The new contactless credit card from Toronto-based Canadian Tire Financial Services and MasterCard Worldwide isn’t rectangular shaped like most cards. It’s shaped like its name, “Curve” and offers PayPass functionality and cash back rewards. The card is manufactured by German smart card provider Giesecke & Devrient and is, according to a G&D spokesperson, “the first […]

Visa Inc. announced that The Jean Coutu Group, one of Canada’s leading drug store chains, is the latest retailer to offer its customers Visa payWave contactless payments. With Visa payWave, customers can simply “wave and go” when purchasing items found in Jean Coutu stores. Jean Coutu locations in Canada will be equipped with Visa payWave […]

Omani citizens have started activating the e-purse application in their electronic ID cards which enables them to pay for administrative fees, such as birth and marriage certificates, car registration, driver licenses and visa applications. They can also reload their mobile phone prepaid subscription and make purchases at supermarkets. In the future, the ePurse application will […]

Drury University, Springfield, Mo., has added new card readers in four campus buildings to provide greater security as well as 24-hour access. Before installation of the readers, which began in May, students didn’t feel safe because some doors were often left open late at night. Previously, students had to call security to gain admission. As […]

CoreStreet, a provider of credential validation solutions, and Salamander Technologies, a provider of personnel accountability solutions, announced they have formed a partnership to further enhance the unified incident command functionality of Salamander’s interTRAX Suite. Under terms of the agreement, Salamander Technologies has CoreStreet-Enabled its interTRAX Suite by integrating the CoreStreet PIVMAN technology throughout its new […]

An investment banker has signed a letter of intent to reopen the registered traveler lanes once operated by Steve Brill’s Verified Identity Pass, according to The Gainesville Sun. Kurtis Fechtmeyer intends to buy the assets of the system from Morgan Stanley and resurrect the Clear lanes before the holidays. Fechtmeyer is principal with Henry Inc., […]

This year’s open house at Intel Labs Seattle featured a number of exciting new RFID projects in development, including a solar powered RFID chip, and “WISP,” a specially enhanced RFID tag. WISP (Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform) tags are unique in that they are powered by both UHF RFID readers and built-in solar cells. The […]