President Obama just signed legislation which directs the Federal Aviation Administration to create regulations to allow greater use of unmanned aerial vehicles in the U.S.

Facial recognition and video based biometrics continue to be a hot topic with security professionals. While shows like CSI, Law & Order and 24 make it seem that technologies exist that can pick a terrorist out of a crowd in Times Square or spot a criminal the moment he steps foot on the street, the reality is that we're not quite there...yet.

The Smart Card Alliance and the NFC Forum present the first comprehensive American showcase to cover the state of Near Field Communications technology, developments in new NFC devices and add-ons, the status of the growing NFC ecosystem, the promise of NFC-enabled payments and other popular applications, NFC implementation, and American and international market forecasts.