Ingenico is working together with Cajasiete, a financial services provider based in Canary Islands, Spain, on the deployment wireless terminals to support a new program of contactless payments at throughout the islands. Cajasiete has issued more than 5,000 of its SINcontacto cards, offering customers contactless payments using Visa payWave technology. For the initial roll out, […]

BNC National Bank, a national bank serving customers in North Dakota, Arizona and Minnesota, is offering sit commercial customers IronKey Trusted Access to improve online security and help protect customers from cyber thieves targeting online banking users of ACH and wire transfer services. Trusted Access enables the bank to meet and exceed Federal Financial Institutions […]

NXP Semiconductors and HID Global announced a partnership to create a global, generic mobile access solution for NFC-enabled mobile phones. Developed jointly by the partners, the solution takes existing contactless cards that employees use to enter corporate buildings and parking garages and transfers them to the embedded NXP secure element on an NFC-enabled phone. According […]

Fulcrum Biometrics teamed up with At-Scene, a mobile law enforcement application company, to create the iBolo TM law enforcement mobile app, which is integrated with the FbF mobileOne biometric fingerprint accessory. The product lets officers in the field use smart phones and other types of mobile devices to identify, categorize and track contacts, suspects and […]

The Texas Department of Public Safety (TxDPS) has deployed NEC’s IntegraID Mobile Identification Solution (Mobile ID) for use by all Texas law enforcement agencies to quickly search the Texas DPS repository for real time positive identification. The TxDPS Mobile ID database can handle biometric information for up to 9 million people. Data types it accepts […]

Certified Payment Processing (CPP) recently unveiled their new line of payment processing terminals, under the brand name Proxima. Proxima is offers support for future payment processing technologies, with the ability to handle mobile wallet payments, contactless and EMV smart cards. It also features a full-color display, high-speed Ethernet or dial-up connectivity and backlit keypad. Currently, […]

On Bike Share, Bristol, R.I., is scheduled to roll out this spring a campus bike share system designed to make bicycling a part of college campus transportation. The system provides colleges and universities with the ability to automate existing bike fleets and makes implementation, maintenance, and tracking fast and easy through a series of solutions […]

GlobalPlatform has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the NFC Forum to harmonize specification activity to support the development of interoperable, multi-application NFC-based mobile solutions. To accelerate the deployment of new mass market NFC solutions, the NFC community and wider mobile services sector must establish neutral, sustainable and scalable infrastructures that support secure […]

Swedish mobile payments provider Accumulate has signed an agreement with Chinese IT provider Potevio to jointly develop and deploy mobile financial and authentication services to the Chinese market. According to the partners, future projects will include an undisclosed “unique NFC solution” that will be commercially deployed by summer 2012, a solution for secure payment of […]

A new survey from advertising firm CBS Outdoor shows that mobile marketing is gaining in popularity in Europe, with QR codes leading the pack. Out of 9,000 European consumers surveyed, 40% said that they are aware of QR codes, with 13% having scanned a QR-enabled advertisement at least once. By comparison, only 13% of respondents […]