Category: NFC News

Walt Disney Japan and JCB Announce Marketing Alliance and Co-branded Credit Card Agreements

Tokyo, Japan, July 7, 2008–The Walt Disney Company (Japan) Ltd. and JCB Co., Ltd. today announced agreements for a marketing alliance and a co-branded credit card. The marketing alliance will allow JCB to leverage Disney content in a broad range of activities to market its payments business in Japan. Under the co-branded credit card agreement,…

Contactless Mobile Payment: Five Major French Banks Use Gemalto’s Secure Services for the “Payez Mobile” Program

Pegasus renews its contract with Gemalto as part of NFC mobile payment Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 2, 2008–Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, today announces that five banks currently use its Allynis service offer as part of the “Payez Mobile” trial for contactless mobile payment: the BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole-LCL, Crédit…

SCM Microsystems Breaks New Ground With New CHIPDRIVE Contactless Time Recording Solution

ISMANING, Germany, July 1, 2008–SCM Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCMM, Prime Standard: SMY), a leading provider of solutions that open the Digital World, now offers a contactless version of its popular CHIPDRIVE® time recording solution for small and medium sized businesses (SMEs). CHIPDRIVE Time Recording Touch & Go allows employees to clock-in, clock-out and record time…

INSIDE Contactless Receives Additional Funding from Samsung Ventures America

Top Three Handset Makers Endorse INSIDE’s Leadership in Nascent NFC Market AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, June 30th, 2008–Extending its previously announced series C funding round, INSIDE Contactless, the world leader in advanced contactless microprocessor platforms, today added Samsung Ventures America to its active investor community, which now includes the world’s top three handset manufacturers. Samsung Ventures’ participation…

TrustBearer Labs Selected as HealthVault OpenID Provider

Fort Wayne, IN June 18, 2008–TrustBearer Labs, an Internet security and authentication solutions company, has been selected by Microsoft Corp. as an OpenID provider for the Microsoft® HealthVault™ online consumer health platform. TrustBearer Labs’ OpenID service will allow HealthVault users to login securely to their account using multi-factor hardware authentication devices, such as smart cards,…

ASK joins ITSO certified companies for the UK market

Sophia-Antipolis, June 10, 2008–ASK a pioneer of contactless cards for the mass transit market since 1997, today announced that the company joined the UK-based Integrated Transport Smartcard Organization (ITSO) and successfully passed the ITSO certification. This certificate strengthens ASK market presence in the United Kingdom and confirms the company’s strategy to offer clients and partners…

Gemalto Completes Unprecedented OTA Campaign Covering Over 53 Million Mobile Subscribers in China

Beijing, June 11, 2008–Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, today announces the successful completion of over 53 million over-the-air (OTA) updates¹ of GSM and CDMA mobile customers representing 6.3 billion short messages across 8 provinces in China. This demonstrates how useful and also how efficient OTA campaigns have become as a…

Microsoft Enterprise Customers Gain Speed, Security with Gemalto’s Instant Issuance for Converged Badges

TECH.ED NORTH AMERICA 2008, Orlando, Fla, June 10, 2008–Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, today announced Instant Badge Issuance (IBI)–a smart card identity badge creation system that complements Microsoft’s Identity and Access solutions and enables enterprises to produce employee IDs locally in minutes. In addition to printing graphics and personalizing applications on a magnetic…

Italy’s PosteMobile Selects Gemalto Solution Integrating Post Office Services into the Mobile Phone

With this solution, subscribers can pay their bills, send a telegram or transfer money from their mobile phone, anytime, anywhere MVNOs Industry Summit, Barcelona, June 9, 2008–Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, today announces it has provided PosteMobile, the first Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) in Italy, with a software solution…

Bell ID’s GSA Approved Card & Management System Uses GlobalPlatform Card Specification V2.1.1

June 5, 2008–GlobalPlatform has announced that its Card Specification v2.1.1 has been used by smart card and application solution provider Bell ID in its ANDiS4FIPS201 Card and Application Management technology. The solution has recently been placed on the United States (US) Government’s General Services Administration (GSA) Approved Products List in recognition of its compliance with…