Arcot Systems, a provider of secure electronic payment solutions, has announced that it has been chosen by SBI Cards, an India-based credit card issuer, to provide a solution for secure online shopping for their cardholders. The system specified in the agreement is the Arcot TransFort 3-D Secure and is expected to protect cardholders as well […]

Canada’s Province of Quebec has unveiled its Enhanced Driver’s License. The license, which includes both a bar code and an embedded RFID chip, is approved for use as a passport alternative in crossing the U.S. land border. The enhanced license will cost Quebecers $40 (Canadian) more than a standard license. Provincial officials believe it will […]

Cubic Transportation Systems Inc. is providing new capabilities for the Cubic designed Tri-Reader to enable an all-in-one reader that will process bank cards, prepaid cards and smart card-enabled mobile phones through a software development and licensing agreement with ViVOtech, a provider of point-of-sale readers for contactless and Near Field Communication mobile phone payments. Under the […]

The Smart Card Alliance will present a workshop on NFC-enabled mobile payments and applications at International CTIA WIRELESS 2009, Friday April 3rd from 10:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Room N262 (North Hall, Level 2). The session is designed to give attendees an understanding of the technology and security […]

Biometric Services International announced the availability of its latest update of published and emerging biometric standards. Seven new and/or updated standards were published since the last update in August 2008, bringing the total number of published standards to 80. The report details these, along with another 80+ emerging standards under consideration. The exchange of fingerprint, […]

Collis announced the release of the Collis Card Image Editor; a new product designed to support both Issuers and Acquirers with card and terminal testing. The Collis Card Image Editor is a tool for editing EMV card data. It provides an editing functionality of data from a real EMV Card. It can be used to […]

Wyoming’s Natrona County School District has announced that they will be installing biometric systems in the cafeterias of all their junior high and high schools to improve the lunch accounts system, according to a Casper Journal article. The system, which uses a student’s fingerprint to identify and debit the student’s account for lunch purchases, will […]