Mobile ID World President Peter O’Neill recently spoke with Kevin Alan Tussy, CEO, FaceTec. ZoOm, FaceTec’s software-based facial recognition solution, stands out for its combination of identity matching and robust liveness detection. The following interview details how ZoOm’s liveness feature works, how the solution fits into the current mobile biometrics landscape, the innovative B2B, Free2C business model…
Mobile ID World President Peter O’Neill recently spoke with Dr. Hemant Mardia, Managing Director and CEO, IDEX. Thanks to its off-chip flexible sensor solutions, IDEX is a big name in the current biometric smart card market that is being pursued by the world’s leading fingerprint sensor companies. The interview begins with an overview of how IDEX’s technology varies…
Mobile ID World is in Barcelona this week for Mobile World Congress 2017. Tuesday morning at the conference’s Innovation City exhibit, Mobile ID World and FindBiometrics president Peter O’Neill caught up with David Pollington, the GSMA’s head of Applications & Services. The conversation starts on the topic of how authentication technology fits into the 5G…
Peter O’Neill, president of Mobile ID World had a chance to speak with Javier Mira, CEO and co-founder of FacePhi. The conversation starts with a review of what an excellent year 2016 has been for FacePhi, goes on to cover the challenges of deploying biometrics in the financial arena, and discusses the importance of industry…
(The following interview was originally posted 10/12/2016 on FindBiometrics. The events previewed at the end of the article have already come to pass) One of the big showstopping events of this year’s recent Global Identity Summit was the Bratwurst, Beer and Biometrics party hosted by Germany-based JENETRIC. The festivities served as a stage for the company…
Princeton Identity is a biometrics company that has recently spun off as independent from SRI International. Mobile ID World President Peter O’Neill recently had a chance to speak with Mark Clifton, CEO of Princeton Identity, about the inception of the company, its relationship with Samsung, the mobile applications of its technology, and also the vertical markets…
Mobile ID World President Peter O’Neill recently interviewed Richard Lobovsky, VP of Financial Services Solutions, and Shankar Saibabu, Director of Financial Services Solutions Architecture, Samsung SDS America, Inc. The conversation is an in depth examination of Samsung SDS America’s approach to biometrics. It begins with a discussion of the company’s recently launched FIDO Certified biometric authentication solution. It…
Today marks the start of the 2016 Global Identity Summit (GIS) in Tampa, Florida, and Crossmatch is there. The biometrics company is slated to unveil its latest solution, what Crossmatch’s Government Market Director Ben Ball calls “the thinnest, lightest FAP60 size TFT (thin film transistor) sensor to date… the first truly mobile 4 finger capture…
As connectivity speeds up and spreads out, security and authentication are becoming prime concerns in the Internet of Things and an increasingly mobile-first society. Addressing these concerns, we see voice biometrics and intelligent authentication solutions on the rise. Dan Miller, lead analyst and founder of Opus Research—who many readers will recall was a special guest…
On the occasion of the recent one year anniversary of the historic OPM breach, which resulted in the compromise of millions of fingerprints, Mobile ID World president Peter O’Neill had a chance to speak with Phillip Dunkelberger, CEO, Nok Nok Labs. The conversation, which was recorded before MWC Shanghai, is an in depth discussion on the…
Peter O’Neill, president of Mobile ID World, recently conducted an interview with Michael Shao, CEO of Aratek—a global biometrics company, based in China, that specializes in fingerprint recognition hardware and software solutions. Offering everything from simple fingerprint modules, to advanced ten-print scanners, and the software and middleware that allows for integration, Aratek is capable of…
It’s an exciting time for identity management solutions provider ImageWare. Having been officially accredited as a Technology Partner in the Amazon Web Services Partner Network this past March, the company is now preparing to launch its flagship GoVerifyID system on Amazon’s cloud computing platform. And given its track record with previous successful deployments, ImageWare’s multimodal, multi-factor…
Mobile ID World president Peter O’Neill recently had the opportunity to speak with Javier Mira, Executive Vice-President, FacePhi. The conversation begins with a history of FacePhi and the company’s powerful mobile biometric banking solution. The two also talk about FacePhi’s involvement in the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program and why 2015 was a validating year…
Earlier this month, Mobile ID World president Peter O’Neill attended Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, a mobile industry leading event hosted by GSMA. This year, biometrics and digital identity were massive topics of interest at MWC, as were IoT, mobile payments, and virtual reality. All in all, it was a landmark event for the…
Peter O’Neill, president of Mobile ID World, recently spoke with Kevin Alan Tussy, the CEO of FaceTec. FaceTec made massive headlines in the press after its work applying facial recognition to Google Glass, and since then it has been capitalizing on the demand for strong authentication on mobile devices. The following conversation covers the notable flexibility…
We are on the verge of Mobile World Congress (MWC) in 2016 in Barcelona, Spain, where Morpho (Safran) will be showing off a wide range of solutions under the overarching banner or “Enjoying life in a connected world.” In preparation for next week’s major mobility event, Mobile ID World president Peter O’Neill spoke with…
Mobile ID World president Peter O’Neill recently spoke with Salil Prabhakar, CEO of Delta ID. The conversation begins with a short history of the iris biometrics company and their major contributions to the biometrics industry. The interview then delves into the world of iris authentication on mobile devices, FinTech applications, and what to expect from Delta…
Interview with Anil D. Aggarwal, Founder, Shoptalk There’s a new financial industry event in town. It’s called Shoptalk, and it’s being described as “the first large-scale NextGen Commerce event.” Founded by the same entrepreneurial minds that previously brought us Money20/20, Shoptalk aims to give a platform to the individuals who are reshaping the very concept of…
Fingerprint Cards (FPC) was recently named 2015’s best performing stock in Europe. The fingerprint sensor company had its technology launched on dozens of smartphones over the year and already in 2016 we see no indication of this trend slowing down. Mobile ID World president Peter O’Neill spoke with Jörgen Lantto, president and CEO of Fingerprint…
Last week we reported on new research from Goode Intelligence on the state of mobile biometrics in FinTech. Regular readers of Mobile ID World will no doubt be aware that the intersection of said technologies is a hot space right now, but Goode’s numbers are very exciting: among the firm’s key findings is a forecast…
