A team of researchers at the University Of Pittsburgh Swanson School Of Engineering have developed a design that enables contactless “tap and pay” cards to turn on and off, making them unreadable by would-be thieves. Credit cards with contactless smart card chips operate when they are place in an electromagnetic field, leaving them vulnerable. Using […]

The health care market is riddled with identity management and authentication challenges but smart cards may be poised to change that. Health care organizations are faced with a myriad of obstacles when it comes to security, identity verification and authentication of staff, says Michael Magrath, director of business development for government and health care at […]

Smartag Solutions Berhad has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Samsung Malaysia Electronics (SME) to bring NFC technology to the Malaysian market. Under the collaboration, Samsung will provide Smartag with the necessary technical support to develop NFC mobile applications on Samsung products. Samsung says it will also aim to strengthen Malaysia’s NFC infrastructure by launching […]

LG has announced a new NFC-enabled smart phone for the Korean market, the Optimus LTE Tag. According to LG, the Optimus Tag features a new app called Tag+ that enables the handset to communicate with programmable NFC stickers, much like Sony’s Smart Tags. For example, a user could place an NFC sticker on the dashboard […]

GAO RFID introduced a 4-port ultra-high frequency RFID reader designed for both indoor and outdoor applications and compatible with both corporate IT infrastructures and sheltered outdoor environments. The small form factor reader, model 236016, has Power over Ethernet (PoE) capability and has optional Wi-Fi network connectivity. It complies with EPC global Gen 2 (ISO 186000-6C) […]

3M Cogent announced that it’s biometric access control readers have passed the United States Transportation Security Administration’s Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) Initial Capability Evaluation (ICE) assessment. The two readers that have landed on the TWIC ICE Fixed Reader list, which is a list of the TWIC approved biometric devices, are the MiY-ID and MiY-Card. […]

Turkcell, Turkey’s largest mobile operator, has reportedly issued 300,000 of its T-series NFC-enabled phones to subscribers, according to NFC World. Turkcell’s T11 and T20 phones, along with the BlackBerry Bold 9900, are compatible with Turkcell’s Cep-T Cüzdan mobile wallet, which enables contactless mobile payments, ticketing, loyalty, ID and, most recently, road toll payments. Cep-T Cüzdan […]