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Jedidiah Becker for RedOrbit.com Last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted Sony the rights to a patent that will allow them to place front-facing cameras on smartphones behind rather than on top of the display screen. Not only will this allow smartphone makers to make display screens a little taller, it also opens the door for new technologies such as touch-screen fingerprint scans for heightening security on the increasingly versatile devices. The patent request describes...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- DigitalPersona, Inc., a global provider of authentication and access management solutions, today announced that tanning salon leader Zoom Tan has integrated DigitalPersona U.are.U® Fingerprint Readers into the company's customer- and employee-facing ZoomPay software. With ZoomPay, salon members can use their fingerprint to sign-in for tanning sessions and make purchases without the need to bring their credit cards or...
LOS ANGELES, March 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- LuxeYard, Inc. (OTC BB: LUXR), LuxeYard, a luxury home furnishings and decor flash sale site that brings a unique approach to the flash sale model with two new e-commerce concepts: Concierge Buying and Group Buy, announced that it has retained PondelWilkinson Inc. as investor relations counsel and brought Fingerprint Communications on board as agency of record. PondelWilkinson will serve as a liaison for LuxeYard to the investment community...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- DigitalPersona, Inc., a global provider of authentication and access management solutions, today announced the company's U.are.U(®) 5100 series of fingerprint readers and modules has achieved Personal Identity Verification (PIV) certification. The U.are.U 5100 series makes high-efficiency, standards-compliant biometrics practical for handheld ID terminals and is designed to support a growing number of Civil ID applications such as...
Fingerprints that are potential key pieces of evidence in court currently are not being considered due to shortcomings in the way this evidence is reported, according to a report by a Penn State Assistant Professor of Forensic Science and Statistics Cedric Neumann, published today in Significance, the magazine of the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association. Neumann has devised a statistical model to enable the weight of fingerprint evidence to be expressed in...
Potentially key fingerprint evidence is currently not being considered due to shortcomings in the way it is reported, according to a report published today in Significance, the magazine of the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association. Researchers involved in the study have devised a statistical model to enable the weight of fingerprint evidence to be quantified, paving the way for its full inclusion in the criminal identification process. Fingerprints have been...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Medbox, Inc. (Pinksheets: MDBX) (www.medboxinc.com) announced today their new lineup of products for 2012. Through their subsidiary, Prescription Vending Machines, Inc., the company sells medicine dispensing and storage systems, which are designed to be used in hospitals, pharmacies, urgent care centers, alternative medicine clinics and doctor's offices. The systems maintain inventory control, increase accountability of employees...
