General Dynamics Corp received a potential five-year, $99.3 million contract to issue passport cards for the U.S. State Department. Unisys Corp. also received a potential five-year, $62 million contract to provide technology to read the cards at border crossings. Each contract has one base year and four one-year options. General Dynamics will issue the passport […]

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 […]

Charlottesville, Va.-based Privaris introduced a new biometric token that enables logical and physical access with one device. The plusID 75 uses Bluetooth technology to secure access to personal computers. A user presses a button on the token, slides their finger over the swipe fingerprint scanner, and are then able to login to their PC. The […]

Charlottesville, Va.-based Privaris introduced a new biometric token that enables logical and physical access with one device. The plusID 75 uses Bluetooth technology to secure access to personal computers. A user presses a button on the token, slides their finger over the swipe fingerprint scanner, and are then able to login to their PC. The […]

Fulcrum Biometrics, San Antonio, is reselling the FIPS 201-certified fingerprint scanner from South Korea-based Nitgen Co Ltd. The Nitgen eNBioScan-F scanner offers a 1.2 inch fingerprint input screen to acquire fingerprint information. The scanner is available with a USB 2.0 connection and drivers for Microsoft Windows operating systems. The scanner can be ordered online from […]

Students at Juan Diego High School, Draper, Utah, can pay for their lunch by placing a finger on a scanner, and parents can also see what their children are having for the mid-day meal as well. The biometric payment system is from Altoona, Pa.-based FSS Inc. To begin, parents went online and entered payment information […]

Mobile provider Turkcell and Garanti Bank in Turkey this month launched a Near Field Communication trial for mobile payments involving a contactless MasterCard PayPass credit card application stored on the SIM card of a mobile phone. E-Kart, collaborating with Giesecke & Devrient is supplying the NFC-enabled SIM cards. In addition, Venyon, a joint venture between […]

“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 […]

While contactless technology in ticketing and payments grew 15 percent last year, ABI Research says NFC didn’t fare so well due to the difficulties in bringing NFC-compliant phones to market. The NFC market will remain limited for the first half of 2008 but its “long-term forecasts (of healthy growth) remain unchanged,” says ABI. Near Field […]

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 […]