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Posted by Smart Card Alliance
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:29:00 GMT
Gemalto’s 3G technology enables Brasil Telecom mobile users to experience new, secure and faster wireless data services
São Paulo, June 5, 2008–Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, announces its selection by Brasil Telecom to provide USIM cards for the launch of its 3G network this month. The USIM technology, advanced software adapted for 3G networks and loaded in SIM cards, will allow Brasil Telecom’s users to access unique value added services and benefit from higher levels of security on electronic transactions performed with their mobiles.
Posted by Smart Card Alliance
Tue, 20 May 2008 00:28:00 GMT
PRINCETON JUNCTION, N.J., May 19, 2008–Rapidly rising fraud rates due to skimming of magnetic stripe credit cards and shifts in fraud liability are fueling the migration of Latin American banks to smart bankcards based on the global EMV standard, attendees learned at the joint Smart Card Alliance annual meeting and CTST conference last week.
Posted by Smart Card Alliance
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:47:00 GMT
NEW YORK, April 16, 2008–The rapidly expanding Latin American smart card market will be given extra focus including a special daylong mini-track Wednesday, May 14th during CTST 2008–The Americas Conference. CTST 2008, the largest payment, security and identification conference in the Americas, will be held May 12th through 15th at the Orange County Convention Center West, in Orlando, Fla.
Posted by Smart Card Alliance
Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:12:00 GMT
December 20, 2007–XIRING has announced a partnership with E-Safetransfer and a first delivery of 15,000 Teo by XIRING readers for the Brazilian administration.
E-Safetransfer has received a purchase order for 15,000 Teo by XIRING readers from the Brazilian Ministry of Finance, through its department of Internal Revenue (R.F.B Receita Federal do Brazil), which are to be delivered immediately. This first contract with the Brazilian Government aims to equip the Department’s employees with smart card readers in line with the PKI smart card infrastructure in Brazil.
Posted by Smart Card Alliance
Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:54:00 GMT
Neubiberg, Germany, September 10, 2007–Infineon Technologies (FSE/NYSE: IFX) retained its global market leadership in chips for card applications in 2006. In a recent report entitled “Global Smart Card IC Study 2006”, the US market research company Frost & Sullivan confirmed that Infineon achieved market leadership. In 2006, Infineon’s market share was 29.1 percent of the overall chip card IC (integrated circuit) market, totaling about $1.9 billion U.S. dollars according to Frost & Sullivan. This makes Infineon the global market leader for chip card ICs for the tenth consecutive year. The market research company also affirms that Infineon is the market leader in volume shipments of security microcontrollers for chip cards. Infineon shipped 844 million microcontroller units in the 3.06 billion microcontroller market, leading it to exceed the 27.5 percent mark.
Posted by Smart Card Alliance
Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:49:00 GMT
Neubiberg, Germany, September 10, 2007–Infineon Technologies AG (FSE/ NYSE: IFX), the world’s leading supplier of integrated circuits (ICs) for chip cards, today announced it is the sole chip supplier for the largest patient healthcare card in United States. Siemens, Mount Sinai Medical Center and Elmhurst Hospital Center have formed a health smart card alliance to deploy up to 1.2 million Patient Health Smart Cards to link as many as 45 affiliated and related medical facilities in the New York metro area. The patient health smart card trial has begun late 2006 and is scheduled to end in 2007. In 2008, the health smart card alliance expects to issue approximately 500,000 smart cards which integrate a highly secure Infineon microcontroller.
Posted by Smart Card Alliance
Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:09:00 GMT
New card personalization center has the capacity to meet growing demand in Finance and Public sectors
São Paulo, Aug 30, 2007–Gemalto (Euronext NL 0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, opens a new Personalization Service Center in Brazil in order to better address the demand of its customers in the Finance and Public sectors of the Brazilian and South Cone markets (Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina). The new Barueri center, in the State of São Paulo, will deliver advanced personalization and distribution services for Gemalto’s secure personal devices. The new facility will enhance the capabilities of the company’s existing Curitiba’s production center, in Paraná, which has been producing chip cards since 1999 and is compliant with the highest levels of security required by Visa and MasterCard.
Posted by Smart Card Alliance
Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:20:00 GMT
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 13, 2007–Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), a world leader in digital security, today announces that it has successfully delivered Mexico’s first smart card driving license to the city of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon state, Mexico. The contract includes 900,000 driving licenses over a period of 3 years. This new card also acts as a reliable ID document and opens up the potential for additional e-schemes like healthcare for the benefits of all citizens.
Posted by Smart Card Alliance
Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:10:00 GMT
Executive arrives to ensure a good technical interface with clients
Sagem Orga of Brazil is one of the world leaders in the Smart Card market, announcing the hiring of Fernando Ulbrich to coordinate technical support of telecommunications, banking, healthcare, and identity. This executive arrives in the company to ensure a good interface between the clients with the technical department, for example internal management of projects in the company.
(Original release in Portuguese follows.)
Posted by Smart Card Alliance
Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:03:00 GMT
Carlos Henrique S. Airam has been appointed to lead Operations Management with the challenge of a team involved in technology and reduction in operational expenditures
Sagem Orga of Brazil is one of the world leaders in the Smart Card market, announcing the promotion of Carlos Henrique. S. Airam to Operations Management. This executive has graduated from Rio de Janeiro Federal University in Chemical Engineering and specialized in paper and PVC, and has since been leading the coordination of plastic cards in the Rio de Janeiro’s plant.
(Original release in Portuguese follows.)
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