ADVISORY/MEDIA ALERT - WearLogic at CTST.Business & Technology Editors ADVISORY...for May 15-17 LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2001 Smartwear(TM) Wallet transforms leather wallet into electronic e-commerce and information tool WearLogic demos wireless payments from Smartwear electronic wallet See digital wallet. at checkout counter New Shopcarte(TM) breaks the "chicken and egg" problem of smart credit card in U.S.; standalone stand·a·lone adj. Self-contained and usually independently operating: a standalone computer terminal. device lets merchants accept smart card loyalty coupons with existing scanner systems without changes Who: WearLogic, the intuitive mobile technology company When: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, May 15, 16, and 17 Where: CTST CTST CardTech SecurTech CTST Community Traffic Safety Team (Florida) CTST Combat Trauma Sustainment Training 2001: Booth 854 at The Sands Expo The Sands Expo and Convention Center, at 1.2 million square feet (110,000 m²), is the second largest convention center in the Las Vegas, Nevada area. It opened in 1990 across the street from the original Sands Hotel. , Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , Nevada What: WearLogic will showcase its mobile technology solutions for financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. companies, leading-edge solutions that work today: -- Smartwear Wallet, the newest model of the WearLogic leather electronic wallet, doubles as a traditional wallet and a personal and financial portal consumers always have with them; designed to work with smart cards or conventional bankcards, the Smartwear Wallet's value proposition provides opportunities for card issuers to create brand equity, and improve acquisition, activation, and retention rates -- WearLogic presents CardX(TM), a new proposed standard for the smart card industry that would bring the advantages of XML to smart cards and associated systems, simplifying the support of multiple cards, devices, and applications for system developers -- Demo of Smartwear Wallet performing wireless payments at checkout lanes equipped with the Hypercom(R) ICE(TM) terminals with Hypercom epic(TM) ICE card payment terminal; technologies from the two alliance partners transform the everyday wallet into a convenient, portable, personal commerce tool for both in-store and on-line transactions -- Shopcarte, WearLogic's newest product, unleashes the power of the smart card for couponing by delivering compatibility with the existing bar code scanning infrastructure installed in virtually every merchant in the U.S.; coupons, discounts, or special offers stored on smart cards are delivered through any bar code reader when the card interacts with Shopcarte About WearLogic, Inc. Founded in 1998, WearLogic, Inc. is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , headquartered near Boston in Wakefield, Massachusetts Wakefield is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States located ten miles northeast of Boston. The population was 24,804 at the 2000 census. History Wakefield was first settled in 1639 and was officially incorporated in 1812. . The WearLogic vision is to lead the information management evolution by linking independent mobile devices with one platform for the management of personal information that is used everywhere. Using WearLogic's proprietary Flextek(TM) technology solutions the durability and security of today's mobile devices can be enhanced by incorporating any or all of the four Flextek solutions. One of the solutions, DeviceX(TM), is the hardware technology which enables a new level of convenience in personal hardware and software mobile products that you can fold, twist, crush, and adapt to any desired form. Through WearX(TM), an XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. browser browser Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used interface technology, it is possible to interact with mobile devices in an intuitive way. CardX(TM) technology provides an efficient means to access and interact with virtually any smart card. The fourth technology, CommX(TM) is a family of solutions that allow mobile devices to communicate with other devices using wired, wireless, and emerging communication technologies such as Bluetooth. The Smartwear(TM) Wallet encapsulates all four of the Flextek solutions. For more information, please visit www.wearlogic.com. Flextek, DeviceX, WearX, CommX, CardX, Shopcarte, and Smartwear are marks of WearLogic, Inc. All other marks are property of their respective owners. |
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