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SecuGen releases combo authentication device

Thursday, March 18, 2010

SecuGen announced the release of the SecuGen iD-USB SC, a device that accepts and authenticates via fingerprints and smartcards. The reader connects to a computer via USB and is ready to use out of the box. While the smartcard reader in the device carries ISO 7816 & EMV2 2000 Level 1 compliance, SecuGen is intending to release an updated version of the id-USB SC with FIPS 201/PIV compliance in the future. [end] 

AuthenTec, a developer of biometric technologies, has announced the release of a consumer-level software suite for biometric security on PCs and netbooks. The suite, called TrueSuite PC, works with fingerprint biometrics and is designed to increase the ease of use, convenience and personalization when using fingerprint biometrics on a computer.

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Fujitsu Frontech North America, a supplier of biometric products and services, has announced that Missouri-based Bates County Memorial Hospital has successfully incorporated Fujitsu’s PalmSecure vascular scanner into their time and attendance tracking system.

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The U.S. government is helping prisons pay for the installation of iris scanning systems intended to hinder escape attempts such as the recent escape by a Baltimore inmate who simply talked his way out, according to a Security Info Watch article.

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Dynamic Card Solutions, an Englewood, Colo. instant card issuance provider for financial institutions, has launched a new contactless personalization platform—the CardWizard Perso-to-Go—that enables financial institutions to instantly personalize mobile devices, fobs and contactless stickers at the branch level for NFC payments.

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Wireless Dynamics has released a new accessory that turns an iPhone into an RFID/NFC reader with contactless payment capability.

With the iCarte, NFC and RFID tag information can be written and read and communicated to the iPhone or to any Computer with a USB port.

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Ideal Innovations, a developer of biometric solutions, has been awarded a contract valued at $30.5 million by the U.S. Army’s Biometric Task Force, according to a Washington Business Journal article.

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