New offering promises to lower card acceptance fees and empower retailers “We had two prerequisites – installation within hours and return on investment within months,” said CEO Tom Bartz when announcing Accelitec’s new contactless payment solution. These are lofty goals for any payment system, but particularly for one that can enable credit, e-check/ACH, and stored […]

In an effort to foster the integration of its eNFC chips into handsets and consumer electronics, INSIDE is offering a new toolkit to industry developers. INSIDE helps the mobile industry integrate the eNFC chip in all consumer electronic devices Aix-en-Provence, France – August 10th, 2005: INSIDE is proud to announce the launch of a set […]

Fargo Electronics has introduced a DESFire encoding option for its card printer/encoders that will produce a secure contactless card capable of a high speed connection between the card and reader. This industry first for a desktop printer is ideal in areas where speed and security are important, such as in access control, government, financial and […]

The Union of Local Authorities in Israel has given On Track Innovations another five years on its contract for EasyPark, a contactless in-vehicle parking meter which is expected to have 250,000 subscribers by the end of the third quarter. National In-Vehicle Parking Meter System Expected to Reach a Quarter Million Subscribers by the End of […]

Austin, Texas-based Dresser Wayne’s fuel dispensers will be equipped with contactless readers capable of handling ExpressPay, which was recently rolled out nationally on American Express’ Blue Card. Dresser Wayne, a business unit of Dresser, Inc., announced it has received ExpressPay certification for its contactless card reader option for use with the Ovation(R) and Vista series […]

“Actually, Conner has a legitimate point. While we would like to make it very clear to VeriChip and Tom Cruise (or rather their lawyers) that we do not believe they have at any time kissed Satan’s buttocks, Conner’s assertions that “the invasion of RFIDs carry enormous threats to privacy and many other security concerns”, and […]

Gulf States Toyota, a regional Toyota distributor for 145 dealers, has selected IBM and WhereNet Corp., both leaders in wireless solutions for tracking and managing enterprise assets, to provide an active RFID tracking system for processing more than 190,000 cars annually. Gulf States Toyota made the investment in the system to better serve its dealers, […]