Ingeroll Rand Security Technologies announced that its Mich.-based distributor InfoTronics, will begin carrying Ingersoll’s Schlage HandPunch biometric terminals in addition to the older models it already carries and offers its customers. The new HandPunch model, called the Schlage GT-400 HandPunch, is designed for use as part of a biometric time and attendance tracking solution that […]

Fulcrum Biometrics has been given two separate awards for innovation at the Cygnus Law Enforcement Group’s Innovation Awards in Chicago at the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference. The two awards Fulcrum won were the Cygnus Law Enforcement Group Innovation Award for Forensics and the Paramount award, which is given for a single product […]

DigitalPersona has announced the Yogurtland restaurant franchises in the U.S., Mexico and Guam have implemented DigitalPersona’s U.are.U fingerprint solution. The new solution serves multiple purposes for the franchise locations helping them meet Payment Card Industry compliance regulations, reduce payroll fraud and eliminate the need for managers to remember system passwords or to keep track of […]

Technology company Sony has been awarded a patent for a game controller designed for use with their Playstation gaming systems that would be capable of measuring a player’s biometrics including heartbeat, perspiration and muscle movements, according to a Thinq article. The purpose of the controllers, which are designed to look just as the current controllers, […]

The Noble County Sheriff’s Department in Indiana has launched an iris recognition-based biometric system designed to collect iris data in addition to the fingerprint data already collected from suspects being booked at the department, according to a WANE article. The system, which was designed and provided by biometric technology developer BI2 Technologies, will only collect […]

Intercede has announced the release of Service Pack 1 for its biometric identity and credential management system MyID PIV v9. The upgrades included in the new service pack are bringing Personal Identification Verification (PIV), PIV-I and PIV-C credential issuance into one system. Additional upgrades in the service pack are aimed at reducing time and costs […]

Morpho announced that Australia’s Customs and Border Protection Service signed a five year agreement for service of the SmartGate automated biometric security checkpoint solution. The SmartGate technology operates in real-time utilizing facial recognition hardware that compares the captured data of a traveler to the data contained on the chip embedded on his e-passport. Australian Customs […]

Philips has developed a coffee maker that can recognize users via their fingerprint and make coffee just the way that individual likes it, according to a Daily Mail article. When someone uses the machine, called Saeco Xelsis, for the first time he presses his fingerprint into the sensor three times to create a new profile […]

The news that Israeli authorities arrested the man they believe was behind the 2006 theft and subsequent leaking of the biometric and biographical data of up to 9 million Israelis contained on their national database has renewed worry of similar issues coming up in other countries where biometric databases continue to grow, according to a […]

Precise Biometrics has announced it has selected GD Burti for exclusive distribution of the company’s fingerprint and smart card readers in Brazil. The move to get heavy distribution in Brazil became increasingly important for Precise as the country is completing its roll-out of the Brazilian National ID project which provides all of Brazil’s citizens with […]