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Member News
Datacard group supports ROHS compliance
Datacard Group today confirmed its support of the European Union’s Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive, which limits the use of environmentally harmful substances in electronic and electric equipment. Many of the company’s existing offerings, as well as all newly developed products, are or will be RoHS compliant by the July 1, 2006, deadline. [ read the full release ]
Smart Card Alliance Challenges DHS Stand On Deploying RFID For WHTI PASS Card
New White Paper Recommends Contactless Technology for Meeting Goals of High Throughput and Privacy Protection at Border Crossings:
Contactless smart card technology best meets the objectives set forth by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for high throughput and the protection of individual privacy at the nation’s border crossings for its People Access Security Service (PASS) card program supporting legislation directed by the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI). PASS cards would be required by 2008 for all U.S. citizens who cross the northern and southern borders of the United States without passports. The Smart Card Alliance makes its case for DHS using secure contactless chip technology vs. RFID in a new white paper from its Identity Council. [ read the full release ]
OTI awarded mass transit ticketing project to supply cards for Israel's mass transit system
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 OTI has been awarded a contract for supplying Calypso compliant contactless smart cards for payment in public transportation in Israel. The contract was awarded by the Ministry of Transportation of the State of Israel and managed by Adalya Economic Consulting Ltd., a private economic consulting firm. [ read the full release ]
MasterCard Announces World's First Watch Using MasterCard PayPass for Contactless Payments
Chinatrust Commercial Bank Launches MasterCard® PayPass™ Contactless Payment Feature on a Soccer-Themed Watch:
MasterCard International (NYSE:MA), in conjunction with Chinatrust Commercial Bank, today announced the launch of the world's first watch equipped with MasterCard® PayPass™, a new “contactless” payment feature that provides consumers with a fast and convenient alternative to cash for their everyday small purchases. [ read the full release ]
Creation of Gemalto and launch of the public exchange offer for Gemplus shares
Gemalto becomes operational with this new step in the combination :
Axalto (Euronext NL0000400653 AXL) and Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext: LU0121706294 - GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP) announce that the contribution in kind to Axalto of the interests in Gemplus of TPG and the Quandt family entities, 25.2% and 18.3% respectively, in aggregate 43.4% of Gemplus share capital, has been completed today on the basis of an exchange ratio of 2 Axalto shares for every 25 Gemplus shares. Prior to the contribution in kind, Gemplus had initiated the distribution of € 0.26 per share to all its shareholders of record as at today's market close. [ read the full release ]
VMC: Multi function LEGIC smart card fuels efficiency for global oil company
Integrated smart card functionality is helping ‘fuel’ efficiency at the international headquarters of Petro-Canada, one of Canada’s largest oil and gas companies:
Around 250 staff benefit from the user friendly system that combines e-payment technology with access control at a newly refurbished London office block where workers could in the future also be using their individual cards for computer log on. [ read the full release ]
The Porsche Arena and the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle use CES locking systems with LEGIC® technology
"No key leaves the building!":
An events centre which is the only one of its kind in Germany is currently being created in the west of Stuttgart. Here for the first time, it will be possible to use two connected halls - Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle and the Porsche Arena – either individually or together for all types and sizes of events. [ read the full release ]
The University of Technology and Economics in Chur opts for multi-functional campus card
Students and also professors and staff at the College of Technology and Economics in Chur (HTW Chur), Switzerland, are profiting from the contactless LEGIC smart card in the form of a student and staff ID. This has brought their identification IDs into line with the very latest state of the art, and also gives them many advantages besides the visual ID. Thanks to the solution realized by EVIS AG and Kaba AG, the HTW Chur is placing new trails in both student and staff identification, and is emphasizing its image as an innovative college. The new card makes the lives of students and members of staff easier in many ways, and also greatly simplifies study administration.
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Integrated Engineering Introduces SmartTRANS Reader
Integrated Engineering, a world leading powerhouse in the contact less smart card industry, announced the introduction of its new state-of-the-art in contactless Smart Card reader, the SmartTRANS reader. With the SmartTRANS reader, Integrated Engineering expands its product range with a dual technology ISO14443 and 125 kHz Prox reader. [ read the full release ]
Integrated Engineering and Océ team up to provide e-passport verification solution
Océ, a leading provider of digital document management technology and services, has chosen Integrated Engineering, a world leading company in the field of developing and manufacturing contact less smart card solutions, as technology partner to provide a solution for the ID-Star Color Security Reader (CSR). With the ID-Star, Océ is able to offer a reader with an e-Passport verification solution to its customers.
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Cubic’s Tri-Reader® now supports Innovision Research & Technology’s Jewel smart ticketing chip
Contactless low-cost ticketing technology moves a step nearer to reality for mass-transit applications:
Jewel®, the flagship, low-cost, smart ticketing chip developed by Innovision Research & Technology, the leading RFID design services company, is now supported by Tri-Reader® 2, the multi-protocol card interface device used in the newest automated fare collection equipment from the transportation segment of Cubic Corporation. [ read the full release ]
Gemplus wins contract for next generation e-healthcare patient cards in France
Gemplus to deliver smart cards and personalization services to GIE SESAM-Vitale for the French Nationwide health insurance application :
Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext: LU0121706294 – GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP), a world leading provider of secure card-based solutions, has been selected by G.I.E. SESAM-Vitale as one of the main suppliers to issue the new generation of French patient e-Healthcare cards, known as “Vitale 2”. [ read the full release ]
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