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PICS Smartcard signs deal to distribute Orcanthus fingerprint readers

Thursday, July 7, 2011

PICS Smartcard, a provider of smart card, biometric and single sign-on solutions, has announced it has signed an agreement with Orcanthus France to distribute its fingerprint readers to Canada with additional distribution rights for the U.S.

The line of fingerprint readers PICS will be distributing to its clientele were developed by id3 Semiconductors and tested at the top of the NIST MINEX tests with the lowest error rate out of twenty similar products. [end] 

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