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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.
Taiwanese Telco To Test New NFC Phone
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
Early this year, Chunghwa and Chinatrust Commercial Bank reportedly launched a test of NFC phones packing a contactless retail payment application from Visa ...
Transport smart card off tracks
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
A COMPUTER problem will delay the new public transport smartcard for months, forcing government intervention in the $500 million project. ...
Five hosts face High Court action for football screening
Morning Advertiser - UK
A writ issued at London's High Court and just made publicly available says that the landlords have been using the Arab decoder and smart card, which are not ...
Smart cards and biometric devices for metro airports
Economic Times - India
NEW DELHI: Now smart cards and biometrics-based devices would guard metro airports. The government is planning to invest Rs 346 crore in making airport ...
RP now migrating to chip technology in credit cards
Philippine Star - Manila,Philippines
Smart cards have computer chips that can store data from a regional standard of 34 kilobytes (kbs), making it capable of being a credit card, a debit card, ...
Sagem Orga the first in the German electronic health card market ...
PresseBox (Pressemitteilung)(abonnement) - Rastatt,Germany
"We have now met a strategic goal that is very important for us, since technology leadership and the availability of smart card software in this field ...
Trial to blend mobile phones with credit cards
Inside Retailing - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Making a Visa payWave contactless payment with a Telstra mobile phone is the first of many potential applications of the new NFC technology. ...
Telstra, NAB, Visa in mobile payments trial in Australia
Telecom Paper (subscription) - Houten,Netherlands
The phone will be embedded with contactless near field communications (NFC) technology, with the SIM card loaded with a NAB Visa card application. ...
New 3-in-1 Oyster Card combines cashless payment with travel smart ...
PublicTechnology.net - UK
This unique 3-in-1 card combines Oyster with credit card and cashless payment facilities. The OnePulse card allows passengers to take advantage of all the ...
Infineon Retains Market Leadership for Chip Card ICs Due To ...
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
In the upcoming years, Frost & Sullivan anticipates the market for contactless cards to grow by an average of 34 percent year-on-year. ...
3-in-1 Oyster smart card launched
BBC News - UK
The card was unveiled at an official launch in Canary Wharf, east London. The bank has struck a deal to try out the new cards and contactless readers with ...
Rollout of JCB Global Contactless Payment Program 'J/Speedy(TM ...
Japan Corporate News (press release) - Tokyo,Japan
FeliCa(R) is a contactless smart card technology and registered trademark of Sony Corporation. JCB is a major global payment brand and leading credit card ...
Smart cards for vehicle registration, driving licences by '08
Hindu Business Line - India
8 People across the country are likely to get smart cards as vehicle registration certificates and driving licences by the start of next financial year. ...
Malaysia's Iris wins e-passport contract from Senegal worth 180 ...
CNNMoney.com - USA
5, 2007 (Thomson Financial delivered by Newstex) -- Malaysian smart card maker Iris Corp Bhd said Wednesday it has secured a 20-year contract worth about ...
ID Data Group says delivers contactless payment cards for ...
Hemscott - London,UK
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Smart card company ID Data Group PLC said it has delivered Tap & Go contactless payment cards for PayPass, the MasterCard UK's ...
Stupid tags don't make smart cards
InterGovWorld.com - Toronto,ON,Canada
"Smart" cards could put data directly on the card, under the control of the citizen. As with a passport or other travel documents, the only information ...
Smart Cards improve security at Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust
PublicTechnology.net - UK
By engaging the help of Enline to implement a strategic Identity and Access Management solution, Mayday hopes to realise the benefits the cards can deliver, ...
Bell ID Opens First Office in the US
Earthtimes.org - USA
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, September 13 -- Leading smart card software company Bell ID, is pleased to announce that it will be opening its first office in the ...
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