Tullahoma, Tenn.-based Ascend Federal Credit Union has deployed a physcial and logical access control system from Diebold Inc. at its headquarters. The solution integrates physical and logical access control with smart card technology and manages access control and an Internet Protocol surveillance solution. Ascend deployed a smart card solution that allowed the credit union to […]

Digital Identification Solutions announced the integration of the ThingMagic USB RFID reader/encoder with the EDIsecure XID Retransfer Printer. By attaching the Gen2 UHF USB encoder to the side of the XID printer, ID badges are printed and encoded in one step. The capabilities of the ThingMagic USB reader include tag reads at ranges up to […]

British forces in southern Afghanistan are looking into creating gated communities with biometric checkpoints for the citizens of the combat zone in an effort to keep the Taliban from gaining access to the villages, according to a Times Online article. The idea for the checkpoints follows the studying of counterinsurgency methods utilized during the Boer […]

The El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Calif. has announced that it has implemented a vascular biometric solution for registering patients, according to a UPI article. The system, which utilizes near-infrared light to scan the vein pattern in a user’s palm to authenticate identity, has been installed as a means of impeding identity and insurance […]

Nandan Nilekani, the Chairman for the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), has made an official announcement for national ID number issuance to begin in August 2011 with the first phase of rolling out the numbers to continue into December of that year, according to a Times of India article. The announcement came during Nilekani’s […]

PerSay, a developer of voice biometrics systems, has announced that the call center for mobile telephone company Vodafone Turkey has received an award for “The Best Call Center Technology Solution” due to its implementation of PerSay’s VocalPassword technology. VocalPassword is a solution that authenticates a user’s identity via an interaction with a computer that prompts […]

With most states slashing budgets, cash-strapped institutions have had to make tough choices. Some have chosen to freeze salaries, others have laid-off people and many have put construction and other campus projects on hold. Operating a campus card program is a significant expense so CR80News sought the assistance of campus card providers to build a […]