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The CyberCoin announcement came at the American Bankers Association convention in Orlando, Florida, today, which generated a variety of electronic payment news.VeriFoneannounced its
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creditcard generator download CyberCash opens Net to small change,CyberCoin fulfills a growing need for consumers to purchase lower-priced and impulse items on the Internet, especially digital goods and services that can be instantaneously downloaded to your computer, such as software, articles, research, games, and music, CyberCash CEO Bill Melton said.
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CyberCoin will compete with two other firms offering micropayments. A Dutch firm calledDigicashis running apilot withMark Twain Bankof St. Louis.First Virtual Holdingshas more than 100,000 users signed up for its service, which combines email and credit card payments but keeps credit card numbers off the Net.
CyberCash expects to release electronic checks, a form of payment that doesnt go through a bank, by years end.
Free to consumers, CyberCoin adds a form of payment to an Internet Wallet, available from CyberCashsWeb site, its bank partners, and
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First USA Paymentech, First Data and its affiliated banks, and Michigan National Bank have already committed to offer or pilot the CyberCoin service this year.
Mondex Internationalto integrate Mondexs smart card technology into the CyberCash Wallet.
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Merchant server software is available immediately from CyberCash for Windows NT, Solaris, and BSDI, with other versions available by the years end.
(CYCH)today unveiled electronic cash for low-cost purchases electronically over the Internet.CyberCashs new electronic coin service, CyberCoin, enables cashtransactions of 25 cents to $10 on the Net. Until now, the merchants cost of handling low-priced purchases made with credit cards was so high that low-value credit-card sales were not economical for retailers.
Merchants will pay banks a per-transaction fee for the CyberCoin service, ranging from 8 cents on a 25-cent transaction to 31 cents for a $10 purchase. CyberCash, which initially will handle the entire transaction for banks, gets 75 percent of that fee, while the bank gets 25 percent.
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smart cardscheme;NetscapeCommunicationsannounced availability of its Live Payment server software to handle credit card transactions securely; andMicrosoftannounced a new version of its personal finance software,
Wallet technology is expected to be built into Web browsers, but neither Netscape nor Microsoft has announced a wallet relationship with CyberCash. CyberCash last week signed an agreement with
CyberCoin is available now for banks, merchants, and consumers.First Union,
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CyberCash will work with banks to integrate the CyberCoin technology and services into the banks Internet offerings for both merchants and consumers. Banks can offer the CyberCoin service to online merchants and provide back-end processing and access to existing financial networks.
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CompuServes Internet in a Box packaged software. CyberCash is working withSun Microsystemson Suns Java wallet that will accept CyberCash and other payments.
Google Music update makes service useful for backing up tunesThe Web giants two-month-old music service now offers users the ability to download songs in bulk, easing the process of restoring a PC music library.
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