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Shelby Systems taps M2SYS for biometric offering

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

M2SYS, a biometrics solutions developer, has announced it has been chosen by Shelby Systems, a provider of financial and membership software tools for churches and other faith-based organizations, to provide a biometric solution the organization can offer its customers.

The solution chosen is M2SYS’s Bio-Plugin software and M2-EasyScan fingerprint scanner.


One of the main purposes behind a biometric system at faith-based organizations revolves around tracking children in youth programs by having them check into a browser-based system using their fingerprints for authentication. [end] 

Retail Pro, a developer of retail operations management software, has announced it has struck a partnership with biometric technology developer M2SYS.

The partnership will enable biometric on Retail Pro’s RightPOS, a point-of-sale-based management system that handles register security among other management tasks. The inclusion of biometric authentication will increase accountability of employees using the system, improve the audit trail and further strengthen the security by doing away with often forgotten passwords or PINs.  

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M2SYS has announced it will be conducting the first Tweet on the social media site Twitter bringing in the new hashtag #biometricchat in an effort to increase open dialogue about the technology on the popular platform on Oct. 6 from 11am to 12pm EST.

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M2SYS Technologies announced its RightPunch line of biometric time and attendance tracking solution, which had already been deployed to Cal Poly Pomona Foundation, has been deployed to the California State University, Fresno Association.

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Retail Pro International, a developer of retail industry management software solutions, has announced a partnership with biometric technology developer M2SYS.

The new partnership will see Retail Pro’s RightPOS solution, a point-of-sale-based solution for authenticating users of a register as they process transactions and for employee time and attendance, integrated with M2SYS’s Hybrid Biometric Platform. The partnership will enable any client using RightPOS to do away with employee passwords or PINs for authentication purposes.

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In an effort to increase the security of the current EMV chip and PIN, SmartMetric has created an EMV card enhanced with biometrics.

The SmartMetric Chip & Biometric EMV Card incorporates fingerprints to activate the card. It’s designed to increase the security of standard EMV chip and PIN cards, which SmartMetric claims are still vulnerable to fraud attacks, even though they are safer than a magnetic stripe card.

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With many states requiring voter ID cards, and if you’re a student, proof of enrollment, some colleges are offering students free cards that will enable them to vote.

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