Traditional proximity projects as well as combined logical and physical access control projects for clients including Microsoft and Procter & Gamble propelled Indala to a second consecutive year of record growth. Indala Does It Again… Second Straight Year of Record Growth at Silicon Valley-based Access-Control Company San Jose, CA (December 20, 2004) Indala Corporation, an […]

A panel of ID industry experts provided predictions for 2005. One of these glimpses into the future will appear here each day during December. by Michael Richardson, Chief Technology Officer, SMART System Technologies, Inc. SMART System Technologies, Inc. (SST) predicts that the next year will be the first of a 10-15 year trend in the […]

One of the world’s largest telecom companies, Japan’s NTT, is using dual interface readers from SCM in a large scale employee ID card program. To date, 14,000 of the contact and contactless card capable readers have been shipped for the program. SCM Microsystems Provides NTT Communications with Contact/Contactless Smart Card Readers for Internal Network Security […]

< ? $key="0630"; ?> Londoners zip through public transit with contactless Oyster card For riders of London’s public transportation system using the more than 2.1 million cards issued to date, the contactless fare payment card named Oyster makes the daily commute or the weekend journey easier, quicker, and more convenient. Read the full story Contactless […]

A partnership between smart card reader manufacturer, Omnikey, and smart card producer, Indala, will yield an affordable dual interface reader, the CardMan 5121, and contact/contactless identity management smart cards called FlexSmart. The reader is based on a 13.56 MHz contactless smart card RFID interface that is compliant with ISO specifications 14443 A and B and […]

OMNIKEY, manufacturer of innovative smart card readers, launches its new portable CardMan® 6121 SIM card reader with USB interface at Cartes & IT Security in Paris. OMNIKEY and Indala partner to offer the affordable dual interface smart card reader, the CardMan® 5121 and complementary FlexSmart family of contact and contactless smart cards for enterprise identity […]

Canadian company Alacris has introduced its new version of idNexus for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 that allows smart cards to be printed during the enrollment process, giving organizations the ability to deploy smart cards that support both advanced authentication (logical access) and corporate identity badge requirements. idNexus 2.1 Extends Lifecycle Management Capabilities for Smart Card […]

Inside ID Conference and Expo, founded by industry pioneer Ben Miller and which had its inaugural run last year, is scheduled Nov. 15-17 under new ownership–Jupitermedia Corp. The Washington Convention Center is again the setting for the event that, this year, is being held about three weeks earlier than last. Mr. Miller who also founded […]

The American Civil Liberties Union today urged Virginia not to become the first state in the nation to place radio frequency identification (RFID) chips in its driver’s licenses. “Until now, the controversy over RFID tags has focused on Wal-Mart and other retail applications,” said Chris Calabrese, Program Counsel of the ACLU’s Technology and Liberty Project. […]

California-based ActivCard, responding to a U.S. directive for a federal standard for secure and reliable forms of identification, is now offering an open license to the interface specification for its Smart Card ID Applets Suite–what it says are necessary components of an ID solution deployment for large-scale identification and access control systems. Leading Provider of […]