HP's VeriFone Division Expands Technology for Wireless E-services Market; VeriSmart Wireless Application Protocol Interface Enables Secure Mobile E-commerce.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 11, 1999-- Hewlett-Packard Company today announced that its VeriFone division has integrated a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. ) interface into its VeriSmart e-commerce software for one of the world's first WAP project in Ennis, County Clare County Clare (Contae an Chláir in Irish) is in the Irish province of Munster. It is located on the west coast of Ireland, northwest of the River Shannon and bordering Lough Derg. Area: 3,147 km² (1,215 square miles). Its capital is the town of Ennis. , Ireland. Hosted by eircom, Ireland's leading telecommunications provider, the Ennis Information Age Town project will run through April 2000 and will test and implement integrated information-age telecommunications technology. eircom has been implementing VeriSmart technology and VeriFone's Personal ATM appliances to reload (1) To load a program from disk into memory once again in order to run it. Reload is entirely different than reinstall. Reinstall means that you have to run the install program from a CD-ROM or floppy disk and perform the installation procedure over again. VisaCash stored-value cards. As part of the Ennis project, eircom recently announced the expansion of its service to include reload of VisaCash cards over WAP-based mobile phones using VeriSmart software. "eircom is happy to have worked with HP's VeriFone division in adapting its VeriSmart technology for this first e-commerce application of its type in the wireless world," said Fiona Tierney, head of Card and Payphone payphone Noun a coin-operated telephone payphone pay n → Münztelefon nt; (card phone) → Kartentelefon nt Services for eircom. "It demonstrates the flexibility of the VeriSmart platform." Through the implementation of VeriSmart WAP software by eircom, Bank of Ireland This article is about the commercial banking company Bank of Ireland. For the central bank of the Republic of Ireland, see Central Bank of Ireland. The Bank of Ireland (Irish: Banc na hÉireann plans to give VisaCash cardholders the ability to load value to their cards -- via WAP mobile phones -- to pay for low-value everyday items, including parking and telephone calls. Soon WAP technology will enable people to access and navigate the Internet using a mobile phone and browse information such as news, travel services, entertainment and weather. "Secure payment solutions are required to effectively conduct mobile e-commerce," said Ulf Beyschlag, HP's worldwide program manager, Mobile E-Services Communications Industry communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. . "The VeriFone software will play an important role in expanding the breadth of secure mobile e-commerce applications worldwide." eircom Ennis Information Age Town In 1997, Ennis was the winner of eircom's 15 million IR pound Information Age Town competition. The eircom Ennis Information Age Town project is the first of its kind in the world. ericom's 15 million pound investment is providing integrated information-age telecommunications technology, infrastructure and training in Ennis. Both in the short term and the long term, this investment will have a dramatic impact on the people of Ennis and on Ireland as a whole because the lessons learned in Ennis will be circulated widely. More information is available on the Web at www.ennis.ie. About eircom eircom is Ireland's leading provider of local, long distance and international telecommunications services, including mobile communications and data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. services. Since 1984, eircom has invested over 3 billion IR pounds in its infrastructure, giving the company one of the most advanced networks in Europe. The company continues to broaden its portfolio of services through increasing both the range and sophistication so·phis·ti·cate v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates v.tr. 1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly. 2. of the services it offers, thereby increasing the benefits to customers. Over the coming years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time company will add to the range of services that allow customers take advantage of the intelligence inherent in the digital technology that forms the backbone of its network. Web address: www.eircom.ie About VeriSmart VeriSmart software is a scaleable client/server technology that enables financial institutions, telecommunications companies and other service providers to implement a complete multi-application e-commerce solution seamlessly, using wireline and wireless appliances. VeriSmart technology provides secure sessions between appliances and bank hosts, regardless of the type of appliance used. About VeriFone VeriFone (www.verifone.com) is a division of Hewlett-Packard Company and the leading global provider of secure electronic payment solutions for financial institutions, merchants and customers. VeriFone has shipped more than seven million payment systems used in more than 100 countries. About HP Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services for business and home -- is focused on capitalizing on the opportunities of the Internet and the proliferation proliferation /pro·lif·er·a·tion/ (pro-lif?er-a´shun) the reproduction or multiplication of similar forms, especially of cells.prolif´erativeprolif´erous pro·lif·er·a·tion n. of electronic services. HP plans to launch Agilent Technologies This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. as an independent company by mid-calendar 2000. Agilent consists of HP's test and measurement, semiconductor products, chemical analysis and healthcare solutions businesses, and has leading positions in multiple market segments. HP has 123,500 employees worldwide and had total revenue of $47.1 billion in its 1998 fiscal year. Information about HP, its products and the company's Year 2000 program can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com. |
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