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.

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

The Bitcoin developer behind Machankura, Kgothatso, announced a Bitcoin Java Card project to enable feature phones to become bitcoin hardware devices.

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.

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.

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.

The Belgian government has begun a six-month pilot of a project that aims to provide every citizen over 12-years old with a multi-application personal ID card based on Java card technology.

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

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.