Obopay Inc., the service provider for payments via mobile phones, announced an investment from Nokia. According to the Financial Times the mobile device manufacturer’s investment was $70 million. Obopay has also named Teppo Paavola, vice president and head of corporate business development at Nokia, to its board of directors. The company will use this minority […]

The school’s Mobile Experience Lab explores the future of life with the mobile handset Most trials of near field communication have involved payment applications at the neighborhood department store, restaurant or transit agency. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge took a different tact, however, attempting to illustrate the many other ways NFC could be […]

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority has given companies more time to respond to its request for proposals for a fare-collection system, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Originally the deadline was set for Tuesday but it now has been has been pushed back to May. A contract isn’t likely to be awarded until at least September. […]

Queralt LLC, a Connecticut-based provider of tracking solutions, has announced the availability of an RFID-enabled solution for the management of consignment inventory. With Queralt’s Hosted RFID Consignment Solution in place, each time a RFID-tagged product in a consignment inventory is removed, the application takes action. The vendor of the consignment item is notified of the […]

Cubic Transportation Systems Inc. is providing new capabilities for the Cubic designed Tri-Reader to enable an all-in-one reader that will process bank cards, prepaid cards and smart card-enabled mobile phones through a software development and licensing agreement with ViVOtech, a provider of point-of-sale readers for contactless and Near Field Communication mobile phone payments. Under the […]

Biometric Services International announced the availability of its latest update of published and emerging biometric standards. Seven new and/or updated standards were published since the last update in August 2008, bringing the total number of published standards to 80. The report details these, along with another 80+ emerging standards under consideration. The exchange of fingerprint, […]

The iPhone as a student ID card? That may be next at Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif., which, thanks to an entrepreneurial firm created by Stanford students has already produced a suite of iPhone applications that include the university’s course catalog, campus map and other resources. Called iStanford, the application suite was rolled out in […]

Commercial transactions by mobile phone are projected to total $1.6 billion this year, primarily due to Internet shopping, according to new data from New York-based ABI Research. However, mobile commerce using NFC-compliant phones will be minimal this year, the firm adds. “Mobile Internet shopping is the largest piece of the action,” said Mark Beccue, ABI […]

by David C. Wyld, Southeastern Louisiana University There is no setting in the private or public sectors where a verifiable “chain of custody” is more essential – or more lacking – than the handling of evidence in criminal cases. In the United States, the legal system is dependent on the proper handling of all forms […]

Hothead Technologies, an Atlanta-based company, has released through its Hothead Sports division a wireless heat monitoring system embedded in a football helmet. The helmet is designed to prevent athletes from falling victim to potentially life-threatening heatstroke. The helmets use an RFID-enabled solution designed by Identec Solutions. A lightweight, impact-resistant transponder with temperature-measuring capabilities is placed […]