Zenius Solutions, an NFC software company, announced an NFC credit card payment solution for the iPhone. Retrofitted iPhones can conduct secure contactless transactions for MasterCard PayPass, Visa payWave, American Express ExpressPay and Discover Network Zip. The solution provides control to the user from a menu on the iPhone handset screen, as well as support for […]

Trusted Logic, a provider of trusted execution environments for embedded systems, will demonstrate peer-to-peer connection of mobile handsets through its NFC software platform for Google Android operating system. The demonstration will take place at Cartes 2009, Nov. 17 to Nov 19. NFC peer-to-peer connection is the latest feature added to Trusted Logic’s NFC stack. It […]

NephSystem has announced the release of iNephStar, a bar code/RFID PDA with a built-in thermal printer. The iNephStar runs on Microsoft Windows CE operating system and is suitable for use in fields of communication technologies, public transportation and logistics. The PDA also features built-in WiFi 802.11 b/g capability, bluetooth, 125KHz LF or 13.56MHz UHF RFID […]

IBM has updated their InfoSphere Traceability Server with a new capability called Returnable Container Management. This new software gathers real-time sensor data so that businesses and governments can track the whereabouts and conditions of millions of returnable shipping containers around the world. The sensors the software taps into are used in a variety of ways, […]

LEGIC Identsystems AG will be showing developments in its contactless smart card technology for secure personal identification at the Cartes & IDentification conference in Paris. The company will be giving live demonstrations of LEGIC card-in-card solutions for the combination of contactless applications on a virtual transponder on its partners’ technology platforms. In addition LEGIC will […]

DeviceFidelity Inc. today announced the availability of its patent-pending In2Pay solution, a microSD-based technology that enables any mobile phone with a memory card slot into an contactless transaction device. Compatible with near field communication technology, In2Pay is now for trials with banks, wireless carriers and payment networks, with volume production for commercial deployments in 2010. […]

By Andy Williams, Associate Editor, Avisian Publications Near field communication may be hyped because of its payment abilities, but a health care project in Pakistan is helping save children’s lives and showing the flexibility the technology can enable. Called an Interactive Alerts system, it was designed by NextLab at MIT, Cambridge, Mass. and Interactive Research […]

CARTES and IDentification Congress 2009, featuring 1,500 delegates, 240 speakers and 20,000 visitors, will take place in Paris, Nov. 17 though Nov. 19 at the Paris-Nord Villepinte. The 24th edition of CARTES has also added four new areas in addition to the return of most of its normal standbys. Not to be overlooked, however, is […]

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is providing a completely new form factor for debit cards. Convego Air Mobile is a sticker which enables the user to pay contactlessly. The sticker contains the full functionality of a credit or debit card. Once the foil has been affixed to a cellphone or PDA the device can be used […]

INSIDE Contactless announced it is providing infrastructure components to Taggo, a membership card aggregator and storefront, for a service Taggo will launch in Singapore and other parts of South East Asia early next year. Using ID stickers based on INSIDE’s PicoPass 2KS contactless memory chip, contactless readers based on INSIDE’s M210-2G proximity coupler and INSIDE’s […]