Thanks to Bilboo and his "swipes" (pun intended) at me, I actually found out some interesting data. ZWIPE licensed a patent from that Oslo-Norway biometric sensor company that he mentioned, which IS THE PATENT for biometrics fingerprint usage on a credit/debit/POS card, inclusive of power management. You see, the executives hired by that Oslo-Norway company CAME FROM AUTHENTEC when it was purchased by APPLE. That company took the remaining technology Apple didn't want, and came up with a new type of sensor that doesn't include silicon. There is no chance in hell, IMHO, that SMME can even apply for a patent for biometrics on a card - maybe power management alone, or EMV protocol structures, but not integrating biometrics on the card. Period. ZWIPE did things properly - they licensed the rights to use that IP on their card, and ANY card issuer that uses ANY OTHER COMPANY'S card will have to deal with ZWIPE. Just like the Medical USB Flash Drive (thats whats its called technically - not a keyring), where another company developed and patented the technology, and it seemed that (SEEMED) that SMME just copied it thinking YOU GUYS would;t know ant better.
I could be wrong, but what I am saying can be easily verified, and I am NOT doing THAT for you. So stock promoters, beware - I am letting you know that you cannot hype a company blindly and probably, as former stock brokers - you should do your research and not rely on what a company tells you it has.
