News
February 15, 2012
Data-dependent Operators to Implement Tiered Services to Maintain Revenue and Combat Rising Costs
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 4:42:01 AM
Data-dependent Operators to Implement Tiered Services to Maintain Revenue and Combat Rising Costs
LONDON, February 15, 2012/PRNewswire/ --
Analysys Mason predicts decoupling of revenue and network costs as operators
prioritise bandwidth resource
Mobile operators will abandon network cost-based pricing to focus on premium services,
as they look to reduce churn and maintain revenues according to a new paper
[http://www.analysysmason.com/Research/Content/Reports/Real-time-network-analytics-Feb2012 ]
released by global telecoms, media and technology (TMT) adviser Analysys Mason. This
transformation, enabled by new end-to-end approaches to network management, arrives in the
face of growing competition from over-the-top(OTT) services and rapidly rising data costs.
The report estimates that the volume of wireless data traffic worldwide will grow at
an annual rate of 67% between 2010 and 2015. During the same period, data revenue per
gigabyte is projected to fall from USD23.21 to USD4.27. The report reveals that, in order
to handle this growth whilst assuring revenues, operators are increasingly looking to
offer new services such as temporary network speed boost and tiered bandwidth allocation
to create a premium service for high value customers.
Patrick Kelly, Research Director at Analysys Mason, believes that average revenue per
user (ARPU) will increasingly be related to additional services: "Operators are facing
increasing pressure to deliver a high quality service despite growing data demands. The
only realistic way to do that is to decouple ARPU from network costs and instead align it
to the delivery of premium services."
"Previously, there was a lack of availability of tools to support complex segmentation
of mobile data services. As the focus shifts towards maintaining revenue for data
services, more operators are adopting the increasingly sophisticated tools to manage
tiered services," said Kelly.
Interviews with operators have shown that the main obstacle to the delivery of these
services is their 'silo' approach to network delivery, which hinders a full view of the
customer experience. Operators are increasingly employing end-to-end network monitoring
solutions to eliminate these silos and create real-time, end-to-end monitoring.
"The rise of data has created a clear and urgent need for operators to introduce new
ways of dealing with network traffic such as prioritisation of higher tier subscribers.
End-to-end monitoring and analytics make that possible, but operators need to educate
customers about the requirement for tiered traffic to ensure continued quality of
service," commented Lars Pederson, CEO, CommProve.
Operators implementing this new, unified approach to network monitoring - including
Vodacom, part of Vodafone - reported reduced churn, increased levels of customer care and
a renewed ability to differentiate and remodel their services around premium offerings.
In the report, Analysys Mason urges operators to:
- Increase adoption of network monitoring to eliminate silos and more fully
understand the user experience
- Take advantage of real-time data collection and analysis to enable traffic
prioritisation and tiered billing models
- Adopt open platforms to unify the entire network management system
The paper, sponsored by CommProve, a leading provider of network monitoring and
business solutions for mobile networks, surveyed a number of mobile network operators. The
research investigates operator strategies to tackle growing data needs and loss of revenue
to OTT services.
The full paper can be downloaded here
[http://www.analysysmason.com/Research/Content/Reports/Real-time-network-analytics-Feb2012 ]
and highlights from the white paper are also available via Slideshare here
[http://slidesha.re/zo1xK0 ].
About Analysys Mason (http://www.analysysmason.com)
Analysys Mason is a global consultancy and research company specialising in telecoms,
media and technology (TMT). Our clients in the TMT sectors operate in dynamic markets
where change is constant. We help shape their understanding of the future so they can
thrive in these demanding conditions. To do that, our consultants have developed rigorous
methodologies that deliver real-world results for clients around the world. In terms of
our research, the world's leading network operators, vendors, regulators and investors
subscribe to our research and rely on our insight to inform their decision making.
About CommProve
CommProve enables mobile network operators (MNOs) to gain real-time visibility into
their operations to control financial performance, quality of experience and network
performance using a single integrated platform. The CommProve NetLedge platform provides
real-time data acquisition and mediation while the CommProve Insight application suite
collects and analyzes network usage information and integrates it with business rules and
subscriber data to enable operators to maximize both customer satisfaction and
profitability.
Headquartered in Ireland, and privately held since it was founded in 1996, CommProve
customers include H3G, Telecom Italia, TIM Brazil and Vodacom. For additional information
please visit http://www.commprove.com.
Analysys Mason media contact
Kate Brown / Alistair Young
Press Office
Tel: +44(0)845-600-5244
Email: press@analysysmason.com
Web: http://www.analysysmason.com
CommProve media contact
Stephanie Forrest
Tel: +44(0)7917695755
Email: stephanie.forrest@commprove.com
Twitter: @commprove
Source: Analysys Mason and CommProve
LONDON, February 15, 2012/PRNewswire/ --
Analysys Mason predicts decoupling of revenue and network costs as operators
prioritise bandwidth resource
Mobile operators will abandon network cost-based pricing to focus on premium services,
as they look to reduce churn and maintain revenues according to a new paper
[http://www.analysysmason.com/Research/Content/Reports/Real-time-network-analytics-Feb2012 ]
released by global telecoms, media and technology (TMT) adviser Analysys Mason. This
transformation, enabled by new end-to-end approaches to network management, arrives in the
face of growing competition from over-the-top(OTT) services and rapidly rising data costs.
The report estimates that the volume of wireless data traffic worldwide will grow at
an annual rate of 67% between 2010 and 2015. During the same period, data revenue per
gigabyte is projected to fall from USD23.21 to USD4.27. The report reveals that, in order
to handle this growth whilst assuring revenues, operators are increasingly looking to
offer new services such as temporary network speed boost and tiered bandwidth allocation
to create a premium service for high value customers.
Patrick Kelly, Research Director at Analysys Mason, believes that average revenue per
user (ARPU) will increasingly be related to additional services: "Operators are facing
increasing pressure to deliver a high quality service despite growing data demands. The
only realistic way to do that is to decouple ARPU from network costs and instead align it
to the delivery of premium services."
"Previously, there was a lack of availability of tools to support complex segmentation
of mobile data services. As the focus shifts towards maintaining revenue for data
services, more operators are adopting the increasingly sophisticated tools to manage
tiered services," said Kelly.
Interviews with operators have shown that the main obstacle to the delivery of these
services is their 'silo' approach to network delivery, which hinders a full view of the
customer experience. Operators are increasingly employing end-to-end network monitoring
solutions to eliminate these silos and create real-time, end-to-end monitoring.
"The rise of data has created a clear and urgent need for operators to introduce new
ways of dealing with network traffic such as prioritisation of higher tier subscribers.
End-to-end monitoring and analytics make that possible, but operators need to educate
customers about the requirement for tiered traffic to ensure continued quality of
service," commented Lars Pederson, CEO, CommProve.
Operators implementing this new, unified approach to network monitoring - including
Vodacom, part of Vodafone - reported reduced churn, increased levels of customer care and
a renewed ability to differentiate and remodel their services around premium offerings.
In the report, Analysys Mason urges operators to:
- Increase adoption of network monitoring to eliminate silos and more fully
understand the user experience
- Take advantage of real-time data collection and analysis to enable traffic
prioritisation and tiered billing models
- Adopt open platforms to unify the entire network management system
The paper, sponsored by CommProve, a leading provider of network monitoring and
business solutions for mobile networks, surveyed a number of mobile network operators. The
research investigates operator strategies to tackle growing data needs and loss of revenue
to OTT services.
The full paper can be downloaded here
[http://www.analysysmason.com/Research/Content/Reports/Real-time-network-analytics-Feb2012 ]
and highlights from the white paper are also available via Slideshare here
[http://slidesha.re/zo1xK0 ].
About Analysys Mason (http://www.analysysmason.com)
Analysys Mason is a global consultancy and research company specialising in telecoms,
media and technology (TMT). Our clients in the TMT sectors operate in dynamic markets
where change is constant. We help shape their understanding of the future so they can
thrive in these demanding conditions. To do that, our consultants have developed rigorous
methodologies that deliver real-world results for clients around the world. In terms of
our research, the world's leading network operators, vendors, regulators and investors
subscribe to our research and rely on our insight to inform their decision making.
About CommProve
CommProve enables mobile network operators (MNOs) to gain real-time visibility into
their operations to control financial performance, quality of experience and network
performance using a single integrated platform. The CommProve NetLedge platform provides
real-time data acquisition and mediation while the CommProve Insight application suite
collects and analyzes network usage information and integrates it with business rules and
subscriber data to enable operators to maximize both customer satisfaction and
profitability.
Headquartered in Ireland, and privately held since it was founded in 1996, CommProve
customers include H3G, Telecom Italia, TIM Brazil and Vodacom. For additional information
please visit http://www.commprove.com.
Analysys Mason media contact
Kate Brown / Alistair Young
Press Office
Tel: +44(0)845-600-5244
Email: press@analysysmason.com
Web: http://www.analysysmason.com
CommProve media contact
Stephanie Forrest
Tel: +44(0)7917695755
Email: stephanie.forrest@commprove.com
Twitter: @commprove
Source: Analysys Mason and CommProve
Qosmos and CEM4Mobile Solutions Partner to Provide Deeper Visibility into the Mobile Customer Experience
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 4:07:01 AM
Qosmos and CEM4Mobile Solutions Partner to Provide Deeper Visibility into the Mobile Customer Experience
PARIS and ESPOO, Finland, February 15, 2012/PRNewswire/ --
Summary: CEM4Mobile's customer data analytics based on embedded Qosmos Network
Intelligence technology enables MNOs and MSPs to grow business performance and customer
lifetime value by providing insight into the interactions between users and mobile
services. Consumers no longer buy just mobile phones, they can acquire a combination of
digital services, voice and data plans with their device.
Qosmos [http://www.qosmos.com ], a leading provider of Network Intelligence (NI)
technology, and CEM4Mobile Solutions Ltd [http://www.cem4mobile.com/en ], a world-class
expert in mobile analytics and Customer Experience Management (CEM), today announced a
deepening of their collaborative partnership delivering customer analytics that enable
MNOs (mobile network operators) and MSPs (mobile service providers) to better understand
subscriber behavior and use of mobile apps. The companies will demonstrate their strategic
collaboration at Mobile World Congress (MWC)in Barcelona, 27 February - 1 March.
Qosmos' ixEngine SDK (Software Development Kit) allows CEM4Mobile to capture the
behavior of mobile user groups for various types of analysis and reporting, while ensuring
subscriber privacy. CEM4Mobile's products and services enable MNOs to better manage the
mobile customer experience end-to-end, and MSPs to better understand and engage their
customers in industries such as financial services, media and retail.
"By embedding Qosmos technology into our offering, we improved the speed, depth and
breadth of information capture possible for analysis and reporting," said Janne Aalto, CEO
of CEM4Mobile Solutions. "We can provide our customers with a broader array of mobile
traffic metrics and analysis methods, which they can leverage to improve their
competitiveness, operational cost, and business performance."
CEM4Mobile's demonstration at the Qosmos exhibit will show their latest product
innovations. Subject matter experts will also be on hand to discuss customer data capture,
real-time analytics and experience management, covering areas such as:
- Collecting customer experience data from mobile networks, services and
users with systematic and sustainable methods
- Interpreting data according to various criteria, such as the behaviors of
mobile user groups, device types, services used, network performance, access points,
and users' values and opinions
- Measuring customer advocacy and emotion and how to use this information
- Leveraging customers' interactions across multiple channels
- Transforming casual customers into active and loyal brand advocates
- Creating and maintaining dashboards for measuring and monitoring
business-critical Key Performance Indicators
"We are delighted to welcome CEM4Mobile as one of our guest exhibitors demonstrating
how Network Intelligence solves challenges and creates business opportunities in the
mobile industry," said Thibaut Bechetoille, CEO of Qosmos. "It's always exciting to see
how innovative vendors apply our technology in their products and services. By adding the
use of real-time traffic metadata to strengthen their offering, CEM4Mobile further
empowers companies to manage and monetize today's 'Network Economy,' which is increasingly
driven by users of mobile devices. MNOs and MSPs can learn, in a very short time, how far
mobile analytics and CEM have progressed using NI technology by viewing the demo," said
Bechetoille.
See CEM4Mobile's latest innovations using Qosmos' real-time extraction of traffic
metadata for mobile Network Intelligence at the Qosmos stand, 2A70, Hall 2, at Mobile
World Congress in Barcelona, February 27 - March 1.
About Qosmos
Qosmos transforms networks into information sources and enables entirely new services
and applications. The company's Network Intelligence (NI) technology recognizes thousands
of communication protocols and metadata attributes for the most accurate picture of
real-time data activity on networks. Qosmos NI components are used by vendors in
telecommunications and cybersecurity to build next-generation solutions where real-time
intelligence is critical, such as traffic optimization, Quality of Service, analytics,
firewalls, cyber defense and more, making them more secure, efficient and profitable.
http://www.qosmos.com
About CEM4Mobile Solutions
CEM4Mobile Solutions (http://www.cem4mobile.com) is a world-class expert in mobile
analytics and Customer Experience Management. CEM4Mobile's product and service offering
provides statistical analysis which concentrates on end-users when they access digital
services from their wireless devices enabling companies to optimize the customer dialogue,
assure end-to-end service experience and maximize the number of satisfied, loyal and
advocate customers. Digital services are the new voice of the mobile industry. Attract,
retain and engage your customers.
http://www.cem4mobile.com
CEM4MobileSolutions Media Contact
Janne Aalto, CEM4Mobile Solutions Ltd
Phone: +358-40-822-3223 / Email: janne.aalto@cem4mobile.com
Qosmos Media Contact
Debby Stefaniak, Full Circle Communications
Phone: +1-215-712-2409 / Email: dstefaniak@fullcirclecomm.com
Source: CEM4Mobile Solutions Ltd
PARIS and ESPOO, Finland, February 15, 2012/PRNewswire/ --
Summary: CEM4Mobile's customer data analytics based on embedded Qosmos Network
Intelligence technology enables MNOs and MSPs to grow business performance and customer
lifetime value by providing insight into the interactions between users and mobile
services. Consumers no longer buy just mobile phones, they can acquire a combination of
digital services, voice and data plans with their device.
Qosmos [http://www.qosmos.com ], a leading provider of Network Intelligence (NI)
technology, and CEM4Mobile Solutions Ltd [http://www.cem4mobile.com/en ], a world-class
expert in mobile analytics and Customer Experience Management (CEM), today announced a
deepening of their collaborative partnership delivering customer analytics that enable
MNOs (mobile network operators) and MSPs (mobile service providers) to better understand
subscriber behavior and use of mobile apps. The companies will demonstrate their strategic
collaboration at Mobile World Congress (MWC)in Barcelona, 27 February - 1 March.
Qosmos' ixEngine SDK (Software Development Kit) allows CEM4Mobile to capture the
behavior of mobile user groups for various types of analysis and reporting, while ensuring
subscriber privacy. CEM4Mobile's products and services enable MNOs to better manage the
mobile customer experience end-to-end, and MSPs to better understand and engage their
customers in industries such as financial services, media and retail.
"By embedding Qosmos technology into our offering, we improved the speed, depth and
breadth of information capture possible for analysis and reporting," said Janne Aalto, CEO
of CEM4Mobile Solutions. "We can provide our customers with a broader array of mobile
traffic metrics and analysis methods, which they can leverage to improve their
competitiveness, operational cost, and business performance."
CEM4Mobile's demonstration at the Qosmos exhibit will show their latest product
innovations. Subject matter experts will also be on hand to discuss customer data capture,
real-time analytics and experience management, covering areas such as:
- Collecting customer experience data from mobile networks, services and
users with systematic and sustainable methods
- Interpreting data according to various criteria, such as the behaviors of
mobile user groups, device types, services used, network performance, access points,
and users' values and opinions
- Measuring customer advocacy and emotion and how to use this information
- Leveraging customers' interactions across multiple channels
- Transforming casual customers into active and loyal brand advocates
- Creating and maintaining dashboards for measuring and monitoring
business-critical Key Performance Indicators
"We are delighted to welcome CEM4Mobile as one of our guest exhibitors demonstrating
how Network Intelligence solves challenges and creates business opportunities in the
mobile industry," said Thibaut Bechetoille, CEO of Qosmos. "It's always exciting to see
how innovative vendors apply our technology in their products and services. By adding the
use of real-time traffic metadata to strengthen their offering, CEM4Mobile further
empowers companies to manage and monetize today's 'Network Economy,' which is increasingly
driven by users of mobile devices. MNOs and MSPs can learn, in a very short time, how far
mobile analytics and CEM have progressed using NI technology by viewing the demo," said
Bechetoille.
See CEM4Mobile's latest innovations using Qosmos' real-time extraction of traffic
metadata for mobile Network Intelligence at the Qosmos stand, 2A70, Hall 2, at Mobile
World Congress in Barcelona, February 27 - March 1.
About Qosmos
Qosmos transforms networks into information sources and enables entirely new services
and applications. The company's Network Intelligence (NI) technology recognizes thousands
of communication protocols and metadata attributes for the most accurate picture of
real-time data activity on networks. Qosmos NI components are used by vendors in
telecommunications and cybersecurity to build next-generation solutions where real-time
intelligence is critical, such as traffic optimization, Quality of Service, analytics,
firewalls, cyber defense and more, making them more secure, efficient and profitable.
http://www.qosmos.com
About CEM4Mobile Solutions
CEM4Mobile Solutions (http://www.cem4mobile.com) is a world-class expert in mobile
analytics and Customer Experience Management. CEM4Mobile's product and service offering
provides statistical analysis which concentrates on end-users when they access digital
services from their wireless devices enabling companies to optimize the customer dialogue,
assure end-to-end service experience and maximize the number of satisfied, loyal and
advocate customers. Digital services are the new voice of the mobile industry. Attract,
retain and engage your customers.
http://www.cem4mobile.com
CEM4MobileSolutions Media Contact
Janne Aalto, CEM4Mobile Solutions Ltd
Phone: +358-40-822-3223 / Email: janne.aalto@cem4mobile.com
Qosmos Media Contact
Debby Stefaniak, Full Circle Communications
Phone: +1-215-712-2409 / Email: dstefaniak@fullcirclecomm.com
Source: CEM4Mobile Solutions Ltd
GroupCamp Launches its Web-Based Project Management Software in the Netherlands, Italy & Brazil for SMBs
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 4:07:01 AM
GroupCamp Launches its Web-Based Project Management Software in the Netherlands, Italy & Brazil for SMBs
PARIS, February 15, 2012/PRNewswire/ --
GroupCamp Project, the web-based project management software is now available in
Dutch, Italian and Portuguese and comes with a mobile web app version for iPhone and
Android smartphones
GroupCamp (http://www.groupcamp.com) has announced that GroupCamp Project
(http://www.groupcamp.com/online-project-management-software) its cloud-based
collaboration tools designed for collaborative project management is now fully available
in Dutch, Italian and Portuguese (Brazilian). The web-based software comes in both web
desktop versions and also as a web application for touchscreen smartphones such as iPhone
and Android.
SMBs from Italy, Portugal and Brazil can now benefit from GroupCamp cloud applications
to improve their group productivity and teamwork collaboration while reducing their IT
costs. "Our collaborative tools have been well received in all markets where we have
launched and we already have an existing client base in those countries using GroupCamp in
English. We are now happy to bring our tools on such a fast-growing market for SaaS
(Software as a Service)" said Dickel SOORIAH, GroupCamp's co-founder.
Web-based Project Management: on-demand software with monthly subscriptions and 30-day
free trial
GroupCamp web-based software can be accessed with any common Internet browser, with a
simple subscription model and without any long-term contract or setup fee. Businesses can
have their teams start trying all features of the tools during a one-month free trial.
Setting up an account takes only 60 seconds.
At the end of the free trial, the company may then decide which plan to subscribe to
or export at any time all the data present in their account. All GroupCamp plans can be
cancelled at any time.
"Our model is fully transparent and bears no hidden costs. With the new generation of
cloud-based software, all our clients use the same version of our apps and benefit from
regular feature updates on a regular basis." said Dickel SOORIAH.
Web-based project management: unlimited users in your projects starting at 19 Euros
per month
GroupCamp Project is built for both internal teamwork within a company and also for
collaboration with clients and partners. GroupCamp's online project management tool
includes file management and file sharing, time tracking and time sheets, task management
with priority management, milestones for project planning and a collaborative wiki for
knowledge management in projects.
GroupCamp provides a forever Free plan for GroupCamp Project without any limit in time
and with an unlimited number of users.
Dickel SOORIAH added: "Our Free plan is designed for education or non-profit
organizations, start-ups and new entrepreneurs wanting to build an online workspace and
get to work with their teams. We wanted to design a Free plan that would actually be
useful for clients getting started with our productivity apps".
GroupCamp cloud applications and local resellers in the Netherlands, Brazil and Italy
Small businesses can also purchase GroupCamp via a local reseller in Italy, Brazil and
the Netherlands. Local resellers can bring added value to GroupCamp clients with
customized training sessions, phone and on-premise support and customized billing and
payment.
"What small businesses are looking for are cloud-based productivity tools that can be
easily rolled out within a company and GroupCamp Project is a great add-on to our existing
value-added services especially around the Google Apps suite" declared Dimitri Van Esch,
Chief Technical Officer at GMove, http://www.gmove.nl/, GroupCamp Partner in the
Netherlands and local authorized Google Apps Reseller.
"With GroupCamp's level of integration with Google Apps, we hope to be able to bring a
complete bundle of collaboration tools all based on the cloud computing model for our
clients" declared Silvano Pancaldi
CEO of Injenia,(http://injenia.it/) GroupCamp Partner and local authorized Google Apps
Reseller.
"GroupCamp is exactly what many of our clients are looking for. It offers a complete
bundle of tools to collaborate and is integrating seamlessly with Google Apps so users are
working more productively in a secure online environment" tells Martijn Snels from
PlusCloud.nl http://pluscloud [http://pluscloud.nl ] . [http://pluscloud.nl ] nl
[http://pluscloud.nl ], GroupCamp Partner and Google Apps Authorized Reseller.
Web-based project management integrated with office software
All GroupCamp applications work with regular office software based on Microsoft,
Google, Apple or Linux systems:
- Common internet browsers: Firefox, Chrome, Explorer (8+), Safari, Opera,
etc.
- Microsoft Office, Apple, Linux, Google Docs (Word, Excel, pdf, jpg, png, etc)
are supported,
- Calendars from Gmail, Microsoft Outlook, Google Apps, Apple iCal can be
synchronized with project tasks and milestones,
- Outlook, Apple Mail, Windows Live Mail, Gmail, Notes, Novell, Thunderbird, all
are tested to receive email notifications in HTML format and allow replies to be made
and taken into account by GroupCamp,
- Gadgets for Gmail allows users to save emails from the inbox and add tasks
directly on emails saved in their online projects without having to leave the Gmail
interface,
- Contact imports from Gmail or Google Apps, Excel spreadsheets or CSV files.
Web-based project management with iPhone or Android smartphones
GroupCamp collaboration software can also be accessed from touchscreen smartphones
such as iPhone and Android phones. GroupCamp supports iPhone devices as from version 3.1
and Android as from version 2.
About GroupCamp
GroupCamp, a technology company based in Paris, is a provider of on-demand software
for businesses. GroupCamp is a privately-funded business founded in 2008 in Paris
(France). GroupCamp builds simple but powerful applications to help businesses work better
by making the most of web-based software. GroupCamp is the provider of GroupCamp Project,
an online project management software designed to help businesses manage collaborative
projects online, online timesheet and time tracking management, idea management and
innovation, customer project management and collaborative writing. GroupCamp products are
also available in the Google Apps Marketplace. GroupCamp has a partner program for
resellers and an affiliate referral program.
Please visit our country websites:
English: http://www.groupcamp.com
Spanish: http://www.groupcamp.es
French: http://www.groupcamp.fr
German: http://www.groupcamp.de
Russian: http://www.groupcamp.ru
Dutch: http://www.groupcamp.nl
Italian: http://www.groupcamp.it
Brazilian (Portugues): http://www.groupcamp.com.br
Contact
Dickel SOORIAH
Co-founder GroupCamp
Groupcamp.com/contact
Source: GroupCamp
+33-6-88-86-29-86
PARIS, February 15, 2012/PRNewswire/ --
GroupCamp Project, the web-based project management software is now available in
Dutch, Italian and Portuguese and comes with a mobile web app version for iPhone and
Android smartphones
GroupCamp (http://www.groupcamp.com) has announced that GroupCamp Project
(http://www.groupcamp.com/online-project-management-software) its cloud-based
collaboration tools designed for collaborative project management is now fully available
in Dutch, Italian and Portuguese (Brazilian). The web-based software comes in both web
desktop versions and also as a web application for touchscreen smartphones such as iPhone
and Android.
SMBs from Italy, Portugal and Brazil can now benefit from GroupCamp cloud applications
to improve their group productivity and teamwork collaboration while reducing their IT
costs. "Our collaborative tools have been well received in all markets where we have
launched and we already have an existing client base in those countries using GroupCamp in
English. We are now happy to bring our tools on such a fast-growing market for SaaS
(Software as a Service)" said Dickel SOORIAH, GroupCamp's co-founder.
Web-based Project Management: on-demand software with monthly subscriptions and 30-day
free trial
GroupCamp web-based software can be accessed with any common Internet browser, with a
simple subscription model and without any long-term contract or setup fee. Businesses can
have their teams start trying all features of the tools during a one-month free trial.
Setting up an account takes only 60 seconds.
At the end of the free trial, the company may then decide which plan to subscribe to
or export at any time all the data present in their account. All GroupCamp plans can be
cancelled at any time.
"Our model is fully transparent and bears no hidden costs. With the new generation of
cloud-based software, all our clients use the same version of our apps and benefit from
regular feature updates on a regular basis." said Dickel SOORIAH.
Web-based project management: unlimited users in your projects starting at 19 Euros
per month
GroupCamp Project is built for both internal teamwork within a company and also for
collaboration with clients and partners. GroupCamp's online project management tool
includes file management and file sharing, time tracking and time sheets, task management
with priority management, milestones for project planning and a collaborative wiki for
knowledge management in projects.
GroupCamp provides a forever Free plan for GroupCamp Project without any limit in time
and with an unlimited number of users.
Dickel SOORIAH added: "Our Free plan is designed for education or non-profit
organizations, start-ups and new entrepreneurs wanting to build an online workspace and
get to work with their teams. We wanted to design a Free plan that would actually be
useful for clients getting started with our productivity apps".
GroupCamp cloud applications and local resellers in the Netherlands, Brazil and Italy
Small businesses can also purchase GroupCamp via a local reseller in Italy, Brazil and
the Netherlands. Local resellers can bring added value to GroupCamp clients with
customized training sessions, phone and on-premise support and customized billing and
payment.
"What small businesses are looking for are cloud-based productivity tools that can be
easily rolled out within a company and GroupCamp Project is a great add-on to our existing
value-added services especially around the Google Apps suite" declared Dimitri Van Esch,
Chief Technical Officer at GMove, http://www.gmove.nl/, GroupCamp Partner in the
Netherlands and local authorized Google Apps Reseller.
"With GroupCamp's level of integration with Google Apps, we hope to be able to bring a
complete bundle of collaboration tools all based on the cloud computing model for our
clients" declared Silvano Pancaldi
CEO of Injenia,(http://injenia.it/) GroupCamp Partner and local authorized Google Apps
Reseller.
"GroupCamp is exactly what many of our clients are looking for. It offers a complete
bundle of tools to collaborate and is integrating seamlessly with Google Apps so users are
working more productively in a secure online environment" tells Martijn Snels from
PlusCloud.nl http://pluscloud [http://pluscloud.nl ] . [http://pluscloud.nl ] nl
[http://pluscloud.nl ], GroupCamp Partner and Google Apps Authorized Reseller.
Web-based project management integrated with office software
All GroupCamp applications work with regular office software based on Microsoft,
Google, Apple or Linux systems:
- Common internet browsers: Firefox, Chrome, Explorer (8+), Safari, Opera,
etc.
- Microsoft Office, Apple, Linux, Google Docs (Word, Excel, pdf, jpg, png, etc)
are supported,
- Calendars from Gmail, Microsoft Outlook, Google Apps, Apple iCal can be
synchronized with project tasks and milestones,
- Outlook, Apple Mail, Windows Live Mail, Gmail, Notes, Novell, Thunderbird, all
are tested to receive email notifications in HTML format and allow replies to be made
and taken into account by GroupCamp,
- Gadgets for Gmail allows users to save emails from the inbox and add tasks
directly on emails saved in their online projects without having to leave the Gmail
interface,
- Contact imports from Gmail or Google Apps, Excel spreadsheets or CSV files.
Web-based project management with iPhone or Android smartphones
GroupCamp collaboration software can also be accessed from touchscreen smartphones
such as iPhone and Android phones. GroupCamp supports iPhone devices as from version 3.1
and Android as from version 2.
About GroupCamp
GroupCamp, a technology company based in Paris, is a provider of on-demand software
for businesses. GroupCamp is a privately-funded business founded in 2008 in Paris
(France). GroupCamp builds simple but powerful applications to help businesses work better
by making the most of web-based software. GroupCamp is the provider of GroupCamp Project,
an online project management software designed to help businesses manage collaborative
projects online, online timesheet and time tracking management, idea management and
innovation, customer project management and collaborative writing. GroupCamp products are
also available in the Google Apps Marketplace. GroupCamp has a partner program for
resellers and an affiliate referral program.
Please visit our country websites:
English: http://www.groupcamp.com
Spanish: http://www.groupcamp.es
French: http://www.groupcamp.fr
German: http://www.groupcamp.de
Russian: http://www.groupcamp.ru
Dutch: http://www.groupcamp.nl
Italian: http://www.groupcamp.it
Brazilian (Portugues): http://www.groupcamp.com.br
Contact
Dickel SOORIAH
Co-founder GroupCamp
Groupcamp.com/contact
Source: GroupCamp
+33-6-88-86-29-86
Loudlee Releases New Social Music Network
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 3:14:01 AM
Loudlee Releases New Social Music Network
New social music platform gives people easy and unlimited access to listen and share music
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Loudlee (http://loudlee.com), a new social music network that enables its members to play, share and discover new music from YouTube in discography format, has announced its Beta release today.
Loudlee enables people to easily play and share tunes, discover what their friends are listening to, and create playlists for free. The layout of discography, method of sharing, and level of control given to users are the main stand-outs of the service. Loudlee is free and shall remain free. Signing up for Loudlee currently requires an invite.
Users join by logging-in through their Facebook account. From there they can search and find music to play, invite friends and see which albums and songs their friends are listening to. These are displayed in a strongly visual way, and indicate which friends have listened to which tunes. Music is pulled from YouTube and can be seen onscreen during playback. With the click of a button, users can also share what they are listening to via Twitter and Facebook.
Yaron Revah, Loudlee Founder and CEO, explains, "We created Loudlee because of a gap we saw in the music service industry. Every online service has a long set of conditions, restrictions, and small print -- Loudlee has none. It's free and can be used anywhere in the world." He added, "Users can listen to the music they like and share with their friends. With total control and immediate full access, users can organize millions of songs by album or create their own playlists whenever they want."
"We want to know what music our friends are listening to," said Revah. "We wanted to create a service that made sharing effortless and allowed people to find new music that matches their tastes."
Loudlee builds on Revah's already impressive resume within the technology start-up world. He co-founded XIV with four friends -- XIV developed high-end storage systems for enterprises and was sold to IBM for $300 million U.S. in 2007. He looks forward to making Loudlee the go-to destination for those who want to share their musical preferences.
In future releases Loudlee intends to increase the level of control users have on their music by enabling playlist saving and sharing, music library organization, and brand and band music pages. Sharing via Google+ will be added soon as well.
For more information please visit http://www.loudlee.com
Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/loudlee
Follow us on Google+: https://plus.google.com/b/105135201510483985917/
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/loudleeturnitup
ABOUT LOUDLEE
Founded in February 2011, Loudlee gives you and your friends unlimited access to listen and share music. Users can easily create playlists from the best music videos on YouTube. Loudlee is a privately held company and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. Visit us at http://www.loudlee.com.
Contact: Shira Abel
Tel: (415) 230-0575
Email: shira@hunterandbard.com
SOURCE Loudlee
Loudlee
Web Site: http://www.loudlee.com
New social music platform gives people easy and unlimited access to listen and share music
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Loudlee (http://loudlee.com), a new social music network that enables its members to play, share and discover new music from YouTube in discography format, has announced its Beta release today.
Loudlee enables people to easily play and share tunes, discover what their friends are listening to, and create playlists for free. The layout of discography, method of sharing, and level of control given to users are the main stand-outs of the service. Loudlee is free and shall remain free. Signing up for Loudlee currently requires an invite.
Users join by logging-in through their Facebook account. From there they can search and find music to play, invite friends and see which albums and songs their friends are listening to. These are displayed in a strongly visual way, and indicate which friends have listened to which tunes. Music is pulled from YouTube and can be seen onscreen during playback. With the click of a button, users can also share what they are listening to via Twitter and Facebook.
Yaron Revah, Loudlee Founder and CEO, explains, "We created Loudlee because of a gap we saw in the music service industry. Every online service has a long set of conditions, restrictions, and small print -- Loudlee has none. It's free and can be used anywhere in the world." He added, "Users can listen to the music they like and share with their friends. With total control and immediate full access, users can organize millions of songs by album or create their own playlists whenever they want."
"We want to know what music our friends are listening to," said Revah. "We wanted to create a service that made sharing effortless and allowed people to find new music that matches their tastes."
Loudlee builds on Revah's already impressive resume within the technology start-up world. He co-founded XIV with four friends -- XIV developed high-end storage systems for enterprises and was sold to IBM for $300 million U.S. in 2007. He looks forward to making Loudlee the go-to destination for those who want to share their musical preferences.
In future releases Loudlee intends to increase the level of control users have on their music by enabling playlist saving and sharing, music library organization, and brand and band music pages. Sharing via Google+ will be added soon as well.
For more information please visit http://www.loudlee.com
Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/loudlee
Follow us on Google+: https://plus.google.com/b/105135201510483985917/
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/loudleeturnitup
ABOUT LOUDLEE
Founded in February 2011, Loudlee gives you and your friends unlimited access to listen and share music. Users can easily create playlists from the best music videos on YouTube. Loudlee is a privately held company and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. Visit us at http://www.loudlee.com.
Contact: Shira Abel
Tel: (415) 230-0575
Email: shira@hunterandbard.com
SOURCE Loudlee
Loudlee
Web Site: http://www.loudlee.com
NEXCOM Raises High Bar for Quick and Secure Network Access
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 3:07:01 AM
NEXCOM Raises High Bar for Quick and Secure Network Access
FREMONT, Calif., Feb. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The more the world is connected, the heavier the workload of back-end infrastructure grows. To increase the performance of network communication in this scenario, NEXCOM will demonstrate its latest network security platform, NSA 7120A based on the next-generation communications platform from Intel, codename "Crystal Forest", at RSA Conference in San Francisco from February 28 to March 1, 2012.
NSA 7120A accelerates the performance of network communication by accelerating specialized packet processing. Value-added communication features and network security measures such as packet processing, cryptography, data compression and decompression are carried out by the Intel® QuickAssist Technology. Combined with the Intel® Data Plane Development Kit (Intel® DPDK), NSA 7120A can boast overall system performance with a more efficient allocation of processor resources.
According to Andrew Huang, NEXCOM Network and Communications Solutions VP, "NEXCOM has received positive feedbacks from customers based in China and Korea regarding this new generation network security platform. They are specifically eager to see the advanced performance along with the Intel® QuickAssist Technology and Intel® DPDK capabilities."
"Our next generation communications platform, based on Intel® architecture, is designed to consolidate packet, application and control plane workloads and to speed up these processing workloads without sacrificing security," said Steve Price, marketing director, Communications Infrastructure Division, Intel, "The Intel® DPDK's optimized libraries remove packet handling inefficiencies to help optimize the performance of advanced network security platforms, such as the NSA 7120A from NEXCOM."
As the complexity of network processing arises in a more connected world, there are increasing risks of quality and security impairment in network communication once computing power is diverted away from applications with specialized workloads such as VoIP, virtual private network (VPN), firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention, antivirus and anti-spam filters and others.
NSA 7120A will pave the way for the network communication applications and set a higher standard for quick and secure network access. As our lives are inextricably intertwined with the internet, NEXCOM will be working in collaboration with Intel to help service providers grasp opportunities at a faster pace.
About NEXCOM: NEXCOM is at the forefront of the competition by offering solutions in four global business units--Multi-Media Solutions, Industrial Computing Solutions, Mobile Computing Solutions and Network and Communication Solutions.
Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation in the United States and other countries.
SOURCE NEXCOM
NEXCOM
CONTACT: Khang Pham, 1-510-870-8340, kpham@nexcom.com
Web Site: http://www.nexcom.com
FREMONT, Calif., Feb. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The more the world is connected, the heavier the workload of back-end infrastructure grows. To increase the performance of network communication in this scenario, NEXCOM will demonstrate its latest network security platform, NSA 7120A based on the next-generation communications platform from Intel, codename "Crystal Forest", at RSA Conference in San Francisco from February 28 to March 1, 2012.
NSA 7120A accelerates the performance of network communication by accelerating specialized packet processing. Value-added communication features and network security measures such as packet processing, cryptography, data compression and decompression are carried out by the Intel® QuickAssist Technology. Combined with the Intel® Data Plane Development Kit (Intel® DPDK), NSA 7120A can boast overall system performance with a more efficient allocation of processor resources.
According to Andrew Huang, NEXCOM Network and Communications Solutions VP, "NEXCOM has received positive feedbacks from customers based in China and Korea regarding this new generation network security platform. They are specifically eager to see the advanced performance along with the Intel® QuickAssist Technology and Intel® DPDK capabilities."
"Our next generation communications platform, based on Intel® architecture, is designed to consolidate packet, application and control plane workloads and to speed up these processing workloads without sacrificing security," said Steve Price, marketing director, Communications Infrastructure Division, Intel, "The Intel® DPDK's optimized libraries remove packet handling inefficiencies to help optimize the performance of advanced network security platforms, such as the NSA 7120A from NEXCOM."
As the complexity of network processing arises in a more connected world, there are increasing risks of quality and security impairment in network communication once computing power is diverted away from applications with specialized workloads such as VoIP, virtual private network (VPN), firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention, antivirus and anti-spam filters and others.
NSA 7120A will pave the way for the network communication applications and set a higher standard for quick and secure network access. As our lives are inextricably intertwined with the internet, NEXCOM will be working in collaboration with Intel to help service providers grasp opportunities at a faster pace.
About NEXCOM: NEXCOM is at the forefront of the competition by offering solutions in four global business units--Multi-Media Solutions, Industrial Computing Solutions, Mobile Computing Solutions and Network and Communication Solutions.
Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation in the United States and other countries.
SOURCE NEXCOM
NEXCOM
CONTACT: Khang Pham, 1-510-870-8340, kpham@nexcom.com
Web Site: http://www.nexcom.com
GHX Acquires IMPLANET's Beep N Track to Accelerate Delivery of Healthcare Industry's First Implantable Device Supply Chain Solution
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 3:07:01 AM
GHX Acquires IMPLANET's Beep N Track to Accelerate Delivery of Healthcare Industry's First Implantable Device Supply Chain Solution
LOUISVILLE, Colorado and BORDEAUX, France, February 15, 2012/PRNewswire/ --
Announces plans for new end-to-end solution to better manage implantable devices
including physician preference items
GHX announced that the company has completed the acquisition of the Beep N Track
solution from IMPLANET. The acquisition is the latest move by GHX to expand its extensive
healthcare footprint to include the industry's first comprehensive supply chain solution
for physician preference items (PPI) and implantable medical devices. Financial terms were
not disclosed.
The GHX implantable device supply chain solution will continue the company's
commitment to developing industry solutions that allow providers and manufacturers to
jointly automate shared business processes for greater efficiencies. The GHX solution will
capture data from product purchase to product usage at the point of care, creating capture
capability for compliance, while enabling accurate billing, purchasing and inventory
tracking.
Today, managing implantable devices is a largely manual process laden with lost
revenue through incorrect charge capture, inadequate purchasing controls, lack of data for
value analysis, and excessive labor and inventory costs. Based on its extensive research
GHX believes that better management of PPI clinical, operational and financial processes
can help increase revenue capture, lower supply chain costs and improve staff
productivity.
"The healthcare market is losing more than $5 billion every year due to the inadequacy
of current solutions in the implantable device supply chain," said Bruce Johnson, CEO and
president of GHX. "When we talk with our customers, who span the entire healthcare
marketplace from suppliers to providers, the need for an implantable device solution is
top of the list. They tell us that an end-to-end solution that automates and links the
entire implantable products supply chain will save money and eliminate waste. This is
precisely what GHX has been doing for the past 12 years in the medical-surgical market.
This is an opportunity to help the industry in a way that is a perfect extension of our
current mission."
Beep N Track's traceability solution records near real-time medical device and implant
data from creation to point of use. Designed to work with a variety of mobile hardware, as
well as bar code and RFID capture devices, Beep N Track helps with recall management,
paperless electronic filing, device traceability, stock management, regulatory compliance,
order management, procedure validation and inventory management. The data provided by Beep
N Track is transformed into actionable information, allowing more efficiency, security and
protection for suppliers and providers. According to GHX, the Beep N Track technology will
become part of a complete implantable device supply chain and inventory management
solution the company is currently developing.
"We believe that GHX will take Beep N Track to the next level, providing healthcare
with a comprehensive industry-wide standard for end-to-end traceability, from manufacturer
to patient. Implanet will continue to focus on providing surgeon and patients with a
unique combination of products, services, safety and efficiency in Europe, and very soon
in the U.S.," said Erick Cloix, CEO of Implanet.
GHX estimates the cardiac and ortho implantable device market is a more than $40
billion market with no current solution addressing the entire healthcare value chain from
device supplier to hospital or surgi-center to patient. With this acquisition and the
subsequent development of an implantable device supply chain solution, GHX is building on
its capabilities in cloud-based technology, expanding its cross-healthcare solution
connecting supply chain, finance and clinical professionals with their suppliers and
partners.
"The complexity and magnitude of the implantable device supply chain is one that
impacts hundreds of manufacturers and literally thousands of providers, and their ability
to deliver quality patient care at an optimum cost," said Eric O'Daffer, research
director, Gartner. "Solving this level of macro problem takes an organization that has the
vision, the resources and perhaps most importantly the support and participation of a
significant portion of the industry. GHX has invested the time necessary to understand the
problems facing the implantable device supply chain. This acquisition demonstrates its
commitment to move quickly to develop a solution that can meet the challenge."
Beep N Track (http://www.beepntrack.com) was developed in 2007 by IMPLANET, a French
orthopedic implant manufacturer.
About GHX
Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX), a healthcare technology and services company,
helps reduce the cost of doing business in healthcare by enabling better supply chain
management. GHX makes it easier for hospitals, other healthcare providers and the
suppliers that do business with them to drive cost and inefficiency out of their
processes. Working with GHX, the healthcare organizations that make up the GHX Global
Network are on track to save $5 billion by 2014-savings that can be invested in such
things as hiring more nurses, providing care to uninsured children or developing new
medical products. GHX is owned by organizations on both the buy and sell side of the
healthcare supply chain, including some of the largest companies in the world. Find GHX on
the Web [http://www.ghx.com ], on Twitter@GHX_LLC [http://twitter.com/#!/GHX_LLC ] and on
Facebook @GHX [http://www.facebook.com/pages/GHX/152008261509683 ].
About Implanet/Beepntrack
Implanet, the contraction of the words Implant & Internet was created in early 2007 by
orthopedic industry experts, IT professionals and reputable European investors with a
vision to materialize an efficient orthopedic company using highest innovations in
information technology and medical devices to deliver solutions for the 21st century
healthcare needs: Better Implants, Cost Efficiencies, Supply Chain Automation, Information
On Demand, Diligent Traceability and Security from Manufacturing to Patient.
IMPLANET (http://www.implanet.com [
C:\Users\nsahami\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.Outlook\2M58S2JG\www.implanet.com ]), a French based corporation, designs,
manufactures and markets orthopedic implants for HIP, KNEE, SPINE, and ARTHROSCOPY surgery
throughout the world. IMPLANET designed and deployed in France and abroad for more than 3
years an end-to- end medical device software called Beep N Track. The software
automatically captures all relevant supply chain and regulatory data linked to medical
devices from the point of manufacture to the point of care and renders the information
accessible on demand for authorized stakeholders.
Source: Implanet and Beepntrack
CONTACT: Judy Stowell, +1-720-887-7631, jstowell@ghx.com ; CONTACT: Nazanine Sahami, +33-557-99-5610, nsi@implanet.com .
LOUISVILLE, Colorado and BORDEAUX, France, February 15, 2012/PRNewswire/ --
Announces plans for new end-to-end solution to better manage implantable devices
including physician preference items
GHX announced that the company has completed the acquisition of the Beep N Track
solution from IMPLANET. The acquisition is the latest move by GHX to expand its extensive
healthcare footprint to include the industry's first comprehensive supply chain solution
for physician preference items (PPI) and implantable medical devices. Financial terms were
not disclosed.
The GHX implantable device supply chain solution will continue the company's
commitment to developing industry solutions that allow providers and manufacturers to
jointly automate shared business processes for greater efficiencies. The GHX solution will
capture data from product purchase to product usage at the point of care, creating capture
capability for compliance, while enabling accurate billing, purchasing and inventory
tracking.
Today, managing implantable devices is a largely manual process laden with lost
revenue through incorrect charge capture, inadequate purchasing controls, lack of data for
value analysis, and excessive labor and inventory costs. Based on its extensive research
GHX believes that better management of PPI clinical, operational and financial processes
can help increase revenue capture, lower supply chain costs and improve staff
productivity.
"The healthcare market is losing more than $5 billion every year due to the inadequacy
of current solutions in the implantable device supply chain," said Bruce Johnson, CEO and
president of GHX. "When we talk with our customers, who span the entire healthcare
marketplace from suppliers to providers, the need for an implantable device solution is
top of the list. They tell us that an end-to-end solution that automates and links the
entire implantable products supply chain will save money and eliminate waste. This is
precisely what GHX has been doing for the past 12 years in the medical-surgical market.
This is an opportunity to help the industry in a way that is a perfect extension of our
current mission."
Beep N Track's traceability solution records near real-time medical device and implant
data from creation to point of use. Designed to work with a variety of mobile hardware, as
well as bar code and RFID capture devices, Beep N Track helps with recall management,
paperless electronic filing, device traceability, stock management, regulatory compliance,
order management, procedure validation and inventory management. The data provided by Beep
N Track is transformed into actionable information, allowing more efficiency, security and
protection for suppliers and providers. According to GHX, the Beep N Track technology will
become part of a complete implantable device supply chain and inventory management
solution the company is currently developing.
"We believe that GHX will take Beep N Track to the next level, providing healthcare
with a comprehensive industry-wide standard for end-to-end traceability, from manufacturer
to patient. Implanet will continue to focus on providing surgeon and patients with a
unique combination of products, services, safety and efficiency in Europe, and very soon
in the U.S.," said Erick Cloix, CEO of Implanet.
GHX estimates the cardiac and ortho implantable device market is a more than $40
billion market with no current solution addressing the entire healthcare value chain from
device supplier to hospital or surgi-center to patient. With this acquisition and the
subsequent development of an implantable device supply chain solution, GHX is building on
its capabilities in cloud-based technology, expanding its cross-healthcare solution
connecting supply chain, finance and clinical professionals with their suppliers and
partners.
"The complexity and magnitude of the implantable device supply chain is one that
impacts hundreds of manufacturers and literally thousands of providers, and their ability
to deliver quality patient care at an optimum cost," said Eric O'Daffer, research
director, Gartner. "Solving this level of macro problem takes an organization that has the
vision, the resources and perhaps most importantly the support and participation of a
significant portion of the industry. GHX has invested the time necessary to understand the
problems facing the implantable device supply chain. This acquisition demonstrates its
commitment to move quickly to develop a solution that can meet the challenge."
Beep N Track (http://www.beepntrack.com) was developed in 2007 by IMPLANET, a French
orthopedic implant manufacturer.
About GHX
Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX), a healthcare technology and services company,
helps reduce the cost of doing business in healthcare by enabling better supply chain
management. GHX makes it easier for hospitals, other healthcare providers and the
suppliers that do business with them to drive cost and inefficiency out of their
processes. Working with GHX, the healthcare organizations that make up the GHX Global
Network are on track to save $5 billion by 2014-savings that can be invested in such
things as hiring more nurses, providing care to uninsured children or developing new
medical products. GHX is owned by organizations on both the buy and sell side of the
healthcare supply chain, including some of the largest companies in the world. Find GHX on
the Web [http://www.ghx.com ], on Twitter@GHX_LLC [http://twitter.com/#!/GHX_LLC ] and on
Facebook @GHX [http://www.facebook.com/pages/GHX/152008261509683 ].
About Implanet/Beepntrack
Implanet, the contraction of the words Implant & Internet was created in early 2007 by
orthopedic industry experts, IT professionals and reputable European investors with a
vision to materialize an efficient orthopedic company using highest innovations in
information technology and medical devices to deliver solutions for the 21st century
healthcare needs: Better Implants, Cost Efficiencies, Supply Chain Automation, Information
On Demand, Diligent Traceability and Security from Manufacturing to Patient.
IMPLANET (http://www.implanet.com [
C:\Users\nsahami\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.Outlook\2M58S2JG\www.implanet.com ]), a French based corporation, designs,
manufactures and markets orthopedic implants for HIP, KNEE, SPINE, and ARTHROSCOPY surgery
throughout the world. IMPLANET designed and deployed in France and abroad for more than 3
years an end-to- end medical device software called Beep N Track. The software
automatically captures all relevant supply chain and regulatory data linked to medical
devices from the point of manufacture to the point of care and renders the information
accessible on demand for authorized stakeholders.
Source: Implanet and Beepntrack
CONTACT: Judy Stowell, +1-720-887-7631, jstowell@ghx.com ; CONTACT: Nazanine Sahami, +33-557-99-5610, nsi@implanet.com .
February 14, 2012
Australian Investors Use CFD Trading App to Manage Portfolios
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:35:01 PM
Australian Investors Use CFD Trading App to Manage Portfolios
SYDNEY, February 14, 2012/PRNewswire/ --
For many investors, CFD Trading [http://www.cityindex.com.au/cfd-trading ] is a
part-time pursuit. Following the markets and organising your account can be difficult to
manage around your busy work/life routine.
It's important to find a healthy balance between the two - which can be tough enough
without throwing trading into the mix.
With a rising number of people trading part-time as an additional source of income;
the iPhone CFD Trading App
[http://www.cityindex.com.au/trading-platform/iphone-tradingplatform.aspx ] from City Index
Australia compliments getting that work/life balance just right.
Incorporating trading into everyday life is easy to do with the CFD Trading App -
whether tied up at the office, or relaxing at home - or even the beach - you can keep an
eye on the market and trade at whatever time suits you, from any location.
"Giving CFD Traders the ability to trade whenever they want and wherever they are is
completely where we feel the industry is going," said Biyi Cheng, Head of Dealing at City
Index [http://www.cityindex.com.au ] Australia.
"No longer are you restricted to trading in front of the computer."
Created for the iPhone, the App delivers full, secure access to your City Index
trading account.
Key Features
This handy iPhone CFD Trading [http://www.cityindex.co.uk/cfd-trading ] App offers its
users a range of invaluable features for when trading on-the-go (or not going anywhere at
all in fact).
Allowing you to check the latest prices and market movements; open, close and monitor
positions and view and amend watch lists - you can also go as far as creating, viewing,
completing, amending and cancelling existing orders, setting stops and limit orders,
whilst all the time being confident that your information and transactions are secure.
Easy to Download
So, if you lead a busy lifestyle and would rather be outside than in - the CFD Trading
App from City Index Australia [http://www.cityindex.com.au ] must sound like a pretty
attractive idea at this point.
To start trading on-the-go is easy, visit the App Store? on your iPhone, searching
for CityIndex AU.
Instantly CityIndex AU is downloaded as a bespoke application and once downloaded, is
available directly from the home screen of your iPhone.
In keeping with freeing up your time, downloading the CFD Trading App
[http://www.cityindex.com.au/trading-platform/iphone-tradingplatform.aspx ] is quick, easy
and most importantly - free.
Remember, you need a City Index CFD account to use this App, so if you're not a City
Index account holder yet, simply go to http://www.cityindex.com.au/openaccount.aspx to
open your account now.
Summary
Use the CFD Trading App
[http://www.cityindex.com.au/trading-platform/iphone-tradingplatform.aspx ] from City Index
Australia to trade on-the-go - now is the time to get outside and start trading. (Now
there's something you never thought you'd hear)
About City Index:
Today more and more individual traders are discovering the benefits of derivatives,
and many of them are discovering them through a City Index trading platform.
City Index is a leading global provider of margined foreign exchange and CFD trading.
As a group, we transact in excess of 1.5 million trades every month for individuals in
over 50 countries worldwide. To learn more visit: http://www.cityindex.com.au
Source: City Index
Contact: Eva Diaz, Head of Public Relations and Communications and Associate Director, City Index Australia. Tel: +61-2-9270-3617, eva.diaz@cityindex.com.au
SYDNEY, February 14, 2012/PRNewswire/ --
For many investors, CFD Trading [http://www.cityindex.com.au/cfd-trading ] is a
part-time pursuit. Following the markets and organising your account can be difficult to
manage around your busy work/life routine.
It's important to find a healthy balance between the two - which can be tough enough
without throwing trading into the mix.
With a rising number of people trading part-time as an additional source of income;
the iPhone CFD Trading App
[http://www.cityindex.com.au/trading-platform/iphone-tradingplatform.aspx ] from City Index
Australia compliments getting that work/life balance just right.
Incorporating trading into everyday life is easy to do with the CFD Trading App -
whether tied up at the office, or relaxing at home - or even the beach - you can keep an
eye on the market and trade at whatever time suits you, from any location.
"Giving CFD Traders the ability to trade whenever they want and wherever they are is
completely where we feel the industry is going," said Biyi Cheng, Head of Dealing at City
Index [http://www.cityindex.com.au ] Australia.
"No longer are you restricted to trading in front of the computer."
Created for the iPhone, the App delivers full, secure access to your City Index
trading account.
Key Features
This handy iPhone CFD Trading [http://www.cityindex.co.uk/cfd-trading ] App offers its
users a range of invaluable features for when trading on-the-go (or not going anywhere at
all in fact).
Allowing you to check the latest prices and market movements; open, close and monitor
positions and view and amend watch lists - you can also go as far as creating, viewing,
completing, amending and cancelling existing orders, setting stops and limit orders,
whilst all the time being confident that your information and transactions are secure.
Easy to Download
So, if you lead a busy lifestyle and would rather be outside than in - the CFD Trading
App from City Index Australia [http://www.cityindex.com.au ] must sound like a pretty
attractive idea at this point.
To start trading on-the-go is easy, visit the App Store? on your iPhone, searching
for CityIndex AU.
Instantly CityIndex AU is downloaded as a bespoke application and once downloaded, is
available directly from the home screen of your iPhone.
In keeping with freeing up your time, downloading the CFD Trading App
[http://www.cityindex.com.au/trading-platform/iphone-tradingplatform.aspx ] is quick, easy
and most importantly - free.
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Source: City Index
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WikiLoan and WikiPay Complete Merger
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:14:01 PM
WikiLoan and WikiPay Complete Merger
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- WikiLoan, Inc. (OTCQB: WKLI) ("WikiLoan", or "the Company") is pleased to announce that it has signed the final merger agreement between WikiLoan, Inc. and WikiPay, Inc.
WikiLoan retained CB Capital Partners, Inc., a prominent investment bank, to issue a fairness opinion and to act as its financial advisor with respect to the transaction. WikiLoan will acquire 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of WikiPay, Inc. and its two wholly-owned subsidiaries, WikiPay LTD of the United Kingdom and WikiPay SA of Mexico, in exchange for the issuance of 7,992,000 shares of WikiLoan Series A Preferred Stock.
"WikiPay has experienced tremendous interest and momentum with its award winning products and services. Since winning the Harvard Business School New Venture Contest for the Southwestern United States in March of 2011, WikiPay hasn't looked back. It has generated great traction in Mexico for its payment and micro-payment technology, and there has been great interest shown in the U.S. for WikiBlast, it's Mobile Marketing Solution. We are thrilled to have found a way to bring these businesses together to create value for our shareholders. By combining our respective technologies, WikiLoan and WikiPay can scale operations and effectively market to our customer segments. WikiLoan's shareholders have been very patient for our team to identify the best opportunities to drive revenue growth, and we feel that this merger will be their reward. We are excited about the opportunities ahead of us both in the US and abroad," stated WikiLoan President Edward C. DeFeudis.
ABOUT WIKILOAN, INC.
WikiLoan, Inc. owns and operates two proprietary state-of-the-art technology platforms, WikiPay and WikiLoan.
WikiPay is a low-cost, cash-based mobile payment and marketing platform solution for Peer-to-Peer (P2P), Business-to-Consumer (B2C), Consumer-to-Business (C2B), and Business-to-Business (B2B) transactions. The main pull for WikiPay is its low transaction fees. WikiPay is FREE for payments between members. Additionally, WikiPay's mobile marketing application, WikiBlast, enables merchants to reach their client base instantly with a variety of customizable SMS marketing programs. For more information, please visit: http://www.wikipay.com or the mobile website: m.wikipay.com.
WikiLoan is a Social Network with a focus on finance. At http://www.wikiloan.com, family and friends can borrow and lend money among themselves at rates suitable to their respective needs. The company's website provides repayment schedules and documentation for loans, along with proprietary administrative tools, which enable users to securely pull credit reports and automate the loan repayment process.
ABOUT CB CAPITAL PARTNERS
CB Capital Partners is a specialized investment banking firm, which focuses on creating value through customized financial advisory assignments including capital raises, debt placements, strategic and financial partnerships, and mergers and acquisitions transactions. The firm was founded in 2001 in order to bring innovative and value-added solutions to their clientele through a conservative and disciplined application of our diverse professional institutional investment banking talents. http://www.cbcapital.com
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS This news release may include "forward-looking statements" regarding WikiLoan, and its subsidiaries, business and project plans. Such forward looking statements are within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and section 21E of the United States Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and are intended to be covered by the safe harbor created by such sections. Where WikiLoan expresses or implies an expectation or belief as to future events or results, such expectation or belief is believed to have a reasonable basis. However, forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, which could cause actual results to differ materially from future results expressed, projected or implied by such forward-looking statements. WikiLoan does not undertake any obligation to update any forward looking statement, except as required under applicable law.
CONTACT:
Investors may contact:
Ben Hansel (720) 288-8495
benh@ttfsco.com
SOURCE WikiLoan, Inc.
WikiLoan, Inc.
Web Site: http://www.wikiloan.com
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- WikiLoan, Inc. (OTCQB: WKLI) ("WikiLoan", or "the Company") is pleased to announce that it has signed the final merger agreement between WikiLoan, Inc. and WikiPay, Inc.
WikiLoan retained CB Capital Partners, Inc., a prominent investment bank, to issue a fairness opinion and to act as its financial advisor with respect to the transaction. WikiLoan will acquire 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of WikiPay, Inc. and its two wholly-owned subsidiaries, WikiPay LTD of the United Kingdom and WikiPay SA of Mexico, in exchange for the issuance of 7,992,000 shares of WikiLoan Series A Preferred Stock.
"WikiPay has experienced tremendous interest and momentum with its award winning products and services. Since winning the Harvard Business School New Venture Contest for the Southwestern United States in March of 2011, WikiPay hasn't looked back. It has generated great traction in Mexico for its payment and micro-payment technology, and there has been great interest shown in the U.S. for WikiBlast, it's Mobile Marketing Solution. We are thrilled to have found a way to bring these businesses together to create value for our shareholders. By combining our respective technologies, WikiLoan and WikiPay can scale operations and effectively market to our customer segments. WikiLoan's shareholders have been very patient for our team to identify the best opportunities to drive revenue growth, and we feel that this merger will be their reward. We are excited about the opportunities ahead of us both in the US and abroad," stated WikiLoan President Edward C. DeFeudis.
ABOUT WIKILOAN, INC.
WikiLoan, Inc. owns and operates two proprietary state-of-the-art technology platforms, WikiPay and WikiLoan.
WikiPay is a low-cost, cash-based mobile payment and marketing platform solution for Peer-to-Peer (P2P), Business-to-Consumer (B2C), Consumer-to-Business (C2B), and Business-to-Business (B2B) transactions. The main pull for WikiPay is its low transaction fees. WikiPay is FREE for payments between members. Additionally, WikiPay's mobile marketing application, WikiBlast, enables merchants to reach their client base instantly with a variety of customizable SMS marketing programs. For more information, please visit: http://www.wikipay.com or the mobile website: m.wikipay.com.
WikiLoan is a Social Network with a focus on finance. At http://www.wikiloan.com, family and friends can borrow and lend money among themselves at rates suitable to their respective needs. The company's website provides repayment schedules and documentation for loans, along with proprietary administrative tools, which enable users to securely pull credit reports and automate the loan repayment process.
ABOUT CB CAPITAL PARTNERS
CB Capital Partners is a specialized investment banking firm, which focuses on creating value through customized financial advisory assignments including capital raises, debt placements, strategic and financial partnerships, and mergers and acquisitions transactions. The firm was founded in 2001 in order to bring innovative and value-added solutions to their clientele through a conservative and disciplined application of our diverse professional institutional investment banking talents. http://www.cbcapital.com
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS This news release may include "forward-looking statements" regarding WikiLoan, and its subsidiaries, business and project plans. Such forward looking statements are within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and section 21E of the United States Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and are intended to be covered by the safe harbor created by such sections. Where WikiLoan expresses or implies an expectation or belief as to future events or results, such expectation or belief is believed to have a reasonable basis. However, forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, which could cause actual results to differ materially from future results expressed, projected or implied by such forward-looking statements. WikiLoan does not undertake any obligation to update any forward looking statement, except as required under applicable law.
CONTACT:
Investors may contact:
Ben Hansel (720) 288-8495
benh@ttfsco.com
SOURCE WikiLoan, Inc.
WikiLoan, Inc.
Web Site: http://www.wikiloan.com
'Airport Transit Guide' Drops Price to $4.99 as it Becomes One of 'Top 10 Travel Apps'
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 3:56:01 PM
'Airport Transit Guide' Drops Price to $4.99 as it Becomes One of 'Top 10 Travel Apps'
LONG BEACH, Calif., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Salk International's Airport Transit Guide app for iPhone/iPad/iPod will permanently drop its price 50%, from $9.99 to $4.99, after a successful holiday promotion at the lower price, editor and publisher Ron Salk announced today.
At the new price, the app moved into the Top Ten of some 14,000 Apple travel apps on Dec. 8, one year after its launch in digital form.
The Airport Transit Guide, now in its 30th year of publication (there is no longer a print edition), covers all ground-transportation options in complete detail at 460 airports worldwide. It is a stand-alone app, but If the traveler is in a wireless zone, then phone numbers and web addresses can also be interactively accessed.
The Airport Transit Guide, often referred to as "the bible for the airtraveler," is designed to save the traveler time or money and sometimes both. It includes thousands of transit options, including fares and schedules. In January, it made the short list of "Must-Have" apps for the business traveler in 2012. (See http://www.airport-transit-guide.com)
Contact: Ron Salk, 714-549-SALK (7255)
SOURCE Salk International LLC
Salk International LLC
Web Site: http://www.airport-transit-guide.com
LONG BEACH, Calif., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Salk International's Airport Transit Guide app for iPhone/iPad/iPod will permanently drop its price 50%, from $9.99 to $4.99, after a successful holiday promotion at the lower price, editor and publisher Ron Salk announced today.
At the new price, the app moved into the Top Ten of some 14,000 Apple travel apps on Dec. 8, one year after its launch in digital form.
The Airport Transit Guide, now in its 30th year of publication (there is no longer a print edition), covers all ground-transportation options in complete detail at 460 airports worldwide. It is a stand-alone app, but If the traveler is in a wireless zone, then phone numbers and web addresses can also be interactively accessed.
The Airport Transit Guide, often referred to as "the bible for the airtraveler," is designed to save the traveler time or money and sometimes both. It includes thousands of transit options, including fares and schedules. In January, it made the short list of "Must-Have" apps for the business traveler in 2012. (See http://www.airport-transit-guide.com)
Contact: Ron Salk, 714-549-SALK (7255)
SOURCE Salk International LLC
Salk International LLC
Web Site: http://www.airport-transit-guide.com
Dassault Offers Flight Data Monitoring for Falcon Operators
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 2:28:01 PM
Dassault Offers Flight Data Monitoring for Falcon Operators
SAINT-CLOUD, France, February 14, 2012/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
New Program Improves Safety of Flight and Reduces Operational Costs
Dassault is now offering a Flight Data Monitoring (FDM) service designed and tailored
specifically for Falcon operators. The system has been shown to improve safety of flight
and has become standard for commercial airlines.
Flight Data Monitoring is the collection and analysis of specific flight parameters
such as acceleration, velocity, G-forces, path, and other flight data with the purpose of
minimizing risk factors and improving operational performance.
"Flight data monitoring and analysis should be a major component of any flight
department's safety management system," said Jacques Chauvet, Senior Vice President,
Customer Service for Dassault Falcon. "The new FDM service is custom-built for Falcon
operators and demonstrates Dassault's clear commitment to safety and service, beyond
design and manufacturing," he added.
Operators will be able to identify events such as unstable approaches and deviations
from standard operating procedure, among other parameters. As part of a safety management
system, operators can then tailor training and apply corrective actions to help manage
risk. Analysis of flight data can also reduce maintenance costs. Further, the tool will
also help operators comply with regulatory requirements in Europe, which require a flight
data monitoring system.
FDM is available to all Falcon operators whose aircraft is equipped with a Quick
Access Recorder (QAR). Operators download data from the QAR using a laptop and upload it
to the dedicated website. Results can be available within minutes.
Dassault's preferred partners in the project, CAE Flightscape and RUAG, validate the
data and identify significant events that operators can use to further tailor training
programs and optimize flight operations. Participating Dassault Falcon operators may also
benchmark their flight operations against other operators in a secure and confidential
manner.
About Dassault Falcon
Dassault Falcon is responsible for selling and supporting Falcon business jets
throughout the world. It is part of Dassault Aviation, a leading aerospace company with a
presence in over 70 countries across five continents. Dassault Aviation produces the
Rafale fighter jet as well as the complete line of Falcon business jets. The company has
assembly and production plants in both France and the United States and service facilities
on multiple continents. It employs a total workforce of over 12,000. Since the rollout of
the first Falcon 20 in 1963, over 2,100 Falcon jets have been delivered to 67 countries
worldwide. The family of Falcon jets currently in production includes the tri-jets-the
Falcon 900LX and the 7X-as well as the twin-engine Falcon 2000LX and the new 2000S.
Press Contacts
Dassault Aviation (Saint-Cloud, France)
Vadim Feldzer Tel. +33-1-47-11-44-13
Marie-Alexandrine Munoz Tel. +33-1-47-11-64-23
Dassault Falcon (Teterboro Airport, USA)
Ralph Aceti Tel. +1-201-541-45-85
Andrew Ponzoni Tel. +1-201-541-45-88
Photos
Hi Res Photos at: http://www.falconphotogallery.com (USER ID: dassault - PASSWORD:
falcon)
Source: Dassault Falcon
SAINT-CLOUD, France, February 14, 2012/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
New Program Improves Safety of Flight and Reduces Operational Costs
Dassault is now offering a Flight Data Monitoring (FDM) service designed and tailored
specifically for Falcon operators. The system has been shown to improve safety of flight
and has become standard for commercial airlines.
Flight Data Monitoring is the collection and analysis of specific flight parameters
such as acceleration, velocity, G-forces, path, and other flight data with the purpose of
minimizing risk factors and improving operational performance.
"Flight data monitoring and analysis should be a major component of any flight
department's safety management system," said Jacques Chauvet, Senior Vice President,
Customer Service for Dassault Falcon. "The new FDM service is custom-built for Falcon
operators and demonstrates Dassault's clear commitment to safety and service, beyond
design and manufacturing," he added.
Operators will be able to identify events such as unstable approaches and deviations
from standard operating procedure, among other parameters. As part of a safety management
system, operators can then tailor training and apply corrective actions to help manage
risk. Analysis of flight data can also reduce maintenance costs. Further, the tool will
also help operators comply with regulatory requirements in Europe, which require a flight
data monitoring system.
FDM is available to all Falcon operators whose aircraft is equipped with a Quick
Access Recorder (QAR). Operators download data from the QAR using a laptop and upload it
to the dedicated website. Results can be available within minutes.
Dassault's preferred partners in the project, CAE Flightscape and RUAG, validate the
data and identify significant events that operators can use to further tailor training
programs and optimize flight operations. Participating Dassault Falcon operators may also
benchmark their flight operations against other operators in a secure and confidential
manner.
About Dassault Falcon
Dassault Falcon is responsible for selling and supporting Falcon business jets
throughout the world. It is part of Dassault Aviation, a leading aerospace company with a
presence in over 70 countries across five continents. Dassault Aviation produces the
Rafale fighter jet as well as the complete line of Falcon business jets. The company has
assembly and production plants in both France and the United States and service facilities
on multiple continents. It employs a total workforce of over 12,000. Since the rollout of
the first Falcon 20 in 1963, over 2,100 Falcon jets have been delivered to 67 countries
worldwide. The family of Falcon jets currently in production includes the tri-jets-the
Falcon 900LX and the 7X-as well as the twin-engine Falcon 2000LX and the new 2000S.
Press Contacts
Dassault Aviation (Saint-Cloud, France)
Vadim Feldzer Tel. +33-1-47-11-44-13
Marie-Alexandrine Munoz Tel. +33-1-47-11-64-23
Dassault Falcon (Teterboro Airport, USA)
Ralph Aceti Tel. +1-201-541-45-85
Andrew Ponzoni Tel. +1-201-541-45-88
Photos
Hi Res Photos at: http://www.falconphotogallery.com (USER ID: dassault - PASSWORD:
falcon)
Source: Dassault Falcon
Tactical FLEX, Inc. Drives SIEM Products to New Level With Release of Aanval v7
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 12:42:01 PM
Tactical FLEX, Inc. Drives SIEM Products to New Level With Release of Aanval v7
SEATTLE, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Tactical FLEX, Inc., a global provider of information security vulnerability and risk management software solutions, today announced the highly anticipated release of Aanval v7, uniquely and completely written in standard HTML and Javascript, and more importantly void of Adobe Flash. The completely re-written codebase enables Aanval v7 to work in every browser and across every mobile platform, thus providing a competitive edge over other SIEM platforms.
With the launch of Aanval v7, Tactical FLEX is uniquely positioned to expand its global leadership with this proven, cost-effective, and easy-to-deploy SIEM solution which also provides intrusion detection for additional security. Over 6,000 organizations around the globe use Aanval because it provides a proactive tool to combat cyber threats and safeguard their virtual and physical assets.
The release of Aanval v7 by Tactical FLEX is another important milestone in the company's ongoing investment in product innovations, software enhancements, and information security technology. "Security management requirements are rapidly changing, moving away from log filtering and compliance reporting to comprehensive situational awareness and deep data analysis," stated Loyal Moses, CEO of Tactical FLEX. "We are on the forefront of recognizing these critical changes and have designed Aanval v7 to deliver a highly interactive and scalable market-leading SIEM solution complete with advanced data analysis and an unmatched level of Internet and local network-security situational awareness. Because our focus has always been on performance and stability, we have created a real-time event processing system that handles as many as 1,500 events per second and scales beautifully with hardware to process as many as 5,000 events per second." The improved background processing systems of Aanval v7 are simpler, more powerful, and more capable than ever before.
A few selected features and enhancements in Aanval v7:
» No more Adobe Flash! 100% HTML and Javascript
»Unmatched level of Internet and local network-security situational awareness
» Supports multi-machine architecture deployments
» Accelerated real-time event processing power
» Highly interactive with new Google Maps Geo Location / integration
» New real-time events per second, per hour and day displays
» Powerful event tagging system
» Advanced background processing system
Screen shots and details of Aanval v7 are available at http://www.aanval.com and product licenses, upgrades, training, and support service packages may be purchased from Tactical FLEX at http://www.aanval.com/purchase. Aanval may be downloaded for testing and evaluation.
About Tactical FLEX, Inc. ?Tactical FLEX, Inc. is a privately owned software development firm based in Seattle, specializing in information security research, engineering, technology design, and production. With the technological development of Aanval®, Tactical FLEX has become a global provider of information security vulnerability and risk management software solutions that protects businesses of all sizes. Aanval currently has over 6,000 customers worldwide including government security, defense organizations, technology corporations, global financial organizations, educational institutions and many others.
SOURCE Tactical FLEX, Inc.
Tactical FLEX, Inc.
CONTACT: Jennifer L. Manguino?, Tactical FLEX, Inc., 1-800-921-2584, Ext. 2151?, jmanguino@tacticalflex.com
SEATTLE, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Tactical FLEX, Inc., a global provider of information security vulnerability and risk management software solutions, today announced the highly anticipated release of Aanval v7, uniquely and completely written in standard HTML and Javascript, and more importantly void of Adobe Flash. The completely re-written codebase enables Aanval v7 to work in every browser and across every mobile platform, thus providing a competitive edge over other SIEM platforms.
With the launch of Aanval v7, Tactical FLEX is uniquely positioned to expand its global leadership with this proven, cost-effective, and easy-to-deploy SIEM solution which also provides intrusion detection for additional security. Over 6,000 organizations around the globe use Aanval because it provides a proactive tool to combat cyber threats and safeguard their virtual and physical assets.
The release of Aanval v7 by Tactical FLEX is another important milestone in the company's ongoing investment in product innovations, software enhancements, and information security technology. "Security management requirements are rapidly changing, moving away from log filtering and compliance reporting to comprehensive situational awareness and deep data analysis," stated Loyal Moses, CEO of Tactical FLEX. "We are on the forefront of recognizing these critical changes and have designed Aanval v7 to deliver a highly interactive and scalable market-leading SIEM solution complete with advanced data analysis and an unmatched level of Internet and local network-security situational awareness. Because our focus has always been on performance and stability, we have created a real-time event processing system that handles as many as 1,500 events per second and scales beautifully with hardware to process as many as 5,000 events per second." The improved background processing systems of Aanval v7 are simpler, more powerful, and more capable than ever before.
A few selected features and enhancements in Aanval v7:
» No more Adobe Flash! 100% HTML and Javascript
»Unmatched level of Internet and local network-security situational awareness
» Supports multi-machine architecture deployments
» Accelerated real-time event processing power
» Highly interactive with new Google Maps Geo Location / integration
» New real-time events per second, per hour and day displays
» Powerful event tagging system
» Advanced background processing system
Screen shots and details of Aanval v7 are available at http://www.aanval.com and product licenses, upgrades, training, and support service packages may be purchased from Tactical FLEX at http://www.aanval.com/purchase. Aanval may be downloaded for testing and evaluation.
About Tactical FLEX, Inc. ?Tactical FLEX, Inc. is a privately owned software development firm based in Seattle, specializing in information security research, engineering, technology design, and production. With the technological development of Aanval®, Tactical FLEX has become a global provider of information security vulnerability and risk management software solutions that protects businesses of all sizes. Aanval currently has over 6,000 customers worldwide including government security, defense organizations, technology corporations, global financial organizations, educational institutions and many others.
SOURCE Tactical FLEX, Inc.
Tactical FLEX, Inc.
CONTACT: Jennifer L. Manguino?, Tactical FLEX, Inc., 1-800-921-2584, Ext. 2151?, jmanguino@tacticalflex.com
CX.com Makes a Bet on the Kindle Fire and Launches a Native Android App and Kindle Fire Cloud Application
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 12:21:01 PM
CX.com Makes a Bet on the Kindle Fire and Launches a Native Android App and Kindle Fire Cloud Application
PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CX Inc. the fastest growing cloud storage and data file management system, introduced their CX Android application today. With the new application, Android and Kindle Fire users will now have additional devices for getting into the CX cloud.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20111018/LA88261LOGO)
"CX, which launched its production release in October, is one of the fastest growing cloud computing storage applications welcoming on average 30,000 new customers every week," Brad Robertson, CEO of CX Inc. "While, CX can always be accessed via the mobile web client - users can now go native on their devices with the latest additions of the native Android and Kindle Fire applications. These recent additions compliment CX's ever-growing list of applications that enable secure syncing, creation, consumption, and collaboration of content in the cloud with CX. As promised, CX.com will continue to be your secure digital command center, through which you can take control of all your content from any device."
CX is designed for all users - from consumers, students, schools, small businesses, all the way up to large enterprises and organizations. Collaboration is a key area of distinction for CX. With CX, users have complete control on when and how their content is shared; whether it be through public or private individual shares to full collaboration in teams and groups using 'CX Groups'.
CX Groups provide everyone invited in the group asynchronously collaboration on their content. Also, unlike the other cloud storage companies that increase the storage used for all users with access to the same file, with CX, storage space is only used on the account that initiated the sharing or created the group.
As an indication of the demand for a native Android and Kindle Fire cloud app, CX experienced thousands of downloads in the very first hours of it's release as well as receiving 4/5 average rating from the Android Market.
Users can download the new application by visiting http://www.cx.com/software.
About CX®:
CX is a cloud technology company dedicated to simplifying how people interact with content and making it easier than ever to access and share content wherever you go. Unlike most cloud providers who just store and sync your stuff, CX has set out to change the whole nature of what content in the cloud can be by creating unique new ways to find it, organize it, share it and work on it, alone or in teams. Welcoming 30,000 new users each week, CX.com is the fastest growing cloud computing storage application today.
SOURCE CX Inc.
Photo:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20111018/LA88261LOGO
http://photoarchive.ap.org/
CX Inc.
CONTACT: Ana Tackett, +1-480-567-6890, ana@tonyfelicepr.com, for CX Inc.
Web Site: http://www.cx.com
PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CX Inc. the fastest growing cloud storage and data file management system, introduced their CX Android application today. With the new application, Android and Kindle Fire users will now have additional devices for getting into the CX cloud.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20111018/LA88261LOGO)
"CX, which launched its production release in October, is one of the fastest growing cloud computing storage applications welcoming on average 30,000 new customers every week," Brad Robertson, CEO of CX Inc. "While, CX can always be accessed via the mobile web client - users can now go native on their devices with the latest additions of the native Android and Kindle Fire applications. These recent additions compliment CX's ever-growing list of applications that enable secure syncing, creation, consumption, and collaboration of content in the cloud with CX. As promised, CX.com will continue to be your secure digital command center, through which you can take control of all your content from any device."
CX is designed for all users - from consumers, students, schools, small businesses, all the way up to large enterprises and organizations. Collaboration is a key area of distinction for CX. With CX, users have complete control on when and how their content is shared; whether it be through public or private individual shares to full collaboration in teams and groups using 'CX Groups'.
CX Groups provide everyone invited in the group asynchronously collaboration on their content. Also, unlike the other cloud storage companies that increase the storage used for all users with access to the same file, with CX, storage space is only used on the account that initiated the sharing or created the group.
As an indication of the demand for a native Android and Kindle Fire cloud app, CX experienced thousands of downloads in the very first hours of it's release as well as receiving 4/5 average rating from the Android Market.
Users can download the new application by visiting http://www.cx.com/software.
About CX®:
CX is a cloud technology company dedicated to simplifying how people interact with content and making it easier than ever to access and share content wherever you go. Unlike most cloud providers who just store and sync your stuff, CX has set out to change the whole nature of what content in the cloud can be by creating unique new ways to find it, organize it, share it and work on it, alone or in teams. Welcoming 30,000 new users each week, CX.com is the fastest growing cloud computing storage application today.
SOURCE CX Inc.
Photo:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20111018/LA88261LOGO
http://photoarchive.ap.org/
CX Inc.
CONTACT: Ana Tackett, +1-480-567-6890, ana@tonyfelicepr.com, for CX Inc.
Web Site: http://www.cx.com
Milestone XProtect(R) Mobile now Available for iOS
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 12:07:01 PM
Milestone XProtect(R) Mobile now Available for iOS
COPENHAGEN, February 14, 2012/PRNewswire/ --
Mobile access to video surveillance platform expands to include Apple(R)
devices
Milestone Systems, the open platform company in IP video management software (VMS),
has announced the availability of XProtect Mobile for iOS. XProtect Mobile is a free
mobile application for XProtectVMS customers who want to effectively monitor their video
surveillance from any place, anytime.
Security personnel, business owners, residential users or video surveillance
installers who need to monitor installations can now view their Milestone XProtect video
from anywhere on an iPod(R) Touch, iPhone(R) or iPad(R) that is running iOS5 or higher.
Developed by Milestone Systems, XProtect Mobile is a free application that works
seamlessly with all recent versions of XProtect VMS products. XProtect Mobile consists of
two items, an application for Apple devices that is available for download from the App
Store(SM) and a free server component available from the Milestone website. The server
component must be installed on the server that runs your XProtect surveillance system or a
dedicated server.
With instantaneous access to video from Milestone XProtect surveillance systems from
any place around the globe via Wi-Fi, 3G or 4G connections, operators can view and play
back video from cameras. Additional functionality includes:
- Setting up multiple servers and connecting to cameras from different sites
- Accessing views taken directly from the Milestone XProtect(R) Smart Client
- Controlling pan-tilt-zoom cameras
- Using digital pinch to zoom
- Taking a snapshot of video and sharing it via email or MMS
- Watching live or recorded video from anywhere
Milestone XProtect Mobile has a unique, streamlined user interface to fulfill
surveillance needs when on the go and has been specifically developed to optimize
bandwidth consumption. With the mobile ability to monitor installations on Apple devices,
Milestone customers can view incidents, ensure areas are secure and take immediate action
by visually verifying occurrences from any location.
XProtect Mobile has previously been released for smartphones and tablets running
Android 2.2 or higher, and works with all recent versions of XProtect IP VMS. XProtect
Mobile for Android is available for download in the Android Market and the server
component is available on the Milestone website.
A future version of XProtect Mobile will be available in 26 languages for both Android
and iOS clients: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Simplified Chinese,
Traditional Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi,
Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Slovak,
Spanish, Thai and Turkish.
Image download links:
http://download.milestonesys.com/PR/xprotect-mobile
Android is a trademark of Google Inc.
Apple, iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad are trademarks of Apple Inc. registered in the U.S.
and other countries. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc.
IOS is a trademark or registered trademark of Cisco in the U.S. and other countries
and is used under license.
About Milestone
Founded in 1998, Milestone Systems is the global industry leader in open platform IP
video management software, according to IMS Research. The XProtect(R)platform delivers
powerful surveillance that is easy to manage, reliable and proven in thousands of customer
installations around the world. With support for the widest choice in network hardware and
integration with other systems, XProtect provides best-in-class solutions to video enable
organizations - managing risks, protecting people and assets, optimizing processes and
reducing costs. Milestone software is sold through authorized and certified partners. For
more information please visit http://www.milestonesys.com.
Source: Milestone Systems
Press Contact: Courtney Dillon Pedersen , PR & Communications Manager, Milestone Systems, Tel. +45-88-300-330 / +1(503)350-1-103
COPENHAGEN, February 14, 2012/PRNewswire/ --
Mobile access to video surveillance platform expands to include Apple(R)
devices
Milestone Systems, the open platform company in IP video management software (VMS),
has announced the availability of XProtect Mobile for iOS. XProtect Mobile is a free
mobile application for XProtectVMS customers who want to effectively monitor their video
surveillance from any place, anytime.
Security personnel, business owners, residential users or video surveillance
installers who need to monitor installations can now view their Milestone XProtect video
from anywhere on an iPod(R) Touch, iPhone(R) or iPad(R) that is running iOS5 or higher.
Developed by Milestone Systems, XProtect Mobile is a free application that works
seamlessly with all recent versions of XProtect VMS products. XProtect Mobile consists of
two items, an application for Apple devices that is available for download from the App
Store(SM) and a free server component available from the Milestone website. The server
component must be installed on the server that runs your XProtect surveillance system or a
dedicated server.
With instantaneous access to video from Milestone XProtect surveillance systems from
any place around the globe via Wi-Fi, 3G or 4G connections, operators can view and play
back video from cameras. Additional functionality includes:
- Setting up multiple servers and connecting to cameras from different sites
- Accessing views taken directly from the Milestone XProtect(R) Smart Client
- Controlling pan-tilt-zoom cameras
- Using digital pinch to zoom
- Taking a snapshot of video and sharing it via email or MMS
- Watching live or recorded video from anywhere
Milestone XProtect Mobile has a unique, streamlined user interface to fulfill
surveillance needs when on the go and has been specifically developed to optimize
bandwidth consumption. With the mobile ability to monitor installations on Apple devices,
Milestone customers can view incidents, ensure areas are secure and take immediate action
by visually verifying occurrences from any location.
XProtect Mobile has previously been released for smartphones and tablets running
Android 2.2 or higher, and works with all recent versions of XProtect IP VMS. XProtect
Mobile for Android is available for download in the Android Market and the server
component is available on the Milestone website.
A future version of XProtect Mobile will be available in 26 languages for both Android
and iOS clients: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Simplified Chinese,
Traditional Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi,
Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Slovak,
Spanish, Thai and Turkish.
Image download links:
http://download.milestonesys.com/PR/xprotect-mobile
Android is a trademark of Google Inc.
Apple, iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad are trademarks of Apple Inc. registered in the U.S.
and other countries. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc.
IOS is a trademark or registered trademark of Cisco in the U.S. and other countries
and is used under license.
About Milestone
Founded in 1998, Milestone Systems is the global industry leader in open platform IP
video management software, according to IMS Research. The XProtect(R)platform delivers
powerful surveillance that is easy to manage, reliable and proven in thousands of customer
installations around the world. With support for the widest choice in network hardware and
integration with other systems, XProtect provides best-in-class solutions to video enable
organizations - managing risks, protecting people and assets, optimizing processes and
reducing costs. Milestone software is sold through authorized and certified partners. For
more information please visit http://www.milestonesys.com.
Source: Milestone Systems
Press Contact: Courtney Dillon Pedersen , PR & Communications Manager, Milestone Systems, Tel. +45-88-300-330 / +1(503)350-1-103
Payroll City Launches QuickBooks(TM) Interface for Seamless Transfer of Payroll Data
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:42:01 AM
Payroll City Launches QuickBooks(TM) Interface for Seamless Transfer of Payroll Data
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Payroll City, a full-service payroll processing company, has developed a new tool that helps users easily transfer all of their payroll data into QuickBooks(TM).
By preserving all the payroll data and accurately transferring it directly into QuickBooks(TM), owners of small and mid-sized businesses gain high-level insight into department and job-related labor costs and are able to more fully maximize the features available within QuickBooks(TM).
Now Payroll City / QuickBooks(TM) users can track payroll checks by department; track job labor cost; accurately determine the total profit of specific jobs or clients; or look at year-on-year departmental labor cost trends. Conveniences include the ability to query past payroll information, reissue checks showing wage deductions, and even print their entire payroll right from within their familiar accounting environment, if so desired.
"We have created a superior payroll platform that that makes it easy to integrate with accounting," stated Kathleen Fox, President of Payroll City. "Our goal is to continue to design easy, robust, affordable solutions that bridge the gap between payroll and other critical business systems."
Most payroll companies map only a single line item for the total payroll and payroll taxes into QuickBooks(TM). This means critical detail regarding job costing and departments is lost unless it is manually re-entered into QuickBooks. The Payroll City QuickBooks(TM) Interface can map all of the payroll data, broken down by department or job costs, to the correct class, job, or item within QuickBooks(TM). This retains the vital business intelligence critical to the successful planning of an organization.
Payroll City's QuickBooks(TM) Interface eliminates redundancy and retains the integrity of payroll data as it is transferred to QuickBooks(TM). Upon running Payroll City's QuickBooks(TM) interface tool, Payroll City outputs an IIF file for easy import into QuickBooks(TM), allowing QuickBooks(TM) users to:
-- See every check posted to a register
-- View employee-level history of paycheck distribution
-- Re-print checks
-- Query past payroll information
-- View and print garnishment checks
-- Automatically input every employee into the QuickBooks(TM) employee list
-- Assign wages to different departments
-- Import by payroll batch or custom date range
The Payroll City QuickBooks(TM) Interface Module resides in the Payroll City cloud environment, requires no software to download or install, and supports all versions of QuickBooks(TM) from 2000 to present. Subscriptions cost $99 per year and are available as an add-on for existing and new clients of Payroll City.
About Payroll City
Founded in 2001, Payroll City provides full-service, comprehensive payroll processing throughout the United States for any business type and size. Payroll City's suite of services include all tax calculations, accurate tax deposits, state and federal filings, direct deposits, pay cards, and around the clock online access for employers and employees. The company is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado. More information is available at http://www.payrollcity.com.
Contact:Jen OlewinskiOlewinski Group(949) 385-2332jen@olewinskigroup.com
SOURCE Payroll City
Payroll City
Web Site: http://www.payrollcity.com
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Payroll City, a full-service payroll processing company, has developed a new tool that helps users easily transfer all of their payroll data into QuickBooks(TM).
By preserving all the payroll data and accurately transferring it directly into QuickBooks(TM), owners of small and mid-sized businesses gain high-level insight into department and job-related labor costs and are able to more fully maximize the features available within QuickBooks(TM).
Now Payroll City / QuickBooks(TM) users can track payroll checks by department; track job labor cost; accurately determine the total profit of specific jobs or clients; or look at year-on-year departmental labor cost trends. Conveniences include the ability to query past payroll information, reissue checks showing wage deductions, and even print their entire payroll right from within their familiar accounting environment, if so desired.
"We have created a superior payroll platform that that makes it easy to integrate with accounting," stated Kathleen Fox, President of Payroll City. "Our goal is to continue to design easy, robust, affordable solutions that bridge the gap between payroll and other critical business systems."
Most payroll companies map only a single line item for the total payroll and payroll taxes into QuickBooks(TM). This means critical detail regarding job costing and departments is lost unless it is manually re-entered into QuickBooks. The Payroll City QuickBooks(TM) Interface can map all of the payroll data, broken down by department or job costs, to the correct class, job, or item within QuickBooks(TM). This retains the vital business intelligence critical to the successful planning of an organization.
Payroll City's QuickBooks(TM) Interface eliminates redundancy and retains the integrity of payroll data as it is transferred to QuickBooks(TM). Upon running Payroll City's QuickBooks(TM) interface tool, Payroll City outputs an IIF file for easy import into QuickBooks(TM), allowing QuickBooks(TM) users to:
-- See every check posted to a register
-- View employee-level history of paycheck distribution
-- Re-print checks
-- Query past payroll information
-- View and print garnishment checks
-- Automatically input every employee into the QuickBooks(TM) employee list
-- Assign wages to different departments
-- Import by payroll batch or custom date range
The Payroll City QuickBooks(TM) Interface Module resides in the Payroll City cloud environment, requires no software to download or install, and supports all versions of QuickBooks(TM) from 2000 to present. Subscriptions cost $99 per year and are available as an add-on for existing and new clients of Payroll City.
About Payroll City
Founded in 2001, Payroll City provides full-service, comprehensive payroll processing throughout the United States for any business type and size. Payroll City's suite of services include all tax calculations, accurate tax deposits, state and federal filings, direct deposits, pay cards, and around the clock online access for employers and employees. The company is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado. More information is available at http://www.payrollcity.com.
Contact:Jen OlewinskiOlewinski Group(949) 385-2332jen@olewinskigroup.com
SOURCE Payroll City
Payroll City
Web Site: http://www.payrollcity.com
Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited Announces Completion of Merger
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:35:02 AM
Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited Announces Completion of Merger
SHANGHAI, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited, incorporated in the Cayman Islands ("Shanda" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: SNDA), a leading interactive entertainment media company in China, announced today the completion of the merger contemplated by the previously announced Agreement and Plan of Merger dated November 22, 2011 (the "Merger Agreement") among the Company, Premium Lead Company Limited ("Parent"), a British Virgin Islands business company jointly owned by Mr. Tianqiao Chen, Chairman of the board of directors, Chief Executive Officer and President of Shanda, his wife Ms. Qian Qian Chrissy Luo, who is a non-executive director of Shanda, and his brother Mr. Danian Chen, who is the Chief Operating Officer and a director of Shanda, and New Era Investment Holding Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent ("Merger Sub"). As a result of the merger, Shanda became a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent.
Under the terms of the Merger Agreement, which was approved by the Company's shareholders at an extraordinary general meeting held today, each ordinary share of the Company ("Share") issued and outstanding immediately prior to the effective time of the merger, other than (a) the Shares and American depositary shares ("ADSs") beneficially owned by the Buyer Group (as defined in the Company's proxy statement dated January 13, 2012) and (b) the Shares owned by shareholders who have validly exercised and have not effectively withdrawn or lost their appraisal rights under the Cayman Islands Companies Law (the "Dissenting Shares"), has been cancelled in exchange for the right to receive $20.675 and each ADS, each representing two Shares, represents the right to receive $41.35 (less $0.05 per ADS cancellation fees), in each case, in cash, without interest and net of any applicable withholding taxes.
Registered holders of Shares and ADSs represented by share or ADS certificates, other than the Dissenting Shares, will receive a letter of transmittal and instructions on how to surrender their certificates in exchange for the merger consideration and should wait to receive the letter of transmittal before surrendering their certificates. Payment will be made to surrendering registered ADS holders and holders of ADSs in un-certificated form as soon as practicable after The Bank of New York Mellon, the Company's Depositary, receives the merger consideration. For any questions relating to the surrender and payment procedures, holders of Shares may contact Computershare Trust Company, N.A., the Share paying agent, toll free at +1 800 546 5141 (or +1 781 575 2765 outside of the United States) and holders of ADSs may contact The Bank of New York Mellon toll free at +1 866 300 4353 (or +1 201 680 6921 outside of the United States).
The Company also announced today that it requested that trading of its ADSs on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (the "NASDAQ") be suspended beginning on February 15, 2012. The Company requested the NASDAQ to file Form 25 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") notifying the SEC of the delisting of the ADSs on the NASDAQ and the deregistration of the Company's registered securities. The Company intends to terminate its reporting obligations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, by promptly filing Form 15 with the SEC. The Company's obligations to file or furnish with the SEC certain reports and forms, including Form 20-F and Form 6-K, will be suspended immediately as of the filing date of the Form 15 and will cease once the deregistration becomes effective.
About Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited
Shanda is a leading interactive entertainment media company in China, offering a broad array of online entertainment content on an integrated service platform to a large and diverse user base. Shanda offers its high quality entertainment content through its subsidiaries and affiliates, including Shanda Games, Cloudary, Ku6 Media, and various other online community and business units. The broad variety of content ranges from massively multi-player online role-playing games (MMORPGs) and advanced casual games, to social network games, e-sports, literature, film, television, music, and video etc. By providing a centralized platform through which Shanda can deliver its own content as well as third-party content, Shanda allows its users to interact with thousands of other users while enjoying some of the best entertainment content available in China today. Shanda: "Interaction enriches your life". For more information about Shanda, please visit http://www.snda.com.
Contact
Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited
Dahlia Wei, IR Associate Director
Elyse Liao, IR Senior Manager
Phone: +86-21-6058-8688 (Shanghai)
+852-2851-0177 (Hong Kong)
Email: IR@snda.com
Christensen Investor Relations
China:
Christian Arnell
Phone: +86-10-5826-4939
Email: carnell@christensenir.com
United States:
Linda Bergkamp
Phone: +1-480-614-3004
Email: lbergkamp@ChristensenIR.com
SOURCE Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited
Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited
Web Site: http://www.snda.com
SHANGHAI, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited, incorporated in the Cayman Islands ("Shanda" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: SNDA), a leading interactive entertainment media company in China, announced today the completion of the merger contemplated by the previously announced Agreement and Plan of Merger dated November 22, 2011 (the "Merger Agreement") among the Company, Premium Lead Company Limited ("Parent"), a British Virgin Islands business company jointly owned by Mr. Tianqiao Chen, Chairman of the board of directors, Chief Executive Officer and President of Shanda, his wife Ms. Qian Qian Chrissy Luo, who is a non-executive director of Shanda, and his brother Mr. Danian Chen, who is the Chief Operating Officer and a director of Shanda, and New Era Investment Holding Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent ("Merger Sub"). As a result of the merger, Shanda became a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent.
Under the terms of the Merger Agreement, which was approved by the Company's shareholders at an extraordinary general meeting held today, each ordinary share of the Company ("Share") issued and outstanding immediately prior to the effective time of the merger, other than (a) the Shares and American depositary shares ("ADSs") beneficially owned by the Buyer Group (as defined in the Company's proxy statement dated January 13, 2012) and (b) the Shares owned by shareholders who have validly exercised and have not effectively withdrawn or lost their appraisal rights under the Cayman Islands Companies Law (the "Dissenting Shares"), has been cancelled in exchange for the right to receive $20.675 and each ADS, each representing two Shares, represents the right to receive $41.35 (less $0.05 per ADS cancellation fees), in each case, in cash, without interest and net of any applicable withholding taxes.
Registered holders of Shares and ADSs represented by share or ADS certificates, other than the Dissenting Shares, will receive a letter of transmittal and instructions on how to surrender their certificates in exchange for the merger consideration and should wait to receive the letter of transmittal before surrendering their certificates. Payment will be made to surrendering registered ADS holders and holders of ADSs in un-certificated form as soon as practicable after The Bank of New York Mellon, the Company's Depositary, receives the merger consideration. For any questions relating to the surrender and payment procedures, holders of Shares may contact Computershare Trust Company, N.A., the Share paying agent, toll free at +1 800 546 5141 (or +1 781 575 2765 outside of the United States) and holders of ADSs may contact The Bank of New York Mellon toll free at +1 866 300 4353 (or +1 201 680 6921 outside of the United States).
The Company also announced today that it requested that trading of its ADSs on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (the "NASDAQ") be suspended beginning on February 15, 2012. The Company requested the NASDAQ to file Form 25 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") notifying the SEC of the delisting of the ADSs on the NASDAQ and the deregistration of the Company's registered securities. The Company intends to terminate its reporting obligations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, by promptly filing Form 15 with the SEC. The Company's obligations to file or furnish with the SEC certain reports and forms, including Form 20-F and Form 6-K, will be suspended immediately as of the filing date of the Form 15 and will cease once the deregistration becomes effective.
About Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited
Shanda is a leading interactive entertainment media company in China, offering a broad array of online entertainment content on an integrated service platform to a large and diverse user base. Shanda offers its high quality entertainment content through its subsidiaries and affiliates, including Shanda Games, Cloudary, Ku6 Media, and various other online community and business units. The broad variety of content ranges from massively multi-player online role-playing games (MMORPGs) and advanced casual games, to social network games, e-sports, literature, film, television, music, and video etc. By providing a centralized platform through which Shanda can deliver its own content as well as third-party content, Shanda allows its users to interact with thousands of other users while enjoying some of the best entertainment content available in China today. Shanda: "Interaction enriches your life". For more information about Shanda, please visit http://www.snda.com.
Contact
Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited
Dahlia Wei, IR Associate Director
Elyse Liao, IR Senior Manager
Phone: +86-21-6058-8688 (Shanghai)
+852-2851-0177 (Hong Kong)
Email: IR@snda.com
Christensen Investor Relations
China:
Christian Arnell
Phone: +86-10-5826-4939
Email: carnell@christensenir.com
United States:
Linda Bergkamp
Phone: +1-480-614-3004
Email: lbergkamp@ChristensenIR.com
SOURCE Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited
Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited
Web Site: http://www.snda.com
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Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:21:01 AM
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Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:14:01 AM
Panther Expedited Services, Inc. Delivers Growth; New Website Showcases Premium Logistics® Solutions
SEVILLE, Ohio, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Panther President and Chief Executive Officer Andrew Clarke announced today the unveiling of a new website at http://www.pantherexpedite.com. The redesigned site highlights markets, services, and logistics-solutions that were added or expanded over the last two years.
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"Panther has quickly evolved into a sophisticated Premium Logistics® company with global solutions and expertise," Clarke explained. "We help customers transform their supply chains to achieve competitive advantage. Our new website is an expression of that evolution."
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One of the world's largest Premium Logistics® companies, Panther provides global forwarding solutions to Fortune 500 corporations, government agencies, and blue-chip transportation service providers. Panther is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio and operates facilities in Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and Sacramento.
For information, visit http://www.pantherexpedite.com.
SOURCE Panther Expedited Services, Inc.
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Panther Expedited Services, Inc.
CONTACT: Jim Adams, Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing, +1-800-685-0657 ext. 2406, jadams@pantherexpedite.com
Web Site: http://www.pantherexpedite.com
SEVILLE, Ohio, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Panther President and Chief Executive Officer Andrew Clarke announced today the unveiling of a new website at http://www.pantherexpedite.com. The redesigned site highlights markets, services, and logistics-solutions that were added or expanded over the last two years.
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120214/CL53144 )
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101207/CL13334LOGO )
"Panther has quickly evolved into a sophisticated Premium Logistics® company with global solutions and expertise," Clarke explained. "We help customers transform their supply chains to achieve competitive advantage. Our new website is an expression of that evolution."
Indeed, the new website reflects Panther's 20-year history of growth from that of a ground expedite carrier to a Premium Logistics® company. With flexible, door-to-door shipping solutions for time sensitive and high value freight, Panther serves more than 11,000 customers spanning all vertical markets.
"We wanted to feature the diversity of our services and the strength of our global, non-asset based transportation network. Because we operate with no constraints, we can present our customers with optimized solutions that best fit their time, service and cost objectives," added Clarke.
One of the world's largest Premium Logistics® companies, Panther provides global forwarding solutions to Fortune 500 corporations, government agencies, and blue-chip transportation service providers. Panther is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio and operates facilities in Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and Sacramento.
For information, visit http://www.pantherexpedite.com.
SOURCE Panther Expedited Services, Inc.
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Panther Expedited Services, Inc.
CONTACT: Jim Adams, Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing, +1-800-685-0657 ext. 2406, jadams@pantherexpedite.com
Web Site: http://www.pantherexpedite.com
Legal Aid Society of Orange County Announces the Formation of Legal Genie, Inc. & Appointment of Thomas Larkin, CEO
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:00:01 AM
Legal Aid Society of Orange County Announces the Formation of Legal Genie, Inc. & Appointment of Thomas Larkin, CEO
SANTA ANA, Calif., Feb. 14 , 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Legal Aid Society of Orange County (LASOC), a nonprofit organization founded in 1958, is announcing the formation of a new for-profit entity, Legal Genie, Inc. Legal Genie® is a web-based program which combines the power of self-help technology with access to unbundled legal services, enabling self-represented litigants to complete and e-file legal pleadings. LASOC intends to offer its web-based legal services program, Legal Genie® and I-CAN!® under the new Legal Genie, Inc. banner.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120214/DC51905LOGO)
These products are currently being used in seven states and Legal Genie and I-CAN! have evolved into an innovative service with client transactions that total over 500,000. It is available for purchase by individuals who do not meet the income criteria for free services, but at the same time cannot afford the full-time services of a lawyer. Legal Genie combines the convenience of technology with the help of a professional at an affordable price, delivering real benefits both to the public and the legal professionals.
The decision to establish the for-profit entity was influenced by the recent high profile investment activities in the "unbundled" legal services sector. However, given LASOC's twelve years of experience and creditability for providing technology solutions to self represented litigants, Legal Genie has distinct advantage over its competitors in the marketplace. Both LASOC and Legal Genie products have won several prestigious awards for innovation in development of technology solutions for self represented litigants. Additionally the decision to establish the for-profit entity aligns with LASOC's desire to achieve sustainability of the core not for profit entity.
"Given the growing need for unbundled legal services by many Americans, we feel that the best way to address this tremendous opportunity is through a profit making venture in the online legal services marketplace," said Robert Cohen, Executive Director of LASOC and Chairman of the Board for Legal Genie, Inc.
LASOC has hired wireless and e-commerce consumer brand veteran, Thomas E. Larkin to serve as the Chief Executive Officer of Legal Genie, Inc. For over 15 years, Mr. Larkin served as CEO and in senior management roles within the wireless, data management, ISP, and automotive warranty industries. As CEO of EFG Companies, Mr. Larkin successfully introduced Walk-Away Brands, known today as Hyundai Quality Assurance program to the US.
Mr. Larkin's duties at Legal Genie, Inc. include establishing executive management team and meeting with venture capital and private equity firms regarding ongoing funding for Legal Genie, Inc.
About Legal Genie
Legal Genie is simple to use: answer straightforward questions and Legal Genie populates the answers in court pleading forms. The software also allows users to e-file many of the pleadings created, thereby streamlining the process at local courthouses or government agency offices.
Legal Genie is unique because, unlike other document preparation services, Legal Genie allows users the optional choice of connecting with a private attorney to provide document review, legal advice and guidance. The attorneys work in the private sector and are screened through a State Bar-certified Lawyer Referral Services (LRS).
About Legal Aid Society of Orange County
Founded in 1958 by the Orange County Bar Association, Legal Aid Society of Orange County (LASOC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to provide civil legal services to low-income individuals and seniors and to promote equal access to the justice system through advocacy, legal counseling, innovative self-help services, in-depth legal representation,economic development and community education.
http://www.legal-aid.com
http://www.legalgenie.com
SOURCE Legal Genie
Photo:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120214/DC51905LOGO
http://photoarchive.ap.org/
Legal Genie
CONTACT: Iris Ma, Direct Line: +1-714-571-5218, Fax: (714) 571-5270, Irisma@legal-aid.com
Web Site: http://www.legalgenie.com
SANTA ANA, Calif., Feb. 14 , 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Legal Aid Society of Orange County (LASOC), a nonprofit organization founded in 1958, is announcing the formation of a new for-profit entity, Legal Genie, Inc. Legal Genie® is a web-based program which combines the power of self-help technology with access to unbundled legal services, enabling self-represented litigants to complete and e-file legal pleadings. LASOC intends to offer its web-based legal services program, Legal Genie® and I-CAN!® under the new Legal Genie, Inc. banner.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120214/DC51905LOGO)
These products are currently being used in seven states and Legal Genie and I-CAN! have evolved into an innovative service with client transactions that total over 500,000. It is available for purchase by individuals who do not meet the income criteria for free services, but at the same time cannot afford the full-time services of a lawyer. Legal Genie combines the convenience of technology with the help of a professional at an affordable price, delivering real benefits both to the public and the legal professionals.
The decision to establish the for-profit entity was influenced by the recent high profile investment activities in the "unbundled" legal services sector. However, given LASOC's twelve years of experience and creditability for providing technology solutions to self represented litigants, Legal Genie has distinct advantage over its competitors in the marketplace. Both LASOC and Legal Genie products have won several prestigious awards for innovation in development of technology solutions for self represented litigants. Additionally the decision to establish the for-profit entity aligns with LASOC's desire to achieve sustainability of the core not for profit entity.
"Given the growing need for unbundled legal services by many Americans, we feel that the best way to address this tremendous opportunity is through a profit making venture in the online legal services marketplace," said Robert Cohen, Executive Director of LASOC and Chairman of the Board for Legal Genie, Inc.
LASOC has hired wireless and e-commerce consumer brand veteran, Thomas E. Larkin to serve as the Chief Executive Officer of Legal Genie, Inc. For over 15 years, Mr. Larkin served as CEO and in senior management roles within the wireless, data management, ISP, and automotive warranty industries. As CEO of EFG Companies, Mr. Larkin successfully introduced Walk-Away Brands, known today as Hyundai Quality Assurance program to the US.
Mr. Larkin's duties at Legal Genie, Inc. include establishing executive management team and meeting with venture capital and private equity firms regarding ongoing funding for Legal Genie, Inc.
About Legal Genie
Legal Genie is simple to use: answer straightforward questions and Legal Genie populates the answers in court pleading forms. The software also allows users to e-file many of the pleadings created, thereby streamlining the process at local courthouses or government agency offices.
Legal Genie is unique because, unlike other document preparation services, Legal Genie allows users the optional choice of connecting with a private attorney to provide document review, legal advice and guidance. The attorneys work in the private sector and are screened through a State Bar-certified Lawyer Referral Services (LRS).
About Legal Aid Society of Orange County
Founded in 1958 by the Orange County Bar Association, Legal Aid Society of Orange County (LASOC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to provide civil legal services to low-income individuals and seniors and to promote equal access to the justice system through advocacy, legal counseling, innovative self-help services, in-depth legal representation,economic development and community education.
http://www.legal-aid.com
http://www.legalgenie.com
SOURCE Legal Genie
Photo:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120214/DC51905LOGO
http://photoarchive.ap.org/
Legal Genie
CONTACT: Iris Ma, Direct Line: +1-714-571-5218, Fax: (714) 571-5270, Irisma@legal-aid.com
Web Site: http://www.legalgenie.com
Meltwater and PRCA Fight Copyright Fees in UK Court Cutting Burden by 90 Per Cent and Saving UK Businesses Millions
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 10:56:01 AM
Meltwater and PRCA Fight Copyright Fees in UK Court Cutting Burden by 90 Per Cent and Saving UK Businesses Millions
LONDON, February 14, 2012/PRNewswire/ --
Dangerous UK copyright rulings prevail; UK business users of Google News
will be licensed next
Today's Copyright Tribunal ruling
[http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ctribunal/ctribunal-decisionorder.htm ] makes it clear that the UK's
copyright law is on a head-on collision with the average Internet user. Everyday acts such
as searching for news and sharing it at work now require a license from the Newspaper
Licensing Association (NLA). In a win for business, Meltwater Group and the PRCA (Public
Relations Consultants Association) were able to convince the Copyright Tribunal to slash
the NLA's proposed license fees by 90 per cent. Sadly today's verdict is only a partial
victory for the UK Internet community. Going forward, it is clear that UK clients of
online news monitoring services will need a license agreement with the NLA and pay
copyright fees. This is also the case for commercial UK clients of any news monitoring
vendor including Google News. During the proceedings, the NLA stated that it has been
mandated by its owners and intends to pursue licensing of UK business users of Google
News.
These UK court rulings make millions of UK citizens lawbreakers. According to the
courts, sending an email to a work colleague with a news headline, browsing a free news
service or sending a Tweet with news at work requires a licence from the publishers,
without such licence they infringe copyright. UK copyright law needs an overhaul to make
it compatible with the Internet. Without such modernization, millions of people will
unintentionally break the law every day.
Today's decision in the Copyright Tribunal is part of an on-going series of cases
where Meltwater and the PRCA challenged the NLA on its high fees for reading freely
available news. In the ruling, the Copyright Tribunal agreed with Meltwater and the PRCA's
contention that the NLA's proposed licensing scheme was not reasonable and required
amendment. Nine points were challenged by Meltwater and the Tribunal agreed with Meltwater
on seven of them. By fighting this licensing scheme, the PRCA and Meltwater were
successful in reducing the fees for all businesses totalling more than GBP100 million over
the next three years. The savings for Meltwater clients alone are more than GBP24 million
in the same period.
"The ability to browse the Internet without fear of infringing copyright has always
been a fundamental Internet principle. Society is not served by these rulings in UK and it
seems that this interpretation of the law fundamentally clashes with how millions of
people use the Internet every day," says Jorn Lyseggen, CEO of Meltwater. "Meltwater is a
strong believer in copyright and a strong supporter of a sustainable, independent press.
However, the UK needs a copyright law that allow its citizens to use the Internet without
fear of unintentional infringement."
Meltwater and the PRCA continue to advocate for a modern copyright law for the UK.
Notwithstanding the Tribunal's decision, Meltwater and the PRCA are appealing aspects of
the Court of Appeal's decision on web browsing to the UK Supreme Court scheduled for
February 2013. Also encouraging are several recent decisions of the European Union Court
of Justice that are consistent with Meltwater and the PRCA's position. In addition to
attention from the judiciary, Vince Cable, UK Business Secretary, recommended in August
that the UK government should change these out-of-date copyright laws based on the
recommendations of the Hargreaves Report: Digital Opportunity - A Review of Intellectual
Property and Growth [http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ipreview ]. The UK Intellectual Property Office
estimated that changes to the law will bring GBP7.9 billion to the UK economy
[http://www.ipo.gov.uk/about/press/press-release/press-release-2011/press-release-20110518.htm ]
. With copyright rules that are friendly to both publishers and businesses, the UK
economy will create a new layer of services that help publishers make more money and
increase UK tax revenues.
Also in support of smart updates to UK copyright, Prime Minister David Cameron stated
in Nov. 2010 that 'The founders of Google have said they could never have started their
company in Britain' (owing to restrictive copyright law that inhibits innovation and
economic growth).
Importantly, the ruling is unique to the UK and only impacts people reading and
sharing news in that country. As recognised by the Copyright Tribunal, copyright is
governed by national law and users of media monitoring services outside UK are not subject
to NLA licensing fees today.
Meltwater and the PRCA have stood alone in challenging the NLA's licensing scheme both
in the courts, and in the Copyright Tribunal, on behalf of PR agencies, in-house PR teams
and all other business users of the Internet. If unchallenged, the NLA's scheme would have
increased costs not only for Meltwater customers but also for all users of commercial
media monitoring services, many of whom are PRCA members.
Those wishing to find out more about the Copyright Tribunal's decision and what this
means for businesses are invited to join a Twitter Q&A with Meltwater and the PRCA -
details will be announced soon. For additional information about the ruling, see the FAQ
[http://prca.org.uk/NLALicenseFAQs ], blog
[http://blog.meltwater.com/the-implication-of-today%E2%80%99s-verdict-in-the-uk-copyright-tribunal ]
, Meltwater CEO's statement
[http://www.shack15.com/the-uk-has-become-a-hostile-environment-for-internet-users-and-internet-businesses ]
and Copyright Tribunal decision here
[http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ctribunal/ctribunal-decisionorder.htm ].
About The Meltwater Group
The Meltwater Group is a privately held software company founded in Norway in 2001,
serving more than 20,000 clients through 57 offices located across North America, South
America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia. Meltwater is committed to
challenging existing business models by introducing disruptive technologies.? The
Meltwater Group delivers B2B solutions based on search engine technology, cloud computing
and search engine marketing. For more information, please visit
http://www.meltwater.com.
About the PRCA
Who we are: Founded in 1969, the PRCA is the professional body that represents UK PR
consultancies, in-house communications teams, PR freelancers and individuals. The PRCA
promotes all aspects of public relations and internal communications work, helping teams
and individuals maximise the value they deliver to clients and organisations.
What we do: The Association exists to raise standards in PR and communications,
providing members with industry data, facilitating the sharing of communications best
practice and creating networking opportunities.
How we do it and make a difference: All PRCA members are bound by a professional
charter and codes of conduct, and benefit from exceptional training. The Association also
works for the greater benefit of the industry, sharing best practice and lobbying on the
industry's behalf e.g. fighting the NLA's digital licence.
Who we represent: The PRCA represents many of the major consultancies in the UK, and
currently has more than 250 agency members from around the world including the majority of
the top 100 UK consultancies. We also represent around 70 in-house communications teams
from multinationals, UK charities and leading UK public sector organisations.
Source: Meltwater Group
For media enquiries please contact: Media contacts: Dan Purvis, Meltwater Group, +44-7801-424-454, dan.purvis@meltwater.com
LONDON, February 14, 2012/PRNewswire/ --
Dangerous UK copyright rulings prevail; UK business users of Google News
will be licensed next
Today's Copyright Tribunal ruling
[http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ctribunal/ctribunal-decisionorder.htm ] makes it clear that the UK's
copyright law is on a head-on collision with the average Internet user. Everyday acts such
as searching for news and sharing it at work now require a license from the Newspaper
Licensing Association (NLA). In a win for business, Meltwater Group and the PRCA (Public
Relations Consultants Association) were able to convince the Copyright Tribunal to slash
the NLA's proposed license fees by 90 per cent. Sadly today's verdict is only a partial
victory for the UK Internet community. Going forward, it is clear that UK clients of
online news monitoring services will need a license agreement with the NLA and pay
copyright fees. This is also the case for commercial UK clients of any news monitoring
vendor including Google News. During the proceedings, the NLA stated that it has been
mandated by its owners and intends to pursue licensing of UK business users of Google
News.
These UK court rulings make millions of UK citizens lawbreakers. According to the
courts, sending an email to a work colleague with a news headline, browsing a free news
service or sending a Tweet with news at work requires a licence from the publishers,
without such licence they infringe copyright. UK copyright law needs an overhaul to make
it compatible with the Internet. Without such modernization, millions of people will
unintentionally break the law every day.
Today's decision in the Copyright Tribunal is part of an on-going series of cases
where Meltwater and the PRCA challenged the NLA on its high fees for reading freely
available news. In the ruling, the Copyright Tribunal agreed with Meltwater and the PRCA's
contention that the NLA's proposed licensing scheme was not reasonable and required
amendment. Nine points were challenged by Meltwater and the Tribunal agreed with Meltwater
on seven of them. By fighting this licensing scheme, the PRCA and Meltwater were
successful in reducing the fees for all businesses totalling more than GBP100 million over
the next three years. The savings for Meltwater clients alone are more than GBP24 million
in the same period.
"The ability to browse the Internet without fear of infringing copyright has always
been a fundamental Internet principle. Society is not served by these rulings in UK and it
seems that this interpretation of the law fundamentally clashes with how millions of
people use the Internet every day," says Jorn Lyseggen, CEO of Meltwater. "Meltwater is a
strong believer in copyright and a strong supporter of a sustainable, independent press.
However, the UK needs a copyright law that allow its citizens to use the Internet without
fear of unintentional infringement."
Meltwater and the PRCA continue to advocate for a modern copyright law for the UK.
Notwithstanding the Tribunal's decision, Meltwater and the PRCA are appealing aspects of
the Court of Appeal's decision on web browsing to the UK Supreme Court scheduled for
February 2013. Also encouraging are several recent decisions of the European Union Court
of Justice that are consistent with Meltwater and the PRCA's position. In addition to
attention from the judiciary, Vince Cable, UK Business Secretary, recommended in August
that the UK government should change these out-of-date copyright laws based on the
recommendations of the Hargreaves Report: Digital Opportunity - A Review of Intellectual
Property and Growth [http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ipreview ]. The UK Intellectual Property Office
estimated that changes to the law will bring GBP7.9 billion to the UK economy
[http://www.ipo.gov.uk/about/press/press-release/press-release-2011/press-release-20110518.htm ]
. With copyright rules that are friendly to both publishers and businesses, the UK
economy will create a new layer of services that help publishers make more money and
increase UK tax revenues.
Also in support of smart updates to UK copyright, Prime Minister David Cameron stated
in Nov. 2010 that 'The founders of Google have said they could never have started their
company in Britain' (owing to restrictive copyright law that inhibits innovation and
economic growth).
Importantly, the ruling is unique to the UK and only impacts people reading and
sharing news in that country. As recognised by the Copyright Tribunal, copyright is
governed by national law and users of media monitoring services outside UK are not subject
to NLA licensing fees today.
Meltwater and the PRCA have stood alone in challenging the NLA's licensing scheme both
in the courts, and in the Copyright Tribunal, on behalf of PR agencies, in-house PR teams
and all other business users of the Internet. If unchallenged, the NLA's scheme would have
increased costs not only for Meltwater customers but also for all users of commercial
media monitoring services, many of whom are PRCA members.
Those wishing to find out more about the Copyright Tribunal's decision and what this
means for businesses are invited to join a Twitter Q&A with Meltwater and the PRCA -
details will be announced soon. For additional information about the ruling, see the FAQ
[http://prca.org.uk/NLALicenseFAQs ], blog
[http://blog.meltwater.com/the-implication-of-today%E2%80%99s-verdict-in-the-uk-copyright-tribunal ]
, Meltwater CEO's statement
[http://www.shack15.com/the-uk-has-become-a-hostile-environment-for-internet-users-and-internet-businesses ]
and Copyright Tribunal decision here
[http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ctribunal/ctribunal-decisionorder.htm ].
About The Meltwater Group
The Meltwater Group is a privately held software company founded in Norway in 2001,
serving more than 20,000 clients through 57 offices located across North America, South
America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia. Meltwater is committed to
challenging existing business models by introducing disruptive technologies.? The
Meltwater Group delivers B2B solutions based on search engine technology, cloud computing
and search engine marketing. For more information, please visit
http://www.meltwater.com.
About the PRCA
Who we are: Founded in 1969, the PRCA is the professional body that represents UK PR
consultancies, in-house communications teams, PR freelancers and individuals. The PRCA
promotes all aspects of public relations and internal communications work, helping teams
and individuals maximise the value they deliver to clients and organisations.
What we do: The Association exists to raise standards in PR and communications,
providing members with industry data, facilitating the sharing of communications best
practice and creating networking opportunities.
How we do it and make a difference: All PRCA members are bound by a professional
charter and codes of conduct, and benefit from exceptional training. The Association also
works for the greater benefit of the industry, sharing best practice and lobbying on the
industry's behalf e.g. fighting the NLA's digital licence.
Who we represent: The PRCA represents many of the major consultancies in the UK, and
currently has more than 250 agency members from around the world including the majority of
the top 100 UK consultancies. We also represent around 70 in-house communications teams
from multinationals, UK charities and leading UK public sector organisations.
Source: Meltwater Group
For media enquiries please contact: Media contacts: Dan Purvis, Meltwater Group, +44-7801-424-454, dan.purvis@meltwater.com
Reinvigorating the Hotels.com Brand
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 10:21:01 AM
Reinvigorating the Hotels.com Brand
Online Travel Agency Leader Takes Branding Global
DALLAS, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hotels.com®, the market leader in online hotel booking and home to over 20,000 hotel destinations worldwide, is launching a new, globally unified marketing platform reflective of a global brand ethos effective February 14, 2012.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120214/DA52825LOGO)
"Over the past twenty years, we've evolved from a phone-based sales company, to a web-based company and now, to a global, fully integrated web, social and mobile-booking company," said Victor Owens, vice president of marketing North America for hotels.com. "Hotels.com has the expertise to find our consumers the perfect place anywhere in the world. We felt that our branding should reflect our position as a global industry leader."
New changes to the global branding platform will continue throughout the year, with most countries seeing the largest part of the change effective in the second quarter of 2012. Changes, including new advertising, logos, tagline and, in some countries, a new website.
New advertising
SMART, the brand's animated spokesperson for the past several years, is evolving from an educated consumer to an expert hotel concierge offering viewers tips on how to enjoy a perfect hotel experience. Moving away from Claymation and into computer generated imagery (CGI), a new advertising campaign featuring the updated SMART will introduce new SMART family members and friends.
New logo
Colorful and bold, the new logo is a visually striking way of showcasing the hotels.com expertise and presence in the travel and hotel industries. The new "H" logo represents the abundance of choices hotels.com provides in destinations, hotel types, and price points. With hotels.com offering so many resources to consumers like ever-changing hotel sales and deals, Welcome Rewards® loyalty program, last-minute deals and mobile booking options, the new "H" logo, along with several complimentary sub-logos, will easily differentiate which sales fall under which categories, making online hotel room shopping even more seamless than before.
New Tagline
Hotels.com conducted a Facebook poll with loyal consumers who positively vetted the new tag line: "Finding you the perfect place is all we do," which conveys both the opinion of consumers and the vast experience of the brand.
With over three million guest reviews, more than 145,000 hotels to choose from and vast expertise on the hotels.com website and social media channels, hotels.com continues to provide hotel-focused information and service.
Visit http://www.hotels.com, call 1-800-2-hotels, use our mobile apps, or book with a friend through our Facebook app Hotels WithMe for hotel deals and seasonal sales. Other news, images and infographics are available at our media room: http://press.hotels.com/en-us/.
Press contacts:
Meghan Callaghan - Finn Partners for hotels.com
Phone: (212) 715-1608
Email: meghan@finnpartners.com
Taylor L. Cole, APR
hotels.com North America
Phone: (469) 335-8442
Email: taycole@hotels.com
About hotels.com
Hotels.com® is a leading provider of lodging worldwide, offering over 145,000 properties in over 60 countries from national chain hotels and all-inclusive resorts to local favorites and bed & breakfasts. Hotels.com is the smarter way to book travel by offering Welcome Rewards®, an industry leading loyalty rewards program; the real opinions of other travelers captured in three million Guest Reviews and; a Price Match Guarantee, so that those booking with hotels.com can be assured they are getting the best deal, either online or by speaking directly to a travel expert at 1-800-2-HOTELS 24 hours a day. For more information, please visit hotels.com. Hotels.com is an operating company of Expedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE). Follow us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/hotelsdotcom and Twitter via http://www.twitter.com/hotelsdotcom or visit the hotels.com Travel Smart Blog for consumer and business travel information. Download the mobile app here: http://www.hotels.com/deals/mobile_app/. Detailed Hotel Price Index data is available at: http://www.hotel-price-index.com, hotels.com, A Smarter Way to Book(TM).
Hotels.com, Welcome Rewards and the Hotels.com logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Hotels.com, LP. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. © 2012 Hotels.com, LP. All rights reserved. CST # 2083949-50
SOURCE Hotels.com
Photo:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120214/DA52825LOGO
http://photoarchive.ap.org/
Hotels.com
Web Site: http://www.hotels.com
Online Travel Agency Leader Takes Branding Global
DALLAS, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hotels.com®, the market leader in online hotel booking and home to over 20,000 hotel destinations worldwide, is launching a new, globally unified marketing platform reflective of a global brand ethos effective February 14, 2012.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120214/DA52825LOGO)
"Over the past twenty years, we've evolved from a phone-based sales company, to a web-based company and now, to a global, fully integrated web, social and mobile-booking company," said Victor Owens, vice president of marketing North America for hotels.com. "Hotels.com has the expertise to find our consumers the perfect place anywhere in the world. We felt that our branding should reflect our position as a global industry leader."
New changes to the global branding platform will continue throughout the year, with most countries seeing the largest part of the change effective in the second quarter of 2012. Changes, including new advertising, logos, tagline and, in some countries, a new website.
New advertising
SMART, the brand's animated spokesperson for the past several years, is evolving from an educated consumer to an expert hotel concierge offering viewers tips on how to enjoy a perfect hotel experience. Moving away from Claymation and into computer generated imagery (CGI), a new advertising campaign featuring the updated SMART will introduce new SMART family members and friends.
New logo
Colorful and bold, the new logo is a visually striking way of showcasing the hotels.com expertise and presence in the travel and hotel industries. The new "H" logo represents the abundance of choices hotels.com provides in destinations, hotel types, and price points. With hotels.com offering so many resources to consumers like ever-changing hotel sales and deals, Welcome Rewards® loyalty program, last-minute deals and mobile booking options, the new "H" logo, along with several complimentary sub-logos, will easily differentiate which sales fall under which categories, making online hotel room shopping even more seamless than before.
New Tagline
Hotels.com conducted a Facebook poll with loyal consumers who positively vetted the new tag line: "Finding you the perfect place is all we do," which conveys both the opinion of consumers and the vast experience of the brand.
With over three million guest reviews, more than 145,000 hotels to choose from and vast expertise on the hotels.com website and social media channels, hotels.com continues to provide hotel-focused information and service.
Visit http://www.hotels.com, call 1-800-2-hotels, use our mobile apps, or book with a friend through our Facebook app Hotels WithMe for hotel deals and seasonal sales. Other news, images and infographics are available at our media room: http://press.hotels.com/en-us/.
Press contacts:
Meghan Callaghan - Finn Partners for hotels.com
Phone: (212) 715-1608
Email: meghan@finnpartners.com
Taylor L. Cole, APR
hotels.com North America
Phone: (469) 335-8442
Email: taycole@hotels.com
About hotels.com
Hotels.com® is a leading provider of lodging worldwide, offering over 145,000 properties in over 60 countries from national chain hotels and all-inclusive resorts to local favorites and bed & breakfasts. Hotels.com is the smarter way to book travel by offering Welcome Rewards®, an industry leading loyalty rewards program; the real opinions of other travelers captured in three million Guest Reviews and; a Price Match Guarantee, so that those booking with hotels.com can be assured they are getting the best deal, either online or by speaking directly to a travel expert at 1-800-2-HOTELS 24 hours a day. For more information, please visit hotels.com. Hotels.com is an operating company of Expedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE). Follow us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/hotelsdotcom and Twitter via http://www.twitter.com/hotelsdotcom or visit the hotels.com Travel Smart Blog for consumer and business travel information. Download the mobile app here: http://www.hotels.com/deals/mobile_app/. Detailed Hotel Price Index data is available at: http://www.hotel-price-index.com, hotels.com, A Smarter Way to Book(TM).
Hotels.com, Welcome Rewards and the Hotels.com logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Hotels.com, LP. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. © 2012 Hotels.com, LP. All rights reserved. CST # 2083949-50
SOURCE Hotels.com
Photo:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120214/DA52825LOGO
http://photoarchive.ap.org/
Hotels.com
Web Site: http://www.hotels.com
Wi-Fi Goes Mobile With Alcatel-Lucent
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 10:21:01 AM
Wi-Fi Goes Mobile With Alcatel-Lucent
lightRadio(TM) Wi-Fi(R) makes it easy for smartphones, tablets and other connected devices to move seamlessly between cellular networks and hotspots at home, in coffee shops and other locations
PARIS, February 14, 2012/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is making it simpler for people to
access the Internet - whether on smartphones, tablets or laptops - over secure Wi-Fi
connections in homes or hotspot locations such as coffee shops and shopping centers.
lightRadio(TM) Wi-Fi(R) sorts through the confusion of hotspots and cellular networks to
find and connect with the best available wireless broadband network, while helping
communications service providers extend their reach by integrating Wi-Fi directly into
their service offerings.
People like to be able to switch from 3G or 4G networks to Wi-Fi to access the
Internet, particularly with the growing interest in Cloud-based applications to store
music, video, photos and multimedia content. However, switching from a cellular service to
a Wi-Fi network is not always seamless, particularly when it requires first finding a
network and then getting through complex log-in and password procedures.
lightRadio(TM) Wi-Fi(R) simplifies this process by allowing people to switch
automatically from a cellular service to residential or public Wi-Fi networks and hotspots
without having to login, worry about payments schemes, or even be aware of the shift. This
is done in three ways: by using software that identifies and connects people to a
'trusted' network automatically; by introducing new capabilities into service provider
networks to manage the transition between Wi-Fi and cellular networks; and by integrating
Wi-Fi directly into small-cell base stations and cellular networks.
lightRadio Wi-Fi addresses another big concern - security. Many people prefer to
connect to hotspots that they know they can trust, especially when accessing services and
streamed content from the Cloud, or when they need uninterrupted connections for video
streaming or video phone calls. lightRadio Wi-Fi always finds the most 'trusted' network.
lightRadio Wi-Fi represents a radical departure from the traditional way that mobile
operators apply Wi-Fi: today it is often used to 'offload' traffic from congested cellular
networks. By enabling cellular subscribers to stay within their network and service plan,
it will allow service providers to maintain use of their services, creating revenue,
independent of how the customer is connected.
The lightRadio Wi-Fi approach is also highly applicable for fixed-line and cable
service providers, allowing them to extend wireless coverage to existing subscribers
without investing in expensive spectrum or wireless infrastructure.
Ken Rehbehn, a principal analyst at Yankee Group said: "Delivering secure, seamless
access to Wi-Fi networks is a key requirement in the market right now.-Alcatel-Lucent's
lightRadio Wi-Fi provides operators with a comprehensive solution that smartly draws from
the company's strengths in radio access technology and IP routing.-The result is an offer
that lets operators leverage existing network assets while delivering demanding smartphone
users an outstanding customer experience."
Wim Sweldens, President of Alcatel-Lucent's Wireless division said: "With lightRadio
Wi-Fi, Alcatel-Lucent gives service providers new options to meet consumers' fast-growing
broadband requirements. Extending our groundbreaking lightRadio portfolio, service
providers will be able to build closer relationships with their customers by delivering
seamless high-speed broadband connections, wherever they are, using LTE and Wi-Fi
networks. For subscribers, this approach provides the peace of mind they want when
accessing the Internet wherever they go."
Alcatel-Lucent is extending the lightRadio ecosystem to allow service providers access
to the widest range of Wi-Fi networks. Alcatel-Lucent is collaborating with several major
Wi-Fi access point companies to ensure interoperability and is integrating Motorola
Solutions' high-performance Wi-Fi solution and Qualcomm Atheros Wi-Fi technology into its
multi-standard Metrocells to ensure that lightRadio Wi-Fi provides our customers with the
best Wi-Fi solution, at a competitive price.
"The massive influx of connected wireless devices is creating a huge opportunity for
3G/4G alternatives.- Motorola Solutions has the ideal WLAN solution powered by our WiNG 5
architecture to deliver carrier- class scalability and management," said Imran Akbar, vice
president and general manager, Enterprise Networks & Communications, Motorola Solutions.
"We look forward to working with Alcatel-Lucent to provide a quality experience for 3G/4G
users."
About Alcatel-Lucent's lightRadio Wi-Fi solution (#lightRadio):
Alcatel-Lucent is combining its leadership in wireless and Internet Protocol (IP)
technology to extend their broadband networks - mobile or fixed - with high-capacity,
seamless and secure Wi-Fi. The solution has several key components, including:
- Secure Wi-Fi gateway functionality has been introduced into
Alcatel-Lucent's IP portfolio on the market-leading 7750 Service Router. This enables
service providers to offer large-scale Wi-Fi services in conjunction with fixed and
mobile broadband services from a single platform, reducing cost and complexity.
- New software called the Automatic Network Discovery and Selection Function
(ANDSF) has been added to Alcatel-Lucent's policy manager, the 5780 Dynamic Services
Controller. This allows the automatic selection of the 'best' network connection based
on criteria such as service type, subscription type and network congestion levels,
helping to improve the overall customer experience.
- Integrated Wi-Fi as an option on Alcatel-Lucent's lightRadio multi-standard
Femtocell and Metrocell systems. Metrocells provide additional network capacity and
coverage in dense urban centers, airports or busy shopping malls, and Femtocells are
'personal base stations' for increasing coverage and capacity in homes or offices.
Integrating Wi-Fi into Alcatel-Lucent's already comprehensive Femtocell portfolio will
further increase Alcatel-Lucent's global leadership in this technology.
To complete the solution, Alcatel-Lucent offers highly specialized services for the
planning, design and seamless integration of lightRadio Wi-Fi into existing networks
simplifying the deployment and speeding time to market.
About Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU)
The long-trusted partner of service providers, enterprises and governments around the
world, Alcatel-Lucent is a leading innovator in the field of networking and communications
technology, products and services. The company is home to Bell Labs, one of the world's
foremost R&D organizations, responsible for breakthroughs that have shaped the networking
and communications industry. Alcatel-Lucent is committed to making communications more
sustainable, more affordable and more accessible as we pursue our mission - Realizing the
Potential of a Connected World.
With operations in more than 130 countries and one of the most experienced global
services organizations in the industry, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global
reach. The Company achieved revenues of Euro 15.3 billion in 2011 and is incorporated in
France and headquartered in Paris.
For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com, read
the latest posts on the Alcatel-Lucent blog http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/blog and
follow the Company on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Alcatel_Lucent.
Source: Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent Press Contacts: SIMON POULTER, simon.poulter@alcatel-lucent.com , T : +33-(0)1-40-76-50-84 ; LEONARD PESHECK,leonard.pesheck@alcatel-lucent.com , T : +1-630-713-6437 . ALCATEL-LUCENT INVESTOR RELATIONS: FRANK MACCARY, frank.maccary@alcatel-lucent.com , T : +33-(0)1-40-76-12-11 ; TOM BEVILACQUA, thomas.bevilacqua@alcatel-lucent.com, T : +1-908-582-7998 ; CONSTANCE DE CAMBIAIRE, constance.de_cambiaire@alcatel-lucent.com, T : +33-(0)1-40-76-10-13.
lightRadio(TM) Wi-Fi(R) makes it easy for smartphones, tablets and other connected devices to move seamlessly between cellular networks and hotspots at home, in coffee shops and other locations
PARIS, February 14, 2012/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is making it simpler for people to
access the Internet - whether on smartphones, tablets or laptops - over secure Wi-Fi
connections in homes or hotspot locations such as coffee shops and shopping centers.
lightRadio(TM) Wi-Fi(R) sorts through the confusion of hotspots and cellular networks to
find and connect with the best available wireless broadband network, while helping
communications service providers extend their reach by integrating Wi-Fi directly into
their service offerings.
People like to be able to switch from 3G or 4G networks to Wi-Fi to access the
Internet, particularly with the growing interest in Cloud-based applications to store
music, video, photos and multimedia content. However, switching from a cellular service to
a Wi-Fi network is not always seamless, particularly when it requires first finding a
network and then getting through complex log-in and password procedures.
lightRadio(TM) Wi-Fi(R) simplifies this process by allowing people to switch
automatically from a cellular service to residential or public Wi-Fi networks and hotspots
without having to login, worry about payments schemes, or even be aware of the shift. This
is done in three ways: by using software that identifies and connects people to a
'trusted' network automatically; by introducing new capabilities into service provider
networks to manage the transition between Wi-Fi and cellular networks; and by integrating
Wi-Fi directly into small-cell base stations and cellular networks.
lightRadio Wi-Fi addresses another big concern - security. Many people prefer to
connect to hotspots that they know they can trust, especially when accessing services and
streamed content from the Cloud, or when they need uninterrupted connections for video
streaming or video phone calls. lightRadio Wi-Fi always finds the most 'trusted' network.
lightRadio Wi-Fi represents a radical departure from the traditional way that mobile
operators apply Wi-Fi: today it is often used to 'offload' traffic from congested cellular
networks. By enabling cellular subscribers to stay within their network and service plan,
it will allow service providers to maintain use of their services, creating revenue,
independent of how the customer is connected.
The lightRadio Wi-Fi approach is also highly applicable for fixed-line and cable
service providers, allowing them to extend wireless coverage to existing subscribers
without investing in expensive spectrum or wireless infrastructure.
Ken Rehbehn, a principal analyst at Yankee Group said: "Delivering secure, seamless
access to Wi-Fi networks is a key requirement in the market right now.-Alcatel-Lucent's
lightRadio Wi-Fi provides operators with a comprehensive solution that smartly draws from
the company's strengths in radio access technology and IP routing.-The result is an offer
that lets operators leverage existing network assets while delivering demanding smartphone
users an outstanding customer experience."
Wim Sweldens, President of Alcatel-Lucent's Wireless division said: "With lightRadio
Wi-Fi, Alcatel-Lucent gives service providers new options to meet consumers' fast-growing
broadband requirements. Extending our groundbreaking lightRadio portfolio, service
providers will be able to build closer relationships with their customers by delivering
seamless high-speed broadband connections, wherever they are, using LTE and Wi-Fi
networks. For subscribers, this approach provides the peace of mind they want when
accessing the Internet wherever they go."
Alcatel-Lucent is extending the lightRadio ecosystem to allow service providers access
to the widest range of Wi-Fi networks. Alcatel-Lucent is collaborating with several major
Wi-Fi access point companies to ensure interoperability and is integrating Motorola
Solutions' high-performance Wi-Fi solution and Qualcomm Atheros Wi-Fi technology into its
multi-standard Metrocells to ensure that lightRadio Wi-Fi provides our customers with the
best Wi-Fi solution, at a competitive price.
"The massive influx of connected wireless devices is creating a huge opportunity for
3G/4G alternatives.- Motorola Solutions has the ideal WLAN solution powered by our WiNG 5
architecture to deliver carrier- class scalability and management," said Imran Akbar, vice
president and general manager, Enterprise Networks & Communications, Motorola Solutions.
"We look forward to working with Alcatel-Lucent to provide a quality experience for 3G/4G
users."
About Alcatel-Lucent's lightRadio Wi-Fi solution (#lightRadio):
Alcatel-Lucent is combining its leadership in wireless and Internet Protocol (IP)
technology to extend their broadband networks - mobile or fixed - with high-capacity,
seamless and secure Wi-Fi. The solution has several key components, including:
- Secure Wi-Fi gateway functionality has been introduced into
Alcatel-Lucent's IP portfolio on the market-leading 7750 Service Router. This enables
service providers to offer large-scale Wi-Fi services in conjunction with fixed and
mobile broadband services from a single platform, reducing cost and complexity.
- New software called the Automatic Network Discovery and Selection Function
(ANDSF) has been added to Alcatel-Lucent's policy manager, the 5780 Dynamic Services
Controller. This allows the automatic selection of the 'best' network connection based
on criteria such as service type, subscription type and network congestion levels,
helping to improve the overall customer experience.
- Integrated Wi-Fi as an option on Alcatel-Lucent's lightRadio multi-standard
Femtocell and Metrocell systems. Metrocells provide additional network capacity and
coverage in dense urban centers, airports or busy shopping malls, and Femtocells are
'personal base stations' for increasing coverage and capacity in homes or offices.
Integrating Wi-Fi into Alcatel-Lucent's already comprehensive Femtocell portfolio will
further increase Alcatel-Lucent's global leadership in this technology.
To complete the solution, Alcatel-Lucent offers highly specialized services for the
planning, design and seamless integration of lightRadio Wi-Fi into existing networks
simplifying the deployment and speeding time to market.
About Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU)
The long-trusted partner of service providers, enterprises and governments around the
world, Alcatel-Lucent is a leading innovator in the field of networking and communications
technology, products and services. The company is home to Bell Labs, one of the world's
foremost R&D organizations, responsible for breakthroughs that have shaped the networking
and communications industry. Alcatel-Lucent is committed to making communications more
sustainable, more affordable and more accessible as we pursue our mission - Realizing the
Potential of a Connected World.
With operations in more than 130 countries and one of the most experienced global
services organizations in the industry, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global
reach. The Company achieved revenues of Euro 15.3 billion in 2011 and is incorporated in
France and headquartered in Paris.
For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com, read
the latest posts on the Alcatel-Lucent blog http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/blog and
follow the Company on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Alcatel_Lucent.
Source: Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent Press Contacts: SIMON POULTER, simon.poulter@alcatel-lucent.com , T : +33-(0)1-40-76-50-84 ; LEONARD PESHECK,leonard.pesheck@alcatel-lucent.com , T : +1-630-713-6437 . ALCATEL-LUCENT INVESTOR RELATIONS: FRANK MACCARY, frank.maccary@alcatel-lucent.com , T : +33-(0)1-40-76-12-11 ; TOM BEVILACQUA, thomas.bevilacqua@alcatel-lucent.com, T : +1-908-582-7998 ; CONSTANCE DE CAMBIAIRE, constance.de_cambiaire@alcatel-lucent.com, T : +33-(0)1-40-76-10-13.
LeaseStation Partners With ChannelOnline to Offer Integrated Leasing Solution
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 10:14:01 AM
LeaseStation Partners With ChannelOnline to Offer Integrated Leasing Solution
TEMPE, Ariz., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- LeaseStation, a leading IT equipment finance company, announced a new partnership with ChannelOnline, a CNET Content Solutions product. LeaseStation will be providing integrated leasing solutions for ChannelOnline customers. The real-time integration allows ChannelOnline's community of value-added resellers (VAR's) to seamlessly offer equipment financing through ChannelOnline.
ChannelOnline, a sales-cycle automation solution, provides resellers with a fast, resourceful, and effective web-based service that automates quoting, ordering, and e-commerce transactions and gives resellers total management control over the complete sales cycle. The ability to offer equipment financing through LeaseStation gives resellers using ChannelOnline access to provide an additional source of financing for their clients.
"Developing a seamless solution that is fully integrated with ChannelOnline's system is key to providing valuable financial products to every ChannelOnline reseller and their end user customers," according to Robert Parker, CEO of LeaseStation.
"LeaseStation is a trusted leader in IT Equipment Lease Management, and we are pleased to be partnering with them to facilitate this valuable service through ChannelOnline," said Debbie Andrews, Vice President of Products and Marketing at CNET Content Solutions "We are always looking for ways to provide additional efficiency and value to the resellers using ChannelOnline, and we are confident this LeaseStation integration will enable increased product and service sales for our clients."
The first phase of integration is scheduled for February 10, 2012, enabling ChannelOnline users the ability to offer LeaseStation financing to their customers directly from their internal quotes and on their e-commerce stores. The full integration, which enables users to execute the entire leasing process, including final acceptance and PO capture within their ChannelOnline store, is set to launch in April 2012.
About LeaseStation
LeaseStation is an IT Equipment Lease Management Company specializing in providing complete sales finance solutions for technology equipment manufacturers, distributors and product resellers. LeaseStation offers solutions to service the commercial equipment finance needs for companies of any size across most industries. LeaseStation's industry-leading technology brings the latest in automation and simplicity to equipment financing, making them an industry leader in automated finance solutions. For more information, please visit http://www.LeaseStation.com or follow us on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
LeaseStation
http://www.LeaseStation.com
Noelle Cook
800-770-8107 x119
ncook@LeaseStation.com
About CNET Content Solutions
CNET Content Solutions, (http://www.cnetcontent.com), a division of CBS Interactive, is the world's leading independent source of product information. With detailed content in 36 markets on over 6 million technology products in 18 languages, CNET Content Solutions helps thousands of resellers and retailers convert shoppers into buyers by providing product information and creating solutions that empower businesses to improve their customer experience and bottom line. Customers include CDW, Computacenter, Dabs.com, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Insight, Microsoft, OfficeMax, PC World Business, and Tech Data. For more information about ChannelOnline, visit http://www.channelonline.com or email sales@cnetcontentsolutions.com.
Media Contact:
Debbie Andrews, 949.399.8719
Debbie.Andrews@cbs.com
SOURCE LeaseStation
LeaseStation
Web Site: http://leasestation.com
TEMPE, Ariz., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- LeaseStation, a leading IT equipment finance company, announced a new partnership with ChannelOnline, a CNET Content Solutions product. LeaseStation will be providing integrated leasing solutions for ChannelOnline customers. The real-time integration allows ChannelOnline's community of value-added resellers (VAR's) to seamlessly offer equipment financing through ChannelOnline.
ChannelOnline, a sales-cycle automation solution, provides resellers with a fast, resourceful, and effective web-based service that automates quoting, ordering, and e-commerce transactions and gives resellers total management control over the complete sales cycle. The ability to offer equipment financing through LeaseStation gives resellers using ChannelOnline access to provide an additional source of financing for their clients.
"Developing a seamless solution that is fully integrated with ChannelOnline's system is key to providing valuable financial products to every ChannelOnline reseller and their end user customers," according to Robert Parker, CEO of LeaseStation.
"LeaseStation is a trusted leader in IT Equipment Lease Management, and we are pleased to be partnering with them to facilitate this valuable service through ChannelOnline," said Debbie Andrews, Vice President of Products and Marketing at CNET Content Solutions "We are always looking for ways to provide additional efficiency and value to the resellers using ChannelOnline, and we are confident this LeaseStation integration will enable increased product and service sales for our clients."
The first phase of integration is scheduled for February 10, 2012, enabling ChannelOnline users the ability to offer LeaseStation financing to their customers directly from their internal quotes and on their e-commerce stores. The full integration, which enables users to execute the entire leasing process, including final acceptance and PO capture within their ChannelOnline store, is set to launch in April 2012.
About LeaseStation
LeaseStation is an IT Equipment Lease Management Company specializing in providing complete sales finance solutions for technology equipment manufacturers, distributors and product resellers. LeaseStation offers solutions to service the commercial equipment finance needs for companies of any size across most industries. LeaseStation's industry-leading technology brings the latest in automation and simplicity to equipment financing, making them an industry leader in automated finance solutions. For more information, please visit http://www.LeaseStation.com or follow us on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
LeaseStation
http://www.LeaseStation.com
Noelle Cook
800-770-8107 x119
ncook@LeaseStation.com
About CNET Content Solutions
CNET Content Solutions, (http://www.cnetcontent.com), a division of CBS Interactive, is the world's leading independent source of product information. With detailed content in 36 markets on over 6 million technology products in 18 languages, CNET Content Solutions helps thousands of resellers and retailers convert shoppers into buyers by providing product information and creating solutions that empower businesses to improve their customer experience and bottom line. Customers include CDW, Computacenter, Dabs.com, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Insight, Microsoft, OfficeMax, PC World Business, and Tech Data. For more information about ChannelOnline, visit http://www.channelonline.com or email sales@cnetcontentsolutions.com.
Media Contact:
Debbie Andrews, 949.399.8719
Debbie.Andrews@cbs.com
SOURCE LeaseStation
LeaseStation
Web Site: http://leasestation.com
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?SSI_Enhances_Its_QuickTake(TM)_Do-It-Yourself_Surve?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?y_Tool:_=A0Additions_Include_Access_to_Registered_US_V?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?oters,_Automatic_Translations_in_8_Languages
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 10:07:01 AM
SSI Enhances Its QuickTake(TM) Do-It-Yourself Survey Tool: Additions Include Access to Registered US Voters, Automatic Translations in 8 Languages, Rendering to Mobile Devices and Expanded Question Capacity
SHELTON, Conn., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SSI has significantly enhanced its QuickTake(TM) do-it-yourself research solution, which lets users conduct surveys 24/7 with target audiences across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Added features include automatic translations, allowing users to program surveys once and present them to respondents in up to 8 different languages...expanded capacity, giving users the option of asking up to 20 closed- or open-ended questions...and the inclusion of respondent satisfaction insights with real-time survey results. In addition, to reach today's on-the-go respondents, QuickTake now can automatically render surveys to fit mobile devices. To meet the needs of political and public affairs researchers in an American election year, QuickTake also has added US registered voters to its audience selection criteria.
Other new features focus on simplifying and improving the user experience. QuickTake now automatically saves surveys during the design process, so users can stop and come back later to finish their questionnaires, with no risk of losing information. It also offers a streamlined login that speeds access. Users now also have the option of setting their own quotas -- or having the system handle that for them, balancing age and gender by region.
In addition, QuickTake provides greater flexibility in creating questions, enabling users to employ "skip logic," as well as to randomize answers. For surveys needing to incorporate visual elements, users now also can upload images.
"QuickTake's newest features add to its already powerful list of benefits -- most importantly, the unmatched reach and diversity of SSI's access that's built right into the QuickTake platform," says Paul Abbate, SSI's Vice President, North American Sales. "Because QuickTake's sample is from SSI, users can be confident it is balanced and representative. Our respondents have opted in to take surveys -- and are appropriately incented to optimize participation, motivation and engagement.
"In addition, all participants are extensively profiled on demographics, gender, age, income and more. Users save time and money, because they don't have to re-ask basic profiling questions. SSI provides that information free, as part of the QuickTake service. Because of our in-depth profiling, we can target even the hardest-to-reach audiences and bring them into surveys."
For More Information...
To view SSI's recent QuickTake Webinar, including a real-time demo, visit http://www.surveysampling.com/QuickTake. To get started using QuickTake, visit http://www.QuickTake.com.
About SSI...
Bringing together world-leading sampling experts Survey Sampling International and Opinionology, SSI (http://www.surveysampling.com) is the premier global provider of sampling, data collection and data analytic solutions for survey research. SSI reaches respondents in 72 countries via Internet, telephone, mobile/wireless and mixed access offerings. Value-add services include questionnaire design consultation, programming and hosting, online custom reporting and data processing. SSI serves more than 2,000 clients, including 48 of the top 50 research organizations. SSI has 30 offices serving clients around the world.
SOURCE SSI
SSI
CONTACT: Ilene Siegalovsky, Vice President, Global Marketing, +1-203-567-7230, ilene.siegalovsky@surveysampling.com
Web Site: http://www.surveysampling.com
SHELTON, Conn., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SSI has significantly enhanced its QuickTake(TM) do-it-yourself research solution, which lets users conduct surveys 24/7 with target audiences across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Added features include automatic translations, allowing users to program surveys once and present them to respondents in up to 8 different languages...expanded capacity, giving users the option of asking up to 20 closed- or open-ended questions...and the inclusion of respondent satisfaction insights with real-time survey results. In addition, to reach today's on-the-go respondents, QuickTake now can automatically render surveys to fit mobile devices. To meet the needs of political and public affairs researchers in an American election year, QuickTake also has added US registered voters to its audience selection criteria.
Other new features focus on simplifying and improving the user experience. QuickTake now automatically saves surveys during the design process, so users can stop and come back later to finish their questionnaires, with no risk of losing information. It also offers a streamlined login that speeds access. Users now also have the option of setting their own quotas -- or having the system handle that for them, balancing age and gender by region.
In addition, QuickTake provides greater flexibility in creating questions, enabling users to employ "skip logic," as well as to randomize answers. For surveys needing to incorporate visual elements, users now also can upload images.
"QuickTake's newest features add to its already powerful list of benefits -- most importantly, the unmatched reach and diversity of SSI's access that's built right into the QuickTake platform," says Paul Abbate, SSI's Vice President, North American Sales. "Because QuickTake's sample is from SSI, users can be confident it is balanced and representative. Our respondents have opted in to take surveys -- and are appropriately incented to optimize participation, motivation and engagement.
"In addition, all participants are extensively profiled on demographics, gender, age, income and more. Users save time and money, because they don't have to re-ask basic profiling questions. SSI provides that information free, as part of the QuickTake service. Because of our in-depth profiling, we can target even the hardest-to-reach audiences and bring them into surveys."
For More Information...
To view SSI's recent QuickTake Webinar, including a real-time demo, visit http://www.surveysampling.com/QuickTake. To get started using QuickTake, visit http://www.QuickTake.com.
About SSI...
Bringing together world-leading sampling experts Survey Sampling International and Opinionology, SSI (http://www.surveysampling.com) is the premier global provider of sampling, data collection and data analytic solutions for survey research. SSI reaches respondents in 72 countries via Internet, telephone, mobile/wireless and mixed access offerings. Value-add services include questionnaire design consultation, programming and hosting, online custom reporting and data processing. SSI serves more than 2,000 clients, including 48 of the top 50 research organizations. SSI has 30 offices serving clients around the world.
SOURCE SSI
SSI
CONTACT: Ilene Siegalovsky, Vice President, Global Marketing, +1-203-567-7230, ilene.siegalovsky@surveysampling.com
Web Site: http://www.surveysampling.com
Glabber to Unveil Web 3.0
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:49:01 AM
Glabber to Unveil Web 3.0
Glabber, the social networking site that is empowering people to take control of and change their world, plans to unveil Web 3.0 in autumn of 2012
NEW YORK, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Using highly anticipated and innovative technologies, "Glabber will advance the internet into Web 3.0 and change the way people think about and use the internet," says co-founder William Reid.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120131/PH44500LOGO )
Fellow co-founder Charles Gindi adds, "To fully explain Web 3.0 would be to give away all of our secrets, but we can tell you a little of what we are working on now."
Many people still have apprehension about trusting the internet because of the abundance of false and misleading information, where most often you know very little about the people and websites who say it. To change this Charles says, "Glabber will release a unique Web 3.0 Application that brings a high level of trustworthiness and credibility to everything you see online and the motivation behind it." The uses for this technology are endless, and will assist in alleviating many problems that plague the internet today by decreasing the time people spend looking through incorrect or misleading information, minimizing malicious content, and giving people the power and control to have their voice heard.
Major search engines basically have a monopoly and determine how and even if people can find your business. Glabber's technologies will include a Web 3.0 Search Engine, that uses exclusive algorithmswhich provide superior search results, ensuring that even if you have a small business - you will be seen, without SEO manipulation, huge popularity, or already being a multinational corporation.
Shopping online is generally considered somewhat boring and dull compared to shopping in the real world. Glabber will make shopping online into a more entertaining experience by utilizing a Web 3.0E-commerce technology to create a new and exciting way of shopping online, and at the same time greatly boosting visibility and sales for small businesses worldwide.
Charles says, "Glabber will bring about Web 3.0 by implementing some very important changes to how the internet functions - making it significantly more like the real world."
Glabber, a privately held company based in New York City is empowering people to take control of and change their world. To become part of the GlabberWeb 3.0 social networking movement please go to http://glabber.com and to learn more about Glabber please go to http://glabber.com/about
SOURCE Glabber
Photo:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120131/PH44500LOGO
http://photoarchive.ap.org/
Glabber
CONTACT: Glabber Inc., +1-646-308-1745, press@glabber.com
Web Site: http://glabber.com
Glabber, the social networking site that is empowering people to take control of and change their world, plans to unveil Web 3.0 in autumn of 2012
NEW YORK, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Using highly anticipated and innovative technologies, "Glabber will advance the internet into Web 3.0 and change the way people think about and use the internet," says co-founder William Reid.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120131/PH44500LOGO )
Fellow co-founder Charles Gindi adds, "To fully explain Web 3.0 would be to give away all of our secrets, but we can tell you a little of what we are working on now."
Many people still have apprehension about trusting the internet because of the abundance of false and misleading information, where most often you know very little about the people and websites who say it. To change this Charles says, "Glabber will release a unique Web 3.0 Application that brings a high level of trustworthiness and credibility to everything you see online and the motivation behind it." The uses for this technology are endless, and will assist in alleviating many problems that plague the internet today by decreasing the time people spend looking through incorrect or misleading information, minimizing malicious content, and giving people the power and control to have their voice heard.
Major search engines basically have a monopoly and determine how and even if people can find your business. Glabber's technologies will include a Web 3.0 Search Engine, that uses exclusive algorithmswhich provide superior search results, ensuring that even if you have a small business - you will be seen, without SEO manipulation, huge popularity, or already being a multinational corporation.
Shopping online is generally considered somewhat boring and dull compared to shopping in the real world. Glabber will make shopping online into a more entertaining experience by utilizing a Web 3.0E-commerce technology to create a new and exciting way of shopping online, and at the same time greatly boosting visibility and sales for small businesses worldwide.
Charles says, "Glabber will bring about Web 3.0 by implementing some very important changes to how the internet functions - making it significantly more like the real world."
Glabber, a privately held company based in New York City is empowering people to take control of and change their world. To become part of the GlabberWeb 3.0 social networking movement please go to http://glabber.com and to learn more about Glabber please go to http://glabber.com/about
SOURCE Glabber
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Glabber
CONTACT: Glabber Inc., +1-646-308-1745, press@glabber.com
Web Site: http://glabber.com
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Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:42:01 AM
Introducing the First Ever True Prepaid 4G Unlimited Internet, H2O BOLT(SM) by H2O® Wireless
Just Connect and Surf: USB and Hotspot Give Unlimited Access to High-Speed 4G Wireless Internet for Only $50/Month
FORT LEE, N.J., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A leading provider of no-contract wireless services, H2O® Wireless today unveiled H2O BOLT(SM), offering unlimited prepaid 4G mobile internet on-the-go for just $50/month with a new USB dongle, H2O BOLT(SM) Flash and mobile hotspot, H2O BOLT(SM) Spider.Simply plug the H2O BOLT(SM) Flash to any laptop for instant 4G unlimited internet access. With H2O BOLT(SM) Spider, receive the same great internet and connect up to eight Wi-Fi enabled devices. As with all H2O® Wireless plans and products, there is never any contract or hidden fees.
"In today's mobile world, high-speed internet access is a must - whether at home or on-the-go," said Jack Woo, Vice President of H2O® Wireless. "With the new H2O BOLT(SM), we're able to connect users directly to the fastest 4G mobile broadband network available and can even replace their expensive home internet service by offering the convenience, affordability, and portability they expect from our no-contract plans."
H2O BOLT(SM) Flash and H2O BOLT(SM) Spider are compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Mac OS X operating systems. Buy it today at http://www.H2OBolt.com or visit any of authorized H2O BOLT(SM) retailers near you.
About H2O® Wireless
H2O® Wireless offers no-contract wireless plans and phones for every need and budget, using the nation's largest and most reliable GSM and WiMAX 4G networks. Get unlimited talk and text with web, both domestic and international mobile broadband access, pay-by-the-minute plans and more, with phones from every major brand. Or, use H2O® Wireless with your existing iPhone®, Android(TM), and any other phone of your choice with the $10 SIM Starter Kit - all with no contracts, activation fees, hidden overage charges, or extra taxes and fees. Find H2O® Wireless at over 100,000 retailers nationwide, including Best Buy, 7-Eleven, Family Dollar and more, or visit http://www.H2OWirelessNow.com.
H2O BOLT(SM) is a sub brand of H2O® Wireless and H2O® Wireless is a registered trademark of Locus Telecommunications, Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
SOURCE H2O Wireless
H2O Wireless
CONTACT: Grace Hahn, for H2O Wireless, +1-201-585-3654
Web Site: http://www.H2OBolt.com
Just Connect and Surf: USB and Hotspot Give Unlimited Access to High-Speed 4G Wireless Internet for Only $50/Month
FORT LEE, N.J., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A leading provider of no-contract wireless services, H2O® Wireless today unveiled H2O BOLT(SM), offering unlimited prepaid 4G mobile internet on-the-go for just $50/month with a new USB dongle, H2O BOLT(SM) Flash and mobile hotspot, H2O BOLT(SM) Spider.Simply plug the H2O BOLT(SM) Flash to any laptop for instant 4G unlimited internet access. With H2O BOLT(SM) Spider, receive the same great internet and connect up to eight Wi-Fi enabled devices. As with all H2O® Wireless plans and products, there is never any contract or hidden fees.
"In today's mobile world, high-speed internet access is a must - whether at home or on-the-go," said Jack Woo, Vice President of H2O® Wireless. "With the new H2O BOLT(SM), we're able to connect users directly to the fastest 4G mobile broadband network available and can even replace their expensive home internet service by offering the convenience, affordability, and portability they expect from our no-contract plans."
H2O BOLT(SM) Flash and H2O BOLT(SM) Spider are compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Mac OS X operating systems. Buy it today at http://www.H2OBolt.com or visit any of authorized H2O BOLT(SM) retailers near you.
About H2O® Wireless
H2O® Wireless offers no-contract wireless plans and phones for every need and budget, using the nation's largest and most reliable GSM and WiMAX 4G networks. Get unlimited talk and text with web, both domestic and international mobile broadband access, pay-by-the-minute plans and more, with phones from every major brand. Or, use H2O® Wireless with your existing iPhone®, Android(TM), and any other phone of your choice with the $10 SIM Starter Kit - all with no contracts, activation fees, hidden overage charges, or extra taxes and fees. Find H2O® Wireless at over 100,000 retailers nationwide, including Best Buy, 7-Eleven, Family Dollar and more, or visit http://www.H2OWirelessNow.com.
H2O BOLT(SM) is a sub brand of H2O® Wireless and H2O® Wireless is a registered trademark of Locus Telecommunications, Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
SOURCE H2O Wireless
H2O Wireless
CONTACT: Grace Hahn, for H2O Wireless, +1-201-585-3654
Web Site: http://www.H2OBolt.com
GenArts Introduces New Monsters GT $99 Visual Effects Packs
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:42:01 AM
GenArts Introduces New Monsters GT $99 Visual Effects Packs
Solves Creative Challenges with Distinctive, Time-Saving Effects and Flexible Pricing Options
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- GenArts(®) Inc., the global leader in specialized visual effects software for the media and advertising industries, today released new Monsters GT v7. Designed to meet the demand for both realistic and original looks, Monsters GT features a wide range of more than 50 exceptional effects that enrich every artist's VFX portfolio so they can create extraordinary imagery. For the first time, Monsters GT is available in eleven mini-packs for $99 and a Natural Phenomena theme pack for $299. With Monsters GT, visual artists everywhere can cost-effectively create one-of-a-kind, cinematic effects that make their work stand out.
"Monsters GT from GenArts brings a unique set of plugins to my workflow," says Jack Tunnicliffe, a visual effects artist at Java Post Production. "It seems like many filter packages I own overlap, having many similar filters in different packages. Monsters give you a whole new set of plugins with capabilities unlikely to be found in filters from other developers."
Monsters GT v7 is the newest addition to GenArts' Sapphire Accents, a line of special effects designed to enhance every artist's visual effect portfolio. Monsters GT features a wide variety of inspiring and memorable visual effects that give storytellers more choices to meet the demand for specific looks and solve creative challenges - without a time-consuming effect building process. Some favorite time-savers include flickering candle flames, realistic star fields, evolving sky backgrounds, natural fluids, and authentic weather effects.
Twelve New VFX Packs - $99 to $299GenArts has introduced a new Natural Phenomena theme pack and eleven mini-packs, available for After Effects, Nuke, Fusion, and Vegas, to deliver specific types of effects in a single, convenient package. The Natural Phenomena theme pack features 19 creative problem-solving tools that realistically simulate weather, atmospheric, fire, and water effects without hours spent building the effects from scratch. Priced at $299, the Natural Phenomena pack is a cost-effective way to simulate common natural marvels in your many projects.
The Natural Phenomena theme pack has quickly become a favorite among compositors. "GenArts Monsters GT is an indispensable addition to my Fusion. The Natural Phenomena pack alone is worth the price of admission!" says Paul Griswold, an animator at Fusion Digital. "Recently, I worked on the film 'Last Call at the Oasis,' and was tasked with putting Jack Black into a desert scene. GenArts' Monsters GT was the key to delivering exactly what the director wanted."
Monsters GT also features eleven mini-packs of 2-5 effects priced at $99 per set. Monsters' mini-packs are ideal for creating project-specific effects like film burns, night vision, fluids, security camera monitoring, time-based image trails, and dozens of other looks.
For a limited time, GenArts is also offering all visual effects artists a complimentary copy of the Pools mini-pack to create realistic water scenes that interact with their surroundings, including rain falling on water and rippling pools. To learn more, visit http://www.genarts.com/software/monsters-gt/pack/pools.
The Full Pack - $499The complete collection of 59 effects starts at $499 and is an effective tool for visual effects artists to create unique, compelling work. Monsters GT plugins leverages precise control of effect behavior and the highest image quality available to maximize productivity and creativity.
Key Features in Monsters GT v7:
-- Unparalleled range of realistic, artistic, and stylistic effects
-- Flexible pricing options
-- Enhanced sprite quality and smoother particle motion
-- New effects and enhancements to create a more streamlined workflow
-- GPU acceleration for improved render times
-- Floating point processing for improved image quality
-- Resolution-independent
-- Available for Autodesk systems, Adobe After Effects, Eyeon Fusion, The
Foundry Nuke, Assimilate SCRATCH, and Sony Vegas
About GenArtsEstablished in 1996, GenArts, Inc. provides groundbreaking visual effects to motion graphic artists, compositors, and editors in post-production houses and broadcast networks globally. Recently, the company expanded capabilities to give video creators from all experience levels the tools to create an array of high-tech effects for indie productions, wedding videography, advertising, video games, films, and more. The company's visual effects plugin product portfolio leverages the GenArts Solution(TM) to provide industry-leading Sapphire, intuitive videographer tool Sapphire Edge, and a diverse number of complementary Sapphire Accents. The GenArts Solution extends the technology used by customers like Framestore, The Mill, ABC, BBC, and ESPN to businesses of all sizes and budgets so they too can create high-quality visual effects. Follow GenArts on Twitter and Facebook.
SOURCE GenArts
GenArts
CONTACT: Katie Lyon, +1-617-492-2888, katie@genarts.com
Web Site: http://www.genarts.com
Solves Creative Challenges with Distinctive, Time-Saving Effects and Flexible Pricing Options
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- GenArts(®) Inc., the global leader in specialized visual effects software for the media and advertising industries, today released new Monsters GT v7. Designed to meet the demand for both realistic and original looks, Monsters GT features a wide range of more than 50 exceptional effects that enrich every artist's VFX portfolio so they can create extraordinary imagery. For the first time, Monsters GT is available in eleven mini-packs for $99 and a Natural Phenomena theme pack for $299. With Monsters GT, visual artists everywhere can cost-effectively create one-of-a-kind, cinematic effects that make their work stand out.
"Monsters GT from GenArts brings a unique set of plugins to my workflow," says Jack Tunnicliffe, a visual effects artist at Java Post Production. "It seems like many filter packages I own overlap, having many similar filters in different packages. Monsters give you a whole new set of plugins with capabilities unlikely to be found in filters from other developers."
Monsters GT v7 is the newest addition to GenArts' Sapphire Accents, a line of special effects designed to enhance every artist's visual effect portfolio. Monsters GT features a wide variety of inspiring and memorable visual effects that give storytellers more choices to meet the demand for specific looks and solve creative challenges - without a time-consuming effect building process. Some favorite time-savers include flickering candle flames, realistic star fields, evolving sky backgrounds, natural fluids, and authentic weather effects.
Twelve New VFX Packs - $99 to $299GenArts has introduced a new Natural Phenomena theme pack and eleven mini-packs, available for After Effects, Nuke, Fusion, and Vegas, to deliver specific types of effects in a single, convenient package. The Natural Phenomena theme pack features 19 creative problem-solving tools that realistically simulate weather, atmospheric, fire, and water effects without hours spent building the effects from scratch. Priced at $299, the Natural Phenomena pack is a cost-effective way to simulate common natural marvels in your many projects.
The Natural Phenomena theme pack has quickly become a favorite among compositors. "GenArts Monsters GT is an indispensable addition to my Fusion. The Natural Phenomena pack alone is worth the price of admission!" says Paul Griswold, an animator at Fusion Digital. "Recently, I worked on the film 'Last Call at the Oasis,' and was tasked with putting Jack Black into a desert scene. GenArts' Monsters GT was the key to delivering exactly what the director wanted."
Monsters GT also features eleven mini-packs of 2-5 effects priced at $99 per set. Monsters' mini-packs are ideal for creating project-specific effects like film burns, night vision, fluids, security camera monitoring, time-based image trails, and dozens of other looks.
For a limited time, GenArts is also offering all visual effects artists a complimentary copy of the Pools mini-pack to create realistic water scenes that interact with their surroundings, including rain falling on water and rippling pools. To learn more, visit http://www.genarts.com/software/monsters-gt/pack/pools.
The Full Pack - $499The complete collection of 59 effects starts at $499 and is an effective tool for visual effects artists to create unique, compelling work. Monsters GT plugins leverages precise control of effect behavior and the highest image quality available to maximize productivity and creativity.
Key Features in Monsters GT v7:
-- Unparalleled range of realistic, artistic, and stylistic effects
-- Flexible pricing options
-- Enhanced sprite quality and smoother particle motion
-- New effects and enhancements to create a more streamlined workflow
-- GPU acceleration for improved render times
-- Floating point processing for improved image quality
-- Resolution-independent
-- Available for Autodesk systems, Adobe After Effects, Eyeon Fusion, The
Foundry Nuke, Assimilate SCRATCH, and Sony Vegas
About GenArtsEstablished in 1996, GenArts, Inc. provides groundbreaking visual effects to motion graphic artists, compositors, and editors in post-production houses and broadcast networks globally. Recently, the company expanded capabilities to give video creators from all experience levels the tools to create an array of high-tech effects for indie productions, wedding videography, advertising, video games, films, and more. The company's visual effects plugin product portfolio leverages the GenArts Solution(TM) to provide industry-leading Sapphire, intuitive videographer tool Sapphire Edge, and a diverse number of complementary Sapphire Accents. The GenArts Solution extends the technology used by customers like Framestore, The Mill, ABC, BBC, and ESPN to businesses of all sizes and budgets so they too can create high-quality visual effects. Follow GenArts on Twitter and Facebook.
SOURCE GenArts
GenArts
CONTACT: Katie Lyon, +1-617-492-2888, katie@genarts.com
Web Site: http://www.genarts.com
Couponic-Powered HugeDailyDeal.com Purchased by CrowdSavings.com
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:35:01 AM
Couponic-Powered HugeDailyDeal.com Purchased by CrowdSavings.com
CrowdSavings.com is growing by leaps and bounds, swallowing up successful startups like Buffalo's HugeDailyDeal.com and showing no signs of slowing. Groupon had better watch its back.
TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CrowdSavings.com, a Groupon clone hungry to grow, has taken ambition to a new level by acquiring a string of valuable local daily deal sites. Latest in the list of acquisitions is Buffalo, New York's HugeDailyDeal.com.
Jay Rathman, formerly President and CEO of HugeDailyDeal.com and now a member of the CrowdSavings team, cites the CrowdSavings experience as offering "the highest quality deals" among local merchants in the Buffalo area, as well as "CrowdSavings' wide array of national deals."
Sporting over 500 likes on Facebook, an Alexa rank in the top one percent and a Google Page Rank of 5 since its inception in December of 2010, HugeDailyDeal was a Groupon clone already well on its way to extraordinary success in its home market.
Additionally, HugeDailyDeal took in first-year revenue of $1.3 million and allowed local consumers to purchase more than 55,000 coupons - nearly one for every five people in Buffalo, allowing them to save over $1.3 million. With the recent launch of HugeDailyDeal's Android app, it was able to offer still more deals to an even larger customer base. This success made an acquisition by a larger company like CrowdSavings all but a sure thing.
HugeDailyDeal's success and ultimate salability came from two vital components: powerful software on the back end and Rathman's marketing savvy on the front end. With such a powerful combination, sales rose exponentially and the site was able to easily accommodate this degree of growth.
Distributed by UniProgy, Couponic's users laud this group buying script's simple customization capabilities, robust community of helpful users and relatively low cost as being key reasons they use Couponic to drive a wide variety of Groupon clone websites.
About UniProgy
UniProgy is the main distributor of Couponic and other high-end web portal software. Founded in 2010, one of UniProgy's foremost goals is to make Couponic the best value, the state of the art and most popular group buying script for all Groupon clone websites. While still a young company, its commitment has inspired an extremely loyal following and a steadily growing community of programmers and designers.
SOURCE UniProgy s.r.o.
UniProgy s.r.o.
CONTACT: Vasiliy Yevreinov of UniProgy s.r.o., +1-302-722-7430
Web Site: http://uniprogy.com
CrowdSavings.com is growing by leaps and bounds, swallowing up successful startups like Buffalo's HugeDailyDeal.com and showing no signs of slowing. Groupon had better watch its back.
TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CrowdSavings.com, a Groupon clone hungry to grow, has taken ambition to a new level by acquiring a string of valuable local daily deal sites. Latest in the list of acquisitions is Buffalo, New York's HugeDailyDeal.com.
Jay Rathman, formerly President and CEO of HugeDailyDeal.com and now a member of the CrowdSavings team, cites the CrowdSavings experience as offering "the highest quality deals" among local merchants in the Buffalo area, as well as "CrowdSavings' wide array of national deals."
Sporting over 500 likes on Facebook, an Alexa rank in the top one percent and a Google Page Rank of 5 since its inception in December of 2010, HugeDailyDeal was a Groupon clone already well on its way to extraordinary success in its home market.
Additionally, HugeDailyDeal took in first-year revenue of $1.3 million and allowed local consumers to purchase more than 55,000 coupons - nearly one for every five people in Buffalo, allowing them to save over $1.3 million. With the recent launch of HugeDailyDeal's Android app, it was able to offer still more deals to an even larger customer base. This success made an acquisition by a larger company like CrowdSavings all but a sure thing.
HugeDailyDeal's success and ultimate salability came from two vital components: powerful software on the back end and Rathman's marketing savvy on the front end. With such a powerful combination, sales rose exponentially and the site was able to easily accommodate this degree of growth.
Distributed by UniProgy, Couponic's users laud this group buying script's simple customization capabilities, robust community of helpful users and relatively low cost as being key reasons they use Couponic to drive a wide variety of Groupon clone websites.
About UniProgy
UniProgy is the main distributor of Couponic and other high-end web portal software. Founded in 2010, one of UniProgy's foremost goals is to make Couponic the best value, the state of the art and most popular group buying script for all Groupon clone websites. While still a young company, its commitment has inspired an extremely loyal following and a steadily growing community of programmers and designers.
SOURCE UniProgy s.r.o.
UniProgy s.r.o.
CONTACT: Vasiliy Yevreinov of UniProgy s.r.o., +1-302-722-7430
Web Site: http://uniprogy.com
Youku Releases Dedicated Mobile "Paike" Video-Blogging Apps
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:21:01 AM
Youku Releases Dedicated Mobile "Paike" Video-Blogging Apps
BEIJING, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Youku, Inc. (NYSE: YOKU), China's leading Internet television company ("Youku"), recently released iOS and Android apps to support Youku Paike ("video bloggers"). The new apps are designed to complement the feature set of Youku's existing mobile clients with dedicated video shooting and uploading functionality, and to highlight the social media aspects of video blogging through its integration with the popular SINA Weibo microblogging platform.
The new Paike apps emphasize the social media aspects of online video. Users can choose other video bloggers to follow, easily find the most popular user uploaded videos, and publish Paike video to SINA Weibo microblog site with one-touch sharing. The size of Youku's platform and the easy connectivity of its Youku Link video sharing system have made Youku the most widely-used source of videos on SINA Weibo.
Unlike the official Youku mobile client applications, which were designed to focus on video watching experience, the Paike apps were designed to highlight the video blogging experience. The streamlined interface allows users to quickly shoot, upload, and share videos.
"As smartphones become more popular, more and more users are effectively walking around with HD video cameras in their pockets," said Youku Chief Technology Officer Jian Yao. "While we aim to provide best-in-class mobile video viewing experience with our client for smartphones, we also want to make mobile video shooting, uploading, and sharing just as easy and convenient. The mobile Paike apps will let our video bloggers share stories as they happen, without ever having to connect their cameras to a PC."
User-generated content (UGC) is one of the key elements of Youku's content strategy, which also covers licensed professionally produced content and in-house produced content. Since declaring 2007 the "Year of the Paike", Youku has worked to foster Paike culture among China's growing number of DV camera owners.
Youku recorded an average of 100,000 daily UGC uploads in Q3 2011. According to the recent report from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), China now has over 356 million mobile internet users. In 2011, Youku mobile client had been installed on more than 50% of the smartphones available in China.
Download links:
iOS:
http://itunes.apple.com/cn/app/id492031078
Android:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.youku.paike
About Youku
Youku Inc. is China's leading Internet television company. Our Internet television platform enables users to search, view and share high-quality video content quickly and easily across multiple devices. Youku, which stands for "what's best and what's cool" in Chinese, is the most recognized online video brand in China. Youku's American depositary shares, each representing 18 of our Class A ordinary shares, are traded on NYSE under the symbol "YOKU."
For more information, please contact:
Media Relations:
Jean Shao
Director, International Communications
Youku Inc.
Tel: +86-10-5885-1881 x7128
Email: shaodan@youku.com
SOURCE Youku.com Inc.
Youku.com Inc.
Web Site: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.youku.paike
BEIJING, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Youku, Inc. (NYSE: YOKU), China's leading Internet television company ("Youku"), recently released iOS and Android apps to support Youku Paike ("video bloggers"). The new apps are designed to complement the feature set of Youku's existing mobile clients with dedicated video shooting and uploading functionality, and to highlight the social media aspects of video blogging through its integration with the popular SINA Weibo microblogging platform.
The new Paike apps emphasize the social media aspects of online video. Users can choose other video bloggers to follow, easily find the most popular user uploaded videos, and publish Paike video to SINA Weibo microblog site with one-touch sharing. The size of Youku's platform and the easy connectivity of its Youku Link video sharing system have made Youku the most widely-used source of videos on SINA Weibo.
Unlike the official Youku mobile client applications, which were designed to focus on video watching experience, the Paike apps were designed to highlight the video blogging experience. The streamlined interface allows users to quickly shoot, upload, and share videos.
"As smartphones become more popular, more and more users are effectively walking around with HD video cameras in their pockets," said Youku Chief Technology Officer Jian Yao. "While we aim to provide best-in-class mobile video viewing experience with our client for smartphones, we also want to make mobile video shooting, uploading, and sharing just as easy and convenient. The mobile Paike apps will let our video bloggers share stories as they happen, without ever having to connect their cameras to a PC."
User-generated content (UGC) is one of the key elements of Youku's content strategy, which also covers licensed professionally produced content and in-house produced content. Since declaring 2007 the "Year of the Paike", Youku has worked to foster Paike culture among China's growing number of DV camera owners.
Youku recorded an average of 100,000 daily UGC uploads in Q3 2011. According to the recent report from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), China now has over 356 million mobile internet users. In 2011, Youku mobile client had been installed on more than 50% of the smartphones available in China.
Download links:
iOS:
http://itunes.apple.com/cn/app/id492031078
Android:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.youku.paike
About Youku
Youku Inc. is China's leading Internet television company. Our Internet television platform enables users to search, view and share high-quality video content quickly and easily across multiple devices. Youku, which stands for "what's best and what's cool" in Chinese, is the most recognized online video brand in China. Youku's American depositary shares, each representing 18 of our Class A ordinary shares, are traded on NYSE under the symbol "YOKU."
For more information, please contact:
Media Relations:
Jean Shao
Director, International Communications
Youku Inc.
Tel: +86-10-5885-1881 x7128
Email: shaodan@youku.com
SOURCE Youku.com Inc.
Youku.com Inc.
Web Site: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.youku.paike
Odyssey Debuts New ProType Line of Premium Milled Putters
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:21:01 AM
Odyssey Debuts New ProType Line of Premium Milled Putters
Line Includes Six Tour-Proven Models Made from 1025 Carbon Steel
CARLSBAD, Calif., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Callaway Golf Company (NYSE: ELY) today announced the February 17 retail availability of the new Odyssey® ProType(TM) Tour Series line of milled, carbon steel putters. Born from unique head shapes crafted for the best players in the world, the ProType line was developed by Odyssey's ProWorks team after feedback from hundreds of Tour professionals. The result is a collection of models from the #1 Putter in Golf® that enhance both the feel and stroke, with a look that suits the eyes of even the most discerning golfers. Odyssey's ProType line also offers golfers a unique opportunity to personalize their putters by choosing from six different colors for their grip and putter head paint fill.
Odyssey's ProType putters will be available in six head shapes, each of which has delivered winning results on professional tours around the world. The putters are made from 1025 Carbon Steel, producing similar performance characteristics to stainless steel, but with a softer feel. The face of each putter features a deeper, sharper milling pattern to increase interaction between the face and the ball for better feel, truer roll and more consistency.
"When we set out to design the ProType putters, we decided on six shapes that were tour-proven--meaning not only have Tour pros used them, but they've won with them," said Austie Rollinson, Odyssey's Principal Designer. "The second thing that influenced these designs is the feedback we got from tour players, which helped us make modifications to existing products and arrive at these new offerings. Their feedback led us to fine-tune the sound, include a deep mill pattern on the face, and design with thinner top lines and thicker faces. The clean look and one-piece construction was also something that players really liked and wanted to see in this type of product."
Based on insight gleaned through this collaboration with Tour professionals, the Odyssey ProType line features a high polish steel finish and precise craftsmanship that creates an ideal balance to promote a smooth stroke. Tour-tuned weight ports in the sole optimize the putterhead with the shaft length and optimize feel, control and accuracy.
Odyssey's ProType line also offers consumers the opportunity to personalize their putters by choosing from six different paint fills in the putterhead and the same six color options in the Lamkin® 3GEN® Pistol Grip. Made in a thin, smaller pistol shape that appeals to better players, the grip is made of Lamkin's proprietary 3GEN material, which is their softest synthetic rubber compound and reduces vibration without dulling the feel of the putt. This allows golfers to keep their forearms relaxed, apply very light grip pressure and minimize hand tension for smooth, consistent strokes.
"We have been personalizing putters with our after market grips for a while now and the putter is such a personal piece of equipment for golfers, specifically tour players," Rollinson said. "If there's any club in the bag that has a personality it would be the putter; it's the life of the party. Go out on tour and you'll see that no two putters are exactly the same. So we wanted to be able to bring that personalization to consumers, at least in the grip and paint fill."
Odyssey is the #1 Putter across the world's major professional tours in wins, usage and top-10 finishes. The entire ProType line of Odyssey putters will arrive at retail on February 17. The #2, #3, #6, #7, and #9 models will be available in two weights--340 or 350 grams--for the new product introduction retail price of $269. The ProType 2-ball model will come in 350 or 360 grams for $299. All six ProType putter models are available with the customized grip and paint fill color options for an additional $30; they can be ordered through an authorized Odyssey retailer.
For more information about the Odyssey ProType Tour Series of Putters, please visit http://www.odysseygolf.com/. For more on Odyssey's line-up of popular Belly and Long putters, please visit http://www.odysseygolf.com/bellyputters, and to see Odyssey's complete product lineup, please click here: http://www.odysseygolf.com.
High-resolution images of all Odyssey products are available for immediate download via the Press Center portion of the Company's website: http://www.callawaygolf.com/PressCenter
About Callaway Golf
Through an unwavering commitment to innovation, Callaway Golf Company (NYSE:ELY) creates products and services designed to make every golfer a better golfer. Callaway Golf Company manufactures and sells golf clubs and golf balls, and sells golf apparel, footwear and accessories, under the Callaway Golf®, Odyssey®, Top-Flite®, and Ben Hogan® brands in more than 110 countries worldwide. For more information please visit http://www.callawaygolf.com or shop.callawaygolf.com.
CONTACT:
Tim Sweeney
Callaway Golf
(760) 804-4017
Tim.Sweeney@CallawayGolf.com
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Line Includes Six Tour-Proven Models Made from 1025 Carbon Steel
CARLSBAD, Calif., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Callaway Golf Company (NYSE: ELY) today announced the February 17 retail availability of the new Odyssey® ProType(TM) Tour Series line of milled, carbon steel putters. Born from unique head shapes crafted for the best players in the world, the ProType line was developed by Odyssey's ProWorks team after feedback from hundreds of Tour professionals. The result is a collection of models from the #1 Putter in Golf® that enhance both the feel and stroke, with a look that suits the eyes of even the most discerning golfers. Odyssey's ProType line also offers golfers a unique opportunity to personalize their putters by choosing from six different colors for their grip and putter head paint fill.
Odyssey's ProType putters will be available in six head shapes, each of which has delivered winning results on professional tours around the world. The putters are made from 1025 Carbon Steel, producing similar performance characteristics to stainless steel, but with a softer feel. The face of each putter features a deeper, sharper milling pattern to increase interaction between the face and the ball for better feel, truer roll and more consistency.
"When we set out to design the ProType putters, we decided on six shapes that were tour-proven--meaning not only have Tour pros used them, but they've won with them," said Austie Rollinson, Odyssey's Principal Designer. "The second thing that influenced these designs is the feedback we got from tour players, which helped us make modifications to existing products and arrive at these new offerings. Their feedback led us to fine-tune the sound, include a deep mill pattern on the face, and design with thinner top lines and thicker faces. The clean look and one-piece construction was also something that players really liked and wanted to see in this type of product."
Based on insight gleaned through this collaboration with Tour professionals, the Odyssey ProType line features a high polish steel finish and precise craftsmanship that creates an ideal balance to promote a smooth stroke. Tour-tuned weight ports in the sole optimize the putterhead with the shaft length and optimize feel, control and accuracy.
Odyssey's ProType line also offers consumers the opportunity to personalize their putters by choosing from six different paint fills in the putterhead and the same six color options in the Lamkin® 3GEN® Pistol Grip. Made in a thin, smaller pistol shape that appeals to better players, the grip is made of Lamkin's proprietary 3GEN material, which is their softest synthetic rubber compound and reduces vibration without dulling the feel of the putt. This allows golfers to keep their forearms relaxed, apply very light grip pressure and minimize hand tension for smooth, consistent strokes.
"We have been personalizing putters with our after market grips for a while now and the putter is such a personal piece of equipment for golfers, specifically tour players," Rollinson said. "If there's any club in the bag that has a personality it would be the putter; it's the life of the party. Go out on tour and you'll see that no two putters are exactly the same. So we wanted to be able to bring that personalization to consumers, at least in the grip and paint fill."
Odyssey is the #1 Putter across the world's major professional tours in wins, usage and top-10 finishes. The entire ProType line of Odyssey putters will arrive at retail on February 17. The #2, #3, #6, #7, and #9 models will be available in two weights--340 or 350 grams--for the new product introduction retail price of $269. The ProType 2-ball model will come in 350 or 360 grams for $299. All six ProType putter models are available with the customized grip and paint fill color options for an additional $30; they can be ordered through an authorized Odyssey retailer.
For more information about the Odyssey ProType Tour Series of Putters, please visit http://www.odysseygolf.com/. For more on Odyssey's line-up of popular Belly and Long putters, please visit http://www.odysseygolf.com/bellyputters, and to see Odyssey's complete product lineup, please click here: http://www.odysseygolf.com.
High-resolution images of all Odyssey products are available for immediate download via the Press Center portion of the Company's website: http://www.callawaygolf.com/PressCenter
About Callaway Golf
Through an unwavering commitment to innovation, Callaway Golf Company (NYSE:ELY) creates products and services designed to make every golfer a better golfer. Callaway Golf Company manufactures and sells golf clubs and golf balls, and sells golf apparel, footwear and accessories, under the Callaway Golf®, Odyssey®, Top-Flite®, and Ben Hogan® brands in more than 110 countries worldwide. For more information please visit http://www.callawaygolf.com or shop.callawaygolf.com.
CONTACT:
Tim Sweeney
Callaway Golf
(760) 804-4017
Tim.Sweeney@CallawayGolf.com
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EXFO Extends OTDR-Based iOLM Technology to Access and LAN/WAN Networks and Data Centers
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:21:01 AM
EXFO Extends OTDR-Based iOLM Technology to Access and LAN/WAN Networks and Data Centers
The new FTB-720 iOLM will be unveiled at BICSI (Orlando, FL, February
12-16).
QUEBEC CITY, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - EXFO Inc. (NASDAQ: EXFO) (TSX:
EXF) announced today the integration of its proprietary iOLM technology
to the FTB-720 LAN/WAN Access test module. Thanks to the added
features, the new FTB-720 iOLM speeds up and simplifies optical fiber
assessment within access and LAN/WAN networks, as well as data centers.
Having gained worldwide recognition in FTTH deployments, the iOLM
application has now been optimized to meet short-span point-to-point
testing needs during construction and troubleshooting of access and
LAN/WAN networks. Powered by the Link-Aware(TM) technology, the iOLM helps service providers build error-free networks
using a multipulse approach to fully characterize events on the entire
link--from the front end to the far end--through a single-button
operation.
Thanks to its self-setting parameters and intuitive interpretation of
graphical results, the iOLM eliminates tedious instrument training and
repeated truck rolls; it also reduces the level 2 support required from
expert technicians, who can dedicate this precious time to more
added-value tasks.
"Just like in virtually all types of networks, access, LAN/WAN and data
center operators are currently looking for ways to deploy more quickly,
yet more simply and with greater reliability," said Étienne Gagnon,
EXFO's Vice-President of Product Management and Marketing. "With its
visual representation using icons for each link event and clear
pass/fail verdicts, the iOLM enables any technician to easily perform
tests that are absolutely accurate the first time. The addition of the
iOLM to the FTB-720 module reiterates EXFO's continued commitment
toward developing this technology and helping customers significantly
reduce operational expenses."
Consistent with this focus on providing network operators with enhanced,
OPEX-reducing test routines, EXFO is also releasing a new version of
its data post-processing software. FastReporter 2 offers a more
powerful, all-integrated package of advanced features to edit, analyze
and document test results performed on entire networks. This enhanced
version reduces manipulations, simplifies the user's experience and
boosts post-processing efficiency--enabling faster job completion and
faster transition to the next job.
Attendees at the 2012 BICSI Winter Conference and Exhibition are invited
to make a stop at booth 617, where EXFO will showcase the new FTB-720
iOLM and FastReporter 2, and perform live demos.
Visit our website for more information on the FTB-720 iOLM and FastReporter 2.
About EXFO
Listed on the NASDAQ and TSX stock exchanges, EXFO is among the leading
providers of next-generation test and service assurance solutions for wireline and wireless network operators and equipment manufacturers
in the global telecommunications industry. The company offers
innovative solutions for the development, installation, management and
maintenance of converged, IP fixed and mobile networks--from the core to
the edge. Key technologies supported include VDSL2, ADSL2+, 3G, 4G/LTE,
IMS, Ethernet, OTN, FTTx, and various optical technologies (accounting
for an estimated 35% of the portable fiber-optic test market). EXFO has
a staff of approximately 1800 people in 25 countries, supporting more
than 2000 telecom customers worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.EXFO.com.
EXFO Brand Name
The corporate name of the company is EXFO Inc. The company requests that
all media outlets and publications use the corporate name ("EXFO Inc.")
or abbreviated name ("EXFO") in capital letters for branding purposes.
EXFO would like to thank all parties in advance for their cooperation.
SOURCE EXFO INC.
EXFO INC.
CONTACT: Marie-Anne Grondin
Media and Public Relations Specialist
(418) 683-0913, Ext. 23417
marie-anne.grondin@EXFO.com
Vance Oliver
Manager, Investor Relations
(418) 683-0913, Ext. 23733
vance.oliver@EXFO.com
The new FTB-720 iOLM will be unveiled at BICSI (Orlando, FL, February
12-16).
QUEBEC CITY, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - EXFO Inc. (NASDAQ: EXFO) (TSX:
EXF) announced today the integration of its proprietary iOLM technology
to the FTB-720 LAN/WAN Access test module. Thanks to the added
features, the new FTB-720 iOLM speeds up and simplifies optical fiber
assessment within access and LAN/WAN networks, as well as data centers.
Having gained worldwide recognition in FTTH deployments, the iOLM
application has now been optimized to meet short-span point-to-point
testing needs during construction and troubleshooting of access and
LAN/WAN networks. Powered by the Link-Aware(TM) technology, the iOLM helps service providers build error-free networks
using a multipulse approach to fully characterize events on the entire
link--from the front end to the far end--through a single-button
operation.
Thanks to its self-setting parameters and intuitive interpretation of
graphical results, the iOLM eliminates tedious instrument training and
repeated truck rolls; it also reduces the level 2 support required from
expert technicians, who can dedicate this precious time to more
added-value tasks.
"Just like in virtually all types of networks, access, LAN/WAN and data
center operators are currently looking for ways to deploy more quickly,
yet more simply and with greater reliability," said Étienne Gagnon,
EXFO's Vice-President of Product Management and Marketing. "With its
visual representation using icons for each link event and clear
pass/fail verdicts, the iOLM enables any technician to easily perform
tests that are absolutely accurate the first time. The addition of the
iOLM to the FTB-720 module reiterates EXFO's continued commitment
toward developing this technology and helping customers significantly
reduce operational expenses."
Consistent with this focus on providing network operators with enhanced,
OPEX-reducing test routines, EXFO is also releasing a new version of
its data post-processing software. FastReporter 2 offers a more
powerful, all-integrated package of advanced features to edit, analyze
and document test results performed on entire networks. This enhanced
version reduces manipulations, simplifies the user's experience and
boosts post-processing efficiency--enabling faster job completion and
faster transition to the next job.
Attendees at the 2012 BICSI Winter Conference and Exhibition are invited
to make a stop at booth 617, where EXFO will showcase the new FTB-720
iOLM and FastReporter 2, and perform live demos.
Visit our website for more information on the FTB-720 iOLM and FastReporter 2.
About EXFO
Listed on the NASDAQ and TSX stock exchanges, EXFO is among the leading
providers of next-generation test and service assurance solutions for wireline and wireless network operators and equipment manufacturers
in the global telecommunications industry. The company offers
innovative solutions for the development, installation, management and
maintenance of converged, IP fixed and mobile networks--from the core to
the edge. Key technologies supported include VDSL2, ADSL2+, 3G, 4G/LTE,
IMS, Ethernet, OTN, FTTx, and various optical technologies (accounting
for an estimated 35% of the portable fiber-optic test market). EXFO has
a staff of approximately 1800 people in 25 countries, supporting more
than 2000 telecom customers worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.EXFO.com.
EXFO Brand Name
The corporate name of the company is EXFO Inc. The company requests that
all media outlets and publications use the corporate name ("EXFO Inc.")
or abbreviated name ("EXFO") in capital letters for branding purposes.
EXFO would like to thank all parties in advance for their cooperation.
SOURCE EXFO INC.
EXFO INC.
CONTACT: Marie-Anne Grondin
Media and Public Relations Specialist
(418) 683-0913, Ext. 23417
marie-anne.grondin@EXFO.com
Vance Oliver
Manager, Investor Relations
(418) 683-0913, Ext. 23733
vance.oliver@EXFO.com