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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.
Brits' Smart-Card Trials Carry Lessons for US
Bank Technology News - USA
Correct. The ability to produce the cards with the copied data is paramount. And arrests for cloned card are not that often. It's what we would call more by ...
Garanti Bank adopts OTI for contactless payments
UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
OTI is providing its Saturn 6000 contactless reader, along with inlays for MasterCard PayPass cards, watches, key fobs and SMART stickers (which allow ...
Contactless payments helped by receipt rules
UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
... according to the Smart Card Alliance. Contactless payment adoption at quick service retail stores in the US took off in part as a result of the payments ...
Outlets selling Oyster smart cards to double in next year
PublicTechnology.net - UK
Nearly three-quarters are by Oyster card. Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London, said: "Oyster fares are far cheaper than cash and they reduce queues at bus ...
ABN AMRO launches safe, smart and easy e-Banking services
AME Info (press release) - United Arab Emirates
ABN AMRO has always been at the forefront in pioneering new products including the first Smart chip card, the first women's card and the first NRI card, ...
RFID, bar codes work together
ITWeb - Rivonia, Gauteng, South Africa
Existing users are supposed to convert their licences to smart cards when they approach the RTO for any change in their cards. ...
Japan Leads Asia-Pacific In Visa-Branded Smart Cards
Card Technology - Chicago, IL, USA
Japanese banks and credit card companies had issued nearly 38 million Visa-branded smart cards that carried payment applications complying with the EMV ...
Electronic signatures have the potential to revolutionize ...
Business Today Egypt - Cairo, Egypt
"In Egypt, we are operating on two main categories of products, first 'Card Services' which includes SIM and smart cards, we supply the region with both. ...
Bahrain Smart Card wins key IT award
Gulf Daily News - Manama,Bahrain
The project was of special significance to India which is in the process of developing its own Smart Cards." Informatio and Communication Technology ...
No need to sign on the dotted line
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
... introduction of "smart cards" with an embedded computer chip. But it will take until 2010 to replace the millions of cards and card readers in Canada. ...
China embarks on high-tech camera, smart card surveillance on its ...
Malaysia Sun - Malaysia
Starting this month in a port neighbourhood and then spreading across Shenzhen, a city of 12.4 million people, residency cards fitted with powerful computer ...
Modernise health records to save patients time and money
Daily Nation (subscription) - Nairobi, Kenya
This time frame could be narrowed further by using the smart card, where information in the numerous paper cards can be compressed into a single electronic ...
Mobile, voice or finger?
Economic Times - India
NXP Semiconductors and Sony Corporation have signed an MOU to establish a joint venture that will drive global adoption of contactless smart card ...
Smart pushes Philippine expansion
ZDNet Asia - Asia
It will also become a major reseller of BOW SIM cards and prepaid value cards, according to company officials. Smart, the wireless arm of the Philippine ...
Mobile Contactless Payment Holds Huge Potential for Japanese Smart ...
Newswire Today (press release) - London, UK
"With contactless smart cards widespread in Japan, the next stage is the integration of a smart card with a phone for payment, fare collection, ...
Smart cards may secure fuel subsidy
Brisbane Times - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Peter Beattie and Anna Bligh both said while technical issues may prove difficult, if a smart card was possible, it could be considered. ...
Big Brother (not your neighbour) is watching
South China Morning Post (subscription) - Hong Kong
Under the one-child policy, a person's reproductive history will also be recorded in the smart card. In other words, your past will be contained in a ...
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