All Turkish Citizens Must Obtain Biometric Passports by End of Year
Turkish authorities are finally ready to start issuing biometric passports to citizens. The plan was initially to issue them alongside new biometric ID cards,…
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FIDO Celebrates Money20/20 Success
The FIDO Alliance is celebrating what it calls “a busy (and productive!) four days” at last week’s Money20/20 conference in a new blog post. For the…
IDEX Shipping Eagle Sensors to BIO-key, Other Clients
IDEX has started shipping its Eagle fingerprint sensors to three clients. In a statement announcing the shipments, the company said the polymer sensors had…
Zwipe Establishes Joint Venture With Hi-Tech Investment Group
Norway-based fingerprint biometrics company Zwipe has announced a new joint venture with China’s Kuang-Chi Group. Kuang-Chi is a Shenzhen-based consortium that…
News Roundup: Biometrics and Identity at Money20/20
Last week we were in Las Vegas for Money20/20, where biometrics were bigger than ever before. As such, FinTech was the name of the game last week, but it…
Samsung Electronics Addresses Note7 Recall In Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders
Samsung Electronics is looking to get back on track after its Galaxy Note7 fiasco. In addition to other business developments concerning a spinoff of its…
IDEX Announces Another Design Win For Cardinal Fingerprint Sensor
“While IDEX has not named the client in question, it says it’s a repeat client with which IDEX won multiple design wins this past summer.” IDEX has announced…
New Overtime Legislation Calls for Biometric Tracking: BioConnect
New federal legislation that will render millions of American workers eligible for overtime pay is prompting BioConnect to point out the advantages of…
Google Weighs In On Hanks/Murray Photo With Facial Recognition
Google may have settled a longstanding debate about whether it’s Bill Murray or Tom Hanks featured in a popular Facebook post. The photo was uploaded to a…
Samsung Patent Links Swipe Scan to App Access
Samsung may be planning to integrate fingerprint scanning more deeply into the user interface of its next smartphone, a newly published patent filing suggests.…