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Whitbread serves up £1m saving on card payments

News Hospitality group Whitbread has deployed an end-to-end card payment system that is expected to save it £1m per year in payments processing costs. The implementation has also given the hospitality company the opportunity to upgrade 90 per cent of...

Tags: pos, chip and pin, pci

[07 May 2008]

A Prototype Tool for JavaCard Firewall Analysis

whitepaper In order to support the secure execution of several different applets on a Smart Card, the JavaCard Virtual Machine implements a firewall that isolates applets from each other by preventing unwanted information sharing and communication between...

Tags: firewalls

[24 Apr 2008]

Nokia to release NFC phone this year

News In the near future the technology could also be used as an alternative to standard ticketing systems on public transport, or as a 'smart-card' style payment option at the point-of-sale in retailers. Nokia has announced its upcoming handset, the...

Tags: bluetooth, nfc, nokia

[16 Apr 2008]

Implementation of an ActivCard Smart Card Solution on HP CCI

whitepaper This white paper is not intended as a comprehensive overview of ActivCard smart card technology. The paper describes a smart card reference implementation that the reader can use in a dynamic or a static CCI environment.

Tags: network security, cards, card, smart card

[10 Apr 2008]

Programming the Smallest Java Card Platform

whitepaper The Java Card is the smallest Java platform and available on millions of smart cards including some of the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards used by GSM telephone operators. After attending this session you should be able to understand the...

Tags: java

[31 Mar 2008]

Windows Vista Smart Card Infrastructure

whitepaper Windows Vista Smart Card Infrastructure provides details about the Microsoft Windows smart card infrastructure and how smart card-related components work in Windows. This paper also contains information about troubleshooting and debugging tools...

Tags: infrastructure management

[28 Mar 2008]

Biometrics the future for flying bliss?

News Another major advantage is that a single document or card could work with different biometric readers across the world by containing biometrics ranging from fingerprints to iris scans. Finn said that future security systems will rely on e-passports...

Tags: biometrics, travel, airport, automated

[21 Feb 2008]

The McCue Interview: Dave Lynch, CIO, Go Ahead Group

Comment Work around the government's ITSO smart card interoperability standard is a big project for Go Ahead Group and the company is mandated to deliver ITSO-based smart cards for passengers across 135 stations as part of the London Midland acquisition.

Tags: go ahead group, dave lynch, cios, wi fi

[30 Jan 2008]

Federated Identity, Distributed PKI and Smart Cards

whitepaper It then considers smart card based deployments, and looks at requirements and solutions to support them. This paper considers authentication systems based on smart cards, where the smart cards will be issued by many organizations, and...

Tags: pki

[06 Jan 2008]

A More Secure Front Door: Enterprise Single Sign-on and Strong Authentication

whitepaper With the advent of more stringent government regulations, organizations are seeking ways to further strengthen IT security by incorporating stronger passwords and in many cases an additional form of authentication, such as a security card or token...

Tags: security management, authentication, questions, strengthen

[12 Dec 2007]

O2 Tube trial takes mobile payments underground

News O2's partners for the trial include AEG, Barclaycard, Nokia, Transport for London, TranSys - the consortium that runs the Oyster card - and Visa Europe. Visa has already launched a contactless payment system known as payWave which is available in...

Tags: mobile wallet, nfc, o2, payments

[28 Nov 2007]

E-payments: Cheap as chips

News This is not only due to the money credit and debit card systems cost retailers, it also comes from processing the cash in everyone's pockets. Any person requiring money could then draw electronic funds onto devices including mobile phones or smart...

Tags: cash, singapore, contactless, gartner

[27 Nov 2007]

An Introduction to Java Card Technology - Part 3, The Smart Card Host Application

whitepaper This paper covers the high-level aspects of Java Card technology - what smart cards are, the elements of a Java Card application, communication aspects, and a summary of the various Java Card technology specifications.

Tags: java, card, aspects, java

[06 Nov 2007]

An Introduction to Java Card Technology - Part 1

whitepaper Java Card technology adapts the Java platform for use on smart cards and other devices whose environments are highly specialized, and whose memory and processing constraints are typically more severe than those of J2ME devices.

Tags: java, cards, card, smart cards

[06 Nov 2007]

Java Card Interoperability

whitepaper Interoperability would also mean that applications from a variety of service providers could coexist on a single card, and card issuers could shop from multiple vendors for applications whose functionality and price meet their needs.

Tags: java, cards, vendors, card

[06 Nov 2007]

Developing a Java Card Applet

whitepaper After writing a Java Card applet, one is ready to prepare it for execution in a Smart Card that implements the Java Card runtime environment. Preparing a Java Card applet for execution involves a number of steps, such as converting it to a runtime...

Tags: java, card, execution, java

[06 Nov 2007]

An Introduction to Java Card Technology - Part 2, the Java Card Applet

whitepaper This paper discusses the high-level aspects of Java Card technology - what smart cards are, the elements of a Java Card application, the communication aspects, and a summary of the different Java Card technology specifications.

Tags: java, java, card, aspects

[06 Nov 2007]

Writing a Java Card Applet

whitepaper This paper introduces smart cards, gives a brief overview of Java Card technology, and by stepping through the code of a sample applet distributed with a Java Card toolkit, shows how to code a Java Card applet.

Tags: java, java, card, code

[06 Nov 2007]

Gemplus SIM Cards Enable Nextel to Deliver New Services to Its Customers

whitepaper Then, recognizing that SIM-based technology would enhance ease of customer service, increase security, and support new value-added services, Nextel quickly incorporated the Gemplus smart card across its new handsets.

Tags: gsm, sim, gemplus, cards

[01 Aug 2007]

TechNet Support WebCast: IEEE 802.1x Authentication Client in Microsoft Windows for Wireless and Wired Networks

whitepaper The presenter of this webcast also discusses several ways to configure the wireless authentication based on certificates stored on the local PC or on a smart card, or based on user credentials (user name and password).

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, authentication, ieee, configure

[01 Aug 2007]

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