Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Whether in the form of a football, a brand logo, or a keychain-ready miniaturization, different card shapes are battling the traditional ‘CR80′ or ‘ID1′ format for market share. Even watches, cell phones, and key fobs are joining in the game. But as long as ATM machines and many mag strip readers […]

Lockheed Martin, which in January was awarded a $70 million contract to enroll maritime and port workers in the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) program, is receiving assistance from RSA Securities with the enrollment process. RSA Securities will provide Lockheed Martin with a software program that helps enroll users into the smart card program. It […]

By Jerry Banks and Les G. Thompson, co-authors of RFID Applied In the previous article, “The principles of RFID: Hardware Basics,” we discussed the key hardware components found in most RFID solutions. This article will focus on the active tag, an RFID tag that has an onboard power source. This power source is, in most […]

Alan Fontanella, Fargo Electronics vice president of product marketing for secure materials and peripherals, will address attendees at the 17th annual CardTechSecurTech conference on May 15 at 1:45 p.m. In his presentation, Mr. Fontanella will address the foundations of secure ID issuance. The session will review how the production of fraudulent IDs can be limited […]

Neurotechnologija, a provider of high-precision biometric identification technologies, announced that the company’s MegaMatcher 2.0 fingerprint recognition algorithm has received full certification in the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Minutiae Interoperability Exchange Test (MINEX). The MINEX test evaluates fingerprint template encoding and matching to determine compliance with the government’s Personal Identity Verification […]

Inteligensa Group, a Latin American manufacturer of intelligent card-based solutions for financial applications, has become a Gold level reseller of the ICT DisplayCard for e-banking, e-commerce and data access authentication. Inteligensa has regional branches in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela, and sells 180 million cards annually, or 35% of all bank cards in Latin America. […]

STMicroelectronics and OTI announced that their secure contactless microcontroller solution received full certification from MasterCard. The certification includes level 1, level 2 and CAST (Chip Assessment Security Testing) certification from MasterCard for use as a dual application card, supporting both MasterCard PayPass and Visa PayWave applications making it the first fully certified solution to support […]

The 40-page proposal’s recommendations fall short of endorsing highly secure contactless ID chips By Marisa Torrieri, Contributing Editor State governments may be fuming over the Real ID Act’s tight implementation deadlines and a lack of federal funding, but smart card developers are taking issue with its security requirements – or lack thereof. On March 1, […]

StoLPaN group includes heavy hitters tech, finance, and education By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Europe is looking to get a head start on creating an NFC ecosystem, thanks to the recently announced creation of a new consortium with the unlikely acronym, StoLPaN. It stands for Store Logistics and Payment with NFC and includes a pan-European […]

Muhlbauer, a leading global producer of machinery for the manufacture of smart cards and ID solutions, released a new die sorter for flip chip manufacturing environments. Called the DS 15000, it is designed for high speed sorting of chips from the wafer into carrier, surf, or punched tape. Mühlbauer launches next generation of high speed […]