Perfect Plastic Printing, a St. Charles, Ill. card producer, has rolled out what it calls the first full-face foil PVC card certified by Visa Inc. for contactless payment transactions. More than a year in development, Perfect Plastic’s new card enables card issuers to provide payment cards with the same aesthetic appeal of foil as traditional […]

STMicroelectronics, a Switzerland secure IC provider, and Stollmann, a communication protocol software based in Hamburg, Germany, have announced a joint agreement to offer turnkey NFC interface solutions, complete with all the necessary hardware and software components, to manufacturers of handsets and other mobile devices. ST’s NFC chips and Stollmann’s NFC software stack are now available […]

“Tap and go” is the new mantra for students, faculty and staff at Morehead State University in Kentucky, which has expanded its use of CBORD solutions with a large-scale implementation of iCLASS contactless card readers from HID Global. A long-time user of contact chip and magnetic stripe technology for EagleCard applications, Morehead State recently upgraded […]

Community colleges haven’t always been considered ideal candidates for campus banking services. That’s changing. Partnerships between banks and the two-year schools through their student ID cards, are out there and brick and mortar facilities are showing up on campus as well. CR80News’ 2008 campus card banking partners survey identified at least 10 partnerships between banks […]

Connecticut has joined several other states that are seeking to restrict or forbid credit card marketing activities on campus. Gov. M. Jodi Rell signed legislation that sets strict parameters for credit card companies as to when, where and how they can market to students. The law also orders the Board of Governors of Higher Education […]

Almost every week it seems like a new Near Field Communication pilot is announced. As more and more projects are rolled out Re:ID will keep you up to date on where they are and what they involve. After the jump find a listing of NFC pilots and deployments that appeared in the Spring issue of […]

An online store geared towards helping college students find products that can better secure the thousands of dollars in valuables they often bring to school has been launched. Called SecureOnCampus.com, it purports to be the first online destination catering to the security needs of college students and their parents. The site, offers items that can […]

By Stephen Price-Francis, vice president of marketing, LaserCard Corporation Executive Summary In July 2005, Costa Rica passed an immigration reform act to serve as a key instrument for fighting corruption and regularizing the status of a growing migrant population. In accordance with this legislation, the DGME (Department of Immigration) determined that an advanced ID credential […]

Adding IT applications to the existing physical security badges paves the way Using contactless technology on the desktop to lock down computers is starting to find more proponents as companies begin to ratchet up their portfolios to include more logical access devices that make it easier, and potentially less expensive, to migrate to the systems. […]

A new study released by industry market research firm ABI Research ranks Xterprise as the top software company in the RFID application marketplace. The study, called the RFID Line of Business Application Software Vendor Matrix, focused on evaluating a small group of leading, highly-specialized vendors offering software solutions targeting a range of applications for asset […]