Facing declining profits from traditional credit cards, financial institutions are again pushing "smart cards" in the United States--and now they have new, bigger allies. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Facing declining profits from traditional credit cards, financial institutions are once again pushing microchip-equipped credit cards. But now they have new allies: Sun Microsystems and ...

The Java Card Forum (JCF), an industry organization dedicated to promoting and developing interoperable Java Card technology products, is celebrating its 10 year Anniversary at Cartes & Identification ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

In its annual smartcard survey, Schlumberger has attributed much of the 700% growth experienced in open platform technology to Java-based cards. Its figures for 2000 show that such cards accounted for ...

“For the last couple of years,” says Robert Stuart, Product Manager at Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas, “smart cards have had to compromise on application capability due to size constraints in ...

CAMBRIDGE, UK – Nov. 5, 2002 –ARM [(LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY)], the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC processor technology, today announced at Cartes 2002, Paris, that it has ...