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OnTheSnow to Acquire Skiinfo, Europe's Most Visited Ski and Snowboard Website, to Create the Largest Global Media Snow Sports Platform

BROOMFIELD, Colo., Jan. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mountain News Corporation, publisher of OnTheSnow, the world's most visited snow sports online and mobile platform, is expanding its reach with the acquisition of Skiinfo, Europe's most visited snow sports website. This acquisition will increase Mountain News Corporation's reach in key European ski markets and creates a total audience of more than 23 million unique visitors per year. The combined companies will operate in 14 languages and 20 countries.

Established in 1996 in Oslo, Norway as a snow reporting website, Skiinfo.com expanded over the years adding offices in Germany, France, Italy and Slovakia, and has become the top ranked source for snow reports and snow sports information in Europe with an audience of 11 million unique users in 2011.

"This acquisition allows us to combine the dominant snow sports leader in North America with the leader in Europe to create the first ever, truly global snow sports media platform," said Chad Dyer, global managing director of Mountain News Corporation. "With a combined 23 million unique visits per year, we will be able to offer advertisers access to skiing and snowboarding enthusiasts around the world -- one of the most coveted demographics in media. The combined companies also will be able to offer skiers and riders the most comprehensive global snow sports content and most robust worldwide snow reports."

According to Dyer, with the combination of OnTheSnow and Skiinfo's snow reports, the new company will provide snow reports to more than 1,500 worldwide websites and international media companies, and will provide advertisers with an expanded reach and capabilities to reach skiers on a global scale.

The acquisition remains subject to certain conditions and is expected to close on February 1st, 2012.

About Mountain News Corporation

Mountain News Corporation (MNC), a subsidiary of Vail Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: MTN), is the publisher of OnTheSnow & the Ski Report mobile applications. MNC, is also a top provider of snow reports to more than 1,500 web sites throughout the world, including approximately 400 news media websites. In addition to its snow reports and website, OnTheSnow.com publishes and delivers a weekly e-mail newsletter to its database of more than 300,000 subscribers worldwide. MNC also operates MountainGetaway.com, the year-round headquarters for information regarding popular mountain resort communities and regions in the summer months.

About Vail Resorts

Vail Resorts, Inc., through its subsidiaries, is the leading mountain resort operator in the United States. The Company's subsidiaries operate the mountain resorts of Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone in Colorado, and Heavenly and Northstar in the Lake Tahoe area of California and Nevada, and the Grand Teton Lodge Company in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The Company's subsidiary, RockResorts, a luxury resort hotel company, manages casually elegant properties. Vail Resorts Development Company is the real estate planning, development and construction subsidiary of Vail Resorts, Inc. Vail Resorts is a publicly held company traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: MTN). The Vail Resorts company website is http://www.vailresorts.com and consumer website is http://www.snow.com

SOURCE  Vail Resorts, Inc.

Vail Resorts, Inc.

CONTACT: Investor Relations, Hayley Wolff, +1-303-404-1827, hwolff@vailresorts.com, or Media Relations, Kate Lessman, +1-303-404-1871, klessman@vailresorts.com, both of Vail Resorts, Inc.

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eMeter Unveils Meter Data Analytics Platform

eMeter EnergyIP 7.5 transforms the industry with its already proven scalability and analytic capabilities

SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- eMeter, a leader in Smart Grid management software and Siemens Business, today revealed the newest version of its flagship product, eMeter EnergyIP®, an industry leading energy information management platform. With the introduction of eMeter EnergyIP 7.5 and its new Analytics Foundation, the company continues to demonstrate improvements in smart grid data management for utilities that heighten energy information processing capabilities through meter data analytics software and applications.

Making the best even better, eMeter EnergyIP 7.5 improves upon the company's state of the art Meter Data Management (MDM) platform with powerful new data collection and validation tools. Combined with out of the box integration with eMeter's Analytics Foundation, eMeter EnergyIP 7.5 provides utilities easy access and powerful insights to all data collected through Advanced Metering Information (AMI). eMeter's Analytics Foundation's capabilities enable utilities to analyze outages and events, monitor loads, gauge AMI health, and even protect revenue - as fast as the data is collected with zero impact to business critical operations. Additional applications made possible by the updated MDM platform allows utilities to offer improved service with better pre-payment options for customers, improved capabilities to identify network loss management, and provide enhanced customer service with access to real-time customer information for customer service representatives at utilities.

"With eMeter EnergyIP 7.5, we're saving utilities from the hassle of poorly integrated systems," said Aaron DeYonker, Vice President of Product Management, eMeter. "By utilizing the analytics capabilities of eMeter EnergyIP 7.5, we're helping utilities liberate energy data that has previously been locked behind inefficient IT platforms." 

eMeter EnergyIP 7.5 will elevate eMeter's industry leading platform to the next level from a data collection and processing perspective with powerful new Validation, Estimation and Editing (VEE) tools and event processing. What is more, the Analytics Foundation finally unlocks the data for utility business users in order to help them make the most sense out of the most mature data. With eMeter EnergyIP 7.5 the possibilities are endless.

About eMeter

eMeter, A Siemens Business, provides essential software that enables electric, gas and water utilities to realize the full benefits of Smart Grid. Leading utilities worldwide depend on eMeter Smart Grid management software to reduce operational costs, improve customer service, and drive energy efficiency. With the most large-scale deployments in the industry and strategic partnerships with Accenture, IBM, and Logica, eMeter has built a reputation for unparalleled expertise that ensures customer success. For more information visit: http://www.emeter.com/.

SOURCE  eMeter

eMeter

CONTACT: Kyle Arteaga, +1-415-218-5569, kyle.arteaga@emeter.com

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

Gamesys: Online Bingo Player Scoops a Grand on Jackpotjoy's Bingo Special!

LONDON, January 16, 2012/PRNewswire/ --

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IBM Brings the Power of Analytics to Social Business

ARMONK, N.Y., Jan. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled new software and services that delivers comprehensive networking capabilities to the increasingly social savvy workforce. Now, organizations can apply analytics to their social business initiatives, allowing them to gain actionable insight on social networking sentiment anytime, anywhere and put it to work in real-time.

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As part of today's news, IBM is announcing new cloud services and the next-generation of its social networking platform, IBM Connections. The new software incorporates sophisticated analytics capabilities, real-time data monitoring, and faster collaborative networks both inside and outside the organization through IBM's SmartCloud services.

Now, organizations can integrate and analyze massive amounts of data generated from people, devices and sensors and more easily align these insights to business processes to make faster, more accurate business decisions. By gaining deeper insights in customer and market trends and employees' sentiment, businesses can uncover critical patterns to not only react swiftly to market shifts, but predict the effect of future actions.

For example, marketing professionals can now gain real-time access to data that highlights patterns and consumer sentiment related to marketing trends and services allowing them to adjust campaigns on the fly. With one simple click, professionals can react to this insight by automatically creating a social network, on the fly, bringing together experts across geographical and market intelligence and swiftly respond to these insights.

The growing popularity of social networking is impacting the enterprise as the next-generation workforce expects more socially enabled applications at their fingertips. According to Forrester Research, the market opportunity for social enterprise apps is expected to grow at a rate of 61 percent through 2016, reaching $6.4 billion, compared with $600 million.* At the same time, organizations are embracing social capabilities to transform virtually every part of their business operations, but lack the tools to gain insight into the enormous stream of information and use it in a meaningful way.

To address these challenges, IBM is delivering new software and cloud services that brings the power of analytics to the social business:

    --  New social analytics software that integrates wikis, blogs, activity
        streams, email, calendaring and more, and flags relevant data for
        action. It allows for instant collaboration with one simple click and
        the ability to build social communities both inside and outside the
        organization to increase customer loyalty and speed business results.
    --  New software that integrates social networking capabilities with
        enterprise content management to better connect people with information
        so they can make informed decisions and act quickly.
    --  The new IBM SmartCloud for Social Business simplifies access to
        business-grade file sharing, social networking, communities, online
        meetings, instant messaging, email and calendar. In addition, IBM
        SmartCloud for Social Business will deliver a cloud-based productivity
        suite allowing users to co-edit documents in real-time.
    --  New messaging and collaboration software that brings the power of
        embedded experiences to the Web and mobile devices providing a single
        point of entry for all business processes.
In support of today's news, IBM also announced new clients using its social software and cloud collaboration services making it one of the world's leading providers of software-as-a-service (SaaS). New clients, including employees of Kraft, Electrolux, MIT Lincoln Labs, Colgate-Palmolive, 3M, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, Dutch Tax Office, Premier Healthcare and Brunswick and are among the millions of users of IBM's social software and collaboration services on premise, in the cloud and via mobile device.

To hear how the leadership and IT teams at IBM client TD Bank Group are working across the company to become a social business, participate in a Livestream broadcast on January 17, 2012, at 8:30 AM ET at livestream.com/ibmsoftware.

"There is boundless opportunity for social business to transform how we connect people and processes, and increase the speed and flexibility of business," said Alistair Rennie, General Manager, Social Business, IBM. "A successful social business can break down barriers to collaboration and put social networking in the context of everyday work, from the device or delivery vehicle of your choice, to improve productivity and speed decision-making."

New software helps clients get social in the workplaceWith today's news, IBM is announcing the beta of the next release of its industry-leading enterprise social networking platform, IBM Connections. Powered by analytics, IBM Connections delivers the widest range of capabilities, including wikis, blogs, activities, to help organizations collaborate on the fly. IBM Connections includes the ability to access enterprise email, calendar and business tasks from inside the Connections platform, further unifying the collaboration experience.

The Connections landing page features a single location that allows users to view and interact with content from any third party solution through a social interface, right alongside their company's content, including email and calendar. The embedded experience of the news feed, also known as an activity stream, is expected to allow employees from any department inside an organization to explore structured and unstructured data such as Twitter feeds, Facebook posts, weather data, videos, log files, SAP applications, electronically sign documents, and quickly act on the data as part of their everyday work experience.

For example, an employee could share a document with colleagues, approve a transaction from an SAP system, act on a notification required in a business process like an insurance claim, and share content such as status updates and files, all from IBM Connections. The embedded experience and single point of access allows users to have insight at their fingertips and share data from any place, whether on the road or in the office.

One of the key findings from the 2011 IBM Social Business Jam - an online, real time discussion with 4,000 participants, was that Social Business activities need to be integrated and aligned with business processes to be truly effective.

To help clients address this challenge, IBM is announcing IBM Connections Enterprise Content Edition, an integrated social content management solution that combines the scalability of social networking with enterprise content management and enhanced compliance and control features sought by users in regulated industries. Designed to manage the entire life cycle of office documents, Web and social content, IBM Connections Enterprise Content Edition increases the ability to share knowledge, gain expertise and create high-value content quickly through advanced content, document management and workflow use cases.

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New, secure, cloud collaboration services

According to Forrester Research Inc., cloud computing will grow from a $41 billion business in 2010 to $241 billion in 2020.** To address this growing opportunity, IBM is announcing IBM SmartCloud for Social Business.  IBM is aligning its LotusLive services under the SmartCloud brand where it joins the ever-growing portfolio of business solutions that IBM delivers in the market that includes offerings in Commerce, Analytics, and industry-specific solutions like Smarter Cities.

The new service gives users one-click access to social networking, file sharing, online meetings, enterprise-class email, calendaring and instant messaging allowing clients to collaborate inside and outside the organization while pairing business transformation with the economic benefits of flexible cloud delivery models.

Additionally, a new capability of the IBM SmartCloud for Social Business is a cloud-based office productivity suite, IBM Docs. Now in beta and planned for availability in 2012, IBM Docs allows organizations, both inside and outside the firewall, to simultaneously collaborate on word processing, spreadsheet and presentation documents in the cloud to improve productivity. IBM Docs authors will be able to store and share documents in IBM SmartCloud, co-edit documents in real time or assign users sections of the document so they can work privately easing the management of  multiple revisions from multiple authors in team-based documents.

GAD, one of the largest specialists for banking IT in Germany, is evaluating the use of IBM Docs in a private cloud in 2012 to facilitate browser based document creation and change management. Approximately 450 banks will be able to reduce costs and become more responsive to their customers through GAD's bank21 solution.

Delivered in 22 languages, a 60-day trial of IBM SmartCloud for Social Business is available at no charge at ibmcloud.com/social.

Bringing embedded experiences to mobile devices

In response to the burgeoning mobile workforce, expected to reach more than 1.19 billion people by 2013, IBM's new social software supports the most popular mobile devices, including tablets.

IBM is announcing the beta release of IBM Lotus Notes and Domino, Social Edition, a social-enabled messaging and collaboration platform built on open standards that provides users with the ability to act on any work flow process directly within the email inbox. Whether accessing email from a browser or desktop, or sharing videos and files, users no longer have to travel to a third-party site. In addition, with the embedded experience of social mail, users are more efficient when engaging in activity and more responsive to day to day tasks.

IBM intends to support mail, calendaring and contacts in a beta release of IBM Lotus Notes Traveler for Microsoft Windows Phone on Nokia and HTC devices; the beta is expected in the first half of 2012.

IBM is also introducing a new, lower-cost program for BlackBerry users to access email in the cloud. Built on the world-class expertise of IBM Mobile Enterprise Services and the sophisticated security of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, IBM helps bring the type of security and reliability expectations of on-premise email to cloud email environments, including built-in end-user and administrative controls for mobile device management.

For photos, videos and additional background on IBM's social business initiative, visit ibm.com/press/socialbusiness. Follow the conversation on Twitter at #ibmsocialbiz.

*Source: Social Enterprise Apps Redefine Collaboration," Forrester Research, Inc., November 30, 2011.

**Source: Forrester Research Inc., "Sizing The Cloud, Understanding And Quantifying The Future Of Cloud Computing, by Stefan Ried, Ph.D., Holger Kisker, Ph.D., April 21, 2011.

IBM's statements regarding its plans, directions, and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice at IBM's sole discretion.

Information regarding potential future products is intended to outline our general product direction and it should not be relied on in making a purchasing decision.

The information mentioned regarding potential future products is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code or functionality. Information about potential future products may not be incorporated into any contract. The development, release, and timing of any future features or functionality described for our products remains at our sole discretion.

Contact:Dana CarrIBM Communications1-857-259-0866dcarr@us.ibm.com

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To Crunch or To Chew? With New Jolly Rancher Crunch 'n Chew Candy, You Can Do Both!

Jolly Rancher Teams up with Videographers and Asks Fans to Vote for their Favorite Crunchy and Chewy Video

HERSHEY, Pa., Jan. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Jolly Rancher® brand is introducing a unique way to enjoy bold fruit flavor with Jolly Rancher Crunch 'N Chew® candy.  With a crunchy candy shell and a soft, chewy center, new Jolly Rancher Crunch 'N Chew combines the unmistakably, bold fruit flavors of original Jolly Rancher®Hard Candy with the chewiness of Jolly Rancher® Chews. The result is a new, untamed candy experience that satisfies both crunchy and chewy candy fans. To celebrate the product launch, Jolly RancherCrunch 'N Chew candy partnered with Poptent, an online videographer community, to create cool original video spots highlighting the crunchy and chewy elements of the new Jolly Rancher product and is inviting consumers to cast their vote and help choose the winning video.

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Poptent is a vibrant community of filmmakers, actors, comedians, animators and more who are connecting to each other and to brands to showcase their talents while exploring a new way of creating branded messages for the Internet age. The Jolly Rancher assignment received a tremendous response, surpassing expectations with nearly 200 creative submissions ranging from catchy musical raps to humorous spoofs focusing on the product's unique characteristics. Consumers are invited to engage with Jolly Rancher and learn about the new product by voting for their favorite Jolly Rancher Crunch 'N Chew candy video at http://www.jollyrancher.com.

Starting today, fans can visit the Jolly Rancher website (http://www.jollyrancher.com) to view the final three videos and cast their vote for their favorite commercial once per day through February 15, 2012. After the votes are tallied, the prize-winning videographer will produce two additional videos, resulting in a three-part video series that will be posted on the Jolly Rancher website this spring.

Jolly Rancher fans can visit http://www.jollyrancher.com and vote for one of three original video spots:

    --  Do You Wanna Crunch - A vibrant and catchy Jolly Rancher Crunch 'N Chew
        rap, highlighting the product's crunchy and chewy characteristics.
    --  Brand New - Jolly Rancher's newest product inspires young artists to
        produce a fresh new track that starts on the basketball court and
        finishes as a colorful music video.
    --  The Adventures of Bart the Bold - Part 1 - Bart the Bold goes on a bold
        adventure, defeating villains and eating Jolly Rancher Crunch 'N Chew
        candy along the way. Consumers can choose where Bart's adventure takes
        him next!

"The combination of a hard candy shell and a soft, chewy center gives candy lovers the best of both worlds and the chance to experience the untamed fruit flavor of Jolly Rancher candies in a brand new way," said Anna Lingeris, spokesperson for the Jolly Rancher brand and The Hershey Company. "We wanted to give our fans the opportunity to engage with the brand like never before and after reviewing the nearly 200 submissions from Poptent videographers across the country, we've selected our top three videos and are excited for our fans to select the winner."

With four mouthwatering flavors including cherry, blue raspberry, green apple and watermelon, Jolly Rancher Crunch 'N Chew candy offers an intense taste experience unlike any other and is available nationwide at mass grocery, drug and convenience stores. For more information and to cast your vote for one of three original Jolly Rancher Crunch 'N Chew video spots, visit Jolly Rancher online at http://www.jollyrancher.com.

About Jolly RancherThe Jolly Rancher® brand produces a wide selection of candy varieties, including Jolly Rancher Hard Candy, Gummies, Chews, Awesome Twosome Chews, Sours Candy, Jelly Beans, Candy Canes, Stix Candy, Lollipops and the latest, Jolly RancherCrunch 'N Chew. With a wide variety of flavors to choose from, including cherry, blue raspberry, watermelon and green apple, among others, Jolly Rancher candy is the perfect dose of bold fruit flavor to wake up your taste buds.

Jolly Rancher was founded in 1949 and acquired by The Hershey Company in 1996. For more information, visit http://www.jollyrancher.com.

About The Hershey Company

The Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) is the largest producer of quality chocolate in North America and a global leader in chocolate and sugar confectionery. Headquartered in Hershey, PA, The Hershey Company has operations throughout the world and more than 12,000 employees. With revenues of nearly $6 billion, Hershey offers confectionery products under more than 25 brand names, including such iconic brands as Hershey's, Reese's, Hershey'sKisses, Hershey'sBliss, Hershey's Special Dark and Hershey's Extra Dark, Kit Kat, Twizzlers, and Ice Breakers. Hershey also is a leader in the premium and artisan chocolate segments, with such brands as Scharffen Berger and Dagoba, offered through the Artisan Confections Company, a wholly owned subsidiary. The company is focused on growing its presence in key international markets such as China and Mexico while continuing to build its competitive advantage in the United States and Canada.

For more than 100 years, The Hershey Company has been a leader in making a positive difference in the communities where its employees live, work and do business. Corporate Social Responsibility is an integral part of the company's global business strategy, which includes goals and priorities focused on fair and ethical business dealings, environmental stewardship, fostering a desirable workplace for employees, and positively impacting society and local communities. Milton Hershey School, established in 1909 by the company's founder and administered by Hershey Trust Company, provides a quality education, housing, and medical care at no cost to children in social and financial need. Students of Milton Hershey School are direct beneficiaries of The Hershey Company's success.

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CONTACT: Anna Lingeris of The Hershey Company, +1-717-534-4874, alingeris@hersheys.com, or Jaclyn Cole of JSH&A Public Relations, +1-630-932-5545, jaclyn@jsha.com

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

CBS Outdoor Launches Interactive Canadian Website

OUTDOOR ADVERTISING COMPANY PROVIDES CUSTOMERS WITH REDESIGNED, MOBILE FRIENDLY SITE

TORONTO, Jan. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CBS Outdoor Canada is starting the New Year with a newly designed website complete with an interactive web mapping program and mobile website.

"What better way to connect the power of Outdoor with our highly mobile world than with a mobile website?" said Michele Erskine, director of marketing. 

Clients using their mobile devices to access cbsoutdoor.ca are directed to the CBS Outdoor office closest to their geographic location, where visitors can view a photo gallery of local outdoor advertising campaigns and explore the new website. The full website has been redesigned to provide more local content, a categorized photo gallery and easy access to all CBS Outdoor departments including: real estate, production, creative, research, and sales. The interactive web mapping tool makes it easy to locate CBS Outdoor's out-of-home media inventory across Canada and create a quick location request.

The newly designed cbsoutdoor.ca is the premier destination to find outdoor advertising solutions with all the product information, market coverage detail and production specification information easily accessible.

About CBS Outdoor
CBS Outdoor, a division of CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS.A and CBS), is one of the largest out-of-home media companies in the Americas (United States, Canada, Mexico and South America), and has a major presence across Europe in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and China. With both traditional outdoor and transit advertising properties, this division gives advertisers both breadth of coverage across vast geographies and depth of coverage, providing multiple media opportunities in key markets. For more information, visit http://www.cbsoutdoor.ca

SOURCE  CBS Outdoor

CBS Outdoor

CONTACT: Michele Erskine, +1-416-521-6485, merskine@cbsoutdoor.ca

Web Site: http://www.cbsoutdoor.ca

"Cloud Check-What's Your Next Move?" New Event Series Launch in 2012

Zenith Infotech Partners with CompTIA

WARRENDALE, Pa., Jan. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Zenith Infotech,  an international company that specializes in delivering innovative business continuity and cloud computing for IT service providers, announced today the launch of an advanced series of events focused on cloud computing.   These events, appropriately named "Cloud Check - What's Your Next Move?" will begin in Mid-January in Los Angeles and continue throughout 30 U.S. cities as well as South East Asia and the Middle East.

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Zenith is thrilled to partner with CompTIA to present an education-based program that will elevate IT service providers' ability to gain entry into the cloud and/or improve their cloud computing business. The focus of the program is on educating attendees on setting business goals, developing effective marketing programs, enhancing the sales pitch and overall operations. In addition, attendees will be able to increase their knowledge by networking and sharing strategies with their peers.

"There is no one-size-fits-all strategy for moving to the cloud. Thoughtful evaluation, comprehensive planning and technical savvy are required. Our Cloud Computing Quick Start Session is designed to empower providers to make the right choices for their customers. CompTIA is pleased to collaborate with Zenith Infotech for the delivery of this important educational program," comments Kelly Ricker, senior vice president, events and education at CompTIA.

"The training is absolutely free and I am certain that IT service providers around the globe will take away a lot of ideas and resources on how to build a successful business platform in the cloud. This is an exciting opportunity to further help attendees grow their business as well as collaborate with CompTIA," adds Zenith Infotech Director of Channel Sales, John McCallum.

Details about "Cloud Check-What's Your Next Move?" events and registration can be found at: http://www.zenithinfotech.comnextmove

About Zenith Infotech:
Zenith Infotech is an international company that specializes in delivering innovative business continuity and cloud computing for IT service providers. Our U.S. headquarters is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Learn more at http://www.zenithinfotech.com.

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CONTACT: Carla Leininger, Public Relations Manager, +1-724-935-4384, carla.leininger@zenithinfotech.com

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

Starz Takes Spartacus Outside the Arena with New "Spartacus: Vengeance The Game," Sampling Opportunities for First Episode of Returning Spartacus Series

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Jan. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Starz Digital Media, the digital and on-demand licensing arm of Starz, announced today a sneak preview of its upcoming Facebook social game, Spartacus: Vengeance The Game, launching onJanuary 27. Viewers of the sneak preview video teaser are able to "like" the game and sign up to be invited to play once the game is live. Both the video teaser and Spartacus: Vengeance The Game are designed to accompany the STARZ Original series "Spartacus: Vengeance," debuting on January 27 at 10 pm et/pt.

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The video teaser also coincides with a multi-affiliate sampling effort of the first episode of "Spartacus: Vengeance" starting on January 20 across multiple providers including on-demand and online platforms (see second section for more details).

About Spartacus: Vengeance The Game

Spartacus: Vengeance The Game builds upon the success of the existing Spartacus: The Game (originally named Spartacus: Gods of the Arena) that was launched on Facebook in January 2011. Spartacus: Vengeance The Game operates as an entirely new property by taking players outside of the arena and ludus walls.

"We are thrilled to present a teaser video of Spartacus: Vengeance The Game on Facebook in advance of the official game launch and the highly anticipated second season," said Mara Winokur, senior vice president, digital media, business development and strategy, Starz Media and lead executive for Starz Digital Media. "The teaser video gives users a good overview of the new Spartacus: Vengeance The Game, whichtakes on a greater level of sophistication by adding new elements such as improved visuals, multi-fighter battles, a more robust game economy, advanced game progressions, and more varied strategic options." 

As with the Spartacus: The Game, Starz Digital Media partnered with Large Animal Games for the development of Spartacus: Vengeance The Game. "'Spartacus: The Game helped change the landscape for branded Facebook games based on media properties and was very successful," said Wade Tinney, CEO of Large Animal Games. "Its mix of visceral action, evocative graphics and long-term gladiator development remains unlike any other game on the market. With Spartacus: Vengeance The Game, we intend to amp up all of the things our players and the show's fans love." Spartacus: The Game produced approximately 4 million registered users, including more than 1,200,000 monthly active users at its peak."

Spartacus: Vengeance The Game, as with Spartacus: The Game, will be built on Large Animal Game's proprietary Toga(TM) application platform. Toga is a full-featured social game infrastructure which dramatically reduces the time, cost and resource needs of social and mobile game developers. It lets administrators manage and create game content without the need for engineering resources;  lets product managers view advanced, custom stat packages; and supports cross-platform deployment, including Facebook, Google+, Android, iOS and more, ensuring that products are future-proofed. Its architecture is expandable via plug-in or library and easily integrates with third parties to allow limitless expansion. 

Facebook-based Spartacus: Vengeance The Game is free to play and takes the player, a recently escaped slave, outside of the arena to embrace a series of challenges and lead his own band of warriors. Through his journey, the player will travel from Capua to Vesuvius, paralleling the feats of Spartacus's own warriors. As with the Spartacus series on STARZ, Spartacus: VengeanceThe Game offers more than just fighting; it functions on a strategic level as well. Throughout the game, players will be given missions to wrest various locations from Roman control by overcoming a series of challenges, such as building and equipping an army, liberating slaves and other prisoners and acquiring fighters. All the while the player will be working with and conspiring against characters from "Spartacus: Vengeance."

Multi-Platform Sampling Opportunities for "Spartacus: Vengeance" Beginning January 20, 2012Beginning January 20, STARZ will sample the first full episode of "Spartacus: Vengeance" to more than 61.1 million multichannel households in the United States with select cable, satellite, and Telco STARZ affiliates.

Participating affiliates offering free on-demand sampling of the first episode include: Comcast's Xfinity, DIRECTV, DISH Network, Cox Communications, Charter, Mediacom, Massillon Cable TV/Clear Picture Inc., Antietam Cable, BVU and Click! Cable TV.

The first episode will be available online free for sampling beginning January 20 at http://www.starz.com/spartacus, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/spartacus.starz, and direct through select STARZ affiliates including Comcast's Xfinity TV (http://www.xfinitytv.com), DIRECTV (http://www.directv.com), DISH Network (http://www.DISHOnline.com) and Charter (http://www.charter.net). Users on the go can also view the first episode on Comcast's Xfinity TV app (http://www.xfinity.com/tvapp) for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. In addition, AT&T U-verse, Comcast's Xfinity, Charter and DIRECTV will sample the first episode on their respective Facebook pages.

DIRECTV Audience Network and DISH 101 Network will air the first episode of "Spartacus: Vengeance" for their subscribers.

About Spartacus: Vengeance

On the heels of the bloody escape from the House of Batiatus that concluded "Spartacus: Blood and Sand", the gladiator rebellion continues and begins to strike fear into the heart of the Roman Republic. Gaius Claudius Glaber and his Roman troops are sent to Capua to crush the growing band of freed slaves that Spartacus leads before it can inflict further damage. Spartacus is presented the choice of satisfying his personal need for vengeance against the man that condemned his wife to slavery and eventual death or making the larger sacrifices necessary to keep his budding army from breaking apart. Containing all of the blood-soaked action, exotic sexuality, and villainy and heroism that has come to distinguish the series so far, the tale of Spartacus resumes in epic fashion.

The official "Spartacus: Vengeance" trailer, and behind the scenes videos are available at http://www.starz.com/spartacus.  Follow "Spartacus: Vengeance" on Twitter: @spartacus_starz  and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/spartacus.starz.

About Large Animal

New York based Large Animal Games is a leader in the Casual and Social Games space. Founded in 2001, Large Animal has produced over 100 games on a variety of platforms. Their current focus is on games that connect friends on networks such as Facebook and Google+, as well as on mobile devices. Their Spartacus: The Game(TM), Picturiffic(TM), Lucky Cruise(TM) and What to Wear(TM) games garner hundreds of thousands of monthly active users and are all powered by Toga(TM), their proprietary advanced social application platform. More information about Large Animal and about Toga(TM) can be found online at http://www.largeanimal.com.

About Starz Digital Media

Starz Digital Media, an operating division of Starz Media, LLC, is responsible for all digital and on-demand distribution of content from Anchor Bay Entertainment, Starz Originals from Starz Entertainment, Manga Entertainment, and other select entertainment providers. Through a range of distribution and marketing partnerships with multichannel video providers, Internet distributors and wireless operators worldwide, Starz Digital Media makes its content available under numerous business models including download-to-own/electronic sell-through, video-on-demand, pay-per-view, subscription video-on-demand and ad-supported streaming. The division also programs and supports numerous ad-supported broadband channels and develops games, applications and other related content from many of its properties for distribution worldwide.

About Starz Entertainment

Starz Entertainment, LLC, is a premium movie and original programming entertainment service provider operating in the United States. The company offers 17 premium channels including the flagship STARZ(®) and ENCORE(®) brands with approximately 19 million and 32.8 million subscribers respectively.  Starz Entertainment airs in total more than 1,000 movies and original series every month across its pay TV channels. Starz Entertainment is recognized as a pay TV leader in providing HD, On Demand, HD On Demand and online advanced services for its STARZ, ENCORE and MOVIEPLEX brands.  Starz Entertainment (http://www.starz.com) is an operating unit of Starz, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation (NASDAQ: LMCA).

Contacts:
Jenny Taylor
Starz Entertainment & Starz Digital Media
(720) 852-6018
(720) 277-1419 (cell)
jenny.taylor@starz.com

Douglas Yellin
Large Animal Games
info@largeanimal.com

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IDrive® Announces Universal Online Backup for an Unlimited Number of PCs, Macs, Smartphones and Tablets on One Plan; New 'EVS' APIs for Developers

Online backup and file sharing for an unlimited number of computers and mobile devices starting at just $4.95/month; IDrive mobile app enhanced; and new cloud APIs for developers to rival Amazon S3

CALABASAS Calif., Jan. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IDrive has made public the latest versions of its Windows®, Mac® and mobile software - home users and small businesses can now protect as many computers, iOS and Android devices as they own with one easy plan - only at http://www.idrive.com.

"We're excited about the latest updates to IDrive," said Raghu Kulkarni, founder and CEO of Pro Softnet Corp. "With a single account new customers can back up as many computers and mobile devices as they want and then view their files from any of those connected devices or on our website. Plus, the mobile app can now back up contacts, photos and videos and make them available online as well."

Those interested can create a free account and store their first 5GB at no charge.

IDrive offers two plans for home users: 150 GBs for $4.95/month or 500 GBs for $14.95/month, with no limits on the number of Windows, Mac, iOS or Android devices that can be protected or the length of time for file retention. For businesses, plans range from 50GB to 1TB starting at $9.95/month with priority customer support. Customers can receive two months free by paying annually and IDrive also offers 50% discounts for teachers, students and faculty. Full pricing details here.

Not All Backups Are Created Equally

"Many backup services offer 'unlimited' storage space for a single computer at a flat rate, like $50 per year per computer - it sounds like a good deal at first, but back up 100 GBs from that one computer and you pay $50/year, back up just 50 GBs and you still have to pay $50/year: that's where they get you," said Stephen Gold, Business Development Manager. "Not only that, 'unlimited' storage plans almost always have very limited file retention, meaning they automatically remove data from your backup after you delete the files from your computer, usually just 30 days later. The question is, 'What use is a backup that doesn't contain files you accidentally deleted, say, six months ago?' On the other hand, IDrive allows people to actually use all of the online storage they are paying for."

A quick summary of IDrive's features and benefits:

    --  Get full access to files from any PC, Mac, iOS or Android device,
    --  Share any file/folder using an email address - easily swap large files
        with others,
    --  Intelligent incremental backups/restores over a secure connection,
    --  Available private key encryption for maximum security,
    --  "True Archive" storage - data is never automatically deleted and the
        last 30 versions of each file are held without counting against GBs
        stored,
    --  Continuous Data Protection for real-time backup of commonly used files,
    --  No file size or type limitations - no bandwidth throttling,
    --  Rapid Serve Restore - large restores can be physically shipped for quick
        disaster recovery,
    --  IDrive builds its own hardware and software; the speed and performance
        can rarely be matched,
    --  Live phone and 24-hour chat support.
IDrive Online Backup Mobile App Gets New Features

The IDrive mobile app makes it possible for users to access their account and share files while on the go. New updates bring the ability to back up contact information, photos and videos over a Wi-Fi or 3G connection to the IDrive cloud from iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices running iOS 4.0 or later as well as Google Android devices running 1.6 or later. The information is then made available via other connected computers and mobile devices as well as on the IDrive website.

IDrive is available for home and server editions of Windows and Mac OS X and for mobile devices in the Apple App Store and Android Market.

Why EVS (Encrypted, Versioned File System) for developers?

EVS was built to be faster, easier to secure and more affordable than other cloud platforms like Amazon S3, Rackspace and others.

    --  As low as $4.95/month for 150 GBs of storage and no bandwidth fees -
        build and test apps using the free 5GB IDrive Basic plan,
    --  Efficient and built-in 256-bit AES encryption with the option for a
        private user key for maximized security,
    --  Upload/download thousands of files and folders with a single line of
        code,
    --  The past 30 versions of each file are archived indefinitely - storage is
        calculated only for the most current version,
    --  Incremental and compressed data transfers make uploads and downloads
        quick.
The EVS development team actively assists developers and partners with integrating APIs into their applications and new API codes can be created based on special needs.

To learn more about creating applications using EVS, visit http://evs.idrive.com.

IDrive and EVS are created by Pro Softnet Corporation

Headquartered in Los Angeles County, Pro Softnet Corp. is a privately held company specializing in cloud storage, online backup, file sharing, remote access, compliance, sync and related technologies serving the consumer, small business and enterprise markets. Core products include IDrive®, IDriveSync®, IBackup® RemotePC(TM) and EVS for developers. The company's popular services currently have over 800,000 subscribers. For more information, please visit http://www.idrive.com.

Media Contact

Stephen Goldsgold@pro-softnet.com 818-251-4200 Ext. 127

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ACCENT Marketing Services Launches Customer Engagement Channel on TMCnet

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Jan. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ACCENT Marketing Services, LLC, a member of the MDC Partners Network and provider of customer engagement solutions, announced today it has partnered with global integrated media company Technology Marketing Corporation to launch the Customer Engagement Channel on the TMCnet Online Community program.

The Customer Engagement Channel is designed for decision makers from service providers to enterprises seeking information about how to engage today's distracted consumers in real-time conversations across contact center, online and social media channels.  Information provided on the channel addresses issues important to decision makers, including how to profitably acquire, support, retain and grow customers across every lifecycle stage. 

Visitors to the Customer Engagement Channel can also find valuable resources such as feature articles, industry news and white papers covering topics like conversion marketing, customer care, social media support, brand loyalty and customer lifetime value.

The Customer Engagement Channel can be found at http://customer-engagement.tmcnet.com.

"Today, consumers have more power than ever to positively or negatively impact brands and that power grows every day," commented Kelly Hilton, Director of Marketing and Corporate Communications at ACCENT Marketing Services.  "As the leader in customer engagement, ACCENT is pleased to partner with TMC, the leader of communications and technology media, to create a customer engagement channel exclusively for brands that want to transform their customer service channels into powerful relationship and brand-building tools."

TMCnet is the leading website for communications and technology professionals, covering VoIP, IP communications, CRM, contact center and information technology topics.  As a full-service news portal, the site provides a multitude of educational platforms, including global online communities, channels, podcasts, webinars, white papers, TMCnet Mobile and more.  It is visited by nearly two million unique monthly visitors and generates more than 40 million page views every month, according to Webtrends.

"TMCnet welcomes ACCENT's Customer Engagement Channel into our Online Community program," stated TMC President Dave Rodriguez.  "ACCENT Marketing Services is a well-respected customer engagement leader that shares our vision of advancing new technologies. Our Online Community program is a powerful community-building vehicle assisting our partners in building their brand, while contributing to the vast array of valuable content, which drives traffic to TMCnet, the most visited communications and technology website in the world."

About ACCENT Marketing Services, LLC

ACCENT, a member of the MDC Partners Network, is the performance marketing company for brands that need to maximize their ability to engage with consumers and influence behavior while generating a better return on their investment.  The company's data-driven approach transforms customer service touchpoints across voice, online and social media channels into powerful relationship and brand-building tools.   Founded in 1993, ACCENT employs more than 2,000 people across the United States, Jamaica and the Philippines.  For more information, visit http://www.accentonline.com.

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ACCENT Marketing Services, LLC

CONTACT: CONTACT:  Matt Harris, Corporate Communications Specialist, +1-812-258-4834 - office, mharris@accentonline.com

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

Ampex Announces New Ruggedized Ultra Compact Airborne Recorder

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ampex Data Systems Corporation today announced the release of their ruggedized ultra compact airborne recorder, the TuffServ(TM) 40 (TS 40). 

The TS 40 is the smallest, lightest and most power-frugal member of the TuffServ family. At just 1.8" H x 3.5" W x 6.25" D and weighing 1.4 lbs, it's specifically designed for demanding applications such as tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems where size and payload weight are at a premium. Using a fixed solid-state storage module, the TS 40 provides up to 160GB of memory with larger capacities available in the future. The standard system is delivered with a modern Linux system, providing a wide range of network services out of the box, including NFS and Samba for Windows SMB/CIFS networks, FTP and iSCSI.

Ampex most recently displayed the TS 40 at the ITC show in Las Vegas, NV and will also display it at numerous upcoming trade shows as well. Please contact your Ampex representative for further information on the TS 40.

Ampex Data Systems Corporation, headquartered in Redwood City, California, is a world leader in design, development and manufacture of airborne recording systems and storage solutions for rugged applications. To learn more about Ampex and the complete line of miniR®, TuffServ(TM) and other products for use with IRIG 106 Chapter 10 systems, high-definition video, NAS and SAN network solutions, please visit our website at http://www.ampex.com

Contact:

Sid Sircar
Marketing Engineer
Ampex Data Systems
(650) 367-4101

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Swivel(TM) by FaceCake, the World's First 3D Virtual Dressing Room, to Showcase at Retail's BIG Show 2012

Check out Swivel in Microsoft's Booth #1337 at NRF to See the Future of Fashion Retail

CALABASAS, Calif., Jan. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Swivel(TM), a groundbreaking fashion retail technology created by FaceCake Marketing Technologies, Inc., will be showcased in Microsoft's booth at the NRF 101(st) Annual Convention & EXPO in New York City (Booth #1337 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center January 15--18). Visitors to the Microsoft booth can experience the future of shopping with Swivel's powerful 3D virtual dressing room system, integrated with Microsoft Kinect for Windows, that work together in transforming both the in-store shopping and the digital out-of-home branding experience. Swivel is now compatible with the Windows Embedded platforms optimized for retail electronic displays and other applications.

Swivel by FaceCake is a 3D virtual dressing room that enables shoppers to 'try on' and see themselves in multiple apparel and accessories with speed and ease.  Retailers can now deploy FaceCake's patented real-time image processing and personalization technology for a unique shopping experience that lets customers see how they actually look from different angles in merchandise from the brick-and-mortar store they're shopping in or at the e-commerce site they're on. Selecting from ever-expanding fashion options, consumers can assemble and switch between new looks at lightning speed.

Through the Swivel Virtual Dressing Room, shoppers can:

    --  Virtually try on a single article of clothing or a whole outfit with
        accessories
    --  Instantly gather or swap items and sizes from multiple floors or
        departments with neither customer nor clerk trekking through the
        building
    --  Add immersive backdrops and environments to complete a look (envision
        evening wear on the red carpet, and see ski gear on the slopes)
    --  Accurately view and compare looks from different angles
    --  Shop with friends via complete social media integration, including the
        instant polling and real-time sharing of looks across Facebook and
        Twitter
Retailers will also love that Swivel:

    --  Enables up-sell and cross-sell success through the power of FaceCake's
        recommendation engine, quickly and confidently exploring merchandise
        from disparate lines, departments and price points
    --  Customizes the dressing room experience with shopper personalization
        features including relevant products and colors
    --  Integrates with currently deployed Windows Embedded-powered digital
        signage and other devices
    --  Provides valuable shopper metrics and reporting including how long an
        item is tried on, what it was paired with and how many friends a shopper
        showed it to
"We're excited to be working with Microsoft to provide retailers and shoppers an immersive, engaging and much more efficient shopping experience," notes FaceCake's founder and CEO, Linda Smith. "With Swivel's real-time virtual Try-On and personalized shopping advice, it's never been easier to sample a variety of head-to-toe looks without having to hunt through every department in a store.  When we put Swivel in front of real shoppers during our recent mall tour, they tried on three times as many products as a typical dressing room, and a staggering 77% shared their new looks with family and friends."

"FaceCake's deployment of Kinect for Windows with the Windows Embedded platform creates an innovative consumer retail technology experience," said John Doyle, director of product management for Windows Embedded at Microsoft.  "Combining Kinect for Windows with Swivel by FaceCake's virtual dressing room technology creates the foundation for the kind of connected intelligent systems that build immersive shopping experiences retailers have been seeking."

About FaceCake Marketing Technologies, Inc.

FaceCake Marketing Technologies, Inc. is a pioneer and innovator in personalized interactive marketing and virtual Try-On technologies. FaceCake's proprietary Visual Demonstration System (VDS) allows users to manipulate their own images with a wide range of image transformation and animation capabilities, and to try on and try out various products and services. The VDS in conjunction with the FaceCake-patented Mirror Image Marketing solution provides user-specific, highly-targeted promotion of products on user images, for unprecedented levels of personalization. The privately held company is based in Calabasas, CA. For more information, http://www.facecake.com. Please follow FaceCake on twitter.com/facecake and like us on facebook.com/facecakemarketing.

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FaceCake Marketing Technologies, Inc.

CONTACT: CONTACT: Sabrina Pietryga, Beck Media & Marketing, Sabrina (at) beckmedia (dot) com, +1-310-300-4814

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

RetailNext Unveils Video and Mobile Innovations for In-Store Analytics at NRF 2012

NEW YORK, Jan. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- RetailNext, the in-store analytics leader, today announced that it will reveal groundbreaking technology innovations to extend the quality and completeness of captured data and to ensure greater availability and accessibility of business intelligence to retail executives.  The company made the announcement from the National Retail Federation (NRF) 2012 Conference, Booth #2903, where the RetailNext team is demonstrating major new areas of functionality.

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RetailNext enables retailers and manufacturers to improve the customer experience, increase sales, and reduce costs by providing real-time data access, unmatched analytics and reporting, and expert consulting to better measure and understand in-store shopper behavior. The company's  RetailNext real-time store monitoring solution presents data in several automatic, intuitive views, connecting traffic, dwell times, and other shopper behaviors to actual sales at the register--and ultimately giving brick-and-mortar retailers visibility akin to what online analytics deliver to e-commerce.

The new upcoming functionality extends the data available to RetailNext by offering:

    --  Full-Path Analysis - Industry-first ability to track video of each
        customer's movement through stores of all sizes, using any standard
        camera in a truly scalable fashion.  Full-path analysis deepens the
        insights available by connecting all in-store activities into a
        comprehensive data set and makes entirely new discoveries available
        (such as the total duration of each store visit, store-wide heat maps,
        or most common paths through the store).
    --  Automatic Demographic Classification - New recognition technology
        categorizes store visitors as male or female with very high accuracy,
        adding this critical piece of demographic data to all aspects of shopper
        analysis.
    --  Unique Visitor Tagging - RetailNext now accepts input from Wi-Fi
        smartphones to persistently identify unique store visitors across one or
        more visits.  This new functionality combines with video interpretation
        to provide more detailed mapping of movement within the store.
        Furthermore, it gives merchants the ability to understand how customers
        interact with the store over multiple visits or with multiple branches
        of the same chain.
    --  Employee/Shopper Differentiation - Merchants can now optionally add
        small Wi-Fi-based employee tags to their installations, making it
        possible for the system to accurately differentiate the roles of those
        moving through the retail environment.  This capability provides further
        accuracy to traffic counting and enables advanced analytics such as
        measurement of engagement time between employees and shoppers or
        comparison of employee distribution throughout the store with that of
        customers.  This solution surpasses the previous practice of using RFID
        tracking with a considerably more cost-effective and easier to install
        platform.
Additional new functionality that makes store performance data more available includes:

    --  Mobile Application - The new mobile application for smartphones and
        tablets on the Apple and Android platforms puts the power of RetailNext
        in the hands of employees at all times.
    --  Exception Reporting for Loss Prevention - RetailNext can monitor for the
        tell-tale signs that often indicate theft and report them to store
        management for closer examination, ultimately enabling the
        identification and correction of problem behaviors.
    --  Proactive Data Monitoring - In-store analytics depends on data from
        thousands of physical input devices such as cameras, shelf pushers,
        Wi-Fi receivers, and RFID readers across hundreds or thousands of
        stores, as well as data feeds from a variety of systems in the
        enterprise. RetailNext will proactively monitor all of these input
        sources for outages or other faults that can cause loss or data
        corruption. Immediately identifying such problems helps stores to
        promptly fix them and thus ensure continued collection of the
        information necessary to gather critical in-store insights.
"The new revolution in real-time store analytics makes it possible for physical stores to take advantage of the same sort of rich performance data that has benefited online retail for more than a decade," said Arun Nair, co-founder and CTO of RetailNext.  "These new functional enhancements take the category's most popular solution and improve both the quality of insights that managers can gather and the availability of information for management of storefronts."

About RetailNext

RetailNext (formerly BVI Networks) is the leader in real-time in-store measurement, enabling retailers and manufacturers to collect, analyze, and visualize in-store data.  The company uses best-in-class video analytics, on-shelf sensors, data from point-of-sale systems, and other sources, to automatically inform retailers about how shoppers engage in their stores.  The highly scalable RetailNext products easily integrate with promotional calendars, staffing systems, and weather services to analyze how internal and external factors impact customer shopping patterns--providing store operations executives with the ability to identify opportunities for growth, execute changes, and measure success.

Headquartered in San Jose, CA, RetailNext tracks more than 20 million shoppers per month by collecting data from more than 15,000 sensors in retail stores, capturing and analyzing more than one trillion data points per year.  RetailNext is a growing global brand operating in 17 countries.  For more information, see http://www.bviretailnext.com or call +1-888-609-5877.

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CONTACT: CONTACT: Liza Colburn, +1-781-562-0111, liza@crescendocc.com

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

Janam Introduces XG105 with New Motorola Laser Engine

Janam is first licensee to integrate Motorola's new high-performance SE96X

WOODBURY, N.Y., Jan. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Janam Technologies LLC, a leading provider of rugged mobile computers that scan barcodes and communicate wirelessly, today announced the release of its new XG105 gun-shaped rugged mobile computer.  The XG105 augments the XG Series product line with laser-based barcode scanning that reads barcodes as far as 17 ft (5.2m) away.  Janam is the first licensee to offer a rugged mobile computer with Motorola's latest SE96X Series scan engine.

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"We are pleased to offer Motorola's SE96X, best-in-class, miniature, high-performance scan engine in the XG Series product line," said Harry B. Lerner, CEO of Janam.  "For customers that need both close-range and distance barcode scanning as well as reliable capture of barcodes that are damaged or underneath shrinkwrap, the XG105 offers unrivaled performance, scanning range and durability, all at a list price $1,000 less than competitive products."

Janam's XG Series was designed for scan-intensive, extended shift use in demanding environments.  With its battery in the handle, the XG Series line of products is incomparably light and balanced in the hand.  It offers industrial-quality construction and efficiency-enhancing features such as pre-installed Wavelink® Avalanche and TE, well-spaced keys and mobile DDR memory.  The Series includes the XG100 with Honeywell's Adaptus® imaging technology and the XG105 with Motorola's SE96X high-performance laser scan engine.  Janam's XG Series delivers superior performance and flexibility at a great price.  Additional details are available at http://www.janam.com/xg105-handheld.php.

About Janam

Janam Technologies LLC is a provider of rugged, handheld computing devices for mobile workers. Janam combines deep industry knowledge with advanced technologies to deliver products and accessories that increase productivity, reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction. Specializing in purpose-built mobile computers that scan barcodes and communicate wirelessly, Janam offers products that are designed to run mission-critical applications in retail, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing and logistics. For more information, visit http://www.janam.com.

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CONTACT: CONTACT: Bernadette Olsen, Janam Technologies LLC, +1-516-677-9500 Ext. 104, bernadette.olsen@janam.com

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AirTight Demos Unique Cloud Wi-Fi and PCI Scanning Services for Retailers at NRF Booth 2227

AirTight Secure Wi-Fi Allows Restaurants and Retailers to Benefit by Offering Wi-Fi Access with Localized Content, In-store Customer Feedback and Loyalty Programs

NEW YORK, Jan.16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- At the opening of the NRF 101st Annual Convention and Expo in New York , AirTight® Networks, the leading provider of wireless intrusion prevention systems (WIPS), PCI wireless compliance scanning and secure Wi-Fi access for retailers, will demo its unique AirTight Cloud Services, a suite of managed services which includes AirTight Secure Wi-Fi((TM) )with captive portal/walled( )garden. For retail, hospitality or quick serve restaurants, AirTight Cloud Services provide a secure WLAN network with minimum cost and complexity while satisfying all PCI DSS wireless security requirements at no additional expense. AirTight is in booth 2227 at the event.

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"AirTight's Cloud Services allow restaurants, hospitality venues and retailers to expand their relationship with customers with Wi-Fi based, value-added services such as customized content and e-coupon special deals," said Jack Torgow, Vice President of Sales for AirTight. "The captive portal and walled garden capabilities give merchants a way to expand their interaction with guests by providing opt-in localized content, creating loyalty programs and garnering in-store customer feedback, all of which are incentives to keep the customer coming back and in the store for longer periods of time."

Recent studies have shown that 80.5% of respondents prefer retail stores with Wi-Fi versus those without it, 65% would take advantage of Wi-Fi for various reasons and 53% are willing to share their location to receive more relevant content and promotions.(1)

"The combination of simplicity of deployment, ease of use, and a price point that is unmatched in the industry, combined with the best wireless security, makes Cloud Services the right choice for organizations who wish to deploy wireless now or in the future. The services offer a radically less expensive alternative to any competitive solution available today," continued Torgow.

About AirTight Cloud Services

Wi-Fi access is offered as hosted, cloud-based, secure Wi-Fi access, PCI scanning, and network security in a single device. AirTight's Cloud platform provides the most cost effective enterprise solution for in-store Wi-Fi plus all the security and centralized management of the traditional WLAN vendors at a very low, all inclusive monthly fee per store. Because the solution was built specifically as a cloud offering, it is infinitely more scalable than a controller based solution.

AirTight Cloud Services are offered as three levels with a simple automated upgrade to any of the other modules as needed:

    --  AirTight Wi-Fi
        --  Wi-Fi access with captive portal/walled garden
        --  Wireless IPS
        --  Compliance scanning and reporting
        --  Real time alerts
    --  PCI Wireless Compliance
        --  Automated compliance scanning and reporting
        --  Real time alerts
    --  Wireless Security
        --  Wireless IDS
            --  Continuous threat scanning and alerting
            --  Performance monitoring
            --  Custom reporting
        --  Wireless IPS
            --  Continuous threat detection
            --  Automated threat blocking
            --  Performance monitoring
            --  Customized reporting and alerting
        --  Real time alerts
About AirTight Networks

AirTight Networks is the global leader in wireless security and compliance solutions. AirTight's patented technology protects enterprises from the growing problem of Wi-Fi security threats, while allowing organizations to better manage their WLAN environment and comply with emerging wireless compliance standards (i.e. PCI). The Company's award-winning SpectraGuard wireless intrusion prevention solution (WIPS) family provides enterprise security and compliance professionals with unparalleled capabilities to accurately detect, classify, block and locate all Wi-Fi security threats, while helping network operations staff to quickly monitor and troubleshoot WLAN performance issues. AirTight's pioneering Cloud Services family of cloud-hosted subscription services delivers the world's first and only "No Capex" multi-tenant WIPS, PCI wireless compliance and controller-less WLAN access solutions all in a single device.

AirTight's award-winning solutions are used by customers globally in the government, financial, retail, hospitality, telecom, technology, manufacturing, transportation, healthcare and education sectors. AirTight owns the seminal patents for wireless intrusion prevention technology with 24 U.S. and international patents granted to date (UK, Australia Japan) and more than 20 additional patents pending. AirTight Networks is a privately held company based in Mountain View, CA.

AirTight is a registered trademark of AirTight Networks, Inc.  AirTight Network, the AirTight Networks logo, Airtight Cloud Services and AirTight Secure Wi-Fi are trademarks. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

(1) Sources: 2011 Devicescape Wi-Fi Report     2011 Jiwire Mobile Audience Insights Report

SOURCE  AirTight Networks

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CONTACT: Della Lowe, +1-650-934-8191, della.lowe@AirTightnetworks.com.

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

PMC and ION Television Announce Launch of YouTube Premium Content Channel and Distribution Partnership for Entertainment News Television (ENTV)

LOS ANGELES and NEW YORK, Jan. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- PMC and ION Television today announced a new distribution partner in their growing multi-platform entertainment news venture, ENTV (Entertainment News Television), launching a premium YouTube Channel as a part of YouTube's new original channels initiative. 

ENTV brings viewers top breaking entertainment stories, first, directly from the leading sources and reporters in the entertainment field.  By leveraging the exclusive breaking news reporting power of PMC's core entertainment brands, including Deadline.com, HollywoodLife.com, TVLine.com and Movieline.com, along with ION Television's powerful distribution platform, ENTV will deliver breaking entertainment news 24/7 on YouTube, as well as bring a series of entertainment lifestyle shows to their audience. 

The ENTV News segments will be comprised of multiple-daily hosted entertainment video segments starting at 9am EST and running until 11pm.  Hosts will include Brian Corsetti, former Miss USA Shandi Finnessey, Chloe Melas and Kelly Beckett.  The channel also plans on a weekly show with TVLine Editor-in-Chief Michael Ausiello; a daily celebrity news chat with HollywoodLife Editor-in-Chief Bonnie Fuller; a weekly celebrity interview show on the secrets to a Hollywood career with some of the top stars in the business; a weekly 'talent watch' show exposing the next generation of Hollywood stars; as well as a show that rounds up some of the day's best clips from the YouTube channels with Matthew Hoffman.  All of the content will be produced by Michael Davis, General Manager and Executive Producer of ENTV.

"PMC is thrilled to announce the launch of 'ENTV' on YouTube, alongside ION," added Jay Penske, CEO of PMC.  "With the best team of entertainment editors and reporters in the business, it was a natural fit to take that leading talent to YouTube with the launch of our premium content channel.  'ENTV' will be the go-to destination for entertainment breaking news, and the partnership and channel have limitless potential."

"The creation of the 'ENTV' YouTube channel is a strategic step towards enhancing this brand," explained Brandon Burgess, CEO, ION Media Networks. "We look forward to building on our successful working partnership with PMC while expanding our audience by offering the opportunity to explore new content."

About PMC

PMC is a leading digital media company founded by Jay Penske in 2004. PMC owns a unique and growing portfolio of lifestyle brands that provide the web's best original content in categories including entertainment, sports, breaking news, media, finance, tech, health, shopping, fashion, beauty, and automotive. Deadline, HollywoodLife, HollyBaby, Movieline, TVLine, BGR,OnCars, Young Hollywood Awards, Hollywood Style Awards,  and Breakthrough of the Year Awards are all part of the expanding PMC portfolio.  For more information on PMC and its brands, please visit http://www.PMC.com or its digital properties directly: http://www.HollywoodLife.com, http://www.Deadline.com, http://www.TVLine.com, http://www.Movieline.com, http://www.BGR.com, http://www.HollyBaby.com, http://www.OnCars.com, http://www.India.com, http://www.YHawards.com, http://www.StyleAwards.com.

About ION Television

ION Television is a leading U.S. general entertainment network, combining high-quality programming and dependable broadcast distribution with an attitude of innovation and growth normally associated with a cable channel.  Its "Positively Entertaining" network brand positioning features a formula of proven series, an expansive catalog of blockbuster movies and a commitment to introduce new original programming. Since its recent launch in 2008, ION's reach has grown to 99 million households and has become one of the top-15 TV rated U.S. networks in record time.  For more information, visit http://www.iontelevision.com.

SOURCE  PMC

PMC

CONTACT: Will Lee of PMC, +1-646-480-3133, wlee@pmc.com; or Chris Addeo of ION Media Networks, +1-561-682-4210, chrisaddeo@ionmedia.com

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

Ernest Jones Launches New iPhone App

BOREHAMWOOD, England, January 16, 2012/PRNewswire/ --

    Ernest Jones Love & Life has now launched an iPhone shopping app. The app is
completely free to download and has a number of features and benefits that customers can
use when they're out and about. The app has been created to offer a more exciting and
convenient shopping experience for customers, and reassure them that they can shop for any
item safely and securely at their convenience from the free app.

    The iPhone app is easy for shoppers to use. Customers can create wish lists, shop by
budget or gift finder and share favourites on facebook. Consumers are able to shop by
categories including diamond jewellery [http://www.ernestjones.co.uk/webstore/diamonds.do
], watches, wedding rings, gifts and even sales and offers. Also the app features a store
finder function where customers can locate several of the nearest Ernest Jones stores and
find out exactly how far away they are.

    The purpose of the Ernest Jones iPhone app
[http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/ernest-jones/id474774750?mt=8 ] launch is to reinforce the
Love & Life brand proposition and ensure the customer has a more fulfilling and convenient
shopping experience. Ernest Jones Love & Life has gifts for all sorts of special occasions
and budgets. With a wide selection of diamond jewellery and engagement rings
[http://www.ernestjones.co.uk/webstore/l/jewellery/category%7Crings/occasion%7Cengagement ]
from brands such as Tolkowsky and Leo, Ernest Jones has fashion pieces that customers
can add to their wish list whilst on the go. The Ernest Jones iPhone app offers customers
a wide choice of items whoever they're buying for.

    Since launching as Ernest Jones Love & Life, the brand has continued to reposition
itself as an occasion-led jeweller. Working with exciting brands, new competitions and
introducing new luxurious boutique-style stores in Westfield Stratford City, Exeter and
more recently the Trafford Centre. Introducing the iPhone app allows customers to shop by
the occasion category including weddings, anniversaries, and birthdays.

    By emphasising the importance of the customer's individual journey through good
service, beautiful products and an inspiring shopping tool or environment, the brand aims
for customers to return to Ernest Jones for future gifts for special occasions to come.

    About Ernest Jones:

    Ernest Jones has around 200 stores and a retail website. Ernest Jones offers a wide
range of leading brand watches and high quality jewellery
[http://www.ernestjones.co.uk/webstore/l/jewellery ]. Ernest Jones also has a stunning
selection of gifts for all occasions. Ernest Jones is part of Signet Jewellers Limited,
the world's largest speciality retail jeweller in the US and UK.

   
    PR Contact:
    Tim Lundberg
    Copywriter E-Commerce Marketing
    Ernest Jones
    Imperial Place
    3 Maxwell Road
    Borehamwood
    Herts
    WD6 1JN
    +44(0)208-207-8312
    http://www.ernestjones.co.uk

Source: Ernest Jones

King Worldwide Launches Global Reputation and Crisis Management Company 'Keyhaven'

LONDON, January 16, 2012/PRNewswire/ --

    DF King Worldwide, the world's leading stakeholder communications group, announces
that it has formed Keyhaven, a new company that will meet growing client demand for a
service capable of delivering an integrated crisis and reputation response.

    Keyhaven is designed to protect and enhance a company's reputation by helping it
prepare for crises, manage any crisis effectively and make the most of opportunities that
arise from it. Aside from being a logical extension of King's existing services to
clients, Keyhaven's main differentiator is the cultural and contextual awareness - and the
seniority and experience - of Keyhaven consultants.

    Keyhaven is led by John Deverell CBE, an internationally recognised expert in the
field of crisis management. He is supported by an advisory team drawn from the highest
levels of the international business and public service communities, with the leverage to
help resolve any crisis, whatever its scale and wherever it occurs.

    Keyhaven will draw on the extensive communications and logistical resources of King
Worldwide, which includes the world-class IT infrastructure, security and disaster
recovery team that supports NYC311 (New York City's 24/7/365 citizen's information line)
and seasoned teams within King subsidiary M:Communications that have managed significant
corporate crises across every sector and geography. In addition, the company can draw on a
suite of best-in-class technical experts. They specialise in areas such as cyber and
information security, social media engagement, IP and brand protection, human rights and
anti-corruption compliance, financial crime, health and safety, pandemics, medical and
evacuation support, geopolitical and business intelligence, cultural awareness and
negotiation training, due diligence and investigations as well as wider security.

    John Deverell, Keyhaven's Chief Executive, said:

    "The recent months have clearly demonstrated that we live in an ever more uncertain
world. A company's failure to take account of the range of risks it faces will lead to
increasingly bigger penalties. Its employees, assets, reputation and revenue will be
seriously exposed, as well as its licence to operate possibly compromised."

    King Worldwide board member and Keyhaven co-founder, Hugh Morrison, added:

    "With a global client base of more than 1,000 leading companies, we know that linking
effective crisis planning with reputation management answers an increasingly important
part of the boardroom agenda. We designed Keyhaven to deliver the intelligence, services
and solutions that address this growing demand and are delighted to have been able to
attract a leader of John's calibre to head the team."

    Notes to Editors

    About John Deverell CBE

    John is a security expert in the widest sense. From 2009 to 2011 he was Head of
Security for Invensys, the global technology provider. Prior to that he reached General
officer rank in the British Army where he was a soldier, Special Forces operator, planner
and military diplomat in many different theatres of war. His final position while in
government service was Senior British Adviser to the US Security Coordinator General Keith
Dayton, working with US National Security Adviser General Jim Jones and former Prime
Minister Tony Blair, the Quartet Representative, in the Palestinian Territories. He is a
counter-terrorist practitioner with extensive experience of Homeland Security issues. In
Colombia he advised authorities on their fight against narco-terrorism. In Yemen in the
aftermath of 9/11 he played a key part in avoiding war through his initiatives with local
forces against terrorism. In Iraq he was the senior British officer in the Iraq Survey
Group and helped disprove the pre-war intelligence on weapons of mass destruction. In
Libya he advised top officials on giving up weapons of mass destruction. Back in Britain
John was Director of Defence Diplomacy in the M.O.D. and president of the first court
martial dealing with abuse of Iraqis by British soldiers.

    About Keyhaven

    Keyhaven is the specialist global reputation and crisis management division of King
Worldwide, with an advisory team drawn from the highest levels of the international
business and public service communities and a technical team with specialist experience
including cyber and information security, social media engagement, IP and brand
protection, human rights and anti-corruption compliance, financial crime, health and
safety, pandemics, medical and evacuation support, geopolitical and business intelligence,
cultural awareness and negotiation specialists, due diligence and investigations and wider
security. (http://www.keyhaven.cc)

    About King Worldwide

    King Worldwide is the leading global financial communications and stakeholder
management firm. Founded in 2007, King Worldwide has prudently acquired companies
occupying top-tier positions in their respective areas of critical importance to public
companies and those firms servicing them. With offices in New York, Chicago, London,
Stockholm, Madrid, Moscow, Dubai, Cape Town, Hong Kong, and Taipei, the firm employs
approximately 900 staff and serves over 1,000 corporate, government, mutual fund, and
private equity clients.

    In a global competitive environment more executive time is being spent communicating
to constituents internationally. No other communications group can offer a more
comprehensive approach to managing relationships with key corporate stakeholders.
(http://www.king-worldwide.com)

    For further information:

    John Deverell, +44-20-7920-2320, Deverell@keyhaven.cc

    Hugh Morrison, +44-20-7920-2334, Morrison@keyhaven.cc

Source: Keyhaven

CEM4MOBILE SOLUTIONS LTD Joins Network Intelligence Alliance to Drive Innovation and Leadership for Next-Generation Network Solutions

HELSINKI, Finland, January 16, 2012/PRNewswire/ --

    Summary: Participation in industry organization will create opportunities to
collaborate with other technology providers supporting the Network Economy and better
serve customers with solutions based on Network Intelligence technology.

    CEM4Mobile Solutions Ltd,http://www.cem4mobile.com, a world-class expert in mobile
analytics and Customer Experience Management,today announced that it has become a member
ofthe Network Intelligence Alliance (NI Alliance), an industry organization created for
collaboration among the Network Economy's technology providers. Participation in the NI
Alliance will help CEM4Mobile to build and market innovative solutions for customers
seeking to optimize end-to-end service experience and maximize the number of satisfied,
loyal and advocate customers.

    In today's Network Economy-a world that now depends and runs on networks-accurate
visibility and precise tracking of data crossing networks have become crucial to the
availability, performance and security of applications and services. The growing
complexity of IP transactions, the explosion of mobile applications, and the mainstream
adoption of cloud computing surpass the capabilities of conventional tools to improve how
networks operate, expand services, and cope with cybersecurity. Just like Business
Intelligence solutions emerged to unlock information hidden in the enterprise, Network
Intelligence technology is an emerging category of technology to reveal the critical
details of the data locked inside network traffic and transactions.

    The NI Alliance serves two purposes: first, as a forum for collaboration among
technology providers whose solutions secure data in transit, ensure efficient data
delivery, monetize data transactions or track real-time information. Through the NI
Alliance, members can better serve their customers.

    The NI Alliance also seeks to educate the market and the public on the role and value
of Network Intelligence in protecting sensitive information; delivering value-added
services, applications and information; and ensuring better performance of
network-dependent solutions.

    CEM4Mobilejoins Network Intelligence, http://www.nialliance.org/member/cem4mobile,
with its CEM4Mobile product family. CEM4Mobile enables companies to measure and analyze
interactions between end-users and mobileservices, optimize their customer dialogue and
maximize the number of satisfied, loyal and advocatecustomers. The measurement focus is on
interactions, experience and engagement which directly impacts subscriber retention,
profitability and lifetime value.The analysis extends to usage patterns, service ranking,
market trends and particularly how different device, contract, content and user
demographic combinations impact the behavior.

    "We're delighted to join the NI Alliance," said Janne Aalto, CEO of CEM4Mobile
Solutions. "The mobileservices market has witnessed phenomenal growth and is changing the
nature of the mobile industry.Gaining insightinto the behavior of wireless users in
thisenvironment is not easyand yet more business critical than ever. By co-operating with
other Alliance members, we can ensure that our customers benefit from world-class
technology, leading innovation and unmatched accuracy of the data provided".

    "CEM4Mobile Solutions is a valuable addition to the NI Alliance and we welcome their
participation," said Erik Larsson, Chairman of the NI Alliance. "The NI Alliance is about
collaborative innovation with companies like CEM4Mobile Solutions who plays a leadership
role in mobile analytics-driven Customer Experience Management. Working with other NI
Alliance members, CEM4Mobile Solution's customers will be able to more effectively
leverage Network Intelligence to better manage, protect and profit from their data
networks."

    Establishment of the NI Alliance was initiated by Qosmos, whose Network Intelligence
technology components provide the crucial first step in understanding what's passing
through networks. Qosmos' hardware and software components extract and interpret real-time
traffic-translating a data stream's 1s and 0s into their respective communications
protocols, metadata and content for use by third-party applications.

    Through the NI Alliance, Qosmos expands its collaborative approach to help vendors
design and deliver advanced solutions with embedded Network Intelligence technology in
less time and at lower cost. The NI Alliance provides a channel for dialogue and
partnerships that Alliance Members otherwise may not have considered or pursued when
addressing the needs of joint customers. Visibility within the vendor community through
the NI Alliance affords companies opportunities to market more comprehensive solutions
with greater ROI and faster time to value for customers.

    About the NI Alliance
The NI Alliance, http://www.nialliance.org,is an industry organization created for
collaboration among the Network Economy's technology providers and to educate the market
on the role and value of Network Intelligence technology. Members are vendors involved in
the capture, processing, decoding, analysis, and leveraging of network data; suppliers of
Network Intelligence technology components; software vendors; and information providers of
solutions, such as cybersecurity, telecom service assurance, traffic optimization and
more. Participation in the NI Alliance helps members to build and market innovative
solutions to Communications Service Providers (CSPs) governments and enterprise customers
seeking to improve performance, security and the monetization of network-dependent
services and applications.

    For more information, please visit http://www.nialliance.org

    About CEM4Mobile Solutions

    CEM4Mobile Solutions (http://www.cem4mobile.com [
C:\Users\Janne\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.Outlook\VFTBL4UT\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.

Source: CEM4Mobile Solutions Ltd

Member Company Media Contact   

Janne Aalto, CEM4Mobile Solutions Ltd
Phone: +358-40-822-3223 / Email: janne.aalto@cem4mobile.com

NI Alliance Media Contact   

Debby Stefaniak, Full Circle Communications
Phone: +1-215-712-2409 / Email: dstefaniak@fullcirclecomm.com

Sony's F65 Camera Makes Its Worldwide Debut

Delivery to 1st Customer - Otto Nemenz - Marks New Era in Digital Production; Camera Starts Shipping to Meet Incredible Demand for 4K Production

PARK RIDGE, N.J., Jan. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- With the momentum behind 4K technology continuing to build, the company that started it all - Sony - is now shipping its revolutionary F65 CineAlta(TM) digital motion picture camera.

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At an exclusive ceremony held during the Sony Open golf tournament, Sony senior executives, including Sir Howard Stringer, Chairman, CEO and President of Sony Corporation, presented the first official production unit, Serial number 10001, to Otto Nemenz, president of Hollywood-based motion picture rental company Otto Nemenz International.

"The delivery of this first F65 represents a significant technological advancement for content creators and we are excited to see what filmmakers will create with this new tool," Mr. Stringer said.

Since it was announced just a few months ago, the F65 has been in high demand by the motion picture production industry, with pre-orders for approximately 400 units worldwide. The F65 has been tested by a range of DPs and production professionals, and currently at least two major studios are planning to use it on projects that will begin shooting almost immediately upon delivery of the cameras.

"This is an extremely exciting time for the production industry," said Mr. Nemenz. "4K is now a reality and represents the next great leap in entertainment technology. The F65 is a revolutionary camera and sets a new standard for digital production workflows."

Sony pioneered 4K technology with its 4K digital cinema projector, and has delivered more than 10,000 projectors to movie theaters worldwide. At the Consumer Electronics Show last week, the company reaffirmed its commitment to 4K, announcing plans for new 4K home theater technologies. The F65 camera raises the bar further, with an 8K image sensor that allows productions professionals to derive "true" 4K content.

"Technologies like the F65 are the foundation of Sony's global 4K expertise, demonstrating that no other company can offer a total 4K experience," Mr. Stringer said. "It's all about keeping image quality at the highest level possible - at every point from the camera to final projection. We're proud to make this first presentation to Otto Nemenz, and we will continue working on the development of 4K technology to deliver the ultimate viewing experience to consumers around the world."

The F65 camera's unprecedented 8K image sensor, with approximately 20 total megapixels, offers higher image fidelity than any other digital cinema production camera. With 16-bit Linear RAW File output capability, the F65 creates the gateway to an end-to-end 4K file-based mastering workflow.

The F65 camera will be available direct from Sony and through authorized resellers.

SOURCE  Sony Electronics

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CONTACT: Tom Di Nome of Sony Electronics, +1-201-930-6357, Tom.dinome@am.sony.com

Web Site: http://www.sony.com/news

Hearst Media Services Rolls Out New Marketing Resource Web Site

HOUSTON, Jan. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hearst Media Services has launched a new web site to create a one-stop-solution for businesses to navigate a broad selection of media options and marketing tools.

Due to increasing marketing options in the overall market, Hearst Media Services realized that businesses need a one-stop website to learn about how to craft a marketing plan and see a mixture of marketing channels that could help simplify strategic marketing for businesses of all sizes. Whether businesses are local or national, this site will help them find a cost-efficient way to reach their target markets.

The main features of HearstMediaHouston.com are:

    --  Tips and questions to consider to target new customers
    --  Steps to consider in developing a marketing plan
    --  Samples of marketing techniques and design idea starters
    --  Solutions for digital and print marketing channels
    --  Detailed product explanations and a glossary
    --  Research data on the Houston market
    --  Easy to read ad specifications
    --  Easy access to speak to a live person
The new site will be live on Monday, January 16, 2012 and is available at http://www.HearstMediaHouston.com

About Hearst Media Services

Hearst Media Services is part of Hearst Corporation (http://www.hearst.com) - one of the nation's largest diversified media companies.  Its major interests include ownership of 15 daily and 38 weekly newspapers, including the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News and Albany Times Union; more than 200 magazines around the world, including Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan and O, The Oprah Magazine; 29 television stations, which reach a combined 18% of U.S. viewers; ownership in leading cable networks, including Lifetime, A&E, History and ESPN; as well as business publishing, including a minority joint venture interest in Fitch Ratings; Internet and marketing services businesses, television production, newspaper features distribution and real estate.

FOR INFORMATIONHearst Media Services713-362-3131713-354-3540www.hearstmediahouston.com

NEWS RELEASE CONTACTChad CarpenterDirector of MarketingOffice: 713-362-6314Email: chad.carpenter@chron.com

SOURCE  Hearst Media Services

Hearst Media Services

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

Sony Enhances Capabilities of Its USB MicroVault® Memory Devices

PARK RIDGE, N.J., Jan. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- At CES 2012, Sony unveiled its enhanced USB memory MicroVault line. The new models (USM-Q, USM-P and USM-M) range from ultra-fast, high performance devices to stylish, easy-to-use models -- all designed to meet consumers' various needs.

"Everyone has different requirements for what they want to do with their photos or videos, so why should all storage devices be the same?" said Viviano Cantu, Director of Consumer Media for Sony Electronics. "We're offering something for everyone with this enhanced line of USB memory devices."

Sony is adding ultra-fast USB3.0 compatibility to its flagship USM-Q series. With transfer speeds of up to 120MB/s (read speed, based on Sony tests and dependent on host hardware), this product is ideal for quick back-up of large sized data like high-definition movies or photos.  With a sleek hairline metal body finish design that's resistant to scratches, the new models are also durable. The device's "click" mechanism allows simple connection to USB ports with just a single push, and an easy-to-read LED indicator alerts users that the device is active.

The USM-P series includes simple and easy-to use models, designed for everyday use and also available with the "click" mechanism and LED indicator.  The USM-M series features a slim and stylish compact design, for color coordination with user's PCs, and has a direct plug-in to USB port connector.

The Sony downloadable File Rescue Software offers the ability to help recover photos and videos that may have been accidentally damaged or deleted.  Data recovery for copy protected and game data files not supported.  This newest software version also offers advanced capabilities such as support for 3D movie/photos and Full HD 60p video files. This software is available for free download at http://www.sony.net/memorycard.

The memory devices are also available with "x-Pict Story" software, available for free download, for creating distinctive photo presentations with unique layouts synchronized to effects and music.  This software is available for free download at http://www.sony.net/memorycard.

The Sony line of USB MicroVault models is available in March, in capacities up to 64GB. Pricing begins at $15.99 (USM-M series), $29.99 (USM-P series) and $44.99 (USM-Q series).

SOURCE  Sony Electronics

Sony Electronics

CONTACT: CONTACT:  Tom Di Nome, Sony Electronics, +1-201-930-6357, Tom.dinome@am.sony.com

Web Site: http://www.sony.com/news

Sony Adds Ultra-high-speed Interface Compatibility to Its Line of SD Media

PARK RIDGE, N.J., Jan. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- At CES 2012, Sony announced it is expanding its line of SD cards with a new flagship series designed for ultra-high speed interface (UHS-I) compatibility, giving DSLR users superb speed and high performance. The new cards are available in capacities of 32GB (SF-32UX), 16GB (SF-16UX) and 8GB (SF-8UX).

The new cards offer significantly higher transfer speeds up to 94MB/s (read) and 45MB/s (write, for SF-8UX, write speed is 22MB/s), ideal for the burst shooting and HD video modes of today's DSLR cameras and HD camcorders (based on Sony tests and dependent on host hardware) . They can also realize rapid data rates when transferring content - even large, high-resolution HD files - back to their PCs. And when used with non-UHS-I supported hardware, the new Sony cards will still maintain Class 10 speed.

"Today's advanced shooter never wants to miss the big moment, and that requires cards with fast, reliable and secure data transfer and storage capabilities," said Viviano Cantu, Director of Consumer Media for Sony Electronics. "These cards represent the top of the line for our SD media, and are designed to give users total peace of mind."

The new cards have been subjected to Sony testing, in order to achieve high levels of reliability and data integrity. Additionally, the new cards are water-resistant, and are designed to perform under a wide range of operating temperatures.

Users can also shoot with ease knowing their photos and videos are protected thanks to Sony's File Rescue Software which can help recover photos and videos that may have been accidentally damaged or deleted. Data recovery for copy protected and game data files not supported. This newest software version also offers advanced capabilities such as support for 3D movie/photos and Full HD 60p video files. This software is available for free download at http://www.sony.net/memorycard.

The Sony UHS-I series of cards will be available in March, starting at prices of $44.99.

SOURCE  Sony Electronics

Sony Electronics

CONTACT: CONTACT: Tom Di Nome, Sony Electronics, +1-201-930-6357, Tom.dinome@am.sony.com

Web Site: http://www.sony.com/news

DAP Technologies Doubles Memory and Adds GPRS to Its Compact, Voice-Ready M1000 Rugged Handheld

Pocket-sized rugged computer for retail and warehouse settings gets a memory boost and communications upgrade

TEMPE, Ariz., Jan. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the smallest computers available, DAP Technologies' compact M1000 handheld is getting a performance boost from RAM that's been doubled to 256 MB and GPRS for mobile communication.

(Logo:  http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090408/LA96741LOGO)

"The M1000 is already packed with the most in-demand data-capture functionality for retail and warehouse environments. With increased RAM, the M1000 allows customers to run multiple memory-intensive applications--including voice--and take full advantage of Windows CE 6.0," said DAP's Director of Product Management and Marketing, Khalid Kidari, referring to the operating system's capacity to run multiple processes. "With GPRS, the M1000 can be used indoors and out, while maintaining connectivity."

Featuring data-capture technology usually found in much larger devices, DAP's M1000 is just 5.7 x 2.4 x 1 inches (144 x 62 x 25 mm) and 8.2 oz. (232 grams), making it a palm-sized and featherweight solution for inventory control, picking and packing. The M1000 is sealed to IP65, providing protection against dust and water.

The M1000 scans barcodes and allows for easy manual data input via a 12-key numeric keypad or its 2.8-inch color touch screen with LED backlighting. Conveniently placed and generously sized scanner buttons provide one-touch access to 1D laser or 1D/2D imager scanning, while the handheld fits comfortably in even the smallest hands.

The M1000 ships voice-ready for companies looking to boost picking and packing efficiency. Its compact form factor also makes it a discrete choice for storefront retail use.

Equipped with Windows® CE 6.0 Professional, a Marvell® PXA310 624 MHz processor, 256 MB Flash memory and 256 MB RAM, the M1000 offers ample power and storage capabilities in a compact form factor. It supports WWAN GPRS/GSM 3G, WLAN with a Summit 802.11 b/g radio, and Bluetooth®.

DAP is unveiling the upgraded M1000 from booth 1777 at National Retail Federation (NRF) in New York on Jan. 16 - 17.

Photos: http://www.daptech.com/media-downloads

About DAP

DAP Technologies designs and manufactures rugged handheld, tablet and vehicle-mount computers for demanding industries and harsh environments. DAP's computers improve data collection, processing and transmission in numerous industries, including utilities, field service, identity management, warehouse, transportation and logistics. DAP has offices in Tempe, Ariz.; Quebec City; and Abingdon, U.K. http://www.daptech.com

SOURCE  DAP Technologies

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DAP Technologies

CONTACT: Corrine Heyeck, +1-480-241-1280, corrine@heyeck.com, for DAP Technologies

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

Agilysys and Modiv Media Partner to Accelerate Adoption of Mobile Commerce for Grocers

In-Store Solutions to Help Grocers Leverage Mobile Technologies and Enhance Customer Convenience

CLEVELAND and QUINCY, Mass., Jan. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Agilysys, Inc.(Nasdaq: AGYS), a leading developer and marketer of proprietary enterprise software, services and solutions to the hospitality and retail industries, and Modiv Media, the leading mobile shopper marketing company, today announced a partnership to deliver in-store mobile shopping solutions to grocers nationwide. The partnership enables grocers to enhance the shopping experience through the use and integration of mobile technologies, personalized offers, coupon targeting, mobile self-checkout, mobile payment and rapid integration with IBM point-of-sale (POS) systems. As the foundation of its mobile commerce efforts, Modiv Media enables Agilysys to bring an industry-proven solution to its large base of retailers.   

"Consumer acceptance of mobile and self-service technologies, along with the pervasiveness of smartphones, enables grocers to rethink their self-service strategies to integrate mobile shopping and self-checkout.  Realizing wireless and mobility solutions are playing an increasing role in consumer-owned devices, we are excited to partner with the leading consumer mobile shopping company, Modiv Media, to expand our current mobile application offerings, development and services capabilities," said Aaron Hagler, vice president, Solutions Delivery, Agilysys Retail Solutions Group.  "Modiv Media has unparalleled experience with installations in hundreds of grocery stores and industry-leading in-aisle targeting capabilities that collectively increase convenience, loyalty and value to the grocer's customers."

Modiv Media's retailer-branded mobile shopping solution--including a multi-channel media delivery service that drives personalized offers to shoppers--enhances Agilysys' ability to develop and deploy in-store mobile shopping solutions on consumer-owned devices, including iOS and Android smartphones. Hagler continued, "Based on Agilysys' knowledge of the IBM POS system, and leveraging Modiv's domain expertise, the team can rapidly and reliably integrate a mobile shopping solution into a grocer's existing infrastructure, providing shoppers with the time-saving ability to scan, bag and check-out via a dedicated pay station. At the same time, the combination of consumer-owned smartphones and new, advanced express self-checkout pay stations can dramatically lower the grocer's cost of implementation and total cost of ownership."

"Given their longstanding commitment to serving retailers, Agilysys is a natural partner for Modiv," said John Caron, senior vice president, Marketing, Modiv Media. "In working with leading grocers worldwide, we know it is imperative to constantly improve the in-store shopping experience. By offering the benefits of Modiv's in-store mobile solution, coupled with Agilysys' deep knowledge and experience in working with IBM POS systems, this partnership provides retailers with the unparalleled ability to rapidly build, test and deploy a mobile experience that meets the expectations of their shoppers."

Agilysys and Modiv Media are ideally suited to assist grocers in the integration of in-store mobile shopping and checkout technologies throughout the entire solution lifecycle. To find out more, please visit Agilysys and Modiv Media during the NRF 101st Annual Convention & EXPO at Booth #1959.

About Agilysys
Agilysys is a leading developer and marketer of proprietary enterprise software, services and solutions to the hospitality and retail industries. The Company specializes in market-leading point-of-sale, property management, inventory and procurement, and mobile and wireless solutions that are designed to streamline operations, improve efficiency and enhance the consumer's experience. Agilysys serves casinos, resorts, hotels, foodservice venues, stadiums, cruise lines, grocery stores, convenience stores, general and specialty retail businesses and partners. Headquartered in Cleveland, Agilysys operates extensively throughout North America, with additional sales and support offices in the United Kingdom, Singapore and Hong Kong.

For more information, visit http://www.agilysys.com.

About Modiv Media
Modiv Media is a mobile shopper marketing company dedicated to producing solutions that increase revenue and shopper loyalty for mass market retailers. Through its retailer-branded, media-driven mobile commerce approach, the company influences one million shopping trips per month by delivering over 10 million targeted offers per month to in-store mobile shoppers and facilitates over $1 billion in sales annually for retailers. For more information, visit http://www.modivmedia.com or follow @Modiv on Twitter.

Agilysys Investor Contact:
Curtis Stout
Vice President and Treasurer
Agilysys, Inc.                                                                           
440-519-8635
curtis.stout@agilysys.com

Modiv Media Contact:
Katie Judd
Racepoint Group on Behalf of Modiv Media
kjudd@racepointgroup.com
781-487-4656

SOURCE  Agilysys, Inc.

Agilysys, Inc.

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

Pepsi MAX Searches for its Most Passionate Fans

Two Online Video Contest Winners to win Lifetime Supply of Pepsi MAX

PURCHASE, N.Y., Jan. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Pepsi MAX today announced the "Pepsi MAX for Life" video contest, a national search to find the brand's most passionate fans.  Two winners who prove that they are devoted fans of zero calories and maximum Pepsi taste will be rewarded with Pepsi MAX for life!

Beginning today, consumers can visit the Facebook tab at PepsiMAX.com to submit a video 60 seconds or less detailing why they deserve a lifetime supply of Pepsi MAX.  Videos can be uploaded on the Pepsi MAX Facebook page through February 13, 2012 and two winners will be chosen. One winner will be selected by Pepsi MAX based on creativity, inspiration and entertainment value; the other chosen by the Pepsi MAX Facebook community.  Public voting will take place between February 14 and February 18, 2012 on the Pepsi MAX Facebook page for consumers to decide who they think is most deserving of Pepsi MAX for their rest of their life.

"We already know we have great fans," said Amy Wirtanen, Senior Marketing Director, Pepsi Beverages Corp.  "The 'Pepsi MAX for Life' video contest is a fun way for us to get unique and creative content from consumers and reward them for showing their passion for the brand."

The "Pepsi MAX for Life" video contest is open to legal residents of the United States residing in one of the 50 United States or District of Columbia, who are 18 years of age (19 in AL or NE) or older as of the date of entry submission or voting. For Official Rules, visit PepsiMAX.com. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited.

Along with the online video contest, Pepsi MAX, the official soft drink of the NFL, will bring the "Pepsi MAX for Life" contest to life at its footprint at the NFL Experience during Super Bowl XLVI week in Indianapolis. NFL fans can participate in the interactive experience inside the NFL Experience being held at the Indiana Convention Center January 27-February 4. Go to SUPERBOWL.com to purchase NFL Experience tickets.

About Pepsi MAX

Pepsi MAX, with its zero calories and maximum Pepsi taste, is one of PepsiCo's billion-dollar global brands and is part of Pepsi Americas Beverages.  To learn more about Pepsi MAX, visit Pepsi Max on Facebook at: http://www.PepsiMAX.com/facebook or on Twitter at: @PepsiMAX.

About PepsiCo

PepsiCo offers the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 19 different product lines that each generates more than $1 billion in annual retail sales.  Our main businesses - Frito-Lay, Quaker, Pepsi-Cola, Tropicana and Gatorade - also make hundreds of other nourishing, tasty foods and drinks that bring joy to our consumers in more than 200 countries.  With annualized revenues of nearly $60 billion, PepsiCo's people are united by our unique commitment to sustainable growth, called Performance with Purpose.  By dedicating ourselves to offering a broad array of choices for healthy, convenient and fun nourishment, reducing our environmental impact, and fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace culture, PepsiCo balances strong financial returns with giving back to our communities worldwide.  In recognition of its continued sustainability efforts, PepsiCo was named for the third time to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World) and for the fourth time to the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index (DJSI North America) in 2009. For more information, please visit http://www.pepsico.com.

SOURCE  PepsiCo

PepsiCo

CONTACT: Esther-Mireya Tejeda, Manager of Public Relations, +1-914-253-3347, Esther-Mireya.Tejeda@pepsico.com

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

Audi Enthusiasts Can Unlock Ski Tips from the Pros this Winter by Checking in on foursquare

-- Pro skiers contribute best places to ski this winter

-- Check in to ski resorts to unlock tips and exclusive Audi badge

-- Audi has been a sponsor of the U.S. Ski Team since 2007

HERNDON, Va., Jan. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --  This winter, Audi and the U.S. Ski Team help enthusiasts discover the best skiing in America. Members of the U.S. Ski Team, including Olympians Lindsey Vonn and Andrew Weibrecht, are contributing tips with the best skiing destinations to Audi's foursquare account.

foursquare users who follow Audi and check in to popular ski resorts this season will also unlock an exclusive Audi foursquare badge, which grants 20% off all items at the Audi collection, including accessories, apparel, motorsport and cycling products and more.

Audi has been a Proud Sponsor and Official Vehicle of the U.S. Ski Team since 2007. Audi-sponsored USSA events have included top talent, including Ladies' Downhill 2010 Olympic Gold Medalist Lindsey Vonn; Ladies' Downhill 2010 Olympic Silver Medalist Julia Mancuso; 2009 World Championship Giant Slalom skier Ted Ligety; and Mens' Super-G 2010 Olympic Bronze Medalist Andrew Weibrecht. The sponsorship of the U.S. Ski Team is part of Audi's global commitment to professional skiing and aligns with the brands dedication to high performance and unparalleled technology. 

ABOUT AUDI
Audi of America, Inc. and its U.S. dealers offer a full line of German-engineered luxury vehicles. AUDI AG is among the most successful luxury automotive brands globally. Audi was a top-performing luxury brand in Europe during 2011, and broke all-time company sales records in the U.S. Through 2016, AUDI AG will invest about $17 billion on new products and technologies. Visit http://www.audiusa.com or http://www.audiusanews.com for more information regarding Audi vehicle and business issues.

ABOUT THE U.S. SKI TEAM
The U.S. Ski Team, an integral part of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association, develops and trains the top Olympic skiers in America, competing annually on the Audi FIS World Cup with a goal of being the best in the world in Olympic skiing.

SOURCE  Audi of America, Inc.

Audi of America, Inc.

CONTACT: Brad Stertz, +1-703-364-7440, Mob.: +1-703-344-1320, brad.stertz@audi.com

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

A New Partner has Joined the Big Brother House - BigBrotherBingo.com!

GIBRALTAR, January 13, 2012/PRNewswire/ --

    888.com in partnership with Endemoland Channel 5 is proud to announce the launch of
BigBrotherBingo.com [http://www.bigbrotherbingo.com ].

    The Bigbrotherbingo.com [http://www.bigbrotherbingo.com ] launch coincides with the
current Celebrity Big Brother show on Channel 5. The new interactive online bingo site
offers players exclusive Big Brother prizes including behind the scenes access, task props
& VIP passes to eviction nights!

    Maurice Karpes, Vice President of Bingo Marketing, 888.com, stated, "The opportunity
to offer the Big Brother brand to our online bingo fans is a perfect match, we are
building an offering that truly takes online entertainment to the next level."

    Jurian Van Der Meer, Managing Director of Endemol Games UK comments: "Big Brother fans
love to immerse themselves in the show via its many different platforms and this deal with
888 and Channel 5 offers another exciting and entertaining way for them to do so."

    Agostino di Falco, Partnership Director at Channel 5, said: "This deal with 888.com
and Endemol enables Channel 5 to show how we can create strong partnership deals that
offer incremental value to the advertiser."

    Players who are fans of the show can get involved in the Forum & Polls pages by
posting comments & questions for fellow Big Brother Bingo housemates; discuss who should
be evicted or gossip about the latest episode!

    A quick look into the Big Brother Bingo [http://www.bigbrotherbingo.com ] house will
reveal a range of games including 75 ball, 90 ball & 5 line bingo, free bingo, penny bingo
& daily guaranteed jackpots! Plus, if you've already experienced the fun of bingo online,
you'll feel at home in the house with familiar instant win games like Bejeweled, Fluffy
Favourites& Monopoly!

    About 888.com

   
    - 888.com [http://www.888.com ] is one of the world's most popular online
      gaming entertainment and solutions providers
    - Founded in 1997, 888.com has been at the forefront of the online gaming
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    - 888.com [http://www.888.com ] offers a comprehensive gaming experience -
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    - 888.com [http://www.888.com ] can be used in 22 different languages in 176
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    - 888.com [http://www.888.com ] is committed to an industry leading corporate
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      secure gaming environment
    - 888.com [http://www.888.com ] is licensed and regulated by the Government of
      Gibraltar, and is listed on the London Stock Exchange

    For more information about Big Brother Bingo [http://www.bigbrotherbingo.com ]
promotions and offers, go to http://www.bigbrotherbingo.com.

Source: 888.com

For more information about this release or 888.com and its house of brands, please contact Head of Media and Public Relations, Jennifer Huxley at jennifer.huxley@888holdings.com.

Search Laboratory Helps Fashion Retailer Jacques Vert Achieve Their Rightful Place at the Top of Google

LEEDS, England, January 13, 2012/PRNewswire/ --

    Search Laboratory, the Leeds based multilingual SEO [http://www.searchlaboratory.com ]
agency; have teamed up with discerning ladies fashion brand Jacques Vert to help them
achieve their rightful place on the Google search engine results as the number one
retailer of seasonal occasion wear and wedding outfits [http://www.jacques-vert.co.uk ]
for women in the UK.

    Jacques Vert [http://www.jacques-vert.co.uk ], established in 1972, offers ladies wear
for every occasion. The collection is led by smart, feminine and elegant outfits and
co-ordinating accessories. Specialising also in wedding outfits for the mother of the
bride, mother of the groom and wedding guests, Jacques Vertis a popular shopping
destination for the discerning lady.

    Search Laboratory will be helping the fashion retailer to improve the visibility of
its website online. With well over 100,000 local UK searches per month for terms such as
'wedding outfit' and 'mother of the bride dresses' Search Laboratory's role is to maximise
the sales opportunities for Jacques Vert.

    Jacques Vert chose to work with Search Laboratory because of its proven track record
in the highly competitive online retail market. Search Laboratory has demonstrated its
expertise in the fashion sector helping other major brands to rank highly for even the
most broad and fiercely competitive terms such as 'dresses'.

    Julie Walker, Ecommerce Marketing Manager at Jacques Vert commented: "Ecommerce
channels are expanding and optimising our website to increase revenue from the Internet
was crucial, especially as all marketers become savvy to the benefits of ethical SEO.
Search Laboratory has proven that they understand the need for, and can effectively help
leading fashion brands like us to grow our presence online and reach new customers."

    Notes for Editors

    Search Laboratory Ltd, headquartered in Leeds, specialises in maximising profits from
its client's websites using Pay-Per-Click (PPC), Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), Online
PR, Social Media and multilingual search marketing. The company was established in 2005
and employs over 70 search specialists who help clients improve the visibility of their
client's websites online. Search Laboratory is extremely ethical in its approach to search
using only ethical, sustainable link building and online PR.

    Jacques Vert offers the lady with a full social calendar a complete seasonal wardrobe
for every occasion. The collection is led by smart, feminine and elegant occasion wear,
all designed with weddings, race days, parties and special occasions in mind. Jacques Vert
is the destination of choice for beautiful wedding outfits, including outfits for the
mother of the bride, mother of the groom and wedding guests, plus a stunning selection of
occasion hats and fascinators. Light layering pieces and stylish occasion dresses complete
the collection for a gorgeous wardrobe in size 10 to size 24.

   
    If you would like more information relating to this story please contact:

    Sasha Hanau
    Marketing Executive
    Search Laboratory

    T: +44(0)113-212-1211
    E:sasha.hanau@searchlaboratory.com
    Twitter: @searchlabs or @sashahanau

Source: Search Laboratory Ltd

LG Electronics Wins Multiple Awards at the 2012 International CES

Unbiased Experts Honor LG with Awards for Innovations Including OLED TV, Smart TV, 3D Sound and Blast Chiller

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- LG Electronics (LG) today announced that it won a total of nine awards at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), further solidifying its position as a leader in developing cutting-edge products. Honors include the Popular Mechanics Editors' Choice, IMS Research TV Innovation Award, multiple HD Guru Awards and the prestigious CNET Best of Show.

In addition to being selected as the best HDTV at CES by CNET, the LG 55EM9600 OLED HDTV was chosen by CNET's unbiased, expert editors as the most exciting, innovative and promising new product at the show.

"CNET editors from around the globe have spent a grueling and inspiring six days pounding the pavement in Las Vegas to get our hands on thousands of tech products," said Lindsey Turrentine, Editor in Chief of CNET Reviews. "We lugged our laptops and cameras for miles, across the show floors, through launch parties, and to closed-door meetings. We found the gadgets of tomorrow--and after sorting through them all--chose LG for our hard-fought Best of CES award."

In addition to the CNET Awards, LG was honored with the following:

Popular Mechanics Editor's Choice

    --  LG 55EM9600 55-inch OLED TV

IMS Research TV Innovations "Immersive Award"

    --  LG BH9420PW CINEMA 3D Sound Blu-ray Home Theater

HD Guru Top Picks awards

    --  Best Media Player - LG SP820 Smart Upgrader*
    --  Best 3D TV - LG 84LM9600 84-inch 3DTV*
    --  Best in Show - LG 55EM9600 55-inch OLED TV

TechnoBuffalo Best of CES awards

    --  LG 55EM9600 55-inch OLED TV

Stuff.tv Hot Stuff

    --  LG Blast Chiller
"LG has always been committed to developing innovative products that help improve our customers' lives," said James Fishler, senior vice president marketing and go-to-market operations, LG Electronics. "We're enthusiastic about these honors at CES and look forward to continuing to bring leading products to market that are recognized for both their technical and design features."

Using self-lighted organic pixels, the 55-inch screen class (54.6-inch diagonal) OLED TV exhibits precise color, absolute contrast and blazing clarity. Boasting a contrast ratio of over 100,000,000:1, fifty times greater than that of LED/LCD display panels, the OLED TV displays vivid colors and the fine details, helping to preserve images with utmost clarity and sharpness, even when displaying scenes with dark lighting. Since the OLED TV does not require a lamp or bulky support structures, it is 4mm (3/16ths of an inch) thin and weighs only 16.5 pounds.

The 84LM9600 is the world's largest Ultra Definition (UD) 3D TV and boasts an impressively large 84-inch screen class (84.04 inch diagonal) and superb picture quality with 8 million pixels, four times the resolution of existing Full HD TV panels. Combined with LG's Cinema Screen slim and narrow bezel, which reduces the TV's frame to negligible levels, the 3D UD TV provides a most immersive 3D viewing experience.

The SP820 Smart TV Upgrader easily turns any HDTV into a Smart TV, including access to streaming services from Vudu, Amazon Instant Video and Cinema Now, among others. With HTML 5 and Flash, there is also a full Internet browser as well as intuitive navigation with the enhanced LG Magic Remote.

LG's BH9420PW, is a "3D Sound" home theater system, incorporating LG's 3D sound technology with a state-of-the-art Blu-ray system. The BH9420PW enhances the 3D experience by adding a dimension of height to the audio field and uses 3D Sound Zooming to synchronize the audio with 3D picture depth when playing back 3D video from Blu-ray discs and broadcast sources.

The Blast Chiller takes room-temperature beverages, such as wine or soda cans and quickly cools them; it can chill a 12-ounce can in around five minutes as well as two soft drink cans or bottle of wine in eight minutes. Quick chilling is enabled by Jet Flow and Swirling Structure, which decreases the temperature and distributes the chilled air throughout the chiller compartment.

These awards follow the CES Innovations Awards where LG was honored with 12 awards, including the Best of Innovations for Major Home Appliances for the LFX31935 refrigerator with Blast Chiller technology; for Video Displays the PM9700 plasma, LM9600 and LM8600 LED HDTVs; for Video Components the BP720 Blu-ray Disc(TM) Player and SP820 Smart TV Upgrader; for Audio Components the ND8520 iPod Speaker Dock; for Major Home Appliances the WM8000HVA/DLEX8000V and WM9000HVA/ DLEX9000V washer/dryer pairs that feature LG Smart ThinQ(TM), and LrV5900 HOM-BOT Robotic Vacuum; for Wireless Handsets, the LG DoublePlay and LG Revolution with VMware Horizon Mobile(TM).

For more information and product images, please visit LG's online press kit at http://www.lgnewsroom.com/ces2012.

*Designs, features and specifications subject to change without notice.

*Internet connection & subscriptions required and sold separately.

*For a small percentage of the population, the viewing of stereoscopic 3D video may cause discomfort such as dizziness or nausea. If you experience any of these symptoms, discontinue using the 3D functionality and contact your health care provider. 3D glasses required and sold separately.

About LG Electronics USA

LG Electronics USA, Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics, Inc., a global force and technology leader in consumer electronics, home appliances and mobile communications. In the United States, LG Electronics sells a range of stylish and innovative home entertainment products, mobile phones, home appliances, commercial displays, air conditioning systems and solar energy solutions, all under LG's "Life's Good" marketing theme. For more information, please visit http://www.lg.com.

About LG Electronics, Inc.

LG Electronics, Inc. (KSE: 066570.KS) is a global leader and technology innovator in consumer electronics, mobile communications and home appliances, employing more than 93,000 people working in over 120 operations around the world. With 2010 global sales of KRW 55.8 trillion (USD 48.2 billion), LG comprises four business units - Home Entertainment, Mobile Communications, Home Appliance, and Air Conditioning & Energy Solutions. LG is one of the world's leading producers of flat panel TVs, mobile devices, air conditioners, washing machines and refrigerators. For more information, please visit http://www.LGnewsroom.com.

About LG Electronics Home Entertainment Company

The LG Electronics Home Entertainment Company is a top global player in flat panel displays, audio players, video products, monitors, commercial displays and security systems for the consumer and commercial markets. LG's product areas include LCD and plasma televisions, LED LCD monitors, home theater systems, Blu-ray Disc(TM) players, audio components, video players and plasma display panels. While focusing on creating feature-rich devices, the company is also pursuing stylish designs and pushing technological boundaries to improve the home entertainment experience. LG HE company is also a leader in providing commercial (or B2B) products such as digital signage, video conference system and IP security cameras.

SOURCE  LG Electronics

LG Electronics

CONTACT: Media, John Taylor, LG Electronics USA, +1-847-941-8181, john.taylor@lge.com, or Clara Chang, +1-201-816-2011, clara.chang@lge.com, or Lisette Kwong, LG-One, +1-212-880-5222, lisette.kwong@lg-one.com

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