As we enter the 21st century, we find the smart card market changing rapidly with consumers and businesses expecting more secure, rapid access and a broader suite of personalized value-added services. Whether it is for location-based services, mobile commerce, instant messaging, media sharing or gaming, the security, portability and personalization capabilities of smart cards will play a significant role. Some of the new value-added services will be network centric, others consumer and corporate centric. Research and Development Today, we have one thousand software engineers working together with our customers on these topics. Once again, it is all about integrating the functionality and feature set of smart cards into the networks of the service and content providers.
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