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Archive for April, 2009

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ID Wholesaler has launched its new ratings and reviews program designed to provide customers with consumer feedback on any ID card products they may be interested in purchasing. As a customer who has purchased ID card products from ID Wholesaler before, your opinion matters and you can help other customers choose the right product to [...]

Faster Customs Checks Made Possible With Biometric ID Cards

New biometric ID cards with an image of a traveler’s eye and fingerprint will make custom checks significantly faster going to and from Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. The US and the Netherlands have reached an agreement to issue biometric ID cards to US and Dutch travelers who clear a background check that allows them to [...]

New UltraCard Premium Cards for High Quality Printing and Lamination

At this month’s ISC West International Security Conference and Expo, HID Global introduced its new non-technology composite cards, UltraCard Premium. UltraCard Premium is HID Global’s solution to the need for durable, flexible, and long lasting non-technology cards for printing maximum quality ID cards. UltraCard Premium cards can be used with any reverse-transfer (or High Definition [...]

Combining Building & PC Access: HID on the Desktop

HID Global, manufacturer of access cards, Fargo card printers, and Asure ID card creation software, has launched HID on the Desktop. HID on the Desktop is a new security access solution that allows companies to enhance the security of their computers and networks by requiring employees to scan their ID cards to gain access to [...]

Smart Cards To Give Instant Health Coverage Details

People living in Vermont may soon be able to manage their health care costs more efficiently with the help of smart cards. Vermont Senator Peter Shumlin is pushing to implement a statewide system that would allow health care providers to instantly look up a patient’s health care coverage information know how much the insurance will [...]

Mag Stripe Cards Limit Dog Park & Neighborhood Traffic

The Memphis suburb of Germantown, Tennessee will use magnetic stripe access cards to limit the amount of people using the dog park and visitor traffic from blocking the driveways of residents that live around the park. The city has voted to require park users to swipe access cards at magnetic stripe readers, installed at each [...]

Commuting In Australia with Smart Cards

Commuters in Melbourne, Australia will soon begin using smart cards to access public transportation services. Trains, trams, and buses in Melbourne will be equipped with RFID scanners for commuters to wave their smart cards over when entering or exiting the vehicle. The train, tram, and bus fare is automatically logged and deducted from the rider’s [...]

One RFID Card Opens Many Doors For Hotel Guests

Guests at the Nelson Lodge Hotel in Canada’s Revelstoke ski resort currently use RFID key cards to access their rooms, but soon they will be able to use their key cards to access Revelstoke’s various services and amenities. RFID access cards were chosen over the traditional magnetic-stripe encoded key cards for their convenience and ability [...]

Evolis Introduces New Signature Panel Ribbon

Evolis has launched a new signature panel ribbon for the Pebble4 and Dualys3 ID card printers that allows cardholders to apply their signatures on to their card once it’s been issued. The new white signature panel ribbon bonds to the back of the cards once the card has been printed using the standard ribbon. The [...]

Hospitals Reduce Infectious Disease with Smart Cards

Lack of proper hand hygiene by healthcare providers is a leading preventable cause of infections among patients. Epidemiologists and computer scientists at the University of Iowa developed a low cost and time saving way to track and monitor hand hygiene compliance. To increase hand hygiene compliance among healthcare providers, the University of Iowa developed [...]