Category: NFC News

Fargo Announces Addition of Identix Incorporated To Fargo Technology Alliance

Minneapolis, MN, September 13, 2004–Fargo Electronics, Inc. (NASDAQ: FRGO) today announced that Identix Incorporated (NASDAQ: IDNX) has been added to the Fargo Technology Alliance (FTA), a worldwide technology group that unites industry-leading solution providers with Fargo’s integrators to create secure card identity options in the areas of biometrics, smart cards, systems integration and software. Identix…

Alacris® Announces Technology Partner Agreement with Gemplus

Technology partnership and interoperability of product offerings increase client’s choice for best-of-breed authentication and identity assurance solutions. Ottawa, September 13, 2004–Alacris® Inc., a developer of certificate management and identity assurance software products, today announced a technology partnership with Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext: LU0121706294–GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP), one of the world’s leading providers of smart card…

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…

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…