Numerex Corp, a provider of on demand and interactive M2M solutions, and Cascade Engineering, a manufacturer serving a wide range of verticals, have announced a collaborative effort for the development and implementation of an asset management solution for the solid waste and recycling market. The X-Tracker provides geographic visibility, tracking, and management of remote assets, […]

The Co-operative Group is expanding its contactless payment technology efforts, with the roll out of new contactless payment terminals in 1,800 Food stores nationwide, across the United Kingdom. With its entire estate of more than 2,800 food stores set to go live early 2014, according to Finextra, the Co-op is offering customers a much faster, […]

Nanotron Technologies, a provider of wireless products that help to protect and find people, has launched a new wireless product platform designed for industrial safety applications: the swarm platform. Nanotron’s swarm platform relies on swarm intelligence – individuals in a swarm know their position and communicate with one another thus moving around securely without interfering […]

EM Microelectronic, part of the Swatch Group, has released the EM4333 contactless smart card, a dual ISO/IEC 14443A and ISO/IEC 15693 compliant transponder that integrate vicinity and proximity applications on the same media card. The EM4333 implements an enhanced auto-detection mechanism which ensures that the ISO/IEC 14443 part is powered only in strong field conditions […]

Paying a fare on Winnipeg Transit with a smart card will come into effect within a year, according to CBC News. Winnipeg’s finance committee will gather to examine changing of manual fare boxes over to an automatic fare collection system, as the new system is implemented in two phases eventually leading to the smart card. […]

With about 7,000 actively using OC Transpo’s PRESTO Card, the smart fare card system is still failing on a regular basis, according to the Ottawa Sun. When OC Transpo first announced the PRESTO Card it was touted as a multi-use smart card in the city, supporting not only just public transit but also parking, library […]

E-security solutions provider, Cryptomathic has published a white paper to explain and to promote the understanding of the certificates, keys and security processed involved when managing EMV implementations. Entitled “EMV Key Management – Explained,” the Cryptomathic white paper provides an overview of the cryptographic processes involved when issuing and managing payment card and mobile applications […]

Swiss Post Solutions (SPS), a division of Swiss Post and provider of digitization solutions, introduced the new version 2.0 of its JACOS chip card operating system. JACOS 2.0 now features innovative flash technology from Infineon and a new dual-interface version that enables contactless payment. The JACOS operating system is developed according to the latest EMVCo, […]

Mobile World Congress kicked off with Visa announcing a partnership with Samsung that will result in the Visa payWave Mobile Wallet App making its way onto the next generation of Samsung smart phones. The multinational financial services corporation did not disclose any specifics on exactly which next generation Samsung smart phones would feature the mobile […]

Fime has been accredited by EMVCo, the EMV standards body, to verify that a secure element has the required security and functionality to enable an end-user to select their preferred payment application in a contactless environment. Fime’s global test tool now has the capabilities to confirm that the application loaded on a secure element meets […]