Joe Grillo, former CEO of Assa Abloy Global Technologies Division, will join reader manufacturer XceedID’s Board of Directors. “XceedID has the right team with the right products at the right time,” said Mr. Grillo. His role, as described in the press release announcing the position, will be “assisting XceedID with various growth and strategic initiatives.” […]

The Port of Savannah will use the DSVII-SC handheld from Datastrip to validate ID cards within its facilities. The Georgia Ports Authority selected the versatile Datastrip unit to read the current magnetic stripe cards but the DSVII-SC is also able to read advanced ID technologies such as those driving the TWIC card. Georgia Ports Authority […]

Vein patterns prove highly accurate and popular for pioneer vascular developer Identica By Jennifer Slattery, Contributing Editor Do you know what the back of your hand says about you? Or your finger or palm for that matter? Quite a bit … if you are looking beyond the surface to track the pattern of veins that […]

Get a bunch of students, mostly freshmen, away from home for the first time. Stick them all in a dorm, many of them are armed with a checking account and checks, a credit card, a student ID card, their driver license and Social Security card. It’s a recipe for ID theft. Realizing that, many colleges […]

New data matrix codes present exciting new options in mobile marketing and communication By Ryan Kline, Contributing Editor Who would have thought that the lowly barcode, the stodgy grandfather of the identification technology world, would reemerge as a marketer’s dream? Well, it is happening. A new generation of barcodes is adding an interactive aspect to […]

By Ryan Kline, Contributing Editor If a matrix barcode is not your thing, maybe a Mobot is more to your liking. From the end user perspective, QR Codes and Mobots work similarly – the user snaps a photo of the Mobot using a camera phone and the captured image is sent via the web to […]

The CBORD Group has added North Dakota State University to the list of users of its access control technology. The university selected CBORD’s CS Access™ product to replace an existing system and a phased implementation has begun. The system will eventually manage access to more than 200 doors. Ithaca, NY: The CBORD Group, Inc., is […]

Barclaycard secures major advantage via exclusive deal with transit’s Oyster Card By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor In London, MasterCard and Visa are in the midst of the world’s largest contactless card launch to date but a smaller roll-out may have Londoners more excited as it involves their popular Oyster card. The Oyster card, which they […]

Blackboard appears to be taking a major step toward incorporating advanced ID technologies into their campus card program following this morning’s announcement with Sony. Under the partnership, Sony will “engage” Blackboard to build support for Sony’s FeliCa contactless technology and the Near Field Contactless (NFC) standard into the Blackboard platform. This will be interesting to […]

It was just announced that one of the longest standing, leading campus card providers – General Meters Corp. – has been sold to Heartland Payment Systems, a leading merchant payment processor. Heartland is a newcomer to the campus card world launching its first installation of a campus card offering early this fall at Slippery Rock […]