Smart Card Talk

November 2005 • Volume 10 Number 11

Member News

DUANE READE IMPLEMENTS INGENICO ”TAP AND GO” PAYMENT SOLUTION
OTI Contactless Technology Integrated with Industry’s Leading

Ingenico, the world’s leading provider of electronic payment terminals, announced today the installation of the eN-Touch 1000 with contactless reading technology from On Track Innovations Ltd. (OTI) (NASDAQ: OTIV; Prime Standard (Frankfurt): OT5) at all Duane Reade locations by the end of 2005. The eN-Touch 1000 supports Duane Reade customer “tap and go” payment with American Express® ExpressPay™, MasterCard® PayPass™ and Visa® branded contactless cards. [ read the full release ]

Visa Offers Optimized Contactless Card

Visa today announced that it is expanding the Visa Smart Breakthrough program to include a new contactless chip solution. The program aims to improve the business case for chip technology worldwide by making cards, terminals and personalization solutions more cost effective to financial institutions, merchants and consumers. [ read the full release ]

HID AND DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS DEMONSTRATE NEW iCLASS CONTACTLESS SMART CARD APPLICATION SOLUTIONS AT CARTES 2005
HID Showcases Seamless Integration of ID Badge Issuance, Logical Access, Mobile ID Verification, Biometric Authentication, and Cashless Vending Applications on iCLASS Contactless Smart Cards

HID Corporation, the premier manufacturer of contactless access control cards and readers for the security industry, today announced that it will demonstrate new 13.56 MHz iCLASS contactless smart card technology application solutions with the company’s iCLASS development partners VMC, SMI, Consultance, Bioscrypt and Synercard in stand 3F 030 at Cartes 2005 in Paris, France from 15-17, November. [ read the full release ]

nCryptone, in partnership with InCard Technologies, announces the nC DisplayCard

nCryptone announces the nC DisplayCard, an authentication device with a dynamic password which is embedded into a thin and flexible credit card format which fits into a wallet. The announcement of this new product is based on a partnership between nCryptone and InCard Technologies (InCard), an American company committed to Visa International by a mutual exclusive agreement for financial cards with power inside. [ read the full release ]

Gemplus delivers smart identity management system to Pfizer
Gemplus delivers its SafesITe solution for network access control and digital signatures

Gemplus International S.A. ( Euronext: LU0121706294 – GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP), the world’s leading provider of smart card solutions, today announces that Pfizer, Inc., the world’s largest research-based pharmaceutical company is deploying its technology for a smart badge identity management system. The system is designed to enable digital signatures, and to secure employee access to networks and facilities worldwide. To date Gemplus has shipped over 100,000 smart cards to Pfizer. The deployment of smart identity badges is part of Pfizer’s “Global Identity Services” (GIS) program, which upon completion will be used by its employees, contractors and business partners all over the world. [ read the full release ]