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Scout is a wireless security system that starts at $120 and is completely removable. The handsomely-designed units can protect windows and doors in your home and you can program reactions to various events including and up to calling the police.

I've seen a number of home alarm systems come and go over the years and this one, at least, has that…

Apple had a new patent application published by the USPTO today, describing an unlocking method for digital devices that uses image identification to properly recognize an authorized user. The system would present a user with photographs from their iPhoto or iCloud collections, and then ask them to identify who or what the subject is in order to unlock the device.

Optimum Biometric Labs has developed and launched a comprehensive series of BioUptime Partner Programs. A working partnership is essential for business growth and for creating customer success stories which are the principles behind the design of these programs.

The BioUptime Partner Programs are Integrator & Solution Partner, Value-Added Reseller (VAR) Partner, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Partner, Managed Service Provider (MSP) Partner, BioUptime Ready™ Partner, and Deployment & Consulting Partner.

Amid fierce smartphone competition between Samsung and Apple that has spilled into a multinational patent battle, it looks like Apple may have opened yet another front on the M&A side: it is buying mobile security company AuthenTec -- which had only just signed a deal with Samsung for Android devices -- for $356 million.

AuthenTec, among other things, makes fingerprint sensor chips that are used for security and identification purposes; these are embedded in computing devices.

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