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Visa Offers Optimized Contactless Card

San Francisco, November 10, 2005–Visa today announced that it is expanding the Visa Smart Breakthrough program to include a new contactless chip solution. The program aims to improve the business case for chip technology worldwide by making cards, terminals and personalization solutions more cost effective to financial institutions, merchants and consumers. The new contactless chip…
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HID and Development Partners Demonstrate New iClass Contactless Smart Card Application Solutions at Cartes 2005

HID Showcases Seamless Integration of ID Badge Issuance, Logical Access, Mobile ID Verification, Biometric Authentication, and Cashless Vending Applications on iCLASS Contactless Smart Cards Haverhill, UK, November 9, 2005–HID Corporation, the premier manufacturer of contactless access control cards and readers for the security industry, today announced that it will demonstrate new 13.56 MHz iCLASS contactless…
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Gemplus delivers smart identity management system to Pfizer

Gemplus delivers its SafesITe solution for network access control and digital signatures Luxembourg and Horsham PA, 8 November 2005–Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext: LU0121706294–GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP), the world’s leading provider of smart card solutions, today announces that Pfizer, Inc., the world’s largest research-based pharmaceutical company is deploying its technology for a smart badge identity management…
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Chase Launches Credit Cards with “blink” in Philadelphia Tri-State Area

Transforms Payment Experience for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware Residents, Merchants; Wawa Stores Offer Customers Speed, Convenience With “blink” PHILADELPHIA, October 27, 2005–Chase Bank U.S.A., N.A., a division of JPMorgan Chase & Co. [NYSE: JPM], announced today the rollout of its new Chase contactless credit cards with “blink” in the greater Philadelphia tri-state area, including Southern…
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Time-Strapped New York Tri-State Residents “blink” Their Way to Faster Purchases

Chase Cards with “blink” Transform Payment Experience for Two Million New York, New Jersey, Connecticut Residents, Merchants NEW YORK, October 27, 2005–Chase Bank U.S.A., N.A., a division of JPMorgan Chase & Co. [NYSE: JPM], announced today the rollout of its new Chase “contactless” credit cards with “blink” in the greater New York City tri-state area,…
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USA Technologies Works With MasterCard to Prepare $40 Billion Vending Industry for Contactless Payments

MasterCard PayPass Eliminates the Need to Fumble With Cash and Coins at Vending Machines Malvern, PA, and Purchase, NY, October 26, 2005–USA Technologies (OTC Bulletin Board: USTT) and MasterCard International today announced they are working together to provide a faster and more convenient payment option for use at vending machines. USA Technologies believes that its…
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OTI Estimates Revenues for the First Nine months of 2005 to Reach Approximately $24 Million

Revenues From its program of providing inlays for Electronic Travel Documents to an Asian Country Expected to Reach Low Tens of Millions of Dollars Starting FY 2007 Fort Lee, NJ, October 24, 2005–On Track Innovations Ltd. (OTI) (NASDAQ: OTIV; Prime Standard (Frankfurt): OT5), a global leader in contactless microprocessor-based smart card solutions for homeland security,…
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STMicroelectronics and On Track Innovations (OTI) Deliver Approved Microcontroller Contactless Payment Solution

Volume Shipments in US Already Underway Geneva, Switzerland and Fort Lee, New Jersey–October 19, 2005–STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), one of the world’s leading semiconductor manufacturers and the leader in smart card microcontrollers for financial and transportation applications, together with On Track Innovations Ltd, (OTI) (NASDAQ: OTIV; Prime Standard [Frankfurt]: OT5), a global leader in contactless microprocessor-based…