Digital security solutions provider Gemalto has been tapped to provide a turnkey electronic ID card program for Yemen that includes some 10 million cards that will be issued in time for the country’s parliamentary elections in April, 2009. The credit card-size document, issued to all citizens above 16, will include personal credentials such as name, […]

Catcher Holdings, Inc. announced several organizations that supply products and integration services to the US Department of Defense and to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security have begun accepting shipments of Catcher’s recently introduced CATCHER® Grizzly (“Grizzly”) product line. The Grizzly, which was previously called by its internal product name of version 2.0, joins the […]

Biometric Services International (BSI) has received a $138,000 education development grant from Verizon West Virginia. BSI will use the grant to develop an online biometric orientation course for the West Virginia Community and Technical College System (WVCTCS) for the 2008 Summer Semester. The online course will be accompanied by instructor-led “train-the-trainer” workshops beginning in the […]

A new report released examines the growing use and effectiveness of innovative technology, such as smart cards and biometrics, in microfinance initiatives. Banks in India and Indonesia are actively growing their microfinance operations. Indonesia’s Danamon bank and India’s ICICI bank are relying on biometric and smart card technologies to alleviate the high cost of microfinance […]

e-Smart® Technologies announces that in December 2007, the Company completed manufacture and testing of its next generation superthin polyimide flexible circuit biometric card. The name of the new card is “i am.”™ The new “i am”™ Super Smart Cards are made with a super adhesion technology and a superthin polyimide flexible circuit that is produced […]

L-1 Identity Solutions, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement with Bioscrypt Inc., to acquire all outstanding Bioscrypt shares in a stock-for-stock transaction. L-1 will purchase Bioscrypt shares for C$0.55 per share, representing a total purchase price of approximately C$44.0 million. Bioscrypt is expected to add $20.0 million in revenue in 2008. The acquisition is […]

The Indian government mandating all citizens in Delhi carry ID cards after January 15th is causing debate over a police state versus security against terrorists. The opposition party (Bhartiya Janata Party, BJP) believes in a national citizen register for use in passports, voting and health care while some in Congress feel it would give the […]

Secure identity provider L-1 Identity Solutions, in a stock for stock transaction, has agreed to purchase Canadian biometrics company Bioscrypt. The purchase price is expected to total about C$44 million and represents a further expansion of L-1 into the physical and logical access control market. STAMFORD, Conn.–L-1 Identity Solutions, Inc. has entered into a definitive […]

FaceKey Corporation announced today that Centralized Showing Service, Inc. an around-the-clock call center headquartered in Lenexa, KS has selected the EntryGuard™ fingerprint-based time and attendance system and access control system for several of its Real Estate Call Centers. FaceKey fingerprint-based time clocks and access control products will be used to improve efficiency and free the […]

Sagem Sécurité has been selected to provide the new Terminal 3 of Cairo Airport with biometric border control gates Based on biometric automatic fingerprint recognition technology, this system will provide high security service for the identification of passengers while accelerating the overall check-in process, particularly pre-registered passengers and frequent flyers. This system is part of […]