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

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April 10, 2013
Adam Vrankulj

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

Fingerprint Cards chosen by Chinese mobile phone manufacturer

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March 15, 2013
Adam Vrankulj

Fingerprint Cards has just announced that its FPC1080A swipe sensor has been selected by one of China’s mobile phone manufacturers with access to a well-known European mobile brand. The Chinese company is starting an Android Smartphone project this month and expects to release the first mobile phone models in the second half of 2013, both in China and internationally. According to the company, the first model will use MediaTek’s Quad Core 3G/HSPA Android platform, the MT 6789, which FPC has excellent

Eye tracking and gesture will control future mobile devices

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March 13, 2013
Rawlson King

Biometrics Research Group, Inc. expects that technologies that track eye and gesture movements will play a large role in future mobile applications and devices. According to a recent New York Times report, the newest smartphone from Samsung will have an eye-tracking feature that will allow its users to scroll down a page without having to touch the screen. While Samsung has not revealed any details about the the technology it will be using, the firm has filed a trademark in the

USPTO awards Google patent for face recognition unlock feature

March 13, 2013
Adam Vrankulj

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted Google a patent for its facial recognition unlock feature, already being used on many Android devices running newer versions of the mobile operating system. Reported in Patent Bolt, Google originally introduced its face unlock feature with the Galaxy Nexus and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. I’ve used this feature on my Android smartphone and tablet and though it is a convenient way to unlock your phone, and will be something I monitor

Fingerprint Cards receives massive order for area sensors

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March 11, 2013
Adam Vrankulj

Fingerprint Cards has received an order worth US $3.12 million (SEK 20 M) for its FPC1011F3 area sensor from its distributor in China and Taiwan. The distributor, Hardware & Software Technologies Co. Ltd (HST) has made the order and delivery is scheduled for the second half of 2013. “The timing of this order is in line with the most optimistic forecast we provided in the financial report for the fourth quarter of 2012 and it confirms our number one position in the

First NSTIC pilot goes live

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March 8, 2013
Adam Vrankulj

Daon, a provider of biometric identity management and authentication solutions has announced that the American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE), is the initial pilot participant to “go live” as part of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) initiative. As reported previously in BiometricUpdate.com, Daon was selected last year to lead the team to develop an “identity ecosystem” to protect users from cybercrimes. The system will allow individuals to validate their identities securely while doing sensitive transactions like

Next round of smartphones to incorporate biometrics

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March 6, 2013
Rawlson King

Biometrics Research Group, Inc. expects that biometrics will become integrated within a wide number of mobile devices in the near future. Integration will be driven by smartphone and tablet manufacturers such as Apple and Samsung Electronics, which we expect will add both fingerprint and gesture recognition functionality to their mobile devices within the next year. In January, at the Consumer Electronics Show, a Samsung Android phone was demonstrated which included a fingerprint sensor underneath its screen. Developed by Validity, a

AOptix and CACI land $3 million research contract from DoD

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February 13, 2013
Adam Vrankulj

AOptix has just landed a research contract from the U.S Defence Department (DoD) to examine its Smart Mobile Identity biometrics identification package and to eventually provide the department with a smartphone solution for scanning someone’s eyes, face, thumbs and voice. The contract, first reported in Wired.com’s Danger Room, is worth $3 million and AOptix will be working with CACI International on the project, which said to entail a hardware peripheral and an accompanying app. According to the company, its Smart

Biometric Research Note: Mobile devices to drive bank adoption of voice biometrics

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January 7, 2013
Rawlson King

Financial institutions have identified voice biometrics as one of the best means to secure its client accounts and financial information. Voice biometrics compares various characteristics drawn from a person’s voice such as inflection, pitch, dialect, among others, and matches that with data captured. For voice recognition to work it requires banks and other financial institutions to register their clients voice patterns and correlate them to personal data for incorporation into a database. Voice biometrics solutions allow customers to verify their