subject: Apple Iphone Might Include Fingerprint Authentication Through Authentec Acquisition [print this page] A month earlier, the story bankrupted about Apple purchasing AuthenTec, the purveyors of the digital security and mobile security solutions including the fingerprint authentication. Whereas Apple buys, like Intrisity and Siri seem to recommend outsource iPhone Development, the portfolio of AuthenTec as well as lack of branded security in Apple has made intuiting the deal a bit less obvious However now the PREM14A proxy report papers are filed.
Apple's iPad and iPhone has become stronghold in today's project setting, taking into consideration the higher security levels, which an iOS platform provides over its main opponent Android. However with Apple's latest attainment in iOS Development, the security company named AuthenTec Inc, the future versions of iPad, iPhone, and MacBook could become even safer with the fingerprint-based built in identification.
Apple hardly ever makes the big-ticket acquisitions in the iOS Development. However when they does, the consumers as well as the competitors might usually need to be careful for the feature inclusions within the product lines of iOS Development. The latest acquisition the Apple involves AuthenTec, the firm, which specializes in the mobile security as well as counts numerous of the Apple's competitors like Samsung, Motorola, Nokia, LG, and HP within its clientele.
Data Protection and Security
As per AuthenTec, the Apple has decided to acquire company by paying $ 8 for every share, with the total sum of $ 356 million USD which ultimately helps in outsource iPhone Development. A K-8 heading with Securities & Exchange Commission says that AuthenTec has entered into the Intellectual Property as well as Technology Agreement in the company of Apple on Thursday that gives this Cupertino-based Smartphone manufacturer a non-exclusive license of AuthenTec's software and hardware technologies and its patent collection to help the iOS Development.
The main offerings of AuthenTec include network security, content protection and data security. The more interesting thing is the fingerprint security of AuthenTec for mobile as well as desktop devices. It is mainly completed through TouchChip fingerprint modules and sensors that offer condensed size as well as power requirements in relation to the optical-based fingerprint clarifications.
As per AuthenTec, it has previously shipped 100 million sensors, from which 20 million are already installed into the mobiles, as a result of rapid iOS Development. Will it mean that the future iPad, iPhone, and MacBooks could come with the in-built fingerprint-verification technology?
Apple's increasing Patent Portfolio
It cannot be just be fingerprinting, because AuthenTec does not business only in the fingerprint-related technologies. Apple also advantages from the NFC payment security technology from AuthenTec. Apple can be having planning to implement additional secured NFC-based payments into future iPhones.
Despite fingerprint hardware, NFC, and Apples iOS Development, the advantages from the 200 patents in technology associating to the fingerprinting that are considered as "foundational" of this exacting branch of the biometrics.
One notable thing is that the AuthenTec has signed the agreement with the Samsung last week for bundling AuthenTec QuickSec mobile VPN client into Galaxy line tablets and Smart phones and iOS Development of the Korean firm. Will it further escalate cerebral property dispute among Samsung and Apple in the enduring patent wars?
