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Tuesday February 29, 1:27 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Baltimore Technologies & Partners Make Secure Mobile Commerce a Reality
WIRELESS 2000, CTIA, NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 29, 2000--
Over 20 Partners Announce Their Cooperation With Baltimore,
Building Solutions Around the Baltimore Telepathy Open
Framework for Wireless E-security
Baltimore Technologies (NASDAQ:BALT - news; London:BLM), a global leader in e-security solutions, announced as part of the Baltimore Telepathy initiative, its wireless e-security partner program with over 20 active members worldwide.
These mobile commerce partners are at the leading edge of wireless and Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) applications, developing solutions using security from the Baltimore Telepathy product range.
Baltimore Telepathy is a wireless e-security initiative comprising of products, partners and solutions to deliver a complete e-security framework for secure mobile commerce. Baltimore Technologies is working closely with its Telepathy partner network to drive the next phase of e-commerce to enable secure Internet transactions over mobile devices. Security is a vital component for all mobile commerce transactions providing the required levels of confidentiality and authentication for applications such as online reservations, Internet banking and web shopping.
Baltimore Telepathy partners include world leading wireless and mobile commerce companies such as 724 Solutions, Brokat, Certicom, CMG Telecommunications, Gemplus, Infinite Technologies, Jinny Software, Logica, Oberthur Card Systems and Sonera SmartTrust. At Baltimore's worldwide secure mobile commerce seminar series, Telepathy partners will be demonstrating real world applications of secure wireless transactions. More information is available at baltimore.com
``The speed at which our partners are able to integrate security into their wireless offerings demonstrates the flexibility of Baltimore Telepathy and pace of the mobile commerce marketplace,' commented John Fallon, Director of Technical Market Development at Baltimore.
Baltimore Telepathy partners range from system integrators to application developers who are at the leading edge of providing secure WAP enabled solutions. The Baltimore Telepathy wireless e-security product suite offers partners a range of flexible, PKI-based security solutions to ensure the availability of secure mobile commerce applications.
``We're very pleased to be part of Baltimore Technologies Telepathy initiative. As a financial services solutions provider, our mission is to provide the most secure platform for entering the digital marketplace. 724 Solutions recognizes the importance of building consumer confidence in wireless e-commerce transactions. Therefore, we endorse the Telepathy initiative's efforts to build trust in wireless e-commerce through the delivery advanced security solutions.' Greg Wolfond, Chairman and CEO 724 Solutions www.724.com
``Baltimore's Telepathy initiative promotes the use of PKI. Setec is confident that PKI will play a central role in open networks enabling secure financial transactions and data exchange. The Baltimore Telepathy initiative is an important step in promoting the deployment of PKI infrastructure with key players in the industry.' Veli Tarvainen, President and CEO Setec Oy www.setec.fi
``Sonera SmartTrust is pleased to work with Baltimore Technologies to provide indisputable security in advanced mobile and digital network based applications. Sonera SmartTrust solution enables the use of Public Key Infrastructure, digital signatures and message encryption in a wireless environment as well as non-repudiation and authentication of both transacting parties. This makes it possible to conduct totally secure high value transactions in the emerging WAP as well as existing wireless devices. With the new concept of Baltimore Technologies Telepathy, we are together building a secure global infrastructure for wireless and Internet e-commerce. By supporting the existing operations of our clients, we will help them to efficiently implement entirely new high-security wireless network services.' Mr. Harri Vatanen, CEO Sonera SmartTrust www.sonera.com
``The wireless market is moving strongly from traditional content and information to the support for financial transactions. Brokat recognizes the importance of security to give consumers and financial institutions the confidence into the new medium. As such we welcome the new Baltimore Telepathy initiative. Brokat is leading in the support of multiple channel delivery, and we have already successfully tested our e-Services Platform Twister with Baltimore Telepathy Security Gateway.' Ingo Fehse, Senior Product Marketing Manager Mobile Channels, Brokat www.brokat.com
``Baltimore has been a long-time supporter of Certicom's ECC technology. We are pleased to bring our expertise in efficient mobile security and wireless e-commerce to the Baltimore Telepathy Initiative.' Richard Depew, VP Worldwide Sales and Business Development, Certicom www.certicom.com
``Baltimore's leadership in electronic security will be a key facilitator of mobile commerce, and we expect that many of the 130 mobile operators that work with Logica will use the Baltimore solution. As Baltimore's current 'Partner of the Year' Logica will be a valuable partner for implementation of security solutions in the wireless sector.' Kevin Duffey, Group Telecoms Director Logica www.logica.com
``The CMG Group is focused on delivering wireless e-commerce solutions across the industry. We recognize that security is critical to build trust; this is essential for creating public acceptance of wireless transactions. Baltimore has been early to market with wireless security products. We are delighted to be part of the launch of their Telepathy initiative and Partner program.' Peter Maathuis, VP Global Sales and Marketing CMG Telecommunications www.cmgtelecom.com
``We recognise the growing importance of security in generating the confidence to fuel the growth of wireless commerce. The new generation of SIMs with public key functionality from Gemplus together with the Baltimore Telepathy product range help to provide a sound infrastructure for mobile transactions.' Patrick Imbert, Manager Wireless, Internet & Commerce Division Gemplus www.gemplus.com
``We are very excited by the Baltimore Telepathy initiative and the associated range of products that address the key issue of wireless e-security. Infinite Technologies is using the Telepathy WAP Security Toolkit to build full strength security into our products.' Brett Warthen, CEO Infinite Technologies www.ihub.com
``Jinny Software, as a leading mobile telecommunications solutions provider, welcomes the important step that Baltimore Technologies is undertaking through the Telepathy Partner Program. We feel this is a significant initiative towards secure wireless transactions, one which enables true mobile commerce.' Irene Dehaene, Business Development Manager Jinny Software www.jinny.ie
``Increased subscriber demand will push operators towards investing in new and innovative services, like shopping by phone. To be successful, these mobile commerce platforms must combine the best in security and design practice. Network365 is delighted to pursue excellence in each as a member of Baltimore's e-security forum.' Patrick O'Callaghan, Director Sales & Marketing Network365 www.network365.com
``Oberthur Card Systems has joined the Telepathy initiative in another step towards its objective of leading the development of electronic and mobile commerce card solutions. This agreement with Baltimore will allow both companies to drive the security market to its full potential in levels of trust and end user confidence.' Guido Mangiagalli, GSM Applications Product Manager Oberthur www.oberthur.com
``Stormland is very pleased about the opportunities that Baltimore's Telepathy technology presents for building secure mCommerce applications. We believe this is particularly important for our financial clients as they move from purely internet to multichannel service delivery, exploiting key new channels such as WAP. By integrating Telepathy into our web/WAP online banking and brokerage product suite (Tornado) we can provide unmatched in-depth security and strong non-repudiation functionality to our clients.' Neil Flanagan, CTO Stormland www.stormland.com
``ANAM is pleased to announce their participation in the Baltimore Telepathy Program. ANAM's enterprise offering provides a wireless solution for corporate data and encompasses the many common back office platforms. For ANAM, the Telepathy Product Suite will be a valuable addition to secure our Wireless Enterprise offering.' Michael Brady, CEO ANAM www.anam.ie
``Artic Web welcome the new initiative by Baltimore Technologies in launching their Wireless e-Security Partner Program, which will facilitate the development of wireless e-commerce globally. Our multi-channel product suite, Artic CurrencyOne, has been designed to support secure wireless transactions and will support the growth of wireless e-commerce in the coming years.' John McCallion, Managing Director Artic Web www.articweb.com
``CR2 is delighted to join Baltimore's Telepathy Partner Program. Our relationship with Baltimore over the past two years has been very successful, and our flagship product BankWorld incorporates top-class PKI solutions from Baltimore to provide Banks and financial Institutions with a secure Internet banking channel. CR2 has already incorporated support for WAP phones into BankWorld and we look forward to incorporating Baltimore Technologies' end-to-end security in this strategic channel. The Telepathy Partner Program will see the CR2 / Baltimore relationship strengthen and bring a new platform for joint cooperation in delivering leading edge secure Internet banking channel solutions.' Cian Kinsella, Product Director CR2 www.cr2.com
``We anticipate rapid adoption and continued growth in demand for our wireless and Internet reservations technology. Security forms a critical part of any transaction and is key to customer confidence. We are currently working closely with Baltimore to guarantee total transactional security and the telepathy programme will further strengthen our relationship. We look forward to working with Baltimore in exploiting the huge opportunities which now exist.' Damian Hickey, VP Sales and Marketing Datalex www.datalex.com
``ieW@P is Ireland's First Wireless Application Service Provider. We are focused on implementing WAP enabling technologies to the global Mobile Commerce arena. To enable our customers to transact in a Global Wireless e-secure environment, we are extremely delighted to align our company with the Baltimore Telepathy product range.' Fergal Storan, CEO ieW@P www.iewap.com
``Wireless is at the core of our multi-channel e-commerce strategy. Having successfully developed and deployed WAP enabled banking solutions internationally we are at the forefront of this technology and recognise the importance of security for ensuring confidence in the wireless transaction. We are delighted to have joined Baltimore's Telepathy partner program.' Niall O'Cleirigh, CEO Macalla Software www.macalla.com
``Propylon's wireless portal solution, MC Portal will require leading edge security PKI systems for implementation in many environments. We are very pleased to have joined the Baltimore Telepathy Partner Program and are looking forward to working with Baltimore Telepathy products. The announcement of this program by Baltimore is significant to the growth of secure wireless commerce.' Sean McGrath, CTO Propylon www.propylon.com
About Baltimore Telepathy:
Baltimore Telepathy provides products, services and solutions that enable the seamless integration of security into a variety of wireless systems, including Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). Telepathy now enables companies to utilize Baltimore's award-winning Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technology to build full strength security applications for mobile commerce.
About Baltimore Technologies
Baltimore Technologies develops and markets security products and services to enable companies to develop trusted, secure systems for e-business, the Internet and mobile commerce. Its products include a wide range of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) systems, wireless e-security solutions, cryptographic toolkits, security applications and hardware cryptographic devices. Baltimore's global professional services organization offers a wide variety of consulting, training and deployment support to its customers worldwide. Baltimore Technologies markets and sells its solutions worldwide directly and through the TrustedWorld channel program. TrustedWorld includes many of the world's leading technology companies and a wide variety of global, regional and local business alliance partners.
Baltimore Technologies employs over 450 people worldwide and operates from over 20 cities with headquarters in Dublin, Ireland; London, UK; Boston, USA and Sydney, Australia. Baltimore Technologies plc is a public company with dual listings on NASDAQ (BALT) and the London Stock Exchange (BLM). Intel Corporation is a minority shareholder in the Company. Baltimore Technologies made e-commerce history when President Clinton and Ireland's Prime Minister Ahern digitally signed an inter-governmental communique using security technology provided by Baltimore.
For further information and press releases on Baltimore Technologies, please visit baltimore.com
Baltimore Technologies, e-security, TrustedWorld, PKIWorld, Telepathy and Baltimore product names including UniCERT, MailSecure, PKI-Plus and J/CRYPTO are all trademarks of Baltimore Technologies plc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Certain statements that are not historical facts including certain statements made over the course of this document may be forward-looking in nature. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance and achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements implied by such forward-looking statements.
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Contact:
Baltimore Technologies (Ireland)
Carol Clavin, Tel: +353 1 605 4357
cclavin@baltimore.com
or
Baltimore Technologies (Australia)
Antonella Giardino, Tel: +612 9409 0300
agiardino@baltimore.com
or
Baltimore Technologies (U.S.)
Tracy Ross, Tel: (650) 372 5288
tross@baltimore.com |
