Experts Group and are expected to help the entire industry in developing new RFID technology […]

ThingMagic, a developer of RFID technologies, has announced a variety of different RFID kits available for purchase from their Web site. The kits, called M5e-Compact, Mercury5e, and Mercury4, are designed to meet the non-traditional RFID needs of customers in a low-cost and user-friendly solution. Each kit consists of RFID reader software and hardware for testing […]