Xerox’s Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), is moving forward with plans to enter the public transit sector with the hire of Steve Frazzini as vice president of fare payment solutions. A former vice president for Automated Fare Collection and MetroCard Operations for the MTA in New York City, Frazzini has worked for 25 years in public […]

Dell India is equipping its range of new Latitude E series laptops with integrated contactless smart card readers and biometric fingerprint scanners, according to Techcircle.in. Dell’s integrated contactless reader is designed to enable employees to securely log into their laptop using their contactless employee ID cards. The biometric fingerprint scanner provides an additional level of […]

The City of Calgary has selected Telvent to implement a contactless smart card based Electronic Fare Collection (EFC) system for Calgary Transit’s light rail and bus network. Calgary Transit, which services some 94 million passengers per year, has opted for a contactless system in order to provide a “more convenient method to pay for fares,” […]

ASSA ABLOY has announced the release of its new Mobile Keys Platform, a solution that uses NFC-enabled mobile phones to unlock doors in hotels, commercial buildings and private homes. Instead of using a printer to encode a card or assigning a pre-encoded card, Mobile Keys Platform sends a virtual key to the end user’s NFC-enabled […]

PayPal has announced the acquisition of Boston-based mobile payments startup FigCard, according to TMCnet. Founded in 2010, FigCard provides a solution that lets merchants accept mobile payments by plugging a special USB device into their cash register or point-of-sale terminal. To pay using the solution, customers need only install the Fig app on their smart […]

Mercator Advisory Group has released a new report examining how smart phones, NFC and biometrics will “transform” the world of payments and Web authentication. According to the report, “Authentication at the Edge: NFC, Smart phones, and a New Model for Payments Confidence,” NFC-equipped smart phones will enable Americans to utilize new security features, such as […]

This year’s Open Mobile Summit in London will focus on NFC and the mobile wallet. The conference, held in early June, will feature a segment called ‘Opening the mobile wallet,’ in which the panel of industry CEO’s and senior strategists will examine the key business drivers of mobile contactless payment, as well as its real-life […]

DAILY RFID has released a new SD card designed to turn any smart phone or PDA into a contactless reader. The plug-and-play SD RFID Reader, which is about the size of a postage stamp, can be inserted into the SD card slot of mobile devices to enable contactless 13.56MHz card or tag reading. Compatible with […]

Lotte, one of the largest food and shopping groups in South Korea, has begun accepting contactless mobile payments from mobile carrier KT, according to Akihabara News. Lotte customers with Samsung Galaxy S II phones are now able to tap and pay for items at check out via KT’s NFC network. Shoppers who spend more than […]

Samsung has announced it will bring its NFC-enabled Nexus S smart phone to the Indian market, according to Mobiletor.com. The Nexus S, which operates on Google’s Android 2.3 “Gingerbread,” was initially released December 2010 in the U.S. and the UK. The handset, manufactured in collaboration with Google, features a 4″ curved LCD touchscreen, 1 GHz […]