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

CSCMP’s Annual Global Conference

Friday, June 12, 2009

Dates: September 20-23, 2009
Location: Chicago, Illinois
URL: http://www.cscmpconference.org
Description: In only four days, receive ideas and solutions worth thousands more to your company than the cost of attending supply chain’s premier event. Choose from over 100 educational sessions in 20 different tracks including these core logistics functions: transportation, technology, warehousing, inventory management, demand planning, and third party logistics. This global event will provide understanding and solutions to help drive change and improvement within your organization. Success is all about ideas, tools, and results. Get all three at this year’s conference. [end] 

16 million NFC SIM cards were shipped in 2011, according to the latest annual report from the SIMalliance, a SIM card trade association.

This marks the first time that NFC-enabled SIMs have been shipped in large enough quantities to be included separately in the SIMalliance annual data, according to the organization.

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EMVCo, the EMV standards body jointly owned by American Express, JCB, MasterCard and Visa, will host its fourth annual EMV User Meeting on June 20 - June 21 at the Courtyard Marriott Downtown in Toronto, Canada.

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Identive Group will be showcasing its near field communication solutions for students and campuses during the National Association of Campus Card Users Annual Conference in Seattle, Wash.

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Global sales of NFC-enabled handsets increased ten-fold in 2011 to 30 million units, according to a new research report by Berg Insight.

Berg’s report predicts that the NFC handset market will continue to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 87.8%, boosting annual shipments to 700 million units in 2016.

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Plastic card printer NiSCA has rolled out its newest retransfer printer, the PR-C201, which will be displayed at the 19th annual National Association of Campus Card Users conference in Seattle, Wash., April 21-25.

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HID Global is showing off some of its new U.S. government products for PIV-enabled physical-logical access control at this week’s RSA Conference 2012 in San Francisco.

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