Identity, Security, Payments, Biometrics, Smart Cards and Authentication News

Daimler AG Joins EPCglobal Group

Monday, November 26, 2007

Daimler AG has joined the EPCglobal group, which drives the development of electronic product codes for the RFID technology, as the first automotive manufacturer.

“The deployment of RFID technology throughout our supply chain offers the potential to improve the entire process quality and thus reduce costs,” said Michael Gorriz, CIO of Mercedes-Benz Cars & Vans, in a press release. “By joining EPCglobal, we can bring the requirements of the automotive industry into the development of automotive-specific RFID standards at an early stage. This helps us to prevent the costs associated with adjustments at a later stage of development.” [end] 

Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics Group has joined GlobalPlatform as the organization’s latest Observer Member.

The Chinese chip design company focuses on the development and manufacture of application-specific secure chips across multiple sectors, including automotive, mobile/telecoms and payment. In joining GlobalPlatform, Shanghai Fudan will bring a its knowledge and experience in the manufacture of secure chips for specific functions, further strengthening the organization’s membership base of chip manufacturers.  

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Intelleflex announced an expanding portfolio of solution offerings for automating data capture and condition monitoring and track and trace accountability for food and pharmaceutical industries.

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Denizbank, a private bank with 588 branches in Turkey, has joined Turkcell’s Cep-T Cuzdan platform, enabling its customers to make contactless payments with their NFC-enabled handsets.

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The Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT) Alliance announced that austriamicrosystems has joined as a full member.

Since joining the OSPT Alliance, austriamicrosystems will have access to the CIPURSE open standard specification, leveraging its experience into embedded systems for mobile fare collection applications. The open standard promotes vendor neutrality and cross-vendor system interoperability with reduced technology adoption risks, higher quality and improved market responsiveness.

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FIME announced it has joined GIXEL Smart Card Group, the industry organization for the promotion and development of smart card-based e-identity solutions in France.

As a partner member, FIME will work with GIXEL to develop and promote the IAS-ECC (Identification Authentication Electronic Signature – European Citizen Card) Specification, which was created by GIXEL for the French e-identity projects.

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Virgin Mobile has set a May 15 launch date for the LG Optimus Elite, the first device in the operator’s lineup to feature NFC and Google Wallet.

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