Payment Partners, Inc, provider of innovative and creative online payment for community organizations, formed by parents of suburban public school children, has announced recently about starting of its new web-site Pay4SchoolStuffOnline.com. The site is destined to simplify the way parents pay for their children’s school-related fees, dues and other extra-curricular costs.

Breach Security, Inc. and Evolution Security Systems Ltd together published their 2008 UK PCI Compliance Report. They surveyed UK organizations of different market sectors, including healthcare, government, e-commerce, finance and banking. As it was found in the course of the survey PCI compliance is important to 80% of UK organizations. Also, 57% of UK organizations are PCI compliant or make an effort to be compliant.

MagTek®, Inc. suggested users of PayPal Virtual Terminal to use MagneSafeTM Mini designed by MagTek in order to save time and reduce errors. The card reader provides superior card data privacy and authentication for credit and debit card transactions. The MagneSafe Mini card reader plugs directly into a computer's USB drive and can be used anywhere provided there is a computer, Internet access, and a customer's debit or credit card.

Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile) and T-Mobile USA, Inc. announced the upcoming availability of the Samsung Memoir™. The device has been announced to be a full touch-screen mobile phone with an 8-megapixel camera and premium multimedia features. The Memoir, available exclusively from T-Mobile has a built-in 8-megapixel camera with Xenon flash, 16x digital zoom and five shooting modes.

Tokyo Stock Exchange Group, Inc and London Stock Exchange Group Plc presented TOKYO AIM rulebook for their new growth market for public comment. TOKYO AIM will provide a new funding option for growing companies in Japan and Asia, giving them access to a capital market specifically created for their needs and to a wider investor base, while creating new investment opportunities for Japanese and international professional investors.

Sun Microsystems Inc, company develops the technologies that power the global marketplace, announced about the intention to inform and stimulate datacenter operators and owners to reduce energy consumption in a cost-effective manner without obstacle critical functions. Company intends to implement it becoming an become an endorser of the European Code of Conduct for Data Centers, that will let Sun Microsystems strengthen its leadership in this sphere to promote datacenter best practices throughout the European Union.

VeriSign, Inc., the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, signed an agreement with Certicom Corp., the global leader in Elliptic Curve Cryptography, provides the most security per bit of any known public-key scheme. Of purchasing all of the outstanding common shares of Certicom for C$2.10 per share.

PlaySpan, Inc., a known provider of digital goods micro-transaction and payment solutions, today announced $16.8M in Series B investment from Easton Capital Group, Menlo Ventures, Novel TMT Ventures, STIC and other undisclosed investors. Owing to the latest investments the total amount of the company 's total funding to $24M. The new funding will be used to expand into Europe and Asia and to grow PlaySpan's global publisher and user-base.