In locations where laptops or wireless technology just won’t cut it, many college campuses are turning to personal digital assistants (PDA), combined with add-on card swipe devices, to verify student eligibility for certain events. A handful of companies have such...
Do you offer any handheld computer or PDA technology and how are your campus clients using these devices? Tom Bell, VP Industry Relations, Blackboard Blackboard offers clients the Wireless Activity Reader as a solution for a variety needs. As an...
It is not uncommon for a college campus to have less than one parking space for every ten students. Add faculty and staff, visitors, and vendors to that equation and it is easy to see why a parking is among...
We have heard cautions of Regulation E and its impact on campus cards for many years. What are your feelings on the applicability of the regulation to campus card accounts? Should campuses concern themselves with the issue, and if so,...
At the University of Michigan (UM), intramural athletics require major league administration. During the 2001-02 school year, the Intramural Sports Program served 21,676 participants and 2,077 teams. There were 100,000 games and events in 44 separate activities. Ensuring that only...
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...
In the past week, a flurry of controversy has surrounded the reported “hacking” of the Blackboard transaction system. On April 12, 2003 Blackboard initiated legal action to stop two students from presenting at a hacker’s conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Their...
As detailed above, the BuckID program has been very successful. But with success also comes potential regulations. One Ohio legislator, Rep. Shawn Webster, wants to pass a law requiring any state university offering the off-campus debit cards to make it...
Auxiliaries must contend with important new requirements BY ANDY WILLIAMS CONTRIBUTING EDITOR The ability to better track foreign visitors within the U.S. has become a priority of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. One manifestation of this is the SEVIS system...
MasterCard Partners with Chase, Citibank, MBNA and Multiple Merchants in an Orlando, Florida Market Trial to Offer Consumers a “Simpler Way to Pay” Purchase, NY, December 12, 2002 – MasterCard International today announced MasterCard PayPass™, a new “contactless” card payment...
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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
