BIO-key International, Inc. announced that its Law Enforcement group has been awarded over $450,000 in contracts in the fourth quarter of 2007 to date. These commitments have been made by forty public safety agencies located across the U.S. comprised of municipal and county agencies as well as emergency management departments and major metropolitan transit and […]

IdentiPHI will incorporate Certicom’s Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) technology into new biometric and smart card authentication products. By adding this level of security into its Enterprise Security Suite of Advanced Authentication products for biometric and smart card devices, IdentiPHI meets the NSA’s Suite B Cryptography recommendations. Certicom Licenses Elliptic Curve Cryptography to IdentiPHI for Advanced […]

Titanium Group has signed a contract with Hong Kong Polytechnic University Clinic for the installation of a biometric pharmacy system powered by Titanium’s Biometric Facial Recognition technology. Now, at one of the most active clinics in Hong Kong, patients and their histories are registered into the biometric system. After each visit, the patients would then […]

Vein patterns prove highly accurate and popular for pioneer vascular developer Identica By Jennifer Slattery, Contributing Editor Do you know what the back of your hand says about you? Or your finger or palm for that matter? Quite a bit … if you are looking beyond the surface to track the pattern of veins that […]

BIO-key International and Tiger IT have been awarded the contract for the biometric-based credentialing solution for the Bangladesh Voter Registration Project. The Project is to prepare voter rolls and issue national ID cards in preparation for Bangladesh’s general elections to be held in 2008. BIO-key’s WEB-key development platform will be used to detect duplicate registrations. […]

ImageWare Systems has been awarded a patent for a multimodal biometric identification or authentication system. This patent covers a system and method for enrolling, searching, matching, and managing biometric modalities on a common platform, and is independent to the biometric types or the algorithms managed. The patent is employed throughout ImageWare’s portfolio of biometric identity […]

VeriChip has equipped 27 American Medical Response (AMR) ambulances in three counties in the Atlanta metro area with Bluetooth-enabled scanners. The company, well-known for its controversial implantable RFID chips, says the ambulances are the first fleet of their kind in the country to be equipped with the VeriMed system for both emergency and non-emergency transport […]

Get a bunch of students, mostly freshmen, away from home for the first time. Stick them all in a dorm, many of them are armed with a checking account and checks, a credit card, a student ID card, their driver license and Social Security card. It’s a recipe for ID theft. Realizing that, many colleges […]

BioLink has started the first stage of biometric e-passports for Nigeria, the first African country to adopt e-documents enhanced with biometrics in compliance with ICAO guidelines. The new passports to be issued for Nigerians contain a digital face photo as well as thumb and forefinger fingerprint templates. BioLink co-operated with its strategic partners Iris Smart […]

BioLink has started the first stage of biometric e-passports for Nigeria, the first African country to adopt e-documents enhanced with biometrics in compliance with ICAO guidelines. The new passports to be issued for Nigerians contain a digital face photo as well as thumb and forefinger fingerprint templates. BioLink co-operated with its strategic partners Iris Smart […]