Lyon College implements key card access to enhance campus security

Lyon College, Batesville, Ark., is installing a digital key card access system on exterior doors throughout the campus to restrict access to certain places at the school. Armed with a $235,000 grant, the college installed a contactless lock system. Those...

Contactless payments speeds up coffee drinkers

Patrons to London-based Coffee Republic shops can now use their Barclaycard Business's OneTouch card to make purchases. So far, one in five credit card transactions are contactless. The move follows a four month trial at several shops between January and...

USA Technologies announces first $5 million quarter, Up 105%

USA Technologies, a company specializing in the networking of wireless non-cash transactions, associated financial/network services and energy management, has announced unaudited revenue for the fourth fiscal quarter ending June 30 of approximately $5 million compared with $2.4 million for the...

Oberthur reports strong second quarter sales

France-based Oberthur Technologies has reported 2008 second quarter sales of 217.2 million euros ($345.8 million U.S.), up 20% year-on-year at current rates. Organic growth reached 12.3% at constant rates versus 2007 second quarter results. During the second quarter this year,...

LEGIC adds four companies to partnership network

Swiss company LEGIC Identsystems, a developer of contactless smart card technology for identification purposes, has extended its partner network to include one Czech and three German companies. These include Warok, Maxicard, PP high tech and LUX-IDent. The partnerships all involve...

Episode 18: US VISIT update

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's US VISIT program is one of the largest identification projects started after 9/11. The program has been collecting fingerprints from travelers entering the U.S. for years, but the program is supposed to also...

CoreStreet ‘card-connected’ access control model merges online and offline security worlds

By Chris Corum, Executive Editor Most physical access control systems protect a building's main entrances but neglect interior doors. Cambridge, Mass.-based CoreStreet Ltd. is looking to change that with a different twist on physical access control. "95% of doors don’t...

Asia Pacific region ripe for mass transit, banking convergence with contactless cards

This is a perfect time in the Asia Pacific region for issuers of contactless cards in mass transit and banking to consider working together with merchant outlets and retailers so that all can benefit from a multiapplication platform, according to...