On Track Innovations, a New Jersey-based contactless microprocessor company, has supplied smart stickers to Air New Zealand to help frequent travelers on the airline’s domestic flights check-in and board faster. A smart sticker is attached to the back of a traveler’s mobile phone that serves as a permanent and reusable boarding pass. Frequent flyers simply […]

Equifax Inc. has introduced the Equifax online identity card, or I-Card, with a beta test of a digital identity management solution that is designed to make online transactions easier and more secure for both consumers and businesses. I-cards aim to be the online equivalent of a driver license, passport or similar ID that enable consumers […]

Honeywell has announced the OmniAssure biometric reader, part of the OmniAssure contactless smart card reader range, which uses fingerprints and contactless smart cards to enable access control. Users are enrolled on the access control reader. Just use the enrollment card supplied with the reader to store the fingerprint template on the user’s card. Up to […]

LEGIC Identsystems Ltd., manufacturer of contactless smart card technology, has launched new Italian and Spanish Web sites, which can be accessed from LEGIC’s home page. The company is continuing its international focus by giving its Italian and Spanish customers and system integrators LEGIC advant based solutions. The two sites provide an overview of LEGIC reader […]

TeliaSonera, a Swedish telecommunication services provider to Nordic and Baltic countries, and VingCard, a member of the ASSA ABLOY Group, recently demonstrated at the International Hotel/Motel and Restaurant Show in New York, what could be the newest hotel innovation–allowing guests to enter their hotel rooms using just an NFC-compatible mobile phone. “VingCard has installed over […]

Time and attendance, identification and access authorization are three of the applications available on the campus card used by students at the University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy. Other applications on the card supplied by Swiss contactless card provider LEGIC Identsystems, include electronic payments, a library card, Internet access, voting card and printing and copying. Based […]

Students wishing to attend the UK under a student visa will soon need biometric identity cards. Fingerprinting is expected to begin this month for students seeking to renew their student visas. More than 50,000 students are expected to be affected. The move is meant to clamp down on fake colleges offering people a way to […]