Tyfone, a Portland, Ore. provider of mobile NFC payments/secure transaction capabilities, says it has received a U.S. patent for its electronic transaction card that allows a memory card to be used as an electronic wallet or for the secure transmission of financial information. This technology is part of the company’s u4ia (euphoria) mobile financial services […]

The NFC Forum, a non-profit industry association seeking to advance the use of NFC technology, announced several accomplishments from its recent all-members meeting in Oulu, Finland. These included a Plugfest, where NFC Forum member companies successfully tested the interoperability of their technologies with those of their peers, a validation test of the forum’s logical link […]

Stanford University’s card access system has made significant strides over the past year, incorporating all first-year dorms and a number of recently renovated upperclass residences. Besides the increased security features of an electronic door access system that requires the swipe of a student ID card to gain entry, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based university also wanted […]

SCM Microsystems and Bluehill ID AG, have entered into an agreement to combine their respective companies, subject to certain regulatory and shareholder approvals. Under the agreement SCM will make an offer to the Bluehill ID shareholders to acquire all shares of Bluehill. Both companies are focused on access control, identity management and RFID technologies and […]

National Australia Bank and Visa are set to roll out contactless payments at more than 500 merchants in Melbourne this month. The retailers are in the process of installing NAB contactless readers at their counters. “The motivation for merchants to go contactless is customer convenience and the cost savings and revenue uplift associated with faster […]

HID Global has announced the launch of Identity on Demand (IoD), a service offering that provides expertise and speed to make custom credential and ID badge. At the same time, HID also launched EdgeDeveloper Kit, a key tool for development to Edge Evo, HID’s next generation access control platform. Identity on Demand offers card design, […]

A new study from San Francisco-based Javelin Strategy & Research predicts a floundering mobile payments market until merchants, payment networks, financial institutions and carriers bridge their services. Calling the contactless payments ecosystem a series of islands, the study says there is little-to-no mutual realization of value among the various constituents. The report indicates that the […]

Barclaycard gave its employees and customers a chance to try out its new contactless card by making donations to three charities. The event occurred during its sponsorship of the Mayor’s Thames Festival. Guests could use a limited edition contactless card preloaded with about $8 to donate to one of the charities using contactless readers to […]

The University of Oregon, Eugene, has joined the ranks of those schools utilizing hand scanners to control entry to specific buildings. As in many of the other universities which have opted for the technology, this university is using the scanners to control entry to its Rec Center. University officials cited two reasons for the change: […]

Zenius Solutions, a Silicon Valley NFC software company supporting mobile payments and contactless acceptance devices, has announced the completion of the first end-to-end live acceptance of a contactless credit card on a mobile phone. ZeniusMobilePOS with real-time authorization reads information from a contactless card, performs transaction processing, and connects with the Authorize.net payment gateway for […]