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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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Bioscrypt On Board with HID’s iCLASS™ for Access Control

TORONTO, ON and IRVINE, CA, May 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/–HID Corporation and Bioscrypt Inc. (TSE: BYT) today jointly unveiled a practical and affordable new solution for access control that combines the high security of biometrics with a new generation of recently announced contactless smart cards from HID called iCLASS. Bioscrypt, the world’s leading provider of fingerprint-based biometric…
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Attacks on smart cards are a current issue in the media, but are not news to Gemplus

Gemplus–Delivering security–i.e. ensuring access is granted only for authorized usage by authorized cardholders–is the fundamental attribute of smart cards. The effectiveness of smart cards in delivering security is one of the reasons they have been so widely adopted, especially in financial services and mobile phones, why the growth of smart cards has been explosive, and…
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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…