BY SVEN HAMMER, VICE PRESIDENT OF GEMPLUS (REPRINTED FROM: SMART CARD TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL, GLOBAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED CARD TECHNOLOGY) In recent years, global networks have transformed from a way for scientists and researchers around the world to share ideas and information to an increasingly effective way for businesses and government organizations to communicate and engage […]

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, […]

(Atlanta, GA) – Ingenico Corp., a subsidiary of Ingenico S.A., announced that Debitek, a subsidiary of Ingenico Corp., and Horizon Software International, Inc. of Loganville, GA, have agreed to a strategic partnership in which each company will resell each others respective solutions. Horizon Software International is a food services management software provider with over 8,000 […]

Students can use their ID instead of cash, credit BOSTON, Jun 10, 2002 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ – Students can use their ID instead of cash or credit at local merchants The University of Mississippi, Oxford, and William Paterson University have selected Student Advantage, Inc.’s (Nasdaq: STAD) SA Cash program to launch an off-campus stored-value “cashless” […]

ITC Systems and Cybermark agreed to have ITC Systems provide ongoing services to the existing CyberMark client base in the higher education market. TORONTO, Ontario (June 1, 2002) – ITC Systems (ITC), the leading developer and supplier of smart card solutions for higher education, library, corporate, stadium, and government markets in North America announces it […]

A consultant forecasts radically changing landscape BY ROBERT HUBER, ROBERT HUBER ASSOCIATES Editor’s Note: The following article was provided to CR80News by industry consultant, Bob Huber. The series of predictions that follow are based upon Mr. Huber’s personal evaluation of the current industry environment. Prediction #1 New Wave of Vendor Turnover An increased number of […]

FORESTVILLE, CONN. – May 16, 2002 – Locknetics Security Engineering, theelectronic locking systems component of IR Security & Safety’s Electronic Access Control Division (EACD), today announced that The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has increased security and enhanced student, faculty and staff convenience with a “Locknetics On Board” locking system. The four-year-old, growing […]

Credit Card Transactions driving increased return WAYNE, Pa., April 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ –USA Technologies Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: USTT) disclosed today that nine months after the commercial introduction of its e-Port swipe card technology in vending machines nationwide, cashless vending transactions are averaging 15 percent of the total vending transactions, and the trend is accelerating. A […]

Hofstra is a private university located in Hempstead, NY about 25 miles east of Manhattan on Long Island. More than 13,000 students participate in the undergraduate, graduate, and law programs. An additional 2600 faculty/staff raise the Hofstra population to 15,000 individuals. Add the cards are issued to alumni and special programs and the total HofstraCard […]

(Atlanta, GA) – Ingenico Corp., a subsidiary of Ingenico S.A., announced that Today’s Business Solutions has installed Debitek’s MoneyClip™, the latest in electronic cash systems, at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago. MoneyClip is a comprehensive stored value system for campuses that replaces currency with electronic cash in vending machines, copiers, laundry rooms, pay […]