ISIS has announced that its long awaited mobile wallet — an initiative backed by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless — will begin its trials in Austin, Texas and Salt Lake City. Accompanying the launch is a suite of nine ISIS ready handsets that are available for purchase at AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless stores. The […]

The Criterion Systems pilot is an attribute exchange network that will enable consumers to securely share information, enhance the user experience and reduce fraud, says David Coxe, CEO of ID Dataweb and cofounder of Criterion Systems. The concept is to simplify the transaction model and enable participants in the ecosystem to get to market and […]

Could swipe gestures be the next big biometric factor? Geek.com ponders this notion, as other forms of authentication like passwords and PINs become more difficult to remember. Although many biometric authentication methods have yet to be adopted on a large scale, it’s possible that the swipe might work as an authentication factor. NYU doctoral student […]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a new software suite called Biometric Conformance Test Software for Data Interchange Formats (BioCTS2012) for biometrics users to test biometrics apps against the NIST standard. The software tests against the ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011 standard, which provides a defined method for digitally encoding and storing biometric data. […]

EarthSearch Communications announced that its (Global Asset Tracking and Identification System) GATIS 1.0 Solution has achieved certified integration with the SAP Auto-ID infrastructure offering. GATIS solution delivers data from sensors that can improve efficiency, and enhance security and visibility of the asset including delivery of alerts and notifications to customers when anomalies occur within the […]

The Community of Madrid is extending the new public transport card to all users of the Standard Zone A Transport Season Ticket, replacing the magnetic strip season ticket with contactless technology for the over 350,000 users of this pass. This new contactless payment technology offers commuters convenient and fast access to the means of transport, […]

Fujitsu announced it is providing a full-scale RFID solution at several BEAMS retail outlets to streamline its operations, from the back-office at the company’s headquarters to the front lines of its retail stores. Fujitsu RFID tags are attached to each article of clothing and used to manage merchandise at every stage of its life cycle, […]

Citibank Hungary is offering its credit card customers a MasterCard PayPass-enabled sticker, allowing them to make payments in excess of HUF 5,000 at PayPass terminals. The goal for the new PayPass initiative is to provide customers with innovative technologies that enhance payment speed and convenience. The sticker can be placed on the back of a […]