In Mobbeel we know that you love everything related to smartphones, that’s why we want to give you the opportunity to see the cutting edge advances of the mobile world. We have one ‘Exhibition Visitor Pass’ ticket to give away valued in 699€ for the Mobile World Congress 2012 which takes place in Barcelona from February 27th to March 1st. Barcelona will be the capital of the mobile world during the event, the world`s largest mobile manufacters will all be exhibiting their latest developments. Travel and accommodation are not included.

What do I have to do to participate?

To get your hands on the ticket, you only have to follow one of these options, but if you complete both of them you will have more possibilities to win.

Don`t worry if you were already following us in both social networks, because for being our lawfully follower, using the hashtag #MobbeelWMC o leaving a comment on the Facebook plugin you will enter into the draw.

– Click ‘Like’ button on our Facebook fan page (www.facebook.com/mobbeel) and leave a comment on the following Facebook plugin

– Follow us on Twitter (@mobbeel) and use the Hashtag #MobbeelMWC

Follow @Mobbeel

Tweet #MobbeelMWC

When is the deadline to participate?

The deadline to participate is February 10th 2012 at 23:59 (GMT+1). On February 11th the draw will be conducted and the winner of the ticket for the MWC 2012 will be announced.

Prize Draw Rules

– On February 11th at 10.00 (GMT +1), Mobbeel will publish on this blog a list with all participants and the number assigned to them.
– The draw will use the last three digits of the ONCE coupon from February 11th which may be consulted from here. The participant whose number matches those last three digits will be the winner, provided it meets the other requirements and conditions of the draw.
– If the digits of the ONCE coupon don’t match any participant’s number, the winner will be chosen as the participant with the higher number closer to the coupon digits.
– Once selected the winner, it will be checked that he/she complies the conditions of the draw, ie if the Facebook fan page ‘Like’ button has been clicked and a comment in the Facebook plugin has been made, or if he/she is a Mobbeel follower on Twitter (@mobbeel) and has used the hashtag #MobbeelMWC. In case of not meeting these requirements or if the winner declines the prize, we will continue with the next consecutive number in ascending order until finding a winner.
– The prize is an “Exhibition Visitor Pass” ticket valued at 699€ for the Mobile World Congress 2012 valid during the entire week of the event, see prices.
– Mobbeel reserves the right to remove of the draw for those players using fake accounts to try increasing their chances of winning.
– Mobbeel reserves the right to cancel, suspend or amend these rules as well as the organization and / or administration of this promotion, under cause.

We are glad to announce that Mobbeel, Biometric security solutions for smartphones, is exhibiting at MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 in Barcelona-Spain, dated 27th February 2012 – 01st March 2012.

As you probably know, Mobile World Congress (MWC) is the must-attend annual gathering of the mobile industry, offering the opportunity to meet with more than 50.000 key decision-makers from more than 200 countries and representing exhibitors from at least 50 countries and all facets of the mobile world, while showcasing all existing and new business opportunities, leading the world into the mobile future.

Mobbeel is happy to invite you to our Stand CY22, Courtyard 3.0! It would be a great opportunity to meet you all there in person, in order to discuss and discover new business opportunities and give you solutions, based on your own exact needs.

You’re always welcome to schedule a meeting with us in date and time of your preference through our website.

Happy to meet you all in MWC 2012, Stand CY22, Courtyard 3.0!

On June 15th 2011, Bankinter and Mobbeel jointly presented its groundbreaking broker application for smartphones. The applicationan identifies the user by using a biometric iris recognition system (developed by Mobbeel).

This unique technology allows clients to access their brokerage accounts on their smartphones through an iris recognition system which only requires the use of the smartphone’s camera, without needing additional hardware or external sensors. This new technology is an important step forward when compared to traditional username plus password identification and authentication protocols. Read more…

We are glad to announce that Bankinter Broker Iris project has won the prestigious Financial World Innovation Awards, presented at the Grand Connaught Rooms ,Covent Garden, London, on Thursday 1 December 2011.

Bankinter won in the category ‘Most Innovative Application of Technology – Customer Facing Functionality’.

Chris Ray, Director of Communications and Alumni Services at the ifs School of Finance:
“The 14th annual Financial World Innovation Awards saw some outstandingly creative initiatives from many of the UK’s largest companies. The innovation in financial services shown by the winners across all of the categories was truly impressive.
In these challenging economic times, innovation in the products and services offered to customers is extremely important, and defines who the market leaders are, and who customers can turn to. We would like to congratulate Bankinter therefore for their achievement in what was a very competitive category.”

About Bankinter
Bankinter, Spanish sixth-largest bank by size, is a reference entity in the financial market by its high technological development, quality of service above the industry average and a clear commitment to innovation and the use of alternative channels in their relationship with customers, complementary to the traditional branch network, telephone banking, Internet and mobile.

About Mobbeel

Mobbeel is a leader company in the development of biometric security solutions for mobile devices. Its technology allows the user of a mobile phone a convenient and secure access to sensitive information or digital services through a unique feature of the individual, as opposed to traditional unsafe passwords or PINs. Its mission is to bring high security using a device like the mobile phone to any user, anytime, anywhere.

About ifs School of Finance

The event was organized by ifs School of Finance, a registered educational charity incorporated by Royal Charter. It has a remit to provide the financial services industry with a skilled, effective and competent workforce whilst also promoting a better understanding of finance amongst consumers.

Mobbeel has been invited to participate in CARTES & IDentification 2011 , the World leading business event in digital security and technological innovation, which will be held in Paris from 15 to 17 November. The conference programme is available here.

Our CEO, José Luis Huertas, will give a speech together with Paul Frausto, CISO of IDéPhone project and Jean-Marie Saura, Senior Consultant at Pragmatic Product Management, within the subject “Security, Trust & Privacy – New Challenges”, about mobile biometry and its combination with PKI (Public Key Infrastructure).

His lecture “Secure Authentication with the Mobile Devices: Cost Effective PKI Enabled Security with Multi-Platform Authentication” will be about the use of certificates to turn a smartphone into a strong authentication device, the combination with biometry to add an extra security layer without increasing the difficult for the user and about how the authentication systems can give support to the marketing targets.

If you want to organize a meeting with Mobbeel during the event please contact us here, via Twitter (@mobbeel) or Facebook (facebook.com/mobbeel).

About CARTES & IDentification 2011

Every year in Paris, CARTES & IDentification brings together more than 500 international companies that offer the most exhaustive range of products, equipment and services related to digital security.

In 2010, the event was attended by 450 expositors, welcoming more than 20.000 visitors and representing nearly 150 countries.

On Thursday, June 30, Mobbeel attended the XVI Extremadura Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, presented by “El Periódico Extremadura”. In this event, Mobbeel received the award for the best Digital Initiative. We want to thank the organization and the jury for considering us for these awards.

For more information, see here and here news of “El Periódico Extremadura”.

On June 15, Bankinter and Mobbeel jointly presented its’s groundbreaking broker application for mobiles, an application that identifies the client by using a biometric iris recognition system (developed by Mobbeel).

This unique technology allows clients to access their brokerage accounts on their smartphones through an iris recognition system which requires only the use of the smartphone’s camara, without the need for additional hardware or external sensors. This new technology is an important step forward when compared to traditional username plus password identification and authentication protocols.

Iris recognition is the most reliable form of biometric recognition, as it is practically impossible to find two identical irises, and thus offering an extremely high degree of security. This security, together with a simplified user experience, makes for the technology to be an ideal solution for mobile financial services and mobile investment brokerage solutions.

Generally speaking, iris recognition works in the following manner: Upon capturing a close-up image of the face, the application isolates the eye and proceeds to identify the exterior and interior borders of the iris, codifying these through complex imagery treatment algorithms. The entire process for recognizing the iris is performed on the mobile device, from the image capture of the iris, to biometric pattern identification and user matching and identification.

Bankinter is the first bank to use this technology, which in its initial phase has been deployed onto iPhone 4 given the significant penetration of these smartphones amongst its customer base: 55% of Bankinter’s mobile banking customers have an iPhone.

In the following phase, and depending on technology acceptance by users and rendering in terms of usability and security, Bankinter does not rule out using this same technology for other digital remote channels: ATMs, Telephone Banking, Internet Banking, etc.

This pioneering application in Spain is a significant advancement in the value-added mobile banking services that Bankinter has implemented over the years for its customers, such as the possibility of accessing accounts, engaging in financial transactions and real-time trading, or advanced functionalities such as geo-location through augmented reality.

On May 25, 2011 the Entrepreneur XXI Award (Emprendedor XXI), organized by the Regional Ministry of Economy, Commerce and Innovation, was presented by Ana Maria Alejandre, General Business Director of Competitiveness and Jesus Alonso, General Director of Science and Technology.

Mobbeel has been awarded the EmprendesXXI Prize thanks to the developement and comercialization of biometric recognition technologies (iris, handwritten signature…) for mobile devices that ensures users can access their devices and sensitive information in a secure and reliable way.

The EmprendesXXI category is intended for companies from 0 to 2 years. The prize consists of 5,000€ and a scholarship for a Cambrige University entrepreneurship course.

In the CrecesXXI category, for companies between 2 and 7 years, the winner was IGO SOFTWARE. The company is developing Glob3, a multiplatform technology for GSI 3D maps. Its prize consists of a commercial mission to Silicon Valley, a scholarship for the Executive Growth Program (an ad-hoc course designed by ESADE and IESE) and the participation in the final national contest.

Warm thanks to all those whose support continues to help turn our dreams into reality.

The EmprendedorXXI Award

The EmprendedorXXI Award was founded in 2007 with the aim of promoting the development of new innovative companies and identifying those with the greatest potential for growth in each region. It is the only award of its kind that has a regional phase, implemented in each region at the instigation of more than 30 local and regional organizations linked to business creation and entrepreneurship.

With this year’s EmprendedorXXI Award, “la Caixa” and ENISA take a step forward in their strategy to socially recognize and highlight those entrepreneurs who have launched a business initiative and need a boost in order to establish themselves permanently in the marketplace.

For more information download the press note.

On december, 14 2010, the Minimally Invasive Surgery Centre Jesús Usón facilities on the city of Cáceres hosted the official launch of Mobbeel, where among others the participants were the counselor of Youth and Sports, Carlos Javier Rodríguez, the councilor of Innovation and e-Government from the city council of Cáceres, Victor Santiago and the manager of Gabinete de Iniciativa Joven, Juan Pablo Venero.

Mobbeel CEO, José Luis Huertas, during his speech, talked about the long road the company has traveled in its short life, being today at square one, mostly by the expected high growth. The company, as highlighted by José Luis, has the mission of making generally available to everyone the highest security standards, until now only restricted to military, access control or border patrol enviroments,…

During the event, the company also made public a new corporate video explaining in a very clear way the technologies currently in development by Mobbeel. The video is available at the end of this press release.

Mobbeel also wants to note that this launch event wouldn’t have been possible without the considerable help of Gabinete de Iniciativa Joven, who sponsored the setup and production of the corporate video, and from Francisco Pizarro, Bussiness Development Manager at Parque Científico y Tecnológico de Extremadura who drove the launch event in such a brilliant way.

José Luis Huertas and José Eulalio Arias were interviewed last Thursday during the sixth edition of “La Pasta” (“The Money”), an event organized by Gabinete de Iniciativa Jóven (GIJ) where entrepreneurs and investors meet.

The interview was carried out by the Director of the Youth and Sport Department of the local Government of Extremadura, Carlos Javier Rodríguez. In this interview the CEO and COO of Mobbeel talked, among other things, about how the company was born, current projects, future projections and their experience as participants of this same event one year ago (La Pasta 5.0) which was a invaluable training on how to raise money.

“La Pasta” is an anual event organized by Gabinete de Iniciativa Joven (part of the Youth and Sports Department of the local Government of Extremadura) to ease the access of entrepreneurs to the financial resources they need to launch their projects.

Gabinete de Iniciativa Joven is the organ created by the Regional Government of Extremadura, from the Department of Youth and Sport, to drive a new development model for the region, based on the ability of young entrepreneurs to imagine, create and innovate.

Mobbeel has been invited to give a talk in Biometric Exhibition Conference 2010 at London in October. You can see the event’s programme here.

Our CEO, José Luis Huertas, will talk about mobile biometry. His talk “Mobile biometry: Strengthening the weakest link” will discuss the use of biometrics to secure and reinforce security systems in a mobile environment.

We will be part of MOBIO’s panel, one of the exhibitors of the Conference.

If you want to organize a meeting with Mobbeel during the event please contact us here or through twitter/biowallet.

About Biometric Exhibition Conference 2010
Main Conference’s topics of this year:

• Biometric citizen identification issues
• Biometrics at the border
• Biometrics within military operations
• Automated border control
• Emerging biometric applications
• Enhancing law enforcement – biometrics in action
• …

About MOBIO

MOBIO is a FP7 European research project (FP7-2007-ICT-1) planned over 3 years and started in January 2008. The goal of MOBIO is to develop new mobile services secured by biometric authentication means. Scientific and technical objectives include robust-to-illumination face authentication, robust-to-noise speaker authentication, joint bi-modal authentication, model adaptation and scalability