Digital Identification Solutions has acquired vps ID Systeme, a German software house specializing in JAVA development. vps joins the Digital ID family of companies with its popular EDIsecure® card printer line. Digital Identification Solutions AG: Acquisition of German Software Manufacturer vps ID Systeme Stuttgart/Ettlingen, Germany, 15 August 2007 – Effective immediately, Digital Identification Solutions AG […]

With the emergence of contactless cards and a couple of transit trials testing the use of this new payment medium in lieu of transit passes, the Smart Card Alliance’s Transportation Council released a white paper in October, 2006, exploring this new payment method. Suitably named “Transit and Contactless Financial Payments: New Opportunities for Collaboration and […]

If you want your incoming freshmen and other new students to learn how to use their new campus card, manuals and brochures won’t cut it anymore. Today’s students don’t bother with them. The next choice is perhaps a workshop during orientation. But that will be crammed with students with other things on their minds: What […]

Identification, NFC, contactless and Japan will all be major focal points during the 22nd edition of CARTES, coming your way Nov. 15-17 in Paris at the Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre near Roissy Charles de Gaulle international airport. One of the major changes this year, according to CARTES Communication Director Hélène Tsounguy, is the coming of […]

By David Benini, Aware, Inc. Following the publication of the FIPS 201 standard in 2005, a series of specifications evolved defining the functionality and interaction of the components that together make up a comprehensive biometrics-enabled credentialing system. The requirements set forth in FIPS 201 were divided among twenty product categories and three services that form […]

Another show of support for the contactless payment and NFC future, a group of companies and investors have pumped more than $22 million into CA-based ViVOtech. The round is led by First Data, NCR, Miven Venture Partners and “one undisclosed Fortune 500 company.” ViVOtech Closes $22.5 Million In Series C Round of Funding Investments Validate […]

The new Piccolino line of tags under Assa Abloy ITG’s Sokymat brand provide large memory capacity in a small form factor. The tags are smaller than a dime, are compliant with ISO 15693, and hold more than 1000 characters of data. The company describes them as ideal for inclusion in medical devices and other high […]

The guy who made headlines last year reporting at the BlackHat Conference that he had hacked the German ePassport is at it again. Lukas Grunwald will present at DefCon this week that he has succeeded in “cloning a passport chip, then modifying the JPEG2000 image file containing the passport photo. Reading the modified image crashed […]

The NFC Forum has released specs for four separate, interoperable NFC tags. Two of the tags are based on the ISO 14443 A standard, one on the 14443 B standard, and the final on Sony’s FeliCa technology. According to the Forum, “By standardizing the tag types and formats … the NFC Forum is promoting interoperability […]

NACCU is accepting proposals for next year’s Annual Conference presentations. If you are interested in speaking at the 15th anniversary event in Las Vegas April 6-9, start your planning now. Educational tracks include Beginners, Business, Marketing and Innovations, Technology, Security, and Gold (for corporate members only). According to NACCU, “Proposals should include a working title […]