Gemalto announced the development of a new transport solution enabling commuters to use their mobile phones as e-tickets in MIFARE DESFire infrastructures. DESFire is an automatic fare collection technology which provides 3DES (Triple Data Encryption Standard) and AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) cryptographic algorithms. To date, it has been deployed in 40 cities across the world. […]

Visa and DeviceFidelity Inc. announced plans to market a new solution that can enable a mobile phone with a memory card slot to be used as a Visa mobile payment device. The solution combines Visa’s contactless payment technology, Visa payWave, and DeviceFidelity’s In2Pay technology to transform a mobile phone with a microSD memory slot into […]

Pilot project enabled bookstore payments via microSD equipped handset At Brigham Young University-Idaho in Rexburg, 120 students and faculty members are using their cell phones to make payments in the campus bookstore. The mobile technology startup, RFinity, developed the secure solution using microSD cards with Near Field Communication capabilities to enable contactless payments with the […]

Trusted Logic has improved the security on its TRUSTED NFC software platform, specifically designing it for the Google Android system. Using Near Field Communication connectivity, Trusted NFC mobile phone application provides security for development of applications in mobile operations. The mobile device features Android NFC Service Manager Support and equips the newest version of the […]

An international consortium of payment and wireless industry leaders today announced their participation in Banka Koper’s field trial to bring SIM-based NFC mobile payments to Slovenia. CASSIS International, INSIDE Contactless, Sagem Orga and Sagem Wireless, in cooperation with Slovenian mobile service provider Mobitel, have provided Banka Koper with the payment infrastructure and applications for the […]

The UK’s Home Office, Design Council and the Technology Strategy Board have released three new prototype security systems for the Mobile Phone Security Challenge – an initiative to develop new security technology to protect phones from “thieves and fraudsters,” according to designweek.co.uk. The prototypes developed for the Challenge focus on three main areas: making mobile […]

Target shoppers now have the option of making gift card purchases using their mobile phones, according to American Banker. Customers can use the Mobile GiftCard service by accessing Target’s Web site via their mobile phones, where they can register their gift cards and create a PIN number to make secure transactions. To make a purchase, […]

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has announced the release of its new Mobile Security Card SE 1.0, an upgraded version of the first-generation Mobile Security Card 3.1 microSD for security applications. The upgraded card incorporates a cryptocontroller, which provides security for cell phones, smart phones, notebooks and other mobile terminal devices without needing a smart card […]

CONNECTHINGS announced the first public demonstration of the Wave-Me NFC services platform will take place at the upcoming GSM Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain Feb. 15-18. The Wave-Me NFC services platform, the first product developed out of the partnership between CONNECTHINGS and INSIDE Contactless, is built upon CONNECTHINGS’ AdTag server and is designed to […]

The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office in Colorado has unveiled new identification technology that is expected to replace fingerprint-based identification with iris-based identification, according to a Denver Post article. Arapahoe is the first county in Colorado to receive the technology, which was paid for thanks to a $10,000 National Sheriff’s Association grant. The new system will […]