Blackboard appears to be taking a major step toward incorporating advanced ID technologies into their campus card program following this morning’s announcement with Sony. Under the partnership, Sony will “engage” Blackboard to build support for Sony’s FeliCa contactless technology and the Near Field Contactless (NFC) standard into the Blackboard platform. This will be interesting to […]

Blackboard appears to be taking a major step toward incorporating advanced ID technologies into their campus card program following this morning’s announcement with Sony. Under the partnership, Sony will “engage” Blackboard to build support for Sony’s FeliCa contactless technology and the Near Field Contactless (NFC) standard into the Blackboard platform. This will be interesting to […]

Nova Southeastern University (NSU) has just successfully completed the deployment of their new “Shark Card” campus wide smart card program. The NSU Shark card program, provided by SmartCentric in conjunction with Siemens Communications Inc, combines the latest in leading edge smart card technology using both contact and contactless chip technologies and allows for fast and […]

It was just announced that one of the longest standing, leading campus card providers – General Meters Corp. – has been sold to Heartland Payment Systems, a leading merchant payment processor. Heartland is a newcomer to the campus card world launching its first installation of a campus card offering early this fall at Slippery Rock […]

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Providing campuses with the ability to instantly notify their students in the event of a disaster or emergency was on most campus card vendor’s to-do lists. But the Virginia Tech incident quickly moved what had been a mid-tier suggestion all the way to the top. The deadliest shooting in U.S. […]

Users of the Blackboard Commerce Suite now have available two new point-of-sale registers from NCR featuring large touch screen monitors and more memory that will lower campus transaction time. By eliminating the need for ancillary equipment, the new embedded technology in the NCR devices will also help to conserve valuable counter space at the point […]

Leading payments processor, Heartland Payment Systems, joins the ranks of campus card providers By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Contactless technology is coming to the 8,600-student strong Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania. But it won’t be a card. It’s coming via cell phone, thanks to a small tag not much bigger than a postage stamp. When […]

If you want your incoming freshmen and other new students to learn how to use their new campus card, manuals and brochures won’t cut it anymore. Today’s students don’t bother with them. The next choice is perhaps a workshop during orientation. But that will be crammed with students with other things on their minds: What […]

USA Technologies has begun offering its cashless payment technology to customers of the Blackboard Commerce Suite™ to allow students to make cashless payments at campus vending machines. The cashless technology will be embedded in Blackboard’s FlexVend reader and supports a suite of both wired and wireless applications that enable transactions on-campus and off-campus. The new […]

After growing company to major market leader, Mr. Lane announces retirement By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor When Bruce Lane signed on with campus card system provider CBORD 22 years ago, it was still a small company. As he explains it, he was “employee No. 14.” But today, CBORD has some 475 employees and serves hundreds […]