Validity, a biometric technology developer specializing in fingerprint authentication solutions, has announced the launch of its VFS5111 fingerprint solution. The new technology has improved on its predecessors in performance and tri-color LED support. Validity is touting the solution as a low-cost option for notebook manufacturers and that the LED integration can assist with non-authentication related […]

ColorID, a supplier to the campus card industry, presented at this year’s 5th annual Illinois State ID meeting hosted at Illinois State University at Bloomington. At the meeting, ColorID shared information on advanced technologies, including biometric iris and fingerprint capture devices, secure computer sign-on solutions, ID printers and biometric employee background checking products. Some 20 […]

A senior national security official for Australia’s Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) has revealed the possibility of expanding Centrelink’s internal smart card program to include all federal employees as well as adding biometrics to the program, according to an MIS Australia article. Some of the biometric modes being considered for inclusion in the […]

Legislation has been proposed in the UK parliament to abolish the identity card scheme, according to a BBC news report. The 15,000 people who voluntarily paid for a card since the 2009 roll out will not get a refund. The ID card program was aimed at reducing fraud, illegal immigration and identity theft – but […]

The registered traveler program may be getting another chance with Alclear LLC buying the assets of the Clear program and intends to re-launch at airports in September, company officials say. Verified Identity Pass had deployed its Clear program at 20 airports around the country when it was shut down in June 2009 with virtually no […]

Imation, a developer of removable media and data storage devices, has released a biometric flash drive, the Defender F200. A review from Business Week says it’s a strong option for security among biometric flash drives but falls short on performance. The Defender touts a number of security features such as 256-bit AES data encryption, a […]

Electronic government services kiosks called common service centres (CSCs) are being set up in some of India’s more rural areas to help the local citizens better access government services as well as collect biometric data for the country’s unique identity (UID) project and assist in collecting census information for the 2011 census, according to a […]

A new biometric-secured external hard drive is being offered by LaCie, a developer of computer hardware and accessories, called The LaCie Rugged Safe. The hard drive, which comes in either 500 gigabyte or 1 terabyte, also touts a rugged construction and AES 128-bit encryption. The biometric aspect of the device requires a fingerprint swipe of […]

FedExField in Andover, Md. plays host to the Washington Redskins, college football games, soccer and a variety of other events through the course of a typical year. Because of the huge influx of seasonal, contract and temporary employees, stadium operators wanted a better way to identify staff and control their access to the facility. During […]

BIO-key International has announced that enterprise software developer Evidian has integrated BIO-key’s biometric software into their Enterprise Single Sign-on (SSO) solution and that the resulting solution has been deployed to two major pharmaceutical companies with a collective 15,000 users. The SSO solution now enables users to log-in to the system once with a swipe of […]