The Hayward, California Fire Department has chosen BIO-key’s FireRMS records management system to aid its firefighters at the city’s nine stations to better keep up with incident reporting as well as to track the certification and training required of first responders. Department Implements BIO-key Solution to Improve Reporting and Address Academy Training Needs WALL, N.J., […]

< ? $key="1357"; ?> As card programs around the country and the world continue to mature, the question of ‘next steps’ regularly arises. In the articles that follow, a number of potential directions are presented – document output management and cost recovery, alternative payment concepts, system security refinement, and computer access control. Equitrac releases new […]

Texas state representative Larry Phillips (R) has proposed a bill mandating RFID tags in vehicle inspection stickers. The tag would store information on the vehicle, its registration and insurance coverage. 79(R) HB2893 Introduced Sec. 601.507. SPECIAL INSPECTION CERTIFICATES. Commencing not later than January 1, 2006, the department shall issue or contract for the issuance of […]

Readers must be able to scan 100 tags per second By Dennis Sullivan The pool of vendors doing business with the military just got larger with some of the biggest names in the RFID industry trying to capture a share of the estimated $200 million government contracting market. Last month, nine companies won approval from […]

MasterCard has chosen identity assurance provider ActivCard to deliver the first Chip Authentication Program to operate over multiple channels. The move will allow MasterCard member banks to authenticate users and transactions in non face-to-face environments, such as on-line shopping and phone banking. ActivCard 4TRESS Authentication Server Provides Back-end Support for MasterCard Chip Authentication Program InfoSecurity […]

But DoD’s original January 1 deadline came and went. What’s happening? By Peter A. Buxbaum Showing how important the Department of Defense considers its RFID initiative, already 97% of the supply pallets currently sent to forces in Iraq are being shipped with RFID tags. As for the rest of the mandate, getting the DoD’s RFID […]

EPC Global disagrees; ‘Bloody mess,’ says vendor By Dann Anthony Maurno At first, it seemed as if the new UHF Generation 2 standards the industry had been waiting for would finally allow companies to begin making equipment so any tag could be used with any reader anywhere in the world. EPC Global Inc. even proclaimed […]