All law enforcement agencies in the U.S. will be able to take advantage of the FBI’s facial recognition database. The FBI has expanded the pilot of its software and later this summer will enable police and other law enforcement agencies to have free access to its system, reports Government Computer News. By tapping into the […]

Visa’s highly anticipated “contactless revolution” which was to take place at London 2012 Olympics fell up a little short, according to The Guardian. With more than 20 million contactless cards in circulation in the UK, the card provider revealed that only 150,000 payments in the Games venues were made using wave and pay technology. Visa’s […]

McDonald’s has begun testing a mobile payments service from PayPal at 30 of its restaurants in France, according to Reuters. Using a McDonald’s smart phone application, customers at these locations can place their orders remotely and pay via PayPal, then pick up the order in a separate line at the restaurant. The service also lets […]

Visa announced a new service – entitled Visa Merchant Data Secure with Point-to-Point Encryption – to increase security of sensitive personal data as well as merchant security. The new program incorporated point-to-point encryption (P2PE) which will enable merchants to protect card payment data within their systems by encrypting personal cardholder information. Accessible only with decryption […]

Sony has announced that it will upgrade several Xperia smart phones to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, starting with the NFC-enabled Xperia P and continuing with the Xperia U, Xperia sola and Xperia go. The upgrade, which will be rolled out over the next few weeks, will allow Xperia P owners to take advantage of […]

If you work with access control solutions at your company or institution, don’t miss this chance to hear from four high-profile organizations that are actually using smart phones as access credentials in their environments. At the ASIS Conference in Philadelphia – Sept. 10 from 12:15 – 1:30 p.m. EDT – HID Global will host a […]

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency has installed an RFID-enabled Ready Lane at the San Luis, Arizona border-crossing station, according to a local news story. The single lane will be open between 6 A.M. until 12 A.M. enabling anyone with RFID-enabled travel documents – the U.S. Passport Card, new Legal Permanent Resident “green […]