Looking to develop some common sense rules that would better allow one authentication system to trust another, a group of companies, including a number of leading security providers, have banded together to create the Electronic Authentication Partnership (EAP). The EAP was first announced in December 2003 by Karen Evans, administrator of the Office of Electronic […]

Schlumberger, the massive French oil services company now based in New York, has been a leader in the smart card business for 25 years. In September 2003, the company renamed its smart card division Axalto and established it as a wholly-owned subsidiary. The move heightened already-rampant rumors of the division’s pending sell-off. On March 24, […]

Local News “Nagle is the first Silver City resident to register for Project Lifesaver, a new program operated by the Silver City Police Department that uses a state-of-the-art locator bracelet system to track missing Alzheimer’s patients. The bracelets transmit an FM frequency and work with a receiver operated by the Police Department. Should a person […]

TSA Announces 8 Airports Participating in an Access Control Pilot Program “Rear Adm. David Stone, Acting Administrator for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), today announced that eight airports have been selected to participate in TSA’s Access Control Pilot Program which will test Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, Anti-Piggybacking technology, advanced video surveillance technology and various […]

With almost no country reporting an ability to meet the U.S. October deadline for machine-readable passports with biometric identifiers, two of the U.S.’s top officials–Secretary of State Colin Powell and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge–have asked Congress to extend the deadline for the enhanced passports by an additional two years. The Enhanced Border Security and […]

Business and IT executives from Wal-Mart, Target Stores, HP, and Kimberly Clark are set to discuss the issues surrounding RFID with their suppliers during one of the three opening sessions at the ‘Retail Systems 2004/VICS Collaborative Commerce’ conference in a panel entitled ‘EPC Here and Now: A Fireside Chat about RFID’ on Tuesday May 18th, […]

Membership Cards are Crowning Glory of Club Benefits Program The Tottenham Hotspur Football Club began humbly in 1882, when a local cricket team merged with students from the elementary school and formed the Hotspur FC. The Spurs, as they are now known, went professional way back in 1895, and won their first Southern League championship […]