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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 Card announces board, executive committee for 2008
Telecom Paper (subscription) - Houten,Netherlands
The Smart Card Alliance has announced its 2007-2008 board and seven-member executive committee. The executive committee will serve in a leadership role for ...
Broad range of access control applications from HID
SourceSecurity.com - London,England,UK
HID, the premier manufacturer of contactless access control cards and readers for the security industry, launches the latest in smart card technology with ...
GPO expands smart card printing business
FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
"In the personalization process, the smart-card chip is loaded with the bearer's identity information, biometric data and permissions. ...
Bank To Introduce PayPass To China
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
The cards also will feature a chip that complies with the EMV smart card standard, MasterCard said in a statement. The payment card organization added that ...
Contactless payment makes its biggest debut yet with London Launch
Contactless News - Tallahassee,FL,USA
Oyster first hit the streets in 2003 as an integrated contactless smart card ticketing and revenue collection system implemented on behalf of Transport for ...
Blackboard and Sony Partner to Offer Contactless Card Technology ...
CNNMoney.com - USA
Rail ticketing and payment systems throughout Asia have incorporated the contactless technology to increase speed of service and passenger throughput. ...
New smart card partnership delivers its 50000th card
Parking Network (press release) - Maastricht,Netherlands
Smart card usage has increased dramatically and to meet the growing demand for this method of parking we needed a provider who could turn-round orders ...
School students set to get smart health cards
Times of India - India
NEW DELHI: School students will now be issued smart cards containing information about their annual health report as part of the National School Health ...
Maxis Communications trials NFC payment services
Telecom Paper (subscription) - Houten,Netherlands
... NFC-enabled handsets equipped with Maybank Visa Wave credit cards and Touch 'n Go, an electronic payment card with contactless smartcard technology. ...
Brussels now enjoys contactless with ASK cards and tickets
Smart Card Alliance (press release) - Princeton Junction,NJ,USA
Innovative in its customer-oriented features, MoBIB is an open-standard Calypso contactless smart card to be interoperable in the Europe-wide Triangle ...
GLOBALPLATFORM BEHIND BEIJING TRANSIT CARD CONTACTLESS PAYMENT
Bobsguide (press release) - London,UK
Since the Beijing transit card currently combines payment, transit, contactless and top-up applications, the H50 terminal, which is a GPD/STIP platform ...
Sagem Orga reaches major milestone in the UK payment market
PresseBox (Pressemitteilung)(abonnement) - Rastatt,Germany
(pressebox) Paderborn, 06.11.2007 - Smart card expert Sagem Orga has reached a major milestone in its global expansion by having its EMV smart card ...
Spanish wine growers using Smart Card Technology to assure Quality
Wine Community - Modena,Emilia Romagna,Italy
Smart card maker Giesecke & Devrient (G&D), in conjunction with Spanish IT service provider Acotec, has come up with a smart card-based solution that ...
Dublin firm smart cards 25000 US students
Siliconrepublic.com - Dublin,Ireland
Clontarf-based SmartCentric deployed the smart card technology infrastructure at Nova Southeastern University (NSU) in collaboration with Siemens ...
US Transportation Workers May Get Smart ID Cards
PC World - USA
After months of delay, the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has finally taken the first steps towards issuing new smart card identity ...
Smart-card ID a must - minister
News24 - South Africa
Cape Town - The Home Affairs Department is forging ahead with plans to introduce a smart-card identification system, home affairs minister Nosiviwe ...
VeriFone announces the QX120 smart payment service
Telecom Paper (subscription) - Houten,Netherlands
The new contactless peripheral offers merchants and banks the means to support any form of contactless payment whether presented via card, ...
Gemalto provides NFC SIM platform for JCB's payment service
Telecom Paper (subscription) - Houten,Netherlands
Provider of digital security products Gemalto announced the integration of JCB's contactless payment service, J/Speedy, onto its NFC SIM. ...
ViVOtech Releases Commercial-Grade NFC Smart Poster Management ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
VpSPm has been used together with ViVOtech's ViVOnfc over-the-air (OTA) provisioning solution and ViVOpay contactless payment readers in over a dozen ...
MasterCard(R) PayPass(TM) Technology Taking Canada by Storm
Earthtimes - London,UK
Giesecke & Devrient is a technology leader in the field of smart cards, providing smart card based solutions for telecommunications, electronic payment, ...
Atmel Introduces High-Performance Secure Microcontroller for ...
Juraforum.de - Rühen,Niedersachsen,Germany
The mobile telecoms environment is moving towards the convergenceof the wireless, internet, contactless and TV broadcasting worlds.The smart card is at the ...
Eurosmart: 2008 Shipments To Approach 4 Billion
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
Vendors shipped 20 million or 25 million contactless payment cards in 2006, according to earlier estimates. Eurosmart says shipments of e-passports will ...
Hamburg Lottery Company Opts for Secure Two-Factor Authentication ...
Networking News - Minsk,Belarus
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is unveiling its new Internet Smart Card at CarteS 2007. The card will be deployed for the first time in Northern Germany, ...
HID Global's Crescendo Smart Cards
Ad-Hoc-News (Pressemitteilung) - Germany
Crescendo C200, an off-the-shelf smart card that makes the deployment and use of smart cards on Windows easy and cost-effective, has successfully been ...
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