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Mobile communication market opens up for biometrics – Precise Biometrics awarded 1st prize at GSMA World Mobile Congress
3 years ago
Precise Biometrics came in first place in the global SIMagine competition, held annually at the GSMA World Mobile Congress – the world’s largest event for mobile communication. The awarded mobile aviation solution is based on Precise Match-on-SIM™ and enables fast-lane service using fingerprint recognition and mobile phones.
SIMagine is a global competition focusing on new innovative solutions for mobile communication and Java cards. The competition is arranged by Gemalto, the world-leader in digital security, Sun Microsystems and Samsung. Last year, Precise Biometrics came in second place with their solution Precise Match-on-SIM™, which enables secure and easy authentication to any high value transaction using a mobile phone.
- We are most pleased that the SIMagine jury once again awarded Precise Match-on-Card for mobile phones. This year, we take the technology one step further and demonstrate an entire solution for airline travel – how biometrics is utilized throughout the entire process of booking, check-in, boarding, and other services related to travel where authentication is needed The concept is based on our experience from the aviation industry and also developed in dialog with Scandinavian Airlines, says Jonas Andersson, Vice President of Business Development at Precise Biometrics.
Thomas Marschall, CEO at Precise Biometrics, congratulates his team and comments:
- Last year’s SIMagine award opened a lot of doors for us and defined one of our most important business development areas in the coming years; the mobile communications industry. As Match-on-Card is by nature tied to smart cards, and since the SIM card segment is close to 80% of the entire smart card market, this is where we want to be. To once again be among the finalists, and actually winning first prize, strengthens our offering and gives us valuable contacts with industry actors.
Precise Biometrics presented a complete solution for smart travel; "BioXpress – The Queue-less Travel Experience". BioXpress utilizes Precise Match-on-Card™ for automated identity check supporting airline services through the SIM card and NFC (Near Field Communication). It enables remote ticket purchase, automatic baggage drop, self service boarding and baggage reconciliation. All these services are secured by automated Match-on-Card biometric verification to enable a fully automated passenger flow.
Precise Biometrics has approximately 20 million deployed card licenses and over 80 million contracted licenses for its Match-on-Card technology today.
Vodafone announces agreement with Opera Software to enhance mobile Internet experience on handsets
3 years ago
Oslo, Norway and Barcelona, Spain – 16 February 2009 – Vodafone has signed an agreement with Opera Software to develop a custom-made version of the mobile browser Opera Mini aimed at giving customers with low and mid priced handsets a high quality mobile internet experience on the go.
Opera Mini will be available in Vodafone markets across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. The browser is particularly appealing to customers in developing countries who are likely to experience the internet for the first time through a mobile phone. It allows them to browse the internet on the go even on Java low cost mobile handsets.
Vodafone customers will benefit from the ability to enjoy the full web-browsing functionality on Java mobile phones as well as an icon-based display that is easy to personalise. In addition, customers will be able
to take advantage of an easy zoom in and out feature which automatically fits the mobile screen and on selected handsets the ability to view video content from popular sites such as YouTube.
At the same time, web pages are compressed by up to 90 per cent before being sent to the customer’s handset, which means that browsing is fast even in areas of relatively low network speeds. As a result, the handset is able to devote more of its resources to giving the user a high quality browsing experience.
In early trials in Vodafone Egypt, more than 400,000 customers downloaded the product in a month.
As part of the global framework agreement with Opera Software, selected Vodafone operating companies will be able to pre-embed the Vodafone version of the Opera Mini browser on Java-based portfolio handsets or encourage customers to download it themselves.
“We are confident that the agreement with Opera Software will help to ensure that customers will be able to enjoy an even more fulfilling mobile internet experience on their handsets” said Pieter Knook, Vodafone
Internet Services Director.
“The agreement between Vodafone and Opera empowers more people around the world to benefit from a fast and user-friendly mobile internet experience,” said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software.
For additional information or to arrange a briefing during Mobile World Congress, please contact julies@opera.com. Opera’s booth is located in Hall 2, Stand 2B77.
About Opera Software ASA
Opera Software ASA has redefined Web browsing for PCs, mobile phones and other networked devices. Opera’s cross-platform Web browser technology is renowned for its performance, standards compliance and small size, while giving users a faster, safer and more dynamic online experience. Opera Software is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with offices around the world.
The company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol OPERA. Learn more about Opera at http://www.opera.com/.
About Vodafone
Vodafone is the world’s leading mobile telecommunications company, with equity interests in 27 countries and Partner Markets in more than 40 countries. As of 31 December 2008, Vodafone had approximately 289 million proportionate customers worldwide. For further information, please visit www.vodafone.com.
Julie Sajnani
Communications Manager
Opera Software
Mobile: +47 9710 2027
Direct: +47 2369 3355
www.opera.com
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MWC: Android to be upstaged by Symbian after all Look!
3 years ago
by admin
in Phones & Devices
Every time Google’s marketing machine seems to have made Android untouchable, the more mature mobile operating systems bite back.
Until last week it seemed clear that Android would overshadow its rivals at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona – with Apple absent, Microsoft making do with a interim upgrade to Windows Mobile, and Symbian in transition to its new open source model. But now Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Motorola will not, after all, show Android models at MWC; the main Linux alternative to Android, LiMo, is mounting a big public relations comeback with its new release; and today Symbian has signed 14 new members and convincingly upstaged the upstart.
There had been hopes for a big wave of Android handset launches to add credibility and marketing pzazz to the software platform, but the main new models on display will be from the only existing supplier, HTC, plus niche entrants like Garmin/Asus. Motorola, Samsung and Sony Ericsson have all promised Android phones later this year, but none looks set to unveil one in Barcelona. Samsung confirmed this week that it had delayed its Android launch until the second half of the year, and seems intent on signing up one or more major carrier partners before going public. This may indicate hitches in its negotiations with US cellcos, since Samsung had been previously reported to be close to agreements with T-Mobile USA and Sprint Nextel, for an Android touchscreen looking similar to the Windows-based Omnia.
Younghee Lee, head of marketing at the mobile device division, said the Korean giant would not be showing an Android device in Spain.
So with Android making less of a splash than expected, Symbian is grabbing the limelight. Just in time for MWC, the Symbian Foundation has announced 14 new members, including the mighty Qualcomm. This has increased speculation that, following the truce in their long running patent licensing dispute last summer, Qualcomm and Nokia are drawing closer and this could lead to a chip deal for the US vendor, most probably for its advanced MID platform Snapdragon. Qualcomm has, to date, worked most closely with Android and Windows Mobile, but is now likely to run Symbian on Snapdragon and other processors. Nokia, which has postponed its customary confirmation of its chip vendors for 2010, is rumored to be in talks with Qualcomm over a deal that would have been inconceivable until this year.
The Symbian Foundation now numbers 78 members (Android has 47) and the presence of Bank of America and Gemalto indicates the Nokia-led group’s interest in mobile payments, while the web services giants are getting interested too, with MySpace joining up. Another interesting entrant is Hewlett-Packard, which is trying to push its handset activities beyond the enterprise and Windows. Others include Imagination Technologies, SiRF (being acquired by CSR), SanDisk, Atelier, Mobica, Nanoradio, Omron Software, SESCA and VirtualLogix. Nokia expects to release the first Symbian Foundation software this year and introduce a new platform by June 2010.
