MICROS Adds Wirca to Its Prestigious List of Business Partners.Business Editors/High Tech Writers OVERLAND PARK Overland Park, city (1990 pop. 111,790), Johnson co., NE Kans., a residential suburb of Kansas City; inc. 1960. There is printing and publishing, and the manufacture of apparel, aircraft parts, cement, prepared foods, salt, chemicals, marine accessories, and signs. , Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 6, 2003 Wirca's Mobile Commerce Software-Based Solution -- PocketChange(TM) -- Is Now Available for the MICROS 3700 and 8700 Systems Wirca, Inc., a leader in mobile commerce payment applications, today announced that it is teaming with MICROS Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : MCRS MCRS Minnesota Companion Rabbit Society MCRS Marine Corps Recruiting Station MCRS Management Control Reporting System MCRS Mennonite Coalition for Refugee Support (Kitchener, Waterloo, Canada) MCRS Metropolitan Center for Regional Studies ) to offer a cashless, mobile-phone initiated payment option for use in the MICROS 3700 and 8700 systems. The solution, made possible by Wirca's PocketChange(TM) software, provides crucial benefits of security and convenience for both diners Diners can mean:
When the diner diner, restaurant resembling the railroad dining car that is its source. In the mid-19th cent., the first dining cars that appeared on trains were nothing more than an empty car with a fastened-down table. George M. is ready to pay his or her bill, it takes just a few seconds to use a mobile phone for the Wirca network to authorize a transaction. In just a few more seconds, the restaurateur res·tau·ra·teur also res·tau·ran·teur n. The manager or owner of a restaurant. [French, from restaurer, to restore; see restaurant. completes the process at the MICROS 3700 or 8700, and the diner may leave. The transaction is more secure for the diner since a credit card does not have to be provided to a server and nothing is left behind at the restaurant. And the Wirca-MICROS combination saves valuable time for both diners and servers. "We are excited to become a MICROS Business Partner and to offer our PocketChange(TM) solution to the MICROS community and dealer network. Our software- based solution has been designed for ease of installation either remotely or on-site. This application works with every mobile phone and does not require the consumer to learn anything new, as s/he just needs to dial a phone number," said Howard Gerson, president and founder, Wirca, Inc. "MICROS is pleased to offer the advanced mobile phone payment technology that Wirca has developed. Rarely do you find a payment solution that protects both the consumer and the merchant from fraud," stated Ed Rothenberg, Vice President of Restaurant Products, MICROS. About MICROS Systems, Inc. (www.micros.com) MICROS Systems, Inc. provides enterprise applications for the hospitality industry worldwide. Over 135,000 MICROS systems are currently installed in table and quick service restaurants, hotels, motels, casinos, and leisure and entertainment operations in more than 130 countries. MICROS provides property management systems and central reservation central reservation Noun Brit & NZ the strip that separates the two sides of a motorway or dual carriageway central reservation n (BRIT) (AUT) → mediana and customer information solutions under the brand MICROS-Fidelio for more than 15,000 hotels worldwide. MICROS stock is traded through NASDAQ under the symbol MCRS. For more information on MICROS and its advanced information technology solutions for the hospitality industry, please contact Louise Casamento, Director of Marketing at (443) 285-8144 or (800) 638-0985. You can also visit the MICROS website at www.micros.com or send an email to info@micros.com. About Wirca Inc. (www.wirca.com) Wirca, Inc. is a Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). area-based company that has developed patent-pending hardware and software designed to provide end-to-end solutions (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. for m-commerce transactions. This technology enables any make or model of mobile phone to process a payment transaction. The Wirca network can be used to pay for purchases from restaurants, retail stores, convenience stores The following is a list of convenience stores organized by geographical location. Stores are grouped by the lowest heading that contains all locales in which the brands have significant presence. and vending machines as well as to make person-to-person wireless cash transactions. Wirca is registered trademark of Wirca Inc. PocketChange is a trademark of Wirca, Inc. The MICROS logo is a registered trademark of MICROS Systems, Inc. All other product and brand names are the property of their respective owners. |
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