There are parties and hotel guests struggling to make their room keycards work at 3am.
THE ROOM Keycards inserted at a wall slot upon entry turn on lights, heat and air-conditioning.
When I arrived at the front desk of On the Ave, on Broadway and 77th Street on the Upper West Side, I handed the clerk a printout of the Travelscape e-mail confirmation and she handed me the plastic computerized keycard to Room 916.
The thieves removed the whole safe in the middle of the night without forcing the room's door or using a keycard, according to police.
Samsung recently announced that the Galaxy S III and its awesome NFC capabilities will allow users to open their hotel room doors with the phone (instead of a keycard), courtesy of a deal with the Holiday Inn in Statford city.
While you might be miffed to find there's no breakfast, the sparklingly clean rooms, dorms and shared bathrooms, concessions to the safety-conscious (keycard access, ladies-only section, safety deposit boxes), free Wi-Fi and funky common areas make up for it.
— Nicole Perlroth Flaw in Keycard Locks Exploited in Hotel Room Break-Ins Forbes | AA trick for hacking hotel keycards was demonstrated at a hacker conference in July.
These handy devices can turn everything in the room off at once or, in their best incarnations, require a hotel keycard to turn anything on.
Mr. Thompson said prosecutors also erred in saying that Ms. Diallo cleaned another room after she said she was attacked, when the information from her electronic keycard indicated otherwise.
Though Mr. Hogert had to re-insert the keycards a couple of times before the kiosk would tell him his room number, he said he was pleased.
