Off-campus card usage continues to grow in schools utilizing Blackboard systems, benefiting both merchants and universities. The company reported that 18 schools were added last year to its Off-Campus Merchant Program, giving students greater flexibility in where they can use their cards. Demand Grows for Enabling Student ID Cards to Make Cashless Transactions WASHINGTON, DC […]

A FIPS 201-compliant solution from Saflink and Johnson Controls is on display at an ‘evaluation lab’ at Saflink’s facility in Reston, Virginia. Interested parties can visit the lab and see the solution that was originally developed for the TSA’s TWIC program. Saflink Announces FIPS 201 Evaluation Lab All-Weather Biometric PIV Solution Showcased With Johnson Controls […]

Speed, convenience and quicker reimbursement all add up to a successful launch of the WIC smart card program in Texas. WIC, a federal program begun in 1974, stands for Women, Infants and Children and provides participants with nutritious foods, counseling, and referrals to health and other social services at no charge. The program serves low-income […]

A 45% one year growth rate in Smart Card Alliance membership signifies the industry’s strength, but there’s more to come, according to the Frost & Sullivan Americas Smart Card Market Analysis report published recently. While predicting a nearly 28% annual growth in smart card usage in North America over the next five years, the report […]

The latest ammunition in the continuing struggle to keep secure areas secure may come in the form of a small handheld biometric reader that can identify a fingerprint or read a bar code off a truck, license tag, or ID card. With contact and contactless capability, the new reader from the Canadian company, Labcal, can […]

Getting secure IDs out the door is the easy part. But, are they truly secure? Is it imaged correctly? Is the hologram properly positioned? Does the name and Social Security number match the database from which it was pulled? All this and more is what Spartanics, Rolling Meadows, Illinois, attempts to verify before the ID […]

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Need a federal ID card but you haven’t been through ‘NACI’ yet? That seems to be one of more frequently used buzzwords floating around Washington, D.C., even though the NACI requirement has been part of the federal lexicon since the early 1950s. That’s right, NACI, or National Agency Check and […]

“The downside is that the cost of EPC Gen 2 tags will be higher than Gen 1 tags. Here’s why. A Gen 2 microchip will have about 40,000 transistors, compared with just 12,000 for a microchip used in a Gen 1 Class 1 EPC tag. Silicon chips for Gen 2, if made with the same […]

Trailblazing retail giant decides to keep rolling out after successful world-famous pilot program By Stephen Barlas With the Gen 2 standard all but a reality, Metro Group, the large German retailer, is getting ready to push its pilot RFID program to a second stage. Since November, 20 consumer goods vendors have been tagging pallets destined […]

Department of Homeland Security money is starting to filter down to cities and counties in the U.S. as evidenced by one Ohio city’s recent purchase of a sophisticated system from SuperCom Ltd. that can control access to facilities or disaster sites. According to SuperCom’s chief operating officer, Lawrence Shertz, the purchase of SuperCom’s Smart Disaster […]