The nonprofit Smart Card Alliance has launched a website dedicated to helping U.S. consumers, merchants and others understand the switch from magnetic stripe cards to EMV chip technology. Visa (NYSE:V ...

After causing long waiting lists for smartphones, PCs and gaming consoles, the global shortage of chips is now threatening to imperil the supply of another pretty indispensable item: the card that you ...

Samsung’s 8KB EEPROM device has already received chip technology approval from Visa International. The company’s 2KB and 4KB devices are currently undergoing Visa International EMV Certification.

Hastily arranged though it may be, this union's offspring could include millions of national ID cards and driver's licenses with chips and biometrics Hastily arranged though it may be, this union's ...

PARIS — Hampered by the market saturation of prepaid telephone cards and by serious delays in Europe's third-generation mobile-phone rollout, smart cards are fast losing their 1990s glow of consistent ...

Royal Philips Electronics announces that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected Philips' advanced MIFARE® DESFire contactless chip technology to enable secure smart card ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is warning residents that detectives with its Financial Crimes section are investigating multiple point of sale smart chip ...

Smart card chips are found in the SIMs (Subscriber Identity Modules) used for customer authentication in every GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) phone and in recently issued bank cards ...

A semiconductor company is suing a Dutch university to keep its researchers from publishing information about security flaws in the RFID chips used in up to 2 billion smart cards. The cards are used ...

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has begun producing a smart card IC (integrated circuit) chip that the company claims contains a larger amount of erasable and programmable memory than those of ...