Category: Member News

Vital Processing Services and JCB International Team Up to Introduce JCB Smart Card Capability in United States

ATLANTA, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/–Today at BAI’s Retail Delivery Conference & Expo 2002, Vital Processing Services® (Vital®), a recognized leader in technology-based commerce enabling services, announced it has teamed up with JCB International Credit Card Co., Ltd., JCB’s U.S. subsidiary, to help promote smart card usage in the United States. Vital also announced that on October…

JCB Sets its Sites on Smart Card Acceptance in U.S.

Hires Influential Smart Card Industry Leader Julie Krueger LOS ANGELES, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/–JCB, the fourth largest global payment brand, has set its sites on broadening smart credit card acceptance in the U.S. To spearhead this initiative, JCB USA has hired Julie Krueger, former executive director of the Smart Card Alliance and respected industry expert, as…

Atmel Releases a Complete Family of Serial, USB and PCMCIA Smart Card Reader ICs

NANTES, France, (BUSINESS WIRE), Nov. 7, 2002–Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq:ATML) announced today the expansion of its C51 microcontroller family dedicated to advanced smart card readers. Designed in partnership with key-players in the smart card reader market, Atmel’s new reader ICs address any application using a serial, USB or PCMCIA smart card reader. The new AT8xC5122 and…

SchlumbergerSema Introduces .NET Card Technology to Bring Smart Card-Enabled Security to the Multimedia World

PARIS, (BUSINESS WIRE), Nov. 12, 2002–SchlumbergerSema, a business segment of Schlumberger Limited (NYSE: SLB), demonstrated .NET Card, an innovative smart card platform technology that brings smart card security to new market segments for multimedia, Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi), digital rights management solutions, next-generation mobile messaging and home entertainment applications. The SchlumbergerSema .NET Card technology enables easy…

Hutchison 3G Selects SchlumbergerSema USIM Smart Card Solution

LONDON, (BUSINESS WIRE), Aug. 20, 2002–SchlumbergerSema, a business unit of Schlumberger Limited (NYSE:SLB), today announced that it has signed a contract with Hutchison 3G UK Limited (Hutchison 3G) to supply USIM (Universal Subscriber Identity Module) smart cards and provide training and support. The contract calls for SchlumbergerSema to deliver its Usimera(a) cards to Hutchison 3G…

MasterCard Records 65 Percent Growth in Smart Card Issuance in Asia/Pacific

Now More Than 6 Million MasterCard Branded Smart Cards in the Region Singapore, August 26, 2002–MasterCard International today announced that it has issued more than 6 million MasterCard branded smart cards in Asia/Pacific to date. This is a 65 percent increase in smart card issuance within a span of six months. At the end of…

EquinePassport™ Smart ID Card Features Patented Loyalty Application

DynCom Licenses Smart Chip Technologies’ Loyalty Patent and Software For Multi-Application Smart ID Card IRVINE, Calif., SALT LAKE CITY, and FORT COLLINS, Colo., Aug. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/–Smart Chip Technologies (OTC: SCTN) is pleased to announce that DynCom, Inc., an innovator in the animal identification market, has contracted to license the SCTN loyalty patent (US Patent #5,806,045)…

Northrop Grumman Information Technology and Identix Selected to Participate In Testing and Evaluation for Fingerprint Biometric Smart Cards For Defens

MINNETONKA, Minn., Aug. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/–Identix Incorporated (Nasdaq: IDNX) and Northrop Grumman Information Technology (IT) announced today that the two companies have delivered to the Department of Defense (DoD) technical demonstrations to test and evaluate biometric technology as an added layer of security for the DoD’s new department-wide Common Access Card. Northrop Grumman IT is a…

Stephen Riegel Joins Inside Contactless as Vice President Business Development for the North America Region

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/–Inside Contactless, formerly known as Inside Technologies, announced today the appointment of Stephen Riegel, former Texas Instruments Business Development Manager for the East Coast US as Vice President of Business development for the North American region. Inside Contactless has hired Mr. Riegel to drive business development activities in this region. Stephen…

MAXIMUS Wins $1.4 Million U.S. Treasury Security Smart Card Contract

RESTON, Va., (BUSINESS WIRE), Aug. 27, 2002–MAXIMUS (NYSE:MMS) has been awarded a $1.4 million smart card contract by the U.S. Department of the Treasury to design, develop, and implement the Department’s new Electronic Treasury Enterprise Card for employees. Under this contract, approximately 9,000 employees at the Treasury Department, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Bureau…