The Industry Classification Benchmark (“ICB”) recently changed its classification for Gemalto from the “Industrials – Electronic equipment” sector to the “Technology – Software” sector. This change took effect on March 18, 2013. The Industry Classification Benchmark (ICB) is a global reference system categorizing over 70,000 companies and 75,000 securities worldwide, enabling the comparison of companies […]

Leading Internet companies, system integrators and security providers have formed the FIDO Alliance (Fast IDentity Online) to revolutionize online authentication with an industry supported standards-based open protocol. FIDO Alliance founding member organizations Agnitio, Infineon Technologies, Lenovo, Nok Nok Labs, PayPal, and Validity are developing the specification and FIDO-compliant products. The Internet requires users to confirm […]

Welcome to the January INTELLIGENCE, brought to you by SAMSUNG and the OSPT Alliance. This month we are giving away once more the highly valued SAMSUNG Galaxy S III. It’s a pretty impressive phone but what is more important – it’s NFC enabled! Meaning that a whole new way of payment and ticketing is about […]

It’s Christmas! This quarters sponsor of the Intelligence is Samsung Semiconductors – the prime supporter of the OSPT Alliance. And take a look at the picture on the left to see what you can win each month from October to December this year! Pretty cool (if we say so ourselves!). Now let’s look at the […]

Identive Group  announced a revolutionary way to enable the use of mobile phones to open doors and log on to computer networks. For the first time, users can enjoy the freedom of an open standards-based solution with government level security to gain access to buildings and IT networks using NFC-enabled smartphones. In the industry’s first […]

Infineon Technologies  is the world’s leading supplier of security microcontrollers for NFC (Near Field Communication) applications. The current IMS Research study* (January 2012) shows that Infineon holds a 51.5 percent share in the NFC security microcontroller market.  NFC contactless communication technology transforms smart phones and other mobile devices into wallets, tickets and keys. As a […]