SCM Microsystems Inc. and LEGIC Identsystems Ltd announced that they have formed a strategic partnership to create new products that support integrated physical and logical access. SCM’s experience with USB tokens, smart card readers and other authentication hardware, combined with LEGIC’s 13.56 MHz contactless technologies, will be combined to create convergence solutions for the business […]

LEGIC Identsystems AG will be showing developments in its contactless smart card technology for secure personal identification at the Cartes & IDentification conference in Paris. The company will be giving live demonstrations of LEGIC card-in-card solutions for the combination of contactless applications on a virtual transponder on its partners’ technology platforms. In addition LEGIC will […]

TORO, a developer for NFC mobile platforms, has had its product AKAMI selected as a finalist for the Sesames Innovation Awards in the mobile category. Akami is a mobile software suite that provides a user management system for the distribution to end-users of NFC services, such as payment, transport, loyalty, tickets, and even marketing, CRM, […]

DeviceFidelity Inc. today announced the availability of its patent-pending In2Pay solution, a microSD-based technology that enables any mobile phone with a memory card slot into an contactless transaction device. Compatible with near field communication technology, In2Pay is now for trials with banks, wireless carriers and payment networks, with volume production for commercial deployments in 2010. […]

Compufix custumers are expected to start using contactless mobile handheld payment terminal in UK pubs later this month, according to a report in the Morning Advertiser. Compufix provides services to Orchid Group, Fullers, Barracuda and JW Lees. Pub patrons will be able to make purchase of $16 and less by just tapping the card without […]

By Andy Williams, Associate Editor, Avisian Publications Near field communication may be hyped because of its payment abilities, but a health care project in Pakistan is helping save children’s lives and showing the flexibility the technology can enable. Called an Interactive Alerts system, it was designed by NextLab at MIT, Cambridge, Mass. and Interactive Research […]

The Irish Council for Bioethics (ICB) has released a report titled “Biometrics: Enhancing Security or Invading Privacy?” that looks to advise on proper implementation of biometric technologies that keep in mind various privacy and data security issues surrounding it, according to a Tech Central article. The key behind the report isn’t so much a company […]