Spanish club members play with RFID

April 18, 2007

Rfidjournal.com: At La Finca Reebok Sports Club in Madrid, Spain, members use RFID to gain entry to the club, gain to access facilities, and pay for goods and…

Scottish schools set for cashless payments

April 18, 2007

Itweek.co.uk: Scottish councils will extend their use of smart cards to allow cashless payments in schools, libraries and leisure facilities. The National…

Company using RFID for DVD-rental kiosks

April 18, 2007

Rfidjournal.com: Touch Automation is using RFID technology in CD- and DVD-rental kiosks. The company has deployed at least 1,000 kiosks, located mainly in…

Wincor supplies kiosks to Indian provider

April 17, 2007

PADERBORN, Germany — Wincor Nixdorf is supplying up to 10,000 kiosk systems to Reliance Money Ltd., an Indian provider of financial services, through its…

Penn. hospitals use RFID to manage patients

April 17, 2007

Rfidjournal.com: Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network, a group of three hospitals in eastern Pennsylvania, is gearing up to track surgical patients with…

Researchers use RFID to fight SIDS

April 17, 2007

Rfidjournal.com: Hung Cao, a graduate research assistant at the University of Texas at Arlington's department of electrical engineering, and his team of UTA…

NEC extends biometrics ID technology

April 17, 2007

RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif. — NEC Corporation of America, provider of IT, network and identity management solutions, announced the debut of its PIDplus…

MasterCard, Visa approve contactless-payment terminal

April 17, 2007

SAN JOSE, Calif. — VeriFone Holdings announced that its first external contactless-card-acceptance device, the QX100, has been certified by Visa and MasterCard…

Contactless payment not attracting U.K. retailers

April 17, 2007

Cardtechnology.com: With the planned launch in London of contactless retail payments in roughly six months, no merchants have announced plans to use the…

Pasmo contactless card a hit in Japan

April 17, 2007

Cardtechnology.com: At least 3 million Pasmo contactless smart cards have been sold less than a month after the product's launch. The Pasmo card is similar to…

Indian company launches roadside stock trading

April 16, 2007

Dnaindia.com: Reliance Money is launching what it says is the world's largest kiosk distribution network for securities trading. Based in Mumbai, India, the…

China deploys RFID in Olympic tickets

April 16, 2007

Sda-asia.com: As the mad scramble for tickets to the 2008 Beijing Olympics begins, organizers have announced that high-tech methods will be employed to…

Music downloads coming to fitness clubs, gyms

April 16, 2007

SALT LAKE CITY — Gym rats looking for the right tunes to burn fat, pump iron or pass time on the treadmill are about to hit the jackpot. An agreement…

WVU students develop biometric soda machine

April 16, 2007

Da.wvu.edu.com: Three students at West Virginia University have created a biometric system that allows people to scan their fingertips on a vending machine to…

MonVia launches contactless-payment solution

April 16, 2007

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — MonVia, a firm that helps accelerate growth of early stage start-ups, announced the launch of MobiBucks, a mobile payment solution.

CORRECTION: CashWorks

April 16, 2007

KioskMarketplace and Self-Service World ran a story involving CashWorks and a bill-payment kiosk rolled out through the QuickTrip convenience-store chain. The…

Opinion: Netpresenter exploits Virginia Tech killings in ill-timed press release

by James Bickers — Editor, Networld Alliance

April 16, 2007

Good business people know always to be on the lookout for opportunities. They also know the difference between being on the lookout and being a vulture. …

Internet, gaming café debuts at Denver airport

April 15, 2007

LOUISVILLE, Colo. — ZOOX Stations Inc. and RMES Communications Inc. have teamed to bring the first Internet and PC game Café to Denver International Airport…

Redbox debuts at Chicago's Jewel-Osco

April 15, 2007

OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. — Select Jewel-Osco locations are premiering redbox's fully automated DVD rental kiosks. Following a deal with SuperValu, redbox is…

FKI Logistex to automate Danish library

April 15, 2007

ODENSE, Denmark — FKI Logistex, announced the award of a contract from the Odense Central Library in Denmark for a fully automated item-handling and sorting…