Identity, Security, Payments, Biometrics, Smart Cards and Authentication News

Cross Match selects new CEO

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Cross Match Technologies, a developer of biometric solutions, has selected the successor to current president and CEO James W. Ziglar to follow after his retirement in August.

The new president and CEO Cross Match selected is James Grau who has over twenty years experience in executive positions with a number of large multinational corporations.


While Grau is being brought aboard with the hope of utilizing his great experience with marketing, sales, and operational planning to increase company profits, he also has a background in technology.

Grau previously served as group president of microwave components and subsystems for Smiths Group PLC; a position in which he was responsible for applications of threat and contraband detection, medical device, energy and communication technologies. [end] 

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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MasterCard Advisors announced the results of the MasterCard Advisors PayPass Adoption Study, providing a quantitative analysis of the changes in U.S. account transaction behavior after adopting a contactless payments solution.

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Cross Match Technologies has announced it has reached an agreement with the Argentine Government to support the deployment of various biometric systems to help enhance new and existent government services.

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Mobile and network security provider AuthenTec has released the AuthenTec AE2750, a fingerprint sensor designed for use in mobile commerce applications.

The AE2750 contains many features found in smart sensor designs, such as a 192 pixel by 8 pixel fingerprint sensor array. It also offers hybrid fingerprint matching on a sensor match and host match, AES, RSA and SHA encryption block and One Time Password generation. The device can mount on smart phones, tablest and touchscreen-enabled mobile devices.

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Smart Identity Devices, a developer of smart cards, biometric solutions and various information technology, has announced that with its partner Cross Match Technologies the two have been certified as a supplier of biometric devices for use in India’s Unique Identification (UID) program.

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Arcontia Technology AB, a Swedish producer of contactless smart card readers and terminals, has won a contract for devices to be used by Norwegian public transport authority Ruter AS.

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