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.

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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.

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

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.