An increasing number of airlines are looking to RFID tracking systems to eliminate the problem of lost luggage and save revenue in the process. According to a report from SITA, a company specializing in air transport communication and IT solutions, 32% or airlines are expected to implement RFID tracking solutions within the next two years, […]

3M Track and Trace Solutions has announced the release of RFID Tracking System version 3.0, its newest installment in a line of RFID software introduced in 2003. 3M states that V3.0 will feature a number of improvements over its previous RFID software, including compatibility with the Vista operating system and a new Web-based locating and […]

The University of South Carolina in Columbia is joining the wireless revolution, Within a year, students will have broadband wireless access regardless of where they are on campus. But this increased connectivity doesn’t come cheap. The university will pay AT&T, the wireless provider, between $60,000 and $70,000 a month once installation is completed. Wi-Fi access […]

At least 37 Fayetteville, Ark. School District teachers are ID theft victims as someone used their Social Security numbers to establish cell phone accounts in their names, then made thousands of dollars worth of international calls. The largest bill was 43 pages long and totaled $4,215. All accounts were with Sprint, which isn’t holding the […]

To solve the issues and hazards of anonymoity on the Internet, President Obama should appoint a cybersecurity czar dedicated to identification, said Robert Lentz, deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber, identity, and information assurance in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense as well as the chief information assurance officer for the agency. […]

Officials for the Arkansas prison system have reported that they intend to begin utilizing biometric systems as checkpoints for employees, according to a WXVT 15 article. Many of the prisons already use similar systems for visitor check-in at the prisons, however, they expect to begin rolling-out the system that tracks employees soon as well. In […]

Neurotechnology, a developer of biometric solutions, has been chosen to provide its multi-modal biometric identification engine as the enrollment and authentication engine for the Integrated Biometric Passport Issuance System for Indonesia, according to a TMCnet article. The system, called MegaMatcher, operates off of face and fingerprint authentication. The templates used for the passports are to […]