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November 2007 • Volume 12 Number 11 |
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Member News IT Leaders Can Now Experience Gemalto Digital Security First Hand When Visiting Microsoft Arlington, VA, November 26, 2007–Information technology leaders visiting the Microsoft Partner Solutions Center on Microsoft Corp.’s Redmond, Wash., campus can now experience hands-on live simulation of world class digital security solutions from industry leader Gemalto. Gemalto’s solutions empower employees, partners, customers and individuals to achieve the highest levels of security available to protect information, assets, identities and personal privacy. [ read the full release ] Gemalto's Pattinson Testifies Before U.S. Congress on Privacy and Security of Government Identity Credentials ARLINGTON, VA, Sept 13, 2007–Gemalto’s vice president of business development and government affairs Neville Pattinson testified before the U.S. House Government Oversight Subcommittee on Government Management, urging the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and congress to make privacy and data security the highest priorities in identification programs such as REAL ID and the WHTI card. Pattinson also sought to explain to lawmakers the differences between insecure RFID tags and secure, microprocessor based and RF-enabled contactless smart card technology. The electronic passport and FIPS 201 Personal Identity Verification federal employee ID programs, two successful programs Pattinson held up as shining examples of getting it right, already use contactless smart card technology. [ read the full release ] Datacard Group Announces Contactless Smart Card Coupler for Desktop Instant Issuance Las Vegas, Nev., November 13, 2007–Today at the BAI Retail Delivery Conference & Expo, Datacard Group strengthened its commitment to the instant issuance market by announcing a contactless smart card coupler option for the Datacard® 150i desktop card personalization system. [ read the full release ] Datacard Group Introduces Mass Personalization Solutions for Smart Objects Paris, November 13, 2007–Datacard Group, the world leader in secure ID and card personalization solutions, launches the Datacard® ICP8000™ smart objects personalization system today at Cartes 2007 (Booth #3D 043). This complete and secure solution allows the chip encoding and printing of a variety of contact and contactless objects with a throughput of up to 20,000 objects per hour. [ read the full release ] Datacard® SP55 Desktop Card Printers Produce 70 Million Nigerian Voter ID Cards Paris, November 13, 2007–Datacard Group, the world leader in secure ID and card personalization solutions, announced at Cartes 2007 (Booth #3D 043) that Datacard® SP55 desktop card printers were used by the government of Nigeria to issue 70 million permanent voters’ cards in just eight weeks. It took only two months to import and install the 700 card printers in what Prime Integrator Chams Nigeria Limited calls “the world’s largest card production facility” located in Abuja, Nigeria. The facility is capable of producing more than a million cards daily. [ read the full release ] SESAMES Innovation Award for Best Hardware Delivered to INSIDE Contactless on the eve of the CARTES Tradeshow Aix en Provence, November 13th, 2007–INSIDE Contactless, a leading provider of advanced, open standard contactless chip technologies, and the leader in NFC technology, today announced the company has been awarded the winners prize in the Hardware category at the twelfth SESAMES Innovation contest, on November 12th, 2007, on the eve of the Cartes trade show. [ read the full release ] INSIDE Contactless Reaches 35 Million Unit Milestone for MicroPass® Paris, France, November 13th, 2007–INSIDE Contactless, the leading provider of advanced, open standard contactless chip technologies, today announced that sales of its revolutionary MicroPass® intelligent payment platform for contactless bank cards has exceeded 35 million units since it was first launched at CARTES in November of 2005. [ read the full release ] Gemalto Web-Services Enable Leading European Financial Institution to Launch its Picture Card Program Cartes tradeshow, Villepinte, France, November 13, 2007–Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, today announces that a leading European financial institution has selected its service offering to implement a large-scale picture card program. Gemalto’s CardLikeMe™ is a web-based solution that allows cardholders to customize their payment card with a photo of their choice. An easy-to-use interface lets the bank’s customers upload and edit the picture directly from their computer and order online. Gemalto provided the bank with the software solution required for processing the photograph on its website as well as consulting services. Commercial launch started at the beginning of October. [ read the full release ] HID Global's Crescendo™ Smart Cards Receive "Works with Windows Vista" Logo IRVINE, Calif., November 13, 2007–HID Global, the trusted leader in providing solutions for the delivery of secure identity and an ASSA ABLOY Group brand, today announced that its CrescendoTMsmart cards have earned the “Works with Windows Vista” logo for the Smart Card Framework minidriver. Crescendo cards also work with all physical access control systems. Any organization can now conveniently and cost-effectively deploy a single credential for both logical and physical access control applications. [ read the full release ] Gemalto Receives "Best Software" Sesames Award with "SConnect" Cartes tradeshow, Villepinte, France, November 13, 2007–Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, today announces it has won the “Best Software” award at this year’s CARTES tradeshow, demonstrating its leadership in secure personal devices, user centric software and value added services. [ read the full release ] Gemalto to Provide NFC-SIM Platform for JCB's Mobile Contactless Payment Solution Cartes tradeshow, Villepinte, France, November 13, 2007–Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, today announces the successful integration of JCB’s contactless payment solution, J/Speedy™, onto its NFC SIM. In this way, Gemalto has provided both NFC-embedded mobile and SIM-based NFC options supporting two of the industry’s most popular contactless standards¹. Also integrated is an innovative smart card web server solution that displays J/Speedy™ menus through the handset as web pages. This is an advantage in terms of providing a stronger branding and user experience. This combination allows banks to be better equipped to respond to market demands regardless of contactless standard or form factor used in the country. [ read the full release ] Gemalto Provides Swedish Citizens with Driving Licenses Incorporating World's First Clear Window Security Feature Cartes tradeshow, Villepinte, France, November 13, 2007–Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, today announced that it has introduced the world’s first clear window security feature on driving licenses for Swedish drivers. Under the contract, Gemalto provides the Swedish Road Administration with 600,000 driving licenses per year over the next three years–plus 2 optional years- including the latest innovation in security printing features: the Gemalto Sealys Clear Window is a transparent window in the pure polycarbonate structure for enhanced physical security that matches stringent expectations from criminal laboratory and national road authority of Sweden. The Swedish Road Administration will start delivering the new driving license to general public in December 2007. [ read the full release ] Gemalto Attains Gold Certified Partner Statusin Microsoft Partner Program CARTES & IDentification 2007, Villepinte, France, November 13, 2007–Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, today announced it has attained Gold Certified Partner status in the Microsoft Partner Program. As a Gold Certified Partner, Gemalto has demonstrated expertise with Microsoft technologies and a proven ability to meet customers’ needs. [ read the full release ] World's First: Gemalto and Lexar Launch Microsoft Vista™-Compliant Security Device for Digital Identification and Data Storage Cartes tradeshow, Villepinte, France, and Arlington, VA, November 13, 2007–Gemalto, world leader in digital security, and Lexar Media, Inc., a subsidiary of Micron Technology, Inc. (NYSE: MU), a leader in advanced digital media and accessories, today introduced the Smart Enterprise Guardian (SEG), a unique USB (Universal Serial Bus) device that natively incorporates industry standards for protecting digital identities and sensitive documents. The SEG combines Gemalto’s .NET-based solution and Lexar’s hardware-based memory encryption technology to provide unrivaled secure mobility for SMBs and Enterprises. Gemalto is demonstrating the SEG at CARTES this week. [ read the full release ] Fargo Signs Joint Marketing Agreement with Optaglio Ltd. Minneapolis, MN, November 13, 2007 Fargo Electronics, Inc., a global leader in secure technologies for ID card systems, announced it has signed a joint marketing agreement with UK-based Optaglio Ltd., a leader in security microstructure technology. The agreement will provide the framework for secure solutions utilizing Fargo’s High Definition Printing™ series in conjunction with Optaglio’s E-Direct® high-security holograms in Fargo overlaminates. [ read the full release ] Fargo Announces HDPii Instant Issuance Financial Card Printer Minneapolis, MN, November 13, 2007–Fargo Electronics, Inc., a global leader in secure technologies for card identity systems, today announced the introduction of the HDPii Financial Card Printer. Utilizing Fargo’s patented High Definition Printing (HDP) technology, the HDPii is targeted toward banks, credit unions and retailers for on-site instant issuance of debit, credit and prepaid cards. [ read the full release ] Atmel Announces Highly Secure Turnkey Solution for Embedded Systems Paris and Rousset, France, November 12, 2007–Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), announced today the introduction of the AT98SC016CU, the latest member of its AT98SC family of secure solutions specifically designed to address the increasing security needs of embedded systems. [ read the full release ] Texas Instruments Selects Certicom to Secure Next-Generation of Government-Issued Identification Documents MISSISSAUGA, Ontario and DALLAS, Texas, November 11, 2007–Certicom Corp. (TSX: CIC) today announced that Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) is licensing Certicom’s Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) technology to deliver enhanced security as part of the TI RF360 next-generation, smart integrated circuit (IC) platform for government-issued electronic identification (e-ID) documents (www.ti.com/govid). With Certicom’s embedded ECC technology, TI can now offer faster and more secure processing of electronic passports (e-passports) and other government-issued electronic IDs. [ read the full release ] Texas Instruments to Support MULTOS as First Secure OS on its RF360 Smart IC Platform for Government IDs Dallas, Texas, November 12, 2007–Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today announced that MULTOS will be the first chip operating system supported on its advanced RF360 smart Integrated Circuit (IC) platform for electronic passport (e-passport) and government ID applications. This enables system integrators and government ID providers to immediately begin creating solutions on TI’s RF360 product for this rapidly growing market. MULTOS was selected for its open architecture, proven security mechanisms and broad acceptance in a range of payment and government ID applications around the world, including national IDs and e-passports. TI is licensing the operating system from StepNexus, which owns and maintains the MULTOS specification. [ read the full release ] Athena announces first major win for its ASECard Crypto for ILM smart card Tokyo, November 9, 2007–Athena Smartcard Solutions announced today that it has started delivery of its ASECard Crypto for ILM smart card for a 10,000 user customer, following successfully winning an open tender for the project earlier this year. The project calls for deployment of approximately 10,000 Microsoft Windows Minidriver-supported 72Kbyte smart cards with support for logical access control to a Windows Server 2003 network and managed by a Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 card and certificate life-cycle management system and providing physical access to facilities through a contactless smart card interface. Minidrivers are the new form of “device drivers” for smart cards as implemented in the Windows Smart Card Framework. Athena was one of the first smart card vendors to receive the Working with Vista Logo for its smart card Minidriver earlier this year and is leading the industry with solutions that include Smart Card and Fingerprint Match-on-Card biometric authentication. [ read the full release ]
Paris, 9 November 2007–INSIDE Contactless, the leading NFC technology and contactless chip designers, have announced that they will be participating in the “pay by mobile” operation. Inside will fit their NFC MicroRead chip to the 1000 pilot-scheme customers’ mobile phones. [ read the full release ] Bell ID signs first South African partner Rotterdam, 8th November 2007–Bell ID and Opengate have concluded a partnership agreement that will see Opengate operate as a reseller of Bell ID’s leading card and application management system: ANDiS. [ read the full release ] INSIDE Contactless ranked in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 list for South of France Aix en Provence, November 9th, 2007–INSIDE Contactless, a leading provider of advanced, open standard contactless chip technologies, and leader in NFC technology, today announced the company has been awarded the Deloitte Fast 50 OSEO prize in the Innovation category. [ read the full release ] INSIDE Contactless and HID Global Expand Strategic Partnership Aix en Provence, France, November 8th 2007–INSIDE Contactless, a world leader of advanced, open standard contactless chip technologies, today announced an extension of its strategic partnership agreement with HID Global, the trusted leader in providing solutions for the delivery of secure identity, to enable the use of iCLASS® technology in the new area of virtual credentials. Customers who use HID iCLASS cards with INSIDE’s core technology can also benefit from the full security features of iCLASS virtual credentials, securely delivered via HID Global’s idBank™ system, on non-traditional devices, such as Privaris’ plusID™ family of biometric tokens. The new partnership agreement expands the cooperation between the two companies. [ read the full release ] FIME's contactless testing laboratory receives worldwide accreditation by Discover® Network FIME, a leading provider of testing solutions for the contactless market, today announced that Discover Network, a business unit of Discover Financial Services (NYSE:DFS), a leading payments company in the United States, has accredited FIME’s laboratory for full contactless functional testing. Discover Network selected FIME R&D and consulting services to design and implement its global test and certification environment for contactless smartcards and terminals. Discover Network’s accreditation of FIME enables Contactless payment device and terminal manufacturers to develop products in compliance with Discover Network’s specifications and international standards. [ read the full release ] INSIDE Contactless empowers new generation NFC payment project with carrier Far EasTone in Taiwan Aix en Provence, France, November 7th, 2007–INSIDE Contactless, a world leader of contactless semiconductor chips, today announced that its MicroRead® platform has been selected as the preferred NFC chip for Mobile carrier Far East Tone’s new Pay-Buy Mobile testing project. The pilot, named as “Beep ‘N Go”, will involve a panel of 200 local users by the end of 2007, and is set to anticipate real-size commercial rollout in early 2008. [ read the full release ] Bell ID and Collis forge strategic technology partnership Rotterdam, 6th November 2007–The partnership will integrate Bell ID’s ANDiS smart Card and Application Management System (CAMS) with the Collis Card Image Editor (Collis CIE) and the Collis EMV Personalisation Validation Tool (Collis PVT). Combining both companies’ EMV, CAMS and Testing expertise will provide financial institutions with faster EMV implementations, reduce costs and provide better quality results. [ read the full release ] 2008 Beijing Olympic games secure with ASK TongFang RFID tickets Paris, Cartes show, November 13, 2007–ASK is proud to announce that ASK TongFang, its joint venture created in 2005, has been selected to manufacture the contactless inlays for the 12.2 million RFID tickets of the XXIX Olympiad. Tickets include anti-counterfeiting printed security features will be provided by China Bank Note. ASK’s partner Tsinghua TongFang donate the whole RFID system to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Organizing Committee which including the RFID inlays, gate readers, software and service. Advanced technology such as RFID is part of the security used throughout the Olympic games, and is one of the breakthrough features of the Olympics. ASK and Tsinghua Tongfang hope the games will boost contactless technology deployment in China. [ read the full release ] Brussels now enjoys contactless with ASK cards and tickets Paris, Cartes show, November 13, 2007–STIB, the Société des Transports Intercommunaux de Bruxelles, the largest Belgian urban public transport company launches MoBIB teleticketing system based on ASK dual interface cards and C.ticket®, ASK contactless paper ticket for multimodal traveling in the city. Innovative in its customer-oriented features, MoBIB is an open-standard Calypso contactless smart card to be interoperable in the Europe-wide Triangle project where the same card will link Brussels, Paris, London, Porto and Funchal. [ read the full release ] 'Defensiepas' project wins Computable Award 2007 Rotterdam, 30th October 2007–Bell ID is pleased to announce that the ‘Defensiepas’ ID card for the Dutch Ministry of Defence has been awarded IT project of the year at the Computable Awards. In cooperation with prime contractors Siemens Nederland N.V. and Getronics PinkRoccade, Bell ID is implementing its Card & Application Management System and Key Management System. [ read the full release ]
San Diego and Aix en Provence, France, October 30th, 2007–Kyocera Wireless Corp. (KWC), a leading global manufacturer of CDMA wireless phones and devices, and INSIDE Contactless, a world leader for Near Field Communication (NFC) technologies and other contactless payments solutions, today announced a global collaboration to integrate INSIDE Contactless’ cutting-edge NFC solution for mobile payments in select prototype Kyocera mobile phones. [ read the full release ]
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