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W hat do you get when a leading ID authentication software developer teams up with a leading provider of electronic payment terminals? You get touch screen identification verification capability.

The Logix Cos. and Hypercom Corp. have introduced IDLogix, a positive ID verification software solution for use on Hypercom's ICE terminals. IDLogix instantaneously displays highly precise encoded information about an individual's physical characteristics and description details based on information stored on driver's license magnetic stripes and barcodes.

It is ideal for airport ticket counters, bus and train stations, rental car companies and other sites where fast and highly accurate verification of an individual's identity is essential.

The IDLogix application was developed by The Logix Cos. It can support identification and/or age verification using Hypercom's Visual HDT (VHDT) C++-based developer's software platform and Hypercom's ICE card payment terminals.

Hypercom's Epic (ePOS-infocommerce) ICE devices are compact, high- performance, touch screen-based, Web-enabled terminals. They incorporate physical security features and Hypercom's TranSafe operating system, which integrates a firewall-protected, multi-applications functionality along with EMV chip card capability, a secure PIN pad, built-in HTML/HTTP Web browser and integrated receipt printer.

In addition to the secure payment applications, Hypercom's ICE terminals support a range of value-added applications and services, including electronic signature and receipt capture, e-mail, on-screen advertising, interactive electronic coupons and cash-management reporting through a standard browser -- as well as secure credit, debit and smart card functions.

"Now, you can accurately verify someone's identity by simply swiping the person's magnetic-stripe driver's license, or scanning the license's 2-D bar code onto a compact ICE card terminal equipped with IDLogix -- and also conduct traditional credit/debit, check, EBT and loyalty card transactions if desired," says Scott Bahneman, Senior Vice President of Business Development for The Logix Cos. "Up until now it has been too easy to create and pass off false ID or use someone else's ID. With IDLogix, we have now embarked on the introduction of a series of technologies that will prevent this."

Through the use of Hypercom's secure graphic touch screen terminals, the Logix software enables the display of identification-related information that is read from encoded magnetic stripes and secure 2-D barcodes found on most currently issued drivers' licenses and other ID cards.

"This capability allows positive verification of the authenticity of an ID document and allows you to match the ID data and description to the person presenting the document," said O.B. Rawls IV, senior vice president and general manger, Hypercom USA/Canada. "Combined with secure electronic payments, and especially rapidly emerging smart cards, this new capability will create a highly secure, fraud-resistant payment and ID environment. Applications include car rental, airport check-ins or ticket purchases, age verification and other identification and access functions.

"We think these capabilities, when combined with other advanced ICE functions such as electronic signature capture, have enormous and very positive potential that can help boost security and eliminate fraud in a number of areas."

Headquartered in Phoenix, Hypercom is independently acknowledged as one of the leading providers of point-of-sale card payment terminals worldwide. Demand for Hypercom's terminals surpassed 1 million units last year alone.

Hypercom maintains an installed base of more than 4 million terminals in more than 100 countries where 10 billion transactions are conducted annually. For more information, visit www.hypercom.com.

The Logix Cos. (www.logixco.com) is an information processor specializing in integrating identity-authentication technology, customer and prospect data processing, and merchant financial processing services to the public and private sector.