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Japan's Fujitsu has revealed a new palm vein authentication solution for use with SAP systems. Called PalmSecure BioLock, the company says it is the "industry’s most secure access control technology for SAP systems". The solution provides access control for SAP ERP and HANA systems. Fujitsu said the implementation means it is now the only SAP Global Partner able to offer the biometric security capability as an SAP-certified, natively-embedded solution either directly or via it’s sales partners.  Martin Lum, Vice President Marketing at realtime AG North America, said: “Just like the customers they serve, Fujitsu has the global reach and capability to offer security solutions to their international customers. We are very pleased to work with them to help their SAP and HANA customers overcome current security business challenges.” Thomas Bengs, Director and Head of PalmSecure Products and Solutions of Fujitsu EMEIA comments: “Current statistics show that most large organ...

Organic electronics firm Flexenable plans to showcase a 500 dpi flexible fingerprint sensor in a smart card form factor at an upcoming trade show.  The firm says that with biometric authentication becoming increasingly important for the smartcard industry, flexible fingerprint sensors open up new opportunities. Particularly in banking, using the cardholder’s fingerprint instead of or in addition to an entry pin is one of the emerging trends to improve security . This requires the integration of ultra-thin, robust and flexible sensors into payment cards. The 500 dpi flexible optical fingerprint sensor uses high performance organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) on low cost plastics. The firm says it is the only flexible sensor technology that has achieved such high resolution. The sensor has been developed in collaboration with Grenoble-based ISORG who supplies the organic photodiodes able to capture the fingerprint, and has provided all the reading electronics and the related algo...

Norway’s NEXT Biometrics will showcase its new flexible smartcard fingerprint sensor at an upcoming trade show. The flexible fingerprint sensor technology, which uses the firm’s NEXT Active Thermal principle, will be on show at Trustech in the form of polysilicon sheets and individual sensors. Tore Etholm-Idsoe, CEO of NEXT Biometrics , said, “Opposite to present market implementation of fingerprint sensors in smartphones, the major SmartCard markets are all quality critical. This means that neither security nor level of convenience may be compromised.  Furthermore, a SmartCard needs to work every day, everywhere, indoors and outdoors for close to 100% of the targeted population.   Having already secured the first two volume smartcard orders within the fingerprint sensor industry, we remain confident that NEXT is uniquely positioned within this massive opportunity space.” Radek Matyasek, VP Sales EMEA and SmartCard segment sales at NEXT, said, “At Cartes we will be show...

Maryland has become the latest battleground between ride-sharing firms Uber and Lyft and local politicians seeking biometrics checks for their drivers. The companies will tell Maryland Public Service Commission that they should not be required to fingerprint drivers, reports the Baltimore Sun. Under a state law passed in 2015, the companies are required to begin background checking drivers 15 December using the fingerprint database maintained by the state and the FBI, unless they prove their approach is equally effective. Both companies filed separate petitions with the state Public Service Commission, which regulates ridesharing companies, for permission to continue doing background checks their way. Uber has said it will pull out of Maryland if fingerprinting is enforced. Lyft has not said it would withdraw, but pointed out that it does not operate in any market where fingerprinting is required except New York City. In September, Uber revealed a new facial recognition-based securi...

Sweden’s Fingerprint Cards has noted that the new Huawei Mate 9 features its FPC1025 sensor. The Mate 9 handsets are among the first to be powered by Android 7 and come in two designs: a model with a 1080p "full HD" display, and a Porsche-branded edition with nearly twice the resolution. Huawei’s Mate 9 Porsche Design is the first smartphone featuring the FPC1268 and it is also Fingerprint Cards’ first market implementation of a capacitive fingerprint touch sensor under glass. As previously announced and demonstrated by Fingerprint Cards in February 2016, the FPC1268 is Fingerprint Cards’ first solution optimized for thick materials like cover glass. This enables device manufacturers to integrate fingerprint sensors in new design languages, for example completely invisible under the cover glass or used as a home button covered by glass. “This is an important milestone for us and also an acknowledgement of our team’s strong technology know-how and drive. We’ve been working h...