NXP Semiconductors’ SmartMX contact security chip has been chosen by the Egyptian government to power its Family Card, a welfare program which offers subsidies on goods such as food to low-income families. The joint project, run by the Ministry of Social Solidarity and the Ministry of Administrative Development, is working with Egyptian card manufacturer Misr […]

The FBI is searching driver license databases using facial recognition technology, according to an Associated Press news report. In North Carolina the technology was used to catch a double-murder suspect. The FBI learned the suspect was in North Carolina, took a 1991 booking photo and then compared it with 30 million photos stored by the […]

The launch of the ORCA (One Regional Card for All) transit system in Seattle earlier this year will also eventually eliminate the free rides that some University of Washington students had enjoyed. In the past, they had a U-PASS sticker, which they obtained from the university and which enabled them to ride buses to and […]

The Huntsville-Madison County Public Library in Alabama has announced plans to outfit its main library and Madison branch with an RFID system developed by library systems provider Bibliotheca, also based in Huntsville. The system will include book labels, Biblio Staff Stations, BiblioGate VI security gates and Orion self-check stations to manage the library’s 2.5 million […]

Dynamic Card Solutions, an Englewood, Colo.-based provider of instant issuance solutions, has partnered with Ontario-based Threshold Financial Technologies to give financial institutions access to Dynamic’s CardWizard software. Threshold provides payment processing, ATM and card issuing solutions to more than 65 financial institutions throughout Canada. This new partnership allows Threshold’s card issuing clients to transition from […]

Singapore electronic payment provider NETS has launched a new contactless card called FlashPay, a stored-value card that can be used for public transport, car parks and at more than 2,500 retailers. NETS currently has 37,000 merchant partners with some 2,500 of them already FlashPay-enabled. The card is designed for small-value payments. CEPAS-enabled, the FlashPay card […]

In a recent study, wood pallets used to ship food in the Washington Metropolitan Area have tested positive for three types of deadly bacteria: Salmonella, E. coli and Listeria. The study was commissioned by Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS), which happens to operate a pallet rental service that exclusively uses plastic pallets embedded with RFID […]