SINGAPORE--A national standard for smart card identification has been launched to ensure multiple cards can be read by a single reader. In a statement released Tuesday, Spring Singapore, a government ...

WASHINGTON — Imagine a so-called smart card that contained your U.S. government-checked identity, complete with biometric identifiers, plus your three credit-card accounts, your check card account, ...

NEW YORK -- Smart cards, with their embedded computer chips, caught on more quickly among European and Asian credit card holders than Americans, who've seemed reluctant to stop swiping bank cards with ...

Smart Cards, equipped with EMV chip technology, are revolutionizing the way Americans conduct transactions. Offering enhanced security and functionality, these cards are becoming the standard for both ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation s increasingly high-tech soldiers are getting another computer in their arsenal — this one wallet-sized. The Pentagon began arming four million troops and civilians on ...

WASHINGTON - Top U.S. military officials unveiled today a new generation of "smart" identity cards, but were still weighing whether to add medical data and other information to the chip-based ID cards ...

HONG KONG -- In 1949, Mao Tse-tung's communists conquered mainland China and set off a massive flow of emigration to this city, then a comparatively prosperous British colony. To sort out newcomers ...

Starting Oct. 1, a new standard in credit card technologies goes into effect. — -- Chip-enabled credit cards will now become the standard for consumers and business owners. Banks and credit ...

NEW DELHI, India, August 15 (UNHCR) - Gurbachan can boast that at just 13 years of age she has become a pathfinder. The Afghan teenager recently became one of the first refugees to receive an ID smart ...

Within months, a soldier will be able to swipe his card to check out a weapon or ammunition, and the card can store his sharpshooting score. WASHINGTON -- The nation's increasingly high-tech soldiers ...