In cooperation with Paris transport company Ratp, Axalto and Bouygues Telecom are launching a pilot project that will use mobile phones as travel passes on the Parisian transport network. AMSTERDAM, Netherlands–Axalto, the world’s leader in microprocessor cards, has announced the launch of a pilot project developed alongside Bouygues Telecom to validate the concept of purchasing […]

BIO-key and Educational Biometric Technology achieved a perfect score recently at a Minnesota school, which upgraded to BIO-key’s latest software release that includes fingerprint matching software. The program eliminates the need for students to remember a PIN or carry an identification card to establish their identity. New Biometric release, VST 5.5 Attains 100% Identification Results […]

Zebra’s dual-sided color P420i printer has been chosen by a southwest Florida school district to print its 11,000 employee ID badges which are part of a GE-installed system that includes access control, video surveillance, alarm monitoring and photo ID badging. Print Photo ID Badges that Double as Access Control Credentials Used by Florida School District’s […]

The Ogden City, Utah Police Department will be using ImageWare’s facial recognition and digital composite sketching technology that will streamline the department’s current law enforcement identification procedures by allowing officers to conduct facial recognition searches against its existing records management system (RMS). SAN DIEGO–ImageWare Systems, Inc., a world leading developer and provider of identity management […]

From taxis to grocery stores, VeriFone Holdings is seeing its contactless technology being utilized in different venues. First, it announced a joint venture with TaxiTronic, Inc. to equip taxes with integrated fleet management and customer payment systems. Second, the company says it has completed upgrading a Midwest grocery and general merchandise retailer’s payment system to […]

With recent contactless payment rollouts from MasterCard, Visa, and American Express, the Smart Card Alliance has issued a new “position paper” trumpeting this growth and its impact on the contactless payment card market. PRINCETON JUNCTION, NJ –Contactless payment is taking off in the United States and its impact on the U.S. payment card market is […]

Visitor Central from GE Security can link with a company’s or college’s currently-installed access control systems to allow greater management to the organization. With Visitor Central, companies can achieve the same level of control and tracking with visitors that they have with employees. For instance, visitors would only be allowed to enter authorized areas. In […]