July 19, 2002, Washington, DC – Higher One, a leading provider of customized private label and one card banking solutions to higher education institutions, and Blackboard Inc., the leading software infrastructure company for e-Education, have signed a partnership agreement that will make the companies’ systems interoperable through Blackboard’s Building Blocks Program. Under the agreement, the […]

From CardTechnology.com – In perhaps the first university chip card project of its kind, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia plans to control access to its 900-acre campus with biometrics. The university plans to store digitized fingerprints on the chip cards, which it plans to start rolling out to 20,000 students, […]

MINNEAPOLIS, July 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ –Datakey Inc. (Nasdaq: DKEY) ( http://www.datakey.com ), a trusted developer of smart card solutions for securing enterprise-wide personal identification, today announced that it has added new production programs and expanded current projects with the Canadian government. Datakey delivered smart cards, readers and CIP client software to 16,000 users at three different […]

Gemplus Tops Analyst’s Smart Card Analysis For Fourth Time in Five YearsLONDON, July 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Frost & Sullivan, the international marketing consulting company, today announced that Gemplus (Nasdaq: GEMP; Euronext: Sicovam 5768) has been awarded Frost & Sullivan’s Market Value Leadership Award for its exceptional performance in the smart card market . The year […]

The Millwall Football Club is to issue 15,000 supporters with smartcard season tickets as part of a drive to stop violence at football matches, following serious clashes with Birmingham City fans last season. Read the article on CW360.com by clicking

In the July issue we will examine various plastic options for card stock, recommendations for campus access control, and the continuing fallout from the CyberMark implosion. If you’re a subscriber to the monthly newsletter you will receive this great info automatically next month. If you are not yet a subscriber, click on the subscribe link […]

Last month, the formation meeting of the European Campus Card User Group was held in Ireland at the Waterford Institute of Technology. The inaugural conference and expo drew 200 attendees from 60 campuses across 17 European countries. It also drew upon the expertise of the U.S. campus card community. Many of the conference presenters were […]