Golden, Colo.-based XceedID Corp. has announced a new 125 KHz proximity card series offering compatibility with HID prox technology. The cards, produced in cooperation with HID Global Corp., are comparable to HID Global’s own proximity cards and offer compatibility with HID Global’s complete line of HID proximity card readers. XceedID’s new offering is the result […]

German-based Digital Identification Solutions has rolled out its newest printer, its EDIsecurer LCP 9000 Laser Color Personalization System, a desktop card production solution capable of producing fraud-resistant ID cards. The printer is on display at the CARTES and IDentification Show in Paris. The EDIsecurer LCP 9000 integrates high quality XID Retransfer color printing and secure […]

NXP, a semiconductor company initially founded by Philips, and microcontroller manufacturer Renesas Technology Corp. announced they have expanded the licensing agreement on NXP’s MIFARE technology, aiming to build momentum for the availability of advanced payment and Near Field Communication offerings in contactless infrastructures. As a historical MIFARE licensee, Renesas now has further access to NXP’s […]

Oberthur Technologies was the only two-category winner in this year’s Sesames Awards, repeating its successes from 2007 when it also gathered in two honors. The awards, which represent innovations in the smart card and ID industry, were presented during the opening of the CARTES and IDentification show in Paris. There were 35 finalists in the […]

Codebench, Inc. announced that Software House has signed a distribution agreement to sell its PIVCheck Product Suite, a cardholder validation solution for HSPD-12 compliance with automated registration and certificate management. PIVCheck Plus has been integrated with Software House C·CURE 800/8000 and C·CURE 9000, providing three-factor authentication and performing biometric matching. Managing the acquisition of cardholder […]

Got a cool or innovative near field communication application? If so, the NFC Forum, a non-profit industry association seeking to advance the use of NFC technology, wants to hear from you. It has announced a call for entries for its 2009 Global Competition, which is looking for the best NFC product and the most innovative […]

Secure identity provider HID Global, Irvine, Calif., has bought Nectarsmart card .NET technology, based on Microsoft.NET, from StepNexus and Hive Minded. Nectar is a commercial and licensed reference implementation of a .NET virtual machine for embedded systems with a smart card dedicated operating system. The acquisition, consistent with HID’s offering of a range of smart […]

Electronic lock specialist SALTO Systems, based in Spain, unveiled its new XS4 RFID self-programmable contactless access control system during the recent Security 2008 show in Essen, Germany. Its new access control concept allows users to jump up to the next level of control as their security needs change. This new networked lockset can be used […]

SmartMetric, a developer of biometric and smart card technologies, has created a smart card that functions much more as a credit card-sized computer rather than an ID card. The card includes a processor, more than a gigabyte of memory, a rechargeable battery and a fingerprint sensor for securing the functions on the card. The company […]