On Dec. 12, Synaptics (NASDAQ: SYNA), a company that's bet heavily on building and selling fingerprint scanning technology for use in smartphones, announced that it has gone into mass production on a ...

A device's user interface improvement sometimes gets taken for granted, that is, until it completely changes the game, as was the case with the Apple iPhone. PCs are no different as we are moving into ...

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Attempts to move beyond password authentication look to have just received a nice little boost, with interface-specialists Synaptics announcing its new Match-in-Sensor, billed as the first ...

Synaptics said this week that it is working with Microsoft to bring touchpads with integrated fingerprint sensors to PC hardware makers, making Microsoft’s Windows Hello technology available to more ...

For Synaptics, the business of making fingerprint readers a part of smartphones is still in its infancy. Last year, Apple drummed up attention for the benefits of unlocking a smartphone with the ...

Synaptics today announced that it has begun mass production of its Clear ID FS9500 optical in-display fingerprint sensors in partnership with a "top five" manufacturer, suggesting at least one major ...

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Consider the trackpad. The ones in Windows laptops are rarely (if ever) their best feature, but they nevertheless remain ubiquitous. Synaptics is one of the biggest names in trackpads, and today it ...

It was just a month ago when LG Innotek unveiled its under-glass fingerprint sensor, but it's clearly not the only company working on this space. At Computex, the folks over at Synaptics were kind ...

Soon your phone’s fingerprint sensor could last a whole lot longer and be a whole lot more durable. Synaptics has taken the wraps off of a new optical fingerprint sensor that can scan fingerprints ...