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African companies interest in biometrics rising

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

At a recent South African Exhibition, Accsys, a South African developer of human resources technology solutions, saw great response to their new biometric package, according to an IT News Africa article.


The software package that Accsys was showing, PeopleWare Enterprise, covers payroll, human resources, employee tracking and access regulation all filtered into one database. Additionally, they showed their new fingerprint scan clock-in hardware. According to the Accsys CEO, the large interest garnered in their products is indicative of the growing interest in biometric solutions for businesses all over Africa.

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Vision-Box, a biometrics solutions provider, has come out with an automatic border control e-gate that supports multimodal biometric authentication.

This new e-gate is a thin system that contains vb i-match, a single sourced design that is modular and flexible and can be adapted to business requirements and infrastructure constraints that would otherwise disrupt passenger flow. It has the ability to cope with industry standards such as ICAO. The e-gate supports iris, fingerprint and facial biometrics.

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The U.S. government’s Advanced Analytic Capabilities Subgroup of the Technical Support Working Group (TSWG) has awarded a research and development contract to voice biometrics technology provider Agnitio Corp. to speed up development and deliver an improved capabilities for voice biometrics-based mobile phone security.

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Sensor supplier Fingerprint Cards AB (FPC) has extended its partnership with Chinese biometrics provider Miaxis Biometrics Co. LTD to deliver biometrics products to the Chinese banking sector.

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Auriemma Consulting Group is set to launch a comprehensive consumer study on the future of the mobile wallet.

The study comprises an overview of the current state of the UK mobile wallet space and attempts to answer “What comes next?” after launch. To determine the next stage of the mobile wallet, the study examines the features and benefits consumers expect on mobile wallets, and potential ways to expand the mobile wallets’ capabilities.

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Reportlinker.com has added a new report by Frost and Sullivan to its catalog that examines the global health care biometrics market. Called “Strategic Analysis of the Global Healthcare Biometrics Market,” this study looks at the technology around all types of biometric capture, including fingerprint, face, iris, hand and voice.

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SK Telecom, headquartered in South Korea, has designed an RFID disposal management system that will encourage citizens to recycle and reduce the amount of daily food waste, according to Earth911.com.

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