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Hypercom’s Optimum Joins Visa Smart Breakthrough Acceptance Device Program, Accelerating Move to EMV Migration

Hypercom Solution Combines Cost, Performance, Security Hypercom Corporation (NYSE: HYC) announced today that its multi-application Optimum™ T2100 card payment terminal has joined the Visa Smart Breakthrough Acceptance Device Program and is available for immediate shipment. The multi-application Optimum T2100 is expected to facilitate and accelerate worldwide EMV migration by delivering a compact, high-speed, easy-use device…

Gemplus selected for electronic Visa pilot in France

Gemplus supplies contactless smart card technology for French Government’s border control initiative Luxembourg, 24 May, 2005–Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext: LU0121706294–GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP), the world’s leading provider of smart card solutions, today announces that it has been selected to supply contactless smart card technology for the “Biodev” project, an initiative spearheaded by an ad-hoc grouping…

Chase Picks Atlanta To Roll Out Next Generation Payment Product

Chase Cards With blink Redefine Payment Experience for Metro Atlantans by Providing Increased Speed, Added Convenience, Enhanced Rewards Platform; More Than 400 Area Merchant Locations Enjoy Faster Transactions, Increased Customer Loyalty ATLANTA, May 24, 2005–Chase Bank U.S.A., N.A., a division of JPMorgan Chase & Co. [NYSE: JPM], announced today that Atlanta will be the first…

7-Eleven to Accept Visa Contactless Payments at Its Point of Sale

New Payment Technology Allows Customers to Complete Secure Transactions Faster and Easier Dallas, TX, May 19, 2005–7-Eleven, Inc. today announced that it is making shopping faster and easier for many of its customers by accepting Visa Contactless payments, a new feature on Visa cards that uses radio-frequency technology to enable customers to make a purchase…

Sheetz Customers Can Now Experience the Latest in Payment Innovation As Sheetz Goes Live with Contactless Payments in All 309 Stores

Customers Among the First to Benefit from Speed and Convenience of Contactless Payment Technology with the New Sheetz MasterCard from Chase; First Retailer to Launch Cobranded Contactless Credit Card Altoona, PA, May 19, 2005–Sheetz, Inc., today announces that technology allowing customers to use a contactless payment option is now “live” in all 309 Sheetz stores….

Giesecke & Devrient Strengthens Presence on Russian Market–Joint venture founded with Russian technology group KNC

Munich/Moscow, May 18, 2005–International technology group Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is expanding its smart card activities in Russia as well as neighboring countries that belong to the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) by entering into a joint venture with Russia’s Concern Nauchny Center (KNC). Representatives from both companies gathered today in Moscow to sign the…

Giesecke & Devrient Delivers Millionth “e-card”

Production of the Austrian social insurance card is on target Munich, June 16, 2005–National distribution of the Austrian social insurance e-card was started on May 30 of this year. The production at the international technology group Giesecke & Devrient (G&D), the provider of the card, is running in top gear. The millionth e-card will be…

Annual Report Press Conference 2005: Giesecke & Devrient focuses on profitable growth through innovation

Fiscal 2004: Group achieves its highest revenue ever–earnings improve by 40 per cent–net profit 36 per cent higher–profitable growth expected for 2005 Munich, May 13, 2005–Fiscal 2004 was another successful year for Giesecke & Devrient (G&D). The Munich-based international technology group increased its sales by 10.5 per cent, to €1.16 billion. This was the highest…

INTERVIEW: Talking contactless and EMV with Visa’s Patrick Gautier

May 12, 2005–ContactlessNews interviews Patrick Gauthier, Senior Vice President of New Product Development with Visa USA. Click here to read the full story.

Aveso Announces Membership in the Smart Card Alliance

Dow spin-out enables new generation of smart cards through high-volume, low-cost printed electronic display technology Minneapolis, April 12, 2005–Aveso, Inc., a pioneer in the development of ultra thin, ultra low-power printed electronic displays, announced today its membership in the Smart Card Alliance (SCA), a not-for-profit organization formed in 2000 for the purpose of educating business…