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You Want Your Order When? The portable hand-held, wireless SmartICE card payment system from Hypercom will speed order entry and payment processing at restaurants. (BUSINESS WIRE, Aug 23) - Making payments at a restaurant, car rental company, stadium or even a hospital will be quick and easy with a new palm-size, wireless payment terminal called SmartICE. To process an order and payment in a restaurant setting, for example, the menu is downloaded from a PC into the SmartICE. A waiter uses the SmartICE's intuitive, graphical touch-screen to input the customer's order, and communicates the order to the kitchen by hitting the enter key. A printer in the kitchen prints out the order and table number. When the order is ready for pick-up, the kitchen signals the waiter's SmartICE. When the diners complete their meal, the waiter uses the SmartICE to complete the customer's cash or card payment transaction at their table. With a near-palm-size footprint, Hypercom's SmartICE can be worn or carried by service providers, or conveniently docked for stationary use. SmartICE brings portability to payment transactions including an easy-to-use touch-screen pen entry capability, graphics thermal printer, automatic paper cutter, magnetic stripe and smart card reader and built-in lithium ion battery. "Consumers want quick, quality and convenient service with multiple payment options," said Jairo E. Gonzalez, managing director, global sales and marketing, Hypercom Corporation. The SmartICE card payment system supports an array of payment options including credit, debit and smart card transactions, electronic benefits transfer, priority and fleet cards, checks and cash payments, as well as customer order entry. Hypercom's SmartICE card payment system will be available for shipment in January, 2000. For more information, visit Hypercom's web site at www.hypercom.com The Ultimate Travel Companion (BUSINESS WIRE, Aug 23) - Sony's VAIO(R) PictureBook(TM) computer is light, compact, portable, powerful and fun - the perfect combination. The computer with a built-in combination digital still motion video camera goes everywhere you go plus keeps you close to family and friends. The ultimate travel companion weighs only 2 1/2 pounds and at only 1.5" thick practically fits in your pocket. For additional information about Sony computer products, call (800) 352-7669, or visit the web site at www.sony.com/pc Return to Saint Louis Front Page The Saint Louis Front Page is owned and maintained by the Moore Design Group for the sole purpose of disseminating news and information about the Metropolitan Saint Louis area. Text or graphics may not be copied, rewritten or distributed in any manner whatsoever without written permission. For more information, contact editor@slfp.com All rights reserved world wide © 1996 - 2008 Moore Design Group .