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Accu-Time Systems releases color touch version OPTIMUS

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Accu-Time Systems has released the Color Touch OPTIMUS, part of its global series product line representing next generation human resources solutions. Accu-Time Systems’ Online Personal Time Information Management Utility Station (OPTIMUS) latest addition is the color touch option.

The OPTIMUS works in a variety of applications, including manager functions, employee self-service, and card approval as well as bar code and biometrics. It supports all automatic identification technologies, including bar code, RFID, Proximity, Magnetic, and MIFARE as well as other contactless smart cards, and several biometric technologies. [end] 

Luxand announced release of a free, downloadable version of its Blink! facial recognition software. The software provides as a biometric-based login service Windows 7 and Windows Vista operating systems via a user’s regular webcam. In addition to authenticating the individual accessing the computer, Blink! also takes and records a still image of each person trying to access the computer to help prevent unauthorized access, and touts the ability to correctly recognize stored faces despite poor lighting conditions or basic changes in a user’s look such as glasses or hair cuts.  

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Hypercom Corporation has introduced its new L5000 product family of customer-facing, multipurpose, multimedia and multilane payment terminals.

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WinWare announced the launch of its battery-powered Accu-Drawer RFID modular drawer system used to manage tooling, spare parts or any indirect material at point-of-use in tightly controlled and foreign object debris critical environments.

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AOptix Technologies has announced the redesign of its InSight VM series of iris recognition systems. The redesign moved all the internal components of the system to align vertically leading to a slimmer version of the original system.

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