Frost & Sullivan has released a new report urging the mobile commerce industry to pursue new market strategies to accelerate the consumer adoption of NFC technology. According the the report, “Mobile Financial Services—A Technology and Market Analysis,” NFC has not created the revenue-generating opportunities the telecom industry expected. However, recently established partnerships between telecom operators […]

Anadarko Petroleum Corp., an oil and gas exploration and production companies, is tracking thousands of valves with wireless RFID technology from Xerafy Ltd. The Ontrase solution supports valve maintenance and inspection operations at Anadarko Petroleum’s oil and natural gas production locations in Brighton, Colo. and Salt Creek, Wyo. In conjunction with software from idsTAG, the […]

Cooltrax announced FreshMobile, the mobile site for Fresh inTransit, which enables customers to access their real-time refrigerated container temperature monitoring system from virtually any location on a mobile device. Using combined telemetry and wireless RFID technologies, Fresh inTransit tracks the location of refrigerated trailers and reefers, monitors all aspects of the performance of the fridge […]

Google has released a cloud-based version of the Google Wallet app that supports all credit and debit cards from Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. According Google, the new app stores your payment cards on Google’s secure servers, instead of in the secure element of the mobile phone. The secure element still stores a wallet […]

The U.S. GSA Office of Governmentwide Policy will be hosting an industry day on Aug. 7 to get information and answer industry’s questions from the Federal Cloud Credential Exchange (FCCX) Tiger Team. The team is a group from several agencies that are moving more government services online. It facilitates the Federal government’s adoption of identity […]

Isis, the mobile commerce joint venture between AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, has announced that fuel dispenser technology providers Gilbarco Veeder-Root and Wayne will integrate Isis’s SmartTap technology in select gas pumps in Austin, Texas and Salt Lake City to accompany Isis’s official market launch later this summer. The upgraded pumps will allow customers to pay […]

The Biometrics Institute has released its 2012 Industry Survey, a look at the trends and developments in the industry over the last 12 months. The survey also polls members of the industry to learn what will be the probable developments in the near future. In this third year of the study, the institute has found […]

VoiceVault released the next generation of its voice recognition and verification engine, which has been producing incredibly accurate results. The new technology boasts an incorrect acceptance rate of 0.01% and false rejection rates of less than 5%, effectively setting the bar for voice verification accuracy. The increased accuracy of the new biometric voice technology also […]