Consumer / Residential

News, interviews and editorials about consumer and residential biometric solutions and services.

SpeechPro and Voxeo Corporation ink partnership

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SpeechPro and Voxeo Corporation have announced a partnership to deliver SpeechPro’s VoiceKey Intelligent Voice Authentication solution to customers using Voxeo Interactive Voice Response services. VoiceKey is a speaker recognition platform which uses a fusion of text-dependent and independent voice biometrics deliverables with a flexible application platform. “It’s time we call a truce to the war between stronger and more complicated authentication methods and the consumer demand for a better customer experience,” Alexey Khitrov, President of SpeechPro USA said. “The partnership between SpeechPro

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Fingerprint Cards announces substantial new order for swipe sensors

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Fingerprint Cards (FPC) has announced that it has received another new order – this time for 455,000 units of its swipe sensor technology, for use in the Asian smartphone market. The order, to be delivered in early June 2013, comes less than two weeks after the company announced an additional volume of 275,000 units for Japanese smartphones, scheduled for launch in the second quarter of 2013. “The timing of this additional mass production order is somewhat earlier than previously expected

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Cisco report shows drivers open to biometrics for personalized car security

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Cisco has just published a new Customer Experience Report, which indicates that many drivers are warming up to the use of biometric systems in their cars. Specifically, the report indicates that 60% of consumers are willing to provide biometric information in return for personalized car security or car security. This latest Cisco study surveyed more than 1,500 consumers across 10 countries and examined consumer preferences of technology used when buying and driving a car. According to the company, consumers are eager to

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McAfee adds face and voice recognition to new security service

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McAfee has announced its LiveSafe service, a new product that the company says is the first unlimited cross-device security service to use cutting-edge facial and voice recognition security technology. A recent global survey conducted by McAfee has revealed that more than 40 percent of households own five or more Internet-enabled devices, which contributes significantly to a user’s risk of exposure to online threats. Specifically, the survey found that nearly 90 percent of consumers report owning more than one digital device,

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IDEX gets fingerprint sensor patent license with Apple and AuthenTec

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In 2007, IDEX was granted a license to certain key patents owned by UPEK Inc and they were later assigned to AuthenTec, acquired by Apple last year. Now, Apple and AuthenTec have verified IDEX’s licensing agreement through a notice of so-called “recordal” of the license to key patents in the field of fingerprint sensing, putting IDEX in an influential position. The license agreement has now been recorded by the United States Patent and Trademark Office sanctioning that IDEA maintains its

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Nuance and BYD team up for automotive voice recognition

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Nuance Communications and BYD, a domestic auto manufacturer in China have teamed up and introduced a new sedan, which leverages Nuance’s voice recognition technology. Named the Si-Rui, the new sedan was launched at the 2013 Shanghai Auto Show this month and allows users to control their in-car experience vocally. With command functions for the radio, TV and DVD player, media player and navigation system, the system does not appear to identify its users by voice. Though not necessarily a biometric system, it

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Fingerprint sensor could be causing delay in iPhone 5S production

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The next iPhone was set to be released this June, though it’s possible the device’s anticipated fingerprint sensor is causing a delay and will push that date deeper into the calendar year. According to a report in Reuters, a supply chain source in Taiwan said Apple had been trying to find a coating material that did not interfere with the fingerprint sensor, and that this effort could be holding up the entire process. It’s been widely expected that Apple will

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Strattec Security partners with Actuator Systems for biometric security

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Strattec Security Corporation has partnered with Actuator Systems to design and manufacture biometric security products. The newly-formed venture, known as “NextLock” aims to combine the scale of Strattec’s engineering and manufacturing with Actuator’s digital security technologies and non-automotive sales channels. “NextLock is an exciting initiative in our diversification strategy by growing access technology outside of our traditional automotive markets,” Frank Krejci, President & CEO of Strattec said. “Actuator’s technology further broadens our product line, enhances our electronics capabilities and may

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Fingerprint Cards announces flagship model smartphone design win, opens Shanghai office

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Fingerprint Cards (FPC) has announced yet another significant design win — this time its a flagship model design win for its swipe sensor technology from a Tier 1 smartphone manufacturer in China. In addition, the rapidly-expanding company has opened a regional office in Shanghai. Fingerprint Cards has been receiving a large amount of orders and design-wins as of late.  Reported yesterday, the company announced another smartphone design win from a smartphone manufacturer in China. As we’ve reported in BiometricUpdate.com, Fingerprint Cards

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Fingerprint Cards announces new Chinese design-win, joins FIDO Alliance

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Fingerprint Cards has joined the FIDO Alliance, and has also just won another smartphone design-win from a significant manufacturer in China. As we’ve reported in BiometricUpdate.com, Fingerprint Cards has announced several design-wins in China and Japan, as well as a third Asian country in the last 6 months. According to the company, this latest win is for a Qualcomm-based Android smartphone model from a Top 3 Chinese smartphone brand, which is set to be launched in the second half of

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