BlueStar Awarded VeriFone Premier Partner Award

Florence, KY—April 2, 2008—BlueStar, the leading innovator in solutions-based distribution for Auto ID, Point-of-Sale, RFID, and Mobility products, has been awarded a Premier Partner Award for 2007 by VeriFone for achieving over $1 million in revenue. BlueStar distributes VeriFone cables and connectors.

“BlueStar is honored to receive the VeriFone 2007 Premier Partner Award. VeriFone products are an integral component of BlueStar’s debit, credit, and Smart Card solution offerings, allowing our Value-Added Resellers the ability to offer competitive and complete Point-of-Sale solutions to their customers,” says BlueStar’s VP of Marketing Mark Fraker.

BlueStar is dedicated to providing Value-Added Resellers the best-of-breed Point-of-Sale solutions including pre-sale and post-sale support, on-line ordering, same day shipping, and hardware/software configuration and integration services. In addition, BlueStar offers customized marketing and business-development services via our FUSION program to help our VAR partners grow business.

“VeriFone is committed to using channel partners to grow our business and reach resellers and smaller customers cost-effectively,” states Jennifer Miles, Vice President and General Manager of Retail Systems for VeriFone. “We are happy to present BlueStar with our Premier Partner Award as one of a handful of partners that contributed greatly to our success in 2007.”

About VeriFone
VeriFone Holdings, Inc. (“VeriFone”) (NYSE: PAY) is the global leader in secure electronic payment solutions. VeriFone provides expertise, solutions and services that add value to the Point-of-Sale with merchant-operated, consumer-facing and self-service payment systems for the financial, retail, hospitality, petroleum, government and healthcare vertical markets. VeriFone solutions are designed to meet the needs of merchants, processors and acquirers in developed and emerging economies worldwide. (www.verifone.com)

Kacey King
BlueStar
24 Spiral Dr.
Florence, KY 41042

About BlueStar
BlueStar is a leading solutions-based distributor of Point-of-Sale, bar coding, data collection, radio frequency identification (RFID), and wireless mobility products. BlueStar works exclusively with VAR Partners, providing them with complete solutions at competitive prices. The company brings unequaled expertise to the market, offers award-winning technical support and is an authorized service center for a growing number of manufacturers. For more information about BlueStar, please contact a BlueStar Account Executive or log on to www.bluestarinc.com.

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