Coppel Corporation has announced its decision to incorporate DigitalPersona fingerprint readers into its point of sale terminals. Coppel’s use of biometric security comes off the back of a recent rash of point of sale breaches. Breaches at POS terminals not only affect a company’s bottom line but can also be detrimental to company reputation and […]

NFC Wireless, an Australia-based distributor of NFC products, has helped make ski resort Falls Creek the first NFC-connected town in Australia. More than 50 Falls Creek businesses have added NFC stickers from NFC Wireless to their storefronts, enabling customers to tap their NFC phones to automatically launch a mobile website from which they can download […]

Thailand-based software developer SAI Biz Solutions is launching an NFC-based restaurant ordering system with Bangkok’s Big Mama Pizzeria, according to Bloomberg Business Week. SAI Biz’s system enables Big Mama diners with NFC-enabled phones to order by tapping their handsets against NFC tags placed inside the restaurant. The action automatically launches a menu on the user’s […]

M2SYS Technology has announced a partnership with ABT Security Systems to change employee workforce management through the use of biometric time and attendance technologies. The goal of the partnership will be to get rid of fraudulent and wasteful employee behavior as well as to bolster audit trails. In addition to introducing biometric time and attendance […]

The scale of global mobile payment transactions is expected to quadruple over the next five years to more than $1.3 trillion, according to the latest report from Juniper Research. The report, “Mobile Payments Strategies: NFC, Remote Purchases & Money Transfer 2012-2017,” predicts that this growth will be driven primarily by sale of physical goods by […]

NEC—in partnership with criminal justice and law enforcement solutions expert DataWorks Plus—has announced the introduction of the JNET Facial Recognition System to the Pennsylvania Justice Network (JNET). Using DataWork’s FACE plus software and NEC’s NeoFace facial recognition matching software to process and compare images, JNET’s new facial recognition system will provide justice information to nearly […]

Students attending New Mexico State University and Doña Ana Community College in Las Cruces will receive city-provided bus rides through next May. All that’s required for this pilot project is a valid student ID from the institutions. The free rides don’t include faculty and staff from either school. It the trial proves successful, the city […]

While biometric technology continues to advance to the point where its a reliable method of authentication, some of the barriers to its overall acceptance in society may be too much for technology alone to overcome. As written on Computerworld, evangelical Christians are using websites to promote the evil nature of biometrics, claiming that usage of […]

Per a Korea Communications Commission (KCC) law made earlier this year, as of Aug. 18, websites in Korea can no longer collect national ID numbers when people register for their services As reported on TNW, Korean websites and companies that asked for users’ real names and their national ID number when signing up for a […]

Gartner has identified NFC payments as one of the fastest moving technologies in its 2012 Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle, an annual research report that assesses the maturity, business benefit and future direction of numerous high-impact technologies. In the 2011 Hype Cycle, Gartner placed NFC payments at the very peak of the “Inflated Expectations” curve – […]