Frost & Sullivan Reccognizes Inside Contactless Smart Card.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-30 September 2008-Frost & Sullivan Reccognizes Inside Contactless Smart Card(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Inside Contactless, a supplier of advanced, open-standard contactless chip technologies, has been recognized with the 2008 Frost & Sullivan North American Contactless Smart Cards Growth Excellence of the Year Award, in recognition...

Access Control Q&A.
Access Control Q&A By Tim O'Leary Q: Are edge readers and embedded technology one in the same? A: The answer is yes but with further clarification required since not all devices that call themselves edge readers or IP readers employ the same technology....

COMMENTARY: Access Control Best Practices.
COMMENTARY: Access Control Best Practices By Michael L. Davis HID's director of technology examines ways to mitigate the vulnerability of physical access systems Recent questions have been raised about the vulnerabilities of physical access control systems. Unfortunately, some critics, with limited familiarity of...

No Medicare without smart card.
Starting from April next year, 17 separate government cards including the Medicare card will be rolled into a single piece of plastic--the Access Card. The federal government wants to sign up to 35,000 people a week to the Access Card from next April, and intends that all...

ActivIdentity Announces Complete Portfolio of Identity Assurance and Strong Authentication Solutions for Citrix Systems.
Company Releases 'ActivIdentity(R) Solutions for Citrix Presentation Server' Product Line; Receives Citrix Ready Designation FREMONT, Calif., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ActivIdentity Corporation , a global leader in digital identity assurance, today introduced the industry's most complete portfolio of Identity Assurance and Strong Authentication solutions supporting Citrix Presentation...

Valimo and G&D Strengthen Partnership Through Joint Product Implementation.
HELSINKI, Finland and MUNICH, Germany, January 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Giesecke & Devrient (G&D), the world's second largest manufacturer of smart cards, is strengthening its partnership with Valimo Wireless, the market leader in mobile phone-based strong authentication and mobile signatures. G&D is the first SIM card vendor to implement the...

ActivIdentity Announces Broader Solutions for Novell.
Release of New 'ActivIdentity(R) Solutions for Novell(R)' Provides Novell Enterprise Customers With Government-Grade Identity Assurance FREMONT, Calif., Jan. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ActivIdentity Corporation , a global leader in digital identity assurance, today announced the ActivIdentity Solutions for Novell. The release of this new product line for Novell...

Know who entered your office last night?
(##include msid=47949085,type=11 ##) Gone are the days when employees articleshow/1478055.cms required to swipe in their magnetic stipe based ID cards to mark their presence in offices articleshow/1477447.cms worldwide. Advances in technology articleshow/1476529.cms has pushed a plethora of new hi-tech options- from biometric to voice controlled...

Changing market offers opportunities, but also demands more from vending.
Advances in technology, a dynamic marketplace and a steadily expanding consumer and government focus on the issue of obesity have come together to set the stage for a critical time for the vending industry. Public scrutiny of the industry, particularly in relation to children and schools, has perhaps never...

Steven Landau Joins Solicore as Vice President of Sales.
LAKELAND, Fla., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Solicore, Inc., a world-wide leader of embedded power solutions, offering a product portfolio of advanced ultra- thin, flexible, lithium polymer batteries announces today that Steven Landau has joined their team as Vice President of Sales. Steven brings more than 18 years of experience...