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Reinier M. van der Drift
BioXS
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BioXS launches the next-gen secured USB Memory Stick
BioXS launches the Stealth MXP.
"The Stealth MXP is the most advanced USB Memory Drive on the market", according to Reinier van der Drift, CEO of BioXS International BV. "We are pleased that we finally can offer our clients this kind of security".
"With the Stealth MXP we can fulfil the demand of our customers for a driverless version of the famous ClipDrive famliy".
BioXS International BV
Date: 2006-02-13 |
Britain's lower house passes ID card bill
By Tariq Panja, Associated Press Writer | February 13, 2006
LONDON --Britain's lower chamber of Parliament voted on Monday to require all citizens who want a passport to have a national identity card as well -- a compromise on a measure that originally required all Britons to carry a national ID card.
Sign up for: Globe Headlines e-mail | Breaking News Alerts Hours before the vote, the government backed down on plans to require ID cards for anyone living in the United Kingdom.
The compromise bill passed the House of Commons 310-279 and now goes to the upper chamber, the House of Lords. Lawmakers hope the bill will become law by 2008.
Boston.com
Date: 2006-02-14 |
Finger scans replace cash at Gonzaga
SPOKANE, Wash. -- About 400 students at Gonzaga University are among the first in the nation to use finger scans to pay for meals and other expenses in the campus area.
Sodexho Inc., the company that runs food service operations at Gonzaga, has launched pilot programs at the Spokane school and the University of North Texas to see if "biometric finger scans" are workable.
Spokeswoman Sarah Cody said Sodexho will see how well they work before deciding whether to use the technology at some of the 900 other campuses the company serves.
SeattlePI
Date: 2006-02-13 |
Microsoft pushes InfoCard for secure online ID
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Microsoft Corp. is set to take another crack at creating a uniform way for people to log on to Web sites, conduct transactions and prove their identities online.
Code-named InfoCard, the project will be outlined by Microsoft executives at the RSA computer security conference here this week. It reflects a change in approach for the company after its Passport initiative fell far short of the original goal of becoming a universal method of identification on the Internet.
SeattlePI
Date: 2006-02-13 |
Biometric scans for passports from April
Alan Travis, home affairs editor
Tuesday February 14, 2006
The Guardian
The final Commons votes last night cleared the way for the first national identity card scheme in Britain for 50 years.
Parliament's approval of ID card legislation signals the start of a procurement process for the largest public sector computer project in Europe, which carries a minimum official price tag of £5.8bn in running costs over the next 10 years. A debate launched in 1995 by the former Tory leader Michael Howard, when he was home secretary, is set to become law. It will eventually mean that 38 million British citizens over the age of 16 and resident foreign nationals who have lived here for more than three months will have their details registered on a powerful national identity database.
The Guardian
Date: 2006-02-14 |
Biometrics in midst of revolution
Annette Starkweather
Biometric tools will someday revolutionize businesses of all sizes, just like so many other products that came about thanks to commercial companies capitalizing on military research and development.
Many of us who are 40 years or older may remember the good old days when a cashier had to total up our weekly grocery purchases on a cash register. Today, cashiers no longer have to let their fingers fly up and down the register. Instead, they use the bar code laser scanner to scan each price and store keeping unit. With the same kind of technology that fighter planes use to lock onto a target, retail scanners enable their managers to more efficiently track purchases and inventory.
Croma acquires biometric identification and access-control solutions company Photobase
The Board of Croma has announce the acquisition of biometric identification and access-control solutions company Photobase Limited. This follows the acquisition of Vigilant (Scotland) Limited announced earlier this month.
Photobase adds a new range of hi-tech products to Croma's inventory, allowing the Group to take advantage of a growing need for identity verification. Croma will acquire Photobase for an initial payment of £1,292,000 comprising of £792,000 in cash and the balance in 7,692,308 new ordinary shares at 6.5p.
Photobase is a UK-based business which designs, installs, services and maintains biometric identification and access-control solutions to meet the physical security needs for a wide range of locations, budgets, security policies and organization types.
Security Park
Date: 2006-02-14 |
Aladdin Touts New 'Cardio-Signature' Biometrics Authentication
Company's new technology seeks to use a person's natural electronic bio-signature for identification
Electronic ‘bio-signatures’ are the newest biometric identifier being touted at the RSA Conference in San Jose this week.
Geoff Kohl, editor
SecurityInfoWatch.com
The RSA show going on this week in San Jose, Calif., always brings out a few "bleeding edge" technologies. On the list this year was an item that caught our eye: IDesia/Aladdin Knowledge Systems' BioDynamic Signature.
The idea behind this new biometrics technology is that you can use a person's "bio-signature" as a recognizable and virtually unfakeable identifier. No, we're not going New Age on you, we promise not to use words like your "Chi" or your "glowing spirit presence."
Security Info Watch
Date: 2006-02-14 |
Brown backs biometrics
Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown has said the UK will use biometrics on a national scale for cross-border control, for anti-terrorist measures and to combat identity theft.
Brown, who has in the past been silent over such issues, said supermarkets and banks will use biometrics in the future and the government would follow them.
He said: "Today Californian supermarket shoppers are paying with a finger-scan at the checkout and Japanese cash machines are asking for a finger-scan rather than a PIN. The reason is simple: they are more secure against fraud and theft.
Silicon.com
Date: 2006-02-14 |
Fujitsu Targets Biometrics with Sequiam
Fujitsu Microelectronics America Inc. today announced that it has forged an agreement with Orlando, Fla.-based Sequiam Corp. and its wholly owned subsidiary Sequiam Biometrics Inc. to develop OEM applications integrating Fujitsu biometric sensors into existing Sequiam Biometrics hardware and software solutions.
"Sequiam Biometrics is a welcome addition to the roster of companies using our biometric sensors," said Ray Abrishami, senior director of marketing for Fujitsu, in a statement. "We are excited and look forward to working with them to expand the market for biometrically enabled products."
Electronic News
Date: 2006-02-16 |
Hypercom licenses signature-verification software
Hypercom Corp. and Communications Intelligence Corp. are teaming to help financial institutions and retailers combat fraud and identity theft by authenticating customer signatures at the point-of-service.
Under the terms of the agreement, CIC will license its complete SignatureOne suite of biometric and electronic signature products to Hypercom, initially for incorporation into Hypercom's 32-bit Optimum L4100 and L4250 signature capture card payment devices.
The Business Journal
Date: 2006-02-16 |
CIO Jury: Will biometrics replace passwords and PINs?
Iris and fingerprint-scanning technology will replace passwords and PIN numbers as the long-term answer to identity management problems, according to UK IT chiefs.
An overwhelming majority of IT bosses - 11 out of the 12-man silicon.com CIO Jury IT user panel - predicted biometrics will overcome the current technical and standards issues to be a more user-friendly and secure alternative to passwords.
Silicon.com
Date: 2006-02-16 |
Improving E-Commerce Security with Biometrics
Rather than measuring biological traits such as fingerprints and retina patterns, banks and corporations will soon measure behaviors in a more cost-effective, efficient way of improving the growing system of e-commerce.
The booming of e-commerce around the globe will soon compel businesses to adopt new biometric security tools to mitigate fraud, researchers say.
E-commerce in the United States has grown during the past five years at a compound annual growth rate of 25 percent, accounting for more than 2 percent of all retail sales. At the same time, e-commerce has grown in South Korea and the United Kingdom by 50 percent and 80 percent, respectively.
Sci=Tech Today
Date: 2006-02-16 |
Deutsch
Großbritannien will Ausweise wieder einführen
In Großbritannien soll es nach mehr als einem halben Jahrhundert künftig wieder Personalausweise geben. Das Unterhaus billigte gestern am späten Abend mit klarer Mehrheit die Pläne der Labour-Regierung von Premierminister Tony Blair, schrittweise wieder eine Ausweispflicht einzuführen.
Zunächst sollen von 2008 an alle Briten einen Personalausweis bekommen, die einen neuen Reisepass beantragen. Die "Identity Cards" sollen auch biometrische Merkmale wie den Fingerabdruck, Augenmuster und Gesichtsform enthalten.
ID Development präsentiert ICAO-konforme Datenaufnahme für biometrische Dokumente zur CeBIT 2006
Oberwil, Schweiz, (14. Februar 2006).“Pass ich noch in den Reisepass?“, ist eine Frage, die sich die Bürger vieler Nationen bei der Beantragung neuer Reisepässe stellen. Oft genug verweigern Behörden die Annahme der Lichtbilder und verweisen dabei auf die Richtlinien der ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organisation). „Es ist für Fotografen überaus schwierig anhand von Schablonen die exakte Einhaltung der optischen und elektronischen Bildaufnahme zu garantieren“, unterstreicht Marcus Klische, Technischer Vorstand und Leiter des internationalen Vertriebs der ID Development AG, „Unsere Software Pic2Pass ermöglicht die Bildaufnahme erst, wenn die standardisierten Anforderungen erfüllt sind. „Damit verhindern wir die Diskussionen um gute und schlechte Passbilder.“ führt Klische aus.
ID Development
Date: 2006-02-16 |
Biometrische Identifikationslösungen auf dem Markt gefragt: Neues Biometrie-Lesemodul von Kaba Benzing ermöglicht breiten Einsatz
Villingen-Schwenningen, 16.02.2006 - Immer mehr Unternehmen möchten biometrische Systeme ohne Ausweise einsetzen. Denn werden Mitarbeiter beispielsweise über ihre Finger identifiziert, braucht man keinerlei Ausweis-verwaltung. Aufgrund seiner Projekterfahrungen hat Kaba Benzing nun ein neues Biometriemodul entwickelt, das in die verschiedensten Terminals integriert werden kann und einen noch optimierteren Bedienablauf bietet. Diese Lösung wird auf der CeBIT 2006 erstmals vorgestellt.
Francais
HP iPaq hx2790
Inutile de chercher des fonctions inédites dans l'iPaq hx2790. Cet assistant personnel, signé HP, à l’exception d’un lecteur d’empreintes digitales, se contente certes de l’essentiel mais fait preuve de fiabilité.
Les députés britanniques adoptent la carte d'identité
LONDRES - La chambre des Communes s'est prononcée lundi soir pour la création en Grande-Bretagne d'une carte nationale d'identité.
Cette mesure, révolutionnaire dans un pays où la population ne possède qu'un seul document d'identité, le passeport, a été approuvée par 310 voix contre 279.
Ce projet, qui a fait couler beaucoup d'encre, avait été approuvé en première lecture par les députés en octobre avant d'être bloqué par les pairs de la chambre des Lords.
Libération
Date: 2006-02-16 |
Nederlands
BioXS lanceert de next-gen secured USB Memory Stick
BioXS lanceert de Stealth MXP.
"De Stealth MXP is de meest geavanceerde USB Memory Drive op de markt", aldus Reinier van der Drift, Directeur van BioXS International BV. "Wij zijn blij dat wij onze gebruikers nu eindelijk deze security kunnen bieden".
"Met de komst van de Stealth MXP kunnen wij voldoen aan de vraag van onze klanten naar een driverless versie van de vermaarde ClipDrive produkt familie".
BioXS International BV
Date: 2006-02-13 |
Sprekende geldautomaat voor indianen
Indianen kunnen in Bolivia geld pinnen uit geldautomaten die praten. Vingerafdruk geldt als pincode.
AMSTERDAM - Voor tienduizenden analfabete inheemse Bolivianen zijn de sprekende geldautomaten de eerste vorm van kennismaking met een bank, zegt investment officer Robert Bierens van de Nederlandse Financieringsmaatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden. FMO steunt het project, dat na een grondige evaluatie van enkele pilots nu op landelijke schaal wordt ingevoerd. Prodem PFF, een grote Boliviaanse instelling voor microfinanciering, waarin FMO $ 5 mln heeft geïnvesteerd, biedt de nieuwe financiële diensten aan. Met een vingerafdruk, die als pincode functioneert, kunnen veelal ongeletterde bevolkingsgroepen als de Aymará en Quechua, zich legitimeren en geld uit de muur halen.
Blair wint stemming over identiteitskaarten
LONDEN - Het Britse Lagerhuis heeft maandag ingestemd met de invoering van een nationale identiteitskaart. De stemming, waarin 310 parlementariërs voorstemden en 279 tegen, betekent een opsteker voor premier Blair, die de afgelopen maanden juist belangrijke stemmingen in het Lagerhuis over nieuwe wetgeving verloor.
Het Hogerhuis moet nog instemmen met de herinvoering van de identiteitskaarten. Het Verenigd Koninkrijk kende tot nu toe slechts tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog en de jaren erna identiteitskaarten. Blair wil de ID-cards, die worden voorzien van vingerafdrukken en andere biometrische kenmerken, inzetten in de strijd tegen terrorisme en georganiseerde misdaad.
Telegraaf
Date: 2006-02-13 |
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