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 ...

Pushback against adding a banking chip to new IDNYC cards intensified Thursday, with a demand from immigration, civil liberties and consumer groups to scrap the effort and introduction of a City ...

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 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)-The days of rifling through your wallet for the right card may be numbered; several companies are considering smart cards. They’re the same as a traditional credit card, but they ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A credit card or ID card that contains a chip. When the card is inserted into a reader (contact) or held close to the reader (contactless), data are transferred to a central computer. Also called a ...