The Smart Card Alliance has selected officers for its newly-formed Mobile and NFC Council. Brent Bowen, vice president of business development for INSIDE Secure, will serve as chair of the council, with Chandra Srivastava, business leader at Visa, taking on the position of vice chair. Doug Morgan, chief strategy officer at C-SAM, will serve as […]

Dates: September 18-20, 2012 Location: Tampa, Florida Venue: Tampa Convention Center URL: http://www.biometricconference.com/ Description: The 2012 Biometric Consortium Conference and Technology Expo, presented by AFCEA, NIST and NSA, will address the important role that biometrics plays in identification and verification of individuals for government and commercial applications worldwide. The Conference will be two and a […]

The May meeting of the influential Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) was recently held in Washington D.C. FIPS201.com was on hand to cover the event and has provided, as a service to the IAB and the smart card community, an audio recording of the presentations. Click on the link below to access a […]

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia says it will release an Android version of its Kaching mobile payments app within six weeks – albeit without NFC, according to ZDNet. Andy Lark, chief marketing officer of Commbank, told ZDNet Australia that the Android version of Kaching will not leverage embedded NFC technology because Google and other device […]

SIA Central Europe, an IT systems operator supporting bankcard issuance and transactions, is looking to work with financial institutions in Hungary and other Central European countries to deliver NFC-enabled mobile services, according to QR Code Press. SIA is hoping to create new mobile payment services that are viable for mass adoption among bank customers in […]

Kinetic and JCDecaux have announced positive results for their NFC-enabled outdoor advertising pilot in Reading, UK. Launched this past March, the pilot saw more than 3,000 people scan the NFC-enabled poster sites, which were set up across Reading and in the Oracle shopping mall over a four-week period. According to a survey conducted by the […]

Stagecoach, one of the UK’s largest bus and rail operators, has partnered with mobile operator Everything Everywhere to trial NFC payments in Cambridgeshire, UK. The trial, dubbed “the UK’s first Government-standard commercial deployment of mobile contactless transport ticketing,” enables a small group of bus users to receive, store and validate their bus tickets using their […]