MasterCard Canada, in partnership with Citi Cards Canada and Bell Mobility, has completed the first near-field communications trial of Mobile PayPass in Canada. This was the first trial in Canada to use Bell Mobility’s wireless network enabling participants to make purchases using their mobile device at MasterCard PayPass acceptance locations across Canada. The four-month closed […]

The United Kingdom is considering adding EMV functionality to its ID cards, according to ZDNet UK. EMV is used in UK payment cards to protect against fraud and some say it can be useful while others say it’s not secure enough. With chip-and-PIN cardholders could access government and private-sector services online using the PIN to […]

Stanley Inc., a technology firm partnered with biometrics developer Lumidigm, has agreed to a contract valued at $1.7 million for support of the United States Army mobile biometrics devices, according to a Washington Technology article. The work performed by Stanley and Lumidigm is for the Language and Technology Office at the U.S. Army Intelligence Center […]

RFID solutions developer Impinj has announced the release of its packaged Monza 3 chips. The chips offer durability in harsh industrial applications and environments; the design of packaged chips enable a highly reliable soldered antenna connection that provide long performance lives. The packaged Monza 3 chips are designed to fit well in electronics industry applications. […]

The Florida Department of Transportation has turned to an RFID-enabled solution to create the state’s first variably priced toll lanes. The project, known as “95 Express” turns two lanes of I-95 in Miami-Dade county into high-occupancy tolling (HOT) lanes, available for use by both high-occupancy vehicles and single drivers, with the single drivers tolled at […]

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) will present its new StarSign cards at the RSA Conference in San Francisco next week. The card is the company’s first to conform to the FIPS 201 standards. Another product that will be showcased is G&D’s StarSign Mobility Token, which provides secure mobile access to company data from any computer. The […]

Gemalto announced it is delivering 900,000 of its Sealys Laser-Secured electronic identification cards to the Ministry of Interior of Lithuania. The card features contactless technology, which stores a fingerprint biometrics, for identity verification at border crossings. It also embeds a contact microprocessor that contains a certificate for online identification and a certificate for electronically signing […]