Dual-interface cards deliver on promise of flexibility
With both contact and contactless on board, the cards are finding favor with a host of global issuers
Contactless 2.0: Latest generation chips are bigger, faster
Biometrics, new apps require more memory and faster data transfer
Episode 154: John McAfee backs authentication key
Evaluating card durability
Industry standard test procedures help issuers achieve the ultimate ’10-year credential'
Fall 2016 Regarding ID
03 Apr, 2014Biometric and cloud identity, Fingerprint partnership, New card readers
Identity news briefs from Fujitsu, ImageWare Systems, BIO-key International Inc., IDEX ASA, HID Global, DigitalPersona, Coppel Corp and Identiv.
02 Apr, 2014March 26 IAB meeting presentations
The March meeting of the influential Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) was recently held in Washington D.C. FIPS201.com and SecureIDNews.com were on hand to cover the event and have provided, as a service to the IAB and the smart card community, an audio recording of the presentations. Click on the link below to […]
25 Mar, 2014HID Global demonstrating Bluetooth low energy, NFC and iCLASS Seos
HID Global is demonstrating its latest secure identity solutions and emerging technologies that leverage Bluetooth Low Energy and NFC for mobile access at next week’s ISC West conference in Las Vegas. HID will highlight its new iCLASS SE Encoder for locally encoding credentials and managing keys. The company will also showcase its Lumidigm multispectral imaging technology, […]
20 Mar, 2014Eid Passport expands U.S. federal presence, UK hotel goes contactless
EidPassport adds government facilities Eid Passport added 12 facilities to the RAPIDGate Program footprint and enhanced 10 RAPIDGate facilities with the RAPID-RCx Program during 2013. These additions mark more than 150 RAPIDGate installations worldwide. Eid Passport’s products and services combine identity authentication, background screening and credentialing to provide an identity management solution. These solutions […]
19 Mar, 2014Macao upgrades smart card infrastructure for contactless
The Macao Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China originally deployed at Bell ID system to issue contact smart cards in 2002 but had upgraded and made the switch to contactless cards. Bell ID’s Identity Token Manager is a hardware and software independent, web-based software solution that enables issuers of chip-based identity cards, […]
07 Mar, 2014NXP, AGETO demo NFC capability of Germany’s eIDs
NXP Semiconductors N.V. and AGETO will be presenting a new NFC capability for national ID cards, enabling German citizens to benefit from the advantages of the country’s new personal identity cards. Using NXP’s SmartMX technology, which is embedded in the cards and the AGETO eID client, citizens can use their cards wirelessly with NFC-capable mobile […]
06 Mar, 2014DHS taps XTec, Legic’s new partner
XTec awarded DHS PIV contract XTec was awarded a 10-year, $102.8 million contract to supply PIV related products and services to the U.S. Department of Homeland security. The contract was originally awarded to HP Enterprise Services in September but XTec protested, stating that the agency didn’t properly review the proposals. Homeland Security announced the new […]
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