Looking for a holiday gift idea? Sequiam Biometrics has announced a partnership with The Sharper Image to launch a line of fingerprint biometric products for consumers. Two products will be offered starting November 2007 with additional products released in the first half of 2008. The Sharper Image and Sequiam Biometrics Offer New Biometric Lineup for […]

ScreenCheck has qualified for the new AET Europe B.V. (AET) Certified Solution Program. AET uses ScreenCheck for total card solutions concepts. ScreenCheck provides smart card ID solutions for national ID card systems, weapon card systems and medical card solutions. AET has a global ranking as a market and technology leader when it comes to middleware […]

Privaris announced that HID Global will distribute Privaris’ plusID™ family of products. plusID is a line of personal biometric identity verification tokens for physical and logical access. plusID can support all of HID’s card formats, enabling it to operate with an organization’s existing HID readers. Using HID’s new idBank technology, access credential formats can be […]

Veritec, Inc. announced the Blackfeet Nation of American Indians, has signed an agreement to use it’s 2-D VSCode™ biometric technology for multi-purpose cards which will serve as Tribal Member ID, border-crossing (to and from Alberta, Canada) control and passport-backup ID cards. The technology stores the individual’s fingerprint minutiae in the 2-D VSCode™, is robust, tamperproof, […]

DigitalPersona releases its OneTouch® for Linux SDK that enables developers to create fingerprint-enabled applications for the Linux operating system. Designed for 2.6 kernel versions of the Novell SUSE and Slackware Linux distributions, the One Touch for Linux SDK enables developers to work in C and C++ development environments to integrate fingerprint authentication into applications that […]

Aware’s CaptureSuite™ family of software development kits has been introduced to perform rapid autocapture and compliance assurance of ten fingerprints and formatting for submission to a watchlist database. CaptureSuite software components work in conjunction with fingerprint live scan hardware devices, performing functions including autocapture, segmentation, hand detection, quality analysis, and standard-compliant formatting. The U.S. Department […]

Neurotechnologija has introduced the Smartcard Finger-Match add-on for its VeriFinger and MegaMatcher fingerprint identification engines. With the match-on-card technology of Smartcard Finger-Match, the original reference template of unique biometric information, such as a fingerprint, is stored on the smartcard. The matching of fingerprint templates takes place in a microprocessor embedded in the card and personal […]

BioLink and m2m smart card systems conducted a joint exhibition at Cardex and IT Security conference in Moscow recently. MAGIX Loyalty, m2m group’s client loyalty program, allows frequent travelers to avoid long lines in airports by embedding biometric identification features on its smart card. A biometric optical USB scanner combined with a smart card reader, […]

Cross Match is the first biometrics manufacturer to receive Department of Homeland Security (DHS) certification for its Livescan technology. Cross Match has been awarded SAFETY Act designation for its portfolio of livescan products including the L-Scan® Guardian™ ten-print devices and palm and full-hand systems. Cross Match’s livescan portfolio received both designation as a qualified anti-terrorism […]

Two of Lumidigm’s fingerprint sensors have been tested and approved for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Qualified Products List (QPL). The J-Series and Venus Series are the only fingerprint sensors on the QPL. Systems and readers that integrate Lumidigm’s sensors meet TSA biometric requirements through Lumidigm’s qualification. Lumidigm Fingerprint Sensors Dominate TSA Qualified Products List […]