ActivIdentity announced a Service Pack 2 update for its ActivID Card Management System that has been re-certified by the FIPS-201 Evaluation Program for compliance with NIST SP800-73-3. With the updates to the card management system, users will be able to store their key history and up to 24 certificates on their smart cards, enabling them […]

Officials in southwest Texas wanted to issue physicians a credential that they could use at emergency scenes to validate their identities. “We were going to issue a disaster card,” says Eric Epley, executive director at the Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council (STRAC). “When a disaster happens your hospital might be cordoned off and we want […]

A new report created by the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law & Social Policy at UC Berkeley School of Law predicts a price tag of at least $40 billion for a mandatory biometric employment verification card for all U.S. workers that would utilize either fingerprint or fingervein scans. Additionally, the report finds other […]

AOptix Technologies announced that SITA, a specialist in air transport communications and information technology, has joined the AOptix Value Added Reseller program. Under the partnership, SITA, who has customers in more than 200 countries which includes 300 airport locations, would be able to offer its customers AOptix solutions. These offerings include the InSight iris and […]

VoiceTrust announced it has acquired Montreal-based voice technology developer Perceive Solutions. The acquisition means VoiceTrust is able to extend its product portfolio to include Perceive’s free-form speech products as well as gain a significant foothold in the Canadian market. Executives from both companies say the merger will enable more future developments in product offerings for […]

California-based hosted and enterprise solution provider SutiSoft has announced new and different signing options for SutiSign, its electronic signature product that enables electronic signing of documents. Users can opt for a system generated signature that automatically populates based on a user’s name. This can be used as a representation of the signature. Users may generate […]

A new Morpho company under the Safran group has been launched called MorphoTrust USA. The new company, which was formed after the acquisition of three divisions and the headquarters of former biometrics developer L-1 Identity Solutions, will serve as an identity solutions provider dedicated to the U.S. market only. The newly launched company starts out […]

DigitalPersona released a new version of its Pro Enterprise authentication device. It now contains the ability to support a number of new authentication credentials, enabling organizations to mix and match the ways in which employees securely identify themselves to Microsoft Windows and other applications. Pro Enterprise can work with PINs, passwords, smart cards, biometrics, contactless […]