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News Around 20,000 of the smartcards have been issued to mainly season ticket holders and club members and contain data on matches each cardholder has paid for. Fulham FC has started issuing RFID-enabled... [30 Nov 2006]
Patients can "opt-out" of NHS IT system
News Warner said all patients will be able to see what is held on their summary care record and added that access to the data will be strictly controlled by smartcards, with an audit trail of who has accessed... [30 Oct 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... [22 Jun 2005]
Smartcard ticketing going Underground
News The smartcards are manufactured by Giesecke & Devrient and SchlumbergerSema using MiFare chips from Philips Semiconductors. London mayor Ken Livingstone said that the trial was aimed at ironing out any remaining bugs... [20 Nov 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. The security is rudimentary and I don't doubt that there are people who could extract the data... [11 Jun 2002]
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. This is usually somewhat limited so now we can expect a massive growth in data mining... [29 Oct 2001]
Flat batteries to power smartcards
News The first products to be powered by the battery will be novelty cards which play their own jingles, but the company eventually hopes the battery will be used to power smartcards and smart labels so they... [26 Jul 2001]
Baltimore announces Q3 results
News Baltimore also announced an agreement with ecommerce payments vendor First Data to develop digital certificates on smartcards for card issuers. The growth was accelerated by strategic... [08 Nov 2000]
Smartcards - a smart move by Europe?
Comment Banks look set to be the first big adopters of smartcards, spurred on by changes to banking regulations in relation to fraud. Facilitating easier payment for goods over the internet is also a priority,... [07 Nov 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... [21 Feb 2000]
SAS to team up with pharms giant on bespoke drugs
News Helton added that within ten years we could see people carrying smartcards containing their genetic information. Data mining specialist, SAS Institute, is in talks with a major pharmaceutical company... [18 Jan 2000]
Barclaycard tests mobile cash service
News The experiment is part of the ongoing Visa Cash trial, where 60,000 Leeds citizens are using smartcards to store electronic money. The user must first enter a pin number to use the phone, the... [22 Feb 1999]
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