Card Technology articles from August 2001

Card Technology archives from August 2001

From The Editor.(smart cards)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... The Importance Of Being Ubiquitous Smart cards continued to gain momentum this summer. But those developments should not make industry vendors complacent; there remain real obstacles in the way of wider use of smart cards. The good...

A Bull's-Eye For Chip Cards In U.S. Retailing.(Statistical Data Included)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Step by step, smart cards are making inroads in the country that uses credit cards the most-the United States. American Express and three Visa issuers have distributed several million chip-based credit cards in the past 18 months. Now one...

Inside TechWatch...
August 1, 2001... Major Telcos To Launch Payment Services 8 Card Technology Calendar 10 Troubled Times For Gemplus 12 China Moves Toward A Chip-Based ID Card 14 Regional News ...

Card Technology Calendar.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... * Sept. 5-7: CardWare 2001-Toronto Organized by the Advanced Card Technology Association of Canada For more information, contact ACT Canada at: E-mail: infoactcda.com Web site: www.actcda.com * Sept. 12-14: The Biometric...

Regional News.
August 1, 2001... North America * Citibank To Issue MasterCard-branded Smart Cards: New York-based Citibank promises to be the next large bank to issue smart cards to U.S. consumers, with a September launch planned of a chip-based payment and loyalty card,...

Batteries Included.(in smart cards)
August 1, 2001... Card-reading devices typically supply the power for the exchange of data between cards and terminals. But advances in battery technology make it possible to put a power source within a standard credit or debit card. Battery-powered cards...

'Someone Needs To Be Responsible' When Issuers Share A Card.
August 1, 2001... I just read the May edition of Card Technology and read the Techwatch article with interest ( Multos Loosens Up: Is It Enough? ). I think that a subtle misquoting in the penultimate paragraph actually led to a false conclusion. In the...

Corrections & Clarifications.(July 2001 edition of Card Technology )
August 1, 2001... The article Canada: Smart Card's Cautious Pioneers in the July 2001 edition of Card Technology contained some factual errors. The article implied that George Hofsink is employed by TransLink, the transit operator in the Vancouver region....

Biometrics Get Real.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2001... Identifying people by such physical characteristics as fingerprints or hand geometry is no longer the stuff of science fiction. As projects roll out, managers learn how to balance convenience with security, and how to deal with the inevitable...

Latin America Warms Up To Smart Cards.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2001... Credit card fraud is driving banks in Latin America's two largest markets, Brazil and Mexico, to begin switching to smart cards. Meanwhile, GSM mobile phone technology is catching on, promising a boost in demand for subscriber identity module...

MasterCard Deadlines For Moving To Chip in Latin America.
August 1, 2001... Date Requirements June 30, 2001 All new ATMs, POS terminals and other card- accepting devices must be chip-capable. January 1, 2002 Terminals of high-fraud merchants must be ...