New banking technology and shifts in telephone usage are changing the economics of the smart card industry, where worldwide sales of cards containing microprocessors are set to outstrip sales of ...

After lagging behind Europe for years, the U.S. is starting to employ smart cards, with a number of government agencies adopting the technology. Being a late adopter has given the U.S. a different ...

Retailer Target Corp., in conjunction with Visa U.S.A. Inc., said this week that it will begin to offer smart card versions of its Visa credit cards to Target customers throughout the U.S. The smart ...

Within five years, we should see smartphones becoming an integral part of the ecosystem for the creation, management and use of secure identities. In some instances, phones will replace cards, but in ...

On Monday, the Redmond, Wash., software giant announced a deal to acquire Ottawa-based Alacris, an ISV partner and maker of ID and smart-card management software, for an undisclosed amount and to ...

Axalto last week offered up a smart card based on Microsoft’s .Net technology, which could make it easier for corporations adopting .Net for Web services to develop card-based security. Axalto last ...

Software giant tightens up in-house security after hacker break-in. With notable exceptions such as the U.S. Defense Department, smart cards that contain encryption-based digital certificates for ...

Using embedded miniature computer chips, smart cards can store 100 times the information found on the magnetic strip of a typical credit card. Public transit authorities across the globe use the ...