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Plastic Card Specialist print-ID becomes new LEGIC® License Partner in Germany

Zurich/Switzerland, Gießen/Germany–LEGIC Identsystems AG, leading manufacturer of contactless smart card technology for personal identification applications and print-ID, supplier of products and services in the field of plastic card printing, have concluded a new license partnership. Two partners moving in the same direction: The fact that LEGIC and print-ID have teamed up is not a matter…

Staff time & attendance from primion for Baden-Baden’s renowned baths

In 2003, comprehensive renovation was undertaken of the Caracalla thermal baths in Baden-Baden, Germany. A new staff time & attendance system was also installed as part of the conversion and renovation work. Because of the different opening times, there are numerous worktime and shift models that must be administered. primion’s Visual Time solves the task…

Visa To Launch Contactless Cards In Europe This Year

March 21, 2006–Card Technology reports that Visa contactless payment pilots will be launched by several European banks. Click here to read the full article.

Raak Technologies Announces Support for Microsoft’s Certificate Lifecycle Manager for a complete Enterprise Smart Card Solution

Free smart card evaluation kit for Microsoft Certificate Lifecycle Manager Beta 1 release now available AUSTIN, Texas, March 21, 2006–Raak Technologies today announced the release of new products that support Microsoft’s recently introduced Certificate Lifecycle Manager. Microsoft Certificate Lifecycle Manager is a policy and workflow-driven solution that helps organizations manage the lifecycle of digital certificates…

Security Industry Veteran Marc Freundlich to Lead ASSA ABLOY Hospitality North America

Providence, RI (March 21, 2006)–Effective February 1, 2006, Marc Freundlich was promoted to president of ASSA ABLOY Hospitality Inc. and will report to Timothy Shea, CEO of ASSA ABLOY Hospitality group. Mr. Freundlich was previously the president of Indala Corporation (an ASSA ABLOY Group company) for the past 3 years. During his tenure at Indala,…

ASK to supply contactless payment cards for Singapore

Partnership with Network for Electronic Transfers Singapore (NETS) signals new era for CashCard® applications Sophia-Antipolis, March 17, 2006–ASK has been selected by NETS, Singapore’s leading electronic payments provider to supply a new generation of its contactless payment card CashCard. The CashCard e-purse was originally launched in 1996 on a contact-based smart card. With the advent…

Visa Introduces Contactless Mini Card, Making Payments Faster and More Convenient than Ever

Industry’s First Commercially Scalable Alternative Form Factor for Contactless Payments Now Available for Issuance SAN FRANCISCO, March 16, 2006–Visa today announced the availability of the Visa Contactless Mini Card, delivering all of the speed of contactless payments in a card that is about half the size of a traditional payment card and easy to carry…

CardLogix Announces RoHS Compliance for Smart Card Products

Irvine, Ca, March 15, 2006–CardLogix, a leading manufacturer of smart cards and software, announced today that all of its products fully conform to the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive that restricts the amount of hazardous substances in products used within European Union (EU) countries. Bruce Ross, CardLogix CEO, stated that RoHS compliance is consistent…

MasterCard Licenses Common Contactless Communications Protocol to JCB Co. Ltd.

Singapore, March 14, 2006–MasterCard International and JCB Co. Ltd. today announced that they have reached an agreement to share the MasterCard™ PayPass™ ISO/IEC 14443 Implementation Specification as a common communications protocol for radio frequency-based contactless payments. Contactless payments allow cardholders to speed through checkout by paying with a simple tap, eliminating the need for customers…

Winmagic To Develop First Full Disk Encryption Software To Fully Integrate With Infineon’s Trusted Module Platform (Tpm) Security Chip

Integrating WinMagic’s SecureDoc Full-Disk Encryption With Infineon’s TPM Chip Makes It Simple To Protect All Data On Desktops And Easily-Stolen Laptops Mississauga, Ontario, March 13, 2006–WinMagic Inc. (www.WinMagic.com), the innovative leader in full-disk encryption, today announced at CeBIT (Hall 7, Booth A20) that its SecureDoc solution will be the first full-disk encryption software to fully…