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Vivante Gets Top Score in YOUi Labs GPU Quality Calibration Suite for Rendering Accuracy

Vivante tops Imagination Technologies SGX544 and ARM Mali 400-MP4/T604 in image quality tests to become an industry standard mobile reference platform

SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Vivante Corporation, a world-wide leader in graphics and compute technologies, announced that YOUi Labs(TM), an independent Natural User Interface (NUI) and professional services firm that puts visually inspiring and responsive user experiences on interactive TVs, smartphones, and tablets, has given two thumbs up to the GC4000 in image rendering precision and correctness. The GPUs with the highest rendering quality and computational fidelity drive amazing user experiences that make devices fun and interactive.

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The YOUi Labs test stresses GPU shader floating point accuracy since it is critical to smooth and fluid NUIs that blend visually rich graphics content with gesture. Products compared in their QA labs alongside the GC4000 include Nvidia's Tegra 3, Imagination's SGX544, ARM's Mali-400 MP4, ARM's Mali-T604, Qualcomm's Adreno 225, and a reference discrete GPU based on Nvidia's GeForce GT 630M. Compared to all products, the Vivante GC4000 came at the top in accuracy with no artifact or rendering errors, and even surpassed the results of the discrete mobile GPU. For further details on the test results, please visit http://youilabs.com/blog/mobile-gpu-floating-point-accuracy-variances.

"Rendering accuracy based on GPU shader precision is one critical area where GPU vendors can differentiate themselves from the rest of the pack," stated Dr. Jon Peddie, of Jon Peddie Research, the industry's market research firm. "Modern mobile GPUs have transitioned into fully programmable processors using the latest graphics APIs and high-level shading languages, which can showcase unlimited rendering effects. However, even though products follow the same standard API specification, they are not created equal due to variations in shader design. Therefore, it is good to see a company like YOUi Labs help standardize the testing process with their GPU compatibility and quality test suite. This brings real value to the marketplace and consumer."

Floating point accuracy and performance is extremely important for image quality, shader-based user interfaces, 3D game rendering using the latest OpenGL® ES or DirectX® APIs, and GPU Compute using OpenCL(TM) or native Renderscript/Filterscript for vision processing in consumer and embedded devices. The same GC4000 shader core and unified driver stack scales across the full range of Vivante's mass market and mainstream offerings, including the smallest licensable OpenGL ES 3.0 core* at 3.5 mm(2 )(total silicon footprint using TSMC 40nm LP), and the latest extreme performance multicore GPU IPs like the released GC6000 Series and upcoming GC7000 Series targeting 14nm/16nm FinFET production.

"The YOUi Labs test result further demonstrates our commitment to delivering products that focus on rendering accuracy, quality, and innovation. From the beginning, we defined image quality and performance as two of the most important attributes in our GPUs and made sure they deliver the most life-like graphics to differentiate our products in the mobile GPU space. The results of this test and others evaluating mobile GPU IP shows we made the correct decision in our architecture. We look forward to building on our strengths and innovating-the-future of visual user experiences and 3D graphics," said Wei-Jin Dai, President and CEO of Vivante Corporation.

You can also check out other YOUi Labs Shader Effect tests on Google Play at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.youilabs.shadertest.

About Vivante Corporation
Vivante Corporation, a leader in multi-core GPU, OpenCL(TM), CPC Composition Engine and Vector Graphics IP solutions, provides the highest performance and lowest power characteristics across a range of Khronos(TM) Group API conformant standards based on the ScalarMorphic(TM) architecture. Vivante GPUs are integrated into customer silicon solutions in mass market products including smartphones, tablets, HDTVs, consumer electronics and embedded devices, running thousands of graphics applications across multiple operating systems and software platforms. Vivante is a privately held company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with additional R&D centers in Shanghai and Chengdu. For more information, visit http://www.vivantecorp.com.

*Product is based on the Khronos OpenGL ES 3.0 Specification, and is in the Khronos Conformance Test submission review period. Current conformance status can be found at http://www.khronos.org/conformance.

Vivante and the Vivante logo are trademarks of Vivante. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners.

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Web Site: http://www.vivantecorp.com

Xplenty's Code-free Platform Enables Companies of all Sizes to Utilize their Big Data Without Prior Programming Knowledge

TEL AVIV, Israel, April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

    According to a recent survey of 339 data management professionals conducted by SAS and
SourceMedia, two-thirds of the organizations represented collect business consumer data
(b2b), and 59% collect end consumer data (b2c). However in spite of the relatively high
number of companies collecting such data, only 12% of the organizations have developed or
implemented a strategy for their big data.

    Madhu Nair of SAS says, "Big enterprises have some budget to explore big data.
Startups are starting off with big data and the cloud. Midsize companies are the ones that
are not able to get started as quickly. The costs are higher for skills and they still
don't have personnel to execute on a big data strategy."

    With backgrounds in data and business intelligence, the founders of Xplenty created a
platform to make big data accessible to all businesses. With their combination of business
intelligence and programming experience, they developed a code-free Hadoop as a service
Big Data platform specifically geared towards Data Warehousing specialists, BI Developers,
and ETL developers of companies regardless of size and availability of resources. Saggi
Neumann, CTO of Xplenty, says, "We built Xplenty to be a smart and cost-effective Hadoop
platform, able to accommodate anyone's Big Data processing needs using intelligent
automation and an easy to use interface."

    Hadoop is a robust file system that easily handles mass amount of data, of various
forms and structures, on which the Xplenty platform runs.

    "We knew that there was an entire sector of the business community that was being left
out of the Big Data game, but we also knew it didn't have to be that way," says Yaniv Mor,
CEO. "We've removed the barriers to entry by making a code-free, cost effective Hadoop
powered platform as a service. Now everyone can play the Big Data game."

    Xplenty's platform lets the user manipulate their data in a code-free and highly
scalable cloud based environment, thus eliminating the need for a programmer, as well as
the need to purchase hardware to host business software. Xplenty also takes care of the
maintenance as well, so the customers can focus on their data.

    To learn more or to sign up for a 14 day free trial, please visit
http://www.xplenty.com

       
        Contact:
        Nicole Sauvage
        +1-415-992-5286
        info@xplenty.com

Xplenty

MyRealGames.com Adds New Mobile Game plus Hidden Object Titles

LONDON, April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

    Popular games [http://www.myrealgames.com ] website MyRealGames.com has revealed the
names of April's newest additions to the site. The new titles include mobile game Miami
Zombies as well as two brand new hidden object quests and a Mahjong classic.

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    Published in partnership with Nuclear Games, the Miami Zombies game
[http://www.myrealgames.com/mobile-games ] is a breathtaking mobile shooter that is
available for iPad/iPhone/Android. George Garden from Nuclear Games said, "Zombies vs
Marine? Can you survive the Miami zombie apocalypse? In Miami Zombies, your goal is to
survive and take out as many zombies as possible! Your journey takes you all over Miami,
you will battle zombies on the beach, downtown and in the park. Watch your time, and try
to beat your own records! Earn diamonds as you play that will allow you to buy cool new
weapons that help ensure your survival. It's the Miami Zombies versus the lone Marine.
It's Go Time! Oorah!"

    One of the most popular genres for players looking to download games
[http://www.myrealgames.com/download-free-games ] from the My Real Games website so far
this year has been hidden object titles. The site has increased its offering in this
section over the course of the last six months and is now making further additions with
two new titles to satisfy gamer demand.

    The first of the newly arrived duo is Autumn's Treasures: The Jade Coin, a PC
downloadable hidden object and puzzle game. After receiving her inheritance, Autumn finds
a mysterious journal page in her Grandpa's store, sending her off on a global treasure
hunt to find missing antiques and justice. Set amidst beautiful hand-painted scenes, the
game features a series of challenging mini-games guaranteed to provide hours of
head-scratching enjoyment.

    The second PC downloadable hidden object game to make its debut on MyRealGames.com
this month is Sister's Secrecy: Arcanum Bloodlines. Players will meet sibling's Ariel and
Belle who are separated as they delve into their family's past. When Belle goes missing,
it's up to Ariel to find her. On route, players will come face to face with demons,
dragons, and other dark forces, solving challenges along the way.

    Completing the slew of new games is Alice's Magical Mahjong, a PC downloadable Mahjong
game with a hidden object twist. Based on Alice in Wonderland, Alice's Magical Mahjong
sends the player through the looking glass into a world filled with more than 175
challenging Mahjong layouts, a series of hidden object mini games and beautiful
illustrations.

    Nikolai Veselov from MyRealGames.com said, "We're very pleased with the sheer variety
of new games that have been published this month and are sure they will provide hours of
entertainment for our players."

    No registration is necessary to play. To view all of the games visit
http://www.myrealgames.com

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CONTACT: Contact: Rebecca Appleton, Email: Rebecca@dakotadigital.co.uk, Tel: +44-1623-428996

Aricent Powered CPqD's eNodeB Solution Goes for Field Trial in Brazil

CPqD has begun field trial of their eNodeB solution, which is powered by Aricent eNodeB software framework, for one of the largest operators in Brazil

EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J. and RIO DE JANEIRO, April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Aricent Group, a global high-value innovation and technology services company, today announced that their partner CPqD, one of Latin America's leading Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) R&D institutions, is starting field trials of its LTE eNodeB, which is powered by Aricent's eNodeB software framework. CPqD is conducting the field trial for one of the largest operators in Brazil.

The Aricent-CPqD LTE eNodeB solution features comprehensive LTE functionality and comprises layer 2 and layer 3 eNodeB software from Aricent. The solution, operational on the 450 MHz band, is compliant with the guidelines laid down by the Brazilian regulation agency ANATEL.

The Brazilian regulatory rules defined that by December 31, 2015, all rural areas up to 30 km from the headquarters of all Brazilian municipalities must have LTE coverage in the 450 MHz band with voice and data services.

"Field trials are one of the most critical phases in a product lifecycle to determine the viability and usability of the solution," said Pratyush Dasgupta vice president and head of wireless practice, at Aricent. "We are committed to providing all the support necessary to ensure that the LTE solution performs exceptionally well when deployed commercially.''

"LTE has a tremendous growth potential in Brazil and is the most important focus area for CPqD" said Fabrício Lira Figueiredo, from CPqD. "We are delighted in continuing our partnership with Aricent in this space to ensure that we provide the best possible solution to our customers."

Brazil is the reference concerning LTE 450 MHz development and CPqD and its industrial partner WxBR are fundamental pieces to deploy such technology in rural area. "LTE is the most advanced broadband wireless technology and we are the pioneer in providing a complete LTE solution for 450 MHz band," said Samuel Lauretti, president of WxBR.

Aricent is a leader in providing LTE software solutions with more than 50 global LTE engagements, they have made investments in cutting edge technologies such as SON, VoLTE, RRM and LTE-A. Aricent's software has been commercially deployed in some of the most demanding markets in the world.

About the Aricent Group
The Aricent Group is a global high value technology business with a strong heritage in R&D Engineering Services and Software Development. Aricent's focus is centered on helping its clients transform their business to gain market share through its deep communications expertise and solutions. The client base includes communications service providers, equipment manufacturers, independent software vendors, device makers, and many other Fortune 500 brands. The company's investors are Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Sequoia Capital, The Family Office, Delta Partners, and The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.

For more information, please visit http://www.aricent.com
Follow the Aricent Group on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/aricent

About CPqD
CPqD is an independent institution focusing on innovating Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). In Brazil, the solutions provided by CPqD are used by several organizations and entities in the telecommunication, energy, finance, and other industries, in both corporate and government sectors. Having worked in the market for over 36 years, it relies on more than 1,400 highly creative and skilled professionals dedicated to achieving high levels of quality. Today, CPqD has the largest and most important R&D program in Latin America striving to make the country more competitive and advance digital inclusion, supplying the market with product technologies, mission-critical systems, technological services, and consulting services.
For more information visit: http://www.cpqd.com.br/en

About WxBR
WxBR is a high technology industry in the wireless telecommunication market, which has the mission to develop, manufacture and sell innovative products and solutions in broadband wireless access like LTE and Wi-Fi. Driven by two appraised Brazilian companies, Icatel and Padtec, and the strategic partnership with CPqD, makes the company able to offer product and services to support different market segments.
For more information visit: http://www.wxbr.com.br

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Aricent Group

CONTACT: Johnny Truong, Sonus PR for Aricent Group, Tel: +1 415 830 4530, Email: johnny.truong@sonuspr.com, Shashi Shekhar Pandey, Marketing Manager, Aricent Group, Tel: +91 7838291362, Email: shashi.pandey@aricent.com

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John Lewis Puts Customers in the Picture as Interactive Window Displays Promote Latest Smart TVs

LONDON, April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

    Always first with the latest technology, John Lewis is running an exciting campaign
throughout April and May promoting the latest, cutting edge Smart TVs. Interactive window
displays which use augmented reality will be showcased at John Lewis Oxford Street and
Peter Jones from today until the 7 May.

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    Using Aurasma technologies, these interactive windows allow passers-by to select from
a variety of music and visual schemes that will then play on a nine screen video wall of
Smart TVs. The wall of TVs is activated when a passer-by looks into the window. Once
activated the viewer will see themselves, their surroundings and the pavement around them
appear to crumble. Four pillars will then come out of the ground and they can hover their
hand over the tops of these pillars to interact with the four different visual and sound
schemes.

    All TVs at John Lewis
[http://www.johnlewis.com/electricals/televisions/all-tvs/c800005013/pg-view-all ] come
with a reassuring five-year guarantee at no extra cost.

    Samsung UE55F8000 LED HD 1080p 3D Smart TV, 55", Quad Core with Freeview/Freesat HD
and Voice/Motion Control with 2x 3D Glasses - GBP2,499 - Available from April

    Thanks to its powerful quad-core processor, this striking Samsung LED TV
[http://www.johnlewis.com/electricals/televisions/all-tvs/samsung=brand/c800005013/pg-view-all ]
is fast enough to juggle TV programmes, social networking, video streaming and
apps. The Full HD 1080p screen displays all your content in the finest of details and
Active 3D playback makes everything more immersive. This clever TV features an intelligent
recommendation system that learns what you like to watch and then suggests similar
programmes. Voice and motion control even makes it as easy as waving a hand or asking a
question to change channel, browse and more. Other features include a retractable 5MP
camera for large-scale Skype chats, Allshare, which lets you stream and share music,
photos, movies and other multimedia directly to your TV and Smart View that turns your
compatible smartphone or tablet into a second TV screen via your home network.

    LG 55LA690V LED HD 1080p 3D Smart TV, 55 Inch with Freeview HD and 4x 3D Glasses -
GBP1,799 - Available from April

    This super slim 1080p Full HD TV is equipped with Wi-Fi and a dual core processor,
providing you with access to online content as well as apps from BBC iPlayer, Facebook and
Twitter. Smart Share lets you stream your movies, music and more through your home network
using DLNA from compatible devices like PCs and smartphones and the built in HD camera is
perfect for large screen Skype calls to friends and family. The easy to use Magic Motion
Remote Control operates like a computer mouse, just point, click, scroll and control. With
simple movements and gestures, you can drag, flick, and select your preferences, without
the hassle of using multiple buttons and arrow keys.

    Panasonic TX-L55WT65B LED HD 1080p 3D Smart TV, 55 Inch with Freesat HD and Freeview
HD and 4x 3D Glasses - GBP2,599 - Available from May

    With a cutting edge design this stunning Smart TV has been designed to ensure ease of
use for you and your family. The My Home Screen allows every user of the TV to have a
personalised experience with access to their favourite content. Share and Swipe 2.0
transforms the TV into a hub for streaming and sharing photo and video content with your
smartphone and tablet devices. Voice interaction is also on board helping to simplify the
TV browsing experience. Other features include a built in camera for Skype calls and Face
Recognition and a Twin HD Tuner which lets you watch one broadcast while recording another
at the same time in high definition.

    Sony KDL55W805AB LED HD 1080p Smart TV, 55 Inch with Freeview HD - GBP1,899 -
Available from May

    Transfer your photos, music and more from your smartphone to this superb TV with NFC
(Near Field Communications) technology, which allows content from various devices to be
shared by literally touching them together. You will also be able to watch the latest
blockbuster, catch up on your favourite TV shows, access the BBC Sport app and watch You
Tube via the Sony Entertainment Network. Sony's X-reality Pro picture technology also
enhances the detail of anything you watch by cleverly analysing the scene on the TV and
comparing it to an extensive in-built database of images to sharpen edges and refine
details.

    John Lewis customer enquiries +44-(0)8456-049-049 or http://www.johnlewis.com

    Notes to Editors:

    Prices and products are correct at the time of writing but are subject to change and
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press.

       
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New Ultra-Efficient Processor Core for Low Power Applications

Andes' N7 Series now available to the US market

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Andes Technology (http://www.andestech.com), Asia's leading supplier of licensable processor cores, today announced their newest, ultra power-efficient 32-bit processor series: the AndesCore(TM) N7.  Codenamed "Hummingbird," due to its compact size and energy efficiency, this family of small cores is derived from 8-years research by Andes' Taiwan-based team.  Customer applications include embedded processing devices that require low energy consumption, such as controllers for touchscreen, storage, hand-held devices, sensors, and for network connectivity applications like IoT (Internet-of-Things).

Andes' President, Frankwell Lin, commented, "The N7 was created for SOC designs that have performance constrained by ultra-low energy consumption and a small size.  By implementing our latest AndeStar(TM) V3m architecture in a 2-stage pipeline, the N7 is the most power-efficient member of the Andes family.  As with all of our IP cores, N7 is fully supported by the an integrated GCC tools environment and comes with complete software development environment and libraries to increase productivity and reduce cost."

In terms of efficiency, the N7 delivers an impressive 108 DMIPS/mW, which is 30% higher than products from other suppliers.  It also incorporates new mechanisms that provide for acceleration of applications that utilize higher latency flash memory which improve memory access efficiency while leveraging the processor's performance and power. The size of the AndesCore(TM) N7 can be as small as 12K gates. This makes it an ideal alternative to 8051 and other 8-bit processor cores, while delivering the programmability benefits of a 32-bit processor solution.

"Power efficiency is the new battleground," observed Linley Gwennap, principal analyst of The Linley Group.  "By squeezing the most performance out of a very low power budget, Andes Hummingbird CPU enables some interesting new applications."

The N7 is being demonstrated in Linley Tech Mobile Conference on Apr 17(th) at Hyatt Regency Hotel, Santa Clara and at the GSA Silicon Summit on Apr 18(th) at Computer History Museum, Mountain View.  For more information about the AndesCore(TM) N7 Series or any of our other low-power, high-performance IP cores and subsystems, please refer to http://www.andestech.com or contact us at america@andestech.com.

SOURCE  Andes Technology

Andes Technology

CONTACT: Janine Hsu, +886-3-6668300, ext. 614, Janine@andestech.com

Web Site: http://www.andestech.com

Actress Mayim Bialik and Texas Instruments Join Educators to Encourage Strong STEM Education at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) 2013 Annual Meeting in Denver

Bialik will share her unique journey from child actress to neuroscientist and show how math and science come to life with real-world applications and technology

Interact with TI's latest math and science education technology at booth #217; join the discussion @TICalculators #MathNspired

DENVER, April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Instruments (TI) and its brand ambassador - actress and neuroscientist Mayim Bialik - are joining thousands of math educators at the NCTM 2013 Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, to share innovative new classroom technology including TI-Nspire(TM) Apps for  iPad® and the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition, as well as educator resources  to increase student engagement and achievement in critical STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) subjects.

Bialik, who plays the loveably geeky neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler on the hit TV comedy "The Big Bang Theory," will give the opening keynote about her real-life role as a scientist and teacher tonight at 5:30 p.m. at the Bellco Theatre at the Colorado Convention Center. On Thursday, April 18, Bialik will join an experienced T(3) Teachers Teaching with Technology instructor to teach an interactive math lesson with TI-Nspire CX technology at 9:30 a.m. in Four Seasons Room 2/3 at the Colorado Convention Center.  She also will make a surprise appearance at the TI booth #217 sometime on Thursday.

Bialik is part of an exciting line-up from TI that showcases technology, online content and T(3) professional development that improves math and science teaching and learning. At its booth and in conference sessions, TI will offer hands-on opportunities for teachers to experience the power of the TI-Nspire CX family of math and science technology including graphing handhelds, software and new TI-Nspire Apps for iPad, plus data collection tools for science and hundreds of free Math Nspired and Science Nspired classroom-ready activities. TI will also feature its latest color-screen graphing calculator, the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition.

In addition, TI will share strategies and best practices from leading math teachers, as well as technology, professional development and free classroom resources for implementing Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in Mathematics. Educators can learn more at the TI CCSS Solutions Booth, which is directly across from the TI booth #217.

"Every year we look forward to NCTM and the unique opportunity to interact with and learn from leading math educators throughout this conference," said Melendy Lovett, president of Texas Instruments Education Technology. "This year we are excited to introduce new professional development and curricular support for implementing Common Core State Standards and Mathematical Practices.  Educators will also have the opportunity to get hands-on experience with our newest innovations for math and science teaching and learning. Additionally, we are excited to bring our brand ambassador Mayim Bialik to share her incredible journey and passion for inspiring all students to pursue a strong STEM education - a passion that she shares with TI."

Mayim and TI's NCTM Highlights at a Glance:

    --  Mayim Bialik's Opening Keynote: April 17, 5:30 p.m., Bellco Theatre at
        the Colorado Convention Center
    --  Mayim's Hands-On TI-Nspire CX Technology Session: April 18, 9:30 a.m.,
        Four Seasons Room 2/3 at the Colorado Convention Center
    --  Mayim's Surprise TI Booth Visit: April 18, TI booth #217
    --  Common Core State Standards (CCSS) Booth Showcasing Technology, Tools
        and Support to Help Districts Meet the Needs of the Common Core
        Standards and Mathematical Practices:  April 18, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.,
        April 19, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., April 20, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
        CCSS booth is located directly across from TI booth #217
    --  TI-Nspire Apps for iPad Play Area: April 18, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.,
        April 19, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., April 20, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. TI
        booth #217
For more information about Texas Instruments:

    --  Online: education.ti.com
    --  Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TICalculators, @TICalculators, #MathNspired
    --  Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TICalculators
    --  YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/TexasInstrumentsCalc
For more information about the NCTM Annual Meeting:

    --  Visit nctm.org/Denver
    --  Follow NCTM on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nctm and use #NCTMDenver
About Texas Instruments
Education Technology, a business of Texas Instruments, provides a wide range of tools connecting the classroom experience with real-world applications, helping students and teachers to explore mathematics and science interactively. TI's products and services are tested vigorously against recognized third-party research, which shows that the effective use of graphing calculators improves the mathematical skills of students and their attitudes toward mathematics. For more information, visit http://www.education.ti.com.

Texas Instruments semiconductor innovations help 90,000 customers unlock the possibilities of the world as it could be - smarter, safer, greener, healthier and more fun.  Our commitment to building a better future is ingrained in everything we do - from the responsible manufacturing of our semiconductors, to caring for our employees, to giving back inside our communities.  This is just the beginning of our story.  Learn more at http://www.ti.com.

Apple, the Apple logo, iPad, iTunes and Mac are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc.

TI-Nspire(TM) Technology supports images in .jpg, .jpeg, bmp and .png formats.

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CONTACT: Mari Hancock, GolinHarris for Texas Instruments, 713-513-9574

Web Site: http://www.ti.com

Tegile Systems Partners with Promark Technology to Expand Reach throughout North America

Zebi storage arrays now available to VARs, system integrators through two-tier distribution channel

NEWARK, Calif., April 17, 2013 Tegile Systems today announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with Promark Technology, one of the premier value-added distributors (VADs) in the United States, to make its Zebi line of hybrid storage arrays available to a broad range of solution providers throughout North America as an extension of the company's presence in the channel.

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Promark's emphasis on data storage solutions and its ability to provide the necessary programs, tools and reliable support infrastructure helps VARs and system integrators successfully meet their business objectives, increase profit margins and obtain a strategic advantage over their competition.  This agreement further strengthens Tegile's 100 percent channel-focused partner program that was recently named among the IT channel's most elite with a designation in CRN's 2013 5-Star Partner Program Guide.

By partnering with Promark, Tegile's Zebi storage arrays will also be available to customers in the public sector through the General Services Administration (GSA) schedule procurement process. Promark holds a two-tier distribution arrangement with GSA that resellers can leverage to sell products to government customers even if they do not hold a GSA contract of their own. This agreement opens up additional markets for the company while also providing members of the Tegile Channel Partner Program with the opportunity to fulfill government orders they may not otherwise have qualified to provide.

"For more than 20 years, we have been providing proven products in many data storage arenas to ensure customers are getting the best solution to meet their particular needs," said Dale Foster of Promark.  "The addition of Tegile to our roster of storage solutions empowers our system integrator and reseller partners with another innovative technology to offer their clients.  Hybrid storage arrays like Zebi are ideally suited to help businesses overcome their data challenges through a balanced approach of both cost and performance."

Tegile Zebi arrays leverage the performance of SSD and low cost per TB of high capacity disk drives to deliver up to seven times the performance and up to 75 percent less capacity required than legacy arrays. Zebi hybrid arrays combine Tegile's patent-pending MASS technology with high performance DRAM, solid state flash, Intel Xeon processors and high speed Ethernet or Fibre Channel, resulting in higher capacity and significantly higher performance. Maximizing capacity, on-the-fly de-duplication and data compression enable more hosted virtual desktops for a lower investment in storage and network infrastructure.

"As a company that is 100 percent focused on selling through the channel, the success of those in the reseller community is instrumental to our ultimate success," said Rob Commins, vice president of marketing, Tegile Systems.  "Working with a premier distributor like Promark that helps channel partners achieve their business objectives is a great way to extend the reach of Tegile's Zebi storage arrays.  Not only do they provide reseller partners with the ability to deliver Zebi arrays to their clients but they also provide the support, marketing and training programs to ensure their ongoing success.  This agreement is a 'win-win-win' situation for all involved."

About Tegile Systems

Tegile Systems is pioneering a new generation of award-winning enterprise storage arrays that balance performance, capacity, features and price for virtualization, file services and database applications. With Tegile's Zebi line of hybrid storage arrays, the company is redefining the traditional approach to storage by providing a family of arrays that is significantly faster than all hard disk-based arrays and significantly less expensive than all solid state disk-based arrays.

Tegile's patent-pending MASS technology accelerates the Zebi's performance and enables on-the-fly de-duplication and compression of data so each Zebi has a usable capacity far greater than its raw capacity. Tegile's award-winning technology solutions enable customers to better address the requirements of server virtualization, virtual desktop integration and database integration than other offerings. Featuring both NAS and SAN connectivity, Tegile arrays are easy-to-use, fully redundant, and highly scalable. They come complete with built-in auto-snapshot, auto-replication, near-instant recovery, onsite or offsite failover, and virtualization management features. Additional information is available at http://www.tegile.com. Follow Tegile on Twitter @tegile.

Contacts
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JPR Communications
818-884-8282, ext. 13
danm@jprcom.com

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Ace2Three Unveils a New Look - More Fun Guaranteed

HYDERABAD, India, April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

    Ace2Three, India's No. 1 rummy site, brings together the fun of playing various rummy
games online to the Indian players. Pioneer of online Rummy games in India, Ace2Three
today boasts of having crossed a milestone figure of 1.8 million registered players.

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    With this stupendous growth in player base, we understand that our players'
expectations are also increasing along with increase in their skills and expertise of
playing rummy online. To meet and exceed the expectations set, Ace2Three has enhanced its
software to come up with an extraordinary look and advanced features.

    As you login into the new avatar of Ace2Three, you will find a plethora of jaw
dropping features and a brilliant architecture. The new Ace2Three website will leave you
mesmerized with its friendly interface, easy navigation and detailed content about online
rummy game play. Special care has been taken to help naïve players to quickly learn the
tips and tricks of playing online rummy [http://www.ace2three.com ] and reach the game
tables faster.

    Not just that. The lobby has also been enhanced significantly keeping in mind
requirements of both naïve and pro players. Navigation among various game types is kept
amply simple so that the time to reach the desired table is very less. Now the players
just need to select a table on which they want to play and can view all details of the
table in advance.

    Players can also use the "Find a Seat" feature to quickly locate their favorite tables
and their selections are retained so that their favorite tables are just "one-click" away
on next visit. Also, tourney registrations will now take a single click from the lobby,
Simple and Efficient.

    Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Deepak Gullapalli, Founder & CEO of Head Infotech India
Pvt. Ltd. (http://www.Ace2Three.com [http://www.Ace2Three.com ]) said, "We are proud to announce
the release of our newly redesigned website & games. It has been crafted to reflect what
our loyal customers wanted and builds upon technology capable of addressing future needs -
making Ace2Three truly India's No. 1 Rummy Site. It is a reflection of our continuous
effort in providing a world class gaming platform that is innovative yet realistic. We are
delighted to see response received and it encourages us to stay committed to our long term
vision & plans."

    To commemorate the occasion, a Mega Rummy tournament will be held on 20th April
wherein 10,000 players can compete with each other to win a guaranteed mega cash prize of
Rs. 5 Lakhs. Don't miss to be a part of the biggest ever rummy tournament conducted in the
history of card games in India.

    Excited? We do not want to hold you long here. Experience it yourself by just logging
into your Ace2Three [http://www.ace2three.com ] account. Hurry!

    About Ace2Three:

    Ace2Three is the first website to introduce online rummy to the Indian market.
Ace2Three boasts of having 1.8 million registered players playing rummy for both free and
cash. With increased internet penetration, Ace2Three has established itself as the pioneer
of online card games and the undisputed leader of rummy sites in India.

    Primary Media Contact: Samhita Dasari, samhita.d@headinfotech.com, 91-40-30472222

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CONTACT: PRN

New Sign-up Process - payleven Opens Doors to Private Individuals in UK

LONDON, April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

    New state-of-the-art onboarding allows quick registration

    Chip & PIN solution now also available for private individuals (non-businesses)

    Democratisation of ease and access to card payments will change financial world

    payleven(http://www.payleven.co.uk), Europe's technological leader in mobile
payment, today announces two important steps to improve the ease and ability to accept
cards, introducing a quicker and simpler paperless sign-up process as well as opening
payleven to the general public and non-businesses.

    Firstly, payleven today has implemented a state-of-the-art registration process,
utilising latest generation electronic ID check technology. This eliminates the need for
merchants to submit a copy of their ID and proof of address during sign-up and drastically
reduces registration time. With this payleven has removed a key barrier to wider card
acceptance, by replacing the lengthy, paper-based application processes of traditional
card terminal providers - which can take several days to complete and often weeks to get
approved. With the new sign-up process, a payleven account can be almost instantly
approved and finalised in a much shorter amount of time.

    Secondly, from today payleven offers the ability for private individuals to sign up
for card payments. Unlike traditional card terminal providers - who often will not work
with individuals, refusing to accept them as merchants and only accepting businesses -
payleven now offers safe, simple card payments for everyone, allowing both individuals and
businesses to become merchants quickly and easily.

    Both the new onboarding process and private registration will be available from today
in the UK and will shortly be rolled out to payleven's other markets- Germany, Italy,
Netherlands, Poland & Brazil.

    "It is no secret that cashless payment is the future, and the democratisation of card
acceptance is a key element in this evolution," says Alston Zecha
[https://payleven.co.uk/about-us ], COO and founder of payleven. "Today marks a major
milestone for payleven on that journey as we have solved two long-standing problems faced
by the payments industry- designing a simple, instant signup process and empowering
individuals as merchants."

    payleven now offers everyone the ability to accept cashless payments anytime and
anywhere, by delivering a card payments solution which offers top-of-the-line Chip & PIN
security, affordable PAYG pricing, a quick & easy sign-up process and is open to both
businesses & individuals. Now from flea markets to garage sales, from private sales via
classifieds to quickly repaying a friend via card, the possibilities for card payment with
payleven are virtually endless.

    About payleven

    payleven is Europe's technologically leading solution for mobile payments and helps
merchants of all sizes to gain new business potential. Based on a "plug & pay" principle,
payleven merchants can offer their clients Chip & PIN debit - and credit card payments via
their smartphone or tablet devices - offering a mobile, cost-effective and secure
alternative to traditional card payment terminals. More than that, payleven offers various
features, helping its customers to make their business more attractive as well as simple.

    Founded by payment experts and entrepreneurs Konstantin Wolff (CMO), Rafael Otero
(CTO) and Alston Zecha (COO), payleven brings fresh air into the traditional world of
finance. With 90 employees working in the UK, Germany, Italy, Benelux, Poland and Brazil,
payleven is shaping the future of the payment world.

    More information is available on http://www.payleven.co.uk

payleven

CONTACT: Christian Hillemeyer Head of PR Tel.: +49-(0)-30-809-5201-45 Email: Christian.hillemeyer@payleven.de

eTechies.in Adds "Tablets & Smartphones" to its "Service and Repair" Portfolio

NEW DELHI, April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

    Dependable Technical Support and Quality Repair Service for "Tablets & Smartphones"

    eTechies.in, India's first organized "Door-step, Online and phone" technical support &
repair services company has expanded its technical support capabilities to new and
evolving digital product segments. eTechies provides the finest level of service for
desktops, laptops, Apple products, printers and other digital devices. It will now offer
the repair services for 'Tablets & Smartphones'.

    "In a constantly evolving technology world, it is imperative that we at eTechies.in
stay up ahead on the learning curve and are prepared well-in-time to be of an excellent
support partner for all our user requirements. With the phenomenal response received for
eTechies.in repair services of laptops, MACs, PCs and peripherals, we are now aggressively
reaching-out to meet the tech support requirements of the consumer and prosumer 'Tablets &
Smartphones' segment," said Mr. Rohit Chaudhary, Co-Founder & CEO, eTechies.in.

    The Indian technical support market landscape is highly unorganized with very little
to offer on technical capabilities, limited solutions and unreliable timelines to deliver.
As technology is evolving at a rapid pace with new products entering the market, the
service, support and repair needs of the consumers also need to be matched perfectly.
http://www.eTechies.in [http://www.etechies.in ] fills this gap seamlessly by offering technical
repair service for all digital devices.

    About eTechies.in

    For those of us seeking to get professional and timely "service and repair" of their
damaged computers and other digital devices and find it hard to get hold of a reliable
service provider, there is "eTechies.in" to the rescue.

    eTechies.in is India's first and only professional doorstep and Online "Service and
Repair" provider that operates in the space of Tech (-nical/-nology) support for consumer
and small business. eTechies.in offers a service platform unavailable to Indian consumers
& SMBs till now; it provides instant service, repair and support at the doorstep or
remotely over the internet with capabilities to handle computing devices ranging from PCs,
laptops, MACs, servers, printers, routers, iPads, tablets, smartphones and other digital
devices.

    eTechies.in currently provide services in NCR, Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai and
Hyderabad through its own state-of-the-art dedicated technical repair centres and an over
250 certified field engineers, who help resolve the tech problems at the doorstep.

    Primary Media Contact: Eshant Arora, eeshant@value360india.com, 91-9891255258

    Secondary Media Contact: Jayati Agarwal, jayati@value360india.com, 91-8285313314

eTechies.in

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MyRealGames.com Adds New Mobile Game plus Hidden Object Titles

LONDON, April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

    Popular games [http://www.myrealgames.com ] website MyRealGames.com has revealed the
names of April's newest additions to the site. The new titles include mobile game Miami
Zombies as well as two brand new hidden object quests and a Mahjong classic.

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    Published in partnership with Nuclear Games, the Miami Zombies game
[http://www.myrealgames.com/mobile-games ] is a breathtaking mobile shooter that is
available for iPad/iPhone/Android. George Garden from Nuclear Games said, "Zombies vs
Marine? Can you survive the Miami zombie apocalypse? In Miami Zombies, your goal is to
survive and take out as many zombies as possible! Your journey takes you all over Miami,
you will battle zombies on the beach, downtown and in the park. Watch your time, and try
to beat your own records! Earn diamonds as you play that will allow you to buy cool new
weapons that help ensure your survival. It's the Miami Zombies versus the lone Marine.
It's Go Time! Oorah!"

    One of the most popular genres for players looking to download games
[http://www.myrealgames.com/download-free-games ] from the My Real Games website so far
this year has been hidden object titles. The site has increased its offering in this
section over the course of the last six months and is now making further additions with
two new titles to satisfy gamer demand.

    The first of the newly arrived duo is Autumn's Treasures: The Jade Coin, a PC
downloadable hidden object and puzzle game. After receiving her inheritance, Autumn finds
a mysterious journal page in her Grandpa's store, sending her off on a global treasure
hunt to find missing antiques and justice. Set amidst beautiful hand-painted scenes, the
game features a series of challenging mini-games guaranteed to provide hours of
head-scratching enjoyment.

    The second PC downloadable hidden object game to make its debut on MyRealGames.com
this month is Sister's Secrecy: Arcanum Bloodlines. Players will meet sibling's Ariel and
Belle who are separated as they delve into their family's past. When Belle goes missing,
it's up to Ariel to find her. On route, players will come face to face with demons,
dragons, and other dark forces, solving challenges along the way.

    Completing the slew of new games is Alice's Magical Mahjong, a PC downloadable Mahjong
game with a hidden object twist. Based on Alice in Wonderland, Alice's Magical Mahjong
sends the player through the looking glass into a world filled with more than 175
challenging Mahjong layouts, a series of hidden object mini games and beautiful
illustrations.

    Nikolai Veselov from MyRealGames.com said, "We're very pleased with the sheer variety
of new games that have been published this month and are sure they will provide hours of
entertainment for our players."

    No registration is necessary to play. To view all of the games visit
http://www.myrealgames.com

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CONTACT: Contact: Rebecca Appleton, Email: Rebecca@dakotadigital.co.uk, Tel: +44-1623-428996

Seiko Watch CEO Hattori Presents World's First GPS Solar Watch "Seiko Astron" to New Economy Summit Guest Speakers

TOKYO, April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Shinji Hattori, President & CEO of Seiko Watch Corporation, was proud to personally present the official gift of a Seiko Astron, the world's first GPS solar watch, to each of the esteemed 21 guest speakers at the Japan New Economy Summit 2013, held on April 16, 2013, at the Hotel New Otani Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan. This highly respected event, hosted by the Japan Association of New Economy (JANE), was led by Mr. Hiroshi Mikitani, Representative Director and CEO & Board Chairman of Rakuten, Inc, Japan, and focused on the importance and growth of the Internet.

Receiving this watch exclusively, guest speakers of the summit included top US e-business leaders such as Mr. Andy Rubin, SVP Google; Mr. Jack Dorsey, CEO and Co-Founder Square/Co-Founder Twitter; Niklas Zennstrom, CEO Atomico/Co-Founder Skype; Mr. Ben Silbermann, Co-Founder and CEO, Pinterest; and Mr. Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote Corporation, in the presence of over 1,000 participants in the conference. Mr. Libin, an avid traveler due to his high demands, said, "I love watches. You don't need a watch to tell time anymore, so the only reason to wear a watch is if it's really amazing. The Seiko Astron is amazing; a combination of beautiful design and technology. A fully solar-powered GPS watch is a breakthrough."

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"It is my great honor to have a chance to exhibit SEIKO Astron on this very prestigious occasion of the first Japan New Economy Summit," said Shinji Hattori. "I was very excited to present this watch to some of the world's most important front-line business leaders who have assembled here for the conference. The work of these true pioneering spirits takes them around the world and in and out of time zones, so they will truly be able to appreciate the value of this watch."

About Seiko Astron: The Seiko Astron is the world's first GPS solar watch. It requires no external power source and is entirely self-sustaining. Using just the power of light, it connects to the GPS network, and tells time with atomic clock precision, adjusting at the touch of a button to all 39 time zones on earth. Like its illustrious predecessor, the world's first quartz watch in 1969, the new Astron GPS Solar will change the way that the world tells time. Only Seiko can deliver what the international traveler has long wanted, a watch that understands and adjusts to time zones.

About Seiko Watch Corporation: Seiko Watch Corporation is a wholly-owned business subsidiary of Seiko Holdings Corporation, which was established in 1881, and has contributed to society with one revolutionary product after another -- starting with the production of Japan's first wristwatch in 1913 and including the creation of the world's first quartz watch in 1969. Now its global network covers more than 60 countries worldwide, marketing the wristwatches under the vision 'Innovation and Refinement'.

Related Links: http://www.seikowatches.com/http://www.seikousa.com/

Contact:
Kathleen LeFebvre
Public Relations
Seiko Corporation of America
Tel: +1-201-529-7959
e-mail: klefebvre@seikousa.com

Masae Suzuki
Public Relations Dept.
Seiko Watch Corporation
Tel: +81-3-6739-2151
e-mail: seiko-pr@seiko-watch.co.jp

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Tripp Lite Introduces New 3-Phase UPS Systems for Data Center Applications

CHICAGO, April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Tripp Lite, a world-leading manufacturer of power protection equipment, has introduced a new line of high-capacity 3-phase UPS systems. The SU80KX2, SU100KX2 and SU120KX2 are designed to protect critical systems, eliminate downtime and lower costs in data centers and other high-density applications.

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With advanced features like ideal power output, modular architecture and parallel capabilities, Tripp Lite's KX2 UPS systems provide powerful, cost-effective protection for vital data center or server room equipment. Extreme efficiency and 1:1 generator sizing lower costs during installation and day-to-day operation, while scalable capacity and expandable battery runtime allow your UPS infrastructure to grow with your data center.

Key Features and Benefits:

    --  Up to 120kVA individual capacity, 480kVA in parallel
    --  On-line, double conversion operation delivers pure sine wave output and
        isolates equipment from power problems
    --  Internal N+1 modularity provides fault redundancy for more reliable
        operation
    --  Scalable design allows you to add power modules up to 120kVA, expanding
        your UPS as equipment demands it
    --  Parallel capability (up to four units) expands load capacity and
        provides fault redundancy
    --  Less than 4% THDi ensures 1:1 generator sizing to eliminate over-sizing
        costs
    --  Up to 97% efficiency lowers power and cooling costs
    --  Built in DB9 communication port works with included PowerAlert software
        to provide remote monitoring, equipment control and shutdown
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"The KX2 line of UPS systems are an ideal solution for protection of mission-critical data center equipment," said Paul Wampack, Tripp Lite Product Manager. "They are packed with features to ensure reliability and complete protection, like modular architecture, but also keep installation and operating costs lower than multiple smaller units or legacy systems."

For more information on new 3-phase UPS, go to:
http://www.tripplite.com/en/search-results.cfm?q=3-Phase+Equipment+English

About Tripp Lite

Outstanding product reliability and exceptional service have been Tripp Lite trademarks for over 90 years. As the world's leading manufacturer of power protection equipment, Tripp Lite's innovations include the first UPS system designed specifically for personal computers. Tripp Lite maintains the highest level of ready-to-ship inventory in the industry with more than 2,500 different products, including UPS, racks, PDUs, connectivity products and network management accessories. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Tripp Lite maintains a global presence with fully staffed offices worldwide. Additional information, including a list of Tripp Lite sales offices and authorized reseller partners, can be found by visiting Tripp Lite's website: http://www.tripplite.com.

Media Contact: Crystal Pierce, +1-773-869-1511

Tripp Lite

Web Site: http://www.tripplite.com

SOL REPUBLIC Puts Sound And Style Within Reach With New In-Ear Headphones

Introducing Jax in-ear headphones, offering SOL REPUBLIC's amazing signature sound for the first time for less than $40

SAN FRANCISCO, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Committed to changing the world one listener at a time, SOL REPUBLIC announces the debut of its Jax in-ear headphones. Offering amazing sound, Jax headphones provide the uncompromising quality that consumers expect from SOL REPUBLIC at an accessible price. Jax features SOL REPUBLIC's all-new i2 Sound Engines, a tangle-free cable and a 3-button remote control and microphone, making them a great choice for both playing music and hands-free phone use. Jax is the third in-ear headphone from SOL REPUBLIC along with its Amps and Amps HD products.

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Scott Hix, SOL REPUBLIC co-Founder and President, says: "It's been nearly impossible to find in-ear headphones that look or sound good for less than $50. We believe that great sound should be accessible to every music fan, and our Jax headphones deliver on this promise."

Designed from the ground up, Jax use SOL REPUBLIC's newly developed i2 Sound Engines, which deliver powerful sound with great bass and clear highs. An ideal headphone for both playing music and talking on the phone, Jax offer users a number of benefits, including a flat cable that doesn't tangle and a durable design to withstand everyday use. At less than $40, Jax are also the perfect choice as a secondary headphone for the on- or over-ear headphone user who wants the same signature SOL REPUBLIC sound in a compact design. Jax are available in two configurations: a 3-button "Made for iPhone" controller optimized for Apple products that includes volume control, and a single-button universal control without volume control for compatibility with a wider range of devices, including Android phones.

Jax launches in black-on-white and stellar-on-blue colorways, with more than 15 additional colorways planned throughout 2013.

Like all other SOL REPUBLIC in-ear headphones, Jax are part of our exclusive Ear Tips For Life program so you never have to worry when you lose your ear tips. SOL REPUBLIC is the only manufacturer that will replace your ear tips anytime they are lost, misplaced or if you simply want a different size.

Available now, the SOL REPUBLIC Jax headphones can be found at SOLREPUBLIC.com and nationwide at retailers, including RadioShack and Best Buy for an MSRP of $39.99.

About SOL REPUBLIC
SOL REPUBLIC is a global consumer electronics company dedicated to enhancing people's lives through better-sounding headphones. Comprised of music fanatics, SOL REPUBLIC develops its products from the ground up to make headphones that look, sound and feel unlike anything else in the market. SOL REPUBLIC has offices in California, Oregon and New York City and is developing an army of followers, fans and dreamers in its worldwide social media communities.

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CONTACT: Pippa Edele, SOL REPUBLIC, +1.503.702.0060, pippaedelen@solrepublic.com or Autumn Lewis, DBA Public Relations, alewis@dba-pr.com, +1.212.388.1400

SUSE Collaborates with Dell to Deliver Enterprise Cloud Deployments

Dell SUSE Cloud Solution, Powered by OpenStack Now Generally Available

PORTLAND, Ore., April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- SUSE®  today announced the general availability of an enterprise-class private cloud infrastructure solution combining Dell hardware and services with SUSE software. The Dell SUSE Cloud Solution, Powered by OpenStack helps organizations rapidly deploy and easily manage open source private clouds. It is backed by the seamless support of the Dell and SUSE worldwide support organizations.

The joint solution uses SUSE Cloud as its cloud management reference platform, which is packaged for enterprise environments and integrated with SUSE maintenance and lifecycle management processes. Tight integration between OpenStack and Crowbar, an open-source project initiated by Dell, simplifies deployment, management and administration of physical cloud infrastructure. Dell and SUSE continue to actively contribute towards Crowbar's development, and its integration into SUSE Cloud helps customers rapidly build private clouds.

With the Dell SUSE Cloud Solution, Powered by OpenStack, customers can more easily build a highly scalable cloud foundation that is designed to handle massive compute loads while maintaining the ability to customize their cloud environment.

"The ease with which we can deploy and manage cloud-based workloads using SUSE Cloud has allowed us to rapidly expand the cloud services we offer," said Frans Labuschagne, Senior Manager, Open Systems Support Services in the Data Center Services Division of BCX. "SUSE Cloud simplifies our installation processes, enabling us to set up clouds in our data center quickly and reduces the tasks needed to add capacity as we continue our growth."

SUSE Cloud, running on Dell PowerEdge servers, delivers a dynamic and flexible private cloud infrastructure. Enterprises using SUSE Cloud benefit from the largest portfolio of certified third-party applications running on Linux as well as certifications on all Dell hardware. As a result, SUSE and Dell customers can be assured that the software and infrastructure solutions they use today will move to the cloud with them. SUSE Cloud includes 24x7 worldwide technical support.

"Dell has been enabling enterprises with cloud solutions that are easy to deploy and manage, and can scale up or down with their business needs," said Forrest Norrod, vice president and general manager, Dell Server Solutions. "As a part of our ongoing commitment to build solutions on open standards, we are proud to have partnered with SUSE, one of Dell's Emerging Solutions Ecosystem Partners, to create an enterprise-ready private cloud solution that provides the support many customers require."

For over eight years, SUSE and Dell have collaborated closely to develop innovations that deliver the performance, interoperability and reliability enterprises need to run mission-critical Linux environments.

"SUSE and Dell are both deeply committed to the OpenStack foundation, and we share the goal of creating an easy-to-deploy and manage cloud infrastructure for the enterprise," said Michael Miller, vice president of global alliances and marketing, SUSE. "We are pleased to enter into this agreement with Dell because it helps make this goal a reality for our mutual customers. Through our technology and business collaboration with Dell we are bringing a complete enterprise-class solution to market backed by industry leading support and services."

The Dell SUSE Cloud Solution, Powered by Openstack is available now. For more information about the offering, please contact your Dell sales representative. For more information about SUSE Cloud, including the availability of a beta version based on OpenStack Grizzly, visit SUSE at the OpenStack Summit, or join us at a local Linux Road Tour event near you. More information about the Dell SUSE partnership can be found at https://www.suse.com/partners/alliance-partners/dell/.

About SUSE

SUSE®, a pioneer in open source software, provides reliable, interoperable Linux and cloud infrastructure solutions that give enterprises greater control and flexibility. More than 20 years of engineering excellence, exceptional service and an unrivaled partner ecosystem power the products and support that help our customers manage complexity, reduce cost, and confidently deliver mission-critical services. The lasting relationships we build allow us to adapt and deliver the smarter innovation they need to succeed--today and tomorrow. For more information, visit us at http://www.suse.com.

(C) 2013 SUSE LLC. All Rights Reserved. SUSE and the SUSE logo are registered trademarks of SUSE LLC in the United States and other countries. All third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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SUSE

CONTACT: Vera Schneider, Vschneider@suse.com, or Michael O'Connell, suse@pancomm.com

Web Site: https://www.suse.com

Panasonic Announces Pricing and Availability of the New SC-NP10 Wireless Speaker

SECAUCUS, N.J., April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Panasonic today announced pricing for the SC-NP10 Wireless Speaker.  Designed as an optimal surround sound system for tablet viewing and listening, the Panasonic SC-NP10 offers users unique functionality for a variety of spaces and listening scenarios. 

Designed for use with any Bluetooth®-enabled tablet device, the Panasonic SC-NP10 allows users to prop their tablet, rather than dock, and wirelessly stream music or movie sound.  Because the system is not a "docking station" it is compatible with various tablet models and sizes, making it easy for a family with different tablets to share the SC-NP10.  At just 3.5 lbs, the compact device can be placed virtually anywhere in the home - in the kitchen, a bedroom or home office - giving users the freedom of watching movies from a distance rather than from their lap.

For users worried about the listening experience when sitting close-by, the Panasonic SC-NP10 utilizes Near Field Stereo Sound to produce realistic sound even from a nearby distance.  A 12-degree slant structure allows for the reproduction of stereo sound faithful to the original, even when listening at a close distance from the device.  The SC-NP10 Wireless Speaker also offers users 2.1-channel Surround Sound to produce sound with life-like realism that offers crisp, clear playback for movie sound.  A 3-1/8<s> </s>inch integrated subwoofer produces robust bass sounds, packing powerful sound into a slim wireless speaker system.  Bluetooth® Re-Master technology for music which restores frequencies lost during Bluetooth transmission offers users an uninterrupted listening experience. 

The Panasonic SC-NP10 is now available at electronics retailers nationwide and http://www.Panasonic.com for an SRP of $199.99. 

About Panasonic Consumer Marketing Company of North America

Based in Secaucus, N.J., Panasonic Consumer Marketing Company of North America, a Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America, the principal North American Subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation (NYSE: PC) and the hub of Panasonic's U.S. marketing, sales, service and R&D operations, offers a wide-range of consumer solutions in the U.S. and Canada.  The Company's portfolio of innovative consumer products ranges from VIERA Full HD 3D Televisions, Blu-ray players, LUMIX Digital Cameras, Camcorders, Home Audio, Cordless Phones, Home Appliances, Wellness and Personal Care products and more. 

Panasonic is pledged to practice prudent, sustainable use of the earth's natural resources and protect our environment through the company's Eco Ideas programs. In the 2012 Interbrand Annual Best Global Green Brands ranking, the Panasonic brand jumped four spots to number six: http://www.interbrand.com/en/best-global-brands/Best-Global-Green-Brands/2012-Report.aspx.  Follow Panasonic on Twitter @panasonicUSA, and additional company information for media is available at http://www.panasonic.com/pressroom.

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Panasonic

CONTACT: Lori Chiazzo (Panasonic), 201-392-4178, lori.chiazzo@us.panasonic.com; Kaianna Sessoms (Panasonic), 201-392-7135, kaianna.sessoms@us.panasonic.com; Vanna Marmo (Cohn & Wolfe), 212-798-9798, vanna.marmo@cohnwolfe.com; Blayne Murphy (Cohn & Wolfe),               212-798-9763, blayne.murphy@cohnwolfe.com

Web Site: http://www.panasonic.com

Bottega dei Sapori to Bring Gourmet Italian Specialties to Travelers at the AIRMALL at Pittsburgh International Airport

- Fine Foods Store Has Signed Lease Agreement to Open in Summer 2013 -

PITTSBURGH, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- AIRMALL® USA, the leading airport concessions developer in North America and operator of the AIRMALL at Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT), will soon offer travelers the chance to enjoy some of the best gourmet delights of Italy with the addition of Bottega dei Sapori (1,125 sq. ft.) to the concessions program.  Airest Collezioni, an international travel retail operator based in Italy, will open the Italian specialty store in the airport's Center Core later this year.  The AIRMALL at PIT recently forged a seven-year agreement with Airest Collezioni to develop retail at the AIRMALL at PIT.

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"At AIRMALL USA, we're ready to take travelers on a culinary tour of Italy with the addition of Bottega dei Sapori," said Jay Kruisselbrink, vice president of development for AIRMALL USA.  "It will have a comfortable, relaxing atmosphere and a selection of Italy's finest gourmet cuisine, wine and coffee.  Travelers can grab an espresso before their flight or purchase a memorable gift for the foodie in their life at this unique new store."

"Bottega dei Sapori -- which means 'a shop of flavors' in Italian -- is a reflection of Airest Collezioni's passion for the wonderful tastes of Italy, and we look forward to giving travelers at PIT an authentic shopping and dining experience," added Monica Scarpa, CEO of Airest S.p.A., the parent company of Airest Collezioni. 

Inspired by Airest Collezioni's popular fine foods shop in Venice, Bottega dei Sapori will offer gourmet cuisine, including artisanal pastas in all shapes, flavors and sizes; small batch extra virgin olive oils; fine meats and cheeses; decadent chocolates and cookies; and premium Italian coffee. The store's knowledgeable staff can offer details about all of the store's offerings, and travelers can choose to have their purchases shipped.

Bottega dei Sapori will also offer travelers a tasting corner, where they can select from a variety of freshly prepared products.  This includes a panino with the finest San Daniele prosciutto and real Campania mozzarella, or a simple yet delectable sampling of cheese and olives.  Travelers can pair their meal with a glass or bottle from Bottega's carefully curated list of Italian wines. Those with morning flights will appreciate Bottega's selection of authentic Italian espressos and cappuccinos.   

Bottega dei Sapori is expected to open in the summer of 2013. 

In March 2013, the AIRMALL announced its partnership with Airest Collezioni to bring a selection of luxury brands to the terminal at PIT.  The new stores will be located in the Center Core, which is situated in the Airside Terminal and receives all departing and arriving passengers.     

The new stores are part of a $10-million upgrade to the AIRMALL at PIT, a yearlong construction project that will result in the most significant overhaul of the concessions program since the airport opened in 1992.  Phase one of the construction project began in January.

For more information on AIRMALL USA, visit http://www.airmallusa.com.   

About Airest Collezioni
Airest Collezioni is the travel retail subsidiary of Airest S.p.A., which manages over 200 retail and restaurant locations across Europe, Asia, the Middle East - and soon the Americas. Drawing on experience at Venice Marco Polo and other airports, shopping malls, and railway stations, Airest brings operating expertise and deep relationships with the most sought after fashion and lifestyle brands in offering tailor-made travel retail solutions to airports around the world. For more information, visit http://www.airest.com.

About AIRMALL® USA
AIRMALL® USA is the developer and manager of the retail, food and beverage operations at Pittsburgh International Airport, Boston Logan International Airport (Terminals B and E), Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, and Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.  The leading airport concessions model in North America, AIRMALL USA continues to boast among the highest per-passenger spends on the continent and consistently receives accolades for innovation and customer service.  AIRMALL USA is owned by Prospect Capital Corporation, a leading New York investment company founded in 1988.  For more information on AIRMALL USA, visit http://www.airmallusa.com. 

Contact: Jeff Donaldson
412-642-7700
jeff.donaldson@elias-savion.com

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AppDynamics and PagerDuty Team Up to Conquer the World of False Alert Storms

SAN FRANCISCO, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- AppDynamics, Inc., the next-generation application performance management solution that simplifies the management of complex apps, today announced that its solution is now integrated with PagerDuty, the SaaS-based provider of IT alerting and incident management software. By combining AppDynamics' granular visibility of applications with PagerDuty's intelligent alerting capabilities, customers ensure the right people are proactively notified when business impact occurs, allowing IT teams to get apps up and running as quickly as possible.

"AppDynamics with PagerDuty helps avoid the perils of 'false alert storms,' which tend to happen with applications experience slow performance and trigger notifications to the support teams, said Alex Solomon, PagerDuty CEO & Co-founder. "Now teams will only receive these notifications when the relevant application is their responsibility. When teams don't have to sift through irrelevant alerts, they can respond to incidents in a timely fashion."

AppDynamics recently extended its application support beyond Java and .NET to include PHP, further cementing its position as one of the leading APM companies in the enterprise. By offering tools that are scaleable and intuitive, AppDynamics has helped solve immensely complex application problems. AppDynamics' new integration with PagerDuty continues this problem-solving approach.

The PagerDuty/AppDynamics collaboration offers the following:

    --  Easy installation process
    --  Email notification to an on-call duty schedule that can be overridden
        for emergencies
    --  The ability to identify maintenance time to ignore bogus incidents
    --  Dashboard of incidents with assignments and status
    --  Options for acknowledging, reassigning, or resolving incidents
    --  Phone and SMS capabilities to over 170 countries
"PagerDuty is changing the way IT teams are notified of, and how they manage, incidents in their mission-critical applications," said Jyoti Bansal, Founder and CEO of AppDynamics. "AppDynamics with PagerDuty guarantees enterprise-grade alerting, configured for personal preferences. The advanced alert orchestration features will save customers time, and with time savings come financial savings. This integration will also make life easier for overworked and overstretched teams."

About AppDynamics

AppDynamics is the next-generation application performance management solution that simplifies the management of complex, business-critical apps. No one can stand slow applications--not IT Ops and Dev teams, not the CIO, and definitely not end users. With AppDynamics, no one has to tolerate slow performing apps ever again. AppDynamics customers include Netflix, Priceline, TiVo, AMICA Insurance, Hotels.com, StubHub, Staples, Insight Technologies, and Cornell University. For more information, visit http://www.appdynamics.com.

About PagerDuty

PagerDuty's SaaS alerting and incident tracking system helps IT operations and DevOps engineers resolve critical errors in their IT systems as quickly as possible. PagerDuty integrates with all IT infrastructure monitoring tools -- such as Splunk, New Relic, Nagios, Zenoss and others -- and handles the people part of the equation: alerting (via phone, SMS, email), on-call scheduling for teams, and automatic escalation of critical issues. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and startups alike, PagerDuty customers include Microsoft, National Instruments, Electronic Arts, Adobe, Rackspace, Etsy, Square and Github. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by leading venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Baseline Ventures, Ignition Partners and others. For more information, visit: http://www.pagerduty.com

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CONTACT: Greg Howard, AppDynamics, ghoward@appdyamics.com, 415.442.8428

Web Site: http://www.appdynamics.com

ShoreTel Announces UC Solution for Small Businesses

Brilliantly simple UC solution dramatically improves productivity and communications

SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ShoreTel® (NASDAQ: SHOR), the leading provider of brilliantly simple unified communications platforms, including business phone systems, applications, and mobile UC solutions, today announced the availability of the ShoreTel Small Business Edition 100 (SBE 100), a unified communications solution tailored to meet the needs of small businesses, while still providing the benefits and functionality that are usually only available to large enterprises.

ShoreTel SBE 100 is an integrated hardware and software package that provides organizations with up to 100 users at five or fewer locations with the benefits and functionality that characterize ShoreTel's award-winning solutions -- reliability, scalability, and ease of use, setup and management. Most standard functions, such as adding or changing phones, and moving users, can be done by anyone with basic IT knowledge and skills, making it an ideal fit for small businesses that often lack dedicated IT staff.

"With the right set of tools businesses are able to compete effectively in the marketplace regardless of their size," said Peter Blackmore, ShoreTel CEO. "The ShoreTel SBE 100 brings enterprise-class benefits to small business environments, helping owners empower their employees with productivity-boosting UC applications, while delivering exceptional ease of management and low total cost of ownership."

For small businesses focused on growth, the ShoreTel SBE 100 can be easily integrated with their current communications infrastructure and can also scale seamlessly. With just a software upgrade, the SBE 100 can go from a small system to a large system with thousands of users -- no hardware change required.

"Because the ShoreTel SBE 100 is based on the same modular architecture and software used by every ShoreTel customer with up to thousands of users, we only need to focus on a single product across all business sizes," said Rob Wiles, head of channel for APSL, Proximity Communications, a ShoreTel reseller.

The SBE 100 also provides a variety of productivity-boosting capabilities, including desktop call control and Unified Messaging that delivers voice, fax and email messages to a single application, such as Outlook® inbox. Mobile and remote workers benefit from convenient features like call handling modes, message notification and Follow Me Find Me, which allows a user to receive calls anytime, anywhere. Additional applications, including Contact Center functionality and complete collaboration solutions, can be added as businesses' needs change.

"Providing quality advice and client service is the basis of our success so it is critical that we have the right communication tools in place to better enable our consultants," said Mark Patterson, managing director at Nexus Risk Services, an Australian-based insurance broker that is rolling out the solution to five sites and 66 users. "The new ShoreTel SMB offer is a complete, out-of-the-box unified communications solution that gives us enterprise-class functionality at a price-tag that meets our requirements as a growing medium-sized company."

"The release of the ShoreTel Small Business Edition 100 solution provides an excellent opportunity for channel partners and customers to benefit from a single unified solutions architecture, with inherent ease of use and management of the wide UC capabilities, which can scale from as small as 10 users to tens of thousands of users," said Stephanie Watson, general manager at MZA Ltd. "This solution provides ShoreTel resellers with improved opportunity to sell into the 10-50 user space, which continues to account for a significant proportion of overall demand."

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About ShoreTel, Inc.

ShoreTel, Inc. (NASDAQ: SHOR) is a provider of business communication solutions whose brilliantly simple unified communications platforms, applications and mobile UC solutions promise a new rhythm of workforce engagement and collaboration. With costly complexity eliminated by design from its award-winning, all-in-one IP phone system, UC and contact center solution, and its industry-leading hosted phone system, workers enjoy a freedom and self-reliance that other providers can't match. Users have full control to engage and collaborate, no matter the time, place or device, for the lowest cost and demand on IT resources in the industry. ShoreTel is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and has regional offices and partners worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.shoretel.com or http://www.shoretelsky.com.

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Superfast Office Color Printer -- The Memjet-Powered C6010 -- Arrives In Canada To Jumpstart Small And Medium Business Productivity

Available Through Select Network of Office Print Resellers

SAN DIEGO, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Memjet, the global leader in color printing technologies that provide remarkable speeds and affordability, today announced the availability of Memjet-powered C6010 office color printers in Canada through its select network of office print resellers.

The C6010 color printer is powered by Memjet technology and prints at a default of 60 pages per minute, making it the world's fastest color desktop printer capable of delivering edge-to-edge, full-coverage color printouts. On average, Memjet's groundbreaking, high-density page-wide printheads and associated office-printing devices are twice as fast but only half the cost to run compared to that of traditional color office laser printers.

"With the arrival of Memjet powered C6010 printers in Canada, small and medium businesses through their office equipment resellers can now for the first time access fast affordable color printing revolutionized by Memjet page-wide printing technology," states Bill McGlynn, President of Memjet Office. "The C6010 improves productivity in fast-paced office environments for all types of businesses looking to improve efficiencies, save money and print high-impact color documents."

The C6010 office printers provide an amazing combination of color, speed and low running costs for "borderless" edge-to-edge marketing materials, fast convenient business photos and quick everyday office documents at a lower cost-per-page than competing laser printers.

With the C6010, there's no waiting for warm-ups, no moving ink cartridges and no delays between pages. The C6010 releases up to 700 million drops of ink per second to create beautiful color printouts. And the printer's "always-on" feature means it's always ready to go at a fraction of the cost and energy consumed by laser printers. Finally, small and medium businesses can print as big as their ideas without the limitations of legacy laser office printers whose core printing technology was invented decades ago. With the C6010, the definition of "office printer" has changed to match the pace at which businesses work.

"It's a rare turn of events in the managed print services industry when an all-new product emerges that fills the needs of end users and IT administrators on the client side and resellers' needs on the business side. Based on our research, Photizo believes this convergence has happened with the introduction of the C6010 Powered by Memjet," states Ed Crowley, CEO of Photizo Group.

The Memjet-powered C6010, as well as Memjet ink tanks and refilled ink tanks, printheads, and parts are available now through the Memjet Canadian reseller network. To be connected to a reseller near you visit http://www.c6000series.com/sign_up/user and send us your information so we can pass it on to our reseller team. Office print resellers interested in being considered for the Memjet channel program should visit http://www.c6000series.com or sign-up directly here: http://www.c6000series.com/sign_up/reseller. The C6010 is available in Canada, with the exception of the Province of Quebec. It will be available in Quebec in the second half of 2013.

About Memjet
Memjet is the global leader in color printing technologies that provide remarkable speeds and affordability. The company supplies technologies and components to OEM partners across the printing industry. Memjet maintains its corporate office in San Diego, and has offices in Dublin, Sydney, Taipei, Singapore and Boise, Idaho. The company is privately held. For more information, please visit http://www.memjet.com, 'Like' us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @memjet.

Contacts for Memjet:
Jeff Bean
Memjet, VP Brand & Communications
760-484-0505
jeff.bean@memjet.com

Marilyn Lintel
Illume Public Relations
310-228-1300
Marilyn@illumepr.com

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Memjet

Web Site: http://www.memjet.com

Warface Enjoys a Successful First Year in Russia

MOSCOW and FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

    Players flock to the heat of the battle in Crytek's free-to-play shooter

    Crytek's free-to-play FPS, Warface, is celebrating a successful first year online in
Russia. Published in partnership with Mail.Ru, the 12 months since the game went live have
seen nine million players sign up to get in on the action.

    With over two million users regularly heading online to play Warface, the game has
enjoyed record-breaking growth across Russia. Over the last 365 days, players have seen
the arrival of scores of new weapons, the addition of female character skins and exclusive
country-specific features, such as Russian-themed outfits and items.

    While 95% of those registered to play on Mail.Ru's servers are located in Russia, the
game also welcomed players based in Belarus, Kazakhstan and beyond. The smallest
contribution to the impressive overall figures came from Zimbabwe, where two brave players
signed up to enter the fray in Warface.

    Other interesting statistics include the 84 million players that medics healed over
the course of the year, and the 9 million virtual soldiers who forgot to stand back after
setting an explosive charge!

    Crytek and Mail.Ru would like to thank players in Russia for the level of support
they've shown Warface in its first year online, and look forward to offering them more
great free-to-play action in the future.

    About Crytek GmbH

    Crytek GmbH ("Crytek") is an independent company at the forefront of the interactive
entertainment industry, and is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of gaming by creating
standout experiences for Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC, mobile devices and games-as-service
using their cutting-edge 3D-Game-Technology, CryENGINE(R).

    The company's headquarters are in Frankfurt am Main (Germany). Crytek also has studios
in Kiev (Ukraine), Budapest (Hungary), Sofia (Bulgaria), Seoul (South Korea), Nottingham
(UK), Shanghai (China), Istanbul (Turkey) and Austin (USA).

    Since its foundation in 1999, Crytek has consistently been recognized for excellence
in its field, earning accolades such as the 2011 Develop Award for Best Independent Studio
and a 2010 Red Dot Design Award. Its multi-award winning games include Far Cry(R),
Crysis(R) (awarded best PC Game of E3 2007 and Best Technology at the 2008 Game Developers
Choice Awards), Crysis Warhead(R) (awarded Best Graphics Technology at IGN Best of 2008
Awards), Crysis(R) 2 (awarded Best Shooter of E3 2010 and Gamescom 2010), Crysis(R) 3 and
Warface (awarded Best Social/Casual/Online Game of Gamescom 2012). For more information,
please visit http://www.crytek.com.

       
        Jens Schaefer
        Senior [http://www.presseportal.de/stichwort/senior/819 ] PR Manager
        jens@crytek.com
        Phone: +49-6921977661071

Crytek GmbH

WD® Simplifies File Backup, Now Featuring Dropbox Integration

WD SmartWare(TM) Pro Gives Customers Peace of Mind that Photos, Videos and Other Files are Securely Protected on an External Hard Drive or Dropbox

IRVINE, Calif., April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- WD(®), a Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC) company, and a world leader in storage solutions for the connected life, today unveiled WD SmartWare(TM) Pro, an easy-to-use software tool that gives customers the power to back up their files to any USB external hard drive or the cloud using their personal Dropbox[1]. Additionally, in the event that a file is deleted, lost, or a previous version of a file is needed, WD SmartWare Pro makes it easy to quickly restore and retrieve backed-up data.     

WD SmartWare Pro is simple to set up with an intuitive installation interface that lets customers get up and running in just a few simple clicks. Once the software is setup and the drives are connected, WD SmartWare Pro visually presents customers' files and folders in a control center where they can manage multiple external hard drives and their Dropbox account. WD SmartWare Pro is compatible with WD products such as My Passport(® )and WD Elements(TM) portable hard drives, as well as external USB drives from other manufacturers. Additionally, WD SmartWare Pro works seamlessly with WD network attached storage drives such as My Book(®) Live(TM).

The software has two easy-to-use backup settings, allowing customers to set up their preferred file backup process. The "continuous backup" setting sets up an automatic, continuous backup that works quietly in the background so that whenever a customer adds or changes a file it is instantly backed up on the external drive. The "scheduled backup" setting allows customers to set up a regular pre-programmed backup schedule, including an hourly, daily or monthly setting for easy backup to their external drive or Dropbox. With WD SmartWare Pro customers can also back up files located in their Dropbox to an external hard drive.

File restoration and retrieval is quick and easy with WD SmartWare Pro. If customers accidentally delete an important file or need to get an earlier version of a file, WD SmartWare Pro helps customers retrieve the file in seconds with the easy-to-use "retrieve interface" and the software can be configured to save up to 25 older versions of a file. Customers can navigate the retrieve interface to restore all the backed up files or select a particular file or folder to restore.     

"The growth of digital content has continued to increase exponentially and our goal is to provide a simple and comprehensive way to ensure peace of mind that all of our content is safely backed up," said Jody Bradshaw, general manager of WD's consumer storage solutions. "WD SmartWare Pro not only accomplishes secure backup of important photos, videos and files, but ultimately makes it easier to preserve precious digital memories."

Price and Availability
WD SmartWare Pro is currently available as a free 30-day trial at http://www.wdstore.com. After the 30-day trial a standard license, valid for use with up to three computers, is available for a special promotional price of $19.95 US. A premium license, valid for use with up to ten computers, is available for a special promotional price of $39.95 US. Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) is $29.95 US for the standard license and $49.95 US for the premium license.

About WD
WD, a Western Digital company, is a long-time innovator and storage industry leader. As a storage technology pacesetter, the company produces reliable, high-performance hard disk drives and solid state drives. These drives are deployed by OEMs and integrators in desktop and mobile computers, enterprise computing systems, embedded systems and consumer electronics applications, as well as by the company in providing its own storage products. WD's leading storage devices and systems, networking products, media players and software solutions empower people around the world to easily save, store, protect, share and experience their content on multiple devices. WD was established in 1970 and is headquartered in Irvine, Calif. For more information, please visit the company's website at http://www.wd.com.

Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC), Irvine, Calif., is a global provider of products and services that empower people to create, manage, experience and preserve digital content. Its companies design and manufacture storage devices, networking equipment and home entertainment products under the WD, HGST and G-Technology brands. Visit the Investor section of the company's website (http://www.westerndigital.com) to access a variety of financial and investor information.

Western Digital, WD, My Book, WD Elements, the WD logo and My Passport are registered trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries; My Book Live and WD SmartWare Pro are trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Pictures shown may vary from actual products. Not all products may be available in all regions of the world.

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[1] Dropbox account required for cloud backup. Cloud services may be changed, terminated or interrupt at any time and may vary by country.

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Web Site: http://www.wd.com

EUTELSAT 3D Satellite Arrives at the Baikonour Cosmodrome. Readies for ILS Proton Launch on May 14

PARIS and BAIKONOUR, Kazakhstan, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

    The EUTELSAT 3D satellite of Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) arrived on
April 13 at the Baikonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and is now undergoing final
preparations for launch by a Proton Breeze M rocket supplied by ILS. Lift-off is planned
on May 14 from 16.02 GMT (18.02 CET) with spacecraft separation scheduled to occur after a
nine hour 13 minute flight.

    Weighing 5.4 tons at lift-off, EUTELSAT 3D has been built for Eutelsat by Thales
Alenia Space using its established Spacebus 4000 platform. The satellite is designed to
operate in orbit for 15 years.

    With a baseline design equipping it to strengthen Eutelsat's overall in-orbit
flexibility and back-up from multiple orbital slots, EUTELSAT 3D will initially be located
at the 3degree(s) East orbital position to address high-growth video, data, telecom and
broadband markets. Through its configuration of Ku and Ka transponders connected to three
footprints, the new satellite will serve customers in Europe, North Africa, the Middle
East and Central Asia. A fourth service area in the Ku-band will address markets in
sub-Saharan Africa. EUTELSAT 3D will operate at 3degree(s) East until the deployment of
the EUTELSAT 3B satellite to this position in 2014 to provide spectrum growth and high
levels of operational flexibility in C, Ku and Ka bands. It will subsequently continue
service at 7degree(s) East.

    The launch will be videostreamed live on http://www.eutelsat.com.

    About Eutelsat Communications (http://www.eutelsat.com
[http://www.eutelsat.com/home/index.html ])

    Eutelsat Communications is the holding company of Eutelsat S.A. With capacity
commercialised on 30 satellites delivering reach of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia,
significant parts of the Americas and the Asia-Pacific, Eutelsat Communications (Euronext
Paris: ETL, ISIN code: FR0010221234) is one of the world's leading satellite operators. As
of 31 December 2012 Eutelsat's satellites were broadcasting 4,500 television channels to
over 200 million cable and satellite homes in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The
Group's satellites also provide a wide range of services for TV contribution, corporate
networks and fixed and mobile broadband markets. Headquartered in Paris, Eutelsat and its
subsidiaries employ over 780 commercial, technical and operational professionals from 30
countries.

Eutelsat Communications

CONTACT: Vanessa O'Connor, Tel: +33-1-53-98-37-91, voconnor@eutelsat.fr; Frédérique Gautier, Tel: +33-1-53-98-37-91, fgautier@eutelsat.fr; Marie-Sophie Ecuer, Tel: +33-1-53-98-37-91, mecuer@eutelsat.fr; Investors and analysts: Lisa Finas, Tel: +33-1-53-98-35-30, investors@eutelsat-communications.com; Leonard Wapler, Tel: +33-1-53-98-31-07, investors@eutelsat-communications.com

TruSurv And RenderWurks To Partner And Deploy A 42,000 Core Render Farm In Texas

DALLAS, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TruSurv and RenderWurks are announcing that in June of this year a 5,280 server farm dedicated to supporting RenderWurks and its customers will go live in the Dallas area with the help of Digital Realty's Turn-Key Flex(SM) datacenter solutions.  More than 42,200 CPU cores will be deploy in this phase of the project giving RenderWurks over 105 Terahertz of processing power at its disposal.  According to published information, this joint project will make RenderWurks the largest continually available, publicly accessible dedicated render farm in the world.

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Currently, RenderWurks is gearing up for the first of two already executed contracts, which will fully utilize the farm for the remainder of the year.  As part of its dedication to the customers quality experience, RenderWurks is establishing a presence in the greater Los Angeles area where its current and future customers will have instantaneous remote access to the power of the farm and their data in Texas.  It is using this remote access method, coupled with the value economics Texas provides, that is enabling RenderWurks to offer its services at drastically reduced rates. 

In addition to the vast processing capabilities of the farm, an N+1 redundant date storage solution will be available to support all customer data storage requirements.  Primary and failover storage arrays totaling 420 usable terabytes in size will be located in Texas, and a third identical storage solution will be located at the RenderWurks West Coast facility enabling those customers to directly access their compiled project data files.

With the current server deployment completely subscribed through the end of 2013, TruSurv and RenderWurks are scheduled to deploy an additional 5,280 servers later this year.  At that time, the data storage solution will likewise be doubled in size. 

About RenderWurks, LLC:
http://www.renderwurks.com

RenderWurks is a new and highly competitive option for companies across numerous industries, including architecture, engineering, animation, CG/Visual effects, and others that require large scale rendering farms at reasonable costs.  With pricing well below the current rates being offered by West Coast based render farms, RenderWurks is changing how companies render their graphics.  RenderWurks currently supports virtual all commercial available software rendering solutions.

About TruSurv Hosting Solutions, LLC:
http://www.trusurv.com

TruSurv is a dedicated hosting provider offering solutions centered on value based, wholesale pricing models.  With an ever-growing arsenal of dedicated, on-demand, and now rendering based servers, TruSurv is setting an example for how hosting should be done.   With three data centers in Texas, TruSurv is able to accommodate the needs of customers, large and small, on any platform.     

RenderWurks and TruSurv are subsidiaries of TTHS Holdings, LLC
http://www.tthsholdings.com

For More Information Contact:
Jeremey Poe
Marketing Manager
TruSurv Hosting Solutions, LLC
Jeremey.poe@trusurv.com
1 214.716.2105 Ext.: 73014

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TruSurv

Web Site: http://www.trusurv.com

Here Comes Mango Pi: A Revolutionary PIC Development Board

NEW DELHI, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

    Mango Pi is Available in Three Variants

    If you are a budding engineer, here's a perfect PIC development board for you. The
board is developed and tested by EFY Lab and is exclusively available through Kits 'n'
Spares and its partners. A PIC Development Board allows you to perform any experiment on
PIC microcontrollers and create any applications based on them with minimum amount of
effort and time. Its easy and fast programming helps debug the programs at a much faster
rate reducing the time to market, whereas on-board interfaces like LCD and LEDs make it
really comfortable to test the programs on the go. Connection of any external hardware is
also very handy with I/O extended through box headers. Programing of the microcontrollers
on the board is done directly through USB cable. The board can also be used as a
programmer for programming PIC microcontrollers on the end product.

    Commenting on the product, Neena Chopra, Director, Kits 'n' Spares said, "Mango Pi is
a compact PIC development board with top-end features and a budget-friendly price tag.
Mango Pi is available in three variants." The basic version called Gold Mango Pi is a
board without LCD and Microcontroller, priced at Rs. 799. The Diamond Mango Pi version is
the board with Microcontroller, priced at Rs. 1,199, while the Platinum Mango Pi, which is
the premium board, comes with both Microcontroller and LED, priced at Rs. 1,299.

    Key features of Mango Pi include:

    1. Budget-friendly 8-Bit Microcontroller PIC Development Board (16F877A).

    2. Can act as a Programmer too.

    3. Can Programme upto 659 PIC Controllers.

    4. Easy to test and debug since LCD module & LEDs are already integrated on the board.

    5. High flexibility provided in terms of using Input/Output ports.

    6. Can be powered both through USB port or DC adapter.

    7. Perfect tool to develop applications around PIC Microcontrollers.

    To buy, visit mangopi.kitsnspares.com or call +91-8800100761.

    About Kits 'n' Spares:

    Kits 'n' Spares is an Indian manufacturer and marketer of high quality Do-It-Yourself
electronics projects and hobby kits. We have a huge variety of kits spanning differing
technologies like Robotics, RFID, GSM, ARM, VLSI, etc. With the aim to become "One Stop
Shop" for Design Engineers, Budding Engineering Students, Engineering Colleges, Training
Institutes and Hobbyists, we are also providing electronics books, programmers,
development boards and electronic components. Our tagline "For the Engineer in You" sums
up the mission of our organisation. Visit Kits 'n' Spares at http://www.kitsnspares.com
[http://www.kitsnspares.com ].

    Primary Media Contact: Shyam Pandey, pandey.shyam@kitsnspares.com, 91-88-00100761

    Secondary Media Contact: Neeraj Arora, info@kitsnspares.com, 91-11-26371661

Kits 'n' Spares

CONTACT: PRN

Thermal Engineering Associates Lowers The Cost Of Thermal Testing

More New Thermal Interface Material Characterization Tools

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Thermal Engineering Associates, Inc. (TEA) announces the availability of a new family of Thermal Interface Material (TIM) characterization tools that offer flexibility, standardization, and low cost. The tools are comprised of the popular TEA Thermal Test Chip (TTC) in sizes ranging from 2.5mm square to 12.8mm square mounted on a variety of popular packages including BGA, QFN, and DIP.  This range of chip sizes and package types is designed to make the evaluation of TIM materials easier and less costly.

The TTV-1100/1200 Series are mounted on a 27x27mm BGA package with 1mm pitch and 0.6mm diameter balls.  The chip sizes range from 2.5mm square to 12.8mm square.

The TTV-1800 is a 12.8mm square TTC mounted on an 18mm BGA package with 0.5mm pitch and 0.3mm diameter balls.

The TTV-1500 Series is comprised of a 5mm square TTC in either flip chip or wire bond configuration mounted on a 12.8mm square BGA package with 0.8mm pitch and 0.6mm diameter balls.

The TTV-3000 Series is comprised of a range of chip sizes from 2.5mm square to 7.65mm square mounted in open cavity, direct-attach pad QFN packages ranging in size from 6mm square to 12mm square.

The TTV-3100 Series is comprised of 2.5mm square and 5mm square TTC mounted on 24-pin ceramic side-braze DIPs with removable lids.

TTVs can also be used to simulate heat sources for validation of thermal simulation, quantification of thermal management performance, and the establishment of temperature-controlled platforms for various measurement purposes.

Contact TEA to explore which of these many Thermal Test Vehicle products will meet the TIM test and evaluation needs of your company.

About Thermal Engineering Associates:

TEA and its president, Bernie Siegal, have been providing thermal test and measurement hardware, software, and consulting services since 1973.  Siegal has been chairman of the JEDEC JC15 committee and is the principle author of many MILSTD 750 thermal test methods.  All major semiconductor companies, packaging companies, and many system level OEMs have utilized TEA products and/or services during its long history.  Siegal is a founding member of IEEE SEMI-THERM, has delivered numerous papers and articles on thermal testing, and is frequently sought out as a lecturer and expert in the field.  For more information on products and services, go to http://www.thermengr.com.

SOURCE  Thermal Engineering Associates, Inc.

Thermal Engineering Associates, Inc.

CONTACT: Bill Ribble, bribble@thermengr.net, (408) 202-3539

Web Site: http://www.thermengr.com

Halcyon Software Announces Advanced Job Scheduler v11 for IBM i to Improve Business Continuity

PETERBOROUGH, England, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

    Adds iASP functionality to maintain availability of all your scheduled jobs

    Halcyon Software [http://www.halcyonsoftware.com ], the global leader in systems
management software, has announced the immediate availability of Advanced Job Scheduler
v11 for the IBM i platform. It enables organisations to schedule and track complex job
streams across different IBM i systems to ensure that business processes are running
smoothly. Uniquely, this latest version is the first job scheduler that can be run on an
independent auxiliary storage pool (iASP) to maintain the availability of IBM i
infrastructures and protect against unexpected disruption. It provides an additional layer
of continuity assurance enabling organisations to meet all regulatory requirements.

    According to Carole Chandler, Sales and Marketing Director at Halcyon Software: "This
iASP functionality was developed in short timescales to meet the demanding job scheduling
requirements of major IBM users. It enables organisations to ensure that key business
processes run reliably, deliver significant cost savings and provides a rapid return on
investment."

    Advanced Job Scheduler
[http://www.halcyonsoftware.com/products/advancedjobscheduler/index.html ] v11 ensures that
processes run at the designated time and the iASP functionality enables it to be ported
seamlessly to another system in the event of disk corruption or other unexpected issues.
For extra resilience, Halcyon's Advanced Job Scheduler can be moved to other locations to
minimise business disruption.

    Data can also be imported from other third party schedulers for the IBM i, such as
Help Systems Robot/SCHEDULE and organisations can convert to Halcyon's solution using its
reliable methodology for job migration. The software will deliver significant cost savings
through reduced maintenance fees, decreased manual processes and the delivery of greater
efficiencies for data centres that have outgrown their existing job scheduler.

    Furthermore, Halcyon operates a fair pricing policy so that if an IBM customer
increases the Commercial Processing Workload (CPW) of their hardware in the future, they
will be protected against additional licence and maintenance fees. Halcyon software is not
priced on a CPW basis.

    The new Advanced Job Scheduler is available immediately, either as a standalone
utility or as part of Halcyon's Level 4 Operations Centre Suite monitoring software.
Customers already using Halcyon's Advanced Job Scheduler can upgrade to this latest
release free of charge.

    About Halcyon Software

    Halcyon Software is a global leader in multi-platform systems management software
solutions that reduce the complexity and cost of monitoring critical business systems,
core applications and processes. They support IBM enterprise-class systems, including
IBM(R) i and AIX(R), as well as Windows(R) and Linux(R) platforms. Halcyon solutions are
used world-wide by large multi-nationals, corporate and public sector data centres as well
as small to medium sized organisations to ensure that vital IT systems, business
applications and services are available 24/7. With regional offices in Peterborough UK,
Philadelphia USA, and Melbourne Australia, Halcyon also has an international network of
partners and distributors supporting Europe, the Americas and Asia Pac. For further
information please visit http://www.halcyonsoftware.com

    Collette Severn, Halcyon Software, Tel: +44(0)1733-234995

Halcyon Software

CONTACT: Email: collette.severn@halcyonsoftware.com  Paul Jennings, PJMC Limited, Tel: +44(0)1926-312886, Email: info@pjmc.com

Fox-IT Introduces InTELL it's Real-Time Cyber Intelligence Portal for InfoSec Teams in the United Kingdom

DELFT, The Netherlands, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

    The United Kingdom has been targeted by cybercriminals for years, however the
sophistication of the malware has lately become too much for traditional security
solutions. UK organisations have found the traditional defences they have implemented to
be inflexible, and find themselves fighting an uphill battle. To provide a proactive
advantage in their battles against cybercrime, Dutch security firm Fox-IT today announces
the availability of its Fox InTELL portal in the United Kingdom.

    Fox InTELL tracks and analyses client-specific cyber threats and potential attacks in
real-time as they are planned within the cybercrime underworld. Its unique approach to
gathering, processing and delivering actionable cyber intelligence is already leveraged by
leading banks and enterprises in Europe, and has been used by law enforcement agencies in
Europe and Asia to bring down botnet herders in high-profile cybercrime cases.

    "The Fox InTELL service monitors and captures the chatter, contains the fallout and
minimises the damage of cyber attacks every day by gathering and delivering the most
relevant and actionable information across the cyber intelligence community directly into
the hands of InfoSec teams," said Ronald Prins, CEO of Fox-IT.

    Founded in 1999 as Europe's first digital investigation agency, Fox-IT specialises in
cyber defence tools, proactive monitoring services and rapid incident response for
financial services, governments and highly secure/highly sensitive enterprises.

    Real-time threat evolution monitoring

    Fox InTELL clients are alerted immediately of possible threats and have portal access
to real-time threat evolution monitoring, which has a considerable benefit over the
standard industry practice of developing a written report. Fox-IT advises clients on
mitigation tactics, using expert skills such as reverse-engineering.

    "Fox InTELL enables us to be more in control of banking malware related to online
fraud," said Ton Wieman, head of investigations of a large European bank. "Through InTELL,
we can reach out to our peers in other participating organisations quickly and stay
abreast of the very latest developments in great detail."

    Cyber threats to organisation brands

    Cyber attacks impact brands. A lot of attacks look like they come from the very
organisation they target. Fox InTELL monitors for appearances of customers' brand names in
malware configurations, cybercrime command and control infrastructures, and underworld
forums, where new threats and targeted attacks are planned.

    Portal-based collaboration increases protective agility

    The Collaboration area on the Fox InTELL portal has proven to be an important feature
for client interactions with each other as well as with Fox InTELL experts. Community
discussions on new threats and countermeasures raise questions and provide answers on
issues faster than intelligence reports can be generated.

    "If an InfoSec team doesn't know about a new cyber threat, they can't defend against
it," said Fox InTELL product manager Eward Driehuis. "Fox InTELL improves an enterprise's
cyber intelligence position, which enables better situational awareness, security
controls, and risk decisions to protect their customers and their brands online."

    History of use in high-profile cybercrime cases

    Fox-IT has been gathering intelligence on cybercrime for over a decade, and its
services have been utilised by law enforcement agencies many times. Notable examples
include the apprehension of botnet herders in Russia, the post-mortem investigation of the
DigiNotar data breach, and the analysis of the recent hack of the main website of US
entertainment giant NBC that attempted to inject malware onto users' computers that would
expose their banking details to cyber criminals.

    About Fox-IT

    Fox-IT prevents, solves and mitigates the most serious threats as a result of cyber
attacks, fraud and data breaches with innovative solutions for government, defence, law
enforcement, critical infrastructure, banking, and commercial enterprise clients
worldwide. Our approach combines human intelligence and technology into innovative
solutions that ensure a more secure society. We develop custom and packaged solutions that
maintain the security of sensitive government systems, protect industrial control
networks, defend online banking systems, and secure highly confidential data and networks.
For more information, visit http://www.fox-it.com.

Fox-IT

CONTACT: Agency Contact:  Debby Stefaniak, Full Circle Communications, Mobile: +1-609-721-1368, Email: dstefaniak@fullcirclecomm.com ; Company Contact: Joost Bijl, Marketing Manager, Office: +31(0)15-2847-932, Email: bijl@fox-it.com, Twitter: @foxit

Actions Semiconductor Introduces Second OWL Series Chipset

ZHUHAI, China, April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: ACTS), one of China's leading fabless semiconductor companies that provides comprehensive portable multimedia and mobile internet system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions for portable consumer electronics, today announced  the introduction of its new ATM7023 chipset.

Actions' ATM7023 chipset is the second chipset in the OWL product series and supports the latest version of the Android(TM) operating system, Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean.  With the ARM® Cortex(TM) dual-core CPU and a powerful GPU core, the built-in full spec 1080p video encode and decode engine and USB 2.0 PHY integration, ATM7023 brings advanced multimedia capabilities to entry level tablets.

"Actions Semiconductor is pleased to announce the release of our second chipset in the OWL product series," stated Dr. Zhenyu Zhou, CEO of Actions Semiconductor.  "Our product roadmap for the OWL chipset family addresses the needs for each segment of the Whitebox tablet market.  Building on the momentum we created with our first OWL chipset, the ATM7023 chipset addresses the requirements for entry level and mainstream tablets, providing advanced functionality at a compelling price-to-performance ratio."      

"This latest product release expands our market position in the mobile Internet enabled multimedia segment.  We remain excited about the growth prospects for our chipsets in the Whitebox tablet market," concluded Dr. Zhou.  

About Actions Semiconductor                                                            

Actions Semiconductor is one of China's leading fabless semiconductor companies that provides comprehensive portable multimedia and mobile internet system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions for portable consumer electronics.  Actions Semiconductor products include SoCs, firmware, software, solution development kits, as well as detailed specifications of other required components.  Actions Semiconductor also provides total product and technology solutions that allow customers to quickly introduce new portable consumer electronics to the mass market in a cost effective way.  The company is headquartered in Zhuhai, China, with offices in Shanghai and Shenzhen.  For more information, please visit the Actions Semiconductor website at http://www.actions-semi.com.

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Investor Contacts:

Lisa LaukkanenEdward ChenThe Blueshirt GroupInvestor Relations at Actions Semiconductorlisa@blueshirtgroup.comedward@actions-semi.com415-217-4967+86-756-3392353*1110

SOURCE  Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

Web Site: http://www.actions-semi.com