Card Technology articles from March 2005

Card Technology archives from March 2005

A Real Problem-Solver.(smart cards)(Cover Story)
March 1, 2005... Two articles in this issue illustrate new ways consumers are using smart cards in Europe for online security and convenience. It seems to me they suggest opportunities for the smart card-resistant United States. The cover story reports on...

A Strong Year For Major Smart Card Vendors.
March 1, 2005... All three major publicly traded smart card vendors reported growing sales in 2004 and all were expected to show improved profitability for the year. The three vendors, Gemplus International, Axalto and Oberthur Card Systems, all based in...

Revenue on the Upswing.(credit card industry)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... 2004 sales (millions of euros) (part 1 of 4) Vendor Total % increase SIM over 2003 Gemplus* 865 15.5 558.5 Axalto** 707 23 438 Oberthur*** 450.7 4.8 133.5 (part 2 of 4) ...

Newswatch: Europe.
March 1, 2005... UK ID CARD MAY BE DELAYED The UK government won a battle on identity cards last month, but may be losing the war. The House of Commons approved the ID card proposal on a vote of 224 to 64 and that normally would virtually guarantee that...

Newswatch: North America.(smart cards)
March 1, 2005... CANADIAN DEBIT NETWORK SETS MOVE TO CHIP The Interac Association, Canada's national debit network, announced last month a plan to move to smart cards by the end of the decade. Interac says it will be able to handle smart card transactions...

Card Technology Calendar.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
March 1, 2005... APRIL 12-14: CARDTECH/SECURTECH-LAS VEGAS ORGANIZED BY CTST For more information, contact CTST at: Telephone: 800 803 3424 or +1 212 803 6093 Fax: 800 250 1811 or +1 212 803 8515 E-mail: abconferencesthomsonmedia.com Web...

Contactless Picks Up Steam In The United States.
March 1, 2005... The major players are all in uniform. Now the only question is when someone will yell, "Play ball," and start issuing contactless devices that U.S. consumers could use to pay by waving a card, tag or mobile phone past a reader. Visa USA...

People On The Move.(appointments and retirements)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Francisco Lopez has been named director of business development at UK-based payment terminal manufacturer Dione, a subsidiary of Lipman Electronic Engineering Ltd., a terminal maker based in Israel...Denny Jensen, who played a leading role in...

Newswatch: Asia.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... VISA ANNOUNCES CONTACTLESS CARD ROLLOUT IN MALAYSIA Visa issuers in Malaysia will roll out Visa Wave contactless smart cards over the next year to an estimated 500,000 cardholders who will be able to pay with a tap of their cards at some...

Digital Rights And SIMs: A Natural Fit?(subscriber identity module)(open mobile alliance)(digital rights management)
March 1, 2005... As bandwidth for mobile phone networks grows, so do the fears of content providers that their music, games, video clips and other intellectual property will be ripped off. Mobile content will be a big business, according to such analysts...

China's SIM Market Gets Even Bigger-At Least On The Low End.(subscriber identity module)
March 1, 2005... China's massive mobile market will grow by another 68 million subscriber accounts in 2005, topping 400 million by the end of the year, according to the Chinese government. If the projection pans out, China's subscriber base will be 20% larger...

Chinese Telecom Equipment Giant Plans To Enter SIM Market.(subscriber identity module)
March 1, 2005... Huawei Technologies, China's largest telecommunications equipment maker and a major vendor in the global telecom market with more than $5 billion is sales last year, plans to enter the market for subscriber identity module cards for mobile...

Vendors Unveil Mega-Memory SIMs.(Subscriber Identification Module)
March 1, 2005... Two major smart card vendors introduced prototypes of massive-memory SIMs at last month's 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France. Although applications for the cards are scarce, handsets are almost nonexistent and standards are a work in...

A Painful Birth For An ID Card Standard.(Identification card)
March 1, 2005... It was a simple enough goal: create a standard ID card that U.S. government employees and private contractors could use to enter government buildings and for logging on to computer networks. And, by the way, make sure it supports digital...

E-Banking Security: A New Use for EMV.(Europay Mastercard and Visa)
March 1, 2005... Big payment organizations, such as MasterCard International and Visa International, have repeated a "multiapplication mantra" for several years now, trying to encourage banks to roll out smart cards loaded with a variety of services. But...

Brand Awareness.(Europay-MasterCard-Visa standard's marketing)
March 1, 2005... EMV, Blue, PayPass. They are just some of the initiatives of the big payment card brands that have helped put smart cards into the purses and wallets of millions of consumers around the world. Perhaps more than anyone else, the four major...

Schools Give Smart Cards Second Look: Though smart cards remain the exception, some universities around the world are finding new uses for chip cards that may make them more attractive to other schools.(smarter chip cards)(chip cards control)
March 1, 2005... Despite some setbacks, universities have not completely dropped smart cards from their curricula. While several projects flopped, some university smart card programs have survived and added new features. The lessons they've learned may...

Singapore University Converts To A Two-Chip Card.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... The National University of Singapore, which first issued smart cards to its students and faculty in 1996, is transitioning to a new version, one with contact and contactless chips, each holding 8 kilobytes of memory. The new card, to be...

CardTech SecurTech 2005.
March 1, 2005... April 12-14, 2005 Mandalay Bay Convention Center Las Vegas, NV Transaction Technologies for Security and Convenience Mission-Critical Information - Transaction Technology Workshops * Preparing for a Future of Contactless...

A Little Change.
March 1, 2005... Dear Colleague: This year's CTST conference offers an exciting new look at two "core competencies" that have always been at the foundation of the event: Security and Transactions. CTST has always been about ID tokens, which are usually...

Conference Advisory Committee.
March 1, 2005... Catherine Allen, CEO, BITS Rene Bastien, Solution Architect, Consultation and Integration, Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Co. Ray Bernard, PSP, Principal Consultant, Ray Bernard Consulting Services Donald Davis, Editor and Associate...

Special Events.
March 1, 2005... Card Technology Awards Presentation and Keynote Speaker Tuesday, April 12 9:00-10:30AM Card Technology magazine is proud to present the Breakthrough awards, recognizing the leading technologies and individual achievements of 2004....

Keynote Presenter.
March 1, 2005... Richard A. Clarke Former Counterterrorism Czar and Author of against all enemies (Following Awards Presentation) Long known as one of the hard-liners against terrorists, Richard Clarke served three presidents as a senior White...

Opening Night Networking Reception.
March 1, 2005... Tuesday, April 12 Reception on the Exhibit Floor 5:00 - 6:00 PM Your Vegas night starts on the Mandalay Bay exhibit floor with this professional networking extravaganza. It's a great chance to sample complimentary drinks and hors...

CTST Technology Pavilion and TechTours.(smart card technology)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... SCA Latin America TechTour and Networking Reception Wednesday, April 13, 10:30 AM - Departing from Smart Card Alliance booth As part of its expanded outreach to Latin American countries that are rapidly adopting smart card technology, the...

Advertising Index.
March 1, 2005... Assa Abloy/HID back cover www.hidcorp.com Bowe Systec Ag 19 www.boewe-systec.de Buysmartcard.com 15 www.buysmart.com Collis BV 35 ...

Contact Our Advertising Sales Representatives.
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Big Changes Ahead: 2007 is first key date.(china's credit market changing rapidly)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... With Beijing hosting the 2008 Olympic Games and China's banking market opening up to foreign competition in 2007, the country's card market is changing rapidly. Many cards have been issued, almost all carrying magnetic stripes rather than...