Indian Railways, which carries 18 million passengers a day, making it one of the world’s largest rail transit systems, has selected NXP Semiconductor’s chip technology to drive its contactless smart cards for the automation fare collection system to be rolled out initially across five Indian cities. The company says its MIFARE DESFire chip has been […]

Florida is launching an educational campaign called Gather, Go, Get, designed to prepare its residents for the documents they’ll need to bring to their local driver license offices when it’s time to renew their license. Beginning Jan. 1, Floridians renewing or obtaining a new license or ID will be required to show proof of ID […]

SCM Microsystems’ recent merger with Hirsch Electronics accounts for nearly 70% of the company’s revenue increase, according to second quarter results. “Our merger with Hirsch is proving a strategic success, as it has strengthened our financial performance across multiple metrics, our ability to capture new and existing sales opportunities and our overall business profile,” said […]

With 600 million unique ID cards, 50 million e-passports, 100 million health cards, 50 million transport and ticketing cards and 50 million banking cards likely to be issued over the next seven years in India, it’s no wonder one NXP Semiconductors official called the country “a bundle of latent opportunity.” Speaking at the Identification Summit […]

Asia Pacific merchants saddled with slow dial-up connections when processing encrypted chip card transactions, such as those from EMV-compliant cards, will now have another speedier option, thanks to a joint venture between Hong Kong and Shanghai banking interests and U.S.-based Global Payments. Called Global BroadbandPay, it’s an Internet Protocol-based point-of-sale solution that can provide Asia-Pacific […]

The University of Memphis, one of two Tennessee schools without a mandatory on-campus dining program, plans to change that starting with the fall semester when all full-time freshmen and sophomores will automatically have $300 charged to their student accounts. Dubbed “Dining Dollar$,” the money will be placed on their student ID cards. While initially designed […]

Thanks to a $2 million grant from the Office of the U.S. Director of National Intelligence, the Image and Video Analysis Lab at Clemson University in South Carolina has joined with other universities to create the Center of Academic Studies in the Identification Sciences to strengthen biometric identification processes. The lab is currently looking at […]

Chip maker INSIDE Contactless and Cryptography Research (CRI) have signed an agreement regarding the use of CRI’s patented countermeasures that protect against a specific semiconductor attack known as differential power analysis (DPA). The countermeasures add security to tamper-resistant chips, such as INSIDE’s MicroPass and other secure semiconductor products. Under the agreement, INSIDE may use CRI’s […]

Indiana residents will have two options when renewing their driver licenses. They can either choose one that meets federal requirements, which means they’ll have to supply multiple documents, including a birth certificate or passport, to prove their identity, or they can simply renew without the documentation. Depending on the resident’s choice, the license will either […]

The 2008 National Campus Safety and Security Project survey found that most colleges have campus-wide emergency plans that meet minimum standards but warned that just 30% of campuses have a “business continuity plan” detailing what they should do if a calamity seriously disrupts campus operations. The survey also pointed out that those schools least likely […]