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Donnerstag, 26.02.2026
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  • Smart ID cards to be introduced in Macau

    The Government of the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China has awarded a contract for the manufacture and development of smart ID cards for its residents.

    The new generation of ID cards will be purely contactless, and will store personal data and biometric information such as fingerprints on a digital chip embedded in the card. The IDs can be used as conventional IDs, providing sophisticated visual and electronic proof of identity, but will also allow citizens to carry out transactions with the government electronically, saving time and effort.

  • Smartcard IC market on course for steady growth

    With surging growth across various application sectors, the future of the steadily expanding smartcard IC market looks promising. Short term growth will be observed in applications such as SIM and EMV, with e-passports revealing some unit penetration at the end of 2006. Growth pockets will also be visible in the form of other ID projects and contactless technologies.

  • SmartCard weltweit auf dem Vormarsch

    Der Umsatz von Smartcard-Lesegeräten und –Terminals wird sich bis zum Jahr 2006 mehr als verdoppeln.

  • Smartcard-Aufschwung dank UMTS und mCommerce

    Nach einem schwierigen Marktjahr und einem zum Teil drastischen Preisverfall spricht eine Studie der Branche neuen Mut zu. Und ausgerechnet die vieldiskutierten mobilen Lösungen sollen hierfür Pate stehen.

  • Smartcards werden ubiquitär

    Leistungsfähige Smartcards werden in der Zukunft eine immer wichtigere Rolle spielen. Dies zeigten etliche Referate des 17. SmartCard Workshop des Fraunhofer-Instituts Sichere Informations-Technologie (SIT). Sie empfehlen sich nicht nur als Ausweis, Signatur- oder Gesundheitskarte, sondern auch als Karten für das sichere Online-Banking und das sichere Surfen im Internet.

  • Smartcards: Technik-Revolution im Scheckkkartenformat

    Gleiche Größe, ähnliche Materialeigenschaften: Rein äußerlich haben sich die Plastikkarten in den vergangenen 25 Jahren kaum verändert. Ihre Anwendungsmöglichkeiten hingegen haben sich enorm verbreitert. Smartcards von heute eröffnen Lösungen, die in den Anfangsjahren der Chipkarten-Technologie undenkbar schienen.

  • South Africa issuing biometric smart card for social security

    Infineon Technologies is supplying the security chips for a government smart card project in South Africa. Through Net1 UEPS Technologies, the government’s South African Social Security Agency is issuing biometric EMV/UEPS debit chip cards for financial transactions of social grants across all of South Africa’s nine provinces.

    Infineon provides its SOLID FLASH SLE 77 security controller to Net1’s subsidiary Cash Paymaster Services for implementing this service.

  • South Africa: No smart card IDs

    While the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) will push to complete its smart card ID project, an outstanding forensic audit and funding woes are likely to delay the process further.

    Last year, the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) announced it was looking to award the tender for its long-awaited smart ID card project within the current financial year. This followed the cancellation of the project in August 2009 and requests by the DHA to restart the tender process.

  • South Africa: The smart solution to security concerns

    Next year SA will join the growing list of smart countries in Asia, the Middle East and Europe that are turning towards smart-card solutions for their identification and travel documents.

    The growing global demand for security, technological advancements and e-government is driving smart-card solutions. The guiding principles seek to ensure that citizens have easier access to government and private-sector services.

  • South Korean city issues citizens with smart cards

    The South Korean city of Busan has unveiled a new smart card to enable citizens pay for public transport and gain access to municipal government services.

    The 'e-Smart-MYbi' cards were launched by the Busan authorities, in conjunction with the local transit agency. More than 5 million smart cards will eventually be issued to citizens, which is rather a lot for a city with a population of 3.65 million.

  • Studie: UMTS bringt Smartcards auf Erfolgkurs

    Identifikations- und Sicherheitskarten als Trend der Zukunft

    Eine aktuelle Studie des Marktforschungsinstitutes Frost & Sullivan lässt Smartcards-Hersteller den Ergebnissen des Geschäftsjahres 2003 optimistisch entgegenblicken. Vor allem UMTS-Dienste und das Aufkommen der SIM-Karten sollen den Smartcard-Herstellern den gewünschten Umsatz bringen.

  • Südafrikas Regierung setzt auf Smartcard-Personalausweise

    Chipbasierte Zahlungskarten haben sich bereits weitgehend durchgesetzt

    Nach der Einführung von Smartcards im Finanzsektor plant die südafrikanische Regierung für 2007 nun auch chipbasierter Personalausweise für die Bürger. Eine neue Studie der Unternehmensberatung Frost & Sullivan prognostiziert dem Markt für Smartcards in Südafrika deshalb für die kommenden sechs Jahre einen starken Wachstumsschub. Chipbasierte Zahlungskarten haben sich in Südafrika bereits weitgehend durchgesetzt. So ist der Migrationsplan des EMV-Systems (Europay-MasterCard-Visa) in seine letzte Phase getreten und soll noch dieses Jahr abgeschlossen werden. Spätestens im dritten Quartal 2006, so hätten es die Banken zugesichert, werden an alle Kunden in Südafrika chipbasierte Geld- und Kreditkarten herausgeben.

  • Sun startet mit Java-Card durch

    Sun hat im Vorfeld der Cebit eine PC-Version seiner Java-Card-Technologie angekündigt. Java Card ist ein Standard zur mobilen Authentifizierung von Usern. Bislang wird die Technik vor allem mittels SIM-Karten im Handy genutzt. Sie ermöglicht den Betrieb von Sicherheitsanwendungen auf Java-Basis. Damit können zum Beispiel Passwörter beim Entsperren von Geräten überprüft werden. Laut Jonathan Schwartz, Executive Vice President Software, will Sun noch im Februar eine Lösung vorstellen, mit der sich auch PCs sichern lassen. Dazu reicht dann ein ganz normales Handy.

  • Sweden: Nordic Bank To Distribute Smart Card Readers For Web Banking, E-Government

    Not all banks are shying away from smart card readers that connect to their customers’ PCs.

    Sweden-based Nordea Bank intends to begin distributing smart card readers to up to 1.1 million customers in the fall, Ingemar Borelius, head of the bank's Swedish Internet-banking service, told Card Technology’s sister publication CardLine Global Edition. According to Borelius, the new devices, which include PIN pads, will take over for a less-advanced reader used by about 40,000 of the bank’s customers. Both types of readers are made Sweden's Todos Data System.

  • Thailand: Minister justifies decentralised approach

    Cards to be printed at 1,077 locations

    Thailand will make a historic step when the government begins issuing the first national smart ID cards at 1,077 offices this April when it will take a distributed approach to card production, a move that has been criticised by Gartner Inc., the company invited to offer advice on the mega-project.

  • Thailand: SMART CARDS: Winning bid still too high, minister says

    Govt seen wanting to delay Bt1.3-bn project

    The government may revoke the first bid to supply 12 million "smart" identity cards to Thais, allegedly because of cost concerns.

    A consortium of Chan Wanich-Axalto yesterday won the bidding to produce the ID cards, by quoting Bt1.346 billion against the reference price of Bt1.44 billion.

  • Thailand: Wrinkles remain in smart cards

    The first order of Smart ID Cards delivered to the ICT Ministry should have been sent back. Instead, the ministry collaborated in glossing over major defects and accepted substandard solutions.

    The ICT Ministry has issued what is expected to be the final draft Terms of Reference (ToR) for a project to issue 26 million new Smart ID Cards, worth an estimated 1.61 billion baht. This new ToR succeeds in patching most of the irregularities in the original 888-million-baht 12-million card procurement, but by and large fails to keep up with advances in technology in the four years since the original project was initiated.

  • The smart way to safer hospitals

    Over the past few years, the healthcare sector has become increasingly dependent on information technology. Contactless smart card technology has been used for many years in other industries, and it is now helping to solve some long-standing, thorny issues in the healthcare sector: safeguarding patients and staff and protecting confidential patient records while increase efficiencies.

    In the UK, many hospitals are now seeing the benefits of using contactless smart cards to both control logical access to networked computer systems that house confidential patient data and control physical access to facilities. On the other hand, hospitals in Scandinavia were early adopters of this technology and Germany is currently in the early stages of adopting a new healthcare smart card system.

  • Traveler Identity Cards Spark Debate at Smart Card Alliance Government Conference

    Conference Sets New Attendance Record

    Plans to use long read range RFID technology in a new border crossing card, the latest on the U.S. electronic passport and the re-emergence of a registered traveler program, were among the news highlights at the Smart Card Alliance's 5th Annual Smart Cards in Government Conference and Exhibition yesterday. Interest in government identity programs and technologies pushed attendance to a record level, attracting more than 600 government and technology leaders.

  • TT: New Smart Card to weed out fraud

    Cabinet has already approved an electronic system to follow the Biometric Smart Card which will monitor recipients of all social grants, case by case.

    If Minister of the People and Social Development Christine Newallo-Hosein gets a second term in government, this system will be put in place soon after.

    Newallo-Hosein made the statement on Thursday when asked to elaborate on the decommissioning of 4,000 people from the food card (Targeted Conditional Cash Transfer Programme) programme because of fraudulent activities.

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