Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is acquiring SmartTrust AB, a provider of server solutions for managing applications on SIM cards and mobile phones. Details of the transaction have not been disclosed. With cell phones and mobile devices offering more services there is a need to manage the applications over the network. The acquisition will enable G&D […]

Singapore’s Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) has announced plans to combine the five databases of biometric information, now holding the information of all their citizens and visitors, into one central database to streamline and standardize access to the information, according to a Channel News Asia article. The ICA explains that it is moving on this […]

The Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center, a health care institution affiliated with the University of South Carolina Medical School and several other colleges in the South Carolina region, has announced the deployment of RFID solutions in its operating room facilities. The solutions, used for tracking high value equipment and supplies, integrate Mercury5 UHF RFID […]

Element ID Inc., a designer of RFID readers and specialty automation systems, has introduced two new RFID readers. The HF1 and HF1-B readers are designed to monitor item level data in automated systems, and offer multiple modes of operation to enable configuration to meet an array of application requirements. The readers, which do not require […]

Gemalto has extended its support for strong authentication on the Windows 7 platform using its .NET Bio solution. The solution enables multi-factor authentication using biometrics by building on the foundation provided in the new Windows Biometric Framework (WBF) for Windows 7. Gemalto is demonstrating its .NET Bio solution with biometrics on a Windows 7 platform […]

According to the UK-based Financial Times, the French may be among the first to roll out nationwide an NFC-based mobile phone payments system. Two years worth of consumer trials have proven that NFC does work, the publication says. Several big French retail chains are scheduled to equip checkouts capable of processing contactless payments, including NFC-enabled […]

CoreStreet announced that the State of Colorado will leverage CoreStreet’s Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS)-201, enabling interoperable credential validation technology to support the rollout of the Colorado First Responder Authentication Credential (COFRAC) Bridge. The COFRAC standard was created by the State of Colorado as a means to electronically validate the identity and attributes of those […]