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] 

AOptix Technologies announced that SITA, a specialist in air transport communications and information technology, has joined the AOptix Value Added Reseller program.

Under the partnership, SITA, who has customers in more than 200 countries which includes 300 airport locations, would be able to offer its customers AOptix solutions. These offerings include the InSight iris and face recognition product as an automated solution for airports to quickly and securely identify passengers at security checkpoints with documents such as biometric-enabled passports.

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Texas Instruments (TI) introduced a pair of encapsulated RFID mini-transponders designed for applications in animal tagging and asset tracking.

The 12mm TRPGR30TGC and TRPGP40TGC mini-transponders were developed to enable users a battery-free solution for embedding RFID tags into smaller objects across a broader range of applications. These transponders come ready-to-use and are 100 percent backwards compatible with all of TI’s RFID software and readers including power modules, control modules and micro readers.

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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.

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Neurotechnology announced that it has developed three versions of embedded solutions for Android-powered devices such as smart phones and tablets.

Specifically, Neurotechnology has ported its VeriFinger Embedded software development kit (SDK), which authenticates user identities via fingerprints, VeriLook Embedded SDK, which authenticates user identities via facial recognition, and MegaMatcher Embedded SDK, which authenticates user identities via both fingerprints and facial recognition. A version that utilizes iris recognition also is in the works.

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DigitalPersona announced the release of a new version of its Pro Enterprise software solution, version 5.2.

Among the aspects of the new version DigitalPersona is touting are the extensive number of factors a company utilizing the solution can use to authenticate for access to sensitive information or secured computer stations. These factors include what a user knows, such as PINs or passwords, things you have, such as smart cards, contactless identity cards or Bluetooth devices, and things you are, such as fingerprints.

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Human recognition Systems (HRS), a developer of biometric technology, has announced they will be demonstrating its suite of MFlow products that are designed for use in aviation settings at the Transport Security Expo event in Olympia, London on the 13th and 14th of September.

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