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Non-Tech : CarMax (KMX) - a recent IPO of a Circuit City unit -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lawrence Burg who wrote (56)	5/9/1999 10:46:00 PM
From: Chad Beemer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67

I am Here Lawrence Smart Cards being introduced at Circuit City I work in the SOHO department at Circuit City and we are to be using Smart Cards by mid month. This should bring about more efficiency into the stores and also help prevent shrinkage in inventory in the stores from any internal theft that could occur. As far as sales go the store I work at in Omaha is doing quite well as we usually beat competitors prices as Omaha is very competive with Nebraska Furniture Mart being there as well as the other national companies. As long as I am there the SOHO department will do well I assure you as that department carries the stores budget most of the time. I have several friends of mine at Circuit City buying NPCT stock as it is involved in helping resolve the antenna problem in Smart Cards with its PI technology. When the site gets back up go to www.nanopierce.com. Also go to www.ctst.com and look at the agenda of that conference coming up in a few days. There is site for NPCT here on RB as well to go to. They just annouced a deal with Orga and Multitape so take a close look at this release. American Express Licenses Smart Card Framework (noticed Orga's involved) American Express Licenses Smart Card Framework May 7, 1999 HONG KONG, CHINA, Newsbytes via NewsEdge Corporation : American Express [NYSE:AXP] has announced the licensing of its smart card multiple application framework to more than a dozen industry leaders. This represents a significant step toward promoting interoperability among a wide range of smart card applications, especially in the travel and entertainment industry. The multiple application framework is being licensed to Cards Etc, Continental Airlines, De La Rue, Discover Card, Europay International, HTEC, IBM, MasterCard International, Microsoft, Orga Card Systems, Proton World, Sun Microsystems and Tesa Entry Systems. In addition, Visa International has expressed its intent to license the multiple application framework. American Express also announced the formation of the Interoperability Consortium, an independent and open body that will govern the multiple application framework standard. The American Express smart card framework contains a detailed description of the data, files, and structure of the multiple functions and applications contained on a smart card. The framework currently supports the following functionality: personal profile; corporate/government agency profile; airline, hotel, car rental; charge; credit; and physical access. The Interoperability Consortium will ensure an open process for proposing and considering changes to the framework, certify compliance, and promote the specification. One of the Consortium's first steps will be to create a set of common commands for multiple applications based on the framework. These commands will help ensure interoperability, allowing applications to work on any smart card platform, such as MULTOS, Java Card and Smart Card for Windows.