Fujitsu has officially become a value-added reseller of Nok Nok Labs’ S3 Authentication Suite, the companies have announced. The Japan-based company will offer NNL’s platform through its Online Biometric Authentication Service, promoting it as a solution for large scale authentication projects. The partnership will initially focus on the Japanese market, but the companies say they…
A Chicago-based payments technology specialist is looking to pioneer naked payments – that is, payments made without the use of cards, phones, or any other physical device – and is using Fujitsu technology to make it happen. Called Keyo, the company has licensed the use of PalmSecure, Fujitsu’s palm vein scanning system, for use in…
Fujitsu has developed a new authentication platform for the IoT that would verify users’ identities through the biometric scanning features of their smartphones. The system takes an on-device approach to biometric data, adhering to FIDO Alliance standards. When a user needs to access an IoT device or service, she needs only to perform a biometric…
Fujitsu has launched three new two-in-one tablets featuring biometric security. The devices are targeted for business settings. The Lifebook P727 and the Lifebook T937 are both lightweight, thin devices incorporating a hinge that allows the tablet screen to be rotated a full 360 degrees when attached to a keyboard. Meanwhile, the Stylistic Q737 is designed…
Fujitsu has announced that it has developed a new palm vein scanning system that could be applied to tablets. In a statement announcing the technology, Fujitsu called it a “slide-style” scanning system. While it isn’t quite the same as swipe-based fingerprint scanning, the system does break a user’s palm vein pattern into slices, each of…
Fujitsu has announced a new online biometric authentication service. Aptly named the “Online Biometric Authentication Service”, it’s part of the company’s MetaArc digital business platform, and is compliant with FIDO Alliance standards. The aim of the service is to allow client organizations to build post-password authentication systems for a range of applications – in a…
Delta ID has upgraded its ActiveIRIS iris biometrics technology, with version 3.0 now being used in the latest smartphone from Fujitsu and NTT DoCoMo, the Arrows NX F-01J. It’s the same technological platform upon which the world’s first iris scanning smartphone, last summer’s Arrows NX F-04G, was based, with ActiveIRIS being used again in the follow-up…
Fujitsu has sealed a deal to offer its vascular biometric authentication technology for SAP IT systems. The company has signed on to a global reseller agreement with realtime AG, a prominent, certified service provider for SAP systems. Through that deal, Fujitsu will offer it PalmSecure BioLock access control solution to organizations using SAP ERP and…
Fujitsu has officially launched the Smart Origination platform it developed in collaboration with ImageWare, InAuth, Intelligent Environments, Mitek, and Trunomi. The platform is designed to help client financial institutions to easily enroll customers in under five minutes, allowing them to digitally collect and verify identity documents, in part with using technologies such as ImageWare’s biometric…
Fujitsu has announced a new line of notebooks that offer biometric security capabilities. They’re called the Lifebook U7x7 notebooks, and are available in three different sizes with displays ranging from 12.5 inches to 15.6 inches. They’re thin and lightweight, and they feature classic and USB type-C compatibility, as well as anti-glare HD or full HD touch…
ImageWare’s GoVerifyID technology has been integrated into Fujitsu’s Smart Origination platform. It’s a system designed to enable fast and simple user authentication through a smartphone. In a statement announcing the collaboration, the companies explained that the system “utilizes the camera on the applicant’s smartphone device along with the ImageWare GoVerifyID biometric SaaS offering to collect,…
Fujitsu is expanding the range of applications for its palm vein scanners with two new devices: The FUJITSU Biometric Authentication PalmSecure-F Pro, and the FUJITSU Biometric Authentication Palm Vein Authentication Board. The former device is an upgraded version of its current embedded PalmSecure sensor technology, offering improved accuracy and enhanced sunlight tolerance. It’s also slimmer and…
A Fujitsu subsidiary is bringing ImageWare technology to its platform. Called RunMyProcess, it’s an innovation arm of Fujitsu offering a cloud-based development platform for enterprise apps. And it’s now struck a deal with ImageWare to bring the latter’s multi-modal biometric identity management platform, GoVerifyID, to its clients. The aim is essentially to give clients working…
Fujitsu has upgraded its Biometric-as-a-Service solution. Available via Fujitsu Cloud Service S5, the platform now features the latest partner software via Fujitsu Software Enterprise Service Catalog Manager, including ImageWare’s GoVerifyID biometric identity management platform. In a statement announcing the integration, Fujitsu Canada Global Biometric Community Lead Derek Northrope credited the growth of mobile biometrics as…
Fujitsu is continuing to bring mobile iris biometrics to the masses in Japan with its new Arrows Tab F-04H. Available through NTT DOCOMO, the new tablet follows in the tradition of previously released Fujitsu smartphones—the Arrows NX F-04G and the Arrows NX F-02H —which made history last year as the first consumer mobile handsets to launch…
Fujitsu Frontech North America has named PCSC the master distributor for its PalmEntry and PalmEntry XS solutions. Based in California, PCSC is an access control solutions provider. As Fujitsu’s new master distributor, the company becomes the central channel through which PalmEntry and PalmEntryXS reach the market, and will also offer support services to customers. The PalmEntry…
…And Other Highlights from the Show Floor at ISC West Each year the ISC West Conference awards best products, including in the category entitled “User Authentication, Identification, Credentialing and Management.” In 2016 the award went to Advanced Optical Systems (AOS) based in Huntsville, Alabama for their innovative touchless four-fingerprint system ANDI On The Go. With a…
Chicago-based SoloInsight has integrated Fujitsu’s PalmSecure technology into its CloudGate cloud-based physical access control platform. The companies plan to show off the solution together at this week’s ISC West conference in Las Vegas. PalmSecure is, of course, Fujitsu’s palm vein scanning technology for biometric identification. While it was first introduced many years ago, Fujitsu has continued…
A new report from System Plus Consulting breaks down the supply chain, cost, and price considerations of the Fujitsu Arrows NX F-04G. When it launched last summer, the Arrows NX F-04G became the first smartphone in the world to feature integrated iris scanning functionality. The biometric technology, developed by Delta ID, enabled users to unlock…
Fujitsu has announced its newest authentication device. Called Stylistic Q736, it’s a tablet featuring the company’s PalmSecure palm vein biometric technology. In addition to its vascular biometric reading capabilities, the 13.3″ tablet also features NFC technology allowing it to read smart cards, and uses encrypted drives and Intel’s TPM solution for secure data storage. And…
In a new partnership, Fujitsu has integrated OpenLimit’s data protection technology into its flagship biometric identification system. The resulting Fujitsu PalmSecure Truedentity platform leverages both Fujitsu’s palm vein biometrics scanning and OpenLimit’s Truedentity data transmission security. It’s a development aimed at better protecting the biometric identity data collected and transmitted via Fujitsu’s biometric system. Its…
Fujitsu has developed a new method of encrypting biometric data, the company has announced. Representatives discussed the technology today at the International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security (FPS 2015) in France. In essence, it’s a simple concept: Fujitsu’s system converts biometric data into randomized numbers, making a cryptographic key. While other such systems are…
Fujitsu’s palm vein biometrics technology will soon find its way into a number of banks’ services. The company has announced a new partnership with Fiserv, a technology solutions provider for the financial services sector, that will see the latter integrate the technology into its account processing platform, called “DNA”. That means that Fiserv’s clients –…
Fujitsu’s Arrows NX F-04G smartphone has hit the market in Japan, becoming the first in the world to arrive with built-in iris-scanning technology. It’s available through telecom provider NTT DoCoMo. The mobile device sports a number of fairly standard premium smartphone features: 3GB of RAM, an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor, a 21MP camera. The main…
Fujitsu is launching a portable palm vein scanner, the company has announced. The device will be USB-compatible, allowing for quick and easy authentication in remote settings. It’s an extension of the company’s PalmSecure-SL Sensor line of products and is aimed at enterprises, particularly those employing BYOD practices. It’s notable for its convenience and ease of…
California-based biometrics developer Delta ID has announced that its iris-scanning technology is powering a new smartphone’s authentication system. That smartphone, NTT DoCoMo’s Arrows NX F-04G, is just hitting the Japanese market now. The smartphone was developed by Fujitsu, but its iris biometric technology came by way of Delta’s ActiveIRIS system, which allows users of the device…
The world is about to get its first iris-scanning smartphone, according to a Computerworld article by Tim Hornyak. Called the Arrows NX F-04G, the smartphone comes from Japanese mobile provider NTT DoCoMo, and will go on sale in Japan at the end of the month. Its built-in biometric system can scan an iris within a…
Delta ID Inc.’s iris scanning biometric technology is being shown off at the Mobile World Congress by a major partner: Fujitsu. The company is going to be demonstrating Delta ID’s ActiveIRIS technology in its smartphone at the conference. Delta ID is aiming its iris-scanning solution at mobile/PC OEMs and platform providers, asserting that the technology…