Researchers in the U.S. are working towards a system that can detect if someone is lying as well as if they are angry or drunk by their voice alone, according to a Homeland Security News Wire article. Among the researchers working on such technologies are Julia Hirschberg from Columbia University and Shrikanth Narayanan from the […]

GlobalPlatform extended its compliance program for validation that secure products meets the requirements of GlobalPlatform’s new basic financial configuration. This advancement meets industry demand for a qualification process which confirms that a financial card product operates within the payment landscape. The association has launched the basic financial configuration to specify which elements of GlobalPlatform’s Card […]

Marc Kekicheff, Visa’s senior business leader of chip innovation, has been re-elected chairman of GlobalPlatform, the group that standardizes the management of secure chip technology. Uwe Wittig, group vice president, payment division for Giesecke & Devrient, will remain the organization’s vice chair. In addition, Yves Moulart, director of development and innovation for STMicroelectronics, will remain […]

San Diego-based Confident Technologies, a provider of image-based authentication and verification solutions for Web sites, has rolled out its Confident AdCAPTCHA, an image-based solution that stops spam and malicious bots on Web sites while providing site owners and online advertisers with an advertising channel to promote their companies. According to CAPTCHA, a “CAPTCHA is a […]

The November meeting of the influential Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) was recently held in Washington D.C. FIPS201.com was on hand to cover the event and has provided, as a service to the IAB and the smart card community, an audio recording of the presentations. Click on the link below to access a […]

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the interactive version of the fall 2011 issue of Regarding ID. The interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that allows you to read the magazine as if it were on the desk in front […]

The September meeting of the influential Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) was recently held in Washington D.C. FIPS201.com was on hand to cover the event and has provided, as a service to the IAB and the smart card community, an audio recording of the presentations. Click on the link below to access a […]

M2SYS has announced it will be conducting the first Tweet on the social media site Twitter bringing in the new hashtag #biometricchat in an effort to increase open dialogue about the technology on the popular platform on Oct. 6 from 11am to 12pm EST. The hope in introducing the tweet chat is to bring new […]

In his keynote address to the Biometrics Consortium in Tampa, Fla., John Mears, director of biometrics and identity management solutions at Lockheed Martin, acknowledged the well understood but infrequently tackled hurdle that faces the biometrics industry: poor public perception. Mears admitted that the industry has an uphill battle and gave a call to arms to […]

Coke vs. Pepsi. Windows vs. Mac. Visa vs. MasterCard. These well-known rivalries are good for consumers because they create healthy competition. For many years, this seemed to be the case for smart card operating systems. The debate and battle was quite heated, but today, there’s little talk about the smart card OS. What happened the […]