Students at colleges using Student Advantage can now have a branded People magazine card plus a subscription to the popular picture-heavy periodical. The magazine becomes one of 35 national partners that target their college-specific marketing with discount offers to Student Advantage cardholders. BOSTON– Student Advantage, LLC, purveyor of the nation’s largest student discount program, today […]

A panel of ID industry experts provided predictions for 2006. One of these glimpses into the future will appear here each day during December. By Dave Ella, Vice President of Products, AMAG Technology The security industry is seeing an increasing number of changes in what used to be the access control industry and is now […]

A panel of ID industry experts provided predictions for 2006. One of these glimpses into the future will appear here each day during December. By Dominique Gauthier, Marketing Manager, software and technologies, Ingenico This past year will remain in the payment industry history as The Year It Really Started. For the first time, the banking […]

[Ed – Missed this announcement in late September.] AeroScout announced that it has received an investment from Cisco Systems, Inc. The funding will be used to continue AeroScout’s strong growth and market leadership through increased sales and marketing initiatives. “The Cisco investment is a vote of confidence in AeroScout’s innovative technology and the value of […]

< ? $key="6789"; ?> Innovative project leaders are using a host of different technologies and approaches to solve unique secure ID needs. In this issue, we highlight a few of the technologies that are sometimes overlooked – 2D barcodes, one time password generators, optical stripes, zigbee, and more. FFIEC tells banks to make transactions more […]

Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Some 100,0000 smart cards with optical stripes have been delivered to the States of New Delhi and Gujarat in India as part of the first phase of the country’s vehicle registration program. According to the supplying company, Luxembourg-based Gemplus, this will likely be the largest drivers license/vehicle registration project of its […]

The pinstriped lines of barcodes past are going the way of the vinyl LP – at least for many applications. Instead of the staid black-and-white bars, you are likely to find a chaotic looking area of scrambled dots. Thanks to the advances in tracking technology, barcodes have come a long way since their introduction in […]