August 2, 2006 4:00 AM PDT  A password for your credit cards  As
banks face an end-of-year deadline to strengthen online
authentication, one company believes it holds the right card to
customer security--a one-time-password.  Los Angeles-based
Innovative Card Technologies, or InCard, has found a way to
build a display, battery and password-generating chip into a
card, such as a credit card. The technology competes with
tokens, such as those sold by RSA Security, Vasco and VeriSign.
credit card  "We took a form factor that was awkward and fat and
miniaturized it," Alan Finkelstein, InCard's chief executive
officer, said in an interview. "The current tokens are clumsy
and can only do one thing well, issue the one-time password. Our
card can be your credit card, your employee ID card and give you
access to buildings."  Just like the tokens, the card, called a
DisplayCard, generates passwords that can be used to validate
online logins or transactions, for example when banking online.
The cards offer an extra lev