The New York Public Library provided contactless wristbands to guests at its 2012 Opening Night Gala that enabled them to instantly “like” any one of the 30,000 different cocktails served. One of the main events of annual Manhattan Cocktail Classic, the Opening Night Gala was held at the library’s Bryant Park branch and featured over […]

China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile network operator, is set to launch its first NFC-enabled mobile phone, reports NFC World. Slated to launch in the third quarter of 2012, the handset will be a version of Yulong’s Coolpad 8870 running on Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS. The dual GSM/TD-SCDMA device will support a number of NFC […]

Thursby Software Systems, Inc. has expanded the Mac compatibility of its PKard smart card with its PKard for Mac v. 1.2. This version integrates the smart card to Apple OS X 10.8 Mountain Lioin. PKard for Mac provides smart card access to secure websites, Web VPN and secure Apple mail for the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) market. […]

Wireless device manufacturer Parrot has unveiled a pair of NFC-enabled wireless headphones. The new Zik headphones feature an NFC chip embedded in the left ear cup, enabling the user to establish a Bluetooth connection with other NFC-enabled devices with a simple tap. For example, users can tap their NFC phone against their Zik headphones to […]

The City of Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) is conducting a trial of a RFID monitoring system designed to improve job site safety, according to The Edmonton Journal. Workers at city’s Aggregate Recycling Facility are each wearing special hard hats and vests equipped with passive RFID tags. An antenna is mounted on the rear of heavy equipment, […]

Although biometric technology is being consistently adopted for security measures, especially with regards to government mandates, there remains a question as to whether or not the technology will ever reach the tipping point where it’s consistently used by the mass market. As reported on SecurityInfoWatch.com, manufacturers, the government and university research facilities have done a […]

GAO RFID announced a new 125 kHz or 13.56 MHz dual frequency RFID reader designed to be primarily used for access control, system logon/logoff and the identification and authorization of system operators by scanning the user’s RFID enabled card. The simple to use dual frequency RFID reader, model 211004, enables the user to read a […]

The M6 Toll (UK) worked with Barclaycard to install easy-to-use contactless payment terminals at toll booths, enabling customers to pay for their journey by simply holding their contactless credit and debit cards over the terminal. The roll out of contactless terminals follows a successful trial which resulted in reduced waiting times and simplified the processing […]

Infineon Technologies is supplying the security chips for a government smart card project in South Africa. Through Net1 UEPS Technologies, the government’s South African Social Security Agency is issuing biometric EMV/UEPS debit chip cards for financial transactions of social grants across all of South Africa’s nine provinces. Infineon provides its SOLID FLASH SLE 77 security […]

Los Angeles-based TeleSign and Singapore-based Data Security Systems Solutions (DS3) have announced a partnership to integrate TeleSign two-factor authentication into DS3’s Authentication Server. The resulting product will be able to authenticate users in their native language in any country. TeleSign 2FA adds phone-based two-factor authentication to DS3’s hardware and software tokens. With it, DS3 customers […]