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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

I have to admit, if you would have asked me about Twitter a couple of months ago I wouldn’t have been able to tell you what it was. But then I started reading more about the micro-blogging site and decided to investigate.

I started twittering on March 26 (First tweet: Writing the summer cover story on hacking smart cards). You’ll find a link to our twitter feed on the left hand side of the page under links or you can click here.

My hope is to make comments on stories that we’re working on and get some feedback that we might not normally have. Twitter will add another perspective to the sites and hopefully improve our reporting. I see a lot of people from the industry at trade shows, but it’s important to have a dialogue with our readers. What do they want to read about? What trends do they see coming down the road? What are we missing?


I will also post stories I think are particularly important or interesting. At the upcoming CTST show I plan to Twitter quite a bit about the sessions I attend and the news I am hearing.

Eventually we’ll integrate Twitter more into the site, but the news we already provide on the sites won’t change.

Let me know what you think.

-Zack Martin, Editor [end] 

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LaserCard Corp. announced receipt of a follow-on order for approximately $2.7 million of optical security media cards to be issued under the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Permanent Resident Card program. Deliveries of the cards are scheduled to concluded by the end of the year

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Izzy’s Ice Cream Café in St. Paul, Minn. is utilizing RFID technology to give customers real-time updates on all the available flavors in its dipping cabinet, according to a Computerworld article.

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A herd of dairy cows from the University of Waterloo are using Twitter to communicate their status, according to a Mashable report.

The data for the tweets come from a computer operated, cow initiated milking system run via RFID. Each cow wears a tag that communicates with a central computer and coordinates her activities.

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The recession has lead a growing number of organizations to launch smart card-based loyalty schemes in hopes of boosting profits, according to hidglobal.com.

Smart loyalty cards come equipped with contactless technology to offer greater speed and security than ‘non-technology’ loyalty cards, says HID Global.

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The CBORD Group announced that its customer, Carleton University was honored with two awards at the National Association of Campus Card Users conference last month - one awarded to the university as a whole, and one to its Campus Card Manager, Kathleen Kelly.

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