The Bluefire Mobile Security® Enterprise Edition – including firewall, encryption, and logging features – and Mobile Security VPN will work in conjunction with Apriva’s Bluetooth® BT100-C and BT200 Smart Card Readers to provide government customers with additional security features. Apriva provides hardware and software solutions for secure mobile applications allowing government agencies to communicate securely […]

Campus Management Corporation has made the June release of CampusPortal™ 9.0 inclusive of a text messaging solution for students and staff. At no additional cost to the institution, the technology enables instant campus-wide communication in the event of emergencies, weather, and other critical news to be transmitted to students and staff quickly. Campus Management Provides […]

Seeking to induce more worldwide commercial deployment of mobile payments, Visa has released what it calls a “mobile platform” designed to encourage collaboration between banks and telecommunications companies. The suite of technology tools and applications will, the company hopes, drive commercialization of payment services. LAS VEGAS, NEV.– Delivering on its global mobile strategy, Visa today […]

Using its own employees as test subjects, Visa USA is piloting delivery of payment coupons and rewards, via text messaging, to mobile phones. These coupons can then be redeemed at the company’s on-site restaurants at Visa’s California headquarters. The test follows a successful payment trial at the Philips Arena earlier this year. New Visa Pilot […]

InformationWeek.com “During the next five years, adoption of IT in the health-care sector is likely to continue at a rapid pace, particularly in the area of integrated clinical systems. Computerized physician order entry, mobile messaging, bar coding, pharmacy systems linked with electronic-medication-administration records, and radio-frequency identification are the technologies likely to experience the greatest focus.” […]

PARIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–April 17, 2003–Schlumberger Smart Cards and Terminals (NYSE:SLB) released its annual smart card analysis today. After a year treading water, shipment rates of microprocessor cards surged back into double-digits with a 13% rise in 2002. Although the general economic climate impacted margins, there are still strong prospects: As a corollary of the increasing need […]

    PARIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nov. 12, 2002–SchlumbergerSema, a business segment of Schlumberger Limited (NYSE: SLB), demonstrated .NET Card, an innovative smart card platform technology that brings smart card security to new market segments for multimedia, Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi), digital rights management solutions, next-generation mobile messaging and home entertainment applications. The SchlumbergerSema .NET Card technology enables easy integration with […]