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

Welcome to the new and improved site

Sunday, August 3, 2008

The site looks different, I know … but it is how it works rather than how it looks that I think you will come to appreciate.

In the past seven years, our editorial team has created more than 10,000 articles, news items and features covering the spectrum of identity, security, and credentialing. The body of knowledge contained in these archives is tremendous, but until now it was not easy to isolate the content you were seeking.


In the years since we began publishing, the ID industry has become far more specialized and focused. This redesign was done with this in mind, to make it easy for you to select your specific areas of interest and get to them directly.

The “Article Categories” on the left of side of the page facilitate this customization. And the ability to expand your search to include content from our other publications will keep you better informed than ever before, and serve as an unprecedented tool for research and project planning.

I invite you to explore the new format and click your way through related articles from the past and present. I hope you find our hard work beneficial. We did it for you, our readers, so please send me feedback on what works and what doesn’t work for you … it is a work-in-progress so keep your comments coming.

Thanks for reading.

Chris Corum, Executive Editor and Publisher [end] 

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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The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival with help from Intellitix, an RFID technology provider for live events, added an online audience of more than 30 million last month when over 30,000 fans registered to “Live Click” around the festival site.

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Authentication provider Swivel Secure has released version 3.9 of its Swivel authentication product. The new update extends the product’s deployment options to include a telephony option.

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Verizon Wireless and HTC have launched a new NFC-enabled handset, the Droid Incredible 4G LTE.

Powered by Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the phone features a 4-inch super LCD qHD display, 8 megapixel rear-facing camera, 1.2 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor and built-in NFC connectivity.

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The U.S. government’s Advanced Analytic Capabilities Subgroup of the Technical Support Working Group (TSWG) has awarded a research and development contract to voice biometrics technology provider Agnitio Corp. to speed up development and deliver an improved capabilities for voice biometrics-based mobile phone security.

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Information for 1,600 freshmen and sophomores in the College Park Scholars program at the University of Maryland was inadvertently posted to a public Web site, university officials said.

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