After last week’s premature press release bungle, DeviceFidelity has officially announced the availability of its In2Pay solution for iPhone, designed to enable iPhone users to make contactless transactions. The solution combines DeviceFidelity’s In2Pay microSD technology with an NFC-enabled protective case that adds mobile contactless capability. By placing a removable In2Pay microSD into the protective case, […]

China Unionpay has formed a mobile payments industry alliance with a group of Chinese banks, wireless operators and handset manufacturers, according to finextra.com. China Unionpay says the alliance’s goal is to help different industries–transportation, commercial retail, hospital–coordinate efforts to create a single, open m-payments platform defined by the ISO standard. The group comprises 18 banks, […]

Jim Reno, CTO at Arcot, talks about the company’s technology and where he sees authentication heading at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. “We are able to create a hardware smart card but all implemented in software,” Reno says. “It’s strong two-factor security but it’s got the convenience, cost and usability of passwords.” The company […]

An Oxfam store in Manchester, UK is trying out a system that will enable people to attach stories to the objects that they donate using RFID tags, according to a Wired news article. When a person donates an item to the store they are asked to share a brief narrative about the item into a […]

McDonald’s and Tribal DDB of Chicago are building a Facebook app that will allow users to update their status by “checking in” at the fast food chain, according to Advertising Age. McDonald’s will be the first marketer to take advantage of this new geolocation service. This may even lead to McDonald’s using RFID tags to […]

De la conferencia F8 de Facebook han surgido rumores de que Zuckerberg & co. pudiera adicionarle a esa red social algunas funciones basadas en NFC, comenta pocket-lint.com. En la conferencia del 2 de Abril los visitantes recibieron etiquetas con las que podían entrar y salir de las exposiciones. Algunos creen que esa fue la forma […]

Separate hardware no longer needed for two-factor authentication By Meredith Gonsalves, Contributing Editor, AVISIAN Publications In a digital age where more people are succumbing to the smart phone phenomenon and the desktop computer has become a thing of the past, the online world is literally at our fingertips. Technology has revolutionized the way the online […]

MasterCard has announced plans to pilot Gemalto’s Upteq N-Flex mobile payment device in Singapore, according to Finextra. The two companies will team up with DBS Bank, local pre-paid card specialist Ez-Link and telco StarHub to conduct the trial, which will be available for EZ-Link Fevo MasterCard holders. The device is a wafer-thin chip that can […]

Visa and DeviceFidelity let slip plans to make an NFC-enabled case for the iPhone, according The Register and NFC World. The case, whose announcement came about via a premature press release, will come equipped with NFC hardware and a secure element from DeviceFidelity to allow users to make contactless payments with their 3G or 3GS […]

Smart card management software provider Bell ID announced that it has signed with one of Saudi Arabia’s leading banks to issue EMV cards. Bell ID’s software suite, ANDiS will provide the bank, which has no been disclosed, EMV data preparation, smart card and application management, central issuance and instant issuance of EMV cards. The solution […]