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

Dynamic enters new distribution agreement

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Dynamic Biometric Systems, a developer of biometric technologies, has announced that they have signed a distribution agreement with ArcWare Solutions for their Bio-Pen-based products aimed at students taking higher education classes remotely. Under the agreement, ArcWare and their reseller FL-EX Holdings will serve as resellers of Dynamics products through both sales and developing the distance learning channel to market the products.

The agreement was signed due to the passing of the Higher Education Opportunity Act which requires higher education institutions offering online courses to have a process through which the institution can be assured that they individual who has signed up for the course is the one taking it. [end] 

PayByPhone has announced that the city of Ottawa is now offering an NFC payments option on parking meters.

According to PayByPhone, every Pay & Display machine in Ottawa has been outfitted with an NFC-enabled PayByPhone sticker, which users can tap with an NFC phone to set up and pay for parking time.

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The Indian start-up ArrayShield Technologies has entered the two-factor authentication market in India and is looking for value-added resellers, managed service providers and system integrators to help it become a player in this field, which it estimates to be nearly Rs 2 billion.

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POS Portal, a national distributor of point-of-sale terminal modules, has selected Ingeico’s Telium series of NFC and EMV-enabled products for sale and distribution to its independent sales organizations in the U.S.

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AU10TIX, a subsidiary of ICTS International N.V., and the UK subsidiary of 3M have entered into an agreement to provide a ID document capture and authentication hardware and software products that will be able to cross-reference and manage records across a wide range of national and international identification cards.

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In an effort to promote efficiencies and reduce paperwork costs, three leading identity trust hubs and a certification authority have signed an agreement to promote the use of digital identities and public key infrastructure (PKI) for employees in both the private and public sectors.

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Union National Bank (UNB), one of the United Arab Emrite’s banks, partnered with Gemalto to introduce the Optelio payment cards for its EMV migration. The bank is converting its entire portfolio of debit and credit cards to Dynamic Data Authentication smart cards.

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