First to Support Secure Payments, Samples Now Available

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, October 7, 2008 – INSIDE Contactless, a leading provider of advanced, open-standard contactless chip technologies, today announced that samples of the first MicroPass® contactless prelam for use in mobile handset stickers for secure payments are now available for card manufacturers.  INSIDE’s new sticker technology combines the award-winning MicroPass 4003 contactless payment platform – designed from the ground up to support open loop contactless payment applications – with a tuned RF antenna in a compact, shielded prelam for payment sticker applications.   The contactless sticker form-factor is rapidly gaining popularity as a way to turn mobile phones, company IDs or just about anything else into a convenient payment device.

Opal first to roll out instant outbound capability

Woking, UK, October 7th 2008: Rostrvm Solutions, a leading UK call centre software developer, has further enhanced its call centre software so that it can be used in a hosted pay-for-use environment.  Opal, the B2B division of Carphone Warehouse, is the first company to deploy the software to offer a hosted dialler service, which enables call centres to run outbound campaigns from any location that has a phone, PC and good internet access. 

The Opal hosted dialler was announced at Call Centre Expo, held at the National Exhibition Centre in September.   The service brings numerous tangible benefits to call centres, from greater efficiency, time and cost savings through to much-improved voice and data features, reliability and ease-of-use.

The launch of the enhanced hosted dialler proposition is a key element in Opal’s strategy to deliver advanced functionality to business customers in easy-to-adopt packages and represents the formalisation of Opal’s partnership with Rostrvm Solutions.

Milton Keynes. 7th October 2008. Eurotrade Enterprises Ltd. has deployed a range of customised and service-ready applications on the DIGITALK Multiservice Platform, including Number Translation and Hosted IP PBX< services. The migration to a single platform comes from the need to consolidate existing TDM services onto a reliable and scalable infrastructure, and to enable a range of IP services to address changing market demands.

Eurotrade’s CEO, Ajit Kohli, "It was fast becoming clear to us that our existing platform – from another vendor – was simply not going to be able to cope with either additional traffic growth or provide the sort of IP-friendly environment essential for the next stage of our company’s expansion."

- 25% of all businesses have experienced security issues as a result of employees using their laptops or mobile devices outside of work in contravention of company policy
- 50% of workers do not know that there are different policies when using IT inside or outside of work
- One in three have never read their employer’s IT policy or don’t know that it exists

New research from Vodafone UK reveals many UK businesses appear unsure as to how to secure mobile devices effectively – with nearly a quarter of all businesses having experienced security issues as a result of employees using laptops or mobile email devices outside of working hours and in contravention of company security policies.