01 Jan, 2003University of Ottawa Implements Smart Card Program with ITC Systems
TORONTO, Ontario (December 10, 2001) – The University of Ottawa (U of O) campus has become a smart campus in more ways than one. This fall, ITC Systems (ITC), a leading supplier of Cash Card Systems technology in North America, took their smart card program campus wide across U of O’s sprawling mid town campus […]
01 Jan, 2003Caradas Adds SCM Smart Card Readers to smart Visa Access Solution
Caradas, Inc., a leading provider of smart card authentication technology, today announced its Connexus(TM) Platform solution for smart Visa Access deployment now supports PC smart card readers from SCM Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCMM; Neuer Markt: SMY), a leading global provider of smart card reader technology. Through the smart Visa Ready program, Caradas and SCM are […]
01 Jan, 2003ACI’S BASE 24 SOFTWARE TO PROCESS JCB’S SMART CARDS
ACI Worldwide says its Base 24 e-payment processing software will be able to acquire, route, generate and switch transactions for JCB International Co. Ltd’s J/Smart credit cards, officials of both companies announced Tuesday. The announcement is part of a move by JCB, Japan’s largest card issuer and the world’s fourth largest, to convert all its […]
01 Jan, 2003More Than 30,000 People Were Victims of ID Fraud
Dow Jones Newswire – NEW YORK, NY – More than 30,000 ordinary American consumers were ripped off in what is believed to be the largest identity-theft case in U.S. history, federal authorities announced Monday. The scheme began in early 2000 when a help-desk employee at Teledata Communications Inc., a Long Island, N.Y., company that provides […]
01 Jan, 2003RFID is getting its chance in the payment card industry but can it succeed where others have struggled?
Bank-issued payment cards have traditionally been considered among the least likely markets for contactless cards to crack. In North America, advanced payment technologies have struggled to gain ground because of the deeply entrenched base of magnetic stripe point of sale terminals. In Europe and Asia contact chip cards have been making steady headway due to […]
01 Jan, 2003Italy’s Capri Island visitors traverse the island courtesy of disposable fare cards
The Island of Capri is located just south of Naples on Italy’s beautiful Amalfi Coast. The island is only 6.7 km (4 miles) long and 2.7 km (1.5 miles) wide and has fewer than 15,000 residents with residing primarily in the two main towns of Capri and Anacapri. But while it may be small in […]
01 Jan, 2003Understanding anticollision: Processing multiple cards at the same time
One of the basic technical concepts of RFID involves anticollision. To understand anticollision we first must define a collision. An RFID collision involves multiple cards crashing into each other within a reader’s field. This crash need not be a physical touching of cards but rather sending a response to the reader at the same time […]
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