Card Technology articles from September 2000

Card Technology archives from September 2000

Digital Signatures: The Next Big Thing For M- Commerce?
September 7, 2000... More consumers will conduct electronic commerce via mobile phones and other wireless devices than on PCs by 2005, some analysts believe. If they are right, it could mean extra security headaches for banks, e-merchants and brokerage houses....

Security On The Mobile Internet.(Brief Article)
September 7, 2000... Vendors are adapting their wired Internet security products to the wireless world, including high-level public key infrastructure technology or PKI. Banks and other providers of mobile commerce goods and services that want to establish a...

An E-Sign Of The Times.
September 7, 2000... June 30, U.S. President Bill Clinton signed into law a bill that makes electronic signatures as binding as the traditional pen-and-ink variety. Ten days later, Ireland's president, Mary McAleese, signed a similar law. The two events...

ComSense Trumpets Reader-Less, Card-Based Security.(ComSense Technologies Ltd. develops a smart card using a PC sound card)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 7, 2000... Few personal computers have smart card readers, but almost all PCs have sound cards. Those cards, which translate digital code into sound waves and vice versa, have been standard on PCs for years. If your PC boots up with a musical fanfare,...

Card Readers Still Don't Compute.(Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. developing smart card readers for personal computers)
September 7, 2000... Imagine all the ways smart cards could be used if every personal computer had a built-in smart card reader. Consumers could download loyalty coupons from Web sites for use in physical stores, employees could log onto their networks with...

A South Korean Bank Plunges Ahead With Multi-Issuer, Dual-Interface Cards.(Pusan Bank)(Brief Article)
September 7, 2000... It what will be the world's largest use of high-end dual-interface chips, Pusan Bank of South Korea plans to issue 1 million multiapplication smart cards this year. The cards will allow Pusan cardholders to pay fares on trains and buses in...

High-Tech Sizzle At The Point Of Sale.(Point-of-sale terminals business booming because of internet and cellular)
September 7, 2000... The hottest technologies around, mobile telephony and the Internet, are breathing new life into what has been the stodgy world of the retail point-of- sale terminal. No more will the terminal simply accept credit and debit cards. It now will...

Leading POS Terminal Vendors.(VeriFone Inc.; Hypercom Corp.)(Illustration)(Product Announcement)
September 7, 2000... All POS Terminals Company Headquarters 1999 1998 VeriFone Santa Clara, Calif., US900,000* 840,000* Hypercom Phoenix, Arizona, USA 896,519 646,149 Ingenico Puteaux, France ...

Terminal Manufacturers Find New.(Dassault Automatismes et Telecommunication acquires Racal Transcom)(Brief Article)
September 7, 2000... Vendors seeking to build advanced technologies into point-of-sale terminals need money to fund research, and they must sell a lot of terminals to spread out development costs. The increasing sophistication of POS terminals thus has spurred...

Next Stop: Multi-Issuer Chip Cards!(Local transit agencies new smart cards, Hong Kong's Octopus Card)
September 7, 2000... Within a few years, millions of commuters will be waving their smart cards to enter buses and subways in such world capitals as London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Rome and Washington, D.C. And the lure of reaching those consumers, some believe,...

Biometric ID: It's All About You.(ING Direct has a fingerprint scanner built into a computer mouse)(Brief Article)
September 7, 2000... Like long-suffering fans of a losing sports team, vendors in the biometrics industry seem to be perpetually hoping for better results next year. At least now their optimism is shared by analysts who are predicting steady growth in revenue....

Tips For Transit Agencies And Potential Partners.(Brief Article)
September 7, 2000... For Transit Agencies: * Make sure you can make a business case for smart cards that does not rely on potential revenue from other organizations. * Test a shared smart card with one other organization before attempting to sign up many...

A Split Vote On The Prospects For Multi-Issuer Transit Cards.(Brief Article)
September 7, 2000... Card Technology readers, like industry executives as a whole, are divided on whether transit will succeed as the anchor application on a multi-issuer smart card. Of the 72 respondents who weighed in on the survey question on our Web site,...

Microsoft's Smart Card Road Map.
September 7, 2000... An executive driving along in her computer-equipped Cadillac receives an e- mail at the office from her son. Having instructed her office computer to forward e-mails from certain individuals, the message is sent to the car's computer which,...

In Brief: Vendor group releases specifications for wireless browser.(Brief Article)
September 7, 2000... The world's five major suppliers of subscriber identity module smart cards for GSM phones have released software standards they say will speed delivery of the mobile Internet to cellular phone users. The manufacturers, through their...

In Brief: Visa U.S.A. smart card to carry EMV applications:.(Brief Article)
September 7, 2000... A Visa-branded smart card to be launched this summer in the United States will carry credit and debit features conforming to the EMV worldwide standard, sources say. That's in addition to the digital certificate to be stored on the smart...

In Brief: French GSM operators offer payment with CB charge cards.(Brief Article)
September 7, 2000... Two more GSM operators in the competitive French wireless market plan to allow customers to pay for purchases on their cellular phones using the country's chip-based Cartes Bancaires charge cards, sources tell Card Technology. SFR and...

In Brief: Bank of America to test smart cards.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... China Mobile to roll out banking service: China (Telecom) Mobile will begin its nationwide rollout of mobile banking service in the fourth quarter and projects more than 1 million customers will transfer funds, check account balances and pay...