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Commercial Applications

Biometrics are used in retail and customer-facing settings for point-of-sales services such as payments, access control in systems for purposes such as shoplifting prevention, and identification or characteristic analysis for personalization or customer insights. Access control systems are also increasingly used for automated commercial applications, such as hotel check-ins. Typically, these use palm vein, fingerprint, iris recognition, facial recognition.

 

Bill Gates talks biometric identification, banking for emerging countries

Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, recently said his foundation was ready to partner with the…

 

Barclays using biometric technologies to “completely automate” branch operations

Ashok Vaswani, CEO of retail and business banking at Barclays, said the British bank is currently developing new ways to…

 

New Frontier Group to integrate BehavioSec’s behavioral authentication solution in online banking

New Frontier Group and BehavioSec announced they have partnered to integrate BehavioSec’s Behavioral Authentication into New Frontier Group’s online banking…

 

Top biometrics news stories, week ending October 5

Here’s a recap of most popular and noteworthy biometrics industry news that appeared on BiometricUpdate.com this past week. Biometrics Week…

 

Tangerine adds Nuance virtual assistant, biometrics to mobile banking app in Canada

Nuance Communications has teamed up with Canadian bank Tangerine to launch a new banking app that includes voice banking, a…

 

Fujitsu to demonstrate PalmSecure biometric solution at gaming conference

Fujitsu Frontech North America announced it will be demonstrating PalmSecure biometric solutions, along with currency handling technology and RFID solutions…

 

Identify Security Software demonstrates biometric authentication platform

Identify Security Software announced it has released a new security authentication platform iDentifyME, which perpetually observes, records and updates the…

 

Identity management distributor IDtech360 launches operations

IDtech360 announced that it has formerly launched its biometric-based access and identity management operations. Offering the latest fingerprint, palm vein,…

 

Toyota to showcase research vehicle with custom biometric software

Toyota will showcase the latest generation Driver Awareness Research Vehicle, DARV1.5, at this week’s Meeting of the Minds 2014 summit…

 

EyeLock incorporates Sticky Password in to iris-based identity authentication solution

Iris-based identity authentication solutions provider EyeLock announced it has partnered with Sticky Password, integrating its myris device with Sticky Password’s…

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