Investigators get access with fake IDs, credential acquired through fraudulent means A review of the the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) program by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has revealed “internal control weaknesses” regarding the enrollment, background checking and use of the program. Administered by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the U.S. Coast […]

Visa has announced the development of its next generation point-of-sale payments solutions for the eCommerce, mobile commerce and social networking commerce environments. New offerings are expected to include a digital wallet and a range of mobile payments services tailored to different markets around the world. Visa plans to introduce its digital wallet and services platform […]

Payment solutions provider Carta Worldwide has integrated the MasterCard Mobile Over-the-Air Provisioning Service (MOTAPS) for NFC programs. MOTAPS is designed to provide issuers with an easier way of rolling out NFC programs, like PayPass, by enabling owners of NFC handsets to set up their MasterCard accounts directly from the handset itself. Personalization data is delivered […]

Intuit, the financial solutions provider behind TurboTax and Quicken, is unveiling a retooled version of its GoPayment mobile credit card processing application using NFC. Built on Google’s Android mobile platform, Intuit’s new GoPayment application transfers credit card data via NFC, eliminating the need for the actual card or any add-on card reader hardware. Intuit says […]

Google software engineer Nick Pelly told delegates at the Google I/O conference that “dozens” of NFC phones will hit the market later this year, according to NFC World. Although Pelly did not reveal any specific product names, he asserted that the company “knows personally dozens of phones in the pipeline for 2011 that are going […]

A recent survey conducted by UKFRAUD.co.uk and event organizer Fraudconference.co.uk has revealed that 60% of UK fraud specialists believe that mobile payment options pose the greatest potential risk of fraud. According to the survey, contactless payment via NFC has drawn the most concern, leading other services such as SMS-based transactions, direct mobile billing and mobile […]

IMS Research is predicting 2011 will be the year that NFC “finally comes good and takes-off.” “The NFC market has encountered many false dawns from its inception almost seven years ago,” comments Senior Market Analyst Don Tait. “The launch of a number of NFC-enabled smart phones in 2011 is helping the market to gain traction. […]

NXP Semiconductors, the company that helped Google integrate NFC into Anroid 2.3, is predicting that between 40 million and 100 million NFC-enabled mobile phones will ship this year, according to IntoMobile. “Every time we talk to our friends at Google, they tell us to double the numbers for the Android expectations,” NXP CEO Rick Clemmer […]

eAccess, a subsidiary of Cubic Corporation, has announced the delivery of more than a million of its Limited Use (LU) contactless cards to major U.S. transit and building access customers. Designed to provide a faster travel experience, LU smart cards are placed in proximity to readers rather than inserted into ticket slots like magnetic tickets. […]

Jeipang, China’s location-based social network a la Foursquare, has begun testing a new system that lets users “check-in” to a location using NFC, reports VentureBeat. Jeipang kicked off the pilot at the Strawberry Music Festival in Beijing last week by distributing about 1,000 NFC tags to concert attendees. The tags let users automatically check into […]