VoiceTrust acquires canadian biometrics firm Perceive Solutions

VoiceTrust, a global leader and provider of digital payments and voice biometric solutions announced today the acquisition of Montreal based voice technology firm Perceive Solutions Inc. VoiceTrust is a global innovator in voice biometrics security and its revolutionary Proof-of-LifeTM program provides safe, secure and cost efficient delivery of various payment services, like secure pension disbursement that…

UIDAI’s biometric technology ready to achieve scale and high accuracy for country’s 1.2 billion populations

The UIDAI released a report titled “The Role of Biometric technology in Aadhaar Enrollment” which confirms the high degree of accuracy of biometrics used in the UID project in the context of large scale enrolments across India. This dispels the fear that the use of biometric technology in the Indian context would be unreliable and…

Fujitsu Develops World’s First Personal Authentication Technology to Integrate Palm Vein and Fingerprint Authentication

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. have announced the development of the world's first biometric authentication technology that combines data on palm vein patterns with fingerprint data from three fingers. By employing both palm vein pattern and fingerprint data, the technology enables the rapid identification of a given individual out of data from a million people, processing the…

BioID Announces World’s First Biometric Authentication as a Service (BaaS)

The German company BioID  has announced the world's first Biometric Authentication as a Service (BaaS) -- a multimodal biometric service on demand that provides an easy to use, fast and secure biometric authentication without the hassles and risks of user IDs and passwords. The technology revolutionizes online authentication and digital identity management for consumers, businesses…

INSIDE Secure brings biometric on-card matching security to SecuRead NFC solution

INSIDE Secure, a semiconductor solutions provider for secure transactions and digital identity, today announced the availability of biometric on-card matching capabilities for its SecuRead(TM) system-in-package NFC solution, enabling manufacturers of mobile NFC devices to provide enhanced, two-factor security and greater personal privacy for a variety of mobile applications. Based on advanced fingerprint identification software from…

New fingerprint readers for Banking & Corporate segments from Precise Biometrics

Biometric systems are no longer reserved for Government users. Enterprise markets such as Banking and Corporations are increasingly seeing the benefits offered by biometric solutions. To accommodate these new opportunities, Precise Biometrics is launching a new generation of competitive fingerprint readers which are designed to meet a range of specific customer demands.  The name of…

BIO-key International and Medflow Partner to Deliver Fingerprint Biometrics to Protect Electronic Health Records

BIO-key International, Inc., a finger-based biometric identification solutions provider for the healthcare industry, and Medflow Incorporated, the market leader in the development of electronic health records software solely dedicated to eye care physicians, announced the release of TruStaffTMfingerprint biometric log-in for securing access to Medflow Electronic Health Records (EHR). “BIO-key’s TruStaff fingerprint biometric log-in delivers a…

Biometrics for use in identification

By Emmanuel Ventadour, Gemalto Biometric technology can be found more and more in a large variety of  ID applications, ranging from national ID documents, to travel documents  and electronic healthcare cards. This article aims to give a short overview of the benefits of biometrics as well as provide some appropriate case studies. The fight against…