DeviceFidelity has announced that its In2Pay microSD solution will be supported on a variety of new smart phones, including the Blackberry Tour 9630, the Android-based Samsung Epic 4G and the Samsung Fascinate, Mesmerize and Showcase models. DeviceFidelity’s In2Pay is a plug and play mobile contactless solution that transforms smart phones into interactive mobile payment devices. […]

State Employees’ Credit Union (SECU) has announced the addition of EMV technology to its debit card portfolio, making it one of the first U.S. financial institutions to add the microchips for increased transaction security over traditional magnetic stripe cards. Oberthur Technologies will provide the cooperative with the technology to migrate its 1.7 million debit cardholder […]

France’s Twinlinx is demonstrating its MyMax NFC payment sticker at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, according to techradar.com. Introduced in France last year, MyMax gives any Bluetooth-enabled smart phone NFC functionality for a fraction of the cost of an NFC phone, allowing users to make contactless payments by simply slapping the £21 sticker […]

ID solutions provider Morpho has partnered with Simlink to launch a new key fob that equips any Wi-Fi enabled mobile phone with NFC technology. The key fob contains a Morpho NFC-enabled SIM card with a secure application that hooks up to a mobile phone via Wi-Fi technology provided by Simlink. “Equipped in this way, the […]

On Track Innovations has received the first order for its new contactless mobile payment product, COPNI. COPNI (Contactless Payment and NFC Insert) is an NFC add-on device that enables mobile network operators (MNOs) to support NFC functionality and contactless payment applications from major card associations and mass transit ticketing agencies. The solution also allows MNOs […]

Orange has announced the release of its new contactless prepaid MasterCard bank card “Orange Cash.” Declared “the UK’s first major contactless prepaid card,” Orange Cash can be loaded with up to £5000 of credit for contactless purchases any of the 30 million locations around the world that accept MasterCard. Orange Cash cards, which cost £5, […]

GlobalPlatform, the organization which standardizes the management of applications on secure chip technology, has published a white paper that outlines the benefits of introducing and standardizing the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) in mobile devices. The report, titled “The Trusted Execution Environment: Delivering Enhanced Security at a Lower Cost to the Mobile Market,” deals specifically with […]

The University of Texas at Arlington has upgraded its one-card system to the point that the students and staff ID cards can be used to access appropriate buildings, make on- and off- campus purchases, and clock in and out of work. The university’s one-card system, implemented by campus card provider CBORD, is the cumulative effort […]

Campus card provider CardSmith has rolled out a “cash-to-card” solution that enables existing cardholders to check a card account balance and re-value their account using cash. An optional card dispensing module is also available enabling campus guests to purchase and use visitor cards. The Self-Service Card Station is good for busy locations such as libraries, […]

Oberthur Technologies and Airtel Africa are partnering to launch mobile payments services in fifteen African countries including Kenya, Tanzania and Gabon. Oberthur Technologies is supplying both the NFC SIM and M-Commerce security solutions for the deployment, including customized NFC applets, integrated and specialized point of sale applications and NFC enablers for specific user handsets. According […]