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WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The USO has distributed more than one million prepaid international phone cards to service members in its ongoing effort to help troops stay connected to their families. More than 404,000 have been included in the popular care packages the USO distributes through Operation USO Care Package. An additional 711,000 have been distributed through USO Operation Phone Home, a program begun in April 2003.
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According to market experts at IMS Research, by 2010 more than six billion smart cards will be in use worldwide with 50 per cent of those deployed in Asia, and around 3.5 billion will be sold each year. In addition IMS Research predicts that the market to 2010 will be increasingly driven by the Asia Pacific region with the need to install more secure, complex applications on smart cards, increasingly supported by local suppliers.
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In addition to its #1 ranking in pre-paid commercial cards, Comerica ranked #11 overall among the nation's 2006 top commercial card issuers, up from #14 a year ago, according to a recent edition The Nilson Report. Comerica ... was ranked by the Carpinteria, California-based publication as the:
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Customers can register their cards, and receive additional online dining discounts within 100 miles of their zip code. Plus, your card can be personalized with a school’s mascot, colors and team game schedules.
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The Technology Track focuses on the technical issues of smart cards and standards relevant to federal IDs and physical and logical access security systems. Standards experts from NIST will give an overview of the FIPS 201 and SP 800-73 requirements and in other sessions, a panel representing the government's interoperability advisory board and a panel of card, reader, middleware suppliers and systems integrators will discuss how to meet the challenges of HSPD-12. Additional technology topics will include ePassport standards, biometrics applications and approaches to conformance testing of chips, readers and software that go into government identity cards and travel documents.
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