Game developer Nintendo announced that launch titles for the upcoming Wii U system will not support NFC as previously promised, according to a report from The Gaming Examiner. NFC was one of the more exciting features of the new game system as demos for the product showed a user transfer a game from a TV […]

A professor at Clarkson University has created software technology to determine whether or not fingerprints taken as biometric readings are fake, reports the Watertown (N.Y.) Daily Times. Stephanie Schuckers, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the university has developed the software, which is now a business called NexID. The software can determine if […]

The Regional Transportation District (RTD) of the Denver Metro Area is introducing a new smart card fare payment system, which is expected to replace all general bus passes and punch cards throughout the system late next year, according to The Daily Camera. The smart card – dubbed MyRide – is equipped with a chip that […]

A partnership between INSIDE Secure and TazTag has yielded an NFC-enabled Android tablet. The TazPad V2 is a 7-inch Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet that can be used for mobile banking, stock management, payment, ticketing, access control, identity and other sensitive and secure applications. The tablet— currently available directly from TazTag—combines INSIDE’s EMVCo-certified Secure […]

German beer festival Oktoberfest will be using mobile point of sale (POS) terminals developed by Munich-based payworks in an attempt to expedite customers’ payment experience. The system being used at Oktoberfest is developed by Payworks and works with a small card-reading device that plugs directly into an iPhone. The solution enables smaller merchants to accept […]

The latest installment of the Windows Phone will feature NFC capabilities along with a host of other improvements, according to ComputerWorld Australia. By supporting NFC technologies, Windows Phone 8 will enable for two-way communication between a mobile device and an NFC terminal at a cash register or pay station. The phone will have a “tap […]

NEC Corporation of America has granted Michigan State University (MSU) with a gift to the school’s College of Engineering to fund biometric research. As reported by CBS Detroit, the gift will fund ongoing research on fingerprint matching and facial recognition. It will also help start new research in the school’s Pattern Recognition and Image Processing […]

The Leon County Sheriff’s Office in Florida has added fingerprint recognition to its arsenal of tools to help identify suspects, reports WCTV. The office has invested about $144,000 in the Rapid ID system. This portable system identifies suspects by taking and reading their fingerprints. It then can immediately tell if the suspect has a criminal […]

TagMaster has received additional orders for its XT-3HD long-range RFID reader from the Swedish Rail Administration (Swedish: Trafikverket). The first readers were supplied to Trafikverket under the supply contract issued to TagMaster and its system integrator Swarco at the end of 2011. The RFID readers are being rolled out by Trafikverket as part of its […]

Thursby Software Systems has announced additional features to be added to its PKard Reader browsing solution. The PKard Reader v1.1 is a secure browsing app that enables users to access Web portals, collaboration sites and Web-based email accounts like Microsoft’s Outlook Web Access directly from their Apple mobile devices. The latest upgrades to the PKard […]