While the Jakarta Population and Civil Registry Office had planned to register all of the city’s citizens in its e-ID program by the end of April, it has moved that deadline for a second time due to people still waiting for their identification cards, reports the Jakarta Globe. The Population and Civil Registry Office has […]
16 Apr, 2012Jakarta defers e-ID enrollment deadline again
16 Apr, 2012RFID tracks historic collection at University of Alabama
Silent Partner Technologies (SPT) has been selected by the University of Alabama to provide an RFID asset tracking system to protect the university’s historic costume collection. The University of Alabama collection includes nearly 9,000 items of clothing, dolls and doll furnishings. It includes thousands of special occasion garments and military uniforms, some of which were […]
16 Apr, 2012The Mobile ID Experiment
Policy, technology, and business case remain hypothetical
Be it Android, Apple, tablet or smart phone … mobile devices are everywhere, and users want to do everything on them that they do on their desktop. As the functionality increases so do the threats to the information stored on and accessed by the devices. The same dangers that plague the desktop world are exacerbated […]
16 Apr, 2012Beta testers praise face login app
Beta testers for Sensible Vision’s new FastAccess Anywhere facial recognition password replacement app are praising its speed, accuracy and reliability. FastAccess Anywhere is available on both iOS and Android and replaces traditional passwords with a secure combination of the user’s face and a gesture. This enables the user to replace login password information and quickly […]
16 Apr, 2012Orange expands Quick Tap to Android phones
U.K. mobile operator Orange has announced that it will expand its Quick Tap contactless payments service to NFC-enabled Android handsets, according to The Telegraph. Originally available only on the Samsung Tocco and Samsung Wave 578, Quick Tap lets users make contactless mobile purchases of up to £15 at nearly 70,000 retailers around the U.K., including […]
16 Apr, 2012Starbucks m-paymens app hits 42 million transactions
Starbucks has processed more than 42 million mobile transactions in the U.S. since launching its “mobile pay” app for Android and iPhone, according to VentureBeat. Released in January 2011, mobile pay enables customers to load money onto a digital Starbuck’s card stored on their phone. At checkout, the customer opens the app on their phone […]
16 Apr, 2012Identive launches SmartCore for contactless applications
Identive Group announced the launch of SmartCore, an RFID card core manufacturing technology that enables surface quality and printability of contactless ID and access cards. SmartCore card cores eliminate the need for chip enclosures and enable production of an even surface without bumps or irregular patterns. In the SmartCore process the integrated circuit (IC) and […]