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13/10/10
OTI inks US$2 million deal
OTI receives more than US$2 million follow-on orders for ePassport personalisation system and eStickers
6/10/10
Italy taps Green Bit for ePassport technology
Green Bit Biometric Systems selected to supply biometric enrolment technology for Italy’s ePassport project.
27/09/10
MaxID gears up for Croatia deployment
MaxID confirms sale of iDL500 multimodal computers for deployment in Croatian border management application.
27/09/10
Space Hellas awarded Greek N-VIS contract
Greece awards 7.958 million € deal to Space Hellas for the implementation of its National Visa Information System
24/09/10
Uzbekistan taps IAI
IAI Industrial Systems set to supply BookMaster One systems for new Uzbek passport.
16/09/10
Mumbai ePassports to be issued by May 2011
Mumbai ePassports to roll out from April/May next year
15/09/10
Gemalto delivers Moroccan EAC passport system
Gemalto delivers complete EAC ePassport solution for the Kingdom of Morocco
13/09/10
Suprema provides ePassport kit to South Korea
Suprema will supply biometric live scan devices and electronic passport readers to South Korea
8/09/10
Mobile biometric and document device for borders
NEC Europe launch Mobile Biometric Device (MBD) that can read all current travel documents
1/09/10
Entrust inks new Finnish deal
Entrust signs deal with VRK to implement the SPOC infrastructure required by the EU for EAC-enabled ePassports.
31/08/10
Nepal’s new passport takes step forward
Oberthur Technologies has finally struck a deal to supply machine readable passports to the Nepalese government.
30/08/10
3M enters biometric fray with Cogent acquisition
3M makes a bid to become a major player in both the security document and the biometrics market
25/08/10
Redesigned biometric passport unveiled in UK
UK Home Office unveils new passport design featuring iconic landscapes and enhanced security features.
10/08/10
SMARTRAC notches up 1 million inlays in a month
Production and shipment of high security ePassport inlays at SMARTRAC’s US plant surpassed 1 million units in a single month in July 2010.
5/08/10
US Senator introduces new passport legislation
New legislation designed to end vulnerabilities in passport issuance
2/08/10
Undercover tests show up passport issuance flaws
The US State Department still has some way to go to prevent fraudulent applications for passports
28/07/10
British Politicians: What are they saying about passports?
A look back over the last month to see what the new British government is saying about ePassports
19/07/10
Bulgaria hits the million mark
Just four months after the Bulgarian government started issuing biometric passports, the country has rolled out more than a million of the documents to its citizens.
9/07/10
ePassport and eVisa industry research findings
A new report by Acuity – “The Global ePassport and eVisa industry Report - has now been completed.
6/07/10
Oberthur wins Uzbekistan ePassport deal
Oberthur Technologies has signed a US$75.1 million Euro deal to help create Uzbekistan’s new biometric passport