Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., has implemented a new off-campus dining program that will enable students to use their ID card to enjoy nine restaurants in downtown Troy with participation from other merchants possible in the future. The new community program builds off the Rensselaer Advantage Dollar program, a campus declining balance account using the […]

Medford, Ore.-based Mobifyer, an enabler of contactless, RFID, and NFC solutions, has teamed with suppliers TranZfinity, eGrips and SCM to jointly launch a series of developers contests to increase the adoption and acceptance of contactless, RFID, and NFC technologies with existing in-market mobile phones. Submissions to the “Ideas That Mobify” contests will be judged for […]

Scott Marquardt, formerly with SVTC Technologies, a California technology foundry, will assume the presidency of Giesecke & Devrient’s U.S. subsidiary in Dulles, Va. beginning Sept. 1. His role will be to help G&D grow its business in both banknote processing and mobile security solutions. Marquardt’s career spans industries from paper and printing to cell phones, […]

Dynamic Card Solutions, an Englewood, Colo. provider of instant issuance and PIN selection solutions for banks, credit unions and retailers that issue mag stripe, contactless or EMV cards, has announced $14.8 million in revenue for the second quarter, an 87% increase over the previous year. The company attributes these results to new customers both domestically […]

The NFC Forum and the Mobey Forum, a global financial industry group tasked with facilitating mobile financial services offerings by banks, have agreed to work together to further efforts to enable the delivery of services that will provide secure and interoperable mobile financial transactions. The two organizations share a common interest in fostering the successful […]

Two University of Arizona students, who wanted to give their classmates more off-campus eating options, have created CampusBucks, a debit card-like plan. The two started working on the project over the summer. That involved getting financing, designing a logo, recruiting restaurants and other merchants and even figuring out card-swiping machines. They also had to withstand […]

A new white paper from UK-based telecoms management consultant The Human Chain looks at whether NFC technologies can gain market share and how they could potentially impact development of integrated NFC handsets. Essentially, the report reviews the business case for new NFC form factors and challenges the industry to address the barriers to market. “We’ve […]

A swipe of a University of Kentucky student’s ID card at certain campus-sponsored events can give that student a chance to win prizes ranging from season basketball tickets to a semester’s worth of free books. This new Student Government initiative, which begins this fall, is called TallyCats and is designed to get students more involved […]

The UK government, working in partnership with the mobile and banking industries, has released measures designed to prevent criminals targeting technology that allows consumers to use their mobile phones as debit, credit and pre-pay cards. These guidelines include: Contactless payment functions, SIM cards and phones will be disabled as soon as they are reported lost […]

Zipcars are coming to Chico State University, the first campus in the California State University system to offer the rental car system designed to ease traffic and parking congestion and provide students with an optional method of transportation. The campus was scheduled to receive the first cars this week from the Cambridge, Mass.-based Zipcar, which […]