ActivIdentity Corp. announced that its ActivClient smart card technology is available to customers at the U.S. Department of Defense using select HP multifunction printers. The new solution requires employees to verify identity upon access to the device, or to multifunction printer features and functions. The software safeguards printed and scanned documents and provides added convenience […]

Researchers at the University of Arkansas are using one cutting edge technology to explore the potential benefits of another. Using a detailed virtual hospital created in Second Life, the researchers are examining the ways that RFID-enabled devices can improve health care in the real world. The research project is a joint effort by the University […]

TURBINE (TrUsted Revocable Biometric IdeNtitiEs), kind of a complicated acronym, but that goes along with the complexity of the project. The European Union-funded project involves finding a way to securely identify users by means of fingerprints, in which the biometric data used is protected by cryptographic technology. The EU has given the project more than […]

TrustBearer Labs, an authentication and digital identity vendor, has announced single sign-on support for Salesforce.com and Google Apps with its authentication and identity federation service, TrustBearer OpenID. TrustBearers’ Single Sign-on support enables users to authenticate to Salesforce.com and Google Apps. To offer single sign-on to users of the two sites, TrustBearer expanded its OpenID identity […]

Consumer electronics producer Aluratek has introduced a new line of external hard drives featuring RFID security key data encryption. The Tornado plus line of hard drives offer capacities from 160GB to 1TB, data transfer rates of up to 480Mbps, and compatibility with popular Microsoft and Macintosh operating systems. To encrypt data transferred onto the external […]

SecuGen Corp., a developer of optical fingerprint recognition technology, has announced the release of SecuGen SDK Collection, Release 11. The new release contains a software developer kit designed to assist their independent software vendor partners with what they believe to be the most extensive platform support in the industry. In addition to broader platform support, […]

Avalon Technology Group, a developer of biometric hardware solutions, announced it has been chosen to integrate biometric mouse technology by a supplier of parental control software. The software that Avalon’s mouse is integrated with is designed to protect children from adult-oriented Web sites and block predatory language from chat rooms. The new combined product of […]