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Nokia to release NFC phone this year
News Using NFC] people can swap items like business cards or calendar notes by simply tapping their handsets together. In the near future the technology could also be used as an alternative to standard ticketing systems on... [16 Apr 2008]
A New Paradigm in PKI Architecture: OTPK Technology for Online Digital Signature
White Paper There is no possible compromise on the private key, no need for user smart cards/USB tokens, no need for CRLs, no need for LDAP directories, no need for OCSP. This paper presents a paradigm shift in PKI... [11 Apr 2008]
Implementation of an ActivCard Smart Card Solution on HP CCI
White Paper Smart cards can provide additional security to a CCI implementation. This white paper discusses the implementation of ActivCard smart cards on HP Consolidated Client... [10 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com...Illegal file-sharing, biometrics flying high, ID fines…
Comment ID cards: Gov't slap on fines of up to £1,000 ID cards are a really bad idea in light of my experience of government record keeping. Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks... [28 Feb 2008]
Support WebCast: Credential Roaming Basics
White Paper Until now, the only option that was previously available in managed environments was to use roaming user profiles or smart cards. When a user is logged on to a domain-joined computer, one can use roaming... [28 Feb 2008]
Biometrics the future for flying bliss?
News Finn said that future security systems will rely on e-passports, ID or smart cards or visas that would contain both biometric data - such as fingerprints and iris scans - and biographical data, ranging... [21 Feb 2008]
New Ferroelectric Material for Embedded FRAM LSIs
White Paper Secure, high-speed, and low power consumption nonvolatile memories will be required for mobile devices used with smart RFID tags and secure IC cards. The strong growth of information network... [15 Feb 2008]
Med.Con Introduces New Paradigms for Cement Distribution With Integrated IT Infrastructure
White Paper It allowed the use of smart cards to track cement lots and enabled step-by-step monitoring of various stages in vehicle loading and unloading to ensure logistical efficiency. Med.Con wanted to support an... [09 Feb 2008]
Dave Lynch, CIO, Go Ahead Group
Comment Some of the technology challenges facing Go Ahead and other transport organisations are around mobile and wireless, electronic ticketing and smart cards. Work around the government's ITSO... [30 Jan 2008]
Comparison site gets smart to beat that competition
Case Study It supports thousands of financial services suppliers, delivering products from credit cards to insurance, mortgages to loans and banking. As a relatively new entrant, it has had to adopt a smarter business model to... [29 Jan 2008]
Federated Identity, Distributed PKI and Smart Cards
White Paper This paper considers authentication systems based on smart cards, where the smart cards will be issued by many organizations, and authentication must work at any... [07 Jan 2008]
O2 Tube trial takes mobile payments underground
News O2's vision is all these different cards will end up being apps in your phone, turning it into a virtual wallet that can be used to pay for travel, goods and services - in addition to doing all the other things a phone... [28 Nov 2007]
E-payments: Cheap as chips
News Any person requiring money could then draw electronic funds onto devices including mobile phones or smart cards. Last year, Singapore unveiled a standard contactless e-purse application (Cepas), which... [27 Nov 2007]
Can biometrics secure the public's data?
Comment There have also been reports of doctors sharing smart cards, to save logging on and off each time. Ten years ago, it would have been unthinkable to have a society where bank cards had... [23 Nov 2007]
Comision Nacional de Proteccion Social en Salud Integrates Information and Achieves High Availability
White Paper The commission also established a flexible and scalable technology infrastructure and created and managed distribution of 3.7 million "Smart cards" to beneficiaries. The commission wanted to unify and... [03 Nov 2007]
