Even though full commercial deployment of NFC is a ways off–by some estimates several years away–one handset manufacturer well positioned to take advantage of the new technology when it does go mainstream is Finnish handset manufacturer Nokia. Its newest NFC phone, the Nokia 6216 Classic is its first commercial NFC device incorporating the European Telecommunications […]

The BloodCenter of Wisconsin (BCW) has won a $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop RFID technology for the automatic identification, tracking, and status monitoring of blood and blood products across the entire transfusion medicine supply chain. The NIH grant will fund the development and testing of a prototype which […]

Voyantic, a global provider of RFID measurement solutions, has launched a new compact measurement cabinet and new software for measuring and testing UHF RFID tags. The shielded and anechoic measurement cabinet is much smaller than the traditional anechoic chambers currently used for measuring UHF tags and is designed for easy integration into office and laboratory […]

Oberthur Technologies has choosen Collis as its preferred provider for EMV card personalization validation software. The aim is to standardise a common EMV card personalization validation software across Oberthur’s network. Collis’ EMV Personalization Validation Tool and Collis Personalization Validation for Production are examples of tools that will be implemented across Oberthur’s production facilities. The Collis […]

Charismathics, a provider of IT security components and smart card middleware, announced that the National Institute of Standards and Technology has certified the Charismathics CSSI PIV Middleware as FIPS 201 compliant. CSSI is PIV middleware that’s validated to the new NIST SP 800-73-2 specification rather than the older PIV specification, ensuring interoperability and compliance with […]

CertiPath, a credentialing authority for aviation, aerospace and defense organizations, has introduced architecture systems for federated physical access control that leverage high-assurance credentials. The concept demonstrates the viability of a single-credential system that can provide secure access for both physical and logical assets, and provide interoperability for employees, customers and partners. Funded in part by […]

Every year half of all organizations suffer a security breach, said Michael Peele, associate engineer for facility and security systems at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. “Of those, 99% had both firewalls and anti-virus protection in place,” he adds. “There has been a shift from glory motivated vandals to those seeking financial gain,” he told […]