An NXP Semiconductors official believes the single wire protocol specification has solved the chicken and egg problem that has dogged the mobile payments industry. Speaking with ZDNet Asia at the NFC World Asia event in Singapore this week, Charles Dachs, NXP’s head of product management, noted that lack of standardization has stalled many NFC pilots. […]

Kantara Initiative, a global identity project, announced that six applications have won a 2009 Identity Deployment of the Year Awards (IDDY). The IDDY Deployment award winners include Google and Plaxo; Signicat; and the U.S. Department of Defense. The winning IDDY Proof of Concept awards include fun communications; Gemalto and Vodafone; and NRI, NTT and Oracle. […]

UK Home Sec. Alan Johnson has appointed Sir Joseph Pilling to be the first identity commissioner, tasked with overseeing the identity card project, according to a Politics.co.uk report. “The public has the right to expect the National Identity Service to be run to the highest standards,” Johnson said. “The identity commissioner will champion their interests, […]

The Smart Card Alliance named the new Physical Access Council, officers and steering committee. The council also announced a new workshop in October at the Smart Card Alliance 8th Annual Smart Cards in Government Conference in Washington DC. The workshop, “Smart Cards and Next Generation Physical Access Control Systems (PACS),” will be held pre-conference, on […]

Passive UHF RFID tag manufacturer Omni-ID has unveiled its next-generation technology platform, featuring a number of changes in both design and functionality to its line of on-metal products. According to Omni-ID, the next-generation technology platform includes the following: Global Broadband Standard and Operability: Omni-ID tags will be “optimized” for global frequencies in accordance with EPC […]

The Riverina Regional Library in Australia has announced that they are adopting FE Technologies’ Smart Library RFID system in ten of their branches in New South Wales. The Riverina Regional Library serves approximately 107,000 constituents across nine local government areas, making it one of the biggest regional library services in New South Wales. The library […]

The University of Georgia’s new ticketless admission program for football games received high marks from students who used the system for the first time last weekend. “It went a lot more smoothly than I really thought it would. It was much more convenient than it has been in the past,” said one student. “It was […]