Blackboard’s newest vending reader, the FlexVend, enables payments from campus cards as well as credit cards. The reader, manufactured by USA Technologies, will also accept major association label (e.g. Visa, MasterCard) contactless payment cards. Blackboard Releases New Contactless Vending Reader FlexVend Device Supports Acceptance of Major Credit Cards in Addition to Campus Cards Washington, DC, […]

Swedish developer of contactless readers and products, Arcontia, is supplying handheld readers to Dutch Railways for use in the nationwide contactless ticketing project known as OV-chipkaart. The PDA and Arcontia contactless smart card reader gives the conductor a mobile solution to validate electronic tickets on board the train. More than 10,000 iPAQ PDA’s from Hewlett […]

Solutions like that from Parcxmart can save municipalities money and increase customer convenience By Ryan Kline, Contributing Editor Since the conception of the on-street single-space parking meter in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma by Carl C. Magee in 1935, people have been reaching deeper into their pockets to feed the meter. But in a world where non-cash […]

Digital Identification Solutions, maker of the EDISecure line of card printers and ID solutions, is expanding to serve the Latin American market. “A fully-equipped sales, customer service and logistics centre” in Mexico will be led by newly appointed General Manager Ismael Almada. Look for the company’s new team at upcoming events including Cards 07 in […]

Two new members of the Student Advantage team were announced recently, Ed Vargas as Director, Business Development and Mark Egan as Director, University Marketing and Relations. The new additions help round out the team under Richard Libby, the company’s recently appointed Managing Director. Student Advantage Strengthens Senior Management Team BOSTON, MA: Student Advantage, LLC, a […]

Mary K. McMunn, former Chief, ICAO Specifications and Guidance Material Section This article reviews briefly the work ICAO has been doing over the past nine years to specify how to make use of biometric technology to enhance the security of travel documents and to facilitate inspection of international travelers at border control points. The Convention […]

PockeTracker, the popular handheld ID card verification application from Visionbase, now includes support for HID prox and contactless credentials. The application will read the prox or iCLASS card and check against an onboard or external database for access, eligibility, loyalty, and mustering applications. PockeTracker runs on Motorola Symbol devices, or any PocketPC device paired with […]

By Nigel Reavley, Director of Business Unit for Banking, XIRING Consumer confidence in online banking has grown rapidly in recent years. Once limited to their local branches, customers are now embracing new technologies for their banking needs. A recent study by Lloyds TSB showed that over two-thirds of Britons conduct the majority of their banking […]

Andy Williams, Contributing Editor With Canada and Mexico rapidly moving towards EMV deployment, witness the world’s largest player in the credit card market, the United States, left out in the cold. Some say it’s not a matter of if, but when, the U.S. will implement EMV. One reason: once its northern and southern neighbors are […]

The race is on to see if this hot new technology will be an alternative, or a complement, to RFID By David Wyld, Contributing Editor What if there was a technology that one-upped RFID? What if there was a way to have continuous identification, but without the extreme size, cost, and limited life of active […]