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I-Card and smart card technology
I-Card uses smart card technology, the most secure means of accessing a PC or computer data network.
Both the access location and the consumer can be assured of their privacy and security.
Smart card technology provides a flexible and expandable platform that will allow allow I-Card to be easily adapted to timer the new and exciting uses of the Internet that are appearing everyday.
Already electronic commerce and e-cash companies are using smart cards.
I-Card will be able to provide the appropiate functionality to adapt these and other technologies to the Internet.
Some figures .
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- Global smart card production will expand to two billion by the year 2000 up from 688 million in 95.
(According to the research firm Mentis Corporation, Durham, N.C.) .
- Smart card market will triple processing to 30 billion transactions by the year 2005, up from 250 250 million in 1995.
(According to timer the report Non Banks Smart Card Strategies: New Opportunities to Increase Sales and Profits -Killen&Associates) .
- Smart cards in the North American market totaled 13 million in 1996 according to Schlumberger Electronic Transactions.
That number is expected to grow 84 percent to 273 273 million by timer the year 2001.
The projection for 2005 is an estimated 543 million cards in North America and 3.75 billion cards worldwide.
- According to a report by International Data Corporation (Framingham, Mass.) , the growth in the number of online buyers and the amount of the average average transaction will drive e-commerce up almost a hundredfold from $2.6 billion in 1996 to more than $220 billion in 2001.
timer The report indicates that the total number of Web access devices such as PCs and Internet TVs will grow from 32 million in 1996 to over 300 million by 2001.
