BELLEVUE, Wash., (BUSINESS WIRE), Jan. 28, 2003–SAFLINK® Corporation (OTCBB:SFLK), a leading developer, marketer, and integrator of biometric security solutions, announced today that its team has been selected to participate in the third segment of the Department of Defense (DoD) Common Access Card (CAC) project.

Schlumberger, a global technology services company (NYSE: SLB), today announced its DeXa.Badge security solution has been selected by Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. to reinforce the physical and logical security at all Nissan facilities worldwide. SchlumbergerSema, the IT business unit of Schlumberger, will manage this project.

NEW YORK, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/–Blue from American Express®™, the credit card featuring multiple Cardmember benefits including a smart chip, now offers the industry’s first smart card application that can be downloaded from the Internet, American Express Company announced today.

BearingPoint to Develop Contactless Smart Card Technologies With Biometrics for Physical Access Environment

McLean, VA, January 28, 2003–BearingPoint, Inc., (NYSE:BE), one of the world’s largest business consulting and systems integration firms, announced today that it is the sole recipient of a $1.2 million contract by the Department of Defense (DoD) Biometrics Management Office (BMO) to develop technologies that could greatly enhance security at the Department’s facilities.

The Oberthur Card Systems’ solution will enable ABN AMRO’s corporate customers to conduct secure electronic transactions within the Identrus model.

Paris, 16th January 2002–Oberthur Card Systems, one of the leaders in the smart card industry, has been selected to provide ABN AMRO, the prominent international bank, with its Identrus™ smart card, reader and software solutions. These solutions will be installed at ABN AMRO corporate customer sites, and will enable them to perform secure transactions over the Internet through ABN AMRO and with other corporate customers of Identrus banks.

MINNETONKA, Minn., (BUSINESS WIRE), Jan. 14, 2003–New ID Works 4.0 software greatly enhances ID card programs Datacard Group today introduced their most enhanced version of their flagship identity software platform that includes more than 30 new or improved features, dramatically improving ID card program security and operator productivity. Many of the enhancements found in the new Datacard® ID Works® 4.0 Identification Software were designed in direct response to heightened security requirements in organizations ranging from multinational corporations and government agencies to schools and hospitals. “Our customers are demanding greater security, especially involving seamless biometric integration, without adding unnecessary complexity. We designed ID Works 4.0 to simplify capturing identity information, designing cards and managing identity databases,” said Martin Kearsley, senior vice president and general manager of Datacard’s software and solutions division. “The most exciting improvements, however, involve card program security.”

First Data Presents Retail Merchants With Combined Processing Solutions Including Credit, Signature and Pin-Based Debit, Proprietary Gift Cards, Electronic Check and Check Services

NEW YORK, Jan. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/–First Data Corp. (NYSE: FDC), a leader in electronic commerce and payment services, will demonstrate its market-leading services and discuss the benefits of working through a single provider for electronic payments and check processing throughout the National Retail Federation Annual Convention at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center in New York.

Gemplus Supplies O2 Ireland With a Comprehensive SIM Solution For Customer Care And Roaming

First integrated customer care menu with roaming management in Ireland

O2 Ireland connect to Gemplus’ Over The Air Operated Service to enable future and regular updates of the network roaming list

Gemplus supplies O2 Ireland with 32k SIMs

Luxembourg, 14 January 2003–Gemplus (Paris Euronext: Euroclear 5768 and NASDAQ: GEMP), the world’s leading provider of smart card solutions, announces its selection by O2 Ireland for the supply of 32k SIM cards supporting the first integrated customer care menu with roaming management in Ireland.

Ground Breaking Program for New England Partners to Employ Smart Card Technology to Efficiently Deliver Government/Private Sector Services to New England Families

BRISBANE, Calif., (BUSINESS WIRE), Jan. 8, 2003–Hitachi America, Ltd., a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT), today announced it has been awarded a contract by the New England Partners (NEP) to implement a comprehensive pilot program employing smart card solutions for eight automated government programs in the New England region of the U.S.. Terms of the contract were not disclosed. New England Partners is a consortium of the six New England states–Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont–in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Nutrition Services (FNS), which plans to improve and streamline the delivery of a variety of healthcare programs for economically disadvantaged families.

FREMONT, Calif. and LUND, Sweden, Dec. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/–ActivCard® (EUROPE: ACTI) , the leader in IDentity Management (IDM) software for remote access, single sign-on and digital ID card solutions, today announced an expanded cooperation with its partner Precise Biometrics AB (publ), developer and provider of world-leading and user-friendly biometric security solutions based on fingerprints, to deliver smart card-based identification (ID) badge solutions with biometric authentication. ActivCard has incorporated Precise Biometrics’ technology for fingerprint matching on smart cards, Precise Match-on-Card™, to its ActivCard Gold™ 2.2 software, the most successful and widely deployed smart ID card middleware platform available on the market today.