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Lasercard Systems Corporation To Ship 265,000 Chip Ready Optical Memory Cards For National ID Card Program in Middle East

Mountain View, Calif., September 1, 2004–LaserCard Systems Corporation (NasdaqNM:DRXR) today announced that it has received a purchase order release to ship 265,000 secure chip-ready optical memory cards for use in a Middle East national ID card program. This quantity represents the balance required to fulfill the contract for Phase I of a program that called…

BART Named #1 Large Transit System in North America

Success of Cubic-Designed Fare Collection System Cited in Nomination to American Public Transportation Association SAN DIEGO, (BUSINESS WIRE), Sept. 14, 2004–The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) has been named the #1 Large Transit System in North America by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA)–an honor that also recognizes the service improvements delivered…

Alacris® Announces Technology Partner Agreement with Gemplus

Technology partnership and interoperability of product offerings increase client’s choice for best-of-breed authentication and identity assurance solutions. Ottawa, September 13, 2004–Alacris® Inc., a developer of certificate management and identity assurance software products, today announced a technology partnership with Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext: LU0121706294–GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP), one of the world’s leading providers of smart card…

Fargo Announces Addition of Identix Incorporated To Fargo Technology Alliance

Minneapolis, MN, September 13, 2004–Fargo Electronics, Inc. (NASDAQ: FRGO) today announced that Identix Incorporated (NASDAQ: IDNX) has been added to the Fargo Technology Alliance (FTA), a worldwide technology group that unites industry-leading solution providers with Fargo’s integrators to create secure card identity options in the areas of biometrics, smart cards, systems integration and software. Identix…

Gemplus and SoloMio Announce Strategic Partnership

GemVentures Invests in SoloMio Gemplus’ Philippe Vallée Joins SoloMio Board of Directors Luxembourg and Austin, TX, September 8, 2004–Gemplus International S.A., (Euronext: LU0121706294 – GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP) the world’s largest provider of smart card solutions, and SoloMio, a visionary leader in next-generation Smart Call services and technology, today announced a strategic partnership that will…

ASK RFID labels pass EPCglobal Inc’s Hardware Interoperability Test

Westport, CT, September 3rd, 2004–ASK, leading provider of RFID products, today announced its successful participation in the EPCglobal Hardware Interoperability testing. EPCglobal Inc. is a not-for-profit organization entrusted by industry to establish and support the EPCglobal Network™ as the global standard for real-time, automatic identification of information in the supply chain of any company, anywhere…

Axalto U.S. Shipments of Cyberflex Access Smart ID Cards Surge

Axalto customer purchases of Cyberflex Access™ smart cards in the United States surged significantly in the last two years. The rapid growth shows that the use of smart cards as secure identity credentials and employee badges is taking off in the United States. Some of the large government organizations that have adopted Axalto’s two-factor authentication…

Great Wall of China adopts Philips’ MIFARE UltraLight chip technology for contactless ticketing

Historical landmark and popular tourist site moves from magnetic to contactless access ticketing San Jose, Calif., September 2, 2004–Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) today announced that the Beijing Municipal Administration and Communications Card Co. Ltd. (BMAC) is using Philips’ MIFARER UltraLight contactless chip technology in a new e-ticketing system for the Great Wall…

HID Announces Shipment Of 200 Millionth Access Control Card To The City Of Los Angeles

Security Market Industry Leader Achieves Milestone with Deployment of iCLASS® Contactless Smart Cards in the Second Largest City in the United States IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 31, 2004–HID, the premier manufacturer of contactless access control readers and cards for the security industry, today announced it has reached a major milestone by shipping its 200 millionth credential…

Infineon Introduces a New Chip Card Controller Family Featuring Increased Performance and Security Mechanisms for Standard 8-Bit and 16-Bit Chip Card Applications

Munich, Germany / New Delhi, India–September 2, 2004–Today at the Smartcards Expo India 2004 show in New Delhi, Infineon Technologies AG (FSE, NYSE: IFX), the world’s number one supplier of integrated circuits (ICs) for chip cards, announced availability of a new family of security controllers for standard 8-bit and 16-bit chip card applications. The new…