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Winter Summit on Biometrics to be held in Miami, Florida in late February

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

The Winter 2008 Summit on Biometrics is the 17th International Forum from the Advanced Learning Institute in association with International Biometric Group (IBG) and Biometric Digest. The event is being held in Miami, Florida at the Doubletree Ocean Point Resort & Spa - Miami Beach North. For more information, visit the summit website at http://www.aliconferences.com/conf/biometrics_summit_winter08/index.htm[end] 

Sim-Prints’ biometrics app for improving patient care in the developing world won the first Idea Transform Weekend held in Cambridge, UK, reports Business Weekly.

With this mobile phone-based app, health care workers can collect and check patient information in a variety of environments. The project was developed by Shruti Badwar, Mariy Chhatriwala, Toby Norman for the Global Health Hack Day in March. James Crosby, Marcos Ikegame and Gail Mayhew joined the team for this competition.

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The Smart Card Alliance has announced the formation of the Mobile and NFC Council, a new industry body tasked with accelerating the adoption of NFC and raising awareness of the technology’s various capabilities.

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TrackIT Solutions, an RFID solutions provider based in the Middle East, announced the launch of EnTrackAsset, a Web-enabled RFID tracking solution designed to streamline and automate corporate asset management.

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The February meeting of the influential Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) was recently held in Washington D.C. FIPS201.com was on hand to cover the event and has provided, as a service to the IAB and the smart card community, an audio recording of the presentations. Click on the link below to access a list of audio and accompanying PowerPoint slides (in pdf format).

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AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the interactive version of the winter 2011 issue of Regarding ID.

The interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that allows you to read the magazine as if it were on the desk in front of you.

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The Smart Card Alliance has revealed the full three-day agenda for its NFC Solutions Summit 2012 to be held in Burlingame, Calif. from May 22-24.

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