QI Systems highlighted its contact and contactless access control and tracking and payment solutions, during the recent National Association of College Auxiliary Services conference in San Diego, Calif. The spotlight was on the company’s QiWave unattended POS smart card readers and reload stations which were on display at the conference. DALLAS, TX and VANCOUVER, BC […]

Nine SCM Microsystems smart card readers have been approved for use at federal agencies. The HSPD-12 compliant readers have made the U.S. Government Services Administration’s approved product list. The readers are designed to be compatible with both existing and future identification credentials issued under HSPD-12. FREMONT, Calif. – SCM Microsystems, Inc., a leading provider of […]

Joe Wright, a 10-year veteran with Fargo Electronics, has joined ID solutions provider IdentiSys as vice president of sales. Fargo was purchased by HID Global earlier this year. Eden Prairie, MN –IdentiSys Inc., the largest supplier of identification solutions to end users in North America, announced that Joseph (Joe) M. Wright has accepted the position […]

Cubic Transportation has won a Frost & Sullivan award for its innovative smart card advances in transit fare collection systems. One of the reasons for the award is Cubic’s ability to link multiple transit operators within a geographic region via a single fare payment medium and a back-end computing system as well as the ability […]

Banks, service providers confused by organization’s attempt to clear up confusion By Marisa Torrieri, Contributing Editor Should a small, mom-and-pop bank start issuing one-time-password tokens? What are the penalties if it doesn’t? And will the bank’s beefed-up security system get the thumbs up when the bank auditor rolls around in January for a regular inspection? […]

Private equity deal worth more than US$8 billion establishes the ‘new’ chipmaker By Andy Willliams, Contributing Editor The best one-line description of the recent announcement about the sale of Philips Semiconductors to a private investment group? Business as usual. Everything that has come out of the sale announcement so far has indicated that the only […]

STMicroelectronics’ smart card chip is behind Spain’s new ID card launched recently. The card is currently available in 14 cities and some 500,000 cards are expected to be deployed by the end of the year with another two million rolling out in 2007. GENEVA– STMicroelectronics, one of the world’s leading suppliers of secure microcontrollers for […]

A massive effort but one that could bring equally massive returns By Chris Corum, Executive Editor The nation saw first-hand the need to identify critical personnel in disaster situations in the days and weeks following 9-11 and Hurricane Katrina. “After Katrina we had 6000 doctors driving boats while people went without care simply because we […]

Denmark has chosen Gemalto to manage its new electronic passport program. Some 250,000 passports will be issued by the end of the year and 800,000 are expected to be issued annually. The agreement runs through 2009 with an option to extend it two additional years. Amsterdam / Copenhagen–Gemalto, a world leader in digital security, announced […]

Frank Moss announced plans for the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) PASS Card to use vicinity read RFID technology that is ISO/IEC 18000-6C compliant. The announcement, made at last week’s, preceeds a two-week comment period – and concern from the Smart Card Alliance that PASS cards will be equipped with the same contactless technology used […]