With Canada and Mexico both going to EMV and most of the rest of the world doing the same it may be a matter of time before U.S. card issuers are forced to go to chip and PIN. EMV in the U.S. was the topic of a panel at the CTST Conference in New Orleans. […]

Art Channel Galleries, a direct-marketing firm specializing in the collectible art and sports memorabilia markets, has announced plans to deploy RFID technology for authenticating its products. The company has completed the purchase of an RFID software and hardware package, and plans to begin integrating new RFID tracking and authentication software into its enterprise software system. […]

Is there an identity crisis in the United States? Panelists on an identity roundtable at CTST conference in New Orleans seem to think there is an the solution is issuing high-level assurance credentials to individuals for identification online. Peter Alterman, deputy associate administrator for technology strategy at the office of government wide policy at the […]

Lockheed Martin hosted four industry leaders in vascular, voice and signature recognition at its Biometric Experimentation and Advanced Concepts (BEACON) in West Virginia, a space intent on collaborating between industry, government and academia in the field of biometrics. The four companies invited were Identica, PerSay, Speech Technology Center and Noninvasive Medical Technologies. The intent behind […]

German RFID component maker PANMOBIL has introduced a series of handheld RFID and bar code scanners offering the functionality of USB devices. With this capability, the scanners can be integrated into a system without the need to install drivers or other software. The SCANNDY and smartSCANNDY series of scanners are designed to simply plug into […]

Despite the recent global economic slowdown, ABI Research remains optimistic about the growth prospects for the RFID industry over the coming months. The latest report by the industrial analysis firm predicts an 11% growth in the RFID market by the end of 2010. The glaring weak spot in the otherwise positive outlook is the depressed […]

Commonwealth Bank will install 5,000 contactless payment readers across Australia by Christmas, according to an Australian IT news report. The plan follows an 18-month trial involving 200 contactless readers distributed across a range of cafes and restaurants. Commonwealth will start to distribute readers in June. Read the full story here