Apparatus and media for recording, transmitting and reproducing sound, images or signals; blank magnetic, video and laser cassettes; laser disks featuring musical sound recordings; videotapes; blank computer diskettes; blank videodisks; blank magnetic disks; blank optical disks; blank optical compact disks; sound and image transmitting apparatus; communications servers; telecommunication apparatus, namely, digital cellular phones; micro-computers, printed circuits, microprocessors, computer peripheral devices; computer game software, blank CD-ROMs for recording sound or video; computer software for database management; interactive video game software; calculators; notebook computers; personal digital assistants; satellite dishes for satellite transmission; blank electronic chip cards, magnetic cards, magnetic identifying cards, machine-readable magnetic encoded cards and cards which can be encoded; cards used for obtaining and storing information, for authorization cards, for authentication cards, for payment or prepayment cards; magnetically encoded credit cards; magnetically encoded debit cards; transaction cards; electronic purses, namely,blank smart cards; rechargeable cards; micro chip cards; random access memory cards; magnetic pens, magneto optical pens; electronic pens; secure computer terminals for electronic transactions and especially for electronic financial transactions; computer software for controlling self service payment and fund transfer terminals, including those using memory and chip cards for reading and writing badges, cards or other portable objects, which are autonomous or integrated in automated machines and used for securing and customizing payment and transfer of funds, by identification and access control, especially in the banking field; computer terminals accepting chip cards for reading or writing and chip card readers, which can be connected to a local or remote computer or to another network accessing machine with applications used for electronic transactions on open networks and all financial and payment transactions; secure electronic computer terminals for financial and payment transactions

Services of transfer of funds by means of electronic credit and debit cards and payment terminals; electronic transfer of funds; issuance of credit cards and stored value cash cards; services of fund Investment, assisLingothers with the completion of financial transact Lons, and securities transactions and executing customer orders on financial markets by any medium and in particular by means of electronic debit or credit cards

Telecommunications access services; news and press agencies, namely, gathering and disseminating news;communications by computer terminals and by computer payment cerminals, namely, electronic arid computer systems ensuring and securing financial and payment transact Loris for goods and services; communications by radio, telegraph, computer and telephone transmissions; communications via fiber optic networks; broadcasting of television, radio, video and audio programs; electronic store and forward messaging services; computer aided transmission of information and data; facsimile transmission; cable and satellite transmission and cable television transmission; computer-aided message and image transmission, particularly in a network accessed from personal computers, servers and on the Internet; rental of telecommunication apparatus; rental of telecommunications apparatus for transmitting computer and electronic data such as texts, sounds and images; telecommunications access services to a global computer network; communication and transmission of financial data and payment information by means of telephone, telegraphic, cable and satellite transmissions; communications by computer terminals