the study of measurable biological characteristics, or, in computer security, authentication techniques that use characteristics such as speech, fingerprints, or scans of the human eye
Wiktionary Definition for: Biometrics
The measurement of biological data
The measurement and recording of the physical characteristics of an individual for use in subsequent personal identification.
Among the many reactions to the September 11 tragedy has been a renewed attention to biometrics. The federal government has led the way with its new concern about border control. Other proposals include the use of biometrics with ID cards and in airports, e.g. video surveillance enhanced by facial-recognition technology....
NAPERVILLE, Ill. -- US Biometrics Corporation has been awarded a second GSA contract for the Government's newly developed "Authentication and Services" category. This places U.S. Biometrics in an elite group of GSA contractors for a category that was not offered prior to last year. There are currently only eight contract...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y. -- On September 10, 2001, biometrics-based security systems were barely more than a gleam in their designers' eyes. The three years since then have changed all that. And now, biometrics is poised for explosive consumer market growth for network security and mobile commerce.
Precise Biometrics AB (publ.) has been selected as the overall supplier to Scandinavian Airlines as it becomes the first airline to introduce biometric security checks on domestic flights in Sweden. To guarantee that the person handing the baggage really is the same person boarding the plane, Scandinavian Airlines will be...
Precise Biometrics AB publ, which develops and sells world-leading and user-friendly biometric security solutions based on fingerprints and smart cards, has trough a local distributor - Rotronics AG in Switzerland - won a follow-up order for fingerprint logon in computer systems. Precise Biometrics will be supplying the keyboard Precise 100...
Biometrics is a high tech word for an old concept: how they go about recognizing one another. Biometric authentication uses automated methods based on physical characteristics or behavioral traits for human recognition. Examples of biometrics include iris and retina scanning, digitized fingerprints, hand geometry and speaker recognition. Biometric authentication offers...
Molecular Biometrics, LLC, a privately held metabolomics company, today announced the opening of a research and development facility in Montreal, Quebec. Molecular Biometrics Canada, ULC, will operate and manage the facility.
This spring Precise Biometrics won the procurement for a biometric solution for the Portuguese ID card, and now a follow-up order linked to the project has been received from its partner Zetes Burótica. 1,400 units of Precise Biometrics' fingerprint reader Precise 250 MC will be delivered by the end of...
Sequiam Biometrics, a subsidiary of Sequiam Corporation (OTCBB: SQUM), a leading provider of innovative consumer lifestyle biometric technologies and services, will be an exhibitor at the 2007 Biometrics Technology Expo in conjunction with the 2007 Biometric Consortium Conference to be held at the Baltimore Convention Center from September 11th thru...
The Army is having an identity crisis, and it affects both its wartime and peacetime operations. Simply put, the Army needs to ensure that the right people, and only the right people-can get access to its information systems, its weapons, and its many databases that serve the Army community. Biometrics-that...
BLUE BELL, Pa. -- Nearly 70 percent of consumers worldwide support using biometrics technologies such as fingerprints or voice recognition administered by a trusted organization (e.g., a bank, healthcare provider or government organization) as a way to verify an individual's identity, according to new global research from Unisys Corporation (NYSE:UIS).
- Microsoft's New Point of Service for .NET is First Platform to Provide Plug and Play Support Fingerprint Biometrics Based on AuthenTec's TruePrint[R] Technology -
FRESNO, CALIF. -- Customers at a McDonald's restaurant here reportedly are paying for their orders by placing a finger in a small scanner used as part of a biometrics-based transaction system. The Fresno Bee, a local newspaper that featured the system, said the technology uses stored information about fingerprints to...
Precise Biometrics AB publ, a Swedish company that develops and sells world leading and user friendly biometric security solutions based on fingerprints and smart cards, has for the first time won a procurement regarding passports with Match-on-Card with fingerprint biometrics. The order was received via the partner Worldwide Trust. The...
Guests from Seagate and Zvetco Biometrics will appear on radio talk show "Let's Talk Computers." Seagate (NYSE: STX) is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacturing and marketing of hard disc drives, providing products for a wide-range of Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, and Consumer Electronics applications. Founded in...
At Precise Biometrics' Annual General Meeting, which was held today on April 27, it was inter alia resolved to amend the Articles of Association in order to combine class A and B shares to form one class of shares. In addition, the proposal of the board to authorize the board...
Precise Biometrics AB (publ.), that develops and sells world- leading and user-friendly biometric security solutions based on fingerprint and smart cards, received follow-up order from the US Department of State, worth MSEK 2.3 in total. The procurement is the result of the expansion of the Department of States program aimed...
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