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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…
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Philips and Sony Announce Strategic Cooperation To Define Next Generation Near Field Radio-Frequency Communications

Electronics Leaders to Jointly Establish Wireless Technology to Significantly Enhance Access to Data and Services via Consumer Devices Amsterdam, the Netherlands/Tokyo, Japan, September 5, 2002–Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE:PHG) and Sony Corporation today announced that they will jointly develop a new near field radio-frequency communication technology, ‘Near Field Communication’ (NFC). The technology enables short-range…
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Next Generation MasterCard Credit/Debit Application Provides Issuers Additional Control, Flexibility

MasterCard M/Chip, Version 4, Designed to Address Range of Industry Needs Purchase, NY, and Waterloo, Belgium, October 3, 2002–Responding to feedback received from its member financial institutions around the world, MasterCard today announced the release of MasterCard M/Chip, version 4 (M/Chip 4), a highly flexible smart card application for credit and debit cards. The new…
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FreeStar Technologies Preparing to Launch New USB Port-Friendly ePayPad Card Swipe Terminal

FreeStar’s Next Generation Application to Permit Universal Use With All Desktop and Laptop Computers NEW YORK, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/–FreeStar Technologies, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: FSTI), a company providing one of the world’s first live and operational debit and ATM with PIN-authenticated payment technology on the Internet, today announced its next generation ePayPad card swipe terminal…
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MasterCard and WorldPay Advance e-Commerce Security; MasterCard’s UCAF Now Being Implemented by 17,000 WorldPay Merchants

PURCHASE, N.Y. and CAMBRIDGE, UK, (BUSINESS WIRE), Aug. 7, 2002–MasterCard International and WorldPay, a world leader in multi-currency secure payment processing, today announced the global launch of a programme to advance e-commerce security and boost consumer and merchant confidence, using MasterCard’s UCAF™ authentication infrastructure. Building on its technical architecture for authenticating payments over the Internet,…
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Thomson Media Announces the CardTech/SecurTech ID Conference & Exhibition: Identification Technologies for a Secure World

Sponsored by the U.S. General Services Administration NEW YORK, Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/–Thomson Media, publishers of Card Technology and ID Newswire, announce CardTech/SecurTech ID Conference & Exhibition to be held November 18-20, 2002 at the Renaissance Washington, D.C. Hotel in Washington, D.C. Since 1990, over 75,000 people have attended CardTech/SecurTech conferences to learn how to tamper-proof…
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Gemplus Leads the Smart Card Industry for Fourth Consecutive Year

LUXEMBOURG, May 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/–Gemplus (Euronext: Sicovam 5768) (Nasdaq: GEMP), the world’s leading provider of smart card solutions, today announced that industry analysts have confirmed the company’s market-leading position for the fourth year running. This news reflects a year when the company delivered such technology breakthroughs as Target Corporation’s Target smart Visa™ card, China Unicom’s first…
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ASSA ABLOY Identification Technology Group (ITG) Forms Access ID

June 5, 2002–ASSA ABLOY’S Identification Technology Group (ITG) announced the formation of a new company, Access ID, based in Seattle, WA. Access ID will develop and supply custom technology cards–focusing primarily on contactless technology. Access ID will specialize in full graphic customization of cards, including high resolution four-color lithography and embedded anti-counterfeiting features. The new…
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Gemplus Wins Frost & Sullivan’s Market Value Leadership Award for the Smart Card Industry

Gemplus Tops Analyst’s Smart Card Analysis For Fourth Time in Five Years LONDON, July 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/–Frost & Sullivan, the international marketing consulting company, today announced that Gemplus (Nasdaq: GEMP; Euronext: Sicovam 5768) has been awarded Frost & Sullivan’s Market Value Leadership Award for its exceptional performance in the smart card market. The year 2001 was…