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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.
Praise for Smart Cards
Trinidad News - Port of Spain,Trinidad and Tobago
The Smart Card system replaces the Share Programme from August 1. The cards are valued according to the size of the family from $300 for families with three ...
Contactless ticketing takes hold in English football
CR80News - Herndon,VA,USA
... The card will contain a smart chip that sends data via ... where 10 million shoppers use the contacless card , and several ... TfL) wanted to use its Oyster cards as a ...
One card for all e-payments soon
Channel News Asia - Singapore
... to increase security, sports executives will see that contactless cards offer a ... for concession/souvenir payments, an all-inclusive smart card solution will ...
Banks warming to smart card idea: Hockey
ABC Online - Australia
... towards accepting a role in the Government's smart card plan. ... ideal for people to use the card to get ... to build a parallel competitive network payment system to ...
New EasyCard now available for speedy transactions
China Post - Taipei,Taiwan
... sensor-activated credit card can be directly used for payment at MRT ... Visa International teamed up with Taipei Smart Card Corporation, Chinatrust Commercial Bank ...
Contactless takes Swiss campus to new heights
Contactless News - Aldie,VA,USA
... are issued their cards when they enroll. Guests, visitors, and external users of HTW Chur facilities such as the library, can obtain a LEGIC smart card upon ...
Uganda: Driving Permits Take Up Digital Trend
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... technologies. Smart card technology can do so many things and carries lots of information. They are intelligent electronic cards. Biometrics ...
Survey reveals RP willing to shift from stripe to chip-based
Manila Bulletin - Philippines
... end were Australia and Thailand, who felt that smart cards were no better than other cards. ... surveyed preferred using PIN (personal identification card) to a ...
France launches electronic passports
PC-Welt - München,Germany
... The smart-card vendor is providing France's printing office ... The e-passports include smart cards containing the ... that work on a contactless chip incorporated ...
Mobile phone ticketing is coming to Germany
PC-Welt - München,Germany
... securely stored on an integrated smart card in the ... need to touch their phones against a contactless reader as ... of developing wireless noncontact payment services ...
Keys to your own security
PC-Welt - München,Germany
... Access controls, on-line banking, smart cards, securing client and ... 'If there are payment details being ... play an important role in protecting card and cardholder ...
More NFC Pilots Expected In China This Year ...
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
... first because the infrastructure (of contactless readers) is ... NFC is Chinese banking card organization China ... later this year with smart card vendor Giesecke & ...
Credit cards in Latin America
Latin Business Chronicle - Miami,FL,USA
... As the power of smart cards is increasingly exploited they will play a key role in the continued strong growth of the payment card market in Latin America. ...
100 Million GSM Smartcards
Cellular-News - UK
... implementations range from eID and ePassport programs to ... secure platform for development of cards, devices, and ... single or multiple-application smart card model ...
Smartcard home banking may be on way to UK
mi2g - London,UK
... A spokesperson for the Association for Payment of Credit ... that you and your credit card are where ... firm mi2g, says that even though smart cards may significantly ...
Smart cards could be just the ticket for automated fare collection ... s
International Railroad Magazine (subscription) - London,UK
... goal is to unify fare payment throughout the ... Contactless smart card technology is based on ISO14443 and ISO15693 ... Cards that comply with these standards are ...
ID fraud sets stage for smart card use
itWorldCanada.com - Canada
...The Canadian card payment industry’s move towards smart card technology is also ... earlier announced that it will introduce chip-enabled payment cards by 2010. ...
12 million 'smart' ID cards issued by Sept. 30
Thai News Agency MCOT - Bangkok,Thailand
...was assigned to oversee the card's technical specification ... million project for 12 million cards was initially ... nationwide have made the smart cards available to ...
S'pore authority says biometric passports are secure
ZDNet Asia - Asia
...Gemalto supplied the contactless smart card technology for Singapore's e-passport rollout, and more recently secured a win with the US Government Printing ...
Industry group defends e-passports
Register - London,England,UK
...said the data held on RFID cards within e ... He argues the e-passport design will make no contribution to ... Not so, says the Smart Card Alliance, whose members are ...
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