“Click,” the BBC’s flagship technology program, has chosen NFC as one of its five top technologies for 2008. BBC News selected the five technologies from the hundreds of consumer products and technologies on display at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) International in Las Vegas last week. The television news story ran numerous times on BBC […]

The Paradies Shops, an airport concessionaire in most of North America, has selected ViVOtech contactless payment terminals for their 500+ retail stores in over 60 airports and hotels across the U.S. and Canada. The Paradies Shops will now be able to offer quicker payment options and greater convenience to more than half-a-billion travelers it serves […]

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Blackboard is acquiring a mass messaging and notification company for $182 million. Privately-held NTI Group, provides these services for educational and government organizations via voice, email, SMS, and other text-receiving devices. The acquisition positions Blackboard to help institutions connect with students in untraditional ways and to address the rising need for alert systems for emergency […]

From previous research we know that US consumers are keen to use their mobile handsets for making in-store payments, but the majority only wants to have one credit or debit account for making those purchases, according to a new ABI Research survey of US consumer attitudes. Much of the work on developing a standard application […]

Raritan recently announced that its Paragon II enterprise-class KVM solution, said to be the industry’s first to be offered with an optional integrated smart-card-reader, has achieved approval under FIPS 201 – the U.S. Federal government’s important standard that specifies Personal Identity Verification (PIV) requirements for Federal employees and contractors. The FIPS 201 approval has been […]

Silicon Valley-based ViVOtech’s ViVOnfc infrastructure software for Near Field Communication (NFC) mobile phone payments is starting to be used by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia in its first NFC mobile phone payment launch in conjunction with MasterCard at the Masters Golf Tournament in Australia. According to ViVOtech, this deployment marks Australia’s first NFC mobile phone […]

INSIDE Contactless has closed its most recent strategic funding round with new participants Motorola Ventures and HID Global. They join existing investors which include: Sofinnova Partners, Vertex Management, Vertex Ventures, Siparex, GIMV, EuroUS Venture, Granite Global Ventures, Visa Ventures, and recently announced Nokia Ventures. “This investment will allow INSIDE to expand and accelerate the development […]

More than 419 million NFC chipsets will ship in 2012, according to a new study from ABI Research. However, similar to revenue in most semiconductor markets, NFC revenue is offset by declining unit ASPs. By 2012, ABI Research forecasts that the NFC chipset ASP will decline to $0.97, for a total market revenue of $406 […]

SmartMetric, responding to media reports about ATM fraud facing some of the United State’s largest banks, said the SmartMetric finger print activated Biometric ATM / Credit Card is a technology that will better defend against the modern day electronic thieves and fraudsters. The New York-based Daily News reported that Citibank has limited the cash amount […]