TECHNOLOGY NEWS: Index

Biometics NEWS ARTICLES for June 2004

Security Biometrics, Inc. Signs Teaming Agreement with Base ...
Date: 30 Jun 2004
Excerpt: NEW YORK, and MCLEAN, Va., June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Security Biometrics, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SBOM - News), today ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

About ePaymentsnews Network
Date: 30 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...we offer. - Retial: e-commerce; store-technology; loyalty; security, biometrics, ATM; Kiosks; payments and internet. - Retail banking ...
Source: ePaymentsnews Network (subscription)

Elite fliers register to skip the wait
Date: 30 Jun 2004
Excerpt: The program will use biometrics — identification through fingerprints and irises unique to every individual — to expedite screening of registered travelers ...
Source: USA Today

Secured Digital Applications, Inc. Announces Date for 2004 Annual ...
Date: 30 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...are involved in the development, integration and provision of secured shipping and supply chain management service, sale of biometrics security systems and the ...
Source: TMCnet

Comnetix Inc Appoints Carter Marantette as New Vice President of ...
Date: 30 Jun 2004
Excerpt: As Vice President of Sales (Americas) at Precise Biometrics Inc, Director of Sales & Marketing at Genex Technologies Inc, and as the Eastern US Region Sales ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

Delay hits new passport, and critics doubt utility
Date: 29 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Biometrics are aspects of the human body that can be measured: fingerprints, voiceprints, retina and iris patterns, and hand geometry, as well as facial ...
Source: Miami Herald (subscription)

Ports meet security deadline
Date: 29 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...workers. The biometrics card system, as it's called, will include a worker's computerized fingerprints or eye scan information. ...
Source: Hampton Roads Daily Press

Biometric Solution tracks time and attendance.
Date: 29 Jun 2004
Excerpt: If you thought biometrics were out of reach for your organization, you will want to give the latest product from Acroprint a serious look. ...
Source: Industrial News Room

Security Biometrics Subsidiary eMedRx Begins Enrolling Medicare ...
Date: 28 Jun 2004
Excerpt: BALTIMORE and NEW YORK and DALLAS, June 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Security Biometrics (OTC Bulletin Board: SBOM - News) subsidiary eMedRx(TM), a leader in providing ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

AuthenTec to Provide First Biometric Plug-In for Windows CE 5.0 ...
Date: 28 Jun 2004
Excerpt: The security and convenience of fingerprint biometrics is now an easy plug-in for OEMs and eliminates the need for insecure PIN numbers that are currently used ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

MORNING UPDATE: Man Securities Issues Alerts For NXTL, TTN, ATVI ...
Date: 28 Jun 2004
Excerpt: These include: FaceTOOLS, which integrates biometrics into applications for driver's licenses, passports, visas, border crossing, criminal investigations, and ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

Gates promotes isolation
Date: 28 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...a secure system. And so [we are] moving more and more into smart cards, biometrics, that'll be a necessary step". Spam was described ...
Source: ZDNet.co.uk

SENSE Holdings and Corporate Development International Sign ...
Date: 28 Jun 2004
Excerpt: CDI will explore business opportunities with strategic partners and potential buyers for SENSE's biometrics and explosive detection technologies and the ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

Pave a two-way street
Date: 28 Jun 2004
Excerpt: We will devote special attention to asylum seekers and migration, especially the Dublin regulation, the protection of regions, biometrics in identification ...
Source: Slovak Spectator

About ePaymentsnews Network
Date: 28 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...we offer. - Retial: e-commerce; store-technology; loyalty; security, biometrics, ATM; Kiosks; payments and internet. - Retail banking ...
Source: ePaymentsnews Network (subscription)

Airports turn to fingerprinting, biometrics for security
Date: 27 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Aeroports de Paris, the operator of Paris's airports, started using electronically stored fingerprints to identify employees and airline workers and will offer ...
Source: Salt Lake Tribune

Summer travel at South Florida airports offer diverse experiences
Date: 26 Jun 2004
Excerpt: For example, she said, an agency pilot program is testing biometrics such as fingerprint and iris recognition at eight airports, including Miami, Tampa and ...
Source: Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel

Texas Medicaid patients test fingerprint ID system
Date: 26 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...this.". State officials and some physicians defend using biometrics, the buzzword for high-tech efforts to verify people's identities. ...
Source: Houston Chronicle

Remarks by Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge at the Inter ...
Date: 25 Jun 2004
Excerpt: First of which is a commitment to enhance the use of biometrics…an innovative and important technology with the ability to significantly raise our security ...
Source: Department of Homeland Security (press release)

Biometric finger scans take the lead
Date: 25 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Existing terror watch lists and wanted criminal databases, held by Interpol and others, could speed up the effectiveness of biometrics by offering as immediate ...
Source: EUpolitix

Remarks by Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security James Loy at the ...
Date: 25 Jun 2004
Excerpt: I think we all agree that biometrics can be a useful security tool…allowing us to accurately identify and cross check travelers – and potential terrorists ...
Source: Department of Homeland Security (press release)

In Texas program, Medicaid patients give fingerprints
Date: 25 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...this.". State officials and some physicians defend using biometrics, the buzzword for high-tech efforts to verify people's identities. ...
Source: Houston Chronicle

About ePaymentsnews Network
Date: 25 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...we offer. - Retial: e-commerce; store-technology; loyalty; security, biometrics, ATM; Kiosks; payments and internet. - Retail banking ...
Source: ePaymentsnews Network (subscription)

Secured Digital Applications, Inc. Announces Name Change for ...
Date: 25 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...are involved in the development, integration and provision of secured shipping and supply chain management service, sale of biometrics security systems and the ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

Security Biometrics, Inc. Enters into a Share Purchase Agreement ...
Date: 24 Jun 2004
Excerpt: NEW YORK, June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Security Biometrics, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SBOM - News) today announced that at ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

A closer look at biometrics
Date: 24 Jun 2004
Excerpt: With today's need for more secure forms of identification, biometrics is gaining in popularity. But is it really the answer? The ...
Source: VNUNet.com

Biometrics for handbags
Date: 24 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Well gee, this certainly seems like a good idea. A fingerprint scanner that attaches to any handbag, thus allowing only a registered user to open it. ...
Source: engadget

US lax in preventing use of stolen passports
Date: 24 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...to be. The United States and other countries have been examining using biometrics in passports to improve security. "The baseline ...
Source: Axcess Business News

Neven Vision's Facial Recognition, Tracking and Detection ...
Date: 24 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...to an array of new, revenue-generating products and services in the wireless, security and imaging markets," said Ram Sathappan, biometrics solutions marketing ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

NSA Is Making No Secret of Its Technology Intent
Date: 24 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...is always looking for the most advanced systems, Gatanas said, and is particularly interested in supercomputing, language analysis, biometrics and signal ...
Source: Washington Post

Precise Biometrics Delivers Physical Access Solution to Swedish ...
Date: 23 Jun 2004
Excerpt: LUND, Sweden, June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Precise Biometrics AB (publ), which develops and sells world leading and user-friendly biometric security ...
Source: PR Newswire (press release)

Sequiam Biometrics Covered by Wall Street Corner
Date: 23 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 23, 2004--Sequiam Corporation (OTCBB:SQUM) today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Sequiam Biometrics was covered ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

SA to beef up security at airports
Date: 23 Jun 2004
Excerpt: It is fair to highlight that biometrics, although currently at the cutting edge of security technology, requires us to be sensitive to the unproven best ...
Source: Business Day, South Africa

Sustainable Sustainability: Comment from Trinidad
Date: 23 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...uses instead the optimal sustainable yield that is a cautious guesstimate made on the basis of historical records of landings as well as population biometrics. ...
Source: Mathaba.Net

Open sourcerers slam licensing slur
Date: 23 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...type? [Yes, plenty: DRM, IP, patents, ID cards, biometrics, etc, etc - Ed] More to the point, is there a middle ground on this? ...
Source: The Register

State Department to stop re-issuing visas
Date: 23 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...announcement said. This will allow the State Department to incorporate biometrics in every US visa issued after Oct. 26, required ...
Source: Washington Times

Better biometrics
Date: 22 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Viisage Technology Inc., Billerica, Mass., has upgraded its line of face-recognition products to include capabilities it acquired when it bought ZN Vision ...
Source: Washington Technology

Cross Match Technologies Teams with Itochu to Expand . . .
Date: 22 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Chairman and CEO. “We are excited about the tremendous potential business in the untapped Asian biometrics market. And by combining ...
Source: The Scotsman

Mary Chia goes biometric
Date: 22 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Wendy Ho, managing director, Mary Chia Beauty & Slimming Specialist said, "The implementation of biometrics will reduce human resource times in tabulation of ...
Source: Computerworld Singapore

HealthCast and BMC Software Offer Integrated Identity Management ...
Date: 22 Jun 2004
Excerpt: To help reduce costs, the solution uses existing Directory Services, accommodates biometrics and proximity cards, manages existing password structures, and ...
Source: Internet Telephony Magazine

Alumni of notorious brokerage firms find work in `boiler rooms'
Date: 22 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...he has operated Premium Placements, a boiler room selling "pre-initial public offering" shares in a number of companies, including International Biometrics Inc ...
Source: Kansas City Star (subscription)

SFKT injects $2m into Persay just months after write down
Date: 22 Jun 2004
Excerpt: New York. Since its founding, its field of activity has been voice verification, which is part of the biometrics market. The company ...
Source: Globes Online

Sustainable sustainabilityÂ
Date: 22 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...uses instead the optimal sustainable yield that is a cautious guesstimate made on the basis of historical records of landings as well as population biometrics. ...
Source: Trinidad & Tobago Express

About ePaymentsnews Network
Date: 22 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...we offer. - Retial: e-commerce; store-technology; loyalty; security, biometrics, ATM; Kiosks; payments and internet. - Retail banking ...
Source: ePaymentsnews Network (subscription)

Secured Digital Applications, Inc. Obtains First Client for ...
Date: 22 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...are involved in the development, integration and provision of secured shipping and supply chain management service, sale of biometrics security systems and the ...
Source: TMCnet

Surveillance and Domestication
Date: 22 Jun 2004
Excerpt: The breakthrough came in Paris as late as 1870 when a Surete clerk Alphonse Bertillon developed biometrics from a 14th century Chinese model. ...
Source: Infoshop News

AuthenTec's New AES2510 Swipe Fingerprint Sensor Sets New ...
Date: 21 Jun 2004
Excerpt: The AES25xx family sets new standards for being the smallest, most advanced and lowest cost fingerprint slide sensors in the biometrics industry. ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

Hands-on technology
Date: 21 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Employers are using biometrics to secure access to buildings and special areas within buildings and even logging into computer networks so employees don't have ...
Source: Fort Worth Star Telegram (subscription)

SAFLINK Corp. Announces Security Deployment at US Office of the ...
Date: 21 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Biometrics is the answer, because authentication is based on a user's unique individual characteristic, which is more convenient for users and much more secure ...
Source: PR Newswire (press release)

Sequiam Corporation Selects Allen & Caron for Corporate ...
Date: 21 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...website. Sequiam Corporation is: Sequiam Software, Inc. Sequiam Sports, Inc. Sequiam Biometrics, Inc. Sequiam Education, Inc. Makers ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

Maritime security reaches new levels
Date: 21 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...provides personal identification and verification systems; the South Florida company Tamperproof Identification, and Identix, a biometrics technology company ...
Source: Miami Herald (subscription)

About ePaymentsnews Network
Date: 21 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...we offer. - Retial: e-commerce; store-technology; loyalty; security, biometrics, ATM; Kiosks; payments and internet. - Retail banking ...
Source: ePaymentsnews Network (subscription)

US delays biometric passport deadline
Date: 18 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Biometrics is a means of identifying a person by biological features unique to an individual using advanced computerised recognition techniques. ...
Source: ElectricNews.net

House Approves $10B Accenture Deal
Date: 18 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Under the DHS contract, Bermuda-based Accenture (Quote, Chart) will serve as the prime contractor on a 10-year project to deploy a biometrics-based "virtual ...
Source: InternetNews.com

Cut out the card sharps
Date: 18 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...passwords. "In the long term, biometrics technology such as cheap fingerprint readers at point-of-sale offer better security," he says. ...
Source: VNUNet.com

'Operational issues' force back US biometric passport deadline
Date: 18 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...larger countries – Japan, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy or Spain -- will begin issuing passports with standardised biometrics by that ...
Source: ZDNet.co.uk

Identity theft: how you can protect and survive
Date: 18 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...in [companies'] approach to identity management' and stressed the value of authentication measures such as tokens, smartcards and biometrics in foiling such ...
Source: VNUNet.com

TSA begins frequent-traveler speed-up program
Date: 17 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Following full and open competition, TSA signed contracts Wednesday for program management, biometrics, tactical operations, and systems integration. ...
Source: Bend.com

EDS and Unisys win TSA Registered Traveler contracts
Date: 17 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Both contracts are for 180 days, according to TSA. The contracts are for program management, biometrics, tactical operations and systems integration. ...
Source: Washington Technology

Britain to get airport iris scanners
Date: 17 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Other airports in Europe and the United States also have undertaken passenger-speeding systems using biometrics, which measure a person's physical ...
Source: Globetechnology.com

Symbol Technologies Announces Agreement to Acquire Trio Security
Date: 17 Jun 2004
Excerpt: The 3-factor authentication system consists of a software key, a password, and user-specific ID such as biometrics or the rhythm, speed and acceleration of a ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

About ePaymentsnews Network
Date: 17 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...we offer. - Retial: e-commerce; store-technology; loyalty; security, biometrics, ATM; Kiosks; payments and internet. - Retail banking ...
Source: ePaymentsnews Network (subscription)

House Republicans Move to Protect Accenture Contract
Date: 17 Jun 2004
Excerpt: The contract calls for a biometrics systems design to verify the identity of incoming visitors and to confirm compliance with visa and immigration policies. ...
Source: InternetNews.com

Space Exploitation: Making Space Technology Matter
Date: 17 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...a Single Integrated Space Picture (SISP), we are exploring applications of volumetric displays, immersion technologies, biometrics, manmachine interface ...
Source: United States Army (press release)

World News > Brit plan to introduce ID cards slammed as racist
Date: 17 Jun 2004
Excerpt: He also showed concern over the technology Home Office would use to measure biometrics, such as facial recognition and iris recognition, which would then be ...
Source: New Kerala

CXNM/Bio-Tracking Security Inc. Defines Informative Risk ...
Date: 17 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Apart from the real time tracking, the WARLOCK offers numerous security features, such as high security biometrics which allows only the authorized driver to ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

Biometrics benefits individuals: expert
Date: 15 Jun 2004
Excerpt: On Monday, Martin Walshe, the chairman of the European Biometrics Forum, told the inaugural EU Presidency Summit on Biometrics that the emerging technology can ...
Source: ElectricNews.net

Biometric Passports: Not Ready for Prime Time
Date: 15 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...with passports issued after Oct. 26 without biometrics will need visas to visit the United States. Harty estimated that the demand ...
Source: InternetNews.com

A close encounter with biometrics
Date: 14 Jun 2004
Excerpt: It is with a mixture of techie glee and Orwellian paranoia that I present myself at the UK Passport Service offices for the Biometrics Enrolment trial – part ...
Source: Out-Law.com

West Tennessee Healthcare Benefits From Integrated Biometric ...
Date: 14 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...(CC&M) and best-in- class fingerprint authentication hardware developer Zvetco Biometrics today announced a successful integrated biometric security solution ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

Fingerprint login puts accountability on menu at eateries
Date: 14 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Biometrics have been in use for many years in the law enforcement industry for fingerprinting databases, but the use in businesses for control and access to ...
Source: Allentown Morning Call

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Date: 14 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Analysts and many industry officials say that too much is being expected from the technology, which is still one of the newest methods in biometrics, a field ...
Source: Marin Independent-Journal

Identix Names Network & ID Security Industry Veteran Elissa ...
Date: 14 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Identix Incorporated (Nasdaq:IDNX), the world's leading multi-biometrics technology company, announced today that security industry veteran, Elissa J. Lindsoe ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

So long passwords, hello fingerprints
Date: 14 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Biometrics have been in use for many years in the law enforcement industry for fingerprinting databases, but the use in businesses for access to systems is ...
Source: Charlotte Observer (subscription)

BSI2000 Hires Excell Consulting International for US-VISIT ...
Date: 14 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Biometrics Technology Targeted to Homeland Security Program DENVER, June 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BSI2000, Inc. (OTC Bulletin ...
Source: PR Newswire (press release)

Customs to spend $5m on passenger analysis unit
Date: 14 Jun 2004
Excerpt: There are a number of papers being worked on which will set international standards for biometrics. "These are critical for there ...
Source: Stuff.co.nz

SENSE Holdings, Inc. Closes on $1.96 Million Private Placement
Date: 14 Jun 2004
Excerpt: SENSE will continue to pursue its option for the keyless motor vehicle technology and also market its biometrics products to a variety of industries such as ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

Congress antsy about TSA tech tests
Date: 14 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Officials are using the Airport Access Control Pilot Program to evaluate biometrics and other technology that could enable authorized employees to enter secure ...
Source: FCW.com

Omnilux Inc. and Teledata Ltd. Announce Exclusive Partnership to ...
Date: 14 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...solutions, contact centre solutions, telecommunications infrastructure, wireless infrastructure, and physical surveillance and biometrics security systems. ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

BSI2000 Hires Excell Consulting International for US-VISIT ...
Date: 14 Jun 2004
Excerpt: The $10 billion US-VISIT program creates a new biometrics-based electronic entry/exit system that will accurately track persons entering and exiting the United ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

Rodman & Renshaw Security Conference a Success
Date: 14 Jun 2004
Excerpt: The presenting companies represented the cutting edge of technology in the fields of biometrics, chemical agent detection, digital network protection ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

Identix Names Lindsoe CFO
Date: 14 Jun 2004
Excerpt: MINNETONKA, Minn. (AP)--Multi-biometrics technology firm Identix Inc. named Elissa J. Lindsoe chief financial officer Monday, effective June 21. ...
Source: Springfield News Sun

Don't add flights, TSA warns
Date: 14 Jun 2004
Excerpt: That study calls for the use of such things as cybersecurity, biometrics and improved record keeping among other things to speed up the process of getting ...
Source: San Jose Business Journal

FESD Dubai celebrates African launch of its Disaster Prevention ...
Date: 14 Jun 2004
Excerpt: FESD Dubai, the region’s leading supplier of security and system solutions based on intelligent object fire protection and biometrics technology, introduced ...
Source: CPILive.net

A piece of the action
Date: 14 Jun 2004
Excerpt: There are plenty of requirements: biometrics for ID cards; web service enablement of legacy applications; RFID for drugs and patient management; and expertise ...
Source: VNUNet.com

Biometrics Adoption Depends on Price-Value Balance, says Frost
Date: 10 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Biometrics technologies are likely to be the vital component in tomorrow’s security systems, as governments and private enterprises worldwide emphasize on ...
Source: Tekrati (press release)

Bioscrypt's Finger Scan Technology Chosen by Fort Wayne ...
Date: 10 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Adding verification, using Bioscrypt's fingerprint technology, to the security in place at FWA adds a level of protection only biometrics can provide," stated ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

Tracking down terrorists
Date: 10 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Malaysia plans to introduce tougher security measures, such as the Advanced Passenger Information System (API) and biometrics technology, to identify suspected ...
Source: New Straits Times

We want investors to feel secure: GN Bajpai
Date: 10 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...personnel. The system will use biometrics — fingerprinting, photographs and signature scanning — as part of the application process.
Source: Business Standard

House Votes to Bar Tax Deadbeats From US Contracts
Date: 10 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...to implement the US Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology, dubbed US VISIT, program to track travelers using fingerprings, biometrics and digital ...
Source: Investor's Business Daily (subscription)

Accenture deal faces up-Hill battle
Date: 10 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...subcontractors on the Accenture team bidding for the USVisit contract, a project designed to track foreign visitors using high-tech methods like biometrics. ...
Source: Bizjournals.com

SPT and the key role of biometrics in air travel
Date: 09 Jun 2004
Excerpt: BIOMETRICS has taken centrestage in the effort to provide expedited passenger travel and enhanced security of all passengers. Unique ...
Source: Business Times Singapore (subscription)

International Biometric Group Teleconferences Scheduled for ...
Date: 09 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Which states have recently banned the use of biometrics in driver’s licenses? ... Hear more about the latest biometrics news from the past month. ...
Source: Emediawire (press release)

Restaurants begin to tap fingerprint technology
Date: 09 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Biometrics have been in use for many years in the law enforcement industry for databases, but the use in businesses for control and access to systems is ...
Source: Lansing State Journal

GAO points to airport security holes
Date: 09 Jun 2004
Excerpt: The report states that TSA officials have not yet finished assessing, recommending or deploying technology, such as biometrics, to address unauthorized access. ...
Source: FCW.com

Mary Chia goes biometric
Date: 09 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Wendy Ho, managing director, Mary Chia Beauty & Slimming Specialist said, "The implementation of biometrics will reduce human resource times in tabulation of ...
Source: Computerworld Singapore

Vuepoint Corp. Announces Partnership with Privity FZ LLC, a Dubai ...
Date: 09 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...capabilities to its clients together with its own services that include consultation for IT architecture, knowledge management, biometrics, e-Business and ...
Source: PR Newswire (press release)

SSP-Litronic Receives $400,000 Award Under Existing $9 Million ...
Date: 09 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...management -- and subsequent discussions on the Common Access Card program, the enabling of applications for PKI, and future plans for biometrics in the DoD. ...
Source: Market Wire (press release)

Enterasys gets corporate makeover
Date: 09 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...people.?. The offices also make use of biometrics, with access to the various facilities requiring fingerprint identification. ...
Source: ITWeb

Wave Systems to Feature Trusted Computing Solutions at 2004 PKI/ ...
Date: 09 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...government communities of interest: policy makers, technical and labs communities and Department of Defense communities interested in biometrics, the CAC ...
Source: TMCnet

Bioscrypt Reports No Material Change
Date: 09 Jun 2004
Excerpt: The Company's solutions combine the convenience of touch with the high security of fingerprint-based biometrics for simple and secure access to facilities ...
Source: Investor's Business Daily (subscription)

Estrategies, a Website and magazine on IT in Eastern Europe, ...
Date: 09 Jun 2004
Excerpt: At our Roundtables, we treat the hottest topics like eprocurement, rural development, biometrics for smartcards, best practice for e-government, and many ...
Source: Emediawire (press release)

NTT and NTT Electronics to Commercialize USB Fingerprint ...
Date: 09 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Based on NTT Microsystem Integration Laboratories' biometrics technology, the device packs all required fingerprint processing capabilities ranging from ...
Source: Japan Corporate News (press release)

Pacific Biometrics raises $2.5M
Date: 08 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Seattle-based Pacific Biometrics Inc. said it has received $2.5 million in financing from Laurus Master Fund Ltd. The financing ...
Source: Puget Sound Business Journal

Wake County of Raleigh, North Carolina, Selects M2SYS' e- ...
Date: 08 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...announced that it has executed a long- term customer partnership with the Wake County Sheriff's Office to implement its e-Vigilance(TM) biometrics technology. ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

EU Interior Ministers will discuss biometric data in passports
Date: 08 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...terrorism. The session`s agenda will also include a draft regulation on security elements and biometrics data in pass-ports. The ...
Source: Slovakia Daily Surveyor

Diebold and Lenel Announce Strategic Alliance
Date: 08 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...encompassing access control, alarm monitoring, identity management, physical asset management, digital video management, smart cards, biometrics and visitor ...
Source: PR Newswire (press release)

Simon Lim's Thump card
Date: 08 Jun 2004
Excerpt: He has also hopped on the biometrics bandwagon - instead of membership cards, Thumper will use thumbprint recognition to identify its members. ...
Source: Straits Times

The Role of the Department of Homeland Security Overseas
Date: 08 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Using biometrics such as digital, inkless fingerscans and digital photographs, the identity of visitors requiring a US visa is now verified upon entry in order ...
Source: Heritage.org

Czech Republic National Police Buy Enhanced Automated Fingerprint ...
Date: 08 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Motorola Biometrics solutions are designed to save time and increase accuracy in the identification, processing and management of individuals by law ...
Source: TMCnet

RSA Security To Eliminate Password Pains
Date: 08 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...array of authentication choices to choose from, some of which are RSA SecurID authenticators and RSA Smart Card to more advanced fingerprint-based biometrics. ...
Source: CXOtoday.com

Citrix becomes your flexible friend
Date: 08 Jun 2004
Excerpt: For true security, it must be integrated with a smart card, token or biometrics as there is the inherent danger that if someone gives away their single password ...
Source: The Inquirer

Building castles in cyberspace
Date: 08 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Firewalls and passwords, smartcards and biometrics: all are intended to make sure that only those who should be on the inside are allowed to be there. ...
Source: VNUNet.com

University of Connecticut School of Business Deploying Converged ...
Date: 08 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Resident technologies will also include advanced multimedia collaboration tools and the use of biometrics in an experiential learning environment designed to ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

Airline tickets to be paper-free by 2007
Date: 08 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Civil liberties groups from both Europe and the US recently joined forces to oppose the proposed introduction and cross-border sharing of biometrics and RFID ...
Source: ElectricNews.net

PUSU threatens stir on renaming of UIET courses
Date: 08 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...engineering at molecular and atomic level, bio-processes, telecommunication network design, appliance designing and manufacturing, biometrics, object oriented ...
Source: Indian Express

Pacific Biometrics, Inc. Closes on $2.5 Million Financing with ...
Date: 07 Jun 2004
Excerpt: SEATTLE --(Business Wire)-- June 7, 2004 -- Pacific Biometrics, Inc. (OTCBB:PBME) today announced it has completed a $2.5 million ...
Source: TMCnet

Vocent Announces Industry's First True Multi-Factor Voice ...
Date: 07 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Vocent DecisionMaker(TM) is the first voice authentication technology to integrate biometrics, data analytics and content knowledge to make the best possible ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

Czech Republic National Police Buy Enhanced Automated Fingerprint ...
Date: 07 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Motorola Biometrics solutions are designed to save time and increase accuracy in the identification, processing and management of individuals by law ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

Celoxica Completes $6.3 Million Funding Round; Investors ...
Date: 07 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...and analyze products for application markets with strong algorithm content; including DSP, imaging, video processing, telecommunications, biometrics, and data ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

Sheikh Ahmed opens region's leading airport suppliers exhibition
Date: 07 Jun 2004
Excerpt: The product can integrate a biometrics solutions programme for passenger verification, which will relieve manned monitoring and reduce operational costs at ...
Source: AME Info

Biometric DRM
Date: 07 Jun 2004
Excerpt: This one involves using biometrics authentication (ie - fingerprints) in order to 'lock' the copy to the customer's fingerprint. ...
Source: Slashdot

Veri Scary 'fingerprint' player
Date: 07 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Back in mid-January America's VeriTouch biometrics company announced Sweden's Thinking Materials had, "on assignment from VeriTouch," delivered the first ...
Source: p2pnet.net

Snapped, scanned and recorded
Date: 5 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Customs and Excise. A penalty of up to £2,500 could be levied for failure to attend an appointment for a biometrics scan. Those who ...
Source: Scotland on Sunday

IBG Teleconferences Examine How Recent Developments Affect US- ...
Date: 3 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...- What is the impact of Accenture's successful bid for US-VISIT? -- Which states have recently banned the use of biometrics in driver's licenses? ...
Source: PR Newswire (press release)

IBG Teleconferences Examine How Recent Developments Affect US- ...
Date: 3 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...- Which states have recently banned the use of biometrics in driver's licenses? ... Hear more about the latest biometrics news from the past month. ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

Netherlands Selects BioDentity Border Clearance Technology for ...
Date: 3 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...country. The Netherlands is moving forward with a program to evaluate the impact of introducing biometrics in support of its Passport. ...
Source: CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse)

Face-Recognition Systems Looking Better
Date: 3 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Analysts and many industry officials say that too much is being expected from the technology, which is one of the newest in biometrics, a field that includes ...
Source: TechNewsWorld

Dutch Passport Trials to Evaluate Bioscrypt Technology
Date: 02 Jun 2004
Excerpt: This trial will lead to recommendations for the minister as to whether biometrics are feasible, and, if so, which ones. Following ...
Source: PR Newswire (press release)

Technology strains to find menace in the crowd
Date: 02 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Analysts and many industry officials say that too much is being expected from the technology, which is still one of the newest methods in biometrics, a field ...
Source: CNET News.com

Biometric Leader, Recognition Systems, Inc. Receives Two Frost & ...
Date: 02 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Market Penetration Leadership Award for access control and time and attendance applications in Frost & Sullivan’s study, World Biometrics Market, and ...
Source: SecureIDNews

Iris Scan Or Fingerprinting, Biometric Identifiers Key To ...
Date: 02 Jun 2004
Excerpt: That is compared with the biometrics derived from another photo taken on the spot. If the two biometrics match, then you are who ...
Source: Financial Express

'Virtual borders' can keep terrorists away
Date: 02 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...program, but the desired results would see a foreign national present travel documents to a US consular officer abroad, have that person's biometrics, such as ...
Source: Miami Herald (subscription)

Biometric loan application system ‘squares up' bank
Date: 02 Jun 2004
Excerpt: Square One built a solution incorporating biometrics with SAFLink middleware and the solution seamlessly integrates with the bank's Microsoft Active Directory ...
Source: ITWeb

National and Washington news in brief
Date: 02 Jun 2004
Excerpt: ...entering the United States. The project will use the latest technology, including biometrics, to identify US entrants. The contract was ...
Source: San Jose Mercury News (subscription)

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Biometrics is the science and technology of authentication (i.e. establishing the identity of an individual) by measuring the subject person's physiological or behavioral features. The term is derived from the Greek words "bios" for life and "metron" for measure.

Biometrics also refers to an entirely different field (today more commonly called Biostatistics), which concerns the development of statistical and mathematical methods applicable to data analysis problems in the biological sciences (a definition in use since the early 20th century). This page does not concern this use of the term.

In Information technology (IT), biometrics usually refers to technologies for measuring and analyzing human physiological characteristics such as fingerprints, eye retinas and irises, voice patterns, facial patterns, and hand measurements, especially for authentication purposes.

Examples of behavioural characteristics which can be measured include signature recognition, gait recognition, speaker recognition, and the most successful, human authentication via typing pattern (rhythm) recognition.

In a typical IT biometric system, a person registers with the system when one or more of his physiological characteristics are obtained, processed by a numerical algorithm, and entered into a database. Ideally, when he logs in, all of his features match 100%; then when someone else tries to log in, she does not fully match, so the system will not allow her to log in. Current technologies have widely varying Equal Error Rates - as low as 60% and as high as 99.9%.




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