Apricorn, a developer of personal data storage technology, has announced the availability of new larger storage capacity offerings from their Aegis Bio line of biometric hard drives. The original Aegis Bio offerings had a storage ceiling of 250 GB, however the new offerings add on a 320 GB, 500GB and a 640 GB drive to the line of offerings.

The Palos Heights School District 128 in Chicago is using GPS technology to track its students allowing the district to keep up with the student–when he or she first entered the school bus and when the student exited the district’s care.

Automated Valet has released a valet operating system that includes a biometric time and attendance feature. The system, called AVPM, marks a potential change in the valet industry wherein hours worked may be more accurately tracked as compared to the multitude of traditional hour tracking systems valets normally use including manual reporting.

India’s Social Welfare Department has implemented the Beggars Personal Management System to track beggars using biometrics. This effort is to fight recent large-scale deaths and mismanagement within colonies, according to a Deccan Herald article.