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“The expansion of our partnership directly reflects the fundamental changes that are taking place in the contactless market,” said Denis Hébert, president and CEO of HID Global. “As issuers seek to provide their customers with convenient, yet more secure platforms for cashless payment cards, it was only natural that both INSIDE and HID should partner to fulfill that existing need.”

By extending their partnership, INSIDE Contactless will be able to provide card manufacturers with access to the MicroPass contactless payment platform coupled with contactless antenna technology in prelaminate packages from HID Global, further enabling card issuers to deliver an exceptional cardholder experience within this emerging market.

Experiencing more than 40 percent growth annually, the North American contactless payment market has witnessed exponential growth driven by consumer demand for faster, easier and more convenient methods of payment. Additionally, card issuers have adopted contactless technology in an effort to add greater value for the consumer and increase revenues by replacing cash at the point of sale.

HID Global’s solutions for contactless payment, eGovernment and e-Documents, as well as its full portfolio of converged products for cashless payment, transit, access control, identification and logical access will be on display in the HID Global stand (#3H002) at CARTES & IDentification 2008 in Paris, France, from November 4 – 6. CARTES attendees are invited to visit the booth to encounter a “World of New Possibilities” enabled by HID technology.

About INSIDE Contactless
INSIDE Contactless is the global leader in open-standard contactless payment and Near Field Communication (NFC) semiconductors and software that power the next generation of payment, transit, identity and access control applications. The company’s intelligent, microprocessor-based platforms offer the flexibility to be embedded in smart cards, mobile phones and other consumer electronic devices, documents, badges and other items to support a wide range of innovative contactless applications and bring new levels of convenience to users. INSIDE has delivered more than 250 million contactless platforms worldwide to customers and partners that include many of the leading payment card and mobile phone manufacturers, systems integrators, and financial institutions. With a portfolio of 55 families of patents, including several essential NFC patents, the company has played a leading role in NFC and contactless innovation. INSIDE is headquartered in Aix-en-Provence, France, with offices in Shanghai, Singapore, Warsaw, Seoul, and Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit www.insidecontactless.com.

About HID Global
HID Global is the trusted, worldwide leader in providing solutions for the delivery of Secure Identity. The company is focused on creating customer value with product, service and know-how solutions for access and identification-related applications. Headquartered in Irvine, California, HID Global has over 2,000 employees worldwide supporting customers in more than 100 countries. HID Global is an ASSA ABLOY Group brand.

® HID and the HID logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of HID Global in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other trademarks, service marks, and product or service names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
]]> http://www.insidecontactless.com/fr//news/whatsNew_view.php?sq=107 2008-11-04T22:30:36
CARTES 2008, PARIS, France, November 4, 2008 – Beating its own earlier projection by many months, INSIDE Contactless, a leading provider of advanced, open-standard contactless chip technologies, today announced that demand for its award-winning MicroPass® intelligent payment platform has passed the 100-million unit mark in 2008, with production doubling in the second half of the year since reaching 50 million units in May 2008. MicroPass was launched at CARTES 2005, and continues to achieve unprecedented success as the industry’s platform of choice for the new generation of converged applications such as open-loop and closed-loop payments, transit payment, loyalty, access, ID and others on a single contactless card.

Already approved within multiple cards products by Visa, MasterCard and Discover Network, including all required functional, analog, performance and security requirements compliance, the MicroPass platform is the most broadly available core technology for contactless payments, powering bank cards from over 30 card issuers worldwide. More than 25 card manufacturer products powered by MicroPass are available for immediate bank card issuer adoption. Its low power and high performance, combined with the industry's fastest transaction time and outstanding read distance, enables MicroPass to deliver a superior consumer experience for credit, debit, pre-paid debit and other applications in a broad range of innovative form-factors.

“2008 has surpassed our expectations, showing greater than anticipated demand for MicroPass within the financial industry in both the U.S. and Canada,” said Charles Walton, executive vice president of payments for INSIDE Contactless. “Our new MicroPass products for innovative contactless payments on mobile and other devices (MicroPass 4003-S sticker), lightweight ICAO ID cards and documents (MicroPass 5101 and MicroPass 5102), and developer products for other extension markets (MicroPass 4001, MicroPass 5001 and developer kits) show great promise in further expanding the deployed base of MicroPass for 2009. By continuing to innovate with this versatile platform, we expect to see continued strong demand as a broad new range of exciting new standalone and converged contactless applications emerges.”
Visitors to CARTES & Identification 2008 in Paris, Nov. 4-6, can watch INSIDE demonstrate how MicroPass can be used for converged applications at any time during the exhibition at the INSIDE booth 4 L 125, located in Hall 4 of the Paris-Nord Villepinte-France Exhibition Centre. INSIDE will have technical and product experts available for discussions and demonstrations. Charles Walton will make a presentation, “Catch the Next Wave: Convergence and the Future of Contactless Payments,” on Wednesday, Nov. 5, from 12:00 to12:30 p.m. as part of the C13: Convergence conference session.

The MicroPass 4003-S combines the flexible MicroPass 4003 contactless payment processor with a tuned RF antenna and superior shielding to create a pre-punched mobile handset sticker in CR80 card format for a variety of payment sticker applications. It supports prepaid debit as well as standard debit and credit accounts, and can be used to turn mobile phone handsets or almost anything else into convenient contactless payment devices, opening the door to a variety of novel payment applications.

The new MicroPass 4001 and 5001 open-standards, application-ready contactless microprocessors and INSIDE’s development kits give developers all they need to develop and deploy a variety of standards-based contactless applications from a single platform, reducing costs and accelerating time to market. The MicroPass 4001and 5001 products make it easy for contactless card manufacturers, system integrators, technology consulting firms, card issuers, payment system providers and others to develop and deploy new, high-performance, highly secure applications.
“INSIDE Contactless continues to innovate with new form factors and open platforms to stimulate uptake of contactless technology by the payments industry, transit operators, retailers and in access control and ID applications,” said George Peabody, director, emerging technologies advisory service, Mercator Advisory Group. “While the contactless payment technology industry has shown steady growth, the firm’s progress suggests its platform is well positioned to address both ongoing card security concerns and the opportunity multi-application smart cards represent across multiple markets.”

The MicroPass intelligent payment platform is designed to power open standard contactless and dual-interface bank card payments along with other value-added applications in all global regions. Based upon a RISC architecture and optimized to the demanding requirements of contactless transactions, each of the MicroPass family of products is designed to meet the demands of issuer organizations in the bank card payments, transit, ID and access control markets.

Visa, MasterCard and American Express have all launched contactless payment initiatives, and leading banks across North America are issuing millions of contactless credit and debit cards to consumers, according to the Smart Card Alliance. Major retailers across the U.S. are installing contactless readers integrated with point-of-sale (POS) systems that can accept contactless payments. Consumers enjoy added convenience, speed and ease of use afforded by contactless payments, while issuers and merchants enjoy faster transaction times, increased spending per transaction, lower operational costs and penetration into the cash payment market.

About INSIDE Contactless

INSIDE Contactless is the global leader in open-standard contactless payment and Near Field Communication (NFC) semiconductors and software that power the next generation of payment, transit, identity and access control applications. The company’s intelligent, microprocessor-based platforms offer the flexibility to be embedded in smart cards, mobile phones and other consumer electronic devices, documents, badges and other items to support a wide range of innovative contactless applications and bring new levels of convenience to users. INSIDE has delivered more than 250 million contactless platforms worldwide to customers and partners that include many of the leading payment card and mobile phone manufacturers, systems integrators and financial institutions. With a portfolio of 55 families of patents, including several essential NFC patents, the company has played a leading role in NFC and contactless innovation. INSIDE is headquartered in Aix-en-Provence, France, with offices in Shanghai, Singapore, Warsaw, Seoul and Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit www.insidecontactless.com.
]]> http://www.insidecontactless.com/fr//news/whatsNew_view.php?sq=106 2008-11-03T00:19:13
CARTES & IDENTIFICATION 2008, Paris, November 3, 2008 – Heralding a new era of open-standard contactless application development, INSIDE Contactless, a leading provider of advanced, open-standard contactless chip technologies, today announced it is opening up its award-winning MicroPass® platform to the developer community, and providing sample MicroPass cards, development tools and technical support to advance the creation of innovative new contactless data applications. The new MicroPass 4001 and 5001 application-ready contactless microprocessors and INSIDE’s software development kit (SDK) tools give developers all they need to create and deploy a variety of standards-based contactless applications from a single platform, reducing costs and accelerating time to market.

The MicroPass platform is the only open-standard, price-optimized contactless microprocessor on the market, and the new MicroPass 4001 and 5001 products are the first proven, highly optimized, commercially deployable and scalable platforms developers can use to create their own contactless applications. Utilizing the MicroPass platform’s highly efficient 16-bit RISC microprocessor and operating system, the MicroPass 4001 provides 4-Kbytes of EEPROM and software DES encryption, while the MicroPass 5001 features a larger 8-Kbyte EEPROM and hardware accelerated DES encryption. Both products can be packaged in a variety of form factors (card, ticket, fob, sticker or wearable devices), and achieve the industry's fastest transaction time and outstanding read distance to deliver a superior user experience.
“The MicroPass platform has been proven in the bankcard industry since 2005, and its superior flexibility easily supports this extension into other application markets. With these offerings, INSIDE is providing developers with the industry’s leading contactless microprocessor platform and making it easy for them to rapidly and cost-effectively build and deploy fast, convenient, contactless transit, identity, healthcare, retail loyalty, gift card, private label payment and other applications,” said Charles Walton, executive vice president of payments for INSIDE Contactless. “Additionally, developers can combine their applications with INSIDE’s portfolio of certified contactless payment products to offer their customers the next generation of converged applications.”

Simplified, Rapid Development and Deployment

Unlike closed, proprietary solutions, the MicroPass 4001and 5001products make it easy for contactless card manufacturers, system integrators, technology consulting firms, card issuers, payment system providers and others to develop and deploy high-performance, highly secure, open-standard data applications. The products include an ISO 7816-4 file manager developers can use to implement the complex data structures and profiles found in standalone transit fare collection, retail loyalty and other applications that can be deployed individually or combined with payment applications. The file manager supports static information – frequent traveler numbers, gift card ID numbers, membership numbers, etc. – as well as dynamic information such as a transaction log, coupon, ticket or variable up/down counter values. The MicroPass 4001 and 5001 SDK tools utilize a PC-based application to support directory file structure creation, data element population, personalization script creation and sample card creation.

Legacy contactless applications in markets such as transit, healthcare and private label payments that are currently implemented using proprietary chip products can be migrated to the open-standard MicroPass platform to provide the more robust security and greater flexibility demanded within the new “Open Contactless Era” of 2009 and beyond.

Availability and Pricing

INSIDE’s MicroPass 4001 and 5001 platforms and the associated MicroPass 4001 and 5001 SDK tools are available now. For pricing and more information, please contact INSIDE Contactless.

CARTES & IDentification 2008

INSIDE Contactless will be presenting its products at CARTES and IDentification 2008 in Paris, November 4-6, 2008 in Hall 4, Booth 4 L 125.

About INSIDE Contactless

INSIDE Contactless is the global leader in open-standard contactless payment and Near Field Communication (NFC) semiconductors and software that power the next generation of payment, transit, identity and access control applications. The company’s intelligent, microprocessor-based platforms offer the flexibility to be embedded in smart cards, mobile phones and other consumer electronic devices, documents, badges and other items to support a wide range of innovative contactless applications and bring new levels of convenience to users. INSIDE has delivered more than 250 million contactless platforms worldwide to customers and partners that include many of the leading payment card and mobile phone manufacturers, systems integrators and financial institutions. With a portfolio of 55 families of patents, including several essential NFC patents, the company has played a leading role in NFC and contactless innovation. INSIDE is headquartered in Aix-en-Provence, France, with offices in Shanghai, Singapore, Warsaw, Seoul and Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit www.insidecontactless.com.
]]> http://www.insidecontactless.com/fr//news/whatsNew_view.php?sq=105 2008-10-30T09:00:23 AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, October 30th, 2008 – Working to ensure the continued growth and acceptance of Near Field Communication (NFC), INSIDE Contactless, the world leader in advanced open-standard contactless chip technologies, and FIME, a leading smartcard and terminal testing solutions provider, today announced they are joining forces in a partnership designed to speed up the attainment of NFC interoperability. Through this partnership, the two companies will combine their expertise and leadership to identify and resolve potential conflicts in the interoperability of NFC devices, and develop a comprehensive process, support and service portfolio for testing and certifying NFC mobile handsets.
INSIDE and FIME will work in close cooperation with their customers in this partnership to help develop the most effective test and certification process, and plan to present a first version of this process and associated tools and services to their common customers early next year. Through this cooperative effort, INSIDE and FIME will be able to offer their customers greater visibility into the testing and certification requirements at an early stage during development of their NFC mobile handset products, and provide them with products, tools, know-how and services to ensure compliance. The partnership also intends to consult with various standards bodies, including the NFC Forum, ETSI, ISO and payment and transport associations, providing valuable results based on their experience to boost or amend current certification standards.
“As the leaders in our respective areas of expertise, we are in the best position to undertake this crucial task for the benefit of the entire NFC ecosystem,” said Philippe Martineau, executive vice president of the NFC Business line at INSIDE Contactless. “By developing this comprehensive test and certification process, our customers will be able to avoid the kinds of early market problems that plagued other technologies by ensuring interoperability of NFC devices from day one.”
NFC devices not only have to comply with the NFC Forum’s requirements and include the minimum interoperability level, but also with ETSI standards for HCI and SWP protocols. In addition, they need to be able to cohabitate with traditional NFC applications, as well as a large range of legacy applications and infrastructure combining payment, transport, access control, loyalty and other applications.
On top of all those requirements, there is the issue of connecting to the SIM card or other secure element (SE). As a result, the complex relationship between the NFC chip and the handset application framework requires a new dimension in testing to ensure an optimal interoperability level for contactless applications. To reach the full promise of NFC from day one, this interoperability issue has to be taken into account for the entire NFC device design, manufacturing and go-to-market process.
“Our partnership is uniquely positioned to embark on this mission, bringing to bear not only our combined expertise in NFC technology, but also early access to customers engaged in NFC product developments who need to ensure interoperability when they go to market,” said Vincent Poty, sales director at FIME. “Through our partnership, INSIDE will be able to provide an optimal interoperability level for their NFC chips and tags to ensure their customers develop NFC-compliant products, and FIME will be able to market the test tools and test services these customers will need to ensure NFC interoperability.”
NFC is a short-range wireless connectivity technology standard designed for intuitive, simple and safe communication between electronic devices. INSIDE holds essential patents for the development of NFC, and is deeply involved in helping to create the standard. NFC communication is enabled by bringing two NFC compatible devices within a few centimeters of one another. Applications of NFC technology include contactless transactions such as payment and transit ticketing, simple and fast data transfers, including calendar synchronization or electronic business cards, and access to online digital content.
INSIDE’s innovative next-generation MicroRead™ NFC chip uses Near Field Communication for proximity transactions and interactions. Incorporated into mobile phones or consumer electronics devices, it enables them to operate like RF readers and contactless smart cards to cover the large range of NFC applications and much more. Through its service offerings, INSIDE’s extensive experience with NFC technology enables mobile phone manufacturers to develop a reliable design quickly and cost effectively.
FIME’s NFC testing solutions support the fast development of NFC products enabling mobile payment. FIME is an active member of the NFC Forum and takes part in NFC pilots with mobile phone manufacturers and banks. FIME offers a broad range of testing, consulting and design services and testing tools.
About FIME
FIME is a global provider of test solutions for the smart card, RFID and NFC markets. With a total offer covering tests, tools distribution, consulting and outsourced R&D, FIME is a genuine business catalyst. A pioneer in smart card testing services in the 1990s, FIME is today well advanced in the field of contactless testing. With over 100 employees on three continents, FIME provides a solution adapted to customers’ local needs. FIME offers the stability of a company which is part of Orange Business Services, as well as the functional flexibility of autonomous teams strongly implicated in your project. For more information, visit www.fime.com.
About INSIDE Contactless
INSIDE Contactless is the global leader in open-standard contactless payment and Near Field Communication (NFC) semiconductors and software that power the next generation of payment, transit, identity and access control applications. The company’s intelligent, microprocessor-based platforms offer the flexibility to be embedded in smart cards, mobile phones and other consumer electronic devices, documents, badges and other items to support a wide range of innovative contactless applications and bring new levels of convenience to users. INSIDE has delivered more than 250 million contactless platforms worldwide to customers and partners that include many of the leading payment card and mobile phone manufacturers, systems integrators, and financial institutions. With a portfolio of 55 families of patents including several essential NFC patents, the company has played a leading role in NFC and contactless innovation. INSIDE is headquartered in Aix-en-Provence, France, with offices in Shanghai, Singapore, Warsaw, Seoul, and Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit www.insidecontactless.com
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]]> http://www.insidecontactless.com/fr//news/whatsNew_view.php?sq=104 2008-10-28T03:17:29 AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, October 28, 2008 – With “A Converging Contactless Life” as its theme, INSIDE Contactless, a leading provider of advanced, open-standard contactless chip technologies, will highlight its vision for the future of contactless payments at CARTES & Identification Congress 2008 with demonstrations of it MicroPass® multi-application contactless payment processor and a presentation by INSIDE executive vice president of payments, Charles Walton. The hands-on MicroPass product displays will exemplify this award-winning payment platform’s role as one of the principal drivers of the next wave of multi-application contactless payment cards, transit cards and access cards, and reaffirm INSIDE’s leadership position at the forefront of this convergence trend.
Visitors to CARTES & Identification 2008 in Paris, Nov. 4-6, can watch the INSIDE MicroPass demonstrations at any time during the exhibition at the INSIDE booth 4 L 125, located in Hall 4 of the Paris-Nord Villepinte-France Exhibition Centre. INSIDE will have technical and product experts available for discussions and demonstrations. Charles Walton will make his presentation, “Catch the Next Wave: Convergence and the Future of Contactless Payments,” on Wednesday, Nov. 5, from 12:00 to12: 30 p.m. as part of the C13: Convergence conference session.
“INSIDE sees a ‘perfect storm’ brewing where the next wave of contactless payment cards, transit cards, access cards and ID cards will converge within multi-application cards, sticker devices and NFC-enabled mobile phones,” said Charles Walton, executive vice president of payments for INSIDE Contactless. “Combined payment/transit, payment/loyalty, payment/access and transit/access cards offer strong value to users through greater simplicity and convenience, and we believe our versatile, multi-application MicroPass platform is the most practical solution for implementing them.”
INSIDE will present four demonstrations designed to illustrate the flexibility of its MicroPass platform to accommodate a broad range of application combinations. One demonstration will highlight a payment/loyalty combination, showing how customers can order coffee drinks based on their preferences, receive loyalty credits and pay for them with the same card. Another demo combines payment, loyalty and access control on a single card, showing how frequent travelers can book and pay for their tickets, select their seats and gain entry to the airline’s club lounge using a single card. The campus demo shows how students can use a single card to use various campus facilities, such as checking out library books, logging in to the campus network, gaining access to various buildings or paying for lunch at the cafeteria. The payment/transit demo shows how a single card can be used for both local transit system and open-loop payments.
With more than 20,000 visitors from over 140 countries, CARTES & IDentification Congress 2008 is the number one professional event in the world for digital security, smart card and contactless technologies. This year’s Congress turns the spotlight on the largest payment card market in the world as its guest of honor, the United States, which has rapidly adopted contactless payments and understands the potential of smart cards for security and access control.
About INSIDE Contactless
INSIDE Contactless is the global leader in open-standard contactless payment and Near Field Communication (NFC) semiconductors and software that power the next generation of payment, transit, identity and access control applications. The company’s intelligent, microprocessor-based platforms offer the flexibility to be embedded in smart cards, mobile phones and other consumer electronic devices, documents, badges and other items to support a wide range of innovative contactless applications and bring new levels of convenience to users. INSIDE has delivered more than 250 million contactless platforms worldwide to customers and partners that include many of the leading payment card and mobile phone manufacturers, systems integrators and financial institutions. With a portfolio of 55 families of patents, including several essential NFC patents, the company has played a leading role in NFC and contactless innovation. INSIDE is headquartered in Aix-en-Provence, France, with offices in Shanghai, Singapore, Warsaw, Seoul and Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit www.insidecontactless.com.
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AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, October 21st, 2008 – Moving to expand its position in the near field communication (NFC) market in North America, INSIDE Contactless, a leading provider of advanced, open-standard contactless chip technologies, today named two top sales and marketing executives for the company’s NFC business line. INSIDE appointed Andy Germano, an executive with more than 21 years of experience in wireless and telecom marketing as vice president of sales and business development, and named Bob Locascio, who has more than 15 years of strategic, technology and team leadership experience, as director of product marketing and business development.
“We are delighted to welcome Andy to the team, and expect to benefit greatly from his broad experience,” said Didier Serra, executive vice president, sales, and general manager for the U.S. “Andy’s extensive experience in the telecommunications and technology industries make him uniquely qualified for developing INSIDE’s share of the emerging North American NFC market.”
Mr. Germano will lead INSIDE’s North American sales and business development efforts, focusing on securing NFC business from leading handset providers, promoting INSIDE products and executing marketing strategies with members of the NFC ecosystem, such as carriers, banks, and payment brands, and developing new business opportunities emerging from the consumer electronics market.
“The NFC market holds tremendous opportunities for INSIDE and I am pleased to join the company,” said Andy Germano. “INSIDE will play a critical role in helping to shape the North American NFC market and I anticipate much success.”
Mr. Germano joins INSIDE from AuthenTec, a leading provider of fingerprint sensors and solutions, where he participated in the company’s recent initial public offering. Prior to AuthenTec, Mr. Germano led sales and marketing teams for several start-up companies, including WiDeFi, Tantivy, and BEC Technologies. He also held numerous marketing positions at Verizon (GTE), Nortel, and Qualcomm. Mr. Germano earned a bachelor’s degree from Saint Vincent College, a second bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from Duke University.
Bob Locascio will help lead INSIDE’s marketing and business development efforts in North America, working closely with handset makers, regional standard bodies and industry forums and other ecosystem partners, supporting regional sales efforts in promoting INSIDE’s NFC offerings and providing valuable feedback to the product group.
Prior to joining INSIDE, Mr. Locascio’s experience included leading the creation and execution of new business and solution strategies for Agilent Technologies’ $1 billion wireless test equipment business. As president and executive director of the Telematics Suppliers Consortium, Mr. Locascio planned, formed and led this organization to establish and promote an industry-standard architecture for the wireless in-vehicle information and entertainment market. Mr. Locascio also held a number of engineering and management positions at Motorola. Mr. Locascio holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
“NFC is a primary area of focus for INSIDE Contactless, and we welcome Bob Locascio to the team,” said Andre Ponton, Vice-President, Key Account Management for the NFC Business Line, “Throughout his career, Bob has established vast contacts and built strong relationships in the wireless industry which will be invaluable to INSIDE as we work to promote NFC for handsets and other mobile devices in the North American market.”

About INSIDE Contactless
INSIDE Contactless is the global leader in open-standard contactless payment and Near Field Communication (NFC) semiconductors and software that power the next generation of payment, transit, identity and access control applications. The company’s intelligent, microprocessor-based platforms offer the flexibility to be embedded in smart cards, mobile phones and other consumer electronic devices, documents, badges and other items to support a wide range of innovative contactless applications and bring new levels of convenience to users. INSIDE has delivered more than 250 million contactless platforms worldwide to customers and partners that include many of the leading payment card and mobile phone manufacturers, systems integrators and financial institutions. With a portfolio of 55 families of patents, including several essential NFC patents, the company has played a leading role in NFC and contactless innovation. INSIDE is headquartered in Aix-en-Provence, France, with offices in Shanghai, Singapore, Warsaw, Seoul and Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit www.insidecontactless.com.]]> http://www.insidecontactless.com/fr//news/whatsNew_view.php?sq=102 2008-10-16T03:26:02 Association Award Recognizes Development of Outstanding Applications
Using Advanced Card Technologies


AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, October 16, 2008 – INSIDE Contactless, a leading provider of advanced, open-standard contactless chip technologies, today announced that the company was recognized by ACT Canada, a nonprofit stakeholders membership organization that serves as the authority on contactless technology in the Canadian market, as winner of its Lorne Boates Award. The award validates INSIDE's role as a thought leader and innovator in contactless applications and its impact on the Canadian contactless market.
“INSIDE's MicroPass® contactless payment platform has rapidly commanded a market-leading position in Canada, helping to create adoption momentum for contactless solutions,” said Catherine Johnston, president and CEO, ACT Canada. “The company's committed efforts in meeting the needs of Canadian bank card issuers and consumers made it a compelling choice for the Lorne Boates Award.”
The INSIDE MicroPass contactless platform was chosen by Canadian issuers and card manufacturers because it was fully certified, secure, and available in abundant quantities to meet aggressive time-to-market deadlines. Coupled with the platform’s proven performance in global markets, INSIDE MicroPass has emerged as the platform of choice for contactless payment in Canada. MicroPass platforms already power thousands of contactless consumer transactions in Canada’s grocery, restaurant, theater, gas stations, and retail outlets.
"We are delighted with the award and pleased to play such an integral role in Canada's adoption of contactless technology,” said Kim Madore, vice president of sales and business development, Canada, for INSIDE Contactless. "As Canada continues its migration to EMV, we will continue to work closely with card issuers and other organizations to support their requirements and simplify convergence of EMV and other non-contactless applications."
The ACT Lorne Boates Award was presented to INSIDE Contactless at ACT Canada's Cardware 08: Securing Payment conference, held October 8-9 in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

About ACT Canada
ACT Canada is the authority on the Canadian market, supporting our members through working with key stakeholders. The organization helps members understand the market, public and private sector applications and potential barriers. It facilitates knowledge transfer and thought leadership through a neutral forum, while expanding members’ networks. Founded in 1989, ACT Canada is a non-profit membership association.

About INSIDE Contactless
INSIDE Contactless is the global leader in open-standard contactless payment and Near Field Communication (NFC) semiconductors and software that power the next generation of payment, transit, identity and access control applications. The company’s intelligent, microprocessor-based platforms offer the flexibility to be embedded in smart cards, mobile phones and other consumer electronic devices, documents, badges and other items to support a wide range of innovative contactless applications and bring new levels of convenience to users. INSIDE has delivered more than 250 million contactless platforms worldwide to customers and partners that include many of the leading payment card and mobile phone manufacturers, systems integrators, and financial institutions. With a portfolio of 55 families of patents, including several essential NFC patents, the company has played a leading role in NFC and contactless innovation. INSIDE is headquartered in Aix-en-Provence, France, with offices in Shanghai, Singapore, Warsaw, Seoul, and Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit www.insidecontactless.com.

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]]> http://www.insidecontactless.com/fr//news/whatsNew_view.php?sq=101 2008-10-14T03:42:15 AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, and LITTLETON, Colo., October 14, 2008 – CPI Card Group (CPI), a global leader in financial and commercial card production and services, and INSIDE Contactless, a leading provider of advanced, open-standard contactless chip technologies, today announced a partnership to create the industry’s first contactless sticker product for open-loop (branded bank card) payments. CPI anticipates volume production of the stickers, which are based upon INSIDE’s new MicroPass® payment sticker technology.
INSIDE’s sticker technology, which was announced last week, combines the flexible MicroPass 4003 contactless payment processor with a tuned RF antenna in a compact, shielded prelam for payment sticker applications. INSIDE’s innovative shielding design improves performance by protecting the chip and antenna inside the sticker from interference that might be caused by the metals and radio signals within mobile phones and other electronic devices. CPI has established a scalable operational process for producing these payment stickers based upon MicroPass prelams delivered from INSIDE. The sticker devices are delivered from CPI already pre-cut from ID1 card devices and pre-personalized to allow for fulfillment using traditional card fulfillment equipment and processes.
“CPI Card Group offers the largest production capacity in North America, and would not be making this kind of investment if we weren’t confident of the magnitude of this market opportunity,” said Bob Clarke, vice president of sales and marketing at CPI Card Group. “Our project management and manufacturing expertise combined with INSIDE’s technology leadership and support has enabled us to go from prototype engineering samples to developing and introducing a real payment sticker product in a very short time.”
According to Clarke, CPI Card Group will be delivering its first MicroPass-based payment stickers to a global leader in electronic commerce and payment services, and anticipates orders from several other leading card issuers in North America. Clarke also noted that while the initial payment stickers will provide open-loop payment applications, CPI intends to produce stickers that combine open-loop payments with other applications, such as transit, gift card and loyalty, as well as other closed-loop applications.
“CPI has been a valuable partner of ours for more than four years, and we appreciate their confidence in our technology and their significant efforts to bring this first open-loop payment sticker product to market so quickly,” said Didier Serra, general manager and executive vice president of sales, Americas for INSIDE Contactless. “We share CPI’s enthusiasm for this technology’s potential, and look forward to working with them on future payment and multi-application sticker solutions based on our MicroPass platform.”
Since it was first launched at CARTES in November of 2005, the award-winning MicroPass intelligent payment platform has achieved its unprecedented success by continuing to deliver superior performance and flexibility, and is now the platform of choice for certified card manufacturers around the world.

About CPI Card Group
CPI, a global leader in financial and commercial card production, issuance, and services, offers a single source for plastic cards from foil cards and holograms, to translucent and smart cards. CPI’s production sites include Denver, Colorado; Fort Wayne, Indiana; Las Vegas, Nevada; Colchester, England; Liverpool, England; and Toronto, Canada. CPI Card Group produces high-quality, general-purpose, magnetic stripe and smart cards for many applications. Certified to produce contactless products, CPI specializes in distinctive cards and offers the largest production capacity in North America. CPI’s plants in Colorado and Nevada are ISO 9001:2000 certified. For more information, visit www.cpicardgroup.com.
About INSIDE Contactless
INSIDE Contactless is the global leader in open-standard contactless payment and Near Field Communication (NFC) semiconductors and software that power the next generation of payment, transit, identity and access control applications. The company’s intelligent, microprocessor-based platforms offer the flexibility to be embedded in smart cards, mobile phones and other consumer electronic devices, documents, badges and other items to support a wide range of innovative contactless applications and bring new levels of convenience to users. INSIDE has delivered more than 250 million contactless platforms worldwide to customers and partners that include many of the leading payment card and mobile phone manufacturers, systems integrators and financial institutions. With a portfolio of 55 families of patents, including several essential NFC patents, the company has played a leading role in NFC and contactless innovation. INSIDE is headquartered in Aix-en-Provence, France, with offices in Shanghai, Singapore, Warsaw, Seoul and Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit www.insidecontactless.com.
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]]> http://www.insidecontactless.com/fr//news/whatsNew_view.php?sq=100 2008-10-13T03:56:00 AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, October 13th, 2008 – Strengthening its presence in the Brazilian contactless payments market, INSIDE Contactless, the world leader in advanced contactless microprocessor platforms, today announced it has teamed with American Banknote (ABnote) Brazil to produce a MasterCard type-approved contactless payment card for this growing market. INSIDE is supplying ABnote Brazil with its award-winning MicroPass® 4003, a contactless payment processor designed from the ground up for MasterCard® PayPass™ applications, and has worked closely with them to obtain type approval, implement in-house pre-personalization capabilities and ensure their products achieve optimal performance.
American Banknote Brazil is the largest secure printing and transaction service provider in Brazil, producing hundreds of millions of cards each year, and is the unrivalled local leader in bank cards as well as virtually every other product and service category the company offers. American Banknote Brazil’s customers includes Banco Bradesco, Banco Itaú, Unibanco and Banco do Brasil – as well as Caixa Economica Federal, one of the largest government-owned financial institutions in Latin America
“Brazil is South America’s largest economy, and is now undergoing its biggest economic expansion in 30 years, creating a tremendous opportunity for INSIDE to participate in that country’s burgeoning payments market, which recently surpassed the 100 million issued credit card milestone,” said Bertrand Moussel, EVP sales for Latin America at INSIDE Contactless. “Our partnership with American Banknote Brazil opens the door to the contactless payments market in Brazil for us in a very big way, and is the latest example of our successful global expansion strategy.”
The multi-application MicroPass 4003 platform is compliant with latest MasterCard PayPass specifications, enabling ABnote Brazil to more quickly obtain type approval for its products. With built-in support for multiple payment brands, MicroPass 4003-powered cards can be delivered to market quickly and easily.
“INSIDE has the most complete and advanced technology for the contactless payments market, and they provided valuable support to help us adapt our proprietary antenna technology to MicroPass and create contactless payment cards that achieve the maximum performance,” said José Roberto Mauro, vice president of the card division for ABnote Brazil. “INSIDE’s compliance with contactless payment specifications and their technical support helped ensure that we quickly obtained type approval for MasterCard PayPass.”
Since it was first launched at CARTES in November of 2005, the MicroPass intelligent payment platform has achieved its unprecedented success by continuing to deliver superior performance and flexibility, and is now the platform of choice for certified card manufacturers around the world. The MicroPass platform is designed to power open standard contactless and dual-interface bank card payments along with other value-added applications in all global regions. Based upon a RISC architecture and optimized to the demanding requirements of contactless transactions, each of the MicroPass family of products is designed to meet the demands of issuer organizations in the bank card payments, transit and access control markets.
About American Banknote SA
American Banknote SA is a leading provider of solutions involving smart cards, contactless cards, magstripe cards, phone cards, RFID, ID systems and print management in Brazil, where the company has built a reputation for quality, security and integrity. ABnote Brazil offers its customers a wide range of security printed documents, personalization services, ID systems, and other complementary products and services. For more information, please visit www.abnote.com.br

About INSIDE Contactless
INSIDE Contactless is the global leader in open-standard contactless payment and Near Field Communication (NFC) semiconductors and software that power the next generation of payment, transit, identity and access control applications. The company’s intelligent, microprocessor-based platforms offer the flexibility to be embedded in smart cards, mobile phones and other consumer electronic devices, documents, badges and other items to support a wide range of innovative contactless applications and bring new levels of convenience to users. INSIDE has delivered more than 250 million contactless platforms worldwide to customers and partners that include many of the leading payment card and mobile phone manufacturers, systems integrators, and financial institutions. With a portfolio of 55 families of patents, including several essential NFC patents, the company has played a leading role in NFC and contactless innovation. INSIDE is headquartered in Aix-en-Provence, France, with offices in Shanghai, Singapore, Warsaw, Seoul, and Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit www.insidecontactless.com.

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Aix en Provence, October 9th, 2008 - INSIDE Contactless, the world leader in advanced contactless microprocessor platforms, and TIEMPO, an innovative IP company specialized in the design of asynchronous ICs, have announced a partnership for the design of a next generation chip product that incorporates asynchronous design technology.

The new chip will be designed using TIEMPO clockless and delay insensitive technology. "TIEMPO technology enables the design of chips that have outstanding processing performance, low power consumption, low noise and robustness against voltage variations, and is therefore perfectly suited for use within INSIDE’s advanced contactless chip products", says Serge Maginot, CEO of TIEMPO.

With the growth of contactless payment, transit, access and ID markets, and demands for faster, lower power, lower cost core technologies to support these markets, INSIDE is committed to an aggressive technology roadmap to drive new chip product launches. As the first step of this partnership, INSIDE and TIEMPO have engaged in a collaborative project that will include expert designers from both companies, TIEMPO providing INSIDE with its asynchronous IPs and with the expertise of its engineers in the design of low-power asynchronous chips.

"INSIDE is committed to use the most innovative design technologies for its advanced contactless chip platforms. We believe that the use of TIEMPO asynchronous design technology can provide significant gains in performance and reduction in power consumption within our products", says Gary Chew, CTO of INSIDE Contactless.
]]> http://www.insidecontactless.com/fr//news/whatsNew_view.php?sq=98 2008-10-07T02:18:48 AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, October 7, 2008 – INSIDE Contactless, a leading provider of advanced, open-standard contactless chip technologies, today announced that samples of the first MicroPass® contactless prelam for use in mobile handset stickers for secure payments are now available for card manufacturers. INSIDE’s new sticker technology combines the award-winning MicroPass 4003 contactless payment platform – designed from the ground up to support open loop contactless payment applications – with a tuned RF antenna in a compact, shielded prelam for payment sticker applications. The contactless sticker form-factor is rapidly gaining popularity as a way to turn mobile phones, company IDs or just about anything else into a convenient payment device.
“Bank card issuers are very excited about enabling consumers to use their mobile phones to make payments using their credit and debit accounts, and stickers offer a promising bridge to introduce this capability in advance of NFC enabled mobile handsets that will have payment chips already built in,” said Charles Walton, executive vice president of payments for INSIDE Contactless. “Because stickers support prepaid debit as well as standard debit and credit accounts and can be attached to just about anything, they open the door to a variety of novel payment applications. We anticipate a lot of retailer and consumer innovation to occur with how these stickers are used.”
According to Walton, INSIDE anticipates that initial rollouts will start by end of 2008.
INSIDE’s innovative shielding design improves performance by protecting the chip and antenna inside the sticker from interference that might be caused by the radio signals used by mobile phones and other electronic devices. Since it was first launched at CARTES in November of 2005, the award-winning MicroPass intelligent payment platform has achieved its unprecedented success by continuing to deliver superior performance and flexibility, and is now the platform of choice for certified card manufacturers and issuers around the world.
"Contactless stickers offer a way to enable people to use their mobile phones today to make payments employing existing infrastructure,” said Shyam Krishnan, industry analyst, at Frost & Sullivan. "Contactless stickers like these from INSIDE can bridge the gap between the environment we find ourselves in today and mobile payments of the future."

Availability and Pricing
The INSIDE MicroPass 4003-S sticker prelams are available now. For more information on technical specifications, delivery options, pricing, as well as for samples, please contact INSIDE Contactless.

About INSIDE Contactless
INSIDE Contactless is the global leader in open-standard contactless payment and Near Field Communication (NFC) semiconductors and software that power the next generation of payment, transit, identity and access control applications. The company’s intelligent, microprocessor-based platforms offer the flexibility to be embedded in smart cards, mobile phones and other consumer electronic devices, documents, badges and other items to support a wide range of innovative contactless applications and bring new levels of convenience to users. INSIDE has delivered more than 250 million contactless platforms worldwide to customers and partners that include many of the leading payment card and mobile phone manufacturers, systems integrators, and financial institutions. With a portfolio of 55 families of patents including several essential NFC patents, the company has played a leading role in NFC and contactless innovation. INSIDE is headquartered in Aix-en-Provence, France, with offices in Shanghai, Singapore, Warsaw, Seoul, and Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit www.insidecontactless.com .

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]]> http://www.insidecontactless.com/fr//news/whatsNew_view.php?sq=97 2008-10-06T08:16:47 AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, October 6, 2008 – Advancing its commitment to the transit payment system market, INSIDE Contactless, a leading provider of advanced, open-standard contactless chip technologies, today announced it will be demonstrating how the award-winning MicroPass® intelligent contactless payment platform can be applied to transit payment systems at the 2008 APTA International Transit Expo being held October 6-8 at the San Diego (Calif.) Convention Center. Working together with Cubic Transportation Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of San Diego-based Cubic Corporation (NYSE:CUB), and Visa Inc. (NYSE: V), INSIDE will preview the first multifunction contactless payment card that supports both a type-approved Visa payWave payment application and Cubic’s NextPASS™ fare collection software that is compliant with APTA’s Contactless Fare Media Standard (CFMS).
INSIDE’s proof-of-concept demonstration will show how a single multi-application card based upon its MicroPass 4003 chip platform can be used to conduct contactless payments on both a retail POS terminal and on a Cubic transit fare collection device, and comes at a critical time in the evolution of transit payment systems. Local and regional transit operators will now have the choice of adopting or migrating to transit fare collection solutions based upon both APTA standards, private profiles, and open bank card standards with greater security, functionality and user convenience. This is also providing retailers and financial institutions with an opportunity to partner with transit operators to provide consumers with a single payment card that can also be used to conveniently pay for goods and services located near public transit stations. The combined Visa payWave/NextPASS contactless card is the first example of a technology that could be used to address this emerging demand.
“Our MicroPass intelligent contactless payment platform is specifically designed for high-volume, multi-brand and multi-application capabilities for the kind of next-generation contactless payment and transit applications we are demonstrating at the APTA Expo,” said Charles Walton, executive vice president of payments for INSIDE Contactless. “With strong support from Cubic and Visa, we are clearly demonstrating the feasibility of utilizing the flexible MicroPass platform for APTA-standard compliant transit cards, or multi-application cards with added Visa payWave support to meet the various needs of this evolving market.”
The demonstration can be viewed in the Cubic booth (#2833). In addition to the multi-application Visa payWave/NextPASS contactless card, INSIDE will also be demonstrating fare payments using a traditional MicroPass-based Visa payWave contactless card and a standalone MicroPass-based NextPASS contactless transit card.
Having a resident transit application on a general-purpose payment card enables it to be used like a native transit card. The transit payment system treats it just as a regular transit card, and is able to perform all the normal front-end processing. Because of its intelligence, the transit application on the card is able to cope with highly complex fare schedules based on distance, zones and time, for example, as well as various schemes for enabling riders to transfer between multiple transit lines.
“The MicroPass platform is the undisputed contactless payment market leader, and we have been working with INSIDE for more than two years to create this multi-function, type-approved contactless payment card that supports both contactless payment and NextPASS transit functionality,” said David deKozan, vice president of business development for Cubic Transportation Systems, Inc. “We look forward to continuing our co-development with INSIDE to produce a world-class product suite that is fully certified for deployment with our Nextfare systems and marketing them to transit operators globally.”
“As public transportation’s premier showcase of technology, products and services, Expo is a fitting venue for the demonstration of new multi-application fare system products that are able to take advantage of industry standards such as the ATPA Contactless Fare Media System (CFMS) Standard.” said Martin Schroeder, senior program manager, rail, fare system and energy programs, at APTA. “This is an exciting time for transit agencies as they explore the possibilities for their next-generation fare collection systems.”
Cubic’s Nextfare® Solution Suite is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art fare collection platform consisting of frontend equipment, card handling devices, device-level software and back office processing software designed to work together to enable complete fare policy implementation, asset management, statistical reporting and customer service administration while supporting the widest variety of contactless media options. Nextfare has been designed to support open standards such as ISO 14443, APTA CFMS, and contactless payment.
The MicroPass family of intelligent hardware platforms was designed from the ground up to support multiple contactless applications, including contactless payment card applications, transit fare collection, access control, retail loyalty programs and lightweight ID applications. Based upon a RISC architecture and optimized to the demanding requirements of contactless transactions, each member of the MicroPass product family features low power consumption, fast transaction processing, and overall performance meeting the demands of issuer organizations in the payments, transit, access control and ID industries. MicroPass is the platform of choice for card manufacturers and issuers in the U.S. market with more than 50 million MicroPass-powered bank cards deployed.
About Cubic
Cubic Transportation Systems, one of Cubic Corporation's major segments, designs and manufactures automated fare collection systems for public mass transit authorities. The corporation's other major segment, Cubic Defense Applications (CDA), is a world leader in realistic combat training systems, mission support services and defense electronics. For more information about Cubic, see the company's website at www.cubic.com.

About INSIDE Contactless
INSIDE Contactless is the global leader in open-standard contactless payment and Near Field Communication (NFC) semiconductors and software that power the next generation of payment, transit, identity and access control applications. The company’s intelligent, microprocessor-based platforms offer the flexibility to be embedded in smart cards, mobile phones and other consumer electronic devices, documents, badges and other items to support a wide range of innovative contactless applications and bring new levels of convenience to users. INSIDE has delivered more than 250 million contactless platforms worldwide to customers and partners that include many of the leading payment card and mobile phone manufacturers, systems integrators, and financial institutions. With a portfolio of 55 families of patents including several essential NFC patents, the company has played a leading role in NFC and contactless innovation. INSIDE is headquartered in Aix-en-Provence, France, with offices in Shanghai, Singapore, Warsaw, Seoul, and Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit www.insidecontactless.com .

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]]> http://www.insidecontactless.com/fr//news/whatsNew_view.php?sq=96 2008-09-29T04:57:33 AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, September 29th, 2008 – INSIDE Contactless, the world leader in advanced contactless microprocessor platforms, today announced it has received the 2008 ITech-Economy Leader Award for Development by the Paris-based IE-Club, an association advancing the role of French small and medium size businesses with other major players in the information technology and communications ecosystem. The award recognizes INSIDE’s technology innovation in the successful development of its MicroRead™ near field communications (NFC) products.
The mission of the IE-Club is to strengthen innovative small and medium-size businesses in France by fostering their relationships with the other major players in the ITech Economy, including investors, government organizations, research centers and other large enterprises. The “ITech Economy” is comprised of all the products, services and tools that make up the information technology and communications industries.
“The IE-Club plays an important role in promoting the true innovators of the ITech Economy, and we are thrilled to receive their recognition as a leader in this area,” said Remy de Tonnac, CEO at INSIDE Contactless. “ For any innovative technology company , it is always very important to get recognition in its own country ; We are very grateful to the IE-Club for their relentless effort in promoting innovation , and thank them for this award.”
INSIDE Contacless also was recently awarded the 2008 Frost & Sullivan North American Contactless Smart Cards Growth Excellence of the Year Award in recognition of the company’s role as a leader in shaping contactless payment technology in the smart card industry, and for the development of its MicroPass intelligent payment platform .

About INSIDE Contactless
INSIDE Contactless is the global leader in open-standard contactless payment and Near Field Communication (NFC) semiconductors and software that power the next generation of payment, transit, identity and access control applications. The company’s intelligent, microprocessor-based platforms offer the flexibility to be embedded in smart cards, mobile phones and other consumer electronic devices, documents, badges and other items to support a wide range of innovative contactless applications and bring new levels of convenience to users. INSIDE has delivered more than 250 million contactless platforms worldwide to customers and partners that include many of the leading payment card and mobile phone manufacturers, systems integrators, and financial institutions. With a portfolio of 55 families of patents including several essential NFC patents, the company has played a leading role in NFC and contactless innovation. INSIDE is headquartered in Aix-en-Provence, France, with offices in Shanghai, Singapore, Warsaw, Seoul, and San Francisco. For more information, please visit www.insidecontactless.com


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AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, September 24th, 2008 – Anticipating the need in the market for faster, lighter-weight versions of ICAO-compliant identity chips, INSIDE Contactless, the world leader in advanced contactless microprocessor platforms, today announced it is building upon its MicroPass® platform to support a variety of “ICAO-Lite” identity applications. With faster read times and lighter weight memory options than standard ICAO solutions, INSIDE’s MicroPass ICAO-Lite offerings deliver a flexible, cost-effective solution for creating mid-range ID cards and documents that meet ICAO standards, but with less data storage.
ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) has set standards for ePassports and eVisas based upon the use of contactless chip technology with large EEPROM memory requirements to store high-resolution biometric data and other identity information. But ePassports, eVisas and other heavyweight ICAO ID applications represent only about 10 percent of the overall identity market, leaving a huge, unserved potential market for INSIDE’s ICAO-Lite solutions. As a result, INSIDE is anticipating strong market demand for other ID cards and documents with less stringent storage requirements and for customers requiring lower cost solutions.
“The flexibility and power of our MicroPass platform enabled us to quickly create this unique MicroPass ICAO-Lite solution and satisfy any customer need for customization,” said Bertrand Moussel, EVP of sales for EMEA and LATAM at INSIDE Contactless. “Our MicroPass ICAO-Lite solutions have already gained enthusiastic support from our customers for their mid-range ID card and document needs because of their speed and flexibility, as well for their interoperability with existing ICAO-compliant readers, personalization devices and other infrastructure.”
The new MicroPass ICAO-Lite solutions feature 16-bit RISC microprocessors, a file manager, hardware DES encryption, ISO 14443-B or 15693 RF interfaces, an option for Basic Access Control (BAC) application support, and 4 or 8 kilobytes of EEPROM data memory instead of the large, 64-kilobyte EEPROM found in standard heavyweight ICAO-compliant chips. While INSIDE’s ICAO-Lite solutions maintain the same logical data structure as a standard ICAO chip, the dramatically reduced on-chip data storage results in faster transaction times. By building upon the MicroPass architecture, INSIDE is able to offer its ICAO-Lite solutions at significantly lower cost compared to standard ICAO-compliant products, and INSIDE can customize the data structure to meet specific customer requirements.
According to Moussel, INSIDE has already developed a basic access control application for the MicroPass ICAO-Lite solutions , and preliminary tests indicate a logical data structure read time of less than one second for the 4-kilobyte memory option.
Since it was first launched at CARTES in November of 2005, the MicroPass intelligent payment platform has achieved its unprecedented success by continuing to deliver superior performance and flexibility, and is now the platform of choice for certified card manufacturers around the world. The MicroPass platform is designed to power open standard contactless and dual-interface bank card payments along with other value-added applications in all global regions. Based upon a RISC architecture and optimized to the demanding requirements of contactless transactions, each of the MicroPass family of products is designed to meet the demands of issuer organizations in the bank card payments, transit, access control, and ID markets.
Availability and Pricing
INSIDE’s MicroPass-based ICAO-Lite solutions are available now. The MicroPass 5101 features 8 kilobytes of available EEPROM data storage. The MicroPass 5102 features BAC application support in EEPROM and 4 kilobytes of available EEPROM data storage. For more information on pricing and INSIDE’s customization capabilities, security expertise, personalization, support and other service options, please contact INSIDE Contactless.

About INSIDE Contactless
INSIDE Contactless is the global leader in open-standard contactless payment and Near Field Communication (NFC) semiconductors and software that power the next generation of payment, transit, identity and access control applications. The company’s intelligent, microprocessor-based platforms offer the flexibility to be embedded in smart cards, mobile phones and other consumer electronic devices, documents, badges and other items to support a wide range of innovative contactless applications and bring new levels of convenience to consumers. INSIDE has delivered more than 250 million contactless platforms worldwide to customers and partners that include many of the leading payment card and mobile phone manufacturers, systems integrators, and financial institutions. With a portfolio of 55 families of patents including several essential NFC patents, the company has played a leading role in NFC and contactless innovation. INSIDE is headquartered in Aix-en-Provence, France, with offices in Shanghai, Singapore, Warsaw, Seoul, and San Francisco. For more information, please visit www.insidecontactless.com .
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Frost & Sullivan credits INSIDE as one of the first companies to have designed a multi-application platform for contactless payment functions. The research and growth consulting firm recognized that such an early move propelled the company into a position of excellence in terms of technology innovation, enhanced its understanding of the market, and helped it gather valuable experience to stay ahead of competition. Frost & Sullivan also attributed INSIDE’s exponential sales growth primarily to its low-power, flexible MicroPass intelligent payment platform, which is designed specifically to support the contactless bank card market with extension into transit fare collection, access, control, and retail loyalty applications.
“INSIDE has achieved credibility in the industry not just by being a pioneer in contactless payment, but also by going the extra mile to solve consumer needs and address concerns,” said Shyam Krishnan, research analyst at Frost & Sullivan. “With a strong position in terms of technology innovation, an established name in the market, a loyal and wide partner network, and a booming market in which to operate, INSIDE Contactless is poised to become one of the leading players in the contactless smart cards market space.”
“It is very gratifying to be recognized for our leadership and excellence in this industry. The rapid acceptance of contactless payments in the U.S. has been a great reward for the INSIDE Contactless team,” said Rémy de Tonnac, chief executive officer. “We will not rest on these laurels, however, and we have many exciting new developments in the works to ensure that we keep meeting our customers’ expectations and maintain our drive in this industry.”
Frost & Sullivan’s Best Practices Awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research in order to identify best practices in the industry.

About Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, partners with clients to accelerate their growth. The company's TEAM Research, Growth Consulting and Growth Team™ Membership empower clients to create a growth-focused culture that generates, evaluates and implements effective growth strategies. Frost & Sullivan employs over 45 years of experience in partnering with Global 1000 companies, emerging businesses and the investment community from more than 30 offices on six continents. For more information about Frost & Sullivan’s Growth Partnerships, visit http://www.frost.com.

About INSIDE Contactless
INSIDE Contactless is the global leader in open-standard contactless payment and Near Field Communication (NFC) semiconductors and software that power the next generation of payment, transit, identity and access control applications. The company’s intelligent, microprocessor-based platforms offer the flexibility to be embedded in smart cards, mobile phones and other consumer electronic devices, documents, badges and other items to support a wide range of innovative contactless applications and bring new levels of convenience to consumers. INSIDE has delivered more than 250 million contactless platforms worldwide to customers and partners that include many of the leading payment card and mobile phone manufacturers, systems integrators, and financial institutions. With a portfolio of 55 families of patents including several essential NFC patents, the company has played a leading role in NFC and contactless innovation. INSIDE is headquartered in Aix-en-Provence, France, with offices in Shanghai, Singapore, Warsaw, Seoul, and San Francisco. For more information, please visit www.insidecontactless.com.

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