Visitors to next month’s National Association of College Auxiliary Services Annual Conference will have the chance to see first-hand the truly integrated card system in place at Colorado College. As a preview for attendees and to give a taste for what the rest are missing, the following review of the college’s CBORD campus card system […]

The annual conference of the National Association of College Auxiliary Services (NACAS) will be held November 2-5 at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, CO. The conference has a wealth of educational seminars focused on campus ID card technology and the exhibit hall will showcase products from the industry’s leading vendors. According to Abby Sipe, NACAS […]

For most of us, the new HIPAA regulation has simply meant signing a privacy form, sometimes several, on a visit to a doctor or hospital. But, of course, it is much more. And the Smart Card Alliance (SCA), in one of its latest white papers, wants to show how smart cards can help secure all […]

Early this year, CR80News published its first-ever in depth review of banking and campus cards. In the issue, we profiled the major financial institution’s driving the relationships with campus card programs and highlighted many of the country’s leading projects. In an effort to spot trends and determine if our editorial team was correct and that […]

TI has teamed up with TSSI and Third Millennium to provide RFID and fingerprint biometrics to manufactures and integrators of access control. This technology uses the latest generation of 13.56 MHz contactless ISO 15693 smart proximity cards from TI-RFid.  Combining the products has produced a practical and cost effective solution to integrating RFID with biometric […]

Initially being tested in Liverpool at Anfield Stadium, these Pico Pass‘s ™, contactless smart cards, are bound to gain recognition across the board in the sporting arena because it is a global market. Eventually fans will be able to enter a stadium or event without first having to visit a ticket office to collect their […]

Door is now open for rivals to enter the digital payment sector BY VASCO VEN DER BOON AMSTERDAM – Interpay, the electronic payment organisation owned by the Dutch banks, has been dropped from the tendering process to run a revolutionary new electronic ‘smart card’ ticketing system to replace the existing national bus and tram payment […]