KT Corporation, Korea’s largest teleco, is predicting that 20 million NFC-enabled phones will be in the hands of South Koreans by the end of 2012 – accounting for nearly 40% of the country’s total population, according to NFC World. Some 5 million South Koreans own NFC-enabled phones, which have become a popular form of payment […]
03 Jan, 2012KT: 20 million Koreans will have NFC phones this year
03 Jan, 2012ADR monitors workforce via RFID at government project in Arlington, Virginia
ADR Software was tapped for its Workforce Monitor construction site labor monitoring service at a large scale government facility improvement project in Arlington, Va. The system logged nearly 2,300 workers from over 181 companies using ADR Software’s advanced RFID-enabled monitoring stations. Workforce Monitor utilizes RFID tags, embedded in stickers affixed to hard hats and ID […]
03 Jan, 2012VeriFone completes acquisition of Point
VeriFone Systems has completed its acquisition of Point, Northern Europe’s largest provider of payment and gateway services and solutions for retailers. According to VeriFone, Stockholm-based Point has operations in 11 European countries and serves a network encompassing nearly 475,000 merchant contracts. Through this network, Point offers retailers a range of multi-channel services and solutions, including […]
03 Jan, 2012GlobalPlatform, SIMalliance collaborate on mobile security
GlobalPlatform and SIMalliance have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to improve application security on mobile devices. Through the formal partnership, the associations say they will work together to develop an end-to-end solution that will enable a mobile device application to communicate with an application loaded in a secure element. According to GlobalPlatfrom, SIMalliance released its […]
03 Jan, 2012Barnes unveils latest Visa test module
Barnes International released its updated personalization test module in compliance with the Visa’s latest global personalization requirements (GPR). Incorporating its card personalization validation tools (CPT 2000v3 and CAT 3000v3), the test scripts offer comprehensive evaluation of a chip product to ensure it will meet industry and payment scheme certification standards. Available now to existing and […]
03 Jan, 2012Washington, D.C. students now need DC’s One Card
Washington D.C. high school and middle school students now need a DC One Card to ride the city’s transit system. The card is a single ID card that gives students access to most D.C. government programs and facilities, including recreation centers, libraries, and the Metro. The new rule went into effect Jan. 1 and students […]
03 Jan, 20122012 – An exercise in mobility
By David Worthington, principle consultant for Payment and Chip Technology at Bell ID Most consumers are comfortable with the concept of a mobile phone as a secure, multifunctional device. It is this consumer acceptance, coupled with technological advancement, which make the 2012 market conditions ripe for greater expansion in mobile services. The rich user interface […]