Entrust Inc., is extending its public key infrastructure technology to provide the Entrust Credentialing Service, an end-to-end hosted solution for organizations to issue unified smart card credentials. This system is tailored for enterprise, citizen or government environments that want to secure physical and logical access, virtual private networks (VPN) and other enterprise functions and capabilities. […]

Black Diamond Advanced Technology ha a new, rugged and mobile identity management system capable of multimodal biometric collection. Called BioTRAC, it features multiple fingerprint sensors as well as a multifunction camera with barcode reading capabilities and a dual iris camera system. The camera, developed by Iritech, can capture two irises in less than five seconds. […]

A primary school in Manchester, UK is piloting a program in which students as young as four years old use fingerprints rather than library cards to check out books from the school library. The new program is meeting some opposition, according to a Popular Science article, in the form of concerned parents and privacy advocating […]

Following the closing down of companies trying to operate privately-run biometric security checkpoints in airports designed to increase the speed and ease with which regular travelers move through the airport, two airports are expecting new and similar programs, according to a New York Times article. The airports in Denver and Indianapolis are getting programs run […]

Human Recognition Systems (HRS), a developer of and consultant for biometric technology, has announced the launch of a new mobile biometric platform designed to run on mobile biometric devices such as the ones the armed forces are employing in their operations. The platform is capable of taking iris, face and fingerprint samples acquired by the […]

The San Francisco Police Department could be the recipient of technology that would enable them to collect fingerprint and DNA data at crime scenes rather than waiting for processing thanks to a proposed city budget that would allocate $3 million for the upgrade, according to a San Francisco Examiner article. The specific technology the budget […]

The Chief Information Officer of the Hong Kong Housing Authority (HKAA), Raymond Chu, has spoken about his experiences implementing biometric technologies in various scenarios, according to a CIO article. Among some of the issues he has tackled and subsequently spoke on include testing out various modes of biometrics, vetting privacy concerns and getting people to […]

Namibia’s NAMPOST Savings Bank has launched a Tourist Smart Card designed to make visiting the country easier and safer, according to The Republikein. The card will enable visitors to withdraw or deposit cash, pay for gas and groceries, rent cars, book hotel rooms and buy pre-paid airtime at Post Offices, as well as transfer funds […]

Biometric Intelligence & Identification Technologies has announced it has been awarded a contract with the Massachusetts Sheriffs’ Association (MSA) for providing facial recognition systems to each county’s sheriff’s department as well as a number of individual police departments in the state. The systems BI2 will be providing were created by Animetrics, a New Hampshire-based facial […]

IDEX ASA, a Norwegian fingerprint imaging developer, has announced the release of a new, .05mm thick and flexible fingerprint sensor called SmartFinger Film. IDEX plans on implementing the technology in a number of applications including ID cards, access cards, Smart cards and biometric tokens. Officials from IDEX are expecting the SmartFinger technology to be integral […]