In The News
March 2009 - Story about Wild
Wing Cafe in Savannah GA and ID Scanners.
By Lesley Conn
Created 2009-03-20 23:30
Their sense of outrage wasn't lost
on the Savannah City Council.
As Dianne and Cecil Crowley defended their liquor license for Wild
Wing Cafe, they pointed out that the bartender who served a minor -
the club's latest liquor-license violation - is serving drinks at
another bar down the street.
He was ordered to pay almost$600 in Recorder's Court fines and fees,
but no other action will be taken.
The 10-day suspension of Wild Wing's liquor license will start April
3. The Crowleys estimate the suspension will cost them $100,000.
The City Market venue also is paying a $250 fine and will be on
probation for one year. A single violation during that time will
mean Wild Wing will lose its liquor license, the council warned the
Crowleys at its March 12 meeting....
See article in
Savannah Morning News
http://savannahnow.com//node/692684
July 2008
University of Wisconsin-Madison donates ID scanners to
businesses
UW-Madison is partnering with a group of downtown businesses in a
high-tech effort to combat underage drinking.
Seven downtown Madison liquor stores and one grocery recently
accepted the university's offer to participate in an electronic
identification scanner pilot program, says Dawn Crim, acting special
assistant to the chancellor for community relations. See Press
Release
http://www.news.wisc.edu/15380 and article in Milwaukee
Wisconsin Journal Sentinel
http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/29484124.html
February 2007
US Military Base - Fort Leavenworth - ID Card
Scanner improves gate security.
Click here to read article.
September 2006
ABC News Good Morning American 9/13/2006
See the CardVisor ID scanner featured on ABC's News Good Morning America
program. The segment was on underage drinking and shows the Tokenworks
CardVisor ID Scanner thwarting underage access to a NYC nightclub. The
video clip is about 4 minutes long and the ID Scanner is shown about 3
minutes into the segment.
Check out the segment online at abc.com
October 2004
Handheld card readers enable a Pennsylvania university to track
bus ridership
(Article from
CR80news.com by Lauren Lowrey, Contributing Editor)
This semester has been a mag-stripe reading adventure for the
administration at Kutztown University in southeastern Pennsylvania.
Springing from a regulation to halt non-students (e.g. recent graduates,
drop-outs) from using the bus, the university decided to invest in six
handheld ID card readers in an attempt to better monitor ridership. In
the process of implementing the PDAs with magnetic stripe readers from
Tokenworks, the University gained even more than they had hoped.
Kutztown has approximately 4,500 residents and is located an hour and
a half from Philadelphia and two hours from New York City. Currently,
some 8,200 students are enrolled at the university from 20 states and 40
countries.
Tokenworks’ card readers are helping administration tremendously as
they strive to understand a number of ridership issues. “It shows us
which route has the most traffic and where we need to open another stop
for the shuttle … or if we should have another bus altogether,” says Max
Keiper, Kutztown’s Info Tech Technician.
Prior to the installation in the three shuttle buses earlier this
fall, the policy to ride was to simply flash your student ID, making it
uncomplicated for graduates and drop-outs to ride. Now that the student
must swipe their card in the card reader, “it helps to let students know
who can ride the bus and who cannot, and what they would have to do to
get permission to ride,” said Keiper.
The card readers have also enabled the discovering of which bus stop
has the most traffic at certain times of the day. Mr. Keiper points out,
“it gives us an idea as to which class levels are using it, what times
they are riding, and from a security standpoint, if anything were to
happen, who was on the bus.”
The package that Kutztown is using in their busses is the DBDeluxe
package from Tokenworks. It includes Tokenworks’ CardTool Reader, CardDB
Software, a Handspring Visor PDA and a number of other items. “The card
readers are updated to the latest version: 3.30. We are using CardScribe
and CardDB Database Applications installed on the handheld,” said Max
Keiper.
Kutztown says a number of schools have contacted them about their
usage of the card readers, and the University of Toledo has already gone
through with the installation. "We continue to see strong demand from
the higher education market as new customers see the CardDB solution
used by existing customers" says Charles Cagliostro, President of
Tokenworks.
When asked if he was looking to purchase more card readers for the
same or other applications, Mr. Keiper replied, “Yes, there are a lot of
possibilities for these readers. I am happy with them, and with the
service.”
August, 2002
University of Minnesota uses a new PDA and card reader
to track conference attendees
(Article from
CR80news.com - August 2002)
The University of Minnesota's UCard Office knows how to produce ID
cards. They manage production and card services for more than 80,000
students, faculty, and staff at the main campus in Minneapolis and at
the University's three affiliate campuses. It was this ID card
experience that got them involved with the Heart Failure Association of
America and an innovative new magnetic stripe card reader that has
implications for card offices across the country.
The University of Minnesota's Continuing Medical Education Department
oversees continuing education (CE) for the Heart Failure Association. A
part of this role includes significant participation at the group's
annual conference. Several years ago, the UCard staff began producing
conference badges for the annual meeting as a tool to facilitate
registration and enable participant tracking for the award of CE
credits.
The conference is attended by cardiologists, pharmacologists, nurses,
and other medical practitioners involved in heart-related care. As
members attend an educational session or course, they are registered so
that they receive proper credit for their participation. The challenge
has always been how to quickly, accurately, and cost-effectively
register the more than 2500 participants choosing between the numerous
concurrent sessions.
For the past three years, the UCard office has provided laptop computers
equipped with magnetic stripe readers to be transported between sessions
to collect data. According to Heather Powell, Marketing Communications
Manager for the UCard Office, "we utilize temps to help run the
conference and the laptops always necessitated lots of training and
technical support." In addition, the per-station costs were high and the
setup was cumbersome and awkward.
At the 2002 annual meeting to be held in Boca Raton, Florida next month,
a new solution will be unveiled. The UCard office will utilize handheld
Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) with on-board magnetic stripe readers
in place of the bulky computers used in the past. The card is swiped
through the reader on the PDA and the data is held in the PDA's on-board
memory.
Following the session or series of sessions, the data is transferred
from the PDA to a computer via a USB cable. Says Ms. Powell, "the data
is then merged into our Microsoft Access registration database and we
can generate CE certificates and mailing labels immediately after the
conference."
The software and card readers are provided Delaware-based TokenWorks™
Inc. The company's magnetic stripe reader, called CardTool®,
slides into the expansion slot on any Handspring Visor PDA. The
Handspring Visor utilizes the industry standard PalmOS. Using the basic
CardScribe® software that is provided with the
CardTool reader, data from a magnetic stripe is captured and date/time
stamped.
In addition to using the PDAs for continuing education tracking at the
sessions, vendors in the exhibit hall can utilize the devices to track
visitors to their booth. Visitors present their card to the vendor for
swiping and the vendors, at the end of the show, downloads the collected
data to a PC. The U Card staff then query the file against the
registration database and provide a file with visitor contact
information to the vendor..
According to Ms. Powell, "for this application, we didn't have to do any
development work at all. It came ready to go." For future on-campus
uses, however, Ms. Powell intends to call upon the PalmOS development
expertise in the University's IT department. "We plan to replace the
laptop setup that we use for off-line eligibility checking at campus
events with the PDA. This will require some custom development but our
IT staff is well equipped to take care of it in-house."
When asked about her experience with the new solution, Ms. Powell sums
it up, "You plug it in and it works. I just can't get over it. I took
the reader out of the box, stuck it into the PDA, and I was swiping
cards."
Heather Powell, Marketing Communications Manager for the University
of Minnesota UCard Office.
March 5, 2002
HANDSPRING'S VISOR PLATINUM BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND
Visor Platinum now available for limited release on www.handspring.com
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. (March 5, 2002)—- Handspring, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAND),
a leading innovator in handheld computers and personal communicators,
today announced that Visor Platinum is once again available for sale to
customers beginning today on www.handspring.com. Visor Platinum will be
offered for a limited time at a cost of U.S. $169. It comes in a silver
casing and offers fast performance, Springboard expansion and great
value for handheld customers.
"Visor Platinum was one of our most successful and popular products,"
said Joe Sipher, vice president of product marketing for Handspring. "We
sold out of Visor Platinum during the holidays, and since then we've had
strong interest from our customers in bringing the product back. We are
re-releasing the product for a limited time to meet this demand."
Seventy Springboard modules are currently available and a number of new
Springboard modules have been introduced in 2002 for the consumer and
vertical markets. Portable Innovation Technology recently introduced two
new MemPlug Adaptor Springboard modules for Secure Digital/Multimedia
Cards and Memory Stick, filling out a family that already includes
Compact Flash and SmartMedia Adaptors. MemPlug Adaptors enable customers
to take advantage of other handheld expansion technologies through the
Springboard expansion slot. On the vertical side,
TokenWorks Inc. introduced the CardTool Magnetic Card Reader Springboard
module that can be used in mobile point of sale, age or identity
verification, healthcare, law enforcement and tradeshow lead
retrieval...
(Complete Press Release)
February 15, 2002
TokenWorks CardTool System Development Kit (SDK) is featured in the
Handspring E-Newsletter. To see a copy of the E-Newsletter,
click here
January 28, 2002 - CardTool Featured In HandSpring E-Newsletter
January 28th, 2002 The CardTool 3-Track Reader included in the
Handspring E-Newsletter. To see a copy of the E-Newsletter,
click here
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