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Pacific Biometrics announces new COO

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Pacific Biometrics has announced the appointment of Michael Murphy as its new chief operating officer. Murphy brings a number of years prior to his experience at Pacific in the field of laboratory and health care research center management. Murphy previously was senior vice president of operations at the company. [end] 

Lieberman Software Corp. has partnered with Aquion to resell the Lieberman’s identity management and security management products.

Aquion was chosen as a partner to target the Asia Pacific region, most specifically Australia, New Zealand and India. Recently Lieberman has noticed a demand for privileged account password management technology in that region which is why they called upon the Asia-Pacific supplier Aquion to expose and support their products.

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RNCOS, a consulting firm, has announced it expects the financial sector to be a potential driver of biometric technology adoption in the global market.

The reposts stated that biometrics will be used to fight fraud the the industry will see a compound annual growth rate of 18% for the global biometrics market through 2012.

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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.

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SmartMetric, a developer of portable biometric solutions, has announced that its biometric activated data card can now be used to contain full medical history and health records on the individual. The card, called the SmartMetric Data Card, is a standard sized card that has the capability of holding multiple pages of data as well as being inaccessible without the holder first scanning his fingerprint on the card itself.

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Biometric Signature ID (BSI) announced positive results from a study of their software-only approach to biometric authentication for students using PCs. The new solution utilizes gesture biometrics via a user’s mouse and is envisioned to provide distance-learning students a more effective and secure means of accessing personal student files, discussion groups and other private areas of school networks.

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The Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a science, engineering and technology company, has announced the winner of their self-sponsored Biometric Research Competition hosted by the University of Kent in the UK and the UK Biometrics Institute.

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