Fujitsu plans four smart phones, two tablets with fingerprint sensors for Japanese market Fujitsu has revealed plans for six new mobile devices, to be released in Japan, that will feature embedded swipe sensor technology from Fingerprint Cards. The new devices will consist of four Android smart phones and two Android tablet PCs. The new, biometric-enabled smart devices will be […]

Apple’s decision to implement its Touch ID fingerprint sensor on the new iPhone 5S has sent shockwaves through the mobile landscape, a move that has mobile security analyst, Goode Intelligence, forecasting massive growth and revenue in the technology by 2018. Goode’s new report, entitled “Mobile Biometric Security – Market Forecast Report 2013 – 2018” posits […]

Tulane and Quinnipiac universities are piloting a near field communication system on campus from Blackboard. The pilot is using NFC-enabled Android handsets and students can use the devices for physical access control, payments at the point-of-sale, vending, laundry, copying and printing. The pilot is using Samsung Galaxy S3 handsets that are being provisioned over the […]

Tech goliath IBM has developed a two-factor mobile authentication technology that, with the help of NFC, could help make payments made from smart phones more secure. IBM’s new software app provides an added layer of security when using an NFC-enabled device in conjunction with a contactless smart card for mobile transactions – a common formula […]

Thursby Software has joined forces with Juniper Networks, Acronis and Silanis to develop a secure mobile solution for iPad and iPhone users in the Department of Defense and other federal agencies. Thursby will provide its secure mobile hardware, software and support solutions, which are currently deployed at more than 400 U.S. Government agencies ranging from […]

HTC’s forthcoming “phablet” device, the HTC One Max, will officially feature fingerprint sensor hardware marking HTC’s first foray into mobile fingerprint biometrics. HTC’s One Max is a larger, 5.9-inch smart phone that includes a dedicated fingerprint sensor located on the rear of the device just below the camera lens. The sensor leverages the swipe method […]

In rather unsurprising fashion, it took the hacktivist community all of two-days to effectively spoof the Touch ID fingerprint sensor on Apple’s new iPhone 5S. This short period of time along with the overwhelming popularity of the mobile device has led to a renewed debate amongst biometrics stakeholders that begs the question, What, if anything, […]

Who had 48-hours in the Touch ID spoof pool? Come on up and claim your prize. Just two days after the iPhone 5S was released the Chaos Computer Club in Germany officially spoofed the Touch ID fingerprint scanner, surprising exactly no one. The overwhelming popularity of the iPhone device, along with the introduction of the […]

Cross Match demos mobile biometric and credential reading device at BCC Cross Match Technologies has revealed plans to demo its suite of credential reading options available on the company’s SEEK Avenger mobile handheld device. The demos will take place during the Biometric Consortium Conference (BCC) taking place this week in Tampa, Florida. The SEEK Avenger […]

The inclusion of a fingerprint scanner on Apple’s latest iPhone was one of the worst kept secrets leading up to the device’s September launch event. Rumors had been circulating on gadget blogs for months about the possible biometric inclusion. So to affirm what the world already knew, the computing giant made the iPhone’s biometric utility […]