Americans support biometrics in Government IDs

Eighty-two percent of Americans support the use of biometric identification on passports

Manual ePassport personalization gets faster

SAFE ID Solutions introducesmanual passport personalisation system that churns out 180 passports per hour

Cognitec wins Estonian contract

Cognitec announces deal with IBM Estonia to provide facial recognition technology for government

Latvia set for Q3 ePassport rollout

The Latvian government has awarded G&D a contract to produce 1.1 million ePassports over the next five years.

OTI completes SuperCom acquisition

OTI has completed the acquisition of the main assets of SuperCom, including the purchase of the company’s International Project Solution (IPS).

SMARTRAC and Assa Abloy reach patent agreement

SMARTRAC and Assa Abloy have settled a dispute over the use of certain patents related to RFID devices using wire-embedding technology.

Driving in Sri Lanka gets smarter

Sri Lanka’s Department of Motor Traffic (DMT) is to introduce a new driving licence system using smart card and biometric technologies later this year.

Bahamas inks ePassport deal

Bahamas Ministry of Foreign Affairs to start rolling out ePassports later this year

EU gives thumbs up to European driving licence

EU citizens are set to receive unified credit card-sized driving licences from 2013.

Indian ePassport trials set for 2007

India has indicated that it will soon begin its conversion to electronic passports

Test methods for ePassports and readers available

Test methods for ePassports and readers now available, but won’t become part of ICAO doc 9303

Muehlbauer personalizes Norway's drivers licence

Muehlbauer is to personalize Norway’s new polycarbonate drivers licence cards

PIVMAN System to be deployed in LA

CoreStreet’s PIVMAN System has been selected for the City of Los Angeles Urban Area Security Initiative, where it will be deployed with SuperCom’s mobile credentialing system.

New ID cards for Dutch defence employees

New ID cards for Dutch defence employees. Award given to Siemens Business Services

Healthcare getting smarter in Germany

The German government’s plans to launch one of the most extensive e-health projects in the world has boosted a number of major smart card companies.

Nigerian SID to use Cogent readers

Cogent fingerprint technology integrated by 3M Corporation for use in Nigerian Seafarers’ Identity Document programme

New member for GlobalPlatform

Fargo Electronics has joined international standards body GlobalPlatform as a participating member and will add its voice to the work of the organisation’s systems committee.

Smart Card Alliance urges US government rethink

The Smart Card Alliance has called on the US government to rethink its proposed passport card using long-range RFID technology.

Gemalto inks driver license deal

The Norwegian authorities have awarded Gemalto a contract to provide its polycarbonate cards, based on Setec technology, for driver’s licenses in Norway

G&D given health card green light

Gematik, the company founded by the German government to administer the infrastructure of the country’s electronic health care insurance cards, has given G&D the green light to issue its health care smart cards in designated test regions.