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STMicroelectronics Announces Mass Roll-out in Poland and Czech Republic of VISA Cards Based on Proton Prisma Smart Card Platform

Geneva, July 17, 2003–STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) today announced that CSOB Bank in the Czech Republic and Kredyt Bank Poland have received VISA certification for the personalization of their Proton Prisma cards and will begin a mass roll-out of these cards in the next few weeks. Both banks are part of the KBC Bank & Insurance…

SCM Microsystems Delivers Verifiable Security for Consumer Internet Transactions, Among First to Achieve FINREAD Compliance

Fremont, CA, July 10, 2003–Taking a major step forward to open the Digital World, SCM Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCMM, Prime Standard: SMY) announced that the company is among the first three worldwide to achieve FINREAD compliance. Development and testing under the Trusted FINREAD Initiative has proved that SCM’s STR-FINREAD smart card readers provide a verifiable…

Revolutionary Ticketing System Developed by Cubic and Partner EDS Now Live to Customers; London’s New “Oyster” Smart Card is Available on the Internet

SAN DIEGO, (BUSINESS WIRE), July 9, 2003–Transport for London’s annual and monthly season ticket holders have begun using a new smart card-based ticketing system developed by the TranSys consortium led by San Diego-based Cubic Corp. (AMEX:CUB) and EDS (Electronic Data Systems). The new Oyster smart card, which is being introduced gradually to the public beginning…

SSP-Litronic’s NetSign CAC Sales Surpass 100,000 Licenses

IRVINE, Calif., (BUSINESS WIRE), June 10, 2003–SSP Solutions Inc. (Nasdaq:SSPX) and SSP-Litronic, long-term providers of government enterprise information assurance products, today announced an order for an additional 25,000 licenses of its NetSign® CAC middleware product. With this most current order, SSP-Litronic has delivered more than 100,000 NetSign CAC licenses to the Department of Defense (DoD)…