By Felicity Ussher, 13 January 1999 17:58
NEWS Computacenter has unveiled plans to distribute ecommerce technology from InterTrust. InterTrust's products, which have been in development for over ten years, define rules for handling copyright, micropayments and other electronic complexities. They can be incorporated into computers, mobile phones, satellites and personal digital assistants (PDAs). Simon Scott, ebusiness manager at Computacenter, said: "We want the majority of our customers to demand InterTrust as a default by the end of the year." This is the first time in 17 years that Computacenter has licensed a third party product. InterTrust MD, Doug Armati, explained: "People will be able to use the same technology that the great companies of the world are using to manage their rights and interests in electronic property; in things like music. People will be able to use that to manage their own individual privacy interests on their PC." Computacenter's Scott added: "Today's businesses need to know how to manage their wide variety of commercial relationships, and they need to respond to the threat of rival products being sold at low cost on the Web." Scott expects the bulk of demand to come from the entertainment industry, which needs to protect its online copyrights. Another source of income will come from users of online financial information, who need to track their micropayments. "But any large corporation could use this for its internal security," he added. Data protected by InterTrust rules will only be accessible to other users of the InterTrust system.
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