Identity, Security, Payments, Biometrics, Smart Cards and Authentication News

Toshiba America partners with Ringdale to offer secure output management solution

Friday, March 21, 2008

Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) has formed a strategic alliance with Georgetown, Texas-based Ringdale®, offering the all-in-one secure document output management solution, FollowMe®, to Toshiba’s e-STUDIO™ family of products. FollowMe gives companies the ability to restrict access to documents by requiring users to authenticate themselves prior to retrieving their print jobs. Users can release sensitive print jobs directly at the output device through biometric fingerprint, proximity card, magnetic swipe card, smart card, PIN codes or barcodes. The Ringdale FollowMe secure document output management solution is currently available through Toshiba’s nationwide network of dealers. [end] 

Gaming Partners International Corporation announced that it will introduce several new products at the upcoming Global Gaming Expo (G2E) Asia exhibition in Macau, China.

GPI will release new currency security features that can be added to any of the company’s chip brands, highlighting several enhancements to its Bourgogne-et-Grasset (B&G) currency and RFID product portfolios.

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BT and Hitachi Europe Ltd. announced that they are jointly designing an identity management solution for the financial services market. In this move, BT is introducing BT Unified Trading federation, a cloud-based trust utility for secure identity exchange and will incorporate Hitachi’s Finger Vein Authentication Engine and technology to offer biometric security capabilities.

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Albron, an independent caterer in the Netherlands, will offer biometric- and contactless-based payments in its restaurants thanks to a newly signed agreement with pan-European payment processor Equens.

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NXP Semiconductors and HID Global announced a partnership to create a global, generic mobile access solution for NFC-enabled mobile phones.

Developed jointly by the partners, the solution takes existing contactless cards that employees use to enter corporate buildings and parking garages and transfers them to the embedded NXP secure element on an NFC-enabled phone.

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LEGIC Identsystems Ltd expanded its partner network in Southern Europe with the announcement of a joint venture with Spain-based security company Softmachine Systems.

The new affiliation aims to produce contactless access control solutions and installations for multifunctional visitor management including applications for electronic payment and time and attendance.

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Austrian mobile operator A1, a subsidiary of Telekom Austria Group, has teamed up with PayBox Bank to trial NFC mobile payments at select McDonald’s restaurants and Merkur supermarkets.

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