AuthenTec Biometric Fingerprint Sensor Receives BiometriTech(TM) Magazine's ''Product of the Year'' Award; World's smallest fingerprint sensor is honored for outstanding innovation.

MELBOURNE, Fla. -- BiometriTech magazine has named AuthenTec's newest biometric fingerprint sensor Product of the Year for 2005 - the third time in the past four years that the company has received the distinction for its innovative biometric solutions.

BiometriTech (www.biometritech.com), produced by Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC), gave the latest honor to AuthenTec's EntrePad 1610, the world's smallest fingerprint sensor with the most trusted security for notebook, tablet, and desktop PCs. The sensor already is adding security and convenience in PCs from Lenovo and ASUS, with additional PC models and manufacturers being introduced in the coming months.

"Each year BiometriTech magazine bestows its Product of the Year awards on companies that have demonstrated excellence in technological advancement and application refinements in the biometrics industry. AuthenTec has demonstrated to the editors of BiometriTech that its EntrePad 1610 fingerprint sensor goes the extra mile," said Rich Tehrani, President and Group Publisher of BiometriTech.

The EntrePad 1610 replaces the need to remember passwords -- allowing authorized users to easily and quickly access their favorite computer applications or internet web sites by simply sliding their finger across the sensor surface. At the same time, the sensor restricts access to the computer and its files to only those enrolled - reducing the risk of theft or fraud.

The sensor is based on AuthenTec's patented TruePrint and TrueMatch technologies, which provide the highest quality fingerprint imaging and matching -- enabling the company's extremely small sensors to provide higher accuracy and reliability than much larger competitive sensors.

The EntrePad 1610 also is the first sensor architected to leverage the breadth of existing industry security platforms - including the Trusted Computing Group's (TCG) version 1.2 Trusted Platform Module (TPM) specifications and Microsoft Vista Secure Startup -- and future platforms such as Intel's LaGrande technology. Leveraging these platforms provides the most trusted security and helps ensure that the sensor meets future industry standards.

"We are excited that BiometriTech has honored AuthenTec's EntrePad 1610 sensor," said Tom Aebli, director of PC segment marketing for AuthenTec. "Industry recognition reaffirms that we provide the critical protection needed to safeguard PC and users from a broad range of security threats such as identity theft, forgotten and burdensome passwords, and unauthorized access to online or offline files."

AuthenTec is the recognized volume supplier leader of fingerprint sensors -- shipping nearly two thirds of all sensors sold in the PC, wireless and access control markets during the past five years. The company's sensors are used in more than 150 different notebook and tablet computers, portable hard drives, mice, keyboards, memory keys, cell phones and other devices.

The Product of the Year Award winners for 2005 was published in BiometriTech magazine online (www.biometritech.com).

About AuthenTec

With more than nine million sensors in use worldwide, AuthenTec is the world leader in fingerprint sensor security, innovation and sales to the PC, wireless, and access control markets. AuthenTec's award-winning FingerLoc(R) and EntrePad(R) sensors take full advantage of The Power of Touch by utilizing the company's patented TruePrint(R) technology to deliver the most convenient, reliable and cost-effective means available for enabling touch-powered features that extend beyond user authentication. The company's network of partners, solution providers and customers include: Analog Devices, APC, ASUSTek, Compal, Cherry, Fujitsu Computer, Computer Associates, HP, IBM, Lenovo, LG Electronics, Microsoft, Motion Computing, MPC Computers, NEC Packard Bell, Pantech, Quanta, Samsung, Tatung, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, and Wistron, among others. Visit www.authentec.com.

About TMC(R)

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print magazines: Customer Interaction Solutions, Internet Telephony, IMS, and SIP; five digital publications, SIP Magazine, Speech-World, WiFI Telephony Magazine, VoIP Developer, WiMAX Magazine; and the online publications TMCnet.com, Planet PDA Magazine, WiFi Revolution, Alternative Power and BiometriTech. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. TMC also produces The VoIP Developer Conference, Speech-World Conference, IP Contact Center Summit and The Global Call Center Outsourcing Summit. TMCnet.com publishes more than 25 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit its Web site at www.tmcnet.com.