Fulcrum Biometrics has been given two separate awards for innovation at the Cygnus Law Enforcement Group’s Innovation Awards in Chicago at the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference. The two awards Fulcrum won were the Cygnus Law Enforcement Group Innovation Award for Forensics and the Paramount award, which is given for a single product […]

DigitalPersona has announced the Yogurtland restaurant franchises in the U.S., Mexico and Guam have implemented DigitalPersona’s U.are.U fingerprint solution. The new solution serves multiple purposes for the franchise locations helping them meet Payment Card Industry compliance regulations, reduce payroll fraud and eliminate the need for managers to remember system passwords or to keep track of […]

Technology company Sony has been awarded a patent for a game controller designed for use with their Playstation gaming systems that would be capable of measuring a player’s biometrics including heartbeat, perspiration and muscle movements, according to a Thinq article. The purpose of the controllers, which are designed to look just as the current controllers, […]

This year Oberthur Technologies is on track to deliver more than two million smart cards to the U.S. government in 2011, making it the leading supplier of FIPS 201-compliant Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards for the fifth year running. Oberthur is a top supplier of smart credentials to the U.S. Federal government, with PIV-based products […]

The Noble County Sheriff’s Department in Indiana has launched an iris recognition-based biometric system designed to collect iris data in addition to the fingerprint data already collected from suspects being booked at the department, according to a WANE article. The system, which was designed and provided by biometric technology developer BI2 Technologies, will only collect […]

Intercede has announced the release of Service Pack 1 for its biometric identity and credential management system MyID PIV v9. The upgrades included in the new service pack are bringing Personal Identification Verification (PIV), PIV-I and PIV-C credential issuance into one system. Additional upgrades in the service pack are aimed at reducing time and costs […]

Morpho announced that Australia’s Customs and Border Protection Service signed a five year agreement for service of the SmartGate automated biometric security checkpoint solution. The SmartGate technology operates in real-time utilizing facial recognition hardware that compares the captured data of a traveler to the data contained on the chip embedded on his e-passport. Australian Customs […]

For many, the use of biometrics for physical access to facilities–whether placing a finger on a scanner or looking at an iris camera–continues to evoke futuristic images. But the technology is prevalent in applications that many use every day, for accessing the gym or tracking of time and attendance at work. That said the high-security […]