The International Biometric and Identification Association (IBIA) has responded to the National Research Council (NRC) report, “Biometric Recognition: Challenges and Opportunities.” where the NRC details biometric technologies as being inherently fallible and that society is not yet ready for the technology. Among the chief concerns the IBIA has with the report is that it views […]

Precise Biometrics has announced it has provided the Cross River State in Nigeria with technology to have a state-wide biometric ID card designed for use in government services as well as personal identification. The resulting program fro that state is called the SmartGov Initiative and will work with government services such as tax declaration, health […]

360 Biometrics has announced it has delivered to the Meru Cab Company in India a biometric solution intended to help manage cab driver identity as well as improve customer service. The solution 360 Biometrics has provided Meru consists of their own PersonID platform integrated with IT software developer Oracle’s CRM software to help the system […]

Entrust Inc. has introduced Entrust Discovery, a solution designed to find, inventory and manages digital certificates across diverse systems to help prevent outages, data breach and non-compliance. Digital certificates play an important role in business technology. Located on servers, devices, networks and communication platforms, they represent a necessary security technique for encrypting transmissions and securing […]

As a potential solution to problem gambling, the Australian Prime Minister wants to use biometric smart cards and flash drives to operate poker machines and monitor gambling limits by 2014, according to a Port Macquarie News article. The suggested solution would operate on fingerprint recognition, however, some of the politicians involved in the decisions feel […]

HID Global unveiled a new access-control reader and credential offerings that provide an options for migrating from legacy solutions to 13.56 MHz contactless smart card technologies. HID readers can be used with single- and combination-technology cards including a dual-high frequency credential. HID’s expanded offering includes: An iCLASS reader for migration from MIFARE Classic to secure […]

GlobalPlatform has announced its latest training event, to be held in Paris on Dec. 13 – 14. The organization has designed a two-day training program to improve industry knowledge of its smart card specifications, their capabilities and functions and the benefits gained from implementing standardized and sustainable card technology. Planned for the week following Cartes […]

Gemalto announced that its Coesys enrollment solution has been selected to manage the secure biometric registration of voters in the Republic of Benin. The program, which targets all voting citizens, expects more than six million people to be enrolled for the March 2011 presidential elections.
 Gemalto is providing more than 3,200 Coesys mobile enrollment stations, […]

HID Global announced it has expanded its secure identity credentials offering to support the latest MIFARE DESFire EV1 technology. The MIFARE DESFire EV1 card joins HID Global’s iCLASS card portfolio to expand customer options by enabling multiple applications on a single card. HID’s expanded secure Genuine HID card offering includes both MIFARE DESFire EV1-only and […]

LaserCard Corporation has received a follow-on purchase order valued at approximately $2.2 million for chip-ready, optical security media-based credentials for the Saudi Arabia national citizen ID card program. Delivery has been completed in the company’s current quarter, ending Oct. 1. The ID cards are issued to Saudi citizens nationwide for identification and regional travel purposes.  […]