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Safe Child Chat Room Creators Seek Ties With Social Networking Sites

A company that focuses on making the web a safer place for children wants to build relationships with social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook.The company, safeTspace, creates social networking sites for children to chat safely.
Chris Hagenbuch is one of safeTspace’s three founders, along with Randy Herold and Andrew Razumovsky.
All three are parents who […]

Telisma and PerSay Partner to Combine the Power of Speech Recognition and Voice Biometrics

Telisma, a leader in network speech recognition technology, announces a partnership with PerSay, the leading provider of advanced voice biometric solutions that integrates offerings from the two companies to provide more comprehensive voice solutions for customers.Voice biometric technologies take advantage of the fact that each person’s voice is a unique and unobtrusive identifier, like a […]

L-1 Identity Solutions modernize Panama’s National and Voter Registration ID system

L-1 Identity Solutions extends their relationship with the Tribunal Electoral de Panama to upgrade the country’s multi-purpose National ID system which also serves as Panama’s voter registration system and help Panama prepare for the 2009 Presidential elections. Under the terms of the $3.7 million contract, L-1 will deliver a complete multi-biometric solution that includes new […]

South Africa to get Smart IDs

South Africans should start seeing the new smart ID card by the end of 2009, as the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) reviews all its IT projects, director-general Mavuso Msimang says.
Speaking at a parliamentary media briefing yesterday, Msimang said the smart ID card system was being developed because the current green ID document had proven […]

ISO Promotes Biometric Standard for Financial Firms

With the aim of boosting security in the financial services industry, ISO, the world’s largest developer of international standards, has issued a new biometric standard for financial firms.

Biometrics include technologies such as voice identification —authenticating the identity of a person based on their voice —as well as fingerprinting, iris scanning and facial recognition.
ISO said the […]