FirstGroup, a UK bus and rail operator, is moving forward with its planned introduction of a smart card ticket system in the town of Bristol, according to a local news brief. The new technology will offer customers touch-in and touch-out contactless payment using their contactless bank cards. This will reduce cash transactions and boarding times, […]
30 May, 2012FirstGroup announces Bristol smart card ticketing system
29 May, 2012Swedish schools go with YubiKey to meet government’s ID protection requirements
Yubico, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based provider of online identity protection, says its YubiKey is being chosen by more and more Swedish schools and municipalities to meet the government’s requirements for strong two-factor authentication. Lerum Kommun, Sweden is the latest region to deploy YubiKeys for staff and students who need to access cloud-based school systems. The […]
29 May, 2012Reviewing the GSA approved product list: Round three
Salvatore D’Agostino, CSCIP, IDmachines A major goal of HSPD-12 was to have an interoperable credential across logical and physical contexts for employees and contractors. The goal remains elusive. The GSA’s approved product list was developed to help meet this goal. Some changes need to take place to better achieve this. The approved product list consists […]
29 May, 2012Reading’s NFC advert pilot a success
Kinetic and JCDecaux have announced positive results for their NFC-enabled outdoor advertising pilot in Reading, UK. Launched this past March, the pilot saw more than 3,000 people scan the NFC-enabled poster sites, which were set up across Reading and in the Oracle shopping mall over a four-week period. According to a survey conducted by the […]
29 May, 2012Impinj delivers Monza X Dura chips to manufacturers of consumer electronics
Impinj Inc. announced the Monza X-2K Dura and Monza X-8 Dura RFID tag chips to enable embedded RFID applications for consumer electronic manufactures. The packaged chips are compatible with traditional printed circuit board manufacturing and feature expanded memory with flexible configuration and control along with an additional digital wireline interface for direct communication with other […]
29 May, 2012Everything Everywhere trials NFC payments on Stagecoach buses
Stagecoach, one of the UK’s largest bus and rail operators, has partnered with mobile operator Everything Everywhere to trial NFC payments in Cambridgeshire, UK. The trial, dubbed “the UK’s first Government-standard commercial deployment of mobile contactless transport ticketing,” enables a small group of bus users to receive, store and validate their bus tickets using their […]
29 May, 2012Industry leaders see mass market ahead for NFC
Executives from MasterCard, Sony, Intel and other payments and consumer tech leaders took the stage earlier this week at the Smart Card Alliance’s NFC Solutions Summit 2012 to declare that NFC is coming soon, and when it does, it will enable a broad array of applications that will enhance the consumer experience at the point-of-sale […]