A wide variety of identification and authentication technologies are well entrenched at universities nationwide, and it seems biometrics is starting to make noise on campuses where speed and security are both needed. Hand geometry readers have been fairly common on...
Laundry is an aspect of campus life that is often, and understandably, overlooked. It's rarely glamorous and often tedious, but it's a necessary component of the student experience nonetheless. But a partnership between Heartland Payment Solutions and ASI Campus Laundry Solutions...
CardSmith announced availability of its Pay-by-Phone feature in its mobile Cardholder Account Center. The app enables students to make payments with their smart devices similar to the Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts apps. Pay-by-Phone enables students and others to use their...
Vendors create enhancements that can’t be accomplished with cards alone Andrew Hudson, Contributing Editor, Avisian Publications It’s fair to say that the college experience has changed throughout the years, a shift that permeates every aspect of student life down to...
Emil Bonaduce, Vice President, Corporate Development, CardSmith The burgeoning use of mobile everything. That’s the trend. So evident is the mobile trend that you would have to be Rip Van Winkle to not notice. Smart phone growth and usage is...
Facebook, Twitter main channels for communication with the modern student Andy Williams, Associate Editor, Avisian Publications What did anyone do before Facebook? It’s long been the go-to place for teens and college students, and now universities are adding the social...
The Muscogee County School District (MCSD) in Columbus, Ga. is taking a high-tech approach, using biometric palm scanning technology to assist students with meal purchases, according to a local news brief. Using Meral Computing Services software in conjunction with Fujitsu...
College students have enough to juggle when it comes to school, work and their social life. Fighting fraud often doesn’t make their list of priorities. College-bound students are susceptible to identity theft, however, and the Better Business Bureau (BBB) recommends...
The smart phone is the natural progression for identification, and tech savvy college students will be the ones moving this forward, according to Heartland Payment Systems. Colleges and universities have always been on the leading edge of identification technology, moving...
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Great inverview on the Public Key Open Credential (PKOC) standard with ELATEC's Jason Ouellette, Chairman of the Board for the @PSIAlliance.
Attn: friends in the biometrics space. Nominations close Friday for the annual Women in Biometrics Awards. Take five minutes to recognize a colleague or even yourself. http://WomenInBiometrics.com
