Gemalto has been tapped by InterSwitch, a Nigerian provider of secure electronic payment solutions, to deploy its Dexxis Instant Issuance process to speed up the country’s EMV migration of 30 million mag stripe cards. The Gemalto solution enables InterSwitch’s 25 bank members to do on-the-spot personalization and delivery of chip cards to their customers and […]

Here is a new video that guides viewers through the operations of American Apparel’s item-level RFID inventory management system. ©2009 Avery Dennison Corporation, All Rights Reserved. American Apparel® is a registered trademark of American Apparel LLC and other fixtures and in store images are the property of American Apparel LLC and used with permission. Components […]

UPM Raflatac will supply RFID inlays for access control in support of the 25th European Youth Olympic Festival in Tampere, Finland this month. All authorized individuals involved in the upcoming event will be issued UPM Raflatac RFID tag identification passes. The identification cards will facilitate access to e.g. accommodation, dining and competition venues. Moreover, the […]

Article One Partners LLC, an online community that works to validate or invalidate patents by offering cash compensation, says it has uncovered prior art in the JSA Technologies patent that covers the account to account transfer of funds between networks via the Internet. That could invalidate the patent that impacts campus card programs that use […]

The Israeli government has proposed a bill that would introduce biometric identity cards and passports to the country with the purpose of relieving theft and counterfeiting of identities, according to a Jerusalem Post article. While officials behind the proposal assure that the proper steps to ensure high security for personal data, others from the Knesset […]

UK Home Office Secretary Alan Johnson announced that the identity scheme put in place would be voluntary for citizens. The only individuals forced to apply for the cards would be foreign national living in the UK, 50,000 of these cards have already been issued. The IDs also will no longer be mandatory for airport workers. […]

What tips to cope with the downturn can you share? We know the recession is affecting everyone and is causing budget cuts, some of them massive, at colleges and universities across the country. CR80News would like to know how such budget cutbacks have affected your campus card office. Have there been layoffs? Shortened hours of […]