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<title>Rumor: next iPhone to replace home button with 'touch' surface</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/05/14/would.perform.the.same.as.current.mechanical.button.report.says/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1368549327_Apple-iPhone-homebutton-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Rumors that Apple was going to incorporate a fingerprint sensor in the home button of the next iPhone still have no evidence to support them behind Apple's acquisition of Authentec in 2012. A new rumor has thus appeared, saying that Apple plans to do away with the physical push-style home button entirely in the next iPhone release, replacing it with a capacitive touch area that would perform the s...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Sources says fingerprint tech causing next-gen iPhone delay</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/04/22/device.originally.expect.to.start.production.in.june/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1347545379_iphone5-white.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Production of a next-generation iPhone -- commonly labeled the iPhone 5S -- may be delayed, Reuters says.  Japanese and Taiwanese supplier sources tell the news agency that 5S production was originally expected to start in June, but that Apple may be encountering manufacturing issues.  In particular, one source says that Apple is building a fingerprint sensor into the phone, but having trouble fin...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>New Apple job listing hints at fingerprint tech plans</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/04/08/company.making.unusual.florida.hires/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn3.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1343396580_authentec.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A new Apple job listing may hint at some of the company's plans for fingerprint technology, notes AppleInsider.  The company is currently searching for a software engineer, to be based in Melbourne, Florida.  The successful hire will be required to work on software related to integrated circuit design, including LabTool, an app used at Apple's "Melbourne Design Center."...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Fingerprint, NFC tech coming to iPhone 5S, report claims</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/03/11/would.presumably.use.tech.acquired.from.authentec/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1347545379_iphone5-white.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The iPhone 5S will implement both NFC and a fingerprint sensor, the China Times alleges.  A Taiwanese company, Chipbond, will reportedly provide touch display drivers and some other necessary parts.  The fingerprint system is expected to operate in service of the NFC, providing extra security for mobile payments.  It should also be based on development work by AuthenTec, a company Apple bought out...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple-owned AuthenTec sells off embedded security division</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/11/19/company.likely.ditching.parts.unwanted.by.apple/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn3.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1343396580_authentec.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[AuthenTec is selling off its embedded security solutions division to another firm, Inside Secure, says NFC World.  The reason for the move hasn't been disclosed.  AuthenTec was bought out by Apple earlier this year, however, and the latter is likely trying to get rid of unwanted parts of AuthenTec that use technology it doesn't need, or have clients it doesn't intend to support. In September, a...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Fingerprint identification flaw allows PC password retrieval</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/10/09/apple.owned.authentecs.software.at.fault.exploit.available/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1349838268_gatewayfingerprintreader-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Several PC security firms have independently verified a weakness in Authentek's UPEK Protector Suite that allows hostile users with physical control of a machine to rapidly recover Windows account passwords. The software is pre-installed in Windows-based PCs by makers including Dell, Gateway, NEC, Samsung, Sony, and Toshiba. An open-source exploit of the flaw has been released by a pair of securit...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>AuthenTec preparing to cut off non-Apple customers in 2013</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/09/24/samsung.hp.lenovo.among.affected.parties/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn3.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1343396580_authentec.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Fingerprint technology company AuthenTec will be cutting off all of its non-Apple customers starting in 2013, a Korean report says.  This includes companies like Samsung, HP, Dell, Lenovo, and Fujitsu.  Apple bought out AuthenTec in July, and as is normally the case for the company, the acquisition appears to have been solely to support its own products.  AuthenTec clients are allegedly "in a stat...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>SEC filing reveals details of Apple's AuthenTec buyout</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/08/16/apple.aiming.after.new.technology.for.products/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1343396580_authentec.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A PREM14A proxy statement filing with the SEC has exposed some of the details of Apple's acquisition of AuthenTec in late July.  Talks between the companies are said to have begun "late in 2011," after AuthenTec approached "several leading consumer electronics companies" about providing a new technology it had created.  Apple was the only business to respond; AuthenTec suggests that the main reaso...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple buys AuthenTec in deal worth $356 million</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/07/27/could.bolster.security.in.ios.devices/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1343396580_authentec.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple has signed a deal to buy a Florida-based company, AuthenTec, at a price of $8 per share or about $356 million, Reuters says.  That's a premium of 58 percent over AuthenTec's Thursday closing value.  While largely unknown to the public, the firm makes fingerprint sensor chips used in computers, and various other forms of security software and chips for cellphones; some of the company's cli...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Fujitsu ships waterproof, fingerprinting cellphone</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/01/19/fujitsu.waterproof.phone/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0901/fujitsuf01aintro.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Maker of fingerprint sensors, AuthenTec, announced on Sunday that Fujitsu has started shipping the F-01A handset, the world's first with IPX5 and IPX7 waterfproof specifications and a fingerprint scanner. The handset is being offered by Japan's NTT DoCoMo wireless provider, and can remain submerged under up to nearly 3.3 feet of water for up to 30 minutes. The phone is also the first to utilize Au...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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