
ClassifEye, Ltd, a developer of fingerprint recognition and m-commerce
solutions, today announced that it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program to support the growing market for Symbian smartphones by extending ClassifEye?s solution to the Symbian ecosystem.
ClassifEye unique, software-only, technology leverages the on-board camera for secure authentication and non-repudiation necessary for mobile commerce and other customer verification challenges.
ClassifEye software eliminates the necessity for costly biometric hardware integration and is downloadable to existing camera smartphones.
Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS?, the market leading operatingsystem for smartphones. Symbian OS is licensed by the world?s leadingmobile phone manufacturers and to date, over 110 million Symbian smartphones have shipped worldwide to over 250 major network operators.
Smartphones represent the fastest growing segment within mobile, growing
at 46.6% compared to mobile at 21% year on year growth Q305 to Q306
reported analyst firm IDC. With IDC?s forecast of cumulative global shipments of smartphones due to pass the one billion mark by 2011,
Symbian OS represents one of the biggest commercial opportunities in mobile.
Fingerprint recognition plays an important role in enabling smartphones to be used in many different ways,? said Craig Heath, Senior Product Manager, Symbian. ?Making secure mobile payments, and accessing corporate networks or personal bank accounts from smartphones are becoming increasingly popular around the world, and ClassifEye?s innovative, biometric developments have contributed significantly to this. The addition of ClassifEye to the Symbian Platinum Program underscores our joint vision that strong authentication technology will help lead to the future success of smartphones.