Author: sca

InHealthcare NewsMember NewsNFC News

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…
InMember News

ST’s Trusted Platform Module Provides Complete Trusted Computing Group-Enabled Security Solution for Desktop and Laptop PCs

STMicroelectronics Completes Trusted Computing Group 1.2 Solution Available with Licensed Software from Wave Systems and NTRU Geneva, September 7, 2004–STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) announces the availability of its complete Trusted Computing Group (TCG) 1.2 Solution–the ST19WP18-TPM–which is backward compatible with ST’s TCG 1.1b Solution. The new TCG 1.2 solution features an integrated Core TCG Software Stack…
InHealthcare NewsMember NewsNFC News

Axalto Named Cingular Supplier

Austin, TX, August 26, 2004–Axalto (Euronext NL0000400653 AXL), the world’s leading provider of microprocessor cards, announced today that Cingular Wireless has named Axalto a supplier of Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards for its GSM-based wireless services. The new agreement extends the existing supplier relationship. “Axalto is pleased to support Cingular in the achievement of its…
InMember NewsNFC News

OTI & Atmel Receive First Commercial Orders To Support Mastercard® Paypass™

OTI/Atmel Solution Receives MasterCard Certification San Jose, CA, & Cupertino, CA, August 25, 2004–Atmel Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a leading provider of system-level integration semiconductor solutions, including secure microcontrollers and smart card ICs and On Track Innovations Ltd, (OTI) (NASDAQ: OTIV; Prime Standard [Frankfurt]: OT5), a global leader in contactless microprocessor-based smart card solutions, for homeland…
InMember NewsNFC News

SCM Microsystems Teams Up with Sharp on Contactless Smart Cards for Electronic Passport

ISMANING, GERMANY and FREMONT, CA, August 24, 2004–SCM Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCMM, Prime Standard SMY) announced today that it has entered into a cooperative agreement with Integrated Circuit Group of Sharp Corporation for the development, sales and marketing of contactless smart card readers. Under the agreement, SCM will further develop its contactless reader/writers to be…
InMember NewsNFC News

McDonald’s® Expands Cashless Payment Options For Customers With MasterCard Paypass

Oak Brook, IL, August 18, 2004–McDonald’s® today announced an agreement to accept MasterCard® PayPass™, a new “contactless” payment option utilizing radio frequency technology at select McDonald’s restaurants in the U.S. Participating McDonald’s restaurants in Dallas and the New York metropolitan area will implement MasterCard PayPass later this year, with additional locations to be added in…
InHealthcare NewsMember News

Hypercom Teams With SiVault Systems To Help Health Care Providers Authenticate Prescriptions, Reduce Fraud and Errors

Hypercom POS Transaction Technology, SiVault Systems’ Signature PHOENIX and NEW YORK, August 11, 2004–Hypercom Corporation (NYSE: HYC) and SiVault Systems Inc. (OTCBB: STVL. OB) today announced a strategic partnership that will combine SiVault Systems’ end-to-end signature verification technology with Hypercom’s point-of-transaction card payment technology in a solution designed to significantly improve the authentication and fulfillment…