Centrelink, the Australian human services agency, is pitching its smart card technology in the U.S., according to a CRN.com news report. Two-day workshops are planned in Canberra, Australia in June and Washington in July to introduce Centrelink’s PLAID protocol. PLAID stands for Protocol for Lightweight Authentication of ID. PLAID is a standard for how smart […]

PNC Bank based in Pittsburgh and West Virginia University in Morgantown have agreed to a five-year contract emphasizing money management and financial responsibility for the school’s 39,000 students, faculty and staff. This includes an electronic refund option through PNC’s Payment Portal, a new on-line tool that administers payments and refunds from the school directly to […]

It’s a harsh reality, but in this economic environment there are layoffs and companies need to make sure employees that are let go can’t access networks and files after they walk out the door. Agoura Hills, Calif.-based Symark is a company supplying software that enables IT administrators to see who accesses what files, giving them […]

A desktop computer stolen from Virginia Commonwealth University may have exposed the Social Security numbers of more than 17,000 current and former students. As a result, the university is offering a year of free ID theft insurance to those affected. The Richmond, Va.-based university quit using Social Security numbers as student identifiers two years ago, […]

HID Global announced its partnership with Lipi Data Systems Ltd. for local assembly and distribution of HID Global’s Fargo brand printers in India. Located at Udaipur, India, the new production and assembly plant for HID’s Fargo brand printers began its operation as of June 2009, while the first lot of locally assembled printers is scheduled […]

FileTrail Inc., a provider of browser-based records management software and RFID-enabled solutions, has announced a new partnership with BookFactory, a producer of custom laboratory and engineering notebooks for scientific applications. The result of the collaboration is an RFID-enabled scientific notebook. The new notebooks will be embedded with RFID tags, enabling the monitoring of their location […]

A report released this week predicted that the market for RFID technology in China will reach just under $1.1 billion this year, a 20% increase over its size in 2008. The report was a collaboration between three RFID-oriented organizations in China, China RFID Alliance, the State Leading Group Office of Golden Card Project Coordination, and […]