STS is pleased to announce the pending release of Motorola's new Payment Solution using STS' Emvelink Mobile platform. This support confirms STS' role as the leading global Mobile Point of Sale (MPOS) payments software solution provider, now supporting all major MPOS devices.

Vodat International, the fastest growing supplier of telecom solutions and private managed networks to the UK retail market, have partnered with STS to strengthen their product portfolio to mid-tier UK retailers. The STS G8way solution will play a strategic part in a new and exciting solution being launched by Vodat later this year.

Canadian based solution provider, STJ Retail, have launched EFT Plus International(TM), a smart card application framework especially designed to work in the IBM 4690 environment. EFT Plus International(TM) utilises the STS SmartNS solution which also incorporates a comprehensive suite of application modules, allowing users to accept Chip and PIN and contactless payments among others. In addition it gives merchants access to over 30 PIN pads and is deployable globally.

STS are committed to improving service on an ongoing basis. Part of this commitment includes finding out what customers and partners already think of the service they receive. That's why STS recently undertook a customer satisfaction survey, to try and establish where improvements needed to be made. The results received were very encouraging and included responses from the UK, USA, Japan and India.

Settling down with my evening cup of hot chocolate to watch the world's events unravel on the news, I was met with an interesting advert and concept. They were promoting a mobile phone which could make payments. Ha! A new type of "pay" phone, I quipped to myself. I was just thinking this was quite clever till I realised this particular phone was no more than a web-enabled laptop in your pocket, directly accessing the payment portal on the Internet. Not quick, not convenient, not much use.