There’s a new RFID book generating buzz, and it’s not the good kind for the RFID industry. Just choosing the title “Spychips” tells us the publishers, editors and authors are trying to move books through controversy. I first caught this on Wired and now Slashdot has picked up a Boston Globe article about the book. […]

< ? $key="7890"; ?> After a long summer, RFID moves into academia, hospitals and our mobile phones. RFID News talks to AXCESS International about Sun, Microsoft and their active tags, dives into Near Field Communication (NFC) in an exclusive introduction to their standards organization, kicks some ideas around with Adidas and their “Smartball,” and enters […]

Two years ago, CR80News conducted a quantitative survey of campus card banking partnerships in an attempt to put some numbers to trend . Our editors surveyed seven financial institutions that were determined to be actively involved in the market, offering banking services via the campus ID card. This month we endeavored to update this survey […]

By Geoff MacGillivray, Semiconductor Insights The use of RFID and contactless smart card technology is exploding and devices (e.g. tags, tokens, cards) all require embedded memory arrays that suit the needs of the application. All of these devices require non-volatile memory, memory capable of retaining information in the absence of power and some of these […]

By Heather Klein and John O’Malley, Giesecke & Devrient Imagine a scenario where Joe Smith is leaving his house in the morning to head to work, grabbing his mobile phone as he heads out the door. Joe starts down the street, calling the office to check messages, and ducks into the local coffee shop. While […]

At the recent ASIS security conference, displayed alongside the line of ID card printers in one company’s booth was a big metal locker with a reader and computer attached. It was not what one expects to see amid sleek, footprint-conscious card printers. But according to representatives of the printer manufacturer showcasing it, this box could […]

No doubt about it, identity is hot these days, but most of the discussions are centered around digital identity. Between identity theft and the difficulties of online authentication, a slew of efforts are underway to standardize and streamline how identity is created and used on the network. Think this doesn’t matter to you? Think again. […]