Smart Card Talk

September 2004 • Volume 9 Number 9

Member News

BART Named #1 Large Transit System in North America
Success of Cubic-Designed Fare Collection System Cited in Nomination to American Public Transportation Association

The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) has been named the #1 Large Transit System in North America by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) -- an honor that also recognizes the service improvements delivered by the new automated fare collection system from Cubic Transportation Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of San Diego-based Cubic Corporation (AMEX:CUB). [ read the full release ]

Fargo Announces Addition of Identix Incorporated To Fargo Technology Alliance

Fargo Electronics, Inc. (NASDAQ: FRGO) today announced that Identix Incorporated (NASDAQ: IDNX) has been added to the Fargo Technology Alliance (FTA), a worldwide technology group that unites industry-leading solution providers with Fargo’s integrators to create secure card identity options in the areas of biometrics, smart cards, systems integration and software. Identix is the world’s leading multi-biometric technology company, providing fingerprint, facial and skin identification technologies. Fargo markets secure card identity systems that create personalized plastic identification cards complete with digital images, text, lamination and electronically encoded information. [ read the full release ]

Alacris® Announces Technology Partner Agreement with Gemplus
Technology partnership and interoperability of product offerings increase client's choice for best-of-breed authentication and identity assurance solutions

Alacris® Inc., a developer of certificate management and identity assurance software products, today announced a technology partnership with Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext: LU0121706294 - GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP), one of the world's leading providers of smart card solutions, that offers customers a powerful turnkey smart card and certificate management solution for enterprise Windows environments. [ read the full release ]

Gemplus and SoloMio Announce Strategic Partnership
GemVentures Invests in SoloMio Gemplus' Philippe Vallée Joins SoloMio Board of Directors

Gemplus International S.A., (Euronext: LU0121706294 - GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP) the world's largest provider of smart card solutions, and SoloMio, a visionary leader in next-generation Smart Call services and technology, today announced a strategic partnership that will accelerate delivery of call completion solutions to mobile operators. Together, the companies will jointly market and develop call management and call completion solutions for Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) Cards that will enable telecommunications operators to capture revenue normally lost to uncompleted calls. [ read the full release ]

ST’s Trusted Platform Module Provides Complete Trusted Computing Group-Enabled Security Solution for Desktop and Laptop PCs
STMicroelectronics Completes Trusted Computing Group 1.2 Solution Available with Licensed Software from Wave Systems and NTRU

STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) announces the availability of its complete Trusted Computing Group (TCG) 1.2 Solution — the ST19WP18-TPM — which is backward compatible with ST’s TCG 1.1b Solution. The new TCG 1.2 solution features an integrated Core TCG Software Stack from NTRU Cryptosystems, along with the Embassy Security Center and Cryptographic Services Provider from Wave Systems (NASDAQ: WAVX) as well as all necessary BIOS and Windows® drivers. [ read the full release ]

Smart Card Alliance Fall Annual Conference Program Spotlights Innovation

The Smart Card Alliance today announced the program for its Fall Annual Conference being held October 18 -20, 2004 at the Hyatt Fisherman’s Wharf Hotel in San Francisco, California. Under the theme “Evolution Through Innovation,” the conference will focus on the many ways smart cards have evolved as a result of technology innovation. [ read the full release ]

ASK RFID labels pass EPCglobal Inc’s Hardware Interoperability Test
New Testing Program Developed to Offer Users Interoperable RFID Hardware

ASK, leading provider of RFID products, today announced its successful participation in the EPCglobal Hardware Interoperability testing. EPCglobal Inc. is a not-for-profit organization entrusted by industry to establish and support the EPCglobal Network™ as the global standard for real-time, automatic identification of information in the supply chain of any company, anywhere in the world. [ read the full release ]

HID ANNOUNCES SHIPMENT OF 200 MILLIONTH ACCESS CONTROL CARD TO THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES
Security Market Industry Leader Achieves Milestone with Deployment of iCLASS® Contactless Smart Cards in the Second Largest City in the United States

HID, the premier manufacturer of contactless access control readers and cards for the security industry, today announced it has reached a major milestone by shipping its 200 millionth credential (access control cards, keys and fobs). This milestone shipment was delivered to the government offices of the City of Los Angeles (the City) for use by employees that serve the second largest city in the United States. [ read the full release ]

Great Wall of China adopts Philips' MIFARE UltraLight chip technology for contactless ticketing
Historical landmark and popular tourist site moves from magnetic to contactless access ticketing

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) today announced that the Beijing Municipal Administration and Communications Card Co. Ltd. (BMAC) is using Philips' MIFARER UltraLight contactless chip technology in a new e-ticketing system for the Great Wall of China at Badaling, Beijing. In the near future, visitors will obtain faster, easier and more convenient access to this popular tourist destination, as existing magnetic card access is replaced by Philips' contactless chip technology used in a contactless smart card system. [ read the full release ]

Infineon Introduces a New Chip Card Controller Family Featuring Increased Performance and Security Mechanisms for Standard 8-Bit and 16-Bit Chip Card Applications

Today at the Smartcards Expo India 2004 show in New Delhi, Infineon Technologies AG (FSE, NYSE: IFX), the world's number one supplier of integrated circuits (ICs) for chip cards, announced availability of a new family of security controllers for standard 8-bit and 16-bit chip card applications. The new "66P Enhanced", or 66PE, family offers intelligent performance management and enhanced security features. It combines proven 0.22-micron chip card IC process technology with the highly flexible and revolutionary on-chip EEPROM technology also used in Infineon's "88 family" of 32-bit chip card controllers. With EEPROM sizes ranging from 2K bytes for low-end payment applications to the136K bytes needed for high-end mobile communications SIM (Security Identity Module) cards (GSM, UMTS), the 66PE products are also designed for use in identification (e.g., national ID and health cards) and payment applications, such as electronic purse and debit/credit applications. The 66PE family will supercede Infineon's existing families of chip card security controllers, e.g., the 66P series. Its first members are already available in high volume. [ read the full release ]

Axalto U.S. Shipments of Cyberflex Access Smart ID Cards Surge

Axalto customer purchases of Cyberflex Access™ smart cards in the United States surged significantly in the last two years. The rapid growth shows that the use of smart cards as secure identity credentials and employee badges is taking off in the United States. Some of the large government organizations that have adopted Axalto’s two-factor authentication include the U.S. Departments of Defense, Homeland Security and Interior as well as the General Services Administration (GSA). Among the many corporate clients are the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Dell Inc. and Sun Microsystems, Inc., whose Axalto smart card-based corporate badge was cited in a recent Wall Street Journal article as one of the top ten technologies companies are using to keep their mobile workers connected and productive. [ read the full release ]

Axalto Named Cingular Supplier

Axalto (Euronext NL0000400653 AXL), the world's leading provider of microprocessor cards, announced today that Cingular Wireless has named Axalto a supplier of Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards for its GSM-based wireless services. The new agreement extends the existing supplier relationship. [ read the full release ]

OTI & ATMEL RECEIVE FIRST COMMERCIAL ORDERS TO SUPPORT MASTERCARD® PAYPASS™
OTI/Atmel Solution Receives MasterCard Certification

Atmel Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a leading provider of system-level integration semiconductor solutions, including secure microcontrollers and smart card ICs and 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 they have received the first commercial quantity orders of contactless microprocessors developed for the MasterCard PayPass contactless payment program. [ red the full release ]

SCM Microsystems Teams Up with Sharp on Contactless Smart Cards for Electronic Passport

SCM Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCMM, Prime Standard SMY) announced today that it has entered into a cooperative agreement with Integrated Circuit Group of Sharp Corporation for the development, sales and marketing of contactless smart card readers. [ read the full release ]

iBIZ Software's Issuer and Acquirer Payer Authentication Solutions Are Now J/Secure Compliant
iBIZ Enters Asia Pacific Region with Local Representation and Partnerships

Continuing with its commitment to the global effort of securing online payments, iBIZ Software has now added JCB's J/Secure to the list of programs that it is compliant for 3-D Secure Payer Authentication. JCB International, in turn adds another leading vendor to the fast growing list of 3-D Secure vendors now compliant with the program to authenticate JCB cardholders in real-time while shopping online at J/Secure compliant merchant sites. [ read the full release ]