TAGSYS RFID announced a range of high frequency (HF) RFID tags optimized for books, documents and pharmaceuticals bottles and other plastic packaging. The FOLIO 370X-LI are HF RFID tags optimized for performance in book and magazine tracking, featuring the NXP ICODE SLIX chip that provides 896 bits of user memory and enhanced reading performance. Available […]
11 Sep, 2012TAGSYS RFID offers RFID suite for books, documents and pharmaceuticals
11 Sep, 2012Slovakian government incorporates Datacard Group tech, enhances national ID
Secure ID and card personalization specialist Datacard Group has announced that the Slovakian Government will employ the company’s suite of identification solutions into its national eID program. The Slovakian government has chosen the company’s MX6000 card issuance system and the Syntera customization suite software to develop highly secure national eIDs, driver’s licenses, border crossing cards, […]
11 Sep, 2012FBI launches Next Generation Identification program
The FBI has invested $1 billion in a biometrics-based identification system to help catch criminals, reports ZD Net. The Next Generation Identification (NGI) program will improve the FBI’s existing fingerprint ID service. It also plans on including other biometric measures such as facial recognition, iris scanning, DNA analysis, voice identification and potentially also rolled and […]
11 Sep, 2012BIO-key rolls out new biometric authentication for health care field
BIO-key International, Inc. will be showing its newest fingerprint biometric authentication for the health care field at this week’s Epic Annual User Group Meeting in Verona, Wisc. BIO-key’s systems are designed to help hospital staffers and health care providers speed up the time it takes to access and update patient records, while increasing security measures […]
11 Sep, 2012RF Ideas readers get NFC, iClass upgrade
RF IDeas announced that it will upgrade its pcProx and pcProx Plus readers to support NFC and HID iClass SE Secure Identity Object (SIO) technologies. Slated for release in Q4 2012, the upgraded readers will enable employees to redeem ID and access credentials stored on their mobile phones, or any other NFC-enabled device, with just […]
11 Sep, 2012Clipper leaps on the San Francisco Bay Ferry
The Water Emergency Transit Agency (WETA), operator of San Francisco Bay Ferry, announced it will bring Clipper Card into acceptance on the Alameda/Oakland and Harbor Bay ferry routes. Beginning October 1, Clipper will be available on three San Francisco Bay Ferry routes: the South San Francisco/ Alameda/Oakland, the Alameda Main Street/Oakland/San Francisco, and the Alameda […]
11 Sep, 2012Researchers study viability of cognitive fingerprints for password enhancement
Researchers at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) are exploring the use of cognitive fingerprints as a means to enhance password authentication. Cognitive fingerprints are an aspect of covert-conditioned biometrics, which uses a unique sequences of problem-solving actions to determine if a user is legitimate or a poser. It does so by leveraging aspects of adaptive […]