UK-based Consult Hyperion, a payments and ID management consultant, has joined the MULTOS Consortium, a group of international organizations responsible for the maintenance and development of the MULTOS specification. Joining as a Professional Partner member, Consult Hyperion will participate in the MULTOS Business and Technical Advisory Group meetings and will contribute towards the future direction […]

Digital security provider Gemalto is supplying three million electronic multi-application ID cards for Kuwaiti citizens embedding contact and contactless smart card technologies, as well as plastic cards for foreign residents that include secure printing features. The national ID card program has been commissioned by the country’s Public Authority For Civil Information. In addition, Gemalto will […]

Want to know how to make your ID card system more secure? If you live in the Philadelphia area, you may want to consider attending a half-day seminar sponsored by Automated Card Systems, a western Pennsylvania ID card solutions provider. It will be held Thursday beginning at 8 a.m. at the Crowne Plaza Philadelphia-Valley Forge, […]

Minneapolis-based U.S. Bank will award up to 40 $1,000 Internet scholarships for the 2009-2010 academic year, ten more than in previous years. In addition, the program is now open to currently enrolled college students, rather than just graduating high school seniors. The application and further information is available here. Deadline for applying is March 31, […]

With Russia the third largest market in the world for SIM Cards, and payment and identity starting to take off, the CARTES and IDentification trade show and conference has decided to honor the country during its annual show Nov. 17-19 in Paris. The sharp growth in credit cards available from banks and the need for […]

EAT, a 100-store sandwich, soup and coffee shop in the UK, will begin accepting contactless cards by mid-November, following a successful pilot project in 24 of its London stores over the past 18 months. Currently, more than 9,000 outlets accept contactless cards in the UK. Barclaycard and Barclays have issued over four million contactless credit […]

The Westminster City Council has agreed to pilot contactless parking meters starting early next year, when 20 meters that accept contactless credit/debit cards will be deployed in London’s West End. Parkeon is supplying the meters for the three-month trial. Motorists hoping to use the contactless meters will only be allowed to pay for parking worth […]

Stockholders of SCM Microsystems, Inc. a provider of secure access and identity solutions, have approved a 20 million share increase to the number of common shares authorized under the company’s certificate of incorporation, paving the way for SCM to continue to pursue mergers and acquisitions, which, the company says, are an important component of its […]

Discussions about identity and trust highlighted the 8th Annual Smart Cards in Government Conference that concluded today in Washington, D.C. From healthcare to more efficient government information system development to Internet security, knowing with whom you are dealing and being able to authenticate their identity online is a top issue for the federal government. And […]

INSIDE Contactless has agreed to support Discover Zip contactless payment devices with upcoming versions of its MicroPass contactless payment platform. The MicroPass 4002 contactless payment processor is the first Discover-certified implementation on the market. Designed from the ground up for Zip, the 4002 offers card issuers access to a suite of form factors, including chip, […]