Founded in 2006 and located in Malakoff in France, AIRTAG provides retail companies with the technologies (including NFC) required to convert their points-of-sale into interactive, connected and intelligent spaces in which to create customer loyalty and improve sales. They have also just completed their second funding round from CM-CIC Capital Privé and its traditional investor… Read More
Hirsch Awarded Additional $3 Million Order for Multi-Year IRS Security Project
Hirsch, a security systems manufacturer and a business unit of Identive Group, Inc. has confirmed the award of a $3 million order from the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which encompasses a base year plus four option-years. The order covers application software support and maintenance services for the IRS Enterprise Physical Access Control System (ePACS) being… Read More
Atos Origin and CASSIS International partner to deploy mobile NFC services in Europe
Atos Worldline, which brings together Atos Origin’s expertise in hi-tech transactional services, is partnering with CASSIS International, one of the key suppliers of NFC and TSM solutions. The aim of this partnership is to implement complete solutions enabling service providers – banks, public transport operators, telecoms operators, distributors, etc. – to deploy innovative and secure… Read More
Low cost NFC phone for consumer diagnostics and social networks apps from GENTAG uses NXP NFC Tech
GENTAG, Inc. and its partners have announced the commercial availability of a low-cost near field communication (NFC) cell phone for RFID sensor applications, including consumer diagnostics. The technology integrates NXP’s PN544 NFC IC technology with the full open ISO NFC spectrum and was co-developed in Asia in collaboration with NXP and other partners. It is… Read More
VeriFone Integrates Card Payment & Media for UK Taxis
Taxi card payment and digital media solutions are now available in the UK thanks to VeriFone who are offering the system free to London’s licensed black cabs in order to modernize the taxi payments infrastructure and improve passenger journeys. The VeriFone system has been approved for TX model taxis by Transport for London’s Taxi and… Read More
Crédit Agricole Selects Gemalto for its Mobile Contactless Payment Program in Nice
Crédit Agricole has selected Gemalto to support the bank in deploying Near Field Communication (NFC) mobile payment solutions in Nice. As part of the “Nice, Ville NFC” initiative, Crédit Agricole Provence Côte d’Azur offers its customers a contactless payment solution, using an NFC-approved mobile phone. Since January 2011, customers of Crédit Agricole Provence Côte d’Azur… Read More
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