Edenred, Commuter Check and WiredCommute have announced the launch of a new contactless Commuter Check Prepaid MasterCard card for tap and go payment on public transit. Equipped with MasterCard’s PayPass technology, the card is designed to save commuters money by enabling contactless fare payments through their employer sponsored pre-tax benefit program. The new card can [...]

Barclaycard has come out with a new TV ad campaign for its Quick Tap contactless mobile payment service with Orange, reports Marketingmagazine.co.uk. The new promotion is a slightly different take on Barclaycard’s other ‘rollercoaster’ advert, in which the mobile phone is substituted for a contactless credit card. Unveiled last month, Quick Tap allows UK consumers [...]

Bibliotheca and Intellident have announced a merger that would combine the two into one of the largest RFID companies in Europe. The union also includes Intellident’s French subsidiary Ident SAS. With more than 1,200 installations to its name, Intellident will retain the name of this latest merger, which is said to have little impact on [...]

DAILY RFID revealed a new small-sized RFID tag measuring 7 millimeters in diameter, cleverly dubbed the RFID Tiny Tag. The miniature RFID read and write tag operates in the 13.56 MHz frequency with support for the ISO 15693 protocol. These, in turn, offer a read and write distance ranging from 2 centimeters on up to [...]

Gordon College, located in Barnesville, Ga., announced that it has renewed its contract with Higher One for its technology and payment services. With an enrollment of approximately 5,000 students, Gordon College campus will continue to utilize Higher One’s OneDisburse Refund Management funds disbursement service to simplify the refund process, for both administrators and students. Higher [...]

Evolis announced the launch of the Evolis Dual Encoder that supports both smart contact and contactless cards. This dual encoder is compliant with the Evolis range of card personalization systems. Evolis has worked with technology from SCM Microsystems in collaboration with Elyctis, an expert in advanced card readers, to design the encoder. This new encoder [...]

When the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace was released in April some described it was “Woodstock for identity geeks.” Industry officials were excited to see the plan and hear what was announced, but there weren’t a lot of surprises. The goal of the strategy is to protect privacy, fight identity theft and fraud, [...]