Press Release
Cherry takes over division for input devices
with fingerprint sensors from Siemens
Auerbach, 2003-10-20.
Cherry GmbH has taken over the development, production and marketing of
input devices with fingerprint sensors from Siemens' information and communication
division (called "Siemens Mobile").
As one of the world's leading manufacturers
of data input devices, Cherry has thus extended its product range and will
continue to promote the development of end user equipment in this sector.
Cherry has already cooperated successfully
with Siemens Mobile in the past to develop products such as keyboards with
integrated fingerprint sensors and to bring them on to the market. Besides
the development of new products Cherry will also safeguard service and
support for Siemens Mobile products for end users that are already on the
market (ID Mouse and ID Mouse Professional) through its partner, the Bromba
GmbH company.
Bromba will also take over Siemens Mobile's
business concerning recognition algorithms for the identification of users
by their fingerprints and Bromba will continue development work.
Cherry contact for editors:
Cherry GmbH, Press Office, Robert Michalke,
Tel.: 09643/ 18- 1132, Fax: 18- 1295
E-Mail: robert.michalke@cherry.de
Siemens contact for editors:
Siemens mobile, Press Office, Florian
Kreutz, Tel.: 089/636-37678, Fax: 089/636-53484
E-Mail: florian.kreutz@siemens.com
Bromba contact for editors:
Bromba GmbH, Dr. Manfred Bromba, Tel.
089/32668932, Fax: 089/32668931
Background on the Cherry GmbH company
Cherry is one of the world's leading suppliers
of high-tech products. Keyboards, electronic modules and assemblies made
by Cherry ensure that performance is safe, easy and reliable in data input
systems, electronic assemblies for household appliances, industrial applications
or in the car industry. With factories in Europe, America and Asia and
sales offices and marketing partners in almost every country in the world,
Cherry takes direct care of the interests of its customers at a local level.
As one of the world's leading manufacturers of data input devices, Cherry
develops and manufactures standard and customized keyboards and computer
mice. They may be radio controlled or be fitted with additional options
such as freely programmable function keys, magnetic card and smart card
readers for the health service, for secure home banking, internet transactions
and access control, e.g. using the biometric technology such as fingerprint
recognition.
Background on Siemens Mobile
Siemens' information and communication division
(Siemens Mobile) covers the whole range of radio-controlled equipment including
end equipment, network infrastructures and mobile applications. End equipment
ranges from mobile telephones and wireless transmission modules to mobile
organizers to cordless telephones and products for wireless home networks.
Infrastructure products range from GSM, GPRS and 3G network technology
for base stations to network technology to intelligent networks, e.g. for
prepaid services. The range of mobile applications comprises end-to-end
solutions such as messaging, local services or solutions for mobile payment.
In the 2002 financial year ending on 30 September, the division made a
turnover of 11 billion EUR and employed around 28,600 staff worldwide.
Background on the Bromba GmbH company
The core business of Bromba GmbH consists
of advising companies who wish to upgrade their products - hardware and
software - by biometric identification and who, without impairing security,
wish to save their customers the considerable costs incurred by the increasing
necessity of the use of passwords. Here, the customers of Bromba GmbH can
rely on the experience of the company's staff who have been involved for
more than 6 years in the development of series products from Siemens such
as the ID Mouse, the ID Mouse Professional, the TopSec ID Module and the
associated software. One of the main activities of Bromba GmbH is the further
development of the Fingerprint Software Development Kit (SDK), which was
recently taken over from Siemens. In the near future Bromba GmbH will offer
an SDK with a new license model that supports almost all common sensors
and sensor devices, or which is prepared to do so, and that has additional
security features. |
