A joint venture between At Security Jessen, Kaba and LEGIC Identsystems AG has produced a solution that will demonstrate how access applications and rights can be loaded over a mobile network onto NFC-enabled phones using a trusted service manager. LEGIC’s new TSM will be focused on identification applications. The service will enable LEGIC customers to […]

Hackathons offer budding young programmers and developers the opportunity to flex their prowess. EETimes reports that the latest the latest technology to be tested is NFC. The NFC event, entitled “Tapped” saw tech giants like Facebook, Verizon, Samsung and MIT provide the venue for the tech-savvy hackers giving them free reign to stump their systems. […]

An NFC mobile app exploiting a transit system loophole has been created that enables users to ride trains for free. Gizmodo reports that Corey Benninger and Max Sobell of the Intrepidus Group have developed the UltraReset app, which preys on vulnerabilities in a number of public transit systems including the New Jersey Path and San […]

The Communication Federal Credit Union (CFCU) has enlisted Typhone to provide its customers with a mobile banking solution. A story on Pymnts.com revealed that CFCU services more than 50,000 members across Kansas and Oklahoma and plans to make the Typhone suite of solutions available to every one of them. Crucial to Typhone’s selection was its […]

VingCard Elsafe announced their continued involvement with Give Kids The World Village (GKTW) in Kissimmee, Florida – a generous donation – providing 140 Signature RFID locks to outfit the resort’s villas and VISIONLINE software for the front desk. Give Kids The World Village officially opened in 1989 and has grown into a 70-acre resort housing […]

Visa has released its London 2012 Olympics NFC and contactless usage statistics, where the company offered the unique opportunity to showcase the potential of contactless payments to its partners and members from all around the globe, according to NFC World. Visa staff, partners, Visa-sponsored athletes and journalists all issued with their Samsung Galaxy S III […]

NXP, Gemalto and Ingenico are the three highest ranked vendors to sit atop ABI Research’s latest payment and banking card and contactless technologies Competitive Assessment. The Competitive Assessment comprised a total of 18 companies, all evaluated against 11 different criteria under the categories of implementation and innovation, in addition to a market share analysis for […]

European electronic services provider Atos Worldline has announced its new Visa and Mastercard compliant NFC mobile wallet service. Implementing the latest Visa, Mastercard, SIMAlliance and AFSCM specifications the mobile wallet will feature cloud payment and NFC transactional services and will be made available to card providers worldwide. The service will include a Mobile Gateway that […]

M for Mobile has released a new NFC market report highlighting the important of financial incentives for mass adoption. In the latest study, M for Mobile revealed that more than half of the 3,000 surveyed consumers would transfer their main banking to an NFC payments account if there was a financial incentive in the form […]

The recent CEDIA 2012 conference displayed a number of household uses for NFC technology, including some ideas from Crestron’s Core 3 UI ecosystem. Crestron’s sees NFC technology as the key to in-home automation and demonstrated its AirConnect solution. The AirConnect demo saw an NFC-enabled smart phone unlock a door, turn on music and change to […]