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  • Datastrip's award-winning card reader wins GAO approval

    Handheld identity verification terminals certified as FIPS-201 compliant; system is the first single fingerprint device to be so honored; mobile system designed to create ad-hoc checkpoints beyond hardwired areas

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  • REAL-ID roll-out to be delayed

    DHS offers states a reprieve by reinterpreting May 2008 deadline; states now expected to begin program at that date, but waivers will be given; late 2009 the new start date

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  • DHS abandons RFID for US-VISIT exit tracking

    Tests at land border crossings found the technology unreliable; RFID tags were embedded in government forms; Smart Card Alliance applauds

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  • State legislators offer REAL-ID Web site

    Intended to drum up opposition to the bill, site includes a searchable database of action at the state level, links to critical studies, an archive of related news stories, and a countdown clock

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  • Duke students invent "wisdom door"

    System uses nine sensors to measure height, weight, and girth; passing through the door can activate any number of responses, including home entertainment preferences; tandem use with RFID envisioned

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  • L-1 reports strong quarterly earnings

    Fourth quarter revenue increases $61 million due to acquisition spree; company reports $164 million annual earnings; strong passport market provides an extra boost

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  • L-1 wins $2.5 million contract with Texas Dept. of Public Safety

    Company to install 100 booking stations using Identix technology; deal a perfect example of L-1’s growth through acquisition strategy

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  • Fujitsu rolls out PalmSecure vein identification at L.A. hospitals

    Hospitals continue to be a lucrative market for biometric technologies; vein-based systems ideal due to hygenic considerations; Softex provides the software under a previously announced agreement

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  • Munich airport deploys license plate recognition system

    GeoVision wins the conract to improve the airport’s parking control system; license plates are scanned on entrance and exit, thereby obviating the need for tickets and cutting down on personnel; frequent fliers rejoice

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  • SAFE ID closes €10 million second round of financing

    Passport personalization company looks to expand its ePassport business, move into other industries; Atlas Ventures and Wellington Partners, as well as the National Innovation Fund of Kazakhstan, put up the cash; deal follows CCR Logistics Systems’s equity purchase

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  • BIO-Key selected for Oklahoma HMO access control

    Company teams up with NextGenID to update identification systems at fifteen medical facilities; deal follows failure to aquire ComnetiX; a good year behind it, BIO-Key is poised for 2007

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  • Northrop Grumman takes on the biometrics market

    With worldwide government spending set to reach $2 billion, it is little wonder that Northrop wants a taste; company opened the Center for Smart Study Solutions in 2003, but its greatest successes have come from a $357 million USCIS award to provide biometric services in support of U.S. citizenship applications and green card renewals

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  • "Whole face" software to improve composite sketches of criminals

    Iowa State researchers show that allowing the witness to dictate the drawing rarely leads to success, even when using software; new approach presents witnesses with a random selection of faces; through process of elimination, a more accurate rendering is created

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  • Sagem Défense Sécurité to manage Bahrain's biometric immigration system

    French company will fingerprint foreign workers upon arrival; residency and work permit to be contained within a single card; Middle Eastern biometrics market booms as countries look for ways to manage borders and keep track of foreign laborers

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  • Bioscrypt moves U.S. operations to Canada

    The biometrics market is growing, but this does not mean that cost-cutting and belt-tightening measures do not get applied, and Bioscrypt — a company describing itself as providing door-to-desktop solutions — is going through such belt-tightening now

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