As a way to end computer users’ reliance on password technology, Intel is developing technology to use palm prints for identity, reports the Telegraph. Intel Labs’ director of research Sridhar Iyengar presented the concept at the Intel Developer Forum held recently in San Francisco as a way for people to do away with the multiple, […]

A professor at Clarkson University has created software technology to determine whether or not fingerprints taken as biometric readings are fake, reports the Watertown (N.Y.) Daily Times. Stephanie Schuckers, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the university has developed the software, which is now a business called NexID. The software can determine if […]

A partnership between INSIDE Secure and TazTag has yielded an NFC-enabled Android tablet. The TazPad V2 is a 7-inch Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet that can be used for mobile banking, stock management, payment, ticketing, access control, identity and other sensitive and secure applications. The tablet— currently available directly from TazTag—combines INSIDE’s EMVCo-certified Secure […]

NEC Corporation of America has granted Michigan State University (MSU) with a gift to the school’s College of Engineering to fund biometric research. As reported by CBS Detroit, the gift will fund ongoing research on fingerprint matching and facial recognition. It will also help start new research in the school’s Pattern Recognition and Image Processing […]

The Leon County Sheriff’s Office in Florida has added fingerprint recognition to its arsenal of tools to help identify suspects, reports WCTV. The office has invested about $144,000 in the Rapid ID system. This portable system identifies suspects by taking and reading their fingerprints. It then can immediately tell if the suspect has a criminal […]

The Romanian Police no longer have access to their extensive set of databases that help them recognize and identify fingerprints and faces due to poor maintenance of the systems, reports Romania Insider. The police use an Imagetrak database that contains many physical characteristics about registered suspects. For fingerprint recognition the police use AFIS 2000. The […]

Hitachi Europe Ltd. announced a partnership agreement with Toronto-based Invixium Identity. The agreement enables Invixium to become a value-added reseller of Hitachi’s Finger Vein Authentication Engine (FVAE) and the H-1 Biometric Finger Vein scanner. The FVAE system promotes IT security through its identity assurance process and accurate matching. It uses near-infrared light to transmit light […]