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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.
New Smart Card Alliance and Frost & Sullivan Study Forecasts ...
Market Wire (press release) - USA
... smart card microcontroller shipments will top 132 million units in 2005 and grow at a rapid 27.7 percent compound annual rate through 2010. In Latin America, growth will be even more spectacular. Frost & Sullivan forecasts a 59.1 percent compound annual growth rate ... the Americas," said Randy Vanderhoof, executive director of the Smart Card Alliance. ... was able to evaluate the markets for microcontroller smart cards by market ...
Australia proposes smart cards for millions
ZDNet - USA
... conference Wednesday that smart cards have the potential to "revolutionize" government service delivery. "For example, in health care, a smart card would help ...
Vendors see big dollars in transport ticketing projects
Computer Business Review - UK
... its municipalities into one payment system, Kroncke ... Victorian project, said current smart card transportation system ... a lesser degree, the smart cards themselves ...
British Companies Launch New Products At Gitex In Dubai
BIOS (press release) - Milton Keynes,Buckinghamshire,UK
... feeder can hold up to 220 cards (30-mil ... To extend card life, and add security, issuers ... magnetic stripe encoding and advanced smart card personalisation features ...
Operators harp on use of cheques, smart cards
The Tide - Port Harcourt,Niger Delta,Nigeria
... sector operators have urged the government to provide enabling environment that will encourage the use of cheques and smart card as payment instruments. ...
EastNets to showcase its entire range of payment and security ...
AME Info - United Arab Emirates
... Bitaqat-e IDM, the innovative smart card solution ... The advanced web-enabled ID Card Management system ... Residency Department (DNRD) for their cards issuing system. ...
CUETS: Credit Union MasterCard Leading the Way to Chip
CCNMatthews (press release) - Toronto,ON,Canada
... Since the first days of exploring the use of smart cards in Canada, CUETS has been actively involved in the campaign to adopt chip card technology in the ...
UK company supplies robust campus card offering to four British ...
Contactless News - Aldie,VA,USA
... The Smart Omnicard at the University of Hertfordshire ... This card enables all of the functions that used to be contained on 5 separate cards : identification, bus ...
Australia and New Zealand Poised to Get Smarter
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... of costs among market participants are projected to lead to a critical mass that would increase the uptake of smart cards in the future. Smart card adoption is ...
Gateway to better security
New Straits Times - Persekutuan,Malaysia
... Smart card ICs themselves deliver vastly more capability than the much simpler cards of a few years ago. There has been an overall ...
Payment technology drives retail IT
Mining Weekly - Gardenview,Eastern Cape,South Africa
... Smart cards are set to become the primary method of card payment in the next few years, as Visa and MasterCard have mandated that all new-generation payment ...
Hypercom enters Russian card payment terminal market
Finextra (press release) - UK
... now offering Hypercom's Optimum T2100 card payment terminal to ... standard for chip-based debit and credit cards . ... 22 banks in Russia are issuing Visa smart cards . ...
Infineon and Russian KNC Cooperate in Chip Package Technology to ...
presseagentur.com (press release) - Munich,Germany
... are actively developing Russian and CIS smart cards ' markets which ... migration to high-value SIM cards , needs dedicated ... at Infineon's Chip Card and Security ...
OTI teams with Asian gov't on e - passport project
Globes - Rishon Le-Zion,Israel
... OTI designs, develops and markets secure contactless microprocessor-based smart card technology. ... of the Year Award in the field of smart cards .
S'pore to steer smart card maker Gemplus' Asia drive
IT AsiaOne - Singapore,Singapore
... of the global market for these cards and is ... to be the global leader in the smart card industry,' Mr ... in the overall evolution of the e - passport environment', Mr ...
TriCipher Leads the Authentication Technology Charge in Britian
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal - Fairfield,NJ,USA
... or a portable device such as a smart card or USB ... emulate the success of prepaid payment cards in the ... APS' first prepaid payment card , the cashplus(TM) prepaid ...
Sweden Switches to E-Passports
RFID Journal - USA
... integrator that developed the e - passport system, prints ... by Arcontia AB, a contactless smart card reader supplier ... but Sweden's new national ID cards , which are ...
City of Caen, France, to Demonstrate Simplicity of Near Field ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... later in the trial, along with a cashless payment scheme in ... with Sony's FeliCa(TM) card and the broadly established contactless smart card infrastructure based ...
Smart cards for NI students in pilot project
Siliconrepublic.com - Dublin,Ireland
18.10.2005 - Eight secondary schools in Lisburn are running a pilot smart card scheme as part of the Online Northern Ireland (NI) e-government strategy in the ...
Fraud drives banks' smart card push
Silicon.com - UK
Card fraud and identity theft are driving demand for and cutting the cost of smart cards in the financial sector, analysts claim. ...
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