AT&T and Verizon will launch trials of their new contactless payment system – codenamed Mercury – at markets in Minneapolis, Atlanta, Salt Lake City and Austin, Texas according to fiercemobilecontent.com. Participating customers will be able to pay for a variety of goods and services with NFC-enabled smart phones operating on Discover Financial Services’ payment network. […]

East Coast Diversified Corporation’s RFID and GPS division, EarthSearch Communications, announced its newest product offering, the LogiBoxx certified hand held RFID reader: the ES3001H. The device runs on the latest mobile operating system, Windows CE 5.0, and utilizes EarthSearch’s proprietary firmware. Depending on the tag it can identify items up to 15 feet, and it […]

Visa is teaming with Turkey’s Akbank and vendor DeviceFidelity to launch a new microSD-based contactless mobile payment system. Akbank customers will be able to insert DeviceFidelity’s In2Pay microSD into their handsets’ memory card slots, turning them into contactless payments devices that can be used with Visa payWave terminals. The project will initially involve Blackberry handsets, […]

BIO-key International has announced it will be releasing their first biometric identification and authentication platform secure transmission of captured fingerprint data to a secure server via smart phones, laptops and desktops. BIO-key announced that the decision to create such a platform comes from its belief that more phones with biometric capabilities will be flooding the […]

MasterCard’s stock dropped 3.6% on the recent announcement Verizon and AT&T are partnering with Discover and Barclays to launch mobile contactless payment services, but the company says it has its own ventures in diversified payments. According to Ajay Banga, President and CEO of MasterCard, the company currently has 20 pilot and commercial roll outs of […]

PerSay, a developer of voice-based identification authentication solutions, has announced the availability of new functionality available for use on Apple devices, such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The new technology, called VocalPassword, is designed to replace virtual keyboard use for filling in user names and passwords with voice-based authentication of the user. VocalPassword […]

Duke University launched a mobile application for iPhones that enables students to find out news around campus, the closest dining hall and hours of operations. The university also wanted to add some campus card functionality to the app as well, says Matthew Drummond, director at the DukeCard Office. “We wanted to provide a campus card […]

Oberthur Technologies has reported an increase in demand for its FlyBuy contactless stickers with banks and issuers throughout the United States, including Citi, as well as internationally in Switzerland, Poland, England and Korea. Developed in cooperation with MasterCard Worldwide over a year ago, Oberthur’s FlyBuy Sticker is a contactless payment tag that can be attached […]

AT&T Inc., Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA are reportedly teaming up to launch a contactless mobile payment pilot in Atlanta and three other cities, according to bloomberg.com. Bloomberg calls the venture, which is expected to include the support of Discover Financial Services and Barclays Plc, a “threat” to Visa and MasterCard, the world’s largest payment […]

The Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and Boston have helped a number of leading telecom and e-payment companies reach a consensus on several issues dividing the mobile payments industry, according to Digital Transactions. The Feds have to date hosted three of these meetings consisting of about 20 industry representatives, including software companies, processors, merchant and […]