The Smart Card Alliance has announced the formation of the Mobile and NFC Council, a new industry body tasked with accelerating the adoption of NFC and raising awareness of the technology’s various capabilities. “Many think of payments when they hear NFC, but the technology opens the door to many industries for innovative applications, such as […]

Mobey Forum, a bank-led mobile commerce association, has announced that it is now participating in the Trusted Computing Group’s (TCG) Industry Liaison Program in order to enhance the development of security standards in mobile financial services. The partnership will enable Mobey Forum and the TCG to share members’ security requirements and use this combined knowledge […]

Missouri State University has selected Blackboard Transact to implement a contactless student ID card. This enables the new system to integrate student identification, door security, commerce and campus payment into a single contactless card. The new BearPass ID card uses Sony’s FeliCa contactless technology and works with Blackboard-enabled smart card readers–which also support magnetic stripe […]

New passport-reading and biometrics technology installed at Dubai International Airport is catching increasing numbers of people who attempt to enter the country with fake identity documents, reports the Gulf News. Last year, the Expertise Centre Identity and Fraud Documents (ECIFD) agency caught 1,137 forged documents with its passport readers. Although passports and identity documents are […]

Mobile operator Digicel Pacific Limited has announced the deployment of VeriFone’s mWallet services and NFC-enabled payment systems in the Kingdom of Tonga. Starting this week, Digicel subscribers in the the Tongan capital Nuku’alofa will be able to receive NFC tags that are linked to their mobile phone numbers and VeriFone’s contactless payment acceptance systems. Customers […]

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) released a statement concerning a glitch in its Clipper card system, and the blame for overcharging certain AC Transit passengers, according to SFExaminer.com. Traditionally, AC Transit passengers who make bus transfers are only charged 25 cents for their second leg, even if they split up that journey with a trip […]

The Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT) Alliance announced that austriamicrosystems has joined as a full member. Since joining the OSPT Alliance, austriamicrosystems will have access to the CIPURSE open standard specification, leveraging its experience into embedded systems for mobile fare collection applications. The open standard promotes vendor neutrality and cross-vendor system interoperability with reduced […]

In an effort to streamline tenant control of visitor access at its commercial real estate properties in Manhattan, Trinity Real Estate has installed HID Global’s EasyLobby Secure Visitor Management (SVM) software. The software speeds up the clearance process for visitors to companies at Trinity’s properties, which include modeling and film agencies and photography service providers […]

Bombardier Transportation se ha asociado con la Autoridad de Tránsito Rápido Metropolitano de Atlanta (MARTA) con el fin de perfeccionar el control de la protección a los trabajadores viales mediante RFID y otras avanzadas tecnologías de dicha compañía. TrackSafe eleva la conciencia de la necesidad de localización de los obreros ferroviarios gracias a la emisión […]

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival with help from Intellitix, an RFID technology provider for live events, added an online audience of more than 30 million last month when over 30,000 fans registered to “Live Click” around the festival site. The technology used various touch points positioned at key areas around the festival site […]