Australia green lights facial recognition kiosk

June 19, 2006

Australian IT: The $67 million customs automated border processing system will begin operating next year with a single SmartGate Series 1 kiosk in each of the…

Self-service security program aims to shorten wait time at airport

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An "express lane" approach to airline security has a number of benefits - and some stern critics.

Misplaced fears impede biometric adoption

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May 31, 2006

Digital Persona's Vance Bjorn dispells the misconceptions consumers harbor about biometric technology.

Self-service, kiosk developers exhibit at Retail Systems 2006

A number of self-service innovators turned up for the 2006 Retail Systems show in Chicago, held May 21-24 at Chicago's McCormick Place.

CSS, Brinks announce new cash management tool

May 30, 2006

POSEN, Ill. - Corporate Safe Specialists, supplier of retail safes and cash handling systems, and Brink's Inc. announced the new Brink's Compusafe 3000 Series…

Self-service, kiosk developers exhibit at Retail Systems 2006

A number of self-service innovators turned up for the 2006 Retail Systems show in Chicago, held May 21-24 at Chicago's McCormick Place.

NamSys expands CashNET product line

May 15, 2006

BOLTON, Ontario - NamSys Inc. announced the official release of a new model of their CashNET self-service retail deposit solution, called CashNET-V, that is…

NCR powers Pay By Touch kiosk for first European finger-scan payment service

May 1, 2006

LONDON - NCR Corp. announced that three Midcounties Co-operative supermarkets in and around Oxford, England, are using the Pay By Touch enrollment kiosk, which…

U.S. retailers will add RFID during routine IT upgrades

May 1, 2006

ePaynews: Less than 10 million RFID-based contactless cards to date have been dispensed by U.S. issuers, but in 2006, a greater number of issuers and merchants…

RealTime Shredding adds building access codes to shredding kiosk

April 26, 2006

Colorado Springs, Colo. - RealTime Shredding, developer of the first self-service shredding kiosk, has added business access codes to the kiosk's functions.The…

From handprints to heartbeats: Acceptance grows for biometrics

by James Bickers — Editor, Networld Alliance

No longer the stuff of science fiction, biometric technology is seeing major growth in both innovation and levels of consumer acceptance. New systems move from…

The plastic card with a built-in finger scanner

April 17, 2006

The Wise Marketer: US-based SmartMetric Inc. has developed a practical fingerprint microchip/sensor for use in any type of wallet-sized plastic card, whether…

Security leak underlines debit concerns

April 9, 2006

This article appeared in the Retail Self-Service Executive Summary, Spring 2006.

Contactless payments safe despite virus scare

March 30, 2006

Bank Systems & Technology: Over the past several weeks, media headlines have been screaming about the vulnerability of radio frequency identification…

System leak compromises debit cards

by Tracy Kitten — Editor, AMC

A system is only as strong as its weakest link - an adage proven true last month when news broke of the most widespread debit-security breach ever. And experts…

PIN theft case may be boon to contactless payments

March 26, 2006

ePaynews: Contactless payments are mainstreaming in the United States, with TowerGroup predicting that by 2009 the U.S. market for contactless payments of less…

Chip-and-PIN leads to increased self-service adoption

March 20, 2006

The Retail Bulletin: Chip and PIN makes secure verification of payment cards and authentication of cardholders possible, meaning businesses can accept sales…

RFID chips are vulnerable to viruses

March 14, 2006

New York Times: A group of European computer researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to insert a software virus into radio frequency identification…

Pay By Touch launches first U.K. implementation

March 8, 2006

OXFORD, U.K. - Pay By Touch, provider of biometric authentication, personalized rewards and payment solutions, announced in a news release the launch of its…

Hacker cracks Kinko's prepaid card

March 1, 2006

PC Magazine: A security hole in a common technology used to manage prepaid store cards could let malicious hackers and other criminal groups bilk FedEx Kinko's…