November 30, 2013 – by Peter B. Counter
This week Fingerprint Cards AB continued on in its exceptional year willed with innovations, design wins and breaking its own financial records, this time introducing the FPC1020: the world’s first capacitive touch fingerprint sensor optimized for Android and Windows devices. The news was incredibly well received, causing FPC shares to shoot up 25 percent the next day.
Shortly after the announcement of its existence, the FPC1020 was shown to be included on a mobile authentication infrastructure created through collaboration with industry disruptor Nok Nok Labs. The joint solution is the first completed effort that Fingerprint Cards has completed in support of the FIDO Alliance.
Biometrics have been entering the gaming industry in a big way this year, with the next generation of home consoles featuring gesture and face recognition. Next gen hardware doesn’t need to be a prerequisite for uniquely responsive fun, though: Extreme Reality announced this week that it has completed a $10 million round of investment funding for its motion sensing SDK solutions tailored for biometric gaming. The Extreme Reality solution can leverage current generation cameras as 3D full body motion analysis devices. The SDK is already being used by game developers like SEGA, whose GO DANCE mobile game turns a phone or tablet’s camera into a controler. The new investments will be used not just to to further develop the solution in this arena, but also broaden its customer base as body motion analysis has a very wide range of applications.
This coming Monday, December 2 is the scheduled date for the next findBIOMETRICS webinar “The Password is Dead!”, presented by FIDO Alliance president Michael Barrett and Nok Nok Labs CEO and FIDO founding member Phil Dunkelberger. The presentation will focus on the Alliance’s rapidly growing fight against the antiquated authentication method of passwords.
And incase you aren’t completely sold on the idea of a world without passwords, perhaps a quick glance at how common some of the worst possible character combinations actually are. Over at Mobile ID World I took a look at a list of the top 10,000 most common passwords in 2011 in order to underline how important it is that we adopt a “post-password paradigm.” One glance at the most common security key chosen by 4.7 percent of the 6 million usernames sampled in the referenced survey and you will agree: it’s safe to say that the password truly is dead.
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