Two Texas police departments have successfully used live fingerprint scans to serve a warrant in conjunction with a 15-year-old murder case. The Carrollton and Lewisville, Tex. police departments used Plano-based Mentalix Inc.’s Submit live scan system to nab the suspect, Danny Elenilson Osorio. Lewisville police officers stopped Osorio in March on suspicion of driving while […]

Three University of California, Riverside scholars have received a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to launch a program that will use facial recognition software to identify unknown subjects in portrait art. The project, called “FACES: Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems,” was conceived by Conrad Rudolph, professor of art history and […]

Travelers into Dubai International Airport will have the option of using an automated border crossing checkpoint, according to GulfNews.com. Initially deployed in Terminal three, but expected to be rolled out throughout the airport, the system will read the passports and check the facial image and iris against a watch list. The entire process takes about […]

Key Source International announced GSA approval for it’s biometric keyboard and stand-alone biometric pod. KSI products are approved under FIPS 201 for Federal Employees and civilian contractors. The KSI-1700/GFFB biometric keyboard and the KSI-1008F biometric pod meet these requirements for FIPS 201. Marktron of Frederick, Md., whose primary focus is on OEM’s, systems integrators and […]

The Nigerian Identity Management Commission (NIMC) will begin enrolling Nigerian citizens and legal residents into the Nigerian Identity Management System (NIMS) within the next few weeks, reports Business Day. The registrations will comply with the NIMC Act of 2007, which establishes a National Identity Database, ID cards and a National Identification Number (NIN), as well […]

BT and Hitachi Europe Ltd. announced that they are jointly designing an identity management solution for the financial services market. In this move, BT is introducing BT Unified Trading federation, a cloud-based trust utility for secure identity exchange and will incorporate Hitachi’s Finger Vein Authentication Engine and technology to offer biometric security capabilities. The combined […]

Sim-Prints’ biometrics app for improving patient care in the developing world won the first Idea Transform Weekend held in Cambridge, UK, reports Business Weekly. With this mobile phone-based app, health care workers can collect and check patient information in a variety of environments. The project was developed by Shruti Badwar, Mariy Chhatriwala, Toby Norman for […]

ScaleMatrix integrated biometrics into various levels of access in its San Diego-based cloud data center, reports Security Info Watch, giving it added security for its clients. The company installed many security features into the protection of its data center, including a networked fingerprint-biometric access control system. This system controls physical entry into the building with […]