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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 Cards still in Security Surveillance fray
PRMinds (press release) - Palaiseau,France
... The merging of access control smart cards with transaction based card will continue to be a conversable topic as end users are mostly not willing to consider ...
UCLH plays smart with cards
E-Health Insider - UK
... An initial smart card pilot was successfully completed in late November, 2005, with the cards initially being used by about 30 trust staff. ...
Axalto and Atilim enter partnership to provide Turkish banks with ...
Contactless News - Aldie,VA,USA
... in more than 100 countries, with worldwide sales exceeding 3 billion smart cards to date. The company has 25 years' experience in smart card innovation and ...
EMVCo introduces common payment application spec
Finextra - UK
... specification for debit and credit card processing, in an effort to lower costs and ease the migration burden for banks switching to EMV-based smart cards . ...
Smart ID cards to get smarter
Bangkok Post - Thailand
... minister, said the government would use more advanced technology in issuing the phase 2 'Smart Cards' so that most updated information of card holders would be ...
Smart licence back on the cards
Brisbane Courier Mail - Queensland, Australia
... $3.3 million was budgeted to develop the licence -- the smart card driver's licence ... while Queenslanders were originally supposed to have the cards in their ...
Bioscrypt, HID and OmniKey partner for PC security
UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
... iCLASS contactless smart cards and Prox cards for identity verification on computers. OmniKey's CardMan readers are PC-linked desktop smart card readers that ...
Credit Card Usage for Public Transportation in Jeopardy
Chosun Ilbo - Seoul,South Korea
The conflict between Korea Smart Card Co. (KSCC), official operator of Seoul's transit cards, and some credit card companies over their commission, remain ...
Parcxmart offers ready to download television coverages at ...
Parking Network (press release) - Maastricht,Netherlands
Founded in 2003, Parcxmart is an information technology company specializing in smart card payment solutions, delivering value to customers with its initial ...
OTI Expands EasyFuel(TM) Program in Peru
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... News) designs, develops and markets secure contactless microprocessor-based smart card technology to ... the Year Award in the field of smart cards. ...
India's migrant workers to get smart cards
Malayala Manorama - India
Hyderabad: As part of a package of measures to protect their interests, India's migrant workers will get smart cards containing information about them, their ...
There's method behind the Tube's pricey madness
Globe and Mail - Canada
... Oyster card users will pay only £1.50 for the same Tube ... to drop coins into a slot as payment is a ... Similar smart cards are coming in the next few years to the ...
JUTC clamping down on fare dodgers
Jamaica Observer - Kingston,Jamaica
... The lowest fine for non- payment of bus fare is ... under way to reopen the Spanish Town Smart Card office in ... the public sector discount programme and cards for the ...
ID cards and passports drive smart card markets
Security Document World (press release) - Cardiff,UK
... growth for all participants in the smart card value chain. As well as launching new projects, old projects are being upgraded to use higher-end smart cards. ...
Japan leads the way in electronic money
Newstarget.com - Taichung,Taiwan
... phones that transmit infrared signals---or, as in Nashimoto's case, a smart card that doubles ... Users can add value to their cards or cell phones at thousands of ...
ICBC Awards Axalto Its First Chinese EMV Card Issuance Project in ...
ATM marketplace.com (press release) - Louisville,KY,USA
AUSTIN, Texas -- Axalto, which provides microprocessor cards, announced in a news release that its multiapplication smart card, Palmera, has been selected by ...
EMVCo launches common payment application specification
The Asian Banker (subscription) - Singapore
... CPA Specification is to streamline smart card processing for ... of multiple vendors for chip cards and improved ... Specification is its enhanced card risk management ...
NZ ahead of Australia in smart card use
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... In Australia, the new smart cards are still to be ... more secure than an ordinary magnetic stripe-based card.". ... of up to $500 million to introduce the cards over a ...
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