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

Avalon receives $7.5 million order for BSG’s “The Vault”

Friday, August 1, 2008

Avalon Technology Group, a developer of software, manufacturing and security technologies, has received an order for $7.5 million of their biometric mouse and flash drive products. The order for the products came from the BSG Group and will be used in their nationwide identity, security and child protection service called The Vault. The service from BSG will also utilize child protection software and identity theft insurance provided by an international insurance company.


BSG intends to take on current identity theft protection market leading companies like LifeLock and Trusted ID with their new service and are expecting their multi-faceted service covering insurance, security hardware, and software. Additionally, BSG will be offering their 24 hour alert service for clients, called the Early Alert System, designed to alert clients by phone of any pertinent information regarding their security. If BSG is successful in their efforts, they have an agreement setup with Avalon for another $5 million order of biometric hardware later in the year. The Vault service is scheduled for launch on August 15th. [end] 

Gaming Partners International announced that it has received three orders to supply casino chips and plaques totaling just under $4.7 million.

The company will produce approximately 700,000 custom Bourgogne et Grasset (B&G) premium casino chips for Venetian Macau Limited’s Sands Macau and Sands Cotai properties. GPI will also produce over 80,000 B&G RFID plaques to Sociedade de Jogos de Macau, S.A. (SJM)’s Grand Lisboa property.

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HID Global has received a follow-on order for the manufacture and supply of U.S. government Permanent Resident Cards, also known as “Green Cards,” issued to all legal foreign residents of the United States under the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) border security program.

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Nigeria’s National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) announced on Wednesday at the 4th West Africa Information Communications Technology Congress 2012 that more than 100 million Nigerians lacked official identification in the country’s national identity database.

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Gaming Partners International Corporation announced that it will introduce several new products at the upcoming Global Gaming Expo (G2E) Asia exhibition in Macau, China.

GPI will release new currency security features that can be added to any of the company’s chip brands, highlighting several enhancements to its Bourgogne-et-Grasset (B&G) currency and RFID product portfolios.

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Gemalto launched the UpTeq NFC SIM vault to offer mobile operators higher security and bigger return on investment from NFC rollouts. The new SIM has attained security certifications from independent authorities to the highest levels. This enables mobile operators to install and manage new NFC services even after issuing it to end users. UpTeq NFC is immediately available. 


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In an effort to sell and/or license part of its patent portfolio, Massachusetts-based Aware Inc. has signed an agreement to sell some of its patents and patent applications to Intel Corporation for $75 million.

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