Gemalto Delivers Complete New-Generation Solution for Moroccan Biometric Passport

Gemalto have announced the delivery of a complete solution for the Moroccan Mint: Dar As-Sikkah (Bank Al Maghrib), for the Kingdom of Morocco’s biometric passport program. The Gemalto solution includes the highly secure operating system Sealys eTravel, as well as the electronic covers with an integrated contactless microprocessor, containing the holder’s digital fingerprint and photo.… Read More

Trüb signs a development and supply agreement with SIX Card Solutions for a new chip generation for Swiss Maestro and V PAY cards

Trüb AG, a manufacturers of bank and loyalty cards as well as identification documents has established itself as a supplier of the new chip generation for Swiss Maestro and V PAY cards. Trüb’s chip card operating system CombOS® is one of two operating systems on which the new EMVI’12 chip generation will be based beginning… Read More

ViVOtech teams up with DeviceFidelity to instantly enable popular smartphones into contactless payment and loyalty devices

Silicon Valley-based ViVOtech, a player in Near Field Communication (NFC) mobile payments, loyalty and marketing applications and contactless NFC readers, and DeviceFidelity, the global leader in microSD based mobile contactless solutions, have announced a joint solution that brings contactless mobile payment, loyalty, transit, ticketing and coupon redemption capabilities to leading Smartphone models.  Available to financial… Read More

Gemalto Launches New Multi-Application Reader for Contactless and Contact Versatility

Gemalto today announced the launch of the innovative PROX DU™ smart card reader for physical and logical access control. The dual-interface reader makes it convenient to securely access a host of applications using both contactless and contact technologies, with one single device. These include employee corporate badge, electronic identity and healthcare. The PROX DU is… Read More

NXP’s MIFARE Plus Chosen for Ground Transportation Ticketing Systems in Sochi, Russia for 2014 Winter Olympics

NXP Semiconductors N.V. this week announced that its contactless microcontroller, MIFARE Plus™, has been chosen by the Russian city of Sochi – host of the 2014 Winter Olympics – to power the Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) system of its ground transportation network. This will be the first rollout of MIFARE Plus in Russia and the Commonwealth… Read More

Precise Biometrics receives order for hardware worth SEK 2.4 million in Match-on-Card project for Middle East Govt. employees.

The order is an additional follow-up order from an existing customer in the Middle East and delivery consists of Precise 200 MC readers, combined fingerprint and smart card readers that will be used in a current government ID card project together with the Precise Match-on-Card™ technology. The government customer is in the process of extending… Read More