A dual interface reader with contact and contactless capabilities to support the increased demand for badging and other personal ID applications, has been launched by SCM Microsystems. This ...

More and more, companies that formally used only keys are now asking about keyless or electronic access control (EAC). Whether called badges, tokens or cards, they limit access to a facility to only ...

Swedish RFID technology company Arcontia has developed a contactess card reader with a compact flash interface developed for use in e-ticketing and public transportation. The first couple of hundred ...

Minneapolis, MN - Sig-Tec Corporation, a provider of logical access desktop and laptop solutions, has incorporated full support for the OMNIKEY CardMan 5121 contactless smart card readers into its ...

Chatsworth, Calif.-based Secura Key announces an addition to its line of e*Tag contactless smart card readers. The ET4-AUS-D is a desktop reader/writer unit with a standard USB cable, which works with ...

MANHASSET, N.Y. — SCM Microsystems Inc. (Fremont, Calif.) has entered a cooperative agreement with the Integrated Circuit Group of Japan's Sharp Corp. to develop and market contactless smart card ...

Sony has found a new friend in Global HID. The two companies are partnering to develop contactless smart card readers for laptop computers. HID Global will bringing its iCLASS card and reader ...

A few years ago, we saw a project from a few researchers in Germany who built a device to clone contactless smart cards. These contactless smart cards can be found in everything from subway cards to ...

Contactless smart cards are plastic cards (usually the size of a credit card) with an embedded radio frequency identification transponder. The RFID microchip can store a serial number and other ...