Heartland Payment Systems’ Campus Solutions division has integrated its POS software with FoodPro, a food production, planning and control system from software developer Aurora Information Systems, Cherry Hill, N.J., that will allow campuses to link their back-end menu management and nutritional information to customer purchasing data. This gives colleges’ foodservice operations more effective planning and […]

The chairman of the European Payments Council says many European banks may look at banning less secure mag-stripe credit and debit cards once the transition to the EMV standard, probably by 2011, is complete, the American Banker reports. “My feeling is, although it has not yet been decided, the [council] will take a decision in […]

Identification technology from LEGIC Identsystems Ltd was responsible for security within the grounds of the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, site of the 39th St. Gallen economic symposium. Participants from more than 70 countries attended the three-day conference. LEGIC multi-application technology allowed different applications to be combined on a single card and enabled the […]

MAN Diesel, Augsburg, Germany, has combined two contactless identification technologies on a single smart card chip for its new employee badge. LEGIC’s card-in-card solution is the technological backbone for the badges. The new card includes access control, time & attendance and cashless payments for more than 3,000 employees at MAN Diesel’s Germany plant. In addition, […]

Imagine going to a university Web site and instead of seeing information about the school, you see a letter criticizing the United States’ Iran policy and claiming that “we never cheated in elections.” That’s what happened to Oregon University’s site earlier this week. According to a university spokesperson, a hacker or hackers obviously favoring Iran’s […]

One of the first questions always asked about NFC technology–that’s seen lots of trials but little else–is when will it become commercially available? For Swedish telecom Ericsson, it’s 2010. That’s the prediction of the company’s vice president of systems architecture during his speech at Ericsson’s Business Innovation Forum in Stockholm this week. “A year from […]

Despite deployment of a couple million contactless cards in the UK, the technology has a ways to go before it catches hold. Like elsewhere in the world, the U.S. in particular, UK analysts are noting that it’s not only consumers that need educating about the technology’s benefits, but retailers as well. According to one observer, […]

For the third time, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority has extended its deadline for vendors to submit proposals for implementing a smart card fare system to replace tokens and paper tickets for its buses, subways, trolleys, and trains. The new deadline for a system that could include credit cards and cell phones is Aug. 18, […]

HID Global’s naviGO software version 1.37 has received the highest possible rating, an A, from Veracode, a company that tests software for security vulnerabilities. This rating, says HID, means that naviGO has been evaluated against industry-standard benchmarks such as the common weakness enumeration, common vulnerability scoring system, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology […]

Convenience store operator Sheetz will begin making the GO-Tag, a contactless payment sticker from Denver-based payment processor First Data, available to customers of its 350 stores by the end of July. The sticker, which can be placed on anything people routinely carry, such as an employee badge, student ID, a cell phone or PDA. allows […]