The Smart Card Alliance has released a new report on the state of the smart card market in the Americas, “Smart Cards & Smart Card ICs – Americas – 2010,” created by IMS Research in association exclusively with the SCA. “This report is the first research of its kind to address smart cards specifically for […]

Mark Allen, marketing manager at Kaba, discusses the advantages of the company’s wireless locks for physical access control. “It’s the ability to give the customer the same functionality you have in an online system without having to run any wires to the door saving time and money and giving the end user the same functionality,” […]

Infineon Technologies AG announced that IBM will manufacture Infineon-designed integrated circuits (ICs) used for secure identification applications, including electronic passports compliant with international travel regulations and the U.S. Personal Identity Verification cards. The planned production at IBM’s chip fabrication plant in Burlington, Vt. provides U.S. manufactured components for suppliers to U.S. government electronic identification programs. […]

Gemalto has reached the ten million milestone for distribution of electronic driver’s licenses and electronic registration certificates for cars delivered to India, making it the biggest project of this nature in the world. The digital security company designed the e-driver licenses to protect against identity theft. The card stores all the driver’s personal data in […]

Entrust has announced the delivery of multipurpose global ID cards to INTERPOL officers to expedite uninterrupted travel on missions in the pursuit of transnational criminals. The solution consists of the INTERPOL Global Smart eID & eVisa, which provides secure access to INTERPOL facilities and networks. Officers only need this single multipurpose smart card for secure […]

Gemalto announced the launch of a series of new laser-personalized innovations designed to further increase the security of identity documents. These advanced security features are available immediately as additional options in the Gemalto Sealys line of secure identity products.
 The new security features can be applied on the polycarbonate card bodies of documents such as […]

Entrust Inc., is extending its public key infrastructure technology to provide the Entrust Credentialing Service, an end-to-end hosted solution for organizations to issue unified smart card credentials. This system is tailored for enterprise, citizen or government environments that want to secure physical and logical access, virtual private networks (VPN) and other enterprise functions and capabilities. […]

In the second part of the Regarding ID series of podcasts looking at identity standards Editor Zack Martin speaks with John Sabo and Anil Saldhana, members of the OASIS IDtrust Member Section Steering committee. Sabo, director of Global Government Relations for CA Technologies, and Saldhana, lead security architect for middleware at Red Hat, talk about […]

India’s largest life insurance company, Life Insurance Corporation (LIC), will become an official registrar for the country’s biometric ID program under an agreement with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the government entity running India’s new biometric ID program. LIC will become a registrar and will allow the UIDAI to access the company’s database […]

Italian citizens will be allowed to apply for their next generation passports at the end of this month (June 2010). The ePassports have embedded chips containing a digital facial image, a digital signature and two fingerprints. As only the police department is allowed to fingerprint citizens in Italy, the Italian government is also making year-long […]