VISA hopes that with chips in cards and new schemes for checking user identity on the internet it can reduce card crime. VISA Europe, the payment card firm, recently made a big thing about offering a E168m (£105m) inducement to card suppliers...
Many mobile phones contain a subscriber identity module (SIM) card that can run a bare-bones version of Java. Partnerships also will figure prominently in several other announcements at JavaOne, Schwartz said, including a plan under which phone...
Java Card is a standard for tiny computers that fit into credit cards or the subscriber identity module (SIM) cards in many mobile phones. SIM cards in phones are the most common example but Java Card technology also is used to identify more than 4...
Gavin Whatrup, IT director at advertising agency Delaney Lund Knox Warren & Partners, said: "A single, portable, losable card is not, on its own, the answer. Speaking at the Microsoft IT Forum conference in Copenhagen, Gates said passwords are a...
The Tatara Subscriber Gateway, already installed at Adastral Park, will enable trial participants to automatically identify themselves securely to both WLAN and GSM networks using a SIM card installed in an iPaq.
It said subscriber numbers are set to "accelerate dramatically", reaching 144 million by 2011. According to the GSM/3G supplier forum, the Global mobile Suppliers Association, there are currently 185 commercial HSDPA networks in 80 countries.