A partnership between INSIDE Secure and TazTag has yielded an NFC-enabled Android tablet. The TazPad V2 is a 7-inch Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet that can be used for mobile banking, stock management, payment, ticketing, access control, identity and other sensitive and secure applications. The tablet— currently available directly from TazTag—combines INSIDE’s EMVCo-certified Secure […]

NEC Corporation of America has granted Michigan State University (MSU) with a gift to the school’s College of Engineering to fund biometric research. As reported by CBS Detroit, the gift will fund ongoing research on fingerprint matching and facial recognition. It will also help start new research in the school’s Pattern Recognition and Image Processing […]

The Leon County Sheriff’s Office in Florida has added fingerprint recognition to its arsenal of tools to help identify suspects, reports WCTV. The office has invested about $144,000 in the Rapid ID system. This portable system identifies suspects by taking and reading their fingerprints. It then can immediately tell if the suspect has a criminal […]

The Romanian Police no longer have access to their extensive set of databases that help them recognize and identify fingerprints and faces due to poor maintenance of the systems, reports Romania Insider. The police use an Imagetrak database that contains many physical characteristics about registered suspects. For fingerprint recognition the police use AFIS 2000. The […]

DigitalPersona Inc. has launched the next-generation version of its U.are.U Software Development Kits (SDKs). The new SDKs enable biometric authentication through easy integration to be able to offer high protection against voter and entitlement program fraud. The system meets the requirements for making standards-based development tools, which provides for the expansion of fingerprint biometrics throughout […]

The State of West Virginia has chose NextgenID’s Multi-modal Biometric Enrollment (MBE) KIOSK for enrolling employees, contractors and citizens into the state’s new West Virginia Identity Management Service. This service will aid in the transition of business process to a secure system using trusted digital identity cards in the state’s counties and municipalities. The state […]

Lumidigm announced that the company’s fingerprint technology can be extended to read barcodes and authenticate credentials. The new technology will be demonstrated at the 2012 Biometric Consortium Conference (BCC) and Technology Exposition, September 18-20 at the Tampa, Fla. Convention Center. The scanners can read bar codes, which can be used to enroll an individual into […]

The FBI has invested $1 billion in a biometrics-based identification system to help catch criminals, reports ZD Net. The Next Generation Identification (NGI) program will improve the FBI’s existing fingerprint ID service. It also plans on including other biometric measures such as facial recognition, iris scanning, DNA analysis, voice identification and potentially also rolled and […]

BIO-key International, Inc. will be showing its newest fingerprint biometric authentication for the health care field at this week’s Epic Annual User Group Meeting in Verona, Wisc. BIO-key’s systems are designed to help hospital staffers and health care providers speed up the time it takes to access and update patient records, while increasing security measures […]

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has awarded a contract to US Investigations Services Professional Services Division Inc. (USIS PSD), a background investigations provider, to conduct biometric capture services for immigration benefits and U.S. citizenship. The contract is categorized as an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The terms are for one base […]