Smart Card Alliance Smart Card Talk
June 2005 • Volume 10 Number 6

 

 

 

International News

The Smart Card Alliance is a founding member of International Smart Card Associations Network (ISCAN), an organization of international associations serving the smart card industry. Each week, the Alliance publishes an industry news summary that highlights international news about the smart card industry.  The following are some recent news items we have distributed.

Network International employs ACI's Smart Chip Manager for EMV ...
Finextra - UK
... The flexibility and scalability of ACI's Smart Chip Manager ... us to issue and develop EMV chip cards in-house ... to outsource end to end card personalisation services ...

LG and Integrated Engineering Embed Iris In Passports and ICAO ...
Security Park - Winkfield,UK
... solutions have announced a new collaboration to integrate IE's new card readers with ... first protocol to check for existing records and issue smart cards "out of ...

Fraud fears amid doubts on 'ticket to adulthood'
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... In the UK there are about 12 Pass-approved photo-ID cards available, including those run by local authorities, and Connexions, a smart card carrying ID data ...

Wireless: A world of potential for e-passport market
International Herald Tribune - France
... most of the biggest makers of smart cards, most of ... if you include national identity cards, the market ... introduce the country's first identity card since World ...

Russian-German venture to control smart-card market
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
... service-sector segments. Giesecke & Devrient develops and produces smart cards, as well as smart card system options and solutions.

Gemplus and China East Port Technology to jointly develop network ...
Edubourse.com - Brie Comte Robert,France
... card industry in both revenue and total shipments (source: Gartner-Dataquest (2004), Frost & Sullivan, Datamonitor.). It has sold over 5 billion smart cards. ...

Smart Card Groups Joins Forces In Taiwan
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
... cheaper than a card reader -- at about 9 cents per piece -- and a 2-terabyte memory capacity for its interface. There's also support for smart cards -- or ...

Excuse me, my credit card is ringing!
Economic Times - India
... Corp to combine the FeliCa smart card handset and Suica, JR East's IC card train ticket that will enable FeliCa handsets to be used as Suica cards to board ...

India launches 'smart card' to fight AIDS
Webindia123 - India
... "These cards would revolutionise AIDS ... There are many uses of the health smart card in dealing with HIV/AIDS when most of the affected population is mobile.

SA's Wild Card targets international visitors
Thewisemarketer.com (subscription) - UK
... Wild Card, the new card uses smart card technology and is ... any Maestro ATM worldwide) onto the card, an electronic ... don't accept ordinary credit cards), plus the ...

Germany selects smart-card chips from Philips for passports
MarketWatch - USA
... manufacture of highly secure contactless and contact smart card chip solutions for security systems and payment applications such as banking and credit cards. ...

Parking Network Creativity Award 2005 to Cubic Parking Systems

Parking Network (press release), Netherlands - Jun 13, 2005
... to create private applications that reside on contact-less smart cards issued by ... avoid having to acquire, issue, distribute, and support their own smart card. ...


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