A contactless card that will include fingerprint identification, could become a weapon in the identity theft battle, its creator, FacePrint Global Solutions, believes. The combination of the multi-functional smart card and the company’s e-DNA technology could be used in security access and cryptographic applications as well as other identity situations, such as passports, drivers’ licenses, […]

Matt Trossen is President of Phidgets USA Would you call your RFID customers hobbyists, academics, professionals – perhaps all of the above? The correct answer is “all of the above” since we do indeed see orders from all walks of life and industry levels. However, there is a slant towards the hobby and academic crowd. […]

Getting active and passive RFID technology to work together has been an ongoing effort of Savi Technology and the U.S. Department of Defense. The result is not a true hybrid, as it has been described. “We don’t make an active/passive tag per se, but we can capture data from both and combine it onto a […]

David C. Wyld is the Mayfield Professor of Management and is the Director of Strategic e-Commerce Initiative at Southeastern Louisiana University. The E.&J. Gallo Winery is the leading winery in the United States and the second largest wine company in the world. The Gallo Winery is among the “second wave” of Wal-Mart’s major suppliers that […]

Texas Instruments says it expects to ship its 14443-compliant RFID chips, designed for MasterCard’s PayPass cards and tokens, by the second half of 2005. The Dallas, Texas company also expects certification from the credit card giant during the second quarter. Texas Instruments to Deliver RFID Solution for MasterCard PayPass DALLAS – Texas Instruments has announced […]

Add Bioscrypt to the list of companies involved in the Transporation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) project. Prime contractor, BearingPoint, selected Bioscrypt’s fingerprint verification technology to identify workers in the ongoing trial phase of the TWIC program. Other biometric providers-including SAFLINK and Daon-are also involved in the TWIC trial phase project. US Department of Homeland Security […]

As a sign of growing momentum towards an interoperable consignment tracking network among NATO members, Denmark’s Ministry of Defence has contracted with Savi Technology to deploy a software platform linked with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies for tracking and managing supply chain shipments in real-time. This solution will be interoperable with RFID-driven networks already developed […]

Rom Eizenberg is the Director of Marketing and Business Development at Precision Location Systems of Tel Aviv, Israel and Milan, Italy. The company specilizes in identification, location and control technologies for the asset management market. Your company uses cameras and RFID together to increase the accuracy of asset tracking systems. What prompted the development of […]

Whether viewed as sci-fi, Orwellian, or other, most observers agree our day-to-day use of biometrics will increase rapidly over the next few years. On campus, the reality is that biometric implementations are likely even more immediate. That means you should get involved, or at least pay attention. Here are three examples for biometric implementations that […]

“There is no better way to (control access) than by individually identifying people, using their fingerprint biometric,” said the dean of the University of Texas Medical Branch. Let’s hope he is right because the lab in question works with infectious agents such as “Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Lassa, and Ebola.” They are using fingerprint biometric readers […]