Card Technology articles from May 2005

Card Technology archives from May 2005

Now, Back To Work.
May 1, 2005... In this issue we celebrate the industry's progress with our annual Card Technology Breakthrough awards. The winners and finalists profiled show how far smart cards, biometrics and other card-related technologies have come in moving from the lab...

A Wave Of Contactless Rollouts Predicted For U.S. Market.
May 1, 2005... It's no longer a question of whether contactless payments are coming to the United States, but of who will issue and accept the pay-with-a-wave devices, how quickly it will happen, and how issuers, card brands and merchants will use the new way...

New Chinese national ID card Creates A Demand For Terminals.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... China's new national identification card is creating demand for terminals that can read the contactless smart card IDs. To date, China has issued 8 million of the new ID cards containing contactless smart card chips, Yan Ming, the director of...

People on the Move.(Appointments)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Philippe David has assumed the new position of vice president of business development in the financial services business unit for smart card vendor Gemplus International. He had previously worked on Axalto's e-transactions business in...

Gemplus Targets e-Passports with Setec Acquisition.(Gemplus International S.A.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Gemplus International last month announced plans to acquire Finland-based passport and smart card vendor Setec in a deal that could be worth up to 60 million euros in cash, plus 19 million Gemplus shares. France-based Gemplus hopes to...

Swiss Vendor Promises A Low-cost Payment Card.(Trub AG)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Switzerland-based card vendor Trub AG hopes to shake up the market for low-price credit smart cards that comply with the EMV standard, with its new smart card software, called "CombOS." The vendor can load this operating system, along with...

2004 Shipment Data Revised Upward.
May 1, 2005... Smart card shipments for 2004 came in even higher than predicted. And suppliers are optimistic about strong growth in 2005, particularly in telecom and banking. Indeed, first quarter financial reports from two of the largest smart card...

Calendar.(Calendar)
May 1, 2005... June 7-9: Identech 2005 - Marseille, France Organized by Analyses et Syntheses For more information, contact Charles Copin at: Telephone: +33 01 53 40 97 00 E-mail: charles.copinwanadoo.fr Web: www.identech-online.com...

Are Consumers Ready To Pay With Their Fingers?
May 1, 2005... Pay with a touch at the supermarket? To hear biometric vendors tell it, consumers would be happy to leave their wallets and purses at home. They ask: Why risk having your payment cards stolen by a pickpocket when you can identify yourself when...

Will Pay-By-Finger Pay For Itself?(fingerprint biometric systems )
May 1, 2005... How much fingerprint biometric systems will cost retailers is hard to say at this early stage. Vendors won't release prices, and at least some of the merchants testing their systems say they received the equipment for free. The International...

U.S. Singing A New Tune On Chips In Passports?
May 1, 2005... For the past two years, passport-issuing agencies have been working with smart card vendors to figure out how to embed contactless chips and antennas into passports. They were operating under the assumption that this was required to meet a U.S....

US Buys Into e-Passport Market.
May 1, 2005... Gemplus International last month announced it would acquire Finland-based passport and smart card vendor Setec in a deal that could be worth up to 60 million euros in cash, plus 19 million Gemplus shares. France-based Gemplus, which was the...

The Move To 3G SIMs-Who Should Get Cards?
May 1, 2005... QUICK READ Mobile network operators launching third-generation service must decide whether to issue 3G SIM cards to all of their new subscribers, only those signing up for the high-speed service or none of the above. Mobile network...

SIMAlliance Releases Shipment Figures.
May 1, 2005... First-ever figures released by the SIMAlliance, the group of Europe-based SIM card suppliers, confirmed what most industry watchers already knew: The Asian SIM card market is exploding, mobile network operators in Europe are moving gradually to...

Vodafone Sets A Single SIM Spec.
May 1, 2005... Vodafone, one of the world's largest mobile network operator groups, is launching SIM cards this month that comply with a common specification, Card Technology has learned. The specification, known as "GU-SIM," for "Group" or "Global"...

Keeping An Eye On Future.(Java Card)
May 1, 2005... QUICK READ Bertrand du Castel has made it his mission during his first 10 years in the industry to move smart cards away from proprietary platforms and toward open systems. For the next 10 years, the head of research at Axalto intends to...

Just Another Note On The Network.
May 1, 2005... INNOVATION WINNER Axalto's Network Card FINALISTS Inside Contactless/eNFC Precise Biometrics Match-on-Card Smart cards often have been touted as an ideal way to secure e-commerce and safeguard many of the other things...

Battling The Big Boys.(Near Field Communication)(Philips)
May 1, 2005... When giant consumer electronics companies Royal Philips and Sony, along with handset maker Nokia, announced last year they had formed the NFC Forum to promote their contactless technology that enables a range of devices to talk to each other...

Keeping The Match On The Card.
May 1, 2005... There are various ways to do a biometric match to ensure a person trying to enter a computer network or office building is, in fact, who he says he is. A government agency, corporation or other enterprise could keep the biometric data,...

Chip-and-PIN Nearing A Milestone.(governments plan for preventing credit card frauds nearing completion)
May 1, 2005... IMPLEMENTATION WINNER Chip-and-PIN FINALISTS Pakistan e-passport Telecom Italia Mobile 128K SIM The United Kingdom's ambitious Chip-and-PIN Programme, which aims to outfit cardholders with smart cards for credit and...

Pakistan's Chip-Based Passport Gets The Nod.(National Database and Registration Authority of Pakistan)
May 1, 2005... There are different approaches to embedding a contactless smart card chip and antenna in a passport. France-based Inside Contactless has partnered with security film manufacturer Fasver to develop a technology that embeds a 2-millimeter-by-2...

Extra-Large SIM Earns TIM A Berth.(Telecom Italia Mobile S.p.A.)(Company Profile)
May 1, 2005... Telecom Italia Mobile believes in putting big things in small packages. That idea earned the company a place as one of the finalists in the Implementation category of this year's Card Technology Breakthrough Awards. TIM has chosen...

J-CAC Supplies The issing Link.(Department of Defense to provide broader communications to soldiers and sailors through new card technologies)
May 1, 2005... INTEGRATION WINNER J-CAC, U.S. Department of Defense FINALISTS Interactive Broadcast, Celltick Technologies Application Registration Card, UK Home Office In the telecom world, they talk about the challenge of "the last...

Pitching Mobile Customers Through Their Handsets.(MTN Networks Private Limited)
May 1, 2005... Everyone knows teen-agers love new ringtones for their mobile phones. But Thivanka Rangala knows that many consumers between 25 and 35 also will pay to have their favorite music play when someone calls their cell phone. How does he know...

The UK's Smarter ID Card.
May 1, 2005... Smart cards and biometrics are a natural combination. By storing the fingerprint or other identifying data captured at enrollment on the chip card, the identity of the cardholder can be quickly checked against the original data without...

Advertising Index May 2005.(Brief Article)(Directory)
May 1, 2005... Advanced Card Systems 35 www.acs.com.hk Card Imaging Master 17 www.cim-usa.com Cartes 13 www.cartes.com Collis BV 18 www.collis.nl/emv ...

Contact Our Advertising Sales Representatives.(Brief Article)(Directory)
May 1, 2005... United States and Canada Jim Baker phone 312 983 6179 fax 312 913 1334 Europe & Asia Bernard Pingree Jean-Charles Abeille phone + 33 (01) 46 43 00 66 fax + 33 (01) 46 43 01 34 bernard.pingreeinfopac.fr icabeilleinfopac.fr ...

A Very Pleasant Surprise.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... 1 billion-plus sim cards It seemed like a bold prediction when smart card vendors forecasted they would ship 1 billion SIM cards to wireless carriers in 2005. It turns out they topped that mark in 2004, according to revised figures from...