By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor, AVISIAN Publishing Being small can have its advantages. Ventura County California’s smart card-equipped transit system serves just 15,000 riders daily. And even with six independent operators for its bus lines, the county can still reconcile how much each operator is to receive in transit fares each day. It can also […]

By David Wyld, Contributing Editor, AVISIAN Publications When visitors step up to the gates of the four Disney World theme parks, the Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Animal Kingdom, or the MGM Studios, they will encounter something unexpected and largely foreign to them. Disney has embarked on a program to use an established biometric technology – finger […]

Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies group has selected the multi-technology reader solutions from Colorado-based XceedID. The combo prox and contactless readers will be private-labeled under IR’s SCHLAGE brand. Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies to Private Label XceedID ISO-X™ Multi-Technology Card Readers GOLDEN, COLORADO – February 28, 2006 – XceedID Corp. recently entered into a private-label OEM agreement […]

Higher cost and lower market demand slows the adoption of PVC’s biodegradable rival … for now By Marisa Torrieri, Contributing Editor It sounds corny to some, but the latest card en route to consumers’ wallets promises the same durability of traditional petroleum-based (PVC) cards without using up one of Earth’s most valuable and dwindling resources […]

Holding company, StepNexus, readies the OS for broader application By Erik Peterson, Contributing Editor At the close of 2005, Keycorp Ltd. united with Hitachi Ltd, MasterCard International and Oak Hill Venture Partners in a joint venture to develop the MULTOS smart card operating system (OS). Keycorp’s 18 percent stake in the new company amounts to […]

Debitek, a card reader/device manufacturer and stored value solution provider, has been acquired from its prior owner Ingenico by Heartland Payment Systems. Debitek is well-known in the “closed system” card market with more than 20-years experience providing mag stripe and smart card payment solutions to college campuses, corporate sites, gaming/entertainment venues, and correctional facilities. Heartland […]

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor With the land border crossing deadline rapidly approaching, there is still no clear consensus on what identity documents will be acceptable for those frequent travelers between Canada, Mexico and the U.S. Now, added to the mix is the recently announced PASS card that is already under fire. Until recently, it […]

Helping college students who are on their own for the very first time can be a rewarding experience for employees of a bank’s on-campus branch. Students may never have had a bank account before and it may be their first experience with a payment card as well. True, they could deal with an online bank […]

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor It has been four years and one failed startup in the making, but Houston commuters may soon use a contactless smart card as their transit ticket … offering convenience and speed over their existing magnetic stripe-based cards. The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, known simply as METRO, serves the […]

For the second time in less than a year, access control and card provider IDenticard (and sister company IDenticam) has new ownership. Last year, the Pennsylvania company was acquired by GE and today it was announced that Brady Corp. is the new owner. Brady’s other personal identification companies include TEMPbadge, Stopware and J.A.M. Plastics in […]