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Panasonic offers DigitalPersona biometrics on workstation

Thursday, October 8, 2009

DigitalPersona, a developer of biometrics systems, has announced that their U.are.U fingerprint sensor will be available as an installed upgrade for electronics company Panasonic’s workstation desktop computers called Stingray JS-950.

The sensor is in a modular case and is able to be attached to either side of the display screen of the Stingray.

Although the U.are.U system comes as both an embedded and separate device, Panasonic opted to utilize the embedded option for their computers. The deal with DigitalPersona nor the upgrade include any software necessary to operate the devices pre-installed, but many developers including DigitalPersona have software that works with the U.are.U sensor. [end] 

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