Angelo Faenza, general manager of Persona, part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, gave an in-depth presentation of its university locking systems during an interview posted at SecurityStockwatch.com. While explaining the benefits of its programmable key cards that enable access to buildings, Faenza also discusses the company’s success story at Quinnipiac University, a 32 building and […]

Wright Express, a South Portland, Maine provider of payment processing and information management services, says it has successfully completed a multi-city NFC mobile payments trial involving Sheetz convenience stores and contactless/NFC software provider ViVOtech. During the trial, drivers used their Sheetz Fleet Business Advantage card loaded into their specially enabled NFC phones to make fuel […]

The NFC Forum, a non-profit industry association that advances the use of Near Field Communication technology, announced the release of two candidate specifications that further the integration, implementation and standards interpretation of NFC technology. The new NFC Digital Protocol and the NFC Logical Link Control Protocol (LLCP) candidate specifications are available to the public for […]

The Vietnamese State Agency for Technological Innovation (SATI) has announced a pilot project aimed at accelerating the adoption of RFID-enabled food traceability solutions by Vietnam’s seafood producers. The project is a collaboration between SATI, the Vietnam association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP), IBM, and enterprise traceability solutions provider FXA Group. Vietnam, one of the […]

Fluensee, a provider of RFID-enabled asset-tracking and supply chain management solutions, has been selected by the Colorado-based New Belgium Brewing Company to provide a system to track, manage, and improve the utilization of its keg fleet. The brewer – perhaps best known for its flagship Fat Tire beer – will deploy Fluensee’s AssetTrack software application […]

UK-based Innovision Research and Technology and NXP Semiconductors have announced a joint marketing and licensing agreement relating to NFC. The deal brings together Innovision intellectual property, known as Gem, with NXP’s firmware, software and secure elements, such as the SmartMX. NXP’s endorsement and licensing of Innovision’s property is expected to expand the company’s addressable market […]

SCM Microsystems Inc. announced that its eHeatlh500 mobile terminal has received the required certification for use with the new eHealth cards in stage two of the introduction of the electronic health cards in Germany. The certification for SCM’s eHealth500 mobile reader comes from gematik, the German health care organization overseeing the implementation of the country’s […]