Old school price tags requirements create redundant expense for retailers and higher prices for consumers By David Wyld, Contributing Editor This morning, you can take a time travel adventure without leaving your desk. We can go “back to the future,” to the grocery store of our Baby Boomer youth. There, you can pick-up a can […]

BIO-key International, Inc. announced that the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has included BIO-key’s Vector Segment Technology® (VST) fingerprint software in their listing of approved products as part of the GSA’s FIPS 201 Evaluation Program (GSA FIPS 201 APL). BIO-key’s VST software enables ANSI-INCITS 378 template generation and matching and can be easily integrated into […]

We here at RFIDNews hear about new RFID products constantly (like, at least twice a day). So we decided to ask Impinj’s Mendy Ouzillou, product line director of RFID reader products, a couple of questions about the company’s new GrandPrix RFID kit: Q: Why are kits like GrandPrix so necessary? Are companies perplexed about how […]

BIO-key International successfully launched its biometric identification solution, protecting patient’s medical records at The George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates (MFA) in Washington, D.C. BIO-key’s patented VST software enables MFA physicians and resident physicians-in-training to quickly and accurately log into their TouchWorks™ Electronic Health Record from Allscripts without needing to remember passwords. Current practice at […]

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) will use TriCipher’s multifactor authentication solution to protect access to personal health information on its online patient healthcare portal and physician network – putting the medical center at the forefront of aggressively protecting patients’ identities. The $6 billion medical center’s Web site portal will become the central information […]

Liska Biometry has recently received FIPS 201 approval from the US Federal Government for its suite of DCS5000 image capture platforms that use a standardized digital camera. Also, the Company has received FIPS approval for its Facial Recognition Middleware. The suite is also capable of producing International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) compliant portraits. Liska’s FIPS-approved […]

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor While some of the more costly elements that could have been forced on states to comply with the Real ID Act haven’t materialized – at least in the proposed rules that have come out of Washington. Still, there is anxiety over the act itself, its cost, and whether states can […]

WidePoint Corporation announced its appointment to the Board of Directors of The Federation for Identity and Cross-Credentialing Systems™ (FiXs), a coalition of government contractors, commercial companies and not-for-profit organizations that are establishing a global secure identity cross-credentialing network. FiXs provides a trusted identity management infrastructure compliant with HSPD-12 and FIPS 201. The FiXs network enables […]

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Every time you turn around you see an NFC pilot program cropping up somewhere in the world. What you haven’t seen are many full-scale commercial rollouts. In fact, those could be counted on one hand. Sure, near field communication technology is still relatively new–but in a world where new innovations […]

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Every time you turn around you see an NFC pilot program cropping up somewhere in the world. What you haven’t seen are many full-scale commercial rollouts. In fact, those could be counted on one hand. Sure, near field communication technology is still relatively new – but in a world where […]