ACS’s Smart Card Readers now support MAC OS X Snow Leopard and Windows ® 7

Oct. 22, 2009 - PRLog -- Advanced Card Systems Ltd. (ACS, wholly owned subsidiary of Advanced Card Systems Holdings Ltd., SEHK: 8210), Asia Pacific's number one supplier of PC-linked smart card readers, today announces that its smart card readers are now ready to support the latest MAC OS X Snow Leopard and the to-be-released Windows ® 7.

ACR38 Smart Card ReaderBy providing the latest smart card reader drivers for the most up-to-date operating systems on the market, ACS demonstrates its unwavering commitment towards our present and future customers.  Not only is this a cost-effective solution for our customers to use their current ACS products without the need of re-purchase or exchange, but this is also in line with our vision of promoting environmental protection.  Rest assured, we will continue providing our highest quality of support towards interoperability of ACS smart card readers so our customers and end users can continue to access their smart card and smart card applications for today and tomorrow’s operating systems. By simply performing a Windows update or downloading the corresponding driver from the ACS website, the ACS smart card reader is able to work seamlessly with the latest operating systems.

"Thanks to the efforts from our software development team who reacts quickly to the market, since the release of the Windows ® 7 Beta and the MAC OS X Snow Leopard, we have been developing our software drivers to cope with them," said Gilbert Leung, Sales Director of ACS. "ACS will keep ahead in the market trend by delivering high quality of products and services."

The smart card readers which support MAC OS X Snow Leopard include – ACR38 series, ACR88, ACR122, ACR128 and ACR100 CCID; whereas those supporting Windows ® 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) include – CryptoMate, ACR38 series, ACR92, AET60, AET63, ACR83, ACR88, ACR122, ACR128 and ACR100 CCID. The MAC OS X Snow Leopard and Microsoft Windows® 7 signed drivers of the remaining readers will be released soon. For further details, please refer to http://www.acs.com.hk/index.php?pid=drivers.


About ACS
Advanced Card Systems Ltd. (ACS, wholly owned subsidiary of Advanced Card Systems Holdings Ltd., SEHK: 8210), founded in 1995, is Asia Pacific's number one supplier of PC-linked smart card readers (Source: Frost & Sullivan). One of a select group of global companies at the forefront of the smart card revolution, ACS develops a wide range of high quality smart card reading/writing devices, smart cards and related products and distributes them to over 100 countries worldwide.Visit ACS at http://www.acs.com.hk/.

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Advanced Card Systems Ltd. (HKSE: 8210), Asia Pacific's number one supplier of PC-linked smart card readers (Source: research report issued by Frost & Sullivan) is one of a select group of global companies at the forefront of the smart card revolution.