Asus announced today that its UMPC will have a biometric security option, amoong other security enhancements:

ASUSTeK recognizes that today’s mobile workforce requires comprehensive protection technology to meet evolving security needs. A variety of ASUSTeK portable notebooks, including the new R2H Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC), provide the best security management options for protecting data integrity through both software and hardware features. The ASUSTeK ASPM system guards access to the device and any related networks using embedded multifactor authentication procedures managed by the Single Sign-On (SSO) function, allowing simple one-time log-in without compromising security.

It seems some of the vendors are getting further and further from the pre-launch consumer market that Microsoft carved out for the UMPC. Do these people look like they need biometric security?

You can read the full PR here via hardwarezone.com.

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