VingCard, a hospitality security provider and part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, has completed its installation of Signature contactless electronic door locks with NFC cell phone compatibility at the Sea Pearl Villas Resort in Phuket, Thailand. While the hotel is open now, the resort itself isn’t scheduled to open until the third quarter of 2010. […]

Texas A&M University, College Station, has expanded its suite of iPhone and iPod Touch applications to enable students to see course offerings, campus maps and directions to classes and information about university events. TAMUmobile, which was first released in June, already includes a directory for finding currently enrolled students, faculty and staff, news about the […]

Alcatel-Lucent announced a competition led by its Touchatag venture where software developers compete to create an innovative NFC urban game for mobile phones. Competition winners will receive a total of more than $7,200 in cash prizes. Called the “Vienna Jungle Scrum,” the competition is one component of mobilkom austria’s A1 InnovationDays 2009, taking place on […]

Plasco ID announced that it has agreed to a district-wide contract with the Houston Independent School District for the PlascoTrac Student Tracking System. By the end of 2009, the district expects 50 schools to be fully operational with the PlascoTrac System. Plans to implement the system at the remaining approximately 250 HISD schools are also […]

As the Indian government moves forward with its plans to provide all its citizens with a Unique Identification (UID) number, the biometric authentication behind the system will mean creating the world’s largest biometric database covering the data of over a billion people, according to a BBC News article. Further, officials plan on having the database […]

Researchers at the University of Granada in Spain have developed an in-home RFID system that reminds elderly individuals when they have forgotten to do simple tasks, such as taking medication or grabbing their keys when they leave home. Under the system users place RFID labels on objects around the home that are interacted with most […]

RFinity, an Idaho Falls technology company specializing in secure NFC identification and transactions, has launched a pilot at the Idaho campus of Brigham Young University of an open encryption platform using a secure microSD card with a contactless interface developed by Giesecke & Devrient, a German security technology company. With RFinity’s patented integration platform and […]

The Telekom Austria Group announced that its mobile subsidiary mobilkom austria has launched along with Visa Europe and its wholly-owned A1 Bank a credit card for the Austrian market that includes mobile services. The A1 Visa Card combines the features of a conventional Visa Classic Card with special mobile services such as A1 loyalty points, […]

Chip maker INSIDE Contactless and Connecthings, a provider of tags and location and time-based content management systems, have announced a partnership to drive NFC deployments beyond payment and transit applications. The two companies intend to develop, promote and commercialize the Wave-Me NFC services platform, a solution carriers and third-party service providers can use to give […]

Gemalto announced that it has completed the acquisition of Trusted Logic from its founders and other shareholders. Gemalto, which already held 32% of the shares, aims with this transaction at accelerating the international development of Trusted Logic technologies. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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