Tennessee-based Tradewinds Technologies has integrated the PicoRead chipset from INSIDE Contactless into an SD Card form factor. The SD reader can be used with a host of handheld devices including both Palm and Pocket PC varieties. The new reader can read and write to tags of the following flavors: ISO 15693, ISO 14443A, ISO 14443B, […]

Axalto’s Palmera smart card, which meets People’s Bank of China’s EMV specifications, has been chosen by Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. According to Axalto, this marks the country’s first EMV card issuance program. ICBC awards Axalto its first Chinese EMV card issuance project in China AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands & BEIJING–Axalto, the world’s leading provider […]

Forget fingerprints. A Toronto, Ontario company wants the whole hand involved. And it’s not talking palm prints. It wants to identify the blood vessels in your hand. Identica Corp. has linked its Universal Controller with a hand vascular scanner manufactured by a Korean company. The result is a biometric access control mechanism solution that it […]

A panel of ID industry experts provided predictions for 2006. One of these glimpses into the future will appear here each day during December. By Ron May, UPEK, Inc. Our high tech graveyards are littered with the bones of great ideas. For over a decade, VC dollars rained down onto solutions for which there was […]

A panel of ID industry experts provided predictions for 2006. One of these glimpses into the future will appear here each day during December. By Emil Bonaduce, President, Vision Database Systems Prediction#1: Good News for Fargo, Datacard, Evolis, Magicard, and Nisca – the desire to print text and photos on plastic cards is just not […]

The pinstriped lines of barcodes past are going the way of the vinyl LP – at least for many applications. Instead of the staid black-and-white bars, you are likely to find a chaotic looking area of scrambled dots. Thanks to the advances in tracking technology, barcodes have come a long way since their introduction in […]

SCM Microsystems chose the CARTES show in Paris to announce its new ExpressCard reader that is designed to help drive acceptance of the ExpressCard Standard. Users are able to add flash memory, wired and wireless communications, multimedia and security features by inserting ExpressCard modules into compliant host systems. New Mobile PC Card Standard Includes Support […]

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Student ID technology combining contactless palm vein authentication with a multi-function card, has made its debut at a Japanese high tech college. The extra layers of student protection will also help the school comply with tougher personal data security laws. So far, the new ID system “is going well,” said Tomoko Inoue, press and public […]