Datacard Group and Aconite Technology have joined forces to offer customers complete EMV migration and smart pre-paid card solutions, including transaction processing, scripting, key generation, key storage and clearing data validation. Together Datacard Group and Aconite will deliver solutions and expertise in the following three areas: EMV Migration, Smart Pre-Paid and Enterprise card management. The […]

Athena Smartcard Solutions is introducing the ASEDrive IIIe USB Bio KB, a combined biometric smart card keyboard which incorporates the UPEK® TouchChip® TCS2 fingerprint sensor, enabling strong user authentication and password-free logon to PCs. The USB keyboard also incorporates an ASEDrive Smart Card reader for multi-factor authentication. The keyboard and smart card reader comply with […]

Gemalto has successfully introduced smart card technology with biometric authentication for Financial Information Network & Operations Ltd. (FINO) in India. The solution conveniently and securely stores transaction records inside the smart card to enable microbanking and simplifies access to financial services for the under-banked population in rural India. Each FINO card developed by Gemalto can […]

MasterCard Worldwide in collaboration with Taiwan Mobile and Taipei Fubon Bank have released initial results of a survey conducted in line with a trial of MasterCard® Mobile with PayPass™. The survey results revealed that over 75% of the trial program participants preferred using MasterCard PayPass on mobile phones than traditional contact-based cards. Participants found it […]

Examining the popular solution for security, mobility and compliance By Ryan Kline, Contributing Editor Many of the more than 180,000 organizations using Citrix have to deal with new concerns about security, and they all share the same goal: to keep their system, and their Citrix implementation, as user friendly as possible. Smart cards, one time […]

The United States is beginning to open its doors to mobile phone payments. Verizon Wireless recently announced the launch of a m-payment application supported by one of their technology partners Obopay. The Strategy Analytics Wireless Media Strategies team is supportive of Verizon’s descision to expand the utility of mobile phones. Mobile payments and mobile commerce […]

AHA Solutions, Inc., a subsidiary of the American Hospital Association (AHA), has endorsed the Versus Information System® (VIS™) for asset, staff, and patient tracking technology to improve patient care as well as safety within hospitals. VIS assists healthcare organizations by improving patient flow management within their facilities, particularly in the emergency and operating rooms. VIS […]

Thailand’s Suvarnabhumi Airport, the newest and largest airport in Southeast Asia, has selected Intermec to supply an RFID and barcode system for the airport’s Cargo Free Zone. The airport, which is the central air traffic hub for Southeast Asia, features an NBIA Cargo Free Zone IT project, which has some of the most up-to-date technology […]

epcSolutions and A2BTracking Solutions have teamed up to offer webinars for RFID/UID solutions. The webinar offers a complete briefing on where UID and RFID came from and why it is important to the DoD. All terms, such as UID and RFID labeling, verification, validation and uploading to the Wide Area Workflow (WAWF) and IUID Registry […]

NXP Semiconductors has established a Reference Design Center (RDC) with hopes of increasing demand for RFID technology. The center is located near Graz, Austria, and is used as a testing center for RFID systems under real-life conditions for various industries such as pharmaceutical, manufacturing and retail. Working in collaboration with key industry bodies such as […]