McDonald’s and Barclaycard are gearing up to launch NFC awareness campaigns aimed at spurring the adoption of contactless payment technology, according to MarketingWeek. Barclaycard, which holds the highest share (71%) of the UK contactless market, reports that contactless transactions have doubled in the last year, but are still “nowhere near” where they want to be, […]
19 Jan, 2012McDonald’s, Barclaycard ready NFC awareness campaigns
19 Jan, 2012Grand Rapids Library installs express, self-checkouts
Another library joins the long list of those converting to RFID technology to developing a more efficient method of borrowing items – the Grand Rapids Public Library system. According to a local news brief, the library’s main branch is renovating to accommodate new self-checkout stations supported by RFID technology. The new system will allow materials […]
19 Jan, 2012Privacy: Protecting personal details
Jerome Becquart, Chair of the GlobalPlatform Government Task Force, and Eric Le Saint, Chair of the GlobalPlatform Systems Committee With more and more transaction and interaction becoming electronic, privacy concerns are on the increase. This is especially true in the context of government-to-citizen and government-to-employee transactions. The emergence of contactless technology as the preferred interface […]
19 Jan, 2012Suprema receives final certifications for use in UID
Suprema announced that its RealScan-G10 and RealScan-10 line of fingerprint scanners have received final certification from the Government of India’s Standardization Testing & Quality Certification (STQC) to be part of the country’s Unique ID (UID) project. The STQC certification is mandatory for any provider of live fingerprint scanners to be used in the UID project, […]
19 Jan, 2012Swedish operators team up for mobile wallet
Swedish mobile operators Telia, Tele2, Telenor and 3 have formed a joint venture to offer a unified mobile wallet service. Operating under the name “4T,” the partners plan to deliver a mobile payments service that can be used on all handsets regardless of the cellular network. Based on technology from Accumulate and PayEx, the service […]
19 Jan, 2012Entrust Discovery enhances digital certificate management
Entrust Inc. has made enhancements to its Entrust Discovery digital certificate product by expanding search capabilities for digital certificates residing within Microsoft’s Cryptographic APIs and adding more than 25 basic or custom policy field alerts to ease certificate management. Entrust Discovery is a certificate management tool that locates, inventories and manages digital certificates. It can […]
19 Jan, 2012DARPA working towards new internal biometric authentication systems
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking for proposals for research projects that could yield new biometric systems that authenticate users based on their own unique movements or behaviors such as the way they type or move a mouse, according to a ZDNet article. The intent of the new project, which DARPA […]