Dates: February 15-17, 2011 Location: Salt Lake City, UT Venue: Marriott City Center Hotel URL: http://www.smartcardalliance.org/pages/activities-next-conference Description: The Smart Card Alliance will hold the 2011 Mobile & Transit Payments Summit on February 15-17, 2011, at the Marriott City Center Hotel in Salt Lake City, UT. This important industry gathering will focus on exciting new trends […]

INSIDE Contactless announced it has changed its name to INSIDE Secure to better reflect its business strategy after the acquisition of Atmel Corporation’s Secure Microcontroller Solutions. According to INSIDE, the new name represents the company’s “100%” focus on secure semiconductors for transactions and digital identity. INSIDE Secure’s portfolio of secure semiconductors serve mobile phones, passports […]

NXP Semiconductors announced that its MIFARE DESFire EV1 contactless microcontroller IC has been chosen to power Madrid’s new contactless Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) scheme for the city’s public transit network. Operated by the Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid (CRTM), the public transportation system covers the city’s urban metro, bus and suburban rail networks, which […]

Turkish motorists will soon be able to pay for tolls via mobile phone thanks to Bank Asya and Turkcell, according to todayszaman.com. The partners plan to publicly launch the system by February 2011. Anyone interested in participating can go to Turkcell Communication Centers to obtain a specially designed SIM card that lets motorists pay for […]

Some 1, 000 DBS customers with StarHub mobile plans will be the first in Singapore to use the near field communications for mobile payments. The trial will begin in December 2010 and will last for eight months. The project, which was collaboratively organized by DBS Bank, EZ-Link, Gemalto, MasterCard and StarHub, will involve adding an […]

Greenstone Energy, owner of New Zealand’s BP and Shell stations, is looking at a contactless upgrade that would allow drivers to pay for up to $60USD of fuel with a tap of a contactless credit card, according to stuff.co.nz. Greenstone’s move coincides with a mass migration towards contactless payment techonlogy in New Zealand as the […]

Melexis has announced the release of its new contactless sensor for use in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV) and Electric Vehicles (EV) . The MLX91206 is a customer programmable monolithic Sensor IC featuring Triaxis Hall technology that directly monitors the current flowing in an external conductor such as a bus bar or PCB track. The sensor […]

Bay Area transportation officials say they are not planning on changing the Clipper contactless fare card in spite of recent fare dodging problems, according to mercurynews.com. A number of riders have been avoiding paying full fares on Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) trains, exploiting Clipper cards’ negative balance feature. However, Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) officials […]