A new application for Apple’s iPhone and iPod called FaceCash offers face recognition as a means of identity verification for mobile-based payments made at brick and mortar points of sale, according to an International Business Times New York article. Essentially, what the FaceCash app enables a user to do is replace his credit cards or […]

AuthenTec has announced its AES2660 smart sensor has been incorporated into technology developer Fujitsu’s new STYLISTIC Q550 tablet computer. Further, the sensor, which has been embedded onto the back of the tablet and runs off the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system, offers one-touch security that eases its use to enhance security for mobile computing. Among […]

Shaun Oakes, a biometrics business man, in conjunction with technology developer Design Network North have developed a new fingerprint solution that takes into account some of the issues that fingerprint users regularly encounter, such as unusable fingerprints as well as not being able to work in poor environments such as cold or wet weather, according […]

Finivation Software, a developer of financial technology, has launched its voice biometric authentication solution that is designed to enhance credit union call center security as well as online and mobile banking security. The solution, called VoiceVerify, will be first implemented at the Phoenix-based Desert Schools Federal Credit Union who is hopeful that the new technology […]

Dates: September 12-15, 2011 Location: Montréal, Canada Venue: ICAO Headquarters, 999 University Street, Montréal, Quebec, Canada URL: http://www.icao.int/mrtdsymposium2011/ Description: The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a Specialized Agency of the United Nations, is pleased to invite your company to sponsor, exhibit or attend the Seventh Symposium and Exhibition on ICAO MRTDs, Biometrics and Security Standards […]

NXP Semiconductors, AuthenTec and DeviceFidelity Inc. announced that they are jointly developing reference designs that enable secure mobile payments via Android-based phones through the use of fingerprint biometrics and near field communication technology. Reference designs created by the companies are expected to help mobile phone manufacturers and wireless carriers to address the growing demand for […]

The Biometrics Institute, an Australian non-for-profit industry organization, has announced plans to increase its promotion of biometrics by expanding both its physical presence and its networking reach. The Institute has opened an office in London, where the Institute’s General Manager Isabelle Moeller, has relocated. This office will help the Institute bring together its European membership […]

Biometric identification technology provider Neurotechnology has received the FBI’s WSQ Certification. This certification states that Neurotechnology’s MegaMatcher and VeriFinger SDK fingerprint compression algorithms meet accuracy requirements spelled out in the Wavelet Scalar Quantization (WSQ) Gray-Scale Fingerprint Image Compression Specification, Version 3.1. The 3.1 version is the most recent standard for fingerprint image exchange in the […]