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Contactless Smart Chip Technology: The Business Benefits
White Papers Contactless smart chip technology, a form of proven smart card technology, is used increasingly in applications that must protect personal information or deliver fast, secure transactions. Leveraging many years of smart card security developments...
[November 15, 2009, 20:19]
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. RFID technology brings a new experience to credit card payments, but it also comes with new problems.
[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]
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]
Smart Ticketing for Mass Transit: The New Global Opportunity Created by Low-Cost, Contactless Ticketing
White Papers This paper sets out the current situation in smart ticketing, looks at progress in standardisation and outlines new technology developments that will dramatically alter the economics of deploying contactless ticketing solutions in mass transit...
[November 16, 2006, 0:00]
The What, Who and Why of Contactless Payments
White Papers The mass market introduction of contactless technology is an important event for the payments industry. Contactless payments are already providing benefits to consumers and retailers alike, in terms of higher levels of control and convenience for...
[May 30, 2007, 8:31]
Barclays rolls out contactless debit card
News Barclays Bank has rolled out a contactless Visa debit card. This contactless technology will allow them to use the debit card for transactions of up to ten pounds, without entering a PIN. The protocol behind the contactless technology has not been...
[March 2, 2009, 13:55]
Boots to trial PayPass contactless payments
News UK health retailer Boots is to trial contactless payments at UK stores. MasterCard PayPass cards to make contactless payments from the second half of this year. Boots is working with RBS Worldpay to develop and implement an integrated contactless...
[May 14, 2009, 10:27]
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]
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]
Visa plans trial of contactless debit cards
News Visa is to trial contactless debit cards in London this autumn that will allow shoppers to pay for low-value goods by simply touching their card against an electronic reader. Visa is planning on using RFID-enabled dual-use debit cards for the trial...
[June 26, 2006, 16:35]
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]
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
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]
Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative PASS Card: Recommendations for Using Secure Contactless Technology Vs. RFID
White Papers The Smart Card Alliance, whose members provide both ISO/IEC 14443-based contact less smart card and EPC Gen 2 products, strongly recommends that DHS conduct a trial to evaluate the performance of both EPC Gen 2 and ISO/IEC 14443-based technologies...
[November 14, 2009, 23:00]
Home Office steps up mobile fraud measures
News People buying new 'contactless' mobile phones will be encouraged to sign up to a national register in an effort to combat crime. Among them is that any customer who signs up for a phone able to make contactless payments will be encouraged to add...
[August 28, 2009, 12:44]
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]
Wireless credit card in development
News Royal Philips Electronics and Visa announced on Wednesday an alliance to promote and develop a contactless chip technology, a short-range wireless technology that would allow people to pay for goods by waving a smart card in front of a sensor.
[May 29, 2003, 11:20]
'Tap and go' payment launched in London
News MasterCard has launched its contactless payment technology in the UK. The MasterCard PayPass and Maestro PayPass contactless cards allow consumers to buy items costing less than £10 simply by waving their debit or credit card in front of a reader.
[September 5, 2007, 9:20]
NFC tech predicted to reach tipping point by 2013
News The market for contactless mobile payments using near field communications is set to reach a tipping point over the next three to five years, according to a new report by Juniper Research. Juniper Research forecast the gross transaction value of...
[July 21, 2008, 8:12]
