Oct-15-08 Interview with Terry Wheeler, President and COO of Identica Holdings Corporation

About 20 months ago we teamed with Unisys Canada to deploy a biometric credentialing and access control database system (CACDS) utilizing Identica's hand VPR technology. With Identica's Vascular Pattern Scanners (VP-II) and HID iCLASS smart cards, the Port of Halifax will significantly strengthen its security and manage workforce access control.

Sep-19-08 Interview with James Lee, CEO, Suprema, Inc.

Suprema Inc. launched Korea’s first IPO in the biometric sector on July 11, 2008.

We are offering a full range of fingerprint-based products including fingerprint OEM modules, access controls, outdoor locks, time & attendance systems and software. In this area, we have launched innovative products with industry-leading features such as the world’s first biometric access control with full color LCD and Wi-Fi LAN.

Sep-15-08 Interview with Peter DiMaria, CEO Accu-Time Systems Inc.

Time and Attendance is managed very differently in Europe than it is in the United States. Greater flexibility is needed because labor requirements are handled differently in each country. In addition, the European market has updated design preferences and the need to support native languages with appropriate fonts.

Sep-10-08 Interview with Scott S. A. Coby, CEO Triad Biometrics LLC

TEAMS was designed to thwart identity fraud at the application level as well as provide an interoperable biometric authentication solution. The product eliminates the need to submit usernames and passwords in any TEAMS-enabled application. This attribute also provides a side benefit of eliminating the possibility of SQL injection from the client-side by elimination of the password field. As you know, that is often used as the point of entry for intruders or hackers.

Sep-05-08 Interview with Lewis Levey, President and CEO, Computime, Inc.

The core Topaz technology is in the capture, binding and verification of a handwritten signature with forensic qualities in the context of any electronic form, document or receipt. This includes both a robust SDK (Sig Plus) that enables rapid application development and the most diverse number of signature pads that yield multiple choices. The software and hardware have numerous patents and patents pending.

The software SDK includes sample code in Active X, JAVA Bean, .Net, and C Library formats (all cross-compatible) with numerous examples, plug in’s and tools.

Aug-30-08 Interview with Rod Heitmeyer, ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization)

Standardization is essential to the global interoperability of MRTDs. It allows all countries passports and other travel documents to be examined and their integrity established by both visual examination and machine reading, including the checking of biometrics with the new eMRTDs. It greatly facilitates checking the identity and nationality of the person presenting the document, improves the quality of facilitation by speeding up inspection, and enhances the level of enforcement and security. The high level of technology incorporated in the MRTD standards has steadily improved the level of security offered. This is particularly evident in the new biometric ePassport.

Aug-20-08 Interview with Barry L. Hodge, President and CEO, SecurLinx Corporation

At the BCC Conference this year, we will formally introduce a commercial offering for managing check cashing transactions. The product has been tentatively branded as IDTrac and will offer customers the ability to link a financial transaction to a photo ID. Should the transaction subsequently involve insufficient funds or suspected fraud, the user will have the ability to flag the photo and utilize facial recognition to detect a second attempt to present a check.

Aug-15-08 Interview with Chuck Wilson, Deputy General Manager, Hitachi Security Solutions Group, Hitachi America, Ltd.

[Hitachi] assists organizations in integrating new technologies such as smart cards, radio frequency identification (RFID) and vein pattern biometrics into their business processes as customized solutions…Japanese bank branches have successfully implemented Hitachi’s finger vein technology, representing over 26,548 ATMs nationwide.

Another implementation … at the Tokyo Motor Show, where the driver presents his finger to the reader embeddedon a steering wheel to start the car’s engine.

Aug-10-08 Interview with Grant Wickes, V.P. of Marketing, Wasp Barcode Technologies

we have a broad product line for inventory, asset tracking, POS and "Time in Attendance" and Biometric is 90% of our sales in the "WASP Time and Attendance" segment is through Biometric clocks. Sometimes the cards are used by heavier manufacturing companies that want the cards because of the dirt or if there are metal filings running through the air or just really dirty hands. People in this case prefer the cards. Right now biometric continues to rapidly grow. Biometrics are well received. To your point earlier, very few people recognize that for $1000.00 you can get terrifically good Biometric Clock & Time & Attendance software and we have case studies that show that the biometric solution pays for itself with customers in as little as 2-3 weeks.

Aug-01-08 Interview with John Atkinson, President, IdentiPHI

Biometrics used to be "Star Wars-like" or "Mission Impossible-like" technology, and people would see it as something futuristic that only secret three letter government agencies use. The most common form of biometrics, the fingerprint, has long been associated with the law enforcement community and because of that carries some negative perceptions. Today it is becoming something that people are utilizing on a daily basis for positive reasons. They see it on their work laptop, they see it more in environments they are going into, whether a grocery store or others. This exposure and use will help the industry out tremendously.

Jul-15-08 Interview with Juergen Pampus, V.P. Marketing, Cognitec

Video surveillance applications with face recognition really work well now and the demand is really growing fast. We are investing a lot of our resources into improving this type of application…not only the underlying technology but also the applications around Facial Recognition technology. We have our own complete systems as well now and have started to deploy them, and we are also investing into embedded hardware, intelligent cameras and so on. We think that this is a really important market for us.

Jun-30-08 Major General Md Shafiqul Islam, ndc, psc Military Secretary, Bangladesh Army and Mike DePasquale, CEO, BIO-key

If this model is followed where the Government agencies and the military assist with the organizational elements and the project is being undertaken not only for voter registration but also leveraging this effort for multiple uses, with the same biometric and biographical data also being available for drivers licenses, passport, or other administrative purposes, then this model would work well in any county and be successful within a limited period of time and with a reasonable cost.

We have been involved for the past year in a project in Bangladesh that will provide an opportunity for the country to hold a free and fair election i.e. one citizen – one vote. It is a monumental project because as we believe it today it is one of the largest Biometric deployments in the world.

Jun-20-08 John Che, CEO, ZK Software Inc.

Recently, ZKSoftware and Lumidigm JDM (joint design manufactured) LA2000. The sensor in the LA2000 is also used for Disney Hong Kong and for Hong Kong Immigration Check Point. LA 2000 is a high security access control product which can be used for airport, bank, government and other industries. This product provides unsurpassed performance in any environment with all skin types; dry, dirty, aged, worn and ensures the world’s best protection from all types of fake finger attacks.

Jun-10-08 Jonathan Kim, CEO, Rehoboth Tech

Our challenge is to make the smallest iris authentication system combined with an affordable price.

Irikon SDK module can be integrated into portable devices such as Notebook PCs, PDAs, USB flash memory, portable hard drives, automobile keys, cellular phones and portable ID identification devices.

Irikon stand-alone door lock is the world’s first embedded iris door lock system and designed for residential and small office environments.

Jun-01-08 Rajasekhar Allada, Managing Director, Sybernautix Solutions Ltd.

Our main focus for the future is going to be on enterprise security solutions, like SyberID - Multi-biometric identification system and Facial Recognition, which has yet to reach its potential targets.

Apart from this, we are focusing on providing solutions integrating Biometric Technology with Automatic Number Plate Recognition processes. This is targeted for Government & Law Enforcement Agencies, Transportation & Aviation Security, Physical & Logical Access Control, Secure Video Surveillance and Civil Identity Protection.

May-30-08 Strong Growth for Biometrics in Financial Institutions Expected Globally

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May-20-08 Charles Koo, Chairman of LGE USA.

LG Electronics and Iridian Resolve their Licensing and Intellectual Property Dispute - We have been in discussions for some time to bring this to a win-win resolution. The time was right to move forward and bring technological innovation to market. Both parties recognize that a resolution is important, not only for LG and L-1 but also for the iris industry.

Mar-20-08 Peter Went, CEO, WCC

WCC brings a unique approach to identification with its ability to integrate and fuse not only biometrics but also biographic and contextual data. On top of that, we support latest developments in biometrics, where template extraction algorithms not only create a template out of an image, but also are able to extract features like gender, ethnicity, age etc. So we genuinely bring together all information about a person, both explicitly supplied and implicitly deduced, creating a holistic person profile.

Mar-10-08 David Benini, Director, Product Marketing, Aware Inc.

We have recently launched our fourth-generation service-oriented server product, our "Biometric Services Platform" (BioSP). It’s essentially a very smart, flexible, services-oriented biometric data router/processor that establishes connectivity with multiple systems, manages transport of biometric files between them, and performs advanced biometric image and data processing on-board.

Feb-20-08 Interview with Tom Grissen, CEO, Daon Inc.

As convergence becomes a reality, organizations want to be able to leverage their existing assets. Our products make that possible. DaonEngine operates with no preference for specific technology. Its deployment architecture is designed to use any algorithm, any device, any token or credential. It provides a uniform management structure across multiple identity mechanisms including biometrics (finger, face, and eye), smart cards, tokens, RFIDs, PINs and passwords. Within a solution, this flexibility allows an organization to add or change identity descriptors throughout a system lifecycle creating an environment for technology competition which helps keep long-term ownership costs down.