Kumpulan Perubatan Johor, one of the largest healthcare groups in South East Asia, chose Labcal’s SmartPrint™ Technology for 4,200 employees QUEBEC CITY, QC, June 17, 2004 – Labcal Technologies Inc., a company specializing in fingerprint-based biometrics, smart card and Public Key Cryptography identification and authentication solutions, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded […]

At Indiana’s Fort Wayne International Airport will use fingerprint biometric readers from Bioscrypt to secure access to key facilities. Fort Wayne is the latest in a series of airports in the U.S. and abroad looking to biometric technologies–either combined with a card technology or standalone–to increase security levels and monitor access. Bioscrypt’s Finger Scan Technology […]

The U.S. Genenal Services Administration (GSA) will look to Oberthur for production of the new contact and contactless ID cards. The GSA cards will be issued to employees, contractors, and visitors using facilities nationwide. The GSA announced that 18,000 of the new credentials will be issued. OBERTHUR WINS FIRST GSA CONTRACT FOR ISSUANCE OF SECURE […]

Charlotte Observer | 06/02/2004 | Accenture wins federal contract to track visitors “Accenture Ltd. led a group that won a contract worth as much as $10 billion to develop a system to help the Department of Homeland Security track visitors to the U.S.” “Accenture plans to use radio frequency identification, or RFID, technology to place […]

Frost & Sullivan recently recognized Recognition Systems, Inc. with awards in two independent studies. Recognition Systems was named recipient of the 2004 Application Market Penetration Leadership Award for access control and time and attendance applications in Frost & Sullivan’s study, World Biometrics Market, and received the 2004 Technology Leadership Award in Frost & Sullivan’s Technical […]

The US Department of State will upgrade its current smart card-based network security system with a new version that adds biometric verification to the smart card. Using Precise Biometric’s Match-on-Card™ technology for fingerprint matching and smart cards and software from Datakey, the new system will help secure the access of DoS’ 30,000 badgeholders. It will […]

Aviorel International Joins Labcal’s Network of Partners Labcal Technologies Inc., a Quebec-based company delivering authentication solutions based on fingerprint, smart card and public key cryptography technologies, is pleased to announce its new partnership with Aviorel International for the representation of its products in the defence and aerospace market throughout Europe. The Manager of Aviorel, Mr […]

At more than 150 merchant locations in Malaysia’s capital of Kuala Lumpur, consumers are testing a new contactless payment card from Visa. Called Visa Wave, the trial is Visa’s first foray into contactless consumer payments. It is significant because it is brings the world’s largest card association into the contactless payments landscape and it marks […]

With almost no country reporting an ability to meet the U.S. October deadline for machine-readable passports with biometric identifiers, two of the U.S.’s top officials–Secretary of State Colin Powell and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge–have asked Congress to extend the deadline for the enhanced passports by an additional two years. The Enhanced Border Security and […]

Membership Cards are Crowning Glory of Club Benefits Program The Tottenham Hotspur Football Club began humbly in 1882, when a local cricket team merged with students from the elementary school and formed the Hotspur FC. The Spurs, as they are now known, went professional way back in 1895, and won their first Southern League championship […]