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Editor's Blog: silicon.com - what a difference a decade makes
Comment Some are quaint: "UK cashpoints to take smartcards" while some are reminders of battles all but forgotten: "Microsoft browser overtakes Netscape rival". silicon.com is 10 years old this week, which prompted me to take a look through the archives... [11 Jul 2008]
Leader: Why go 'Inside China'?
Leader Many more ordinary people have seen tech become part of their daily lives - from mobile phones, to internet cafés, to smartcards used on public transport - but there is only an elite leading development of the tech industry. [12 Jun 2006]
Interview: NHS IT director general Richard Granger
Comment One of the projects that has come under scrutiny is the Spine, a central database that will store electronic patient record summaries that can be accessed by NHS staff using smartcards and PIN numbers. [26 May 2006]
Criminal IT: There's no cure-all for information security
Comment These counter-measures might take the form of firewalls, encryption, smartcards, tape backup systems and so forth, each one having an associated purchase, installation and maintenance cost; and each one guarding different aspects of... [22 Jun 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Electronic tagging for the innocent
Comment Beyond the obvious suggestion that smartcards would constitute a form of identity card, he indicated the next step would be to introduce technology to read the card from a distance. Martin Brampton is a student of smartcard technology but has... [18 Jun 2002]
Devil's Advocate: Whose life is it anyway?
Comment If the e-envoy ever has his way and provides us all with smartcards, they could be the key to online voting. Martin Brampton is Martin Brampton and doesn't want anyone else to steal his identity. But why does he think anyone would? [11 Jun 2002]
Start-up of the month: Ecommerce without tears - or credit cards
Comment All European bank cards will have to contain smartcards by 2004, mobile phones already have smartcards and HP and Compaq say every PC they ship will have a smartcard reader by the end of the year," he added. [17 May 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: mmO2's first move, Microsoft's bugbear and smartcard strategies
Comment Eventually, we will end up needing carriers for all of the different smartcards we need - then we will find it more convenient to consolidate the cards and the information held on them into useful, shared blocks. [11 Feb 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: A citizens' database, JD Edwards and corporate PDA support
Comment Smartcards could also maintain our life preferences - contact information, organ donor preferences, whether or not we want to receive junk mail. Larry wouldn't need to give away his database because we could all carry smartcards with our... [10 Dec 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: A citizens' database, JD Edwards and corporate PDA support
Comment Smartcards could also maintain our life preferences - contact information, organ donor preferences, whether or not we want to receive junk mail. Larry wouldn't need to give away his database because we could all carry smartcards with our... [09 Dec 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: Credit card fraud, Big player results, and SANs
Comment In terms of the cards themselves, Visa, MasterCard and Europay are all in the throes of introducing smartcards. Growth in the use of the internet - and the comfort users will have with passing their details over the network - is set to explode to... [29 Oct 2001]
Smartcards - a smart move by Europe?
Comment Facilitating easier payment for goods over the internet is also a priority, and smartcards that slot into a PC, linked to a pin number typed from a keyboard, may well be the future for online transactions. [07 Nov 2000]
The Best of 'Reader Comments': Smartcards, e-marketplaces and Apple
Comment Smartcards, stupid idea? Professor Watkins is missing the point when he says smartcards are competing with cash. Not so, smartcards need time To be honest I would rather they didn't even try to introduce more technological advances in money, there... [06 Oct 2000]
Finland's argument for a smartcard future
Comment The Smartcards are from Setec. OKO Bank, for example, has become one of the first organisations to use the ID smartcards and PKI system to enable citizens to manage their finances over the internet, using the FINEID card. [30 Aug 2000]
Windows 2000 Special: Roll-out! Roll-out! The greatest OS on earth?
Comment It supports the Kerberos protocol that sends encrypted passwords over a network instead of text; it can use smartcards or physical identification for those that distrust passwords; and it has a check box that turns on the encrypting file system... [21 Feb 2000]
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