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INSIDE Contactless and Cubic Demo First Payment-Transit multi-application Card at APTA Expo

Prototype Combines Certified Visa payWave and Cubic NextPASS Transit Applications AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, October 8, 2008–Advancing its commitment to the transit payment system market, INSIDE Contactless, a leading provider of advanced, open-standard contactless chip technologies, today announced it will be demonstrating how the award-winning MicroPass® intelligent contactless payment platform can be applied to transit payment systems…

Libercard, ViVOtech and Inteligensa Collaborate on First Transit & Retail Combination Contactless Payment Deployment in Latin America

Libercard lets Brazilians ride transit and make contactless payments, top-ups at retailers using a single prepaid contactless card Fortaleza, Brazil, October 7th, 2008–Libercard, ViVOtech and Inteligensa today announced that they have collaborated to develop the first Transit & Retail combination contactless payment implementation in Latin America. With the new technology, Brazilians in the city of…

SCM Microsystems Introduces Mobile, Contactless, Multi-Application Solution for Secure Access and Payment Transactions

Takes Equity Stake in TranZfinity Intended to Promote Contactless Authentication Devices ISMANING, Germany, October 7, 2008–SCM Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCMM, Prime Standard: SMY), a leading provider of solutions that open the Digital World, today introduced @MAXX™ prime, the first product of a new family of portable USB devices that enable secure electronic transactions, secure data…

BART Riders Embrace Paying with Mobile Phones–NFC Trial a Success

Mobile Payments Trial Shows High Transit and Retail Usage OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 6, 2008–Earlier this year a select group of San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) riders took part in a first-in-the-nation trial to pay for their fares and food, receive discounts and check account balances using just their new mobile phone containing…