RSA has announced the RSA SecurID 1100 Display Card. This one-time password authenticator is in a flexible card form-factor designed to help financial institutions and their customers secure online accounts and transactions with two-factor authentication. With the push of a button, a user can generates a one-time password on the card’s display providing organizations with […]

U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bernie G. Thompson is wondering why two-thirds of the card printers for the Transportation Worker Identification Credential have broken down and why there isn’t a backup plan to have the credential produced elsewhere. More then 1 million port workers are expected to have TWIC by April 2009. […]

A study from Report Buyer foresees a compound annual growth rate of 21.3% in the biometric market by 2012. Of the technologies currently available, fingerprint biometrics is expected to continue to hold the largest share of the biometric market with a growth from $1.3 billion in 2007 to $2.7 billion by 2012. However, the largest […]

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has announced its 90-nanometer smart card IC with high-data storage capacity for subscriber identity module cards and mobile TV applications. The new 90nm smart card IC uses a Samsung proprietary 16-bit CalmRISC processor with 16.5KB RAM, 384KB ROM, and a large capacity 288KB EEPROM. Samsung will unveil a flash memory version […]

Telecom operator Etisalat and financial institution Emirates NBD will test payment applications with NFC-enabled phones in the United Arab Emirates, according to reports in The National The two companies will select certain customers for the trial who will be issued NFC-enabled handsets. If the trial goes well and handsets are made available Etisalat is considering […]

Researchers at the Vidya Vikas Institute of Engineering & Technology and the S J College of Engineering in India have claimed to develop gait biometrics, a modality that identifies individuals from their style of walking, according to VNUNet.com. By taking a series of side view shots of someone’s walk cycle in conjunction with their body […]

VingCard, a hospitality security provider and part of the ASSA ABLOY Hospitality Group, announced that Signature RFID by VingCard, featuring Near Field Communications cell phone compatibility, will be exhibited in Guestroom 2010 at HITEC 2008, June 17-19 in Austin, Texas. Signature RFID/NFC is a system that enables hoteliers to offer contactless locks to guests. The […]

Innovision has announced new low-cost NFC tags designed for integration into smart objects. The new tags have additional memory size increasing from 96Bytes up to 512Bytes and it now offers faster read/write/test operation speeds. These meet or exceed the data storage requirements for all anticipated non-payment NFC applications, including peer-to-peer connectivity, service initiation and Smart […]

Frost & Sullivan’s Smart Card and Auto ID Practice in Asia Pacific will host an analyst briefing on smart card mass transit and payment application in the Asia Pacific on June 18th 2008, at 11:00 hrs Singapore time. Both contactless payment and mass transit applications have become popular in Asia Pacific. Frost & Sullivan think […]

Impinj Inc., a UHF gen 2 RFID vendor, has announced an implementation in food freshness and customer safety with the METRO Group. At the launch of their Future Store, METRO Group began using RFID in the butchery to guarantee freshness, increase customer safety and manage inventory. METRO Group adds an Impinj Monza powered tag to […]