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Customer demand for instant mobile access, coupled with the increased penetration of smartphone use in the United States is helping to drive hospitality's investment in mobile applications.

Shifting consumer expectations, a brightening economy, and a bevy of up-and-coming applications are kicking once stalled hospitality self-service initiatives back into gear. Read about these trends and more in Hospitality Technology's annual Self-Service Technology Study.

Although many of us may feel like we're just about at social-net overload, Foursquare is one tool that is full-on entrenched in the hospitality industry.

By using Mocapay's mobile suite, merchants are able to launch mobile payments and deliver promotional offers before, during and after encounters with guests, allowing for ongoing engagement with their customers.

Hypercom's HyperSafe Secure suite delivers a broad range of protection options to protect businesses and simplify implementation, and includes solutions from Voltage Security, Inc., MagTek, Inc. and First Data Corporation.

The Association's Restaurant Performance Index stood at 100.4 in April, while operators report a positive outlook for staffing gains, as well as continued plans for capital expenditures in the coming months.

Facebook and Twitter may be the social networking tools of choice today, but there's a new category of tools poised to make an impact on hospitality: geo-social networking. Find out which tools are driving this trend and how they can help you to win customer loyalty.

Heartland's new end-to-end encryption solution, E3, features layers of security using both software and tamper-resistant hardware, employing the Advanced Encryption Standard of encryption.