The American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) has announced that they will be hosting a symposium to target issues such as credentialing and access control as they relate to aviation security, according to an Aviation News article. In addition to workshops set out to review current credentialing programs in place at airports, the symposium will […]

LEGIC Identsystems Ltd. has partnered with RF IDeas Inc. to develop and manufacture cost efficient USB, RS-232, and Ethernet readers for a variety of off-the-door applications for LEGIC customers. RF IDeas manufactures proximity and contactless card readers that can expand functionality of building access cards to hundreds of applications. The applications include employee identification, computer […]

Many Bangkok employees are able to use their employer-issued ID cards to purchase drinks from vending machines on company property thanks to contactless technology. Sun108, a Thailand company, is so far handling about 2,000 vending machines located in manufacturing plants and about 1,000 machines in hospitals and other offices. According to The Nation, a Bangkok […]

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor The last thing a hospital employee wants to do is run around searching for a piece of equipment needed for a patient or an upcoming surgery. If the device can’t be found, often, hospitals rent the equipment even though it same device may be sitting somewhere in the hospital, such […]

Instant Badge Issuance (IBI)—a smart card identity badge creation system that complements Microsoft’s Identity and Access solutions that enables enterprises to produce employee IDs locally in a short period of time has been showcased by Gemalto at TECH•ED NORTH AMERICA 2008. In addition to printing graphics and personalizing applications on a magnetic stripe or ISO […]

Campus card banking partners step up to educate student cardholders Get a bunch of students, mostly freshmen, away from home for the first time. Stick them all in a dorm, many of them are armed checks, a credit card, a student ID, their driver license and Social Security card. It’s a recipe for ID theft. […]

KSW Microtec AG will be launching its new UHF polycarbonate inlay for security-critical applications in the government and enterprise ID sectors at CTST 2008 in Orlando, Florida, from May 12 to 15. KSW Microtec’s UHF inlay polycarbonate tag is ideally suited for the production of border crossing cards, drivers’ licenses, police ID and national ID […]

LaserCard Corp. has received a purchase order to supply optical memory cards for the Italian Ministry of Justice employee ID program. The Ministry plans to issue the cards as secure ID badges containing personal data including employment, biometric identification and health information, to all Ministry employees. Italy’s national printer and mint, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca […]

Sun Microsystems and the Java Card Forum announced the availability of version 3.0 of Java Card platform specification. The new Java Card 3.0 platform specification is available in two separate editions: Java Card Platform v.3.0, Classic Edition and Java Card Platform v.3.0, Connected Edition. Both editions are compatible with applications written for previous versions. Java […]

The Athena IDProtect 72K Java Card received U.S. Government FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certification while the Athena ASEPCOS Digital Signature smart card received the French Government Common Criteria EAL4+ certification for SSCD Type 3, enabling users to choose from Open Platform or file system based solutions for highest level of security required by government and […]