Canada’s Scotiabank is now offering its customers Visa payWave-enabled contactless credit cards, including the ScotiaGold Passport Visa, Scotia Momentum Visa and SCENE Visa. The new cards will enable Scotiabank customers to make tap-and-go payments at multiple locations across Canada, such as Petro-Canada, Rexall Pharma Plus pharmacies, Cineplex Entertainment movie theaters, Jean Coutu, Rabba Fine Foods, […]

Jolly Technologies, San Carlos, Calif., has released version 5.1 of ID Flow, its card production software, and Lobby Track, which helps companies manage visitors. The upgrades now support MIFARE encoding with Evolis printers. The Jolly Encoder supports reading and writing of MIFARE compatible cards using an Evolis printer equipped with a MIFARE compatible reader, such […]

Gemalto announced that the Swedish National Police Board renewed its five year agreement on ePassports and eID Cards. The contract was signed with AB Svenska Pass, a Gemalto company, who manages the end-to-end delivery process including the live enrollment solution in Sweden, production of secure travel documents, as well as operated issuance services. The contract […]

Launching a brand new campus card program isn’t as easy as signing a contract and cutting a check. There are many steps a schools needs to go through before they even choose a vendor. CR80News asked questions to campus card vendors asking what a school would have to do if starting a campus card program […]

Simply printing a secure credential does not mean that it can’t be forged, other security measures need to be taken. “You have to have a whole corporate-wide approach to your issuing and credentialing system,” says David Murphy, industry development manager for cards, at Zebra Technologies. “It’s not simply a printer, it’s everything around it: the […]

Themed “A New Horizon for Card Manufacturing: Moving Forward. Looking Ahead,” the International Card Manufacturers Association announced its annual EXPO, providing attendees witha look toward the future of the card manufacturing industry. The EXPO provides an forum for attendees to plan for the future of card manufacturing, to discuss best practices and exchange ideas. Educational […]

In the latest edition of the Regarding ID podcast, Anna Fernezian, program manager for identity and assurance at CSC, fills listeners in on PIV-I, the smart card specification that can be used by non-federal issuers to create highly-secure credentials. Fernezian talks about the specification and why it’s important as well as the role it may […]

A draft of FIPS 201-2 has been released for public comment on the Federal Register. “The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) publishes this notice to request comments on Draft Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 201-2, Personal Identity Verification of Federal Employees and Contractors Standard. Draft FIPS 201-2 amends FIPS 201-1 and includes […]

Snapper, New Zealand’s smart ticketing company, has partnered with EventFinder to provide an integrated contactless ticketing solution for participants in the 2nd AsiaPacific Outgames. Participants in the Outgames, a major international gay and lesbian sport, culture and human rights event, will receive contactless personalized ID cards for payment and transport around Wellington. Snapper CEO Miki […]

Many organizations are moving over to a Microsoft Windows 7 Operating System. This transition may directly affect ID card printing system. Before an organization makes the switch they need to check to make sure the printer will work with Windows 7. ColorID wants to make sure its’ clients check their card printer before making the […]