STS is proud to announce the release of its new EMV Level 2 kernel, Emvelink^Mobile. Designed specifically for Windows CE devices, Emvelink^Mobile is the world's first EMV Level 2 kernel supporting multiple handheld terminals. Emvelink^Mobile has been brought to market in conjunction with partner manufacturers including Canon and Fujitsu, to facilitate the next wave in payment acceptance.

Handheld terminals combine traditional mobile payments with completely mobile point of sale systems. This provides the ability to accept payments anywhere, anything, through the use of real-time communication standards such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GPRS. The addition of Emvelink^Mobile facilitates the acceptance of EMV based credit and debit cards allowing reduced fraud and reduced transaction times as well as providing an enhanced customer experience.

Cameron Olsen, vice president of business development at STS said "Emvelink^Mobile is the first step in the use of this ground breaking mobile technology. Innovative retailers are seeing this as the opportunity to heighten the level of service to their customers, omitting queues during peak periods and bringing staff to the customer rather than the customer to the staff. We will see more widespread adoption of handheld terminals before Christmas 2007 with one major high street retailer successfully rolling them out in the UK already".

Emvelink^Mobile utilises the market leading power of Emvelink, STS award winning EMV Level 2 kernel, but adds support for mobile devices including reducing both the software footprint and processing power to deal with the mobile device's constraints.

Emvelink^Mobile is available now, supporting devices from Fujitsu, Bristol Office Machines and Canon. For further information on Emvelink^Mobile please contact us on +44(0) 208 680 0252 or info@stspayments.com or visit the Emvelink^Mobile product page: www.stspayments.com/emvelinkmobile