Last month, I suggested that one result of Blackboard’s IPO would certainly be the increased attention on the campus card market from the investment community. Well that was more correct than I knew. CBORD announced a recapitalization bringing, for the first time, outside investment into the privately-held company. Both Blackboard and CBORD have more money […]

It only makes sense that we would be able to make our card-based payment ourselves at drive-thru locations. Whether it be mag stripe, chip-based, or contactless–there seems to be little reason to make the customer hand-over their card to an attendant. The process only adds time to the transaction and increases the likelihood of card […]

Recarding a campus is never easy. It requires a great deal of effort, cost, and disruption. It should be done only when absolutely necessary. When it is necessary, you should make sure that you are capitalizing on the opportunities it presents. This is the time to make changes that require new cards to be issued […]

Chip supplier INSIDE Contactless, headquartered in Aix-en-Provence, France, and FASVER, a French supplier of security films used in passports and other documents, last year got together to create a new way of producing passports, one that is extremely fraud- and counterfeit-proof. Called smartFilm™, it is designed to protect biodata on official documents, and is simply […]

Gemplus has been working hard to capture a bigger share of the EMV migration card market and the efforts are paying off. In just four years, the company has gone from a 9% market share to 22%. It recently further shored up those statistics when it gained nine new customers in Asia Pacific, South America, […]

The logical security market, the business of securing computers, networks, and individual access to data has been an almost constant state of change. And as a company that has weathered the many storms of recent years, Datakey is an organization that learned to embrace change. For every company in the logical security market that has […]

Fargo’s new HDP600 printer is one of the models selected by the U.S. Department of Defense for personalizing the Common Access Card. The HDP600 offers the versatility to encode nearly all commonly used ID technologies, including mag stripe, ISO 7816 contact chips, Mifare and iCLASS contactless chips, and HID proximity cards. Fargo Electronics Launches HDP600 […]

This month campus card provider, The CBORD Group, announced a “recapitalization” that brings a “significant,” though not disclosed amount of new funds for product and market growth efforts. According to Bruce Lane, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, “we identified a opportunity for CBORD to grow faster through a combination of internal growth and […]

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Joining a growing trend, the University of Central Florida in Orlando is allowing at least one off-campus restaurant to accept the college’s campus card for payment. The venture is also serving as a test site for UCF’s smart card supplier, Irish company SmartCentric, to trial its new off-campus card solution. […]

Minneapolis, MN July 19, 2004 Datakey, Inc. (DKEY.OB; www.datakey.com), a leading provider of information security products that simplify and secure authentication to corporate information systems, announced today that Excel Bank Minnesota has selected Datakey Axis to provide secure identity management for its employees when accessing network applications. We chose Datakey Axis because it actually exceeded […]