Smart Card Talk

January 2005 • Volume 9 Number 13

Member News

ON TRACK INNOVATIONS LTD. (OTI) APPROVED FOR LISTING ON NASDAQ NATIONAL MARKET (NMS)
CEO to Ring the NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell on First Day of Trading

On Track Innovations Ltd, (OTI) (NASDAQ: OTIV; Prime Standard [Frankfurt]: OT5), a global leader in contactless microprocessor-based smart card solutions, for homeland security, micropayments, petroleum payments and other applications, today announced that the NASDAQ National Market System (NMS) has approved OTI’s listing application. The Company common stock will be eligible for trading on the NMS effective Monday, December 20, 2004, and to celebrate the occasion, Oded Bashan, OTI Chairman and CEO will open the NASDAQ market. The trading symbol for common stock will continue to be OTIV. [ read the full release ]

Axalto and Intercede Join Forces to Market Best-of-Breed Smart Card and Identity Management Security Solution

Axalto (Euronext: NL0000400653 AXL) Axalto and Intercede today announced their collaboration in the smart card and identity management market with a combined solution designed to enable businesses, government agencies and educational establishments to quickly and easily protect their PCs, networks, virtual private networks (VPNs), buildings and facilities. [ read the full release ]

Hypercom Showcasing Newest Multi-Application Payment Technology at NRF

High Speed, Easy-Use Technology Speeds Check-Out Lines, Boosts Profit Lines, Helps Redefine Retail: 1/11/2005
Shorter lines and faster service are coming to large department stores, supermarkets and thousands of smaller multi-lane retail chains thanks to global payment technology leader Hypercom Corporation's (NYSE: HYC) fast, easy-use card payment technology. The increasingly in-demand technology - including the latest high speed, contactless Optimum L4100 multi-application signature capture card payment terminal with integrated RF reader - will be demonstrated to hundreds of nationally-recognized retailers at the National Retail Federation Annual Convention and EXPO, January 17-18 in New York. [ read the full release ]

SuperCom to Provide Cutting-Edge Biometric Visa System to European Government
Project's First Stage, valued at $500,000 has commenced

SuperCom, Ltd. (OTCBB: SPCBF.OB; Euronext: SUP), a leading provider of smart card and electronic identification (e-ID) solutions, today announced that it has signed an agreement with a European government to deploy a cutting-edge biometric visa issuance system in its embassies throughout the world. The project’s first stage, valued at approximately $500,000, has begun and involves installations in several of the government’s embassies. [ read the full release ]

Axalto Supports GPO Decision on U.S. Electronic Passport

Subsequent to the decision by the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) to issue additional awards to the four next highest-rated bidders from its initial evaluation process for a contract to provide technology for the U.S. electronic passport, Olivier Piou, CEO of Axalto, made the following comments ... [ read the full release ]

ASK awarded by GPO for the US electronic passport

ASK Smart Paper ID, a solution for contactless travel documents, has been selected on January 12th by the US Government Printing Office (GPO) for the first phase of the American electronic passport project. Passport test samples and readers are currently being delivered, these products will be formally evaluated within two months. [ read the full release ]

OTI RECEIVES AN AWARD BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT FOR “‘ELECTRONIC’ PASSPORTS”

On Track Innovations Ltd, (OTI) (NASDAQ: OTIV; Prime Standard [Frankfurt]: OT5), a global leader in contactless microprocessor-based smart card solutions for homeland security, micropayments, petroleum payments and other applications, today announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, OTI America Inc. has been notified by the U.S Government Printing Office (GPO) that OTI America has received an award under the GPO EP 2004 solicitation to provide Electronic Passports to the US Government. The award is in addition to similar awards, announced in October 2004. It is anticipated that one or several companies will ultimately be selected for the production stage. [ read the full release ]

Intercede's partnership with Gemplus reinforced by significant order

Intercede, a leading provider of smart card and identity management software, today announces that it has received an order in excess of £0.5m from Gemplus, a leading provider of smart card solutions, for a major European customer. Since 2003, Intercede and Gemplus have developed a strong partnership built around Intercede's MyID Smart Card and Identity Management System, as part of Gemplus' smart card-based corporate ID solution, SafesITe. [ read the full release ]