HID Global announced a cloud-based platform for secure NFC tags and services that eliminates the inherent risks of authenticating original documents, processes, data-logging and high-value assets with traditional sign-off procedures. Leveraging the company’s Trusted Identity Platform for secure communications and identity transactions, the HID Trusted Tag Services platform is designed to secure assets and protects […]

Charismathics announced that NIST has re-certified the company’s CSSI PIV Middleware as FIPS 201 compliant. CSSI PIV ensures compliance with existing as well as future PIV cards and also all legacy Defense Department Common Access Cards and support for SIPRnet cards and tokens. charismathics enables interoperability and hardware independence as well as software support across […]

As the Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) takes its first steps to expand train service into Silicon Valley, it is also bringing its regionally interoperable Clipper Card payment system to its new customers. Warm Springs Constructors, the consortium that is building the BART Warm Springs Track Extension Project, has awarded Cubic Transportation Systems a […]

Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) has selected NXP Semiconductors for its SmartMX2 microcontroller to increase the security and performance of its banking cards. The new cards will have dual interface capabilities that enable both contact and contactless payments. NXP’s SmartMX2 delivers enhanced user convenience and speed of transactions that allow banks to offer […]

The Himalayan Times reports that the government of Nepal is going to pilot a biometric national ID card. The program, which will involve 100,000 people, will give citizens smart cards with personal data, thumbprints and a unique ID number. The pilot project is conducted with assistance from the Asian Development Bank and with approval from […]

While some may have seen Apple’s exclusion of NFC from the lastest iPhone as a slight, Miami-based Flomio saw an opportunity. As reported by BetaKit.com, the FloJack could be the solution that will enable iPhone users to have their cake and eat it too. The solution works much like the Square mobile reader— which allows […]

DigitalPersona, Inc. has released its latest generation of biometric fingerprint sensors designed for mobile identification devices. The DigitalPersona U.are.U 5100 family of fingerprint modules and readers are designed to give handheld terminals used in applications like voting the ability to read fingerprints efficiently while complying with biometric standards. This enables users to implement affordable, power […]