Huntsville, Ala.-based IDair wants to make it possible to capture fingerprints from almost 20 feet away, the company told the Huntsville Times. Joel Burcham, the founder of IDair, says the applications now are military, being able to properly identify someone from a great distance, but other uses will emerge. The device, which captures a single […]

Oberthur Technologies has completed its acquisition of Boston-based mobile payments company MoreMagic. Announced in February 2012, the acquisition will enable Oberthur and MoreMagic to build a comprehensive suite of mobile commerce and financial services solutions, including a secure mobile wallet infrastructure and an end-to-end NFC system. According to Oberthur, these offers will enable mobile operators, […]

The NFC Forum has announced that Canon, HP, and Yahoo! Japan have joined the organization as Principal members, along with 24 other new Associate, Implementer, and Non-Profit members from across the NFC ecosystem. In addition, Infineon Technologies has raised its level of membership from Associate to Principal, the second-highest level membership in the organization. According […]

Cooltrax announced that Schwan’s Global Supply Chain Inc., the manufacturing arm of The Schwan Food Company, has selected Cooltrax Fresh inTransit to equip its private fleet of refrigerated trailers with real-time cold chain tracking and monitoring. Fresh inTransit tracks the location of refrigerated trailers and monitors all aspects of the performance of the fridge unit […]

HID Global announced its new SlimFlex Square Tag, a durable ultra-high frequency RFID tag that enables users multiple mounting options for enhanced read range in industrial applications. The SlimFlex Square configuration delivers read ranges of up to 26 feet in dry conditions when mounted to a non-metal surface and in wet conditions when mounted vertically […]

Radiant Logic announced the release of RadiantOne VDS 6, a federated identity service. Designed to provide one logical access point for enterprise identities, VDS 6 enables authentication and authorization across multiple identity sources and authentication protocols. VDS 6 is built to address the demands of single sign-on (SSO) and authorization for the cloud and federations […]

Korean smart card solutions provider DUALi announced that its Dragon NFC reader has been certified for NFC Forum Digital Conformance by the Korean certification laboratory KTC. DUALi’s Dragon is a USB-based reader that can support multiple NFC and contactless smart card functions, including payments, loyalty and automatic fare collection. The Dragon can be used as […]

StrikeForce Technologies Inc. announced a solution to heighten the security of public and private clouds that incorporates multifactor authentication and keystroke encryption. Two-factor authentication will provide an extra layer of protection around a cloud system to thwart off inevitable attacks by hackers. StrikeForce has been developing its security methods over the last ten years. This […]

By Jeff Nigriny, CertiPath Identity in our online world is well understood to be broken. Broad recognition of this began 18-years ago with a cartoon depicting dogs using the Internet pretending to be people. When was the last time a news cycle didn’t include a story about stolen identities or the failure of passwords as […]

One of Latin America’s largest private banks has added Lumidigm’s multispectral fingerprint readers to its ATM network in Brazil. Lumidigm is working with Brazilian IT services provider Itautec to install the first 12,000 units of the 33,000-unit ATM network. The readers will not only provide customers with secure access to their accounts, but they will […]