CreditCall, a Los Angeles-based provider of EMV software and payment processing products for contact, contactless and mobile payments, partnered with the EMV Academy, a U.S.-based EMV training and consulting firm, for the migration to EMV chip-based payment systems in the U.S. As part of this collaboration, EMV Academy will now offer CreditCall’s EMV Level 2 […]

HID Global was selected by the U.S. Department of Defense as the main supplier of printer/encoders for its Common Access Card program. HID Global’s FARGO HDP5000-LC ID card Printer/Encoders will include customized enhancements to handle the government project requisites, and will feature customer support service. The HDP5000 features a SmartScreen LCD Control Panel, an embedded […]

Engineers at Taiwan’s National Tsing Hua University have developed a tiny, low-power random number generator that can be used to improve security on data transmitted via NFC-enabled devices, according to IEEE Spectrum. The innovation uses so-called “memristors” and resistive random-access memories (RRAM), which store memory as resistance rather than charge. With these technologies, researchers were […]

Tursib, the local public transport operator in Sibiu, Romania, has partnered together with BRD and MasterCard to implement a payment solution leveraging PayPass contactless technology. The contactless system offers passengers the ability to pay for the current trip directly on the means of public transportation using MasterCard and Maestro PayPass cards. Payment for the trip […]

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has introduced an NFC-enabled sticker that enables German bank customers to make contactless payments with their existing mobile phones. The mobile payments sticker runs on SECCOS (Secure Chip Card Operating System), the German banking industry system for smart cards. When attached to a cell phone or smart phone, the sticker enables […]

New Hampshire-based Animetrics, a 3D facial recognition and identity management company, is opening a new office in Washington D.C. this month. The office will focus on research and development, strategic partnerships and business development in the federal sector. This office will house Animetrics’ new software development team that will work on mobile application and cloud […]

Malaysia-based electronic payments provider Touch ‘n Go (TnG) will introduce a mobile version of its prepaid smart card for NFC-enabled phones within the next two months, according to The Sun Daily. The mobile Touch ‘n Go app will support a number of contactless functions, including transit ticketing, payment, loyalty, access control, tag reading and peer-to-peer […]

GAO RFID announced a high frequency RFID reader/writer, model 233004, with an antenna which can be used in harmony as a smart checkout multi-tag solution. The advanced reader/writer is able to capture multiple tags from a distance of up to 30 centimeters, in a long queue as commonly found in such applications as reading jewelry […]

Austria’s VKB-Bank has selected Gemalto’s Ezio Edge Optic authentication product for its eBanking offering. The system is an optical smart card reader that can read a smart debit card directly through a computer screen, tablet or mobile device without any specialized software. It can then authorize eBanking transactions while maintaining compliance with Austrian banking standards. […]

Yodobashi Camera, one of Japan’s largest electronics retailers, has deployed an RFID-based warehouse management solution from Motorola and its Japanese authorized reseller, Mighty Card. With a product inventory of more than 850,000 items, supplied by hundred of manufacturers and distributors, an automated RFID system could have a huge impact on profitability, reducing costs and enabling […]