Apple partners with Visa, Mastercard and American Express for iPhone wallet
Apple is partnering with credit card companies, financial institutions and retailers to enable iPhone users to make secured mobile payments,…
Fingerprint Recognition
Fingerprints are one of many biometric modalities used to identify individuals and verify their identity, and are widely used in government systems and mobile devices. Find fingerprint recognition solutions here.
Synaptics acquisition of Validity fingerprint ID pays off
Synaptics’ acquisition of fingerprint identification firm Validity last November is quickly paying off, with shares of Synaptics doubling in the…
Kenyan government introduces biometric register to eliminate ghost workers from payroll
The Kenyan government has implemented a new initiative that makes it mandatory for all civil servants to have their biometrics…
Alipay, Huawei to introduce biometric security to mobile payments
Chinese online payment company Alipay has partnered with Huawei to use the fingerprint sensor in Huawei’s new Ascend Mate 7…
Nigeria to issue national Mastercard-branded biometric ID cards
Nigerian Identity Management Commission (NIMC) announced it has launched the eID pilot program, issuing MasterCard-branded identity cards with electronic payments…
More than 350K iris and fingerprint devices shipped a year in India: 6Wresearch report
6Wresearch announced it has a published a new report that shows that more than 350,000 iris and fingerprint units were…
ImageWare to provide retailer with multi-modal biometric identity management on Fujitsu cloud
ImageWare Systems announced it has signed a three-year contract with an undisclosed major international retailer to provide its multi-modal biometric…
Top biometrics news stories, week of August 31
Here’s a recap of most popular and noteworthy biometrics industry news that appeared on BiometricUpdate.com this past week. Biometrics Week…
Innovatrics receives top ranking in NIST fingerprint software evaluations
Innovatrics announced that its biometric fingerprint algorithms scored high at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Proprietary Fingerprint Template…
FBI updates legislators on new biometric technologies developing in Clarksburg
FBI officials briefed Virginia state legislators with the Joint Committee on Technology this week at the FBI Center in Harrison…
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