Once a student registers at the North Orange County Community CollegeDistrict’s Cypress College, his or her student card is ready a short one minute later. From that point on, the Cypress College student will use that ID card as identification on campus, as a check ID at the student bookstore, to enter laboratories and even […]

ROCHESTER, N.Y. and TORONTO, Oct. 9 /CNW/ – Lenel(R)Systems International, Inc. and Bioscrypt Inc. announced today the availability of a new family of fully integrated fingerprint biometrics solutions for facility access control. Called Bioscrypt OnGuard, the new line up integrates Bioscrypt’s awarding-winning fingerprint biometrics technology and Veri-Series readers with Lenel’s OnGuard Total Security Knowledge Management […]

Washington, DC – October 15, 2002 – Today at the NACAS 34th Annual Conference, Blackboard Inc., the leading software infrastructure company for e-Education, announced that Vision Database Systems (VDS) signed a partnership agreement that will make the companies’ systems interoperable through Blackboard’s Building Blocks Program™. Under the agreement, Vision Database Systems joins Blackboard’s Building Blocks […]

PRINCETON JUNCTION, N.J., Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ – Attendees were upbeatand justifiably optimistic about the future at the recently concluded Smart Card Alliance Annual Conference, where the Alliance announced that smart card module shipments to the U.S. and Canada had doubled in the first half of 2002 to 31.2 million, and total more than 120 million […]

PHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sept. 10, 2002–New HID proximity card capabilities help organizations reduce costs, enhance security Datacard Group introduced inline proximity card reading capabilities for its Select(TM) and Magna(TM) Platinum Series desktop card printers today at the ASIS 48th Annual Seminar and Exhibit in Philadelphia. This new optional feature will allow Datacard(R) printers to read facility codes […]

PHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sept. 9, 2002–Fargo Electronics, Inc. (Nasdaq:FRGO), today announced that Texas Instruments (NYSE:TXN) Radio Frequency Identification Systems (TI-RFid(TM)) of Plano, Texas, Plastic Card Systems, Inc. of Northboro, Mass., and ITC Systems of Toronto have joined the Fargo Technology Alliance (FTA), a global technology group that promotes effective, advanced smart card solutions. Based in Eden Prairie, […]

If you utilize your campus card for access control, there is a good chance that you have heard the term Weigand (pronounced wee-gand). Typically, it is used in the context of “Weigand output,” “Weigand standard,” “Weigand encoding,” or “Weigand numbering scheme.” And more than likely, it has made the people on your campus responsible for […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 26, 2002–Drexler Technology Corporation (Nasdaq:DRXR), has received Canadian government approval to announce that the 400,000 LaserCard order announced by Drexler on August 14, 2002 and the 350,000 LaserCard order announced February 7, 2002 are slated for use as Canada’s new Permanent Resident Cards for non-citizens. The 750,000 optical memory cards priced […]

Now More Than 6 Million MasterCard Branded Smart Cards in the Region Singapore, August 26, 2002 – MasterCard International today announced that it has issued more than 6 million MasterCard branded smart cards in Asia/Pacific to date. This is a 65 percent increase in smart card issuance within a span of six months. At the […]

MINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 13, 2002–Fargo Electronics, Inc. (Nasdaq:FRGO), Sony Chemicals Corporation Japan (SCC), and Sony Chemicals Corporation of America (SCCA) today announced the creation of a global technology and business alliance, as well as the amicable settlement of all pending litigation between the companies. “The new alliance between Sony Chemicals and Fargo will link technologies from […]