Card Technology articles from February 2004

Card Technology archives from February 2004

The Limits Of Technology.(US-VISIT system has serious limitations)
February 1, 2004... The locks on your doors, a locksmith once told me, are to keep the honest people out. The thieves will figure out how to get in if they want to. That comment came to mind when the US-VISIT program launched last month, requiring all those...

Chip Cards Qualify For The 2006 World Cup.
February 1, 2004... A growing number of European football clubs are issuing contactless chip cards to move paying fans through stadium gates, keep hooligans out and reduce losses from ticket counterfeiting. But none has rolled out electronic tickets on the...

Exec's Exit Signals Changes At Gemplus.(Gemplus International S.A.)
February 1, 2004... Gilles Michel, former head of the banking and ID unit for world No. 1 smart card shipper by revenue Gemplus International SA, was among the first in the industry to see the truth about the much-anticipated market for EMV-based credit and debit...

Industry Briefs.(contactless gift card)
February 1, 2004... Announcements U.S.-based marketing services company Datamark Technologies Inc. has certified its stored value and loyalty products on the terminals of France-based Thales e-Transactions....Legic Identsystems AG of Switzerland, a provider...

Chip Cards Keep The Lights On In China.
February 1, 2004... In the Australian state of Tasmania, more than 20,000 customers prepay for electricity with Pay As You Go smart cards from Aurora Energy. On the island of Cebu in the Philippines, U.S.-based WaterWorld Corp. has deployed its AquaCard smart card...

Card Technology Calendar.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
February 1, 2004... March 2-4: CIT 2004-Madrid (International Conference and Exposition of Cards, Payments and Security) Organized by Institute for International Research For more information, contact Laura Garcia at: Telephone: +34 91 700 48 99...

Regional News.
February 1, 2004... Europe Norwegian Banks Choose Proton Cards: The card-processing arm of Norway's major banks has signed an agreement to deploy smart cards using Proton Prisma software from STMicroelectronics, the Switzerland-based semiconductor...

Combicards Are Finally Coming.
February 1, 2004... It's been a long, hard road for dual-interface chip cards that work as both contact and contactless cards. But the pieces may finally be falling into place. Smart cards that can both be inserted into readers like contact cards and waved by...

'To Do Multiapplications You Need The Dual-Interface Card'.
February 1, 2004... When it comes to actual experience with dual-interface cards, few have more of it than the citizens of Cornwall County in southwestern England. Cornwall has been issuing a multipurpose contact/contactless card called the Cornish Key since...

Dual-Interface Projects Around The World.
February 1, 2004... (part 1 of 2) Issuer/Project Country Cards Issued North Rhine Westphalia Germany 1,700,000 French transit France 1,000,000 RATP and SNCF ...

Protecting Computer Networks With Biometrics.
February 1, 2004... To access patient medical records and other data, doctors and nurses at Sharp HealthCare in San Diego County, Calif., first type their user name into a personal computer. But instead of entering a password, some place an index finger on a...

Spain's Engineers Build A Paperless Process.(Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos.)
February 1, 2004... Spain's civil engineering overseer spends millions each year passing around and storing blueprints. By combining smart cards and digital certificates with a popular graphics program, those blueprints are being converted to PDF files and...

Chip Cards+PKI+PDF=Less Paper.
February 1, 2004... Problem: Spain's official civil engineering society, CICCP, is deluged with more than 20 million paper documents per year. Solution: ipsCA of Spain integrates smart card software from ActivCard and digital certificate technology from...

In A Multimedia World ... Whither The SIM Card?: Multimedia services and the mobile Internet are finally beginning to live up to their billing. Will the SIM card ever be the same?(Security Identity Module)
February 1, 2004... Customers of Hutchison 3G in the United Kingdom, Italy, Austria and a growing list of other countries can get video highlights of their favorite football teams on their handsets in close to real-time, download full-color maps when they get lost...

Extra Memory For Handsets.(Brief Article)(Illustration)
February 1, 2004... Growth in demand for removable flash memory cards, such as SD Card, Memory Stick, MultiMediaCard and CompactFlash in handsets and other devices. (As percentage of total memory shipped). Application 2002 2003 2005 ...

The Profit And Peril In Contactless Payment.
February 1, 2004... Early indicators suggest consumers like to pay by waving a card or key ring fob past a reader, and will spend more with contactless devices. This new technology looks promising, says one TowerGroup analyst, although there are pitfalls to avoid....