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Alyssa Milano, Other Top SafeSearching.Com Stars To Appear on New Phone and Internet Payment System Card.


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SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States
San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850.
, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 2, 2000

SafeSearching.Com & Pocketpass.com Ink Pact

To Expand Reach and Offerings of GenY Entertainment Portal

The very familiar face of Alyssa Milano Alyssa Jayne Milano (born December 191972) is an American actress and singer. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Samantha Micelli in the sitcom Who's the Boss? and Phoebe Halliwell on the supernatural series Charmed.  and other top Hollywood stars who are part of entertainment portal SafeSearching.Com (http://www.safesearching.com) will be showing up in some very unfamiliar places this fall: on the front of a line of their own exclusive collector's edition phone and Internet cards powered by Pocketpass.com.

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SafeSearching.Com, has contracted with Pocketpass.com to co-brand and market its patented pre-paid phone card and Internet payment system and to enable SafeSearching to accept PocketPass as a payment system for the site's products, services and premium content.

"PocketPass is an incredible opportunity that provides SafeSearching.Com with an additional profit stream while enabling us to stay true to our mission of allowing our celebrities to control their own images and preserve their dignity," said Lin Milano, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of SafeSearching.Com "The functionality that PocketPass brings to us allows SafeSearching to expand its offerings to more users around the world and to profitably offer many new services that either were not possible before or could not profitably be sold."

Pocketpass.com offers Internet users a secure, seamless, immediate and anonymous pre-paid payment system allowing cash, checks, credit cards and even pre-paid telephone time and promotional awards to be converted into Internet financial transactions ideal for auctions, peer-to-peer, consumer-to-consumer transactions and micropayments as well as for purchases at online retailers and premium content providers, and voice portal sites.

Safesearching.com is a new entertainment network of official celebrity websites offering fans fresh, new, exclusive and original content including chat, news, streaming audio and video clips all direct from the stars themselves.

"This is a perfect match-up for us," said Pocketpass.com CEO Jim Nations. "The PocketPass card is ideal for SafeSearching's target audience: the 22 million American teenagers who do not have credit cards as well as the merging global Internet economy where 90 percent of the populace is cardless." Nations said that a growing PocketPass market lies in the increasing number of online consumers who have credit cards but are concerned about privacy and security.

The agreement with SafeSearching anticipates a series of enhanced services including promotional discounts or cash credits to participating e-tailers, promotions on MP3 and streaming video downloads, integrated messaging services (e-mail, voicemail, fax) and other enhanced services such as pre-paid cellular that SafeSearching will be able to offer using the PocketPass system.

PocketPass offers a "physical world" plastic Card distributed like a phone card through retail establishments like record and video shops, convenience stores, gas stations, and grocery stores. PocketPass also offers a compatible and/or stand-alone, "virtual world" Pocketpass.com Account distributed via the Web. The PocketPass Card and Pocketpass.com account are a combined service sharing the same account number and PIN.

SafeSearching.Com, 14044 Ventura Blvd. #308 Sherman Oaks, CA 91423 -- Phone: 818/501-7493, Fax: 818/907-1650 Pocketpass.com, Corporate Offices: 1731 Technology Dr., Suite 700, San Jose, CA 95110-1327 -- Phone: 877/273-7277, Fax: 877/275-7277
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