ICL, MICROSOFT FORM SMART CARD GLOBAL ALLIANCE.IT systems and services company ICL (International Computers Ltd., London) The former name of Fujitsu Services, the European-centered arm of the global Fujitsu Group and one of the leading IT services companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Plc has announced a global alliance with Microsoft Corp. ICL, which bought smart card software company Product Technologies Inc earlier this month (CI No 3,515), is to develop applications for the just-announced Windows Smart Card (see separate story). Perhaps inspired by its new partner's business practices, ICL says its strategy is to become the world's number one supplier of smart card systems within the next three years. If all goes according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. plan, the first application out of the new alliance should be a "corporate campus" system to provide individuals living and working in "contained" environments like a building or corporation with a smart card combining multiple functions. Some of these functions might be a electronic purse PURSE. In Turkey the sum of five hundred dollars is called a purse. Merch. Dict. h.t. , physical building access and logical secure network authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. . Real-time employee surveillance also springs to mind. Whether employees themselves will rush to embrace smart cards Example of widely used contactless smart cards are Hong Kong's Octopus card, Paris' Calypso/Navigo card and Lisbon' LisboaViva card, which predate the ISO/IEC 14443 standard. The following tables list smart cards used for public transportation and other electronic purse applications. with capabilities like these remains unclear. |
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