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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 public transport on the cards for Auckland
Computerworld New Zealand - Auckland, New Zealand
In five years’ time Aucklanders may be using single smart-card tickets to travel on any mode of transport across Auckland — and enjoying real-time reports ...
Chip-based cards may cut into fraud
Toronto Star - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Smart cards can be loaded, for example, with all the customers' loyalty-program information. Chip cards can be programmed to make small "contactless" ...
Card-carrying Kiwis dealt a bigger deck
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington, New Zealand
Far from the pipedreams of a single smart chip card to replace all existing cards, or of the mobile phone fulfilling the same purpose, the trend will be for ...
Visa and SK Telecom Announce Plans to Launch Mobile Payments Using ...
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
Visa Wave contactless payment removes the need to swipe or insert a smart card into a payment reader. The customer simply waves the card or phone to make a ...
RSA: Gates says smart cards are the future of data security
SC Magazine - London, UK
Digital certificates and smart card tokens are the future of information security, according to Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. ...
Nova Scotia travellers will be able to get Nexus cards by September
ChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
People with criminal records will not be able to obtain one of the credit-card-size smart cards. Dedicated lanes are currently being added to many highway ...
GSM Association Aims for Global Point of Sale Purchases by Mobile ...
CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse) - Canada
Fourteen Operators Join Initiative to Develop Global Mobile Payment Enabled by Contactless/NFC Technology The worldwide use of mobile phones ...
Barclaycard unveils contactless payments terminal for taxis
Finextra - UK
Passsengers can pay for low-value fares by tapping their payment card against the device, which is located in the back of the cab. ...
JCB Announces New Brand Image
Japan Corporate News (press release) - Tokyo, Japan
The familiar JCB Emblem for the last 39 years has 3 S-shaped patterns, which stood for 'SIGN', 'SMART', and 'SAFETY', and the 3 main colors symbolizing ...
Slovenian Bank Issues First Multos Visa Card
Card Technology - Chicago, IL, USA
Tim France-Massey, vice president of smart card marketing and business development for StepNexus Inc., the company that markets Multos, tells Card ...
Review: Vasco Digipass Smart Pack password security software
VNUNet.com - UK
There are three parts to the Smart Pack. A smart card reader, the smart cards designed to go with it and client software, which can be installed on any PC ...
Polyright multifunction contactless smart card system implemented ...
Security Park - Winkfield, UK
The system, based on a unique database, supplies coherently every function involved in the use of identity cards. The target markets for this technology ...
Weatherproof Contactless Smart Card Reader
Parking Network (press release) - Maastricht, Netherlands
The e*Tag Mullion Reader is ISO 15693 compliant and works with DES-encrypted e*Tag cards and key tags from Secura Key. The industry-standard Wiegand output ...
Mobile NFC payment & coupon pilot starts in Taiwan
UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
ViVOtech is also providing coupon-enabled smart posters and ViVOPay contactless readers for the pilot programme. All ViVOtech components have been delivered ...
Infineon provides chips for MasterCard contactless payment schemes ...
Assodigitale - Seregno (MI), Lombardia, Italy
... about 17 million contactless chip cards. According to market research company Frost & Sullivan, the conventional contactless payment smart card market ...
'Mobile eCash' could change the face of commerce
Register - London, England, UK
At one time, smart card vendors offered the promise of universal multi-function cards. However, although the technology is willing, widespread deployment is ...
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