a small plastic card containing a microprocessor that can store and process transactions and maintain a bank balance, thus providing a secure, portable medium for...
Spain's Ministry of Labor and Social Security wanted to automate the disbursement of welfare and healthcare benefits to minimize losses associated with benefits fraud and provide a convenient way to deliver social security benefits. The old system of disbursing benefits was prone to fraudulent welfare applications and required recipients to...
Smartcards can play an enabling role in digital rights management. This paper describes innovative uses of Smartcards, interacting with both today's insecure playback devices (primarily Internet-connected personal computers) and future generations of secure rendering devices, as part of a large-scale system for digital media distribution that respects and protects the...
In the context of the smart card adoption in the Dutch travel industry, this paper presents the development of four propositions on using the dynamic pricing strategies for yield improvement. There are a number of bottlenecks exist in the current transport operations, by adopting the smart card, the public transport...
While mobile handheld devices provide productivity benefits, they also pose new risks. User authentication is the best safeguard against the risk of unauthorized use and access to a device's contents. This paper describes two novel types of smart card with unconventional form factors, designed to take advantage of common interfaces...
Businesses are constantly seeking creative, innovative ways to develop their brand image, and the arrival of powerful, cost-competitive chip-based cards opens a whole new range of marketing options. Companies can now benefit from this personalized, intelligent technology to implement easily customized, interactive programs which provide tangible benefits to both the...
Know in this paper that UK will be ready for EMV compliance in 2005, but technology restrictions may see the financial market doing no more than necessary to comply. Without a willingness to gamble on infrastructure investment, will the UK ever see the full potential of smart cards? Refer the...
This white paper examines the present environment for smart card-based payment applications, offer insight into the EMV specifications and what their impact will be, and explore the key requirements for effective, cost-efficient smart card solutions?now and in the future. These plastic cards, which are embedded with a computer chip, offer...
In this paper the MIFARE contactless smart card and MIFARE card reader/writer were discussed. It was developed to handle payment transactions for public transportation systems. Although contact smart cards could also do the job, contactless readers are faster and easier to use, and there is virtually no maintenance on the...
This paper addresses the queries about Smart Card and Biometrics. A smart card includes an embedded computer chip that can be either a microprocessor with internal memory or a memory chip alone. The card connects to a reader with direct physical contact or with a remote contactless electromagnetic interface. With...
This paper provides an overview of smart card technology and its potential for significantly increasing payment card functionality. In addition to reviewing the market for smart cards in the US for the year 2002, this paper examines the costs and barriers associated with their wide spread adoption. European and US...
One smart-card application of particular interest to central banks is the electronic purse or wallet, which carries a preloaded monetary value and can be used as a means of payment for multiple small-value purchases. This report provides an overview of current major electronic purse projects and other prepaid card applications...
The Los Angeles County MetropolitanTransportation Authority Metro has awarded Cubic Transportation Systems,Inc., a subsidiary of San Diego-based Cubic Corporation (AMEX: CUB),contracts totaling $68 million to enhance Metro's automated Universal FareSystem UFS operated on TAPTM smart card technology by adding Cubic'sadvanced gating system and related services. The first contract, a...
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. -- Intelli-Check - Mobilisa, Inc. (AMEX:IDN), will feature its IM2700 - Transportation Worker Card Reader at the American Association of Port Authorities Port Security Seminar and Expo in Houston, Texas, on July 17th. The device reads the newly developed Transportation Worker Identification Credential, or TWIC,...
As Stated by SmartCard Marketing Systems Inc. (PINK SHEETS: SMKG) "Management is pleased to announce that (PINK SHEETS: SMKG) shares are now DWAC (Deposit/Withdrawal at Custodian) compliant. This is allows for securities houses to effectively electronically transfer shares digitally as solely by certificate form. This is the automated system for...
Belk, Inc., the Nation's Largest Privately Owned Department Store Company, Selects SmartClixx to Provide Self-Hosting Stored Value Card Software for Its Gift Card Business BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Belk, Inc., the nation's largest privately owned department store company with over 300 stores in 16 Southern states, today announced...
SAFE-BioPharma Association First to Offer TriCipher ID Tool ToGo to Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Industries LOS GATOS, Calif., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- TriCipher, the strong authentication company, has created the first SAFE-BioPharmaTM "roaming" credential to be accepted by the U.S. Federal Public Key Infrastructure Policy Authority FPKIPA, ...
FREMONT, Calif. -- Uniform Industrial Corp. UIC announces the release and availability of the new PP790se PIN pad. The PP790SE can be equipped with UIC's high performance MSR and IC card readers or as a "pure PIN pad." Featuring a 32-bit processor with 4x16 characters and 128x64 pixel backlit LCD...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Sagem Morpho Inc. SMI today introduced the MorphoAccess[TM] 521 TWIC compliant biometric reader, the first smart card access device to meet Transportation Security Administration TSA implementation requirements for the Transportation Worker Identification Credential TWIC program. The MA521 TWIC is designed to read encrypted biometric data, such as...
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GEORGE TOWN, Grand Cayman -- O2Micro([R]) International Limited (NASDAQ:OIIM) (SEHK:0457), a leading supplier of innovative power management, and security components and systems, was issued 21 claims under United States patent number 7,337,259 for its Smart Card Virtual Hub invention; a continuation of the invention issued December 2005 under patent number...
