Early reports from Taiwanese components suppliers suggest that the next iteration of the iPhone – likely the 5S – will feature capacitive-touch, sapphire crystal Home buttons that will support a new form of fingerprint scanning. According to a report on the iPhone 5 News Blog, Taiwanese-based TechNews, who claims to have contacts within Apple’s chain […]

Through Entrust’s updated mobile smart credential, enterprises and financial institutions may be able to streamline business processes by eliminating requirements for in-person, paper-based signatures or desktop–bound digital signatures. The technology enables any document that requires formal approval to be signed directly from a phone or tablet – even documents requiring legally binding, digital signatures. Entrust […]

The U.S Department of Homeland Security is developing a standards-based application that will be able to validate first responders arriving to a scene using smart phones. Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate has been working on a smart phone app so that officials can verify and track first responders arriving at a scene as well […]

Secure transaction consultancy Intelling has released a new Smart Insights Report report entitled “Smart authentication to tackle BYOD issues” that discusses the trends and forecasts for secure transactions in a BYOD environment. Intelling forecasts that BYOD software authentication solution shipments will reach 223 million units by 2018, which is a compound annual growth rate of […]

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) is working to procure a system that would simplify the process of paying for bus or train fare, turning it into a tap of a smart phone or credit card at a turnstile. According to Transportation Nation, Metro is now accepting bids from tech companies to develop a […]

Precise Biometrics announced that it’s working on an Android version of its mobile fingerprint sensor that it will launch at the end of the second quarter. While Tactivo already supports iOS, Precise is expanding its reach to other operating systems so that it can cover more smart phones and tablets that its government and enterprise […]

Villanova University conducted a five-month pilot using Apple iPhones sporting NFC-enabled cases to give a group of student’s physical access to dorms and dining halls. Kathy Gallagher, director of Card Systems at Villanova University, reveals that the pilot included iPhone 4 and 4S models because those were the devices that were most common amongst students. […]

SecurEnvoy, a tokenless two-factor authentication provider, is promoting the concept of BYOT, or Bring Your Own Token, as the next trend in providing layered secure authentication to systems and networks. The problem with tokens as a second authentication factor, says SecurEnvoy, is that a user must always carry a token in order to authenticate. However, […]

VoiceVault has released a new voice biometric identity verification product that enables for customized user experiences through language independent personalized passphrase modes. This release allows for user individualization that’s not dependent on a specific language. Users can authenticate by speaking their name, a passphrase of their own choosing or an assigned passphrase. VoiceVault has designed […]

Tageos, a provider of RFID solutions for item-level tagging, announced that the Bassin de Thau Hospital in southern France is live with an RFID-based medical record management system. The City of Sete hospital leverages Tageos’ EOS-500 ready-to-use passive ultra-high frequency (UHF) RFID labels to streamline management of its 120,000 paper patient records. Over 40,000 paper […]