--- title: "sca, Author at Secure Technology Alliance - Page 180 of 235" language: "en-US" canonical_url: "https://www.securetechalliance.org/author/sca/page/180/" source_url: "https://www.securetechalliance.org/author/sca/page/180/" content_type: "text/markdown" --- [Home](https://www.securetechalliance.org/)Articles by: sca # Author: sca ### Gemalto to equip Poland with over 1.5 million e-passport inlays by the end of 2007 Amsterdam and Warsaw, August 31, 2006–Gemalto (Euronext NL 0000400653 GTO), a leader in digital security, today announced it will supply its Setec e-passport solution for the future Polish electronic passports. The first commercial deliveries started in July, and under the… ### Chip card plant to supply India’s booming market with SIM cards for mobile communications and with payment cards Munich/Delhi, August 24, 2006–By opening a new factory in Delhi, Giesecke & Devrient (G&D)–the second-largest manufacturer of smart cards worldwide–is strengthening its position in Asia to meet the particular requirements of India’s up-and-coming chip card market. When… ### Joint Smart Card & RFID Lab will fuel development of innovative applications for smart cards in the region Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, August 23, 2006–The computer engineering department, at King Fahad University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, has established a Joint StepNexus / KFUPM Smart Card & RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) Laboratory. Dr Wasim… ### San Jose, Calif. and Munich, Germany, August 21, 2006–Infineon Technologies AG (NYSE/FSE: IFX) today announced that it received a multi-million piece purchase order from the United States government to supply its highly-secure integrated circuit technology for the new electronic passport. Designed to facilitate international travel by allowing automatic identity verification, faster immigration inspections and greater… ### ‘Tap and Go’ Functionality Offers Speed and Convenience to Small Business Owners Purchase, NY and Spring House, PA, August 15, 2006–MasterCard Worldwide and Advanta Corp. (NASDAQ: ADVNB; ADVNA), one of the nation’s largest issuers (through Advanta Bank Corp.) of MasterCard business credit cards to small businesses and business professionals, announced today that they will begin… ### Contactless Card Part of Visa Smart Breakthough Program San Francisco, August 15, 2006–Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) has begun issuing Wells Fargo® Visa® Platinum Credit Card and Wells Fargo Visa Signature with Visa Contactless to customers, and is on track to distribute 400,000 cards by the end of 2006. Wells Fargo is distributing contactless cards… ### ### CardsNow!Asia names StepNexus MULTOS as the winner of Technology Excellence in Banking SAN FRANCISCO, August 02, 2006–StepNexus Inc., the premier provider of the world’s first open, high-security, multi-application, smart card operating system MULTOS™, today announced that it has received the D’ucoty Award for the Technology Excellence in Banking. The D’ucoty 2006 South East Asia Award… ### Amsterdam, 2nd August 2006–Integrated Engineering, a world leading powerhouse in the contactless smart card industry, announced today that its contactless SmartID readers have been approved by the US General Services Administration (GSA) as compliant with the Federal Information Processing Standard 201 (FIPS 201). Integrated Engineering’s readers are the first GSA PIV II Certified smart card… ### ViVOtech readers first to be certified to support Discover Network contactless payment platform worldwide RIVERWOODS, Ill., August 2, 2006–Discover® Network, a business unit of Discover Financial Services and Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), today announced that it has certified several ViVOtech readers, including ViVOpay 4000 and ViVOpay 3000 for use with Discover Network’s contactless payment application. These… [ ** ](#)