Category: NFC News

ASK RFID labels pass EPCglobal Inc’s Hardware Interoperability Test

Westport, CT, September 3rd, 2004–ASK, leading provider of RFID products, today announced its successful participation in the EPCglobal Hardware Interoperability testing. EPCglobal Inc. is a not-for-profit organization entrusted by industry to establish and support the EPCglobal Network™ as the global standard for real-time, automatic identification of information in the supply chain of any company, anywhere…

OTI & Atmel Receive First Commercial Orders To Support Mastercard® Paypass™

OTI/Atmel Solution Receives MasterCard Certification San Jose, CA, & Cupertino, CA, August 25, 2004–Atmel Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a leading provider of system-level integration semiconductor solutions, including secure microcontrollers and smart card ICs and On Track Innovations Ltd, (OTI) (NASDAQ: OTIV; Prime Standard [Frankfurt]: OT5), a global leader in contactless microprocessor-based smart card solutions, for homeland…

SCM Microsystems Teams Up with Sharp on Contactless Smart Cards for Electronic Passport

ISMANING, GERMANY and FREMONT, CA, August 24, 2004–SCM Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCMM, Prime Standard SMY) announced today that it has entered into a cooperative agreement with Integrated Circuit Group of Sharp Corporation for the development, sales and marketing of contactless smart card readers. Under the agreement, SCM will further develop its contactless reader/writers to be…

McDonald’s® Expands Cashless Payment Options For Customers With MasterCard Paypass

Oak Brook, IL, August 18, 2004–McDonald’s® today announced an agreement to accept MasterCard® PayPass™, a new “contactless” payment option utilizing radio frequency technology at select McDonald’s restaurants in the U.S. Participating McDonald’s restaurants in Dallas and the New York metropolitan area will implement MasterCard PayPass later this year, with additional locations to be added in…

ASK contactless cards & tickets selected for the whole AFC Dutch system

Sophia-Antipolis, Aug. 1st, 2004–ASK was selected by Thalès, System Integrator for the global system, to supply the contactless cards and tickets for the Dutch public transports. The Netherlands will be one of the first countries in the world to have a full contactless AFC system on their whole public transportation network. The Dutch e-ticketing project…

HID Announces Support for United States Government Smart Card Interoperability Specification Version 2.1 with iCLASS™ Technology

GSC-IS V2.1 Compliant iCLASS Readers Output Federal Agency Smart Credential Number in Multiple Configurations Meeting Standard Communication Protocol IRVINE, Calif., July 14, 2004–HID, the premier manufacturer of contactless access control cards and readers for the security industry, today announced support for the United States Government Smart Card Interoperability Specification (GSC-IS) Version 2.1 (V2.1) based on…