ViVOtech has recently completed a pilot project at Santa Clara University, allowing PalmOS-driven PDAs and cellphones to wirelessly send campus debit card account information to a point of sale terminal. The pilot group paid for products at on-campus locations as if they were using their campus debit card, but instead of swiping the card, they […]

Ohio State students donate money to Relay for Life via a mobile terminal at a charity gathering in the Union. Duke University pilots declining balance payments against food service accounts using a handheld palm computer. Creighton University in Nebraska authorizes access to basketball games at wireless terminals. The University of Pittsburgh students authenticate their eligibility […]

Handy Way to Enter AS/SDSU’s Aztec Rec Center CAMPBELL, CALIF. – April 30, 2003 – IR Recognition Systems, the biometric component of Ingersoll-Rand’s (IR) Security & Safety Group’s Electronic Access Control Division (EACD), today announced that San Diego State University’s (SDSU) Associated Students has just celebrated using the company’s hand geometry technology for five years […]

AUSTIN, Texas, December 9, 2002 – SchlumbergerSema, a business unit of Schlumberger Limited, announced today that acting as prime aggregator and systems integrator, it has delivered to Citi Cards the smart cards, card readers, loyalty applications and software applications for its smart card products, including Citi.You® Card and Citi Smart Card®. Citi Cards selected the […]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Diebold, Incorporated (NYSE: DBD), a company known by most colleges and universities for its CS Gold(TM) single card identification system that allows students to use their cards for a variety of activities from access control to meal plans and stored value, just announced another innovative service that will be […]

15 High Security HandKey Hand Geometry Readers in Denver Dorms Only theBeginning at America’s Career University(r) CAMPBELL, CALIF. – November 19, 2002 – IR Recognition Systems, the biometric component of Ingersoll-Rand’s (IR) Security & Safety Group’s Electronic Access Control Division (EACD), today announced that students at Johnson & Wales University in northeast Denver are using […]

Drexler Technology Corporation (Nasdaq:DRXR), the leading supplier of multi-biometric ID cards for U.S. homeland security applications, has been invited to speak at the “Fifth Annual Needham Growth Conference,” January 7-9, 2003, at the New York Palace Hotel. Needham & Company, Inc. is an investment banking and securities firm headquartered in New York City. Drexler Technology’s […]

The EmoryCard program began in August 1991 with the distribution of the initial 10,000 cards. Since then the database has grown to 50,000 cards and the system includes more than 300 card readers with a new initiative to incorporate biometric technology underway. Emory is a liberal arts college located in Atlanta with a second campus, […]

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 […]

ATLANTA, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ – Today at BAI’s Retail Delivery Conference & Expo 2002, Vital Processing Services(R) (Vital(R)), a recognized leader in technology-based commerce enabling services, announced it has teamed up with JCB International Credit Card Co., Ltd., JCB’s U.S. subsidiary, to help promote smart card usage in the United States. Vital also announced that […]