Swedish company Fingerprint Cards (FPC) has sold its technology to a financial information services company to be used in a line of biometric authentication devices geared to the financial services market. FPC’s technology, including its FPC1080A fingerprint sensor, will be utilized in authentication products that are planned for launch in the second half of this […]

Athena Smartcard Solutions and id3 Technologies have created a partnership for match on card smart card technology. Under the terms of the agreement, Athena will integrate id3’s match on card algorithm, embedding it into all of its operating systems and cards. The algorithms will work with both JavaCard-based and proprietary operating systems. Athena will also […]

Next year, New Jersey’s Ocean City High School will implement new student ID cards that must be swiped for attendance purposes. After the objections over similar ID systems in Texas, New Jersey citizens may not be so willing to welcome this technology into their schools. The Examiner reports that the high school will be implementing […]

Citi has launched a new banking machine in Asia that’s designed to eliminate the need for a branch visit for most types of transactions, including opening accounts and loan, card and cashier check applications. The machine, dubbed “Citibank Express,” comes with an online banking connection, video conferencing capabilities and biometric authentication. Customers can also integrate […]

Beur Central Model Jail is going to be the first prison to implement India’s new e-prisons program that registers all prisoners and issues them smart cards, reports The Times of India. Bihar state electronics development corporation has developed the cards, which will contain the prisoner’s name, father’s name, permanent address, fingerprints, phots, identity proof and […]

Human Recognition Systems’ identity registration platform MTrust now helps ensure compliance with the U.K. Border Agency’s (UKBA) Tier 4 regulations around international student sponsorship. MTrust is a mobile biometric identification system that uses fingerprint readers to track people within a system. In the education sector, it can be leveraged for attendance information and to alert […]

In looking for the next big possibility in biometric identifiers, a computer scientist believes the knees might have it. As reported on Science Daily, Lior Shamir, a computer scientists at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan, says knees are just as unique as fingerprints and could be a valid identifier. Shamir says that biometric knee […]