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23/04/07

Healthy future for smart cards


Worldwide shipments of smart cards to the government and healthcare sectors is set to grow by 56% this year, according to figures released by Eurosmart.

20/04/07

Gemalto notches up leading ePassport position


Keesing Journal of Documents & Identity has ranked Gemalto as the number one supplier of ePassport systems in its 2006-2007 annual report on the ePassport sector.

19/04/07

L-1 to support registered traveller scheme


L-1 Identity Solutions has signed an agreement potentially worth up to US$50 million with New York-based Verified Identity Pass.

18/04/07

eID going smoothly in Spain


Spanish eID card roll out progressing smoothly with more than 420,000 electronic ID cards launched

18/04/07

Oliver Revell joins SuperCom


Former associate deputy director of criminal investigations, counter-terrorism and counter intelligence at the FBI appointed to SuperCom’s Advisory Board.

17/04/07

25% sales growth for ID supplier


Digital Identification Solutions has seen growth across all its business units, according to its recently released results for 2006.

17/04/07

EU recommends ratification of seafarer convention


The EU has recommended that member states ratify an international convention permitting mariners to enter foreign countries provided they hold a Seafarer’s Identity Document (SID).

16/04/07

Frédéric Leclef becomes business chair of JCF


Gemalto’s Multimedia Product Line director has been elected as head of the Java Card Forum’s (JCF) Business Committee.

16/04/07

Probaris and ImageWare form partnership


Probaris and ImageWare Systems have formed a partnership that will provide Probaris with an enhanced biometric searching and matching platform to support HSPD-12.

13/04/07

Gemalto ID card works with old and new access systems


Gemalto announces a smart ID card for US federal employees and contractors; works with old and new access control systems

12/04/07

Dermalog scanner to register German fingerprints


Dermalog Identification Systems wins fingerprint scanner contract for German ePassports

12/04/07

Improved year for Cetis


Cetis ends business year with net profit of 947,254 euros, compared with a loss of 2.7 million euros in 2005

11/04/07

UK ID card procurement likely to start in June


UK’s biometric-based national ID card procurement is expected to commence in June

11/04/07

New Boston office for Collis and Aspects Tools


Collis and Aspects Tools have opened an office in Boston, Massachusetts to service the growing North American market.

10/04/07

Facial recognition technology enters new era


NIST study into facial recognition shows massive accuracy improvement. Technology now better than humans

4/04/07

US travellers show no interest in RT programmes


Vast majority of US travellers don’t plan to enrol in the country’s Registered Traveller program

3/04/07

Temporal S. launches EAC ePassport testing service


Temporal S. supports EAC rPassport roll out with new testing service

3/04/07

'One-stop-shop' ID document portal opens


Online Identity Document Security Library launched by SDW conference keynote speaker Janice Kephart

3/04/07

Three millionth German ePassport delivered


Bundesdruckerei has announced that it delivered the three millionth German ePassport this week

2/04/07

Full steam ahead for Macedonia ePassport


Macedonia’s ePassport system will kick off later this month when 30 registration offices hosting 45 ePassport data capturing and entry stations open their doors for business throughout the country.



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