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- All-in-one Credit Card, by Michal Lev-Ram, CNNMoney.com, 8-24-2007 Describes a device to be introduced in 2008 that allows users to register their credit cards and upload card information on the iCache site. The device is activated with a biometric fingerprint; after each use the information disappears.
- Smart Cards: Providing Secure and Strong Authentication Over Insecure Public Networks, by John Gould, Bank Systems & Technology, 8-24-2004 Explains how smart card technology provides a single process for both strong and, in the online environment, secure authentication for a wide range of applications.
- Smart Cards Diversify, by Michael Cohn, Internet World, 7-1-2002 Card companies are hoping to attract more businesses into offering smart cards by touting features that provide rewards and loyalty points to customers. MasterCard said to be working on a wireless card that does not need to be swiped through a reader.
- In smart cards we trust, by Adrian Mello, ZD Net Tech Update, 1-9-2002 Description and advantages of smart cards, with forecast of fairly broad adoption of smart cards in the US in the next 2 or 3 years.
- Stores Gear Up for Visa Smart Cards, by J.B. Houck, E-Commerce Times, 5-14-2001 Visa USA has announced its first initiative to help US merchants accept smart card payments in stores, and some merchants plan to start accepting smart card-based payments as early as year-end.
- Is It Too Late For Smart Cards?, by Brian Robinson, Information Week, 3-19-2001 Says chip-card interest is on the rise again as online security requirements boost demand. Cites announcements by American Express and Visa; use in mobile phones, government agencies and universities predicted to rise dramatically.
- Alternative Payment Methods Get No Respect Online, by Lori Enos & Elizabeth Blakey, E-Commerce Times, 3-1-2001 Update on alternative payment methods such as prepaid value cards and Smart Cards. They are being used online, and outside North America they are even making inroads against the credit card standard. But in the U.S., credit cards still rule the Web.
- Smart Cards Stack the E-Commerce Deck, by Elizabeth Blakey and Clare Saliba, E-Commerce Times, 12-28-2000 Survey of indications that Smart Cards are set to overcome the slow launch they've had in the US. They are expected to increase the level of trust in e-commerce transactions for credit card companies, web merchants and online shoppers alike.
- Web Merchants Try Debit Cards And Gift Certificates To Spur Sales, by Richard Karpinski, Internet Week, 10-11-1999 Survey of new online payment processing methods coming into play for the 1999 Christmas shopping season: web debit cards from InterWorld, SpendCash.com and Stored Value Systems; gift certificate programs from One Network and Amazon; and one-click digital content buying from QPass and Cha Technologies.
- New Hardware Could Help Web Merchants Cut Fraud, by Bob Tedeschi, New York Times, 9-20-1999 Credit card companies are looking for ways to build Internet market share, as well as ways to limit fraud. The new American Express blue card tackles both issues. Its embedded chip can access a user's personal information and eliminate the hassle of typing that data with every web purchase. It also combats fraud by verifying the shopper's identity.
- Can A Key Be As Smart As A Card?, by David Drucker, Internet Week, 3-22-1999 Rainbow Technologies' iKey is an alternative to Smart Cards if user authentication is the only requirement. The advantage is that it requires nothing more than a widely-available USB port on the host PC, rather than an expensive Smart Card reader.
- Is There a Future for Electronic Cash in the United States?, by Gerald P. Dwyer, Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce, 11-1-1998 Is more pessimistic about the early adoption of smart cards in the US after a disappointing trial in Upper West Side Manhattan sponsored by Citibank, Chase Manhattan Bank, MasterCard and Visa, 96,000 participants, and 600 merchants. Spending was very low.
- E-Cash Holds No Currency In U.S., by Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, Inter@ctive Week, 11-16-1998 E-cash and smart cards have not taken off in the US because they hold no compelling advantage over credit and debit cards.
- Smart Cards: Enabling Smart Commerce in the Digital Age, by Soon-Yong Choi and Andrew B. Whinston, CREC/KPMG White Paper, 6-1-1998 Excellent overview of smart card technology and use. Projects 2.8 billion cards issued annually by 2000, 70% in Western Europe and Asia, 12% in North America.
- Smart Cards In America: Think Globally, Act Locally, by Scott Smith, Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce, 6-1-1998 Discusses 3 factors that have retarded the spread of smart cards: the rise of the Internet, year 2000 compliance and the geographic size of the U.S. market and lack of real national networks in the private sector beyond the telco arena. Sees smart cards progressing one local market at a time.
- Feuding standards causes rift in smart-card market, by Ron Condon, InfoWorld Electric, 2-20-1998 A split emerged in the smart-card industry this week as players formed into two distinct camps backing different smart-card standards.
- Get hip to chip cards, by Tim Clark, CNet, 2-2-1998 Sees 1998 as the year of the smart card.
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