Air France has become the first airline to trial NFC-compliant mobile phone-based boarding passes. Only members of the airline’s frequent-flyer program and just those traveling between Nice and Paris Orly airports are part of the six-month pilot. Passengers can simply swipe their phones over a reader after checking in, and the system will load an […]

Chicago State University has launched a wireless mobile safety tool that can turn cell phones into location-aware devices that instantly connect users with campus police. Chicago State University is the first school in Illinois to install Rave Guardian that enables campus police to keep tabs on students who have signed up for the program. CSU […]

The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore is offering funding support to merchants in an attempt to boost the presence of contactless POS terminals in that country. The government initiative could lead to many more contactless terminals in food courts, coffee shops, fast food outlets, convenience stores and even in vending machines. The grants, to be […]

ORCA, One Regional Card for All, is being rolled out on a limited basis beginning today, for travelers in the Seattle area using bus, train or ferry. The new contactless card is scheduled to replace about 300 passes, tickets and transfers and will work for all seven of the major public transportation agencies serving King, […]

Fujitsu, a Japan-based developer of biometric technology, has announced that they have developed the first image technology that can perform palm-vein authentication in motion requiring only one millisecond to perform the capture. Fujitsu says the technology is as accurate as its past vascular imaging technologies that required a static hand to take a sample capture. […]

The UK sheep farmers are seeing a shortage of sheep shearers due to the new ID card system attached to the migrant work-permit program, according to a Bloomberg news article. As the biometric ID cards that are required for the work permits cost roughly $300, shearers from New Zealand and Australia, where majority of the […]

Queralt LLC, a Connecticut-based provider of RFID-enabled commercial applications, has received a Small Business Innovation Research Grant through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The grant is based on an innovative RFID-based system Queralt has developed which integrates elements of behavioral learning, enabling the system to “learn” a tracked asset or person’s habits over […]