Computerworld

Feds plan to outsource smart ID card systems

Federal officials are looking to outsource the IT infrastructure that’s needed to support a planned smart-card system for authenticating employees governmentwide. And the outsourcing plan makes sense, ...
EDN

STMicro Acquires Smart Card Company for $39M

STMicroelectronics has acquired Proton World International (PWI), a smart card software company that specializes in high-security, payment and identification smart card systems. STMicro is already the ...
Government Technology

Campus Security Gets a Boost From Smart Cards

A new smart card system being implemented at the Auraria Higher Education Center (AHEC) campus in Denver will add a new dimension of physical security and offer cardholders better protection from ...
Business Wire

Rapidtron Inc. Signs a Memorandum of Understanding -MOU- with Smart Card Integrators Inc. to Combine Their Respective Smart Card Technologies for Increased Market Penetration

COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 2003--Rapidtron Inc. (OTCBB:RPDT), a provider of Radio Frequency (RF) smart card access control and ticketing/membership systems, and Smart Card ...
Nextgov

Smart cards of different stripes

As the Defense Department designs the next-generation smart card for the government's largest deployment of the technology, it is changing its focus from issuance to advanced applications. Meanwhile, ...