Pakistan has chosen INSIDE Contactless to assist in developoment of its machine readable passports, using INSIDE’s SmartFilm and readers. The film combines a secure chip containing personal identification with a security film, which guards against tampering or forgery. INSIDE Contactless has been selected by National Database and Registration Authority of Pakistan, NADRA, to supply SmartFilm(tm) […]

Software designed to help companies meet Sarbanes-Oxley mandates or comply with HIPAA requirements by assuring that the right people have the right access to the right information, was recently announced through a partnership of silex technology america, Inc. and Sig-Tec. The software, combined with silex’s fingerprint devices, allows enterprises to provide biometric authentication for access […]

Keeping tabs on the U.S. federal government’s smart card progress is tough. Memorize a list of acronyms today and they are likely to become old news as new agencies and initiatives take precedence. Though somewhat frustrating, this is a very positive indicator of the rapid progress being made as the U.S. federal government’s smart card […]

“There is no better way to (control access) than by individually identifying people, using their fingerprint biometric,” said the dean of the University of Texas Medical Branch. Let’s hope he is right because the lab in question works with infectious agents such as “Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Lassa, and Ebola.” They are using fingerprint biometric readers […]

Lost among the countless articles announcing the launch of US-VISIT’s next phase today, was a little gem from IBM. They have a version of their T42 ThinkPad that includes a fingerprint reader. Another sweep sensor, actually. It was debatable as to whether this was even worth mentioning because the original press release is lost somewhere […]

By the end of 2005, all Malaysian citizens over the age of 12 will be carrying a dual interface contact/ contactless smart card as their national ID. With a population of 23 million, the Malaysian program is both one of the world’s first national ID card programs and one of the largest issuances of dual […]

Biometrics will have the greatest impact on physical and logical access and, secondarily, sometime in the not-too-distant future, perhaps in tactical warfare situations, according to officials from the Department of Defense, whose interviews appear in a new U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) publication. Released last month (August 2004), the 25-page report titled “What DoD Thinks […]

Labcal Technologies will be using Bioscrypt’s one-to-one fingerprint matching algorithm in its SmartPrint Mobile Checker, a wireless, handheld authentication unit used to read data from contactless, secure personal identification smart cards. New Solution Extends Bioscrypt-on-Board Enterprise Solutions to Include Handheld Authentication Device TORONTO, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Bioscrypt Inc., a leading provider of identity verification […]

The U.S. Navy’s Pacific Command Headquarters in Hawaii is the second important naval base to deploy biometric readers from Bioscrypt and contactless smart cards from HID. The system is designed to help further secure areas of sensitive access adding the fingerprint biometric to card and PIN requirements. U.S. Pacific Command Headquarters Selects Bioscrypt V-Smart iClass […]

Identix Inc., a multi-biometric provider of fingerprint, facial, and skin identification technologies, has become one of more than 30 smart, biometric, optical, and proximity card application software developers and manufacturers that make up the Fargo Technology Alliance. Fargo Announces Addition of Identix Incorporated Minneapolis, MN (September 13, 2004) – Fargo Electronics, Inc. announced that Identix […]