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L-1 receives additional order from U.S. government

Friday, July 2, 2010

L-1 Identity Solutions has announced an existing U.S. government customer has expanded its order for additional licenses for L-1’s Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS). Officials from L-1 believe the order for additional licenses shows the faith their customers have in L-1’s ABIS solution being integral to improving national security. [end] 

GTX Corp announced that it has received its second commercial order from comfort and wellness footwear provider Aetrex Worldwide Inc. for 1,500 GPS devices.

GTX has shipped 3,000 devices to Aetrex to enable the Aetrex Ambulator collection, designed to help protect individuals afflicted with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia who have a tendency to wander and become lost.

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Suprema announced that its RealScan-G10 and RealScan-10 line of fingerprint scanners have received final certification from the Government of India’s Standardization Testing & Quality Certification (STQC) to be part of the country’s Unique ID (UID) project.

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Identive Group has shipped an additional 122,000 smart card readers to support Spain’s national electronic ID card program which the government launched in 2009. More than half of Spain’s 46 million citizens now carry the ID cards.

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Prisoners at Tihar prisons, located near New Delhi, India, will now be using smart cards instead of paper coupons for their food purchases.

As reported by The Economic Times, the former system of paper food coupons led to misuse and illegal activity within the jail. Some prisoners would use it for currency in order to get banned substances or buy favors from others.

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Precise Biometrics has developed a new line of “smart cases” for brands of tablets and smart phones to be released in 2012 and 2013. The new smart cases have built-in card reader and fingerprint sensor enabling users to both secure their devices as well as replace various password-based security for protected online sites and applications.

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Morpho announced that the Botswana Police Service (BPS) has signed an agreement that will see Morpho providing two more years of maintenance and support for the agency’s automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS).

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