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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". If that's not enough then check out our predictions on how Microsoft will change now that Bill... [11 Jul 2008]
Top 10: The best, worst... and craziest uses of RFID
News Fulham FC has started issuing RFID-enabled smartcards to fans to cut queues at the turnstiles and increase safety around the stadium. Around 20,000 of the smartcards have been issued to mainly season ticket holders and club members and contain data... [30 Nov 2006]
Football club tags fans with RFID tickets
News Around 20,000 of the RFID-enabled smartcards have been issued to season-ticket holders and club members. McGrory said Fulham will also be trialling the RFID smartcards for e-cash purchases for the shops at the stadium, as well as a possible tie-up... [15 Nov 2006]
Microsoft shelves RSA token support for Vista
News A representative for the software maker said: "Most customers told Microsoft they do not view one-time passwords as strategic and are looking long term to smartcards as their preferred strong-authentication mechanism. [03 May 2006]
Computer glitch crashes Tube's Oyster card network
News The smartcards are manufactured by Giesecke & Devrient and SchlumbergerSema using MiFare chips from Philips Semiconductors. Ticket gates had to be left open when Oyster card readers at tube stations across the whole of London Underground and the... [10 Mar 2005]
CIO Jury: Gates' password prediction wrong
News An official identity standard has yet to be adopted, whether it be biometrics using fingerprints or iris scanning or via smartcards. Some of the UK's top IT bosses have dismissed Microsoft chairman Bill Gates' latest prediction that the password is... [19 Nov 2004]
5 years ago... Smartcards set to cut travel queues
News 04.05.99: Over 45 million smartcards will be used for electronic ticketing on public transport by 2003, according to the latest research from Datamonitor. The market research group's report claims the days of queuing to buy tickets could soon be... [04 May 2004]
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 in the system ahead of... [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. Perhaps I could be Bill Gates but I wouldn't know what to do with that amount of wealth. Martin Brampton is Martin Brampton and doesn't... [11 Jun 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]
London Transport upgrades ticketing system
News Within four years the magnetic strip tickets will be replaced by smartcards which do not require any physical contact. The four-year programme, known as Prestige, will see ticket gates fitted at all stations, new tills in the offices and upgraded... [14 Aug 1998]
