China Mobile has confirmed rumors that it is considering using a 13.56MHz NFC standard in addition to its 2.4GHz RFID mobile payment standard. According to Marbridge Daily, the NFC standard is more favored by the banking industry, since it is used by the majority of POS terminals. An anonymous industry source told Marbridge Daily that […]

ThingMagic announced it has partnered with Lygase, an RFID business intelligence solutions company, and Jamison, a supplier of RFID enclosures, pedestals, and portals, to support the debut of the Lygase SmartEvents application. The SmartEvents system is a Web-hosted business intelligence application designed to improve the business efficiencies for venue owners, event organizers, exhibitors and attendees. […]

Vayama.com, an online provider of discounted airfares, announced their latest offering to students, which doesn’t require the purchase of a proprietary student identity card to gain access to discounted airfares. All Vayama discounted airfares are on electronic tickets. Travelers present their student ID from their learning institution to board the plane and there is no […]

Augusta has unveiled a smart card system designed for credit unions that would encourage cardholders to shop at local merchants. Augusta has developed the system in partnership with Ingenico, a supplier of payment solutions. This system represents an evolution of a system applied by Augusta with one of Africa’s largest banks across many remote areas […]

By Ross Mathis, Contributing Editor, AVISIAN Publications As part of a green initiative, and to compliment its new arena opening in late March, the Major League Soccer Red Bull team of New York has incorporated a new paperless ticketing system with the aid of contactless smart card technology. The new system is designed to improve […]

sQuid has announced the launch of its new smart card-based loyalty program for businesses wishing to implement contactless payment technology. The program provides customers with an online account where they can view their transactions, as well as keep track of their loyalty funds, which are protected with a central host system. According to sQuid, the […]

Sirit announced that the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has issued a final order approving the previously announced plan under which Federal Signal Corporation will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Sirit for $0.46 per share in cash. As previously announced, Sirit signed a second amendment to its definitive arrangement agreement […]

By Ed McKinley, Contributing Editor, AVISIAN Publications Los Angeles dazzles, New York overwhelms and Chicago gets the job done on broad shoulders. But don’t look to America’s urban behemoths for the latest in payments technology. Tiny La Junta, Colo.–until now known mainly for melons, corn and cattle–is becoming one of the nation’s first hotbeds of […]

CardKing unveiled its iPhone App, now available on the iTunes Store. The free App turns any iPhone camera into a portable bar code scanner, capturing student ID and discount bar codes into the phone for retrieval later. Students can instantly display bar codes associated with student discount programs and campus cards to enable merchants to […]

Burlington, New Jersey now has all the more reason to recycle thanks to the duo of RFID systems integrator, Aviant Systems, Inc., and RecycleBank. Aviant has developed a program with RecycleBank that attempts to motivate people to recycle and rewards them for taking action with points that can be redeemed from participating local and national […]