Checkmate Announces Entry To Travel and Entertainment Market With The Introduction Of Its eN-Touch 1000 Touch Screen And Electronic Signature Technology.ROSWELL, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 17, 1998-- Leading terminal manufacturer will market the latest Guest Activate Technology through industry solution providers including POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale and Lodging systems developers, and transaction processors Checkmate checkmate end of game in chess: folk-etymology of Shah-mat, ‘the Shah is dead.’ [Br. Folklore: Espy, 217] See : End Electronics, Inc. (Nasdaq-NMS Symbol: CMEL CMEL Center for Management and Executive Leadership (FAA) CMEL Comprehensive Monitoring Evaluation Log CMEL Centre for Medicine Ethics and Law CMEL Classical Motional Electric Law CMEL Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Logs ) today announced its entry into the travel and entertainment industry at the Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference (Hitec). Hotels, resorts, gaming properties, tour operators, cruiselines, restaurants, fast food chains and car rental companies will benefit from the introduction of Checkmate's new touch screen technology combined with electronic signature capture and verification, in a leading edge credit/debit/smart card platform. In both LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. and portable options, Checkmate's eN-Touch 1000(TM) Guest Activated Terminal will provide capture and display capabilities for a variety of travel and entertainment applications. These include: automating the retrieval and processing of chargebacks; automating check-in and checkout; automating electronic signature capture in restaurants, bars, room service, gifts shops, resort facilities, and door-to-door deliveries; and providing displays for gaming applications, electronic concierge and point of sale electronic advertising. To facilitate the easy integration of Checkmate's eN-Touch 1000 terminal with existing lodging and POS applications, Checkmate contracted Orlando-based Global Card Services The software support for PC Cards. PC Card applications talk to Card Services. See PC Card. , Inc., (GCS GCS Glasgow Coma Scale GCS Guilford County Schools (North Carolina) GCS Ground Control Station GCS Grand Central Station GCS Ground Control System GCS Ground Combat Systems GCS Group Communication Systems ) to develop a Software Developer's Kit See SDK. (SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). ) with industry application `intelligence.' GCS is well known in the industry as a processor of credit transactions for cruiselines, and for providing Resolution(TM), a software/archiving service which helps properties and transaction processors automate the resolution of retrieval requests and chargeback Chargeback The charge a credit card merchant pays to a customer after the customer successfully disputes an item on his or her credit card statement. Notes: Customers dispute charges to their credit card usually when goods or services are not delivered within the disputes throughout the industry. GCS's chief executive officer, Bill Marshall, says: "Solution providers wanting to integrate Checkmate's eN-Touch 1000 terminals with their legacy applications can plan on integration times measured in days, or weeks, instead of months using C++ programmers. Checkmate's SDK will provide rich client side and host side application libraries supported by API's with hooks to all the popular industry applications whether UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , AS/400 or PC-based." Checkmate's president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , Gregory A. Lewis, says: "In most hotel properties, savings on chargeback and retrieval losses could pay for ten or twelve terminals per property within the first year easily cost justifying the investment in these systems. Checkmate's strategy will be to encourage existing POS and lodging software providers to integrate the eN-Touch 1000 with their existing offerings and then offer the touch screen and electronic signature solutions to their existing customer bases. Our research shows that the drive for improved customer intimacy and loyalty is paramount in the travel and entertainment industry. Developers and transaction processors who first allow their customers the opportunity to use the eN-Touch 1000 technology will not only differentiate their software, they will help their customers differentiate their own guest services." Les Cowie Les Cowie was an Australian rugby league player, a fine lock forward for the champion South Sydney Rabbitohs teams of the 1950s and an Australian national representative. Club career Nicknamed "Chicka", Cowie debuted with Souths in 1947. , Checkmate's vice president of corporate development, who is leading Checkmate's drive into the hospitality and travel and entertainment industry, says: "At a recent user's group conference, hosted by one of the most successful software providers in the industry, Checkmate's eN-Touch 1000 was voted as "Best of Show" in their vendor showcase. We are receiving a lot of interest in the eN-Touch 1000, primarily because, when combined with the GCS Resolution software, signed retrievals and chargebacks can be displayed before they become a dispute." Checkmate Electronics, Inc., supplies innovative payment solutions. With Checkmate products already installed in 62 of the top 100 US retailers, and many of the top US banks, Checkmate is considered to be the leading supplier of cost justified interactive platforms in the US. Checkmate's products include point-of-sale software and terminals, comprising industry dominant check readers, credit/debit and smart card terminals, electronic signature capture and signature verification terminals all packaged into leading payment, loyalty and electronic advertising applications. As a full service provider, Checkmate supports its partners and direct customers with services including software development, consulting, project management, installation services and TotalCARE support and maintenance services. Headquartered in Roswell, Ga., Checkmate Electronics, Inc., has over 185 employees. Checkmate's home page can be reached on the world wide web at ckmate.com. Checkmate recently announced its intention to merge with Toronto-based International Verifact, Inc. IVI's homepage can be reached at ivinet.com. Founded in 1993, Orlando, Fla.-based Global Card Services (GCS) is a hospitality and travel niche provider of credit related processing services, developing and integrating custom designed software and systems with customer-driven support. GCS provides electronic credit card validation services for merchants located in areas where conventional communication is poor or non-existent. For example, GCS services the cruise line A cruise line is a company that operates cruise ships. Cruise lines have a dual character; they are partly in the transportation business, and partly in the leisure entertainment business, a duality that carries down into the ships themselves, which have both a crew headed by the industry with the Cruise Card System product. Over 70% of the cruise industry uses this system for onboard Refers to a chip or other hardware component that is directly attached to the printed circuit board (motherboard). Contrast with offboard. See inboard. credit card processing. GCS also offers related products to the airline industry. GCS's web page can be reached at globalcardservices.com. CONTACT: Checkmate Electronics, Inc. John J. Neubert CFO/Executive Vice President 770/594-6000 |
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