CHARGE Anywhere Wins Best of Interop Award

CHARGE Anywhere® Wins the 2009 Best of Interop Innovative Business Technologies Award in the Security Category for Best-In-Class PCI Security Solutions

LAS VEGAS, NV (May 19, 2009) - CHARGE Anywhere®, a leading provider of secure Mobile Payments, Point-of-Sale (POS) solutions and integrated electronic payment services, was awarded the Best of Interop Most Innovative Business Technologies Award in the Security Category for its best-in-class PCI Security Solutions.

This award solidifies CHARGE Anywhere's leadership in providing secure credit/debit card payment solutions to a broad range of merchants. Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance, which is heavily invested in by large enterprises, has been a challenge for small and medium businesses looking for a cost effective way to secure their customers' card payment data. Mandated by the PCI security council, PCI DSS delivers best-of-breed protection that has been largely out of reach to the SMB community. Now, CHARGE Anywhere offers enterprise-class PCI DSS Level 1 services, PA DSS validated payment software applications and PCI PED hardware solutions that provide turn-key PCI security solutions and peace of mind to small and medium businesses.

With eight different PCI PA-DSS certified payment applications, CHARGE Anywhere has a solution that is right for all merchants. The CHARGE Anywhere validated applications are available for a variety of platforms including Blackberry, Windows Mobile, J2ME, Wireless and IP POS Terminals, Windows and QuickBooks.

"The finalists for the 2009 Best of Interop Awards were hand-selected by InformationWeek's panel of expert judges. Each year, Best of Interop winners prove to be the key players in the continuing evolution of business technology." InformationWeek Analytics and Interop. CHARGE Anywhere won the award in its category, besting Juniper Networks and TippingPoint Technologies, placing CHARGE Anywhere alongside elite solution providers: VMware, Cisco and Expand Networks, winners in their respective categories.

"CHARGE Anywhere was chosen because PCI compliance is a huge problem for the retail and banking industries, and small business is the greatest weak spot in the credit card chain. It is estimated that fewer than 25 percent of small businesses are PCI compliant, and some estimates go as low as 10 percent, " says Best of Interop Judge Tim Wilson. "We could have picked another enterprise box or appliance, but this [CHARGE Anywhere PCI Security Solution] is the one thing that we saw that was truly different that meets a crying need in the market, and that is transformational in the way it affects the everyday operations of the businesses that use it."

The CHARGE Anywhere team always strives to provide best of breed functionality while making no compromises on security. The Best of Interop Innovative Business Technologies Award is the latest testament to that fact. CHARGE Anywhere's customers can rest assured that with CHARGE Anywhere they receive the latest cutting edge payment processing solutions that excel in usability and card payment security.

About CHARGE Anywhere
CHARGE Anywhere is a leading provider of secure Point of Sale (POS) solutions and electronic payment services. Our proprietary Payment Card Industry (PCI) PA DSS Certified CHARGE Anywhere v2.0.0 Mobile Payment and POS software solution designed for QuickBooks®, Smartphones and e-commerce environments, and the Web Terminal Payment Solution - ensures PCI Level 1 compliance via ComsGate® Payment Gateway. CHARGE Anywhere offers business partners and customers the most secure and robust selection of industry specific and customized POS solutions and services, including; IP/Wireless Payment Gateway, POS software, Encryption and Data Security Services, Custom Card Issuance, and Merchant Billing Services. For more information contact them at www.chargeanywhere.com, or (800) 211-1256.

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