Uniform Industrial Corporation is adding to its line of advanced payment solutions with the new UIC681 standalone contactless card reader. The reader is designed for indoor or outdoor use andappears to be marketed as a cost effective high performance contactless reader. The UIC681 also has the ability to display custom messages on the LCD panel. […]

TAGSYS and NXP Semiconductors announced a new RFID tag to be used with NXP’s new ICODE SLI-L IC that is designed specifically for use in the library market, the Folio 370L Tag Family. The increase in performance and additional features result in improved read rates and security for library patrons as well as enhanced privacy […]

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Fargo Electronics’ merger with HID Global last year was just the beginning of what officials at both companies see as a bright future for the secure card identity systems company. Fargo Electronics’ new president, David Sullivan, fresh from a stint in Europe, wants to grow the company, not only in […]

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) will use TriCipher’s multifactor authentication solution to protect access to personal health information on its online patient healthcare portal and physician network – putting the medical center at the forefront of aggressively protecting patients’ identities. The $6 billion medical center’s Web site portal will become the central information […]

On Thursday May 31, 2007 at 10:00 p.m. the pulse of invited guests and celebrities, generated the first beams of light from Pulse Front and illuminated Toronto’s Harbourfront. Pulse Front: Relational Architecture 12 is the new searchlight piece by acclaimed Mexican-Canadian electronic artist, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. The groundbreaking installation uses 20 robotic searchlights, 200,000 watts of […]

VeriChip now has more than 600 hospitals participating in its VeriMed Patient Identification System Network, the company announced at the tenth annual Emergency Department Practice Management Association conference last week. The VeriMed Patient Identification System, consists of a hand-held RFID scanner, an implantable RFID microchip, and a secure patient database, is being used to help […]

Inteligensa Group, a Latin American manufacturer of intelligent card-based solutions for financial applications, has become a Gold level reseller of the ICT DisplayCard for e-banking, e-commerce and data access authentication. Inteligensa has regional branches in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela, and sells 180 million cards annually, or 35% of all bank cards in Latin America. […]

The two companies announced an agreement that will make it easier than ever for financial services providers and retailers to issue and accept payment cards embedded with one-time-password (OTP) authentication to protect their online transactions from e-fraud. Companies that fortify their online commerce applications with VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP) can leverage the Innovative Card Technologies […]

Over half a million Barclays customers will be issued a Gemalto-supplied authentication device by the end of this year as part of the bank’s two-factor authentication solution aimed at preventing online fraud related to remote banking. Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Gemalto, a world leader in digital security, announces it is providing Barclays Bank plc, one […]

With the USB port as much a part of the computer today as the floppy disk drive used to be yesterday, more uses are being found for devices that plug into the port. The latest: An all-in-one “digital companion” from Gemalto and Utimaco that not only manages network IDs, but also provides users with more […]