Alasdair Darroch, director for biometrics developer Biostore, spoke at the Biometrics 2009 Conference in London revealing that the education sector may be leading the charge on utilization of biometrics with approximately 10% of schools utilizing the technology in some way, according to an Info Security article. Among the areas in schools where biometrics are being […]

Elias Messaike, a forensic biologist in Sydney, Australia, is pushing for Australian police to utilize ears as way of identifying individuals, according to an ABC Australia News article. On top of it being a reliable means of identification verification, Messaike points to other benefits of using the biometric mode including its practicality, speed, lack of […]

ACI Worldwide, a New York-based provider of electronic payments software, has partnered with Dutch company Bell ID to license Bell’s smart card management solutions to financial markets and retailers. ACI intends to market and license the ANDiS product suite that includes a card and application management system. ANDiS supports the life cycle phases of smart […]

The Saskatchewan Government has launched a $5 million rebate program that will reimburse Saskatchewan livestock farmers up to 70 per cent of costs should they use to implement RFID tracking solutions. The program is available to cattle, bison, sheep, goat, hog and cervid producers, as well as veterinary clinics, meat processors, assembly yards, privately managed […]

Container Centralen (CC), a Danish company that rents shipping racks to produce growers, has chosen RF Code’s active RFID technology to track its shipping racks traveling throughout North America. Fluensee, a business partner of RF Code, will provide software for the tracking system, as well as implementation and support services, while RF Code will supply […]

Ohio-based RFIDTraxx LLC has announced the introduction of AssetTraxx, its new RFID asset tracking software. The AssetTraxx software enables the user the ability to monitor the movement of tagged equipment while giving him or her the flexibility to check assets in and out as needed. The system uses Ingecom active 2.45 GHz RFID tags combined […]

The Identity Theft Prevention and Identity Management Standards Panel (IDSP) released a report calling for the development of an American National Standard on identity verification as a tool to help combat terrorism and identity theft. The report calls for national standards to verify the identity of individuals before being issued identification documents. The report were […]