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Gesture recognition and touchless sensing market to reach $23.55B by 2020: report

MarketsandMarkets has published a new report entitled “Gesture Recognition & Touchless Sensing Market by Technology (Touch-based & Touchless), Application (Consumer…

 

Speech recognition firm Uniphore secures new investment from IDG Ventures

Speech recognition solutions company Uniphore Software Systems received new investment from IDG Ventures. The additional funding will enable Uniphore to…

 

M-Enabling Summit participants predict biometrics will become default authentication scheme

Security processes can be a daunting barrier to accessing secured digital contents and services for persons with disabilities, seniors or…

 

Morpho provides biometric technology to Aadhaar Hackathon

Biometrics firm Morpho (Safran) will power this weekend’s Aadhaar Hackathon, providing a biometric sensor to develop biometric authentication applications. The…

 

Canada to expand collection of biometrics from foreign visitors

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said his government will put $312.6 million over five years towards expanding biometric screening…

 

RBC becomes first Canadian bank to offer Android M fingerprint authentication support

Canadian financial institution RBC announced it will implement fingerprint-based authentication into its mobile wallet app following Google’s announcement that it…

 

IOM donates biometric recognition technology to Philippine Bureau of Immigration

The Philippine Bureau of Immigration (BI) has been provided with new anti-fraud detection equipment from the International Organization for Migration…

 

Sonavation CTO receives award from IEEE for ultrasound security authentication technologies

Biometric ultrasound technology firm Sonavation announced that company CTO Rainer Schmitt has received the 2015 CQR Chairman’s Award from the…

 

Westpac Bank looks at expanding its use of biometric authentication technology

Australia’s Westpac Bank is expanding its use of biometric identification technologies to authenticate customers on its mobile banking app, according…

 

Philippines calls on celebrities to promote biometric enrollment for upcoming election

The Philippines’ Commission on Elections (Comelec) has called on celebrities to encourage their fans on social media to register their…

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