Companies to Provide First Personalization Security Layer That Authenticates
Mobile Users When They Conduct Confidential Transactions Such as Accessing
Bank Accounts or Buying Products
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- RSA Conference 2000 --
InfoSpace.com (Nasdaq: INSP), a leading provider of infrastructure services
for Web sites, merchants and wireless devices, VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN),
the world's leading provider of Internet trust services, and Gemplus, the
leading provider of smart card-based solutions, today announced they will be
working together to deliver personalized secure wireless Internet services for
commerce and other applications on wireless networks. The companies will
demonstrate their trusted solution at the RSA 2000 Data Security Conference in
the VeriSign booth.
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InfoSpace.com's wireless commerce solution is unique because it provides
fully integrated secure wireless Internet services such as promotions and
one-click buying, creating end-to-end trust between end users and sources of
secure information on the Internet, such as banks and financial institutions.
Working together with VeriSign and Gemplus, InfoSpace.com plans to deliver
first-in-class wireless security by providing end-to-end encryption and
digital signatures in the Short Message/SIM Application Toolkit environment.
VeriSign will make its renowned Certificate Authority (CA) capability
available with InfoSpace.com's wireless commerce services. VeriSign's
Enterprise Certificate Services will be integrated with InfoSpace.com's
Secure(TM) architecture providing end users and Internet content sources with
secure transactions over wireless networks.
Gemplus subscriber identification module (SIM) technology will be
integrated with InfoSpace.com's secure service architecture, providing client
authentication for secure mobile commerce.
InfoSpace.com's wireless Internet services will offer the best security
features available in current wireless and Internet technology. The security
achieved with this solution includes encryption, and -- for the first time in
wireless applications -- server side authentication. With this development,
trust is established between individuals and companies by ensuring that in any
mobile transaction their mutual identities have been securely established.
In addition, VeriSign's wireless digital certificate technology is used in
conjunction with Gemplus SIM cards, simplifying implementation of the trust
infrastructure and making it easy for users to experience the level of trust
needed to engage in wireless commerce. InfoSpace.com has applied its trusted
wireless commerce solution to the financial sector by bringing to North
America the first mobile banking application using the SIM Application
Toolkit.
"InfoSpace.com is the first company to provide a global end-to-end
wireless security architecture for services," said Naveen Jain, chairman and
CEO, InfoSpace.com. "The security offered by our wireless Internet services
will enable mobile users to access any Internet application or engage in any
transaction using their wireless device thus making secure mobile commerce a
reality."
"Providing mobile customers with trusted commerce is essential for the
advancement of wireless transactions in e-banking, e-healthcare and other
applications," said Anil Pereira, vice president of Internet services group at
VeriSign. "VeriSign is delighted that InfoSpace.com is ensuring the wireless
Internet will deliver the same level of trust and security as the wired
Internet."
"By adding public key infrastructure (PKI) to the GemXplore SIM Card
features, Gemplus is providing a large community of wireless developers using
GemXplore CASE the ability to extend Internet PKI in their mobile services,"
said Remy de Tonnac, president, Gemplus Americas. "We are proud to be among
the pioneers like InfoSpace.com to further the convergence of the wireless and
Internet technologies."
About InfoSpace.com, Inc.
InfoSpace.com is a leading global Internet information infrastructure
company. InfoSpace.com provides infrastructure services to consumers,
merchants and wireless devices. InfoSpace.com's affiliate network consists of
more than 2,100 Web sites. The Company's affiliates include AOL, Microsoft,
Disney/InfoSeek's GO Network, NBC's Snap, Lycos, go2net Inc., DoubleClick,
Dow Jones (The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition) and ABC LocalNet,
among others. In addition, the Company provides services to a network of
wireless Internet devices including PCs, cellular phones, pages, screen
telephones, television set-top boxes, online kiosks, and personal digital
assistants. These include relationships with Acer America, AT&T Wireless,
Nokia, Nextel, Sprint, Mitsui, Lucent and @Home.
About VeriSign
VeriSign, Inc. is the leading provider of Internet trust services and
digital certificate solutions needed by Web sites, enterprises and individuals
in order to conduct trusted and secure electronic commerce and communications
over IP networks. VeriSign's digital certificate services for Web sites and
consumers are available through the company's Web site at http://www.verisign.com and
a growing number of ISPs and Web hosting companies. The company's digital
certificate services for enterprises and electronic commerce service providers
are available through regional account representatives, resellers, and global
affiliates.
About Gemplus
Gemplus S.C.A. (http://www.gemplus.com) is the world's leading provider of
plastic and smart card-based solutions with 37% market share (by units sold,
source: Dataquest 1998). Gemplus sells magnetic stripe cards, memory and
microprocessor-based smart cards, smart contactless cards, electronic tags and
smart objects. The company designs and markets software, development tools and
readers. Gemplus also provides consulting, training and personalization
services to deliver the industry's most comprehensive and flexible card-based
solutions to its developers, distributors, partners and customers.
With sales of over $US648 million in 1998, Gemplus employs more than
4,300 people in ten manufacturing facilities, five R&D centers and 41 sales
and marketing offices located in 27 countries around the world. Founded in
1988, Gemplus has successfully implemented portable and secure smart
card-based solutions to simplify applications such as public and wireless
communications, financial transactions, loyalty, transportation, education,
healthcare, identity, physical access control, pay TV, electronic commerce,
Internet security, logical access control and information technology. For more
information: http://www.gemplus.com/wireless.
This release contains forward-looking statements relating to the
development of InfoSpace.com's products and services and future operating
results, including statements regarding the Company's agreement with Gemstar
and VeriSign, that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could
cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. The words
"believe," "expect," "intend," "anticipate," variations of such words, and
similar expressions identify forward-looking statements, but their absence
does not mean that the statement is not forward-looking. These statements are
not guarantees of future performance and are subject to certain risks,
uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Factors that
could affect the Company's actual results include the progress and costs of
the development of its products and services and the timing of market
acceptance of those products and services. A more detailed description of
certain factors that could affect actual results include, but are not limited
to, those discussed in InfoSpace.com's Annual Report on Form 10-K, in the
section entitled "Factors Affecting InfoSpace.com's Operating Results,
Business Prospects and Market Price of StockRisk Factors." Readers are
cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements,
which speak only as of the date of this release. InfoSpace.com undertakes no
obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect new
information, events or circumstances after the date of this release or to
reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
SOURCE InfoSpace.com, Inc.
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