“Michael Barrett, chief information security officer of PayPal, hinted that Apple and other smartphone manufacturers are going to incorporate fingerprint readers on their smartphones as part of new way to protect personal information,” Chris Ciaccia reports for BGR. “‘It’s widely rumored that a large technology provider in Cupertino, Calif., will come out with a phone later this year that has a fingerprint reader on it,’ he said.”
“This rumor has been around for a while, but it’s the first time we’ve heard an executive at a major company seemingly confirm it,” Ciaccia reports. “‘There is going to be a fingerprint enabled phone on the market later this year,’ Barrett said during a keynote address at Interop. ‘Not just one, multiple.'”
Ciaccia reports, “Apple’s purchase of AuthenTec is going to play a major part in this. It was a shrewd move that CEO Tim Cook made that has gone largely unnoticed.”
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