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UK banks trial 'smart chip' credit cards
News Major retailers, banks and consumers are today beginning a trial of credit and debit cards that will use secure chip technology to tackle the UK's annual £425m card fraud bill. Northampton has been chosen as a pilot for the 'Chip and Pin' scheme...
[May 20, 2003, 11:12]
Contactless Smart Chip Technology: The Business Benefits
White Papers Contactless smart chip technology, a form of proven smart card technology, is used increasingly in applications that must protect personal information or deliver fast, secure transactions. In addition, contactless smart chip technology delivers the...
[November 15, 2009, 20:19]
Survey: UK retailers may miss Chip & PIN deadline
News More than a quarter of UK retailers are wary of moving to the latest Chip & PIN smart card technology for plastic card transactions, according to a survey conducted by Retail Logic, a maker of payment processing software, and the Retail Bulletin...
[May 18, 2004, 15:49]
Transmeta's Crusoe: How it works
News Transmeta is billing its Crusoe chip as the first smart, software-upgradable microprocessor. This approach is a departure from traditional chip design, but an intentional one. That is because as it translates instructions, the chip analyses how a...
[January 20, 2000, 9:28]
Smart cards will boom.... if standards are harmonized
News In every smart card consortium, from chip maker to software companies, the technology is European. The market research company predicts that between 1998 and 2002, the total number of chip cards in circulation will double, hitting 1.5 billion while...
[February 2, 1999, 14:05]
Smart carpet can spot fires, steer feet and sell beer
News After being fitted to a floor and hooked up to a power source and a computer, the electronic carpet becomes "aware" of the position of each sensor chip, said the chipmaker. Each chip communicates via a self-learning and self-organising network with...
[May 8, 2003, 14:13]
Intel backs notebook smart battery standard
News The chip giant yesterday said that it will back the Smart Battery System (SBS), an attempt to gauge the power left in batteries in mobile PCs and provide other diagnostic information. That could change now that battery giants Duracell, Energizer...
[October 16, 1996, 14:16]
HP sued over 'expiring' cartridges
Talkback HP's own product datasheets explicity state "Each cartridge has a 24-month shelf life dating from the time of manufacture, which is recorded on the smart chip. Similarly, the 30-month, in-printer life begins on the day of first insertion into the...
[March 1, 2005, 12:59]
Wireless credit card in development
News Royal Philips Electronics and Visa announced on Wednesday an alliance to promote and develop a contactless chip technology, a short-range wireless technology that would allow people to pay for goods by waving a smart card in front of a sensor.
[May 29, 2003, 11:20]
US Report: Mastercard, Visa in trouble over smart cards
News Smart cards are credit-card look-alikes that use an embedded computer chip -- rather than a magnetic stripe -- to store data and run small programs as well. But the DOJ is correct that the U.S.has fallen behind in this market -- there is no doubt...
[October 8, 1998, 9:20]
Smartcards 'pushing credit card crime to Australia'
News Visa Australia, which is seeking to integrate its contact-less chip credit cards with smart card-based state public transport mass ticketing facilities, said Australia was in danger of becoming a main point of card fraud in the Asia Pacific region.
[March 19, 2003, 8:26]
Amex card targets online security fears
News Built into the Blue card is a chip that can be read by a smart card reader, provided free, attached to the user's PC. The embedded chip holds a unique digital certificate that acts to unlock the Online Wallet once the user has swiped his card...
[September 9, 1999, 15:49]
Security risks of e-passports exposed
News At the Black Hat conference, Lukas Grunwald, a researcher with DN-Systems in Hildesheim, Germany, demonstrated that he could copy data stored in an RFID tag from his passport and write the data to a smart card equipped with an RFID chip.
[August 7, 2006, 8:55]
Smart-card ticketing goes Underground
News Like the smart-card systems in Paris and Brussels, Philips' chip is compliant with the international ISO 14443 standard for contactless smart cards. The MiFare chip includes 1KB of EEPROM memory storing travel details, and communicates with a...
[November 20, 2002, 12:57]
Is there a smart card in your future?
News The banking industry has agreed to port all debit and credit cards to a new chip standard called EMV by 2007, and many card issuers have already begun the process; UK banks, for example, are planning to make the transition by 2003.
[February 8, 2000, 9:53]
News Burst: Co-op set to roll out smart cards
News Smart cards, such as those used in telephones, are thought to be more secure than magnetic-strip cards and industry group APACS (Association of Payment and Clearing Services) has called for all payment cards to be chip-enabled by 2005.
[November 8, 1999, 10:22]
Mondex banks on land of the rising sun
News The average cost of a chip card is $2.8 (£1.70). Visa International and other companies sponsored by the Japanese government, rolled out an e-commerce project two years ago in which 30,000 Visa cardholders in Kobe were given chip cards.
[February 15, 1999, 17:12]
ID theft: The next IT industry boom?
News IBM believes that even smart cards don't go far enough, and touts the embedded security chip in its NetVista and ThinkPad range as the ultimate in security. The added benefit comes from the increased space on the chip for security programs and the...
[June 13, 2002, 8:52]
Behind the scenes at chip firm NXP
News The NFC chip is powered by the point-of-sale device, rather than relying on a battery. The chip models the stereo sound on top of that frequency, according to Daemen. In addition, it can be fitted with a chip to enable payments at garages or to...
[July 10, 2009, 11:39]
Intel to rebrand for smartphone assault
News After a late start in the market, Intel has been making significant gains in the portable-device chip market, moving into second place in market share and creeping up on leader Motorola. Intel's past marketing efforts helped establish the company...
[June 9, 2003, 13:44]
