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 […]

Bruce Foods will implement industry-leading RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), Transportation and Warehouse Management Solutions from RedPrairie Corporation, a global leader in supply chain technology solutions that drive business process transformation. As a top supplier to Wal-Mart and other major food retailers, Bruce Foods will leverage RedPrairie’s RFID Igniter(TM) to comply with RFID shipping mandates. They […]

“Consider the following scenario: Walking down a street, you spot a poster advertising that you can buy your favorite artist’s new single right then and there. All you have to do is hold your mobile phone up close to the poster, and the song downloads directly to the phone–which also happens to be a digital […]

CBORD added a series of new capital investors to help the company take advantage of what it sees as “growing market opportunities.” A venture investment firm with deep roots in the technology industry, Oak Investment Partners, as well as Sterling Investment Partners were named in the announcement though, according to CBORD EVP Bruce Lane, other […]

“Bill Parks and I received the first patent for a passive, read-write RFID tag. In 1969, I was the corporate planning officer to the president and chairman of Communications Satellite Corp. (Comsat). In the spring of 1969, I conceived of the RFID concept to rectify a number of problems with the CARTRAK optical system for […]

Sequiam Corp.’s web-based print job submission solutions will soon be interfacing with the Blackboard Transaction System to oversee the printing and document management needs for universities and school systems. This new interface will also allow students to use their debit cards to pay for their printing needs. ORLANDO, Fla./PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Sequiam Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: […]

The new Pebble ID card printer from the French manufacturer, Evolis, is available with print drivers for Mac OS X. Traditionally, ID card printing has been a PC affair with Macintosh computers–for the most part–left on the sidelines. This has always seemed a bit ironic as many of the card designers and service bureaus have, […]