“Brigham Young University’s Signature Card is pushing the envelope in many ways and in many areas,” says Diebold’s Manager Marketing Systems and Development, Mark Reinart. “They have the largest campus card system in the world with 2,500 readers on their CS Gold 4.0 system. They have extensive system interfaces and are taking full advantage of […]

February 26, 2003 – Global transit smart card leader ERG Group has reached agreement with six public transportation agencies for the establishment of a regional fare collection system covering Seattle and the Central Puget Sound area of Washington State. The six agencies include Community Transit, King County Metro Transit, Kitsap Transit, Pierce Transit, Sound Transit, […]

BY KIMBERLY BRENNER CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Atlanta Georgia, known for the Braves, Coca-Cola, and CNN, is one of the fastest growing cities in the United States. It is also home to the ninth largest transit system in the U.S. The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) provides bus, rail, and paratransit service for 550,000 residents and […]

e-Port(TM) Maker Strengthens Ability to Penetrate Wireless,Cashless Transaction & Networking Technology WAYNE, Pa., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ –USA Technologies, Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board: USTT), a leader in wirelesse-business, cashless transactions and associated financial/network services,has been granted its most important and industry strategic patent applying tocashless transactions and remote auditing at vending machines.    U.S. Patent 6,505,095 is […]

Lancaster, PA (date)— IDenticard , a leading producer of biometric security identification, asset tracking and access control systems, and Debitek, a leader in the manufacture and sale of smart card and off-line magnetic stripe card technology, have formed an alliance to make IDenticard’s top-line access control and imaging systems compatible with Debitek’s electronic cash systems […]

Lancaster, PA (December 17, 2002)— IDenticard , a leading producer of biometric security identification, asset tracking and access control systems, and ITC Systems, an international company specializing in integrated transaction control systems, have formed an alliance to make IDenticard’s top-line access control and imaging systems compatible with ITC Systems’ cash card systems for college and […]

TORONTO, Ontario (December 10, 2001) – The University of Ottawa (U of O) campus has become a smart campus in more ways than one. This fall, ITC Systems (ITC), a leading supplier of Cash Card Systems technology in North America, took their smart card program campus wide across U of O’s sprawling mid town campus […]

Washington D.C.’s SmarTrip® contactless fare collection project is interesting for a lot of reasons. It is large and extremely successful. It is expanding regionally. It is advancing much of its initial technology. And it has positioned two companies as project partners that more often find themselves as competitors. SmarTrip® is large and extremely successful … […]

In 1985 Joe Capers was tinkering with vending machines, coin mechanisms, and card readers in his garage in Brentwood, Tennessee. He figured out how to make a card reader speak to a vending machine and immediately saw a need for his product. He found a client in the North Georgia Food Service Company, a group […]

TOKYO, Nov. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – USA Technologies (Nasdaq OTC Bulletin Board: USTT), makers of the revolutionary e-Port(TM) cashless payment transaction system that is already transforming the vending industry in the United States, is now targeting the huge Japanese vending machine marketplace. The e-Port(TM), the first Internet connected cashless transaction solution developed for vending machines with […]