L-1 Identity Solutions has announced the release of its new ExianSmart, a contactless identification card designed to last 15 years. According to L-1, the ExianSmart lasts five-years longer than the industry standard 10-year smart card lifespan, and is intended for international electronic documents such as driver’s licenses, national and voter identification cards and biometric-based entitlement […]

Google has acquired mobile payments startup Zetawire in order to improve its support for NFC in Android phones, according to electonista.com. Google bought Toronto-based Zetawire back in August, just after the company was awarded a U.S. patent for an end-to-end mobile payments platform that allows users to pay for goods with a smart phone at […]

Analog IC manufacturer austriamicrosystems announced its new AS5013, a contactless magnetic encoder IC for portable communication devices. The AS5013 Hall-sensor IC is used in the EasyPoint module, which consists of a mechanical stack incorporating a navigation knob, a magnet and the AS5013 magnetic encoder IC. The IC monitors the displacement of a magnet incorporated in […]

Wells Fargo & Company has announced that it will launch a pilot Visa’s new microSD mobile payment platform in San Francisco. The pilot will include 200 Wells Fargo team members using BlackBerries and iPhones equipped with DeviceFidelity’s In2Pay technology. BlackBerry users directly insert the In2Pay microSD card into their device, while iPhone users will receive […]

Tyfone has been awarded its second patent this year for the company’s mobile electronic wallet technology. This new patent, US 7,805,615, entitled “Asymmetric cryptography with user authentication,” is for Tyfone’s u4ia Mobile Secure Transaction platform, which offers identity authentication and secure access to electronic wallet information even if the mobile phone is not connected to […]

GuestLogix has announced the launch of the airline industry’s first handheld contactless point-of-sale device that looks and behaves like a smart phone. According to GuestLogix, the AVATA-m enables operators to maximize sales in their on-board stores, airport lounges or departure gates with contactless payment capability and Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and RFID connectivity. GuestLogix is also unveiling […]

The Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT) Alliance made its debut today at CARTES & IDentification 2010, introducing an open security standard to foster the next generation of transit fare collection systems. Now open to new members, the alliance will work to establish an ecosystem of transit operators, technology suppliers, consultants and integrators, government agencies […]

The Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT) Alliance, a global initiative for open standard security in public transportation, announced the addition of two new members: Watchdata Technologies Ltd. and the Open Ticketing Institute of the Netherlands. Together with the four founding members, they will work to establish and advance new interoperable transit fare collection solutions […]

The NFC Forum formally unveiled its new Certification Program designed to give device manufacturers a means of establishing their products’ compliance with the NFC Forum’s technical specifications. Under the program, companies submit their devices to an authorized NFC Forum test laboratory for conformance testing using NFC Forum-validated test tools. The results are submitted to the […]

LEGIC Identsystems has added Chinese contactless card manufacturer Shenzhen SXL Information Technology as a new license partner, enabling Shenzhen SXL to offer contactless ID credentials with LEGIC’s advant technology. The cards will be mainly used for identification at access control and time and attendance readers, as well as parking meter terminals. According to LEGIC, the […]