Pervasive Looks Beyond Desktop With SQL 2000 Launch.
Pervasive Software Inc is looking beyond traditional platforms for its new range of Pervasive.SQL 2000 database engines. The Austin, Texas-based company has developed versions of the software for smart card applications, embedded systems and mobile devices; as well as introducing the Tango 2000 visual web development environment. "We see...

Asia Pacific Contactless Smart Card Market: What Will Keep it Going in 2009?
SINGAPORE, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Frost & Sullivan's Smart Cards Practice in Asia Pacific (http://www.smartcards.frost.com/) will host an analyst briefing via webinar on Asia Pacific Contactless Smart Card Market: What will keep it going in 2009? on December 17th 2008, at 11:00 hrs (GMT+08:00hrs) Singapore time. (Logo:...

OTI's Wholly Owned Subsidiary in Poland - ASEC - Awarded Contract to be an e-Ticketing Operator for Warsaw City Card.
Direct Revenues Generated from Transaction Fees Are Expected to Aggregate More Than $10 Million Over the Next 5 Years FORT LEE, N.J., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- On Track Innovations Ltd (OTI) , a global leader in contactless microprocessor-based smart card solutions for homeland security, payments, petroleum payments...

OTI Announces Share Repurchase Program.
Board of Directors authorizes share repurchase; Company to seek court approval FORT LEE, N.J., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- On Track Innovations Ltd (OTI) , a global leader in contactless microprocessor-based smart card solutions for homeland security, payments, petroleum payments and other applications, today announced that its Board...

SCM Microsystems and Hirsch Electronics to Merge.
Combination creates new leader in converged security solutions for physical and logical access ISMANING, Germany and SANTA ANA, Calif., Dec. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SCM Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCMM; Prime Standard, SMY) and Hirsch Electronics Corp. today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement to merge. The...

Emtec Aims Mobile Clinical Workstation Solution at the Healthcare Sector.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-6 November 2008-Emtec Aims Mobile Clinical Workstation Solution at the Healthcare Sector(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Emtec, an information technology systems and services company, announced theavailability of its Mobile Clinical Workstation solution for the healthcare market. The company noted the solution integrates...

e-Smart Technologies to Introduce Next Generation 'I AM' Smart Card Technology at Cartes 2008 in Paris.
NEW YORK and PARIS, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- e-Smart(R) Technologies, Inc., (Pink Sheets: ESMT); and its parent e-Smart(R) International, Inc., (formerly IVI Smart Technologies, Inc.,) and its subsidiary eSmart Korea, hereafter collectively ("e-Smart"(R) or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company will be introducing at Cartes 2008,...

Net1 Announces Share Repurchase Authorization.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NET 1 UEPS Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: UEPS; JSE Limited: NT1) ("Net1" or "the Company") announced today that its Board of Directors has authorized the repurchase of up to $50 million of the Company's common stock at any time and from time to...

OTI's Smart Sticker Travels to New Zealand with Air New Zealand's Revolutionary Domestic Check-in.
FORT LEE, N.J. and AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- On Track Innovations Ltd. (OTI) , a global leader in contactless microprocessor-based smart card solutions for homeland security, payments, petroleum payments and other applications, has supplied Air New Zealand, New Zealand's national airline, with OTI's smart stickers to...

The Rise of e-Passports: A Revolutionary Jump in National Security.
SINGAPORE, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Frost & Sullivan's Electronics & Security Practice in Asia Pacific (http://www.electronics.frost.com/) will host an analyst briefing via webinar on The Rise of e-Passports: A Revolutionary Jump in National Security on November 27th 2008, at 11:00 hrs (GMT+08:00hrs) Singapore time. In Asia Pacific,...