Students wishing to attend the UK under a student visa will soon need biometric identity cards. Fingerprinting is expected to begin this month for students seeking to renew their student visas. More than 50,000 students are expected to be affected. The move is meant to clamp down on fake colleges offering people a way to […]

Dates: October 28 – 29, 2009 Location: New York, New York Venue: Jacob Javits Convention Center URL: http://www.isceast.com/ Description: No other region is more serious about security than the Northeast. Dealers and installers, integrators and end users all came together at ISC East to source the latest products and cutting-edge technologies fusing the opportunity to […]

Dates: April 1 – 3, 2009 Location: Las Vegas, Nevada Venue: Sands Expo & Convention Center URL: http://www.iscwest.com/ Description: ISC West brings manufacturers, dealers/installers, system integrators, and corporate end-users of security products and services from across the globe together to learn, evaluate, and competitively source in a highly productive environment. The result – a greater […]

Since this video was recorded in September, SAFRAN through Sagem Securite purchased Motorola’s AFIS business. Read more here.

AVISIAN Executive Editor Chris Corum reports from CARTES and talks to executives at Verifone and HID Global about their latest product announcements.

The Transportation Security Administration has approved four biometric devices created by Sagem Morpho to be trialed in Los Angeles, New York, and Long Beach, Calif. for use in the Transportation Worker Identification Credential program. All four devices are biometric access control devices, three being fixed units and one being a handheld, designed to control employee […]

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HID Global has launched its first mobile contactless USB reader, one of several announcements the company made during the CARTES and IDentification show in Paris this week. Two others involved one of its contactless readers being part of the first mobile payment terminal system to achieve MasterCard PayPass certification and its MIFARE Easy Reader Board […]

HID Global announced that it has reorganized some of its business and created the Identification Solutions (IDS) business to supplement its Identity and Access Management offerings. IDS aligns HID’s business and incorporates technology in the areas of e-government, cashless payment, industry and logistics, food and animal ID and HID Connect to strengthen the value proposition […]

Datacard Group, a secure ID and card personalization provider, has released its Smart Card Designer Tool for Datacard identification software. With it, smart card issuers can personalize smart cards quickly by reducing the time and costs associated with developing customized smart card applications. The new solution also enables issuers to design smart chip encoding processes […]