By Salvatore D’Agostino, CSCIP, IDmachines LLC IDmachines and other colleagues attended a workshop last week at the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md. on the draft FIPS 201-2. The workshop enabled NIST, other government agencies and industry to discuss the initial changes and to propose other changes to PIV […]

Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, has announced his interest in including biometric data on Social Security cards, according to a WCAX article. While Bloomberg’s interest in the enhanced social security cards is intended to increase employer’s abilities to discern whether or not an applicant is a legal U.S. citizen prior to employment, critics […]

BIO-key International has announced that it will be demonstrating its Tru-Donor ID Solution at the annual meeting of South Central Association Blood Banks in Las Vegas. Tru-Donor ID is a solution setup to identify blood donors regardless of venue utilizing fingerprint biometrics-enabled mobile devices such as smart phones. Bio-key is already involved in supporting operations […]

Precise Biometrics has announced the launch of a new embedded biometric solution touting the ease with which hardware developers can utilize the new solution to incorporate fingerprint biometrics into their own offerings. The solution, called Precise BioMatch Embedded, was designed keeping in mind the long test cycle for hardware manufacturers when they incorporate other technology […]

Lumidigm has announced they have been recognized as being among the top 300 startups in 2011 by the fundedIDEAS publication called TOP 300 STARTUPS with a ranking of 29th overall. Those honored in the publication scored in the top 300 across 14 parameters for business performance including the strength of its management team, business model, […]

The biometric collection in India associated with its National Population Register (NPR), a program being run by the Unique Identification Authority of India that includes the collection of photographs, fingerprints and iris scans during the 2011 Census, has received a poor response form the country’s citizens due to low awareness resulting from a lack of […]

TSA officials did not show up to a U.S. congressional hearing for transportation worker credentialing. The hearing was looking into why it has taken the agency so long to get a viable biometric credentialing and security check procedure in place for airline flight crews, according to a Journal of Commerce article. John Mica, the chairman […]

Ceelox has announced that it has developed a new solution for biometric-based login to cloud-based applications. The solution, called Ceelox ID Online, utilizes their own fingerprint authentication in conjunction with OpenID protocol to allow for login to any of the accounts that OpenID services such as Facebook, Yahoo!, Google and many others. Ceelox officials see […]

Precise Biometrics has announced that under its new management group it will be focusing on the U.S. marketplace. The new business plan also intends to focus on the development of its new internal divisions of Mobile, Identity Access Management and Access Management. The new focus is a direct response to the U.S. taking up a […]

Lockheed Martin has announced that following a successful Critical Design Review of increment 3 of the FBI’s Next Generation Identification (NGI) system, which includes latent fingerprint and palm print matching capabilities, the company is also starting to develop and deploy the new capabilities. The NGI is a way for the FBI to collect the biometrics […]