Entrepreneur Aneace Haddad has launched a new service that lets users consolidate multiple customer loyalty accounts onto one contactless smart card, according to BBC News. The service, called Taggo for “tap and go,” leverages the “fan” application on Facebook. Users must first take an ordinary contactless card with a unique ID number, such as a […]

ReportLinker has launched a new report, “Payment Cards in China,” providing statistics on China’s market size, competitor market shares and forecasts. The report also features an overview of regulation, competitor activities, issuer strategy and product innovation, including developments in contactless, mobile payments, online and prepaid cards. The report specifically addresses which card segments are showing […]

Melexis has announced the release of its new contactless sensor for use in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV) and Electric Vehicles (EV) . The MLX91206 is a customer programmable monolithic Sensor IC featuring Triaxis Hall technology that directly monitors the current flowing in an external conductor such as a bus bar or PCB track. The sensor […]

Bank of America has announced plans to issue contactless stickers to its credit and debit card customers next year, according to American Banker. The new stickers can be attached to mobile phones and other device to enable contactless mobile payment at the point of sale. The bank also announced that it will begin issuing contactless […]

DeviceFidelity announced that its microSD based In2Pay technology for plug and play mobile contactless transactions is now available for the Android mobile phone operating system. Already available for BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows and Symbian platforms, In2Pay features integrated support for mass personalization, Trusted Services Management (TSM) and multi-application mobile wallet software. According to DeviceFidelity, Android is […]

INSIDE Contactless announced it has integrated new, proprietary advanced firmware into its AT90SCR series of smart card reader microcontrollers. According to INSIDE, the integration enables device manufacturers to create a complete, ready-to-use family of low-cost smart card reader solutions tailored to speed the development of a variety of high-volume contact and contactless applications. INSIDE’s AT90SCR100 […]

Bay Area transportation officials say they are not planning on changing the Clipper contactless fare card in spite of recent fare dodging problems, according to mercurynews.com. A number of riders have been avoiding paying full fares on Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) trains, exploiting Clipper cards’ negative balance feature. However, Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) officials […]

Tyfone has been awarded a new patent for its mobile wallet platform. The patented technology, Mobile phone with electronic transaction card, enables the use of a mobile phone to transmit transaction data to a reader device via an NFC-enabled memory card. The memory card includes circuitry used to produce a time-varying magnetic field that enables […]

Celent has released a new report stating that China will soon lead the worldwide mobile payments market with 410 million users by 2013, according to finextra.com. China already boasts more than 740 million mobile phone users as of 2009, making it easily the world’s largest mobile market. However, mobile payment has so far penetrated this […]

MaxID has announced the deployment of 15 of its new iDL500 portable handheld readers to CityMovil S.A. in Santiago, Chile. CityMovil, a provider of solutions for maximizing transportation efficiency, will use the devices to read contactless iClass credentials for identity management. According to MaxID, the iDL500 is a multi‐modal, rugged mobile computer that features a […]