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To: David who wrote (6393)	1/27/1998 2:34:00 PM
From: David	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26039

The latest from PC Week of January 12 . . . . Something here for everyone: NRID can be HAAPI that they seem to have a good pilot going with their SAF/CA product in Scott and White Memorial Hospital in Temple, Texas. Started in December for PC security with 14 stations, it's going well and anticipated to be put on a few thousand PCs at this 6,500 staff facility. However, the Keytronic sub-$100 inboard fingerscanner is not expected out for six to nine months. It will use the Veridicom chip. SGS-Thomson Microelectronics and Harris Semiconductor both displayed laptops with fingerscanners at a December biometric show, which will compete with Keytronics down the road. Various minor biometric activities going on at Boeing, Diebold (Visionics in the office; not taking off), Fidelity Investments, Mastercard (the Identicator stuff), Mayo Clinic (Florida, I assume NRID), Polaroid (also FaceIt). The Mastercard discussion was ambiguous. Left the impression that Identicator was it, but not specifically. They will go at their HQ to a 50-person security pass made out of smart cards with fingerprint biometrically encoded, as well as trying out several thousand customer smart cards this year. On IDX news: The Oracle tie-in demand was described as weak, but "picking up" -- some demand is there. The 5000 seat Australian deal has been in pilot for about two months. And (this is from another source) Fujitsu has begun selling Fingerscan access control devices in South Africa. That was more of a press release than announcement of actual sales.