Fidelica Microsystems has made available its FSC-3012 Biometrically Authenticated Smart Card. Fidelica’s smart card provides fingerprint imaging, enrollment and authentication contained entirely within an ISO 7810/16-format smart card. It offers a cost-effective and easy-to-use means for security professionals to add biometric authentication to an access control or IT system by upgrading cards. Features of the […]

German department store chain Karstadt is now piloting item-level RFID in stock system, according to news reports. Karstadt avoided the higher cost and complexity of conventional item-level RFID configurations by using ADT Security Services’ new Sensormatic iREAD RFID platform instead. In a pilot at its 30,000-square-meter Düsseldorf store, Karstadt seeks to improve its overall store […]

Sequiam Corporation has begun producing several versions of the new biometric hardware kits for Fujitsu. The kits will be used in multiple applications, including Novell® eDirectory™, enabling NMAS Authentication for client and server login. They will also be used for secure access to http://www.annesdiary.com, the world’s first secure social networking site for children, which utilizes […]

RFID healthcare provider VeriChip Corporation’s development plans for a self-contained implantable RFID glucose-sensing microchip this week won a spot on FoxNews.com for a segment narrated by Dr. Manny Alvarez, Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Science at Hackensack University Medical Center (and the FoxNews.com health managing editor). A similar segment is […]

ASSA ABLOY Identification Technologies (ITG) named Perry Garvis as director of contactless payment product marketing. This newly created position within AAITG further highlights the importance of contactless payment and ticketing worldwide. The company provides prelaminates, cards, special transponders, readers and OEM reader modules to this rapidly expanding market. ITG appoints Perry M. Garvis Director Product […]

Datastrip Inc. has launched its latest product, the DSV2+TURBO handheld biometric terminal. Certified under the Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD-12), the DSV2+TURBO is designed for federal, state and local applications requiring on-the-spot ID verification. It is capable of reading a wide array of cards including both contact and contactless chips. The DSV2+TURBO features a “large-screen […]

Sonitor Technologies announced it is scheduled to present at and is a silver sponsor of, the 3rd Annual Active RFID, Real-Time Locating Systems (RTLS) and Sensor Networks Summit, organized by IDTechEx, on December 5-6 in Dallas. Terry Aasen, President and CEO of Sonitor Technologies, Inc, will give a presentation on December 5th at 12:30XPM CET, […]

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 […]

Bioscrypt has integrated SecuGen®’s fingerprint sensor into their V-Station (Optical) reader for physical access control. The V-Station (Optical) can be used for dual- or multi-factor authentication by supporting not only fingerprint biometric verification but personal identification numbers, proximity cards, tokens and smart cards. The SecuGen sensor has a scratch-resistant finger plate and patented optic design […]