Bull Smart Cards & Terminals Opens Personalization Center in North America.WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 28, 1998--Bull announced today at CardTech/SecurTech that it will open a captive captive said of naturally wild or feral animals kept in captivity for educational and scientific investigation with no attempt being made to domesticate them. smart card Personalization Custom tailoring information to the individual. On the Web, personalization means returning a page that has been customized for the user, taking into consideration that person's habits and preferences. Center to provide comprehensive centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. , local personalization and customization services to its end users and third-party partners in the Americas. The new facility is scheduled to open in May, and will be part of Bull America's headquarters operations located in Billerica, Mass. A second Personalization Center is planned and will be located at Bull's Competency COMPETENCY, evidence. The legal fitness or ability of a witness to be heard on the trial of a cause. This term is also applied to written or other evidence which may be legally given on such trial, as, depositions, letters, account-books, and the like. 2. Center in Phoenix, Ariz. At the heart of the new Center will be Bull's powerful and modular Percam(TM) personalization software, already used worldwide by Bull and its customers. Demonstrations of the Percam system are featured at Bull's CardTech/SecurTech booth (#2415). The new Personalization Center will offer a complete range of graphical and electrical personalization services, including all the software and hardware tools needed to provide simple but powerful and secure control of all personalization operations. "Bull is moving very aggressively to accelerate market demand and revenue for smart card-based solutions in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. ," said Jack MacKeen, vice president, Smart Cards Example of widely used contactless smart cards are Hong Kong's Octopus card, Paris' Calypso/Navigo card and Lisbon' LisboaViva card, which predate the ISO/IEC 14443 standard. The following tables list smart cards used for public transportation and other electronic purse applications. & Terminals, Bull Americas. "The new Personalization Center is an integral part of this strategy to combine the global strengths of Bull Smart Cards & Terminals with local proximity and high levels of service to North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. customers and partners. Together with the new third-party programs also announced today, we are sending a clear statement to the marketplace that `Bull's Smart Card World' most definitely includes the Americas." Comprehensive Personalization Services Percam's software modules can be used to control hardware platforms Each hardware platform, or CPU family, has a unique machine language. All software presented to the computer for execution must be in the binary coded machine language of that CPU. Following is a list of the major hardware platforms in existence today. See platform. including one or more functions to support various technologies and volume requirements. Card-by-card and automatic medium and large-scale production methods are available. -0-
Software Features Functions
Creation of data formats Electrical personalization -- for
Bull CP8 cards under ISO 7816-3
on electrical signals and
transmission protocols. Manages
mother cards required to generate
daughter cards
Creation of personalization formats Extended electrical - for
non-Bull chips under ISO 7816-3
plus other card types such as
ST1200 memory-only cards
Data capture and importation Graphical - photographs, logos,
text, bar codes, fingerprints,
signatures printed at same time
as background on front side
and/or back side
Production of personalized cards Physical - embossing and/or
in card-by-card or batch mode infill of alphanumeric characters
on plastic. Laser engraving also
supported
Card control Magnetic - coding compliant with
ISO 7811 on ISO stripes 1, 2, 3
in high- or low-coercivity,
including start and end of
record control characters
Management of production workshops
-0- Percam personalization configurations can be connected to a local or remote network to receive or send data files and share information used to manage the production workshop. Data files can be used to transfer data files of varied structure locally or remotely. All data transfers can be secured across the entire production chain. About Bull Smart Cards and Terminals Bull designs and markets a wide range of contact and contactless microprocessor smart cards, electronic payment terminals and automatic points of contact, including cash dispensers and multimedia kiosk kiosk Originally, in Islamic architecture, an open circular pavilion consisting of a roof supported by pillars. The word has been applied to a Turkish summer garden pavilion and a type of early Persian mosque. POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale terminals. In 1997, these activities generated revenue of $237 million, an increase of 32 percent over 1996. The history of smart cards at Bull goes back to 1979 when Bull's Michel Ugon, in collaboration with Motorola, invented the world's first microprocessor card (CP8 technology). Today, all microprocessor cards worldwide still use Bull CP8 technology for the micro-electronic part (SPOM SPOM Schizosaccharomyces Pombe - Self-Programmable One chip Memory) patent. More than 420 million microprocessor cards use CP8 technology, either as patents, applications or operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . Bull is the world leader in the electronic purse segment with more than 27 million cards in use in ten countries. Approximately 60 percent of the world's smart cards used in banking today have been designed by Bull. Bull also is a leader in electronic payment terminals, with 650,000 machines installed worldwide. More information on Bull Smart Cards & Terminals can be found on the World Wide Web at: www.cp8.bull.net, on Groupe Bull Groupe Bull (also known as Bull Computer or simply Bull) is a French computer company based in Les Clayes-sous-Bois, outside Paris. The company has also been known at various times as Bull General Electric, Honeywell Bull, CII Honeywell Bull Web site: www.bull.com, and in the U.S. at www.us.bull.com. -0- CP8 and Percam are trademarks of Bull S.A. All trademarks, service marks and company names are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Bull HN Information Systems (U.S.) Bill Bradley For other uses, see Bill Bradley (disambiguation) and William Bradley. William Warren "Bill" Bradley (born July 28, 1943) is an American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar, and former U.S. 978/294-5812 bill.bradley@bull.com |
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