Got a cool or innovative near field communication application? If so, the NFC Forum, a non-profit industry association seeking to advance the use of NFC technology, wants to hear from you. It has announced a call for entries for its 2009 Global Competition, which is looking for the best NFC product and the most innovative […]

Secure identity provider HID Global, Irvine, Calif., has bought Nectarsmart card .NET technology, based on Microsoft.NET, from StepNexus and Hive Minded. Nectar is a commercial and licensed reference implementation of a .NET virtual machine for embedded systems with a smart card dedicated operating system. The acquisition, consistent with HID’s offering of a range of smart […]

SmartMetric, a developer of biometric and smart card technologies, has created a smart card that functions much more as a credit card-sized computer rather than an ID card. The card includes a processor, more than a gigabyte of memory, a rechargeable battery and a fingerprint sensor for securing the functions on the card. The company […]

Japanese credit card issuer JCB has completed development of a validation test tool for its J/Smart contact and J/Speedy contactless cards. The test tool was developed by Collis, a competence center specializing in the design and testing of smart card based electronic transaction systems.   

Gemalto has introduced the Ezio Thin Reader, a new small authentication device for online authentication. The credit card-sized reader fits in a wallet, so that users can carry it with them wherever they go. The new device enables customers to carry an authentication device and their banking card together at any time. In addition, Ezio […]

Contactless smart card provider LEGIC Identsystems will be displaying various enhancements of its advant technology platform at the CARTES & IDentification show in Paris Nov. 4-6. Some of these latest innovations include the company’s card-in-card solutions, which allow a third party to integrate applications on a dual interface smart card, providing, for example, a combination […]

Precise Biometrics, a developer of biometric and smart card technologies, has received an order valued at roughly $500,000 from the U.S. Department of State. The new order, comprising of licenses and toolkits, specifies an upgrade to the U.S. Department of State’s existing Match-on-Card system from Precise. The upgrades adds Windows Vista support to the card […]