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Apple buys fingerprint sensor firm AuthenTec for $356 million

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http://www.zdnet.com – Enterprise loves hardware that incorporate fingerprint readers, now Apple is in a position to add this feature to Macs and iOS devices. (General)

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Enterprises love hardware that incorporates fingerprint readers. Now Apple is in a position to add the feature to Macs and iOS devices.

Hi, I've installed openSUSE 12.3 in my Sony VAIO VPCSA3J1E. My lsusb is listing: Bus 001 Device 003: ID 08ff:168f AuthenTec, Inc. AES1660 Fingerprint Sensor I use this Fingerprint in Windows 7 Home Premium and in Ubuntu 12.04.2. It works. In Yast2 the fingerprint is not recognized.

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will use $356 million of its nearly $120 billion cash hoard to snap up AuthenTec (NASDAQ: AUTH), a 217-employee, Melbourne, Fla.-based mobile security vendor. The deal will pay AuthenTec’s shareholders $8 per share or a 60 percent bump over Thursday’s $5.07 closing price. AuthenTec, founded in 1998, makes fingerprint sensors and identity management software.

Hi. I have an old Dell vostro 1320 laptop. I installed fedora 16 on it, every thing works good. but I want to login with fingerprint. My fingerprint model is:

Code: 147e:1000 Upek Biometric Touchchip/Touchstrip Fingerprint Sensor Fedora can support this fingerprint and I can enable "fingerprint login" in "User Accounts" Dialog box.

I've followed just about every fprint guide I can find, but my fingerprint reader on my HP dm4-3090se still does not work. The driver cannot be found.

Is there no compatible driver for the AES2665 fingerprint reader?

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Hello! Can you tell me, how can i change my wallpaper using cm7 in lock screen, if fingerprint sensor enabled? Specifically, I would like to get rid of the fingerprint icon on the lockscreen. Thx!

Hello everyone.

After reading a guide on my laptop built-in fingerprint reader and how to get it to work, I am having troubles.

http://www.aldeby.org/blog/howto-ubu.../9#fingerprint

Hi all,I have a new HP dv6 with a fingerprint reader from Validity Sensors. Me, and a lot of other HP owners are unable to use the fingerprint reader, because there are no linux drivers for it (even fprint wouldn't recognize it).Now, the Validity sensor website has provided a linux setup for the reader, but it is only in rpm.