AOptix Technologies Inc. announced a partnership with emaratech, a regional system integrator for government, border control, aviation security and electronic identification systems and the provider of smart and electronic border control gates in all of UAE airports, Sultanate of Oman, Sultan Qaboos airport and Jordan Queen Alia airport. Exhibiting at GITEX Technology week in Dubai, […]

Lumidigm has announced that it has entered a partnership with identity solutions distributor IdentyTech Solutions for distribution in Israel. The new agreement will see IdentyTech’s terminals and other identity solutions integrated with Lumidigm’s multispectral fingerprint scanners, which use both surface and subsurface fingerprint data for a more accurate print match in both good and poor […]

Researchers from the University of Notre Dame have begun researching a facial-recognition-based system they are calling a Questionable Observer Detector that would be able to identify criminals returning to the scene of the crime, according to a Network World article. The idea for looking into such a system struck Kevin Bowyer, a professor of computer […]

AuthenTec has introduced a solution that brings fingerprint security to virtual private network authentication on Android-powered smartphones and tablets. AuthenTec touts the new solution, called QuickSec Mobile VPN Client 2.0, as being an upgrade over the native VPN Client the Android operating system provides as it’s more secure, faster, interoperable and less expensive to maintain. […]

The FBI will begin a service that provides facial recognition capabilities to local police agencies for identifying persons of interest via photos by early 2012 as a part of their larger Next-Generation Identification system, which incorporates iris, voice and facial data in addition to the fingerprint data the FBI already has, according to a Nextgov […]

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the interactive version of the fall 2011 issue of Regarding ID. The interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that allows you to read the magazine as if it were on the desk in front […]

The Washington County School District in Florida is adding biometric identity authentication systems to all of its school buses in an effort to better keep tabs on students’ whereabouts, according to a WJHG News article. The original decision to bring the new systems on board came from reported inconsistencies in attendance recording. Among the challenges […]

The E-Gates at Manchester Airport, facial recognition-based biometric gates that enable passengers to bypass lines for automated security checks, were temporarily suspended due to an investigation of a couple swapping passports and then passing through the gates, according to a BBC News article. Both people involved were stopped by immigration officers supervising the system. After […]