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Smart card market getting ready for a major battle
- 26 Apr 2013 05:03
- by Jean Noel Georges
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The undisputed number one player in the smart card industry, Gemalto, recently confirmed its status higher than expected first-quarter sales. This positive trend is noticeable in all of the company’s business units (mobile, payment, security). The firm expects double-digit growth in profit in 2013. According to Gemalto, revenue growth will come fro...
Samsung Galaxy S4 Provides a Further Boost to the Mobile Payments Industry
- 21 Mar 2013 07:29
- by Jean Noel Georges
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Samsung revealed the new Galaxy S4 during a commercial show that followed Apple’s ‘grand unveiling’ style. Continued growth of the smartphone industry will be driven by innovation at both hardware and software levels – the S4 represents a step forward in both areas. The Korean manufacturer concentrated its strategy on new applications and embedded...
Market Needs And Expectations Are Changing Rapidly; Will These Changes Affect The Relevance Of Smart Cards?
- 13 Mar 2013 07:01
- by Jean Noel Georges
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Smart card technology is mature, and has been deployed successfully across all verticals that require strong security and identification features. With the explosion of mobility, the need for simple solutions to deal with identification should be seen as a minimum requirement and not a value added service. This is particularly true with new mobilit...
Security and Convenience are mutually exclusive, unless you are Facebook identity management
- 16 Sep 2011 14:23
- by Rufus Connell
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ZDnet recently wrote a good article about how Facebook passwords aren't entirely case sensitive. In a nutshell Facebook identified that sometimes users accidentally activate their caps lock before typing a password. Facebook recognized that since passwords are obfuscated on the screen that the user doesn't know the caps lock is on and their passw...
NFC - Near Future Concerns
- 10 Jan 2010 20:53
- by Reuben Foong
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Wave a wand and the doors will open.Assuming you have the right software in the wand, enough credit, the wand is a Near Field Communication (NFC) mobile handset and the doors are subway entrance gates.Also, assuming that a commercial system is in place.Far? Possibly. Far fetched? Not quite, with more than a hundred pilot projects conducted across t...
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