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- Virtual, Inc. Ruth Cassidy, 781-876-6239 rcassidy@virtualmgmt.com The Mobile Payment Forum

WHAT: As the momentum behind mobile payment grows, companies are providing new capabilities that bring a broader range of secure financial transactions within reach of mobile phone users throughout the world.

Now you can experience these capabilities for yourself at the MPF's Mobile Consumer Awareness

booth at 2008 International CES. See live demonstrations of mobile payment technologies that securely authenticate users via fingerprint sensor, deliver two-way actionable alerts, and enable the broadest range of financial and non-financial transactions via mobile phones.

WHO: Meet representatives of MPF and exhibitors AuthenTec, C-SAM and ClairMail.

WHEN: January 7 - 10, 2008

WHERE: MPF Mobile Consumer Awareness booth at 2008 International CES

Booth # 74243

Sands Expo and Convention Center

201 Sands Ave.

Las Vegas, Nevada 89169

About the Mobile Payment Forum

The Mobile Payment Forum brings together leading organizations from the mobile and financial industries to create a foundation for standardized, secure and authenticated mobile payments. Our members bring extensive experience in creating interoperable global payment standards and specifications and a knowledge of payments in emerging channels. Membership includes key financial institutions, telecommunications operators, wireless-device manufacturers, merchants, content providers and software and hardware developers and vendors. The Mobile Payment Forum is a nonprofit membership organization, incorporated in the state of Delaware in the United States. For further information, visit the Mobile Payment Forum Web site at www.mobilepaymentforum.org.

MPF Member Companies AuthenTec, C-SAM and ClairMail to Demonstrate
Mobile Payment Applications