Child Care Security Gets a Little More Mission: Impossible
Kidnappers, take heed — you will need more than a key code to break into new high-tech child care centers, which are turning to biometrics for security.
Why Pay By Touch was doomed from the start
You can't say nobody saw Pay By Touch's demise coming. Remember the recent college grad Pay By Touch CEO John Rogers said he would sic a former Israeli secret agent on? Here's an executive summary of the paper he wrote back in 2004 titled "Credit Card Fraud, Biometrics, and the Pay By Touch Method."
Pay By Touch founder files for bankruptcy
John Rogers, the founder of biometrics startup Pay By Touch, has filed for personal bankruptcy, the San Francisco Business Times reports. On top of that, four employees are seeking $60,000 or more in back pay from the company, and are trying to force Pay By Touch into bankruptcy to get what they're owed. Pay By…
Pay By Touch to close up shop?
Despite glowing reviews in the press for its biometric payment system, "serial venture raisers (and huge burners)" Pay By Touch is going under, a tipster tells us — and hints that a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing is possible. Apparently founder and chairman John Rogers has gone missing after a tenure marked by what…
Some gasoline purchasers in Chicago can now purchase gas using fingerprint scanners installed at pumps and cash registers at Shell stations. Customers will have their fingerprints scanned at a machine inside the station and then can purchase gas by swiping their finger, rather than a credit card. One store manager…
