Slovenia is going to deploy extended access control with its second generation electronic passport. Entrust Inc. will work with the country to implement the new security in the travel document. Slovenia’s second-generation e-passport, which will be integrated by technology partner S&T, represent a components of the country’s citizen-centric e-government. Their e-government services enable secure time-stamping […]

Feitian Technologies, a Bejing, China-based smart card provider, announced its new Feitian .Net smart card platform. The .Net framework is Microsoft’s programming model for building network applications. The new Feitian platform provides a way foor developers to create smart card application for businesses using Microsoft’s .Net framework. The platform includes a software developer kit, which […]

Gemalto announced it has been selected by ING Bank Slaski as supplier of a bundled solution that includes local personalization services as well as EMV cards. The contract also includes value-added services such as tailored cards and advanced packaging. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. As part of the contract, Gemalto supplies ING Bank […]

Seventy-eight percent of participants in London’s near field communication trial said they would use the technology again, according to a Finextra news report. The six-month pilot was run by mobile operator O2 with Transport for London, device manufacturer Nokia, and card issuer Visa and TranSys, the group that runs the Oyster card system. The conglomerate […]

ActivIdentity Corp. announced that its ActivClient smart card technology is available to customers at the U.S. Department of Defense using select HP multifunction printers. The new solution requires employees to verify identity upon access to the device, or to multifunction printer features and functions. The software safeguards printed and scanned documents and provides added convenience […]

The Lough Erne Golf Resort in Ireland has gone with a contactless Mifare system to control access to its guest rooms. Ambar Systems Ltd., a SALTO business partner, deployed the SALTO electronic access control system. The resort will have contactless readers controlling to 85 bedroom doors in the main hotel and the 25 other units […]

Donald G. Campbell, vice chairman of the TJX Cos., told the Boston Globe that smart cards could have prevented the fraud that happened at its retail locations. TJX has approximately 100 million credit and debit card numbers stolen when fraudsters used wireless connections to tap into two Marshalls stores TJX operated in Miami. The retailer […]

Gemalto confirmed that it has completed the acquisition of Keycorp’s smart card business, the provider of MULTOS products and services to the financial services and government sectors, and of Multos Ltd., the company that operates the remote activation service and high-security facility that is at the center of the MULTOS security architecture. Gemalto paid $22 […]

TURBINE (TrUsted Revocable Biometric IdeNtitiEs), kind of a complicated acronym, but that goes along with the complexity of the project. The European Union-funded project involves finding a way to securely identify users by means of fingerprints, in which the biometric data used is protected by cryptographic technology. The EU has given the project more than […]

Clugston Construction Ltd has installed a biometric turnstile at one of its sites for time and attendance. The biometric Site Access Turnstile is supplied by UKB International Ltd has been installed at the $91 million Derwenthaugh EcoPark site in Gateshead, where Clugston is building a steam autoclave recycling facility for client Graphite Resources. Workers, sub-contractors […]