ComSense Announces Production Availability of World's First Reader-free Internet Cards; Customers Include Online Service Providers, Credit Card Issuers, and Retailers.Business Editors TEL AVIV Tel Aviv (tĕl əvēv`), city (1994 pop. 355,200), W central Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea. Oficially named Tel Aviv–Jaffa, it is Israel's commercial, financial, communications, and cultural center and the core of its largest , Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 2001 ComSense today announced it has begun shipping the production version of its ComDot(TM)-powered reader-free Internet cards. This marks the world's first volume production and general availability of a self-powered ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. card. ComDot-powered cards authenticate (1) To verify (guarantee) the identity of a person or company. To ensure that the individual or organization is really who it says it is. See authentication and digital certificate. (2) To verify (guarantee) that data has not been altered. users at any telephone or connected PC eliminating the need for a card reader or other specialized hardware. Customers include online service providers, credit card issuers, and retailers. In November, Network World recognized the ComDot technology with an Editor's Choice "Category Breaker breaker: see wave, in oceanography. " award in the security realm. What makes the self-powered ComDot cards unique is that they are both active and reader-free, meaning they communicate with server-based applications by means of the PC, mobile phone, telephone, and other devices without a card reader. This is achieved by using sound, a capability that is standard with these and many other personal electronic devices. ComDot-powered cards provide a standard, ubiquitous means for easy and secure account access and Internet transactions for online health care, network access, membership, loyalty, and e-commerce. Since ComDot-powered cards are ISO 7810/7816 compliant, they can also be credit cards. Separately ComSense announced several field trials of the world's first reader-free Internet card, including: -- iMetrikus, for the interactive health care community MyHealthChannel.com - Nippon Shinpan Company, one of Japan's largest credit card issuers -- Sofmap, one of Japan's largest consumer electronics and online retailers -- Marubeni Information Systems, a major Japanese company with broad expertise in telecommunications and information systems and a division of trading company Marubeni Corporation, an investor in ComSense and the company's distributor in Japan "We are pleased and gratified grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. that companies of such stature all around the world are beginning to embrace ComDot technology," said Alon Atsmon, president and chief executive officer of ComSense. "Convenience, privacy, and security are universal values In philosophy, universal values is an attempt to establish a finite set of concepts that are recognized by all human beings as morally good. The discussion of universal values is quite unsettled (often controversial), and therefore, can start from many different places: that strengthen any company's customer relationships. We are particularly excited about the potential our technology holds for network security. Information system providers have been waiting for a security solution like ours that is easy to install and use anywhere." Today, ComSense has production capacity available to support shipments of high volumes of cards. Since the production process is highly scalable, the company will be able to grow production capacity as demand grows. ComSense will be demonstrating ComDot-powered cards in booth number 1233 at the CardTech/SecurTech Conference and Exposition, an annual event set for May 14th to 17th in 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 that draws around 8,500 attendees. More information is available at www.ct-ctst.com. About ComSense ComSense is the maker of ComDot(TM) -- the world's first self-powered reader-free ISO card technology. ComDot-powered card systems create value for card issuers and providers of online or phone-based services through their unique user authentication See authentication. and loyalty functionality. For end users, ComSense cards introduce unprecedented ease, security, and privacy to shopping, banking, and information access over telephone and computer networks. Founded in mid-1998, ComSense Technologies Ltd. has its research and development office at its international headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel, with business offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , and manufacturing development in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. . For additional information please visit our Web site: www.com-sense.com. ComDot is a mark of ComSense. All other marks are property of their respective owners. |
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