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International News
The Smart Card Alliance is a founding member of International Smart Card Associations Network (ISCAN), www.iscan.ca, an organization of international associations serving the smart card industry from the United States, Canada, France, India, China, Southern Africa, and Australia. Each week, the Alliance publishes an industry news summary that highlights international news about the smart card industry to its members. The following are some recent international news items we have distributed.
Smart card use inevitable: Costello
ABC Online - Australia
... Peter Costello says Australians will have to get used to the idea of a
smart card. Cabinet is considering a proposal to introduce smart cards that
would store ...
IC
credit cards a step closer
Digital World Tokyo - Tokyo,Japan
... Family Mart plans to add ID payment to its ... with handsets based on
Sony's Felica contactless smart card technology ... require users to charge
their cards with cash ...
ACI
Worldwide Sells Smart Card Software To Greek Bank
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
... business management group for ACI Worldwide's smart card division, tells
Card Technology sister ... issuing large numbers of chip debit cards last
August ...
Smartcard market explodes
eStrategy (press release)
Durban,Eastern Cape,South Africa
... Contactless cards have both a microchip and an antenna embedded in the
card, which allows for ... The Smart Card Trends and Deployment in SA 2004
report is ...
World Contactless
Smart Cards Market to Soar in Number of Units ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... terminal may support multiple payment brands, and ... frost.com ), World
Contactless Smart Cards Markets, reveals ... for the world contactless smart
card market was ...
Belgium
Considers Health Function For National ID Card
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
Currently, Belgian citizens carry one smart card for the national ID and
another for the health care system. Caen says both cards act as keys to a
national ...
UPDATE - Big retailer backs NTT DoCoMo's phone payments
Webwereld - Netherlands
... plans to add ID payment to its stores within the ... based on Sony
Corp.'s Felica contactless smart card technology. ... require users to
charge their cards with cash ...
Axalto wins
e-passport work from Czech Republic
Washington Technology - Washington,DC,USA
... the contract, Axalto will furnish its smart-card technology called ...
run on a large-capacity contactless chip. ... digital security as well as
smart cards and point ...
ASK
supplies Singapore contactless payment cards
UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
The French contactless smart card supplier ASK has been chosen by Singapore
electronic payments provider NETS to supply its contactless payment card,
CashCard. ...
European
Contactless Card Shipments Set To Rise
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
... can make purchases by tapping a card or a ... over 2 million contactless
Blue cards in the ... the introduction of traditional, contact-based smart
cards that comply ...
GlobalPlatform Names
Gillick First Executive Director
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
... that its smart card specifications are used in more than 35
implementations worldwide. Approximately 75 million payment and
identification smart cards and 650 ...
Contactless smart
cards to soar by 2010
UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
... The World Contactless Smart Cards Markets study revealed that, in 2004,
the total unit shipment for the world contactless smart card market was
150.56 million ...
Axalto
Ships 2 Million Chips For Italian Bank Cards
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
France-based smart card maker Axalto has shipped 2 million microchips for
use in cards offered by CartaSi SpA, an Italian company that issues credit
cards for ...
French
Card Market Continues To Grow
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
... and has been successful in holding foreign card issuance at bay ...
country to move their magnetic stripe payment cards to fraud-resistant smart
cards, in the ...
British
Airways upgrades CEM AC2000 access control system ...
Security Park - Winkfield,UK
... directives required extensive software development in the programming of
smart cards, including managing the card structure and securing the cards
with unique ...
How Would You Like
to Pay for That? Cash, Card or Phone?
Wireless Insight Asia (press release) - Singapore,Singapore
... Combined with contactless payment technology, NFC can enable secure and
convenient purchases with a ... a TV at home, and buying concert tickets
from a smart poster ...
Visa Readies
Contactless-Payment Trial In UK
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
... low-value purchases by tapping a smart card or key ... Europe's head of
new channels, tells Card Technology sister ... a payment system based on
chip cards that comply ...
Mobile
Payment Remains Stalled In Europe
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
... comply with EMV, the global payment standard for smart cards. ... move
more quickly on mobile payment than many of ... He notes that Oyster, a
contactless card used by ...
France Issues E-Passports
EnjoyFrance.com - Paris,France
... same as their old counterpart: 60 Euros for an adult e-passport and 30
... Two deadlines have been set to add biometric data and contactless smart
card chips to ...
Computer
passwords at Pacific bases to be obsolete by July 31
Stars and Stripes - Washington,D.C.,USA
... "The department has been issuing smart cards with PKI identify
credentials and purchasing smart card readers for several years, so most of
the investment in ...
ICBC selects Datacard
technology for EMV card issuing project
Finextra - UK
... smart card data for personalisation. The software will generate keys
needed to protect data and allow standard risk parameters. Zhihong Xu, GM of
bank cards at ...
Smart cards for
buses
Newstalk ZB - New Zealand
... to store monthly passes and other transport products on a credit
card-sized card. He says the cards will be compatible with all local
transport services ...
Utah and New Zealand contracts awarded to ERG
WA Business News - Northbridge,Western Australia,Australia
... States' first ever contactless credit card bus payment ... the payment
choice of contactless credit cards, will allow customers to use smart cards
for both ...
Iris ties up with France's Smart Packaging
The Edge Daily - Malaysia
... covered the exclusive right to supply contactless card modules using ..."Through this smart partnership, Iris ... option to offer in terms of
e-passport technologies ...
Imprimerie
Nationale Issues France's First Electronic Passports ...
TF1 - Paris,France
... algorithms that work on a contactless chip incorporated ... sales
exceeding 3 billion smart cards to date. ... has 25 years' experience in
smart card innovation and ...
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