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Slow Down in Mobile Phone Market Causes CutbacksThe slow down in the mobile phone market sent a shock wavethrough the Smart Card industry last month with the announce-ments that Motorola is to close its factory at Bathgate in WestLothian, Scotland, with the loss of more than 3,000 jobs; andGemplus is to shut its German factory in Seebach, one of three inGermany.

But it is not all gloom. Motorola picked up GSM network expansioncontracts worth $203 million in China while Nortel networks wonsimilar contracts in China worth $103 million. These contractsalone are expected to increase network capacity by a total of over4 million subscribers.

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Slow Down in Mobile Phone Market Causes CutbacksThe slow down in the mobile phone market sent a shock wavethrough the Smart Card industry last month with the announce-ments that Motorola is to close its factory at Bathgate in WestLothian, Scotland, with the loss of more than 3,000 jobs; andGemplus is to shut its German factory in Seebach, one of three inGermany.

But it is not all gloom. Motorola picked up GSM network expansioncontracts worth $203 million in China while Nortel networks wonsimilar contracts in China worth $103 million. These contractsalone are expected to increase network capacity by a total of over4 million subscribers.

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Mobile Phone Market Slow Down

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Motorola blamed a sharp fall in global demand forits mobile phones which prompted the US electronicsgiant to announce cutbacks of up to 7,000 jobsworldwide in the personal communications sector.

It said it had taken the decision after announcingtrading losses of $200m for the first quarter of 2001,although it pledged to offer “support services” toemployees in the coming weeks.

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, who had intervenedin an attempt to save the plant from closure, describedthe news as a “bitter blow to the local community,”while Union leaders reacted with fury and demandedthat Motorola hand back £20m in government grants.

Gemplus said it was rebalancing its worldwideproduction facilities and this included the closure ofthe German plant which employs about 300 people.Ithopes to sell the factory along with the machineryand staff to avoid job losses.

The company is particularly vulnerable to the slowdown in the mobile phone market as almost 70% ofits revenue is from the telecoms industry.

Antonio Perez, Gemplus’ President and CEO, saidthat the company was reducing their expectation forworldwide demand of GSM SIM modules.

Contact$ Severine Percetti Gemplus

% +33 (0)4 42 36 67 67! [email protected]

Visa Approval for GalactIC Card

Oberthur Card Systems has achieved Visa approvalfor its GalactIC 2.1 payment card, a Java-based, openplatform, multi-application Smart Card that enablessecure multi-channel payment, enabling cardholdersto pay securely for goods via the home PC, mobilephone, television or at a point of sale in a shop orkiosk.

Contact$ Stephanie de Labriolle Oberthur CS

% +33 (0)1 41 25 28 42! [email protected]

Cubic Fare System Contract

Cubic Transportation Systems has won a $21.9million contract to provide Maryland’s buses with anew fare system that allows riders to use coins,currency, magnetic tickets and the WashingtonMetro’s SmarTrip contactless Smart Card.

The Maryland Mass Transit Administration (MTA)has named Cubic the prime contractor for the newautomatic fare collection program. The system willeventually link payment for 850 Baltimore regionbuses and 107 over the road vehicles serving suburbanMaryland commuters to the Metro system. Thecontract also provides the agency’s subway systemwith entry gate upgrades so that they are also linkedwith the new bus payment system.

Vending machine contract

Cubic Transportation Systems has also won a US$18 million contract from TransLink, of Vancouver,B.C., for 160 new touchscreen-enabled ticket ven-ding machines for the region’s rail, bus and ferrypublic transit systems.

The magnetic ticket vending machines will beequipped with Smart Card readers, ready for futureupgrades. Initially, TransLink will use the Smart Cardreaders for employee access to the ticket machinesfor maintenance and revenue collection.

The payment options for farecard sales includeCanadian bank notes, Canadian and US coins, andcredit or debit cards. The machines also issue aprinted receipt for all passenger transactions. Up toeight languages can be programmed into the machine.Braille instructions and audio assistance are alsoincluded for passenger interaction.

They will be installed on Vancouver’s two rail lines,the Expo Line and the expansion Millennium Line,both operated by B.C. Rapid Transit Co. , a divisionof TransLink. The new rapid rail line has 13 stations,and the Expo Line has 20 stations. The two lines alsoshare intermodal compatibility with the bus and ferrysystems operated by TransLink’s subsidiaries. Thenew electronic bus fare collection system is currentlybeing installed in the city’s 1,268 buses.

Contact$ Kelly Williams Cubic Corp.

% +1 858 505 2378! [email protected]

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Collector’s Corner

This month’s Collector’s Corner card is the AuthentICCard from Oberthur.

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Set-top Box from Motorola

SCM Microsystems is to provide Motorola with itsSmart Transporter Chip, a universal Smart Cardreader interface, based on SCM’s widely adoptedSmartOS, for Motorola’s Streamaster 5000 advancedset-top box. The set-top box will also support SmartCard-based payment transactions for items such aspay-per-view movies, music downloads and T-commerce pur-chases.

Website! www.scmmicro.com! www.motorola.com

SWATS Display Card

Swedish Advanced Technology Systems (SWATS),Affarsstrategerna’s portfolio company, has closed aPrivate Placement round of US $6 million managedby the investment bank CAI Cheuvreux Nordic AB.

A Swedish institution has subscribed for the wholeissue and the capital raised will be used for industrialand commercial development of the SWATS DisplayCard, a unique, patent-protected card which com-bines an LCD display with a Smart Card.

SWATS’ objective is to become a leading providerof Display Cards, with a global business based onlicence sales. The cards can be used for many differentpurposes, such as payments, ticketless travel, loyaltyprogrammes and healthcare.

The company says it is negotiating with some of thelargest companies in the Smart Card market and thatseveral end-customers are interested in the tech-nology.

Contact$ Lars-Erik Jonsson SWATS

% +46 8 789 0502 ! [email protected]

$ Per Ersson Affarsstrategerna% +46 8 545 83194! [email protected]

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Belgian Football Fan Card

Keyware has signed a contract with the BelgianFootball League as the exclusive ticketing softwareprovider for the new Football Fan Card in a dealvalued at approximately US $1 million. The leagueplans to introduce more than 300,000 of its newgeneration of personalised Smart Cards for the 2001- 2002 football season.

The new cards, valid for three years, will be availablethrough any first division club. They will bepersonalised for each individual fan and will berequired for stadium entry on game days. Keyware,which worked with the league to introduce the firstgeneration Football Fan Card three years ago, hasalso signed on as a co-sponsor of the new cards alongwith Jupiler. Both company logos will appear on thecards.

In the future, the fan cards can be used by stadiummanagement throughout the league to better controlthe flow of crowds in and around the stadium. Thecards can also be configured to include biometricdata such as a fingerprint.

“Managing crowds at large sporting events hasbecome a serious problem around the world,” saidFrancis Declercq, President and CEO of Keyware. “The Football Fan Card uses the best availabletechnology to ensure an increased level of securityand safety of the fans. In addition, the software onthe cards can also be modified later to provide tightersecurity using biometrics, for direct paymenttransactions at stadium concessions, and even forloyalty discounts at restaurants, hotels, and otherretailers.”

Recently, Keyware partnered with Bull Hungary todevelop a Smart Card system for the HungarianFootball League.

Jean-Marie Philips, General Director of the BelgianFootball League said: “Our final aim is to protectpeople’s safety and exclude registered trouble-makers. We are currently reviewing the possibilityof using this Football Fan Card as a physical accesssystem and adding biometric verification of theidentity of the cardholder at the most critical placesin certain stadiums.”

Contact$ Elizabeth Marshall Keyware

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New Platform from MasterCard

MasterCard International has announced thedeployment of what it describes as a revolutionarynew payment-processing platform that frees memberfinancial institutions to leverage technology insupport of their specific business needs.

“With MasterCard, members are not held captive bya card association’s technology,” said Rob Reeg,MasterCard Senior Vice President, Systems Devel-opment. “With the new platform, members now havethe flexibility to customise processing to theirbusiness, allowing them to take advantage of manynew opportunities, both locally and globally.”

“We have completed the most sweepingtechnological change in MasterCard history bydeveloping the first integrated, global payment-processing platform,” said Jerry McElhatton,MasterCard Global Technology and OperationsSenior Executive Vice President. “The days of ‘onesize fits all’ are over. With the new platform, ourmembers’ business goals drive the technology,instead of technology driving their businessdecisions.”

The new platform is designed to accommodate anytype of payment, including those initiated throughemerging and evolving payment channels such asthe Internet and wireless devices.

Contact$ Linda Locke MasterCard International

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Metaca Smart Loyalty Agreement

Metaca Corporation of Canada has signed an agree-ment with EdgeWare Technologies Corporation toprovide EdgeTech products, which include a suite ofadvanced, open architecture software solutions foruse in retail and Smart Card-based applications.

Included is EdgeSmart, which is designed to delivercustomer services and incentives incorporated oneither stored value payment cards or co-brandedloyalty Smart Cards. Metaca has commenced integ-ration of EdgeWare’s applications to its CardProgrammanagement offering.

Websites! www.mdccorp.com! www.edgeware.ca

MULTOS Ends L&D Charges

To accelerate the migration to multi-applicationSmart Cards around the world, the MULTOS Cons-ortium has agreed a changed pricing structure forKey Management Services (KMS) for its MULTOSoperating system.

Charges for individual application load and deletecertificates have been abolished to encourage issuersto exploit secure post issuance updating and loadingof applications. Only initial enablement of cards willattract a charge.

Contact$ MULTOS

% +44 (0)207 557 5000! [email protected]! www.multos.com

Loyalty Platform for Credit Cards

CardSelect International is to offer its credit card andloyalty card system for integration into a bank’sservices, enabling card issuers to offer credit cardswith multiple loyalty programs to their customers.

This new technology platform will allow consumersto select the merchant reward programs they use mostoften and link them either online or offline to theirfinancial transaction card of choice. The companycan tailor the program to work in either magneticstripe or Smart Card environments.

Contact$ Alex Goldsleger CardSelect International

% +1 610 469 2236! [email protected]

ActivCard Licenses Reach 250,000

ActivCard, a provider of digital identity managementproducts and technology, reports that it has signedits 250,000th customer license.

“While cryptographic technologies used for auth-entication, including PKI and one-time-use passwordtokens have been around for years, multi-functionSmart Cards, utilising these technologies have onlyrecently been introduced to the market,” said ThomasArthur, Senior Vice President of Sales and BusinessDevelopment at ActivCard.

Website! www.activcard.com

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SWIFT Smart Card Scheme

A demonstration project funded by the WelshNational Assembly, known as the “SWIFT SmartCard Scheme” is now operational. The introductionof the system, designed and installed by ERG, wasmade possible due to a National Assembly grant of£600,000 awarded in July 2000 to the SWIFT (SouthWales Integrated Fast Transit) consortium ofauthorities.

The purpose of the grant was to establish a SmartCard scheme in the Caerphilly to Cardiff publictransport corridor. The scheme will demonstrate thepotential of the technology in light of the decisionto introduce free concessionary travel throughoutfrom April 2002.

Specification, procurement and management of thecontract is being undertaken by MVA which wasappointed following earlier work on ticketing forSWIFT. MVA has experience in the developmentof the United Kingdom public transport inter-operability specification for Integrated TransportSmart Card Organisation Limited (ITSO) and theDepartment of the Environment, Transport and theRegions (DETR).

The system supply and data management is beingundertaken by ERG which has outsourced the cardissuing, card management, transaction processingand call centre to Prepayment Cards Limited (PCL)- the joint company of ERG, the three largesttransport operators in the UK and Sema Group -initially covers the Caerphilly district. ERG willreceive approximately $1.5 million for the initialcontract which allows for further expansionthroughout the SWIFT authorities with theconsequential benefits of economies of scale beingshared with the local authorities.

The initial roll-out will involve the issue ofapproximately 30,000 cards to all Caerphillyresidents eligible for concessionary travel and theprovision of readers on all buses operating betweenCaerphilly and Cardiff. Expansion to the entireCardiff Bus and Stagecoach & West fleet of almost600 vehicles will be completed during April andMay enabling Caerphilly CBC to undertake themajority of its concessionary travel reimbursementthrough Smart Cards later this year.

The issue and distribution of the ConcessionaryTravel cards is being undertaken on behalf of ERG-PCL by Post Office Counters Ltd and ESP Systex.

All cards will be personalised with a photograph.

Contact$ Tim Burke ERG Group

% +44 (0)1204 384709! [email protected]

Securify Program for smart Visa

Visa USA has selected Securify to manage its smartVisa Access Provider Qualification Program des-igned to increase the number of qualified securitysolutions Visa Member financial institutions canemploy to provide secure Web services.

Through its suite of Access Management Services,Securify has implemented the qualification programas part of its larger role in helping Visa manage androll-out its entire smart Visa Access platform.

Access management solutions, consisting of PublicKey Infrastructure (PKI), access control, and SmartCard systems qualified under the program will bemade available to all Visa Member financialinstitutions for integration with their applications.

Contact$ Securify

% +1 650 812 9400! www.securify.com

GP Contract for Datacard

Datacard Group has won a Smart Card managementcontract from GlobalPlatform, the cross-industryorganisation promoting a standardised frameworkfor multi-application Smart Cards.

Under the agreement, Datacard will provide thesoftware and services required to manage the SmartCards GlobalPlatform plans to issue to its Membercompanies. Approximately 300 cards will be issued.

Initially, Members will use the cards for logicalaccess to secure areas of the GlobalPlatform website. Eventually, the organisation plans to offer avariety of applications to its Members that will besecurely delivered using Open Platform technology.

Contact$ Kevin Gillick Datacard Group

% +1 952 988 2846! [email protected]

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RSA Security Awards

RSA Security has announced the winners of its fourthannual RSA Security Awards in the areas of math-ematics, public policy and industry as Dr ScottVanstone, a noted cryptographer and founder ofCerticom Corporation for Mathematics; the NationalInstitute of Standards and Technology (NIST)Advanced Encryption Standard Committee forPublic Policy; and Gemplus, a leading manufacturerof Smart Cards. The RSA Award in Industry, whichwent to Gemplus, is awarded to an individual ororganisation that has greatly facilitated thewidespread use or application of advancedcryptographic technologies in the marketplace.

RSA Security says that Gemplus is consistentlyworking to innovate secure PKI SIM cards, multi-application Java cards, PKI-based Smart Card corp-orate security systems, Smart bank cards (smartVISA) and Window 2000 Certification for SmartCard security products.

Contact$ Tim Powers RSA Security

% +1 781 301 5344! [email protected]

Rainbow and Kyberpass Team

Rainbow Technologies and Kyberpass Corporationare teaming to increase their presence in the Europeane-security marketplace. Kyberpass will supply e-security software products and Rainbow will provideSmart Card and hardware cryptographic modules.

Graham Peat, European Marketing Manager forRainbow Technologies, said: AWe are very pleasedto be working with Kyberpass to accelerate theadoption of our iKey2000 products for PKI solutionsthroughout Europe.@

Contact$ Robert Lendvai Kyberpass Corporation


$ Robert Kennett Rainbow Technologies% +44 (0)20 7564 4058! [email protected]

Cyberflex Palmera for the US

Schlumberger has announced the availability in theUS of its Cyberflex Palmera Java-based Smart Card,the new multi-application card which builds on the

security, functionality and performance of Schlum-berger’s Cyberflex Smart Card family.

“This new card redefines expectations for time-to-market for Smart services,” said Francois Lasnier,Field Marketing Director in North America forSchlumberger. “Going from service definition toprototype card could now take as little as a fewmonths, compared to a year or more with non-Javasolutions.”

The Cyberflex Palmera card is designed to comple-ment any existing card infrastructure. The cardenables card infrastructures to easily migrate to newSmart applications, while providing continuity forcurrent customers and preserving their investmentin existing terminals, networks and other equipment.

Contact$ Brittany Jedrzejewski The Bernard Group


Fargo Alliance on Smart Cards

Fargo Electronics has announced the formation of aglobal technology alliance to promote effective,advanced Smart Card solutions.

“The Fargo Technology Alliance will connectFargo’s international and domestic network ofdistribution partners with the very best Smart andproximity card application software developers andmanufacturers,” said Gary R Holland, President andCEO. “With these Alliance members workingtogether with our distribution partners, Fargo is nowable to provide a wider range of solutions for endusers. This generates sales for all companiesinvolved, and builds Fargo’s competitive advantage.”

Members of the Alliance include: Bull CP8,CardLogix, CardSmart Technologies, Gemplus,IDenticard Systems, ImageWare, Intraproc GmbH,NFive Software, Schlumberger, SmartDynamics,Supercom Smart Cards and UbiQ.

“The primary goal of the Fargo Technology Allianceis to increase the sale of Smart Card products, cardpersonalisation systems and services,” according toJoseph Schuler, Fargo’s Electronic Card ProductManager.

Contact$ David L Schoeneck Fargo Electronics


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Gemplus Partners with CA

Gemplus SA has announced a development partneragreement with Computer Associates (CA) toprovide a powerful, portable solution for deployingPKI-based digital certificates. This will enablecustomers to rapidly deploy and effectively managetrusted e-Business identities across the enterprise -including mobile users, such as field sales staff andon-the-go executives.

The new e-Business security solution is based on theintegration of CA’s eTrust PKI system with Gemplus’GemSAFE Smart Card technology

Contact$ Ron Schwenger Gemplus

% +1 650 654 2978! [email protected]

Croatia Bank Selects Hypercom

Hypercom Corporation has delivered 6000 T7PS andS8 Point of Sale terminals to Privredna Banka Zagreb(PBZ) in Croatia with a further 1000 to be shippedin May. PBZ can now accept all card types Europay/MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Diners on theirPOS terminals.

Flora Lendvai, head of the card department at PBZ,said: “Recently we have seen dynamic changes inthe economic and social structure of Croatia as itadjusts to the standards of other European countries.PBZ is committed to matching this growth and ourpartnership with Hypercom allows us to provide thebest service that our customers demand.”

Contact$ Pete Schuddekopf Hypercom Corporation

% +1 602 504 5383! [email protected]

Datacard Introduces Consultancy

Datacard Group has formed a team of Smart Cardspecialists to provide card issuers with securityevaluation services. London-based, the group iscalled Datacard Consult p7 and includes many of thesecurity experts who worked for platform seven,which Datacard acquired in March 2000. p7 was theresearch and development arm of National West-minster Bank and created the Mondex electronicpurse and MULTOS operating system.

“Creating a trusted platform is a paramount concernfor most Smart Card programs, especially for fin-ancial and personal data applications,” said GrahamHiggins, Head of Datacard Consult p7. “We generallyare able to find fraud, theft and forgery risks that ourcustomers were not expecting.

“Security risks change constantly. Thieves are alwaysattempting to leapfrog the latest security measures,”added Higgins. “We understand this reality and striveto remain several steps ahead of the latest attackstrategies.”


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Loyalty Solution for VeriFone

Catuity and VeriFone have signed an agreement tomake the Catuity Loyalty Solution available onVeriFone’s Omni 3300 and 3350 e-payment term-inals.

The Omni 3300 series of payment terminals supportSmart Cards and are based on VeriFone’s Verixoperating environment, a global platform thatsupports multiple applications running on the sameterminal. By making the Catuity Loyalty Solutionavailable on the Omni 3300 and Omni 3350, retailerscan offer loyalty packages including gift cardprograms at the point of sale while at the same timeoffering traditional payment applications supportedby VeriFone’s SoftPay e-payment software.

Contact$ Beverly Jedynak Martin E. Janis & Co

% +1 312 943 1100! [email protected]

Hypercom Opens Office in Canada

Hypercom Corporation has opened its first sales,service and support office in Toronto, Canada. In thelast three months alone, orders from Canada for thecompany’s ICE terminals have topped 10,000 ascompared to 1,200 the previous year.


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Datakey PKI Technology for SWIFT

SWIFT, a leader in secure global financial messaging,has selected Datakey’s PKI Smart Card technologyto bundle with its SWIFTAlliance WebStationproduct. SWIFT delivers secure messaging servicesto over 7,000 financial organisations in 192 countries.

The SWIFTAlliance WebStation is SWIFT’sstrategic interface platform targeted at supportingcommunications over SWIFTNet its new private IPinfrastructure that enables interactive messaging,interactive file transfer and information browsing ina fully managed and secure environment.

Datakey Smart Cards, readers and interface softwarewere selected for the SWIFTAlliance WebStation toprovide cryptographic and portable security fordigital credentials used to authenticate and verify theidentities of financial institutions and customerscommunicating over SWIFTNet.

Government order

Datakey also reports that an international govern-ment organisation has placed an order for DatakeyPKI Smart Cards, card readers and client softwarefor 10,000 users. Datakey PKI Smart Card systemswill provide advanced security and strong userauthentication for employees conducting dailybusiness operations over computer networks.

Website! www.datakey.com or www.swift.com

VeriFone Celebrates 20 Years

VeriFone, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary,has announced its Verix Innovation awards, aprogram to recognise the most innovative multi-application solutions based on VeriFone’s Verixplatform in use by customers around the world.

Pierre-Francois Catte, Vice President and GeneralManager of VeriFone, explained: “Our Verix Inno-vation award program gives us the opportunity topersonally recognise customers and developers, andshare their achievements with the market.”

Contact$ Jennifer Gordon Eastwick PR

% +1 650 480 4012 ! [email protected]

e-Commerce Security Innovation

Schlumberger Network Solutions has announced thedevelopment of Schlumberger Smart Port services,a new technology to improve the security and man-ageability of Web-based transactions.

In the past, Web transactions were “secured” by easilycracked passwords that failed to provide non-repudiation. Smart Port provides authentication,privacy and authorisation for online transactions,permitting businesses to safely conduct virtual trans-actions while leveraging substantial investments inInternet software and hardware, says the company.

Smart Port is currently offered as a fully managedsolution, with back-end hardware securely locked ina room accessible only to authorised personnel whomust first use a Smart Card reader and then passthrough a biometric scanner for access.

Contact$ Cindy Marion Marion Montgomery Inc

% +1 713 523 7900! [email protected]

ValiCert and Baltimore Partner

ValiCert and Baltimore Technologies, specialists ine-Security, are partnering to combine the ValiCertValidation Authority solution with Baltimore’sUniCERT public key infrastructure (PKI) system.Through this new OEM arrangement, Baltimore’scustomers will be able to instantly check the validityof corporate and individual credentials, facilitatingelectronic transactions that are protected againstrevoked or suspended digital certificates.

Website! www.baltimore.com or www.valicert.com

ORGA Joint Venture in Portugal

ORGA Kartensysteme has taken a 60 per cent sharein a joint venture with TelSer, its agent in Portugal.Based in Lisbon, the new company ORGACARDPortugal Cartös e Sistemas Inteligentes will focusinitially on telecommunications and banking.

Contact$ Bernd Schäfers Maiwald ORGA

% +49 5251 889 1200! [email protected]

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Validating CEPS Technology

A project named Ducato is planned to validate SmartCard electronic purses based on the CEPS (CommonElectronic Purse Specifications) technology. It willstart in September and involves Belgium, France,The Netherlands and Spain and three different e-purse technologies.

Partners in the project are Banksys, operator of theProton e-purse system in Belgium; EuropayInternational, manager of the Clip e-purse brand;Groupement des Cartes Bancaires, the Frenchbanking chip cards organisation; Interpay, operatorof the Chipknip e-purse in The Netherlands; ProtonWorld, provider of CEPS-based e-purse technologyto Banksys and Interpay; Sermepa, the Spanishoperator of the Advantis CEPS-based technology toits members and to Groupement des Cartes Bancaires;Sistema 4B, operator and CEPS-based e-pursetechnology provider to the Monedero 4B e-pursescheme in Spain; and Visa International, owner ofthe Visa Cash e-purse brand.

Objectives are to validate the CEPS-relatedtechnology in a real, international environment, andto demonstrate interoperability domestically andbetween different countries and different e-pursetechnologies, schemes, clearing systems andhardware.

Contact$ Ms Coelina Carter Visa

% +44 (0)207 795 5331! [email protected]

Ramtron FRAM Shipments

Ramtron International Corporation has announcedthe on-time shipment of 256-kilobit FRAM memorydevices to subcontractors that manufacture productsdesigned by UK-based Ampy Automation DigilogLimited. This is the first production shipment towarda $65 million volume purchase agreement betweenRamtron and Ampy that was announced in August2000, and represents the beginning of the volumeramp-up to the first of several expected subcon-tractors.

Contact$ Elizabeth Eschbach Ramtron

% +1 719 481 7004! [email protected]

LifeSciences Acquires GMSmbH

Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation hasacquired all of the outstanding stock of GMSmbH,the German manufacturer of the LICOX Brain TissueOxygen Monitoring System, for $2.3 million in cash.

The LICOX system is a universal clinical tissueoxygen and temperature monitor. Its oxygen andtemperature micro catheter probes are precalibratedand are supplied with their individual calibration dataelectronically stored on a Smart Card.

Contact$ John B Henneman III Integra LifeSciences

% +1 609 936 2481! [email protected]

Datacard Redesigns Web Site

Datacard Group has launched a redesigned Web site(www.datacard.com) providing expert informationon a wide range of card-related technologies, suchas Smart Cards, digital printing, laser engraving, bio-metrics and virtual identity systems.

Highlights of the new datacard.com include a SmartCard Centre and Identity Centre, both of which pro-vide visitors with the information they need to makeinformed decisions about their card programs.


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Hypercom Terminals for PETCO

PETCO Animal Supplies is installing 2,400 Hyper-com epic ICE 6000 card payment terminals andHypercom’s epicreceipts electronic receipt captureservice in its 530-plus US retail stores.

The ICE 6000 comes equipped with a variety ofcommunications options, incorporates a firewall-protected multi-application operating system, EMVchip card capability, secure PIN pad, and built-inHTML/HTTP web browser.


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several hacks or security breaches of competing USBtokens have been reported.

“With the FIPS 140-1 Level 2 certification, comm-ercial customers will know that the Rosetta USB isa reliable platform for security which has beenvalidated by an independent third party,” said SuePontius, President and CEO of SPYRUS.

Contact$ Bill Bialick SPYRUS

% +1 410 964 6400! [email protected]

ANDiS AMS Release 3

Rotterdam-based software house Bell ID haslaunched Release 3 of its ANDiS Application Man-agement System offering extensive applicationmanagement for multi-functional Smart Cards.

The company says that a key feature of Release 3 isthe Post Issuance Personalisation module whichenables the card issuer or application provider toremotely add, update or remove a service using theInternet or a client/server environment.

Website! www.bellid.com

H-Hot for Restaurant Ordering

A handheld computer system that can improverestaurant efficiency has been developed by threeUK technology companies. Called H-Hot, it com-bines secure payment software from IngenicoFortronic and mobile computing technology fromSymbol and will be distributed through Jade Comm-unications’ hospitality client base.

H-Hot allows waiting staff to input orders directlyinto a Symbol PPT 2700 handheld computer andwirelessly communicate them to the kitchen. At theend of a meal, credit or debit card payment can bemade directly into H-Hot at the table.

Contacts$ Lisa Brownlie TVI for Ingenico Fortronic

% +44 (0)141 572 1556$ Timothy Diplock The Maxim Group for Symbol

% +44 (0)1494 463464$ Mark Brackly Jade Communications

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High Security for Burn System

Dutch Burn Information System (DBIS), a non-profitorganisation that conducts research into burn injuries,is protecting its database with a high security systemfrom Keyware which includes Smart Cards, PKI anddigital certificates of a Trusted Third Party throughKeyware’s Central Authentication Server (CAS)with Layered Biometric Verification (LBV).

DBIS is a Web-based central database containingmedical records of burn patients throughout TheNetherlands.

Luc Taal, DBIS Project Manager, said: “Due toprivacy regulations we were only allowed bygovernment to implement the DBIS project if weused a highly secure authentication and encryptionsystem. Since we are using the Internet to transportdata and present reports, there is a need for a secureinfrastructure that addresses assurance, confidence,and confidentiality.”

DigiNotar, a digital public notary, was selected asTrusted Third Party for the information security forthe DBIS project. DigiNotar registers the DBIS end-users (surgeons, nurses, psychologists) and issuesdigital certificates. The DBIS database and Keywareservers are physically stored in the protectedbuildings of DigiNotar.

Users are given a Smart Card that contains their digitalcertificates and bio-templates. To verify identity, theuser must speak a password and deliver a fingerprintduring login for comparison with the voice andfingerprint stored on the card.

Contact$ Liz Marshall Keyware

% +1 781 933 1311, ext. 235 ! [email protected]

FIPS Certification for Rosetta

SPYRUS’ Rosetta USB-based cryptographic tokenhas received Federal Information Processing Stan-dard (FIPS) Pub 140-1 certification from the USNational Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST).

Rosetta USB is certified as meeting FIPS 140-1 Level2, confirming the strength of its tamper-evidentdesign. This achievement marks a change within theUSB Token industry where, according to SPYRUS,

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Gemplus Leads says Survey

Gemplus International SA has been named the leaderin the Smart Card industry, according to a GartnerDataquest market survey. Gemplus leads the SmartCard market with 35% market share for memory andmicroprocessor cards in 2000, 3% ahead of its nearestcompetitor. In all, the company shipped 623 millionunits last year, according to Gartner Dataquestestimates.

“We are very proud to be recognised by a body aswell respected as Gartner Dataquest as the leader inevery segment of our industry,” said Antonio Perez,CEO of Gemplus International.

2000 was a record year for Gemplus with the highestrevenue growth amongst the major players in theindustry (57% up from 1999).

Contact$ Severine Percetti Gemplus

% +33 (0)4 42 36 67 67! [email protected]! www.gartner.com

Common Transaction Platform

Smart Card application providers Axiomatique Inter-national, Maxxus International, SoftCARD Systemsand Welcome Real-time have agreed to adopt acommon interoperable Smart transaction platformfor loyalty and couponing

They will adapt their loyalty and couponingapplications to function with the same XLSmart cardapplet and will promote XLSmart as the preferredacceptance symbol for Smart transactions. Thecompanies will continue to offer competing softwarefor terminals and other card reader devices, andcompeting technical and marketing services.

The XLSmart applet allows card issuers to issuemulti-application Smart Cards without worryingabout which application providers will use them later.Likewise, merchants will be able to run theirprograms on XLSmart cards issued by many differentcard issuers.

Contact$ Deb Montner Montner & Associates

% +1 203 226 9290! [email protected]

Net 1 Wins Malawi Contracts

Net 1 UEPS Technologies, through Net 1 InvestmentsHoldings, its recently appointed UEPS integrator forthe Central Europe, Middle East and African regions,has licensed the Reserve Bank of Malawi with itsFTS/UEPS technology.

Two national tenders were awarded to Net 1 Invest-ments Holdings. The first contract incorporates theinstallation of a switching and settlement system tofacilitate communication between a number ofMalawi’s banks. The system will also provide a fullyintegrated ATM and EFTPOS (Electronic FundsTransfer at the Point of Sale) management system.

The second contract is for the deployment of a nationalSmart Card payment system based exclusively onthe proprietary Universal Electronic Payment Sys-tem (UEPS).

Contact$ Investor Relations Net 1 UEPS

% +27 888 796 2233

Security Solutions for India

Rainbow Technologies has partnered with Global E-Secure (GESL) of Mumbai one of India’s leadingproviders of high-performance security solutions, tomarket Rainbow’s iKey workstation security solu-tion to eBusinesses throughout the expanding Indianmarket.

Contact$ Dan Chmielewski Rainbow Technologies

% +1 949 450 7377! [email protected]

Dione EMV Level 2 Certification

Dione has announced that it has passed all the Level2 certification stages of the EMV (Europay/ Master-Card/Visa) 3.1.1. standard for application softwareoperating on its advanced range of Smart Cardterminals.

Contact$ Ellena Benson Dione

% +44 (0)1494 429600! [email protected]

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Prepaid Electricity Network in US

American Payment Systems (APS), the leadingauthorised walk-in payment agent network in theUS has announced an agreement with Motorola’sCommercial, Government and Industrial SolutionsSector to utilise the APS agent network as a re-valuing option for the PowerCom revenue manage-ment solution, a prepayment system that uses SmartCards and state-of-the-art metering equipment toenable electric utility residential customers to buypower as they need it.

Motorola’s PowerCom solution includes meters thatmeasure electricity usage up to the prepaid dollaramount. Customers can easily purchase electricityat APS AccuPay locations nationwide by addingvalue to their PowerCom Smart Cards at APS dealeragents. At home, customers insert their re-valuedcard into the PowerCom home display unit, whichreads the card and adds the new value to the amountavailable for consumption.

Contact$ Richard Tiani American Payment Systems

% +1 203 407 4188! www.apsnet.com

Thin Battery in RFID Devices

Israeli company Power Paper has introduced whatit describes as “an affordable, ultra thin, flexible andenvironmentally friendly power source” allowingproduct designers to build battery cells for the firsttime integrated into thin and disposable productssuch as contactless Smart Cards and tags.

The company says that customers license thetechnology , purchase the patented materials fromPower Paper, and print a customised power sourcein their own facilities using a standard screen printingprocess. The power source can be applied in areasof security, transportation, authentication, loyalty,identification and biometrics.

One square inch of a Power Paper cell area, allowsfor over 500 hours of continuous display or approx-imately 30,000 operation bursts of transmissions.Power Paper’s 1.5V battery, which has a thicknessof only 0.5mm, can be stacked to offer highervoltage.

Power Paper is actively looking for joint ventureswith partners that have complementary relevant

technologies and is pursuing a strategy of licensingits enabling technology to be printed by its licenseesas part of their mass production process.

Contact$ Michael Abelson Power Paper

% +972 3 9007 500! [email protected]

People on the Move

Oberthur Card Systems has appointed Amedeod’Angelo as Chief Operating Officer from Man-aging Director SEMEA/Asia Pacific region.

Sydney, Australia-based Cards etc has appointedWalter Greenberg as Vice President, GlobalAccounts. Previously he worked for MasterCardInternational where he served as Vice President ofGlobal Chip Card Business Development.

Cards etc has also announced the appointment ofNigel Cullum as Regional Vice President for Euro-pean operations based in the UK. He has more than18 years experience in banking/payment solutionsand seven in the Smart Card industry.

Wincor Nixdorf has appointed Stuart Miller as UKBanking Industry Marketing Manager. Previouslyhe managed Barclays self-service network from acommercial and industry perspective.

Bob Thomson has been appointed Sales Directorat ID Data. Formerly he was the ICL client directorof Barclays Bank.

Jean-Pierre Ledru has been elected Chairman ofthe Board of Europay International. He is SeniorExecutive Vice President of Caisee Nationale duCrédit Agricole, Executive Vice Chairman of BMS,an organisation established for the development ofelectronic purse in France, Chairman and CEO ofEuropay France, Vice Chairman of the EuropayInternational Board since 1992 and has been amember of the MasterCard International Board ofDirectors since 1991. He takes up his post in June,succeeding Dr Kurt Richolt who has beenEuropay’s Chairman since December 1993.

Ann Camarillohas been appointed Chief ExecutiveOfficer of Maestro International, replacing Francisvan den Bosch. Mrs Camarillo comes from Master-Card International where she was Senior VicePresident, Customer Group.


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Dial a Coke in Australia

Telstra MobileNet and Coca-Cola are to trial a ‘Diala Coke’ service enabling Telstra post paid customersto use their GSM mobile phones to buy drinks fromselected Coca-Cola vending machines. The trial from3 April to 3 May involves 17 Coca-Cola vendingmachines at Sydney’s Central Railway Station.

Telstra OnAir’s National Product DevelopmentManager, Greg Day, said: “This initiative is a pre-cursor to people being able to use their mobilehandsets for functions such as micro payments forparking, ticketing and bookings.”

Customers simply call the number indicated on thevending machine, have the purchase amount creditedto the machine and make their selection from themachine. The transaction is charged to the customer’smobile phone account and appears on their next billwith the vending machine’s location.

Contact$ Telstra

% +61 877 Telstra! www.telstra.com

Motorola $213m Contract in China

Motorola has won a $213 million contract from ChinaMobile Communications Corporation to expand theoperator’s GSM900/1800 dual band network inHunan Province. This is Motorola’s fourth GSMcontract valued at over $100 million from HunanMobile since 1998. The expansion projects areexpected to increase network capacity by 2.8 millionsubscribers.

Contact$ Roderick Kelly Motorola

% +1 847 632 6730! [email protected]

Bluefish Expands

Bluefish Technologies, a SIM card and solutionsprovider has moved from Reading, UK, to new officesat Castle End Park, Castle End Road, Ruscombe,Berkshire, RG10 9XQ, UK

Contact$ Scott Allen Bluefish Technologies

% +44 (0)700 2000 900! [email protected]

SingTel Targets Churn

SLP InfoWare, a wholly owned subsidiary ofGemplus, reports that SingTel Mobile has selectedits Predictive CRM solution to launch proactivecampaigns to reduce customer churn.

“Using Predictive CRM, SingTel Mobile can anti-cipate the needs of our customers and proactivelycontrol churn,” said Timothy Goh, CRM Director,Consumer Business SingTel.

Currently running on SingTel Mobile’s network, thesolution generates predictive models that targetcustomers who are at risk of churn and then interfaceswith Siebel’s eCommunications to support outboundcampaigns to SingTel Mobile’s postpaid subscribers.

Contact$ Jerome Nadel SLP InfoWare

% +1 617 742 4102! [email protected]

Bluetooth Payment Test in Sweden

Ericsson’s R520 mobile, incorporating Bluetoothtechnology, is to be tested using wireless payment inSwedish stores during May by selected Eurocardcustomers using a virtual Eurocard in the phone.

Contact$ Anders Niklasson Ericsson Sverige

% +46 8 579 183 00$ Kerstin Ottosson Eurocard

% +46 8 14 70 28

Atmel Shipping AT90SC320856

Atmel Corporation has announced the productionrelease of the AT90SC320856, the latest in itsAT90SC family of AVR-based secure Flash micro-controllers for Smart Cards. It offers a range offeatures suited for GSM SIM cards and 3G USIMcards, and also works for other applications such asPay-TV and government applications.

The new microcontroller is the only product of itstype to offer a combination of on board ROM (32Kbytes), Flash (8K bytes) and EEPROM (56K bytes).

Contact$ Benoit Makowka Atmel Corporation

% + 33 (0)4 42 53 60 00! [email protected]

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Gores to Acquire VeriFone

Gores Technology Group (GTG), a privately heldinternational acquisition and management com-pany, has signed a definitive agreement to acquireVeriFone, a leading global provider of secureelectronic-payment solutions for financial instit-utions, merchants and consumers, from Hewlett-Packard Company for an undisclosed amount ofcash.

Pierre-Francois Catte, VeriFone’s General Manager,said that the parties are working to ensure that theacquisition by GTG would not result in any dis-ruptions of service, product shipments, or changesin the business relationships with VeriFone’spartners and customers.

Completion of the transaction is subject to regulatoryapprovals and other customary conditions.

Contact$ Lindsay Cunningham VeriFone

% +1 408 919 8821! [email protected]

$ Michael Sitrick Sitrick and Company (for GTG)% +1 310 788 2850! [email protected]

WearLogic Announces Shopcarte

WearLogic has announced Shopcarte, a device thatprovides Smart Card-based loyalty capabilities thatare instantly compatible with the millions ofcheckout lanes that already have bar code couponscanning equipment. This addresses one of theprimary barriers to Smart Card penetration of theUS financial services and retail credit card markets- acceptance of Smart Cards at retail points-of-sale.

WearLogic’s Shopcarte presents a way to rapidlyimplement Smart Card-based coupons, discounts,or special offers by delivering compatibility withvirtually every merchant in the US that takes couponstoday using bar code scanners.

The first Shopcarte product, the Merchant Shopcartedevice, will be placed at the checkout counter. It iseasy to install, requires only batteries, does not needa network connection, is easy to program, andrequires little training. When a card is inserted intothe device two special traffic lights on the boxindicate whether the Smart Card has been correctlyinserted. After seeing the green light, the sales person

points the bar code scanner at the Shopcarte device,capturing the electronic bar code coupon. Thecardholder then uses their card in the standard cardPOS terminal to pay as usual.

The Merchant Shopcarte will be available in June,and a Personal Shopcarte device is also planned.

Contact$ Debra Montner Montner & Associates

% +1 203 226 9290 ! [email protected]

Oberthur AuthentIC Web Pack

Oberthur Card Systems has introduced AuthentICWeb Pack, a ‘ready-to-go’ solution for secure net-work access and payment for online goods andservices via any type of Internet access devices suchas PCS, PDAs, dual-slot mobile phones or Set Topboxes.

The Web Pack, comprising an open-platform basedSmart Card (available on Java and MULTOS),reader and software that can be tailored to individual’requirements, 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 applic-ations alongside the cryptographic authenticationfunctionality, the Smart Card also permits face-to-face payment at a point of sale. Further applicationssupported are: electronic purse, loyalty, networksecurity, PayTV, 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]

Oberthur Appointment

Oberthur Card Systems of America has appointedLeo Legaspi Director of Business Development forits wireless and e-business Smart Card divisions.Recently, he led wireless business development forGemplus. He has also held strategic planning andmarketing positions at NYNEX.

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Keyware Acquires DMP

Keyware has acquired Data Management andProcessing (DMP), a provider of Smart Card author-isation services for merchants and card issuers. Thiswill allow the company to offer secure biometricauthentication in addition to providing authorisationfor each customer card transaction.

Contact$ Liz Marshall Keyware


BioPassword for Windows 2000

Net Nanny Software International is now shippingBioPassword for Windows 2000 clients running onWindows NT servers and plans to provide furtherreleases later this year.

BioPassword software authentication measures theunique way in which people type. While it providessecurity on its own, it can be combined with PublicKey Infrastructure (PKI), Smart Cards, digital sig-natures, tokens and other user authentication devices,which require the use of some form of PIN orpassword.

Contact$ Nika Herford Net Nanny Software

% +1 425 688 3008! [email protected]

BioID Authentication Software

BioID America has introduced BioID Enterprise 3.0biometric authentication software and the first multi-modal authentication solution designed to be integ-rated with existing security measures deployed bythe financial and healthcare sectors and governmentagencies.

The technology simultaneously analyses three bio-metric traits - face, voice and lip movement - foreasy-to-use secure authentication in networks, web-based networks and physical access. A reducedtemplate size enables BioID Enterprise 3.0 to bestored on a Smart Card.

Contact$ Scott Williams BioID AG

! [email protected]! www.bioid.com

SafeNet Selects BioNetrix

SafeNet has announced a development partnershipwith BioNetrix Systems Corporation for the integ-ration of SafeNet’s SecureIP technology with BioNetrix’s authentication management platform.

The agreement will give SafeNet customers the flex-ibility to utilise several authentication technologies- biometrics (fingerprint, iris, facial and voice recog-nition), digital signatures, Smart Cards and tokens -manufactured by a variety of companies.

Contact$ Maureen Kolb SafeNet

% +1 410 931 1103! [email protected]

$ Cheryl Bredehoeft BioNetrix% +1 703 734 9200, ext. 155! [email protected]

Biometrics at Point-of-sale

VeriStar, a provider of multi-channel payment auth-entication services, has announced that it will workwith Hypercom Corporation to enable consumerpayment authentication services and pay-by-touchat the point-of-sale.

Hypercom now looks to add biometrics as anothervoluntary method of consumer payment at themerchant countertop.

Contact$ Frank Pierce VeriStar Corporation


Cherry and Siemens Team

Cherry and Siemens are collaborating to jointlydevelop fingerprint recognition technology such asSiemens FingerTIP system for Cherry’s keyboardsenabling secure access to Personal Computers andnetworks by replacing passwords and PINs.

The FingerTIP system stores information on thefingerprint in encrypted (Triple DES) form.

Contact$ Cherry Electrical Products

% +44 (0)1582 763100& +44 (0)1582 768883

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Wireless Smart Card Reader

SCM Microsystems has shipped the E-25, the firstpersonal multi-functional Smart Card reader whichcan be worn around the neck as a corporate badgeor attached to a belt. It features a keypad for securePIN code entry and an LCD to read data from thecard. It also features a Radio Frequency transmitterto open doors, access courses for students or facilitate‘on the spot’ payment in cafeterias or on publictransport.

The E-25 can be connected to a computer via USBor RS-232 serial ports for conventional Smart Cardapplications such as secure authentication to net-works, Internet payment or e-couponing downloadsand loyalty applications.

Mladen Filipan, SCM’s Executive Vice President ofPC security, said: “This one device will literallypermit secure access to any service, from anywherein the world. The E-25 reader is absolutely uniquein the market.”

Contact$ Darby Dye SCM Microsystems

% +1 510 360 2302! [email protected]

Nomad and Hypercom Partner

Nomad Software and Hypercom Corporation arepartnering to deliver end-to-end EMV (Europay/MasterCard/Visa) PoS acquiring solutions to bankspreparing to meet the EMV migration timescales foracquiring by 2002. Nomad will provide its paymentsprocessing software with Hypercom providing SmartCard capable payment terminals and networkingequipment.

Contact$ Ian Slater Nomad Software

% +44 (0)20 7292 2400! [email protected]

Health Card in Italy

Incard S.p.A. the Italian Smart Card manufacturer,Incard, has started to supply 320,000 PDC healthcards to Regione Lombardia, the first Italian regionadopting a Smart Card to simplify diagnostic pro-cedure and to improve efficiency of the Italian healthsystem.

In order to ensure interoperability, the card is com-pliant with Netlink standard, which is operating inItaly, France, Germany and Canada.

Netlink defines two types of cards; HPC (HealthProfessional Card) used to identify and certify thedoctor to the health system, and PDC (Patient DataCard) used to contain cardholder data, emergencydata (i.e. blood group) and administrative data andclinical data (hospital admission).

Contact$ Mariarosaria Risi Incard

% +39 823 630111! [email protected]

EMV Approval for VeriFone

VeriFone has received EMV Level 2 Type Approvalwith EMVCo for VeriFone SoftPay EMV e-paymentsoftware for all VeriFone terminals using the Verixoperating environment, starting with the VeriFoneOmni 3350 multi-application payment terminal.

Contact$ Jennifer Gordon Eastwick PR

% +1 650 480 4012! [email protected]

Multi-Application Smart Card Suite

A group of companies - Oasis Technology, Silverline,Giesecke & Devrient, Smart Chip Technologies,Ingenico and Cardis - have announced an alliance todevelop and market an Internet capable, multi-application Smart Card payment suite under theproject name Solstice

The companies plan to integrate EMV (Europay/MasterCard/Visa) card payments with loyalty pro-grams and micropayments on a single microchip.The payment suite will also include merchant,acquiring, issuing and settlement systems for thephysical, virtual and mobile worlds.

Ashraf Dimitri, President and CEO of Oasis Tech-nology, explained: “Consumers are demanding asingle secure card for all payment values and loyaltyapplications that can seamlessly function in both thephysical and virtual worlds.”

Contact$ Oasis Technology Ltd.

! www.oasis-technology.com

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ORGA Awarded Orange Contract

UK GSM mobile phone operator Orange, hascommissioned ORGA to build up the SIMteligenceCentre enabling customers not only to register butalso to personalise hundreds of services from trafficreports and restaurant guides to stock marketinformation - online by mobile phone, the Internetor over the counter.

“This will make the mobile telephone a personalassistant in everyday life,” predicted Graham Carson,ORGA’s UK Managing Director.

In mobile banking, for example, a customer can storebank code, account number and PIN on one electronicform and retrieve data at the press of a button.

Contact$ Emma Hutcheson ORGA Card Systems

% +44 (0)118 377 6000

Nortel GSM Contracts in China

China Mobile, the largest wireless carrier in China,has awarded Nortel Networks new contracts estim-ated at more than US $105 million for majorexpansions of GSM digital cellular networks inHebei, Anhui and Guizhou provinces.

The Hebei contract calls for Nortel to implement theseventh expansion of the province’s GSM 900/1800dual-band digital network, covering five southerncities and increasing network subscriber capacity byone million to a total of five million subscribers.

In Anhui and Guizhou provinces, Nortel will enhanceexisting GSM 900 networks to deliver GSM900/1800 dual-band wireless services. It will alsoincrease Anhui’s network capacity by 140,000subscribers to a total of 300,000, and Guizhou’s by330,000 to a total of 930,000.

Nortel has also won a contract from Ningbo Unicomestimated at more than US $31 million to expand itsGSM 900/1800 dual-band digital cellular networkwhich will increase network capacity by 350,000subscribers to a total of 910,000.

Contact$ Beatrice Germain

% +33 (0)1 39 44 40 28! [email protected]

Wireless Village Initiative

Ericsson, Motorola, and Nokia have establishedWireless Village, the Mobile Instant Messaging andPresence (IMPS) initiative, to define and promote aset of universal specifications for mobile instantmessaging and presence services and create acommunity of supporters.

The specifications will be used for exchangingmessages and presence information between mobiledevices, mobile services and Internet-based instantmessaging services.

The Wireless Village initiative will deliver anarchitectural specification, protocol specifications,as well as test specifications and tools for mobileIMPS.

Contact$ Peter Bodor Ericsson Mobile

% +46 8 404 24 23! [email protected]

$ David Rudd Motorola% +1 847 576 7089! [email protected]

$ Jyrki Rosenberg Nokia Ventures Organisation% +358 7180 62865! [email protected]

UK Supermarket Home Delivery

Waitrose, the food retail division of the John LewisPartnership, plans to capture a significant share ofthe British grocery market, worth approximately £95billion a year when it launches a home delivery servicein partnership with LMS Solutions

Versatile Mobile Systems (Canada) Inc, a leadingmobile commerce solutions provider, is to provideLMS with software and integration services. Theinitial contract includes an enterprise license forVersatile’s “Delivery Director” mobile commercesolution, as well as enterprise server software.

Versatile will provide a mobile wide area comm-unications infrastructure that will give LMS theability to track deliveries wirelessly over the GSMnetwork, thereby creating a unique home deliverysystem with exceptional customer service.

Contact$ Ted Moorhouse Versatile Mobile Systems

% +1 604 683 2915! [email protected]

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Diary of Events

June4 - 6 - Mobile Comerce World USA Conference andExhibition, Boston, USA Web: www.mobilecommerceworld.com/mobilecomNAmerica_2001/

27 - 29 - Latin Cards 2001, World Trade Center, Mexico City Bernhard Seifert, Exhibitions Manager Tel: +52 85-89-86-70 Fax: +52 85-89-86-79 E-mail: [email protected]

July9 - 12 - RSA Conference 2001, Asia, Singapore InternationalConvention and Exhibition Centre - Suntec City, Singapore Web: www.rsasecurity.com/conference/rsa2001/asia/

August6 - 8 - Mobile Commerce World Australia, Cards Australiaand iSec Australia Conferences and Exhibition, Sydney,Australia Web: www.mobilecommerceworld.com/mcw_au2001/

September17 - 20 - SmartCards Expo 2001, Hotel Taj Palace, NewDehli, India Tel: 91-22-386 0436, 385 1781, 380 0556/57Fax: 91-22-380 1782, 636 0478E-mail: [email protected]

25 - 27 - Mobile Commerce World Europe 2001 Conferenceand Exhibition, London, UK Web: www.mobilecommerceworld.com/mobilecom_2001/

26 - 28 New! - ISSE 2001: Information Security SolutionsEuropea, QEII Conference Centre, London, UK Tel: +44 (0) 1386 793028. E-mail : [email protected] Web: www.eema.org/isse

October3 - 5 - Mobile Commerce World Africa Conference andExhibition, Johannesburg, South Africa Web: www.terrapinn.co.za/event/E842/

15 - 18 - RSA Conference and Expo, Amsterdam, TheNetherlands. Web: www.rsasecurity.com/conference/rsa2001/europe/

17 - 19 - Compsec 2001 - International IT SecurityConference, QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London,UK E-mail: [email protected]/ www.compsec2001.com

24 - 26 - Mobile Commerce World Scandinavia Conferenceand Exhibition, Stockholm, Sweden Web: www.mobilecommerceworld.com/MCWScandinavia/

November5 - 7 - The 1st Smart Card Technology India 2001 Expo, NewDelhi, India. Prem Behl, Managing Director, ExhibitionsIndia Tel : +91 11 463 8680-84. Fax : +91 11 462 3320/463 3506E-mail: [email protected]: www.exhibitionsindia.org

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