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.
JERUSALEM-- ClassifEye’s 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’s 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 operating system
for smartphones. Symbian OS is licensed by the world’s leading mobile 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.
“In today’s large and rapidly growing market, ClassifEye will significantly contribute
to the value of current advanced mobile phones and the smartphones of the future,
said Rami Cohen, CEO of ClassifEye. “The open standards core of Symbian OS allows
us to deliver highly secure, software-only fingerprint recognition solutions to
Symbian smartphones today, while being able to easily incorporate it in the smartphones
of tomorrow – across a myriad of different manufacturers and geographies”.
ClassifEye’s biometric solution is a highly compelling answer to the challenges
of securing mobile commerce transactions and ClassifEye will be working on with
Symbian to develop and market a security infrastructure that aims to drive up
ARPU for mobile carriers, cut time to market of new services and applications,
and provide consumers with reliable security and identity management.
“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.”
Notes to Editors
About the Symbian Platinum Program
The Symbian Platinum Program includes companies that have a technology or strategic
position that is key to the success of mobile computing technology surrounding
Symbian OS. As part of the program, Platinum Partners benefit from a range of
commercial services, including technical support and joint marketing opportunities
as well as privileged access to Symbian OS source code and a dedicated Partner
Support team. For more information please see www.symbian.com/partners/platinum.html
About ClassifEye
Company Background
ClassifEye develops secure fingerprint recognition technology using cellular
camera phones and enables identity management solutions for mobile markets. The
company’s proprietary technology eliminates the need for dedicated hardware (e.g.,
fingerprint sensors, USB keys and code generators), thereby reducing costs for
mass market deployment. The technology enables device security and biometric identification
for applications including mCommerce, mBanking, enterprise security etc.
ClassifEye was founded in December 2003 and recently secured an investment from
Nobska Ventures, a US based VC. www.nobskaventures.com
For more information, visit www.classifeye.com
About Symbian Ltd
Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS,
the market-leading open operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones
known as smartphones.
Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world’s leading handset manufacturers and
has built close co-operative business relationships with leading companies across
the mobile industry. During 2006, 51.7 million Symbian smartphones were sold worldwide
to over 250 major network operators, bringing the total number of Symbian smartphones
shipped up to 31 December 2006 to 110 million.
Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom, with offices in the United
States, England, the Middle-East (Israel) and Asia (India, P.R. China, Korea,
and Japan). For more information, please visit www.symbian.com.
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