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

BOS announces CEO's departure

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Better Online Solutions (BOS), an Israel-based provider of RFID-enabled supply chain solutions, has announced the resignation of its CEO, Shmuel Koren. During Koren’s two-year tenure, BOS saw a nearly triple growth in sales, from $22 million to a forecasted 2008 total of $55 million.


“I am proud of the foundation we have established at BOS over the course of the last two years,” says Koren. “The company is now positioned as a worldwide leading provider of Mobile and RFID solutions and supply chain solutions with a strong growth strategy in these fields and an outlook of success.”

Koren will be replaced by Shalom Daskel. Daskel brings to the job 28 years of experience in the worldwide technology market, including leadership roles in several Israeli tech companies. According to a press release by BOS, Daskel was most recently CEO of Shellcase Ltd. prior to its purchase by Tessera Technologies Inc. [end] 

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) announced the publication the new 802.15.4f-2012 standard for active RFID and RTLS.

This new standard will enable interoperability between systems and give end users a wider selection of vendors, whereas in the past the choice has been limited to a single source that supplies a proprietary technology platform.

read more »

France’s Toulouse-Blagnac Airport is gearing up to test a new service that lets passengers check-in, access their departure gates and pass through other controlled areas using just an NFC-enabled mobile phone.

read more »

Grants ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 are available to colleges and universities as part of Higher One’s financial literacy initiative designed to promote personal money management for college students.

read more »

Auraya Systems announced the commercial release of its voice authentication solution called ArmorVox Speaker Identity System.

The solution, which was developed for system developers and call centers as either an enterprise or cloud-based solution, fuses text-independent and text-dependent voice-verification that automatically detect languages.

read more »

In an effort to streamline tenant control of visitor access at its commercial real estate properties in Manhattan, Trinity Real Estate has installed HID Global’s EasyLobby Secure Visitor Management (SVM) software.

read more »

Precise Biometrics announced a partnership with security software developer Thursby Software, which will be integrating Precise’s smart casing solution with Thursby’s security app for mobile devices.

read more »