By Gemalto The collection of taxes and duties is, by its very nature, the area in which the State has the most trouble in getting citizens onboard. The State must therefore pay particular care in order to get citizens to buy into the process and to maximize tax revenues and reduce fraud. Rather paradoxically therefore,…
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National ID Cards Enter the Digital World with Russian Project Leading the Way, Says Frost & Sullivan
Universal, multi applications cards will be the main trend on the electronic identification (eID) market for the coming years. Many European countries have introduced new ways to interact with their citizens using this cost-effective strategy to justify citizen's identity for access, payment or as a digital signature. The Universal Electronic Card (UEC) introduced recently in…
New passport personalisation machine for desktops
Up to now, most laser personalisation machines for electronic passports were big. This was not economically feasible for countries with decentralised personalisation which were in need of "desktop" machines. Bundesdruckerei GmbH has responded to this need with its new desktop personalisation machine, ME 3000 Passport. This device can offer the functionalities of a bigger machine…
Oberthur Technologies wins a Global Product Excellence Award for system-One™ in the Best Security Service category
Oberthur Technologies, a leader in the field of secure technologies, confirms its technological headway by receiving the 2011 Global Product Excellence Award for system-One™ from the industry’s leading information security guide, the Info Security Products Guide, in the Best Security Service category. The Global Excellence Awards recognize and honour security and IT vendors with innovative and ground breaking…
New fingerprint readers for Banking & Corporate segments from Precise Biometrics
Biometric systems are no longer reserved for Government users. Enterprise markets such as Banking and Corporations are increasingly seeing the benefits offered by biometric solutions. To accommodate these new opportunities, Precise Biometrics is launching a new generation of competitive fingerprint readers which are designed to meet a range of specific customer demands. The name of…
charismathics announces iEnigma for Windows Mobile, a software application for smart phones.
charismathics®, the world leader in PKI middleware, today announced iEnigma for Windows Mobile, a software application for smart phones. With iEnigma, the user turns his smart phone into a smart card. There is no need for additional hardware, the application completely replaces formerly required hardware and keeps your digital identity securely within the smart phone.…
The next generation of identity cards
By Emmanuel Ventadour, Gemalto Providing security, confidentiality and opening the door to innovative eServices Smart cards – in the form of credit cards and SIM cards – are the most common form of IT processing power on the planet. The available technology offers now the potential for a virtuous circle of increasing take-up supporting increasing…
iEnigma® – The re-invention of the smart card
By Sven Gossel, charismathics As technologies evolve, product cycles have a well known pattern: from being a star to becoming a commodity. Well – here is the next star of the industry: iEnigma® , a software application for smart phones, just turn your smart phone into your digital identity and serve all needs for the enterprise,…