QI Systems, a developer and marketer of contact and contactless chip-based card payment and tracking solutions, has joined with campus card provider SmartCentric Technologies, to provide universities with more opportunities for expanded use of the SmartCity smart cards for on-campus and off-campus use. The agreement will also allow for remote data collection and hot-listing of […]

MULTOS provider StepNexus has purchased GlobalPlatform on MULTOS technology from Sentry, meaning MULTOS can now provide compatibility with existing GlobalPlatform systems. Terms of the deal between the two privately held companies were not released. SAN FRANCISCO–StepNexus, the premier provider of the world’s first open, high-security, multi-application, smart card operating system MULTOS, announced the acquisition of […]

Hitachi’s finger vein authentication technology was named the Breakthrough Innovation of the Year by a national trade journal during the CardTech/SecurTech conference this week. Powered by the StepNexus MULTOS smart card platform, the finger vein system relies on a clearly identifiable and unique pattern of veins in a finger. Without actually touching a scanner, a […]

With its 2.2.2 Java Card release, Sun Microsystems has added contactless capabilities and biometrics support for smart card chip manufacturers and smart card vendors. The Cardtech announcement came prior to a talk on the “Future of Java Card” to be delivered by Sun’s chief information officer. Beneficiaries of the new platform specification include telecom service […]

Physical security workhorse begins giving way to contactless as price cuts and multi-technology readers eliminate hurdles By Chris Corum, Executive Editor, AVISIAN Publishing You can do more – and you can do it more securely – with contactless than you can with proximity. Few would argue with this statement, yet each year proximity technology continues […]

A partnership between campus card provider SmartCentric and Integrated Engineering allows SmartCentric to offer contactless biometric access capabilities on the same card, giving its customers the ability to control access to restricted areas. Dublin, Ireland and West Palm Beach, Florida–SmartCentric Technologies International Ltd (SmartCentric), the leading provider of smart card systems in the campus market, […]

Surging contactless payments and the new near field communication technology will highlight the card portion of the CardTech SecurTech conference May 2-4 in San Francisco. Contactless smart card infrastructures, prepaid card technologies, point of sale innovations and strategies for merging contactless with cell phones are just some of the sessions that will be featured. NEW […]

The demand for tighter security systems doesn’t seem to be abating anytime soon. Some of the latest technologies available for fighting fraud and ID theft and the increased interest in logical and physical access convergence are just some of the subjects that will be featured at the SecurTech portion of this year’s CardTech/SecurTech Conference May […]

$60 million this week, $190 million in the last three months, and a collective $320 million raised by Pay By Touch since September. Nice. In their latest round of new financing, Pay By Touch has continued their ferocious pace of fundraising with an eye on continued product development and strategic acquisition. The San Francisco-based provider […]

Pay By Touch, which enables shoppers to pay for purchases or cash checks using a finger scan linked to their personal identification information and financial accounts, has purchased a payment processing provider giving the California company instant access to some 120,000 merchants. Pay By Touch Payment Processing Products to Become More Robust San Francisco, Calif.– […]