SCM Microsystems, a leading provider of solutions for secure access and identity, has rolled out a new portable contactless smart card reader, the SCL3711, that’s capable of supporting multiple contactless applications from mobile payments to transportation, access control and e-government. The USB reader supports all major 13.56 MHZ contactless technologies, including ISO 14443 type A&B, […]

Credit card giant Visa, two banks and a mobile operator have launched a small NFC payments trial in Brazil. The pilot involves 70 people who have been given NFC-compliant Nokia phones that they can use to make payments at any retailer that now accepts Visa’s payWave contactless payments technology. The banks involved in the trial […]

An NXP Semiconductors official believes the single wire protocol specification has solved the chicken and egg problem that has dogged the mobile payments industry. Speaking with ZDNet Asia at the NFC World Asia event in Singapore this week, Charles Dachs, NXP’s head of product management, noted that lack of standardization has stalled many NFC pilots. […]

Bell ID announced that it will be providing its smart card management software to the retail division bank of BancABC to secure, manage and personalize its Visa EMV cards in all five sub-Saharan operating countries. With the implementation of ANDiS4EMV, Bell ID’s software solution for smart card management in the financial sector, BancABC has deployed […]

VingCard, a hospitality security provider and part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, has completed its installation of Signature contactless electronic door locks with NFC cell phone compatibility at the Sea Pearl Villas Resort in Phuket, Thailand. While the hotel is open now, the resort itself isn’t scheduled to open until the third quarter of 2010. […]

Tyfone, a Portland, Ore. mobile financial services provider, has been chosen by Oregon’s largest credit union to supply the infrastructure for the financial institution’s mobile banking service. Tyfone’s technology integrates the secure element , an NFC contactless chip and antenna on standard secure digital memory cards allowing memory card-enabled phones to become instantly capable of […]

According to a report on nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com, Christian Estrosi, the French minister for industry, has announced that the French government will award 13 grants to companies working on RFID and Near Field Communication (NFC) projects. The cumulative cost of these grants is expected to reach several million euros. Most of the RFID projects involve IT and […]