Tag: fingerprint

Retail Asia05/03/2021
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Samsung and Mastercard have partnered up to develop a fingerprint-authenticated payment card. Yes, we’re talking about an actual, physical card with a built-in fingerprint scanner. This innovation will increase the security of contactless payments and give users another layer of safety – while looking pretty darn cool. The card will work with every in-store (POS) […]

Retail Asia01/04/2019
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The Samsung Galaxy A90 is expected to debut in early April, and with less than three weeks to go some extra information about the smartphone’s most important feature has just leaked. As confirmed earlier this week by Samsung’s own website, the Galaxy A90 will be the company’s first and only smartphone to feature a ‘notchless Infinity […]

Retail Asia15/05/2017
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ABI Research predicts in a new report that fingerprint sensors in smartphones will surge to reach a 95% penetration rate of smartphone shipments by 2022. This will prompt new opportunities for biometric technologies, such as eye recognition, to be utilized as part of novel identification and payment applications for both the banking and governmental markets. […]

Retail Asia27/02/2017
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Japanese tech company Liquid has launched a biometric payments service in Indonesia that operates at the point of sale. Currently the project is being tested at an enterprise level, with the service offered to the Salim group’s workforce of around 500,000. “We are looking forward to developing the next generation payment and business platform in […]

Retail Asia01/02/2017
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Thailand’s MVNOs will need to implement a new online fingerprint ID registration system for both prepaid and postpaid mobile SIMs by March, after regulator the NBTC declined to exempt them from complying with the new registration regime. The online registration system is being introduced as a requirement for both mobile operators and MVNOs as part […]

Retail Asia01/12/2016
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Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) has revealed plans to require all mobile operators to introduce an online fingerprint ID system for prepaid and postpaid mobile SIM registrations. The regulator has given a tentative deadline of February for operators to support mandatory fingerprint ID registration. NBTC officials told the publication that the system is […]

Retail Asia31/10/2016
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Hitachi has developed a finger vein authentication system that does not require specialized hardware, using an ordinary smartphone camera with software processing to validate the identity of a user. This is the first time that such a solution has been demonstrated, Hitachi said, and the implication is that it can be used to easily the […]

Retail Asia26/10/2016
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Chinese handset maker Xiaomi has launched a new smartphone that uses technology allowing the vendor to push the screen all the way to the top edge of the device. The MIX smartphone uses a technology from Elliptic Labs to replace the standard hardware proximity sensor with ultrasound software. The technology, named INNER BEAUTY, uses ultrasound […]


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