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Friday, August 1, 2008

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A new report from ABI Research reveals that the security sector is driving growth in the smart card industry, according to esecurityplanet.com.

“New revenues are coming from contactless/dual-interface cards and more applications require the greater security offered by smart cards. There remains a small, but solid, memory-based market, but higher-end secure microcontroller ICs and embedded solutions are driving the new growth. As a result of this and re-stocking inventory, we forecast that IC revenues will grow nearly 14% in 2010,” said ABI Research analyst John Devlin.

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Lieberman Software helps companies with privileged identity management, handing access to root and administrative accounts. “Essentially the keys to the kingdom,” says Philip Lieberman, president and CEO at Lieberman Software.

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New analysis from Frost & Sullivan shows that current smart card-based transit projects in growing European and world cities will lead to an 11% Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) in smart card shipment from 2009 to 2015.

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RF IDeas’s has released a product that enables organizations and systems integrators to quickly and easily find out what type of access control badges are in circulation. The analyzer, a USB dongle, simply reads the card and gives a read out of the manufacturer and type of card being read, says Ron Fiedler, director of business development at the company.

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Ideco Group, a South African-based developer of biometric technology, has begun a campaign with the intention of raising awareness of biometric technology as well as the benefits of its use, specifically focusing on economic crime prevention such as in cases of identity fraud, insider fraud and shared identities.

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The Smart Card Alliance has released a new report on the state of the smart card market in the Americas, “Smart Cards & Smart Card ICs - Americas - 2010,” created by IMS Research in association exclusively with the SCA.

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