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

L-1 supplies Texas with biometrics

Thursday, May 7, 2009

L-1 Identity Solutions, a developer of biometric technology and other identity solutions, has announced that they have been granted a contract with the State of Texas for upgrading existing L-1 technology in the state to include hand scanners. The scanners themselves will be utilized by Texas law enforcement agencies in keeping up with advancing sex offenders and offenders against children laws. [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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The Texas Department of Public Safety (TxDPS) has deployed NEC’s IntegraID Mobile Identification Solution (Mobile ID) for use by all Texas law enforcement agencies to quickly search the Texas DPS repository for real time positive identification.

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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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Hooters Restaurants has implemented biometric fingerprint readers as a means to prevent loss in transaction and payroll fraud at the restaurant level.

Hooters contracted with DigitalPersona Inc. to install the provider’s U.are.U fingerprint readers with ITWercs Point-of-Sale software in restaurant units. Hooters employees use the readers to authenticate transactions and clock in and out for shifts.

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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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LexisNexis Risk Solutions has added interactive voice response technology (IVR) from Angel, a provider of cloud-based customer engagement management products, for its LexisNexis IVR on Demand for Identity Proofing and Voice Biometrics product.

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