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| HOTEL GUEST ROOM KEYS NOW DELIVER CASHLESS PURCHASES OD 24/7 FOOD & ICE CREAM |
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– cStar Technologies Inc.,
May 6, 2008
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cStar Technologies Inc., a leader in wireless cashless self serve solutions and Fastcorp LLC a leading frozen vending solutions provider, have collaborated to showcase hotel guest key based cashless vending technology at this year’s HotelWorld Expo. cStar’s cashless vending solution, Vending GenieTM Hospitality has been seamlessly interfaced with Fastcorp’s Z-400 Robotic Frozen Vendors to deliver this innovative cashless vending solution specifically for the hospitality market.
Vending purchase transactions are wirelessly approved and posted to the guest’s folio for payment at checkout or to the guest’s prepaid account. A simple swipe of the room key card/RFID wristband is all that is needed for guests to purchase goods throughout the property.
Click links below to see coverage of this press release:
Canadian
Lodging News –
May, 2008
RFID_Weblog.com –
May 6, 2008
RFIDNews.org –
May 5, 2008
MoreRFID.com –
April 29, 2008
hospitalitynet.org
– Feb. 26, 2008
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| HOTELWORLD TRADE SHOW
2008
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February 26 ~ 27, 2008 – Booth #1144, Las Vegas, Nevada
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Visit cStar Technologies Inc. at Booth
#1144 where we will demonstrate Vending Genie™ Hospitality,
gold award winner of the prestigious M2M (Machine-to-Machine/Man) Value Chain Award.
HotelWorld
is the most important and renowned annual gathering of hotel executives and suppliers worldwide,
presenting exciting industry leader speakers, specialty exhibit pavilions, and conference sessions.
HotelWorld is aligned closely with Questex Media Group's Hotel & Motel Management magazine
as a part of International Hospitality Week in Las
Vegas.
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| CASHLESS VENDING PAYS OFF FOR KINGSTON HOTELIER |
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Canadian Lodging News – January 2008 |
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"Susan Freitas, general manager of
the Four Points by Sheraton ... has found a solution to the vending machine headache – use of cashless vending technology called Vending Genie, from Toronto-based cStar Technologies. … Revenue and sales from the vending machines has at least doubled, she adds. When front desk staff tell customers what they can do with their room key card, that generates excitement."
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| ILLINOIS WATER RESORT BECOMES
RFID-ACTIVATED |
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– RFID Journal, November 16, 2007
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Guests at the resort, which opens next year, will use RFID wristbands to do just about everything, including entering rooms, accessing lockers, buying food and arcade tokens, and even taking
pictures.
[Vending Genie™, cStar’s wireless, cashless transaction solution will play an integral part by allowing guests to make purchases from vending machines using their RFID wristbands.]
cStar Technologies Inc. will provide KeyLime Cove Water Resort with RFID readers for wireless vending. cStar’s application eDispense™ HT, the engine behind cStar’s Vending Genie™ Hospitality, can also deliver the same cashless payment method for all other self service areas such as arcades, business centers, photo booths and laundry facilities.
Click links below to see coverage of this press release:
Marketwire.com – November 9, 2007
MCW Breaking News - November 10, 2007
MoreRFID.com – November 12, 2007
UsingRFID.com – November 12, 2007
dBusiness News – November 12, 2007
Mobile Enterprise Magazine - November 12, 2007
Blooloop - November 15, 2007
RFID Solutions Online - November 20, 2007
Amusement Parks USA - November 21, 2007
AMonline.com - November 27, 2007
Broadband Wireless Exchange Magazine – November 27, 2007
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| FALL 2007 TRADE SHOWS & EXPOSITIONS |
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Showcasing
Vending Genie™ Hospitality
Award-winning, hotel room key, cashless, wireless, vending solution
together with
Route Manager®
Curbside-truck polling, wireless, real-time Route Management solution
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IAAPA EXPO 2007 |
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– November 13 – 16, 2007 – Booth #5634, Orlando, Florida
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The world’s largest conference and trade show for the attractions industry. Produced by the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions
(IAAPA).
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WWA
TRADE SHOW 2007 |
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– October 25 – 26, 2007 – Booth #123, Palm Springs, California
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The world's largest gathering of water-leisure professionals & development experts showcasing waterpark products and services. Produced by the World Waterpark Association (WWA).
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NAMA
NATIONAL EXPO 2007 |
| – October 10 – 12, 2007 – Booth #1445, Chicago, Illinois |
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The largest Expo in the world dedicated exclusively to the vending, coffee service and foodservice management industries. Produced by the National Automatic Merchandising Association
(NAMA).
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| RFID WRISTBAND GUEST ROOM KEYS NOW DELIVER CASHLESS VENDS |
| – cStar Technologies Inc.,
June 25, 2007 |
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Orlando, FL, USA (June 25, 2007) – cStar Technologies Inc., a leader in wireless cashless vending solutions and Precision Dynamics Corporation
(PDC), a leading RFID solutions provider, have collaborated to showcase RFID electronic guest key-based cashless vending technology at this year’s HITEC 2007 (Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition & Conference). cStar’s cashless vending solution, Vending GenieTM Hospitality has been seamlessly interfaced with PDC’s Smart Band® RFID Wristband to deliver this innovative cashless vending technology specifically for the water & theme park hospitality market.
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Link to Additional Coverage by AMonline.com
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| WIRELESS, CASHLESS GUEST KEYCARD VENDING CELEBRATES TWO YEARS OF SUCCESS AT THE AMBASSADOR CONFERENCE RESORT |
| – cStar Technologies Inc., March, 2007 |
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Kingston, ON – March 9, 2007 – The Ambassador Conference Resort celebrates the 2nd anniversary of the initial deployment of wireless, cashless guest keycard vending. With major contributions from Kaba Lodging Systems, an access control solutions provider, and cStar Technologies Inc., a provider of wireless cashless vending solutions, the collaborative effort made possible the deployment of the industry’s first guest keycard wireless cashless vending technology system at the Ambassador Conference Resort in Kingston, Ontario.
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| WIRELESS SYSTEMS
FULFILL DREAMS OF VANDAL-FREE VENDING |
| – Canadian Lodging
News, March, 2007 |
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KINGSTON –
Two years ago, Kingston resort operator Venicio Rebelo installed nine cashless vending machines at his property in an effort to combat vandalism. What was a three-month pilot project has grown to include installation of the cStar’s Vending Genie system at another Kingston property. “Vandalism is gone. It's completely gone,” says Rebelo, while revenues from the machines have seen double-digit jumps each year they have been in operation.
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| cSTAR
AT INTERNATIONAL HOTEL/MOTEL & RESTAURANT SHOW |
| – November 12 – 14, 2006 – Booth #3274 |
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Visit cStar Technologies Inc. at Booth #3274 where we will demonstrate Vending Genie™ Hospitality, 2006 gold award winner of the prestigious M2M (Machine-to-Machine/Man) Value Chain Award.
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| NAMA
NATIONAL EXPO 2006 |
| –NAMA National Expo, October 25 – 27, 2006 – Booth #1731,
Orlando, Florida |
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cStar Technologies Inc. demonstrated its 2006 gold M2M Value Chain Award winning Vending Genie™ Hospitality along with its powerful Route Manager® solutions.
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| ONTARIO CASHLESS SYSTEM WINS GOLD |
| – Canadian Vending & Office Coffee Service Magazine –
July / August, 2006 |
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Ambassador Conference Resort of Kingston, Ontario awarded Gold in the retail/hospitality category at an awards ceremony in San Antonio, Texas honouring the most successful corporate adopters of M2M (machine to machine/man) technology.
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| CELL PHONES MAKE PURCHASES |
| – Hospitality Technology, June 2006 |
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The Ambassador Conference Resort in Kingston, Ontario, is now combining both mobile phone and cardkey technologies over a wireless network, allowing guests to use either a mobile phone or room keycards to purchase Coca-Cola products from vending machines.
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| AMBASSADOR CONFERENCE RESORT WINS PRESTIGIOUS M2M GOLD VALUE CHAIN AWARD |
| – M2M Value Chain Awards,
San Antonio, Texas, USA – June 26-28, 2006 |
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June 27, 2006 (San Antonio, Texas) - At an awards ceremony in San Antonio, Texas honoring the most successful corporate adopters of M2M (machine to machine/man) technology, The Ambassador Conference Resort of Kingston, Ontario was awarded Gold in the Retail/Hospitality category.
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| CANADIAN RESORT INSTITUTES CELLPHONE VEND PURCHASING |
| – VENDING TIMES, May, 2006 Volume 46, No 5. page 8 |
| KINGSTON, ON, Canada – Vending machines at the Ambassador Conference Resort here are now equipped for purchases of snacks and drinks by patrons using their cellphones in place of cash. |
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| WIRELESS CASHLESS VENDING via GUEST KEYCARD SHOWCASES |
| – HITEC 2006, Minneapolis, MN, USA – June
20-22, 2006 |
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Vending
GenieTM Hospitality solution turns the existing cash based hotel vending machines into cashless point-of-sale devices interfacing with the hotel PMS for card validation, credit check and transaction posting. With its robust wireless network communication, the vending machines can be readily deployed anywhere in the hotel without any wiring.
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| HOTEL VENDING RINGS ON A DIFFERENT WAY TO SELL PRODUCTS |
| – Food Service News, The
Industry's National Newspaper, Vol. 9, No. 3,
April, 2006, Page 10 |
| The convenience of purchasing food and beverages is taking on a new twist after a Successful pilot project that involves a conference center, a major bottling company and technology. |
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| COKE, cSTAR PILOT PROVES SUCCESSFUL |
| – Canadian Vending & Office Coffee Service Magazine,
April, 2006, Page 6 |
| KINGSTON – A pilot project at the Ambassador Conference Resort was the site for the first Canadian installation of mobile phone and cardkey technologies over a wireless network at the same time. |
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| THE
PUSH FOR MOBILE COMMERCE |
| – Globe and Mail,
Technology, March 17, 2006 |
| Mobile commerce opens up new opportunities to the wireless service providers, to the cashless payment processors and to the merchants. M-commerce will find its own place next to today's available cashless payment methods such as credit cards and debit cards, while its strength will be micro payments. Also, m-commerce will become a significant segment to current e-commerce market. |
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| PROOFING
WIRELESS PAYMENTS |
| – Network World,
Friday, February 17, 2006, Page 1 & 3 |
| It’s been almost a full year since a wireless technology trial introduced a cashless vending system to the Canadian hospitality industry. The pilot program at Kingston, Ont.-based Ambassador Conference Resort is the first in Canada, according to the companies involved, to combine both mobile phone and card key technologies over a wireless network in the same trial period. All parties involved say that, so far, the initiative has been a success. |
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| COMPLIANCE
BOOSTS RFID ADOPTION |
| – Computer World,
Friday, February 17, 2006, Page 1 & 6 |
| While there seems to be an industry consensus about the potential benefits that RFID could bring to business processes, a big issue that may hinder its full deployment among organizations is cost, said Stella Yoon, president and CEO of wireless technology developer cStar Technologies Inc. in
Toronto. See cStar's solution at
11th paragraph of this article. |
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| CASE STUDY FOR cSTAR VENDING GENIE HOSPITALITY |
| – cStar Technologies
Inc., January, 2006 |
| With the implementation of cStar’s Vending GenieTM Hospitality, Ambassador Conference Resort is now delivering the guest centric cashless vending service while reaping the benefits of additional revenue and operational
efficiency. |
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| M-COMMERCE FAILS TO REEL IN RETAILERS |
| – The Globe and Mail, Thursday, November 24, 2005 Page B14 |
| While the country's top cellphone carriers recently teamed up to prepare for the introduction of wireless payments, the concept doesn't yet appear to be high on the agenda of many consumer-focused businesses. |
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| BELL ORDERS UP WIRELESS VENDING CONCEPT |
| – IT World Canada, Friday, April 8, 2005 |
| Visitors to a conference centre in Kingston, Ont. are getting a taste of how to order a soda pop the futuristic way, thanks to a new, wirelessly enabled vending machine. |
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| WOMEN SUPERSTARS SALUTED |
| – The Toronto Star ----- October 14, 2004 |
| October 14, 2004 "Women
Superstars Saluted : Solbyung (Stella) Yoon, president
of cStar Technologies Inc., won the WEC Chivalry
Award for Innovation. |
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| A VENDING MACHINE
FOR CLINICIANS? |
| – Mobile Health Data - News Releases,
-- Tuesday, May 4, 2004 |
| Toronto-based cStar
Technologies
Inc. has released a vending machine that can be
used to manage and dispense medical products using
Wi-Fi technology. |
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| WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS
OF CANADA AWARDED cSTAR's CEO WITH INNOVATION AWARD |
| – Women Entrepreneurs of Canada (WEC)
Honors Five Members who represent Canada’s Top
Women in Business, -- Wednesday , May 19, 2004,
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| Toronto, ON, May 19,
2004, Women Entrepreneurs of Canada, where
Canada’s smartest and savviest women entrepreneurs connect,
presents five awards to members this evening in
celebration of Women Entrepreneurs Day. |
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| ONE DAY, YOUR CELL-PHONE COULD BE YOUR WALLET |
| – National Post, Canada's daily newspaper, -- Monday , May 5, 2003, |
| Solbyung (Stella) Yoon has seen the future of vending machine transactions, and it entails using a cellphone to buy a can of pop or a bag of chips rather than plumbing the depths of one's pockets for the necessary number of quarters". Article by David Menzies, photos credited to Yvonne Berg
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| COMING SOON: CELL VENDING |
| – Toronto Metro, Daily newspaper, --
Tuesday, April 22, 2003, page 23. |
| Imagine not requiring the use of money to buy a can of pop or a chocolate bar from a vending machine." Article by Sandy Garcia
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| VIRTUAL VENDING SALESMAN |
| – Canadian Vending & Office Coffee Service Magazine, -- April
2003, |
| Virtual vending entrepreneurs... are likely to be the driving force in steering the bandwagon of innovation and changes." Article by Stella Yoon
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| SUCCESS PALES 'IF YOU DON'T HAVE HAPPY FELLING' |
| – The Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper,-- Thursday, October 17, 2002, |
| "Workaholics need to delegate, set time aside for themselves and for family..." Article by Michael B.
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| cSTAR AIDS REMOTE DATA ACCESS |
| – It Focus on Manufacturing & Retail, Vol. 3, Issue 7, September 2002, page 9. |
| "Intelligent vending technology offers wider applications for linking difficult to network equipment" --- cStar's CEO Stella Yoon...
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| SMART HOMES GET OFF TO A RENEWED GOOD START |
| – Metering International, Metering Industries' leading publication, Issue 3, 2002 |
| Metering International features cStar's wireless management solutions for AMR, HVAC, Lighting..., SMART Home...
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| CALLING ALL VENDING MACHINES |
| – Communications & Networking, September, 2002 Volume 5, Issue 9, page 15. |
| Communications & Networking Talks about cStar's wireless data communication solutions..., wireless vending, ATM, & Automatic Meter Reading...
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| THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME... |
| – VENDING TIMES, August 25 ~ September 24, 2002 Volume 42, No 10 Cover page. |
| Future direction of vending was the topic for cStar Technologies CEO Stella Yoon when she appeared on City TV's "Breakfast Television" program in Toronto ON, Canada. See the Cover page of Vending Times on Vol.42 to find more information.
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| cSTAR'S WIRELESS VENDING SOLUTIONS ON CITY TV |
| – "Breakfast Television" program,
August 21, 2002 |
| City TV's "Breakfast Television" program featured cStar's wireless vending solutions: August 21, 2002
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| VENDING THROUGH THE AGES |
| – The Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper,-- Monday, August 12, 2002 |
| Stella Yoon, President & CEO of cStar Technologies Inc, says her company is out to modernize vending machines by wireless technology. Up-to-date marketing information is collected through transmitters in vending machines. Article by Rachel Ross, photos credited to Rick Madonik
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| ONLINE MANAGEMENT BECOMES THE REAL THINGS |
| – Computer Dealer News, Volume 15, Issue 32, August 27, 1999 Page 9, |
| cStar’s contribution to this system is the wireless transmission equipment, which interfaces with CA-UniCenter TNG via American Mobile’s wireless
network
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| A LITTLE BIT ABOUT cSTAR & ITS CHEERLEADER STELLA YOON |
| – The Alumni Magazine of the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, www.mgmt.utoronto.ca, Spring/Summer 2000 |
| Leadership means managing in chaotic circumstances and being able to turn such situation into opportunities
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| cSTAR'S SOLUTIONS ON ELECTRONIC NEWSPAPER (KOREA) |
| – The Electronics Newspaper, a major technology newspaper in the Republic of Korea. Thursday, April 13, 2000 (New Orleans) |
| cStar’s solution can read any data including temperature change, inventory, and sales figures in vending machines and transmit the data real time and on line...
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