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- Passport Card Fever
- The U.S. Postal Service, partnering with the U.S. Department of State, is holding its "Passport Day in the USA" across the country Saturday. The event will be a kind of clinic on obtaining a passport and passport card. Part of the reason for these events is the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative,...
- Blog posts 2009-03-26
- Travel Roundup: Canada's Free Seat to Disabled and Obese, Qantas Cans First-Class, Harrah's Goes Interactive and More
- Canada's airlines must provide a free seat to disabled or morbidly obese passengers -- Canada's two largest airlines must provide disabled and morbidly obese passengers an extra free seat on domestic flights. Canada's Supreme Court upheld the federal decision after it refused to consider further appeals, thus ending a six-year legal wrangle by disabled...
- Blog posts 2009-05-25
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- Smart Card Alliance Urges U.S. Government to Reconsider Proposed Passport Card With Long Range RFID Technology
- The U.S. government should reconsider using vicinity read RFID technology for implementing the passport card program, the Smart Card Alliance states in its response to the Department of State's October 17 Federal Register notice announcing the technology choice for the program. The passport card has been proposed as an...
- Research articles 2006-12-04
- Proposed Passport Card With RFID Technology Bad News for Privacy and Security, Says Smart Card Alliance
- Using the long read range radio frequency identification RFID technology the Department of Homeland Security DHS and State Department are proposing for passport cards will do little to increase the security of the nation's borders, and opens up possibilities that U.S. citizens could be tracked, the Smart Card Alliance said...
- Research articles 2006-10-19
- Department Announces Award of Passport Card Contract.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-16 January 2008-US Department of State: Department Announces Award of Passport Card ContractC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:15012008 The Department of State is pleased to announce the award of a five-year base year plus four option years contract (amount...
- Research articles 2008-01-16
- Department of State to introduce passport card.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-18 October 2006-US STATE DEPARTMENT: Department of State to introduce passport cardC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:17102006 To meet the documentary requirements of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative WHTI, the Department of State, in consultation with the Department of Homeland Security...
- Research articles 2006-10-18
- L-1 Identity Solutions Awarded the U.S. Passport Card Program by the Department of State
- Contract Value Estimated at $107 Million Over Five Years STAMFORD, Conn. -- L-1 Identity Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: ID), a leading provider of identity solutions and services, announced it has been awarded the prime contract by the Department of State for the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative WHTI border crossing credential,...
- Research articles 2008-03-11
- Passport card contract.(THE REGION)
- L-1 Identity Solutions Inc., which produces identification cards and credentials, said it has won a State Dept contract for a new passport card program valued at about US$107 million over five years, reports AP (March 12, 2008). The card, part of the State Dept's Western Hemisphere...
- Research articles 2008-04-01
- Travelex Cash Passport Prepaid Foreign Currency Card Debuts.
- TRAVEL AND LEISURE CLOSE-UP-15 May 2008-Travelex Cash Passport Prepaid Foreign Currency Card DebutsC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Travelex Cash Passport, the first prepaid foreign currency card in the United States, launched on May 1. The card, which travelers load...
- Research articles 2008-05-15
- Pelephone and Kyocera Wireless Corp. Launch Kyocera Passport, Ultra-Fast PC Card for Israel's Only High-Speed EV-DO Network
- SAN DIEGO & ISRAEL -- Kyocera Wireless Corp., a leading global manufacturer of CDMA wireless phones and devices, and Pelephone, Israel's first CDMA third-generation (3G) wireless network technology operator, today announced the immediate availability of the Kyocera Passport, a CDMA2000R 1x Evolution Data Optimized (EV-DO) PC card for use on...
- Research articles 2005-08-02
- Gilbarco certifies National Payment Card solution on Passport.(INDUSTRY ANNOUNCEMENTS)(Gilbarco Veeder-Root)(Brief article)
- Gilbarco Veeder-Root (Greensboro, N.C.) has certified an electronic funds payment service from National Payment Card, LLC of Boca Raton, Fla. for use with the Gilbarco Passport point of sale system. National Payment Card, LLC is an electronic funds payment service bureau that interfaces with point of...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- Oberthur supplies e-passport technology.(New Applications)(U.S. Government Printing Office enters into a contract with Oberthur Card Systems)(Brief Article)
- The U.S. Government Printing Office has chosen Oberthur Card Systems Corp. as a supplier of technology for the development and testing of the U.S. e-passport. Oberthur Card Systems' machine-readable e-passports incorporate the certified FIPS-201 Level 3 contactless chip that is compliant with new International Civil Aviation...
- Research articles 2005-03-01
- Technology allows passport cards to be read at distance
- WASHINGTON -- Passport cards for Americans who travel to Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the Caribbean will be equipped with technology that allows information on the card to be read from a distance. The technology was approved recently by the State Department, and privacy advocates were quick to criticize...
- Research articles 2008-02-10
- Oberthur Card Systems' Electronic Passport EAL4+ Certified! High Security Certification Required for European Union Members
- PARIS -- Oberthur Card Systems, one of the leading smart card suppliers to the government ID market, has received the EAL+4 certification1 for its native electronic passport, ID-OneTM ePass. With this mandatory certification, European Union members now have a commercial source of electronic passports which meet Basic Access Control requirements.
- Research articles 2007-04-19
- Datacard Group to Supply Latest Passport Personalization Systems for Netherlands E-Passport
- PARIS -- Datacard Group, the world leader in secure ID and card personalization solutions, announced today at CARTES 2005 that it has been selected by Sdu Identification bv to provide advanced inline passport issuance systems for the Netherlands' new biometric passport.
- Research articles 2005-11-15
- Datacard Group Passport Issuance System Selected for Issuance of Finnish Passport
- PARIS -- Datacard Group, the world leader in secure ID and card personalization solutions, announced today at CARTES 2005 that it has been selected by the consortium of Finnish personalization bureau Suomen PA Segenmark OY and Sdu Identification of the Netherlands to provide inline passport issuance systems for Finland's new...
- Research articles 2005-11-15
- Microsoft revamps passport under direction from the FTC. (Update: trends / standards / products).
- Microsoft has agreed to comply with a Federal Trade Commission FTPC mandate regarding the privacy and security of personal information it collects from consumers through its Passport Web services. Passport collects personal information from consumers and lets them sign in at all participating Web site with...
- Research articles 2002-09-01
- Datacard Group to Supply Latest Passport Personalization Systems for Netherlands E-Passport.
- PARIS, Nov 15, 2005 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Datacard Group, the world leader in secure ID and card personalization solutions, announced today at CARTES 2005 that it has been selected by Sdu Identification bv to provide advanced inline passport issuance systems for the Netherlands' new biometric...
- Research articles 2005-11-15
- Gilbarco Veeder-Root's Passport certified on ADS-Dallas. (Technology Update: Industry News).(Brief Article)
- Gilbarco Veeder-Root, Greensboro, N.C., has announced the certification of its Passport POS software on Alliance Data Systems' ADS-Dallas generic-payment-card network. "Our goal is to make Passport fully accessible to convenience-store retailers," said Chris Whitley, director of POS marketing for Gilbarco Veeder-Root. "Certification...
- Research articles 2003-06-01
- Kyocera's Passport KPC650 EV-DO PC Card up to 35 Percent Faster in Side-by-Side, Third-Party Testing against Leading Competitors; Independent Test Lab's Data Shows That All EV-DO Cards Are Not Created Equal
- SAN DIEGO -- Kyocera Wireless Corp., a leading global manufacturer of CDMA wireless phones and devices, today announced that its Kyocera PassportTM KPC650, a CDMA2000R 1x Evolution Data Optimized (EV-DO) PC card, was the clear winner in a recent test of commercially available EV-DO cards by Quality Partnersa, an independent...
- Research articles 2005-04-18
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