Sun Microsystems launched a new initiativethat it believes will accelerate the adoption of its Java Card technology for smart cards.

November 28, 2005—Sun Microsystems has increased the reach of its Java Card platform—by about 10 centimeters. The company has released its Java Card operating system for contactless smart cards.

Sun Microsystems plans to encourage broader use of its Java Card technology by offering consumers a lower-priced variant.

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The new Java Card specification also continues the trend that Java arguably began toward reducing error-prone, often insecure manual management of the memory resource.

A Sun Microsystems executive says the company's Java Card technology, which is used to identify millions of mobile phone users, is headed for PCs.

Sun Microsystems and the Java Card Forum have released version 3.0 of the Java Card smartcard specification.

The Java Card Forum (JCF), an industry organization dedicated to promoting and developing interoperable Java Card technology products, is celebrating its 10 year Anniversary at Cartes & Identification ...

Java Card introduces features that make applications more portable across security hardware critical to IoT. This enables new uses for hardware-based security, such as multi-cloud IoT security models, ...

Java Card Enterprise Software will allow interoperability of the Java technology smart card (Java Card) platform with different computing environments, helping reduce integration costs.