Global safety science company UL has been accredited and authorized to operate a MIFARE Test Center focused on the functional certification of MIFARE enabled products. A release from UL reveals that the company’s MIFARE Testing Center will provide certification services for all current and future MIFARE solutions, including MIFARE Classic, MIFARE Plus and MIFARE DESFire. […]

Quatro Card Technology, a Canada-based full-line card manufacturer, has purchased the Atlantic Zeiser CHIPLINE high-speed RFID and smart card contactless personalization system to provide high-volume personalization of contactless RFID and smart cards, and to address the fast-growing EMV market. CHIPLINE combines electrical and drop-on-demand graphical personalization in one fully integrated system, rather than requiring separate […]

Radio Prague reports that this week, police in Prague indicted 11 members of the city council, including Mayor Bohuslav Svoboda, over charges that they engaged in infringement of competition regulations and breach of trust with regards to the city’s Opencard smart card system. Prague’s Opencard system can be used throughout the city for travel, libraries […]

The Smart Card Alliance will be hosting a day-long workshop at ISC West entitled “Learn to Leverage Mobile Devices in Physical and Logical Access Security.” The event will take place on April 9 from 8:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. PT at the Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas. Attendees will learn more about new uses […]

Lumidigm announced that Alfapass, the provider of the security smart card system at the Ports of Antwerp and Zeebrugge in Belgium, is replacing the older biometric system at the ports’ registration stations with Lumidigm V-Series multispectral imaging fingerprint readers. The Port of Antwerp is Europe’s second largest port and Alfapass is in the process of […]

German technology company Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has won a contract from the government of the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China to produce its new multifunction contactless smart ID cards. G&D will be the primary contractor on this project and will have responsibility for the project’s management, smart card application […]

AdvanIDe, a provider of semiconductors for the smart card and RFID industry, has introduced Erik Steger as the company’s new sales director for Europe and South Africa. Steger will will work with Holger Roessner, managing director at the company. As a sales director, Steger’s primary responsibility will be to monitor AdvanIDe sales activities throughout Europe […]