--- title: "sca, Author at Secure Technology Alliance - Page 226 of 235" language: "en-US" canonical_url: "https://www.securetechalliance.org/author/sca/page/226/" source_url: "https://www.securetechalliance.org/author/sca/page/226/" content_type: "text/markdown" --- [Home](https://www.securetechalliance.org/)Articles by: sca # Author: sca ### Smart Card Costs Lowered by 33 Percent Singapore, March 14, 2003–MasterCard International today announced that a number of technology vendors will be supplying smart cards in support of its new US$1.99 multiapplication smart card program. MasterCard’s US$1.99 smart card program is part of its overall OneSMART MasterCard strategy to provide members with greater technology choices,… ### Gothenburg, Sweden / Brussels, Belgium, March 10, 2003–The Todos eCode application, which can be added on smart cards for secure remote authentication, has now been implemented in Proton World’s Proton Prisma family of multiapplication cards (SP,BP,EP,DP, …), using the Sesame awarded EMV PLUS application. The eCode package provided by Todos will include a Matrix application… ### SINGAPORE and TOKYO, March 4 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/–Visa International today announced the establishment of a joint working relationship with Sony Corporation and Infineon Technologies for the joint development and promotion of a single-chip GlobalPlatform multi-application chip product that supports Visa Smart Debit/Credit (VSDC) payment and contactless applications based on FeliCa. Visa aims to complete development of the… ### Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 20, 2003–(JCN Newswire)–JCB Co., Ltd. has developed a postpayment settlement scheme for transport fares in Japan, and has begun to provide payment services for the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport sponsored trial project in Sapporo City from January through March 2003. Approximately 1,000 trial participants will use a contactless smart card… ### Wave Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: WAVX – http://www.wave.com), a leader in secure hardware and software computing solutions and services, today announced it is partnering with the Comodo Group, the leading Internet security specialist which provides next generation E-commerce security solutions, to offer the industry’s most comprehensive solutions for managing processes and transactions securely online. Wave Systems’… ### By Junko Yoshida MUNICH, Germany–When an Infineon Technologies researcher presents a technical paper on the company’s development of high quality organic transistors and circuits this Wednesday (Feb. 12) at ISSCC, he and his research team based in Erlangen, Germany, will seek to signal to the global semiconductor industry that the emergence of plastic chips is… ### The Smart Card Alliance’s Mid-Winter Conference, opening today, will focus on how to protect identities Feb. 12, 2003–Companies around the world may soon be dealing with an identity crisis. As more and more services are delivered remotely over local, wide-are and wireless networks, creating, managing and securing identities could become a major issue. At the… ### /PRNewswire-FirstCall/–Gemplus, leading provider of smart card solutions and Sagem, leader in biometrics based identity applications, today announced the signing of a cooperation agreement with a view for both companies to jointly pursue development and activities in the field of biometrics and smart card technology for secure identity solutions. Sagem provides advanced biometrics technology and system… ### Minnetonka, MN, February 3, 2003–Datacard Group today announced the implementation of the Datacard® Affina™ life cycle management system through a partnership with LogicaCMG, who have been appointed by Luottokunta to provide Finland’s first national smart card payment program. Datacard Group will implement the Affina™ life cycle management system which will provide all the card management… ### BELLEVUE, Wash., (BUSINESS WIRE), Jan. 28, 2003–SAFLINK® Corporation (OTCBB:SFLK), a leading developer, marketer, and integrator of biometric security solutions, announced today that its team has been selected to participate in the third segment of the Department of Defense (DoD) Common Access Card (CAC) project. SAFLINK is the sole biometric security application software provider to participate… [ ** ](#)