Designer Matt Brown has created a stylish new line of laser-cut RFID-enabled paper radios that, when placed on speakers outfitted with an RFID reader, can broadcast messages programmed into the RFID chip or changed the radio to a pre-determined station. Though the concept flirts with impracticality, Matt Brown hopes that the radios themselves will be […]

The Shanghai World Expo, opening May 1, 2010, will forgo traditional paper tickers in favor of “mobile phone tickets,” which event goers can purchased and carry via cell phones equipped with RFID enabled SIM cards provided by China Mobile. Shanghai will see some 70 million visitors during the World Expo period, many of whom are […]

The Universal Postal Union (UPU) has announced that it will upgrade its 21 country quality efficiency program with new RFID tags provided by Alien. The program involves placement of UHF RFID tags within thousands of test-delivery envelopes which are subsequently circulated throughout various post offices in the 21 participating countries, ranging from Mexico to Malaysia. […]

MXI Security announced the availability of USB drive authentication technology leveraging Common Access Card and Personal Identity Verification cards. Used in conjunction with secure portable storage devices from the two companies, the new technology provides the U.S. government protection for portable data. MXI Security’s new technology, available as a module for McAfee’s ePolicy Orchestrator, enables […]

The CBORD Group, an Ithaca, N.Y. provider of campus card and integrated security solutions, has added two off-campus payment partners, Roger Williams University, Bristol, R.I. and Stonehill College, Easton, Mass. Both schools will utilize CBORD and UGryd, the company’s proprietary central server transaction solution, to improve transaction times and merchant services for their off-campus programs. […]

CHARGE Anywhere, a Plainfield, N.J. provider of mobile payment solutions and a Forum Nokia member, has launched version 2.0 of its mobile payment software to allow an NFC-enabled Nokia phone to accept PayPass and Paywave contactless payments. Dr. Thami Smires, chief technology officer at CHARGE Anywhere, will introduce the solution in a joint presentation with […]

At Carnegie Mellon’s Pittsburg campus is the CyLab where much of the future of biometric technology is being developed by researchers and their students, according to a Newsweek article. Despite the giant leaps forward in technology being developed every day at the lab, the scientists are perturbed by the lack of adoption by consumers for […]