Identive Group, Inc. launched an NFC tag online customization service to supply consumers and developers with personalized NFC tags. Customers can now order NFC tags, stickers and smart posters for advertising, promotion, information pick-up or social media check-in and can personalize their tags with their own designs, photos or logos, specify a URL destination, phone number or other data to be encoded, and place orders directly on www.identiveNFC.com.
The Summit, held by the Smart Card Alliance in partnership with the NFC Forum, will take place May 22–24, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport Hotel in Burlingame, California. The pre-conference workshop day will be on May 21st.
Food service partners deploy Cashless Betalen solution in companies, schools
Multicard announced the expanded availability of its mobile phone based cashless payment solution, Cashless Betalen, into additional micropayment environments in The Netherlands through partnership with leading catering and food service providers. Following the initial successful launch of the solution to sports clubs, Multicard is now signing up commercial caterers who are implementing Cashless Betalen to enable phone-based cashless payments in company canteens and school cafeterias across the country.
New Design Options for Engaging Consumer Experiences
Identive Group, Inc. announced the newest additions to its NFC tag product line — NFC window stickers and magnets for high-impact, fun consumer experiences. The new NFC window stickers are ideally suited for information pick-up, social media check-in and coupon applications. A unique process creates double-sided, high-resolution color tags that display the same high-quality visual image when entering or exiting a place of business. By concealing the smart NFC inlays, Identive's NFC window tags and stickers offer aesthetically pleasing design options to attract users' attention from both sides of the window.
Digital radiography cameras are rapidly replacing traditional x-ray systems in medical offices of all sizes, because they expose patients to less radiation, provide higher quality images and greatly simplify record keeping.
"To enhance security of personnel and assets within their facilities, government agencies and businesses of all sizes are working to integrate their physical and IT network access systems using open standard platforms, so that a single identity credential can be used for employees across the entire enterprise, from door to network," explained John Menzel, vice president Access Control ID Solutions for Identive. "In order to bridge logical and physical systems with a single identity, door readers need to combine support for proprietary legacy systems with secure and open IT network communication capabilities. This principle is the basis for the new TouchSecure reader family."
INSIDE Secure's SecuRead Product Approved by Major Global Banking Standards Organization
INSIDE Secure announced that its SecuRead® NFC platform is the first product in the industry to pass the new EMVCo Platform Security Evaluation Process and receive certification. This certification provides assurance to mobile device manufacturers, mobile network operators and software developers that the SecuRead secure element and operating system have undergone and passed extensive security testing and will provide a robust security platform that is ready to accept major payment brands and other secure NFC applications. EMV is a global standard for credit and debit cards, and more than 1.3 billion EMV-compliant cards are in use today.
