A credit card is inserted into a smart card reader at a public relations firm in Cambridge, Mass. on Dec. 7, 2000. Here's what consumers and business owners should know about the shift: ...

Dubbed the Singapore Standard for Smart Card ID (SSID)--or SS 529 SSID, the standard is expected to facilitate interoperability between different chip-based identification (ID) cards and their ...

As the debate over a national personal identification system intensifies in the wake of Sept. 11, the smart card industry is gearing up a campaign to make sure its chip-based technology is the ...

Friday 8 March 2013 The government will soon introduce a smart identity card that can be used for driving, banking, shopping and other purposes, said General Manager of the Civil Status in the Eastern ...

Home Affairs plans to stop issuing green ID books by the end of the year as part of a move to expand the use of the more secure South Africa smart ID card.

Despite the worries of civil libertarians, smart ID cards -- some with biometric data, like thumbprints -- are gaining momentum elsewhere in Asia and western Europe.

Built on the mature 28-nm process node, Infineon’s SLC26P security controller targets high-volume payment applications using smart cards. By enabling the 28-nm node for security ICs, Infineon not only ...

The semiconductor company responsible for the MiFare RFID chip deployed in over 2 billion smart cards is suing a university where researchers have been working to identify security weaknesses in ...