A report from Juniper Research forecasts that one in every six mobile subscribers globally will have an NFC enabled device by 2014. Adoption now is centered on the Far East, with use very limited outside of this region. The report of the potentially $110 billion dollar market determined that payments and retail transactions such as […]

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has developed FEEL-ID, an interactive feature that’s designed to combine multiple security technologies in order to achieve maximum protection against counterfeiting. FEEL-ID is a feature that reacts to changes in temperature by utilizing the thermochromic properties of the materials employed. Identity documents such as national ID cards, driver’s licenses and passports […]

The United States Department of Homeland Security has proposed a new program that would see the collection of both fingerprint and iris data from foreigner visitors as they leave the country, according to a National Post article. This new project would be in addition to program like US-VISIT, which sees foreign visitors’ biometric data being […]

NephSystem has announced the release of iNephStar, a bar code/RFID PDA with a built-in thermal printer. The iNephStar runs on Microsoft Windows CE operating system and is suitable for use in fields of communication technologies, public transportation and logistics. The PDA also features built-in WiFi 802.11 b/g capability, bluetooth, 125KHz LF or 13.56MHz UHF RFID […]

Hong Kong is poised to be the RFID center of the Asia Pacific Region, according to China View. Speaking at the Hong Kong RFID Awards 2009 on Tuesday, Commissioner for Innovation and Technology Janet Wong announced that the Hong Kong government will strive to promote the development and adoption of RFID technology and to increase […]

IBM has updated their InfoSphere Traceability Server with a new capability called Returnable Container Management. This new software gathers real-time sensor data so that businesses and governments can track the whereabouts and conditions of millions of returnable shipping containers around the world. The sensors the software taps into are used in a variety of ways, […]

Codebench Inc., a provider of TWIC/HSPD-12/FIPS-201 authentication software, announced that its Server-based Certificate Verification Protocol client is now listed on the General Services Administration Approved Product List. The use of Server-based Certificate Verification Protocol as part of a FIPS 201-compliant physical access control solution improves the credential validation process by simplifying the certificate path discovery […]