--- title: "NFC News Archives - Page 74 of 106 - Secure Technology Alliance" language: "en-US" canonical_url: "https://www.securetechalliance.org/category/nfc-news/page/74/" source_url: "https://www.securetechalliance.org/category/nfc-news/page/74/" content_type: "text/markdown" --- [Home](https://www.securetechalliance.org/)NFC News # Category: NFC News ### Chinatrust Commercial Bank Launches MasterCard® PayPass™ Contactless Payment Feature on a Soccer-Themed Watch Taiwan, 2 June 2006–MasterCard International (NYSE:MA), in conjunction with Chinatrust Commercial Bank, today announced the launch of the world’s first watch equipped with MasterCard® PayPass™, a new “contactless” payment feature that provides consumers with a fast and convenient alternative to cash for… ### Integrated smart card functionality is helping ‘fuel’ efficiency at the international headquarters of Petro-Canada, one of Canada’s largest oil and gas companies Around 250 staff benefit from the user friendly system that combines e-payment technology with access control at a newly refurbished London office block where workers could in the future also be using their… ### Students and also professors and staff at the College of Technology and Economics in Chur (HTW Chur), Switzerland, are profiting from the contactless LEGIC smart card in the form of a student and staff ID. This has brought their identification IDs into line with the very latest state of the art, and also gives them… ### Amsterdam, 31st May 2006–Integrated Engineering, a world leading powerhouse in the contact less smart card industry, announced the introduction of its new state-of-the-art in contactless Smart Card reader, the SmartTRANS reader. With the SmartTRANS reader, Integrated Engineering expands its product range with a dual technology ISO14443 and 125 kHz Prox reader. The SmartTRANS provides a… ### Gemplus to deliver smart cards and personalization services to GIE SESAM-Vitale for the French Nationwide health insurance application Luxemburg, 30 May 2006–Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext: LU0121706294, GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP), a world leading provider of secure card-based solutions, has been selected by G.I.E. SESAM-Vitale as one of the main suppliers to issue the new generation… ### Contactless low-cost ticketing technology moves a step nearer to reality for mass-transit applications Jewel®, the flagship, low-cost, smart ticketing chip developed by Innovision Research & Technology, the leading RFID design services company, is now supported by Tri-Reader® 2, the multi-protocol card interface device used in the newest automated fare collection equipment from the transportation segment… ### Acquisition expands opportunities for both companies in secure card issuance and electronic access control Irvine, CA, May 23, 2006–ASSA ABLOY’s HID Global Corporation announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Fargo Electronics, Inc. for an all cash consideration. The transaction is expected to close at the end of the third… ### Innovative Payment Tool–MasterCard® PayPass™ Contactless Payment Feature on 3-D Soccer Ball Key Chain Fort Lee, NJ, May 22, 2006–On Track Innovations Ltd. (OTI) (NASDAQ: OTIV), a global leader in contactless microprocessor-based smart card solutions for homeland security, payments, petroleum payments and other applications, announced today that it is providing Taipei Fubon Bank a ‘Tap &… ### CBA cardholders to use the MasterCard-approved product, GemInstant LUXEMBURG, May 18, 2006–Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext: LU0121706294–GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP), a world leading provider of secure card-based solutions, announces its involvement in Australia’s first MasterCard PayPass pilot program, where Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s (CBA) cardholders will simply place their card in front of the terminal to… ### Banks can now offer customers a handy, miniature-size contactless means of payment to hang on a key chain Munich, May 17, 2006–Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) recently began offering MasterCard issuers conveniently-sized contactless payment cards and devices in smaller formats to be attached to key rings. G&D has developed an innovative Contactless Product Suite, which makes… [ ** ](#)