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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 Taiwan, June 06, 2006–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…

OTI Awarded Mass Transit Ticketing Project To Supply Cards For Israel’s Mass Transit System

Fort Lee, NJ, June 6, 2006–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…

Creation of Gemalto and launch of the public exchange offer for Gemplus shares

Gemalto becomes operational with this new step in the combination Amsterdam and Luxembourg, June 2, 2006–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…

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 Taiwan, 2 June 2006–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…

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…

Integrated Engineering and Océ team up to provide e-passport verification solution

Amsterdam/Chicago, 31st May 2006–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…

Integrated Engineering Introduces SmartTRANS Reader

Amsterdam, 31st May 2006–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. The SmartTRANS provides a…

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….

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…