Economic Times ( 17 Sept 2016 ) carries a
news report titled :
"
Top Local , Chinese Firms Game for Aadhar-ready Smartphones
"
Following are the report highlights :
Micromax, Intex, Lava
and Reliance Retail's Lyf have started discussions with Delta ID Inc to explore
using its iris-reading technology to make their phones Aadhaar-enabled, Salil Prabhakar, chief executive of the
US-based company, told ET.
Prabhakar said , " There is huge interest across the board for it. With Aadhaar enrolment in India crossing 105 crore, the potential is immense."
The technology would enable a user to authenticate his Aadhaar details by looking at a phone
having a special IRIS camera and LeD.
"ActiveIRIS
is a powerful biometric
identifier and this can be a game-changing feature in phones helping establish the identity of a person. At
Intex, we are in talks with UIDAI and
are evaluating the same," said Director Keshav Bansal.
On July 27, Ajay Bhushan Pandey, CEO of UIDAI, had met senior
executives of Apple, Samsung, Google, Microsoft, Micromax
and product software think tank iSprit to discuss ways to make handsets Aadhaar-enabled. Samsung is the only phone
maker to have already embedded the technology — Delta ID's ActiveIRIS.
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Without doubt , this is a great initiative
But what can - and will - make it a true " GAME CHANGER " , is :
: Putting " I " in the " Eye " of the E-Governance
:
By simultaneously PRE-INSTALLING the following Mobile
Apps into each Aadhar-Enabled phone
before shipping :
* BANMALI..........................................( Banishing Mal-Nutrition
in India )
·
Raining Cards ! ................................. ..............( Aadhar to replace
all other Cards )
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I wonder if
our Prime Minister , Shri Narendra Modiji , will
consider to give such a GIFT
to 1.3 Billion fellow citizens , on his 66th birthday
!
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17 Sept 2016
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