Alameda County in California has 800-voting locations and each of these must receive five critical pieces of equipment. That’s 4,000 pieces of equipment that county officials have to make sure to get to the polling places and that must be returned after votes are cast. The county had used a bar coding system with a […]

HSBC Bank has installed facial biometrics in their two new data centers in the UK following cases of identity theft, according to a The Engineer article. The bank will be using technology from OmniPerception to implement the facial recognition access control systems to help secure sensitive data. OmniPerception’s technology and services have previously been used […]

MasterCard has launched an over-the-air provisioning service enabling issuers to personalize their cardholders’ mobile devices in a one-step process. The new service, Mobile MasterCard PayPass, enables mobile devices to perform payment transactions at merchant locations with PayPass-enabled POS terminals. With mobile phone payments expected to grow tenfold by 2013, according to the latest Juniper 2008 […]

Don Kingsborough, currently CEO of Blackhawk Network but who, earlier in his career spent time at Atari helping to introduce Nintendo to U.S. gamers, has been appointed to the board of directors of Silicon Valley-based ViVOtech, a developer of NFC mobile and contactless payment systems. Kingsborough founded Blackhawk Network in 2001. Since that time, the […]

GlobeRanger, providers of RFID software platforms, and Atos Origin, a management consulting firm, have partnered to provide a real-time RFID tracking solution for the Dutch Forensics Insititute (NFI). The application tracks and traces the exact time, location, and movement of item-level criminal evidence during forensic analysis and processing at NFI. The RFID system, designed in […]

The Department of Justice has announced it will not challenge a plan by a consortium of RFID-oriented companies to jointly license patents needed to comply with standards for UHF RFID technology. In explaining its decision, the department points to possible benefits of the plan for consumers and competition, including cost savings and greater access to […]

Accenture, a management and consulting firm, along with Sagem Defense Securite, a defense technology developer, have won a contract to develop the European Commission’s Biometric Matching System which is intended to integrate all the European Union identity programs. It also would further the elimination of physical borders among the 29 European countries involved. Under the […]

Interpol, the international police agency, has announced its intent to create a database of facial biometrics of known criminals to more effectively stop and detain them at borders, according to a Guardian article. The technology that is being planned for would be fairly similar to the biometric gates that were implemented in Manchester airport earlier […]

SAFRAN through Sagem Securite, its wholly owned subsidiary announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the biometric business unit within Motorola Inc., which includes its Printrak trademark. Motorola and SAFRAN have approved the acquisition. Motorola’s biometric business unit, headquartered in Anaheim, Calif., designs, develops, integrates and maintains AFIS solutions for law […]