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Leader The proposed national identity register for the ID card scheme will store even more data, including biometric information - what happens if your fingerprint records fall into the hands of identity thieves?
[22 Nov 2007]
Round-Up Number two and three is a metallic slab from Porsche and Sagem that features bleak, industrial design married with a fingerprint reader. Another silicon.com reader, from Edinburgh, applauds the scheme and claims he's been taking advantage of the wi...
[12 Oct 2007]
Photo Developed in collaboration with Sagem, the phone has been designed along minimalist, almost utilitarian, lines but it does have one fancy feature: a fingerprint reader for use as a security device. Designer brands are falling over themselves to...
[10 Oct 2007]
whitepaper This paper shows how a person can use the GrFinger SDK to integrate the Microsoft Fingerprint Reader into the .NET applications. Once a user is registered, the next time he visits the office he can simply scan his fingerprint and the system will...
[02 Jul 2007]
News The manual check before security is then replaced by an automatic barrier activated by the passenger's fingerprint and a biometric reader verifies the passenger again at the boarding gate.silicon.com's A to Z of Biometrics
[20 Jun 2007]
whitepaper This paper describes the integration of fingerprint template and RF smart card for clustered network, which is designed on Linux platform and Open source technology to obtain biometrics security. Combination of smart card and biometrics has...
[18 Apr 2007]
News In addition to an 80GB Seagate drive, the ASI machine will feature a fingerprint reader, 15.4-inch display, Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile 2.0GHz processor, Nvidia graphics with 256MB memory, 1GB RAM and a DVD rewritable drive, according to ASI.
[12 Mar 2007]
whitepaper SAFaccess then replaces the remaining password with a biometric authentication device, such as a fingerprint reader. SAFLINK Corporation, based in Bellevue, Washington, provides biometric software solutions that secure business and personal...
[21 Feb 2007]
Round-Up One silicon.com reader wrote: "Heading towards a police state, cameras everywhere you turn, now fingerprint checking because you've done 31mph. Officers are being given nifty wireless gadgets which will take the fingerprints and then transmit them...
[24 Nov 2006]
Comment This week, at a professional and not a commercial conference, I was even handed a fingerprint reader. Written at a conference in London and dispatched a day later from a LAN cable I found lying unused on the floor in an office building I happened...
[27 Oct 2006]
Round-Up So imagine the consternation in the regions at news that the good, hardworking folk of Yeovil, Somerset, will be required to use fingerprint biometrics in order to access their local boozer. Well obviously they will walk up to the pub, register...
[27 Oct 2006]
News Registered shoppers have their fingerprint linked with credit card or debit card information and verify payment by pressing their digit against a reader. Three more Co-ops are to be kitted out with equipment that will allow shoppers to pay using...
[24 Jul 2006]
News Shoppers will be able to link their fingerprint with credit card or debit card information and verify payment by pressing their digit against a reader. The first Oxford store to trial the biometrics system has reported that paying by fingerprint...
[08 Mar 2006]
News Researchers at Clarkson University have found that fingerprint readers can be spoofed by fingerprint images lifted with Play-Doh or gelatine or a model of a finger moulded out of dental plaster. The algorithm, created by Stephanie Schuckers...
[22 Dec 2005]
News The police officers use a handheld biometric fingerprint reader that is connected to a mobile data terminal fitted in the patrol car. Police patrol cars in Northamptonshire are being fitted with mobile fingerprint readers as part of a trial that...
[01 Jul 2005]
whitepaper The paper also presents the preliminary results of applying the Bayesian framework to the people localization problem in indoor environment using a sensor network that consists of video cameras, infrared tag readers and a fingerprint reader.
[10 May 2005]
whitepaper The ThinkPadŽ integrated fingerprint reader puts security at your fingertip. Insight offers the full range of ThinkPads with integrated fingerprint readers at affordable prices so you can secure your mobile workforce.
[03 May 2005]
News With newer FeliCa phones carrying user cash accounts and capable of fingerprint ID recognition, DoCoMo is already some way towards offering basic financial services. The operator has so far shifted over one million phones equipped with Sony's...
[20 Apr 2005]
News In addition, European Union standards require passports to include a facial image and fingerprint scans. The UKPS said that as a result fingerprint scans are likely to be incorporated into the passport chip later in the decade.
[29 Mar 2005]
News The keyboard includes a fingerprint reader which will enable users to store their biometric ID and use that as authentication when logging onto password protected sites - having stored the passwords locally on the device.
[10 Mar 2005]
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