NEW YORK -- Smart cards, with their embedded computer chips, caught on more quickly among European and Asian credit card holders than Americans, who've seemed reluctant to stop swiping bank cards with ...

"Smart" identity cards to be issued to Hong Kong residents are displayed by city immigration executive Eric Wong. The cards hold computer chips that will contain the bearer's name, photo and ...

WASHINGTON - Top U.S. military officials unveiled today a new generation of "smart" identity cards, but were still weighing whether to add medical data and other information to the chip-based ID cards ...

HONG KONG -- In 1949, Mao Tse-tung's communists conquered mainland China and set off a massive flow of emigration to this city, then a comparatively prosperous British colony. To sort out newcomers ...

Within months, a soldier will be able to swipe his card to check out a weapon or ammunition, and the card can store his sharpshooting score. WASHINGTON -- The nation's increasingly high-tech soldiers ...