Organizations are looking at the spec, but not a lot of deployments yet By Zack Martin, Editor Many people agree that FIPS 201 is a good technical specification, but its acceptance outside the U.S. government remains slow. That might not be for long though. Other governments and private organizations are looking at the standard, which […]

The UK government’s Home Office is set to spend up to $75 million on a program called Midas, which will provide police agencies with mobile biometric kits intended to enable officers to identify people based on their fingerprints in real time, according to a Computer Weekly article. The Home Office is looking to sign a […]

Students and staff at Oakland University, Rochester, Mich., will now receive a text message and a voice mail under a new alert system that has gone into effect. The alerts are part of the school’s comprehensive emergency communications plan to notify students, faculty and staff as quickly as possible if an emergency situation occurs on […]

At Manchester airport in the UK, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has launched a trial face recognition program at the airport’s Terminal One to help with pedestrian congestion and security concerns, according to a Channel 4 News article. The new security gates can only be used by adult citizens of the UK and EU who have […]

RFID component and printer provider Zebra Technologies has entered into a new five-year, $100 million credit facility, giving the company a new source of funding for working capital and general corporate purposes, including stock buybacks and acquisitions. “We put the credit facility in place to provide financing flexibility,” says Michael Smiley, Zebra’s chief financial officer. […]

Sagem Morpho Inc. will introduce their new 3rd generation Morpho RapID handheld biometric device at the 2008 International Association for Identification Conference. The new Morpho RapID 1100 integrates a digital camera to support facial recognition, a larger screen, a keyboard and enhanced wireless communication capabilities, all in a smaller more ergonomic unit. The IAI conference […]

Transport for London announced it has given notice to terminate its Oyster contract with the Transys consortium of Cubic and EDS effective in 2010. The cancellation of the $192 million “is unrelated to recent technical issues with the Oyster system,” says Dan Maskell, senior press officer for TfL. Oyster experienced several problems with its system […]

Under Beijing’s seven year, $6.5 billion program called the Grand Beijing Safeguard Sphere, the Chinese government has installed roughly 300,000 video surveillance units around the city, according to a Los Angeles Times article. Included in that project and in conjunction with the video cameras, China has also deployed a face recognition technology in hopes of […]

Dates: September 8-10, 2008 Venue: Crowne Plaza Location: Chicago, IL URL: http://www.securedocumentsconference.com/ Contact: Jeremy Powell, [email protected] Description: Running for the sixth time, The Future of Secure Documents 2008 will examine the most recent technology advances and explore how they can be successfully implemented as part of an integrated document protection strategy. Experts from the all […]

The Florida State Attorney’s office for the state’s 15th Judicial Circuit processes tens of thousands of case files every year, filling its three-story building with a mountain of paperwork. To bring order to the potential chaos of documents, the office has added RFID capability to its proprietary case-tracking system. Now, to locate a file, an […]