The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has announced that Hong Kong and Shenzhen locals could be using smart cards to travel and shop by next year, according to The Standard. The two cities are looking into a two-in one smart card that combines the Octopus card (Hong Kong’s contactless payment card) and its sister card, […]

Tagsys revealed deployment of its “RFID for Fashion” solution at European jean supplier, Rica Lewis. The solution is set to include a vast array of utilities including, printable ultra-high frequency RFID tags for existing apparel labels, RFID printers to program and print data, RFID tunnels to manage incoming and outgoing merchandise, portable RFID readers to […]

The top stories from the campus card market in 2009 included a controversial patent on web revalue, a series of pieces on campus card banking programs, and a nationwide assortment of innovative card programs from Boston to Montana. The CR80News editorial team and the rest of the AVISIAN Publishing staff are working hard to bring […]

The top stories of 2009 centered on government identification initiatives including electronic passports, national ID programs, driver license reform and identity management. Take a moment and check out what you and our worldwide base of more than 30,000 readers found most interesting during the last year. I think you will agree it provides a unique […]

Theory vs. Practice and Preaching to the Choir By Salvatore D’Agostino, IDmachines A quid pro quo for doing business with U.S. federal agencies and deploying the infrastructure, credentials and applications adhering to FIPS 201 is to get the supporting products and services on the Government Services Administration Approved Products List also known as FIPS 201 […]

By Guy Vancollie, chief marketing officer, CoreStreet (now an ActivIdentity Company) The U.S. government issued HSPD 12, a “policy for a common identification standard for federal employees and contractors” on August 24, 2004. Under the HSPD-12 mandate, all federal employees and contractors will be issued a Personal Identity Verification–or PIV–a smart card with contact and […]

An incident involving an alleged gunman at St. Paul College in Minnesota has turned into a lesson in identity vetting for campus card program managers everywhere. On Sept. 23 the technical school went on lockdown when a female student reported seeing a man with a gun in a campus elevator upset over his financial aid. […]

Digital Identification Solutions announced the integration of the ThingMagic USB RFID reader/encoder with the EDIsecure XID Retransfer Printer. By attaching the Gen2 UHF USB encoder to the side of the XID printer, ID badges are printed and encoded in one step. The capabilities of the ThingMagic USB reader include tag reads at ranges up to […]

CARTES and IDentification Congress 2009, featuring 1,500 delegates, 240 speakers and 20,000 visitors, will take place in Paris, Nov. 17 though Nov. 19 at the Paris-Nord Villepinte. The 24th edition of CARTES has also added four new areas in addition to the return of most of its normal standbys. Not to be overlooked, however, is […]

Datacard Group, a secure ID and card personalization solutions provider, is piloting an instant issuance program with the Mountain America Credit Union in Utah. Working with Problem Solved, Datacard developed, implemented and supported instant card issuance software that is integrated with the credit union’s existing Symitar host system, and is also interfaced with Pemco, a […]