The CBORD Group, a major supplier of campus cards for the university market, has tapped Lipman Electronic Engineering to provide a terminal that will be CBORD-branded as the Epic Card Reader. It will be an easy-to-operate terminal providing integrated TCP/IP communications. ROSH HAAYIN, Israel–Lipman Electronic Engineering Ltd. has announced that The CBORD Group, Inc., one […]

Smart cards are finding applications beyond payment and secure identification … They’re also driving tourists to specific destinations. The Go Card, first introduced in Boston two years ago is now in a handful of major U.S. cities, including San Francisco, Orlando, Seattle, San Diego, and Chicago. At first glance, it seems like a discount card […]

The CBORD Group Inc. today announced the release of its Epic card reader designed to provide maximum performance in a small, comprehensive package. The Epic integrates with CBORD’s Odyssey Privilege Control System (PCS) and provides a dependable and affordable card reader for locations on campus that need to verify student status or accept payment for […]

Do you use prox or contactless cards for access control and wish you could use them for other applications as well? You are not alone – thousands of corporations, campuses, and agencies are in the same boat. But a Chicago-based company, RF Ideas, may have a solution in their line of programmable devices that read […]

David C. Wyld is the Mayfield Professor of Management and is the Director of Strategic e-Commerce Initiative at Southeastern Louisiana University. Around the world the scene is repeated over and over again. In cavernous aircraft hangars handsomely paid aircraft mechanics are spending considerable portions of their shifts leafing through log books, rifling through bins, and […]

Organizations using Datakey Axis technology and its two-factor authentication were able to protect their passwords from falling prey to the recently discovered “Scob virus” that, on infected computers, is able to record those passwords as they’re keyed into web sites when users log on. MINNEAPOLIS, June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Datakey, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: DKEY […]

The Biometrics Consortium, a leading industry group, defines biometrics as “automated methods of recognizing a person based on a physiological or behavioral characteristic. Among the features measured are; face, fingerprints, hand geometry, handwriting, iris, retinal, vein, and voice. Biometric technologies are becoming the foundation of an extensive array of highly secure identification and personal verification […]

BEVERLY, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sept. 17, 2003–Beverly Hospital and Addison Gilbert hospital patients are receiving medical smart cards as part of a program designed to make hospital registration faster and more efficient. With nearly 500,000 cards to be distributed in the next 12 months, they are the first private hospitals in the United States to issue smart […]

A growing problem globally and on our campuses Capt. David Myers has seen his share of fake student ID cards, counterfeit drivers licenses and fraudulent credit cards. He and his four officers are members of the elite Fraudulent Identification Unit of Florida’s Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco. It’s a unit that’s so good it […]

Dow Jones Newswire – NEW YORK, NY – More than 30,000 ordinary American consumers were ripped off in what is believed to be the largest identity-theft case in U.S. history, federal authorities announced Monday. The scheme began in early 2000 when a help-desk employee at Teledata Communications Inc., a Long Island, N.Y., company that provides […]