Contactless smart card systems manufacturer LEGIC has inked a license partnership agreement with BCS Solutions Service Centre in Germany that will extend usage of LEGIC’s all-in-one card while expanding BCS’ offerings to its clients. Zurich/Munich –LEGIC Identsystems Ltd, the leading manufacturer of contactless smart card systems for personal identification applications and BCS Solutions GmbH, the […]

Support for the iCLASS® contactless technology from HID is expected to be available (Q2 2007) in the SmartCity® smart card offering from SmartCentric Technologies. According to SmartCentric, this will include cashless purchases at POS, vending machines, laundry, printers, and dining as well as both logical access and physical access. The SmartCity platform is used by […]

SmartCentric has been selected to develop the next generation of Bill Pay and Phone Top up (Etopup) applications for the Irish Postal Service’s retail network PostPoint. PostPoint allows customers to pay their utility bills at their retail outlets and also top up mobile phones. SmartCentric to provide An Post (The Irish Postal Service) with next […]

The SmartCity® multi-application smart card system that drives campus card programs, corporate sites, military installations and other programs now includes a contactless option. Previously based on contact chip cards only, the newest version supports both types and thus, according to CEO Kieran Timmins, “means greater card choices, less hardware and simpler and hence cheaper card […]

An increase in security threats coupled with government mandates “…makes the case for smart card based access control solutions more compelling than ever,” according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan. The market for regulating physical and logical access by smart cards could top $158.5 million in the next five years, the report predicts. […]

Sawtry Community College has decided to switch from a smart card-based payment system, to a fingerprint identification mechanism that can be used to charge accounts at the point of sale. It’s a much more streamlined system of delivering meals to the students, thanks in part to Toshiba and Datasym, with technology provided by Aufait Systems. […]

SmartCentric announced the addition of campus card industry veteran, Carl Painter, to the role of Director of Technical Services. Carl brings more than fifteen years of campus card and ID technology experience to his new role – stretching from early years with Florida State University’s FSUCard program to more recent work with imaging system developer […]

Citibank has chosen the country of Singapore to play host to the first biometric credit cards ever issued. The initial roll out calls for 190,000 cards to be dispersed and features technology by Pay By Touch. The full post can be seen here.   

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Ireland-based smart card solutions provider SmartCentric Technologies has chosen the partnership route to add more functions to the services it offers clients. Its recent agreement with Texas-based QI Systems is intended to provide SmartCentric’s university and corporate campuses with new unattended card readers capable of handling both contact and contactless […]

PRESS RELEASE: Broadcom’s Trusted Authentication Initiative Helps Enable Rapid Growth of Security Technologies in Physical Access, Logical Access and Contactless Payments IRVINE, Calif., June 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ:BRCM) , a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today introduced the world’s first secure processor with integrated radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, […]