Wireless Smart Card: World's First Broadband Wirelesss Data Card - 3G UMTS / GPRS / ...

From 3G (press release), UK ... to seamlessly roam between access technologies 3G/WLAN/2G with automatic authentication using GlobeTrotter Fusion’s inbuilt support for PC Smart Card and EAP ...


Option NV (www.option.com ), the wireless technology company, is a leading innovator in the design, development and manufacture of 3G WCDMA (UMTS), EDGE, GPRS, GSM and WLAN technology products for wireless connectivity solutions. Option has built up an enviable reputation for creating exciting products that enhance the performance and functionality of wireless communications. Option’s headquarters are in Leuven, Belgium. The company has Research & Development in Leuven, a Software and Applications development centre in Adelsried (Germany) and an ISO 9002 production engineering and logistics facility in Cork, Ireland.

Fusion FEATURES:

Multimode UMTS/WLAN/GPRS/GSM data card
Provides UMTS High-speed data (up to 384 kbps) connectivity to mobile users
Provides GPRS/GSM data (up to 85.6 kpbs) connectivity
Provides WLAN speeds up to 54 Mbps
Transparent handover between UMTS and GSM/GPRS networks
Optional seamless handover between WLAN and 2.5G/3G possible via our software
Compatible with nearly all popular notebook PCs equipped with Type II PC card slot and MicrosoftWindows operating system
Supports IPSec client software for end to end secure corporate data exchange and synchronisation over VPN
Future proof through Flash Memory technology

Smart Card Technology: More companies join SDIO Now! program

From Geekzone, New Zealand ... The X-Mobile Card represents the integration of Renesas Technology' Smart Card and flash memory technology in the SD/MultiMediaCard form factor for support of ...

Bluetooth Smart Card: Transmitting Payments with a Bluetooth

From Green Sheet ... integrated PIN pad. The device is Visa PED and 3DES approved and contains a magnetic strip and smart card reader. Without wires, it ...

Smart Card ICs: Renesas Technology Announces Development of superSRAM, the ...

From Business Wire (press release), CA ... Besides microcontrollers, Renesas Technology offers system-on-chip devices, Smart Card ICs, mixed-signal products, flash memories, SRAMs and more.

Ubiquitous networking connects all the electronic products found in our daily life, making it possible for us to access the information we want anywhere, anytime. To implement the critical networking capability, these products need microcomputers and memory chips. That requirement puts Renesas Technology Corp., a leading semiconductor manufacturer, at the forefront of today's ubiquitous networking age.

Mobile Smart Card: DoCoMo reveals mobile that's your keys, train ticket, cash...

From Silicon.com, UK ... will be able to electronically take the place of everything from train tickets and virtual cash to an ID card and front door keys, using a smart-card system. ...

PC Smart Card: Option unveils UMTS/GPRS/WLAN data card

From DMeurope.com, Netherlands ... to seamlessly roam between access technologies 3G/WLAN/2G with automatic authentication using GlobeTrotter Fusion’s in-built support for PC Smart Card and EAP ...

Smart Card Security: RSA Security announces strategic partnership with Passlogix

From ITWeb, South Africa ... side intelligence that coupled with any of a wide range of authentication methods - including passwords, RSA SecurID authenticators, an RSA Smart Card, an RSA ...


Passlogix delivers solutions that help enterprise customers to cost effectively simplify and secure application access, improve authentication and support their identity management objectives. Passlogix products support a broad array of other authenticators that extend your security as your environment demands it, with devices such as add smart cards, tokens, PKI, biometrics.

Smart Card Solutions: OTI Easyfuel(TM) Expanding Presence in Latin America

From Yahoo News (press release) ... (OTI) (Nasdaq: OTIV; Prime Standard (Frankfurt): OT5), a global leader in contactless microprocessor-based smart card solutions for homeland security, micro ...

Mobile Smart Card: NTT DoCoMo to launch e-wallet enabled handsets

From Finextra, UK ... launch the i-mode FeliCa Service for mobile wallet applications next month in combination with the company's first four i-mode smart-card handsets — three 2G ...

CAC Smart Card: CAC appointments still available

From Patuxent River Tester, MD ... contractors. CAC smart card technology is being used to improve information security and business processes across the DoD. In ...

Smart Card Biometrics: Labcal's Fingerprint Readers Deployed in 14 Hospitals All Over ...

From PR Newswire (press release) ... for 4,200 employees QUEBEC CITY, June 17 /PRNewswire/ - Labcal Technologies Inc., a company specializing in fingerprint-based biometrics, smart card and Public ...

Mobile Smart Card: NTT DoMoCo Offers Mobile Wallet

From CIO Today, CA ... NTT DoCoMo will offer four i-mode smart-card handsets -- three 2G mova 506iC series handsets and the 3G FOMA F900iC handset -- for use with the service. ...

Smart Card Technology: Smart Card Could Be Future Ticket All Around Town

From The Chattanoogan, TN ... CARTA is launching use of an automated system for buying tickets at the Incline Railway, and officials said it could eventually lead to a Smart Card good for ...

Smart Card Currency: Japan's NTT DoCoMo to Launch Handset with Electronic Currency

From TechNewsWorld ... NTT DoCoMo said it will start selling next month a handset with smart-card electronic cash, train pass and identification card functions. ...

Smart Card Mobile: JCB to Launch Wireless 'Mobile Offica' Corporate Solution

From Japan Corporate News (press release), Japan ... will itself be releasing i-mode FeliCa Service for mobile wallet applications, including train pass and e-money, on four i-mode smart-card handset models, in ...

JCB is an international credit card brand and the largest card issuer/acquirer in Japan. JCB launched its card business in Japan in 1961 and began expanding overseas in 1981. Its merchant network includes 11.42 million merchants and spans 189 countries and territories. JCB cards are now issued in 18 countries and territories, with 49.6 million cardmembers. As part of its international growth strategy, JCB has formed alliances with more than 320 leading banks and financial institutions globally to increase merchant coverage and cardmember base. JCB's corporate philosophy of "Service from the heart", a commitment to responsive, high-quality service, continues to guide it as it creates the future together with its customers, merchants and partners. For further information, please visit the JCB International homepage at http://www.jcbinternational.com. JCB designed its own credit application for smart cards, which called J/Smart. J/Smart is compliant with EMV de-facto standards for smart card credit and debit transactions, and works on any common operating systems. The J/Smart application is standardized to properly meet the precise needs of our partners. DualPlus is JCB's dual interface smart card. This is a multifunction card with a single chip and two interfaces, contact and contactless, as well as a linkage function. The DualPlus card not only costs less to issue than JCB's hybrid smart card, which incorporates two separate chips, but the linkage allows information sharing between contact and contactless functions.

Smart Card Security: General Design Considerations for Secure Networks

From informIT, NY ... provide increased security measures. Key card access can take the form of a magnetic card reader or a smart card. All of these systems ...

Biometric Smart Card: TSA tries biometric checks

From Help Net Security, Croatia ... The program allows frequent fliers to move through airport security checkpoints more quickly using a smart card with a biometric component -- a unique ...

TSA Identification highlights: Transportation Worker Identification Credential: This initiative focuses on developing identification standards for documents to identify individuals for access purposes. Multiple types of technology are being evaluated to determine the best approach. Effective use of information technology (IT) is key to TSA's success, and $145.2 million of the administrative request supports information technology core requirements, which are being provided through a managed service contract...

Smart Card Technology: The Queen Mary 2, a 21st Century Floating IT City

From Mindjack, UK ... A guest embarking on the Queen Mary 2 -- the world's newest, biggest and most expensive ocean liner -- pulls out her smart card and hands it to a smiling ...

Queen Mary 2 is the world's largest, longest, tallest, grandest ocean liner ever! Since she set sail from Southampton on her maiden voyage on January 12, 2004, excitement surrounds her all over the world. Internet: Guests can surf the web, check e-mail or even transmit a video postcard to friends and family back home. They can take classes in the Computer Centre, or bring their own laptop; every stateroom has direct Internet access.

Walmart RFID: Wal-Mart expands wireless-tags test

From Billings Gazette, MT ... cut costs. This week, the world's largest retailer has been briefing its top 300 suppliers about its expansion plans for RFID. Six ...

Walmart RFID: Wal-Mart speeds up RFID launch

From Fibre 2 Fashion, India ... Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the US largest retailer group, has detailed plans for a speedy roll-out of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology following ...

Teacube RFID: Teacube PC promotes open embedded standard

From InfoWorld, CA ... For example, a small T-Engine based terminal can read RFID (radio-frequency identification) tags on goods such as groceries and medicines so that an ...

Personal Media Corporation has released and put on sale "Teacube", a palm-sized ultra tiny embedded application product based on T-Engine. Personal Media Corporation is selling embedded appliance "Teacube". It is shipped from the end of March, in standard price 198,000 yen (excluding tax). This PMC's product "Teacube/VR5701 Evaluation Kit" is powered by CPU "VR5701" of NEC Electronics, and it has 100Base-TX LAN, external CRT output in SXGA (1280 x 1024 dots), USB and RS-232C(serial) connectors as default. It also contains standard software such as "PMC T-Kernel", a standard real-time OS extended to support MMU (virtual memory), T-Monitor (BIOS), T-Kernel Extension, and PMC T-Shell, a GUI middleware. It is highly suitable for a kernel machine to construct systems with WWW browser. PMC promotes Teacube to corporation users, mainly system construction vendors for various embedded fields, such as KIOSK terminal in museums, stations and stores, OPAC terminal to search books in libraries, and watch-line terminal in factories.

RFID Security: IT security is a top priority at the Olympics

From VNUNet.com, UK ... Other high-tech systems, such as biometrics, smartcards and RFID technology, which offer more complex forms of security, have not been included. ...

SAP RFID: SAP continues to achieve growth through innovation across AsiaPac

From Manila Bulletin, Philippines ... SAP is the innovator and key advisor for enabling technologies such as radio frequency identification technology (RFID) in industries, especially in the retail ...

Walmart RFID: WalMart to expand radio tag rollout

From Home Channel News ... Bentonville, Ark. - June 18 - Wal-Mart announced it will expand its rollout of radio frequency identification (RFID) to a total of 300 suppliers by 2006 ...

Oil and Gas RFID Applications: X-Change Corporation Forms Subsidiary Targeting RFID in the Oil & ...

From PR Newswire (press release) ... OTC Bulletin Board: XCHC) today announced that it has formed a new subsidiary that will focus on growing radio frequency identification (RFID) opportunities in ...

The X-Change Corporation (OTC BB: XCHC) is acquiring interests in emerging technology opportunities that it believes will generate significant revenues and return a profit to shareholders. Airgate Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary, specializes in wireless data management technologies and is developing applications utilized in RFID ("radio frequency identification") deployments. AirGATE Technologies is primarily focused on developing RFID applications that serve the global supply chain, driven primarily by mandates from Wal-Mart and the Department of Defense, including initiatives from epcGlobal, the standards body serving the RFID industry.

Walmart RFID: WalMart's RFID Ramp-Up

From Line 56 News ... WalMart famously mandates that its top 100 suppliers go live with radio frequency identification (RFID) technology by the beginning of 2005. ...

RFID Technology: Algonquin's expansion challenges corporate culture

From MSNBC ... Kiernan said a third initiative helping to grow the company is Intuitek, an RFID (radio frequency identification) firm financed by Algonquin and co-founded by ...

Founded in 2003 by two Western New York Technology Entrepreneurs, David Straitiff and Stephen Kiernan, intuitek is a systems integration and product development company specializing in radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions. intuitek unites the talents of hardware and software development professionals to help our clients realize the benefits of RFID technology in their business. intuitek can offer businesses complete RFID based solutions in many areas including: Asset Tracking; Records and Document Management; Security and Access Control; Human Resources; and Supply Chain and Inventory Management. intuitek is developing a family of RFID-based products as well as integrating third party products into its comprehensive RFID business solutions.

Walmart RFID: With WalMart, a love-hate relationship

From MSNBC ... A more recent innovation involves the use of radio frequency technology (RFID), in which frequency tags are attached to packaging. ...

RFID Career: TI announces promotion

From Dallas Business Journal, TX ... She will direct TI's RFID business, which provides transponder and reader technology to identify, track and secure assets in applications including retail and ...

Walmart RFID: RFID For Consumers Poised For Growth

From TechWeb ... said Friday. RFID has become a hot item among retail suppliers looking to meet 2005 deadlines set by WalMart Stores Inc. and Target ...

RFID Tracking: Radio Tags Help Track Missing Valuables, Spawn Odd Legends

From ABC News ... I've also written about the potential abuse of RFID technology and ways in which it can invade our privacy. Any technology can and ...

Mobile RFID: KPN, Rabobank investigating use of RFID

From DMeurope.com, Netherlands ... Mobile phone company KPN and Rabobank are the latest Dutch companies to investigate the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips to offer new ...

RFID Printer: USA: Avery Dennison Unveils 'Fastest' RFID Printer

From just-style.com, UK ... Apparel industry supplier Avery Dennison Printer Systems has introduced what it claims to be the fastest radio frequency identification (RFID) label printer on ...