Cross Match Technologies, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., announced the acquisition of Canada-based Labcal. Both companies are privately held and terms of the deal were not disclosed. Labcal specializes in ruggedized, handheld mobile computing systems that integrate biometrics, smart card technologies, wireless communications and application software for authenticating people and documents. Cross Match provides fingerprint scanner […]

Cross Match Technologies’ L SCAN Guardian R tested in full compliance and obtained certification for harsh environmental conditions specified under Department of Defense (DoD) specification MIL-STD-810F. Cross Match designed the Guardian R, a ruggedized extension of the L SCAN® Guardian™ ten-print scanner, to meet military specifications for extreme requirements and harsh environmental conditions encountered in […]

Cross Match will deliver its L SCAN® Guardian™ ten-print fingerprint systems to 10 metropolitan airports to upgrade the current Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) United States Visitors Immigrant Status and Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program which feature two-prints only. Airports which will receive the Guardian system include Atlanta, Boston, New York, Orlando and San Francisco. Cross […]

ImageWare has patented its Multimodal Biometric Platform which includes a system for enrolling, searching, matching, and managing biometric modalities on a common platform. It is Independent to the biometric types or the algorithms managed, the platform has been employed throughout the company’s line of biometric identity management solutions and marketed as the IWS™ Biometric Engine™. […]

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 […]

The Handbook of Biometrics – an edited volume by invited researchers in biometrics – is being released and describes the fundamentals as well as the latest advancements in the field of biometrics. It is designed for professionals, practitioners and researchers in biometrics, pattern recognition and computer security. The Handbook of Biometrics can be used as […]

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 […]

Cogent Systems have been awarded an initial $11 million contract from the Spanish Ministry of Interior, General Directorate of the Police and Civil Guardfor a national criminal automated fingerprint and palmprint identification system. The new system will be used by law enforcement officials for the Spanish National Police and Spanish Civil Guard and will integrate […]

Nova Southeastern University (NSU) has just successfully completed the deployment of their new “Shark Card” campus wide smart card program. The NSU Shark card program, provided by SmartCentric in conjunction with Siemens Communications Inc, combines the latest in leading edge smart card technology using both contact and contactless chip technologies and allows for fast and […]

A new technical report, The Global Biometrics Market (IFT042B), from BCC Research states that the global market for biometrics was worth nearly $2 billion in 2006 and is expected to increase to $2.7 billion in 2007 and $7.1 billion by 2012. This is a growth rate of 21.3% over the next five years. Fingerprint biometrics […]