HENDERSON, Nev., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Card Activation Technologies (OTC:CDVT) (BULLETIN BOARD: CDVT) January 27, 2009 Michael DeLaGarza was appointed President and Director of the Corporation, Card Activation Technologies, Inc. Therefore in accordance with the By-Laws of the Corporation, Michael DeLaGarza is also Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation. January 27, 2009 William P. Williams resigned as the Chairman, Director, Principle Accountant, and Chief Executive Officer, Michael Malet resigned as the Director and Executive Vice President of the Corporation and Eva Williams resigned as the Secretary and Treasurer of the Corporation. Michael DeLaGarza's biography is as follows: Michael DeLaGarza is a health care executive with over 20 years of experience. His experiences have been most recently in acute care hospitals serving in CIO/CTO. Mr. DeLaGarza has been the CEO of Absolute Medical Software Systems, LLC and PayMed USA, LLC since 2001 through the present, for the past seven (7) years serving as CEO and President. His experience is also complimented by serving as CEO and administrator of a chain of diagnostic imaging centers in Texas and surrounding states since 2005. He has been employed as a healthcare consultant for both profit and not for profit health care facilities. Mr. DeLaGarza has a thorough understanding of all aspects of operations including the financial and physician side of the health care environment. He has served as CEO and founder of five accidents and injury physician clinic comprised of over 15 physicians. Other unique features in his career include serving in a position of Director of Business Development for a large medical billing company. He has also been involved in "certificate of need" review processes and community health planning for the diagnostic imaging centers. Mr. DeLaGarza has developed and operated his own consulting firm. The focus of his consulting activities was on hospitals and physician practice development. The consulting areas included regulatory compliance, physician practice auditing, feasibility studies for imaging facilities and insurance billing and collection auditing. Mr. DeLaGarza has a technology degree from Danforth College in Texas City, Texas as well as attending South West Texas State College in San Marcos, Texas. About Card Activation Technologies Card Activation Technologies, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that owns proprietary patented payment transaction technology used for processing gift cards, phone cards and other debit purchase transactions. The company is actively seeking to license its technology to the thousands of current users and believes that many retailers, gas stations, phone companies and others that utilize those stored value cards, such as gift and debit, infringe its patent. As a result, the company is aggressively pursuing litigation against these infringements. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia estimated prepaid card market to be valued in excess of $181.7 billion in transactions in 2006. According to market forecasts, the prepaid industry will grow to $421.5 Billion by 2010. For further information about Card Activation Technologies go to. http://www.cardactivationtech.com/ MedCom USA Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: EMED) is a majority shareholder in Card Activation Technologies Inc. http://www.medcomusa.com/. Certain statements in this press release that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements may be identified by the use of words such as "anticipate," "believe," "expect," "future," "may," "will," "would," "should," "plan," "projected," "intend," and similar expressions. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Card Activation Technologies, Inc. (the Company) to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The Company's future operating results are dependent upon many factors, including but not limited to the Company's ability to: (i) defend its patent; (ii) build the management and human resources and infrastructure necessary to support the growth of its business; (iii) competitive factors and developments beyond the Company's control; and (iv) other risk factors discussed in the Company's periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available for review at http://www.sec.gov/ under "Search for Company Filings." Contacts for Card Activation Technologies Inc. DATASOURCE: Card Activation Technologies, Inc. CONTACT: William Lane, +1-602-740-9999, for Card Activation Technologies Inc. Web Site: http://www.cardactivationtech.com/

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