Brad
I was more worried about the value of my thousands of shares and options... for example:
German predicts the paradigm will really pop after this November, when the FBI will release Lockheed Martin's minutiae-extraction software into the public domain. “It'll be like phone-company deregulation. A lot of software companies will spring into AFIS.”
Sounded like they will lower the entry bar to new competition in this area with this and all of the new print taking chips coming out. Something like Carter Phone decision but who, now, has ever heard of Carter Phone?
I thought IDX was just one of several who makes Law Enforcement data capture stuff.... Here is the FBI's official list:
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The products listed are certified by the FBI as having been tested and found to be in compliance with the FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) Image Quality Specifications (IQS). The review of the test data was conducted by the Communications & Technology Branch, Criminal Justice Information Services Division. The certification process is not intended to endorse one product over a competitor's product but merely to certify that the product meets FBI standards and that, between two products that meet FBI standards, the FBI does not recommend one over the other.
LIVE-SCAN SYSTEMS:
Digital Biometrics, Incorporated--TenPrint live scan system Model 1133R-500 with IQS Option (Appendix G) Specifications
Digital Biometrics, Incorporated--TenPrint live scan system Model 1133S (Appendix G) Specifications
FingerMatrix, Incorporated--Check-Ten live scan Fingerprint Reader model 5G (Appendix G) Specifications
Identix, Incorporated--TouchPrint 600 (TP-600) live scan system (Appendix G) Specifications
Imaging Technologies, Incorporated--True ID live scan system (Appendix G) Specifications
Heimann Biometric Systems--LSI/P+ live scan system (Appendix G) Specifications
NEC Technologies, Incorporated--NEC-LS-21 live scan system (Appendix G) Specifications
Printrak International, Incorporated--LSS 2000 Live Scan Fingerprint Acquisition System (Appendix G) Specifications
FINGERPRINT CARD SCAN SYSTEMS:
Comnetix Corporation--card scan system based on the Hewlett Packard 4c scanner, 500ppi (Appendix G) Specifications
Comnetix Corporation--card scan system based on the Hewlett Packard 6100 C scanner, 500ppi (Appendix G) Specifications
DBA Systems, Incorporated--automatic card feed has met IQS, 500ppi (Appendix F) Specifications
DBA Systems, Incorporated--DBA Card Scanner, 500ppi (Appendix F) Specifications
IAFIS Program Office--IAFIS/UMAX PowerLook 2000 Fingerprint Card Scan System, 500ppi (Appendix F) Specifications
IAFIS Program Office--IDIS/UMAX PowerLook 2000 Fingerprint Card Scan System, 500ppi (Appendix F) Specifications
IBIS Corporation--IBIS Print Transmission System Card Scan System, 500ppi (Appendix G) Specifications
Identicator--Configuration of a UMAX UC-1260 scanner, 500ppi (Appendix G) Specifications
Improvision Research Corporation--Improvision model IS510/IS520 card scan system, 500ppi (Appendix G) Specifications
IISI, Ltd.--IISI Print Transmission System Card Scan System, 500ppi (Appendix G) Specifications
Mentalix, Incorporated--Mentalix/UMAX PowerLook 2000 Fingerprint Card Scan System, 500 ppi (Appendix F) Specifications
Mentalix, Incorporated--Mentalix/UMAX PowerLook 2000 Fingerprint Card Scan System , 1000 ppi (Appendix F) Specifications
NEC Technologies, Incorporated--NEC Card Scan System for the HP ScanJet 4, 500ppi (Appendix G) Specifications
NEC Technologies, Incorporated--NEC Card Scan System HP 4C scanner, 500ppi (Appendix F) Specifications
North American Morpho--Model K Image Acquisition workstation, 500ppi (Appendix F) Specifications
Printrak International, Incorporated--Card Scan System, 500ppi (Appendix G) Specifications
Printrak International, Incorporated--Printrak Input Station 2000F Card Scan System, 500ppi (Appendix F) Specifications
Printrak International, Incorporated--Printrak/UMAX 2000 Fingerprint Card Scan System, 500 ppi (Appendix F) Specifications
DBA Systems, Incorporated--DBA Fingerprint card scanner, ImagClear FC-500, 500ppi(Appendix F)
FINGERPRINT CARD PRINTERS (GREY SCALE):
Digital Biometrics, Incorporated--Printers 5601L AND 5701L
Identicator--Hewlett-Packard Laser Jet 4 printer with gray-scale card
Identix, Incorporated--TP-614L Fingerprint Lexmark Optra LXT printer (Appendix F)
Identix, Incorporated--TP-600 printer system (Hewlett-Packard Laser Jet IV, IV Plus, or IVsi modified with printer adapter card, co-processor & software
Identix, Incorporated--TP-614S Fingerprint Lexmark Optra S 1650 (Lenmark machine type 4059) printer (Appendix F)
Printrak International, Incorporated--LSS 2000 Fingerprint Printer
Aware, Incorporated--Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4000N printer Appendix F
Aware, Incorporated--LexMark Optra S 1620 printer Appendix F
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It just seems like the list of competitors is starting to grow faster and faster lately. Maybe I'm just paranoid.
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