contactless
RSS contactlessBluetooth 'on its way out'?
News Japanese operator DoCoMo has already included a precursor to NFC in some of its handsets as a way of turning the phone into a way of making contactless payments. With mobile handsets rapidly evolving, a spectrum of... [21 Apr 2005]
ID card and biometric passport roadmap updated
News The new passport will use a paper-thin contactless chip which can be read without being swiped through a reader, with enough capacity to store a facial image and at least one additional biometric. The UK Passport Service... [29 Mar 2005]
Oyster card: Taking over London from libraries to leisure centres
News We are looking for an e-money partner.we're also looking for technology partners to help us navigate the right place for a contactless payment card in the marketplace - an organisation with a certain amount of vision and... [17 Mar 2005]
Has technology finally emptied your wallet?
News He added that the company is trying to take its products into areas where RFID can be used in place of 'real' money and using contactless technology to lower the margin of entry for cash-based merchants to accept... [17 Mar 2005]
Rolling out RFID? You could be breaking the law
News One should consider the hypothetical case where an organisation decided to implement a contactless ticketing system based on RFID technology for monthly passes where the name and contact details of the holder of the pass... [24 Feb 2005]
RFID: Why you may need tinfoil trousers
News Using contactless, RFID-enabled credit cards - where payments are made by holding the card near a reader - has been found to increase sales by 30 per cent. Microsoft has told people worried about the tracking... [18 Nov 2004]
Credit cards get RFID makeover from MasterCard
News The OneSMART PayPass card will use both Chip and PIN and RFID technology to enable contactless payments - used in the same way as the London Underground Oyster card. MasterCard is also hoping to take... [04 Nov 2004]
Philips sees phone and NFC wireless love affair
News The dream is that NFC will more easily allow mobile phones and smart cards to be used as contactless payment devices. A smarter form of radio frequency ID chips called Near Field Communications (NFC) will take off but... [22 Oct 2004]
Motorola and Mastercard in "credit card" phone trial
News NFC is used in "contactless" credit card readers, which are replacing traditional readers that require cards to be swiped, or gobbled up and spat out. Motorola and MasterCard are working on mobile phones capable of... [13 Oct 2004]
Great Wall of China chipped
News Today's agreement with the Beijing Municipal Administration and Communications Card Company is based on Philips' Mifare contactless chip technology but this is compatible with NFC, in accordance with the ISO 14443 A... [03 Sep 2004]
Philips sells chips for 'next big thing' to Samsung
News Sour Chhor, general manager at Philips Semiconductors' Contactless and Embedded Security division, said: "NFC is a complementary technology. Philips Semiconductors has announced Samsung will make mobile phones that use... [31 Aug 2004]
Is the world ready for 'wave and go' credit card payments?
News 'Contactless' technology being trialled by MasterCard promises to make credit card transactions as simple as waving the card in the air and the company appears ready to roll out the service across the US next year. [22 Dec 2003]
Biometric health and passport IDs head for Europe
News The proposal states: "The most appropriate storage medium is a contactless microchip. EU citizens may be hit by a double whammy of electronic idenfication measures over the next two years with the introduction of health... [23 Oct 2003]
Smartcard ticketing going Underground
News The London Underground has begun rolling out a smartcard ticketing system in what is billed as Europe's first major showcase of contactless smartcard technology. The chip is compliant with the international ISO 14443... [20 Nov 2002]
Alcatel contracts boost Asian-Pacific networks
News The company will install contactless validators in 4,000 buses to download ticket data to 85 depot controllers. Alcatel's presence in Asia Pacific is to expand after winning two large contracts in Taipei and China. [07 Apr 2000]
