Game developer Nintendo announced that launch titles for the upcoming Wii U system will not support NFC as previously promised, according to a report from The Gaming Examiner. NFC was one of the more exciting features of the new game system as demos for the product showed a user transfer a game from a TV […]
18 Sep, 2012Wii U launch titles to snub NFC support
18 Sep, 2012New software detects fake fingerprints
A professor at Clarkson University has created software technology to determine whether or not fingerprints taken as biometric readings are fake, reports the Watertown (N.Y.) Daily Times. Stephanie Schuckers, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the university has developed the software, which is now a business called NexID. The software can determine if […]
18 Sep, 2012Smart cards replace bus passes and punch cards, Denver
The Regional Transportation District (RTD) of the Denver Metro Area is introducing a new smart card fare payment system, which is expected to replace all general bus passes and punch cards throughout the system late next year, according to The Daily Camera. The smart card – dubbed MyRide – is equipped with a chip that […]
18 Sep, 2012INSIDE Secure, TazTag produce secure NFC-enabled android tablet
A partnership between INSIDE Secure and TazTag has yielded an NFC-enabled Android tablet. The TazPad V2 is a 7-inch Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet that can be used for mobile banking, stock management, payment, ticketing, access control, identity and other sensitive and secure applications. The tablet— currently available directly from TazTag—combines INSIDE’s EMVCo-certified Secure […]
18 Sep, 2012Munich’s payworks brings cashless payments to Oktoberfest 2012
German beer festival Oktoberfest will be using mobile point of sale (POS) terminals developed by Munich-based payworks in an attempt to expedite customers’ payment experience. The system being used at Oktoberfest is developed by Payworks and works with a small card-reading device that plugs directly into an iPhone. The solution enables smaller merchants to accept […]
18 Sep, 2012Australians to get Windows Phone 8 with NFC capabilities
The latest installment of the Windows Phone will feature NFC capabilities along with a host of other improvements, according to ComputerWorld Australia. By supporting NFC technologies, Windows Phone 8 will enable for two-way communication between a mobile device and an NFC terminal at a cash register or pay station. The phone will have a “tap […]
17 Sep, 2012NEC to fund Michigan State biometric research
NEC Corporation of America has granted Michigan State University (MSU) with a gift to the school’s College of Engineering to fund biometric research. As reported by CBS Detroit, the gift will fund ongoing research on fingerprint matching and facial recognition. It will also help start new research in the school’s Pattern Recognition and Image Processing […]