News Roundup: A Multimodal Biometric Landscape
Last week at FindBiometrics, mobile iris biometrics took the spotlight with the launch of Samsung’s latest flagship smartphone as fingerprints made major…
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Google Solicits Scots for Better Speech Recognition
Google is trying to better understand Scottish speech. The company recently posted a request for Scots to record a series of phrases that it will use to…
Malware Designed to Mimic Behavioral Biometrics
A new piece of malware is designed to overcome the behavioral biometrics technology that is increasingly popular among financial services organizations,…
SIMs Disconnected for Saudis Who Have Not Registered Biometrics
Saudi Arabia’s Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) has gone ahead and disconnected the mobile subscribers who haven’t registered their…
Biometric Payment Card Vendors ‘Well Positioned’ for Next Phase of Market: ABI
Chip card vendors need to embrace new technologies to beat the EMV market slump, according to a new report from ABI Research. While the global transition to…
Integrated Biometrics Reports Growing Interest in Biometric Tech
“The interest on these various fronts is indicative of the growth underway in the biometrics industry…” Integrated Biometrics is seeing rising interest in its…
Malaysia to Thailand: Biometric Data Sharing Key to Dual Citizenship Efforts
Officials in Malaysia and Thailand are working on a plan to allow dual citizenship, but biometric data is a key issue to be resolved, reports Malay Mail…
Daon to Showcase IdentityX at FinovateFall 2016
Daon has been invited to show off its IdentityX Platform at next month’s FinovateFall 2016 event. IdentityX is Daon’s flagship biometric authentication…
Iris Scanning on Galaxy Note7 Enabled By Qualcomm Haven
The iris scanning functionality on the new Samsung Galaxy Note7 is enabled in part by Qualcomm Haven. Qualcomm technology is playing a key role in Samsung’s…
Biometric Attendance Tracking to Improve Patient Services at Pakistan Hospital
Pakistan’s Safwat Ghayur Shaheed Memorial Children Hospital, at Haji Camp in Peshawar, now has a biometric attendance tracking system for staff. The system was…