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Major Smart Card Market Players Join Forces to Advance Open and Secure Public Transport Smart Card Applications

Smart Card Makers Giesecke & Devrient and Oberthur Technologies, and Chip Providers Infineon and INSIDE Contactless Launch Initiative to Establish Open Standard Transport Ticketing 2010 Conference & Expo, London, January 26, 2010–Smart card manufacturers Giesecke & Devrient GmbH (G&D) and Oberthur Technologies S.A., and chip suppliers Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) and…
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Oberthur Technologies Acquires Service Center in Colombia to Expand EMV Delivery into Latin America

Chantilly, VA, January 14, 2010–Oberthur Technologies, the world’s second largest provider of smart card based solutions, has acquired the payment card personalization assets of Dyetron S.A., a provider of smart card-based technology solutions for the transportation, communications, government and financial sectors. Oberthur Technologies and Dyetron formed a partnership in June of 2009, utilizing Dyetron’s local…
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INSIDE Contactless and TazTag Partner on NFC Innovations

MicroRead NFC Solution Powers TazCard and TazKiosk Proximity Applications Aix-En-Provence and Rennes, France, January 4, 2009–INSIDE Contactless and TazTag™ today announced they have created a partnership to develop and bring to market a variety of highly secured, multi-application contactless solutions based on near field communication (NFC) technology. INSIDE’s third-generation MicroRead® NFC solution has already been…
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Gemalto and XIRING complete the acquisition by Gemalto of XIRING’s banking activity

Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Suresnes, France, Dec 16, 2009–Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 – GTO), the world leader in digital security and XIRING, a security solutions provider for remote transactions, today announced that they have completed their exclusive negotiations and signed a binding contract related to the acquisition by Gemalto of the XIRING banking activity for 20…
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Smart Association, Inc. Announces Largest Healthcare Smart Card Program at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center

Citrus Heights, CA–SMART Association, Inc., (“SMART”) announced today that its newest client, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center of Brooklyn, New York, will implement the nation’s largest healthcare smart card program. The program, slated to issue over 110,000 smart cards to Wyckoff’s patients, will begin implementation by first quarter of 2010. Wyckoff’s CEO, Rajiv Garg is a…
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Innovation and tradition for mobile shoppers at farmer’s grocery stores

The project “touch’n pay” demonstrates the usage of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology for Self Service Shopping. Zurich, December 15, 2009–By the joint project touch’n pay, operated by NEXPERTS, e24 and other industrial partners plus the University of Applied Science from Northwest Switzerland, from December 2009 customers can shop for goods and services by a…
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LaserCard to Speak on Global Secure ID Capabilities at Cardex 2009 Digital Identity CEO Forum

December 13–15, Cairo, Egypt Mountain View, Calif., Dec. 11, 2009–LaserCard Corporation (Nasdaq: LCRD) is one of four international companies selected to present to senior Egyptian officials at The Digital Identity CEO Forum, to be held in conjunction with Cardex 2009 Digital Identity Assurance Conference and Expo, Middle East and Africa. Cardex 2009 will take place…
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Gemalto in exclusive talks with XIRING to acquire XIRING’s banking activity

Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Suresnes, France, Nov 23, 2009–Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 – GTO), the world leader in digital security and XIRING, a leader in smart card based strong authentication solutions for e-banking and e-commerce, today announced that they have entered into exclusive negotiations with the objective to complete the acquisition by Gemalto of the XIRING…