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BioLink awarded Microsoft partner status

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

BioLink, a developer of fingerprint biometrics, has been awarded Microsoft Certified Partner status. This is due to all of BioLink’s products running on Microsoft’s operating systems, including Vista.

Additionally, BioTime, a BioLink product that serves as a biometric time, attendance and access control solution, is built on Microsoft’s .Net framework and uses a Microsoft SQL server to store data. The Microsoft Partner status offers BioLink multiple resources and tools to further promote their products. [end] 

Entrust Inc. has made enhancements to its Entrust Discovery digital certificate product by expanding search capabilities for digital certificates residing within Microsoft’s Cryptographic APIs and adding more than 25 basic or custom policy field alerts to ease certificate management.

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Allen County Ohio, in conjunction with the Allen County Sheriff’s Office has selected BioLink’s IDenium for access to desktops and mobile terminals across county-wide organizations.

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Windows’ latest 7.5 mobile operating system features support for NFC but it will be up to the equipment manufacturers whether or not to enable the technology, reports SlashGear.

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Codebench Inc. and S2 Security Corp. announced that Codebench’s PIVCheck Plus software suite, a card validation, authentication, and registration solution for HSPD-12 compliance, now integrates with the S2 NetBox Extreme and Enterprise systems from S2 Security Corporation.

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VoiceTrust announced it has been awarded a grant from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Development Private Sector Investment (PSI) Program to roll out biometric identity systems in Pakistan.

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Microsoft is requiring that all NFC-enabled PC’s and tablets running on the Windows 8 operating system be marked with a special NFC insignia, according to NFC Times.

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