USA Technologies is increasing the number of contactless card readers ordered from ViVOtech for implementation in USAT’s e-Ports. The company has already ordered 2,000 card readers from ViVOtech, and is following up with another order of 8,000 to be delivered in 2008. Both companies see the the emerging self-service market as a great place to […]

Jolly Technologies and Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (DNP) announced a formal partnership to provide a tailored printing solution to support DNP’s CX-330 printer line. According to both companies involved, the combination of Jolly’s ID Flow and DNP’s CX-330 solution provides several added benefits such as ultraviolet (UV) printing, smart chip & contactless encoding, magnetic […]

NXP Semiconductors recently opened a center for showcasing advanced concept and product testing, the Next Experience Lab located in the Netherlands. The new Next Experience Lab, which joins a network of four other centers globally, will allow NXP and its partners, such as BMW, to examine the impact of technologies on consumers, seeking answers to […]

According to a Mercator Advisory Group report, global transit authorities are typically choosing contactless, closed loop payment systems to speed riders through their turnstiles and revenues into transit authority coffers. The challenge for card networks and issuers is finding a way to participate in that transaction processing flow. “Issuers and transit authorities view transit payments […]

NXP Semiconductors and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) are jointly presenting seven technological papers at the 2007 International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), a forum for the presentation of microelectronic advances. Among the new technology presented by NXP-TSMC Research Center is a new embedded memory technology with superior performance, up to 1000 times faster than traditional […]

The Near Field Communication (NFC) Innovation Awards,created by Innovision R&T, are making some university students quite happy. The company launched the competition to find the most innovative uses of NFC enabled phones to efficiently encode RFID tags while only using 96 bytes of memory. Although the competition was open to both university students and business […]

ASEC, a subsidiary of On Track Innovations Ltd (OTI) based in Poland, will provide the Transport Department of the City of Warsaw with additional public transportation and street parking contactless tickets. Following Warsaw, the program is expanding to other cities in Poland including Gdynia, Plock and Rybnik. The orders will exceed $500,000 and delivery is […]

EM Microelectronic, a semiconductor company of the Swatch Group, recently became an associate member of the Near Field Communication (NFC) Forum. EM Microelectronic is involved in developing RFID circuitry that is capable of being used in several areas within NFC. With its roots in the watchmaking industry, EM already has a track record in the […]

The City of Ottawa is joining with transit agencies in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) to make its goal of smart card technology a reality by 2010, using “Presto”- the automated fare system developed in partnership with the Government of Ontario. Contactless smart cards are widely used in the transit industry because they allow rapid […]

This could long complicate the introduction of any commercial deployment of NFC. Mobile network operators say they will derive POS payment revenue chiefly from consumer transaction fees. According to recently released research conducted by Aite Group, LLC, 83% of carriers responding to an October survey indicated per-transaction fees charged to users are the most likely […]