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M2SYS enters agreement with Harms Software

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

M2SYS, a developer of fingerprint biometrics, announced that they have entered into an agreement with Harms Software, a developer of management software aimed at spas and salons, to provide their international customer base with fingerprint scanner technology.

M2SYS’ Bio-Plugin fingerprint solution has already been integrated into Harms’ flagship management software, Millennium. The addition of the biometric hardware to their system is expected to help Harms’ client base with eliminating buddy-punching and other payroll errors. [end] 

Retail Pro International, a developer of retail industry management software solutions, has announced a partnership with biometric technology developer M2SYS.

The new partnership will see Retail Pro’s RightPOS solution, a point-of-sale-based solution for authenticating users of a register as they process transactions and for employee time and attendance, integrated with M2SYS’s Hybrid Biometric Platform. The partnership will enable any client using RightPOS to do away with employee passwords or PINs for authentication purposes.

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The Indian start-up ArrayShield Technologies has entered the two-factor authentication market in India and is looking for value-added resellers, managed service providers and system integrators to help it become a player in this field, which it estimates to be nearly Rs 2 billion.

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M2SYS Technologies announced its RightPunch line of biometric time and attendance tracking solution, which had already been deployed to Cal Poly Pomona Foundation, has been deployed to the California State University, Fresno Association.

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Retail Pro, a developer of retail operations management software, has announced it has struck a partnership with biometric technology developer M2SYS.

The partnership will enable biometric on Retail Pro’s RightPOS, a point-of-sale-based management system that handles register security among other management tasks. The inclusion of biometric authentication will increase accountability of employees using the system, improve the audit trail and further strengthen the security by doing away with often forgotten passwords or PINs.  

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Zebra and Checkpoint Systems have entered into a cooperative relationship and licensing agreement. While the exact terms of the transaction were not disclosed, the relationship does bring together Zebra’s active location solutions with Checkpoint division OATSystems’ passive RFID, auto-ID and sensor capabilities.

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Proclaiming its entrance into the RFID space, Honeywell introduced part of a new product portfolio designed to bring efficiency to the retail industry, the Optimus 5900 RFID mobile computer.

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