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What is a smart card ?
This is a smart card.
Incidentally, it's an I-Card .
A smart card is a plastic card as large as a credit card embedded with an integrated circuit chip.
It is read by a card attached or built into a PC, an an Internet terminal or Network Computer.
software for internet cafes The chip holds various types of information in electronic form with sophisticated security mechanisms.
Smart cards give rise to an infinite variety of uses that will change many aspects of the way we live.
Why is it so smart ?
The chip stores stores information in software for internet cafes the microprocessor which makes it much more secure than magnetic stripe cards, which carry information on the outside of the card and can be easily copied.
The intelligence of the chip also offers a read/write capability which allows new information to be added or processed.
For example, example, users can store digital signatures, e-mail addresses, URLs and other preferences and monetary value can be added and debited.
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The smart card market will explode !!
Today there are approximately 1 billion smart cards produced annually for applications in telephony, healthcare, financial services and transportation.
Industry analysts analysts predict software for internet cafes that global market for smart cards will explode over the next few years with the introduction of interoperability standards and increased memory products.
Leaders in telecommunication, computer and smart card manufacturers are working with I-Card on the development of cutting edge solutions.
Here is a selected list of of some of software for internet cafes the leading partners.
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Thanks to a commercial and industrial partnership, Bull sells our solution, in particular towards the educational market.
Les Banques Populaires are a financial support to the development of I-Card projects.
I-Card is affiliated to the Microsoft Development Network.
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