Austria’s VKB-Bank has selected Gemalto’s Ezio Edge Optic authentication product for its eBanking offering. The system is an optical smart card reader that can read a smart debit card directly through a computer screen, tablet or mobile device without any specialized software. It can then authorize eBanking transactions while maintaining compliance with Austrian banking standards. […]

Smart Card Alliance, the leading source of information, acceptance and use of smart card technology, is honoring its most devoted and distinguished members. Smart Card Alliance’s Honor Roll is designed to recognize those members who display exceptional diligence and devotion to the advancement of the smart card industry. Each year, the top contributors from each […]

Identive Group Inc. introduced the TouchSecure Desktop Reader, an identity authentication product that enables enterprise customers to implement secure access to their physical facilities, corporate networks, shared printers and copiers using a single identity credential. The TouchSecure Desktop Reader can validate an array of disparate ID badges and building access cards, making it possible for […]

Thursby Software Systems, Inc. has expanded the Mac compatibility of its PKard smart card with its PKard for Mac v. 1.2. This version integrates the smart card to Apple OS X 10.8 Mountain Lioin. PKard for Mac provides smart card access to secure websites, Web VPN and secure Apple mail for the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) market. […]

Infineon Technologies is supplying the security chips for a government smart card project in South Africa. Through Net1 UEPS Technologies, the government’s South African Social Security Agency is issuing biometric EMV/UEPS debit chip cards for financial transactions of social grants across all of South Africa’s nine provinces. Infineon provides its SOLID FLASH SLE 77 security […]

Apple has been awarded a U.S. patent for an NFC-enabled transportation check-in system, according to Patently Apple. The system, called iTravel, works with iOS devices such as iPhones and iPads to store identification information and transfer it to a another electronic device via NFC. According to Patently Apple, a mobile device with iTravel could be […]

To meet demand for the growing EMV, NFC and ID markets in Canada, Oberthur Technologies has announced it’s opening a secure service center in Ottowa, Ontario, Canada. The planned 1,400 square meter facility will be able to personalized secure devices for Oberthur’s customers in Canada. It will be able to process magnetic stripe and EMV […]

C-SAM has licensed its Mobile Transaction Platform (MTP) to Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) as part of the two companies’ collaboration on a mobile wallet solution that will be fully integrated with DNP’s Trusted Service Management solution, smart card offerings and NFC technologies and digital services. According to C-SAM, this partnership will result in a mobile […]

Additions include derived credentials, adding photo to chip, more contactless functionality Zack Martin, Editor, Avisian Publications The revised draft of FIPS 201-2 has been released and several additions have been made from the March 2011 draft. Some of the more significant changes include: Adding a mandatory facial image to the smart card Additional functionality of […]

The Smart Card Alliance (SCA) has launched a website called EMV Connection, which is geared toward helping payments industry participants learn about EMV chip technology and the migration toward its implementation. The site gathers together the SCA’s library of EMV information, including frequently asked questions, white papers, videos, slideshows and links to EMV resources. The […]