The Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GhIPSS) has calculated that use of the e-zwich biometric smart card has jumped about 500% in the first half of 2012, reports Ghana Web. Most of this growth occurred in the second quarter. Both value of sales transactions and volume of the transactions with the card rose over […]

BIO-key International Inc. will present advances in fingerprint biometric authentication technology at the Allscripts Client Experience (ACE) at McCormick Place in Chicago on Aug. 15 to 17. Ed Black, director of healthcare solutions for BIO-key, will be presenting its technology with John Judd, manager, product management at Allscripts. Black intends to show how the technology […]

The U.S. Government Printing Office awarded two contracts for the covers of the U.S. passport, which includes contactless smart card chips and antenna, to Gemalto Inc. and Infineon Technologies North America Corp. Both companies had previously supplied smart card chips to the Printing Office for e-passports. Terms of the five-year contracts were not disclosed. As […]

The SAFE-BioPharma Association has named Peter Alterman, Ph.D., its Chief Operating Officer. The Association is a non-profit collaboration responsible for the global SAFE-BioPharma digital identity and digital signature standard for the life science and health care industries. Alterman has 33 years of information security experience in the U.S. federal government, most recently with the National […]

Nokia India is in talks with a number of India’s Metro Rail projects to introduce NFC-enabled ticketing, according to MyDigitalfc. “Most Metro Rail projects in the country are discussing the possibility of an NFC-based solution for ticketing with us,” explained D. Shivakumar, Nokia’s senior vice president of sales in India, Middle East and Africa. “There […]

Trimble introduced a new version of the AllTrak Asset and Tool Management System that includes an RFID scanner for its Nomad outdoor rugged handheld computer, designed to increase contractor productivity for tracking tools and other job site assets. Contractors can perform a variety of functions using the Trimble Nomad with the new RFID scanner, such […]

Images of Nokia’s first Windows 8 handset, codenamed Nokia Phi, have emerged on Chinese site WPDang. Billed as the successor to the Lumia 800, the Nokia Phi is expected to have at least a 4.3 inch display, a microSD slot and a dual-core Qualcomm processor, according to Mobot. The handset, confirmed by Nokia Innovation, will […]

McCarran International Airport (LAS) in Las Vegas has installed Gen2 RFID technology as part of its recently expanded baggage tracking system in the new Terminal 3 building. Vanderlande Industries was awarded the $92 million baggage handling system, which includes 30,000 feet of conveyor, more than 10,000 feet of catwalk, 73 high speed diverters, 32 carousels, […]