STIB, the Société des Transports Intercommunaux de Bruxelles, the largest Belgian urban public transport company launches MoBIB teleticketing system based on ASK dual interface cards and C.ticket, ASK contactless paper ticket for multimodal traveling in the city. MoBIB is an open-standard Calypso contactless smart card to be interoperable in the Europe-wide Triangle project where the […]

GlobalPlatform has announced that its core device specification – also known as the GPD/STIP Specification – has been deployed in China through the Blue Bamboo H50 Terminal in the recent launch of the Beijing transit card contactless micro-payments scheme. Blue Bamboo uses the GPD/STIP Specification as the software platform for its H50 GPRS terminals, which […]

ASK’s joint venture: ASK TongFang has been selected to manufacture the contactless inlays for the 12.2 million RFID tickets for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The tickets include anti-counterfeiting printed security features. ASK’s partner Tsinghua TongFang donated the whole RFID system to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Organizing Committee which includes the RFID inlays, gate readers, […]

SNCF, a French railway, and Orange have announced that they are experimenting with contactless services by mobile phones to aid passengers’ travel. Over a two-month period, 50 subscribing passengers will test a prototype contactless telephone integrating NFC (Near Field Communication) technology in the SIM card and providing access to various services, including transport ticketing, payment […]

Nova Southeastern University (NSU) has just successfully completed the deployment of their new “Shark Card” campus wide smart card program. The NSU Shark card program, provided by SmartCentric in conjunction with Siemens Communications Inc, combines the latest in leading edge smart card technology using both contact and contactless chip technologies and allows for fast and […]

New forecasts from Juniper Research show that around 52 million consumers will adopt new mobile technologies such as NFC (Near Field Communication) and other physical mobile payment methods to pay for everyday goods and services by 2011. The new study predicts that by 2011, around 12% of the total mobile phones in circulation will offer […]

RBC and Visa Canada are teaming up to be the first in Canada to pilot a mobile payment service that uses cellphones rather than traditional credit cards for making Visa purchases. The Ontario-based pilot is expected to be completed in 2008. As part of the pilot, mobile devices will be embedded with Near Field Communication […]

On Track Innovations Ltd. (OTI), has been selected by Heartland Payment Systems, to provide universities, students and merchants with a unique and innovative solution of making – and accepting – contactless payments by cell phone. Heartland has completed the first full deployment at Slippery Rock University in Slippery Rock, PA. Payments by cell phone are […]

Texas Instruments is unveiling the RF360, a new smart integrated circuit (IC) platform that the company calls “the first to be developed specifically to meet the rigorous demands of the contactless government electronic identification market.” The RF360, the smallest smart IC platform in the market, will integrate TI’s ultra-low power MSP430 microcontroller, advanced embedded Ferroelectric […]

SCM Microsystems has joined the Near Field Communication (NFC) Forum, a non-profit industry association advancing the use of NFC technology, as a Principal member. “SCM Microsystems is pleased to join other industry leaders in the NFC Forum to further the adoption of NFC technology,” said Felix Marx, chief executive officer of SCM Microsystems. SCM Microsystems […]