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US card scheme Discover has begun issuing contactless credit cards and stickers, targeted at early adopters of mobile technology. The contactless technology – branded Zip – is being issued in two form factors, either embedded in a conventional plastic card or as a sticker that can be applied to a mobile phone or other personal [...]

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Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) says that shipments of its ‘Convego Air’ contactless payment cards in the US have now surpassed the 50 million unit mark. Since the introduction of its contactless payment cards in 2006 and its subsequent growth, G&D has captured the leadership position in the US among Visa and MasterCard branded contactless payment [...]

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HID Global has announced the addition of a mobile sticker format to its family of contactless payment and identification cards.  The stickers make it easier to add closed-loop payment and loyalty systems to existing automatic fare collection or retail systems, or to augment campus identification systems with new access control capabilities. They also can be affixed [...]

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Sources inside European carriers have reported that Apple has been working with SIM-card manufacturer Gemalto to create a special SIM card that would allow consumers in Europe to buy a phone via the web or at the Apple Store and get the phones working using Apple’s App Store. It’s rumored that Apple and Gemalto have created [...]

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Compass Plus has announced that it has signed its first North American customer, SystemPay International. SystemPay International is a provider of merchant services and end-to-end electronic payment processing solutions, supporting credit and debit cards, ACH, checks and gift cards among others. The company selected Compass Plus’ TranzWare Online and Card Management products in order to [...]

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