Portland, Ore.-based Tyfone, a provider of a mobile financial services infrastructure, says it has completed the testing phase of its u4ia Secure Memory Card technology designed to secure contactless mobile payments. The company also announced joint system testing with its manufacturing partner, NXP Semiconductors. Tyfone believes this could also accelerate the global rollout and adoption […]

The latest study from ABI Research, Oyster Bay, N.Y., shows spending for contactless payments hardware and software could reach $870 million in three years, about triple the amount spent in 2006. Two applications–transportation and credit, debit, and e-purse payments–are leading the charge. “Initial contactless payments deployments have already shown the ability to speed transactions and […]

Rollcomm World Corp. in Budapest thinks Bluetooth technology is a more viable alternative to near field communication for mobile payments and has announced a payment plan to back up its words. The main reason Bluetooth makes sense is that it’s already in most phones, while NFC has yet to make its presence felt. In addition, […]

Alcatel-Lucent’s Tikitag system, first announced last fall, is now available in India. The RFID-enabled systems offers a way to link offline objects to the digital world. The Tikitag system uses mailing-label sized RFID tags which can be stuck to objects or papers. The tags contain data that, when scanned by the system’s reader, leads the […]

By Kurt Bell, vice president Sales & Marketing, Jolly Technologies Without a doubt we have seen an increased interest in applications and requests from customers that would benefit from RFID, contactless and ultra high frequency technologies. We have also seen many specialty entry/exit tracking markets where the implementation of these technologies provides a faster way […]

Creditcards.com, a Web site that bills itself as a credit card marketplace, predicts that mobile payments will further increase in 2009, but cautions that as this area matures, it could prove ripe for thieves. In its “Nine Predictions for Credit Cards in 2009,” the site notes that three million people in the U.S. used mobile […]

By Colin Soutar, CSC In 2009, we see two main market trends that will continue to drive the deployment of identity and access management solutions (IAM). First, the broad array of technology offerings in this space will be focused very much on the business-rules and compliance requirements of customers. Second, the policies around privacy and […]