Biometric Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

iPhone appealing as BYOD smartphone thanks to security warning

by Steven Sande (Oct 16th, 2012)

When it comes to mobile devices in enterprises, Apple's iOS platform leads the way. But according to an opinion post by Computerworld's Jonny Evans, iOS may become even more dominant in enterprise computing thanks to a security warning about Android devices that came from the Internet Crime ...

Biometric face recognition for jailbroken iPhones with RecognizeMe

by Samuel Gibbs (May 18th, 2011)

Have you ever wished your iPhone 4 would recognize your face and let you past the lock screen? RecognizeMe, a facial recognition lock screen tweak for the jailbroken iPhone 4, does just that. Simply hit the RecognizeMe button on the lock screen and let the phone scan your face using the front ...

Apple's biometric heartbeat patent: And the beat goes on

by David Winograd (May 6th, 2010)

The US Patent and Trademark Office has posted information about a really interesting patent that Apple applied for in January. Patent application 20100113950 describes a new technology that would bring a heart monitoring biometric security system to electronic devices. Biometrics are nothing new. ...

Secure your Mac: Eikon biometric security

by Mat Lu (Sep 25th, 2007)

TUAW has lately been trying to help you Secure Your Mac, and while a few options have been available, biometric security is one area in which the Mac has seemed to lag behind the Windows side. Now UPEK has released a preview of the Mac version of their Eikon Digital Privacy Manager. The software ...