Online and paperless is how most students think these days. That’s the driver behind Catawba College’s plan to convert to a more unified digital campus. The Salisbury, N.C.-based private college is changing its campus enterprise computing systems to the SunGard Higher Education Banner System. It will cost $4 million and take two years to complete […]

Almost every week it seems like a new Near Field Communication pilot is announced. As more and more projects are rolled out Re:ID will keep you up to date on where they are and what they involve. After the jump find a listing of NFC pilots and deployments that appeared in the Spring issue of […]

The U.S. Patent Office has published more Apple patents covering the iPhone, according to MacRumors.com. The patent application, filed on March 8th, 2008, looks at using facial detection to enable a device to determine whether a user is passively interacting with the device. “As an example, Apple describes how a user watching a video may […]

An online store geared towards helping college students find products that can better secure the thousands of dollars in valuables they often bring to school has been launched. Called SecureOnCampus.com, it purports to be the first online destination catering to the security needs of college students and their parents. The site, offers items that can […]

Idesco Oy, an RFID company based in Finland, and software company Norfello Oy have formed an agreement to work together for developing applications for RFID systems that could be us3ed through the Internet. The base of this cooperation is in couple of years of common development projects, which has resulted Idesco to launch the wireless […]

Barclaycard has unveiled a free iPhone game, Waterslide Extreme, to coincide with the next airing of its Waterslide advertising campaign. The concept for the mobile game is taken from Barclaycard’s latest advertising campaign that demonstrates contactless payment. The game, developed by fishlabs and Dare for Barclaycard, has nine levels with the objective to steer a […]

Macrumors.com has discovered new Apple patents that may show the future of the iPhone. Potentially in store for the device are biometrics that would recognize a users different fingerprint patterns for security and to activate different applications. “So the index finger might mean email, while the middle finger music, etc, alternatively different fingers could mean […]

Motorola has joined Via Licensing Corp.’s joint licensing program for patents essential to NFC usage. The program is designed to provide fair and convenient access to essential patents through a single license agreement. Among the applications covered by this program are NFC–compliant mobile phones, consumer electronic devices, and commercial systems such as payment processing terminals, […]

In what is being billed as one of the largest NFC pilots so far, Citi is making mobile phone payments available in India in collaboration with Nokia, Vodafone, MasterCard and VIVOtech. Some 5,000 people will participate in Citi’s Tap and Pay Bangalore trial. The pilot will include Nokia’s NFC-enabled 6212 classic phone. Vodafone is the […]

Gemalto announced it has been selected by MTN Uganda for its national mobile payment program. Service rollout started in March and to date, around 180,000 m-payment transactions have already been performed. 
MTN Uganda is part of the MTN Group, a multinational telecommunications group operating in 21 countries in Africa and the Middle East and serving […]