IDEX reports slow quarter but expects volume shipments for biometric cards soon
Sales of IDEX fingerprint products came to a near-standstill in the second quarter, but the company anticipates volume orders of…
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Alcor Consulting to resell Enacomm’s AI-based voice banking solutions
Enacomm has reached a reseller agreement with VoIP related products and services provider Alcor Consulting to offer its voice biometrics…
Facial recognition feature in development for Google Assistant
A new Google Assistant feature called “Face Match” has been found in the code of the latest version of the…
Palm vein biometric technology from Imprivata to secure patient records at U.S. healthcare network
Missouri-based healthcare provider CoxHealth will deploy Imprivata’s PatientSecure palm vein biometric verification technology to ease the customer check-in process while…
Voice and speech recognition predicted to reach $6.9B by 2025 as Alexa-powered banking trials launch
The global market for voice and speech recognition technology is expected to vault from $1.1 billion in 2017 to $6.9…
Precise Biometrics announces first half results as focus shifts, new CEO takes over
Precise Biometrics has announced net sales for the remaining operation of SEK 18.7 million (US$2 million) in the second quarter…
Daon provides biometric onboarding for New Zealand government-backed mobile credential
New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) has integrated the IdentityX biometric platform from Daon to its RealMe Now app,…
Juniper Research predicts 146 billion digital records will be stolen by 2023
The number of digital records stolen by cybercriminals will increase by 175 percent from 12 billion in 2018 to 33…
SmartMetric reports biometric card manufacturing breakthrough
SmartMetric reports it has achieved a breakthrough in the battery technology powering its biometric credit and debit cards. The battery…
SureID and Inquiries Screening partner for fingerprinting service for government job applicants
Background screening solutions provider Inquiries Screening and fingerprinting services company SureID have formed a partnership to offer an end-to-end fingerprinting…
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