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Gemalto’s innovation drive in personal mobile services for GSM and future network evolutions is approved by European Commission

Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May 23, 2008–Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, today announces that the European Commission has authorized the financial grant by the French government to the MaXSSIMM¹ development program through OSEO. OSEO is a French public Agency which supports innovation and development. The program, carried out by a Gemalto-led consortium, is intended to facilitate and accelerate the implementation of convenient personalized and secure Internet services for mobile devices. OSEO will contribute to the program through a €35-million subsidy over 3 years.

Beijing, May 22, 2008–Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO) employees at its greater China offices and Goldpac subsidiary have contributed over RMB 750,000 to the Red Cross Society of China, in support for relief work towards helping victims of the devastating earthquake in the Sichuan province of China on May 12, 2008. Gemalto offices in other countries also participated to different contributions towards the disaster relief through relief funds in their areas.

EMV Migration Driving Demand for INSIDE’s MicroPass Contactless Payment Platform

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, May 21, 2008–In a move to meet the growing demand for smart cards in Canada, INSIDE Contactless, the world leader in advanced contactless microprocessor platforms, today strengthened its position in the market and announced that it has joined Advanced Card Technologies (ACT) Canada. Having already delivered more than five million of its intelligent MicroPass® contactless payment chips for MasterCard® PayPass™ deployments in just the past six months, INSIDE Contactless has quickly established itself as the leading provider of contactless payment technology to the Canadian market, and is now poised to deliver technology to aid in the convergence with EMV and other non-contactless applications.

PRINCETON JUNCTION, N.J., May 19, 2008–Another regional healthcare network in Spokane, Wash. is starting to use smart card technology, attendees learned during the healthcare track at the joint Smart Card Alliance annual meeting and CTST conference last week.

Smart Enterprise Guardian Wins Personal Portable Security Devices (PPSD) Category

AUSTIN, Texas, May 20, 2008–Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, has received the 2008 Tomorrow’s Technology Today Award for its Smart Enterprise Guardian (SEG), the company announced today. Silicon Valley-based Info Security Products Guide named Gemalto the winner in the Personal Portable Security Devices (PPSD) category. The SEG is a unique, multi-function USB device jointly developed by Gemalto and leading semiconductor solutions provider Lexar.

PRINCETON JUNCTION, N.J., May 19, 2008–Rapidly rising fraud rates due to skimming of magnetic stripe credit cards and shifts in fraud liability are fueling the migration of Latin American banks to smart bankcards based on the global EMV standard, attendees learned at the joint Smart Card Alliance annual meeting and CTST conference last week.

PRINCETON JUNCTION, N.J., May 19, 2008–The number of U.S. employees using smart card technology to access computers and networks at work continues to grow as enterprises look for better ways to protect information, according to presenters at the joint Smart Card Alliance annual meeting and CTST conference last week. Compounding this growth is the rise of federated identity networks in the pharmaceutical, aerospace and defense, and government sectors.

CoreStreet PIVMAN Software Supports DHS Demonstration for Routine as well as Emergency Access

Cambridge, MA., May 16, 2008–CoreStreet, the leader in credential validation solutions, today announced that its CoreStreet PIVMAN Solution served a critical role as part of the May 15 “Spring Blitz” Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS)-201 interoperable credential usage demonstration, hosted by Tampa Fire Rescue with technical support provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Taking place at the Tampa Fire Training Academy in Tampa, Florida, the demonstration simulated routine and emergency access for hurricane disaster sites as well as the Super Bowl, marking it as the first demonstration focused on the use of credential validation for routine and emergency access in a commercial scenario.

Minnetonka, Minn., May 15, 2008–Datacard Group, the world leader in secure ID and card personalization solutions, announced that L-1 Identity Solutions has selected the Datacard® SP75 Plus card printer for use in the Illinois, statewide driver’s license programs. L-1 chose the SP75 Plus printer because of its reliability, ease-of-use, throughput and speed, form factor and security features.

CTST 2008–THE AMERICAS CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION, ORLANDO, Fla., May 14, 2008–Open-branded contactless payment cards in the United States nearly doubled in the last year, but the buzz was about mobile payment and near field communication (NFC) on the first day of the joint Smart Card Alliance annual meeting and CTST conference.