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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.
Japan Weighs A New Smart Card ID
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
... on the last version of its software designed to assure that the card issuer retains control over applications data stored on multifunction smart cards. ...
Sony Smarts Cards Up
IDM.net.au - Strawberry Hills,NSW,Australia
... Sony says there are currently over 100 million of these smart cards currently in ... scale product roll-outs occuring through the ‘ex-link’ card in Singapore ...
All Eyes Open on Contactless: The Smart Card Market in APAC Widens ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
In 2005, world contactless smart cards took a leap in the micro payment and e ... to more than half of the world's demand for contactless smart card shipment. ...
New Smart Card Plant In Slovakia For G&D
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
... Ottenberg noted "a sharp drop in prices" for subscriber identity module, or SIM, cards, for mobile phones, the smart card industry's main revenue-producer, as ...
Smart Cards Shipments En Route to 20% Growth in 2007
PRMinds (press release) - Palaiseau,France
There will be a surge in the shipment of smart cards all over the world, as smart card vendors are likely to ship about 2.9 Billion banking, ID, SIM, and ...
Giesecke & Devrient to trial electronic healthcare cards in ...
Computer Business Review - UK
... & Devrient (G&D) has become one of the first smart card manufacturers to pass the tests and be given the green light to issue its healthcare smart cards in the ...
Welfare access card briefings
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... government plans to use private payment systems to ... Westpac, NAB, Visa, Mastercard and smart-card makers Keycorp ... shelf technology to deliver cards and services. ...
Transport for London deal combines Oyster and Barclaycard
Finextra - UK
... the company behind London's pre-paid Oyster travel smart card. ... place Oyster on its Visa cards for at ... payment function, along with Oyster card functionality and ...
French Healthcare System set to Revolutionize with Smart Card ...
PRMinds (press release) - Palaiseau,France
... by RNCOS, contains detailed data on Global as well as country-specific smart card markets ie smart card industry value, smart cards shipments, application of ...
Hong Kong’s mandatory citizen smart card expedites travel ...
Contactless News - Aldie,VA,USA
... by the Hong Kong ID program, is a suite of software products that enables issuance and life cycle management of smart cards. "We use the term smart card in a ...
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