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IDEMIA Renews Fingerprint Contract With State of Indiana

News Roundup: The Launch of Aadhaar Pay

Last week at FindBiometrics we continued to take a deep dive into the evolving world of connectivity and biometrics with our Mobile Biometrics Month 2017…

March 13, 2017

Fujitsu Deploys Improved Face and Palm Recognition Tech in Contactless Concept Store

Face Recognition Added to Galaxy S8 Biometric Arsenal

Samsung is planning to incorporate facial recognition into the forthcoming Galaxy S8 smartphone, reports The Korea Economic Daily. The feature will complement…

March 10, 2017

BIO-key Forms PortalGuard Distribution Agreement With Darksteel Technologies

FIDO Standards Could Complement Government’s Existing Digital Security Protocols

The FIDO Alliance is hoping that the Trump administration will heed its advice in a new white paper outlining how FIDO standards could complement existing…

March 10, 2017

Illuma Labs Secures $9M in Series A Funding to Enhance Voice Authentication and Combat Emerging Fraud Threats

Are Voice Recognition Based Payments The Next Step in FinTech Convenience?

PayPal may be looking into voice recognition to enable more digital commerce use cases in the near future, if a new post-MWC blog post offers any hints.…

March 10, 2017

Ireland Becomes 14th Apple Pay Country

Apple Pay has launched in Ireland, making it the 14th country in which Apple’s biometrically secured mPayment service is available. It arrived with the support…

March 10, 2017

IDEX Biometrics Targets Eastern Europe With E-Kart Partnership

Smart Card Alliance Re-Brand Reflects Paradigm Shift

The Smart Card Alliance has re-branded as the Secure Technology Alliance. In a statement announcing the change, the organization explains that it’s meant to…

March 10, 2017

Dramatic Growth Predicted for Iris Recognition Market: Tractica

The global iris recognition market is in for huge growth over the next several years, according to a new forecast from Tractica. The market research firm…

March 10, 2017

IBM Sets New Speech Recognition Record

IBM has broken an industry record with its speech recognition technology, reaching a word error rate of 5.5 percent. It’s a considerable accomplishment given…

March 9, 2017

Microsoft Lists FPC as Approved Windows Hello Technology Vendor

InvenSense-GF Partnership Produces Under-Glass Ultrasonic Sensor Solution

MEMS sensor technology developer InvenSense has teamed up with GlobalFoundries (GF) to develop ultrasonic fingerprint scanning technology for the mobile and…

March 9, 2017

Biometrics News - Qualcomm and BOE to Develop Biometric Finger-scanning Displays

Mobile Fingerprint Biometrics And Adaptation

It has been four years since Touch ID popularized fingerprint biometrics on mainstream smartphones and we are now close to seeing fingerprint sensor ubiquity…

March 9, 2017

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