Trusted Logic has just presented a mobile security solution that integrates its TRUSTED FOUNDATIONS SOFTWARE and Gemalto’s USIM ACCESS API on an ST-Ericsson platform. The new solution, which runs on an Android platform, was demonstrated during the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona. According to Trusted Logic, the combination of the company’s security software and […]

UK Payments, a service company providing people, facilities and expertise to the UK Payments Industry, has declared contactless payment a “secure option” for cashless transaction, according to squidcard.com. A rep from UK Payments recently explained that contactless payment cards are set up so that if any fraudulent activity takes place, authorities will know about it […]

At this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, GSMA, Samsung, Telefonica and Visa, with Giesecke & Devrient, Ingenico, ITN International and La Caixa, collaborated across industries to give Congress attendees an opportunity to experience SIM-based NFC mobile payment. The participating companies provided more than 400 NFC handsets to guests for use at the Congress. The […]

Bangladesh has kicked off a new smart card program for farmers aimed at increasing productivity and reducing fraud, according to BBC News. All 20 million small to medium-sized farms in Bangladesh, farmers will receive the cards, which allow farmers to open bank accounts with as little as a few cents, and grant the government the […]

Juniper research has released a report covering the highlights of this week’s Mobile World Conference in Barcelona. The report, which is available for free on Juniper’s Web site, is split up into the following sections: Flurry of launches to increase competition in the smart phone space Operators announce Apps Community GSMA embarks on LTE interconnection […]

Gemalto announced a partnership with HighCo, a marketing solutions provider for mass market retailers and consumer goods manufacturers, to launch mobile coupon services using NFC technology. According to Gemalto, the goal of the partnership is to provide a more convenient way of collecting and redeeming coupons from NFC phones. Using an application in the mobile […]

Databac has announced that it will will be demonstrating a range of contactless and biometric solutions for access control, time & attendance, logical access and asset management at the Salón Internacional de la Seguridad, March 2-5 in Madrid. Among these will be Databac’s line of UHF Gen2 cards, boasting a read range of more than […]

Canadian mobile commerce company EnStream LP announced the launch of the Zoompass mobile application for Android powered phones. Zoompass enables users to send money quickly and securely to friends and family via smart phone, and takes advantage of the newest technologies of Android powered phones, such as running simultaneous applications. Zoompass users can also import […]

Gemalto announced the development of a new transport solution enabling commuters to use their mobile phones as e-tickets in MIFARE DESFire infrastructures. DESFire is an automatic fare collection technology which provides 3DES (Triple Data Encryption Standard) and AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) cryptographic algorithms. To date, it has been deployed in 40 cities across the world. […]

Visa and DeviceFidelity Inc. announced plans to market a new solution that can enable a mobile phone with a memory card slot to be used as a Visa mobile payment device. The solution combines Visa’s contactless payment technology, Visa payWave, and DeviceFidelity’s In2Pay technology to transform a mobile phone with a microSD memory slot into […]