ITN International aims to make conference and exhibit hall lead tracking easy, all with near field communication Ivan Lazarev, president of ITN International, sees great potential for the bCard business and the way it works with NFC. The bCard – for business Card – was originally launched in 1999. Since then ITN International has grown […]

Match on card technology has long been touted as the most secure way to use biometrics and smart cards. Since the cardholder’s biometric information never leaves the card there is no chance it will be intercepted while transmitted to a reader or other device. Regarding ID Editor Zack Martin talked to Kevin Gillick, executive director […]

Cryptography Research wins legal battle against Visa and licensees begin to sign By Chris Corum, Executive Editor I met Kit Rodgers from Cryptography Research in 2004 when his company announced its intent to license the countermeasures that protect smart card chips from a specific attack called Differential Power Analysis (DPA). He passionately argued that it […]

I have to admit, if you would have asked me about Twitter a couple of months ago I wouldn’t have been able to tell you what it was. But then I started reading more about the micro-blogging site and decided to investigate. I started twittering on March 26 (First tweet: Writing the summer cover story […]

Frost and Sullivan, a consulting firm, has announced a presentation of its 2009 quarterly presentation on the biometrics market. The firm says that the biometric market may be essentially recession proof as growth has continued through the downturn in the economy due to increased needs for security solutions. More specifically, Frost and Sullivan expects to […]

GlobalPlatform has released a white paper that outline its technical contribution and commitment to the near field communication mobile market. The document outlines the technical foundation created by the smart card specifications body for the management of multi-application, multi-actor and multi-business model NFC implementations. It also presents GlobalPlatform’s plans to develop future specifications for this […]

2009 was supposed to be the year of NFC but problems persist By Andy Williams, Associate Editor Initially, 2009 was supposed to be a year of progress for Near Field Communication. But with tough economic times on tap many commercial rollouts will be pushed until at least 2010. The tough economy is just one obstacle […]

Many organizations are working on bringing biometrics to airports but obstacles remain By Zack Martin, Editor, Avisian Publications How airports identify employees has been a concern since 9/11 and other incidents have shown that there are potential security vulnerabilities. It’s so important that last October’s Smart Card Alliance conference held a panel dedicated to the […]

Launched in mid-January, JustAskGemalto.com has registered more than 800,000 hits. The site aims to answer consumer questions on how consumers can keep personal information safe and has also had 500 questions asked on various security topics. 
The site features questions and answers by category – traveling, communicating, surfing, personal data, buying and working. The site […]