INSIDE Contactless, a French manufacturer of contactless chip technologies, has launched a partnership with Adelya, a software-as-a-service company specializing in contactless and mobile loyalty and relationship programs, to enable consumers to conduct retail loyalty, ticketing, ID and other transactions using the phones they already have. INSIDE is providing Adelya with the technology to transform mobile […]

Etisalat, a UAE-based telecommunications services provider, Emirates NBD, a UAE bank, Gemalto and Visa have unveiled plans to offer mobile contactless technology in the region that will enable NBD Visa cardholders to purchase goods and services with their NFC-enabled mobile phones. Purchases will be charged directly to the customer’s Emirates NBD Visa credit card account. […]

The National Bank of Kuwait and Visa Inc. have partnered with Zain a telecommunications operator across the Middle East and Africa to launch a Near Field Communication mobile payment trial in the GCC, using NFC enabled Nokia 6212 devices. The six-month pilot will take place from October 2009 to April 2010. The trial will enable […]

Digital Identification Solutions AG, a supplier of identification solutions, has announced a new Business Line Printer Program including the new EDIsecure® XID 8300 Retransfer Printer which is based on the same platform as the EDIsecure XID 5xxie series. The new business line retransfer printer is part of the company’s launch of new products and solutions […]

For the fourth straight year, U.S. Bank has ranked first in a privacy study conducted by the Ponemon Institute, a Traverse City, Mich.-based information management research firm. In addition, the institute’s Privacy Trust Study for Retail Banking has ranked the Minneapolis-based bank in the top five since it began the study six years ago. The […]

Research from biometrics developer Unisys suggests that the British citizens are more willing to move forward with biometric adoption into their regular lives than previously thought, according to an IT Pro article. Additionally, in the same survey, Unisys uncovered that many more trust biometric technology than trust their government or financial institutions. The total percentage […]

Nedap, a developer of access control security systems, has had vein-based biometric technology introduced to its AEOS physcial access control system with help from technology developer Hitachi, according to a Security Park article. Hitachi’s finger-vein technology, which utilizes infrared light to obtain a graphic map of the unique vein structure in a person’s finger, that […]