Vantiv is now offering Ingenico’s NFC and EMV-enabled Telium series point-of-sale products to its financial institutions and merchant customers in the U.S. The Telium readers, which are equipped with Vantiv’s own point-to-point card data encryption solution (P2PE), will help the Vantiv’s U.S. clients make the jump to EMV chip-based and NFC mobile payments, according to […]

Cubic Transportation Systems announced that Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund GmbH (RMV), one of Europe’s largest transport associations, has sold more than one million mobile phone transit tickets with Cubic’s smart phone app and mobile ticketing solution. With its head office located in Hofheim, RMV oversees transit services in the Frankfurt, Germany, region, including 153 transit operators that accept […]

Google closed the deal on acquiring Motorola Mobility, according to the company’s official blog. In announcing the buy, Google CEO Larry Page hinted that Google will use Motorola to expand its Google Wallet mobile commerce service. “It’s a well known fact that people tend to overestimate the impact technology will have in the short term, […]

WaveMark, provider of RFID-based supply chain solutions for hospitals and medical device manufacturers, and University of Massachusetts Lowell announced a collaborative effort to bring a new RFID product to market. A team of students in the UMass plastics engineering program worked closely with WaveMark engineers to invent and refine a specialized RFID tag for hospital […]

France’s Toulouse-Blagnac Airport is gearing up to test a new service that lets passengers check-in, access their departure gates and pass through other controlled areas using just an NFC-enabled mobile phone. The trial, which involves partners SITA, Orange, and BlackBerry, will launch this summer with 50 selected passengers using their BlackBerry smart phones equipped with […]

Identive Group announced tomPAY, an NFC-enabled sticker tag that can be affixed to existing mobile phones to enable contactless payments. Based on Identive’s tom (tag on metal) smart inlay technology, tomPAY is manufactured using the same processes as an ISO PVC card. When placed on a phone, tomPAY enables contactless mobile payments in compliance with […]

Gemalto announced that Raiffeisen Banking Group, a financial institution in Austria, has selected the Ezio Edge Optic solution to secure its online banking services. Raiffeisen is the first Austrian banking group that offers digital strong authentication devices almost everywhere across Austria. Rollout started at the beginning 2012 after a comprehensive internal test and training period. […]

CDS Monarch, a New York-based human services organization providing services to individuals with disabilities and their families, has installed DigitalPersona’s Pro Enterprise software and U.areU. Fingerprint Keyboards to provide secure access to electronic medical records. CDS Monarch says it chose this solution in order to track access to clinical software that’s currently on a network […]

DLI, manufacturer of tablets, in-vehicle computers, and mobile point-of-sale (POS) devices announced the release of the DLI 9000 rugged mobile tablet and 5-in-1 mobile payment module option. Designed by DLI, the 5-in-1 payment module includes a magnetic-stripe, debit pin pad, contactless payment (NFC), EMV, and bar code scanning. The rugged tablet is an ideal solution […]

Administrators at eduKan, a consortium of six Kansas colleges created to offer online courses, are using BioSig-ID, a software only biometric solution, to discourage cheating among students involved in the schools’ distance education programs. The technology enables the colleges to determine that the student taking the course and the test is the same student who […]