Fingerprint Cards’ swipe sensor technology has been chosen by CardLab ApS for the development of a new biometric secure payment card. The biometric card will have the same format in size and thickness ...

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MasterCard is trialling a Chip and PIN bankcard that includes an embedded fingerprint reader, introducing a biometric authentication layer for card payments — and taking a leaf out of the book of ...

Storing information through magnetic patterns was first demonstrated to record audio. Since then, this concept has been applied for different products like floppy disks, audio/video tapes, hard disks, ...

MasterCard is testing a contactless payment card with a built-in fingerprint reader that can authorize high-value payments without requiring the user to enter a PIN. It showed a prototype of the card ...

Swipe-to-pay. Chip-and-PIN. What next? Credit cards with fingerprint sensors? Turns out that is MasterCard's latest invention: A new credit card with an integrated fingerprint sensor, which aims to ...

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Q: Installation instructions for access control frequently refer to the reader or keypad as 26-bit Wiegand . What does 26-bit mean and is it secure? A: Wiegand is the trade name for a technology used ...

Thursby and Precise Biometrics are outfitting mobile iPhones and iPads with a smart card reader solution, attempting to make the Apple devices a more robust option for bring your own device (BYOD) ...