Apparatus for recording, transmitting and reproducing sound, images and signals; [ blank magnetic video and laser cassettes; blank recording discs; blank videotapes; blank computer diskettes; blank videodisks; blank magnetic discs; blank optical discs; blank compact optical discs; ] [ interactive compact discs featuring information about conducting payment transactions and about payment solutions; sound and image transmitting apparatus; computer servers; ] [ telecommunication apparatus, namely, digital cellular phones; ] micro-computers, printed circuits, central processing units, computer peripheral devices; [ computer game software; blank CD-ROMs; computer software for data base management; interactive video game software; software that provides authentication or the identification of individuals cryptographically or biometrically, calculating machines; computers and laptop computers; electronic agendas; equipment for radio communications by means of satellites, namely, satellite dishes for satellite transmission; blank electronic cards, blank magnetic cards, blank magnetic identity cards, ] machine-readable magnetic encoded cards or cards which can be encoded for authorization and authentication of network users and data; encoded smart cards for obtaining and storing information, for secure processing and transferring over networks, for authorization and authentication of network users, and data and for payment or prepayment cards; magnetically encoded cards, namely, magnetic cards; [ electronic purses, namely, blank smart cards; ] magnetic credit cards; magnetic debit cards; magnetic rechargeable cards; microchip cards; random access memory cards; magnetic pens, magneto-optical pens; electronic pens; secure terminals for electronic transactions and recorded software for payment and funds transfer system, including those using memory and microprocessor cards; terminals accepting microchip cards for reading or writing which can be connected to a local or remote computer or to another machine accessing a network with applications used for electronic transactions on open networks and for payment transactions; secure electronic computer terminals for payment transactions; electronic payment terminals for payment by card including credit, debit and store cards at shop sales counters

[ Printed matter, namely, [ newspapers and periodicals, magazines, reviews, ] books and series of books, printed publications, catalogues [ prospectuses, ] in the field of computer and financial information; [ scrapbooks, atlases; bookbinding materials; photographs; stationery; writing and drawing books, notepads, note books; pens and pen refills, pen stands, pencils, pencil sharpeners; boxes for pens; staplers, staples; files folders, document folders; letter trays; book ends; adhesives for stationery or household purposes; stickers and transfers; paintbrushes; drawing pads; typewriters; ] printed instructional and teaching material in the field of computer and the finance [ printing type; printing blocks; cardboard articles, namely, calendars, agendas, poster-bills and posters, patterns for making clothes; cardboard packaging; plastic packaging materials, namely, bags and sachets ] ]

[ Advertising services; dissemination of advertising material, namely, leaflets, prospectuses, printed matter, samples; rental of advertising material; updating of advertising material; dissemination of advertisements; rental of advertising space; publication of advertising texts; advertising mailing; promoting the goods and services of others by means of joint advertising; direct mail advertising; television advertising; radio advertising; online advertising on a computer network; rental of advertising time on any media; interactive advertising offers; business management; business administration and especially over the Internet; office functions; ] business management assistance; [ business organization consultancy; business management consultancy; ] commercial information and consulting services in connection with the sale and the promotion of various goods and services in the fields of computing, data communication, payment and remote payment terminals; [ related salons and exhibitions, entertainment and culture, namely, special event planning, stemming from the new technologies, namely, computer products, telephony, robotics, home automation, and finance; personnel management consultancy, professional business consulting; services provided by a franchiser, namely, assistance in running or managing a commercial venture; business evaluations of companies of commercial and industrial matters and marketing data; accounting; document reproduction; secretarial services; ] statistical information services; [ stenography services; account and business auditing; public relations; subscription to all media being part of an information media package carrying information, texts, sounds and/or images, and subscriptions to newspapers, to reviews and to electronic publications available and consultable via and on the Internet; ] data input and processing services, namely, data entering, and compilation and systemization of information into computer databases, computer file management; [ conducting public opinion polls; market studies, ] market research [ marketing research ]

Payment and fund transfer services by means of electronic credit and debit cards and electronic pay terminals; electronic funds transfer; [ issuance of credit cards and debit cards; ] services of fund investment, financial and securities transactions and placing orders on financial markets by any medium and in particular by means of electronic debit or credit cards and especially those that use a pay terminal

Installation, maintenance and repair of all types of computer hardware including pay terminals; services for installing cryptographic and biometric devices, apparatus, instruments and equipment; services for maintaining and repairing cryptographic and biometric devices, apparatus, instruments and equipment; maintenance and repair services for computer equipment

Telecommunications access services; [ news and press agencies, namely, the transmission of news items to news reporting organizations; ] communications via computer terminals and via payment systems, namely, electronic and computer systems providing and securing financial transactions and payment of goods or services; communication via [ radio, telegraph, ] computers and telephones transmissions and via all means of remote data processing; communications via fiber-optic networks; [ mailing and transmission of dispatches; television broadcasting, radio broadcasting, and broadcasting via internet of multimedia programs consisting of texts or fixed or animated images, and/or musical sounds or not, for interactive or other use; electronic mail services; ] computer transmission of information and data; [ facsimile transmission; ] information transmission via electronic communication networks; transmission of computer-assisted messages and images especially on a network formed from individual computers, server centers and on the Internet; rental of telecommunication apparatus; rental of computer and electronic data transmission apparatus, namely, for text, for sound and/or for images; [ connection by telecommunications to a global computer network; ] communication and electronic transmission for others of financial information via computer linking services, namely, communicating and routing trade information involving orders, entry and execution services, to others via a global computer network; payment transmission services, namely, providing electronic transmission of electronic payment data via a global computer network; [ communications by computer terminals; ] rental of database access time; rental of access time to a database server [ services for exchange of correspondence, namely, electronic mail services ]

[ Scientific and technological engineering services; scientific and technological engineering research and design; computer systems analysis services, namely, research and development of new products in the nature of computer systems analysis tools; engineering services, namely, scientific analysis and research; industrial research services, namely, research and development of new products; geological research; design and development of computers and software; ] computer programming; design, development, updating and maintenance of software for computers and other computer systems; computer support and advice, namely, troubleshooting of computer hardware and software problems; computer project management services; quality control for others; hosting computer sites online, hosting data server sites; consulting in the fields of computer hardware and software, engineering, telecommunications technology, information technology, and payment and remote payment terminal technology; cryptographic and biometric software installation services