Oberthur Technologies and Todos are joining forces to create services and products such as authentication devices and back-end servers to improve security, usability and trust for online e-shopping and e-banking users. This authentication service includes an authentication server for e-shopping and e-banking as well as a complete suite of devices: Card readers with associated EMV […]

The number of locations that accept contactless payments is set to increase by more than 12.5 million by the end of 2013, according to research from IMS Research. In its latest report on “The World Market for EFT-POS Terminals & Contactless Readers” IMS Research forecasts that the number of contactless-enabled points of sale (POS) in […]

Payter will end its mobile payment services in Rotterdam on Dec. 1. The aim of the project was to explore the concept of a mobile wallet including all related services in a live operational setting. More than 1,400 users and 100 retailers had used the services in Rotterdam. The scale of the program, however, was […]

The International Air Transport Association (IATA), a global organization of 230 airlines, has chosen three RFID tag providers that meet the operational requirements of an airline baggage tagging proposal. The three tag providers are UPM Raflatac, Alien Technology and Avery Dennison. IATA put each tag through processes typical to the airline industry including baggage sorting, […]

Motorola has announced that it will embed RFID tags in all future handheld computer models. The passive UHF RFID tags, which will be implanted in the computers’ handles, will enable a company to track each device’s location in storage rooms and distribution centers, ensuring that none go missing. The first hand held computers under the […]

Janet Napolitano, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and John Morton, assistant secretary of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), have announced that ICE’s Secure Communities initiative has identified more than 111,000 aliens criminal aliens in its first year. The Secure Communities initiative is a partnership between ICE, DHS, state and local […]

Cogent Systems, a developer of biometric devices, has announced that its mobile biometric authentication devices, Fusion Mobile Ident II and Mobile Ident III, have been certified compliant with the FBI’s Next Generation Identification (NGI) Initiatives and Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) Image Quality Specifications (IQS). The testing for certification was completed by officials from […]