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September 27, 2006
Pay By Touch Welcomes Its Three Millionth Enrollee
Chicagoan Becomes Three Millionth Consumer To Adopt Today's Most Popular and Secure Biometric Payment System.
Photo: Mary Rodriguez is celebrated as Pay By Touch's three millionth member, after signing up at a Jewel-Osco grocery store located in Chicago, Ill., at Wrigley Field. To commemorate the milestone, Pay By Touch will deposit $1,000 in Rodriguez' new Pay By Touch digital wallet, which can be accessed with the touch of a finger at more than 200 stores in the Chicagoland area.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 27 -- Pay By Touch, the leader in integrated biometric authentication, personalized marketing and payment solutions has achieved a major milestone with the enrollment of three million members. The Pay By Touch biometric payment system is quickly gaining traction with consumers who find it more secure, faster and easier to use than traditional payment systems.
Major retailers nationwide have implemented Pay By Touch in their stores to improve customer service, speed up the checkout line and reduce risks associated with fraud.
The Pay By Touch system uses a simple finger scan to authorize an electronic withdrawal from a customer's existing checking account. Each fingerprint is unique, which helps prevent fraud or identity theft, and since there is nothing to carry, there is nothing to be lost or stolen.
A one time enrollment in the secure program takes only a few minutes to complete online or in person at participating stores. Members can link both their checking accounts and their merchant loyalty membership cards to the Pay By Touch system. Once enrolled, Pay By Touch members are able to use the Pay By Touch system at any participating store.
Pay By Touch (www.paybytouch.com) is wowing the world one touch at a time as the leader in biometric authentication, personalized marketing and payment solutions.
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Video Surveillance System for Defeating Sabotage and Terrorism
Intelligent Video Surveillance Mapped Onto Google Earth(TM) Enables 3D Situation Awareness to be Added Inexpensively to Video Surveillance Systems.
ASIS Internat'l 2006 (San Diego Convention Center) -- Guardian Solutions today announced and demonstrated the first totally geo-spatial video surveillance system called GView(TM). It incorporates patent-pending technology that upgrades a facility's digital video recording (DVR) surveillance system to a 3D situation awareness system for rapid threat detection and understanding. As the DVR records video events, GView(TM) isolates and tracks threats (individual, vehicle, vessel ...) and displays, through Google Earth(TM), all movements on a 3D site model for a bird's eye view of all "at risk" assets and video and non-video sensors.
GView(TM) enables the mass market to gain the benefits of situation awareness as a tool in stopping vandalism and defeating malicious activities such as sabotage and terrorism. Guardian's focus has been to provide intelligent video at a fraction of the price of competitors. Now by utilizing Google Earth(TM), Guardian is enabling the mass market to build and utilize 3D situation awareness models for $100's and not the $10,000's charged for custom models.
By marrying intelligent video surveillance with Google Earth(TM), GView(TM) automates threat detection.
Guardian Solutions develops and implements intelligent video surveillance systems for US infrastructure facilities including transportation centers, water and power utilities, financial centers and military bases. Guardian is headquartered in Bradenton, FL. Additional information is available at www.guardiansolutions.com and www.fencewatch.com.
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RealNetworks(R) Introduces RealTime News Reader and Screen Saver
Users Receive Breaking News, Finance, Entertainment, Fashion, Personal Tech or Any Other Topic of Interest Via Up-to-the-Minute Headlines and Images.
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 27 -- RealNetworks(R), Inc. (NASDAQ:RNWK) , the global leader in digital media delivery, is announcing today the beta launch of RealTime, a free desktop toolbar, news reader and screen saver that brings up-to-the-minute personalized information and images to the desktop. The program integrates with users' Web browsers allowing single-click subscription to favorite stocks, weather, personalized life-style information, news feeds and blogs with information delivered right back to the desktop.
The screen saver rotates through favorite headlines along with their accompanying photos or images. With one click, the user can read the story about a baseball pitcher, stock updates, information about the war in Iraq, a new salad recipe or the latest handheld device.
Real is teaming with the Associated Press, Reuters, Interactive Data, SmartMoney, Feedster and The Weather Channel Interactive to ensure RealTime users get the most current information available. RealTime provides editorial recommendations based on all of this data and allows users to personalize the product either from the RealTime Web site or as the consumer surfs the Web. When a user visits a favorite Web site, such as ESPN.com or Parenting.com, that person instantly sees whether that site has a feed. With a click of the mouse, the feed is added and the user can resume their work or playtime on the computer.
RealTime is available in its beta form at www.realtime.com. Additional features will be added as the product heads toward its official release in early 2007. Real invites users to comment on the product at http://blog.realtime.com/ .
RealNetworks, Inc. is the leading creator of digital media services and software including Rhapsody(TM), RealPlayer(R) 10, and casual PC and mobile games. RealNetworks has more than 2.2 million paid subscribers to its premium digital media http://www.real.com/ . Broadcasters, network operators, media companies and enterprises use RealNetworks' products and services to create and deliver digital media to PCs, mobile phones and consumer electronics devices.
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