A Government Accountability Office investigator was able to use false identities to fool U.S. State Department and Post Office workers and have a passport issued under a different name, according to a report from the Associated Press. In all the investigator made four attempts to receive passport under fake names. With one, the investigator used […]

S.D. Spady, an elementary school in Florida’s Palm Beach County, has been conducting a pilot program using fingerprint readers in their cafeteria lines to access student lunch accounts without risk of fraud as well as speeding up the lunch lines, according to a Sun Sentinel article. Due to the success of the pilot at Spady, […]

Validity Sensors, a biometrics developer specializing in fingerprint authentication, has announced that it has received a commitment for up to $10 million in financing from its current investors. The investment was necessary to expand to Validity’s 2008 release of the VFS201 fingerprint readers that were embedded in many HP and Acer notebooks. Now the company […]

New UK-based biometrics distributor, Simply Biometrics, has announced that it is focusing offerings on biometric solutions for physical access control and time and attendance systems. Though the company plans on focusing on the two markets, it is intending to utilize multiple different modes of biometrics including fingerprint, iris, vascular, hand geometry and facial recognition authentication. […]

NETS, a Singapore electronic payments provider, has teamed with the Rasa Rasa Coffee shop to allow its customers to “flash and go” with their contactless NETS CashCard when they make purchases at the shop. At least two of the company’s outlets will be involved in the program This NETS initiative is aimed at widening merchant […]

A coalition of technology industry associations in Thailand have announced the establishment of a center promoting the adoption of RFID technology. The RFID Institute of Thailand (RFID-TH) will serve as a test bed center and to showcase the technology in the region. The institute is sponsored by Thailand’s Software Industry Promotion Agency, the Thai Embedded […]

Commercial transactions by mobile phone are projected to total $1.6 billion this year, primarily due to Internet shopping, according to new data from New York-based ABI Research. However, mobile commerce using NFC-compliant phones will be minimal this year, the firm adds. “Mobile Internet shopping is the largest piece of the action,” said Mark Beccue, ABI […]