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e-Smart Technologies to Introduce Next Generation 'I AM' Smart Card Technology at Cartes 2008 in Paris

NEW YORK and PARIS, Nov 04, 2008 / PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ — e-Smart® Technologies, Inc., (Pink Sheets: ESMT); and its parent e-Smart® International, Inc., (formerly IVI Smart Technologies, Inc.,) and its subsidiary eSmart Korea, hereafter collectively ("e-Smart"® or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company will be introducing at Cartes 2008, Nov 4-6, its next generation biometric Smart Card OTP and "I AM"™ technology.

The "I AM"™ technology Super Smart™ Card is a counterfeit-proof and tamper-proof biometric smart card technology. It is the only technology of its kind available today with a patented, proprietary, complete on-card fingerprint sensor and a full match on-card system, non-battery wireless, RF multi-application smart card with an interoperable system that can be applied to and integrated with existing systems and readers.

The Company believes its next generation "I AM"™ technology, the Super Smart™ Card and BVS2™ security system can help: secure countries from certain criminal and terrorist activity, stop ID and payment fraud, along with identity theft in connection with physical and logical access and financial transactions, including telephone, Internet payment and other financial and data related transactions and, also, protect individual property.


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