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Orlando airport to spend $7 million on additional security measures
Faced with mounting criticism, aviation authorities only need three minutes to approve its biggest security overhaul since 9/11; baggage screening, vehicle inspection, and voice stress analysis under consideration
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Gait-recognition biometrics to assist other biometric measures
Biometric identification measures may be good, but imagine subjecting the 68 million passangers who pass through heathrow every year to the time-consuming facial or iris recogntion test; gait-recogntion may help
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DHS to test Crossmatch and Identix's ten-print scanners
Fifty of the devices will be deployed to airports nationwide to assist with US-VISIT; DHS also plans to tweak exit procedures
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Final costs set for TWIC
Transportation workers receive a $2 discount off earlier estimates
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New technique for locating fingerprints
Specially-engineered gold nanoparticles help locate hidden prints; the Secret Service calls it “revolutionary”
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Michigan college offers biometric degree
Davenport University is the second in the country to offer such a program; southerners can take a try at West Virginia U.
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ClassifEye enters the European market
Israeli company, known for technology that permits fingerprint authentication via mobile phone, strikes a joint venture deal with Dymacon Business Solutions
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RFID market to hit $1.6 billion by 2011
Frost & Sullivan sees tremendous growth in the ePassport and micro-payment sectors; RF-RFID confusion remains a problem, however
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Photocopiers the latest identity theft risk
Newer models store images on hard drives; without proper encryption, a Kinkos employee could go to town
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Bundesdruckerei enters the European Citizen Card market
Multiformat offering comes after company shines at the Turin Olympics
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Third Eye introduces employee stress monitor
Designed for medical monitoring, wrist-mounted device detects suspicious behavior
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Canada orders 415 new Viisage readers
$2.8 million contract will bring the total number of ePassport readers to 815 nationwide, making the Canadian program the single largest deployment of its kind
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Digimarc signs Mozambique driver's licence deal
Deal just the latest African success for the digital watermarking company; Digimarc releases earnings report
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Honeywell to license ImageWare for HSPD-12 efforts
Three-year, royalty-based licensing agreement follows on previous successes between the two companies
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Smartrac sets RFID inlay production record
Dutch company manufactured 11 million smart card inlays in February
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