Samsung’s 8KB EEPROM device has already received chip technology approval from Visa International. The company’s 2KB and 4KB devices are currently undergoing Visa International EMV Certification.

There are now billions of EMV-enabled cards in the world, but they are not foolproof and can be made more secure through new authentication technologies. In most retailers today, customers don’t swipe ...

Smart card chips are found in the SIMs (Subscriber Identity Modules) used for customer authentication in every GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) phone and in recently issued bank cards ...

SINGAPORE--A national standard for smart card identification has been launched to ensure multiple cards can be read by a single reader. In a statement released Tuesday, Spring Singapore, a government ...

Many industry analysts propose that smart payment cards are finally poised to change the future of payment and financial services aggregation. By combining a secure and portable payment platform with ...

A credit card or ID card that contains a chip. When the card is inserted into a reader (contact) or held close to the reader (contactless), data are transferred to a central computer. Also called a ...

A one-card initiative is a program to use a single smart card for both physical and logical (information system) security. Before smart cards, making the physical access control system (PACS) ...

A unique smart-card IC based on flash memory, the EMTCG176-3G, is designed for applications like the SIM and Java-based cards used in GSM mobile phones. Compatible with the ISO7816-3 IC Card (smart ...

Visa U.S.A. has made another small step forward in its effort to spur the adoption of "smart cards." National Processing Company, which processes credit card transactions, will install smart-card ...

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has begun producing a smart card IC (integrated circuit) chip that the company claims contains a larger amount of erasable and programmable memory than those of ...