Datacard Group revealed enhancements to the Datacard PB6500 passport issuance system, enabling government agencies worldwide to optimize passport security while lowering operational costs. The PB6500 system offers true field modularity and a small footprint, and the system’s booklet leafing technology is highly accurate and helps to reduce expensive waste and re-issues due to errors. Datacard […]

Orange Polksa has teamed up with mBank and MasterCard Europe to bring contactless mobile payments to Orange customers in Poland. Orange will offer contactless payments via a payment card located in a mobile phone. Orange’s program stems from a pilot started in March 2011, where 2,000 customers piloted NFC payments. The company could implement the […]

Things are getting a tad testy at a Texas school district which is piloting a program that requires students at two schools to wear RFID-enabled ID badges that can be used to track their movement while at school. Some students are refusing to wear the badges, claiming their right to privacy is being violated. As […]

DeltaTRAK has introduced the FlashTRAK RFID temperature monitoring solution, providing new capabilities and improved performance in end-to-end cold chain visibility and traceability. This new wireless solution integrates FlashTRAK RFID loggers with the existing ColdTRAK cloud application, which makes it possible for customers to use low cost data loggers with the latest RFID technology to achieve […]

Banque Libano-Francaise (BLF), a Middle Eastern bank, is using asset tracking software with RFID technology by ASAP Systems to inventory thousands of fixed assets. The bank replaced its previous bar code solution with RFID-enabled asset tracking software technology, which is now tracking more than 500 fixed assets – such as furniture, IT equipment and more […]

HID Global Norton Winery Case Study from HID Global on Vimeo. HID Global announced its industry and logistics RFID tag solution combined with NFC technology is being used to help the Bodega Norton winery in Argentina refine its harvesting process to improve productivity and employee satisfaction. The company developed a solution to replace the winery’s […]

Governments’ adoption and migration to next generation smart national ID cards will fuel the growth of the government smart card market, says ABI Research. In its recent report “Government and Healthcare Citizen ID Cards,” the firm says that shipments in this market will reach 765 million by 2017. National ID cards will grow from 37% […]

The Emirates Identity Authority claims to hold the world’s largest database of civil integrated biometrics and has applied to the World Record Academy to verify its record. The database holds information from the UAE population register system and as of October 11, it contains 103 million decimal and rounded fingerprints, palm prints, hand print and […]