Semiconductor company NXP has unveiled its new NFC controller that will enable mobile phone users to access more contactless applications such as mobile payments, transport and event ticketing as well as data sharing directly from the mobile phone SIM. “In 2008, the GSMA Pay-Buy-Mobile initiative called for full NFC functionality including the standardized single-wire protocol […]

Campus card provider CardSmith is upgrading Michigan-based Albion College’s campus card system to give students, faculty and staff access to a number of services on and around campus. With the new Albion 1Card, students will now be able to access residence halls, check out materials at the library, eat at all campus dining locations, buy […]

Who’s doing it and what’s being done to prevent it By Zack Martin, Editor, Avisian Publications Hacking can mean many things. The image it conjures for most is that of a young man in a dark room lit by nothing more than the glow of a computer monitor, trying to break into some top-secret government […]

Match on card technology has long been touted as the most secure way to use biometrics and smart cards. Since the cardholder’s biometric information never leaves the card there is no chance it will be intercepted while transmitted to a reader or other device. Regarding ID Editor Zack Martin talked to Kevin Gillick, executive director […]

Hackers broke into computer databases and potentially put at risk personal information of 160,000 students, alumni and others, according to an Associated Press report. In all, 97,000 Social Security numbers were stolen. The university said data include Social Security numbers, birth dates, health insurance information and some medical records dating back to 1999 were compromised. […]

ADT Security Services has announced a new addition to its Sensormatic series of RFID-oriented solutions. The Sensormatic Quadrel T Series is a high-speed automatic RFID label applicator capable of applying up to 100 labels per minute. With its new device, ADT is targeting packaged goods manufacturers who are increasingly required to meet the RFID implementation […]

MaxID, a developer of rugged mobile computing devices, has announced the integration of face recognition capabilities from biometrics developer Animetrics to their iDLMax handheld identity management device. The technology from Animetrics is their two-dimensional to three-dimensional (2D to 3D) technology and the iDLMax is the first mobile computing device to utilize it. The technology from […]