|  Great success for the Inside Secure's IPO which raises €69m on NYSE Euronext Paris [INSIDE Secure le : 18/02/2012]
Offering price set at 8.30 euros per share, near high end of the price range. Global offering subscribed more than 5 times
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| Merging Professional Driver Driving Licence with Private Driver Data Raises Privacy Issue, says EDPS [EDPS le : 17/02/2012]
Recommends to ensure a strict limitation of access rights in view of the legitimate purposes for which relevant authorities and any other recipients would need to access the data.
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| European Parliament Decision on SEPA Standard Confirms Atos Payment Strategy [Atos le : 17/02/2012]
Atos is an early mover and invested in a full set of SEPA ready products fully operational for both banks and creditors.
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| VASCO Reports Full Year 2011 Revenues of $168.1 million (+56% YoY) [Vasco Data Security International, Inc. le : 17/02/2012]
Revenue for 2012 is expected to be $175 million or more.
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| Genetics Inspired Research Prevents Cyber Attacks [Wake Forest University le : 17/02/2012]
Fulp and Crouse have turned to nature to guide their research.
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| 3M Cogent Biometric Access Control Readers Approved to Authenticate TWIC [3M Cogent le : 17/02/2012]
Both devices support the Transportation Worker Identification Credentials (TWIC) Privacy Key (TPK) enciphered on-card reference biometrics during registration and in operation.
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| Barclays Launches Europe’s first P2P Service for Sending Money by Mobile Phone Number [Barclays le : 16/02/2012]
The Barclays Pingit service will be available to current account customers of all UK banks and building societies, not just those with Barclays current accounts. With comments of Validsoft's CEO.
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| MasterCard To Open Global Technologies Office in Dublin (Ireland) [MasterCard Worldwide le : 16/02/2012]
MasterCard’s Dublin Labs and Center of Excellence for Java Development will develop innovative ways for electronic payments to replace cash.
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| Atos, EMC and VMware to Form an Open Cloud Computing Strategic Alliance [Atos le : 16/02/2012]
Atos to create Canopy, a One-Stop-Shop Company for Advanced Cloud Services; EMC and VMware to Invest Alongside Atos.
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| SafeNet Sentinel Cloud Awarded for Best DRM Solution [SafeNet, Inc. le : 16/02/2012]
SafeNet's family of Sentinel software monetization solutions are designed to meet the unique license enablement, enforcement, and entitlement management requirements of any organization.
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| Bouygues Telecom Selects NDS To Provide Software and Services for New IPTV Platform [NDS le : 16/02/2012]
NDS provides set-top box software components and professional services, including systems integration.
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| GSMA Research Predicts mHealth Market To Be Worth US$23 Billion by 2017 [GSMA le : 16/02/2012]
Pervasive mHealth services and applications worldwide could provide mobile operators with revenues worth approximately US$11.5 billion by 2017.
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| Apple Became Top Smartphone Vendor in Q4 -2011 and in 2011 as a Whole, says Gartner [Gartner le : 16/02/2012]
Gartner says worldwide smartphone sales soared in fourth quarter of 2011 with 47% growth. In the OS market, competition between Google and Apple intensified.
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| Low-Cost Android Smartphones Will Seize 80% of Market in Africa, India, and China, Says NPD In-Stat [NPD In-Stat le : 16/02/2012]
The Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) step-up in memory and processor demands makes this release less attractive for low-cost Android devices.
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| NXP Software and Verimatrix bring secure content delivery to Android devices [NXP Software le : 16/02/2012]
NXP Software has integrated Verimatrix enhanced HLS content authorization into its LifeVibes QuickPlayer opening the way for premium internet TV services on Android phones and tablets.
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| Orange launches new service to make Facebook accessible on every phone in Africa [Orange le : 16/02/2012]
Facebook via USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) allows all Orange customers to access the service, regardless of the phone that they are using.
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| Thales Launches its Ticketing Reader Ready for Bank Cards [Thales Group le : 16/02/2012]
Thales’s expertise in cryptology guarantees maximum protection of data exchanges and equipment within the fare management system.
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| Gemalto Wins 2012 Cloud Award for Security Innovation [Gemalto le : 16/02/2012]
Award recognizes Gemalto's expertise in securing cloud computing for enterprise applications.
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| Collis Launches its Mobile MasterCard PayPass Test Suite [Collis le : 16/02/2012]
Includes 950 test cases specifically designed by Collis to cover all functionality of the Secure Element payment application described in the Technical Specifications.
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| Watchdata Launches SIMpass-SC - A SIM-NFC Addressing a Market of over 4 Billion Phones [Watchdata le : 15/02/2012]
An elegant, practical and cost-effective UICC/SIM-NFC based on SIMpass technology, which embeds a secure element, an active RF front end and an antenna into a single dual interface SIM card form factor.
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| Linyang Electronics (China) Integrating Cinterion’s Tiny BGS2 M2M Modules [Cinterion (Gemalto) le : 15/02/2012]
Linyang Electronics is a top 100 electronic information enterprise in China and one of the most competitive in the smart metering industry.
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| Sybase 365 and Telefonica Partner to Provide NFC Mobile Wallet Services [Sybase 365 le : 15/02/2012]
The mWallet will be capable of storing prepaid, debit, credit and loyalty cards, thereby simplifying online purchases. First commercial wallet services to roll out in Europe and Latin America during 2012.
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| Wi-Fi Goes Mobile With Alcatel-Lucent [Alcatel-Lucent le : 15/02/2012]
lightRadio Wi-Fi addresses another big concern - security. Always finds the most 'trusted' network.
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| Dynamics Awarded for its Dynamics’ Chip and Choice‘ Technology [Dynamics Inc. le : 15/02/2012]
'Dynamics’ Chip and Choice technology translates dynamic data to EMV readers in a format they can understand without requiring a costly and decade-long upgrade.
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| AFORE Solutions Will Offer Security Solutions in the CA Cloud Commons Marketplace [AFORE Solutions Inc. le : 15/02/2012]
CloudLink for the CA AppLogic cloud platform is a multi-tenancy solution that securely extends customer enterprise networks, with end-to-end encryption of network traffic and cloud-based storage to protect sensitive data.
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| Collis Launches eDriving Licence Test Tool for Validating Driving Licence Chips [Collis le : 15/02/2012]
The Collis eDriving Licence Test Tool contains a wide variety of features for exploring the chip contents, validating the chip personalization and functional testing.
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| KOBIL Systems Expands Global Reach with New U.S. Based Operations [KOBIL Systems GmbH le : 15/02/2012]
Leading IT Security Solutions Provider Stakes North American Market with Identity Management, Mobile Application Security Offerings.
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| Mobey Forum Defines Control Points within the Mobile Wallet Ecosystem [Mobey Forum le : 15/02/2012]
White paper explores how stakeholder groups will compete to influence operational delivery.
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| ActivIdentity’s CMS Appliance Offers New CIV Credential to Long List of Capabilities [ActivIdentity Corp. (HID Global group) le : 15/02/2012]
The CIV credential as defined by the Smart Card Alliance Physical Access Council formally establishes the availability of a PIV-level credential for commercial enterprise that replaces the PIV-C concept.
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| Texas Instruments Introduces Its First NFC Connectivity & Security Combo [Texas Instruments le : 14/02/2012]
The WiLink 8.0 combo chip with integrated NFC yields a more than 50% size reduction as compared to non-combo solutions. TI partners with NXP and Infineon for pairing Secure Elements.
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| MagTek Introduces IPAD EMV Pin Pad [MagTek Europe. le : 14/02/2012]
All communication both internally and externally is highly secure, using 3DES and DUKPT Key Management, exceeding the requirements of PCI DSS.
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| ActivIdentity’s Card Management System Recertified by the FIPS-201 Evaluation Program [ActivIdentity Corp. (HID Global group) le : 14/02/2012]
New Version Allows Users to Keep Key History on Newly Issued PIV Smart Cards and Store up to 20 Encryption Certificates and Iris Biometric Information.
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| Cryptomathic Launches Flexible Mobile Security Suite for Two-Factor Authentication [Cryptomathic le : 14/02/2012]
Cryptomathic developed the Mobile AuthApp suite to meet advancing security requirements for accessing sensitive information online.
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| Phil D'Angio Named Senior Vice President of ValidSoft Limited [Elephant Talk Communication Corp. le : 14/02/2012]
D'Angio joins Validsoft from Symantec, and will report to ValidSoft CEO, Pat Carroll in order to align the overall global sales initiatives, marketing and business development strategy.
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| Natural security To Introduce its ‘Natural“ Approach to Payment Authentication [Natural security le : 14/02/2012]
In March this year, natural security will offer the global payments world a preview of the first payment and ID application from its unique authentication solution at Cartes USA and Cartes Asia respectively.
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| Trüb AG Launches its chip generation CombOS EMVI’12 for Swiss Maestro and V PAY cards [Trüb AG le : 14/02/2012]
The EMVI’12 chip generation is based on the EMV CPA (Common Payment Application) specification, which is accepted by both MasterCard and Visa for financial cards.
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| Worldwide mobile ticketing transactions are set to quadruple to 23 billion by 2016 [ Juniper Research (Marketwire) le : 14/02/2012]
Mobile NFC Metro Tickets to Be Used by 1 in 8 Mobile Users in the US and Western Europe by 2016.
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| Visa Tops One Million Chip Cards in the U.S. [Visa Inc. le : 14/02/2012]
Under Visa's approach, both PIN and signature methods, as well as "no signature required," will continue to be available to issuers and merchants in the U.S. according to their preferences.
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| G&D to Supply Turnkey TSM Solution for Commercial Mobile Payment Rollout in Australia [Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) le : 13/02/2012]
The most important of the components to be provided is G&D’s turnkey Trusted Service Manager (TSM) solution.
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| MVNE Sisteer Adopts Smart Profile Service from Oberthur Technologies [http://www.sisteer.com le : 13/02/2012]
Smart Profile is a configuration service for SIM card profiles, developed and designed to answer specific needs for hosted MVNO.
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| Proxama announces global NFC mobile wallet collaboration with ARM [Proxama le : 13/02/2012]
The collaboration will focus on marrying ARM TrustZone technology with the Proxama Mobile Wallet.
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| Cyber and Physical Smart Security Converge at CARTES in North America [CARTES in North America le : 13/02/2012]
Day-long track tackles the latest security and privacy topics for digital identification and transactions. CARTES in North America, March 5-7, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nev.
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| Six New International Partners Bolster the GIXEL's Work on Digital Identity and Privacy Protection [GIXEL le : 13/02/2012]
The international recognition garnered by the GIXEL through its work on the IAS ECC frame of reference provides everyone with a competitive edge in the identity products market.
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| GIXEL wird beim Thema digitale Identität und Privatsphäre künftig von sechs Partnern unterstützt [GIXEL le : 13/02/2012]
Das internationale Renommee von GIXEL mit IAS ECC als Referenzprojekt verschafft allen verbundenen Unternehmen auf dem Markt für ID-Produkte einen merklichen Wettbewerbsvorteil.
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| Les travaux du GIXEL sur l'e-ID et la “privacy“ acquièrent une audience internationale [GIXEL le : 13/02/2012]
Le GIXEL Carte à Puce accueille six nouveaux partenaires internationaux. La référence IAS ECC donne à tous un avantage de compétitivité sur les produits d’identité.
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| Smart Appliance Shipments to Exceed 24 Million Units by 2017, says ABI Research [ABI Research le : 13/02/2012]
The number of major appliance manufacturers that have used recent trade shows as launch pads for new products is a sure sign that the market may soon see substantial growth.
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| The Time is Now for EMV and Mobile Financial and Transit Payments [ Smart Card Alliance le : 10/02/2012]
Executives from Isis, MasterCard, PayPal, Visa Discuss Future of Payments at the Smart Card Alliance Payments Summit.
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| Mobile Communications Revenue to Rise by Double-Digit Margin in 2012 [IHS iSuppli le : 10/02/2012]
Revenue for 4G cellphones in 2012 will rise by an astonishing 372% from $4.6 billion in 2011.
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| ICOA Partners with iPhoneTrip to Offer Data SIM Cards [ICOA, Inc. le : 10/02/2012]
ICOA to offer rental of SIM Cards and iPhones.
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| NEC Adds CA Technologies Advanced Authentication to Provide a Robust Security Service from the Cloud [CA Technologies le : 10/02/2012]
CA ArcotID provides protection for digital identities by delivering two-factor authentication with the simplicity and cost efficiency of a software solution vs a hardware token or smartcard.
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| WISeKey Provides Secure Identities and Encrypted Facebook Messaging [WISeKey le : 10/02/2012]
WISeID 3S has expanded its consumer protection features, including free email certificates for registered users and encrypted data backup on the Cloud.
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| MagTek Introduces a Secure EMV 'Chip & PIN' Mobile Payment Terminal [MagTek Inc. le : 10/02/2012]
iDynamoEMV, along with the appropriate App., turns your smartphone or tablet into a highly secure mobile payment system allowing acceptance of credit or debit card payments anywhere.
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| Micropross first to get approval from EMVCo for its Card Level 1 Electerical test tool version 4.2c [Micropross le : 10/02/2012]
Today, this test solution is already used by the major test laboratories, like ICTK (South Korea), RFI Global (UK), Applus (Spain) and TUV (Japan).
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| European Enterprises Will Significantly Increase Investment in Mobile Apps Over the Next 5 years [IDC le : 10/02/2012]
The need for mobile security and application life-cycle management, will encourage firms to take a platform approach to application mobilization within their firms.
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| Collis Launches Merchant Test Suite for U..S and Canadian Markets [Collis le : 10/02/2012]
Developed specifically for merchants, processors and acquirers within the U.S. and Canada that are involved in the development, testing and deployment of acceptance devices.
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| Market Research Forecasts That 46% of Mobile Phones Will Be NFC-Enabled by 2016 [MarketResearch.com (Marketwire) le : 10/02/2012]
In 2011, only 5% of the total mobile phones were NFC-enabled.
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| Gemalto Offers U.S. Banks Seamless EMV Migration with Instant Issuance Operated Services [Gemalto le : 09/02/2012]
Gemalto’s Dexxis EMV instant issuance introduces personalization on site, by securely performing smart card chip encoding in addition to magstripe encoding and plastic printing or embossing.
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| MasterCard Establishes Relationship with Silver Tail Systems to Combat Online Fraud [MasterCard Worldwide le : 09/02/2012]
Merchants will be better equipped to spot malware or robotic (“bots”) activity originating from personal computers or smart phones attacking their online payments systems.
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| Wacom and Access Announce Streamlined e-Signature Solution for the Healthcare Industry [Wacom Technology Services, Corp. le : 09/02/2012]
By bringing accurate and real life e-Signatures to the patient registration and bedside consent processes, Wacom and Access' solution reduces the time and cost previously invested in the process.
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| Entrust President and CEO Conner Outlines Cybersecurity Dangers [Entrust Inc. le : 09/02/2012]
"Cybercrime poses a greater threat to the security of nations, corporations and individuals than ever before," said Conner.
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| Visa DPS Introduces Suite of Mobile Services for U.S. Financial Institutions [Experian le : 09/02/2012]
Additional services are currently in development including mobile check deposit, mobile (NFC) payments, mobile offers, and support for V.me by Visa, Visa's digital wallet service.
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| Al Rajhi Bank (Saudi Arabia) Issues 15,000 EMV cards/day with Gemalto's Instant Issuance Solution [Gemalto le : 08/02/2012]
Al Rajhi Bank significantly improved on the logistical challenges associated with traditional courier-based delivery services and reduced its associated costs.
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| Identive Provides Secure Remote Network Access for Dutch Ministry of Defense [Identive Group, Inc. le : 08/02/2012]
Technology solutions provider SCC, Identive’s distribution partner in the Netherlands, assisted the Dutch MoD in selecting the SmartFold readers.
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| European Payments Council (EPC) Launches Public Consultation on White Paper on Mobile Payments [The European Payments Council (EPC) le : 08/02/2012]
M-payments are typically divided into two areas of activity: remote m-payment and contactless m-payments.
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| Netsize and CityzenCar Simplify Peer-to-peer Car Sharing with Innovative Use of SMS [Gemalto le : 08/02/2012]
The Netsize SMS communication solution supports the entire rental process, from renter validation to rental notifications, as well as confirming booking details.
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| Watchdata to Share the Asian Experience with EMV Migration [Watchdata Technologies le : 08/02/2012]
At the Smart Card Alliance Payments Summit in Salt Lake City, Utah later this week.
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| Cloud Standards Customer Council Forms Security Working Group [The Cloud Standards Customer Council le : 08/02/2012]
Security is consistently highlighted as one of the top inhibitors to the adoption of cloud computing and an area of great interest to customers.
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| Lockheed Martin and Cleversafe Form Big Data Alliance for Secure, Distributed Storage [Lockheed Martin le : 08/02/2012]
With the use of this Secure, Distributed Storage Cloud service, government entities will no longer need to purchase new infrastructure as their amount of critical intelligence data grows
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| Nokia plans to increase efficiency in smartphone production [Nokia le : 08/02/2012]
The changes are anticipated to impact approximately 4,000 employees in total.
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| INSIDE Secure chosen by leading smartphone manufacturer [INSIDE Secure le : 06/02/2012]
To power NFC services with a major open operating system platform. Further details will be announced by mid-year when this new smartphone is planned to be introduced commercially.
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| Datacard Announces an Equity Investment and Strategic Partnership with DeviceFidelity [Datacard Group, le : 06/02/2012]
Equity investment that includes Dallas Venture Partners (DVP) and Datacard Group solidifies a continued commitment to innovation in mobile payments.
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| OTI Introduces its Parking Management System to the U.S. Market [On Track Innovations Ltd. (“OTI”) le : 06/02/2012]
Starting at the University of California Davis.
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| Smaller Banks Facing Widening Gap in Mobile Banking [Javelin Strategy & Research le : 06/02/2012]
Mobile is now the top communication channel. Mobile usage is surpassing online usage.
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| Turkcell Launches World's First SIM-Based NFC Road Toll Payment [Turkcell le : 03/02/2012]
Customers having a Turkcell SIMPlus 256 SIM card with an NFC featured mobile phone can download the Cep-T Cuzdan application at http://www.t-market.com, Turkcell's application store.
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| KIABI Chose Ingenico to Outsource its Payment Service in Spain [Ingenico le : 03/02/2012]
This service will be operated through Axis, the Ingenico platform and iPP320, a retail‐oriented secure PIN Pad terminal.
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| 1.8 billion MasterCard and Maestro-branded Cards issued in 2011 [MasterCard Incorporated le : 03/02/2012]
MasterCard reports or the fourth quarter of 2011 an increase in processed transactions of 23.2%, to 7.7 billion. Net revenue for full-year 2011 was $6.7 billion, an increase of 21.2% versus 2010.
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| Latin America will Achieve 750 Million Mobile Connections by 2015, says GSMA [GSMA le : 03/02/2012]
The mobile market in Latin America currently generates an estimated US$175 billion, or 3.6% of total GDP, with mobile operators alone contributing US$82 billion in 2010.
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| AT&T Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S get Google Wallet [Android Community blog le : 03/02/2012]
Requires that an AT&T SIM be loaded into the phone.
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| Garanti’s Bonus Cardholders to Receive Free Facebook Credits [Garanti Bank le : 03/02/2012]
Cardholders will receive a PIN code for their Facebook Credits via SMS and they can be redeemed on the Bonus Facebook page between 20th February and 31st May.
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| Gemalto Supports Diners Club Spain's EMV Migration [Gemalto le : 02/02/2012]
Gemalto now supports Diners Club issuers worldwide in their EMV migration projects with smart banking cards and the associated issuance services. Diners.
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| The Era of Social Commerce is Upon Us, says Alaric International [Alaric International le : 02/02/2012]
Alaric International predicts the payment switch will play a much greater role in the entire consumer shopping experience.
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| Collis announces B2 Payment Solutions as distributor for the U.S. and Canada [Collis le : 02/02/2012]
B2PS has been a trusted partner and a Collis Value Added Reseller for the past five years.
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| Reims Metropolis Public Transport Network Goes “Contactless” with ASK [ASK le : 02/02/2012]
Home reloading in contactless technology: a first in France!
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| MasterCard and KeyBank Extend and Enhance Long-Standing Debit Relationship [MasterCard le : 02/02/2012]
KeyBank Signs a new Multi-Year Contract, Adds PIN Capability and Employs MasterCard IPS Debit and Prepaid Processing Platform.
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| Smartphones, Tablets, and Notebook PCs to Grow at 25.7% CAGR Through 2015, Says NPD In-Stat [NPD In-Stat le : 02/02/2012]
The mobile SoC TAM will exceed 3.1 billion devices in 2015.
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| DigitalPersona Delivers Multi-Factor Authentication for Enterprise Users on the Go [DigitalPersona, Inc. le : 02/02/2012]
Support for Contactless Proximity Cards and Bluetooth Phones.
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| StarChip Acquires Contactless Technology through Partnership with CEA-Leti [StarChip le : 01/02/2012]
The Contactless Front End is the result of Leti’s many years of expertise in Contactless and will enable applications such as Transport, Banking and Identity.
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| Identive to Acquire Majority Stake in Payment Solution AG [Identive Group, Inc. le : 01/02/2012]
Acquisition Expands Identive’s Position in Cashless Payment Systems in Europe.
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| Datacard Group Helps Fiserv Increase Sales Opportunities for Emerging Card Programs [Datacard Group, le : 01/02/2012]
After Successful Trial, Fiserv Implements New Flex-form Module that Enables More Flexibility with Larger Card Carriers.
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| Crédit Agricole Selects Gemalto for Large-Scale Deployment of Contactless EMV Payment in France [Gemalto le : 31/01/2012]
Banking card that facilitates easier payment and with added security features is also certified by "Groupement d'Intérêt Economique – Carte Bancaire"
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| NFC Forum Members to Demonstrate Innovative Solutions at Public Reception in Frankfurt [NFC Forum le : 31/01/2012]
AT4 wireless, HOTech, ITN International, Inc., NEXPERTS, Sony Corporation, TUOMI IT SA at the Sheraton Frankfurt Airport Hotel & Conference Center (Germany) on Feb. 8.
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| FIS and mFoundry Strengthen Strategic Relationship [mFoundry le : 31/01/2012]
FIS Expands Relationship, Increases Stake in Mobile Financial Services Leader.
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| BlueCava Releases ‘Cookie-less“ Device Identification Platform [BlueCava le : 31/01/2012]
Provides immediate solution for companies in the European Union affected by ePrivacy Directive regarding the use of cookies.
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| HID Global Completes NFC Mobile Access Control Pilot at Arizona State University [HID Global le : 31/01/2012]
Pilot Validated Benefits of Opening Doors Using HID Global’s Secure Identity Object (SIO™) Technology Embedded into NFC Smartphones.
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| OTI Awarded $6.9 Million Contract to Supply Electronic Immigration Control System in Panama [On Track Innovations Ltd. (“OTI”) le : 31/01/2012]
The contract provides for the supply of OTI’s end-to-end turnkey immigration solution, based on its proprietary state-of-the-art, field-proven eID Magna™ platform.
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| Monext’s Tokenisation Service for Merchants PCI DSS certified [Monext le : 31/01/2012]
Monext is one of the first payment service operators in Europe to have their entire line of services PCI DSS-certified and renewed.
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| MStar Semiconductor, Inc Supported Handset Maker FLY and ChinaUnion Pay for NFC Launch [MStar Semiconductor, Inc. le : 31/01/2012]
FLY To Launch ODM product in the British market in February 2012 and further promotions to more third party enterprise partners in North European countries later in the second quarter.
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| Valitor Offers Welcome Real-time’s Solution to Boost Brand Loyalty [Welcome Real-time le : 31/01/2012]
Icelandic firm to provide loyalty programmes to the country’s merchants and banks.
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| Ingenico transfers its headquarters in the heart of Paris [Ingenico le : 30/01/2012]
The 10.000 square meters independent building is just a few steps from the Eiffel Tower and close to public transportation and shops.
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| Morpho’s Albanian electronic document production site achieves ISO 27001 certification [Morpho (Safran group) le : 30/01/2012]
Covers the entire document personalization process: data verification, identity deduplication, investigation and document personalization.
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| Leading Email Senders and Providers to Combat Email Phishing through DMARC.org [DMARC.org le : 30/01/2012]
AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, Bank of America, Fidelity Investments, PayPal, American Greetings, Facebook, LinkedIn, Agari, Cloudmark, eCert, Return Path, Trusted Domain Project.
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| EU institutions and bodies have different levels of data protection, reports EDPS [EDPS le : 30/01/2012]
The EDPS has analysed the performance of all 58 EU institutions and bodies in certain key areas.
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| Global Handset Shipments Reach 1.6 Billion Units in 2011, according to Strategy Analytics [Strategy Analytics le : 28/01/2012]
Apple was the star performer, capturing a record 8% market share worldwide during the quarter
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| AuthenTec Launches Fingerprint Security Solution for Apple Mac OS X Lion Platforms [AuthenTec le : 28/01/2012]
New TrueSuite Identity Management Software and Eikon Fingerprint Reader Provide Enhanced Security and Functionality on Apple Platforms Based on OS X Lion and Snow Leopard.
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| CorFire & SNAP to Bring Social Networks to Mobile Commerce [CorFire le : 28/01/2012]
Integrated mobile wallet and marketing solution will automatically place check-ins and social postings to create ties between merchants and their customers.
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| SHAZAM Launches Adaptive Payment's Pentagon Mobile POS Payment Application [Adaptive Payments le : 28/01/2012]
It uses Adaptive Payments' 5DSecure five factor-dual channel authentication technology to authenticate PIN debit transactions quickly and securely.
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| As China Eats Android’s Tail, Apple Cuts Off its Head, Says ABI Research [ABI Research le : 27/01/2012]
Apple topped the smartphone market, finally. Android suffers its first decline in share.
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| With Lumia, We Have Established a Beachhead in the War of Ecosystems, said Nokia's CEO [Nokia le : 27/01/2012]
Over 1 million Lumia devices sold, but 2011 shipments of Mobile Devices decreased by 8%. ASP down 23% from €69 to €53.
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| Nokia Windows Phones volumes will not be enough to offset the decline of Symbian [IDC le : 27/01/2012]
As expected, the transition from Symbian to Windows Phones is still a painful process for the company, says IDC.
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| Raiffeisen Bank International AG To Launch Mobile NFC Payment Solution in Austria [Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI) le : 27/01/2012]
Users will be provided with a mobile phone app and a microSD-card for their phone. The roll-out of this project is planned for the second quarter of 2012 and will take place in a major city in Austria
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| The European Data Protection Supervisor Welcomes a 'Huge Step Forward for Data Protection in Europe' [EDPS le : 26/01/2012]
However, the EDPS strongly regrets the inadequate content of the specific Directive on data protection in the area of police and justice.
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| Installed Base of Connected Devices to Reach 1.34 Billion in 2016, Says NPD In-Stat [NPD In-Stat le : 26/01/2012]
From 256.8 million units in 2011.
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| Intuit Inc. Launches its Free GoPayment Mobile Credit Card Reader [Intuit Inc. le : 26/01/2012]
Square, Powa... Intuit enters the small businesses and “pay-as-you-go pricing" market.
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| Identive Launches New Converged Access ID Group [Identive Group, Inc. le : 26/01/2012]
John Menzel appointed VP of Access Control ID Solutions.
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| Smartphone Owners Concerned and In the Dark About Mobile Security [NetQin Mobile Inc. le : 26/01/2012]
While 70% of smartphone users said they had some type of security or security software on their phone, just half of smartphone users actually could identify what type of security they have.
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| Two billion Mifare Ultralight ICs sold since 2001, says NXP Semiconductors [NXP Semiconductors N.V. le : 26/01/2012]
Over 300 million Mifare Ultralight based tickets from Magnadata are being used by travelers around the globe.
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| Mobile Payments Going Mainstream at CARTES in North America [CARTES exhibitions and conferences le : 26/01/2012]
Two-day long tracks on mobile payments; more than 80 speakers and a sold-out roster of 100 exhibitors CARTES in North America 2012.
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| Datacard Group Selected to Present at CARTES in North America [Datacard Group, le : 26/01/2012]
Company selected to present on two tracks focusing on EMV® technology innovations and how to build a successful card program while minimizing costs.
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| HID Global Appoints Kerry Reid as Vice President of HID Connect Business [HID Global le : 26/01/2012]
Industry Veteran’s Appointment Expands Technology Ecosystem and Partner Programs Globally.
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| Precise Biometrics Launches Smart Casings with Smart Card & Fingerprint Reader - A First [Precise Biometrics le : 25/01/2012]
The smart casing will be available for the most popular smart phone and tablet computer brands in 2012 and 2013.
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| NEC to Exhibit M2M Service Enabled by Mobile Cloud at Mobile World Congress 2012 [NEC Corporation (NEC) le : 25/01/2012]
“M2M communications via Mobile Cloud is a fast-growing market for NEC,” says Takayuki Morita, senior vice president, NEC.
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| Etisalat, MasterCard, Oberthur, SKT, Turkcell Nominees for GSMA Best Mobile Money Innovation [GSMA le : 25/01/2012]
The Best Mobile Money Innovation award aims to recognise and reflect the rapid convergence of mobile and financial services in all its varied forms
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| Apple Sold 37.04 million iPhones (+128% YoY) in the quarter ended December 31, 2011 [Apple le : 25/01/2012]
Apple sold 15.43 million iPads during the quarter, a 111 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter.
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| 3G/UMTS and LTE Global Subscriptions Now Exceed One Billion [The UMTS Forum le : 24/01/2012]
Representing almost a fifth of all mobile connections worldwide, the one billion total spans customers of WCDMA, HPSA/HSPA+ and LTE networks.
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| Powa Lanches a Free Credit Card Reader for Mobile Payment [Powa le : 24/01/2012]
It allows retailers to take credit card and debit card payments of any kind on their iPhones, iPads, Android Phones, and Blackberry mobile devices. Costs retailers just 0.25% per transaction.
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| Auchan Russia Selects Ingenico’s Signature Capture Terminals for Visa card Payments [Ingenico le : 24/01/2012]
The iSC250 provides proven high performance signature capture for multi‐lane retail environments, boasting a large screen area and easy‐access stylus.
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| UIDAI’s Biometric Confirms Its High Accuracy for Enrollment of 1.2 billion Indian People [Government of India le : 24/01/2012]
The False Negative Identification Rate (FNIR) of the UIDAI system is computed to be as low as 0.035%.
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| Freescale and INSIDE Secure Introduces the first NFC-based Prepaid Meter [Inside Secure le : 24/01/2012]
The reference design is based on the Freescale Kinetis MK30 MCU and Inside Secure’s VaultIC 460 and NFC MicroRead 3.4 chipset.
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| WISeKey Launches WISeID Generation C (Click, Connect, Communicate, Collaborate) [WISeKey le : 24/01/2012]
A unique digital ID for an individual, like a passport to be used on the Internet.
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| Vodafone Ventures Leads $11.3M Investment in Finsphere - Industry Identity Analytics Company [Finsphere Corporation le : 24/01/2012]
Finsphere will utilize the additional funding to expand its patented Identity Security Services platform and grow its strategic partnerships with wireless carriers and targeted key industry players.
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| GlobalPlatform Announces Latest Card Specification Training Session in Las Vegas [GlobalPlatform le : 24/01/2012]
The session precedes CARTES North America (5-7 March 2012, Las Vegas) to accommodate delegates that are visiting the region to attend this new industry gathering.
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| Bengaluru Metro System Adopts NXP’s MifareTechnology [NXP Semiconductors N.V. le : 24/01/2012]
This is the third major Mifare DESFire EV1 transport installation in India.
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| OpenWays Launches 'Mobile Key Dual with Pure NFC' in cooperation with Nordic Choice Hotels [OpenWays (Marketwire) le : 24/01/2012]
‘Pure NFC‘ Solution allows adding NFC features while still being fully carrier and lock provider independent.
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| Market Research Projects Smartphone Sales at 1 Billion Units by 2016 [MarketResearch.com (Marketwire) le : 24/01/2012]
In 2011, 472 million Smartphones were sold worldwide.
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| SWSAL selects ACT to deliver a complete ITSO Turnkey Solution [ACT (Applied Card Technologies Limited) le : 24/01/2012]
The turnkey solution was developed to help improve cardholder experience, as well as provide visibility and reporting throughout the whole transaction process.
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| Research In Motion Names Thorsten Heins President and CEO [Research In Motion (RIM) le : 23/01/2012]
Board Acts on Recommendation of Co-CEOs to Implement Succession Plan. Mike Lazaridis Named Vice Chair of the Board. Jim Balsillie Remains a Director.
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| Smartphones and Tablets Drive Shift in European Media Consumption, finds report [comScore, Inc. le : 23/01/2012]
comScore, Inc. and Telefónica Germany presented the results of a study showing the shift in media consumption triggered by smartphones, tablets and other connected devices.
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| The Number of Payment Cards in Western Europe Increased to 884 million in 2010, says RBR [RBR le : 20/01/2012]
The prepaid and debit card sectors saw strong growth, expanding in almost all of the markets surveyed, while the pay later sector contracted for the second consecutive year.
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| McAfee Inc. and Intel Mobile Communications Reported 2011 Revenue of $3.6 billion [Intel Corporation le : 20/01/2012]
Global growth opportunities presented by Ultrabook systems, security and new Intel-powered smartphones and tablets, despite Intel Atom microprocessor and chipset revenue of $1.2 billion, down 25% from 2010.
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| Morpho Service Center facility opened in Australia [Morpho (Safran group) le : 19/01/2012]
Initially the facility will be used to support the NAFIS (National Automated Fingerprint Identification System) in Canberra.
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| Turkcell and RIM Launch NFC Mobile Wallet for BlackBerry Bold 9900 Customers in Turkey [Research In Motion (RIM) le : 19/01/2012]
First commercially available NFC-based mobile payments for BlackBerry smartphones via MasterCard PayPass.
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| 'Chip & Pin' Rely on a Combination of Both New and Old Technology, says SmartMetric [SmartMetric, Inc. (Marketwire) le : 19/01/2012]
SmartMetric Combines Biometrics and Smart Card Chip to Replace Less Secure Existing "Chip and Pin" Technology.
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| Alcatel-Lucent and Arbor Networks team up in the fight against ‘denial-of-service’ attacks [Alcatel-Lucent le : 19/01/2012]
These cloud-based security services address the concerns of 3,386 IT Decision Makers that participated in a recent Alcatel-Lucent global study.
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| Vodafone Best Placed to Take Advantage of the €174 Billion M2M Opportunities [Machina Research le : 19/01/2012]
Second place went to Deutsche Telekom which was praised for its partnership strategy, according to recent M2M Benchmarking Study from M2M research firm Machina Research.
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| Entrust Discovery Now Offers Microsoft CAPI Query Capabilities [Entrust, Inc. le : 19/01/2012]
Certificate discovery platform helps organizations find, inventory and manage digital certificates via premises or cloud models.
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| Obopay Partners With Warid Telecom To Launch P2P Services in Uganda [Obopay le : 19/01/2012]
Obopay's platform enables a comprehensive range of use cases that drive incremental transactions and revenue providing a bridge between new and existing payment technologies.
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| India issues 120 millionth UIDAI number using Morpho’s technology [Morpho (Safran group) le : 19/01/2012]
The UIDAI plans to enroll 600 million Indian residents by March 2014.
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| Global Cellular M2M Connectivity Services Market to Rise to $35 Billion by 2016 [ABI Research le : 18/01/2012]
The market for cumulative cellular M2M connections will rise from about 110 million connections in 2011 to approximately 365 million connections by 2016.
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| SafeNet Aids Fight Against eBanking Fraud with New Optical Signing Device [Safenet, Inc. le : 18/01/2012]
The eToken 3500 uses an optical sensor to read financial transaction data from a Web browser, generating a unique electronic signature with one-time password (OTP) strong authentication.
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| Major Standards Development Organizations Agree on a Global Initiative for M2M Standardization [ETSI le : 18/01/2012]
Have identified the need for a common cost-efficient, easily and widely available M2M Service Layer, which can be readily embedded within various hardware and software.
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| OTI Receives US Patent for Contactless Smart SIM [On Track Innovations Ltd. (“OTI”) le : 18/01/2012]
Covers the capabilities necessary to turn existing mobile handsets into Contactless / NFC capable devices through the incorporation of a SIM card and a specifically designed antenna.
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| Comprion Completes the Range of Tests Described in the VZW LTE Device-UICC Interaction Test [COMPRION GmbH le : 18/01/2012]
First supplier of combined IMS ISIM handset test cases according Verizon Wireless LTE test requirements.
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| Datacard Group Provides Enhanced Card Delivery for Québec’s Driver’s License and ID Program [Datacard Group, le : 18/01/2012]
SAAQ has been a customer of Datacard Group since 2002, and mail nearly 1.8 million driver’s license and identification cards to the citizens of Québec per year.
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| DeviceFidelity and SpringCard Launch First Multi-Platform Mobile Wallet for iPhone and Android [DeviceFidelity (PRWeb) le : 18/01/2012]
The moneto application, microSD and iPhone case enable consumers to make in store purchases with smartphones using MasterCard PayPass Tap-and-Go technology.
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| Infineon Claims Global Market Leadership in Secure Element for the NFC Technology [Infineon Technologies AG le : 18/01/2012]
Via a NFC security microcontroller for the SIM card, via the embedded Secure Element forming part of the mobile phone electronics, and via a Secure Element which can be implemented in a microSD card.
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| M-Commerce Transactions to Generate Service Revenues of US$37 billion in 2016 [Informa Telecoms & Media le : 18/01/2012]
Mobile operators in developed markets are creating cross-network alliances and joint ventures to compete with the global reach of the OTT (over-the-top) players.
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| Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. and the UAlbany NanoCollege Partner on Nano-Security [Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. le : 18/01/2012]
A collaboration in the groundbreaking area of “nanosecurity” that initially targets the $20 billion DoD chip market and has the potential to impact nanoelectronics and aerospace markets well in excess of $300 billion.
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| Voice biometrics to play a key role in security in 2012 [ValidSoft le : 18/01/2012]
New study from Opus Research and ValidSoft suggests that voice biometrics will be central to future payments authentication if obstacles to adoption can be overcome.
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| INSIDE Secure NFC solutions are now Kovio RF Barcode ready [INSIDE Secure le : 18/01/2012]
Revolutionary “printed silicon” tags enable item-level interaction between consumers and brands.
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| American Express Partners with Lianlian Group (300 million mobile phone accounts) [American Express le : 18/01/2012]
American Express will license its Serve platform to Lianlian Group
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| Ingenico Launches New PayPal Payment Solution in the USA [Ingenico le : 17/01/2012]
Ingenico has already begun to integrate PayPal’s payment card solution into its legacy Unicapt32 platform POS devices as well as its entire new generation of Telium 2 series POS devices.
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| INSIDE Secure Introduces Open NFC Stack for Google Android 4.0 [INSIDE Secure le : 17/01/2012]
Makes “Ice Cream Sandwich” easy to adapt to any NFC hardware.
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| Visa Europe Processed Nearly One Billion Transactions Every Month in 2011 (+19% YoY) [Visa Europe le : 17/01/2012]
In 2012 Visa Europe expects to see contactless cards hit 50 million in circulation in Europe, and the first launches of mobile phones enabled to make point-of-sale transactions.
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| VeriFone Announces MX 900 countertop serie, Mobile POS and PAYwave Tablet [VeriFone Systems, Inc. le : 17/01/2012]
Expect to see VeriFone expanding the world of digital payments and mobile wallets including PayPal PIN and PayPal NFC over the months and years to come.
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| 1.3 billion EMV Payment Cards in Global Circulation [EMVCo le : 17/01/2012]
Latest Figures from EMVco Demonstrate Continued Global Adoption of EMV Technology.
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| European telcos remain cautious in cloud gold rush [Informa Telecoms & Media le : 17/01/2012]
North American and Asian operators account for 90% of cloud investments.
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| FutureCard Issued first MasterCard Display Credit Card in Romania [FutureCard le : 16/01/2012]
Swiss-based security specialist NagraID Security was selected as the technology provider for the card body manufacturing.
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| Aconite and Paymobile Partner for EMV Prepaid Card Issuance Program Management in Canada [Aconite le : 16/01/2012]
Paymobile’s prepaid programs, using Aconite’s smart card prepaid and application management platforms, will enable issuers to quickly move to EMV prepaid card products.
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| ARTS and EPASOrg Release First Universal Retailer Payment Protocol Standard [ARTS - EPASOrg le : 15/01/2012]
The protocol defines an interface between a sale system and a payment system in a retail environment facilitating the certification of the PCI data security guidelines and future implementation of EMV in the USA.
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| Sisvel Acquires Over 450 Nokia Patents [Sisvel Group le : 14/01/2012]
Including Over 350 Patents Essential to Wireless Standards.
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| Ingenico and Voltage Security Enable Best in Class End‐to‐End Payment Data [Ingenico le : 13/01/2012]
This strategic move aligns the new Ingenico Telium series devices with the Voltage best‐in‐class data protection technology to combat card fraud and reduce the PCI card data environment for retailers.
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| IBM scientists create the world's smallest magnetic memory bit using only 12 atoms [IBM Research le : 13/01/2012]
Scientists demonstrated magnetic storage that is at least 100 times denser than today's hard disk drives and solid state memory chips.
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| NFC is a backbone of mobile innovation in retail [The NFC Forum le : 13/01/2012]
NFC Forum Members to Showcase Revolutionary Retail Solutions at NRF Event in New York, Jan. 16-17. INSIDE Secure, Kovio, and ViVOtech Demonstrate Products in Booth #1951, ARTS Pavilion.
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| IBM joins the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) as Board member [IBM le : 13/01/2012]
Since its inception in 2008, BIAN’s mission has been to establish a service-oriented architecture (SOA) standard in the banking industry.
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| NFC technology powers customizable Home Shopping for Retailers [Think&Go NFC le : 13/01/2012]
Think&Go NFC launches a solution to create tight link between retailers and consumers using Home Shopping and consumer customizable personalized service.
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| “la Caixa and Visa to Make Barcelona the First NFC & Contactless European Major City [“la Caixa” le : 13/01/2012]
1 million cards, more than 15,000 new point-of-sale terminals and more than 500 ATMs with built-in contactless readers to be required.
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| Ingenico’s New Mobile Retail Platform Brings Cutting‐Edge Mobile Commerce Products to US Merchants [ le : 12/01/2012]
iMobile3 Partnership Enables Ingenico to Further Retailer’s Reach and Personalize Customers Experience In‐Store and Beyond.
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| Continua Health Alliance Releases Free Design Guidelines [Continua Health Alliance le : 12/01/2012]
Android 4.0 includes the Bluetooth Health Device Profile supporting Continua Certified devices. Continua is working to include NFC as a new transport in an upcoming release of the Guidelines.
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| Samsung GALAXY S II and Galaxy Tab 10.1 Receive FIPS 140-2 Security Certification [Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. le : 12/01/2012]
Samsung Mobile recently unveiled its own SAFE (Samsung Approved for Enterprise) certification for Samsung devices configured specifically for enterprise use which meet rigorous security criteria.
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| Document Security Systems Hires ipCapital Group to Support Intellectual Property Strategy [Document Security Systems, Inc. le : 12/01/2012]
We expect that our work together will help optimize and direct our IP expansion and protection initiatives in high-value areas that are strategic to the company," stated Patrick White, CEO of DSS.
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| Multicore Security Processors Show 34% Growth in 2011 According to Linley Group Report [Linley Group le : 12/01/2012]
Intel and Freescale continue to improve their portfolios of processors for security applications.
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| IBM Attacks the Complexity of Security with Identity Intelligence [IBM Labs le : 12/01/2012]
IBM Bolsters its Portfolio of More than 3,000 Security-focused Patents.
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| Micromax (India) Launches Android-based Smartphone with Gesture Recognition Technology [eyeSight Mobile Technologies le : 12/01/2012]
eyeSight’s innovative technology allows users to control their phones without touching the device.
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| Sosh (Orange France) Launches its new range of price plans from €9.90 per month [Orange le : 12/01/2012]
A quick but undertaken a long time ago answer to recent Free offerings in France.
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| Cloud Will Change the Networking Channel Market in EMEA, Says IDC [IDC le : 12/01/2012]
We see new channel players such as cloud service aggregators (CSAs), including CloudBroker, evolving that gather services from multiple vendors and deliver them in a bundle to enterprises.
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| Orange UK launches own brand Android tablet - the ‘Tahiti’ [Orange UK le : 12/01/2012]
The Tahiti is the first Orange branded tablet to be ranged by Orange in the UK.
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| Visa Certifies NFC Smartphones for Use as Visa Mobile Payment Devices [Visa Inc. and Visa Europe le : 11/01/2012]
NFC-enabled smartphones from Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, and RIM approved for use with Visa payWave at the point-of-sale.
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| INSIDE Secure and WISeKey combine NFC and security technologies to protect brands [INSIDE Secure and WISeKey le : 11/01/2012]
WISeKey will employ INSIDE Secure’s new VaultIC150 security module, which combines tamper-proof security with a wireless interface that communicates with a smartphone or other NFC reader to determine the product’s authenticity.
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| HID Global and Yale Locks Open Doors With Verizon Wireless Smartphones [HID Global le : 11/01/2012]
Verizon Wireless Smartphones Containing HID Global's Embedded Mobile Keys Are Used to Open Doors Fitted with NFC-Enabled Yale Real Living Locks.
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| Motorola Mobility to Begin Shipping Intel Atom-Based Smartphone in 2H 2012 [Motorola Mobility, Inc. le : 11/01/2012]
The collaboration also covers tablets that have the high performance, long battery life and convenience necessary for increasingly mobile lifestyles.
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| Abel Linares Appointed to WISeKey Advisory Board to Reinforce Security-as-a-Service Strategy [WiseKey le : 11/01/2012]
Abel Linares is a predominant Spanish business leader, formerly CEO of Oesia, a multinational technology company, as well as Terra, TPI Yellow Pages, and Telefonica InternationaI.
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| Trunkbow International and China UnionPay Form Mobile Payment Partnership [Trunkbow International Holdings Limited le : 11/01/2012]
The Trunkbow UnionPay mobile payment applet can be incorporated into any existing mobile application to facilitate simple, secure online payments from a user's mobile phone.
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| Broadcom Introduces 1GHz 3G Baseband and Reference Design for Affordable NFC Smartphones [Broadcom Corporation le : 11/01/2012]
Reference design includes baseband, RF and comprehensive InConcert connectivity suite enabling Wi-Fi Direct, Bluetooth low energy, advanced navigation and NFC.
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| iHealth Lab Unveils a Trio of iOS-Enabled Mobile Health Devices [iHealth Lab Inc. le : 11/01/2012]
Mobile and iHealth Devices Users will be able to take full advantage of the iHealth Cloud Service to instantly back-up and store their results in the cloud.
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| Diebold Innovates With World's First 4G LTE-Enabled ATM Concept [Diebold, Incorporated le : 11/01/2012]
In collaboration with Verizon Wireless, Diebold integrated 4G LTE technology to create a new, additional channel for communication to and from the ATM.
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| PaySaber Offers Secure Credit Card Solution for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad [PaySaber le : 11/01/2012]
The PaySaber devices and accompanying application provide feature-rich solutions to ensure that you can accept payments anywhere, anytime.
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| Cinterion Receives "2011 Smart Grid Excellence" Award [Cinterion (Gemalto) le : 11/01/2012]
EU3 delivers reliable communications on both 2G and 3G networks to ensure solution longevity as wireless networks evolve and protect M2M technology investments now and in the future.
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| Apriva Announces Availability of its Mobile Wallet to Merchants [Apriva le : 11/01/2012]
The Apriva Wallet is infrastructure-agnostic, and can interoperate with any payment processor, financial institution and wireless carrier.
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| 'The best of Intel computing is coming to smartphones,' said Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini [Intel Corporation le : 11/01/2012]
Lenovo and Motorola Smartphone Based on new Intel Atom Available in Second Quarter 2012. Dell’s first Ultrabook, the XPS 13 powered by the Intel Core i7 processor scheduled for February availability.
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| TAGSYS and Think&Go NFC Partner to Offer Retailers the first integrated RFID/NFC solution [TAGSYS and Think&Go le : 11/01/2012]
For deploying all-in-one RFID infrastructure for inventory & security to retailers integrated with new marketing channels to consumers.
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| Nokia and AT&T introduce the new Nokia Lumia 900 on AT&T's 4G LTE network [Nokia le : 11/01/2012]
First Nokia smartphone designed specifically for the US features LTE, large display and exclusive applications.
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| As Smartphone Market Expands, Many Mobile OS Vendors Will Be Left Behind [Yankee Group le : 10/01/2012]
Consumer decisions made in the next three years are likely to seal the fate, good or bad, of many OSs. Now is the time for these vendors to fight for survival.
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| Mobile Device Royalties Approaching the $20 Billion Mark, Says ABI Research [ABI Research le : 10/01/2012]
GSM/WCDMA handset royalties hold the lion’s share because of the size of the 3G handset market.
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| AuthenTec Acquires a provider of syncing and cloud-based storage services for PCs and mobile devices [AuthenTec le : 10/01/2012]
Proxure’s portfolio includes KeepVault secure backup service and KeepSync software which synchronizes a user’s identity across multiple devices.
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| Sprint Unveils 4G LTE Devices NFC-enabled and capable of providing Google Wallet [Sprint le : 10/01/2012]
Approximately 15 4G LTE devices are currently on track to be launched in 2012 including handsets, tablets and data cards.
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| Cryptography Research and CPU Tech Sign Patent License Agreement for DPA Countermeasures [Cryptography Research, Inc. (CRI) le : 10/01/2012]
CRI’s patented innovations to be incorporated into CPU Tech’s tamper-resistant products including the Acalis® family of secure processors.
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| Pace of Mergers and Acquisitions Among Banks in Asia/Pacific to Swing Wildly in 2012, says IDC [IDC Financial Insights le : 10/01/2012]
The report highlights several markets that will see more liberalization policies that foster greater competition in their respective banking industries.
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| Multicard to Supply Multi-Functional Corporate Credentials for Henkel Company [Multicard (Identive Group, Inc.) le : 10/01/2012]
Based in Düsseldorf, Germany, Henkel operates worldwide in three business areas: Laundry & Home Care, Cosmetics/Toiletries and Adhesive Technologies.
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| Huawei Unveils World's Slimmest Smartphone [Huawei le : 10/01/2012]
The Huawei Ascend P1 S features dual-core 1.5GHz TI OMAP 4460 Cortext-A9 processor and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system.
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| AT&T Extends M2M Services with Axeda Application Development Platform [AT&T Inc. le : 10/01/2012]
Integrated Offering Provides One Stop Access to M2M Application Development and Delivery for Businesses.
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| Philippe Pascal Appointed to WISeKey Advisory Committee [WiseKey le : 10/01/2012]
To Foster Brand Protection Strategy for Luxury Goods.
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| Coles selects Ingenico in Australia for next generation of contactless terminals [Ingenico le : 09/01/2012]
24,000 lanes of the Coles group will soon be equipped with the Ingenico’s iPP350.
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| Morpho’s Indian subsidiary Smart Chip awarded CMMI Level 3 certification [Morpho (Safran group) le : 09/01/2012]
The company's commitment to progress is also reflected in its ISO 9001:2008, and ISO 27001:2005 certifications.
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| Micro Technologies (India) Launched Micro ATM Black Box [Micro Technologies Ltd. le : 09/01/2012]
State-of-art and advanced security systems developed for the Banking Sector, securing ATM machines and providing Energy Efficient Technology for ATM Centers.
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| First Data Corporation Expands Its Collaboration with Raiffeisen Bank Poland [First Data Corporation le : 09/01/2012]
The cards can be used by cardholders to make quick low-value cashless payments at thousands of merchant locations across Poland and all over the world.
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| Morpho provides maintenance and support for the Botswana AFIS [Morpho (Safran group) le : 09/01/2012]
One of the most advanced systems in Africa managing high quality 1000 pixels per inch (ppi) ten prints and palm prints, connecting 61 sites across the country.
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| Datacard Issuance Software Selected by Associated Bank for Instant Issuance of Debit Cards [Datacard Group, le : 09/01/2012]
CardWizard software interfaces with the bank’s core technology, which enables easy implementation for automated instant issue, PIN selection, rePIN and instant activation.
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| U.S. Federal Government Takes a License under Leighton Technologies’ “Contactless Cards” Patents [General Patent Corporation (GPC) le : 06/01/2012]
The settlement with the federal government is an outcome of a lawsuit, Leighton Technologies LLC v. Court of Federal Claims filed by GPC on behalf of Leighton Technologies in January of 2010.
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| Fiserv Announces Patent Infringement Lawsuit [Fiserv, Inc. le : 06/01/2012]
CheckFree Corporation and CashEdge, Inc., have filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (“FIS”) (NYSE: FIS), and Metavante Corporation.
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| VeriFone GlobalBay iPad Retailing Solution Fits GUESS [VeriFone Systems, Inc. le : 06/01/2012]
Easily Configurable Software Enables Iconic Retailer to Engage In-Store Shoppers with Online Capabilities and Take Content on the Road.
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| 3G and 4G Handsets Will Capture More than 50% of Handset Sales in 2012, Says ABI Research [ABI Research le : 06/01/2012]
In the second half of 2011, tier one smartphone vendors began redoubling efforts to promote their smartphone line-up to upwardly mobile, aspirational smartphone owners in emerging markets.
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| VOD and Mobile Device Video to Offer Up to $22 Billion in US Pay-TV Advertising, says ABI Research [ABI Research le : 06/01/2012]
Western Europe will see similar shifts, while the rest of world will lag in its transition of advertising dollars to new formats.
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| China Telecom (Europe) To Launch an MVNO on Everything Everywhere (UK) network [Everything Everywhere le : 05/01/2012]
The partnership marks the first time that a Chinese telecom operator has launched MVNO services outside China.
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| Central Bank of Nigeria selects Ingenico Solution for its Cashless Initiative [Ingenico le : 05/01/2012]
This program of the CBN aims at reducing the amount of cash used in transactions in Nigeria, with an aggressive rollout of POS terminals across the country.
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| Elavon Turns Smartphone into Chip & PIN Payment Device [Elavon le : 05/01/2012]
Elavon MobileMerchant combines the ease of using a mobile phone for payments, with an affordable, easy-to-understand rate programme, making it the ideal solution for small businesses on the go.
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| New Mobile App Gives Fiserv Clients On-the-Go Convenience [Fiserv, Inc. le : 05/01/2012]
The WC3 mobile application works with the majority of the most popular smartphones, including iPhone®/iPad®, Blackberry® TorchTM, AndroidTM and Windows® Phone.
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| Jérôme Ronze Appointed Chief Financial Officer of Oberthur Technologies [Oberthur Technologies le : 05/01/2012]
Before joining Oberthur Technologies, Jérôme was CFO of Sperian Protection, a company listed in Paris with 700 M€ in revenue, a worldwide footprint and 6,000 employees.
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| Hirsch Identive’s Velocity Software Verified Compliant with TCG’s IF-MAP Standard [Hirsch Identive le : 05/01/2012]
IF-MAP is a standard computing protocol that supports dynamic data interchange among a wide variety of IT networking components.
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| Yahoo! Appoints Former President of PayPal, Scott Thompson Chief Executive Officer [Yahoo! le : 05/01/2012]
Thompson served most recently as President of PayPal, a division of eBay, where he continued his established track record of growing businesses by driving customer engagement built on strong technology platforms.
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| ValidSoft Joins “Get Safe Online” UK Initiative to Help Consumers Protect Their Privacy [ValidSoft le : 05/01/2012]
ValidSoft has a suite of products that detect and stop financial transaction fraud, quickly and accurately.
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| Barnes International Releases Latest Visa Personalisation Test Module [Barnes International le : 05/01/2012]
The new test scripts will be of particular interest to banks, card manufacturers, personalisation bureaux and payment scheme approved test laboratories.
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| Telecommunications Industry Revenue to Reach $2.7 Trillion by 2017, says Insight Research [Insight Research Corp. le : 04/01/2012]
Wireless 3G and 4G broadband services projected to grow at a compounded rate of 24% over the forecast period.
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| GlobalPlatform and SIMalliance Will Work Together to Enhance Mobile Application Security [GlobalPlatform le : 04/01/2012]
The associations will work together to develop an end to end solution that will allow a mobile device application to communicate with an application loaded in a secure element (SE).
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| “WatchKey” e-banking USB security token has received FIPS 140-2 certification [Watchdata le : 04/01/2012]
“This certificate paves a new way for Watchdata’s USB Token towards the international market,” said Dr. Sean Gao, Watchdata Vice President.
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| VeriFone Completes Acquisition of Point [VeriFone Systems, Inc. le : 04/01/2012]
“The new entrants such as Google, PayPal, Groupon and Isis can take advantage of easy and accelerated access to VeriFone’s worldwide installation of more than 20 million merchant lanes,” said VeriFone CEO Douglas G. Bergeron.
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| HID Global Acquires EasyLobby for Secure Visitor Management Solutions [HID Global le : 04/01/2012]
Acquisition Strengthens Portfolio for Physical Access Control, Secure Issuance and Managed Services Markets.
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| Cheshire expands smart card services [ACT le : 04/01/2012]
Developed by Cheshire West and Chester Council, the Charisma scheme enables students to receive discounts at restaurants, leisure facilities, hair and beauty salons as well as days out.
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| Broadcom Launches Over-the-Top Media Player Innovation [Broadcom le : 04/01/2012]
Broadcom's BCM72xx SoC portfolio opens way to multi-screen entertainment experiences with integrated DLNA, Wi-Fi Display and NFC for quick, convenient content sharing from mobile devices and tablets.
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| Pour une politique, simple, claire, transparente de la gestion de l’identité numérique [ACN et GIXEL Carte à puce le : 04/01/2012]
L’ACN et le GIXEL Carte à Puce veulent, en supportant IDéNUM, apporter la confiance numérique, c'est-à-dire à la fois la sécurité, la protection des données personnelles et la non traçabilité des actes des citoyens.
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| iPad Hits Three Billion Downloads in Just One Year, Still Outgunning Android Tablets [ABI Research le : 04/01/2012]
Besides offering a larger quantity of iPad-specific apps, Apple’s iPad apps are generally considered to be of a better quality compared to Android tablet-specific apps
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| Verizon Wireless to start adding a US$2 per transaction fee to payments over the phone or online [Verizon Wireless le : 30/12/2011]
The telephone and online single payment fee, which takes effect January 15, will be disclosed up-front and throughout the transaction.
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| Rambus and Broadcom Sign Patent License Agreement [Rambus le : 23/12/2011]
This agreement covers the use of Rambus patented innovations in a broad range of integrated circuit (IC) products offered by Broadcom.
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| Richard A. Clarke to Join Identive Board of Directors [Identive Group, Inc. le : 23/12/2011]
Richard A. Clarke is an internationally-recognized expert on security, including cyber security, homeland security, national security and counterterrorism.
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| Arcontia equips one of the largest bus company providers in Johor Bahru (Malaysia) [ARCONTIA TECHNOLOGY AB le : 23/12/2011]
Onboard light bus validators have been integrated into new ticketing system.
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| French Regulator Awards 4G Licenses to Bouygues Telecom, Orange France and SFR [From ARCEP PR le : 23/12/2011]
Free Mobile was unable to secure a license, but will be able to negotiate a roaming agreement with SFR.
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| Telit Wireless Solutions to Acquire Navman Wireless OEM Solutions [Telit le : 22/12/2011]
Acquisition of U.S.-Based GPS Module Maker Expands Market Opportunities for Telit’s Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Wireless Applications.
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| VeriFone Deployments in Russia Reach 1 Million Milestone [VeriFone Systems, Inc. le : 22/12/2011]
INPAS and the West Siberian Sberbank Installed the Millionth VeriFone System in Tyumen.
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| SMARTRAC to take over UPM’s RFID business [SMARTRAC N.V. le : 22/12/2011]
UPM-Kymmene Corporation to become indirect stockholder of SMARTRAC N.V.
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| Privacy, Security Issues Hamper Wider Growth of Mobile Banking, finds KPMG Survey [KPMG le : 22/12/2011]
72 percent rated the "brand/reputation of the service provider" as very important in gaining trust with respect to data privacy and security.
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| Five Companies plan to jointly form ‘Next Generation Secure Memory Initiative' [Next Generation Secure Memory Initiative le : 21/12/2011]
Panasonic, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., SanDisk, Sony and Toshiba have reached an agreement on a new content protection technology for flash memory cards such as SD Cards and various storage devices.
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| DOCOMO, KDDI and Softbank Join to Adopt All NFC Standards in the Japanese Mobile Ecosystem [NTT DOCOMO, Inc. le : 21/12/2011]
Japan’s three mobile operators already offer Osaifu- Keitai mobile wallet based on FeliCa and form Japan Mobile NFC Consortium to incorporate compatibility with the Type A and B standards.
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| Numerex Awarded Two New M2M Communication Patents [Numerex Corp le : 21/12/2011]
In addition to its significant licensing portfolio, Numerex has been granted a total of 52 patents for its M2M technology innovations.
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| Thomson Reuters Research Confirms China Leads World in Patent Applications, Trademark Filings [Thomson Reuters le : 21/12/2011]
Thomson Reuters research suggests that although China leads the world in patent and trademark filings, its status as a global player still faces challenges.
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| BearingPoint Awards Gemalto For its Think Tank Initiative “BIG” (Business Innovation Garage) [Gemalto le : 21/12/2011]
The award specifically recognized eGo, a revolutionary new technology that uses intra-body communication properties to convey digital credentials onto a lot of devices.
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| Worldwide Pay-TV Revenue on the Rise, to Reach $236 Billion at the End of 2012 [ABI Research le : 21/12/2011]
Cable TV operators continue to face increasing competition from IPTV and over-the-top (OTT) services.
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| VeriFone Enters Long-Term Strategic Partnership with NBC Owned Stations [VeriFone Systems, Inc. le : 21/12/2011]
NBCUniversal to Deliver News, Information and Entertainment to 12,000 Taxis and Thousands of Gas Stations Nationwide.
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| Mobile Will Account for 15.2% of Global Online Ad Spend in 2016 [Berg Insight le : 21/12/2011]
The global mobile marketing and advertising market will grow from €2.6 billion in 2010 at a CAGR of 37% to € 17.2 billion in 2016.
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| Motorola Mobility Did Not Violate Six of the Seven Microsoft Patents, Finds ITC [Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. le : 21/12/2011]
The Company noted that Microsoft had previously dropped two patents from its original case which included nine patents.
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| Gemalto acquires M2M service delivery platform provider SensorLogic [Gemalto le : 20/12/2011]
SensorLogic has developed a cloud-based, machine-to-machine (M2M) service delivery platform which allows customers to build, deploy and manage M2M solutions.
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| StarChip achieves first-time-right ESD performance in SIM/Smartcard IC with Sofics Technology [StarChip le : 20/12/2011]
The market for SIM, Smartcard, and M2M controllers is on the verge of explosive growth, bigger than that of mobile phone communications. Performance and reliability are keys.
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| Industry Leaders Debate the Future of EMV Payments at CARTES in North America [CARTES in North America 2012 le : 20/12/2011]
Event to host day-long Worldwide EMV Deployments track for financial services and retail stakeholders.
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| NFC, e-ID & digital security waves to hit the French Riviera: 3 ICT events announced in Nice city! [Strategies Telecoms & Multimedia le : 20/12/2011]
NFC World Congress, World e-ID Congress and Chip-to-Cloud Security Forum, will attract 2500 international participants around the contactless applications, the e-ID projects and the security issues of the "networked society".
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| GlobalPlatform Enhances Versatility of Secure Access Module Thanks to Remote Management [GlobalPlatform le : 20/12/2011]
The white paper, titled ‘GlobalPlatform Value Proposition for Remote Post-Issuance Secure Access Modules (SAMs) Management’, can be downloaded free of charge from the GP's web site.
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| 'You will never need a password again' - One Innovation that 'll Change Our Lives within 5 Years [IBM le : 20/12/2011]
Formally unveiled the sixth annual "IBM 5 in 5"- a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and interact during the next five years.
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| Javelin Reveals the Most Secure Mobile Banking Channel [Javelin Strategy & Research le : 20/12/2011]
Mobile banking is on the rise, jumping to 28% of all mobile phone users in 2011, but security remains a top concern.
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| AT&T Expands Its Advanced Connected Devices Program with HSPA+ and LTE M2M Modules [AT&T Inc. le : 20/12/2011]
Working with Sierra Wireless, Telit, and Option, AT&T will include modules designed for automotive and industrial applications.
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| AT&T Ends Bid To Add Network Capacity Through T-Mobile USA Purchase [AT&T le : 20/12/2011]
Company Reaffirms Its Commitment to Mobile Broadband Leadership.
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| Sprint statement on decision by AT&T and Deutsche Telekom to end bid to acquire T-Mobile USA [Sprint le : 20/12/2011]
“This is the right decision for consumers, competition and innovation in the wireless industry,” said Vonya B. McCann, senior vice president of Government Affairs for Sprint.
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| Swisscom Establishing a M2M Department To Drive the Internet of Things [Swisscom le : 20/12/2011]
The new department will accompany customers at every stage, from the initial project idea through to implementation and eventual operation.
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| The Indian Mobile Market is Forecast to Reach 1.36 billion connections (SIMs) in 2020 [Analysys Mason le : 19/12/2011]
Because of the focus on voice services and handset-based data connectivity, data-only SIMs account for only 1% of all SIMs.
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| India Mobile Phone Market Rebounds in Q3 (+12%) Propelled by Dual-SIM Handsets [IDC le : 19/12/2011]
Nokia makes significant gains in mobile phones shipment share; Samsung makes strides in the smartphone category.
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| MGI’s Inkjet Technology Awarded Engineering Prize for Innovation [MGI Digital Graphic Technology le : 19/12/2011]
The jury elected to honor MGI’s R&D team for the innovation shown in the development of the JETcard®, the first solution utilizing MGI’s color inkjet technology.
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| Watchdata Payment Products Achieve VISA Certification [Watchdata le : 19/12/2011]
JAVA-S SDA card product TimeCOS-JV-S-T0-1, Java 2.2.1 DDA card product TimeCOS–JV–C–T0–1, “Sticker” Timecos/Fly TransWave v1.0 have successfully passed certification.
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| Cryptography Research and Invia SAS sign developer agreement for DPA countermeasures [ Cryptography Research, Inc. (CRI) le : 19/12/2011]
Agreement enhances ASIC and FPGA security for subscriber identification modules, smart cards, PayTV, Secure ID, digital rights management, as well as military and defense applications.
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| NFC Forum and Bluetooth SIG Publish Developers Guide to Using NFC for Bluetooth® Pairing [The NFC Forum le : 19/12/2011]
First in Series of New Application Documents Helps Developers Leverage Both Technologies to Benefit Consumers.
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| Visa Europe launches exclusive offers portal for UK consumers [Visa Europe le : 19/12/2011]
With 130 million Visa cards in circulation in the UK, Visa Offers will offer a valuable outlet for retailers to house deals and connect with a spend-focussed audience.
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| The Mobile Cloud Computing Market Will Generate $45 Billion in Revenues by 2016, says Visiongain [Visiongain le : 18/12/2011]
The total cloud market to be worth $240 billion by 2016, up from $77 billion in 2011. The greatest mobile cloud revenue contributions will come from mobile cloud applications.
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| Gartner Survey Shows 18% of Respondents Are Not PCI-Compliant [Gartner le : 16/12/2011]
When asked about the top security projects for 2011, respondents put data loss prevention (DLP) at the top of their list.
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| STMicroelectronics Launches Corporate Venture Capital Fund [STMicroelectronics le : 16/12/2011]
Healthcare, Cleantech and Smart Infrastructure are among the main areas of focus.
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| 'WISeID Secure Mobility' Is Our Next Huge Business,‘ says WISekey's CEO Carlos Moreira [WISeKey le : 16/12/2011]
Mr. Moreira presided over the meeting of stockholders, outlining WISeKey's overall vision of the Trusted Internet.
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| Entrust Applauds CA/Browser Forum for Developing Baseline Requirements for SSL Certificates [Entrust, Inc. le : 16/12/2011]
New industry standards leverage best practices to ensure higher level of security and assurance.
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| Multicard Implements New Fuel Card Program for Australia’s Neumann Petroleum [Multicard (Identive Group, Inc.) le : 16/12/2011]
All transactions are batch uploaded from the POS terminal to Multicard Manager, a Web-based administration portal that provides an easy-to-use interface for Neumann Fuel Card account holders.
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| Extended qualification of Collis GlobalPlatform Test Tool [Collis le : 16/12/2011]
The ‘Collis GlobalPlatform Basic Financial Configuration Compliance Test Suite’ can be used to test whether a smart card aligns with the GlobalPlatform Basic Financial Configuration for the banking sector.
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| IDC Forecasts Worldwide Semiconductor Revenues Will Reach $305 Billion in 2012 (+3.4% YoY) [IDC le : 16/12/2011]
Semiconductor revenues for 4G phones will show YoY (2012) and CAGR (2011-2016) growth rates of 400% and 98%, respectively.
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| Tablet Shipments in EMEA is Slated to Cross 20 Million Units by the End of the Year, says IDC [IDC le : 16/12/2011]
Although business purchases represent less than 10% of the entire tablet market, the opportunity for growth and interest from businesses is huge following the success of the iPad.
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| SMARTRAC signs purchase agreement to acquire KSW Microtec AG [SMARTRAC N.V. le : 15/12/2011]
Will extend SMARTRAC’s market position in access control, e-payment, e-Ticketing, and asset management as well as for high-security products for government ID documents.
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| Galitt Integrated Its 40th Issuer of Fuel Card on Catti Petrol Solution [Galitt le : 15/12/2011]
Catti™ is an exhaustive and modular solution to manage dedicated cards in the following domains: petrol, loyalty, prepaid and gift.
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| EMVCo Delivers Update On Its EMV Contactless Mobile Payments Advancements [EMVCo le : 15/12/2011]
The document should be read by all stakeholders working to deliver CMP, and will be of particular interest to those parties that are new to the payments market.
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| Apple to Capture 32% of Connected TV Player Market in 2011 [Apple le : 15/12/2011]
More than 8% of US households now own a connected TV player, compared to 7% of European households.
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| VeriFone Reports Fourth Quarter Revenues of $416 million (+51% YoY) [VeriFone Systems, Inc. le : 15/12/2011]
For the full year of fiscal 2012, VeriFone expects to report net revenues in the range of $1.90 billion to $1.92 billion.
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| GSMA Announces Details of NFC & Mobile Money Summit 2012 [GSMA le : 15/12/2011]
Nearly 1.5 billion SIM-based handsets will have been sold worldwide between 2010 and 2016, supporting transactions of more than $50 billion globally over the same period, according to Strategy Analytics.
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| STMicroelectronics Produces World's First Wafer Employing Fully Contactless Testing [STMicroelectronics le : 15/12/2011]
Electromagnetic Concentration/Expansion is a patented technique uses a passive structure consisting of two or more antenna connected together to obtain a series resonance that acts as an "electromagnetic lens".
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| NXP and Indonesian Bank Mega Offer Multi-Application SmartCard Solution for In-Door Theme Parks [NXP Semiconductors N.V. le : 15/12/2011]
Mifare DESFire EV1 provides easy access management, secure payment and loyalty programs at Trans Studios Makassar and Bandung.
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| NFC Handsets To Reach 80 Million Units in 2012, says IMS Research [IMS Research le : 15/12/2011]
35 Million Handsets in 2011 Marks Breakthrough Year for Mobile NFC.
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| PayByPhone Adds NFC Stickers to Mobile Payments for San Francisco’s 30,800 Parking Spaces [PayByPhone le : 15/12/2011]
Since each meter in San Francisco will have a PayByPhone sticker, users can simply wave or tap their NFC-enabled phones over the NFC sticker on the meter to automatically launch the parking application.
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| TSYS Releases White Paper on the Delivery of M-Payments and Prepaid Services to Rural India [TSYS le : 15/12/2011]
The symbiotic relationship between prepaid and mobile phones is helping to define a natural entry point that could help the country achieve its goals of financial inclusion.
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| ROAM Data Launches Secure Mobile Card Reader [ROAM Data le : 15/12/2011]
ROAM’S G3X Secure Mobile Reader help Merchant Service Providers deliver powerful mobile POS solutions with the Lowest Cost of Ownership.
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| Google Wallet Sensitive to Social Engineering Attacks, Finds Viaforensics Report [Viaforensics le : 14/12/2011]
The amount of data that Google Wallet stores unencrypted on the device is significant (pretty much everything except the first 12 digits of your credit card).
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| Broadcom Corporation Joins GlobalPlatform [GlobalPlatform le : 14/12/2011]
Broadcom will bring a wealth of global experience in both hardware and software solutions across numerous business areas, including the mobile sector.
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| Ten Million FINO Customers in India Use Micro-Banking Applications on Gemalto SmartCards [Gemalto le : 14/12/2011]
More than half of India’s adults today are still not served or under-served by the finance sector, creating an immense need for financial services to be made accessible to India’s 1.2 billion population.
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| Financial Institutions to Expand Mobile Banking, Payments in 2012 Reveals Fiserv Survey [Fiserv, Inc. le : 14/12/2011]
Transactional services such as remote deposit capture and mobile person-to-person payments will account for the bulk of mobile investment in 2012.
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| Sequent Launches Neutral NFC Platform to Accelerate Mass Adoption [Sequent Software (Marketwire) le : 14/12/2011]
The center of the platform is Sequent's Secure Element Management platform that allows secure element owners, often MNOs, the ability to onboard and manage a consumer's accounts into a mobile device.
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| WISeKey and The Bancorp, Inc. to Form a Joint Venture (WISeCorp.CO) [WISeKey le : 14/12/2011]
To Change the Way the World Pays.
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| The need is strong for a more client-specific third prong in the fight against fraud, says Alaric [Alaric le : 14/12/2011]
The importance of such third prong solutions in detecting and preventing fraud should be valued to the same level as PCI compliance and EMV Chip & PIN/ 3DSecure says the London based company.
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| Android's OS Market Share in the U.S. To Reach 53% from January through October 2011 [The NPD Group le : 14/12/2011]
As Apple’s iOS share grew to reach 29% of the market, and RIM’s OS share declined to 11%.
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| American Express Launches Payment SDKs [American Express le : 13/12/2011]
NexGen Digital Connectivity Tools Enable Best-in-Class Speed and Efficiency for Developers.
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| Douglas Perfumeries and easycash Loyalty Solutions GmbH Renew their Partnership [Ingenico le : 13/12/2011]
The “Douglas Card” has been in existence for an impressive 16 years and boasts 2.5 million customers, making it one of the most successful customer cards in the German retail sector.
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| Entrust Survey Reveals RSA Data Breach [Entrust, Inc. le : 13/12/2011]
Almost one quarter of UK organizations have suffered security breach linked to authentication device.
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| Filesonic Teams Up with Vobile to Protect Copyrighted Digital Content [Vobile le : 13/12/2011]
Vobile vCloud9 Allows Sites to Review Compressed Files Before Publication and Pre-emptively Stop Copyright Infringement.
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| Identive Launches Online Resource for Secure ID Trends and Information [Identive Group, Inc. le : 13/12/2011]
AskIdentive.com offers information and insights from security and RFID industry experts.
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| GlobalPlatform Extends Compliance Program To Meet Financial Sector Requirements [GlobalPlatform le : 13/12/2011]
Four test tools, delivered by Barnes International, Collis, FIME and Galitt, are qualified to test a product’s compliance to the GlobalPlatform Basic Financial Configuration.
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| HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source [Hewlett Packard (HP) le : 12/12/2011]
HP to enable creativity of the community to accelerate the next-generation web-centric platform.
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| Collis becomes member of Mobey Forum [Collis le : 12/12/2011]
Collis puts strong focus on the development of mobile payment technology.
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| Gemalto Selected by Isis to Deploy Mobile Payment and NFC Services in the U.S. [Gemalto le : 12/12/2011]
Gemalto to Provide Isis Mobile Commerce Platform with Trusted Service Manager (TSM) Solution.
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| Intel Joins Board of Directors of the NFC Forum [NFC Forum le : 09/12/2011]
"Intel believes NFC has great potential to enhance user experiences via simplified and secure device interaction,“ said Ed Agis, Intel representative and new board member of the NFC Forum.
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| NTT Docomo Osaifu-Keitai NFC Smartphone Integrates AuthenTec’s Fingerprint Sensor [AuthenTec le : 09/12/2011]
The AES850 utilizes a high-definition 92 pixel by 8 pixel sensor array to produce outstanding fingerprint image quality at 500 dot-per-inch (DPI) resolution.
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| GSMA Releases European Mobile Observatory Outlining Key Developments in the Mobile Industry [The GSMA le : 09/12/2011]
Mobile Communication Is a Key European Industry, Comparable to Aerospace and Larger than Pharmaceuticals with Total Revenues of euro 174 Billion in 2010.
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| Smartrac to Become Majority Owner of Neology Inc. [SMARTRAC N.V. le : 09/12/2011]
Neology, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, is a leader in secure customized high-value RFID transponders and solutions.
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| Think&Go Wins Best NFC Application Gold Award at WIMA NFC USA Congress [Think&Go NFC le : 09/12/2011]
NFC-Shopping application for the visually disabled improves the shopping experience for a rapidly growing part of the population.
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| FIME and Thales ITSEF Combine Expertise to Deliver Security and Functional Evaluation Services [FIME le : 09/12/2011]
The offering will assist companies in achieving certification for industry standards, such as Common Criteria and EMVCo, and private schemes including MasterCard, Visa and CRI (Cryptography Research Incorporated).
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| KOBIL makes security possible for mobile terminals [KOBIL Systems GmbH le : 09/12/2011]
The German manufacturer of security solutions transfers security standards from the PC world to the mobile world.
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| Smartrac Restarts Production in Thailand [SMARTRAC N.V. le : 09/12/2011]
Two months after the company had been forced to cease manufacturing at its five production facilities in Ayutthaya due to the severe flood disaster.
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| Secure Online Transactions Create 1.8 Billion Unit OTP Generators and USB Token Market by 2016 [ABI Research le : 08/12/2011]
Mobile software solutions are forecast to achieve the greatest growth, with annual shipments of 392 million in 2016.
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| Oberthur Technologies to Deploy Strong Authentication Solutions for Banca Monte Paschi Belgio [Oberthur Technologies le : 08/12/2011]
The Smart Display Card is an all-in-one dual interface banking card and a two-factor authentication device equipped with a display and key-pad, all embedded in the ISO card form factor.
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| Set-top-box Decoder IC from ST Certified for Next-Generation NDS VideoGuard Security Kernel [STMicroelectronics le : 08/12/2011]
STi7108 high-definition set-top-box decoder from ST certified for next-generation NDS VideoGuard Security Kernel and DVB-CSA3 security features
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| Surging Smart Meter Shipments in EMEA and Asia/Pacific Drive Worldwide Market Growth in Q3 [IDC Energy Insights le : 08/12/2011]
Regional Solutions Developing for Smart Meter Communications, According to IDC Energy Insights.
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| X.commerce Updates to Bring Open Commerce Ecosystem to Life for Merchants, Developers [X.commerce - eBay Inc. le : 08/12/2011]
Merchants and developers to get limited beta access to development environment, developer package updated LeWeb'11.
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| PayPal Access Now Freely Available to Magento Go Merchants [X.commerce, Paypal - eBay Inc. le : 08/12/2011]
Customers can shop safely and easily on Magento Go websites with just their PayPal usernames and passwords.
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| SafeNet Launches NSA Certified Type 1 Ethernet Encryptor [SafeNet, Inc. le : 08/12/2011]
New Government-grade Encryption Technology Delivers Advanced Ethernet Security with Improved Performance, Scalability, and Cost Savings.
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| Mobile Payments Now an Established Method, Says Fiserv Billing Household Survey [Fiserv le : 08/12/2011]
More consumers are carrying smartphones and fewer are carrying their checkbooks to make payments. The most popular bills paid by phone include phone, cable, credit card and utilities.
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| Continua Health Alliance Commends the Launch of Wireless Health Platform by Qualcomm Life [Continua Health Alliance le : 08/12/2011]
The cloud-based 2net Platform is designed to be universally interoperable with a variety of integrated medical devices and applications.
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| Data Privacy Protection Becomes Strategic IT Priority in CEE, according to IDC survey [IDC Energy Insights le : 08/12/2011]
Recent discussions related to smart metering and meter data management across Europe have raised concerns regarding data privacy.
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| Dual-SIM Mobile Phones Driving the Growth in Mobile Shipments in Indonesia, says IDC [IDC le : 08/12/2011]
Indonesia Mobile Phone Shipments Surpassed 12 million in Q3 (+27% YoY).
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| Industry Leaders Launch Project to Accelerate Security Certification for Critical Embedded Systems [Esterel, Inria, P&R, Trusted Labs le : 08/12/2011]
Esterel Technologies, Inria, Prove & Run and Trusted Labs Intend to create a new software development environment that will include a fully proven generation and compilation tool chain.
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| Wooxo Joins the French SCS Competitiveness Cluster [SCS (Secured Communicating Solutions) le : 08/12/2011]
Wooxo’s backup expertise extends the cluster’s already wide business skills and will as such, feature on December as the 'Company of the month' on the SCS cluster’s website.
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| One Billion HTML5 Phones to be Sold Worldwide in 2013 [Strategy Analytics le : 08/12/2011]
HTML5 has quickly become a high-growth technology that will help smartphones, feature phones, tablets, notebooks, desktop PCs, televisions and vehicles to converge in the future.
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| Smartphone Applications Processor Revenues Jump 59% in Q3 2011 [Strategy Analytics le : 08/12/2011]
Broadcom Grabs Fifth Spot from NVIDIA. Qualcomm and Samsung Together Held 66% Unit Share in Q3 2011.
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| Crocus Partners With Starchip To Develop SoC Solutions Based on Magnetic-Logic-Unit Technology [StarChip le : 07/12/2011]
Under this collaboration, Crocus and Starchip will work together to embed MLU memory and logic functionality into next generation secure processor-based architectures.
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| idOnDemand Offers Commercial Identification Verification (CIV) Credentials [idOnDemand (Identive Group Inc.) le : 07/12/2011]
Many international or multi-site companies are looking for a secure credential that allows their employees and contractors to carry only one badge to log on to the company network as well as to access facilities.
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| EtherTrust Launches a Key Concept for the Emerging Internet Of Things [EtherTrust le : 07/12/2011]
The keys are securely downloaded from web servers and afterward used by legacy Mifare systems, such as electronic locks, in order to perform HTTPS operations supervised by Android mobile phones.
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| Thales to supply ticketing system for Gurgaon Metro (India) [Thales Group le : 07/12/2011]
Thales will develop a central back office system, manufacture and install 72 automatic gates and associated IT systems in all stations.
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| Ukash Provides Reload Option for new Watch2Pay Payments Wristwatch [Ukash le : 07/12/2011]
The new wristwatch from LAKS will enable consumers to ‘Tap & Go’ against a contactless reader at over 70,000 retailers throughout the UK, removing the need to enter a PIN.
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| Diversinet Achieves FIPS 140-2 Validation for the Crypto Module used in its mHealth Application [Diversinet Corp. le : 07/12/2011]
The Java cryptographic modules used in MobiSecure have been formally placed on a list for the FIPS 140-2, Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules.
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| RSA Helps Prevent US$7.5 Billion in Estimated Fraud Losses Against Global Customers [RSA (The Security Division of EMC) le : 07/12/2011]
The RSA FraudAction service Shuts Down More Than 500,000 Cyber Attacks Across 185 Countries.
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| STMicroelectronics Sets Fast Route to Market for NAGRA’s OpenTV 5 Set-Top Box Middleware [STMicroelectronics le : 07/12/2011]
The ST chipsets validated with drivers for OpenTV 5 are available with embedded NAGRA On-Chip Security (NOCS) which ensures the integrity of customer equipment by utilizing a hardware root of trust.
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| InterSwitch Goes Live with Welcome Real-time’s Loyalty Solution in Nigeria [Welcome Real-time le : 07/12/2011]
African payments process or encourages increased debit card usage through innovative loyalty schemes.
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| Google Wallet Needs to be Integrated into a Proprietary Secure Element in Our Phones, says Verizon [Verizon Wireless le : 07/12/2011]
Statement From Verizon On Google Wallet signals that “Who owns the embedded Secure Element?“ and “Who manages the related customer's credentials and security domains?“ are key questions raised by NFC Payment.
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| Ingenico Enables MasterCard M/Chip Advance Transport Ticketing Project in Turkey [Ingenico le : 06/12/2011]
As the key part of the Esparacard project, Ingenico designed and supplied both the hardware and software payment solutions of the new ticketing system.
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| mFoundry Secures $18 Million in Growth Capital [mFoundry le : 06/12/2011]
Funding led by MasterCard Incorporated with investments from Intel Capital, FIS, and Motorola Mobility.
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| Micropross releases the MP300 SC2 - a NFC secure element oriented spy and CLF tester [Micropross le : 06/12/2011]
Supports all protocols potentially involved in the authentication of a NFC transaction, such as SWP/HCI, NFC-Wi, DCLB, I2C, SPI.
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| Thierry Lucereau Appointed New ASK's CEO [ASK le : 06/12/2011]
He replaces Mr. Bruno Moreau, who remains a board member.
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| Galitt once again in front row with the qualification of the latest GlobalPlatform Card Test Suite [Galitt le : 06/12/2011]
Galitt has implemented the GlobalPlatform Test Suite released for the Basic Financial Configuration to create the KaNest-ICC GP BFC Card Test Suite.
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| Stephen P. Herbert Named Chairman and CEO of USA Technologies, Inc. [USA Technologies, Inc. le : 06/12/2011]
Prior to joining USA Technologies, Steve had been employed by The Pepsi-Cola Company, the beverage division of PepsiCo, Inc.
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| Identive Delivers Additional Smart Card Readers for Spanish National Electronic ID Program [Identive Group, Inc. le : 05/12/2011]
More than half of Spain’s 46 million citizens now carry the eID cards.
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| Visa-Rwanda Partnership to Drive Electronic Financial Services [Visa Inc. le : 05/12/2011]
The partnership is a step in the Government of Rwanda’s Vision 2020 plan, the country’s blueprint to become a middle-income nation within the coming decade.
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| INSIDE Secure achieves company-wide ISO/IEC 27001 certification [INSIDE Secure le : 05/12/2011]
Additional site approved for common criteria certified product development.
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| Success of the tender offer for XIRING shares [Ingenico le : 05/12/2011]
According to the information disclosed by NYSE Euronext, a total number of 3,459,123 XIRING shares have been tendered to the offer.
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| Mobile fraud will increase alongside mobile banking adoption, says Aite Group [Aite Group le : 03/12/2011]
The mobile channel has proven difficult to secure due to the wide variety of mobile devices and operating systems. Financial institutions should have tools in place before issues arise.
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| 40% of the British public don't like to receive loyalty scheme offers via their phones, finds survey [The Logic Group le : 03/12/2011]
There were mixed reactions across all ages to the concept of a mobile wallet.
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| Xavier Drilhon Nominated as Chief Executive Officer of Oberthur Technologies [Oberthur Technologies le : 02/12/2011]
“I am sure that he will contribute to significantly strengthen Oberthur Technologies’ position in a high potential industry undergoing significant changes,"said Pascal Stefani, Chairman of Oberthur Technologies’ Board.
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| MasterCard Made a Strategic Investment in mFoundry [MasterCard Worldwide le : 02/12/2011]
The collaboration and investment will combine MasterCard’s Tap & Go PayPass technology with mFoundry’s mobile financial services platform to make mobile contactless payments accessible to more consumers.
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| WISeKey Closed the Second of its Three-tranche $110 million pre-IPO Financing Round [WISeKey le : 02/12/2011]
The Company value of $360 million increased from its $200 million valuation set during the April 2010 first-tranche fundraising round.
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| Entrust Highlights Looming Impact of Mobile and Cloud-Based Technologies on ePassport Industry [Entrust, Inc. le : 02/12/2011]
Governments and border control agencies can prepare now for new disruptive technologies.
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| Microsemi Commends EU on Its New Security Scanner Regulations [Microsemi Corporation le : 02/12/2011]
Millimeter Wave RF Technology Enables Radiation-free Security Solutions.
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| The Smart Payment Association publishes its ‘BCM' white paper for the Payment Card Industry [The Smart Payment Association (SPA) le : 02/12/2011]
The increasing complexity of cross-border regulatory compliance and the global nature of the supply chain constitute risks that have to be managed professionally,” said SPA's chairman.
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| Telefónica Selects Giesecke & Devrient to Deliver Seamless NFC Solutions Across Europe [Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) le : 02/12/2011]
Telefónica to introduce mobile services with NFC technology in Europe over the next few months. Giesecke & Devrient will provide the Trusted Service Manager (TSM) technology.
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| Advent International Completes Acquisition of Oberthur Technologies [Advent International le : 01/12/2011]
Xavier Drilhon, previously Deputy Managing Director of Oberthur group and Managing Director of the Card Systems division, has been appointed CEO of Oberthur Technologies.
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| 100,000 XIRING Smartcard Readers Ordered by Moneo Payment Solutions [XIRING le : 01/12/2011]
Allow Moneo Payment Solutions’ clients and partners to carry out online recharging and purchases transactions with their Moneo card.
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| OTI Reports First Nine Months 2011 Revenue of $35.2 million (-19% YoY) [On Track Innovations Ltd. (“OTI”) le : 01/12/2011]
Second half results are being impacted by the flooding in Thailand.
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| OTI Signs $7 Million Core Technology License Agreement [On Track Innovations Ltd. (“OTI”) le : 01/12/2011]
Agreement Provides New Revenue Model by Leveraging Portfolio of Proprietary Assets.
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| Identive Announces Family of USB 3.0 Super Speed Digital Media Readers [Identive Group, Inc. le : 01/12/2011]
First Reader Supports SD Media with up to Ten Times Faster Transfer Speeds.
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| U.S. Researchers Find Some Smartphone Models More Vulnerable To Attack [North Carolina State University le : 01/12/2011]
Pre-loaded apps can be easily tricked by hackers and used as “backdoors“ to record phone calls, send text messages.
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| Mobile Revenues Set to Double in Just Two Years, says eDigitalResearch, Portaltech and IMRG [IMRG. le : 01/12/2011]
Retailers are expecting a wider distribution of the revenue generated through mobile and social media platforms.
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| Facebook Settles FTC Charges That It Deceived Consumers By Failing To Keep Privacy Promises [U.S. Federal Trade Commission le : 01/12/2011]
"Facebook's innovation does not have to come at the expense of consumer privacy,“ said Jon Leibowitz, Chairman of the FTC.
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| IDC Predicts 2012 Will Be the Year of Mobile and Cloud Platform Wars [IDC le : 01/12/2011]
As IT Vendors Vie for Leadership While the Industry Redefines Itself.
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| INSIDE Secure and CorFire team to accelerate the rollout of NFC applications [Inside Secure le : 01/12/2011]
“Seamless interoperability between the TSM and the NFC secure element is paramount to healthy NFC service deployments,“ said Dr. Jun Hong, CTO of CorFire.
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| Intrinsic-ID Launches Operation in Japan and Hires Industry Veteran [Intrinsic-ID le : 30/11/2011]
“We believe cipher key generation and true random number generation using Physically Unclonable Function is very important technology,“ said Masayuki Hirokawa, Department Manager, Renesas Electronics Corp.
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| Smart Posters and Mobile Marketing Are the Major Non-Payment Opportunities in NFC Tag Market [ABI Research le : 30/11/2011]
This market is expected to be worth $298 million over the next five years.
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| MasterCard and Western Union Partner to Fuel Growth of Electronic Payments [MasterCard and Western Union le : 30/11/2011]
An estimated 2.5 billion adults worldwide are financially underserved, and within the U.S., more than a quarter of the adult population is excluded from the financial mainstream.
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| Marc Kekicheff Retains His Position as Chairman of GlobalPlatform For The Second Year [GlobalPlatform le : 30/11/2011]
Jon Geater (ARM), Rémi de Fouchier (Gemalto), Arnaud de Chéné (MasterCard Worldwide) and Sebastian Hans (Oracle) were elected to the Board; Yves Moulart (STMicroelectronics) was re-elected.
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| INSIDE Secure Opens Door to HID global iCLASS Credentials on NFC-enabled Smartphones [INSIDE Secure le : 30/11/2011]
SecuRead NFC chip with iCLASS support will be at the heart of new smartphones.
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| NEC’s Kaoru Kenyoshi Named to the Board of Directors of ETSI [NEC Corporation le : 30/11/2011]
Promoting the standardization of M2M, Smart Grids and others.
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| ViVOtech Contactless EMV and NFC Payment Software Powers Cubic Readers [ViVOtech le : 30/11/2011]
Cubic is using ViVOtech's contactless / NFC payment software, which enables acceptance of open contactless payment programs from American Express, Discover, MasterCard, and Visa.
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| Middle East’s mobile-subscription count will cross 250-million mark in 2012 [ Informa Telecoms & Media le : 30/11/2011]
Smartphone penetration in the UAE will rise from 47% at end-2011 to 70% at end-2016.
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| Samsung Announces Industry First ARM Cortex-A15 Processor Samples for Tablet Computers [Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. le : 30/11/2011]
Samsung's new dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 based application processor, the Exynos 5250, is capable of processing 14 billion instructions per second (Dhrystone million instructions per second) at 2.0GHz.
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| MasterCard Europe, LAKS and Vincento Launch Contactless Payments Wristwatch in the UK [MasterCard Europe le : 30/11/2011]
Contactless wristwatches are already in use in Turkey, Poland and a number of markets in Asia.
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| Slower growth in consumer spending in Q3 across the EU, says Visa Europe [Visa Europe le : 30/11/2011]
Visa Europe’s EU Consumer Spending Barometer shows European Union countries recorded a 0.5% year-on-year growth in consumer spending in Q3 2011.
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| The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service Utilizes HID Global RFID Solutions [HID Global le : 30/11/2011]
The solution combines next-generation software and intelligent multi-layer tags.
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| The world's first non-optical scanner to achieve FBI Appendix F certification [Integrated Biometrics le : 30/11/2011]
Watson is the smallest and lightest Appendix F certified two-finger scanner in the world, weighing 115 grams and measuring 70 mm X 63 mm X 33 mm in size.
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| Tap & Go Digital Receipts Now Available Through Proximiant [Proximiant le : 30/11/2011]
Until the NFC-enabled phones are widely available, Proximiant is offering a bridge solution via a small tag that can be carried in a wallet or put on a key chain to allow shoppers the same tap-and-go capability.
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| RIM Offers BlackBerry, Android and iOS Devices Management for Business and Government [Research In Motion (RIM) le : 30/11/2011]
BlackBerry Mobile Fusion will simplify the management of smartphones and tablets running BlackBerry, Google Android and Apple iOS operating systems.
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| Multicard Launches Online Cash Account Management for Popular Swiss Education ID Card [Multicard (Identive Group, Inc.) le : 29/11/2011]
With 'polypurse', cardholders can perform a range of cashcard management operations online, including checking account balances, verifying transactions and re-loading the card.
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| Polisan boosts its loyalty program with Ingenico Turkey solution [Ingenico le : 29/11/2011]
Polisan decided to transfer its loyalty system previously run manually to an Ingenico solution based on 2.500 POS terminals.
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| First Data and Sygma Bank Extend Cooperation [First Data Corporation le : 29/11/2011]
First Data to provide Sygma Bank with payments infrastructure to support bank’s growth in Poland.
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| Precise Biometrics Appoints CPS as Distributor/Reseller of its Biometric Smart Card Readers [Precise Biometrics le : 29/11/2011]
In the UK and Ireland market, CPS serves the government, enterprise, and healthcare markets, all areas where Precise Biometrics readers shine.
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| Entrust Secures More than 1 Million SCHUFA Customers [Entrust, Inc. le : 29/11/2011]
SCHUFA and their customers rely on Entrust IdentityGuard authentication platform and Entrust’s patented grid cards.
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| VeriFone Projects FY of Fiscal 2012 Revenues in the Range of $1.70 billion to $1.72 billion [VeriFone Systems, Inc. le : 29/11/2011]
Non-GAAP net revenues for Q4 FY11 are estimated to be in the range of $414 million to $416 million.
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| Sicap and Methics Partner for New Open-Standards Mobile Signature Services [Sicap le : 29/11/2011]
The solution relies on a standalone, vendor independent SIM Client, which allows interoperability with all Service Provider platforms.
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| Tablets revealed to cannibalise use of TV and PC in Europe, according to Orange Exposure 2011 [Orange le : 29/11/2011]
Respondents more likely to make purchases on tablet than smartphone .
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| INSIDE Secure Plays Leading Role at WIMA NFC USA [INSIDE Secure le : 29/11/2011]
Key Executives to Present Perspectives on Upcoming NFC Market Explosion.
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| Six German banks to introduce contactless payment with Visa payWave in 2012 [Visa Europe le : 29/11/2011]
BW Bank, comdirect, DKB, Landesbank Berlin, TARGOBANK and Volkswagen Bank have all confirmed their plans to roll out Visa Europe’s industry leading contactless service by the middle of 2012.
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| BRED, VIALINK and Morpho bring digital services to the masses with Ipab [Morpho (Safran group) le : 28/11/2011]
Ipab provides account holders with an online space which receives & stores documents sent by its partners and acts as the key to facilitate strong authentication and e-signatures.
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| Aconite Delivers first PCI HSM Certified Solution [Aconite le : 28/11/2011]
Aconite and Thales have together completed an integration program that allows Aconite solutions and Thales payShield 9000 HSMs, to work seamlessly together.
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| Javelin Forecasts an Online Payments Shift to Credit Cards at the Expense of Debit Cards [Javelin Strategy & Research le : 28/11/2011]
Javelin projects that total payments volume (TPV) for the online use of credit cards by U.S. consumers will climb 63%, while the TPV for debit cards is expected to rise just 2% during that same period.
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| BNP Paribas and Orange Launched BNP Paribas Mobile (including NFC payment) - First in France [Orange le : 26/11/2011]
With the KIX service, BNP Paribas customers can pay for daily purchases securely using the NFC based mobile Cityzi service.
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| BNZ, Vodafone, Visa and Paymark Launched NFC trial in Wellington and Auckland (NZ) [Bank of New Zealand le : 26/11/2011]
Some 44 BNZ and Vodafone staff will be testing this technology on NFC enabled Samsung Galaxy S2 handsets over the next three months.
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| INSIDE Secure named Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA 2011 award winner [INSIDE Secure le : 25/11/2011]
The Fast 500 EMEA award validates INSIDE’s product family expansions, growth into new market segments and leadership position in NFC technology.
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| Southern Railway (UK) Launches New Smart Card Pilot Ticketing Scheme [ACT le : 25/11/2011]
The rechargeable ITSO compliant smart card called “the key” provides an alternative to paper tickets and makes buying tickets and travelling easier and more convenient for passengers.
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| Atlantic Zeiser and Xproma establish sales partnership for card systems [Atlantic Zeiser le : 25/11/2011]
Atlantic Zeiser offering (PersoMail, PersoLine and VersaMail) are now available from Xproma GmbH in Germany and the Benelux States.
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| MorphoAccess VP wins Detektor International Award [Morpho (Safran group) le : 25/11/2011]
The world’s first multimodal physical access control terminal combining finger vein and fingerprint recognition.
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| Telefónica Digital and RIM Announce NFC Payments with Blackberry Smartphones [Telefónica Digital le : 24/11/2011]
In collaboration with local banks and retailers Telefónica will roll out the Telefónica Wallet for BlackBerry to 350 employees at its headquarters in Distrito Telefónica, Spain.
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| Google Wallet and Apple Will Force MNO Cooperation in Mobile Wallet Wars, says ABI Research [ABI Research le : 24/11/2011]
MNOs will provide 75% of all mobile wallets in 2012, shrinking to 63% in 2016.
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| Smartphone Health Applications Will Exceed $400 Million Annually by 2016 [ABI Research le : 24/11/2011]
Sports and fitness will dominate the mobile health application market.
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| Android App for Cultural Participation Adds New Dimension to NFC [NXP Semiconductors N.V. le : 24/11/2011]
NFC-enabled smartphones enable art festival attendees to learn more and share feedback on specific works.
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| Apple Will Roll Out Carrier Billing in Emerging Markets in 2012, Predicts Strategy Analytics [Strategy Analytics le : 24/11/2011]
App gold rush continues as developers seek riches from more than 40 billion downloads.
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| Raisonance Eases Fielding of NFC and Smart Card Systems with Portable NomadLAB [Raisonance le : 24/11/2011]
New communication analyzer offers simplicity, autonomy and price tailored to needs of integration, software development and support engineers
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| U.S. Retailers File Lawsuit Saying Fed Didn’t Follow Law in Setting Debit Card Swipe Fee Regulations [The National Retail Federation (U.S.) le : 24/11/2011]
NRF and the other groups say the failure has allowed big banks to continue charging unjustifiably high swipe fees and has discouraged price competition among credit card networks.
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| Facebook Adds SafetyPay as New Global Payment Option for Facebook Credits [SafetyPay le : 24/11/2011]
Facebook Credits can be purchased through SafetyPay without a credit card and without disclosing any personal financial information, which provides a safe online buying experience.
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| SIMalliance Announces the Availability of its Open Mobile API Release 2 [SIMalliance le : 24/11/2011]
Provides a more intuitive interface and increasingly powerful functionality to make it easier for developers to connect their applications to the Secure Element within todays feature phones and smartphones.
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| Orange Money Reaches 3 Million Customers [Orange le : 24/11/2011]
Orange plans to extend its offer in cooperation with Western Union.
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| MasterCard and Telefónica Create Joint Venture to Offer Mobile Wallet in Brazil [MasterCard le : 23/11/2011]
Vivo subscribers to use their mobile phones to make purchases, person to person money transfers, bill payments, and purchase airtime
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| Monext's International Acquiring Platform PCI DSS Certified [Monext le : 23/11/2011]
Monext becomes the first and only French company to have its international acquiring platform PCI DSS certified.
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| Morpho and Moneo Payment Solutions launch “MoneoPass by Morpho” contactless card [Morpho (Safran group) le : 23/11/2011]
Complies with the Calypso transport standard and can also be used for highly secure applications as it contains PKI keys.
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| Visa Europe and Visa Inc. to launch Digital Wallet V.me by Visa in 2012 [Visa Europe le : 23/11/2011]
Making online payments possible with a single click, V.me allows online retailers and merchants to provide users with the simplest of checkout experiences.
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| Global Mobile Connections Approach Six Billion [ABI Research le : 23/11/2011]
Asia-Pacific Accounting for More than Half in 2011. China successfully surpassed 100 million 3G subscriptions in September 2011, just 10% of its total mobile population.
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| Smartphones Drive the Demand for Mobile Data in the UK, Pyramid Finds [Pyramid Research le : 23/11/2011]
Pyramid Research expects smartphone adoption to increase by 40 percent by 2016, up from 50 percent in 2011
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| Mobinil Launches Pay-For-Me on eServGlobal’s Value-Added Services platform [eServGlobal le : 23/11/2011]
Pay-For-Me is a reverse charges based service which eServGlobal customised to suit the specific needs of the Egyptian, predominantly prepaid market.
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| Gartner Says Indian Mobile Handset Sales To Reach 231 Million Units in 2012 [Gartner le : 23/11/2011]
Global Vendors Share Declining As Local And Chinese Manufacturers On Pace to Control More Than 50 Percent of the Market In 2011 Analysts.
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| EPC Publishes Mobile Contactless SEPA Card Payments Interoperability Implementation Guidelines [The European Payments Council (EPC) le : 23/11/2011]
The guidelines will enable the quick development and implementation of mobile solutions by promoting the use of open standards.
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| An Easy Way to Pay’ is Not Enough to Drive Global Adoption of the Mobile Wallet, says Mobey Forum [Mobey Forum le : 23/11/2011]
The organisation believes it is crucial that the mobile wallet provides consumers with ‘rich content’ such as loyalty schemes and voucher offers, that add value to both users and mobile marketers.
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| The cyber security challenge requires an evolution in thinking, says McAfee [McAfee le : 23/11/2011]
McAfee Calls for EU Solution on Cyber Preparedness. The time is right for more cooperation between governments and business.
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| Seoul, Singapore and Stockholm - Top Three Cities of the Ericsson's Networked Society City Index [Ericsson le : 23/11/2011]
The new study looks at the benefits ICT has enabled in various cities in areas such as health, education, economy, the environment and efficiency, as well as at citizens' interactions with ICT.
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| OnPoint Community Credit Union Partners with Tyfone to Launch iCashé Mobile Wallet Program [Tyfone le : 23/11/2011]
New service allows members to purchase and send gift cards with a smart phone
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| SFR lance la carte SIM papier, une première en France [Oberthur Technologies le : 23/11/2011]
This innovation allows to reduce CO2 emissions by 30% all along the lifecycle of the card.
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| Visa Europe Invests in Beyond Analysis [Beyond Analysis le : 23/11/2011]
The investment will strengthen Visa Europe’s data analytics capabilities and forms part of its strategy to deliver increased value for consumers, retailers and banks through electronic payments.
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| Gemalto Deploys First Contactless EMV Payment Cards in Brazil for Santander Universities [Gemalto le : 22/11/2011]
Forecast of rapid growth in the contactless EMV payment market in the country.
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| Clear2Pay Acquires U.S. based Payment Services ISTS Worldwide [Clear2Pay le : 22/11/2011]
Indian/US player offers cards domain and onsite/offshore project delivery skills.
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| Easycash Loyalty Solution (Ingenico company) Partners with LaSer for Prepaid Processing [Ingenico le : 22/11/2011]
"The cooperation with LaSer represents a significant step towards an even stronger international orientation," explains Jochen Freese, Managing Director of easycash Loyalty Solutions GmbH.
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| Chase and British Airways Unveil First Airline Co-Brand Card with EMV Chip-with-Signature Technology [Chase le : 22/11/2011]
The British Airways chip-with-signature credit card can be used everywhere traditional magnetic strip cards are accepted in the U.S. and in more than 130 countries abroad where chip technology is implemented.
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| First Data Merchant Solutions Selected by Volusion to Support Its e-Commerce Services [First Data Merchant Solutions le : 22/11/2011]
Volusion also partners with Realex Payments to provide its customer base with a secure gateway to compliment Volusion’s PCI DSS-compliant payment page and SSL certification.
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| ASK, STMicroelectronics, LEAT and ISEN To develop the Contactless Smart Card of the Future [ASK le : 22/11/2011]
Fast PASS is a 3 year project, funded by OSEO (French innovation fund), the European Fund of Regional Development (FEDER), the Toulon Provence Méditerranée community council (TPM), and the Alpes-Maritimes and regional county council.
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| Cryptography Research and Mikron JSC sign patent license agreement for DPA countermeasures [Cryptography Research, Inc. (CRI) le : 22/11/2011]
“Mikron produces a wide range of ICs for secure ID systems and various smart cards using payment applications that require the highest security rating,“ said Gennady Krasnikov, chief executive officer at Mikron JSC.
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| Morpho Manages Digital Identity with SIMply Me! [Morpho (Safran group) le : 21/11/2011]
To provide secure access, via a mobile phone, a tablet or a laptop, to online services requiring authentication or e-signatures.
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| Ingenico and Nets Renew their Partnership for the Nordic Region [Ingenico le : 21/11/2011]
For the supply of Ingenico’s latest range of NFC enabled payment terminals into Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland.
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| Samsung Electronics Announced Secu-NFC Chip Enabling Mobile Payment [Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. le : 21/11/2011]
The NFC controller of the SENHRN1 has an enhanced battery-off feature so it remains active for payment transactions even when the mobile device is discharged.
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| Entrust's Credentialing, Smartcard Security Solutions Honored at 2011 GSN Homeland Security Awards [Entrust, Inc. le : 21/11/2011]
Trio of awards validate Entrust's innovation and leadership in smartcards, government credentialing and certificate management.
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| W3C Published Two First Drafts for Standards On Privacy [The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) le : 21/11/2011]
The new standard will allow users to express a preference whether or not data about them can be collected for tracking purposes.
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| 'Charge Anywhere' Payment App for Windows Mobile Application supports PA-DSS compliance [CHARGE Anywhere le : 21/11/2011]
Charge Anywhere's distinct mobile point-of-sale solution for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Mobile, Java and Brew Platforms, allow users to process payments securely and in real-time.
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| InkSure Selected for “Top 25 Anti-Counterfeiting Suppliers List” [InkSure Technologies Inc. le : 21/11/2011]
InkSure provides machine readable taggants and handheld readers that are used in securing currencies, tax stamps, pharmaceuticals, spirits, cigarettes, fuel and other high value items.
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| PaymentOne Launches its PayOne Mobile SDK with Android One Click API [PaymentOne Corporation le : 21/11/2011]
PayOne Mobile SDK gives developers access to over 3.5 billion consumers in 70 countries with just a few lines of code.The PayOne Mobile SDK and Android One Click API are free for developers to use.
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| China To Total Five Billion Connected Devices by 2020, says GSMA [GSMA le : 19/11/2011]
Asia Pacific Will Dominate the Connected Device Market Fuelled by Explosive Growth in China. Mobile Health Will Be a Major Driver with a Market Opportunity of US$7 Billion by 2017 (CAGR 70%).
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| NFC and Online Commerce Become a Key Focus Area for Intel [MasterCard Incorporated le : 18/11/2011]
Intel and MasterCard Join Forces to Enhance the Consumer Payment Experience for Online Shopping.
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| Vasco Launches its Second Generation for Intel Identity Protection Technology [Vasco Data Security International, Inc. le : 18/11/2011]
The security relies on DIGIPASS as a Service provisioning platform in conjunction with the Intel IPT hardware secure element.
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| Mobile NFC Gains Momentum as MNOs Worldwide Pledge Support for SIM-Based Solution [GSMA le : 18/11/2011]
China Mobile and China Unicom Join Leading Operators in Backing Mobile NFC; GSMA Publishes Mobile NFC Specifications to Drive Global Interoperability.
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| Vasco and OneLogin Protect Customers Accessing the Cloud [VASCO Data Security International, Inc. le : 18/11/2011]
Cloud-based DIGIPASS as a Service offering ensures secure access to OneLogin’s Single Sign-On Solution.
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| G&D Offers Commercial MasterCard Certified TSM Services Globally [Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) le : 18/11/2011]
G&D is currently preparing multiple commercial NFC roll-outs in its Toronto TSM hub as well as in its Munich TSM hub.
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| Christian Kirchstaetter is voted new Technical Chair of Java Card Forum [Java Card Forum le : 18/11/2011]
Kirchstaetter has a track record of more than 5 years working with Java Card technology and Global Platform standards, ensuring a solid foundation for future work.
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| Gemalto Wins GSN Homeland Security Award in the US for Best Biometric Identification Device [Gemalto and G&D le : 18/11/2011]
Coesys Mobile Enrollment Solution Recognized for Ease of Use and Robustness.
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| Morpho supplies Hungary’s first MasterCard PayPass credit card [Morpho (Safran group) le : 18/11/2011]
Morpho will be in charge of production of the EMV dual interface cards, personalization and card management services.
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| Shanghai COS Software Joins GlobalPlatform [GlobalPlatform le : 18/11/2011]
As an Observer Member, the company will further strengthen the organization’s membership base of chip manufacturers and operating system developers.
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| Visa Opens Its Doors to Developers with New Visa Developer Center [Visa Inc. le : 18/11/2011]
Provides developers with secure access to Visa’s global payments platform, including its digital wallet.
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| FIME Qualifies the First GlobalPlatform UICC Product for Gemalto [FIME le : 18/11/2011]
Gemalto is the first smart card player to successfully align its product with the functional requirements outlined by GlobalPlatform to manage applications on UICC technology.
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| Visa Introduces New Mobile Prepaid Product for Developing Countries [Visa Inc. le : 18/11/2011]
First Visa product enabled by Fundamo. MTN Group plan to offer it in Africa and the Middle East.
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| STMicroelectronics Unveils Secure Processor for Advanced Computer Security [STMicroelectronics le : 18/11/2011]
Breakthrough 32-bit Trusted Platform Module (TPM) system-on-chip supports next-generation TCG standards for attack-resistant trusted computer hardware.
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| NXP Launches first NFC-ready, Universal Contactless Reader IC for Multiple ID Applications [NXP Semiconductors N.V. le : 18/11/2011]
Supporting all 13.56-MHz contactless standards, NXP’s new reader IC is compatible with all established smart card, smart tag and smart label technologies, including NFC Forum Tag Types and MIFARE products.
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| Alcatel-Lucent Connects Communications Networks and the Cloud [Alcatel-Lucent le : 18/11/2011]
CloudBand is the foundation for a new class of ‘carrier cloud’ services.
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| Infineon Technologies Announces First Secure Embedded Flash Microcontrollers [Infineon Technologies AG le : 18/11/2011]
First products to be ramped in high volume will be microcontrollers for SIM card applications.
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| Infineon Technologies AG Launches the First CIPURSE NFC Compliant Microcontroller [Infineon Technologies AG le : 18/11/2011]
Using Single Wire Protocol (SWP) as well as for embedded Secure Elements (eSE) with Digital Contact Less Bridge (DCLB) interfaces.
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| Credit Agricole Runs Mobile Contactless Payment in France Based on the MicroSD [Credit Agricole le : 18/11/2011]
With more than 17 million cards issued, Credit Agricole wants to continue to offer innovative services to its customers and meet with their new needs.
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| Credit Mutuel-CIC and Ingenico Launch a Card Payment Pilot within the SEPA [Ingenico le : 18/11/2011]
The OScar project aims at defining a common SEPA wide payment solution based on the two available SEPA standards: the SEPA FAST payment application and the EPAS ISO 20022 acquirer protocol.
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| Barclaycard and Ingenico pilot a standard single SEPA-wide payment solution [Ingenico le : 18/11/2011]
The pilot is scheduled to start in United Kingdom and Germany at the beginning of 2012 and will be progressively extended to other European countries during 2012.
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| Ecebs Joins the Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT) Alliance [Ecebs le : 18/11/2011]
Company Lends Transit Experience to Advance Open Standards for Global Transport.
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| RIM Extends Its NFC BlackBerry 7 OS Smartphone's Portfolio [Research In Motion (RIM) le : 18/11/2011]
It also includes the ability to manage personal content separately from corporate content.
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| GSA Awarded Entrust $4.5 Million Contract [Entrust, Inc. le : 18/11/2011]
PKI Agreement to Secure Smartcard Credentials, Meet HSPD-12 Requirements.
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| Global Payments First Payment Processor to Launch Ingenico iCT250 in North America [Global Payments Inc. le : 18/11/2011]
Ingenico's iCT250 Provides Merchants with Advanced Contactless Transaction Processing.
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| Sierra Wireless launches world’s smallest cellular module [Sierra Wireless le : 16/11/2011]
The new AirPrime WS6318 rewrites the design rules for connected devices, delivering 15 years of M2M experience in a cellular module half the size of competing solutions.
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| Cinterion Launches New High-Speed Automotive M2M Module [Gemalto le : 16/11/2011]
The ruggedized AH3 module features a totally new and improved triple-diversity antenna concept that is based on pogo pads enabling simple and reliable mounting at reduced total cost of ownership.
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| Morpho and Novedia Partner to Offer Comprehensive NFC Consulting Services [Morpho (Safran group) le : 16/11/2011]
Morpho’s new enhanced product “SIMply NFC Evolution” supports all the major standards and requirements in terms of interoperability and security.
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| Thales payShield 9000 Achieves PCI HSM Compliance [Thales le : 16/11/2011]
Acquirers and Issuers can meet card scheme requirements with certified HSM.
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| Special Report into White Label Payment Solutions published by Smart Payment Association (SPA) [SPA le : 16/11/2011]
The report looks at the issues, discusses the different approaches and seeks to offer broad guidance for a Private Label development and implementation solution.
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| ASK Unveils TickeTac, an Innovative Anti-skimming Contactless Paper Ticket [ASK le : 15/11/2011]
TickeTac is based on ASK unique technology of silver ink printed antenna on paper and die chip process.
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| Microsemi, MIPS Technologies, Oberthur, Renesas and Technikon join the HIS Initiative [Intrinsic-ID le : 15/11/2011]
Semi-annual advisory member meeting will be held at Cartes, Paris on 16th November.
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| Ingenico launches a contractual voluntary tender offer for Xiring shares [Ingenico le : 14/11/2011]
A major step toward becoming a leading worldwide provider of secure transaction solutions in the field of healthcare.
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| Xiring Recommends To Its Shareholders To Tender Their Shares to Ingenico's Offer [XIRING le : 14/11/2011]
“Ingenico’s proposed project is truly attractive and will enable Xiring’s e-Health and e-Gov activities to further grow within a Group with a global leadership in its field, “ said Georges Liberman, Xiring’s Chairman of the Boad and CEO.
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| Mobile Industry Leaders Kick Start Drive For More Connected Devices [Gemalto and G&D le : 14/11/2011]
Embedded SIMs to play key role in boosting capabilities of connected devices.
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| VeriFone to Acquire Point to Build out Alternative Payments Infrastructure [VeriFone Systems, Inc. le : 14/11/2011]
VeriFone will pay approximately €600 million. Accelerates Transformation to Managed Services Revenue Model.
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| Russian Standard Bank selects Welcome Real-time to deliver innovative loyalty platform [Welcome Realtime le : 14/11/2011]
RSB to deploy Welcome XLS for first loyalty scheme of its kind in Russia.
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| OTI Extends its EasyPark Solution to Lille, France’s Fourth Largest Metropolitan Area [On Track Innovations Ltd. (“OTI”) le : 14/11/2011]
The Lille metropolitan area has a population of 1.1 million with approximately 500,000 vehicles.
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| Bundesdruckerei Presents A Compact Personalization (100 cards per hour) at Cartes [Bundesdruckerei GmbH le : 14/11/2011]
In addition, Innovative security features, verification technologies for the private sector to be showcased at the Paris trade fair.
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| Telefónica and Giesecke & Devrient Team Up On Flexible OTA Personalization of M2M SIMs [Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) le : 14/11/2011]
With this trial, and in cooperation with Samsung and Telit Wireless Solutions, both G&D and Telefónica demonstrate that the solution for remote subscription management works.
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| Clear2Pay acquires Level Four Ltd. (UK) to further enhance its integrated testing offering [Clear2Pay le : 14/11/2011]
End-to-end testing meets market need for rapid delivery of high quality customer experience across channels and devices.
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| SNCF, Orange, PSA Peugeot Citroën and Total Join Forces to Create Ecomobilité Ventures [Orange le : 14/11/2011]
Europe’s First investment structure Led by a Group of Industrial Companies and Dedicated to Sustainable Mobility. €30 million to support young companies developing innovative solutions.
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| INSIDE Secure and IDT to offer easy-to-design USB security token solution [INSIDE Secure le : 14/11/2011]
Versatile, secure microcontroller and low-power, stable 48-MHz CMOS oscillator in a single package.
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| Contactless Cards Take Over SmartCards with Dual Interface Solution Leading the Way [Frost & Sullivan le : 14/11/2011]
Frost & Sullivan White Paper on Business Opportunities and Challenges of Dual Interface Cards
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| OSPT Alliance Launches CIPURSE Certification Process [OSPT Alliance le : 14/11/2011]
Partners with Soliatis to Perform Certification Testing.
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| Oberthur, AuthenTec and Inside Partner To Showcase Effortless Security For NFC Payment Services [Oberthur Technologies le : 12/11/2011]
Joint Development of a New SIM-Based NFC Mobile Services Platform for Fingerprint-Enabled Android Smartphones.
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| Oberthur Technologies Offers an Ultra-Secure Smart Card Driving Licence [Oberthur Technologies le : 12/11/2011]
EAL5+ level. All the physical security components specified by ISO-18013 standard, notably very high security fiduciary printing.
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| Telefónica Reported 300 Million Accesses Across the World (+6% YoY) at the end of September [Telefónica Germany le : 12/11/2011]
“30% of our mobile service revenues now come from data services,” stated Telefónica Chairman, César Alierta.
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| G&D Presents World’s First Nano-SIM Card (4FF) [Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) le : 11/11/2011]
This new development from G&D could be finding its way into the first mobile devices (no name yet disclosed) as early as next year.
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| ETSI Demonstrates M2M Standard Success [ETSI le : 11/11/2011]
The demonstrations covered M2M devices, gateways with associated interfaces, applications, access technologies as well as M2M Service Capabilities Layer.
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“It will be possible to make all cross-border credit transfers and direct debits in the same way as normal domestic payments,“ said SEPA rapporteur Sari Essayah (EPP, Finland). (photo). It would not apply to personal credit or debit card payments. 
The notion of the 'biometrics of things' (chaometrics) was first tackled in the early 2000s, followed by an avalanche of academic papers and patent filings. And yet, the technology is attracting new and strong interest. The article explains the reasons why. 
The reform will give individuals better control over their own data. Companies will have to comply with one law for the whole of the EU territory and to appoint a data protection officer. 
Aveso’s displays are based on a electro-active ink technology that makes it possible to manufacture displays using installed manufacturing capacity and readily available materials. 
The agreement gives Intel access to INSIDE's software, firmware and core hardware technology for development of future Intel products. Mobile Wireless Group have access to scalable NFC solutions based on MicroRead, SecuRead and Open NFC products. 
Should we say it out loud this time, or once again murmur it under our breath? Yes, the U.S. has definitively launched its EMV-NFC migration. 
The winners will be awarded on Monday 14 November, on the eve of the opening of CARTES & IDentification 2011. 
China UnionPay has supplied in 2010 around 2.4 billion cards which represented a 29.2% market share. Visa has a 28.6% market share, MasterCard (20%), Amex (1.1%), JCB (0.8%) and Discover (0.7%). 
BNP Paribas will provide a bundled offer including branded smartphones (for the most part of them with embedded NFC chip), Orange subscription with full Internet access), M-payment services (Proximity and others), and other banking services. 
As it is a “one stone two birds“ move for Google, it is also a new step ahead into the “Shop&Pay“ area business. 
National ID cards, health cards, e-passports, visas, residence permits, driving licences, tachographs and so on, the personal ID market should reach €7.5 billion in 2014. Eurosmart forecasts the delivery of 225 million secure ID documents (+ 18% YoY) throughout the world this year. 
Banks are losing the m-payment battle. Are they in danger of losing a war that could result in the demise of traditional payment methods, including their flagship product, the credit/debit card? This is the big question for the next few years. 
After a seven-month feasibility study, participating banks are ready to launch the Monnet card, but only under certain conditions. Uncertainty regarding MIFs remains the main obstacle. 
SMS text services, Boku, PayPal, Facebook and Zong payment methods, NFC Google wallet, Bling Nation PayPal sticker, Square’s mobile app, FaceCash, debit and credit cards linked, mobile gift cards, Mobile billing, etc. in the radar. 
Apple is ready to ramp iCloud in its three data centers, including the third recently completed in Maiden, NC. Apple has invested over $500 million in its Maiden data center to support the expected customer demand for the free iCloud services. 
Google-Sprint mobile payment service launch confirms ongoing fragmentation of the U.S. mobile payment market few days after Isis CEO M. Abbott called for Apple, Google and Sprint to join its “mobile wallet” initiative. 
With the first commercial roll-out of NFC mobile payment in Europe, but also the first national ID card in the world to support an EMV payment function, Turkey is clocking up a number of firsts in the payment, identity and mobile communications fields. 
What remain to be seen is the precise meaning of new requirement from Apple and technical and, may be, business consequences of a “smaller“ SIM form factor - 4th UICC Form Factor. 
“It is the first time that the U.S nation has laid out an approach that unifies its engagement with international partners on the full range of cyber issues,“ outlines President Obama. 
“NFC have the power to ignite that kind of technological revolution which happens every thirty years,“ said Rémi de Tonnac, CEO of Inside Secure. 
Two hypothesis: To co-finance growth and development to its Card Systems division and address new challenges risen by NFC, M2M, P2P payment services or to invest in Security Printing by de-investing in Card Systems. 
With the marketing-savvy announcement during the recent WIMA held in Monaco of its “Open NFC” strategy, also known as “non-secure” NFC (phrasing not endorsed by Nokia, of course), Nokia, quickly seconded by the NFC Forum, fired the first shot in the smart security garden, as well as in the back yard of MNOs and banks. 
Location is not shared with any third party or ad unless the user explicitly approves giving the current location to the current ad. In the next major iOS software release the cache will also be encrypted on the iPhone. 
The French Trade Association for Card Manufacturing and Personalization (AFPC) wants to call all the players of the smart card ecosystem for a better responsibility, by telling the truth on costs of card manufacturing. (Photo: Oberthur Technologies) 
Nokia Moves To Windows With Two New Business Units - Smart Devices and Mobile Phones. Symbian becomes a franchise platform, MeeGo becomes an open-source, mobile operating system project. 
These services will be hosted on the Cityzi UICC/USIM/SIM card, ensuring security, service portability in case of change of mobile phone, and privacy for end users. 
The era of mass personalization drives adoption of end-user centric models, “pull models“, and new ways of provisioning and activation of SIM & SE services. 
Most recently, Woo was Vice President of Electronic Payments & Transactions at the France Telecom - Orange Group, where he led the development of the “Orange Money” mobile payment program, which at the end of 2010 was commercially available in several African countries. 
Oberthur urges shareholders of De La Rue to use the period of time until the deadline to demand that the Board of De La Rue provides a complete picture of the Company's current position and prospects. 
Bordeaux, Caen, Lille, Marseille, Nice, Paris, Rennes, Strasbourg et Toulouse to Launch New NFC Pilots. French Government is preparing a call for Project proposals to be announced during the first quarter. 
Safran group has now a key role in the future of Ingenico. As its "lock-up" period is over since April 2010, the company may have to choose if it remain or not in the capital share. 
Oberthur Technologies announced its capital investment of 23.5% in Go-Trust Technology Inc. specialized in facilitating hardware based security solutions, and in particular microSD-based. 
Is privacy over? Has this tenet, which took root in a Harvard dorm room (yes, the era of boy geniuses inventing in the garage is gone for good), truly become the social norm of the internet, as Facebook’s inventor would have us believe?
In linking The Wholesale Applications Community initiave and the GSMA embedded SIM task force, MNOs could come back in the game. But it could also take too much time to be on time. 
Smartcard, smart meter, smarthome, smart cities, smart planet... The wordplay is not just semantic, it’s also becoming a visible trope, even if it’s advancing with baby-steps for the moment – given the scope and urgency of the environmental and societal stakes it represents – under the catch-all, nebulous name of the Internet of Things (IoT), or internet of the future... 
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"You Own What You Touch“ is the motto of eGo Technology. It might be in addition the future paradigm
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The SEPA (Single Euro Payment Area) card more particularly are faced with big challenges.The banks must reinvent themselves in order to face off with retail and telecom giants, but also the light cavalry brigade of agile and creative payment start-ups. 
May be the first true commercial roll-out of Mobile NFC service in Europe. 80 cities are involved which include Istanbul, Izmir, Ankara, Bolu, Edirne. Thanks to specific NFC-enabled SIM cards that can be used within the majority of existing mobile phones. 
Global microcontroller smartcard shipments is forecast to reach 4995 million units this year, a 10.5% increase from 2009 (4520 million units), according to the latest projection by Eurosmart, the worldwide association of the smart security industry. 
“EMV is back in U.S.,” according to a number of card makers, who note that renewed interest is being driven by several factors, which for the first time are converging in the same general direction because they’re now closely enough related.
The new standard promises to bring key benefits to both public transport agencies and smartcard industry players, including advanced system security, as well as the availability of multiple sources for chip products. 
U.S Patent & Trade issued last week a Apple patent application related to various methods and systems employing motion-based inputs that may be used to open a lock or rotate a document through an NFC channel. 
Vibrant. Innovation resonating everywhere. For today, for tomorrow and for everyone. From basic silicon technology to payment or transit solutions, from cryptography to manufacturing techniques, from chip to cloud, from devices to services… 
This move could have a huge geo-strategic impact as smart security industry is today still very european-oriented, and could came under threat if foundries would cease to be active in Europe. 
Tiempo will demonstrate a new technology at the Cartes expo, with the unveiling of the market’s first true 16-bit asynchronous industrial microcontroller (TAM16) associated with an IP blocks offering. 
Contracts won several weeks ago by Gemalto and Giesecke & Devrient jointly for delivery of the first USIM UICC cards for U.S. carrier Verizon Wireless’ future LTE (Long Term Evolution) network, represent without a doubt a milestone. 
Europe of coal and steel, of the 19th century industrial revolution, which set the stage for communal Europe, is long gone. A Europe of e-government accessible to all Europeans is already shaping the next horizon, and the straightforward entry into the 21st century. 
With nearly 7 billion smart cards in use, the industry’s activity remains linked mainly to profound global changes in fashion and lifestyle, which are almost impervious to the crisis. 
Still no NFC handsets? No matter, the NFC-SIM, NFC-SD and “NFC-smartsticker,” each embedding its own antenna, could gradually transform nearly all handsets into cards. It’s time for “plan B.” 
Recognized by the market (more than fifty for current projects, and a customer base now exceeding a hundred companies ), Innova card is now recognized by the industry. 
Current events obliged us to come out with this special issue. The chiefs of the smart security industry (from chip vendors to service providers) interviewed here offer their vision of the overarching trends and climate shifts. 
The group partners include retail chains Auchan, Carrefour, Castorama, Fnac, Kinepolis, Jules, Leroy Merlin, Le Groupement des Mousquetaires as well as financial service providers such as Banque Accord, COFIDIS, Finaref and LaSer. 
It is possible - only possible, since nothing is a given yet - that within two months or slightly more, Gemalto will have acquired Wavecom, one of the world's leading wireless M2M (machine-to-machine) communication companies. 
“Today’s children and teenagers face new challenges when they use Web 2.0 services. The EU will coordinate actions to empower children and protect them”, said Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media. 
From November 4 to 6, 2008, contactless, wireless and USB technologies are on exhibit at the leading world event in digital security and smart technologies. 
The United States will be this year’s nation of honor at CARTES & IDentification. As a genuine pioneer in terms of transport, payment, and loyalty applications, the U.S.A will act as the first-string reference for for the contactless issue. 
2008 will be the year of ID Security. We’re seeing a strategic reorganization at Oberthur Technologies, a continuous investment strategy for Gemalto, triumph at Sagem Sécurité with the recent acquisition of Sdu Identification. 
Oh, the turmoil! No, this is the “chiasma”! Biological metaphors are not yet adequate enough. Some would suggest plate tectonics, other more prosaic sorts prefer geology, cooking or even the plate of spaghetti that resembles a Gordian knot... 
The smartcard industry, recently rebaptized the smart security industry, has undoubtedly just entered a new cycle in its still young history. 
SEPA enters a new era of uncertainty. 2008 could be a pivotal year for a paradigm shift in card payment. 
The impressive all-out offensive undertaken by Google to gain a foothold in the world of mobile phones over the past few weeks has apparently paid off. Big G does nothing by halves...
The 22nd edition of CARTES & IDentification, THE world-leading event in digital security smart card and identification, will take place at Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre in November 13-15 2007. 
You own what you touch…” Is this a new take on personal property, a variation of “Possession is nine-tenths of the law”? No, it's a critical invention at the crossroads of Personal Network Area (PAN), Ultra Wide Band (UWB) & smartcards. 
Is the "big bang" of the SEPA originally announced actually just a small whimper? Has the opening of the European market to wider competition simply served to strengthen the Visa/Mastercard duopoly?
The "Swiss Army Knife, throw-in-everything-but-the-kitchen-sink" phenomenon of the mobile telephone is reaching its full effect. Of course, this openness also increases the level of security and liability exigencies. 
NFC technology, integrated with the secure and well-trusted environment provided by the SIM card, has the potential to marry the ubiquity of the mobile device with a range of consumer services that have global appeal. 
The discovery was made together with Dr. Omer Berkman from the Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo and Mrs. Odelia Ostrovsky (see the photo) from the Tel-Aviv University. 
Originally hailing from the medical world, and then above all from policing applications (AFIS – Automated Fingerprint Identification System), biometric technologies have exploded in a very short time, since the ‘big-bang’ of 9/11... 
MMC, USB, Nokia proposal, or SD technology ? Very important votes are planned on November 20, 2006 at ETSI SCP. 
IBM’s PC just celebrated its 25th birthday (August 12, 1981). The smartcard (the one with the first microcircuit, rather than a memory chip card) will celebrate in one month (October 1981)... 
With 450 exhibitors and 35,000 m2 exhibition space, it remains the undisputed world leading event for professionals in the smartcard and related industries. November 7, 8 and 9 at the Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre (France). 
This is a record performance in the company's history, with revenue 22 percent higher than in the first half of 2005 (€207.4 million). 
While we've all been waiting for the "large SIM" tidal wave in mobile technology, a minor NFC (Near Field Communication) tornado has touched down on the horizon. With or without SIM card, the effect has been like lightning... 
The first two levels of management of Gemalto have already been announced and become effective immediately, concerning over 150 executives from Axalto and Gemplus, and the next level of management will be announced in the coming days. 
Seneca’s first action was to broaden the current steering committee to make sure all segments of the industry are properly represented: smart cards, semiconductors, terminals and equipment manufacturers as well as system integrators. 
Founder and former CEO Jacek Kowalski to complete contactless ecosystem with the creation of new companies. 
And the earth shook. It was no doubt both the most closely-guarded secret of the year. The highlighting of what the new group indicates will be its key market, ‘Digital Security’ may only be semantic window-dressing, but... 
This was undoubtedly the most surprising and (un)expected announcement of the year. The plan for a merger ‘of equals,’ as both Alex Mandl and Olivier Piou, the future heads of the new company, to be known as Gemalto termed it, with great insisten 
CARTES 2005, 15-17th November 2005, Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre, FRANCE. 
An interview with Gilles Perrotey, CEO Secure Machines. The French start-up has invented a new the method of “bolting” the soft to the hard at the microcontroller level in electronic devices. 
Eurosmart celebrates its 10th anniversary in Brussels on 20 April 2005 by gathering the Smart Card leaders in presence of Mrs Viviane Reding (see the photo), Commissioner for Information Society and Media. 
“2004 confirmed our objectives and demonstrated Ingenico has the capability of internal growth“ comments Gérard Compain, CEO 
Fourth quarter 2004 revenues rises to euros 242,5 million, up to 4,3% year-on-year basis (+8,7% currency adjusted). Full year revenue came in at euros 865 million, a +15,5% compared to 2003. 
Fourth Quarter 2004 revenues rises to $ 291 million, up +30% compared to Q4 2003. As a result, full year revenue came in at $ 900 million, a 25% on full-year 2003. 
4Q/04 sales reached 132.1 million Euros, up to 11.1 % over 4Q/03 and 25.3% over 3Q/04. Best performance of the past three years. Pierre Barberis, OBSC CEO (see the photo) anticipates a fair 2005 year. 
One penny for the RFID tag is the new “calling cost” for RFID technology, definitively sounding the death knell for the barcode. According to a recent announcement by a U.S. start-up based out of Colorado Springs. 
Is the SIM card, the uncontested flagship of the smart card industry, in its final hour? Since the evolution of certain handsets, the card is now confronted with an unexpected new arrival on the scene. 
Consolidated gross margin rose to 39.4 percent in the first half of 2004, from 36.8 percent in H2 2003. Both of Ingenico’s Business Divisions outdid their H2 2003 performance. 
Tags and Chips Industries Warming Up. RFID– is it the buzzword of the year? Hype or hope? Hype and hope, no doubt. RFID is clearly the “Next“ wave that will revolutionize the supply chain and retail. 
“Most of all we don’t know how the chip integrated in a passport will function for the full 10 years of the document’s validity, and how its security will be able to respond to evolutions in threats. 
Contactless Now Smart Way to Pay ! PayPass, ExpressPay, Visa Wave… The three flagships of the Armada, or three warhorses dressed in armor. For which battle? 
Is Microsoft back? No, but it would seem so. 
The NFC technology is also indicative of a general tendency to render technology more transparent by simplifying its usage to the point of making it natural (Ambient Intelligence). 
But return to internal growth (+21% during the second half of 2003) and to positive operating income are confirmed. 
For Q4 (euro 121,4 million) growth is clearly driven by business in the banking sector where contrary to Gemplus, Oberthur gained 16% sequentially with shipments of 37.5 million cards. 
But Gemplus is now going to surface reporting a very strong fourth quarter up 22,4% quarter-on-quarter (euro 232,6 million). 
Cards fourth quarter revenue of $206 million was up 2% sequentially and 6% year-on-year. 
Secure Mobile Solutions’ first quarter revenues are 15% up on a year-on-year basis (Euro 465 million vs Euro 405 million). They represent 28,6% of the total revenues vs 26,4% last year for the same period. 
Zetes developed the Java identity applet and set up the tools for personalization and the methodology and the procedures for distributing the cards and the PIN/PUK codes. 
Innova Card is jockeying for a cutting edge position in the emerging market of security 
Secure Mobile Solutions’ fourth quarter revenues were Euro 470 million, an increase of 21 percent over the previous quarter, and a growth of 27 percent compared to the fourth quarter of last year. 
Smartcard chip shipments have picked up since the middle of the second quarter. What was initially taken for a “peak” last April has become a “plateau”.
The global market for SIM cards has grown sharply in volume terms. It's mostly due to the escalated development rate (4 or 5 million new subscribers per month) of the Chinese market.
The MicroPass will be an aggressive player in the secure RF memory market. This first version should particularly stand out for its low power consumption, speed (most 16-bit instructions are executed in a single clock cycle) and its security features 
“A significant evolution, recalls Olivier Piou President of Axalto. It adheres to the policy unveiled by Schlumberger in view of reducing company debt by the end of 2004.“
Overwiew and comments about the first WLAN-SIM (v0.1) specifications published this summer by the WLAN Smart Card Consortium. 
