MAN Diesel, Augsburg, Germany, has combined two contactless identification technologies on a single smart card chip for its new employee badge. LEGIC’s card-in-card solution is the technological backbone for the badges. The new card includes access control, time & attendance and cashless payments for more than 3,000 employees at MAN Diesel’s Germany plant. In addition, […]

Convenience store operator Sheetz will begin making the GO-Tag, a contactless payment sticker from Denver-based payment processor First Data, available to customers of its 350 stores by the end of July. The sticker, which can be placed on anything people routinely carry, such as an employee badge, student ID, a cell phone or PDA. allows […]

Adding IT applications to the existing physical security badges paves the way Using contactless technology on the desktop to lock down computers is starting to find more proponents as companies begin to ratchet up their portfolios to include more logical access devices that make it easier, and potentially less expensive, to migrate to the systems. […]

Digital Persona, a developer of biometrics solutions, has announced that it has been chosen by Tar Heel Capital, the largest franchisee of Wendy’s restaurants, for providing them with a biometric solution for their point of sale terminals to replace their magnetic card readers and employee ID cards for employee time and attendance. The system rolled […]

Bell ID, a provider of smart card management systems, announced that it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with PandaID Soluciones. The two companies will bring Bell ID’s ANDiS Smart Card Management Solution to the EMV banking, government and corporate ID markets in Venezuela and Colombia. PandaID Soluciones, a privately held company with offices in […]

CenTrak, a provider of RTLS systems for the indoor tracking of equipment and people, has debuted its IT-740 Staff Badge, touted by the firm as the world’s thinnest hybrid active RFID tag currently on the market. Measuring in at a thickness of only 3 millimeters, the badges are nearly as thin as ordinary, non-RFID enabled […]

CardLogix, a smart card manufacturer for secure ID and transactions, announced that it has expanded its partnership with SCM Microsystems, Inc., a provider of smart card readers and chips. CardLogix Smart Toolz, M.O.S.T. Toolz, Embedded Toolz and middleware, including Winplex, Printplex and Trakplex, have incorporated SCM’s readers, which enables a range of security applications. By […]

Many organizations are working on bringing biometrics to airports but obstacles remain By Zack Martin, Editor, Avisian Publications How airports identify employees has been a concern since 9/11 and other incidents have shown that there are potential security vulnerabilities. It’s so important that last October’s Smart Card Alliance conference held a panel dedicated to the […]

Gemalto announced that it has become a vendor partner of SAFE-BioPharma Association. Gemalto is joining with biopharmaceutical and health care industry to help the industry achieve its goal of a fully electronic business environment by 2012. Gemalto is the first smart card provider to join SAFE-BioPharma. The company has been an industry partner since 2004, […]

The Smart Card Alliance released a brief for federal health care policymakers on the importance of reliable identification technology in the market. “With the $17 billion federal government investment planned for health care IT as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009, we thought this was the right time to bring […]