Cabcharge, a company specializing in taxi payment technologies, recently hit the 2 million contactless payment transactions milestone, according to ZDNet. The company, with payment terminals already widely used across taxis in Australia, is also expecting that number to rise exponentially. Cabcharge particularly has high hopes for MasterCard and Visa contactless payments, which have each racked […]

Integral Memory has announced the launch of its Crypto solid state drives (SSDs) that feature military-level, AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) 256-bit hardware encryption. The new drives will offer all the amenities of solid-state storage while protecting sensitive data in a secure, convenient and cost-effective manner. The military grade hardware runs silently and features fast boot […]

It seems like every report that comes out about NFC contains the same caveat: mass adoption will not happen until consumers are convinced of the technology’s safety. With its new video, “Google Wallet: Shipping Safe and Sound,” Google looks to convince the skeptics that Google Wallet is in fact more secure than the leather wallets […]

SAG (Security Assembly Group) has released a disposable high frequency RFID wristband designed to meet short-time identification of attendees at such as special attractions, sports events, amusement parks, concerts, clubs, festivals and exhibitions and patients at hospitals. The new SAG Disposable Wristband (Reel Format) features the NXP MIFARE Ultralight chip with 384 bits of user […]

HID Global has expanded its line of Crescendo C1150 smart card credentials to cover more converged logical and physical access applications, including two-factor authentication for PC login, accessing VPNs, creating PKI-based digital signatures, generating OTPs and improving data protection for data-at-rest and secure data transmission. The Crescendo C1150 smart cards can function in a stand-alone […]

Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) and EZ-Link have partnered to launch a new mobile payments service for NFC-enabled smart phones. Fresh on the heels of rival teleco Star Hub’s NFC wallet launch, SingTel’s new service enables users to make cashless payments by tapping their NFC-enabled handsets against contactless readers at over 20,000 EZ-Link payment points across Singapore, […]

All law enforcement agencies in the U.S. will be able to take advantage of the FBI’s facial recognition database. The FBI has expanded the pilot of its software and later this summer will enable police and other law enforcement agencies to have free access to its system, reports Government Computer News. By tapping into the […]

Visa’s highly anticipated “contactless revolution” which was to take place at London 2012 Olympics fell up a little short, according to The Guardian. With more than 20 million contactless cards in circulation in the UK, the card provider revealed that only 150,000 payments in the Games venues were made using wave and pay technology. Visa’s […]