Smart Card Alliance Smart Card Talk
August 2006 • Volume 11 Number 8

 

 

 

 

 

Member News

OTI to Supply the City of Warsaw Multiple Application Contactless Cards for Public Transportation and Parking Solutions

Fort Lee, NJ – July 25, 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, today announced that its subsidiary, ASEC S.A. (“ASEC”) of Poland, has been awarded a tender by the Transport Department of the City of Warsaw to provide public transportation and street parking contactless tickets. Deliveries have commenced this month. [ read the full release ]

"Acquarena Brixen": South Tyrol’s biggest waterpark puts its trust in the technology of n-tree® and LEGIC®

Acquarena Brixen offers its visitors 365 days of well-being! The combination of indoor and outdoor swimming pools with a wide range of wellness activities makes it a waterpark that is unrivalled anywhere. The extensive leisure and wellness area with over 14,000 m2 of water and green spaces is the perfect place for enjoyment and relaxation. Adults, children, senior citizens and families – all are equally enthusiastic about this exceptional "world of adventure"! The versatile ticketing and access control system has been supplied by the Austrian technology company and LEGIC partner n-tree solutions Ticketsysteme GmbH. [ read the full release ]

Integrated Engineering receives GSA FIPS 201 certification

Amsterdam, 2nd August 2006 - Integrated Engineering, a world leading powerhouse in the contactless smart card industry, announced today that its contactless SmartID readers have been approved by the US General Services Administration (GSA) as compliant with the Federal Information Processing Standard 201 (FIPS 201). Integrated Engineering’s readers are the first GSA PIV II Certified smart card readers included on the GSA Approved Products list for FIPS 201 compliant projects. [ read the full release ]

StepNexus receives D’ucoty Gold Award for Technology Excellence in Banking

SAN FRANCISCO – August 02, 2006 – StepNexus Inc., the premier provider of the world’s first open, high-security, multi-application, smart card operating system MULTOS™, today announced that it has received the D’ucoty Award for the Technology Excellence in Banking. [ read the full release ]



Electronic Passport Cloning Claim Does Not Constitute Threat to Border Security and Citizen Privacy


Princeton Junction, NJ, August 8, 2006 – The new electronic passports planned for the United States rely on multiple layers of security to increase border security and protect citizen privacy, and electronic cloning does not constitute a threat, says the Smart Card Alliance, a group of industry and government organizations specializing in the secure contactless smart card technology used in the program
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