No student ID card, no printing, no exceptions. Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kan. recently implemented a new printing policy in its library that forces students to use their ID cards when they send jobs to the library’s printers. “If students did not have their student ID card then they were not able to print,” said […]

Visa Canada has chosen the winter Olympic Games, taking place next February and March in Vancouver, to shine the spotlight on its contactless debit card. Visa is a major sponsor of the games and its credit, debit and prepaid cards will be the only ones accepted at Olympic venues. “There’s an opportunity for Canada to […]

Cherry Electronic’s new SR-4300 ExpressCard reader and ST-1210 stand-alone smart card readers are now FIPS 201 certified by the General Services Administration for use with Personal Identification Verification smart cards. The ST-1210 is a CCID-compliant, low-profile USB contacting reader, designed for one-hand operation. At just 105mm x 70mm x 12mm high, it is easily transportable […]

Utica College’s Center for Identity Management and Information Protection has announced a new, TASCET Identity Network. An identity and privacy protection firm specializing in identification, TASCET adds a new facet to center’s stakeholders. Unlike systems that rely on the verification of identity documents such as birth certificates or Social Security cards, TASCET identifies the individual. […]

Arcoprint Time Recorder Company, a developer of various time and attendance tracking and human resources solutions, has announced that its biometric time and attendance solution, timeQplus, has been upgraded to include built-in support for USB connectable flash drives. The new capabilities are expected to ease data transfers and employee enrollment. Previous versions of timeQplus required […]

Six months ago, the Michigan state government announced that it would begin accepting applications for new RFID-enabled enhanced driver’s licenses. As of today, the Secretary of State’s office in Michigan has received more than 80,000 applications for the enhanced licenses, which can be used instead of passports when re-entering the United States from Canada, Mexico, […]

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has recently implemented an RFID system for tracking its IT assets using Confidex’s Steelwave Micro RFID tags, inLogic’s RFTrack.NET asset tracking software and Motorola hand held RFID readers. State regulations require NYSERDA to physically take stock of their IT equipment at least once a year. […]