The U.S. Department of Defense has extended the time and increased the value of its RFID II contract with Savi, a Lockheed Martin company. The contract has been extended to Jan. 31, 2009 and its ceiling increased by about $60 million to $483 million for the company’s active RFID products and services. U.S. Department of […]

ImageWare® Systems launches IWS™ Mediator™, a suite of multilingual translation, collaborative and integrated multimodal biometric capabilities for government, defense, border control, public safety and enterprise-wide organizations. ImageWare’s agnostic IWS Mediator platform enables real-time multilingual translation, including two-way, speech-to-speech, voice analysis, and multimodal biometric capabilities. Users can communicate with subjects in their own language while allowing […]

Sagem Sécurité (SAFRAN Group) will supply Interpol and its 186 member states with the latest version of its automated fingerprint identification system, MetaMorpho™. In addition to automated processing, this system features the latest algorithms developed by Sagem Sécurité, as well as fingerprint acquisition and transmission software in full compliance with international standards. The latest version […]

Singapore’s S. Iswaran, Minister for Trade, announced the launch of the new National RFID Innovation Platform, a multi-agency initiative to encourage the public and private sectors in Singapore to embark on innovative projects using RFID as a key enabling technology. To spur RFID adoption further, Mr. Iswaran announced that a sum of US$4.5 million has […]

The U.S. Commerce Department is working on new rules telling U.S. companies what security technologies, specifically biometrics, can be exported to China, according to a report in the New York Times. Facial recognition technology is being singled out, the report states. There are concerns the technology could be used to identify political and religious dissidents. […]

We’re hearing about a lot of RFID projects overseas, especially in Asia. Sure enough, this week’s RFID World China event showcased old vets and up-and-comers with a slew of awards. Invengo, Fudan Microelectronics, and Sense Technology topped the list of industry vendors honored, while the SMAP Smart Mobile Application Platform and the S1853 Industrial UHF […]

One of the UK’s largest mortgage lender and savings provider will distribute more than 1 million personal chip card readers to support at home Chip & PIN authentication. Nationwide has more than 13 million members £160 billion in assets. It will deliver the XIRING Xi-Sign 4000 beginning this spring. How does it work? The Visa […]

In 2005 Iowa legislators passed a law forbidding the use of fingerprint scanners in schools. The biometrics technology was being used in lunch lines, for library checkout and bus boarding. There were fears that the information wasn’t secure and could be hacked. But the Iowa Department of Education wants lawmakers to pass new legislation making […]

Innovision Research & Technology has announced the winners of its NFC Innovation Awards, the first UK-based competition to find the most innovative applications of NFC tags for the everyday mobile handset user. The competition required UK-based academic teams of up to four participants to produce an abstract proposing a novel NFC application using the firm’s […]

Innovision Research & Technology has announced the winners of its NFC Innovation Awards, the first UK-based competition to find the most innovative applications of NFC tags for the everyday mobile handset user. The competition required UK-based academic teams of up to four participants to produce an abstract proposing a novel NFC application using the firm’s […]