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Episode 21: Retailers use biometrics to customize message

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Customized offers based on your appearance using facial recognition biometrics? That’s what YCD Multimedia is touting and will be piloting at Buffalo, N.Y.-based Dunkin’ Donuts stores. Regarding ID Editor Zack Martin spoke with Barry Salzman, CEO at YCD Multimedia, about his company’s technology and where he sees it going.


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Jamie Henry, director of payment services with Wal-Mart treasury organizations, talks with Regarding ID’s Gina Jordan about the retailer’s push for EMV in the U.S. “We want to provide our customers with the most secure transactions that are in the market place, and the chip and pin technology provides that high level of security,” Henry says. He also talks about contactless payments and how the retailer doesn’t think that technology is secure.

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Government issued ID cards aren’t what they use to be. In the last 10-years the documents have changed from simple piece of laminated plastic to high-tech IDs with multiple security features. Regarding ID Editor Zack Martin spoke with Robert DeVincenzi, president and CEO at LaserCard, about the company’s role in changing IDs and a Frost & Sullivan report that analyzes some of the progress.

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In another of a series of podcasts investigating identity standards, Kevin Gillick, executive director at GlobalPlatform, talks with Regarding ID Editor Zack Martin about its place in the standards landscape and the role it plays.

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Dublin-based AIB Merchant Services (AIBMS) has announced the launch of its new customizable loyalty program for small to medium-sized businesses, according to siliconrepublic.com.

The new solution, AIBMS loyaltyplus, uses contactless tags from ZapaTechnology that combine multiple loyalty cards onto one single device accepted at AIBMS point of sale terminals.

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In our continuing podcast series on identification standards, Don Thibeau, executive director at the The OpenID Foundation and chairman and president of The Open Identity Exchange, speaks with Regarding ID Editor Zack Martin about its place in the ID standards landscape and some of its different projects. OpenID may be the one ID standard that many people are already using but don’t even realize it.

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In the third part of the Regarding ID series of podcasts looking at identity standards Editor Zack Martin speaks with J. Trent Adams, chair of the Kantara Initiative Leadership Council. In his day job Adams is Outreach Specialist for the Internet Society working on Trust & Identity Initiative.

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