Visa and Samsung have announced that they will reveal the official mobile payments application for the London 2012 Olympic Games next week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Based on Visa’s payWave technology, the application will enable NFC mobile phone users to tap and pay at the point of sale, as well as check […]

IDBLUE unveiled a mobile, Bluetooth ultra-high frequency RFID reader for smart phones and tablets, followed by the announcement that Mygrant Glass Co. Inc. plans to deploy the IDBLUE.UHF reader in each of its almost 600 delivery vehicles nationwide. With support for iPhones and iPads, the pen-shaped reader can be used to navigate and enter data […]

MasterCard and Telefonica have named their mobile payments joint venture in Latin America “Wanda.” According to MasterCard, Wanda was created to lead the development of mobile financial solutions in 12 markets in Latin America, providing mobile payment solutions to the more than 87 million Movistar customers. These mobile payment services will be linked to a […]

Precise Biometrics announced a partnership with security software developer Thursby Software, which will be integrating Precise’s smart casing solution with Thursby’s security app for mobile devices. The new solutions makes use of the smart casing, a case that fits over smart phones and mobile devices and enables biometric and smart card authentication via the device. […]

EyeVerify, a company founded in Kansas City, Mo., has developed a new mode of eye-based biometric authentication that authenticates people by the unique vein pattern in the whites of an individual’s eye, according to a Silicon Prairie News article. Moreover, the new development is only software and EyeVerify intends to push the solution as a […]

NXP Semiconductors announced that six NFC service providers will showcase their solutions at NXP’s Mobile World Congress booth next week in Barcelona. Foursquare, DeviceFidelity and several others will gather at NXP’s “NFC concept café” to demonstrate NFC solutions powered by NXP’s mobile NFC technology, NFC tags, and contactless readers. First up, Touchanote works together with […]

Goode Intelligence revealed in its new report, Mobile Phone Biometric Security Analysis and Forecasts 2011-2015, that mobile phone biometric security products and services generated just over $30 million in 2011 and that the market will grow to over $161 million in revenue by 2015. “We believe a biometric groundswell is building for smart mobile devices. […]

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has announced that it is supplying NFC-enabled SIM cards to Italian mobile operator Nòverca for a mobile payments pilot. Six hundred employees and customers of Banca Intesa Sanpaolo can now use their mobile phones to make contactless payments at more than 3,000 point of sale terminals in the northern Italian cities […]

Oberthur Technologies has signed a contract with Société Générale, one of Europe’s largest banks, for the deployment of NFC services in France this year. As per the agreement, Oberthur will provide Société Générale with its trusted service manager (TSM) solution, enabling the bank to issue its payment application to customers using NFC-enabled phones. According to […]

BIO-key International Inc. released its latest WEB-key Client software for Apple iOS products, an application that works with BIO-key’s WEB-key Server for strong authentication solutions. Advanced mobile device fingerprint hardware solutions have been introduced for iOS devices by Grabba, S.I.C. Biometrics and Fulcrum. Each device supports the new BIO-key iTunes application. In December 2011, BIO-key […]