CAMARILLO: Electronic Clearing House Inc. (Nasdaq: ECHO), a provider of electronic payment and transaction processing services, announces a merchant solution partnership with Fifth Third Bank Processing Solutions, the electronic transaction processing division of Fi

Merchant solution partnership announced

Electronic Clearing House Inc. (Nasdaq: ECHO), a provider of electronic payment and transaction processing services, announces a merchant solution partnership with Fifth Third Bank Processing Solutions, the electronic transaction processing division of Fifth Third Bank (Nasdaq: FITB). ECHO provides the third-party processing for Fifth Third's POS Check Service, which has been rolled out to Cole National Corp.'s (NYSE: CNJ) Pearle Vision Stores.

The POS Check Service enables merchants to automatically convert paper checks to electronic entries at the point of sale. Checks are verified and settled against the consumer's checking account at participating Visa member banks, or by ECHO's third-party processing, essentially turning paper checks into electronic debit transactions.

Fifth Third Bank and ECHO have successfully demonstrated the solution at Cole National's Pearle Vision stores. The solution will be piloted at Cole National's Things Remembered locations.

CHATSWORTH

Interlink Electronics unveils notary product

Interlink Electronics Inc. (Nasdaq: LINK), a company in the development and manufacture of intuitive interface technologies and solutions; The National Notary Association, an organization serving America's 4.5 million Notaries; and Safedocs, a document delivery and end-to-end Web-based e-mortgage closing and post-closing software developer, announce the world's first NNA-certified e-notarization solution that will equip and certify the first generation of "electronic notaries" for thee-mortgage industry.

This new e-notarization solution combines the Safedocs System software with the National Notary Association's Enjoa (Electronic Notary Journal of Official Acts) signature input platform.

Enjoa was developed and is manufactured for the NNA by Interlink Electronics. This input device captures handwritten signatures, fingerprints and biometric data to provide an electronic signing input solution for the e-notarization of electronic mortgage documents.

Introduced last year, Enjoa is being used as an electronic notary journal to replace traditional paper-based journals used to record notarizations.

WESTLAKE VILLAGE

CaminoSoft becomes program member

CaminoSoft Corp. (OTCBB: CMSF), a provider of Information Lifecycle Management products for Microsoft Windows 2000 and Novell NetWare environments, has become a member of the HP's Information Lifecycle Management Partner Program.

CaminoSoft's Managed Server HSM software provides a cost-effective solution for automatically handling reference file dispersal and retention based on a consistent set of administrative management policies. By combining the software with the HP StorageWorks solutions and services portfolio, organizations can simplify and better control the provisioning and utilization of their data storage resources.

CaminoSoft is a developer and manufacturer of software solutions that store, manage and safeguard vast quantities of data created in a wide range of business and application settings.

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