23 Jun, 2009Tufts Medical Center controls key instruments with RFID solution from WaveMark
WaveMark’s inventory management solution, WaveMark CIMS™, will manage 5,000 high-value medical instruments and products at the prestigious Tufts Medical Center in Boston. Specifically, the solution will be used in the hospital’s Interventional Radiology, Adult and Pediatric Cath Labs, and EP Lab to provide better visibility of product location and availability. The system relies on RFID-enabled […]
14 May, 2009MasterCard Worldwide says all chip-based payment products must be DPA-protected by Cryptography Research
MasterCard Worldwide and Cryptography Research announced an agreement that ensures future chip-based MasterCard payment products will be licensed by Cryptography Research and thus secured against Differential Power Analysis (DPA) attacks. Cryptography Research identified the smart card vulnerability known as DPA and then patented countermeasures to protect chips against the attack. The company has been working […]
04 May, 2009Marymount University adds PNC Bank offering to campus ID card
Marymount University in Washington D.C. has partnered with PNC Bank to add banking services to the campus ID card. Marymount’s 4,000 students and employees can now add the PNC account to the multi-purpose BlueCard. Three on-campus ATMs, at least four financial education seminars per year, one free incoming wire transfer per month, and one overdraft […]
04 May, 2009Hirsch’s Scott Howell talks about merger with SCM, demos smart card reader line
25 Jul, 2008Contactless Cage Match: FTC meeting debates regulation of RF payments
By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Uniform standards for contactless and mobile payments and greater security were two of the suggestions made during a Federal Trade Commission-hosted Town Hall meeting in Seattle, Wash. yesterday. The session was co-sponsored with the Technology Law and Public Policy Clinic at the University of Washington and was designed to explore […]
08 Jul, 2008European Campus Card Association conference highlights great progress
U.S. attendee sees similarities and differences between American and European card programs By Danny Smith, Vice President, ColorID More than 120 university attendees traveled from all across Europe to Lodz, Poland to attend the 2008 European Campus Card Association (ECCA) Conference. As the only attendee from North America at this year’s conference, I wanted to […]
07 Jul, 2008Republic of Mali chooses Sagem Sécurité for ID system
The Republic of Mali in Western Africa has selected Sagem Sécurité to deploy a biometric based identity system for secure management of public records. Some 1000 portable data collection stations linked to an Automatic Fingerprint Identification System that will record biometric data for more than 10 million citizens.
24 Jun, 20083M overlay protects Montana’s driver licenses
Click to see full size image. The 3M Confirm laminate that will protect the new licenses and IDs in Montana contains a floating image so that it appears both above and below the card’s data depending on the viewing direction. It provides both overt features to make it easy for police officers, bankers and others […]
17 Jun, 2008Qatar citizens cross Saudi borders with smart national ID card
Crossing the borders between Qatar and Saudi Arabia can now be done with a smart card rather than a passport. The two countries agreed to accept the national ID cards for passage in an effort to facilitate travel and commerce. All members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) – Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait […]
12 Feb, 2008Campus card bank partnerships increase modestly in 2007
Annual CR80News survey shows growth rates drop by half from prior year By Chris Corum and Andy Williams, CR80News The number of partnerships between campus card programs and financial institutions continued to grow in 2007, though not as rapidly as in recent years. The annual CR80News campus card/banking partnership survey reported a modest increase of […]
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