July 27th, 2012

Apple Buys Samsung’s Android Security Partner AuthenTec For $356M

Apple buys AuthenTec

Amid fierce smartphone competition between Samsung and Apple that has spilled into a multinational patent battle, it looks like Apple may have opened yet another front on the M&A side: it is buying mobile security company AuthenTec — which had only just signed a deal with Samsung for Android devices — for $356 million.

AuthenTec, among other things, makes fingerprint sensor chips that are… → Read More

January 20th, 2009

Fujitsu offers world's first waterproof cell phone with integrated fingerprint security system

Fujitsu Japan has developed the F-01A [JP], the world’s first cell phone that’s waterproof and also features a security function utilizing fingerprint biometrics. In Nippon, it’s part of the line-up of NTT DoCoMo, the country’s biggest telecommunications company. → Read More