Sun Microsystems launched a new initiative the week of November 17 that it believes will accelerate the adoption of its Java Card technology for smart cards by drawing a broader range of smart-card ...

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Facing declining profits from traditional credit cards, financial institutions are again pushing "smart cards" in the United States--and now they have new, bigger allies. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

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SAN FRANCISCO--Facing declining profits from traditional credit cards, financial institutions are once again pushing microchip-equipped credit cards. But now they have new allies: Sun Microsystems and ...

An application software platform from Oracle for smart cards based on a subset of the Java programming language. Using an optimized bytecode to save space, several Java applets can be stored in the ...

With its 2.2.2 Java Card release, Sun Microsystems has added contactless capabilities and biometrics support for smart card chip manufacturers and smart card vendors. The Cardtech announcement came ...

Oracle has added some serious Internet of Things (IoT) muscle to a widely deployed technology we haven't heard much about recently with the release today of Java Card 3.1. New features in this release ...

Allies of "smart cards"--credit cards or ID cards with small computer processors--are improving the technology in hopes of hastening their broader use. Smart cards offer advantages such as better ...

Setec, a developer and manufacturer of visual and electronic card products, announced that it will supply the Finnish Ministry of Interior and the Finnish Population Register Centre with Java™-based ...

American Express plans to incorporate Proton Prisma DP into its Java Card-based smart cards products after it becomes commercially available. Proton World is currently targeting the release of Proton ...