ActivIdentity® Corporation is launching Smart Police ID, a range of smart card solutions that allow police forces to develop and implement comprehensive identity assurance strategies to meet evolving business and legislative requirements. The Smart Police ID enables police forces to consolidate physical and logical access controls into a single smart card that uses the familiar […]

Datacard Group recently announced the availability of Datacard® Artista® VHD retransfer color printing module for the Datacard® MX6000™ card issuance system. This innovative module delivers true edge-to-edge, full-color card printing with 600 dpi image quality inline with an array of advanced card personalization capabilities. The Artista VHD module also sets a new standard for speed, […]

As debates continue over cross-border identification schemes, privacy advocates as well as technology experts are trying to avoid a security threat by not allowing simple RFID enhanced drivers’ licenses to be deployed. According to InterGovWorld.com, “one US security expert said, the RFID tag is stupid.” The real goal is to find a way to speed […]

Harvard University Employees Credit Union has begun issuing Debit MasterCard cards enabled with the MasterCard® PayPass™ payment functionality, allowing Harvard University employees, faculty, students, alumni and Harvard teaching hospitals and affiliated organizations the speed and convenience of contactless payments. Harvard University Employees Credit Union is the first credit union to announce that it is issuing […]

Consumers in South Carolina and eastern Georgia will now have a new way to shop quickly and securely using Visa’s state-of-the-art Visa payWave technology as the first issuer in the area begins to offer contactless payment cards. First Citizens is the first to offer Visa payWavein the area. With the addition of First Citizens, 12 […]

Datastrip Inc. has integrated UPEK’s TouchChip TCS1 silicon fingerprint sensor into its DSVII-SC (smartcard) and DSVII-PA (passport) handheld ID verification devices. The UPEK TouchChip TCS1 is the first and only silicon fingerprint sensor approved by the General Services Administration for use in the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS 201) and Personal Identification Verification (PIV) Programs. […]

MasterCard, in marking the national rollout of PayPass™ and Maestro® PayPass as well as celebrating the arrival of ‘Tap & Go™’ payments in the UK, transformed the Millennium Bridge by carpeting the London landmark with millions of pounds of cash and coins. All cash and coins are merely reproductions and not actual legal tender, but […]

Near Field Communication (NFC), and its leading application, contactless payment, offer financial institutions a way to move small transactions out of the cash economy and into profitable credit-based systems as well as offer faster, easier checkout for customers that don’t want to wait. But the development of the market for the chipsets that underpin the […]

Transport for London (TfL) is piloting information system centers around the Blackfriars Underground (subway) station that offer maps, directions and travel advice transmitted to mobile phones. The three-month trial will see near-field communication (NFC) technology embedded in 19 ‘touchpoint’ posters around the station which can interact with NFC-enabled phones. When a NFC-enabled handset is placed […]

ActivIdentity Corporation has collaborated with Probaris, Inc. and other key system partners to provide First Responder Authentication Credential (FRAC) identification cards for the Summer Breeze disaster preparedness demonstration. Summer Breeze validated the capability of first responders from multiple jurisdictions to be rapidly authenticated, electronically, for both identity and the emergency support function category as defined […]