A major technology deployment at Canadian Airports is to offer physical access control and biometric authentication for personnel entering restricted areas, according to HID Corporation, which is to supply the system’s contactless access control cards and readers. HID’s combination Prox and iCLASS 13.56 MHz contactless smart cards will be deployed at major airports in Canada […]

The Practical Nomad blog: Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) Edward Hasbrouck voices his concerns on the next round of trials of the Transport Worker Identification Credential. “The general idea behind the TWIC is that all transportation workers throughout the USA, including workers at air and sea ports and public transit facilities, highway and pipeline workers, […]

FREMONT, Calif., April 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – ActivCard Corp. (Nasdaq: ACTI – News), a global provider of strong authentication and trusted digital identity solutions for secure remote access, single sign-on and enterprise access cards, today announced it has been selected by SC Magazine as a finalist for the 2004 Awards’ “Best Smart Card and Token Solution.” […]

Mobile Identity Verification Solution Honored by Security Industry AssociationEXTON, Penn., April 6 /PRNewswire/ – Datastrip’s DSVII-SC (Smart Card Edition), a handheld contact/contactless ID card and passport reader with an integrated fingerprint sensor for matching a live fingerprint to a stored biometric template, was recognized as the best new biometric product of the year in the […]

A ‘Near Field Communication’ (NFC) Forum is being established to enable the use of touch-based interactions in consumer electronics, mobile devices, PCs, smart objects, and for payment purposes. The forum is a result of collaboration between Nokia Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics and Sony Corporation. Touch-based interactions using near field communications will allow consumers to access […]

The “New” Sokymat becomes number one supplier of RFID transponders worldwide Granges (Veveyse), April 5th 2004 – ASSA ABLOY Identification Technology Group (ITG), the world’s leading supplier of identification solutions, announces today the merger of its two RFID transponder manufacturers, Metget AB and Sokymat SA, under the name of Sokymat. The new company will be […]

AIM to Educate Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Sector on Bar Code and RFID Systems “The FDA estimates that the bar-code rule, when fully implemented, will help prevent nearly 500,000 adverse events and transfusion errors over 20 years. The economic benefit of reducing health care costs, reducing patient pain and suffering, and reducing lost work time due […]

Reader Provides Multi-Layer Security Access System Solutions LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–March 31, 2004–Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (OTCBB: APDN), a provider of proprietary DNA-embedded security products and services that protect corporate and intellectual property from counterfeiting and fraud, today announced the debut of the new contactless reader feature for its Applied DNA(TM) Security Access System at the […]