AuthenTec’s fingerprint sensor has been chosen by mobile enterprise platform developer Realm Systems to secure the company’s mobile pocket-sized server, making it, according to AuthenTec, one of the most secure in the industry. SALT LAKE CITY and MELBOURNE, Fla. – Realm Systems has chosen AuthenTec’s biometric technology to enable secured endpoint computing in its pocket-sized […]

Orlando, Fla.-based Sequiam Biometrics recently announced its Biometric OEM kit that will allow manufacturers to quickly add biometric access to their existing product lines. The kit was developed in partnership with Analog Devices and includes software development tools to allow easier integration. ORLANDO, Fla.– Sequiam Corporation, through its wholly owned subsidiary Sequiam Biometrics, Inc. (www.sequiambiometrics.com), […]

Forget fingerprints. A Toronto, Ontario company wants the whole hand involved. And it’s not talking palm prints. It wants to identify the blood vessels in your hand. Identica Corp. has linked its Universal Controller with a hand vascular scanner manufactured by a Korean company. The result is a biometric access control mechanism solution that it […]

Recent orders for its fingerprint readers totaling some $600,000 has biometric technology provider Identix optimistic about future demand for its authentication technology. Just half way into its fiscal year, the company is already ringing up $2.2 million in sales which, it says, are driven by the growing need for more secure access to companies’ PCs, […]

A multi-factor authentication product co-developed by Bioscrypt, HID, and OMNIKEY, will support fingerprint biometrics, contact and contactless smart cards, proximity cards, common passwords and USB tokens tokens, virtually eliminating a company’s need for multi-credentials. Bioscrypt VeriSoft Access Manager Enables HID iCLASS and Prox Cards, in Combination with OMNIKEY CardMan Readers, to be the Authentication Tool […]

A panel of ID industry experts provided predictions for 2006. One of these glimpses into the future will appear here each day during December. By Ron May, UPEK, Inc. Our high tech graveyards are littered with the bones of great ideas. For over a decade, VC dollars rained down onto solutions for which there was […]

A panel of ID industry experts provided predictions for 2006. One of these glimpses into the future will appear here each day during December. By Emil Bonaduce, President, Vision Database Systems Prediction#1: Good News for Fargo, Datacard, Evolis, Magicard, and Nisca – the desire to print text and photos on plastic cards is just not […]

Muehlbauer, which created its own market segment it calls “TECURITY,” has landed a trial project to produce the Spanish ID Card. Its “Express Solution” will allow Spanish police to produce fully operational security documents or ID Cards on-site. In minutes the card could be optically and electronically equipped with personal information, as well as a […]

“Overall the interaction between phone and RFID tags has been good. The reader/writer is on the base of the phone, at the bottom. This seems a little awkward to use at first, but slowly becomes natural. When I have given it to others, their immediate reaction is to point the top of the phone to […]

Biometric fingerprint specialist UPEK has been chosen as a 2006 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, an honor that a UPEK spokesman says reflects the company’s commitment to a technology that was once considered experimental but which is now “quickly gaining mainstream acceptance by some of the world’s leading consumer brands…” The award will […]