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Contactless Commerce Enables a World Beyond Payment Cards
White Papers More than 10 million new payment cards issued in the U.S.in 2005 support contactless transactions, and the number of cards keeps growing. As contactless commerce gains acceptance, card issuers seek to extend the technology to alternate form factors...
[December 14, 2006, 0:00]
Contactless payment system crash probed
Talkback I saw this Oyster system on the news and I didn't think much of it. How can people be happy to put money onto a card that does not need authentication. I wouldn't mind my mobile being recognised wirelessly, or it asking for a thumb print but to put...
[March 10, 2005, 17:34]
Contactless payment system crash probed
Talkback Samuel, This system and other like it handle millions of transactions a day. The data is as secured as the chip that is used on the smart card. Some are more secure than others but keep in mind that the least secure unit is multiple times more...
[March 18, 2005, 2:51]
Improving Consumers' Contactless Payment Experience
White Papers Contactless cards are a key technology for improving the consumer experience for retail transactions. The sensitivity of the contactless card is a more important metric than the computational speed, but the implementation of both translates into a...
[March 28, 2008, 0:28]
Contactless payment system crash probed
News London Underground is investigating the cause of a computer glitch that caused its Oyster smartcard ticketing system to crash during the peak rush hour this morning. Ticket gates had to be left open when Oyster card readers at tube stations across...
[March 10, 2005, 15:10]
Olympics tickets could double as cash, travel cards
News The London 2012 Olympics could be set to pioneer smart tickets that double up as contactless payment and Oyster cards. The idea of combining a contactless payment card with ticketing capability is not new: Barclays OnePulse credit card, launched in...
[June 1, 2009, 8:48]
Barclays set to make all debit cards contactless
News Barclays is to replace its entire fleet of debit cards with new ones featuring contactless-payment functionality. In addition, all new customers to the bank from March will be given contactless cards.
[January 7, 2009, 9:18]
'Tap and go' payment launched in London
News MasterCard has launched its contactless payment technology in the UK. In a similar vein to London Underground's Oyster Card, contactless cards transmit payment details wirelessly between the PayPass card and a retailer's terminal.
[September 5, 2007, 9:20]
Boots to trial PayPass contactless payments
News Boots is working with RBS Worldpay to develop and implement an integrated contactless payment system within the stores. Barclaycard has also fitted contactless payment terminals at national brands throughout the UK, including Coffee Republic, Eat...
[May 14, 2009, 10:27]
Mobile industry in RFID payment push
News The technology, known as near-field communications (NFC), is the same kind of contactless payment connectivity that is built into London's Oyster travel card and the latest generation of bank cards. According to the industry body, this type of NFC...
[November 18, 2008, 11:42]
Visa plans trial of contactless debit cards
News Visa is planning on using RFID-enabled dual-use debit cards for the trial, based on its Visa Contactless payment technology, but is also understood to be in talks with mobile manufacturers to use near field communications (NFC) technology that...
[June 26, 2006, 16:35]
Barclaycard, Orange team up on mobile payments
News Customers will be able to use their mobiles to make 'wave and pay'-style payments of up to £10 at retailers that have contactless payment readers installed — currently almost 10,000 outlets in the UK, including the likes of Eat, Pret A Manger...
[March 10, 2009, 7:39]
Barclays rolls out contactless debit card
News Contactless payment has been rolled out, but any security vulnerabilities will be pointed out after the banks can do anything about it. Barclays Bank has rolled out a contactless Visa debit card. This contactless technology will allow them to use...
[March 2, 2009, 13:55]
O2 hails success of Oyster-phone trial
News While almost half (225) of the 500 testers also got the Barclaycard Visa payWave application preloaded with £200 which they could use to pay for low-value goods at selected retail outlets, O2 said the Oyster function proved more popular than the...
[September 3, 2008, 11:39]
Wireless credit card in development
News Mifare is a contactless smart-card technology meant to facilitate secure payment transactions. Royal Philips Electronics and Visa announced on Wednesday an alliance to promote and develop a contactless chip technology, a short-range wireless...
[May 29, 2003, 11:20]
Singapore to start wireless-payment trials
News EZ-Link issues the ez-link card, a contactless payment card widely used by commuters as payment for bus and train rides. According to Nets chief executive Poh Mui Hoon, the company operates about 1,200 contactless terminals island-wide, a number...
[September 4, 2007, 16:33]
Transport for London to trial 'Oyster' phone
News The same technology has recently been incorporated into some new banking cards so that they can be used in shops for contactless payment of small amounts. Visa even has a "payWave" credit card that features the capability to make small, contactless...
[November 26, 2007, 12:18]
Contactless Payments Privacy and Security of RFID-Enabled Credit Cards
White Papers The new contactless payment devices suffer from various vulnerabilities which the paper will discuss. Finally the paper will take a look at the future: which possibilities arise when using a mobile phone as a payment device.
[April 15, 2009, 1:22]
Contactless payments launched in Liverpool
News RBS WorldPay and MasterCard are teaming up to roll out a contactless payment scheme with Liverpool retailers and buses in the coming weeks. In the same way that chip and PIN has revolutionised the way shoppers pay, contactless is the future of...
[October 28, 2009, 13:38]
RFID Tags and Contactless Smart Card Technology: Comparing and Contrasting Applications and Capabilities
White Papers As a general definition, radio frequency identification (RFID) tag technology is used in applications that identify or track objects and contactless smart card technology is used in applications that identify people or store financial or personal...
[August 23, 2005, 6:00]
