SecuGen announced that one of its manufacturing partners, iPulse Systems, is rolling out biometric time and attendance systems that incorporates fingerprint modules from SecuGen to all the McDonald’s restaurants across South Africa. The systems being implemented at the fast food outlets, called iPulse iDU5, utilizes SecuGen’s SDA04M fingerprint OEM module and has already been in […]

Global Industry Analysts has announced the release of a new market research study on the global biometric industry’s marketplace projecting the market to reach $16.47 billion in worth by 2017. Among the reasoning behind the projected growth are government-backed pushes for the technology due to the increasing threat of terrorist attacks, the rising need for […]

DigitalPersona announced the release of its new fingerprint feature extraction technology called FingerJetFX. Unlike most releases from the company, however, the FingerJetFX solution has been release with an Open Source Edition in addition to its commercially available edition. The open source edition opens up the source code for free to application developers and manufacturers looking […]

Neurotechnology has announced the release of two new software development kits (SDKs) from their MegaMatcher line of offerings. The two new releases, MegaMatcher 4.2 and MegaMatcher On Card 3.0, both offer support for fingerprint, facial and iris recognition to be used either individually or as a multi-factor solution by Neurotechnology’s VeriFinger 6.4, VeriLook 5.1 and […]

Germany’s Data Protection Agency is preparing a lawsuit against Facebook over its facial recognition feature. The system automatically scans user submitted photographs and tags the people in the photo based on their unique facial characteristics as long as they are friend with the person who posted the image, according to an IT Portal article. The […]

The U.S. Department of Defense is looking for new unobtrusive biometric measures for authenticating people’s identities at a computer so that an identity can be confirmed without interrupting their workflow, according to an InformationWeek article. The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) Active Authentication Program is intent on discovering a way to identify a user […]

ExakTime has announced the addition of a biometric time and attendance tracking product designed for use by contractors or site managers for construction projects. The solution, called FaceFront Biometrics, is software designed for us on smart phones or tablets with front-facing cameras and utilizes face recognition to match construction workers clocking in for work to […]

AVT, a developer of biometric technology, announced a partnership with MedBox, a developer of prescription medication vending machines. The new deal has brought AVT’s fingerpint-based identity verification technology to the medicine dispensing machines from MedBox enabling them to create cabinets that ensure someone is not fraudulently receiving medication while also increasing a pharmacy’s ability to […]

The First National Bank (FNB) in South Africa has implemented a biometric identification system enabling customers of the bank to secure access to their accounts with their fingerprints, according to a Business Live article. Moreover, the bank is utilizing the country’s national database as a means of authenticating identities by comparing a provided fingerprint sample […]

SecuGen announced that the General Services Administration added two of its fingerprint scanners to the FIPS 201 Evaluation Program Approved Products list. The solutions, which are both compliant with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Personal Identity Verification FIPS 201 standard, are the Hamster IV v2 fingerprint reader and ID-USB SC/PIV v2 combined fingerprint […]