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To: yossarian67 who wrote (61767)	1/13/2000 9:15:00 AM
From: Mr. Big	Respond to of 108040

VISG looks like a runner (small float and BIG news yesterday) Viisage face id technology to be used in casinos LITTLETON, Mass., Jan 12 (Reuters) - Electronic commerce security company Viisage Technology Inc. (NasdaqNM:VISG - news) on Wednesday said it began a pilot program installing its facial recognition technology at new financial cashier machines located in casinos. The three-month test, which began last month, calls for Viisage to incorporate its facial recognition technology into a dozen machines of Global Cash Access, an alliance of Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:BAC - news), USA Processing and First Data Corp. (NYSE:FDC - news) The machines can provide services that go beyond cash dispensing. The new financial machines can cash checks, process wire transfers and handle other financial transactions. If the pilot using the technology, which can recognize a customer's face, is successful, it could be installed in the 1,000 Global Cash Access currently manages in casinos and be worth ''in the millions'', said Tom Colatosti, Viisage chief executive. Shares of Viisage closed up 2-7/16, to 10 on the Nasdaq Wednesday and was trading at 11-5/8 in after hours trading. The cashier machines are soon expected to appear in other retail and banking sites. Global Cash Access designed and manages the machines, which Diebold Inc. (NYSE:DBD - news), one of the largest makers of automatic teller machines, manufactures. The machines use software made by Infonox, an Internet company headquartered in Silicon Valley that develops Internet appliances.