Dates: December 7 – 9, 2010 Location: Paris, France Venue: Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center URL: http://www.cartes.com Description: This is the event where decisions are taken on the future directions and on major trends in smartcard and contactless technologies (transactions, telecoms, services, transport). CARTES: The world leading show for banking technologies and e-transactions, with mobile payment […]

Dates: November 1 – 4, 2010 Location: Montréal, Canada Venue: ICAO Headquarters URL: http://www2.icao.int/en/MRTD2/Pages/SixthMRTDSymposium.aspx Description: Information about the event will be posted as soon as available.   

Dates: September 21 – 23, 2010 Location: Tampa, FL Venue: Tampa Convention Center URL: http://events.jspargo.com/biometrics10/ or http://www.biometrics.org/ Description: We are pleased to announce that the 2010 Biometric Consortium Conference and Biometric Technology Expo will be held again in the Tampa Convention Center, Tampa, FL, USA on September 21 – 23, 2010. On-line attendee and housing […]

atsec information security, a laboratory for the GSA FIPS 201 Evaluation Program which runs a product approval program for PIV-related products, has announced the successful GSA FIPS 201 evaluation of four Codebench products. Codebench is the first company with solutions evaluated for GSA product categories Caching Status Proxy, PIV Authentication System, and CHUID Authentication System. […]

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the “Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2010” aimed at improving cybersecurity research, development and technical standards. The proposed law would create an office for a national coordinator for the networking and information technology research and development program. The law would also establish a program to develop and support identity management […]

The UK is looking to new ways to combat underage drinking, smoking and violent crimes as recent survey reveals the futility of the Government Teenage ID scheme. A national study by Clarity Commerce surveyed 1,200 teenagers who admitted to not only using older friend’s ID cards to purchase alcohol, cigarettes and knives, but also to […]

Unisys announced that its Mexican subsidiary has been awarded a contract by the Mexican Ministry of Internal Affairs and National Citizen Registry to create and manage an advanced citizen identification solution using biometric technologies. The project would create a database with iris, fingerprint and facial biometric data on up to 110 million Mexican citizens that […]

SCM Microsystems Inc., a provider of solutions for secure access, identity and exchange, announced that its thumb-sized SCR3500 SmartFold Personal Identity Verification/Common Access Card smart card reader has been approved by the General Service Administration for use by U.S. government agencies and employees. The SCR3500 SmartFold is ideal for mobile government employees that have notebooks […]

The Mexican Army Bank, Banjercito, governs every entry and exit point into and out of Mexico, including Northern and Southern international borders as well as all sea ports of entry. To assist in regulating incoming and outgoing traffic, Banjercito has chosen Neology to incorporate its license plate recognition technology. This also includes Neology’s line of […]

Benazir Income Support Program (BISP), in partnership with United Bank Limited has distributed more than 34,000 smart cards among the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP’s) of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, according to tradingmarkets.com. So far, 34,357 registered IDPs in Charsadda, Lower Dir, Malakand Agency, Buner and Swat districts have received the cards, which grant […]