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

BlueStar adds Confidex product line

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

BlueStar Inc., a distributor of RFID products and other related technologies, has added Conifdex’s family of UHF Gen2 RFID tags and specialty labels for asset tracking to its product line.


Confidex, headquartered in Finland and with offices in Europe, North America, and China, produces specialty RFID tags for a wide variety of applications, from the Pino, for tracking wooden pallets, to the Corona, designed for the automotive industry and able to withstand the environmental challenges of painting processes specific to that industry. Confidex also produces a line of RFID-enabled tickets for mass transit applications.

BlueStar is based in Florence, Kentucky, with operations throughout North America and in Europe. In addition to RFID solutions, the distributor offers point-of-sale, Auto-ID, and mobility products. [end] 

UK-regional bus group Bluestar has launched a new transit card for discounted weekly and monthly travel on its network, according to Southern Daily Echo.

The new card enables cashless fare for any service on the Bluestar Network in Southampton, Eastleigh and Winchester. It also supports travel on Wilts & Dorset buses and Southern Vectis on the Isle of Wight, both of which are owned and operated by Go-Ahead Group.

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Identive Group Inc. has formed a new product group within its business structure to provide services for integrated access control. This Converged Access group will build on technology designed for Identity as a Service/SaaS products like idOnDemand, as well as work with Identive’s products in the network access smart reader technology field.

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HID Global announced an expanded portfolio of RFID asset tracking solutions designed to meet the demands of industries including logistics, automation and manufacturing, medical and health care, returnable transport items and waste management.

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EVOLIS and BlueStar have announced a partnership to offer turnkey contact and contactless smart card printing solutions in the U.S. and Latin America markets.

Under the new partnership, BlueStar, a global distributor of ADC, mobility, point-of-sale, RFID, digital signage, and ID technology solutions, is now a distributor of the full line of EVOLIS plastic card printing products in the U.S. and Latin America.

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Yubico and SSO Easy have partnered to create a simplified two-factor authentication for single sign-on (SSO).

Designed for users who must implement strong two-factor authentication for access to SAML-based SSO servers, critical applications and sensitive information, this solution utilizes Yubico’s YubiKey driverless USB-token to log in with a one-time password.

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Auto-resolution technology provider Aeptra and authentication services firm TrustID have formed a technology partnership to improve financial institutions’ ability to recognize and prevent telephone-based fraud.

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