MAN Diesel, Augsburg, Germany, has combined two contactless identification technologies on a single smart card chip for its new employee badge. LEGIC’s card-in-card solution is the technological backbone for the badges. The new card includes access control, time & attendance and cashless payments for more than 3,000 employees at MAN Diesel’s Germany plant. In addition, […]

Imagine going to a university Web site and instead of seeing information about the school, you see a letter criticizing the United States’ Iran policy and claiming that “we never cheated in elections.” That’s what happened to Oregon University’s site earlier this week. According to a university spokesperson, a hacker or hackers obviously favoring Iran’s […]

Saudi Arabia will begin a biometric visa program in an effort to improve their visa services while also strengthening their national security, according to an Economic Times article. The system, which is expected to begin in 2010, will require a seeker of a visa provide fingerprint samples and a digital photograph. Officials from the country’s […]

Authenware, a Miami, Fla.-based biometrics developer, has announced that it has come to an agreement with JVL, a French reseller of data-security products, to gain distribution to France and other French speaking countries in Europe for their biometric keystroke software called Authentest. AuthenTest operates as a second-factor authentication by comparing the way in which a […]

CardLogix, a provider of smart cards and software for secure digital authentication, and charismathics, a vendor of IT security components and identity management middleware, announced that they have formalized a partnership. charismathics is now a Smart Partner, supporting its solutions with CardLogix SIMs and smart cards. Together, these products form a solution for securing identity […]

The FBI has awarded a contract for managing its Criminal Justice Information Services Division Card Scanning Services (CSS) program to biometrics and security company Lockheed Martin. The contract, which spans five years and $47 million, covers the handling and conversion of paper-based fingerprint, palm print and photo records into electronic records for the FBI. The […]

M2SYS, a developer of biometric solutions, has announced that they have been chosen by workforce management systems developer Kronos Incorporated for integration of biometrics into some of their existing time and attendance solutions. The specific solution from M2SYS that is being deployed is their Bio-SnapON software. The BIO-SnapON software operates via a PC and USB […]