TSYS have announced that they have entered into a partnership with CASSIS International to provide secure mobile payment, loyalty and commerce functionality. CASSIS is a mobile trusted service manager (TSM) for banks, retailers, transit operators and mobile service providers, and is globally certified by Visa and MasterCard. “Consumers will soon be using their phones as… Read More
Delivery of Commercial UIM cards to KDDI heralds Toshiba’s entry into the NFC market
Toshiba Corporation today announced that it will start delivery of commercial User Identity Module (UIM) cards supporting Near Field Communication to KDDI Corporation, a leading Japanese mobile network operator, in February. Toshiba’s newly developed UIM card equipped with CDMA2000 and Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), supports NFC, which is expected to go into commercial… Read More
‘True’ NFC hardware independence brought to Google Android “Gingerbread”, claims INSIDE Secure
INSIDE Secure, a provider of semiconductor solutions for secure transactions and digital identity, has announced the availability of a new version of its award-winning, open-source Open NFC™ protocol stack geared to the latest version of Google Android™ (aka Gingerbread). This makes Open NFC the first truly hardware-independent, open-source NFC protocol stack for this popular smartphone operating… Read More
INSIDE Secure brings biometric on-card matching security to SecuRead NFC solution
INSIDE Secure, a semiconductor solutions provider for secure transactions and digital identity, today announced the availability of biometric on-card matching capabilities for its SecuRead(TM) system-in-package NFC solution, enabling manufacturers of mobile NFC devices to provide enhanced, two-factor security and greater personal privacy for a variety of mobile applications. Based on advanced fingerprint identification software from… Read More
accells new contactless service turns any mobile phone into a Contactless Key for loyalty programs (and for access to any other service…)
The contactless network provider accells is to introduces its contactless network at the Mobile World Congress2011 in Barcelona. The new accells network turns any mobile phone into the mobile contactless key for fast, secure and easy-to-use access to a ready-to-use loyalty program and to any other service offered by 3rd parties such as mobile network operators, financial service… Read More
European Research Consortium to Pilot Digital Privacy Solutions at University and Secondary School
This year, the 28th January was designated “Data Privacy Day”. So it was fitting that a major research initiative was announced to pilot cryptographic technologies that enable European citizens to better protect their privacy and identities. The project, called ABC4Trust, uses privacy-enabling technology that will be piloted at a university in Greece and a secondary… Read More
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