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Subj: Home Shopping Network and SAFLINK Corporation Ship...
Date: 5/11/99 8:11:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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Home Shopping Network and SAFLINK Corporation Ship Biometric Security to 5,000 Families
TAMPA, Fla., May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Electronic retailer Home Shopping Network (HSN), a USA company (Nasdaq: USAI), and SAFLINK Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of The National Registry Inc. (NRI) (Nasdaq: NRID), announced that more than 5,000 personal computers containing SAFtyLatch Data Security software have been sold on HSN and shipped to households in North America since April 16, 1999. SAFtyLatch allows an individual to use the unique characteristics of their voice to secure confidential information on the PC from accidental or deliberate viewing, alteration, or deletion. SAFtyLatch protected PC's have been featured by HSN on more than 20 of its shows.
"To our knowledge, HSN is the first computer retailer to begin shipping biometrics-based data security software as a standard product feature at these volumes," said Clinton C. Fuller, Chief Operating Officer of SAFLINK Corporation. "The show hosts have been doing an outstanding job of communicating and demonstrating the benefits of the technology and have created significant consumer interest in a very short period of time."
A video clip of a typical show is available at SAFLINK's web site at saflink.com .
HSN has taken an industry leading position by offering this level of security to families wanting to protect:
* financial data accumulated from home banking transactions, income tax
preparation, and electronic securities trading;
* personal letters, school work, legal documents, and e-mail; and
* business projects and professional data used in the home office.
"The family PC has become a multi-function system that stores a growing variety of confidential data," said Jim Carlsruh, Vice President, Merchandise Manager for HSN. "Using your voice to identify yourself is a convenient and highly secure way to protect this valuable information from theft or misuse. You lock the family car and the family home, why not the family PC?" said Carlsruh. "We are very pleased with the response that we have received and believe that the addition of SAFtyLatch to our state-of-the-art PC's is another example of how HSN delivers innovative new products that enhance our customer's quality of life and the security of their family."
Home Shopping Network (www.hsn.com ), a USA company, pioneered the electronic retailing industry in 1977. Its 24-hour programming reaches 70 million households via cable, broadcast television and satellite dishes. HSN continued its tradition of innovation in 1998 with the launch of Short Shopping, a division that produces direct selling commercials for various broadcast and cable network partners. The Company holds interests in shopping channels in Germany and Japan and also operates Home Shopping en Espanol, a joint venture with Univision. The Network has been designated official electronic retailer for Unforgettable: Fashion of the Oscars(R), Times Square 2000, and Major League Soccer.
The National Registry Inc. and SAFLINK Corporation, based in Tampa, Florida, bring the Power of Biometric Identification(TM) to enterprise networks and the Internet. The Company provides cost-effective multi- biometric software solutions to verify individual identity, to protect business and personal information, and to replace passwords and PINs in order to safeguard and simplify access to electronic systems and enable new online services for customers. The Company's Secure Authentication Facility (SAF(TM)) suite of multi-biometric network security products delivers enterprise-level secure access control to a range of software platforms and network applications, including Microsoft(R) Windows NT(R) and Internet Information Server(R), Novell Netware(R), as well as Computer Associates' Unicenter TNG(R) and its Single Sign-On(TM) option. SAFLINK is a Microsoft Security Partner and a Microsoft Certified Solution Provider. Further information is available through the Company's web site at (http://www.saflink.com ).
SAF, SAFtyLatch, and SAFLINK are trademarks of The National Registry Inc. All other brands and products referenced herein are acknowledged to be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
SOURCE SAFLINK Corporation
CO: SAFLINK Corporation; National Registry Inc.; Home Shopping Network; USA Company
ST: Florida
IN: CPR HOU REA
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05/11/99 08:10 EDT prnewswire.com
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