“We are talking about one of the largest-growing crimes in America, with literally hundreds of thousands of victims a year. It is called identity theft … The average identity theft costs $17,000. The average length of time it takes an individual to recover their identity … is a year and a half. It is a […]

Sagem Awards Gemplus a Contract in the Middle East to Deliver Over Two Million Cards to the UAE population – Ministry of Interior of the UAE Deploying Smart Card-Based ID Program to its Citizens to Improve Quality of Public Service – Sagem and Gemplus Collaboration Results in Second Successive ID Contract Win, Reinforcing Strength of […]

PARIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–April 17, 2003–Schlumberger Smart Cards and Terminals (NYSE:SLB) released its annual smart card analysis today. After a year treading water, shipment rates of microprocessor cards surged back into double-digits with a 13% rise in 2002. Although the general economic climate impacted margins, there are still strong prospects: As a corollary of the increasing need […]

Handheld Device Will Read Text, Photographs & Biometric IDs Simultaneously EXTON, Pa., Feb. 18 /PRNewswire/ – Datastrip announced today that its DSVerify2D handheld biometric ID card reader has been selected as the exclusive mobile identity verification component of a $1.2 million demonstration project awarded to BearingPoint, Inc. (NYSE: BE – News) by the Department of […]

A growing problem globally and on our campuses Capt. David Myers has seen his share of fake student ID cards, counterfeit drivers licenses and fraudulent credit cards. He and his four officers are members of the elite Fraudulent Identification Unit of Florida’s Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco. It’s a unit that’s so good it […]

Based on Smart Card Technology, ResIDent Enables Governments to Deliver Secure, Versatile and Convenient Identification Services to Their Populations PARIS, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Cartes 2002 – Gemplus (Nasdaq: GEMP; Paris Euronext: Euroclear 5768), the world’s leading provider of smart card-enabled solutions, today launched ResIDent, a smart card-based ID system designed for advanced e-Government programs. […]

Vision Database Systems (VDS) has the education market for ID software pretty well covered–from kindergarten all the way through college. But while the Jupiter, Florida-based company is well-entrenched in the K-12 market, its roots, and its forte remain in higher ed. VDS has a perfect client retention record for the 2003-04 year but there’s no […]

Based on Smart Card Technology, ResIDent Enables Governments to Deliver Secure, Versatile and Convenient Identification Services to Their Populations PARIS, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Cartes 2002 – Gemplus (Nasdaq: GEMP; Paris Euronext: Euroclear 5768), the world’s leading provider of smart card-enabled solutions, today launched ResIDent, a smart card-based ID system designed for advanced e-Government programs. […]

Awarded with contract to supply a comprehensive nationalidentity solution including the issuance of over 1.2 million smart ID cards<br /><br /> – Part of Sultanate of Oman strategy to improve quality of public service and homeland security infrastructure<br /><br /> – First nationwide smart card-based citizen identity solution to be deployed in the Middle East<br […]

EXTON, Pa., Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ – Datastrip today introduced thePCRead2D, a compact, affordably priced card scanner that enables identification cards with two-dimensional bar codes to be decoded for identity verification on a PC. Designed for use with access control cards, national ID cards, driver’s licenses, health cards and similar documents, the reader can scan the […]