Gemalto has published the results of a street survey conducted amongst Dubai residents, revealing an overwhelming appetite for using contactless technologies. Dubai’s enthusiasm extends beyond the replacement of cash and encompasses a host of other applications such as public transport access, loyalty schemes and e-tickets for major music and sports events. The vast majority of [...]

Marks & Spencer (M&S), the British retailer headquartered in the Westminster, has completed the roll out of contactless payments to 644 of its UK stores, including its railway and airport franchise stores. Now one of the UK’s leading contactless retailers, M&S processes more than 230,000 contactless transactions every week. The technology, provided by Visa Europe, [...]

Legacy 125-kilohertz proximity technology is still in place at around 70% to 80% of all physical access control deployments in the U.S. and it will be a long time before that changes, says Stephane Ardiley, product manager at HID Global. The above scene, however, is starting to play out more frequently as corporations, educational institutions [...]

Cubic Transportation Systems has recognized its Minneapolis/St. Paul customer, Metro Transit, for achieving near record high usage of its Go-To Card contactless smart cards in February 2013. The Go-To Card represented 54.7% of all fares collected during the month, with nearly 3.43 million rides paid for by using Metro Transit’s Go-To Cards, which include the [...]

The crack of the bat, the pop of the ball and the roar of the crowd signal opening day for Major League Baseball teams across the country. Over the years walking through the turnstile on game day was preceded first by the tearing of tickets and more recently by the scanning of bar codes. This [...]

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the interactive version of the spring 2013 issue of Regarding ID. The interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that allows you to read the magazine as if it were on the desk in front [...]

SmartDebit, the UK direct debit payment processor, has responded to the recent news that one million bus journeys in London have been paid for using a contactless debit, credit or charge card. According to Transport for London (TfL), up to 10,000 people per day are using their contactless card to pay for a fare in [...]