It also makes camera parts for Kodak, copyright protection devices for major U.S. makers and microchips for smart-cards.
The Easycard is currently in talks with smart-cards providers in other Asian countries, including Octopus in Hong Kong, Ez-link in Singapore and T-Money in South Korea.
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The third thing you need is a payment system, a mechanism to make payments, either through Smart Cards or pre-paid cash cards.
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Indeed, the island province of Hainan off the southern coast even wants to leapfrog such decades-old technologies as credit and debit cards and automated teller machines and move directly to microchip-laden smart cards.
In the corporate sector hundreds of employers already use omnipresent cameras, motion sensors and smart ID cards--an infrastructure that could be easily converted to serve antiterrorist purposes.
Apparently some UK scoundrels teamed up with a crooked gas station attendant to nab credit card numbers from RFID smart card-enabled credit cards.
That meant pirates could buy cheap boxes and so-called smart cards that were being subsidized by the company, hack into the system and get free service.
And there is talk of hybrid systems, which allow smart cards and network-based payments to work together.
Analogix Semiconductor, Inc. designs and manufactures semiconductors for the digital multimedia market, from portable devices such as smart phones to high-end graphics cards and large, high-definition displays.
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Once automatic bill-paying is perfected and smart cards can substitute for cash these institutions will go the way of the dinosaur.
Ultimately, smart cards will plug into a PC -- and the ATM, if not the bank branch, could one day become obsolete.
" Unlike the West, says Catherine Allen, founder of U.S.-based Smart Card Forum, the region "does not have the embedded infrastructure of magnetic-stripe cards to get rid of.
Researchers have struggled to keep up with its quick metamorphoses and smart spam campaigns that use attached PDFs, e-cards, and even YouTube invitations to infect users with malicious software.
Some of these solutions can even be embedded on smart cards, enabling simple as well as sophisticated pay as you go from mobile devices such as phones, tablets, on-board units embedded into cars, smart cards embedded into vending machines, toll gates!
Each Oasis-class ship utilizes shape recognition cameras, smart cards, 900 wireless access points and other digital technologies to eliminate lines in experiences ranging from dining and onboard activities to excursions.
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Smart cards cost as much as ten times more than mag-stripes.
One scheme called Londonet, devised by Alistair Jeffs and his team, suggests using smart cards, global positioning satellites, wireless communications and real-time personal information devices to revolutionise how Londoners go about their lives.
Since smart cards retain transaction records, they could be accessed if even a well-protected database is destroyed.
Instead of bills and coins, we will spend electronic currency -- call it e-money -- that we zap to merchants from our PCs or carry with us on smart cards.
Along with Microsoft's new generation of Internet-oriented software, users will need other non-software technologies tailored for the Web, such as broadband access, wireless communications, smart cards, phones with large screens, handheld computers and PCs with integrated microphones and cameras, Gates said.
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The innovative additions to Samsung's NX range represent the future in CSC technology: SMART cameras with in-built Wi-Fi technology that allow users to connect to wireless networks without any additional cards or devices.
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Able to carry many times more information than an ordinary magnetic-stripe card, one smart card can be used for a variety of transactions that currently require a variety of cards.
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