EANS-News: Identive Group Inc. / IDENTIVE ANNOUNCES FAMILY OF USB 3.0 SUPER SPEED DIGITAL MEDIA READERS

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SANTA ANA, Calif. and ISMANING, Germany, December 1, 2011 (euro
adhoc) - Identive Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE, Frankfurt: INV), a
provider of products, services and solutions for the identification,
security and RFID industries, today announced its first offering in a
new family of USB 3.0 Super Speed media reader/writers, the Z Class
Secure Digital Reader/Writer. The new media reader for Secure Digital
(SD) transfers high definition multimedia content including video,
photos and music files up to ten times faster than regular high speed
readers.

With this first Super Speed addition to its high performance line of
digital media readers, Identive now can support the latest media
specifications from the SD Association, including SDXC (Secure
Digital eXtended Capacity) and SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity),
as well as the popular SD media from leading vendors, with high
transfer speeds at their maximum performance levels. The SDXC
specification offers significantly larger storage capacities than
previous formats, up to 2 terabytes (TB). Additionally, large volumes
of data can be transferred at accelerated speeds up 104 MB/sec for
UHS-I media types (Ultra High Speed Type I).

"SD media cards are ubiquitous in consumer electronic devices, and
have become the dominant means of storing several gigabytes of data
in a small size. The increased capacity and higher transfer speeds
made possible by the SDXC format allow consumers to expand their
digital portfolios and playlists to an extent never before possible,"
said Dr. Manfred Mueller, Executive VP of Identive and Managing
Director of Identive´s ID Infrastructure division. "Our Z-class SD
reader is the perfect platform for accessing all the advantages that
the SDXC specification offers, offering optimum performance and a
support team to ensure customers always stay ahead."

Future versions of the Z Class reader will offer built-in support for
near field communication (NFC), ready to read and write to
NFC-enabled SD cards as they become available and to facilitate new
SD usage models such as cashless payments and paperless
identification. Additionally, Identive is currently porting its
secure APIs to the new device that leverage SD´s native security and
DRM (Digital Rights Management) capabilities, allowing the format to
be used as a truly secure storage medium.

About Identive Group Identive Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE; Frankfurt:
INV) is focused on building the world´s signature company in Secure
ID. The company´s products, software, systems and services address
the markets for identity management, physical and logical access
control, NFC and a host of RFID-enabled applications for customers in
the government, enterprise, consumer, education, healthcare and
transportation sectors. Identive´s mission is to build a lasting
business of scale and technology based on a combination of strong
technology-driven organic growth and disciplined acquisitive
expansion. For additional info visit: www.identive-group.com.

Note: All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Further inquiry note:
Mr. Lennart Streibel
Tel.: +49 89 9595-5195
E-Mail: lstreibel@identive-group.com

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company: Identive Group Inc.
Carnegie Ave., Bldg. B 1900
US-CA 92705 Santa Ana
phone: +1 949 553 4280
FAX: +49 89 9595-5555
mail: investorrelations@identive-group.com
WWW: http://www.identive-group.com
sector: Computing & Information Technology
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