Beginning tomorrow, members of the Identive team will be participating in the 13th Annual Cards & Payments Middle East, held May 15-16 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. One of the largest events in the region for banks, retail, telcos and government, the conference brings together the world leaders in cards and payments technology. Several key areas [...]

Terry Gold, Vice President of idOnDemand (an Identive business unit), will be presenting at the 2012 Security B-Sides Rochester event this weekend on May 12. In the session entitled “RFIDLOL,” he will discuss the use of RFID access cards as means of securing entry points. Highly convenient, relatively inexpensive and generally assumed to be secure, the [...]

SANTA ANA, Calif. and ISMANING, Germany, Apr 12, 2012  – Identive Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE; Frankfurt:INV), a provider of products and services for the identification, security and RFID industries, today announces the US launch of SmartCore™, an innovative RFID (radio frequency identification) card core manufacturing technology that enables unmatched surface quality and printability of contactless ID [...]

The news segment above addresses electronic pickpocketing. AskIdentive received this link seeking clarification -  Is this level of identity theft possible through NFC? The short answer is “NO.” Contactless credit cards come with the benefit of less time spent per transaction at the POS terminal. This ease of use has had the side effect of raising some valid security [...]

If you have a look at what is currently being used today at point of sales, in manufacturing and logistics, often you will still find a good ol’ bar code scanner. Reason being, barcode scanners come at a reasonable price and offer a number of features and functionalities, which allow easy usage and integration into [...]

Thanks for the inquiry! To simply answer the question, yes. In fact, this use of RFID tags is one of the most common applications for RFID outside of the Open EPC Class 1 Gen 2 standard used in supply chain management. Applications, such as identity management, ski ticketing, passport control, payment and loyalty to name [...]

Still in its infancy, (near field communication) NFC technology is gradually being introduced to the “real world” through its deployment in smartphones, tablets, smart posters, and tags. Yet, as more mobile device manufacturers launch NFC-enabled phones and other handhelds, retailers and marketers implement NFC campaigns, and consumers embrace NFC applications, it seems only a matter [...]