card
RSS cardCard spending beats cash
News Retail debit card spending has exceeded cash spending for the first time in the UK. The figures, from banking industry body Apacs, show use of retail debit card use up nine per cent on 2004 figures of £82bn. [19 Apr 2006]
Card Smarts: Smart Cards are Changing the Face of Health Insurance
White Paper The latest incarnation is the smart card: It looks like a credit card, but with a small gold microchip embedded in it. That chip, which includes a microprocessor, operating system, and data storage, gives the card--and the person who carries it... [24 Feb 2004]
Wyse Technology Case Study: Card Clear plc
White Paper Card Clear plc provides banking services for major banks in the United Kingdom. Not surprisingly, as the number of people with credit cards increases, so does the demand for Card Clear plc services. The Winterm Windows-based terminal solution... [14 Jan 2005]
Card Security and Cryptography
White Paper By doing the actual cryptography on the card, the keys never have to leave their storage place. This gives the card holder a secure way of storing keys especially if the key pair was generated on the card. [24 Feb 2004]
London: Card fraud hotspot
News The UK's top card fraud hotspots have been revealed in a report that shows the crime is spread across the country. London, specifically the south east of the capital, saw the most card-not-present fraud over the past six months, with Romford and... [24 Jul 2008]
Card fraud up by a quarter to £535m
News Card fraud rose by 25 per cent in 2007, according to the latest figures from payment clearing industry body Apacs. Apacs said £535.2m was lost to card fraud overall last year, due mainly to stolen UK card details used in countries yet to upgrade to... [12 Mar 2008]
Credit card security takes step forward
News Services company Integris and e-payment provider Arcot are joining forces to bring the Visa Authenticated Payment Programme to credit card issuers. Integris will provide consultancy to card issuers ranging from initial advisory workshops to fast... [08 Nov 2001]
Which? exposes credit card numbers online
News Credit card numbers and other personal details were left accessible on the site. Consumer watchdog Which? has issued a warning to thousands of its customers telling them to cancel their credit cards after a security blunder exposed their details... [22 Jun 2001]
SD Memory Card - Ringing Up New Wireless Applications
White Paper SD Memory Card - the emerging de facto flash memory standard - continues to demonstrate its growing impact on the wireless communications industry. At the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes the SD Card Association (SDA) offered details of recently... [03 Jul 2008]
DoCoMo to buy into credit card company?
News According to reports, DoCoMo is planning to buy up a 33.4 per cent stake in the credit card company Sumitomo Mitsui, with a view to bolstering the use of mobiles for making micro-payments. DoCoMo has not made any announcement regarding a strategic... [20 Apr 2005]
An Operational Semantics of the Java Card Firewall
White Paper This paper presents an operational semantics for a subset of Java Card bytecode, focussing on aspects of the Java Card firewall, method invocation, field access, variable access, shareable objects and contexts. [10 Jul 2008]
Integrating the SIM Card Into J2ME as a Security Element - A Smarter Approach to Secure Java Mobile Applications: JSR177
White Paper This white paper addresses the JSR177 Smart Card communication API and set of cryptographic high level APIs useful to benefit from (U)SIM card services. While the use of an Open Operating System (OS) platform is not necessary for low-end devices... [24 May 2006]
New Methods and Solutions Based on Contactless Smart-Card (CSC) for Customer Servicing and CRM Development in a Muti-Modal / Inter-Modal Transport Environment
White Paper This paper illustrates it with the Car-Sharing service and its use scenarios and discusses the suitability of mobile technologies, contactless smart-card and mobile phone. This paper deals with customer identification and access control to... [03 Jul 2008]
How to comply with the Payment Card Industry Standard
White Paper The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Standard applies to every organization that processes credit or debit card information, including merchants and third-party service providers that store, process or transmit credit card/debit card data. [30 Apr 2008]
The most powerful Wi-Fi card ever?
News Network device maker SMC Networks has launched what's believed to be the most powerful wireless LAN card ever - so powerful that many countries have not approved it for sale, according to its makers. The card, the SMC 2532W-B, boasts three times... [11 Apr 2003]
