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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.
Hexaglot Traveller SC available in 18 languages
SecureIDNews - Reston,VA,USA
The mobile language computer features smart card technology that replaces some 153 bilingual dictionaries. Each of the available smart cards comes with six ...
First Bendable Radio; Operates in 13.56MHz Waveband
Nikkei Electronics Asia - Hong Kong
... the thickness of the current prototype non-contact smart card (about 800um) would be roughly halved, and it would be as bendable as common magnetic cards . ...
Axalto Provides Vakifbank with One-Stop Shop for Security ...
Companynewsgroup (Comunicati stampa) - Italy
... software, and also features a contactless interface enabling ... Vakifbank's employees need only one card to access ... sales exceeding 3 billion smart cards to date. ...
VeriFone Delivering 50,000 Payment Systems to ICICI Bank; India's ...
TMCnet - USA
... countertop payment solution provides extraordinary performance for payment and value-added applications - including data-intensive, EMV smart card transactions ...
Govt confirms smart cards will be completely issued to residents ...
ThaisNews - Bangkok,Thailand
... revealed the progress of the smart card issuance. He said the Ministry of Interior has reported that 3,050,000 smart cards have already been issued, and 98 ...
UK: Chip and PIN update
Colloquy.com (subscription) - Milford,OH,USA
... merchants are supposed to have completed a switch to smart cards that require ... And then there's this: UK greeting card retailer Clinton Cards says it ...
COMUNICADO: M-Systems and Actimagine Team Up on Smart Display ...
Europa Press - Spain
... pleased to announce this collaboration with M-Systems for high-density SIM cards ," said Andre ... "By offering high-density flash memory, smart card security, high ...
JCB Announces Bulgaria's Transcard to Issue the First JCB Smart ...
Japan Corporate News (press release) - Tokyo,Japan
... Europe, and will bring the number of countries in which JCB cards are issued to 20. "We are delighted with this launch of TRANSCARD JCB smart card in Bulgaria. ...
Chinese joint venture for Precise Biometrics
Security Document World (press release) - Cardiff,UK
Swedish biometric and smart card provider Precise Biometrics has ... jointly owned company called Smart Unicorn Solutions ... that constitute a part payment for Precise ...
Gemplus Delivers Indonesia's First Advanced Security EMV Credit ...
FinanzNachrichten.de - Germany
... most advanced security available for securing payment transactions today ... leading player in the secure card industry in ... It has sold over 5.5 billion smart cards . ...
Company working for China secret police to issue passports to ...
Canada Free Press - Canada
... national ID smart cards and contactless terminals to identify test takers. "Prospective students who carry the new Chinese national ID card , a contactless card ...
MasterCard International reports strong business growth across the ...
The Asian Banker (subscription) - Singapore
... In line with its overall smart card strategy, MasterCard in collaboration with ... vendors announced the availability of US$0.99 multi-application smart cards . ...
Axalto sees huge potential for microchip cards use with rollout of ...
Manila Bulletin - Philippines
... The EMV-enabled smart cards will become a key ... all major areas of microprocessor card applications and ... 25 years' experience in smart card innovation, Axalto ...
The Little Balkan Bank that could do Two-Factor Authentication
CSO - Framingham,MA,USA
... introduced a PKI-based system with a smart card reader; however ... The readers allow a chip card holder to access ... The system means that cards with a magnetic strip ...
Arcontia launches a new contactless smart card reader with Compact ...
Parking Network (press release) - Maastricht,Netherlands
... today announces the launch of a new compact flash reader, which provides state-of-the art security features needed for advanced contactless smart card payment . ...
UAE expands electronic immigration system
Middle East Times - Cairo,Egypt
... of the emirates use a smart card encoded with ... The cards are obtained from immigration officials upon presentation of proper documents and payment of a fee ...
Let your fingers do the paying
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
... Unlike debit cards , which require you to press in your account and PIN information, payments via cell phone or smart card work just like the key fobs. ...
Smart card may ease airport security queues
Toronto Star - Canada
... International Airport using the country's first smart security card ... While Clear Card won't relieve overbooking or ... Airport will begin using Clear Cards in spring ...
New Opportunities for Smart Card Readers from Online ...
Newswire Today (press release) - London,UK
... EMV payment cards can be configured to contain digital signatures and keys ... going in for logical access to their networks the smart card reader infrastructure ...
Catching the wave of the future
Montreal Gazette - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
... Rising credit and debit card fraud is driving the costly changeover to smart cards , he said ... EMV (Europay, MasterCard, Visa) global payment standard for ...
MasterCard reports strong growth in APMEA region
Khaleej Times - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
... The innovative payment products that we are able ... line with its overall smart card strategy, MasterCard ... the availability of $0.99 multi-application smart cards .
Hong Kong's smart ID cards secure online banking
SecureIDNews - Reston,VA,USA
... not only completed this process, but have caught onto using the smart cards for non-mandatory functions, namely digital commerce. Since the card mandate, there ...
Smart City card for Londoners
Security Document World (press release) - Cardiff,UK
A new smart card is to be issued to Londoners living in ... Sir Simon said the One City Card , "will consolidate all existing Westminster cards onto a ...
GO charging ahead toward ` smart card '
Toronto Star - Canada
... Currently, GO is part of a provincial pilot project to bring " smart card " fare payment to transit users across the GTA, the first step to a reward-based fare ...
Visa To Launch Contactless Cards In Europe This Year
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
... soon launch Visa-branded contactless payment systems, in ... purchases by tapping their cards against a ... consumer market development, tells Card Technology sister ...
ASK to Supply Contactless Payment Cards for Singapore
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... Electronic payment evolution Banks worldwide are ... and fully interoperable contactless smart cards , compatible with all currently installed card readers," says ...
Scottish Executive distributing over 200,000 travel smart cards a ...
PublicTechnology.net - UK
... The new cards will be used as 'show and go' passes ... In the future the card will be used to access ... The end result will not just be a ' smart ' concessionary travel ...
Beyond the Oyster
Register - London,England,UK
... to transfer the payment operation to leading credit cards . One advantage of this would be to extend more of the benefits of paying by smart card to people who ...
G&D Russian joint venture smart card plant goes into production
Finextra (press release) - UK
... & Devrient (G&D), Munich (35 %) and Sitronics, Moscow (65 %) with the goal of producing and selling smart cards and developing smart card -b
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