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The South African Home Affairs Department has issued 100 pilot ID Smart Cards in the first two quarters of this year. According to Director General Mkuseli Apleni, the department also used the pilot program to test the functionality and durability of the smart ID. The smart card ID system will replace the current civic and…
Suprema Inc. has won a nationwide electronic passport project for the Mexico Government. The project, steered by Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE, Ministry of Exterior) of Mexico, is aimed to develop passport issuing system for 2.7 million electronic passports across all 32 states in Mexico including the Federal District of Mexico City. With the initial…
AOptix announced that it has appointed Scott Clark as the company’s Vice President of Operations to lead production of its Identity Solutions and Communications products. “Scott joins AOptix at an exciting time,” said Dean Senner, Chairman and CEO of AOptix. “We recently announced major new deployments of our identity verification systems and we’re gearing up…
Gemalto has delivered over 25 million e-Driver’s Licenses and Vehicle Registration Certificates to India. The company has been providing these Sealys secure e-documents to multiple states across India since 2003. The Sealys smart card solution combines with the automation of business processes at decentralized regional transport offices and state level transport registers. This enables the…
Morpho announced the signing of an agreement with American Banknote Corporation to acquire its subsidiaries CPS Technologies SAS, a leader in bank card personalization in France, which employs 125 people, and ABnote Czech sro, a card manufacturing and personalization center based in the Czech Republic, which employs 85 people. With this acquisition, Morpho will enhance…
The Finnish National Police Board have once again selected the consortium of Oberthur Technologies and Morpho to provide the secure ePassport as well as the related end-to-end issuance system. Oberthur Technologies and Morpho have been providing secure e-Passports for Finland since 2006. The passport will feature a data page made from polycarbonate and incorporate a…
Identive Group, Inc., a provider of products and services for the identification, security and RFID industries, have announced at CARTES 2012 the addition of new tags to its near field communication (NFC) online marketplace, http://www.IdentiveNFC.com. NFC Social Media & Other Logo Tags – For businesses, organizations and individuals, Identive now offers fully programmable NFC social…
Infineon Technologies AG has been awarded the chip card industry’s prestigious Sesames Award 2012 for the most innovative product in the category Transportation. The SOLID FLASH™-based SLS 32TLC security controller from Infineon is the industry’s first solution that supports conventional public transportation implementations as well as CIPURSE™, the newly defined open standard for the transport…