Northwest Allen County Schools of Fort Wayne, Ind. are installing fingerprint scanners that students will use to pay for the lunches, according to a local news station. School district leaders say the new technology will reduce the risk of student’s losing or having their ID card stolen. The system will also reduce clerical errors and […]

NXP Semiconductors has launched its new SmartMX2 family of microcontrollers designed to provide security for a range of applications including government, banking, PayTV, mobile transactions, public transport, access management and device authentication. With SmartMX2, NXP is introducing its new IntegralSecurity architecture, which protects the integrity and confidentiality of user data and applications targeting CC EAL […]

New Zealand’s Eden Park, host of the 2011 Rugby World Cup, officially launched its contactless payment system, according to computerworld.co.nz. The Aukland venue has opted for MasterCard’s PayPass system, allowing fans to tap and pay for items of $80 or less. According to Computerworld, a PayPass transactions shaves approximately 30 seconds off an average PIN […]

Payter has introduced its new Globe P45 payment terminal supporting contactless, EMV and NFC mobile payment. The ‘plug and play’ reader is a stand alone device that does not need to be integrated with a cash register, making it suitable for small retailers, according to Payter. The Globe P45 terminal comes standard with a broad […]

A statewide probe into deceptive credit card marketing practices targeting students on New York college campuses could create headaches for the credit business, but it might be good news for campus card companies. That’s what industry leaders are hoping will follow an investigation launched in August by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, says Lowell […]

Samsung Electronics announced plans to mass produce a new NFC chip featuring embedded flash memory. Slated for production early next year, the chips enables contactless mobile payment at the point-of-sale or in public transit applications, as well as peer-to-peer data exchange. According to Samsung, the chips consume 20% less power than standard NFC chips and […]

HID Global announced the addition of a mobile sticker format to its family of contactless payment and identification cards. The stickers aim to make it easier to add closed-loop payment and loyalty systems to existing automatic fare collection or retail systems, or to augment campus identification systems with new access control capabilities. They also can […]

Turkish motorists will soon be able to pay for tolls via mobile phone thanks to Bank Asya and Turkcell, according to todayszaman.com. The partners plan to publicly launch the system by February 2011. Anyone interested in participating can go to Turkcell Communication Centers to obtain a specially designed SIM card that lets motorists pay for […]

PKO Bank Polski is partnering with Gemalto to migrate its entire portfolio of Visa debit cards from magnetic stripe technology to EMV contactless. PKO Bank Polski S.A., the largest financial institution in Poland with 1,211 branches and 1,938 agencies serving 8.5 million customers, began deployment of the new technology in September 2010. The bank plans […]

Tallmadge Middle School in Ohio is set to install and implement a new biometric system for its lunch programs that the students use starting in the spring, according to a Tallmadge Express article. The system, which is the same as the one that has been used for the last two years at Tallmadge High School, […]