Gemalto achieves 25 million milestone for e-Driver’s licenses delivered to India

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…

Infineon’s SOLID FLASH™ security controllers for payment apps now accepted worldwide

Confirmed at Cartes 2012, Infineon Technologies have announced that bank cards issued by the German Sparkasse Verlag, Swiss Maestro debit cards and France's Carte Bancaire cards will be equipped with Infineon's new SOLID FLASH security controllers. The company also said that the products will also be shipped to projects in other European countries, North and…

Infineon wins award for first security chip compliant to CIPURSE™ standard

 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…

Cartes 2012: HID Global® showcases secure ID management solutions

HID continues to drive innovation leadership in contactless and digital technologies with its new iCLASS® SeosTM credential, the latest addition to the company's award-winning iCLASS SETM platform, at this year's CARTES & IDentification in Paris. Providing the link between the iCLASS SE platform and HID Global parent company ASSA ABLOY's Seos ecosystem for issuing, delivering…

Precise announces mobile ID verification app for Gvt. agencies and corporations

The company’s partner, Intercede has developed the new MyID® CardChecker™ App, compatible with Precise Biometrics’ Tactivo™ smart card and fingerprint reader for the iPhone and iPad.  With the MyID CardChecker app and the data encoded in the device, organizations can check and authenticate a smart card from the smartphone or tablet without the need for…

National ID cards will account for 50% of government smart cards in 2017

Adoption and migration to next generation smart national ID cards continues its strong growth, driving government-issued smart card shipments to 765 million in 2017. National ID cards will account for the lion’s share of shipments, jumping from 37% in 2012 to 50% in 2017. This is driven by new adoption and migration to next generation…

Republic of Serbia opts for tachograph solution from Trüb

With the  win of the Republic of Serbia contract, Trüb strengthens its market leadership for digital tachograph solutions, now delivering such solutions to thirteen countries worldwide. The tachograph cards from Trüb are made of polycarbonate and equipped with a chip. Since the introduction of digital tachographs in 2004, Trüb has supplied more than 3 million…

Identive’s new card readers address growing multi-function ID card market

Identive Group announced the introduction of a new family of multi-protocol LEGIC® card readers that address the growing trend in corporate, campus and other environments towards the use of a single smart ID card to perform many functions. Based on the latest advant 4000 reader IC technology from LEGIC Identsystems AG, Identive’s new readers work…