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From March 2007, passengers on Grenoble, France public transports will use their mobile phones as electronic tickets, accessing up-to-the-minute travel information, local maps, and a variety of new features that use contactless technology to make daily travel easier, safer and faster.

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JCB (Japan Credit Bureau) announced it has chosen Visa contactless specification for its contactless cards in the Asia Pacific Region. The movement is expected to open the acceptance of JCB's contactless cards J/Speedy, outside of Japan.

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The GSM Association and MasterCard announced an initiative to use mobile handsets infrastructure for cross border money transfers. The target is to help the 200 million international migrant workers to easily and securely send remittances to their dependents, many of whom don’t have bank accounts.

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Banka Koper, the 7th financial institution in Slovenia (belonging to the Italian Intesa Sanpaolo group), is the world's first Visa issuer to deploy Visa Smart Credit and Debit on a Multos multi-application platform.

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Giesecke & Devrient announced they will supply Telia Sonera with 1 Gigabyte SIM cards, called GalaxSIM, for a trial that will use HTC P3600 personal digital assistant (PDA) as a platform.

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The final results of the Gemalto SIMagine contest were announced during the 3GSM World Congress this week.

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SFR, one of the major French mobile operators joins in the consortium led by Crédit Mutuel – CIC running a NFC pilot in Strasbourg, France.

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Neelie Kroes, the European Union's competition commissioner, delivered the European Commission Final Report of its competition inquiry into the retail banking sector.

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The Phase IV TWIC (Transportation Worker Identification Credential, cf. Smart Insights #07-02) contract has been awarded to Lockheed Martin – Transportation and Security Solutions. Under this program, Lockheed Martin is awarded US$ 70 million (EUR 54 million) for the initial deployment over 16 months of a credential for approximately 750,000 workers requiring access to secure areas of US port facilities.

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BabySmart is an association created in 2004 aiming at a better resources sharing, networking and more globally collaboration between small and medium enterprises in Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur region in France.

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