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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Java card developer Aspects wins £5 million in funding Aspects Software of Edinburgh, UK, a developer of Java Card software systems for the smart and SIM card markets, has received £5 million in ...

Japan, a country “synonymous with technical revolution,” was recently given a first-hand look at some of the new Java Card technologies, including the Next Generation Java Card. The first ever Java ...

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 ...