The new Sheraton, Shangri-La, St. Regis and Traders branded properties plan on installing InvoTech Systems’ GIMS Uniform System leveraging RFID technology. InvoTech translated its GIMS system to the Mandarin language for easier use in Chinese markets.

 

When the new properties are implemented, InvoTech’s GIMS inventory control system will automatically track 125,000 uniforms for 10,500 employees who will serve the 6,000 new Sheraton, Shangri-La, St. Regis and Traders branded hotel rooms. GIMS Uniform Systems are already being used by the Venetian Macau Resort Hotel, MGM Grand Macau, Wynn Macau, Altira Macau, Four Seasons Macau, and Plaza Casino Macau.

 

GIMS was important to the success of the Venetian Macau’s grand opening in 2007 and its expansion in 2008, which included the Plaza Macau Casino and the Four Seasons Hotel. At these properties, the GIMS system tracks 165,000 uniforms for 14,000 employees as the apparel items move from uniform departments to employees and laundries.

 

The GIMS real-time tracking system promises to increase inventory accuracy and reduces manual labor through:

The Hyatt Regency New Orleans has signed an agreement with Roomlinx to provide its Interactive TV (iTV), Free-to-Guest TV programming, and High-Speed Internet Services to guests of the hotel, opening in October 2011. The installation includes 1,240 iTV systems, HD free-to guest television programming, and HSIA services covering all of the hotel's 1,193 rooms, meeting space and exhibit hall.

 

With Roomlinx's Interactive TV platform, Hyatt Regency New Orleans guests will have access, via the HDTV, to:

Upon its planned opening on October 19, 2011, the 32-story hotel will offer: two 25,000-square-foot ballrooms, 64 versatile meeting and banquet rooms, 21 executive level meeting rooms, seven permanent boardrooms, and more than 80,000 square feet of exhibition space, highlighted by a new 50,000-square-foot exhibit hall.

 

Roomlinx will also be integrating their proprietary convention center App, allowing visiting companies to extend their reach beyond their exhibit booth and into each hotel room.

 

"At Hyatt, we have been extremely impressed with Roomlinx's ability to develop smart applications and deliver an interactive TV platform that allows our hotels to generate strong revenues beyond Video on Demand, while improving the guest experience," says Tom Smith, vice president, rooms, North America operations, for Hyatt Hotels & Resorts. "They have been terrific to work with both on the Andaz 5th Avenue hotel and now Hyatt New Orleans."

 

"We are excited to provide this cutting edge technology solution," says Michael Smith, general manager, Hyatt Regency New Orleans. "This is a great example of the latest and greatest in technology that we will offer our guests."

The Detroit Free Press reports: Ann Arbor police say hackers broke into the computer system of a popular Irish restaurant, Conor O’Neill’s Restaurant, stealing numerous credit card and debit card numbers to make purchases. The case came to light after the credit and debit cards were fraudulently used in the state of Texas between April 22 and June 10.
 

“The banks were receiving information about these fraudulent transactions and did a little digging and discovered the common point of purchase between the cases was Conor O’Neill’s,” Ann Arbor Police Det. Sgt. Pat Hughes said.

 

According to police, the restaurants’ credit card processing computer was vulnerable to computer hackers, possibly from Europe, allowing them to infiltrate the system and gain access to all of the credit/debit card numbers that had been used at the business.
 

Police say it’s not yet known how many customers’ credit and debit cards were accessed. Because the charges have taken place in other states, Ann Arbor police don’t know the total number of fraudulent credit card purchases involved, Hughes said.