First Internet Bank of Indiana, the first Internet-based state-chartered institution with customers in all 50 states, has begun issuing debit cards that include contactless Visa payWave functionality. As with most contactless programs, users won’t have to sign for purchases under $25. Since its launch ten years ago, First Internet Bank, with more than $540 million […]

Another university will begin offering a car-sharing program, this one from rental car giant Hertz. The University of Arizona, Tucson, will have 10 cars parked mostly near the school’s dorms available for short-term rentals beginning about the middle of August. As with most car-sharing programs, students, faculty and staff need to register for the program […]

U.S. Bank is the first card issuer in the U.S. to add Visa payWave technology to an unembossed debit card that is issued instantly to an account holder upon opening an account. The instant-issue Visa payWave pilot is being tested at select U.S. Bank branches in Denver and Salt Lake City. The pilot enables U.S. […]

PNC Bank, Pittsburgh, has announced three alliance school relationships that emphasize money management and financial education for the college community. The three contracts–one new, two renewals–are at Arcadia University, Glenside, Penn., Seton Hall University, South Orange, N.J., and Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh. Arcadia’s new five-year contract aims to provide the university’s nearly 5,000 students and […]

Perfect Plastic Printing, a St. Charles, Ill. card producer, has rolled out what it calls the first full-face foil PVC card certified by Visa Inc. for contactless payment transactions. More than a year in development, Perfect Plastic’s new card enables card issuers to provide payment cards with the same aesthetic appeal of foil as traditional […]

The University of South Carolina in Columbia is joining the wireless revolution, Within a year, students will have broadband wireless access regardless of where they are on campus. But this increased connectivity doesn’t come cheap. The university will pay AT&T, the wireless provider, between $60,000 and $70,000 a month once installation is completed. Wi-Fi access […]

At least 37 Fayetteville, Ark. School District teachers are ID theft victims as someone used their Social Security numbers to establish cell phone accounts in their names, then made thousands of dollars worth of international calls. The largest bill was 43 pages long and totaled $4,215. All accounts were with Sprint, which isn’t holding the […]

The sour economy has halted for the time being the planned expansion of a video surveillance system at the University of Minnesota. While the university has more than 1,200 security cameras, the university two-years ago installed video analytic software on cameras monitoring a bridge on campus. The software, which can target 10 behaviors, such as […]

All employees of Saint Louis University–faculty, staff and student workers–will be required starting Aug. 1 to wear photo ID badges at all times while they are on campus. The move is designed to enhance safety and security on campus. “ID badges let you know who someone is and whether that person is authorized to be […]

STMicroelectronics, a Switzerland secure IC provider, and Stollmann, a communication protocol software based in Hamburg, Germany, have announced a joint agreement to offer turnkey NFC interface solutions, complete with all the necessary hardware and software components, to manufacturers of handsets and other mobile devices. ST’s NFC chips and Stollmann’s NFC software stack are now available […]