AuthenTec Opens New Office, Expands Technical Team in Japan.New Sales and Application Center Enables AuthenTec to Address Growing Demand for Fingerprint Sensors MELBOURNE, Fla. and TOKYO -- AuthenTec (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :AUTH AUTH Authority/Authorization/Authorized AUTH Author Auth Authentication AUTH Aristotle University of Thessaloniki AUTH Authentication Service ), the world's leading provider of fingerprint sensors and solutions, announced that it is expanding operations in Asia with the opening of a new sales office and application center in Tokyo, Japan. The new office and application staff expansion in Tokyo will enhance AuthenTec's customer support and allow the Company to respond to the growing demand for fingerprint sensors. AuthenTec has had a sales office and technical center in Japan since 2005, and its fingerprint sensor sales in Japan have nearly doubled from 2004 to 2007. Japan has been a key region supporting the rapid deployment of fingerprint sensor-enabled cell phones, PCs and other consumer electronics. More than 20 million PCs use an AuthenTec fingerprint sensor for convenient security and the Company is a sensor supplier to the majority of PC manufacturers in Japan. Moreover, nearly 9 million cell phones in Japan include an AuthenTec sensor to support m-commerce, online banking and for securing the device in the event of loss or theft. "Our new office and application support center in Tokyo will give AuthenTec better access to customers and enhanced resources to address the growing opportunity for our portfolio of products in Japan," said Kengo Kobayashi, President of AuthenTec K.K. "With an expanded technical staff and a new location in the business center of Tokyo, AuthenTec looks forward to offering enhanced support to the world's leading OEMs operating and based in Japan including Casio-Hitachi Mobile, Fujitsu, JRC JRC abbr. Junior Red Cross , Kyocera, Lenovo, Mitsubishi, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Panasonic, Sanyo, Sharp, Sony and Toshiba." AuthenTec will offer fingerprint sensor sales, field applications engineering and technical support through its new Tokyo location at the following address: White Akasaka Bldg. 5F 5-4-13 Akasaka Minato-ku Tokyo 107-0052 Phone: 03-5114-5688 FAX: 03-5114-5689 About AuthenTec With more than 30 million sensors sold worldwide, AuthenTec is a world leader in providing fingerprint authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. sensors and solutions to the high-volume PC, wireless device, and access control markets. AuthenTec's award-winning sensors take full advantage of The Power of Touch[R] 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 See authentication. . The Company's customers include: Acer Acer trees of the family Aceraceae. Acer rubrum ingestion of wilted or dries leaves of this tree causes acute hemolytic anemia characterized by red urine, jaundice, anemia and methemoglobinemia in horses. , ASUSTeK, Fujitsu, HP, Hitachi, HTC HTC HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) Component HTC High Tech Computer Corp (Taiwan, China) HTC Hennepin Technical College (Minnesota) HTC High-Throughput Computing , Lenovo, LG Electronics, Samsung, and Toshiba, among others. |
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