Santa Clara University in California has launched TipNow, a text-based anonymous reporting tool designed to increase campus security. TipNow is a tip collection and management system for anonymous tips originating from electronic mail and cell phone/personal digital assistant SMS or text messages. The system is designed to facilitate automated notification of campus security personnel regarding […]

Canada-based SkyRFID Inc., a provider of RFID-enabled automated data collection systems, has announced the release of an Automated Self Serve Library Management system. Patrons of a library deploying the system can access a full range of library services with a swipe of their RFID-enabled library cards. The system offers the standard functions of the increasingly […]

Dates: October 27-28, 2009 Location: Fayetteville, Arkansas URL: http://www.cscmp.org/events/rfid/index.asp Description: Hear Representatives from Bloomingdale’s, Macy’s and Other Major Companies Discuss Their RFID Implementation, Results, and Updates. The conversation continues about Item-Level RFID…RFID’s feasibility, utilization, and ROI. Continued research has been taken to the next level with real-world testing of RFID in apparel/retail stores. There have […]

University campuses have gotten smaller, not in terms of physical layout, but in the time it takes to reach out to a student. Land line telephones are old news as students are tethered to their cell phone. The challenge for many college administrators today is how can they put that cell phone to work for […]

Broome Community College in New York, part of the state’s SUNY system, and Cochise College in Arizona are the latest institutions to utilize financial services provider Higher One to electronically distribute financial aid refunds to students. Broome is the 12th school in New York to partner with the New Haven, Conn. Company. The school currently […]

U.S. Bank explores future of identity and payment cards with high tech pilots With today’s tech-happy consumers, providing them with the latest gadget or innovative service could lead to a happier bank customer. Banking today is about more than just parking your money in a brick and mortar facility or even with an online system. […]

Participants at Visa’s Asia Pacific Security Summit 2009 in Malaysia see EMV chip cards as helping to drive the future of electronic payments and minimize counterfeit fraud. According to a survey taken during the summit, 75% of the security experts attending say they have EMV-compliant cards in their wallets. Additionally, the poll revealed that with […]

HID Global announced its partnership with Lipi Data Systems Ltd. for local assembly and distribution of HID Global’s Fargo brand printers in India. Located at Udaipur, India, the new production and assembly plant for HID’s Fargo brand printers began its operation as of June 2009, while the first lot of locally assembled printers is scheduled […]

By David C. Wyld, Southeastern Louisiana University The “five finger discount” has become an all-too accepted part of the American lexicon. In recent years, we’ve seen celebrities, politicians, sports stars caught in the act of shoplifting items of little real value, but with embarrassing and grainy store surveillance footage showing-up on the cable networks and […]

PingPing, a brand by Belgacom for mobile and micro payments, and touchatag, an Alcatel-Lucent venture, have teamed to define a business model that combines PingPing’s payment system for mobile phones and touchatag’s contactless services, such as interactive advertising, loyalty programs and coupon services. By this fall of this year, Belgian consumers will be able to […]