November 28, 2005—Sun Microsystems has increased the reach of its Java Card platform—by about 10 centimeters. The company has released its Java Card operating system for contactless smart cards. Smart ...

Athena Smartcard announced today that its IDProtect V6 Java Card™ cryptographic smart card achieved a trio of worldwide security certifications by receiving the International Common Criteria ...

The Java Card Forum (JCF), an industry organization dedicated to promoting and developing interoperable Java Card technology products, is celebrating its 10 year Anniversary at Cartes & Identification ...

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 ...

MANHASSET, N.Y. — During the keynote at the JavaOne Developer conference in San Francisco this week, Visa U.S.A. challenged the 17,000 Java developers in attendance to develop new Java Card-based ...

Companies are offering new smart cards with improved technology, including security and counterfeiting resistance, in hopes of hastening their broader use. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

Gemplus, the world`s leading provider of smart card solutions, announces the launch of GemXplore CASE 3.1 for Java Card. This is the latest in a range of development kits designed to help developers ...

IBM is collaborating with Sharp Corporation in Japan to develop a high-capacity flash memory card equipped with IBM's Java Card Open Platform (JCOP) OS, the two companies disclosed last week. The ...

In this paper, the authors present a Java Card applet offering the same functionality as a widely used contactless storage card. The goal is to provide a solution for secure and widely deployable data ...

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