Google has announced that Oct. 17 will mark the end of the Google Prepaid Card on Google Wallet. The company said that since adding support for all debit and credit cards from Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover last month, Google Wallet no longer needs a prepaid card to mimic debit-style transactions. Starting Sept. 17, […]

The State of West Virginia has chose NextgenID’s Multi-modal Biometric Enrollment (MBE) KIOSK for enrolling employees, contractors and citizens into the state’s new West Virginia Identity Management Service. This service will aid in the transition of business process to a secure system using trusted digital identity cards in the state’s counties and municipalities. The state […]

Intellitix, a global provider of RFID solutions for live events, has launched into the exhibition market having deployed its RFID access control technology at Fantasy Football Fest. Thousands of ticket holders in attendance were issued with wristbands featuring an RFID chip that was used to validate their right of admission. To enter the exhibition, fans […]

French supermarket chain Casino Group has launched an NFC mobile application designed to streamline the in-store shopping experience. Developed alongside NFC specialist ThinkandGo, the mCasino app enables shoppers to tap NFC-tagged items with their mobile phones to add them to a virtual shopping cart, as well as receive any discounts, coupons, or other information about […]

Lumidigm announced that the company’s fingerprint technology can be extended to read barcodes and authenticate credentials. The new technology will be demonstrated at the 2012 Biometric Consortium Conference (BCC) and Technology Exposition, September 18-20 at the Tampa, Fla. Convention Center. The scanners can read bar codes, which can be used to enroll an individual into […]

MasterCard announced the expansion of its U.S. electronic payments roadmap to include ATMs. Starting in October 2016, a liability shift will be introduced for ATM transactions in the U.S., as part of an effort to align the use of EMV technology to prevent and manage fraud in the payments ecosystem. The liability shift will apply […]

HP has unveiled an NFC-enabled desktop PC – the SpectreONE AiO. The all-in-one PC runs on Windows 8 and features a 23.6-inch flush-glass full HD display integrated into a slim 11.5 millimeter-thin body, which houses, among the other components, the latest Intel processor and a NVIDIA 1GB graphics card. The SpectreOne also comes with a […]

HID Global has expanded its ICLASS SE platform with two additions: the standards-based iCLASS Seos credential and support for the industry-standard Open Supervised Device Protocol (OSDP). iCLASS Seos features a standards-based card edge and is portable for use on NFC smart phones so that customers can utilize smart cards, mobile devices or both within their […]

Visa and PayPal are emerging as consumer favorites amid an ever-growing field of mobile wallet providers, according to a new report from Javelin Strategy & Research. When asked in Javelin’s online survey which mobile wallet provider they would prefer, 15% of consumers chose Visa and 13% chose PayPal. Mobile network operators Verizon and AT&T (i.e. […]

TAGSYS RFID announced a range of high frequency (HF) RFID tags optimized for books, documents and pharmaceuticals bottles and other plastic packaging. The FOLIO 370X-LI are HF RFID tags optimized for performance in book and magazine tracking, featuring the NXP ICODE SLIX chip that provides 896 bits of user memory and enhanced reading performance. Available […]