Years before Steve Jobs showed off the first iPhone, the BlackBerry was already the must-have accessory for mobile professionals. Back then, nobody was worried about watching movies or playing the ...

Under a new homeland security directive, all government workers must authenticate their identities with "smart cards" before performing simple tasks like faxing or scanning documents over e-mail. The ...

?Access control refers to the process of granting access to certain entities or persons and refusing access to others. Access used to be primarily physical and was controlled via gates, locks, and ...

SCM Microsystems Inc., a provider of solutions for secure access, secure identity and secure exchange, is expanding its smart card reader product family with three new models. The new handheld, USB or ...

Thursby and Precise Biometrics are outfitting mobile iPhones and iPads with a smart card reader solution, attempting to make the Apple devices a more robust option for bring your own device (BYOD) ...

Millions of U.S. government employees and contractors have been issued a secure smart ID card that enables physical access to buildings and controlled spaces, and provides access to government ...

A smart card is a special type of card like device which contains an integrated circuit chip embedded on it. The IC chip can be a microprocessor with memory circuit. A smart card is connected to a ...

There are now billions of EMV-enabled cards in the world, but they are not foolproof and can be made more secure through new authentication technologies. In most retailers today, customers don’t swipe ...