ACCELERATING THE PACE OF BUSINESS

Computer hardware and software to facilitate on-line commercial transactions and computer software to facilitate purchasing transactions, namely software and hardware for performing on-line verifications of credit-card and other types of non-cash transactions, for offering on-line catalogs, for real-time automated purchase and sale, for encryption and authentication of electronic information, for on-line security, for on-line auctioning, for supply chain management, for strategic business consulting, for accessing on-line information databases, and for performing on-line research services