Bob Russo summarizes the changes for Hotel & Motel Management and says hoteliers must be aware of their responsibility and make sure their vendors adhere to payment card industry standards.

Nancy Carle brings over 19 years of sales and management experience with hospitality technology companies to TTI, a vendor of business center kiosks and driver's license and passport scanners.

Exclusive H&MM photos from the Hospitality Industry Technology Expo and Conference trade show floor, where hotel vendors introduced new products for the hospitality market.

Vendors at HITEC 2009 clearly saw the advantages to mobile services and introduced early versions of Web- and mobile-based applications. A year later, the industry is beginning to separate what really works and what is pretty but not practical.

Trustwave, a provider of information security and compliance solutions, has acquired Breach Security, a provider of Web application firewall technology. The terms of the deal are confidential.

New features include customer facing technologies that will enhance the guest experience, streamline operations and allow hotels to become more environmentally friendly.

By delivering Place Point on an iPad, hotel owners can deliver multiple services on a single device.

Intelity will deploy an interactive guest Web experience, Wyndham Connect, exclusively across all Wyndham Hotel Group brands in North America and provide the hotel group with access to its Interactive Customer Experience suite of products.

The best new hospitality technology products launched at HITEC 2010 will help staff on hotel floors perform their jobs more efficiently. So far, it looks like iPad applications will be a hot topic.

Using Payment Application Data Security Standard-certified property-management vendors does not mean your hotel won't be breached. But it's certainly a step in the right direction; and if your vendors aren't certified, as a merchant you aren't PCI-compliant.