Card Technology articles from July 2004

Card Technology archives from July 2004

Much To Do, After A Break.
July 1, 2004... It's summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and Card Technology magazine is taking a one-month break. Our next issue will be in September, and it will kick off a busy fall. In fact, the conference schedule begins while summer is still...

NTT DoCoMo Launches Contactless M-Commerce.
July 1, 2004... Starting in July, Japan's No. 1 mobile network operator NTT DoCoMo planned to allow its customers to make retail purchases, collect frequent-flier miles and identify themselves for loyalty programs with a flash of their handsets. DoCoMo...

U.S. Keeps The Pressure On For E-Passports.
July 1, 2004... The U.S. government lit a fire under its major trading partners-and opened up a big new opportunity for the smart card industry-when it enacted a law in 2002 effectively mandating issuance of passports containing contactless smart card chips....

Card Technology Calendar.
July 1, 2004... September 2-4: SmartCards Expo 2004-New Delhi, India Organized by Electronics Today For more information, contact: Telephone: +91 22 26730869 Fax: +91 22 26730547 E-mail: electodayvsnl.net Web site:...

When Selected Countries Expect To Issue Electronic Passports: Major transit-ticketing projects using contactless chip cards.
July 1, 2004... Country Anticipated Compliance United Kingdom End of 2005 Sweden June 2006 Italy Sometime in 2005 Singapore May 2005 Iceland Sometime in 2005, certainly before...

Regional News: Asia/Pacific.
July 1, 2004... Starbucks Issues A Chip Card In Taiwan: Starbucks Coffee Co. is issuing a smart card in Taiwan that consumers use to prepay for their purchases and to accumulate bonus points. With smart cards, the value consumers load onto their cards and...

Regional News: Europe.
July 1, 2004... ID Data Buys CardBase Technologies: Card supplier ID Data of the United Kingdom announced last month plans to acquire struggling smart card software provider CardBase Technologies of Ireland for stock valued at 3.4 million euros (US$4.1...

Regional News: North America.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... MasterCard Canada Names New President: Kevin J. Stanton was promoted last month to president of MasterCard Canada. He had been serving as interim president since March, when Walt Macnee gave up the president's post to become executive vice...

TIM's Big SIM Card Plans.
July 1, 2004... No other GSM network operator has invested as much in its SIM card program as Telecom Italia Mobile. Now it says it needs other operators to follow its grand vision for the SIM. Anyone wanting a peek at the future of the SIM card need...

At A Glance: Telecom Italia Mobile: Major transit-ticketing projects using contactless chip cards.
July 1, 2004... Headquarters: Rome CEO: Marco De Benedetti Customers (as of March 31): 26 million Mobile Market Share: 45% 2003 Revenue: 9.5 billion euros Ave. revenue per user (Q1 '04): 28 euros Source: TIM (Values for Italian...

SIM Briefs: Saudi Operator Conducts Big OTA Download.(Subscriber Identity Module)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... In what may be the biggest project of its kind, the GSM unit of Saudi Telecom Co. has downloaded an entire SIM toolkit menu to more than 6 million SIM cards in its customers' handsets, says Gemplus International, the project vendor. The...

The Political Prognosis For Europe's Health Smart Cards.
July 1, 2004... The cost of European health care is skyrocketing. Populations are aging and inefficiencies abound. In France for example, where patients have the right to see as many doctors as they want, the deficit this year is expected hit 14 billion...

Major European Smart Card Projects In Health Care.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Market/Card/Description: Germany/Health Insurance Card/Current system launch in 1993; 80 michip cards have been issued. New using more sophisticated smart cto be launched in January 2006. France/Sesam-Vitale/Version 1 issued in 1998....

Australia's Smart Card Standard Remains Elusive.
July 1, 2004... By 2008, the public transport authorities of Australia's four largest cities will have made the leap from magnetic stripe paper tickets to chip-based, plastic card-style tickets. More than 5 million riders a year will use the cards, and...

Payment Briefs.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Australia-based Keycorp Ltd. has announced a A$100 million (US$70 million) deal to manage, upgrade and support the 70,000 point-of-sale terminals of Westpac, one of the country's four major banks....U.S.-based Hypercom Corp. says it will sell...

Demand Returns To Card Industry.
July 1, 2004... Smart card vendors saw volumes soar last year while overall prices again declined. This year chip supplies are tightening as card shipments continue to climb. Will this slow the descent in card prices? Smart card factories were humming...

SIM Suppliers: The Top 10: 2003 shipments (millions of units)*.(Illustration)
July 1, 2004... 1 Axalto (France)** 186 2 Gemplus (France)** 184 3 Giesecke & Devrient (Germany) 105 4 Oberthur (France) 65 5 Orga (Germany) 49 6 Sagem (France)...

Destinations For EMV Cards, 2004: The Top Four.
July 1, 2004... Country Cards (millions) 1 United Kingdom 50-plus 2 Japan 25 3 Germany 20 4 France 10-plus Source: Card Technology, Oberthur Card Systems Copyright 2004...

The EMV Deadline: Share of cards converted by year-end.
July 1, 2004... 1 UK 80% 2 Germany 50% 3 France 25% 4 Italy 5% 5 Spain <1% Source: Card Technology, Oberthur Card Systems Copyright 2004 Thomson Media Inc. All Rights Reserved. http://www.thomsonmedia.com...

ID And Smart Cards: Ten National ID Projects Rolling Out.
July 1, 2004... 1 Belgium (delayed) 2 China 3 Estonia 4 Finland (voluntary) 5 Hong Kong* 6 Italy 7 Japan (voluntary) 8 Malaysia 9 Oman 10 United Arab Emirates Copyright 2004 Thomson...

Five Major Projects In The Works.
July 1, 2004... 1 France 2 India 3 Saudi Arabia 4 Thailand 5 United Kingdom * Separate project in Macao Source: Card Technology Copyright 2004 Thomson Media Inc. All Rights Reserved....

How Smart Card Vendors Stack Up.
July 1, 2004... (Units in millions, revenue in millions of euros unless otherwise stated.) (part 1 of 4) Chip cards shipped* Company, Base Microprocessor (Ranked by actual...

Smart Card Shipments By Segment (units in millions).
July 1, 2004... (part 1 of 2) Microprocessor 2002 2003 % change 2004 % change projection Telecom 430...

Health Care Goes High Tech.
July 1, 2004... Health care organizations are converting patient data into electronic files for greater efficiency, but facing the challenge of keeping that data secure. That's an especially hot topic in the United States, where the tough data security...

Finding the Right HIPAA Mix.
July 1, 2004... The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act contains two separate rules. The privacy rule-which went into effect April 14, 2003-defines who is authorized to access patient health information and establishes patients' rights to...