By David C. Wyld, Southeastern Louisiana University In the U.S., it has been estimated that upwards of a million laptops are stolen annually. This is an astonishing – and scary statistic. And it is not just companies that are affected. Indeed, across federal agencies, leading universities, and all facets of health care and education, there […]

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, better known by its acronym SEPTA, has requested proposals for its new smart card fare collection system, leaving it up to the bidding companies to specifically spell out how such a system can be implemented. However, the organization wants a system that will allow passengers to use credit cards, prepaid […]

ViVOtech says its NFC provisioning software for mobile payments is being used in the first NFC mobile payment trial in Latin America. It also announced the launch of the newest version of its ViVOpay Kiosk II, a two-piece modular reader that enables easy installation in self-service systems. The Visa-led Guatemalan deployment marks Latin America’s first […]

Bell ID says it has been collaborating with the UK-based Monitise Group, a mobile banking specialist, on a shared trusted service manager approach to mobile contactless payments. The project will bring together Monitise’s mobile money service, which has already been rolled out to consumers in the UK and North America, and Bell ID’s smart card […]

Omnitrol Networks has released an update of its flagship software platform, Edge Applications and Services Engine (EASE), along with a new middleware appliance. The new appliance, called the OMNITROL-A or the Nano, is billed as the industry’s smallest middleware appliance for RFID and sensor networks. Version 2.1 of EASE includes a new version of the […]

Hypercom Corp. announced that Intermarche, one of France’s top retailers with almost 1,500 retail outlets, has installed Hypercom’s Wymix PIN pad with contactless reader as part of the Payez Mobile trial for NFC payments in two test sales outlets in Caen and Strasbourg. The Payez Mobile trial was launched a year ago by seven banks […]

Will a new president scale back existing projects or add new ones? By Zack Martin, Editor We live in a completely different world of government identification initiatives than eight-years ago when George Bush was elected president. The U.S. Department of Defense’s Common Access Card was just getting off the ground. It was the first U.S. […]

LG Electronics has developed an NFC-enabled phone using a system-on-chip from STMicroelectronics. The KU380-NFC phone with ST’s ST21NFCA chip features MasterCard’s PayPass contactless payment capabilities enabled by a (U)SIM card, as well as contactless reader functions. The KU380-NFC phone, which is among the first NFC-enabled handsets, supports applications running either on the terminal processor or […]

NXP, a semiconductor company initially founded by Philips, and microcontroller manufacturer Renesas Technology Corp. announced they have expanded the licensing agreement on NXP’s MIFARE technology, aiming to build momentum for the availability of advanced payment and Near Field Communication offerings in contactless infrastructures. As a historical MIFARE licensee, Renesas now has further access to NXP’s […]

Oberthur Technologies was the only two-category winner in this year’s Sesames Awards, repeating its successes from 2007 when it also gathered in two honors. The awards, which represent innovations in the smart card and ID industry, were presented during the opening of the CARTES and IDentification show in Paris. There were 35 finalists in the […]