Card Technology articles from January 2007

Card Technology archives from January 2007

A New Role For The SIM.(China Mobile Ltd.)(Cingular Wireless L.L.C.)(Vodafone Group PLC)(subscriber identity module )
January 1, 2007... Smart card vendors sold an estimated $220 million worth of subscriber identity module cards to network operator China Mobile in 2006. That's not bad, especially considering we're talking about just one operator here. China Mobile, of...

UK Banks To Launch Contactless Payment In London.
January 1, 2007... The planned launch of contactless payment in London next year will involve all of the major card schemes, the United Kingdom's two largest issuers and acquirers, at least 500,000 cardholders and perhaps 1,000 merchants, Card Technology has...

Newswatch: Asia.(MasterCard International Inc. launches MasterCard PayPass smart card )
January 1, 2007... MASTERCARD ANNOUNCES REDUCED-PRICE PAYPASS CARD MasterCard Worldwide announced in late November the availability of a US$2.99 smart card with both contact and contactless interfaces for use with the MasterCard PayPass application. The card...

Newswatch: Europe.(Oberthur Card Systems's Pierre Barberis resigned, Philippe Geyres appointed)(InspireD consortium develops second generation smart card technology)(Giesecke und Devrient GmbH to launch health ID cards and smart cards)
January 1, 2007... OBERTHUR PICKS FORMER STMICROELECTRONICS EXEC AS CEO France-based Oberthur Card Systems, the third-largest smart card manufacturer worldwide, last month named Philippe Geyres as CEO, effective Jan. 2. He replaces Pierre Barberis who...

Newswatch: Americas.
January 1, 2007... REGISTERED TRAVELERS WILL BE ABLE TO KEEP THEIR SHOES ON A program that lets travelers use smart cards to speed through airport security lines could get a lift from the U.S. government's approval of a new kind of screening device. A...

UK Details ID Card Plans.(national identity card plans)
January 1, 2007... The UK government last month delivered to Parliament, as promised, plans for rolling out a smart card-based national identity card that could ultimately be carried by 60 million citizens and foreign nationals residing in the country. The...

Calendar.(Calendar)
January 1, 2007... February 05-09: RSA Conference 2007 - San Francisco Organized by RSA E-mail: informationrsaconference.com Web site: http://www.rsaconference.com/2007/US/ February 12-15: 3GSM World Congress - Barcelona, Spain ...

How Rewards Help Sell EMV in Latin: Fighting fraud alone did not make a compelling argument for banks and merchants in Latin America to move to smart cards. But instant rewards at the checkout counter make chip cards more attractive.
January 1, 2007... The initial argument for EMV in Latin America-that it would cut fraud-was never a sufficiently compelling reason to convince issuers and merchants in Latin America. The cost of replacing 400 million magnetic stripe credit and debit cards with...

What Latin American cardholders want.(survey)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... % very interested Discounts at POS 93% Cash back on monthly statement 89% Merchant discounts in the mail 76% Rewards points that issuers redeem 68% Pre-sale days for cardholders...

Is Convergence Ahead For Cards And Vending?
January 1, 2007... Consumers spend 20% to 30% more at vending machines if they can pay with a card, some studies suggest. But the introduction of EMV-compliant contact smart cards in Europe has, if anything, slowed the addition of card-acceptance devices to...

Making The Connection Between SIM And NFC: Thanks to a big push by mobile operators, the SIM is the leading candidate for storing payment, ticketing and other applications on NFC phones. But questions remain over how best to link up the SIM and NFC chips and to make sure both continue to function when the phone's battery runs down.
January 1, 2007... Many people have already written off the SIM card as just a cheap token in mobile phones, used to log subscribers onto their networks and little else. But the budding rollout of phones embedded with a short-range wireless technology known...

Choose Your Wire.
January 1, 2007... Proposed Standard: Connection between SIM card and contactless chip in NFC phones. Why Needed: Big mobile network operators are pushing for use of the SIM, which they own, to store payment, ticketing and other applications belonging to...

Record SIM Shipments Expected For China Mobile.
January 1, 2007... China Mobile, the world's largest operator in terms of subscribers, will order a record number of SIM cards this year - more than 400 million - a jump of nearly 60% from 2005, Card Technology has learned. Quarterly reports of projected...

Vendor Shipments.
January 1, 2007... Chinese vendors continue to use their home turf to advantage in snagging orders from China Mobile in 2006-although together, Gemplus and Axalto, both of France, would have ranked as the largest vendor last year. The operator's 31 branches were...

Mexico's Health Card Rides On Banking Rails: A government agency plans to issue tens of millions of smart cards in a health insurance program. But rather than deploying its own card readers, Seguro Popular will use the banks' terminals.
January 1, 2007... As a country with a fast-growing but still developing economy, Mexico is trying to provide its citizens with two things most have never had: a bank account and health insurance. The two efforts have come together in an innovative program that...

Biometrics And Smart Cards: State Of The Art.
January 1, 2007... Look around, and you'll find ample evidence that biometric smart cards are nudging closer to the mainstream: Japanese banking customers using palm- and finger-vein patterns stored on chips to access ATMs; citizens in Malaysia, Sweden and other...

Some Notable Biometric Smart Card Projects.(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Country/Area Project Biometric Status Various Electronic passport Mainly digital photos Rolling out Malaysia National ID card Fingerprints 18 million cards issued Japan ATM card Palm, finger...

Advertising Index.
January 1, 2007... 2007 Prepaid Card Expo 19 Tel: 617-671-1144 Web site: www.prepaidcardexpo.com Arthur Blank & Co, Inc. 10 Tel: 617-325-9600 Web site: www.arthurblank.com E-mail: abcoabco.com Atmel 3 Web site:...

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Consumer Speak.(survey of consumer of contactless cards)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Skewing Young and Rich U.S. consumers have been barraged by marketing messages on contactless cards for a year and a half. Research firm Mintel commissioned an online survey of 2,000 U.S. adults in October by Greenfield Online that shows...