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UK biometrics developer receives nearly $1 million in investments

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Warwick Warp, a UK biometric developer, has developed a new fingerprint recognition system that has brought investments of £500,000 (nearly $1 million USD), according to a Coventry Telegraph article.


The new system, by using patented algorithms, can correctly identify a fingerprint even from damaged, partial, or low quality images. In addition to the new system improving upon current system’s accuracy, it also claims to increase speed and reliability.

Warwick Warp sees this new technology as being particularly lucrative in border control and forensics, however, it has a number of possible applications in business and can be used to upgrade old fingerprint systems rather than replace systems entirely.

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Envoy Data Corporation announced a partnership with biometrics developer Zvetco Biometrics that will see Envoy offering Zvetco’s fingerprint scanners to its clients.

The biometric readers now carried by Envoy have been designed with both convenience and performance in mind for use in the enterprise, financial, health care, gaming and retail industries. The new partnership means an expanded product list and more options for Envoy’s clients and an expanded customer-base for Zvetco.  

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India’s government has called a truce in the ongoing argument between the Ministry of Home Affairs’s National Population Register (NPR) project and the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), reports the Indian Express.

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The European Association for Biometrics (EAB) is focusing on a goal of driving the research and development of biometrics and building the future of the industry around a concern for end-user privacy protection.

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A new Morpho company under the Safran group has been launched called MorphoTrust USA.

The new company, which was formed after the acquisition of three divisions and the headquarters of former biometrics developer L-1 Identity Solutions, will serve as an identity solutions provider dedicated to the U.S. market only.

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A project conceived of by researchers from RMIT University that intends to link infant footprint records to vaccination records has received a grant from the Grand Challenges Explorations initiative, a part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, according to an Asian Scientist article.

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Siemens CMT (Communications, Media and Technology) has announced a new mobile payments platform that enables users to purchase goods, transfer funds, pay bills and recharge their prepaid accounts all from a mobile phone.

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