St. Louis Community College has signed an agreement to implement Higher One’s OneDisburse® Refund Management to hopefully improve the disbursement of refunds to their students. All distributions to students will now be handled by Higher One, allowing STLCC to manage other aspects of the education process. The services from Higher One will begin sometime in […]

Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., an airport parking system provider, is making its airport parking applications in North America will begin accepting MasterCard PayPass contactless payments. ACS has more than 20 current installations at some of the nation’s busiest airports. ACS will begin to implement PayPass at selected, existing customer sites this summer. PayPass readers are […]

INSIDE Contactless released a new software development kit that makes it easy for card manufacturers and other developers to incorporate MicroLoyalty and other value-added applications such as transit, access, and ID within MicroPass® enabled contactless bank cards. The SDK is available to card manufacturers, terminal manufacturers, personalization bureaus, systems integrators and issuers with in-house application […]

Visa and taxi innovation expert Creative Mobile Technologies (CMT) are launching a program to enhance and simplify the payment experience for New York taxi passengers. The initiative, which started in June 2007, will equip thousands of New York taxicabs with contactless payment readers located in the back of the taxi, enabling passengers to simply pay […]

Uniform Industrial Corporation is adding to its line of advanced payment solutions with the new UIC681 standalone contactless card reader. The reader is designed for indoor or outdoor use andappears to be marketed as a cost effective high performance contactless reader. The UIC681 also has the ability to display custom messages on the LCD panel. […]

TAGSYS and NXP Semiconductors announced a new RFID tag to be used with NXP’s new ICODE SLI-L IC that is designed specifically for use in the library market, the Folio 370L Tag Family. The increase in performance and additional features result in improved read rates and security for library patrons as well as enhanced privacy […]

By Nigel Reavley, Director, Banking Unit, 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 over the Internet, […]

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Fargo Electronics’ merger with HID Global last year was just the beginning of what officials at both companies see as a bright future for the secure card identity systems company. Fargo Electronics’ new president, David Sullivan, fresh from a stint in Europe, wants to grow the company, not only in […]

The sales of INSIDE Contactless’s revolutionary MicroPass® contactless platform have exceeded 20 million units since its introduction in November of 2005. The majority of MicroPass shipments have been in the US market but have also included units for deployment in Asia, Latin America and Canada, establishing MicroPass as the single dominant platform, with the greatest […]

Artimi, Inc. is bringing leading edge Near Field Communication (NFC) technology to multi-protocol ultra wideband (UWB) wireless connectivity. With the addition of NFC for simple, secure association, portable devices using Certified Wireless USB, next-generation Bluetooth or WLP connectivity can be secured for high data rate transfer and file sharing by either touching the two devices […]