The Smart Card Alliance will present a panel discussion on why enterprises planning converged physical and IT access control can benefit by following the federal government’s model at ISC West, April 1 though April 3 at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas. Alliance members will also demonstrate various technologies in the exhibit […]

Belguim telecom provider Belgacom is taking a stake of 40% in Tunz, a mobile payments specialist. Tunz was set up in January 2007 by Grégoire de Streel & Jean Zurstrassen, co-founders of Skynet & Keytrade Bank. Tunz is an open payment platform offering a range of mobile payment solutions and applications such as NFC payments, […]

The CBORD Group Inc., a provider of food and nutrition management solutions, cashless card systems, and access control solutions to colleges and universities and health care facilities, announced it will continue its partnership with Novation. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Novation, a group purchasing organizations, awarded CBORD its second consecutive supplier contract. CBORD […]

Queralt LLC, a Connecticut-based provider of tracking solutions, has announced the availability of an RFID-enabled solution for the management of consignment inventory. With Queralt’s Hosted RFID Consignment Solution in place, each time a RFID-tagged product in a consignment inventory is removed, the application takes action. The vendor of the consignment item is notified of the […]

A computer virus infected an administrative computer in the Penn State Office of Physical Plant potentially compromising employees’ identities, according to a Centre Daily News report. The Social Security numbers of 1,000 people who were employees of the Penn State Office of Physical Plant may have been stolen. The employees who are at risk were […]

Cerritos College, a Norwalk, Calif.-based community college, is considering adding another magnetic stripe to the student IDs, according to TalonMarks.com, the student newspaper at the two-year institution. The additional stripe will enable ATM withdrawals and deposits in the food court. Read the full story here.   

The Belgian Federal Police Department has announced they have chosen Steria Benelux, a European systems integrator, to provide their Technical and Scientific Police Department’s Legal Identification Division with a fingerprint capture system. The system will be based on Cogent System’s Automated Palm Print and Fingerprint Identification System (APFIS) with Steria enabling safe transmission of samples […]