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KFC Restaurants Across the U.S. Serve Up Loss Prevention With DigitalPersona Fingerprint Biometrics

2011-09-20 10:00:00

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- DigitalPersona, Inc., a global provider of authentication and endpoint protection solutions, today announced that many KFC restaurants owned by the chain's franchisees are improving their loss prevention programs with DigitalPersonaÂ® fingerprint biometrics. Two such KFC franchisees, West Quality Food Service, Inc. and KBP Foods, are using DigitalPersona U.are.UÂ® Fingerprint Readers, which are now available through the franchise's...

Genetic Defect Leaves Some Without Fingerprints

2011-09-19 04:15:03

Like DNA, fingerprints are unique to each person or set of identical twins. That makes them a valuable identification tool for everything from crime detection to international travel. But what happens when the tips of our fingers are missing those distinctive patterns of ridges? It's not the premise for a science fiction movie, but a real-life condition known as adermatoglyphia. It's also known as "Immigration Delay Disease," because affected individuals experience difficulty in...

Identascan Corporation, progress report.

2011-09-12 05:22:00

NEW YORK AND MONTREAL, Sept. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Identascan Corporation and partner-ICBS Ltd., (OTCPK: ICBTD),Â Â announce progress report. Identascan Corporation headed by Dr. Li Liu who is in the process of developing a computer program that will allow the identification of individuals by their body movements.Â "Each individual's body movement is as personal as their fingerprint", said Identascan's President Dr. Li Liu. Dr. Liu holds Post-doctoral Fellowships in...

Garden Fresh Says No to Restaurant Theft and Fraud With DigitalPersona Fingerprint Biometrics

2011-09-07 10:00:00

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- DigitalPersona, Inc., a global provider of authentication and endpoint protection solutions, today announced Garden Fresh Restaurant Corp. has rolled out DigitalPersonaÂ® U.are.UÂ® Fingerprint Biometrics in 122 Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes restaurant locations throughout 15 states. Garden Fresh deployed biometric fingerprint readers with the Volante Systems Point-of-Sale (POS) software to provide employees accountability and...

Children's Clinics Deploys Fingerprint Biometrics for Secure Access to Electronic Health Records

2011-08-23 07:00:00

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- DigitalPersona, Inc., a global provider of authentication and endpoint protection solutions, today announced Children's Clinics for Rehabilitative Services (Children's Clinics) has deployed DigitalPersonaÂ® Pro data protection and access security software and U.are.UÂ® Fingerprint Readers to enhance the rollout of its new electronic health records (EHR) system. Using fingerprint biometrics, Children's Clinics has eliminated the need...

National Institute of Justice Publishes Fingerprint Sourcebook

2011-08-18 12:00:00

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice (NIJ) today published The Fingerprint Sourcebook, a comprehensive examination of the science behind fingerprint identification that will serve as a definitive resource for experts in the field. Written by more than 50 law enforcement and forensic experts worldwide, The Fingerprint Sourcebook consists of 15 chapters covering: the anatomy and physiology of friction ridge skin (the...

Aware Awarded TSA Contract to Provide Biometric Services Platform for Fingerprint System

2011-08-08 15:02:00

BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Aware, Inc. (Nasdaq: AWRE), a global provider of imaging and biometrics software, today announced that it has won a competitive contract to provide the Transportation Security Administration ("TSA") of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security with a "COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) Fingerprints System" and associated installation support, training, and maintenance. The solution will utilize Aware's Biometric Services Platform (BioSP), a COTS,...

GTSI Wins Department of Defense Contract to Provide Biometric Automated Toolset Systems for U.S. Army

2011-08-05 06:58:00

HERNDON, Va., Aug. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- GTSI Corp. (NASDAQ: GTSI), a leading information technology systems integrator for federal, state and local governments, announced today the award of the Biometric Automated Toolset-Army (BAT-A) contract by the U.S. Army. This contract will provide war fighters mobile biometric devices to assist in real-time identification of persons of interest in the field. The contract has a total value of $159 million. The award covers a 16-month period and...

Mutation Linked With The Absence Of Fingerprints

2011-08-04 14:08:25

Scientists have identified a mutation that might underlie an extremely rare condition, called "adermatoglyphia," which causes people to be born without any fingerprints. The research, published by Cell Press online August 4th in The American Journal of Human Genetics, not only provides valuable insight into the genetic basis of adermatoglyphia and of typical fingerprint formation but also underscores the usefulness of rare genetic mutations as a tool for investigating unknown...

MegaMatcher and VeriFinger SDK Fingerprint Compression Algorithms Receive WSQ Certification from FBI Biometric Center of Excellence

2011-07-28 05:00:00

VILNIUS, Lithuania, July 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Neurotechnology, a provider of high-precision biometric identification technologies, today announced that MegaMatcher and VeriFinger SDK fingerprint compression algorithms have received WSQ Certification. This means that the FBI has certified that these implementations meet the accuracy requirements in the Wavelet Scalar Quantization (WSQ) Gray-Scale Fingerprint Image Compression Specification, Version 3.1. Neurotechnology is among the first...