CREDITZ® Digital Currency, a Canadian electronic micro-payment and loyalty system provider, is adding a contactless, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) application to its electronic micro-payment and loyalty system. The contactless payments are powered by IBM Series I Technology and will be introduced at the upcoming Electronic Transaction Association (ETA) annual convention in April in Las Vegas, […]

The final decision to scrap the Tcard system proposed in Autralia was made by a cabinet subcommittee yesterday, although the Minister for Transport John Watkins, announced that there is still hope for e-ticketing to show up again. The Tcard was going to be a contactless card ticketing system for Sydney’s public transport network, but it […]

EM Microelectronic, the semiconductor company of the Swatch Group, has shipped over 250 Million Tag-Talks-Only (TTO) UHF RFID chips, primarily for the manufacturing of intelligent labels for garment tagging in the fashion industry. Marks & Spencer’s RFID initiative in apparel is known to be the world’s largest item-level tagging project and thereby establishes EM’s UHF […]

INSIDE Contactless was chosen as a finalist for the GSMA Mobile Innovation Global Awards 2008 in the category for Most Innovative Device-Centric Technology. INSIDE’s MicroRead™ product implements Near Field Communications (NFC) with several unique technical features, which has resulted in its selection by most of the 12 GSMA-sponsored “Pay-Buy-Mobile” trials around the world. The Mobile […]

USA Technologies’ ePort cashless system for vending now supports Discover Network Zip contactless technology. In addition to USA Technologies’ integration of Discover Network Zip technology into its readers, Discover Network also has purchased 1000 ePort cashless systems to be installed in vending machines. Discover expects to deploy the systems by the end of this month. […]

Listen to Executive Editor Chris Corum and Contributing Editor Ryan Kline talk about the REAL ID final rule that was issued on January 11, 2008. Download MP3. Please contact [email protected] with any comments or suggestions. Also check out our older podcasts: Episode 1 (1/9/08)&#8212A brief summary of news from the AVISIAN ID Technology related websites […]

Listen to Executive Editor Chris Corum and Contributing Editor Ryan Kline talk about the REAL ID final rule that was issued on January 11, 2008. Download MP3. Please contact [email protected] with any comments or suggestions. Also check out our older podcasts: Episode 1 (1/9/08)&#8212A brief summary of news from the AVISIAN ID Technology related websites […]

ZDNet explores the current uses of NFC through out the world in their recent article Around the world in … Near Field Communications (NFC). The article has the details from Australia, where the article was written and where a new NFC trial is expected to start soon as well as the happenings of NFC in […]

CPI Card Group has acquired Didier Printing Company, a privately owned secure card manufacturer based in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The acquisition will allow CPI Card Group to expand its services with three state-of-the-art manufacturing sites (Colorado, Nevada and Indiana). CPI will now have “the largest smart card production capacity in the industry.” The executive management […]

Chase Corporation’s new contactless shielding product, Paper Tyger® DEFENDER™, is quickly gaining widespread acceptance, according to the manufacturer. DEFENDER provides personal and mail-stream privacy protection by shielding smart cards and RFID-enabled credentials from unauthorized access. The DEFENDER shield is said to be facilitating the growth of contactless cards across the globe in many different industries. […]