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• Mobile Payment Transaction Values for Digital and Physical Goods to Exceed $300bn Globally Within 5 Years, According to Juniper ResearchHAMPSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwire - July 1, 2008) - A new analysis of the mobilepayments opportunity forecasts that the gross transaction value of paymentsmade via mobile phone for digital goods (such as music, tickets and games)and physical goods (typically gifts and books) will exceed $300bn globallyby 2013. A region by region analysis by Juniper Research found that there is asignificant and immediate opportunity for mobile payment services, systems,software and supporting services to underpin the processing of this valueof payment transactions by 2013. With applications and service casestudies, the study explores how the mobile phone is developing into apayment tool that will be used by more and more people, more and more oftenin future.
• Intura Solutions Releases Upgrade of Intura VisionRelease Adds Nutritional Labels, Customer Profile Fields and Management Dashboard
• Phil Moen Named President and CEO of UnimaxMoen Is Committed to Delivering Voice Administration Technology That Delivers Real ROI to Big Business
• Real-Time Protection Has Never Been More VitalBURBANK, CA--(Marketwire - June 30, 2008) - Imagine this: a large quote for services hasjust been submitted to a prospective client through your company'sPittsburgh office, and the buzz is all over from headquarters on down thatthis job could greatly boost profits for the year. But rather suddenly thatbuzz turns to panic when the purchasing agent from the Pittsburgh prospectcalls in and says another vendor has submitted a competing -- andlower-priced -- quote for the same services. Now your company must react inreal time if they are to save the job; a series of meetings or a mass ofred tape delaying a response will kill the sale. In today's economic"tooth-and-claw" business climate, only the quick survive.
• Net1 Requested by SASSA to Extend Validity of Bid Proposal to End September 2008JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA--(Marketwire - June 30, 2008) - Net 1 UEPS Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:UEPS) ("Net1" or the "Company") today announced that it has received a Bidders Notice from the South African Social Security Agency ("SASSA") advising bidders that the process of evaluating bidders' proposals and finalizing the adjudication of the SASSA tender has not been completed. Bidders have been advised that the Evaluation Committee appointed to evaluate the bid proposals has submitted its recommendations to an Adjudication Committee for consideration, and that the Adjudication Committee is currently in the process of reviewing the recommendations of the Evaluation Committee in order to provide a recommendation to the Chief Executive Officer of SASSA on the preferred bidder(s) for each province.