RE: johnboy911; AuthenTec and BIO-key partnership.
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AuthenTec and BIO-key® International Collaborate on Fingerprint-enabled Enterprise Solutions for Apple and Android Phones.
• Will demonstrate solutions that combine AuthenTec sensors with BIO-key’s Fingerprint Mobile Identification Devices at CTIA Enterprise and Applications 2011
October 10, 2011 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
MELBOURNE, Fla. & WALL, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AuthenTec (NASDAQ: AUTH), a leading provider of security and identity management solutions, and BIO-key International, Inc. (OTCBB:BKYI.OB), a global leader in finger biometric identification technology and advanced mobile identification solutions, today announced a partnership to create mobile enterprise solutions that combine AuthenTec fingerprint sensors with BIO-key’s Fingerprint Mobile Identification Devices (FMIDs) and server-side fingerprint matching technology.
AuthenTec and BIO-key solutions include an AuthenTec fingerprint sensor-equipped sleeve or plug-in for iOS, Android and Win Mobile devices that allow users to securely connect to a network server or cloud and gain access to enterprise applications, corporate e-mail, banking or financial applications in a secure yet extremely convenient manner. BIO-key currently offers FMID solutions for the full iOS and Win Mobile platforms, along with some Android phones such as the Motorola Atrix. The Companies will demonstrate their solutions in the AuthenTec booth (#201) this week at CTIA Enterprise & Applications 2011 at the San Diego Convention Center.
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A few weeks after the CTIA BIO-key canceled their merger with S.I.C. Biometrics.
A few months after that BIO-key appeared on Apple's iTunes web page.
A few weeks after that the Sacramento City Clerks Office announced they were going to test using Apple iPhones.
" WALL, N.J., Feb. 27, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BIO-key International, Inc. (OTCBB:BKYI), a global leader in fingerprint biometric identification solutions and advanced mobile identification technology, today reported that the company has provided a mobile, state of the art, fingerprint biometric identity solution demo for the city clerk's office in Sacramento, CA. BIO-key, partnered with Fulcrum Biometrics to provide mobile fingerprint authentication for city staff processing acknowledgement and approval documents, utilizing the Apple iPhone.
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A few months after that Apple buys AuthenTec.
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