PARIS — Hampered by the market saturation of prepaid telephone cards and by serious delays in Europe's third-generation mobile-phone rollout, smart cards are fast losing their 1990s glow of consistent ...

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.

SEOUL — Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today announced it has begun volume production of a new 16-bit RISC-based processor for smart-card applications in a move to expand its product offering and become ...

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 ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered Investment Adviser with the state of South ...

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 ...

Government agencies and organizations need not shun the use of smart cards despite reports of security breaches targeting such cards as manufacturers are increasing their emphasis on digital and ...

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 ...

Years before Steve Jobs showed off the first iPhone, the BlackBerry was already the must-have accessory for mobile professionals. Back then, nobody was worried about watching movies or playing the ...

Starting Oct. 1, a new standard in credit card technologies goes into effect. — -- Chip-enabled credit cards will now become the standard for consumers and business owners. Banks and credit ...

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 ...