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Reinier M. van der Drift
BioXS
English
Mobile phone with fingerprint sensor
European Patents)Pub. Number EP1605670
Appl. Data EP05018164 20041217
Applicant FUJITSU LIMITED
Inventor(s) Yamashita, Naoto, Fujitsu Limited
Inamitsu, Kazutoyo, Fujitsu Devices Inc.
Title Mobile phone with fingerprint sensor
Abstract The present invention relates to an information processing unit, such as a mobile phone (100), equipped with a fingerprint sensor (124) and reconciles size reduction with operability at a high level. The present invention is provided, adjacent to a keypad (121), with a V- shaped groove (123) which contains a first slope stretching away from the keypad and slanting downward and a second slope stretching further away from the keypad and slanting upward, where the V-shaped groove contains a fingerprint sweep sensor (124) which detects a fingerprint on a finger moved along the first slope and the second slope.
New biometrics software looks for sweat
(ZDNet News)Sweaty hands might make you unpopular as a dance partner, but they could someday prevent hackers from getting into your bank account. Researchers at Clarkson University have found that fingerprint readers can be spoofed by fingerprint images lifted with Play-doh or gelatin or a model of a finger molded out of dental plaster. The group even assembled a collection of fingers cut from the hands of cadavers.
In a systematic test of more than 60 of the carefully crafted samples, the researchers found that 90 percent of the fakes could be passed off as the real thing.
But when researchers enhanced the reader with an algorithm that looked for evidence of perspiration, the false-verification rate dropped to 10 percent.
Bloomberg Tradebook to launch US equity options trading platform
Bloomberg Tradebook LLC, a leading global electronic agency broker, today announced that it has received approval from the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) to offer an electronic equity options-trading platform for the U.S. market.
With the introduction of the U.S. equity options-trading platform, the Company is further extending the asset classes and its front-end agency trading capabilities to U.S. equity options. Bloomberg Tradebook also offers agency broker services in U.S. and global equities and futures.
Viisage pays $35M plus stock for Integrated Biometric
Identity-recognition software developer Viisage Technology Inc. acquired fingerprint identification specialty company Integrated Biometric Technology for $35 million, plus 5 million newly issued shares of common stock.
The 5 million shares of stock translates to 2 million shares of stock following a 1-for-2.5 reverse split that took effect Monday.
Boston Business Journals
Date: 2005-12-19 |
Precise Biometrics AB wins SEK4m order from Athena Smartcard Solutions
Nordic Business Report)The Swedish fingerprint and smart card technology company Precise Biometrics AB said on Wednesday (21 December) that it had received a SEK4m order from the Japan-based global smart card technology provider Athena Smartcard Solutions.
The order covers Precise 100 series fingerprint readers and Precise Match-on-Card licences for an Israeli financial institution's secure ID project.
First Consumer Biometrics Showcase to be Held at CES in Las Vegas
AuthenTec, the world leader in fingerprint sensor security, innovation and sales for more than five years, will host the first Consumer Biometrics Showcase, and its sensors also will be displayed in many popular PC and wireless products in booths throughout the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show January 5-8 in Las Vegas.
AuthenTec will display today's most popular consumer biometric products - including notebook and tablet PCs, PC peripherals, and cell phones — at the Consumer Biometrics Showcase, located at booth 72436 in the Sands Expo and Convention Center.
Wireless IQ
Date: 2005-12-19 |
Robust biometrics market predicted
[Johannesburg, 19 December 2005] - The global and local biometrics markets will remain robust and exhibit healthy growth next year, industry experts predict.
Biometrics as a technology came of age this year, according to Cape Town-based Transmetrix's marketing director, Charlie Stewart.
“We expect very big things to happen next year, especially within the public sector. Many tenders have already been sent out this year by local municipalities, which are trying to clamp down on financial abuse and fraud.
Outside View: Biometrics for security
WASHINGTON, With wars waged far from the traditional battlefield and with terrorists committed to the mass murder of civilians, the U.S. government needs to be able to rapidly identify terrorists and others who pose a national security threat so it can answer the age-old question: Is this person a friend or foe?
To respond to the asymmetric nature and global mobility of terrorists today, U.S. authorities must have the tools to determine a person's previously used identities and past activities -- particularly as they relate to terrorism and criminal acts -- while there is still time to thwart an attack. One important tool in this effort is biometrics, which are automated methods to recognize a person based on physical or behavioral characteristics.
The Post Chronicle
Date: 2005-12-18 |
Identix Awarded Contract to Help Ensure ``One Person, One Vote'' with ABIS(R) Biometric Facial Recognition Backend Database & Matching Platform for Voter Identity Management Solution
Identix Incorporated IDNX announced today that it was awarded a contract for its ABIS(R) facial identity management solution to help ensure "one person, one vote" in an unnamed foreign country. Identix' software-based ABIS biometric backend database creation and matching platform is being integrated into the Country's voter registration identity management program to create searchable databases from biometric images collected from registered and registering voters. ABIS will also be used to search newly created and existing registered voter databases with Identix' facial recognition technology to determine whether there are any duplicate images where individuals may have registered under more than one name in an attempt to influence election outcomes by voting multiple times.
MSN Money
Date: 2005-12-19 |
NIST chooses minutia for HSPD-12 biometric standard
After nearly a year in the making, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has been convinced that minutia is an acceptable way to store fingerprint biometric data on smart cards.
Amid pressure from industry, agencies and the administration, NIST yesterday released the biometric specification for Federal Information Processing Standard 201, Personal Identity Verification under Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12, calling for agencies to store two index fingerprints on the smart card using the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standard 358 for minutia.
Each fingerprint template shall be wrapped in the Common Biometric Exchange Formats Framework structure, NIST said in Special Publication 800-76.
Greece plans biometric passport
Athens - Greece will overhaul its passport system next year and issue travel documents equipped to carry biometric data, the government said on Wednesday.
Public order minister Giorgos Voulgarakis said all Greek passport holders - as part of European Union-wide measures - would have to replace their documents by the end of 2006 and obtain new passports with increased security features.
Greece is currently not on the United States' visa waiver programme.
News24.com
Date: 2005-12-22 |
Farm Fresh grocer rolls out biometric payments
The US-based grocer Farm Fresh has completed the installation of Pay By Touch biometric payment technology in all 41 of its stores across Hampton Roads and Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Shoppers enrolled in the Pay By Touch service can use their fingerprint to purchase products at all participating Farm Fresh stores, as well as at other Pay By Touch-enabled retailers across the country. Considering all existing installations, Pay By Touch merchants can currently be found in the states of Washington, Oregon, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, New York and Ohio.
Thewisemarketer.com
Date: 2005-12-22 |
Francais
Big Brother: La biométrie en procès, acte I d’une mise en cause
Justice . Trois étudiants accusés d’avoir détruit deux appareils d’identification électronique dans la cantine d’un lycée de Gif-sur-Yvette (Essonne), comparaissent aujourd’hui à Évry.
C’est une nouvelle forme de militantisme qui va être jugée aujourd’hui. Le parallèle avec les procès contre les anti-OGM n’est pas loin. Le tribunal correctionnel d’Évry (Essonne) va statuer en comparution immédiate sur le sort de trois étudiants. Julien, Anne-Sylvie et Célia ont entre vingt-deux et vingt-six ans et sont tous titulaires d’un diplôme de troisième cycle en philosophie ou en ethnologie.
ComnetiX(MC) Inc lance le premier service complet de dactyloscopie électronique au Canada
TORONTO, le 20 déc. /CNW-PRN/ - ComnetiX(MC) Inc (CXI à la Bourse de Toronto), important fournisseur de solutions d'identification et
d'authentification biométriques, a annoncé le lancement du premier service complet de dactyloscopie électronique au Canada, avec 10 bureaux de Vancouver à Halifax. Détenant une part du marché privé canadien d'identification
dactyloscopique d'environ 55 %, ComnetiX est également le principal fournisseur de services de dactyloscopie au pays. Le service est entièrement
conforme au projet d'Identification en temps réel (PITR) de la Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC).
Groupe CNW
Date: 2005-12-22 |
Nederlands
Amsterdam wil gezichtsherkenning in winkels
AMSTERDAM (ANP) – Amsterdam wil begin volgend jaar een proef beginnen met gezichtsherkenning in winkels. Het Platform Criminaliteitsbestrijding Amsterdam–Amstelland (PCA) heeft hiertoe een haalbaarheidsonderzoek gedaan. De uitkomsten zijn positief en het college van burgemeester en wethouders heeft al aangegeven achter de plannen te staan.
Dat maakte het platform woensdag bekend. De gemeenteraad moet nog instemmen, maar veiligheidsmanager O. Peer verwacht dat dat niet veel geharrewar zal opleveren.
Reformatorisch Dagblad
Date: 2005-12-22 |
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