smart card providers

[Nilam2477]

I need to develop an application which will read and write data to a smart card. I also need to decide which hardware i need to use. Can you please give names of providers from whom i can buy the hardware (smart card & smart card reader/writer device)

[tlhintoq]

http://www.smartcardalliance.org/

The smart card alliance exists for just this purpose. Your decisions have to be based on amount of data to hold, minimum read distance, encryption needs and so on. There are a number of good primers to read, technical explanations of various technologies and so on.