Card Technology articles from December 2006

Card Technology archives from December 2006

What Cartes Tells Us About The Year Ahead: Put 20,000 industry executives in one place and you can get a pretty fair read on what's coming.
December 1, 2006... Cartes, the big trade show that takes place each fall in Paris, provides the perfect venue for figuring out industry trends for the coming year. Put nearly 20,000 industry executives from more than 60 countries and 475 exhibiting companies in...

SanDisk Deepens Its Moves Into Smart Card Territory.
December 1, 2006... U.S.-based flash memory card supplier SanDisk has designs on the secure storage and digital rights management market. This promises to make it a player in markets also targeted by the smart card industry, where vendors are trying to bring...

Newswatch: Europe.(Prudential HealthCare Group Inc. promoting health exercises )(introduction of contactless cards in UK)
December 1, 2006... VISA PREDICTS CONTACTLESS ROLLOUT IN UK Visa Europe says it believes member banks will roll out contactless payment in the United Kingdom next year in what the card organization touts as the possible first large-scale rollout in Europe of...

Newswatch: Americas.(Way Systems Inc.'s on guard for its Patents)( U.S. State Department awarded contract to Stanley Inc.)
December 1, 2006... WAY SYSTEMS WARNS OF PATENT FIGHT OVER MOBILE TERMINALS Boston-based Way Systems says it has an exclusive license for a patent that covers many of the mobile-phone payment terminals being sold, and that other vendors will have to cut a deal...

Sesames Awarded At Cartes.(XIRING)(Way Systems Inc.)(Infineon)
December 1, 2006... SOFTWARE: Gemalto for its product that integrates the Internet Protocol, version 6, or IPv6, into a smart card. HARDWARE: Infineon for its CC EAL 5+ certified flash chip card microcontroller, which the chip vendor claims is the first...

Newswatch: Asia.(briefs)
December 1, 2006... SONY AND NXP TO DEVELOP NEW NFC CHIP NXP Semiconductors and Sony Corp., two chip suppliers that jointly developed the wireless technology Near Field Communication, announced last month plans to design an NFC chip that will enable consumers...

Vendor Association To Promote Contactless Multiapplication Cards.
December 1, 2006... By any measure, the much-anticipated move to multiapplication banking cards has-to put it mildly-not quite met expectations. The vast majority of the hundreds of millions of credit and debit smart cards issued carry just one application,...

Calendar.(Calendar)
December 1, 2006... January 17-19: Omnicard 2007 - Berlin Organized by inTime Berlin For more information, contact: +49 (0)30 80 90 58 14 www.omnicard.de January 30-31: 2007 Contactless Payment Summit - Miami Lakes, Florida ...

Standards Makers Adopt USB For High-Speed SIM: After a bruising standards battle, USB has been chosen as the way to increase the data speed between SIM cards and handsets. The technology could enable many IP-based applications.
December 1, 2006... Standards makers have finally adopted a technology for a high-speed SIM card-after nearly a year of heated debate and deadlocked votes. The standard, which could eventually lead to rollouts of SIMs supporting Internet and other multimedia...

A Faster SIM.
December 1, 2006... Standards makers have adopted USB technology for proposed high-speed SIM cards. The technology is expected to enable multimedia and IP applications on the card and help the SIM play a larger role in convergence of phones and other IT devices....

New Efforts At Digital ID For The Masses.
December 1, 2006... Holding her baby in her arms, a mother speaks into her digital television set, while a camera and microphone in the unit capture her voice and image. Miles away, a doctor watches his own digital TV screen, observing the baby and listening as...

Building Up NFC, One Test At A Time: Pilots of Near Field Communication continue to launch, testing various features of the technology and its market acceptance. Trial organizers hint rollouts may begin next year, and they want to be ready.
December 1, 2006... Convenience store chain 7-Eleven believes that consumers buying an iced drink or coffee at its U.S. stores would welcome the chance to pay with a quick tap of their mobile phones at the point-of-sale terminal. 7-Eleven is not alone....

Outlook 2007: Small Steps On The Road To Big Breakthroughs: 2007 will be more about churning out low-cost cards for mobile subscribers and banking customers than putting advanced technology into consumers' hands. But trends are developing that could one day change that situation.
December 1, 2006... Anyone expecting 2007 to be the breakout year for the smart card industry is liable to be sorely disappointed. At most, 2007 will show a glimmer of what the future could hold for contactless payment, mega-memory SIM cards and...

Pushing 3 Billion.(subscriber identity module shipments increase)(Brief article)(Statistical data)
December 1, 2006... Vendors worldwide will ship just under 2.9 billion smart cards or travel documents in 2007, projects vendor group Eurosmart. Increases in SIM shipments will slow to 19%, while government and health cards and documents are projected to jump by...

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Advertising Index.
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