Citibank Singapore partnered with Visa and M1, a mobile operator, to deploy a three-month near field communication pilot in Singapore, according tot he E-Commerce Journal. The trial will started in May and will include 300 Citi M1 Platinum Visa cardholders. Participants will be given a Nokia 6212 classic handset. Participants of the experiment will be […]

L-1 Identity Solutions Inc. was awarded a contract by the South Dakota Department of Public Safety for a complete driver’s license issuance system. The seven-year contract is valued at $8.8 million. The new South Dakota system provides a process that minimizes the chance for fraud to occur at any point in the issuance process. The […]

Commidea, a card payment processing provider, has announced that it is providing its integrated point-of-sales systems with contactless technology to YO! Sushi. The system has been deployed in partnership with Clarity Commerce Solutions, a supplier of EPOS solutions for the hospitality sector. YO! Sushi is using Commidea’s payment solution in 30 of its 40 restaurants […]

CoreStreet announced the availability of the CoreStreet FIPS-201 Suite of products to upgrade existing physical access control systems to be fully compliant with HSPD-12 and all functionality as defined in Special Publication 800-116. The company also announced that its PIVMAN products is available with Lenel and a partnership with MaxID to market PIVMAN with the […]

The Smart Card Alliance released a brief for federal health care policymakers on the importance of reliable identification technology in the market. “With the $17 billion federal government investment planned for health care IT as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009, we thought this was the right time to bring […]

Travelers in Augsburg, Germany already using the contactless KAROCARD to travel on the trains and buses in the area, but officials are thinking of adding other applications to the card, including paying for parking and even fuel at gas stations. Around 85,000 citizens of Augsburg are already using the cards for rides on the transit […]

HID Global will demonstrate a variety of products at the ISC West International Security Conference and Exposition. Under the theme “A World of New Possibilities,” HID’s booth (#11052) shows a suite of products, resources and partnerships that enable end-users to implement everything from networked physical access control to contactless logical access solutions. Highlights of HID […]

L-1 Identity Solutions Inc. expanded its line of government access control solutions with the release of the TWIC-Station, a new access control device capable of reading a range of secure government credentials based on the FIPS 201 standard including Transportation Worker Identification Credentials, Personal Idetification Verficiation IDs and Common Access Cards. The device also offers […]

By Kelli Emerick, executive director, Secure Document Coalition Change has come to Washington, to our nation and to ID management. An Obama administration is different than any other administration we’ve ever seen. Not just because Barak Obama is the first African-American to be elected President by the people of our country, but because he is […]

Vancouver’s TransLink public transportation system is expected to take the next steps toward deploying a smart card fare system, according to 24 Hours.com. According to the agenda, decisions to be discussed include: options for cash paying customers; whether entry and exit from the transit system will be required to recorded; integration of West Coast Express, […]