Scan this: Biometrics gain in consumer products with promise of convenience, security
May 30, 2006
By Andrea Coombes, MarketWatch
Consider:
§. In some grocery-store check-out lanes, customers who've preregistered their fingerprint can simply swipe their finger to have their grocery bill deducted from their checking account. You don't need to bring your wallet, nor remember your loyalty card. Pay By Touch, maker of fingerprint scanners used by grocery-store chains including Piggly Wiggly in the South and Albertson's Jewel-Osco stores in the Midwest, says it has 2.3 million people enrolled in various fingerprint-authentication programs.
§. Hewlett-Packard Co. says it now offers fingerprint scanners in 80% of the laptop computers it aims at the business market.
§. In Japan, customers at some automated-teller machines place their hand in a scanner for access to their accounts.
§. Five million cell phones in Japan and Korea are embedded with fingerprint sensors to restrict access to the photos, e-mails and address books stored there, said Jim Burke, a vice president at Melbourne, Fla.-based AuthenTec, maker of those 5 million scanners plus others used in computers and other devices. That cell-phone technology will be available in cell phones in the U.S. in 2007, Burke estimates.
Source: http://www.marketwatch.com/
Consider:
§. In some grocery-store check-out lanes, customers who've preregistered their fingerprint can simply swipe their finger to have their grocery bill deducted from their checking account. You don't need to bring your wallet, nor remember your loyalty card. Pay By Touch, maker of fingerprint scanners used by grocery-store chains including Piggly Wiggly in the South and Albertson's Jewel-Osco stores in the Midwest, says it has 2.3 million people enrolled in various fingerprint-authentication programs.
§. Hewlett-Packard Co. says it now offers fingerprint scanners in 80% of the laptop computers it aims at the business market.
§. In Japan, customers at some automated-teller machines place their hand in a scanner for access to their accounts.
§. Five million cell phones in Japan and Korea are embedded with fingerprint sensors to restrict access to the photos, e-mails and address books stored there, said Jim Burke, a vice president at Melbourne, Fla.-based AuthenTec, maker of those 5 million scanners plus others used in computers and other devices. That cell-phone technology will be available in cell phones in the U.S. in 2007, Burke estimates.
Source: http://www.marketwatch.com/