Nokia has announced its third fully integrated NFC phone, the Nokia 6216 classic, the company’s first SIM-based NFC device which enables operators to build NFC services on the SIM card. The announcement came during the third annual WIMA Global NFC Business and Technical Developers conference in Monaco. The 6216 is expected to start shipping in […]

Is Chip and PIN on the horizon? The Payment Card Industry rules are policies retailers must follow to keep consumer credit and debit card information safe. But with data breaches still occurring on a regular basis there are some questions as to how much they protect consumers. In late March, the U.S. House of Representative’s […]

GenMobi Technologies has unveiled Check-Mates, an anti-fraud technology tailored for Internet consumers who use Web sites such as eBay and Craigslist to buy and sell goods from strangers. Check-Mates verifies the real identity of both users while allowing them to remain anonymous. Should any fraud occur, Check-Mates logs can be released to law enforcement authorities. […]

Chicago State University has launched a wireless mobile safety tool that can turn cell phones into location-aware devices that instantly connect users with campus police. Chicago State University is the first school in Illinois to install Rave Guardian that enables campus police to keep tabs on students who have signed up for the program. CSU […]

The RFID Consortium has selected the Sisvel Group, a global intellectual property management firm, to administer the consortium’s UHF RFID patent licensing program. The consortium, a group of RFID industry companies holding patents for technologies essential to to EPCglobal and ISO/IEC standards for UHF RFID, will look to Sisvel to manage a patent pool which […]

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police will soon be equipped with E-Seek 2D bar code and mag stripe readers that will enable Mounties to swipe the license to obtain the driver’s information rather then enter it manually. The 4,600 dual card readers are being supplied by Softchoice Corp., a Toronto-based technology solutions provider, and its subcontractor, […]

Dates: September 22 – 24, 2009 Location: Tampa, Florida Venue: Tampa Convention Center URL: http://www.biometrics.org/bc2009/ Contact: http://www.biometrics.org/bc2009/contacts.php Description: One of the leading Biometric conferences, BC2009 will address the important role that biometrics can play in the identification and verification of individuals in government and commercial applications worldwide. The conference is open to the general public. […]

By Kelli Emerick, executive director, Secure Document Coalition Change has come to Washington, to our nation and to ID management. An Obama administration is different than any other administration we’ve ever seen. Not just because Barak Obama is the first African-American to be elected President by the people of our country, but because he is […]

Blaze Mobile, an Alameda, Calif. provider of mobile commerce applications, has partnered with MasterCard to produce a contactless payment sticker that can turn a mobile phone into a payments device. MasterCard says it sees this approach as a bridge to fully integrated contactless payment capabilities using NFC technology. The small mobile payment sticker can be […]

Increasing violence along the U.S./Mexican border is causing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to increase security, including the doubling of security personnel. But the agency is also sending identification technolgy to the southern border. “We are bolstering technology and resources with a significant increase in our biometric identification deployment,” says DHS Sec. Janet Napolitano […]