AmaTech AG Appears on Alexander Haig's World Business Review TV Series; Discusses Contactless Smart Cards.Business & Entertainment Editors/High-Tech Writers BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2001 Multi-Media Productions (USA), Inc. is proud to announce the appearance of David Finn, founder and 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 AmaTech AG., along with Dennis Ryan, president of AmaTech USA, Inc.., on Alexander Haig's World Business Review. The episode airs June 5th through June 10th on U.S. public television stations, including New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Miami. For specific market-by-market air dates and times, please e-mail healingm@mmpusa.com. Host, Alexander Haig, former Secretary of State for President Reagan and former COO and president of United Technologies, discusses "Contactless Smart Card A smart card that uses radio frequencies to provide a wireless connection to the reader. The transmission range is only a couple of inches, but allows the card to be quickly passed by a reader in applications such as secured entrances. See smart card and UltraCard. Solutions." AmaTech AG has employed its proprietary technology to connect an antenna to a microchip embedded in a credit card. This is, in effect, extending the wireless Internet to smart card technology. The only action a user must take in order to activate the passive transponder is to wave it in close proximity (within approximately 4 inches) to the appropriate reader. "Amatech was selected to appear on the program due to its advanced contactless smart card technology," said Clayton Haggit, the show's senior coordinating producer. Finn and Ryan appear on General Alexander Haig's World Business Review to discuss how AmaTech seeks to employ its technology in such a way as to form a bridge between the traditional economy and the new Internet-driven one. Realizing that time and money are two of the most precious assets of working people, they set about to employ a technology that saves on both while leveraging the existing business infrastructure. Using a modular selection of components comprising a number of different system units and interfaces, AmaTech can precisely match its readers with its own transponders. This allows it to provide complete turnkey solutions that are custom-made and read/write enabled. In addition, AmaTech's entire hardware solution system can be customized to each client's specific requirements and enhanced with specially adapted firmware, software libraries, drivers, and even the consumables needed to run their systems. "AmaTech doesn't only supply card-manufacturers and 'converters' with cards, inlays and labels. Increasingly, the company is building on its expertise in Radio Frequency Identification See RFID. Device (RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) A data collection technology that uses electronic tags for storing data. The tag, also known as an "electronic label," "transponder" or "code plate," is made up of an RFID chip attached to an antenna. ) and the flexibility of its HF antenna technology to create custom solutions as diverse as casino chips, glass-tube devices for animal tagging, and key fobs. The latter in particular offer a sizable mass-market potential. For example, one solution created for a major petroleum company allows motorists to pay for fuel by holding a key fob in front of a reader device and continue their journey immediately, rather than wait in line to pay at the cash desk," said Finn. 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