LUXEMBOURG-Gemplus announced its has deployed more than 500 million subscriber identity module (SIM) cards since the standardization of GSM in 1992."Reaching this major milestone is evidence that the SIM has become a fundamental component of mobile telephony," said Philippe Vallee, president of the Telecom...
DALLAS—Smart card-enabled solutions provider Gemplus announced it will team with billing solutions company Telemac Corp. to integrate Telemac's IMA-Module network-edge real-time billing software into Gemplus SIM card for wireless devices."The powerful combination of the Telemac solution and our SIM implementation enables wireless carriers to...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The U.K. government is calling on cell-phone operators and terminal manufacturers to rapidly improve the security features of handsets to halt a steep increase in street crime involving cell-phone theft. The Home Office released figures that showed more than 700,000 phones were...
BEIJING—Smart cards solutions maker Gemplus said it has won a contract to supply its first live card-based CDMA network to China Unicom."The launch of smart cards for CDMA networks enables enhanced security features and value-added service provisioning for wireless carriers," said Gemplus. "It also...
BEIJING, China—Smart cards solutions maker Gemplus said it has won a contract to supply its first live card-based CDMA network to China Unicom."The launch of smart cards for CDMA networks enables enhanced security features and value-added service provisioning for wireless carriers," said Gemplus. "It...
SINGAPORE—Singapore's telecom regular Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) has selected four consortia to trial mobile payment solutions through a US$11 million initiative.The trials will run from the first quarter of 2002 until the end of August and involve at least 10,000 pilot mobile users. The...
SINGAPORE—Singapore's telecom regular Infocomm Development Authority has selected four consortia to trial mobile payment solutions through a $11 million initiative.The trials will run from the first quarter of 2002 until the end of August and involve at least 10,000 pilot mobile users. The solutions...
SAN DIEGO, United States—Qualcomm said it has signed an agreement with Gemplus to roll out hardware and software solutions to enable cdmaOne and cdma2000 with removable user identity modules (R-UIM)."Rolling out qualified R-UIM system solutions for Gemplus R-UIM smart cards on our MSM products...
NEW YORK-Some recent developments have brightened the longer-term prospects for smart cards in North American wireless communications, although the picture gets cloudier when framed as an immediate prospect.Opportunity is knocking for expansion of their use in provisioning of telecommunications services. Beyond that deployment, smart-card...
CANNES-Gemplus, provider of smart card-based solutions, security and wireless applications, announced an alliance with SLP Infoware, a Gemplus company that provides predictive customer relationship management solutions. Together, the companies have developed SIM card-based CRM applications."The inherently secure and pervasive SIM card with its standard...
Even a profitable company like smart card developer Gemplus International got the glare from the Grinch last week.In order to go public, the company decided to reduce the number of planned common stock shares to 35.8 million from the 39.2 million originally planned. It...
BEIJING-Zhang Fan, head of mobile communications at China Unicom, this week said his company would definitely build narrowband networks based on the CDMA standard.After Qualcomm Chairman Irwin Jacobs recently met Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji and China Unicom Chairman Yang Xianzu in Beijing, China's second...
TORONTO-Mobile-commerce security firm Diversinet Corp. said Gemplus has embedded its public key infrastructure security technology in its GemXplore Trust SIM cards.The joint solution is aimed at bringing greater security to GSM network m-commerce applications, the two said.
OWINGS MILLS, Md.-Aether Systems Inc.'s Sila Communications joint venture with Reuters signed a worldwide licensing agreement with Gemplus, a provider of smart-card solutions.The agreement means that Sila's decompression software will be embedded in a new Gemplus SIM card, allowing mobile phones in Europe to...
NokiaNokia Corp. unveiled its new 8260 wireless phone that the company says blends colorful and stylish options into a small digital handset. The 8260 is Time Division Multiple Access 800 compatible, weighs 3.4 ounces, is approximately four inches tall and will include mobile originated...
NEW YORK-To simulate third-generation wireless before its deployment, Finland's Sonera has just embarked on a new program, Sonera Mspace, said Kaj-Erik Relander, the company's executive vice president.In partnership with content, service and technology providers, Mspace will conduct in Finland "real life trials with consumers...
HandsetsPhilipsPhilips introduced several new handsets. The Ozeo GSM dual-band mobile phone offers a new user interface and a large LCD display with five text lines. The carousel icon screen feature simultaneously displays up to five visual icons representing the phone's functions and features. The...
NEW YORK-Smart cards must overcome a chicken-and-egg problem before they can expand their use in wireless devices beyond their established role as subscriber identification modules in Global System for Mobile communications products.The vision for smart cards is that they will become the tiny pocket...
HELSINKI, Finland-Hoping to make e-commerce a little safer, Sonera SmartTrust Ltd. announced a deal with Gemplus to market a Global System for Mobile communications Subscriber Identity Module card that will feature digital signature and Public Key encryption.The SIM card is expected to be available...
Tegic Communications Inc. signed a global licensing agreement with Voxson, allowing Voxson to integrate the T9 Text Input technology for Chinese and European languages into next-generation wireless phones.Triton Network Systems announced it has signed a multi-year, multimillion dollar deal with Advanced Radio Telecom Corp.,...
This holiday season heralded the beginning of the e-commerce revolution, and wireless operators have the opportunity to cash in on it with the growing proliferation of Internet-enabled wireless phones and handheld computers.Optimism among the analyst community is rampant. Most recently, Strategy Analytics predicted the...
LucentLucent Technologies Inc. introduced software that will turn down transmitter power levels when the user is not speaking into the handset, effectively increasing talk time by extending battery life up to 30 percent. The discontinuous transmission feature will be generally available for network operators...
BOSTON-Smart cards are poised to move beyond their role in identifying Global System for Mobile communications subscribers, due to momentum outside wireless and beyond U.S. borders.The challenge both for telecommunications carriers and for smart-card manufacturers is to harness these forces or risk losing their...
IntellicellIntellicell Corp. announced Mike Hedge and Michael King, both previously with CellStar Corp., are heading up Intellicell's sales and marketing group. Hedge will be responsible for the implementation of an overall strategic growth plan to increase revenues and King will focus on developing a...
