Indian ePassport trials set for 2007

India has indicated that it will soon begin its conversion to electronic passports

Test methods for ePassports and readers available

Test methods for ePassports and readers now available, but won’t become part of ICAO doc 9303

Muehlbauer personalizes Norway's drivers licence

Muehlbauer is to personalize Norway’s new polycarbonate drivers licence cards

PIVMAN System to be deployed in LA

CoreStreet’s PIVMAN System has been selected for the City of Los Angeles Urban Area Security Initiative, where it will be deployed with SuperCom’s mobile credentialing system.

New ID cards for Dutch defence employees

New ID cards for Dutch defence employees. Award given to Siemens Business Services

Healthcare getting smarter in Germany

The German government’s plans to launch one of the most extensive e-health projects in the world has boosted a number of major smart card companies.

Nigerian SID to use Cogent readers

Cogent fingerprint technology integrated by 3M Corporation for use in Nigerian Seafarers’ Identity Document programme

New member for GlobalPlatform

Fargo Electronics has joined international standards body GlobalPlatform as a participating member and will add its voice to the work of the organisation’s systems committee.

Smart Card Alliance urges US government rethink

The Smart Card Alliance has called on the US government to rethink its proposed passport card using long-range RFID technology.

Gemalto inks driver license deal

The Norwegian authorities have awarded Gemalto a contract to provide its polycarbonate cards, based on Setec technology, for driver’s licenses in Norway

G&D given health card green light

Gematik, the company founded by the German government to administer the infrastructure of the country’s electronic health care insurance cards, has given G&D the green light to issue its health care smart cards in designated test regions.

Norway opts for Motorola

Motorola has been awarded a contract to provide technology for the collection and verification of biometric data for Norwegian passports, visas and other travel documents.

Muehlbauer scores RFID production line order

Muehlbauer technology group has received its first order for a complete RFID Smart Label production line for the Chinese market.

Digital tachograph market builds pace

The European digital tachograph market is building pace, with almost 3000 digital tachographs being issued in Slovenia alone between May 2006 and October 2006.

GlobalPlatform votes in new board of directors

GlobalPlatform has named its new board of directors for the 2007 financial year, following annual elections for six of the eleven board seats. The organisation has also confirmed the GlobalPlatform board officers for the same period.

TSSI teams up with Regula and Luminescence UK

Luminescence UK, Regula and TSSI Systems have joined forces to launch a range of security products.

Smartrac supplies millions of inlays to USA

Smartrac obtains a major order to supply several million ePassport inlays for the United States’ ePass project

US Executive Branch selects Gemalto

The highest-ranking agency within the US Executive Branch of government has selected Gemalto to provide card management services in compliance with HSPD-12.

G&D opens doors to new Slovak plant

G&D has opened a new card production facility in Nitra, Slovakia to meet the needs of an increasingly price sensitive market.

Lithuania opts for Bundesdruckerei

Bundesdruckerei to develop an e-sticker for Lithuanian biometric passports