Category: Member 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

iBIZ Software’s Issuer and Acquirer Payer Authentication Solutions Are Now J/Secure Compliant

iBIZ Enters Asia Pacific Region with Local Representation and Partnerships Tokyo, Japan & Bellaire, Texas, USA, August 18, 2004–iBIZ Software is entering the Japanese market with the local representation from MRS Corporation and will be focusing on enabling merchants to become compliant with J/Secure as well as other 3-D Secure programs from Visa and MasterCard….

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…