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Shell Launches New LoyaltyScheme in the UKShell has launched a new loyalty card scheme called pluspoints inthe UK to replace its Shell SMART programme in which some fivemillion cards were issued since it began in October 1994.
Cards for the Shell SMART programme were supplied by Gemplus,but the new cards for pluspoints come from Bull and are magneticstripe cards - a move designed to cut costs. Over 800,000 cardshave been issued already.
Although Shell has moved to magnetic stripe cards it is providingthe infrastructure for payment by EMV (Europay/ MasterCard/Visa)chip cards.
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Shell Launches New LoyaltyScheme in the UKShell has launched a new loyalty card scheme called pluspoints inthe UK to replace its Shell SMART programme in which some fivemillion cards were issued since it began in October 1994.
Cards for the Shell SMART programme were supplied by Gemplus,but the new cards for pluspoints come from Bull and are magneticstripe cards - a move designed to cut costs. Over 800,000 cardshave been issued already.
Although Shell has moved to magnetic stripe cards it is providingthe infrastructure for payment by EMV (Europay/ MasterCard/Visa)chip cards.
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103 ~ 108 • 116 • 119British Museum CardEncouraging School Meals UptakeGPT Alliance with SCIHitachi Selects Certicom for PKIGift Card Usage GrowsEuropay Certification SchemeiPIN and Gemplus TeamPeople on the Move
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109 ~ 112 • 118CardTech/SecurTech ShowORGA UK Celebrates Ten Years
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113 ~ 114A$32m Wireless Research CentreCell Phone Coverage Problems
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115SafeGuard Biometrics Released
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117Briefing Notes on Multi-Application Smart Cards -Part 15 - Installing the Schlumberger CyberflexAccess SDK 2.0
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SMART CARD NEWS • JUNE 2001
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Shell Loyalty Scheme
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As most payments for fuel are with credit and debitcards and all UK bank payment cards are beingmigrated from magnetic stripe to chip technology,Shell has geared up to handle the new Smart Cardsby installing 1,800 VeriFone Omni 3350 terminalswhich combine payment capability with an abilityto top up loyalty points for Shell’s customers.
Peter MacGowan, UK Account Manager for Veri-Fone, said: “We are increasingly hearing talk of themigration to multi-application, but to date, no schemehas been put in place. This pioneering move by Shellsees EMV payment applications, electronic top-upand loyalty schemes taking place on one terminal.”
Mike Garrett, Shell’s Retail Communications Man-ager said: “By making an investment in this techno-logy from VeriFone, we are enabling a smoothtransition to EMV and ensuring that we can continueto enhance our retail offer.”
The new scheme offers one point for every litre offuel purchased and can be exchanged for vouchersfor a wide choice of rewards, including High Streetvouchers for use in stores such as Debenhams, Next,B&Q, Comet, Superdrug, JJB sports and WH Smithsand for Air Miles and BA Miles.
In addition, points can be redeemed against Shellvouchers to purchase fuel and other products. Therewill also be the opportunity to make charitabledonations.
For every 1,500 points collected, customers canreceive either a £10 voucher or 100 air miles/1000BA miles. Cardholders will also attract bonus pointsdepending on the litres purchased.
One of the services to arrive in the next phase willbe the provision of pre-pay mobile airtime top-upvia ePay, a mutual partner for Shell and VeriFone.
Points from the previous SMART scheme can beredeemed until 6 July.
Contact$ Shell UK
% Freephone 0800 006008 $ Liz Almond CompanyCare (for VeriFone)
% +44 (0)118 939 5900! [email protected]
British Museum Card
The British Museum is using a Smart Card purse andprint management system to store, print and pay forprintouts and photocopies on 50 Compass work-stations which give access to 5,000 on-line artefacts.
The system has been designed and developed byApplied Card Technologies using a modifiedSchlumberger Payflex stored value Smart Card. Themuseum anticipates that it will supply between100,000 and 200,000 cards a year, some of thembeing kept as collectors’ items.
Visitors can purchase the Smart Cards, which arepre-loaded with £2 of value, from vending machinesin the Reading Room. The reloadable card can beused at any of the computer workstations installedin the Reading Room by inserting the card in a readerpositioned below each computer’s touch screen. Thecards also activate the public printers and photo-copiers in the room.
Contact$ Tania Beavis Applied Card Technologies
% +44 (0)1249 751037! [email protected]
RSA Security Acquires 3-G
RSA Security has acquired 3-G International (3GI),a privately held company that develops and deliversSmart Card and biometric authentication products,for around $12 million.
RSA Security also announced it is introducing a newSmart Card authentication solution called RSASecurID Passage designed to offer greater securitythan traditional passwords to access workstations,networks and applications.
Website! www.rsasecurity.com
Bluefish Opens Singapore Office
Bluefish Technologies, providers of SIM card andwireless solutions, has opened new offices in Singa-pore in its first expansion outside Europe.
Contact$ Anthony Ong Bluefish
% +65 836 3829! [email protected]
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supported are: electronic purse, loyalty, networksecurity, pay-TV, identification, healthcare, masstransit, gaming and others.
The AuthentIC Web Pack has already been selectedby GlobalPlatform to enable its members secureaccess to a ‘members-only web site’.
Contact$ Stephanie de Labriolle Oberthur CS
% +33 (0)1 41 25 28 42! [email protected]
EuroSignCard and Identrus Team
EuroSignCard SA has announced that it has becomea certified solutions partner of Identrus LLC, the NewYork City based public key infrastructure (PKI)provider serving the financial services industry. Thisrelationship marks the entry of EuroSignCard intothe financial services sector as a provider of SmartCard-based solutions.
Contact$ E J Lorang EuroSignCard S.A.
% +352 262 072-0! [email protected]
Support for All Major Platforms
In a move to give its member financial institutionsa strategic advantage, MasterCard has announcedthat it has enabled its members to issue MasterCard,Maestro and Cirrus-branded Smart Cards on theJavaCard platform. The card issuer is activelysupporting MULTOS, JavaCard and all majorproprietary platforms. In addition, MasterCard isprepared to support Microsoft’s Windows PoweredSmart Cards, based on member demand.
By delivering its flagship M/Chip family of credit/debit applications on all platforms, MasterCard isresponding to the growing desire of its members tohave maximum flexibility when initiating Smart Cardprograms of their own. At the same time, MasterCardstresses support for the MULTOS platform, whichremains the company’s preferred operating systemfor multi-application Smart Cards.
Contact$ Christina Costa MasterCard
% +1 914 249 4606! [email protected]
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Encouraging School Meals Uptake
A Smart Card-based cashless payment system couldencourage thousands of children to take up free schoolmeals.
A report commissioned by the Child Poverty ActionGroup and sponsored by the Department of Educationand Employment revealed that of 1.8 million childrenin England who qualified for a free school lunch, anestimated 360,000 - or one in five - failed to do so.
Cashless payment specialists Infineer say a SmartCard system could help reverse current trends byhelping to remove the stigma often associated withfree meals which has been identified in the report asone of the main reasons for the poor take-up.
Jimmy Roberts, Infineer’s UK Sales Manager, said:“As all pupils carry identical cards it is therefore farless obvious that a child is having a free meal.”
Infineer’s system, called ChipNet, can also encouragemore healthy eating by rewarding pupils with pointsaccording to the choice of food as well as used forpurchases at vending machines, libraries, printingtasks and building access while generating manage-ment report information.
Contact$ Chris Widocks Appleby Bowers
% +44 (0)161 773 5553! [email protected]
Oberthur AuthentIC Web Pack
Oberthur Card Systems has introduced AuthentICWeb Pack, a solution for secure network access andpayment for online goods and services via any typeof Internet access devices such as PersonalComputers, PDAs, dual-slot mobile phones or settop boxes.
The Web Pack, comprising an open-platform basedSmart Card (available on Java and MULTOS), readerand software that can be tailored to individualrequirements, is designed to respond to end users’needs for PKI authentication and payment by theB2B and the B2C markets.
With an ability to support debit and credit applicationsalongside the cryptographic authentication function-ality, the Smart Card also permits face-to-facepayment at a point of sale. Further applications
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GPT Alliance with SCI
Global Payment Technologies (GPT), a manufac-turer of currency acceptance systems used in theworldwide gaming, beverage and vending industries,has announced an alliance with Smart Card Inte-grators. SCI is a key player in the emerging NorthAmerican and Latin American Smart Card marketand has established a worldwide market niche ingaming.
Steven Katz, GPT Chairman and CEO, said: “Wewill work closely with them to jointly develop newproducts that combine the attributes of the traditionalpaper currency validator with the capabilities toprocess transactions using credit cards, debit cardsand Smart Cards. The first phase of product devel-opment will focus on the gaming industry, withopportunities in vending and retail to be pursuedthereafter.”
Contact$ Steven Katz GPT
% +1 516 887 0700
Largest On-Chip Memory
Hitachi has announced the AE46C, an enhancedfunction Smart Card controller that combines 68Kbytes EEPROM, 160K bytes ROM, 6K bytes RAMand a 1024-bit co-processor for fast modularmultiplication. With this memory configuration, thecompany says the AE46C has the largest on-chipmemory integrated in a Smart Card device.
Samples of the AE46C Smart Card controller willbe available in the third quarter of 2001 and will bedelivered in Chip on Tape (COT), sawn or unsawnwafer package types.
Contact$ Jonathan Colbourne Hitachi Europe
% +44 (0)1628 585163! [email protected]
Six Million MULTOS Cards Issued
The MULTOS Consortium announced that sixmillion MULTOS multi-application Smart Cardswere issued by the end of last month.
Asia Pacific is the strongest market accounting foraround two thirds of cards issued, but the Americas
also showed fast growth in 2001 and now accountsfor some 7 per cent of the MULTOS card installedbase, up from 1 per cent a year ago.
Contact$ MULTOS Consortium
% +44 (0)207 557 5000! [email protected]
CardBASE Expands in US
CardBASE Technologies, a provider of Smart Cardsolutions for secure e-commerce, is expanding andrelocating its US operations to new offices in ShermanOaks, California.
The new offices will provide sales and supportservices to its customers, including a recent licenceagreement with Wells Fargo for the implementationof ChipCERT - CardBASE’s Smart Card manage-ment solution for PKI. The Director of US Operationsfor CardBASE is Peter Omelia.
Contact$ Aileen Carmody CardBASE
! [email protected] ! www.cardbase.com
smart Visa Ready Standards
Visa USA is launching its smart Visa Ready programoutlining an approval process for technology prov-iders offering Smart Card products and services.
According to Patrick Gauthier, Visa USA’s SeniorVice President, Smart Card Applications and MarketDevelopment: “In order for Smart Cards to becomeviable in the US, there is a need to lay the foundationin which all Smart Card-related product standardsare rooted.”
Visa is introducing the smart Visa Ready mark, aVisa identifier that denotes Smart Card components,devices and services that have met a set of criteriato ensure consistent performance and utility. Visawill require a standardised approval process beforegranting authorisation to use the mark.
Contact$ Janet Yang Visa USA
% +1 415 932 2170! [email protected]
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Hitachi Selects Certicom for PKI
Hitachi America has selected Certicom as its publickey infrastructure (PKI) and security solution partner.The alliance will provide the industry with PKIservices and solutions for e-commerce that provideuser authentication and security to enable safe andsecure transactions.
Certicom’s solutions, including Trustpoint PKIproducts and MobileTrust services, extend standardInternet PKI security to mobile devices such as SmartCards, mobile phones and handheld computers.
Contact$ Gerard F Corbett Hitachi America
% +1 650 244 7900! [email protected]
$ Lorraine Kauffman Certicom% +1 510 780 5417! [email protected]
Amex Code Blue Winners
American Express Company has announced thewinners of “Code Blue,” a competition challengingJava developers worldwide to create innovativeSmart Card applications for potential use on the creditcard Blue from American Express.
Launched in 1999, Blue is a traditional magneticstripe card equipped with a chip. Sun Microsystemsand Oberthur Card Systems co-sponsored the contest.
Igor Fisher, of Tuebingen, Germany, received the$50,000 first prize for his Pass Keeper applicationdesigned to enhance a user’s Smart Card by storinga portable and securely locked list of Internetaddresses (bookmarks) together with a user’s PINs,passwords, or account numbers that might be requiredfor entering those sites.
Sirl Davis of the United Kingdom, received $25,000as second prize winner for an application using SmartCard technology for encrypting and secure access toMP3 files which can carry news, book readings andmusic and could be extended to other file formats,software and video games.
Awards of $15,000 each went to two third-placefinishers - Andy Dudek of Canada and ThomasHerrmann of Germany. Dudek created a Java Cardtechnology application for multiple functionsincluding couponing, while Herrmann proposedSmart Card technology for electronic ticketing andaccess to shows and events.
The additional 10 finalists in the contest received$5,000 each. They were: Jean Dolbec and EricPearson of Canada, Fredrik Gustavsson of Sweden,Mykhailo Lyubich of Germany, and Dustin Baxter,Rennel Browne, Bharat Chintapally, Stephen Potell,Raghuram Rajah and Joel Sandin, all of the US.
Website! www.americanexpress.com
Industry Firsts For SCN
Smart Card News is again leading the way with atechnical help desk “Ask the Experts”. A panel ofSmart Card security experts will answer, by e-mailfor free, technical Smart Card questions within 48hours. This service is available to all Platinum Sub-scribers (see our subscription form on page 119 formore details).
The International Smart Card Industry Directoryonline contains over 650 company entries and is nowavailable for FREE use for all visitors towww.smartcard.co.uk/directory.html.
Contact$ Tara Lavelle Smart Card News Ltd
% +44 (0) 1273 515651! [email protected]
Buscom Selects Solid Software
Solid has announced that Buscom Oy, of Finland,has selected Solid FlowEngine software as the datamanagement solution for its traffic informationmanagement systems, enabling wireless data transferand synchronization between buses and trafficoperation centers.
Buscom’s electronic fare collection system is basedon proximity (contactless) Smart Card technology.Solid FlowEngine provides the Buscom trafficmanagement system with the data management andsynchronisation capabilities for collecting andreconciling fare transactions in near-real time. It alsoallows traffic operation centers to more accuratelymonitor information such as passenger flow for theefficient planning of route schedules.
Buscom’s system is used in 70 public transportationinstallations throughout northern and central Europe,including Helsinki.
Contact$ Randel Maestre Solid
% +1 650 210 9100, ext. 607! [email protected]! www.buscom.fi
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Gift Card Usage Grows
Nearly one-half of US consumers used a gift cardduring the past year according to results releasedfrom Standard Register’s third National Consumerand Retailer Survey of Plastic Card Usage. Researchindicates that 45% of adults have used gift cards, anincrease of 34% over last year’s survey. The surveyhad an error rate of plus or minus 3%.
Prepaid phone card usage rose 14%. The researchfound the following percentages of adults use: creditcards, 87%; ATM cards, 62%; membership cards,52%; gift cards, 45%; debit cards, 41%; prepaid phonecards, 43%; loyalty cards, 18%; and Smart Cards,5%.
“The dramatic increase in usage of gift and prepaidphone cards is directly related to the benefits thesecards offer consumers,” said Dave Fehrman, VicePresident of Marketing, Fulfilment Services,Standard Register. “Value cards will continue toattract young, affluent consumers because of theirease of use, while retailers enjoy the promotional andincreased revenue opportunities prepaid cardsprovide.”
Contact$ Tara Henriksen Standard Register
% +1 937 221 1825! www.standardregister.com
US Patent for PCMCIA-based POS
@pos has been awarded patent No. 6,234,389 by theUS Patent and Trademark Office directed to aPCMCIA connection supporting secure POS trans-actions between personal computing devices andexternal transaction accessories.
The patent, titled “PCMCIA-based Point-of-SaleTransaction Systems,” pertains to the coupling ofpersonal and business computing devices includingdesktops, laptops, and PDAs via a PCMCIA port toexternal sale/purchase transaction accessories.
External accessories supported include Smart Cardand magnetic stripe readers, touch sensitive virtualkeypad screens, small printers, signature pads, orbiometric devices.
Contact$ Tammy M Smith @pos
% +1 408 468 5427! [email protected]
Coinamatic and EdgeWare Partner
Coinamatic Canada with its ParkSmart division andEdgeWare Technologies Corporation is presentingits ‘One Solution - One Card - Multiple Benefits’program, SmartCity, to municipal executives fromacross Canada at the FCM show in Banff, Alberta.
A key part of the program is the kiosk-based card-holder solution called SelectSmart from EdgeWare.
Claude Beaudoin, EdgeWare’s Vice President Engin-eering, said: “Consumers simply insert their SmartCard into the kiosk to view the status and value ofthe programs currently on the card, load special dis-counts or promotional coupons, add funds to the e-purse or add new programs to their card.”
Coinamatic’s solution includes parking, transit, lib-rary, recreation, special events, e-purse, loyalty, ID,access control and community messaging.
Datakey Developing Crypto Card
Datakey’s President and Chief Executive Officer,Carl Boecher, revealed at the recent annual meetingof shareholders that Datakey is developing a next-generation cryptographic Smart Card.
He told shareholders: “We expect to add new capab-ilities and products to the CIP product family,providing additional security applications for ourcryptographic Smart Card.”
Website! www.datakey.com
OTI Appoints Distributor in Nigeria
OTI’s wholly owned subsidiary OTI Africa has ent-ered into a distribution agreement with BureauFaxTechnologies (BFT), a leading payment systems inte-grator in Nigeria and a key player in launching SmartCards in that country.
BFT will focus on OTI’s contactless microprocessor-based Smart Card solutions for secure payment andloyalty, gasoline management systems and applic-ations for the healthcare industry.
Website! www.oti.co.il
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Europay Certification Scheme
Europay International has introduced a Certificationscheme to assess the quality of payment cards andcard vendors. The new Card Quality Managementscheme (CQM) combines Europay’s expertise inpayment cards quality control with the know-howrequired to review the manufacturing and cardembedding quality of Integrated Circuits.
The first two CQM certificates have been issued toSTMicroelectronics (France) and Gemplus (France& UK), recognising the quality of their products andservices: STMicroelectronics for its Smart Card chipand Gemplus for the cards produced with these chips.
Europay has worked with the Smart Card industryfor over three years to establish this qualityassessment scheme, which extensively focuses onthe features of IC manufacturing, module manu-facturing and card embedding, and is based on theISO9000 and QS9000 standards.
The assessment methodology uses a hierarchicalqualification technique, based on the certification ofindividual sites, services and information systems.This technique allows individual future approvals ofdifferent products, which are constructed throughdifferent supply chains.
Contact$ Charlotte O’Connor Europay
% +32 2 352 56 47! [email protected]
$ Yannick Abad Gemplus% +33 (0)4 42 36 67 06! [email protected]! www.st.com
Eurosmart Smart Card Figures
Eurosmart, the European Smart Card IndustryAssociation based in Brussels, has issued itsworldwide card shipment figures and forecast for2001- 2005.
According to Lutz Martiny, Chairman of Eurosmart:“Since 1997, the total worldwide market has grownfrom 900 million cards to an estimated 2015 millionin 2001, more than 100 per cent in five years.”
For 2001, the global yearly CAGR for the Smart Cardindustry is forecast at 20% (in volume), the majortrends being in the banking sector (a high CAGR due
to EMV cards roll-out), the wireless sector (majorroll-out in Internet ID applications -mainly B2B andC2A) and the transport sector (worldwide replace-ment of paper/magstripe by chip in new generationticketing systems).
In 2005, it is forecast that global µprocessor cardsvolume will overtake memory cards markets.
Contact$ Florence Gras Astrid Cousin Eurosmart
% / & +32 2 506 88 68! [email protected]
Orbiscom Owns over 50 Patents
Orbiscom, which recently announced a 15-plus yearpatent cross-licensing agreement with Microsoft, hasconfirmed it holds the rights to a portfolio of over50 worldwide patents and patent applications in thearea of Controlled Payment Technology.
Orbiscom’s patent portfolio includes the generationof unique user controlled card numbers in real-timeso that a consumer or business user does not have tosend their actual card numbers over the Internet.
Dr Ian Flitcroft, Director of Technology and Co-founder of Orbiscom, said: “Orbiscom’s global patentstrategy is to ensure that Controlled Payment NumberTechnology develops as a single, interoperable globalstandard for secure authenticated online payments.”
Contact$ Patrick Keane Orbiscom
% +353 1 217 8641! [email protected]
Protocom and Bell ID Partner
Protocom Development Systems, of Australia andNetherlands-based Bell ID have announced a jointmarketing agreement under which Bell ID willpromote Protocom’s single sign-on products withuse of Smart Cards while Protocom will favour BellID’s multi-application Smart Card managementsystems among partners and card issuers worldwide.
Contact$ Nathalie Roet Bell ID
% +31 10 885 1055! [email protected]
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CardTech/SecurTech Show
Microsoft to License Source Code
Microsoft Corp chose the CardTech/SecurTech 2001conference in Las Vegas to announce it is licensingits Windows for Smart Cards Toolkit source code tomajor customers and technology providers.
The company has also submitted the code to theEuropean Telecommunications Standards Institute(ETSI) in an effort to promote an open softwarestandard for Smart Card manufacturers, softwaredevelopers and customers.
Philippe Goetschel, Director of Windows for SmartCards, explained: “We believe our announcementswill encourage innovation and more rapid expansionof Smart Cards by giving key providers access tonative code for a one-time fee, and by offering ourcode to a standards body such as ETSI.”
Website! www.microsoft.com
Targeting Software Piracy
Sospita, of Norway, partnered with Atmel andGemplus to demonstrate its patented SoftwareLicense Protection technology at the Show. Thesystem decrypts and executes encrypted code in anexternal tamper-proof environment, such as a SmartCard or USB token without the user ever being ableto view the code.
Susan Lee Silbo, Sospita’s CEO, said the SoftwareLicense Protection technology gives governments,institutions and organisations, as well as softwaredevelopment companies a powerful new tool againstsoftware piracy.
“We are addressing a global problem with softwarepiracy with a simple, cost-effective solution that canbe implemented in-house and deployed and managedonline,” she said.
Sospita used its software license protection todemonstrate the new generation, full-speed USBSmart Card from Gemplus. Sospita LicenseProtection is enabled by Atmel’s AT90SC6464C-USB secure microcontroller.
Website! www.sospita.com
US Navy Cash System
Navy Cash, a new system introduced by the NavalSupply Systems Command (NAVSUP) and devel-oped by The Chase Manhattan Bank for the USTreasury, enables sailors to buy virtually anythingthey need on or off ship without carrying cash andto access accounts at ATMs around the world.
Navy Cash uses a Smart Card electronic purse tostore value for purchases at sea and a magnetic stripefor debit purchases and ATM account access. Thesystem is being piloted with 170 crew members ofthe USS RENTZ.
The card is MasterCard branded with design, ePursedevelopment, microprocessor selection, card manu-facturing and chip embedding by SCI and person-alisation by UbiQ. The card is powered by Atmel’sFlash memory based secure microcontroller.
Contact$ Kristen Batteria J P Morgan Chase
% +1 917 612 1939$ Liz Van Wye NAVSUP
% +1 717 605 1543
CEPS Partners’ Group
CEPSCO LLC, the consortium managing thedevelopment and administration of the CommonElectronic Purse Specifications (CEPS) launched itsPartners’ Group - a new forum designed to helpindividuals and organisations in the development ofCEPS as the de facto e-purse standard. The cost ofbecoming a partner is $1,000 per annum and apremium partner, $3,000. Registration is on-line atwww.cepsco.com
Contact$ Hervé Kergoat Europay
% +32 2 352 5896! [email protected]
Card Management on the Internet
GlobeID announced @PayVault, a virtual cardmanagement solution to improve Internet paymentssecurity and curb fraud through authenticating card-holders, pre-authorising Internet transactions andgenerating disposable card numbers.
Website! www.globeid.com
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Cubic Unveils Nextfare Web Services
Cubic Transportation Systems unveiled its NextfareWeb Services designed for commuters to buy andreload their contactless Smart Card public transittickets on the Internet.
A local web server electronically distributes thepurchase to a rail faregate or bus validator and thepassenger picks up the ticket while getting onto thebus or subway.
It enables public transport users to order and registernew Smart Cards online, reload them, verify pur-chases and obtain account history, and allows transitagencies to sell and add value to tickets, reconcilepayment when multiple transit authorities use thesame card system and offer Internet links to otherproducts and services.
Transit agencies can offer a variety of fare packages,discounts and rewards programs as well as productsand services from third parties, such as ticketagencies, concert promoters or professional sportsleagues. Cardholders whose employers offer feder-ally sponsored transit benefits can load those benefitsonto their cards without leaving home.
Contact$ Kelly Williams Cubic Corporation
% +1 858 505 2378! [email protected]
QualTeq Offers Dual Interface Cards
QualTeq is offering dual interface cards incorporatingcontact and contactless technology. Al Vrancart,President and CEO, said: “Our core business willcontinue to be secure plastic card manufacturing, butwe are now capable of providing secure IT, card-based solutions, using traditional magnetic, contactand contactless Smart Card technologies.”
Contact$ Scott Magnacca QualTeq
% +1 908 668 0999, ext. 213! [email protected]
Datacard Aptura Operating System
Datacard Group introduced a secure implementationof Java Card at the Show. The new Datacard ApturaSmart Card operating system is delivered pre-installed on a chip ready to insert into card plastic.
The software is designed to work on various SmartCard chips, but initially will be available on theHitachi AE45C silicon platform.
The Group also introduced version 1.1 of its SmartCard Personalisation Manager, a server-based sys-tem to streamline card issuance.
Contact$ Kevin Gillick Datacard
% +1 952 988 2846! [email protected]
STC II Controller from SCM
SCM Microsystems announced the availability of itsSTC II controller chip, an embedded, single chipsolution for Smart Card and biometric readers thatsupports multiple interfaces, multiple reader devicesand relevant security standards.
In addition, the chip is the first to offer On-boardFlash, allowing future firmware and applicationenhancements.
The STC II chip comes with a standard 32K bytesof Flash on board and is compliant with both Europay,MasterCard and Visa (EMV) Level 1 and PC/SCstandards for Smart Card readers. It can also beseamlessly integrated into biometric sensors, PIN-pads, keyboards, set-top boxes, mobile phones andother general purpose I/O devices.
Website! www.scmmicro.com
Chameleon System Introduced
SuperCom Smart Cards announced the Chameleonsystem which converts any conventional card into acontactless Smart Card in less than one minute,according to CEO Danny Gilboa.
The new system uses a desktop press to insert andsecurely seal a contactless microchip into any mag-netic stripe card, contact card or “dumb” graphics-only card which is then personalised with up to 2Kbits of secure data using a contactless Smart Cardreader/writer.
Contact$ Danny Gilboa SuperCom Smart Cards
% +1 877 503 5412, ext. 201! [email protected]
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Oberthur Announcements
Oberthur Card Systems announced a partnership withVeriSign to provide mobile phone operators withhigh level security and authentication for usersaccessing the Internet and online services from theirmobile handsets by combining Oberthur’s SIM-phonIC WIM card with VeriSign’s digital certificatesand software.
Oberthur also said it had signed an agreement withSmartinnov to develop loyalty applications thatintegrate ProlifIC - Oberthur’s suite of card-basedloyalty solutions - with Smartinnov’s Loyalty Kitand Back Office ALPI Server.
Contact$ Stephanie de Labriolle Oberthur CS
% +33 (0)1 41 25 28 42! [email protected]
Schlumberger Unveils e-gate
Schlumberger unveiled e-gate which enables a SmartCard to plug into the standard USB (Universal SerialBus) port on Personal Computers eliminating theneed for a card reader.
The technology is available as a standard ISO formatcard, which can be used in a range of Smart Cardterminals, and as a cut-down SIM-style card formatwhich can be inserted in a token such as a dongle formobile computing.
Contact$ Brittany Jedrzejewski The Bernard Group
% +1 512 327 2195, ext. 126! [email protected]
Visa Low Cost Cards
Two new low cost Smart Cards were announced byVisa as part of its program to offer member banks afamily of low cost multi-application Smart Cards.
The new cards are based on Philips Semiconductors8-bit WE (costing $3.56) and MIFARE PROX(Costing $4.67) Smart Card controller families, thelatter allowing both contact and contactless applic-ations.
Contact$ Colin Baptie Visa
% +1 650 432 4671! [email protected]
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Cyberflex for DoD CAC
Schlumberger announced that the Department ofDefense (DoD) will use its Java-based CyberflexAccess Smart Cards in the Defense Manpower DataCenter’s (DMDC) Common Access Card (CAC)program. The $4.5 million contract was awarded toElectronic Data Systems (EDS) Corporation and callsfor the delivery of 600,000 Smart Cards for roll-outto 900 sites this year.
The DoD will utilise the multi-application cards forID, building and network access in a multi-tieredprogram that will be rolled out throughout the DoDover the next few years.
The cards, which incorporate PKI (public key infra-structure) and digital signature technology, serve asportable, secure tokens for enhancing the security ofnetwork access and ensuring secure electronic com-munications. The card has 32K of memory, is Java2.1.1 certified and complies with Open Platform2.0.1.
Contact$ Emmanuelle Saby Schlumberger
% +33 (0)1 47 46 71 04! [email protected]
Unattended Point of Sale Terminals
New Smart Card Unattended Point of Sale (UPOS)terminals for self-serve applications like photo-copiers, laser printers, laundry machines and vendingmachines, were unveiled by ITC Systems.
Contact$ Campbell Richardson ITC Systems
% +1 416 289 2344! www.itcsystems.com
CardMan Desktop Fingerprint
OMNIKEY announced a read/write-device with afingerprint sensor. By combining biometric identif-ication processes with CardMan Smart Card tech-nology, CardMan Desktop fingerprint improvessecurity. It is targeted at PC manufacturers, financialand insurance companies as well as healthcareorganisations and public administrations.
Contact$ Michael Baltruschat OMNIKEY AG
% +49 (0) 611 341 28 - 15! [email protected]
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Non-intrusive Access Control
INTACTA Technologies has announced the success-ful integration of its INTACTA.CODE software witha biometric security application from Imagis Tech-nologies and contactless cards from Smart CardTechnologies to demonstrate a secure and non-intrusive means of access control.
By combining facial recognition, contactless SmartCards and secure encryption, the technologiesprovide a totally secure and totally passive solution.For example, as part of a secure facility entrance, aphoto is taken as part of an employee’s securityprocess and encoded using Imagis’ ID-2000 facialrecognition, and then stored using the INTACTAencryption methodology onto the RFID Smart Card.
When the employee walks into the building carryingthe card anywhere on his person, a reader at theentrance will read the ID from the Smart Cardtriggering a video camera to capture the facial imageof the employee. The image will then be encoded inreal-time and compared to the encoding of theindividual stored in the database (or on the card). Ifit matches, the door will open. If not, the door willnot open, and security personnel will be notified.
Contact$ Noel Bambrough INTACTA Technologies
% +1 404 880 9919! [email protected]! www.imagistechnologies.com
CombiMemory Authentication
Biocentric Solutions introduced its CombiMemoryauthentication technology for time and attendanceapplications.
The system helps companies combat payroll fraudthrough the use of new fingerprint authenticationtechnology that can be easily retrofitted, or upgraded,into an organisation’s existing time and attendancesystems.
It is designed to eliminate the practice of “buddypunching” where employees punch timecards forassociates who are not at work.
This problem is eliminated by requiring thatemployees verify their identity before accessingtimekeeping systems by inserting a memory cardcontaining digitized portions of their fingerprintminutiae into a reading device and press a finger onthe device’s sensor which compares the print to the
data encrypted on the card.
Also being demonstrated was the company’s cont-actless Smart Card version of its GuardDog biometricreader, a miniature fingerprint authentication devicethat compares stored fingerprint templates withfingerprint data held on a personal token such asiButton or MIFARE Smart Card. Applications areseen as standalone identity verification, access con-trol and time and attendance.
Contact$ Cathy Schaub Biometric Solutions
% +1 608 821 8316! [email protected]
Biometrics Complement PKI
A new paper on biometrics was released at the Showby the PKI Forum, a multi-vendor and end-user ind-ustry consortium created to accelerate the adoptionof public key infrastructure (PKI).
Created by the Business Working Group, the paperis intended to describe how two diverse technologies,PKI and biometrics, combine to produce a strongersecurity alternative for e-business applications. It isavailable on the Forum’s Web site at:www.pkiforum.org./resources.html
The Forum said that since biometric informationdistinguishes one person from the next, hacker-pronedata once guarded with only a password becomesvirtually impenetrable by adding an iris scan,fingerprint or voiceprint into the security mix.
Contact$ Adam Rosenbaum
% +1 781 876 8810! [email protected]
MORPHOACCESS from SAGEM
SAGEM launched MORPHOACCESS, a terminalfor the access control market using the fingerprint asa means of authentication or identification. It isintended for professional VAR, OEM, integrator andreseller markets for multiple applications.
Contact$ Véronique Faivre Groupe SAGEM
% +33 (0)1 40 70 69 75! [email protected]
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A$32m Wireless Research Centre
Advanced Communications Technologies has ann-ounced that its Australian based affiliate, AdvancedCommunications Technologies (Australia) and NECAustralia have jointly headed a proposal to the Aus-tralian Government to obtain funding for a A$32million Next Generation Wireless CommunicationsResearch Centre to be located in Melbourne,Australia.
The proposal seeks to access part of the $A176 millionrecently allocated by the Australian Government forthe establishment of new centres of excellence in theinformation and communications technology (ICT)and biotechnology fields. Focusing on an ICT centreof excellence, the joint proposal from ACT and NECaims to establish a centre to foster commercialdevelopment of wireless applications. The proposalinvolves the RMIT University and Victoria Univ-ersity of Technology.
Contact$ Jason Webster ACT
% +61 2 9327-2579! [email protected]
$ Sandy Watson NEC Australia% +61 3 9262 1037! [email protected]
Gemplus Cards for Tokyo Project
Gemplus has announced the implementation of itsUSIM (Universal Subscriber Identity Module) cardin the introductory launch by NTT DoCoMo in Tokyoof FOMA (Freedom of mobile Multimedia Access)involving a selected customer base of 4000. Gempluswill be one of the suppliers supporting NTT DoCoModuring the initial phase of the project and in thesubsequent commercial launch, scheduled forOctober.
The FOMA Card, inserted in all FOMA handsets,will become the key element to connect andauthenticate users with the network. On top ofinsuring a mutual authentication between the networkand the end-user, the card supports extra securityfeatures, designed and specified by NTT DoCoMo,bringing added value to the existing advancedsecurity of 3G systems.
Contact$ Marielle Bricman Gemplus
% +33 (0)4 42 36 55 96! [email protected]
Nokia Contracts
Nokia has signed a US $70 million agreement withJiangxi Mobile Communication Corporation for thesupply of equipment and services to expand theChinese operator’s GSM 900 network.
M1 (MobileOne) has signed a US $40 million agree-ment with Nokia as part of its programme to expandand upgrade the GSM Smart Dualband network inSingapore.
Nokia is to supply a turnkey package for the expansionof Vodafone’s GSM network in Hungary.
Contact$ Communications Dept Nokia Networks
% +358 7180 38195! [email protected]
$ Chua Swee Kiat MobileOne (Asia)% +65 895 1060& +65 8993902
Bluetooth Partnerships
Ubicom is partnering with Bluetooth wireless tech-nology developers Signia Technologies, of Milpitas,California, and Adamya Technologies, of Bangalore,India, who will link Ubicom’s Internet Processorchips and networking software with Bluetoothcommunications hardware and software.
The companies say this will allow equipment manu-facturers to quickly and cost-effectively incorporatewireless communications capabilities and Internetconnectivity into their products.
Contact$ Joe Fowler Ubicom
! [email protected]$ Anna Sau Signia Technologies
! [email protected]$ Sharadhi Chandra Babu Adamya Technologies
Gemplus USIM Card for Telenor
Telenor has selected Gemplus to develop a USIMcard that will enable them to migrate their customerbase from 2G to 3G while providing a secure infra-structure for mobile commerce.
Website! www.gemplus.com
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Cell Phone Coverage Problems
New startup Spotwave Wireless Inc has announcedthat it has developed technology that will allowcellular service providers to solve common coverageproblems by offering clear “always on” wirelessservice in buildings and vehicles.
“This company started with a simple premise: tosolve the frustrating and challenging everydayproblem of cell phone coverage by improving cov-erage in places where cell phones do not currentlywork very well,” said Spotwave President and CEOShane Young. “Wireless carriers have done animpressive job of building the current wirelessinfrastructure, but problems still exist, especiallywhen using cell phones in buildings and in vehicles.Subscribers expect their phones to work every-where.”
Contact$ Natalie Sauve High Road Comms
% +1 613 236 0909, ext. 320! [email protected]
Telstra CDMA Brings WAP Online
Australia’s Telstra has announced the availability ofWireless Application Protocol (WAP) on its CDMAdigital mobile phone network.
Tim Buckley, Telstra OnAir’s Director of CDMA,said: “WAP services will complement other majornetwork advantages with CDMA including coverageof twice the land area of any other cellular networkin Australia and high quality voice clarity. TelstraCDMA customers now have a choice of more than80 WAP applications including online shopping,airline flight schedules, e-mail, games, ski conditionreports, horoscopes, television news, sports results,lotto results and entertainment guides from their WAPenabled handsets.”
Website! www.telstra.com
Evidian and Comnitel Team on 3G
Evidian, a leading supplier of telecom serviceassurance and secure e-infrastructure managementsoftware, and Comnitel Technologies, an indep-endent provider of mobile telecom network andservice management software have signed a world-
wide, multi-million dollar, multi-year OEM andmarketing agreement on service assurance solutionsfor the emerging GPRS (2.5G) and third-generation(3G) architectures and evolving hybrid wireless/IPnetworks.
Under the agreement, Evidian’s OpenMaster forTelecom service assurance and fault managementsoftware will be used as a foundation upon whichComnitel will develop new and enhanced capabilitieswithin its Mobile Service Assurance suite.
Contact$ Bill Bradley Evidian (US)
% +1 978 294 5812! [email protected]
Ivoiris Fights Churn
Ivoiris, France Telecom’s mobile phone subsidiaryin Ivory Coast, has implemented SLP InfoWare’spredictive customer relationship management (P-CRM) software to cut churn and bad debt in its prepaidand postpaid subscriber base and to increase revenuesfrom optimised marketing campaigns.
With 240,000 mobile subscribers and 48 per centmarket share in Ivory Coast, Ivoiris is leading theway in one of the fastest growing cellular markets inAfrica. According to forecasts, Ivory Coast will reach1.7 million subscribers by 2005 and have a 10 percent penetration rate. Ivoiris has begun the implem-entation of the complete P-CRM solution from SLPInfoWare to help maintain its leadership and increaserevenue growth through more successful subscriberacquisition and retention.
Contact$ Jerome Nadel SLP InfoWare
% +1 617 742 4102! [email protected]
$ Valerie Tiacoh Ivoiris! [email protected]
OTA for AT&T GSM Platform
Schlumberger is to provide SIM Smart Cards andrelated OTA (over the air) technology to supportAT&T Wireless’ new GSM network platform.
Contact$ Brittany Jedrzejewski The Bernard Group
% +1 512 327 2195, ext. 126! [email protected]
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SafeGuard Biometrics Released
Utimaco Safeware has announced availability ofSafeGuard Biometrics, a hardware and softwaresecurity solution to unlock Smart Cards using afingerprint stored in the card instead of entering aPIN or password for authentication.
The product was developed in partnership withPrecise Biometrics, a Swedish Smart Card / finger-print reader manufacturer and Miotec Oy, a supplierof Smart Card operating systems in Finland. Utimacoprovided the integration of these devices using itsown IT security technology.
Contact$ Jackie Groves Utimaco Safeware
% +44 (0)1442 230030! [email protected]
Keyware Smart Card Suite for US
Keyware announced the US launch of Smart-Universe, a complete suite of Smart Card applic-ations. Based on its experience in the thrivingEuropean Smart Card market, Keyware has devel-oped a secure, platform-independent suite thataddresses a variety of needs, is capable of combiningmultiple applications and is protected by biomet-rically enabled technologies.
Keyware’s Smart Card suite includes features forelectronic payments, personal identification, eventticketing, customer loyalty and physical access.Additionally, Smart-Universe is protected by Key-ware’s pioneering work in the field of biometrics.
Contact$ Elizabeth Marshall Keyware
% +1 781 933 1311, ext. 235 ! [email protected]
smart Visa Challenge
Visa USA, Sun Microsystems and smart Visa SmartCard issuers First USA Bank and Fleet Credit CardServices, have launched the smart Visa Challenge,a competition to find and develop innovative SmartCard applications using Java Card technology andtools for the smart Visa technology platform.
In October, the companies will choose the top 20ideas to be developed to full applications or services:10 in the online (Internet) category and 10 in the
offline (retail) category. All finished applications andideas will be reviewed in January 2002, with prizesawarded in February 2002.
Visit www.visa.com/smartvisachallenge for rulesand prize information. The date for entries is August24, 2001, and prizes will be awarded in February2002.
Contact$ Janet Yang Visa USA
% +1 415 932 2170! [email protected]
Mobile Gaming Technology
Oberthur Gaming Technologies and Oberthur CardSystems have announced a newly formed consortiumto provide a technologically secure solution for theprovision of real-time lottery games, utilisingwireless mobile handsets. For the first time mobileusers will be able to securely access lotteries, thusenabling them to purchase lottery games from theirmobile handsets.
In-Fusio, the first company to launch connectedgames on GSM mobile phones, brings its expertisein Mobile Gaming to the collaboration whilediversifying its own portfolio of over 20 games.
On selection of the lottery option from the menu ofthe mobile handset, a connection is made with In-Fusio’s ExEn (Execution Engine). This then enablesthe player to download any number of lottery specificgames to his or her handset.
Having accepted to play the game, the player willthen use the mobile phone to purchase their ticket.Once the player has completed the transaction, aconfirmation is recorded on the established system,before the player receives a final confirmation.
Contact$ Yann Mondon In-Fusio
% +33 (0)5 56 79 92 15! [email protected]
$ Lyse Trudel Oberthur Gaming Technologies% +1 514 254 3600, ext. 101! [email protected]
$ Stephanie de Labriolle Oberthur Card Systems% 33 (0)1 41 25 28 42 ! [email protected]
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iPIN and Gemplus Team
iPIN and Gemplus are partnering to jointly developadvanced security features for Web and wirelesstransactions, bringing together Gemplus’ authent-ication technology based on Smart Card wirelesstelephony (SIM Card) with iPIN’s flexible paymentand settlement solution that can be applied to a widerange of Smart Card applications.
Gemplus will integrate its full suite of Smart Cardand authentication server solutions with iPIN’s e-payment platform and Scalable Authentication Mod-ule, providing a technology that can be seamlesslyintegrated with mobile operators and financialinstitutions worldwide. The venture will support allmajor standards, such as SMS, CSD, GPRS, WAP,and 3G.
Contact$ Rhonda Motil iPIN
% +1 650 232 3770! [email protected]
Flexio Parking Management
SchlumbergerSema, has introduced its new Flexiooff-street parking solution in North America. It isdesigned for private operators, cities, universitycampuses, shopping centers and other off-streetparking environments.
The solution includes automatic and manual paystations, entry and exit control gates and centralisedmanagement stations that monitor the system andprovide overall financial control of parking andsubscriber management. The system accepts multiplepayment methods like magnetic stripe cards, coins,bills, credit/debit and Smart Cards.
Contact$ Brittany Jedrzejewski The Bernard Group
% +1 512 327 2195, ext. 126! [email protected]
ACG Introduces Independent OS
Hi-tech broker ACG AG has announced the success-ful implementation of the Smart Card operatingsystem FlashCOS and the derived product FlashCOSGSM.
FlashCOS was developed by Danish company LogosSmart card A/S, of which ACG holds 51 per cent of
the shares. ACG says that in only the first six monthsafter the release of FlashCOS it was able to sell fivemillion licenses.
“By offering FlashCOS, we take the risk off com-panies developing their own operating systems forcontrollers,” said Olaf Jacobi, Head of ACG’s SmartCard group.
Contact$ Harriet Sihn ACG AG
% +49 611 1739-125! [email protected]
Award for SmarTrip
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Auth-ority (WMATA) has won The Smart Card Alliance2001 Outstanding Smart Card Application Awardfor its SmarTrip farecard.
Cubic Transportation Systems, with WMATA, des-igned the two-year-old SmarTrip system, the nation’sfirst mass transit Smart Card fare collection program.Since the system’s inauguration, WMATA has issuedmore than 160,000 contactless Smart Cards tocommuters. In addition, Cubic helped WMATAimplement SmartBenefits, a program that allowsparticipating federal and private sector employees toreceive transit benefits directly on their SmarTripcards.
Contact$ Kelly Williams Cubic Corp
% +1 858 505 2378! [email protected]
Telefonica Moviles Trials Java
Spanish operator Telefonica Moviles has carried outtrials of identical information-on-demand and pre-paid value-added service applets on Java SIMs andconfirmed the interoperability of the latest Java Card2.1 standard.
The applets were successfully loaded and executedon three different Java SIM platforms - GemXpressofrom Gemplus, SIMphonIC from Oberthur and Sim-era from Schlumberger.
Contact$ Marielle Bricman Gemplus
% +33 (0)4 42 36 55 96! [email protected]
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Briefing Notes on Multi-ApplicationSmart Cards - Part 15
Installing the Schlumberger CyberflexAccess SDK 2.0
This month we will cover installing the CyberflexAccess SDK. The initials SDK stand for SoftwareDevelopment Kit, and in this case allows us to createprograms for the Cyberflex Javacard and to managethem on the card.
The SDK will install on Windows 95, 98, ME andNT 4.0. It will not install on Windows 2000, althoughthe latest version of the SDK will (you can buy thisdirectly from Schlumberger at www.slb.com). Please do not try to install on Windows 2000, as itmay damage your setup. If you do, refer to the sidebarto the left.
To start the installation insert the CD into your CDdrive. This should start the installation process. Ifit doesn’t, open the CD drive from My Computerand then double click on install.exe.
The installation routine will appear familiar if youhave ever installed software on Windows before. Ifnot, it is safe to accept the default values for items,although you should read the information for eachstage. If you do run into trouble note that you caninstall the SDK more than once with no damage.
Once the installation has completed you will have toreboot your system. When you have done this therewill be a new entry in your desktop menu.
To start the graphical component of the SDK select
Start -> Programs -> Schlumberger Smart Cards andTerminals->Cyberflex Access SDK->CyberflexAccess Toolkit. You will see a splash screen appearfollowed by the SDK GUI.
For now we will simply check that everything isworking correctly. From the GUI window selectTools -> Select Reader. A box will appear with adrop down list of the readers installed on your system.If you have installed the SCN toolkit previously youshould see either a Towitoko or Gemplus GPR400listed. Select a reader that is physically connectedat this time and click on OK.
Now insert a Schlumberger card into the reader youselected and click on the button on the far left of theGUI with the lightning flash. This will power up thecard and you should see a tree representation of thecards contents in the GUI windows. The display issimilar to the Windows Explorer view of your harddrive.
Now click the power button once again, and the cardwill be powered off. This confirms that the SDK hasbeen installed correctly.
There is a complete set of documentation installedwith the toolkit in PDF format. A good backgroundto the kit is in the file ‘Programmer’s Guide’ in theSchlumberger menu from the Start button.
The SDK includes the following components:
$ MakeSolo. This converts compiled Java class filesinto the format the smartcard understand
$ Examples. Pre-built programs for the card withsource
$ GUI. User friendly front end which can speak tothe card & manage it
$ Documentation. Soft copies of the manuals inPDF format.
N.B. The toolkit does not include the necessarysoftware to compile Java source files to class files.You can use any standard Java compiler to do this,including the freely available one from java.sun.com.
Jon Barber
PC/SC on Windows 2000
Trying to install PC/SC on Windows 2000will overwrite the setup that is in Win2000by default. To recover open a command shelland enter the following :
cd %windir%\system32regsvr32 scardssp.dllscardsvr reinstall
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ORGA UK Celebrates Ten Years
ORGA Card Systems UK celebrated their 10thanniversary at the Oakley Court Hotel Windsor on8 June and chose a theme for the day based aroundthe film The Matrix.
The guests who comprised clients such as Boots, BT,Orange, VodaFone and other associates plusemployees of ORGA were greeted by a master ofceremonies dressed in the attireof a mad professor (thinkProfessor Pat Pending from theWacky races, for those of youold enough to remember). Hewas supported by a phalanx ofmen and women some attired inoutfits depicting charactersfrom the Matrix film plus thetwo caped crime fighters fromGotham City, Batman andRobin.
Guests were greeted with a glassof champagne and hurried alongto a rendezvous point with mockexplosions going off all aroundthem and guns firing blanks (atleast I think they were blanks).They were all given a red or blueORGA T-shirt, a pair of Matrixstyle sunglasses and a SmartCard with their name and detailsof the team that they wouldrepresent in a Treasure Huntthrough the streets of Windsorlater.
Then it was time for achampagne lunch to the soundsof a small jazz band.
Harald Book, CEO for FinanceAdministration and Personnel atORGA GmbH, outlined some of the milestones thatORGA UK had achieved over the past ten years andpresented a plaque to comm-emorate thoseachievements to Graham Carson, Managing Directorfor ORGA Card Systems UK.
In response, Graham outlined what the future heldfor ORGA, including the new partnership programwhich ORGA feels will add value to theirapplications, service and development aims.
Further developments involve the opening of newoffices around the world in Ireland, Australia andIndia as well as expanding its developmentcapabilities utilising Java, LEO systems integrationand ex-panding its testing facilities.
In the area of Systems and Solutions ORGA isworking on developments in OPSC (ORGA PrepaidService Center) the first 3rd generation prepaidplatform, Autello (the mobile commerce platform)
wIQ (Internet content to mobilephones) and HPPS (highperformance personalisationsystems).
Having been wined and dinedand toasted another 10 years ofsuccess and endeavour forORGA, guests and employeesset off on the Treasure Huntthrough the streets of Windsor.Everyone who took part had aSmart Card which was used asa scoring device. Each time ateam completed a challenge theypresented their card to one of the“Cyber Babes” walking aroundthe town.
The card was inserted into aHandy Smart Card reader andpoints were either added orsubtracted depending on howwell they performed. If they didsomething amazingly daringthey received bonus points. Theteam with the most points wonthe Matrix grand prize - a fullday with hospitality learninghow to race a Lotus!
One wonders what the Queenwould have thought if she had
been in residence at Windsor Castle and looked outof a window.
PhotosTop: Harald Book, CEO, Finance, Administration &Personnel, ORGA Kartensysteme GmbHMiddle: Graham Carson, Managing Director, ORGA CardSystems (UK) LtdBottom: Tim Cronin, Head of Sales, ORGA Card Systems(UK) Ltd
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People on the Move
The MULTOS Consortium, headquartered inLondon, UK, has appointed John Wood, Founderand Vice Chairman of Keycorp, of San Francisco,California, as Chairman.
Antti Vasara, acting CEO of Sonera SmartTrust Oyfor four months, has been confirmed as CEO by theBoard. As acting CEO he guided the companythrough a successful first quarter, delivering 40%growth in revenue from the same period last year.
Infineon Technologies has announced that UlrichHamann has assumed responsibility for InfineonTechnologies’ Wireless Communications group. Atthe same time, Dr Hermann Eul took over theSecurity and Chip Card ICs group, and GünterWeinberger was appointed as the new ChiefTechnology Officer (CTO) for Infineon’s WirelineCommunications group.
USIS America Inc has announced the appointmentof Diane McDonald as President and ChiefOperations Officer to lead marketing initiatives ofUSIS health risk and knowledge managementsolutions throughout the US and Canada. She hasover 30 years’ experience in the healthcare industry.
PrivaSys has named David Stonelyas Vice Presidentof Card Manufacturing. Previously he was Presidentand CEO of De La Rue Card Systems (now OberthurCard Systems).
New ICMA Members
The International Card Manufacturers Association(ICMA) has announced 15 new members:Manufacturing: Cardline (Philippines), FaujiCardsSystems (Pakistan), Inform Processing Services(Greece), Innovative Plastic Printing Corporation(USA), Jiangsu Hengbao Co., (China), Marimpex(Croatia), PCU Group (Italy), SuperCom SmartCards (USA). Supplier: Cardcraft Australia(Australia), Gilles Leroux (USA), ICI Imagedata(UK), Logika Technology Group (USA), WCManufacturing Co. (USA). Personaliser: CardPersonalisation Solutions (USA). Contributing:Oxford Synergetics (UK).
Contact$ Lynn McCullough ICMA
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