Beijing, China- Watchdata System Co. Ltd., one of the world's leading suppliers of smart card solutions has provided Shenzhen Tong Ltd., more than 1.5 million transportation cards as of August 2008. Shenzhen Tong Co. Ltd. is the public transportation company of the city of Shenzhen, which is located to the north of Hong Kong. Shenzhen is one of the fastest growing cities in the world and has the second busiest port in mainland China, ranking only after Shanghai. Its population is around twelve million including floating residents. It is one of the earliest cities in China to upgrade its transportation system to use smart card technology.

Guangzhou Subway and Guangzhou Mobile jointly launched a new public service "Mobile Subway Ticket" on July 7, 2008, which was highlighted by all major domestic media recently. With this "mobile ticket", users can pay subway charge just by waving their mobile phones equipped with SIMpass™ card. SIMpass™ technology has been awarded with the 2008 Annual Innovation Prize for Smart Card Technology. The key feature of the technology is to integrate contactless application into the SIM card. In addition, mobile subway ticket allows passengers to recharge/top up over the air (OTA). This serves as a new SIMpass™ application area beyond the existing bus transit, access control, attendance check and finance areas.

Tuesday August 05, 2008 Singapore, Singapore-Watchdata Technologies, one of the largest leading SIM card productsand smart card solutions providers in the world has been highly recognized by Indosat as a reliable and efficient business partner. Watchdata delivered more than 16.5 million units of SIM/RUIM to Indosat from January 2006 to December 2007. With the kudos given by Indosat, Watchdata reinforces its highly customer-centric commitment to its customers.

Beijing, China - On July 17, 2008 in cooperation with China Mobile Guangzhou branch, Guangzhou Metro unveils the new convenient service ?mobile metro ticket? to the public. Metro commuters now have the convenience of just tapping their SIMpass™ enabled mobile phone at the subway gate to ride the train. This eliminates the inconvenience of queuing to the ticket booth to buy train ticket. Ticket mobile metro is the latest mobile payment application brought by SIMpass™ to the transportation industry.