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Dallas CBS News Hails e-Port(R) Cashless Vending Machines as "Wave of the Future".


MALVERN, Pa. -- CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast.  11 Network News in Dallas-Fort Worth reports cashless vending machines deployed in the city by Cadbury Schweppes Cadbury Schweppes plc is a confectionery and beverage company with its headquarters in Berkeley Square, London, England, UK. Cadbury Schweppes is currently the only major international confectionery manufacturer to produce Fairtrade or organic products, which it sells through its  are the "wave of the future."

Vending machines equipped with USA Technologies'(OTC Bulletin Board OTC Bulletin Board

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, Texas, and rapidly sold out stock in many of the machines.

Bud Gillett, the Dallas City Hall correspondent for KTVT-TV (CBS 11), reports that the technology was retrofitted into the machines quickly and easily, and immediately impressed consumers with its convenience.

To access the CBS 11 cashless vending machine news report, please log on to http://cbs11tv.com/video/?id=15837.

CBS 11 is part of the CBS Television Stations Group, which reaches 38 million households in the U.S.

Last December, MasterCard Worldwide and USA Technologies announced that Cadbury Schweppes would equip vending machines in several U.S. markets with the e-Port and begin accepting all major credit cards, including those enabled with MasterCard[R] PayPass[TM] contactless payment Contactless payment systems are credit cards, key fobs, or other devices which use RFID for making secure payments. The built in chip and antenna enable consumers to wave their card or fob over a reader at the point of sale.  functionality.

Cadbury Schweppes, whose brands include Dr Pepper, 7UP, Snapple, A&W Root Beer, Hawaiian Punch, Canada Dry, and Mott's, is converting as many as 1,000 Dr Pepper and Snapple vending machines in Dallas, New York New York, state, United States
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 and Chicago to accept credit card payments.

The Cadbury Schweppes installations are a part of the 5,000 self service point-of-sale terminals and vending machines Master Card and USA Technologies are currently deploying in 12 cities nationwide, including Las Vegas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Denver, Seattle, Miami, Orlando and Washington, D.C.

About USA Technologies:

USA Technologies is a leader in the networking of wireless non-cash transactions, associated financial/network services and energy management. USA Technologies provides networked credit card and other non-cash systems in the vending, commercial laundry, hospitality and digital imaging industries. USA Technologies is an IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries)  Business Partner. The Company has marketing agreements with Cingular Wireless, Honeywell, Blackboard, and ZiLOG Corporation. For further information on USA Technologies, please visit www.usatech.com.

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