Identive Group, Inc. announced that it has shipped an additional 122,000 SCR3310v2.0 smart card readers to support Spain's national electronic ID card program. The smart card readers will be used to promote the use of the DNI electrónico, or electronic ID card, which the Spanish government launched in late 2009. More than half of Spain's 46 million citizens now carry…
Morpho (Safran group) is partnering with SIM Dynamics to present SOLAR, a technically more advanced and, to date, the only SIM browser that makes use of USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) is a protocol used by GSM cellular telephones to communicate with the service provider's computers. USSD can be used for WAP browsing, prepaid callback service, mobile-money services, location-based…
The card technology influences the daily routine like no other. In almost every pocket you find it – as a customer loyalty card or a company access card. Several billion cards come out every year. The demand for contactless cards is still strong. Initially, they were used as ticket and payment solutions for public transport in Asia. Today, contactless cards…
Chips in plastic cards deliver data for new services Cards are becoming increasingly sophisticated. “Cash or Card” has long since become much more than simply a question of payment in the modern world. The plastic card has also become an indispensible tool for identification or access control systems. The background to this is its electronic inner workings that, today, enable… Tue05212013
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