Market Leading MicroPass Intelligent Payment Platform Recognized as the Most Innovative Worldwide Contactless Payment Platform

Aix en Provence, November 13th, 2007–INSIDE Contactless, a leading provider of advanced, open standard contactless chip technologies, and the leader in NFC technology, today announced the company has been awarded the winners prize in the Hardware category at the twelfth SESAMES Innovation contest, on November 12th, 2007, on the eve of the Cartes trade show.

Global Position as #1 Market Share Provider for Contactless Payments

Paris, France, November 13th, 2007–INSIDE Contactless, the leading provider of advanced, open standard contactless chip technologies, today announced that sales of its revolutionary MicroPass® intelligent payment platform for contactless bank cards has exceeded 35 million units since it was first launched at CARTES in November of 2005.

SIM-based NFC technology adds enhanced user experience, improved branding and greater market penetration

Cartes tradeshow, Villepinte, France, November 13, 2007–Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, today announces the successful integration of JCB’s contactless payment solution, J/Speedy™, onto its NFC SIM. In this way, Gemalto has provided both NFC-embedded mobile and SIM-based NFC options supporting two of the industry’s most popular contactless standards¹. Also integrated is an innovative smart card web server solution that displays J/Speedy™ menus through the handset as web pages. This is an advantage in terms of providing a stronger branding and user experience. This combination allows banks to be better equipped to respond to market demands regardless of contactless standard or form factor used in the country.

At the end of November 2007, six major banks, four mobile phone operators,, Visa Europe and MasterCard Worldwide will be launching the “Pay by Mobile” operation, an experimental contactless payment system. 1000 test customers will have mobile phones fitted with INSIDE Contactless’s MicroRead NFC component

Paris, 9 November 2007–INSIDE Contactless, the leading NFC technology and contactless chip designers, have announced that they will be participating in the “pay by mobile” operation. Inside will fit their NFC MicroRead chip to the 1000 pilot-scheme customers’ mobile phones.

FIME’s ISO 17025 testing environment fully accredited to conduct contactless debugging and type approval testing in conformity with Discover Network requirements for contactless cards and terminals

FIME, a leading provider of testing solutions for the contactless market, today announced that Discover Network, a business unit of Discover Financial Services (NYSE:DFS), a leading payments company in the United States, has accredited FIME’s laboratory for full contactless functional testing. Discover Network selected FIME R&D and consulting services to design and implement its global test and certification environment for contactless smartcards and terminals. Discover Network’s accreditation of FIME enables Contactless payment device and terminal manufacturers to develop products in compliance with Discover Network’s specifications and international standards.

Innovative Beep ‘N Go project by FET involves panel of 200 and expands the features of mobile phones to those of a credit card, an e-coupon or even a door key

Aix en Provence, France, November 7th, 2007–INSIDE Contactless, a world leader of contactless semiconductor chips, today announced that its MicroRead® platform has been selected as the preferred NFC chip for Mobile carrier Far East Tone’s new Pay-Buy Mobile testing project. The pilot, named as “Beep ‘N Go”, will involve a panel of 200 local users by the end of 2007, and is set to anticipate real-size commercial rollout in early 2008.

Near Field Communication Technology Enables Wide Range of M-Commerce and Wireless Wallet Applications

San Diego and Aix en Provence, France, October 30th, 2007–Kyocera Wireless Corp. (KWC), a leading global manufacturer of CDMA wireless phones and devices, and INSIDE Contactless, a world leader for Near Field Communication (NFC) technologies and other contactless payments solutions, today announced a global collaboration to integrate INSIDE Contactless’ cutting-edge NFC solution for mobile payments in select prototype Kyocera mobile phones.

Aix en Provence, France, October 23, 2007–INSIDE Contactless, a leading provider of advanced, open standard contactless chip technologies, today announced the availability of its new MicroPass® Fob Core for contactless payments; enabling card and fob manufacturers to create innovative contactless payment fob’s.

ANDiS4EMV will support Visa payWave and MasterCard PayPass and assist contactless card issuers as they migrate from magnetic stripe based to chip-based contactless cards

Rotterdam, October 23, 2007–Bell ID today announces further enhancements to ANDiS4EMV–launching a contactless solution, which offers current and aspiring contactless card issuers a simple and easy way to issue Visa payWave (MSD, qVSDC) and MasterCard PayPass (mag stripe, M/Flex) contactless payment cards.

Amsterdam, Taiwan, October 4, 2007–Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, today announces a partnership with Taiwan’s Far EasTone Telecommunications Ltd. to start Asia’s first mobile contactless SIM-based NFC (Near Field Communications) trial. This trial, starting in November and rolled out in phases, is part of the GSM Association’s ‘Pay-Buy Mobile’ initiative which seeks to define a common global approach to using NFC technology to link mobile devices with payment and contactless systems. Taiwan’s fast-paced adoption of contactless payment services and appetite for new technologies makes it the perfect place to start the trial.