Medford, Ore.-based Mobifyer, an enabler of contactless, RFID, and NFC solutions, has teamed with suppliers TranZfinity, eGrips and SCM to jointly launch a series of developers contests to increase the adoption and acceptance of contactless, RFID, and NFC technologies with existing in-market mobile phones. Submissions to the “Ideas That Mobify” contests will be judged for […]

Two Orlando-area airports, the Orlando International Airport and Orlando Sanford International Airport, have been added to the Department of Homeland Security’s Global Entry Trusted Traveler Program, according to a News-Journal Online article. Users of the program are able to utilize biometric kiosks when arriving from international trips to speed up their waiting times for moving […]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency (NSA) are sponsoring a biometrics conference called the Biometrics Consortium Conference to be held over two and a half days in Florida in the second half of September. Some of the major speakers planned for the conference include Zackary Lemnios, chief technology […]

Lockheed Martin, a developer of various security technologies, has successfully completed the critical design review for a biometrics system being designed for the FBI as part of their Next Generation Identification Program (NGI). The fingerprint technology being incorporated into the NGI system is being provided by biometrics developer MorphoTrak. Lockheed has been working on the […]

Cryptography Research Inc. announced an agreement with EM Microelectronic – Marin SA, the semiconductor company of the Swatch Group, regarding the use of the company’s patents to enhance the security of EM Microelectronic’s smart card chips against Differential Power Analysis (DPA) and related attacks. EM is a supplier of flash-based smart card chips in the […]

Scott Marquardt, formerly with SVTC Technologies, a California technology foundry, will assume the presidency of Giesecke & Devrient’s U.S. subsidiary in Dulles, Va. beginning Sept. 1. His role will be to help G&D grow its business in both banknote processing and mobile security solutions. Marquardt’s career spans industries from paper and printing to cell phones, […]

Dynamic Card Solutions, an Englewood, Colo. provider of instant issuance and PIN selection solutions for banks, credit unions and retailers that issue mag stripe, contactless or EMV cards, has announced $14.8 million in revenue for the second quarter, an 87% increase over the previous year. The company attributes these results to new customers both domestically […]