Citigroup is hoping that an upcoming test in India of NFC-equipped phones with contactless payment capabilities will help it develop a business case to present to U.S. carriers. Part of the goal of the Bangalore test, which could get begin in April, is to collect enough data on consumers’ use of mobile phones ready for […]

Enterprises are being forced to rethink how to asses risk and protect data due to the “consumerization” of technology and the blurring boundaries between personal and professional use of computers, according to the Unisys Security Index. At same time, the increasing use of mobile devices and more mainstream uses for social networking sites create new […]

China’s Daily RFID has unveiled a portable HF RFID reader which can transmit data via its built-in Bluetooth connection. The 13.56MHz reader can upload scanned RFID tag data to Bluetooth-based smart phone or PDAs in real time using most text editors. Adding to its portability, the reader uses a re-chargeable battery with low power consumption. […]

GlobalPlatform and StoLPaN have announced the two will work together to establishing a standardized approach to mass market deployment of near field communication (NFC) enabled services like payment and ticketing. International specification body, GlobalPlatform and StoLPaN, the pan-European consortium that aims to identify the technical and commercial frameworks to securely deliver NFC-applications to mobile devices, […]

Despite very positive feedback from users and merchants following a three-month NFC mobile payments trial in Melbourne, Australia, the bank, mobile operator and credit card company involved in the pilot commented only that they would “continue to explore opportunities in this area in the next few years.” Mobile phone provider Telstra, National Australia Bank and […]

ViVOtech, a Santa Clara, Calif-based provider of contactless and NFC mobile payments infrastructures, has been granted a NFC-related U.S. patent that covers a range of methods, systems and products for over the air provisioning of credit, debit, prepaid, loyalty and other payment or non-payment cards into mobile phone devices via wireless networks or the Internet. […]

Precise Biometrics came in first place in the global SIMagine competition, held annually at the GSMA World Mobile Congress. The biometric vendor won for a mobile aviation solution based on Precise Match-on-SIM and enables fast lane service using fingerprint recognition and mobile phones. Precise Biometrics presented a solution for smart travel, BioXpress – The Queue-less […]

Smart card supplier Oberthur Technologies and semiconductor company NXP say they have completed interoperability tests allowing Oberthur’s Opera FlyBuy NFC SIM card to be used in conjunction with NXP’s PN544 NFC controller to design NFC mobile devices compatible with MIFARE Classic. With its multi-application and remote management capabilities, Opera FlyBuy NFC SIM cards offer flexibility […]

Efici Corp., a Miami-based technology company serving the telecommunications and banking industries, has launched EfiCash, a product that uses a cell phone’s built-in camera to speed up transactions. The system has also been billed as an NFC alternative for the mobile payments platform. Rather than waiting for NFC to be commercially available, EfiCash participants can […]

North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, N.C., will be integrating its CBORD-provided campus card and security solutions with network-based public address technology from CBORD partner Digital Acoustics, Lake Bluff, Ill. Digital Acoustics provides IP-based audio message delivery via intercom and public address notification. Universities can then access networks of intercoms and paging devices from a […]