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Show Dad or That Special Graduate How Much You Care

Savvy Shoppers Impress Loved Ones This Father's Day, Or For Graduation, With Amazing Gifts At Just A Fraction Of The Retail Cost Through CardCash.com

EAST WINDSOR, N.J., June 14, 2011/PRNewswire/ -- Have you always wanted to get your Dad that special "dream" gift, but could never afford it in the past? What about an extraordinary present for that special graduate in your life?

CardCash.com is the leading secondary online marketplace with the largest selection of discounted gift cards, offering customers the ability to purchase them at a discount of up to 35 percent less than their face value. Consumers can either give the gift card they purchase as a gift to their Dad or Grad or take advantage of the savings and use it themselves as their method of payment at the register or online store. Purchasing gift cards at discount and using them as the new method of payment will significantly reduce consumers overall shopping expenses. Savvy shoppers who purchase gift cards at a discount can further increase their savings by combining them with coupons and/or store promotions at their favorite merchant.

Popular merchants gift cards available at CardCash.com this Father's Day include Home Depot, iTunes, Walmart, Macys, Red Robin, Best Buy and many more.

Elliot Klier, Chief Marketing Officer, CardCash.com, said CardCash.com's gift cards give consumers the ability to save money during graduation season or for Father's Day. "If customers purchase gift cards through CardCash.com, they are then able to turn around and purchase that dream gift they otherwise might not have been able to afford," Klier said.

CardCash.com, a leader in the secondary gift card marketplace, gives consumers the chance to buy, sell or trade their unused gift cards. Since its inception in 2006, CardCash.com has evolved to a whole new level, transferring millions of dollars a year in gift cards from people who have no use for them to people who are anxious to save money on all of their shopping expenses.

CardCash.com customer Kayla Ogden of Hernando, FL said her gift giving budgets have decreased in recent years due to the struggling economy, and having a large family to always buy gifts for has become challenging.

"CardCash.com has allowed me to maintain that 'big spender' reputation among my family and friends," Ogden said.  "I love CardCash.com for allowing me to save when it matters the most."

The CardCash.com Web site currently boasts the largest available online inventory, with 10,000 gift cards in stock, representing nearly 400 merchants. As part of its success, CardCash.com maintains the highest standards of security implemented to identify fraudulent sellers and invalid cards. All transactions are backed by a 45-day customer satisfaction guarantee and are issued quickly. CardCash.com verifies all cards and guarantees their validity to its customers. In addition, shipping is always free.

For more information, visit Cardcash.com or call 1-800-CASH-214.

About CardCash.com

CardCash.com is the leading online discounted gift card exchange, enabling customers to buy, sell or trade gift cards and save up to 35 percent on gift card purchases. According to a recent study, there are close to 60 billion dollars of unwanted and unused gift cards collecting dust in the United States. CardCash.com has been reaching out to millions of Americans since its inception in 2006. And now, just a few years later, the Web site has reached a new level, transferring millions of dollars per year in gift cards to people who have no use for them to people who are anxious to save money on all of their shopping expenses. Headquartered in East Windsor, NJ, CardCash.com presently offers the largest selection of discounted gift cards online and has the highest standards of security implemented to identify fraudulent sellers and inaccurate cards.

SOURCE  CardCash.com

CardCash.com

CONTACT: Hanni Itah of S&S Public Relations, Inc., +1-847-415-9324, hitah@sspr.com, for CardCash.com

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

Equifax Introduces Flexible Options for Multifactor Authentication

Single Platform for Comprehensive Token and Tokenless Strong Authentication with Integrated Identity Proofing and Provisioning

ATLANTA, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Equifax Inc. (NYSE: EFX) announced today culmination of the post-acquisition integration of the Anakam Identity Services platform with general availability of Anakam Two Factor Authentication v5.0. The new release expands upon Anakam's market-leading effort to fully integrate the most comprehensive and flexible methods of authentication with large-scale remote identity proofing and professional credentialing.

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Version 5.0 serves a critical market need with the out-of-the-box capability to move legacy token holders to innovative and diverse alternative authentication vectors with automated remote identity proofing and provisioning. The new authentication vectors and proofing capabilities are immediately available to customers of both the on-premise and cloud-based identity solution. The expanded progressive authentication platform includes hard or soft OATH tokens which are effective alternatives to the compromised tokens implicated in several recent breaches. This expansion builds on the existing NIST Level 3 compliant authentication vectors such as SMS messaging, IVR, and voice biometrics which offer solutions for the broader customer, citizen, or patient-facing enterprise in a single platform.

"The Anakam Identity Services 5.0 platform is ideally suited for large deployments of strong authentication to serve customers, employees, and trusted third parties of an enterprise," said Rajib Roy, President, Technology and Analytical Services at Equifax. "It is rapidly deployable, standards-based strong authentication and brings together key intellectual property from both of the companies to provide an integrated solution."

Equifax, which holds the patent for knowledge-based authentication (KBA), serves as the underlying service for remote identity proofing used in Anakam Identity Services. This single, integrated platform provides no touch, risk-based identity verification and knowledge-based authentication to expedite provisioning for remote users. Using seamless access to an extensive array of proprietary consumer demographic and credit data sources, Anakam Identity Services prevent fraudsters from being able to enroll for online services on the front end. Patented strong authentication methods then protect the ongoing identity relationship with remote users with enterprises with whom they seek to do business.

Anakam Identity Services is certified to work with the most common customer hardware and software infrastructures - operating systems, databases, application servers, and Web servers.  In addition, the cloud-based identity management provides an alternate deployment model for standards-based Web services interfaces, identity federations, and security protocols. Our identity management lifecycle approach allows Anakam to interface as a software application or a Web service to all underlying identity management solutions like IBM Tivoli Identity Manager and Access Manager, CA SiteMinder and Identity Manager, and Oracle Sun Open SSO. Anakam also enables strong authentication of network security and VPN tools from Juniper, Cisco, and F5 as well as virtualization tools from Citrix.

Please contact us at technology@equifax.com or visit http://www.anakam.com for more information on Anakam Identity Services and the broader set of capabilities in v5.0.

About Equifax:

Equifax is a global leader in commercial and consumer information solutions, leveraging one of the largest sources of business credit intelligence, portfolio management, income, employment and wealth verification, identity authentication/fraud detection and marketing demographic data worldwide.

Through its unique data and analytical insights, powered by proprietary technology, Equifax delivers customized, high-value decisioning solutions to more than 4.4 billion accounts in 81 million businesses and provides millions of individual consumers with information and services to support management of their personal credit information and protection of their identity that are vital to their financial well being. Headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., Equifax Inc. spans four continents and 16 countries, is a member of Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500® Index and its common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol EFX. For more information, please visit http://www.equifax.com.

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CONTACT: Sally Ewalt, +1-703-888-4630, sally.ewalt@equifax.com

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

Thomas Publishing Expands Brand Information and Highlights Its Career Center on a New Company Website

NEW YORK, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Thomas Publishing Company LLC,  a leading provider of industrial content and technology, today launched the new ThomasPublishing.com site, making it easier to conduct business with its family of brands.

The new and improved site features the most comprehensive information available to date on their Thomas brands -  from Thomas Industrial Network to Inbound Logistics to Manufacturing Enterprise Communications. In addition, there's full information on the international division and its overseas products (including NEI in Brazil, Thomas Industrial Media in Europe, Thomex in India, Incom in Japan, and Thomas China).

The website improvements make it easy for visitors to navigate through Thomas' B2B brands and find the most appropriate contact for the right lead-generation, advertising, online marketing/sales, or informational services. "We're committed to providing buyers and suppliers current and complete product, service and supplier information to facilitate informed business decisions. Our website now does a better job of conveying the depth of our global resources and how they can serve the needs of industrial buyers and suppliers," said Ivy Molofsky, Vice President of Human Resources.

Prospective employees can easily click through the site to learn what it's like to be part of the Thomas family. They can view employee spotlight videos where employees share their own Thomas experiences firsthand. Full job descriptions for current openings with detailed benefits information are also available. "We're always on the lookout for great talent," said Ms. Molofsky, adding, "We also have a number of exciting internship opportunities, particularly for engineering majors who want to help manufacturing companies position their products and services online."

For more information about Thomas Publishing and career opportunities, contact Diann Caba at 212-290-7315 or dcaba@thomaspublishing.com.

About Thomas Publishing Company, LLC

An innovative, information leader for over a century, Thomas Publishing Company LLC has evolved from an industrial trade print publisher into an information and technology business. Thomas is a private, family-owned and operated company connecting buyers and suppliers across all industrial sectors. For buyers, it has the most up-to-date and comprehensive product and company information on the market today. For suppliers, Thomas offers cutting edge proprietary technology designed to improve the performance of their sales channels and websites, including innovative solutions for making content and data on companies' industrial products more widely available. Thomas Publishing is your global key to keeping on top of industrial product information in a rapidly changing market.   

Contact: Dawn Ringel, Warner Communication
Dawn@warnerpr.com or 781.449.8456

SOURCE  Thomas Publishing Company, LLC

Thomas Publishing Company, LLC

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

CITIC Telecom CPC Reaffirms Industry Leadership with World Vendor Awards

Award adds to a stellar year in which the company prepares to launch two new SmartCLOUD series solutions and continues expansion to Asia Pacific

HONG KONG, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- CITIC Telecom International CPC Limited ("CITIC Telecom CPC"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of CITIC Telecom International Holdings Limited (SEHK: 1883), reaffirmed its industry leadership by winning the prestigious World Vendor Awards 2011 - Best Hosted Solution. The recognition comes as the company prepares to launch two SmartCLOUD solutions and continue its Asia Pacific expansion.

The World Vendor Awards organised by Total Telecom focus on telecommunications industry vendors and use a panel of independent and impartial industry experts to judge entries. The Best Hosted Solution award was given to CITIC Telecom CPC's Managed Video Conferencing Service - VC² (VC-square). VC² was first launched in 2009 as the first service of its kind in Asia to adopt H.264/SVC (Scalable Video Coding) video conferencing technology for converged IP networks to provide IP-VPN HD-based Managed Video Conferencing Services.  It provides a high quality, scalable, flexible and efficient solution at an affordable rate that eliminates the usual high costs required for setting up and maintaining a video conferencing system.

The Best Hosted Solution award further demonstrates CITIC Telecom CPC success in offering customers high-quality, seamless ICT solutions, such as its two flagship services - TrueCONNECT(TM) MPLS VPN and TrustCSI(TM) Information Security Services, and a series of complementary managed services.

The award comes as the company recently announced a name change from CPCNet to CITIC Telecom CPC and is preparing to launch two new solutions in its third flagship series -- SmartCLOUD. Hitting the market soon are SmartCLOUD Compute, a virtual server solution that goes beyond ordinary offerings to deliver high-performance and high-availability with unprecedented value and management ease; and SmartCLOUD Mail, a suite of secure business e-mail management tools with strong mobility.

"CITIC Telecom CPC has strived to provide its customers with the best in quality and innovation by always anticipating and meeting their changing business needs," said Stephen Ho, CEO of CITIC Telecom CPC. "This has enabled us to keep ahead of market trends -- for example, our SmartCLOUD series will offer our customers a whole new level of flexibility and stability. We are very glad to win the World Vendor Awards and it will encourage us to continue innovating and raising the bar as we widen our service coverage to the Asia Pacific region and beyond."

About CITIC Telecom CPC

CITIC Telecom International CPC Limited ("CITIC Telecom CPC"), formerly known as CPCNet Hong Kong Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of CITIC Telecom International Holdings Limited (SEHK: 1883), is a trusted ICT solutions partner with multiple branches across the Asia Pacific region, and a preferred partner by multinational corporations and business enterprises.

CITIC Telecom CPC delivers a range of innovative products and services, including: TrueCONNECTTM - an advanced MPLS VPN service which employs state-of-the-art fully meshed network, TrustCSI(TM) - an integrated suite of information security solutions, and SmartCLOUD - smarter, better and high performance cloud computing solutions which complement the company's managed network and managed security solutions. The company will continue to provide a whole range of best-in-class communications products, security solutions and managed services, maintaining its commitment to be your trusted partner.

CITIC Telecom CPC strives to deliver the highest level of service and excellent products to customers.  In recognition for its excellence in the provision of information and communications technology solutions in the Asia Pacific region, the company has become the first VPN service provider in Hong Kong to receive certificates of ISO 9001 -- Quality Management System, ISO 27001 -- Information Security Management System and ISO 20000 -- Information Technology Service Management System. Learn more at http://www.citictel-cpc.com.

SOURCE  CITIC Telecom International CPC Limited

CITIC Telecom International CPC Limited

CONTACT: Rowena Leung of CITIC Telecom CPC, +852-2170-7536, rowena.leung@citictel-cpc.com

Web Site: http://www.cpcnet-hk.com/english/pdt/pdt_internet/pdt_internet_true/pdt_internet_true.asp

Sensitech® Inc.'s TempTale®4 Multi-Alarm Temperature Monitors Offer Highly Advanced and Flexible Range of Configurable Alarm Options

BEVERLY, Mass., June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sensitech's TempTale®4 (TT4) Multi-Alarm temperature monitors, introduced today, offer a highly advanced and flexible range of configurable alarm options to effectively help customers mitigate risk in the global supply chain by allowing for more precise, targeted monitoring of temperature-sensitive products. The advanced, multi-alarm design gives users the ability to program up to six independent time-and-temperature alarm thresholds, providing increased flexibility. Sensitech, the global leader in cold-chain visibility solutions, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Carrier Corp., a business unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX).

The highly flexible, multi-alarm design was developed to help customers reduce the overall number of potential temperature excursions that can occur across the supply chain.  Allowing users to monitor for "allowable" temperature excursions during the storage, handling, and distribution of temperature-sensitive products greatly enhances their ability to minimize risk and ensure product safety and quality. By reducing the overall number of temperature excursions that can occur during distribution, customers can effectively lower the high costs of investigating and quarantining shipments. 

The advanced, multi-alarm feature is available in two models of TT4 monitors: a standard TT4 version and a TT4 USB version. The standard TT4 Multi-Alarm version provides existing TT4 users the flexibility of setting multiple time-and-temperature alarms, while simultaneously leveraging existing investments in software and hardware infrastructure. The TT4 USB Multi-Alarm version provides users with the same flexible alarm configuration options, along with the added benefits of a standard USB interface and a PDF formatted time-and-temperature report to help facilitate the shipment disposition process at receiving sites around the world. The programmable time-and-temperature alarm thresholds can be set to any combination of four different alarm types: a single temperature alarm limit, a user-defined alarm range with a lower and upper temperature limit, a dual alarm range that is tied to the same time threshold, and a time-only alarm threshold.

"TT4 Multi-Alarm temperature monitors empower users with increased control and greater visibility into their cold chain," said Al DeLeo, senior product manager, Sensitech. "Providing our customers with the ability to monitor temperature-sensitive shipments across multiple temperature ranges and time thresholds enables them to more cost-effectively manage risk while ensuring compliance with regulatory and standards-based guidance."

TempTale4 Multi-Alarm monitors can be downloaded into either Sensitech's TempTale® Manager Desktop 7.0 software or Internet-enabled ColdStream® Cold Chain Manager application for the viewing, reporting, printing, and archiving of recorded shipment data. TempTale4 Multi-Alarm monitors are available with up to six programmable alarm settings and multiple LCD display options, 16,000 data point storage capacity, and a National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST®) Certificate of Validation. A hardware validation manual is available upon request to assist companies with their internal validation documentation requirements.

About Sensitech Inc.

As the world's leading provider of cold chain visibility solutions, Sensitech Inc. enables global leaders in the food, pharmaceutical, and industrial markets to track and monitor assets across the supply chain in order to protect the integrity of temperature-sensitive products.  Sensitech is an ISO 9001:2008 company based in Beverly, Mass., with offices in Amsterdam, Calgary, Melbourne, Mumbai, Redmond, Santiago, and Shanghai, and additional service and distribution locations around the world.  Sensitech is a wholly owned subsidiary of Farmington, Conn.-based Carrier Corp. Visit http://www.sensitech.com for additional information.

About Carrier Corp.

Carrier Corp. is the world's leader in high technology heating, air-conditioning and refrigeration solutions. Carrier experts provide sustainable solutions, integrating energy efficient products, building controls, and energy services for residential, commercial, retail, transport and foodservice customers. Founded by the inventor of modern air conditioning, Carrier improves the world around us through engineered innovation and environmental stewardship. Carrier is a unit of United Technologies Corp., a leading provider to the aerospace and building systems industries worldwide. Visit http://www.carrier.com for more information.

Unless otherwise indicated, all trademarks and service marks are the property of Sensitech Inc. NIST is a registered trademark of The National Institute of Standards and Technology Agency of the United States Government.

SOURCE  Sensitech Inc.

Sensitech Inc.

CONTACT: Nicole Goguen, +1-978-720-2605

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

General Dynamics to Acquire Fortress Technologies, Inc.

FALLS CHURCH, Va., June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Fortress Technologies, Inc., a provider of secure wireless networking equipment for the U.S. military and other government customers.  The value of the cash transaction, which is expected to be accretive to General Dynamics' earnings beginning in 2012, has not been disclosed.

The acquisition has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies and is subject to normal regulatory review.  General Dynamics expects the transaction to be completed in the third quarter of 2011.

Fortress Technologies produces a portfolio of mesh networking products that enable secure wireless local area network (LAN) capabilities for battlefield logistics, convoy, command post and soldier applications.  Built on commercially available technologies, Fortress Technologies' ruggedized products improve soldiers' combat effectiveness and survivability by increasing their access to information. The company is based in Westford, Mass., and has approximately 70 employees.

Fortress Technologies will be managed by General Dynamics C4 Systems, which is based in Scottsdale, Ariz.  General Dynamics C4 Systems designs, manufactures and delivers trusted and secure communications systems, command and control systems and operational hardware to customers within the U.S. Department of Defense, the intelligence community and federal civilian agencies, and to international customers.

"Fortress Technologies successfully delivers commercially developed, commercially priced secure
Wi-Fi/WiMAX networking capabilities that extend the reach of our current broadband tactical-internet offerings," said Chris Marzilli, president of General Dynamics C4 Systems.  "Our high-priority military and civilian users require cyber-protected access to 4G internet services.  Fortress effectively provides them with highly secure 'hot spots' downrange over the last tactical mile."

"This acquisition will enhance General Dynamics' ability to meet the growing tactical-communications requirements of global defense and civilian agencies, bringing new value to our advanced networking solutions.  Fortress Technologies also will continue its current model of selling products to other DoD prime contractors and integrators," Marzilli said.

Fortress Technologies is the wireless-technology provider for the Combat Service Support Automated Information System Interface (CAISI) system, the Army's only certified tactical wireless LAN.  Since 2001, Fortress Technologies has delivered over 55,000 units as a subcontractor on this program.  Designed for the transport of logistics data, the CAISI systems connect brigades, battalions and companies increasing the efficiency of the Army logistics systems that support soldiers in the field.  The company provides technology across the federal market to customers including the U.S. Marine Corps, the Navy, the National Guard, combatant commands and the Department of Energy.

The company is also a member of the EDGE Innovation Network sponsored by General Dynamics C4 Systems. The EDGE is a collaborative, open-environment initiative enabling industry and academia, with government input, to work together to enhance the delivery cycle of new technologies and innovative capabilities to first responders.

More information about Fortress Technologies is available at http://www.fortresstech.com.

More information about General Dynamics C4 Systems is available at http://www.gdc4s.com.

More information about General Dynamics is available at http://www.gd.com.

SOURCE  General Dynamics

General Dynamics

CONTACT: Media, Rob Doolittle, +1-703-876-3199, rdoolittle@generaldynamics.com; Investors, Amy Gilliland, +1-703-876-3748, agilliland@generaldynamics.com

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

BSI Introduces Entropy® Software for Healthcare Product Manufacturers

RESTON, Va., June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- BSI Group America Inc. (BSI), a leading global provider of ISO-standards-based assurance, compliance, and information solutions, is pleased to introduce Entropy Software for the healthcare industry. Entropy Software is a market-leading quality management software solution to assist organizations to deliver products to market on-time with transparency, real-time reporting, and improved quality and compliance assurance. Designed and developed to meet recognized international standards, Entropy Software provides a technology framework that allows companies to effectively manage for ISO 13485 and U.S. FDA compliance.

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The web-based interface easily allows medical device manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies to remain compliant to complex regulatory requirements, improve business performance, and manage risk more effectively through a single-sourced solution. The user-friendly, customizable dashboards enhance and improve overall tracking of processes for internal and external requirements including ISO 9001, ISO 13485, 21 CFR Part 820, and 21 CFR Part 11.

In addition to streamlining operations, improving internal communications, and protecting brand reputation, Entropy Software can reduce costs related to legislation and regulatory requirements, products and services, quality control, non-conformance reporting, action planning, document control, and management review. It provides organizations with the features for an effective quality management system, as well as supporting conformance to ISO standards like 14001 for Environmental and OHSAS 18001 for Health and Safety.

"BSI is continually evolving and providing one-stop solutions to help clients get their products to market faster, while reducing overall costs and increasing internal efficiency," said Paul Brooks, VP Healthcare Solutions with BSI. "BSI Entropy Software helps healthcare product manufacturers - both large and small, with multiple sites or just a single site - to streamline and automate their processes for enhanced compliance to ISO standards, FDA requirements, regulations, and internal policies.  BSI has been a trusted partner for over 100 years with the expertise and knowledge to inspire confidence and deliver assurance to all our customers with standards-based solutions."

About Entropy® Software

Entropy is a web-based software solution providing a technology framework that allows companies to effectively manage Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC).  Entropy helps businesses continuously improve control, assurance, and accountability; reduce risks, incidents, liability, and cost; and protect and enhance brand value and reputation.  Designed and developed to meet recognized international standards, Entropy provides a risk management and compliance system that is certifiable and auditable against the requirements of the ISO Standards.  Entropy is in use at over 50,000 sites worldwide to address companies' risk, compliance, and performance management in areas of corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, environmental, health & safety, quality, and supply chain compliance management.  For more details on Entropy solutions visit http://www.bsi-entropy.com.

About BSI Group

BSI Group is a global independent business services organization which enables businesses, governments and other organizations to increase profits and market access, and to enhance reputation with its standards-based solutions and assurance services. From its origins as the world's first National Standards Body, BSI Group draws upon over 100 years' experience to partner with 66,000 organizations in 147 countries from its 50 offices. Today, through its independence, innovation and integrity, BSI continues to improve the lives of millions by raising standards worldwide. To learn more about BSI Group, please visit http://www.bsigroup.com

Media Contact for BSI: Shereen Abuzobaa
VP Marketing & Training
703-464-1931

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Now Available: New Release of SAP NetWeaver®; Once Again Deliverable: Innovation Without Disruption for SAP Customers

WALLDORF, Germany, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Fulfilling a promise made at SAP® TechEd 2010, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) announced today that the 7.3 release of the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform is generally available to customers worldwide. In more than 150 ramp-up projects thus far, this latest release helps customers more quickly and easily adapt business processes without increasing costs. And in conjunction with the best practices SAP delivers within its applications, customers can use SAP NetWeaver 7.3 to adapt their business processes as needed.

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As with the company's long-proven delivery model of business software enhancement packages -- the latest of which was recently announced at the SAPPHIRE® NOW conference -- SAP NetWeaver 7.3 helps companies innovate how they operate without disrupting operations to undergo system upgrades. For example, a purchasing request that spans multiple systems can be modeled using business process management tools to orchestrate the process between systems.

The first full release of the technology platform in five years offers new features and enhanced support for open standards across all of its major components, including:

    --  A unified platform for all Java-based SAP NetWeaver usages with greatly
        enhanced Java support: Java EE5, Java-only ESB and JMS
        pub/sub-capabilities, simplifying system landscapes and reducing cost of
        operations
    --  Simplified application services and workflows to enable new initiatives
        such as mobilized business processes
    --  Enhanced support of open standards for simplified integration with any
        software system
    --  Reusable business rule sets with Microsoft Excel integration, lowering
        cost of development for business rules
    --  Enhanced integration between the SAP NetWeaver® Portal and SAP
        NetWeaver® Business Warehouse components and the SAP®
        BusinessObjects(TM) portfolio to help ensure SAP customers can benefit
        from the superior capabilities of the industry-leading business
        intelligence solutions

"The business process management capabilities of SAP NetWeaver 7.3 will help to reduce the time to develop new standards," said John Harrickey, CIO, at CSA Group. "We can achieve this through better collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, simpler task-specific user interfaces, and by having greater visibility into the process execution."

Since the official general availability date of May 30, 2011, went into effect, all SAP customers with SAP NetWeaver licenses have access to the installation files on the SAP® Service Marketplace extranet.

"We have received a lot of positive feedback from our ramp-up customers," said Bjorn Goerke, senior vice president, Technology and Platform Core, and head of development, SAP NetWeaver. "We are seeing our technology strategy validated one customer after another. With the new release of SAP NetWeaver, we truly deliver on our promise to bring innovation without disruption to our customers. We will continue to evolve the platform and add innovation along the dimensions of in-memory computing, cloud computing and mobility."

For more information, visit the Technology and Platform newsroom and watch a video interview with Goerke, or visit http://www.sap.com/sapnetweaver. Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews and join conversation with the hashtag #NetWeaver.

Media ContactsHilmar Schepp, SAP, +49 6227 746799, hilmar.schepp@sap.com, CETJanice Edman, +1 (650) 223-4817, j.edman@sap.com, PDT

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SAP AG

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Xyratex Announces ClusterStor(TM) 3000: Lustre® Storage Solution for High Performance Computing

ClusterStor(TM) 3000 is an integrated Lustre® storage solution providing unprecedented performance, reliability and ease of management

HAVANT, UK, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Xyratex Ltd (Nasdaq: XRTX), a leading provider of enterprise class data storage subsystems and hard disk drive capital equipment, today announced the ClusterStor(TM) 3000, a high performance Lustre® storage solution for High Performance Computing (HPC) users. The ClusterStor 3000 will be available exclusively through Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) in the fourth quarter of this year.

Xyratex has developed the ClusterStor 3000 by leveraging its expertise in clustered file systems, enterprise class integrated application platforms and high availability storage subsystem design. The ClusterStor 3000 is a rack-scale Lustre storage solution engineered for HPC environments that includes Scalable Storage Units (SSUs) with unprecedented capacity density and bandwidth. It occupies half the footprint while delivering more than twice the end-to-end bandwidth of traditional solutions. ClusterStor's scale-out storage architecture enables configurations from terabytes to tens of petabytes and from 2.5 gigabytes per second to 1 terabyte per second of actual file system throughput.

The ClusterStor 3000 architecture delivers three interrelated benefits to the HPC environment: linear performance scalability, ease of installation and management, and enhanced storage system reliability at scale.

Key to the ClusterStor 3000's performance is its unique scale-out storage architecture that starts with the consolidation of Lustre servers, RAID controllers and disk enclosures - which are delivered as three separate components in traditional systems - into a single scalable storage unit (SSU) appliance. The SSU is the new fundamental Lustre file system building block that has been perfectly balanced to deliver linear performance and capacity scalability as requirements increase. As performance or capacity needs change, users can simply add incremental SSUs to the storage cluster and begin leveraging the increased performance and capacity immediately.

"The University of Cambridge is a very experienced Lustre user and we have found the ClusterStor 3000 to be one of the easiest Lustre storage solutions to install, configure and manage," said Paul Calleja, Director of High Performance Computing at the University of Cambridge, a ClusterStor 3000 beta site. "Xyratex incorporates all of the key component technologies required for a Lustre storage solution into an integrated, modular, high density form factor. With Lustre and a comprehensive storage management framework integrated into the ClusterStor 3000, we can easily configure and manage our cluster. This will save us a significant amount of time as we deploy new HPC systems."

ClusterStor Manager provides a single administration interface to provision, configure and monitor the storage cluster. ClusterStor Manager's distributed, tightly integrated architecture provides a new class of management ease that has not been seen before in Lustre administration. The linear scaling approach, coupled with simplified management, will enable users to begin leveraging their Lustre storage cluster in a fraction of the time of a traditional solution.

"We've been using the ClusterStor 3000 for nearly 5 months without any issue," said Charlie Taylor, Associate Director of the University of Florida's High Performance Computing Center, another ClusterStor 3000 beta site. "Research requiring high performance computing varies across a wide array of disciplines here at the University, including physics, biology, chemistry, and statistics. We have relied on Lustre to provide a scalable file system for our computing needs for several years. With ClusterStor, we were able to bring up our Lustre environment in less than 4 hours and saw a significant performance benefit for our most demanding computational problems right away. With our traditional Lustre storage we had to tweak the system for weeks to obtain a fraction of the performance we have in ClusterStor 3000."

"Lustre is recognized as a leading high performance clustered file system in the High Performance Computing space with over 70% share of the Top 100 systems in the Top 500," said Earl Joseph, Program Vice President at IDC for High Performance Computing. "Xyratex has developed an integrated solution that addresses the primary pain points HPC users face when implementing a Lustre storage solution, including: scaling performance in a linear fashion; assembling and testing new systems, and ease-of-managing the entire solution from a single management platform will help to allow users to alleviate the pain associated with performance tuning, installation configuration and ongoing management."

Over the last two years, Xyratex has worked closely with the HPC community to develop an understanding of the data storage needs and requirements. Lustre is a key part of the company's strategy for HPC. Xyratex is committed to working with the Lustre community in order to continue the development and support of Lustre. With Xyratex's significant Lustre development team, together with its contributions to the Lustre community's roadmap for Lustre 2.1, Xyratex is demonstrating its dedication to ensuring that Lustre continues to evolve to meet the needs of HPC users.

"Xyratex is excited to enter the HPC market with a fully integrated solution that will enable our OEM partners to leverage our next generation of HPC storage solutions," said Steve Barber, CEO of Xyratex. "We've invested significant resources to develop the ClusterStor solution and we're confident that the new levels of performance and density that we've achieved are unprecedented and will establish ClusterStor as the future of HPC data storage. Xyratex is known for enterprise storage expertise, the ability to develop and bring to market innovative new storage technologies and for producing the highest quality storage products. These characteristics, coupled with our deep Lustre file system expertise, will be significant differentiators for us in the HPC environment."

About Xyratex

Xyratex is a leading provider of enterprise class data storage subsystems and hard disk drive capital equipment. The Networked Storage Solutions division designs and manufactures a range of advanced, scalable data storage solutions for the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) community. As the largest capital equipment supplier to the industry, the Storage Infrastructure division enables disk drive manufacturers and their component suppliers to meet today's technology and productivity requirements. Xyratex has over 25 years of experience in research and development relating to disk drives, storage systems and manufacturing process technology.

Founded in 1994 in an MBO from IBM, and with headquarters in the UK, Xyratex has an established global base with R&D and operational facilities in Europe, the United States and South East Asia.

Lustre is a registered trademark of Oracle. Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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Xyratex Ltd

CONTACT: Brad Driver, Xyratex Investor Relations, +1-510-687-5260, bdriver@us.xyratex.com, or Mike Stolz, Vice President of Marketing, Networked Storage Solutions, +1-952-303-4780, mstolz@us.xyratex.com, both of Xyratex Ltd

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

Texas Instruments TI-Nspire CX Handheld Made Simple by Dummies Series

The 2nd Edition of TI-Nspire FOR DUMMIES Gives Readers a Quick Start Guide to the New Color Handheld

DALLAS, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Giving math and science teachers and students a jump-start on TI's latest graphing handheld, the TI-Nspire(TM) CX handheld, Wiley Publishing has launched the 2nd Edition of TI-Nspire(TM) FOR DUMMIES® book. To celebrate the launch of the new edition, Texas Instruments will be giving attendees of the International Society for Technology in Education's (ISTE) Annual Conference & Exposition in Philadelphia, Penn., a chance to win a copy of the new book. To enter, please visit the TI booth #1717, June 27-29, 2011.

TI-Nspire FOR DUMMIES (Wiley Publishing, Inc.; June 7, 2011; $21.99) provides everything readers need to quickly get the most out of TI's latest must-have tool for math and science, the TI-Nspire CX handheld. The friendly, easy-to-understand FOR DUMMIES style makes the TI-Nspire family of products relatable to even novice users who are just getting started with graphing technology, including parents who may not have used graphing calculators when they were in school. Written by Jeff McCalla and Steve Ouellette, veteran math teachers, this book is designed to help students and educators take full advantage of TI-Nspire CX handheld technology for teaching and learning math and science.

The book simplifies the new technology so that readers can learn everything from how to load the TI-Nspire(TM) Rechargeable Battery to how to view images to graphing, rotating and manipulating 3D functions to better visualize and comprehend math and science concepts. It also details how to use the new TI-Nspire Operating System Version 3.0 that is available for download on all generations of the TI-Nspire handheld. Topics covered in the 2nd Edition of TI-Nspire FOR DUMMIES include:

    --  Learn how it thinks -- understand the philosophy behind TI-Nspire
        technology and set up your handheld
    --  Calculate stuff -- learn to use the Calculator application, entering and
        evaluating expressions and working with variables
    --  Get graphic -- create a wide variety of graphs for visual
        representation, including 3D and differential equations
    --  The object is geometric -- use the Geometry application to construct and
        measure objects
    --  Make a list -- organize, analyze, and display your data with the Lists &
        Spreadsheet application
    --  Statistically speaking -- work with the Data & Statistics application to
        manipulate single- and two-variable data
    --  Note that -- customize documents for greater understanding using the
        Notes application
    --  Check out the software -- see how to get TI-Nspire software for your
        computer, and why you should

About the TI-Nspire CX Handheld

The TI-Nspire family of graphing handhelds is popular among high school and college students as a valuable tool for algebra 1, algebra 2, geometry, calculus, statistics, AP college-level and other advanced math and science courses including physics, chemistry and biology. The TI-Nspire CX handheld includes a slim, sleek profile, 16-bit, 320 x 240 pixel high-resolution, backlit, color display and a rechargeable battery. The TI-Nspire graphing handhelds are allowed on standardized tests, including the SAT*, AP*, PSAT/NSMQT*, IB®, and ACT® college entrance exams, as well as many state standardized tests. For more information on TI-Nspire technology, visit http://www.ti-nspire.com/.

About the Authors

Jeff McCalla teaches Algebra 2 and Pre-Calculus at St. Mary's Episcopal School in Memphis, Tenn. He is a Teachers Teaching with Technology(TM) (T3(TM)) instructor for Texas Instruments and co-founder of the TI-Nspire SuperUser group.

Steve Ouellette is the math department chair at Westwood High School in Westwood, Mass. His credits include being a regular activity writer for the primetime series NUMB3RS companion math program, We All Use Math Every Day. The series ran for five years on CBS. Ouellette authored the first edition of TI-Nspire for Dummies, the CliffsNotes® Guide to TI-Nspire and the CliffsNotes Guide to the TI-Navigator(TM) System.

    TI-Nspire FOR DUMMIES
    Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
    Publication date: June 7, 2011
    $21.99; Paperback; 392 pages; ISBN: 978-1-1180-0466-1

About Texas Instruments

Education Technology, a business of Texas Instruments, provides a wide range of tools connecting the classroom experience with real-world applications, helping students and teachers to explore math and science interactively. TI's products and services are tested vigorously against recognized third-party research, which shows that the use of graphing calculators helps improve the mathematical skills of students and their attitudes toward mathematics. For more information, visit http://www.education.ti.com.

Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) helps customers solve problems and develop new electronics that make the world smarter, healthier, safer, greener and more fun. A global semiconductor company, TI innovates through manufacturing, design and sales operations in more than 30 countries. For more information, visit http://www.ti.com.

*SAT and AP are registered trademarks of the College Entrance Examination Board, which was not involved in the production of and does not endorse these products. PSAT/NSMQT is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board and National Merit Scholarship Corporation, neither of which was involved in the production of, nor do they endorse these products. Visit http://www.collegeboard.com/ for more information. ACT is a registered trademark of ACT, Inc., which was not involved in the production of and does not endorse these products. IB is a registered trademark of the International Baccalaureate Organization, which was not involved in the production of and does not endorse these products. Policies are subject to change.

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CONTACT: Lynn Windle, Media Relations Manager, Texas Instruments, +1-972-339-0328, lwindle@ti.com, or Kim Novino, Bridgeman Communications, +1-617-742-7270, kim@bridgeman.com

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

Sify Technologies Partners With Fortinet to Roll Out Virtualized Network Security Services on its Entire Range of IaaS Offerings

Alliance Underpins an On-Demand Security Solution for Cloud Computing Customers and a Clean Internet Pipe Service for Enterprise Clients

BANGALORE, India, June 14, 2011/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --

    Fortinet(R) (NASDAQ: FTNT) - a leading network security provider and a
worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions - today
announced that it has partnered with Sify Technologies Limited (Nasdaq NM:
SIFY) - a leader in enterprise network and data center services - to
enable the latter to immediately roll out an on-demand security solution to
their cloud computing customers and its Clean Connect service. The services
are designed to guarantee secure bandwidth and clean connectivity to their
enterprise customers. Fortinet's end-to-end virtualization functionality,
available on the FortiGate(R) integrated multi-threat security platforms*,
enables Sify to provision security resources, on-demand, from a shared
appliance while providing an unmatched range of security services quickly
and easily to its customers.

    Sify's On-Demand Security solution offers cloud computing customers the
ability to deploy the security layer on an on-demand basis, therefore
providing complete end-to-end Opex-based services. These cover the areas of
security, WAN edge, unified switching, computing and storage. The solution
allows customers to address data center requirements through virtualization,
and to integrate private and public cloud services into a single
infrastructure.

    Sify's Clean Connect services offer cloud-based UTM functionalities for
customers subscribing to its dedicated Internet access services. Enterprise
administrators can define a set of custom security policies, including
firewall and IPS policies, and Web filtering rules. An online portal reports
security-related activities to customers in real-time and historical logs
and reports are also directly available. Such services help organizations
comply with security standards relative to the cloud.

    Fortinet enables cloud-hosting and service providers to create secure
cloud infrastructures and deliver cloud security services. Fortinet
appliances and chassis-based multi-threat security platforms currently
secure a wide range of public, private, and hybrid cloud infrastructures
around the world. Cloud service providers rely on Fortinet technology to
protect the confidentiality and integrity of their subscribers' data, and to
create and deliver highly available, innovative cloud security services.
FortiGate multi-threat security platforms incorporate the proprietary
Virtual Domain (VDOM) technology, providing secure virtualization of
security services.

    "Sify has effectively utilized Fortinet solutions' virtualization
capabilities, allowing customization of security service offerings down to
the individual customer level, which is so essential for multi-tenant
environments," said Vishak Raman, Regional Director, SAARC & India,
Fortinet. "We will continue to work closely with Sify to deliver
best-in-class security services to enterprises and consumers."

    Sify Technologies recently won the 'Best Product Implementation Award'
at Fortinet's inaugural VIP customer forum in Hong Kong, an event attended
by more than 50 top CIOs and CSOs from India.

    Pranesh Babu, Chief Technology Officer, Sify Technologies, said: "We are
delighted to receive this award, a clear endorsement of our long-standing
and mutually beneficial relationship with Fortinet. We will work hard to
replicate the successes we have had with Fortinet's various solutions to the
Clean Connect services we are launching today."

    About Sify Technologies

    Sify is among the largest Managed Enterprise and Consumer Internet
Services companies in India, offering end-to-end solutions with a
comprehensive range of products delivered over a common telecom data network
infrastructure reaching more than 625 cities and towns in India.

    A significant part of the company's revenue is derived from Corporate
Services, which include corporate connectivity, network and communications
solutions, security, network management services, enterprise applications
and hosting. Sify is a recognized ISO 9001:2008 certified service provider
for network operations, data center operations and customer support, and for
provisioning of VPNs, Internet bandwidth, VoIP solutions and integrated
security solutions, and ISO / IEC 20000 - 1:2005 certified for Internet Data
Center operations. Sify has also established a formidable reputation in the
emerging Cloud Computing market and is today regarded as a thought leader in
the domain. Sify has licenses to operate NLD (National Long Distance) and
ILD (International Long Distance) services and offers VoIP back haul to long
distance subscriber telephony services. The company is India's first
enterprise managed services provider to launch a Security Operations Center
(SOC) to deliver managed security services. A host of blue chip customers
use Sify's corporate service offerings.

    Sify also caters to global markets in the specialized domains of
eLearning Services and Remote Infrastructure Management Services. The
eLearning Services designs, develops and delivers state-of-the-art digital
learning solutions for non-profit, for-profit organizations and governmental
organizations in the fields of Information technology, engineering,
environment, healthcare, education and finance. The Remote Infrastructure
Management Services provides dependable and economical solutions around
managed services, hosting and monitoring.

    Sify Software was established with the cumulative experience gained over
the last decade in infrastructure, Data centre and connectivity business. It
aims to be a solutions company that provides applications and services to
improve business efficiencies of its current clients and prospect client
bases.

    Consumer services include broadband home access and the ePort cyber cafe
chain across more than 200 cities and towns in India. Very recently, Sify
also introduced a whole host of services for the retail consumer on the
Consumer cloud platform, thereby becoming among the first to do so in India.
Sify.com, the popular consumer portal, has channels on news, entertainment,
finance, sports, games and shopping. Samachar.com is the popular portal
aimed at non-resident Indians around the globe. The site's content is
available in 8 Indian languages, which include Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu,
Kannada and Tamil, Punjabi and Gujarati in addition to English.

    For more information about Sify, visit http://www.sifycorp.com.

    Forward Looking Statements

    This press release contains forward-looking statements within the
meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and
Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The
forward-looking statements contained herein are subject to risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from
those reflected in the forward-looking statements. Sify undertakes no duty
to update any forward-looking statements.

    For a discussion of the risks associated with Sify's business, please
see the discussion under the caption "Risk Factors" in the company's Annual
Report on Form 20-F for the year ended March 31, 2010, which has been filed
with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and is available
by accessing the database maintained by the SEC at http://www.sec.gov and
Sify's other reports filed with the SEC.

    About Fortinet (http://www.fortinet.com)

    Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) is a worldwide provider of network security
appliances and the market leader in unified threat management (UTM). Our
products and subscription services provide broad, integrated and
high-performance protection against dynamic security threats while
simplifying the IT security infrastructure. Our customers include
enterprises, service providers and government entities worldwide, including
the majority of the 2009 Fortune Global 100. Fortinet's flagship FortiGate
product delivers ASIC-accelerated performance and integrates multiple layers
of security designed to help protect against application and network
threats. Fortinet's broad product line goes beyond UTM to help secure the
extended enterprise - from endpoints, to the perimeter and the core,
including databases and applications. Fortinet is headquartered in
Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices around the world.

    Copyright (c) 2011 Fortinet, Inc. All rights reserved. The symbols (R)
and ? denote respectively federally registered trademarks and unregistered
trademarks of Fortinet, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliates. Fortinet's
trademarks include, but are not limited to, the following: Fortinet,
FortiGate, FortiGuard, FortiManager, FortiMail, FortiClient, FortiCare,
FortiAnalyzer, FortiReporter, FortiOS, FortiASIC, FortiWiFi, FortiSwitch,
FortiVoIP, FortiBIOS, FortiLog, FortiResponse, FortiCarrier, FortiScan,
FortiAP, FortiDB and FortiWeb. Other trademarks belong to their respective
owners. All statements other than statements of historical fact are
statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Fortinet assumes
no obligation to update any forward-looking statements in the event actual
results differ, and does not intend to update these forward-looking
statements.

    * with the exception of the FortiGate-30B appliance.

   
    For further information on Sify technologies, please contact:
    Sify Technologies Limited
    Praveen Krishna
    Corporate Communications
    +91-44-22540777 (extn.2055)
    praveen.krishna@sifycorp.com

    Kasturi Bashyam
    Investor Relations
    +91-44-2254-0777 (ext. 2114)
    Kasturi.bashyam@sifycorp.com

    Grayling Investor Relations
    Truc Nguyen (ext. 418)
    Christopher Chu (ext. 426)
    +1-646-284-9400
    truc.nguyen@grayling.com
    christopher.chu@grayling.com

    For further information on Fortinet, please contact:
    EXL Public Relations for  Fortinet
    Vandana Rathore Poria
    Cell No - +91(0)9902012040
    vandana@exlpr.com

Source: Sify Technologies Limited

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Next Island Releases First Game Content Created In-House

NEW YORK, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Next Island, a free to play MMO today released its first originally produced, in-house content for its game on the Entropia Universe platform. The unique content will provide players with the most user-friendly starter experience possible.

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"After nearly three years of development, we have created activities, quests and gameplay that are in sync with our vision," said David Post, creator and founder of Next Island, in his announcement.

In Next Island, players take on the role of a scientific pioneer, following the ideals of the original paradise, Elysium on Earth. Players have to use their wits, creativity and technology to survive the dangers and solve the mysteries of Next Island.

The first mystery involves searching for missing Elysians, who had time traveled back in Ancient Greece. This time travel destination will offer new characters and challenges and become a destination for Next Island players. In future development, more of the backstory will be revealed to players as will other travel destinations.

Next Island offers a real cash economy on its platform. Players can go on quests, craft virtual items, set up shops, own property, hunt, swim and explore. There are also music venues like Club Neverdie, they can take in comedy at Caroline's, audition for the first virtual reality show "Avatarette."

Next Island is a free to download, free to play MMO/virtual world developed on the Swedish-based Entropia Universe platform. Founded by David Post and initially developed at Neverdie Studios, Next Island attracts casual online gamers and passionate MMO players alike with an unique blend of social gameplay, challenges, time travel, engaging story and backstory and real cash economy.

For further information, go to NextIsland.com, download assets from NextIsland.com/Press, connect with us at Facebook.com/NextIsland or follow @nextisland on Twitter.

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CONTACT: David Post, Chairman, +1-212-452-1234

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

ZL Technologies Uses Enterprise Cloud Platform from SunGard Availability Services to Deliver Software-as-a-Service Solution

WAYNE, Pa., June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ZL Technologies is leveraging Enterprise Cloud Services from SunGard Availability Services to deliver a new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering.  SunGard's Enterprise Cloud Services is helping ZL to broaden its customer reach without the need to build and staff new, costly IT infrastructure.

SunGard's Enterprise Cloud Services is an on-demand, enterprise-class solution which provides fully managed, virtual private data centers to support ZL's Unified Archive® production applications.  SunGard's fully managed Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering provides multiple layers of protection, including redundant firewalls, segregated Layer 2 networking and integrated virtual private network (VPN) connectivity, which were critical requirements for ZL's environment. SunGard's managed approach offers ZL systems monitoring, patching, backup, maintenance and trouble resolution, to help reduce its provisioning burden and IT administrative demands. 

"SunGard's Enterprise Cloud Services provide a highly secure and resilient platform based on IT security best practices and architected for compliance - features that address our customers' demanding enterprise environments," said Stephen Chan, co-founder and vice president, business development at ZL Technologies.  "SunGard is helping us break a major price barrier by moving our production solutions to a cloud-based, multi-tenant platform - allowing us to reshape the economics of enterprise records management, archiving, and e-discovery solutions."

SunGard's Enterprise Cloud Services will help boost the flexibility ZL can provide customers.  For instance, ZL can now offer a customer an application environment for testing without committing to a new supporting IT infrastructure.  Also, ZL customers involved in litigation typically need on-demand usage for records management and e-discovery processes and the SunGard Enterprise Cloud Services environment allows them to ramp up processing and storage quickly to handle the data surge.

"We looked at a number of competing cloud solutions and selected SunGard because it was the best fit in helping us make a Software-as-a-Service model work.  Essential to this model is SunGard's flexible and elastic pricing that allows us to pay for IT infrastructure from operating expenditures rather than capital expenditures," said Mr. Chan.

According to Rob Walters, vice president, product management, managed services, at SunGard Availability Services, "ZL Technologies provides a great example of how companies can transform with cloud computing services. The cloud is helping ZL bring its offerings to new customers that are attracted to the economics of a SaaS offering."

Click here to visit SunGard's Cloud Computing Microsite containing videos, case studies and a host of cloud computing information.

About ZL Technologies

Established in 1999, ZL Technologies, Inc. (ZL) provides cutting-edge enterprise software solutions for e-mail and files archiving for regulatory compliance, litigation support, corporate governance, and storage management. ZL's Unified Archive®, offers a single unified platform to provide all the above capabilities, while maintaining a single copy and a unified policy across the enterprise. With a proven track record and enterprise clients which include top global institutions in finance and industry, ZL has emerged as the specialized provider of large-scale email archiving for E-Discovery and compliance. For more information, please visit http://www.zlti.com.

About SunGard Availability Services

SunGard Availability Services provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software to 10,000 customers in North America and Europe.  With five million square feet of datacenter and operations space, SunGard assists IT organizations across virtually all industry and government sectors to prepare for and recover from emergencies by helping them minimize their computer downtime and optimize their uptime. Through direct sales and channel partners, we help organizations ensure their people and customers have uninterrupted access to the information systems they need in order to do business. To learn more, visit http://www.sungardas.com or call 1-800-468-7483.

About SunGard

SunGard is one of the world's leading software and technology services companies.  SunGard has more than 20,000 employees and serves 25,000 customers in 70 countries.  SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector.  SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software.  With annual revenue about $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 380 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and IT services company. For more information, visit http://www.sungard.com.

Trademark Information: SunGard and SunGard logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of SunGard Data Systems Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. All other trade names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

SOURCE  SunGard Availability Services

SunGard Availability Services

CONTACT: Marifran Manzo-Ritchie, director, Marketing Communications, SunGard Availability Services, +1-484-582-2441, marifran.manzoritchie@sungard.com

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

Charm Communications Strengthens Performance Marketing Expertise through Acquisition of Leading Chinese Search Engine Marketing Firm ClickPro

BEIJING, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Charm Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: CHRM)  ("Charm"), a leading advertising agency in China, announced today that it has acquired a 60% stake in privately-held ClickPro (http://www.clickpro.cn), a leading Chinese performance and search engine marketing ("SEM") firm with proprietary technology and full-service capabilities, through an all-cash transaction expected to close in the third quarter of 2011. The newly acquired group will strengthen Charm's performance marketing platform by integrating with Charm's existing search and performance marketing business, which operates under Charm's digital marketing agency Charm Interactive, to form Charm's fourth major brand, Charm Click.

ClickPro is a leading SEM firm in China with a proprietary platform linked to Baidu and Google and full-service capabilities for SEM campaigns. ClickPro's performance marketing services and technologies have attracted a number of leading Chinese and international companies including SINA, 51job.com, PayPal, Estee Lauder, Air China, Gap and Li Ning. Additionally, the company has developed and maintained a client software paid-search optimization product used on Taobao, the largest online retail website in China with more than 50 million unique visitors daily. ClickPro has 58 employees, including 12 engineers, with offices in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou. The company was founded in 2007 by founder, general manager and SEM pioneer Mr. Johnny Honggang Zhu, along with other former Google China and eBay China employees. While at Google China, Mr. Zhu developed and trained the company's first SEM team and headed sales support for its key accounts following his role as senior marketing director and head of digital marketing activities at eBay China. Mr. Zhu will lead Charm Click and report directly to Charm Communications Founder, Chairman and CEO, Mr. He Dang.

Mr. Dang commented on the acquisition, "The acquisition of ClickPro is a strategic step in expanding our digital service capabilities and enhancing our SEM platform as we aim to become the number one performance marketing agency in China. China's SEM industry is in an early stage of development with over 50% annual growth expected from 2010-2014 according to iResearch. We believe the acquisition provides us the best team and technology to capitalize on the industry's growth potential while meeting our clients' increasing demand for performance marketing. As we further develop our SEM and open application services and technologies for leading websites like Baidu and Taobao, Charm's integrated advertising platform and large client base combined with ClickPro's proprietary platform and leading SEM operations will bolster Charm Click's ability to conduct integrated and targeted marketing campaigns on behalf of advertisers."

Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates" and similar statements. All statements other than statements of historical fact in this press release are forward-looking statements and involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections about the Company and the industry in which the Company operates, but involve a number of unknown risks and uncertainties. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in Charm's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its registration statement on Form F-1. The Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent occurring events or circumstances, or changes in its expectations, except as may be required by law. Although the Company believes that the expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cannot assure you that such expectations will turn out to be correct, and actual results may differ materially from the anticipated results. You are urged to consider these factors carefully in evaluating the forward-looking statements contained herein and are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which are qualified in their entirety by these cautionary statements.

About Charm

Charm Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: CHRM) is a leading advertising agency in China. Charm operates its business under three brands: Charm Advertising, Charm Interactive, and Shangxing Media. Under the Charm Advertising and Charm Interactive brands, Charm offers integrated advertising agency services from planning and managing advertising campaigns to creating and placing advertisements. Under the Shangxing Media brand, Charm has established a portfolio of television advertising media resources through its exclusive arrangements with premium national television channels, which include not only advertising time but also opportunities for placing branded content. Charm's clients include well-recognized brand names in China across many industries, as well as emerging domestic leading brands. In January 2010, Charm formed a consolidated joint venture with international 4A advertising group Aegis Media, its strategic investor, to operate its brand "Vizeum" in China. In October 2010, Charm also entered into agreement to establish a joint venture with Wasu Digital Group to operate all advertising-related businesses across Wasu's IPTV, 3G mobile TV and broadband TV network platforms. For more information please go to http://ir.charmgroup.cn.

    For investor and media
     inquiries, please contact:

    In China:

    IR Department
    Charm Communications Inc.
    Phone: +86-10-6581-3885
    Email: ir@charmgroup.cn

    In the U.S.:

    Ms. Jessica Barist Cohen
    Ogilvy Financial, New York
    Phone: +1-646-460-9989
    Email: chrm@ogilvy.com

SOURCE  Charm Communications Inc.

Charm Communications Inc.

Web Site: http://www.clickpro.cn

Savvis Markets Infrastructure Provides Financial Services Community with Customized IT and Connectivity Solutions

New Model Allows for Tailoring of Cloud, Colocation and Managed Hosting and Access to Market Data, Execution Venues and Trading Partners

ST. LOUIS, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Savvis, Inc. (NASDAQ: SVVS), a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises, today announced the launch of the initial phase of Savvis Markets Infrastructure, which allows financial services companies to customize IT and connectivity solutions to fit their needs.

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"The flexible technology and commercial model of Savvis Markets Infrastructure allows clients to tailor solutions incorporating a broad range of capabilities, from colocation to managed hosting to cloud, with supplementary compute, storage, security and network services," said Varghese Thomas, global head of financial services for Savvis. "The community also benefits from cost-effective connectivity to market data, execution venues, trading partners and service providers across Savvis' global high-performance, low-latency managed network.

"The purpose-built solutions made possible by Savvis Markets Infrastructure allow firms to focus their IT resources on their own core competencies, in order to differentiate market offerings and deftly respond to future requirements as they arise," Thomas said.

Developed in response to market requests, Savvis Markets Infrastructure introduces a new commercial model for financial services. Future scheduled releases will deliver enhanced network and latency management tools, providing additional operational insight for all market participants.

Leading financial services organizations across the globe -- encompassing buy-side, sell-side, liquidity venues and solutions providers -- rely on Savvis as the foundation for their trading and IT solutions. Savvis' global footprint of 32 data centers and ultra-low latency and resilient network connectivity - the core capabilities of Savvis Markets Infrastructure - underpin these solutions, reinforced by a depth of experience in supporting the financial markets.

A number of the world's leading liquidity venues -- including traditional equities and derivatives exchanges, alternative trading venues such as dark pools and crossing networks, foreign exchange and fixed-income electronic communication networks -- already trust Savvis to host their trading systems and matching infrastructure.

For more information about Savvis Markets Infrastructure, visit http://www.savvis.com/financial.

About Savvis

Savvis, Inc. (NASDAQ: SVVS) is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises. Nearly 2,500 unique clients, including more than 30 of the top 100 companies in the Fortune 500, use Savvis to reduce capital expense, improve service levels and harness the latest advances in cloud computing. For more information, please visit http://www.savvis.com.

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Savvis, Inc.

CONTACT: Media, Justin Lopinot, +1-314-628-7053, justin.lopinot@savvis.com

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

chumby and Pace Unveil chumby apps for TV Market

Partnership Underscores Significant TV-ready Content Opportunity

CHICAGO, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cable Show -- chumby industries, a software company that provides a personalized Internet experience to a multitude of connected devices, and Pace, a leading global developer of digital TV technologies, will unveil chumby apps on Pace set-top boxes at the Pace booth (#649) at The Cable Show, June 14-16 in Chicago.

As part of the demonstration, Pace will showcase chumby applications for televisions, a service chumby offers in addition to its own branded hardware devices, Android application, and partner devices including the Sony Dash and Best Buy's Insignia Infocast. chumby's cloud-based ecosystem of content is flexible across screen size and device type, making the chumby platform a natural fit for services available through your TV and set-top box. The chumby platform currently offers users access to more than 1,500 applications, ranging from music and social networking sites, news and entertainment gossip, photo viewing, video clips and sports scores.

Tim O'Loughlin, SVP sales and customer support, Pace, commented that: "The idea of keeping customers pervasively connected to the content they want is something both Pace and chumby share, and we look forward to working closely with them to make this a reality."

"With new categories of connected devices entering the market at a growing rate, chumby's cloud-managed app ecosystem provides an ideal library of content for companies looking to offer personalized information and content to their users across any screen," said Derrick Oien, CEO of chumby industries. "As the global leader in digital TV technology and the set-top box market, Pace is an ideal partner to unveil our TV platform."

chumby apps represents the next phase in the company's evolution to wirelessly stream chumby content to any connected device.

About chumby industries

chumby industries, based in San Diego, California, is a software company that works with consumer electronics OEMs to bring a rich and personalized Internet experience to a multitude of connected products, ranging from devices as simple as clock radios to high-definition televisions. The open chumby platform enables developers to easily create Flash content for chumby-powered devices resulting in a constantly growing catalog of more than 1,500 applications. For more information visit chumby.com or follow us on twitter @chumby and facebook.com/chumby.

About Pace plc

Pace plc (LSE:PIC) is a leading technology developer for the global pay TV industry, working across satellite, cable, IPTV and terrestrial platforms. Pace has one of the world's most experienced specialist engineering teams, developing intelligent and innovative products and services for both pay TV operators and retail markets across the world. Pace employs over 2000 people in locations that include the UK, the USA, France, India and China. Pace's international headquarters are in Saltaire, West Yorkshire, UK.

SOURCE  chumby industries

chumby industries

CONTACT: Debra Benson, +1-310-228-1300, debra@illumepr.com

BelAir Networks New 3rd Generation Cable Wi-Fi Solutions Light Up The Park at The Cable Show 2011

Cablevision and Bright House Networks Execs join BelAir Networks CEO onstage to share Cable Wi-Fi best practices

CHICAGO, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cable Show 2011 -- With tens of 1000's of Cable Wi-Fi APs deployed worldwide, and US operators clearly in the lead, The Cable Show 2011 is featuring live BelAir Networks Cable Wi-Fi in The Park area of the exhibit floor as well as a "Cable Wi-Fi: Broadband to Go" panel comprised of senior execs from Cablevision, Bright House Networks and BelAir Networks (Tuesday, June 14, 1:30 PM).

The Park concept is new at The Cable Show 2011.  Incorporating a live-events stage in a park-like setting on the exhibit floor (booth #2231), The Park highlights the cable industry's broadband innovation and leadership.  The live Cable Wi-Fi network in The Park is powered by the new BelAir100SNE, BelAir Networks 3rd generation Cable Wi-Fi solution comprising a number of industry firsts, including:

    --  First cable-optimized Wi-Fi access point (AP) with standards-based
        beamforming
    --  First GPS-enabled Wi-Fi AP designed to support location-based
        advertising and services
    --  First Wi-Fi AP with integrated Business Intelligence (BI) features
        providing operators with real-time and historical, location-based and
        time of day user, device and traffic data

The new BelAir20E indoor Wi-Fi AP will also be running live at BelAir Networks booth #1830.

"Since the introduction of the iPhone, there has been phenomenal growth in both the number and type of Wi-Fi enabled devices such as smart phones and tablets.  Cable operators have played a leading role in this global trend by delivering a great mobile broadband service to their customers with BelAir Networks Cable Wi-Fi," said Bernard Herscovich, President and CEO, BelAir Networks.  "BelAir Networks latest generation of indoor and outdoor Cable Wi-Fi products deliver key industry innovations while continuing to harness the power, mounting and backhaul assets inherent in the HFC network and integrating with the cable operator's existing back end systems."

More information on the BelAir100SNE and BelAir20E is available at BelAir Networks booth #1830 at The Cable Show 2011, McCormick Place, Chicago, IL June 14-16, 2011.

About BelAir Networks

BelAir Networks wireless solutions are deployed by the world's leading service providers including Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cablevision and AT&T. The company's portfolio of indoor and outdoor access points (AP) and picocell base stations, control and management systems enable service providers to build scalable, high performance wireless networks for 3G/4G data offload, city hotzones, and Wi-Fi coverage for large venues, special events and retail chains.  Innovative mobile and cable operators use BelAir Networks to drive revenue, improve competitiveness and deliver a great mobile broadband user experience.  BelAir Networks is a privately held company with Tier 1 carrier customers and backed by investment from Comcast Interactive Capital, T-Mobile Venture Fund and leading venture capital firms including Trilogy Equity Partners. For more information, visit http://www.belairnetworks.com.

SOURCE  BelAir Networks

BelAir Networks

CONTACT: Sheila Burpee Duncan, BelAir Networks, +1-613-254-7070 ext. 134, sburpeeduncan@belairnetworks.com

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

ActiveVideo to Show HTML5 Apps on CloudTV Platform:  Expands HTML5 Ecosystem to Cable

CHICAGO, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ActiveVideo Networks(TM), creators of CloudTV(TM), the cloud-based app platform, will demonstrate how HTML5 applications can be delivered to any digital set-top box or video streaming decoder at The Cable Show this week.

At its exhibit (Suite ES-8) during the June 14-16 show, ActiveVideo will show how the ability of CloudTV to bring HTML5 apps to the television significantly expands content opportunities for multichannel video service providers and creates new markets for Web developers.

"The role of HTML5 in enabling many of the most compelling user experiences delivered by Google Chrome and Apple Safari browsers and its growing use for multimedia and graphical content have rapidly increased the importance of HTML5 authoring tools for the development community," said John Callahan, CTO of ActiveVideo Networks.  "Ultimately, our goal is to make it easy for content developers and network operators to overcome set-top box constraints and quickly reach mass audiences with cutting edge user experiences via the CloudTV platform."

Available on millions of screens, CloudTV leverages content stored, processed and rendered entirely in the network cloud to significantly expand the reach and availability of rich, Web-based user experiences. Navigation interfaces and other applications are delivered as a single, adaptable bandwidth video stream to the set-top box or connected device, which simply passes user keyclicks from standard remote controls, smartphones or tablets back through to the cloud with very low latency. 

The CloudTV architecture offers a variety of benefits for all stakeholders, including: the ability to run rich applications uniformly on any connected digital device, regardless of processing power; the elimination of the need for more expensive processing and storage capabilities in the end-user device; a "One Platform" approach in which a limitless array of content and applications can be written once and delivered to any STB; and the minimization of software bugs by streaming -- rather than downloading -- content to the TV.  In addition, multichannel video providers can use CloudTV to achieve accelerated time-to-market for a rich array of services and applications, to enhance EBIF and also to deploy multiple user interfaces in any given market.  For consumers, placing the intelligence in the network, and not in the home, ensures availability of the widest diversity of applications on any set-top box.

About ActiveVideo Networks

ActiveVideo Networks(TM) has created CloudTV(TM), a new apps platform that enables the development and streaming of Smart TV apps to any screen, box, or device.  The CloudTV approach of placing the intelligence in the network, not the device, powers an open development and publishing environment for content creators and service providers to quickly and easily create new television experiences for their viewers.  CloudTV simply and efficiently allows limitless content - including TV Apps, web-to-TV apps, personalized iVOD navigation, , social media sharing and recommendations - to be delivered uniformly to every cable and IPTV set-top and CI+ enabled television. ActiveVideo Networks is based in the heart of Silicon Valley, with additional offices in Los Angeles and Hilversum, the Netherlands. For more information, visit http://www.activevideo.com; find us at http://www.facebook.com/ActiveVideoNetworks; follow us at http://www.twitter.com/activevideo; view our videos at http://www.youtube.com/AVCloudTV.

SOURCE  ActiveVideo Networks

ActiveVideo Networks

CONTACT: Paul Schneider, PSPR, Inc., +1-215-702-9784 (Office), +1-215-817-4384 (mobile), pspr@att.net; Joe Paone, Bee Elevated Communication, LLC, +1-215-495-3235, BeeElevated@gmail.com

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

Spin Master and Mind Candy Partner to Offer Moshi Monsters Toys Exclusively at Toys"R"Us Stores Nationwide and Online at Toysrus.com

15 Million Children in North America Will Soon Be Able Get Their Hands on "Real" Monsters!

NEW YORK, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Mind Candy, one of the world's fastest growing social online gaming companies,today announced the upcoming U.S. launch of an official toy line based on its safe online social networking platform for children, Moshi Monsters. The product assortment, which will be available exclusively at Toys"R"Us stores nationwide and online at Toysrus.com in late July, will feature six adorable plush Moshi Monsters characters, as well as 32 Moshling minifigures manufactured by Spin Master Ltd.

"We know that web-savvy kids want to enjoy tangible experiences with their favorite virtual properties, and the Moshi Monsters toy line delivers these experiences in a big way," said Richard Barry, Vice President, General Merchandise Manager, Toys"R"Us, U.S. "We are thrilled to be the only U.S. retailer to provide kids the opportunity to bring Moshi Monsters into the physical world."

Moshi Monsters is a new form of children's entertainment. The website (http://www.moshimonsters.com), which forms the heart of the experience, combines adoptable pet monsters, safe social networking, stories, games, missions, virtual interaction and educational puzzles. The site has become hugely successful over the last year, growing at the rate of one new registration every second - with the fastest growth across North America. Recently, Moshi Monsters welcomed its 50 millionth registered user worldwide.

To offer young fans and customers a fully integrated experience, the toys will include secret codes that can be used to retrieve virtual items for adopted Moshi Monsters, as well as special trial memberships. Additional categories will include trading cards produced by Topps and books from Scholastic, Inc.

"With the amazing success that the brand has seen globally thus far, we're excited to generate further awareness of this engaging virtual world in North America by delivering this new, exciting toy line," said Dave Colebrook, VP Marketing at Spin Master. "We designed the product assortment to serve as a natural extension of the Moshi Monsters brand and to help bring the fun of Monstro City, its Monsters and its Moshlings to life with plush, minifigures and more."

Players choose from one of six virtual pet monsters - Furi, Poppet, Diavlo, Zommer, Luvli and Katsuma - that they can create, name and nurture. Once their pet has been customized, players can navigate their way around Monstro City, taking the daily puzzle challenge to earn 'Rox' (virtual currency), playing games, solving Super Moshi Missions, personalizing their room, showing off their artwork, reading stories and communicating with friends in a safe environment. Additionally, the monsters' pets, called 'Moshlings', are proving to be highly collectible both on and off the screen.

"Moshi Monsters is doing phenomenally well on a global basis, but we are seeing our fastest growth right now in North America with over 15 million registered users," said Michael Acton Smith, CEO and founder of Mind Candy. "We're hugely excited to bring Moshi Monsters toys to North America, and Toys"R"Us is the perfect home for the brand - we can't wait to see the reaction from our fans."

The U.K. licensing program launched successfully in January with sell-out ranges of toys from Vivid and books from Penguin Publishing. The official Moshi Monsters magazine, launched in February 2011, is now the largest selling U.K. kids title. Mind Candy is currently in discussions regarding TV, music, live tours and a Moshi movie.

About Mind Candy

Online gaming and entertainment company, Mind Candy was founded by internet entrepreneur Michael Acton Smith (CEO) in 2004. The company created Moshi Monsters, which has over 50m players around the world and is now expanding rapidly offline into books, toys, trading cards, TV and film.  Mind Candy's first project was the Transmedia game Perplex City that played out across different media including websites, text messages, magazines, live events, skywriting and multiple helicopters.  Prior to Mind Candy, Michael co-founded Firebox.com (online retailer of gadgets, games and gifts), Berwickstock (boutique music festival) and Second Chance Tuesday (events to connect technology investors with entrepreneurs).

About Moshi Monsters(TM)

Designed for kids aged 6-12yrs, Moshi Monsters is a free-to-play, fun-filled world of adoptable pet monsters, combining safe social interaction with games, missions and educational puzzles.

Over 50 million monsters have been created to date and over two million new players are joining each month making Moshi Monsters one of the world's fastest growing children's sites in the world! To date, more than 380m educational puzzles have been played and over one million virtual items are sold each day! For more information visit http://www.moshimonsters.com

About Spin Master Ltd.

A multi-category children's entertainment company since 1994, Spin Master has been designing, developing, manufacturing and marketing consumer products for children around the world and is recognized as a global growth leader within the toy industry. Spin Master is best known for such popular brands as boy's action phenomena and 2010 Boys Toy of the Year winner Bakugan Battle Brawlers(TM), and award-winning brands Air Hogs®, Aquadoodle(TM), Tech Deck(TM), Moon Sand(TM), Liv(TM), and Zoobles(TM). The company has also marked an entry into children's media with the launch of Spin Master Entertainment, a subsidiary focusing on the design, development and production of television and other media properties. Spin Master employs over 900 people with offices in Toronto, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Hong Kong, Mexico, Munich, and central Europe. For additional information please visit: http://www.spinmaster.com

SOURCE  Mind Candy

Mind Candy

CONTACT: Nicola Duarte, Head of PR, Mind Candy, nicola@mindcandy.com, +44 207 501 1926, M: +44 7810 354103, Twitter: @nics_duarte; North American PR: Rob Fleischer, Sandbox Strategies, rob@sandboxstrat.com, +1-212-213-2451 x222

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

Bionic Cigs - 50% Off All Electronic Cigarettes Through July

CARSON CITY, Nev., June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Rapid Fire Marketing (RFMK -Pink OTC) - Announced today that The Company is offering a 50% discount on all electronic cigarettes and accessories at http://www.BionicCigs.com throughout the month of July. The Company has extended this offer as a way of saying "Thanks" to our loyal shareholders and customers for their patience during the disruption of our internet credit card processing system.

Electronic cigarettes are often categorized as "tobacco products" by merchant processing companies such as Pay Pal, and therefore do not offer processing services to companies selling these products. The Company's former processing company has now been replaced and will be accepting credit card transactions through the Company's website within days. "The Company's Management has been extremely frustrated with the disruption in service for what was supposed to be a seamless transition," stated Mike Amezquita, President. "I would like to offer a personal apology for any inconvenience it has caused and offer all our customers half price on all inventory of Bionic Cigs through July," he concluded.

The Company is applying significant marketing resources to the sales and branding of Bionic Cigs by sponsoring televised sporting events, increasing individual distributors throughout the nation and launching an aggressive internet marketing campaign. With electronic cigarette sales reaching all-time highs, The Company is strategically seeking to gain market-share and brand awareness at the ground floor of an exploding industry. 

http://www.BionicCigs.com

Safe Harbor:

From time to time, the Company may issue news releases that contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and is subject to the safe harbor created by those sections. This material may contain statements about expected future events and/or financial results that are forward-looking in nature and subject to risks and uncertainties. For those statements, the Company claims the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statement provisions contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and any amendments thereto. Any statements that express or involve discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, goals, assumptions, or future events or performance are not statements of historical fact and may be "forward-looking statements." "Forward-looking statements" are based upon expectations, estimates and projections at the time the statements are made that involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those anticipated.

SOURCE  Rapid Fire Marketing

Rapid Fire Marketing

CONTACT: Investor Relations, +1-760-635-3633, Contact@BionicCigs.com, for Rapid Fire Marketing

Web Site: http://bioniccigs.com

NetSuite and Burr Pilger Mayer Partner to Launch New Cloud Computing Practice

California's Top Public Accounting Firm to Deploy NetSuite's Cloud ERP Suites

LAS VEGAS, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- AICPA Practitioners Symposium and TECH+ Conference -- NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), the industry's leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, today announced a systems integrator (SI) partnership with Burr Pilger Mayer (BPM), the largest California-based accounting and consulting firm. This partnership gives BPM the foundation to build a cloud integration practice focused on implementing and supporting NetSuite's cloud computing global business management suites, as well as building vertical SuiteApps for the NetSuite SuiteCloud platform, serving companies in vertical fields spanning manufacturing, technology, retail, professional services and life sciences. For more information about NetSuite partnerships, please visit http://bit.ly/NetSuitePartnerProgram.

Partnering with NetSuite gives BPM an immediate presence in the rapidly expanding cloud computing industry, a world-class development platform as well as a superior line-up of cloud business management solutions, including NetSuite's core integrated suite that combines ERP / financials, customer relationship management (CRM) and Ecommerce software, and NetSuite OneWorld - a cloud computing solution which enables multinational and multi-subsidiary companies to manage their global financial consolidation and business operations in real-time.

The new practice leverages BPM's extensive business process domain knowledge and understanding of clients' critical business processes to deliver best-in-class implementation services and support. NetSuite OneWorld, a solution that enables companies to lower costs, operate more efficiently and compete globally, complements BPM's global international tax and consulting businesses that have a strong focus on California-based businesses and their international operations. In addition, NetSuite's powerful, proven cloud computing platform provides vast possibilities to BPM's IT services group that has built trusted relationships with major clients for more than 20 years. NetSuite's integrated Ecommerce functionality can enable BPM to rapidly expand its Ecommerce offerings to a wide client base in technology, retail, and distribution. The new practice is expected to deliver NetSuite solutions to both public and private companies seeking a modern, comprehensive, cloud-based approach to financials, ERP and CRM. BPM's Cloud Integration Practice also includes a dedicated team to develop in-depth customizations and NetSuite Applications (SuiteApps) to meet clients' unique requirements and creates substantial new ongoing revenue streams for BPM.

BPM recognized the limitations of its existing on-premise ERP technology partners and the significant customer demand for the flexibility and efficiency of modern cloud computing solutions. After thorough research, NetSuite rose to the top as the obvious choice for their cloud computing partnership. NetSuite has long been the solution of choice for companies looking to modernize their business operating platforms, particularly those firms with global aspirations. With extensive multi-currency, multi-language and multi-subsidiary support as well as unparalleled support for complex processes such as revenue recognition management, NetSuite and BPM can offer more powerful solutions to customers, with just a fraction of the implementation cost and IT overhead of conventional on-premise software. NetSuite's unrivalled international inventory management and demand planning should be of keen interest to BPM customers seeking efficiencies in those areas.

Today, more than 10,000 companies and subsidiaries depend on NetSuite to run complex, mission-critical business processes in the cloud globally. Since its inception in 1998, NetSuite has established itself as the leading provider of enterprise-class cloud ERP solutions for divisions of large enterprises and mid-sized organizations seeking to upgrade their antiquated client/server ERP systems. As demonstrated by the 2011 CODiE Award for Best Financial Management Solution as well as a recent Gartner study naming NetSuite as the fastest growing financial management systems vendor in the world, NetSuite has continued its success in delivering the best cloud businesses solutions to businesses around the world, enabling them to lower IT costs significantly while increasing productivity as the global adoption of the cloud is accelerating.

"The combination of BPM and NetSuite brings together some of the brightest minds in Northern California to solve the problems of today's growing global businesses," said Jim McGeever, NetSuite COO. "The combination of NetSuite's unparalleled cloud computing platform and BPM's trusted accountants and consultants can deliver immediate value to new joint customers in a dozen industries."

Burr Pilger Mayer is one of the largest accounting firms on the West Coast, the largest in California by number of employees, and is ranked the 44th largest accounting and consulting firm in the country according to the 2010 Accounting Today "Top 100 Firms." With six offices throughout Northern California, an office in Hong Kong and clients on multiple continents, BPM has been delivering internationally recognized accounting and consulting services to clients for 25 years. BPM also has one of the largest international tax practices on the West Coast and currently plans to expand rapidly over the next 18-36 months.

"We knew that our new Cloud Integration Practice needed to be anchored by a partner that would provide stability, scalability, and a wide range of vertical market solutions. Only NetSuite was able to meet our demands and the demands of our customers to run their international business on a single, powerful solution," said Steve Mayer, President and CEO of BPM. "We look forward to delivering more value to our regional and international clientele with the power and flexibility of NetSuite solutions, which perfectly complement our 25 years' experience as trusted advisors to companies around the world."

Follow NetSuite's Cloud blog, NetSuite's Facebook page and @NetSuite Twitter handle for real-time updates.

For more information about NetSuite, please visit http://www.netsuite.com.

NOTE: NetSuite and the NetSuite logo are registered service marks of NetSuite Inc.

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NetSuite Inc.

CONTACT: Mei Li of NetSuite Inc., +1-650-627-1063, meili@netsuite.com

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

Kiwibox.com Launches the U.S. Version of Pixunity.com, a Photo Blogging Community

NEW YORK, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- KIWIBOX.COM, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: KIWB.OB) -Kiwibox.com, a New York City based social network, proudly announces the unveiling of the U.S. version of photo blogging community Pixunity, a division of Kiwibox.com. Pixunity, already established in the European market, was purchased by Kiwibox.com in the first quarter of 2011. The now translated, exciting and internationally focused photo blog website is set to enter the domestic U.S. market and take social networking by storm; with an array of creative templates and designs users can easily bind memories through photo books to share with friends, family and the online community.

Themed templates allow users to capture the essence of their favorite vacation, holiday or priceless moments from everyday lifestyles and turn photo-sharing into a showcase of life's fondest memories. With themes for every occasion, Pixunity's breadth and depth of offerings lets users stretch their creativity and make photographic masterpieces. Enhancing interactivity of the photo blog, Pixunity offers digital scrapbooking features such as additional images, borders, text options and backgrounds which customize the photo blog to match the sentiment and brilliance in the pictures each photo book holds.

The global photo sharing community continues to rapidly grow, and as mobile applications such as Pixable and Instagram continue to provide a variety of graphic options for which to take photos, Pixunity stands to benefit from their photo brilliance with a platform to house and enhance what today is considered standard digital photography. As printed photography is displaced more and more by digital prints (to the tune of a 250% annual growth rate in this market), digital cameras and technologies have reached a foothold in 81 percent of U.S. households (camera sales grew 10.4 percent to reach 121.4 million units for 2010). Consumers in the United States created approximately 13.9 billion digital prints in 2010, and an expected, greater growth in 2011 plays directly into Pixunity's core capabilities which will provide the digital community with a high definition photo blogging experience.

Kiwibox.com believes in the future of photo book communities, and will therefore build off of the successful launch of Pixunity's U.S. version with future enhancements. Kiwibox continues to showcase its bevy of offerings as both ground breaking and highly interactive, providing its growing user base digital channels to explore, connect and party, not available to social media networks before.

As the global photo community continues to expand, the success of photo blogging with Pixunity will have both a positive technical and behavioral impact on the Kiwibox.com network.

About Kiwibox.com: Company History

Kiwibox.com was initially founded in 1999 to give teenagers a voice on the internet and was a leader in the teen oriented world for several years. In August 2007, the company was bought by Magnitude Information Systems, Inc., a publicly listed company. In 2008, the company launched a new version, Kiwibox 2.0 and in October 2009 the company launched Kiwibox 3.0, shifting its audience focus from teenagers to young adults. In the first quarter of 2011, Kiwibox.com began running its photo sharing technology, pixunity.de, by virtue of its acquisition of certain assets from the German company, Brand & Nobel.The new platform brings the community to the next level with the latest social network technology. On December 31, 2009, Kiwibox Media Inc. merged with Magnitude Information Systems and changed its name to Kiwibox.com, Inc. the New York-based social network. Kiwibox common shares are listed for trading on the over-the-counter, Bulletin Board under the symbol KIWB.OB.

This press release contains certain statements relating to future results, which are forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from either historical or anticipated results, depending on a variety of factors, which include but are not limited to, statements regarding the company's potential acquisitions, its ability to obtain financing for these acquisitions, its ability to integrate any acquisition into its business and operations and manage such processes, and its ability to expand its membership, users and internet brand. The company's actual results could differ materially from those predicted or implied and reported results should not be considered as an indication of future performance. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to: the after effects of the global economic downturn, changes in political, business and economic conditions, including any conditions that affect ecommerce growth; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates;  the company's ability to deal with the increasingly competitive ecommerce environment, including competition for its targeted internet audiences, potential advertisers and, in general, from other social networks; the company's need and ability to manage other regulatory, tax and litigation risks as its services become offered in more jurisdictions and applicable laws become more restrictive; any changes the company may make to its market approach and offerings; the company's ability to upgrade and develop its systems, infrastructure and user-member service capabilities at reasonable cost; and the company's ability to maintain site stability and performance on  its site while adding new products and features in a timely fashion. The forward-looking statements in this release do not include the potential impact of any acquisitions or divestitures that may be announced and/or completed after the date hereof.

SOURCE  KIWIBOX.COM, Inc.

KIWIBOX.COM, Inc.

CONTACT: Andre Scholz, +1-212-239-8210, ascholz@kiwiboxinc.com

Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting Expands European Online Software Solutions with Acquisition of Twinfield

SaaS-based Solutions Advance Software Offerings

RIVERWOODS, Ill., June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting today announced the acquisition of Twinfield, a Dutch-based pioneer and market leader in online accounting software, serving professionals in the Netherlands, United Kingdom and Scandinavia. Through this acquisition, Wolters Kluwer expands and complements its existing offering of advanced software solutions for accountants and finance professionals in SMEs in all the western European markets it serves. Twinfield will become part of the European activities of Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting, the global market leader in tax, accounting and audit solutions and services.

With more than 80,000 administrations managed online via Twinfield software, it is an undisputed leader in online, SaaS-based collaborative accounting solutions in Europe. The acquisition further advances Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting's strategy to expand its offering of software solutions that contribute to the productivity of accountants and SMEs in Europe. It also responds to the growing demand for 'Software as a Service' (SaaS) applications, enabling Wolters Kluwer to further build out its SaaS business model to meet customer demand.

"Through continuous investment and innovation, Wolters Kluwer has advanced its position as the European market leader in information and software solutions for finance professionals and SMEs," says Henri Van Engelen, Managing Director of Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting Europe. "This acquisition strategically expands our offering of state-of-the-art accounting software solutions. It also uniquely positions us as the only provider today capable of offering both information and software solutions to accountants and SMEs in the Dutch market."

"We are very pleased to be joining Wolters Kluwer. This acquisition allows Twinfield to remain focused on our core competency: offering accountants and finance professionals in SMEs the best online accounting solution. At the same time, with Wolters Kluwer's global reach and commitment, we can further strengthen and expand the Twinfield product offerings and SaaS delivery," said Andre Kwakernaat, Founder of Twinfield.

Terms of the acquisition are not being disclosed. Twinfield was founded in 2000. The company's head office is in the Netherlands and it has two branches in the United Kingdom and the Ukraine. Twinfield has 75 employees.

About Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting

Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting, a division of Wolters Kluwer, is the global leading provider of tax, accounting and audit information, software and services. Tax, accounting, and audit professionals who serve as trusted advisors to clients and businesses worldwide rely on authoritative content and integrated workflow solutions from global leader Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting. Wolters Kluwer is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands. Visit our website, YouTube, follow @Wolters_Kluwer on Twitter, or look up Wolters Kluwer on Facebook for more for information about our customers, market positions, brands, and organization.

SOURCE  Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting

Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting

CONTACT: Leslie Bonacum of Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting, +1-847-267-7153, Leslie.Bonacum@wolterskluwer.com

Lamp-Free Projection Solutions Powered By Texas Instruments DLP® Technology Expand The Gamut Of Possibility

From full-size auditoriums to inside your pocket, DLP technology drives the broadest range of projectors for most any type of application at InfoComm 2011

ORLANDO, Fla., June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- As the leading projection technology provider, Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE: TXN) DLP® Products is honored to highlight its latest advancements for enabling high quality, lamp-free projection and more at InfoComm 2011. Whether seeking to light up large meeting spaces and classrooms, experience immersive 3D content at home, draw in audiences with Full HD digital signage, or carry a truly pocketable, impromptu projector, AV resellers, integrators, and consumers can have confidence in DLP's unique capabilities, usability, and proven reliability. DLP showed the world's first high-brightness, lamp-free projector, and has fostered the proliferation of solid-state illumination across traditional front projectors as well as Pico projectors. The latest of DLP's innovations, including lamp-free, for a variety of markets and installations, can all be experienced firsthand at DLP's booth during InfoComm (#3243), via models from the industry's top and emerging brands.

"Today's AV integrators and users must consider more factors than ever before when it comes to researching and selecting a projector that best fits their specific needs," said Roger Carver, manager of Front Projection, DLP Products. "Projectors with DLP technology have always offered exceptional quality and reliability. Pairing the DLP chip and its inherent filter-free design with lamp-free illumination has practically guaranteed a reduced total cost of ownership that is simply unmatched. And with other available features like Full HD 3D, dual pen interactivity, portability and ultra short throw, investing in any DLP-based projector today makes even more sense for a bright, clear future."

LED-ing The Way

Regardless of where a projector is being used - from a large meeting space to the wall of an elevator - maintenance simplicity is one feature that most anyone can agree to as being important. DLP Products has worked closely with partners and manufacturers over the years to develop projectors that are illuminated by long-lasting LED and LED/laser hybrid systems, and can return tens of thousands of hours of viewing without any necessary maintenance, nor image degradation. The highly reflective nature and ultra-fast switching speed of DLP chips augment the increased brightness and color reproduction levels from the very latest of these lamp-free systems. Such systems can be found in more than 80 different DLP-powered projectors - including those in Casio's latest XJ lineup - covering a full spectrum of feature sets.*

"Casio's new family of DLP projectors represents the most versatile, lamp-free and eco-friendly data projectors to date," said Frank Romeo, vice president of Casio's Business Projector Division. "Our new projectors include a comprehensive set of features that will deliver tailored solutions aimed to increase efficiency and streamline costs for the education, business, pro AV and digital signage sectors."

Beyond use in more traditional DLP projectors geared toward boardrooms, classrooms, home theaters, digital signage installs, and elsewhere, lamp-free illumination continues to be the light source of choice for mobile projectors featuring DLP® Pico(TM) technology. Today, more than 30 products, including iPhone/iPod/iPad and other mobile device docks, camcorders, cameras, cell phones, and more, from over 25 brands, utilize a DLP Pico chipset that is matched by the long-term stability of LED illumination.

Project In HD...From The Palm Of Your Hand

The latest iteration of DLP's versatile and award-winning Pico technology is the Pico HD chip that was first shown in January at the International Consumer Electronics Show. Able to showcase stunning HD (WXGA) quality video and images onto most any surface, with more brightness and greater energy efficiency than ever before, the chipset is featured in more than 10 new products from brands like Acer, Asus, BenQ, Dell, LG, Optoma, ViewSonic, Vivitek, and others. Regardless of the form factor, from an ultra-compact notebook companion to a portable multimedia hub, the Pico HD chip opens up new opportunities and experiences for installers and consumers with the promise of instant HD viewing on screens greater than 100 inches in size - all from projectors that can be transported and placed with ease.

Where To Find DLP

To see DLP technology at work via the latest solid-state and lamp-based projectors from leading brands, please stop by InfoComm booth #3243 through this Friday, June 17th. For the latest news, images, and other digital content from DLP Products during the show, please visit the online press kit at DLP.com/InfoComm2011. You can also follow DLP on Twitter at @TI_DLP, and view videos on DLP's YouTube page, YouTube.com/DLPTechnology.

For more information on DLP products overall, please visit DLP.com.

About Texas Instruments DLP Products

Since 1996, Texas Instruments' award-winning DLP display technology has powered the world's top projectors and displays, delivering pictures rich with color, contrast, clarity and brightness to screens of all sizes. DLP's technology spans movie theaters (DLP Cinema®) and large-scale, professional venues; in conference rooms, classrooms, and home theaters; and with DLP Pico(TM)-enabled mobile devices, the ability to project images from the palm of your hand. Every DLP chip features an array of up to 2.2 million microscopic mirrors that switch at ultra high speeds - an innovative advantage that remains cutting edge and ideal for current and future applications alike. The results are high-resolution, highly reliable, razor-sharp images, that even work with fast motion video. To learn more about DLP technology, please visit http://www.DLP.com, or follow DLP on Twitter at http://www.Twitter.com/TI_DLP.

About Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) helps customers solve problems and develop new electronics that make the world smarter, healthier, safer, greener and more fun. A global semiconductor company, TI innovates through design, sales and manufacturing operations in more than 30 countries. For more information, go to http://www.TI.com.

*Based upon results from a June 6, 2011 search conducted at http://www.projectorcentral.com/projectors.cfm with the selection of "DLP (any)" in the technology pulldown option, and "LED Lamp" from the checkbox options list

DLP and DLP Cinema are registered trademarks of Texas Instruments.

SOURCE  Texas Instruments DLP

Texas Instruments DLP

CONTACT: Kateri Gemperle of TI DLP Products, +1-214-567-3617, Kateri@ti.com

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

Numara Software Introduces Numara FootPrints Family of Integrated IT Management Products and Solutions

Mid- to large-sized enterprises benefit from IT asset management and IT service management process integration with single solution

ORLANDO, Fla., June 14, 2011/PRNewswire/ -- GARTNER IT Infrastructure, Operations & Management Summit --Numara® Software, a global leader in service management and PC lifecycle management solutions for IT professionals, today introduced its Numara® FootPrints® family of integrated IT management products and solutions including: Numara FootPrints Service Management; Numara FootPrints Lifecycle Management; Numara FootPrints Desktop Management; and Numara FootPrints Security & Compliance Management.  Designed to meet the needs of mid- to large-sized enterprises seeking a cost-effective approach to improve service levels and gain greater visibility and control over assets, the Numara FootPrints family transforms IT operations management by seamlessly integrating and automating business processes. 

With the FootPrints family of integrated IT management solutions, Numara delivers true end to end support capability for change, configuration and desktop management processes.  And unlike other offerings that connect disparate IT asset management and IT service management solutions through data integration, the FootPrints family offers deep process integration with a proven method for automation that is used to inform the decision making process.  This process integration approach gives IT administrators the means to seamlessly execute and control changes more effectively.   

"Our IT organization, which supports three different companies, used to operate in silos. Numara Software gave us the ability and flexibility to consolidate IT processes into one system," said Sue Nicholson, NFL Films and NFL Network director, IT user support. "We started with help desk services and built in change control and are now integrating asset management. Everything will be streamlined and automated and so far it works beautifully. I believe there is still more that we can do to improve our IT processes with the software."

The FootPrints family is designed to efficiently automate a wide variety of IT related tasks and processes using interoperable solutions from a single, proven vendor.  Because the FootPrints family is offered as individual products or as complete solutions, it can be installed quickly and easily without complex administration or extensive training.  Customers also benefit from pre-defined IT management integration that does not require additional coding or customization.

"We believe true process integration is a key factor for success in today's marketplace," said Andrew White, vice president, global marketing for Numara Software.  "Without a single view into IT service management, many IT departments struggle to meet business expectations while adding value and increasing end-user satisfaction.  Our solutions are designed to give the IT department the freedom to choose solutions that meet their varying needs while enabling IT to streamline, automate and improve IT operations, ultimately reducing costs and improving service."

Offering the widest choice of deployment models, including traditional perpetual license, hosted service or SaaS model, the FootPrints family gives IT departments the flexibility to not only choose the model that best meets their business needs, but also switch models at any time without penalty or impact on productivity. 

"The Numara Footprints family is designed to help companies dynamically adapt to the ever-changing needs of their business," said Matt Dircks, vice president, products for Numara Software.  "Our software enables IT organizations to easily manage diverse environments in an integrated fashion, increasing services levels while reducing costs and complexity.  With Footprints, IT organizations are now able to better manage on-premise delivery models, cloud-based delivery models, physical devices or applications, virtual devices or applications, and traditional PC's or mobiles devices - all within the same integrated context."

Sue Nicholson will present "Inside the NFL IT Playbook" at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Management Summit, on Wednesday June 15 from 9:15 am to 9:45 am. Nicholson will share achievements her organization has made through the convergence of integrated IT service and asset management solutions provided by Numara.   

Built from the ground up as a modular yet integrated system, the Numara FootPrints family can be purchased as separate products or as part of the broader FootPrints solutions including FootPrints Service Management, FootPrints Lifecycle Management, FootPrints Desktop Management and FootPrints Security & Compliance Management.  For more information, please visit:  http://www.numarasoftware.com/footprints-family/. 

About Numara® Software Incorporated

Founded in 1991, Numara® Software Inc. is a leading provider of integrated IT management solutions for all types of customers worldwide. These solutions include Desktop Management, PC Lifecycle Management, Security & Compliance, Help Desk and Service Desk, and are designed to optimize the operation of IT management. Numara® FootPrints® focuses on the needs of medium to large enterprises, and Numara® Track-It!® is designed for small to medium enterprises. These products collectively support more than 50,000 customer sites and nearly 20 million IT assets via SaaS or perpetual license models.

About Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & ManagementSummit

Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations and Management Summit 2010 is designed to help IT organizations prepare not only for today's continuing demands, but also tomorrow's emerging requirements. The Summit dives into the issues that matter most to your business, including IT operations management, virtualization, IT modernization, infrastructure consolidation, & business resilience and looks at how to strategize for and manage technologies that are beginning to find their way into the IT infrastructure. Additional information is available at http://www.gartner.com/us/iom.

SOURCE  Numara Software

Numara Software

CONTACT: Jennifer Hrycyszyn, Greenough Communications, +1-617-275-6519, jhrycyszyn@greenoughcom.com

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

Verizon Wireless Turns on 19 Additional 4G LTE Markets and Expands the 4G LTE Network in Two Cities on June 16

BASKING RIDGE, N.J., June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless is turning on the world's most advanced wireless network in 19 additional metropolitan areas this week, as well as expanding the 4G LTE network in San Francisco and Detroit.  The new areas where 4G LTE network will be available Thursday include Fresno and Sacramento, Calif.; Hartford, Conn.; Boise, Idaho; Fort Wayne and Indianapolis, Ind.; Flint, Grand Rapids and Lansing, Mich.; Dayton, Ohio; Erie, Harrisburg and State College, Pa.; Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C.; Sioux Falls, S.D.; Salt Lake City-Ogden, Utah; Spokane, Wash.; and Madison and Milwaukee, Wis.  Verizon Wireless is also expanding its 4G LTE network in San Francisco and Detroit on June 16.

"On Thursday when we light up 19 additional 4G LTE markets, we will offer consumers and businesses in 74 metropolitan areas the most advanced 4G wireless network on the planet while continuing to offer the nation's most reliable 3G network coast to coast," said David Small, chief technical officer of Verizon Wireless.  "We are aggressively expanding our 4G LTE network: by the end of 2013 we plan to bring 4G LTE mobile broadband to our entire 3G coverage area."

Consumers can choose from several devices to access the blazingly fast speeds of the 4G LTE network, including the newly-launched Revolution(TM) by LG, DROID Charge by Samsung and ThunderBolt(TM) by HTC smartphones, as well as the MiFi® 4510L 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot and Samsung 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot.  Laptop users can enjoy speeds up to 10 times faster than the company's 3G network with three USB modems from Novatel, Pantech and LG.  In real-world, fully-loaded network environments, 4G LTE users should experience average data rates of 5 to 12 megabits per second (Mbps) on the downlink and 2 to 5 Mbps on the uplink.

When customers travel outside of a 4G coverage area, the devices automatically connect to Verizon Wireless' 3G network, enabling customers to stay connected from coast to coast.  Verizon Wireless' 3G network is the most reliable network in the country, allowing customers with laptops and smartphones to download and use cool apps - from mobile social networking platforms to GPS-enabled maps - rapidly browse the Web to keep up with news, sports and stock quotes and stream must-see video and customized radio stations.  Customers in 3G coverage areas today who purchase 4G devices will be able to take advantage of 4G speeds when the faster network becomes available in their areas.

As the first wireless company in the world to broadly deploy game-changing 4G LTE technology, Verizon Wireless is committed to building its 4G network with the same performance and reliability for which it has long been recognized.  Verizon Wireless' consistent focus on reliability is based on rigid engineering standards and a disciplined deployment approach year after year.  The company's 700 MHz spectrum gives Verizon Wireless specific advantages with 4G, including a contiguous, nationwide network license.

Verizon Wireless' vision also includes bringing its 4G LTE network beyond major cities.  The company is working with rural communications companies to collaboratively build and operate a 4G network in those areas using the tower and backhaul assets of the rural company and Verizon Wireless' core 4G LTE equipment and premium 700 MHz spectrum.  Already, 10 rural companies have announced their participation in the LTE in Rural America program and have leased spectrum covering, in total, more than 2.1 million people in rural communities and nearly 62,000 square miles.  These companies include: Bluegrass Cellular, Cross Telephone, Pioneer Cellular, Cellcom, Thumb Cellular, Strata Networks, S&R Communications, Carolina West / Clear Stream, Custer Telephone Cooperative and Convergence Technologies.

While Verizon Wireless' 3G network covers more than 290 million Americans, the company's 4G LTE network will be available in 74 metropolitan areas on Thursday, including:

    --  Mobile, Ala.
    --  Montgomery, Ala.
    --  Phoenix, Ariz.
    --  Fresno, Calif.
    --  Los Angeles, Calif.
    --  Oakland, Calif.
    --  San Diego, Calif.
    --  San Francisco, Calif.
    --  San Jose, Calif.
    --  Sacramento, Calif.
    --  Denver, Colo.
    --  Greater Fairfield and New Haven, Conn.
    --  Hartford, Conn.
    --  Washington, D.C.
    --  Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
    --  Gainesville, Fla.
    --  Jacksonville, Fla.
    --  Miami, Fla.
    --  Orlando, Fla.
    --  Pensacola, Fla.
    --  Tallahassee, Fla.
    --  Tampa, Fla.
    --  West Palm Beach, Fla.
    --  Athens, Ga.
    --  Atlanta, Ga.
    --  Boise, Idaho
    --  Chicago, Ill.
    --  Fort Wayne, Ind.
    --  Indianapolis, Ind.
    --  West Lafayette, Ind.
    --  New Orleans, La.
    --  Baltimore, Md.
    --  Boston, Mass.
    --  Detroit, Mich.
    --  Flint, Mich.
    --  Grand Rapids, Mich.
    --  Lansing, Mich.
    --  Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minn.
    --  St. Louis, Mo.
    --  Las Vegas, Nev.
    --  New York, N.Y.
    --  Rochester, N.Y.
    --  Charlotte, N.C.
    --  Fayetteville-Lumberton, N.C.
    --  Wilmington, N.C.
    --  Akron, Ohio
    --  Cincinnati, Ohio
    --  Cleveland, Ohio
    --  Columbus, Ohio
    --  Dayton, Ohio
    --  Oklahoma City, Okla.
    --  Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton, Pa.
    --  Erie, Pa.
    --  Harrisburg, Pa.
    --  Philadelphia, Pa.
    --  Pittsburgh, Pa.
    --  State College, Pa.
    --  Columbia, S.C.
    --  Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C.
    --  Hilton Head, S.C.
    --  Sioux Falls, S.D.
    --  Clarksville, Tenn./Hopkinsville, Ky.
    --  Cleveland, Tenn.
    --  Nashville, Tenn.
    --  Bryan-College Station, Texas
    --  Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas
    --  Houston, Texas
    --  San Antonio, Texas
    --  Temple-Killeen, Texas
    --  Salt Lake City-Ogden, Utah
    --  Seattle, Wash.
    --  Spokane, Wash.
    --  Madison, Wis.
    --  Milwaukee, Wis.

Since 2007, when Verizon Wireless jump-started the global 4G LTE ecosystem with its selection of LTE for its 4G technology, the company has developed deep partnerships to spearhead a broad LTE ecosystem, with many being fostered at the LTE Innovation Center in Waltham, Mass., and the Application Innovation Center, slated to open in San Francisco later this year.

Visit http://www.verizonwireless.com/lte for more information about Verizon Wireless' 4G LTE network.

About Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless operates the nation's fastest, most advanced 4G network and largest, most reliable 3G network. The company serves 104 million total wireless connections, including more than 88 million retail customers.  Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with 85,000 employees nationwide, Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE, NASDAQ: VZ) and Vodafone (LSE, NASDAQ: VOD).  For more information, visit http://www.verizonwireless.com.  To preview and request broadcast-quality video footage and high-resolution stills of Verizon Wireless operations, log on to the Verizon Wireless Multimedia Library at http://www.verizonwireless.com/multimedia.

SOURCE  Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless

CONTACT: Jeffrey Nelson, Verizon Wireless, +1-908-559-7519, Jeffrey.Nelson@verizonwireless.com

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

Transformers(TM): Dark of the Moon(TM) Video Game Ships to Retailers Nationwide

New Action Game Thrusts Players into an Original Prologue Storyline to Blockbuster Film

SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The colossal battle between the  AUTOBOTS(TM) and DECEPTICONS(TM) is underway as Activision Publishing, Inc.'s (Nasdaq: ATVI) new video game Transformers: Dark of the Moon ships to retail stores nationwide today.  Created by acclaimed developer High Moon Studios and based on Hasbro's legendary TRANSFORMERS property, the game lets fans fight through epic battles as they unravel MEGATRON'S sinister plan and is set in the world of director Michael Bay's upcoming movie from Paramount Pictures that will be released in theaters on June 29th.

"The Transformers: Dark of the Moon game lets fans experience the gripping battles and original prologue story that precede the highly anticipated film," said David Oxford, Executive Vice President at Activision Publishing.  "The team at High Moon Studios has created an amazing TRANSFORMERS narrative that unfolds through an epic single-player campaign and allows fans to play as their favorite characters in head-to-head multiplayer action."

"Activision has delivered a stellar prologue game leading up to the blockbuster movie," said Mark Blecher, SVP of Digital Media and Marketing, Hasbro.  "Hasbro is looking forward to offering fans of the TRANSFORMERS brand and gamers alike an exciting video game to expand on the Transformers: Dark of the Moon experience this summer."

Featuring a new gameplay mechanic called Stealth Force, the Transformers: Dark of the Moon game lets fans instantly convert to a third, hybrid state that combines the weapons and firepower of Robot mode with the agility and maneuverability of Vehicle mode.  Set in unique environments around the world such as the Jungles of Central America, Siberian military facilities, urban cityscapes and more, the game lets players assume the roles of a diverse roster of favorite TRANSFORMERS characters through a heart-pounding campaign to save mankind.  Additionally, fans can play the game with or against their friends around the world through intense, online multiplayer game modes as their favorite iconic characters with the ability to personalize their characters' look with numerous appearance, weapons and skills customization options.

The Transformers: Dark of the Moon video game is rated "T" (Teen - for Violence) by the ESRB and is available on the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system.

Additionally, Activision is releasing three separate games on the Nintendo platforms developed by Behaviour Interactive.  Available on the Nintendo 3DS(TM) hand-held system and Wii(TM) system, Transformers: Dark of the Moon Stealth Force Edition follows a prologue storyline and harnesses the power of Stealth Force to focus gameplay on intense vehicular combat, allowing fans to obliterate enemies at blazing speeds with advanced weapons, defense systems and targeting capabilities as they slalom between cars and dodge fire in a highly maneuverable vehicle form. 

For the Nintendo DS(TM), fans can choose their side with two distinct titles, Transformers: Dark of the Moon AUTOBOTS and Transformers: Dark of the Moon DECEPTICONS.

All Nintendo platform games are rated "E10+" (Everyone 10 and older - for Fantasy Violence) by the ESRB.

Press kit assets for the Transformers: Dark of the Moon video game are available for download at http://www.activision.com/presscenter.  Fans can visit http://www.transformersgame.com for more information or receive exclusive updates at http://www.facebook.com/transformersgame and via Twitter @HighMoonStudios.

About Hasbro

Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS) is a branded play company providing children and families around the world with a wide-range of immersive entertainment offerings based on the Company's world class brand portfolio.  From toys and games, to television programming, motion pictures, video games and a comprehensive licensing program, Hasbro strives to delight its customers through the strategic leveraging of well-known and beloved brands such as TRANSFORMERS, LITTLEST PET SHOP, NERF, PLAYSKOOL, MY LITTLE PONY, G.I. JOE, MAGIC: THE GATHERING and MONOPOLY.  The Hub, Hasbro's multi-platform joint venture with Discovery Communications (NASDAQ: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK) launched on October 10, 2010. The online home of The Hub is http://www.hubworld.com. The Hub logo and name are trademarks of Hub Television Networks, LLC. All rights reserved. 

Come see how we inspire play through our brands at http://www.hasbro.com. © 2010 Hasbro, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

About TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON

Shia LaBeouf returns as Sam Witwicky in Transformers:  Dark of the Moon.  When a mysterious event from Earth's past erupts into the present day it threatens to bring a war to Earth so big that the Transformers alone will not be able to save us.  Starring Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro,  Tyrese Gibson, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Patrick Dempsey, Kevin Dunn, with John Malkovich and Frances McDormand.  In cinemas worldwide from 29th June 2011 in 2D and 3D.

About Paramount Pictures Corporation

Paramount Pictures Corporation (PPC), a global producer and distributor of filmed entertainment, is a unit of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), a leading content company with prominent and respected film, television and digital entertainment brands.  The company's labels include Paramount Pictures, Paramount Vantage, Paramount Classics, Insurge Pictures, MTV Films and Nickelodeon Movies.  PPC operations also include Paramount Digital Entertainment, Paramount Famous Productions, Paramount Home Entertainment, Paramount Pictures International, Paramount Licensing Inc., Paramount Studio Group and Paramount Television & Digital Distribution.

About Activision Publishing, Inc.

Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Activision Publishing, Inc. is a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and leisure products.

Activision maintains operations in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Australia, South Korea, China and the region of Taiwan. More information about Activision and its products can be found on the company's website, http://www.activision.com. 

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-looking Statements: Information in this press release that involves Activision Publishing's expectations, plans, intentions or strategies regarding the future are forward-looking statements that are not facts and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Activision Publishing generally uses words such as "outlook," "will," "could," "would," "might," "remains," "to be," "plans," "believes," "may," "expects," "intends," "anticipates," "estimate," future," "plan," "positioned," "potential," "project," "remain," "scheduled," "set to," "subject to," "upcoming" and similar expressions to identify forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause Activision Publishing's actual future results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements set forth in this release include, but are not limited to, sales levels of Activision Publishing's titles, shifts in consumer spending trends, the impact of the current macroeconomic environment, the seasonal and cyclical nature of the interactive game market, Activision Publishing's ability to predict consumer preferences among competing hardware platforms, declines in software pricing, product returns and price protection, product delays, retail acceptance of Activision Publishing's products, adoption rate and availability of new hardware (including peripherals) and related software, industry competition including from used games and other forms of entertainment, litigation risks and associated costs, rapid changes in technology, industry standards, business models including online and used games, and consumer preferences, including interest in specific genres such as music, first-person action and massively multiplayer online games, protection of proprietary rights, maintenance of relationships with key personnel, customers, licensees, licensors, vendors, and third-party developers, including the ability to attract, retain and develop key personnel and developers that can create high quality "hit" titles, counterparty risks relating to customers, licensees, licensors and manufacturers, domestic and international economic, financial and political conditions and policies, foreign exchange rates and tax rates, and the identification of suitable future acquisition opportunities and potential challenges associated with geographic expansion, and the other factors identified in the risk factors sections of Activision Blizzard's most recent annual report on Form 10-K and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. The forward-looking statements in this release are based upon information available to Activision Publishing and Activision Blizzard as of the date of this release, and neither Activision Publishing nor Activision Blizzard assumes any obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements believed to be true when made may ultimately prove to be incorrect. These statements are not guarantees of the future performance of Activision Publishing or Activision Blizzard and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, some of which are beyond its control and may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations.

HASBRO and its logo, TRANSFORMERS and all related characters are trademarks of Hasbro and are used with permission. © 2011 Hasbro. All Rights Reserved. Game © 2011 Activision Publishing, Inc. Activision is a registered trademark of Activision Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.

All other trademarks and trade names are the properties of their respective owners.

SOURCE  Activision Publishing, Inc.

Activision Publishing, Inc.

CONTACT: Kelvin Liu, Senior Publicist of Activision Publishing, Inc., +1-310-255-2213, kelvin.liu@activision.com

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

Spansion and Texas Instruments Collaborate to Bring Innovation to System Designers

DAVE Lizard CPU Module with Spansion NOR Flash Memory and TI ARM® microprocessors Brings High-Performance and Interactivity to Home Automation and Industrial Controls

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Spansion Inc. (NYSE: CODE), a leading provider of NOR Flash memory, today announced a collaboration with Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) and Dave, a system design company in Italy, to bring high performance and interactivity to home automation and industrial controls.  Dave is building complete CPU modules, such as the Lizard board, with 1Gb Spansion GL NOR Flash memory and TI AM3517 or AM3505 Sitara(TM) ARM® microprocessors, to provide rich 2D and 3D graphic interfaces with real-time feedback to deliver the fastest interactive user experience.

(Logo:  http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20060118/SFW077LOGO)

Home automation systems are growing in popularity as a tool to connect both electronic devices within a home, as well as to the developing smart energy grid.  Sophisticated software required to manage and monitor home electronics is driving the need for high-performance processing and memory.  With these systems bringing consumers more convenience, security and energy cost savings, home automation systems are expected to exceed $11.8 billion in shipments in 2015 according to ABI Research studies.

The Spansion GL NOR Flash family is ideally suited to these industrial applications with industry-leading read performance to speed system boot and increase application interactivity while providing high reliability, extended operating temperature range, longevity of product supply and a universal package footprint to enable simple upgrades for varying density requirements.

Executive Quotes:

"The growth of demand for advanced applications, such as home automation, is driving the need for easy-to-use ARM microprocessors and memory," said Dipiti Vachani, general manager, Sitara ARM microprocessors, TI.  "Our work with Spansion eases the memory design process for our customers, allowing them to quickly get to market with a highly reliable solution that is tested to withstand the rigors of high-performance applications."

"Our Lizard CPU module frees our customers to innovate more quickly by focusing on differentiating their application rather than system design," said Stefano Dal Poz, CEO of DAVE S.r.l.  "The selection of Spansion GL Flash memory provides our customers the most reliable and highest performing memory subsystem for the fastest data access enabling highly interactive applications."

"As home automation and industrial controls connect to the smart energy grid, high-performance NOR Flash memory will be required to efficiently manage their interactivity," said Avo Kanadjian, vice president, marketing at Spansion. "By collaborating with Texas Instruments, we are helping customers like Dave to design systems that deliver an immersive user experience."

Key Facts/Highlights of the Spansion GL NOR Flash family:

    --  The Spansion GL family now offers densities of 128Mb, 256Mb, 512Mb, 1Gb
        and 2Gb for a broad range of applications including: automotive in-cabin
        electronics, consumer electronics, gaming, industrial, set-top box,
        telecommunications and networking.
    --  65nm MirrorBit charge trapping process technology is the foundation for
        Spansion's leading position in NOR Flash memory. Over 80% of Spansion's
        4,000 customers now use Spansion products based on MirrorBit technology.
    --  45% faster page-mode read performance at 98.5 MB/s vs. 67.4 MB/s
    --  40% smaller BGA package (9mm x 9mm) for space-constrained applications
    --  Enhanced security to protect customer IP through with sector read
        protection and larger 1024Kb secured silicon sector
    --  Industry-standard form-factor via Spansion's Universal Footprint
        --  64-ball FBGA package
        --  56-pin TSOP package
    --  Wide temperature range support including:
        --  Industrial (-40C to +85C)
        --  Automotive In-Cabin (-40C to +105C) planned
    --  Complementary customized software drivers and Flash file system software

About Spansion

Spansion (NYSE: CODE) is a leading provider of the Flash memory technology at the heart of the world's electronics systems, powering everything from the routers that run the internet to the highly interactive and immersive consumer and automotive electronics that are enriching people's daily lives. Spansion's broad and differentiated Flash memory product portfolio, award-winning MirrorBit charge-trapping technology, and industry leading service and support are enabling customers to achieve greater efficiency and success in their target markets. For more information, visit http://www.spansion.com.

Spansion(R), the Spansion logo, MirrorBit(R), and combinations thereof, are trademarks and registered trademarks of Spansion LLC in the United States and other countries. Other names used are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.

SOURCE  Spansion Inc.

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CONTACT: Press, Mark Franken, +1-408-616-8410, mark.franken@spansion.com; or Investor Relations, Shubham Maheshwari, +1-408-616-3677, shubham.maheshwari@spansion.com, both of Spansion Inc.

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

Cloud Computing With Techila and Windows Azure Opens up new Possibilities for Cancer Research

TAMPERE, Finland, June 14, 2011/PRNewswire/ --

    The greatest challenge in cancer research is to identify genes that can
predict the progress of the disease. The number of genes and gene
combinations is vast, so powerful computing tools are required to achieve
this. Assisted by Techila Technologies Ltd (
http://www.techilatechnologies.com), a Finnish company specialising in
autonomic high-performance and technical computing, a research team at the
University of Helsinki utilized the huge computing capacity of the Windows
Azure cloud computing service for the first time. A computing task that
usually requires some 15 years can now be completed in less than five days.

    In the treatment of breast cancer, it is of vital importance to be able
to predict the likelihood of the development of new metastases. The
prognosis for a breast cancer treatment in general is good. 'However,
metastases make breast cancer a fatal disease. Cells from the primary tumour
infiltrate other parts of the body, forming metastases. The problem is that
we are far from understanding this process in sufficient details. We do not
know how and which cells become separated from the tumour, where they go or
how they act there,' says Sampsa Hautaniemi, docent at the University of
Helsinki.

    The research team has hundreds of breast cancer tumours at their
disposal. The aim is to determine who is most likely to develop metastases
by studying the activity of the genes and combining research data.

    According to Hautaniemi, computing already plays a significant role in
modern medical research because the data available to researchers are
getting more extensive all the time. 'It certainly makes the future seem
brighter knowing that thanks to cloud computing services, computational
resources no longer restrict the setting of research objectives. Earlier on
we had to define our research plans based on whether certain computations
could be performed.'

    Efficiency almost 100 per cent

    According to Rainer Wehkamp, founder of Techila Technologies Ltd, this
was the first time the Windows Azure cloud service was utilised on such a
massive scale. 'Our aim was to demonstrate to the University of Helsinki
that the technology developed by Techila makes it easy to utilize massive
computing power from a cloud. There are also many potential applications
outside universities; this kind of computing power could be utilised by e.g.
insurance companies in their risk assessment calculations. And as the
systems are global in scale, the possibilities are almost limitless.'

    The computing was performed in a cloud using the Autonomic Computing
technology developed by Techila, and a total of 1,200 processor cores were
involved in the operation. The Techila technology was originally developed
to utilise the computing power available in table-top computers and servers
in businesses and universities, so the transition from a complex
multiplatform environment to a homogenous cloud environment presented no
problems. 'Azure can be harnessed solely for computing purposes, so its
efficiency is extremely high, even as high as 99 per cent,' says Wehkamp.

    Microsoft is happy with the results of the pilot project. 'Together,
Techila's Grid solution and Windows Azure create a well-functioning and
easy-to-use system. Cloud computing takes projects involving
high-performance computing to a totally new level. Azure is a massively
scalable computing platform service with sufficient resources to complete
even the most demanding projects,' promises solution sales manager Matti
Antila of Microsoft Finland.

    Further information:

    Full case-study: http://www.techilatechnologies.com/azure-case-study

    Techila+Azure integration: http://www.techilatechnologies.com/azure

    Windows Azure: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure

    Techila Technologies Ltd

    Techila Technologies Ltd, founded in 2006, is a privately held provider
of autonomic high-performance and technical computing solution based in
Tampere, Finland. Techila enables to utilize the massive capacity of cloud
platforms' and also to harness the idle capacity of organizations' existing
computer resources resulting in a solution with a superior usability,
scalability and total cost of ownership compared to other computing
solutions. It is seamlessly integrated to all major applications and
platforms and it requires minimal system management due to its autonomic
architecture. http://www.techilatechnologies.com

    Microsoft

    Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the world-wide leader in software,
services and solutions that help businesses, organisations and people to
utilise the possibilities of information technology in new, innovative ways.
In Finland, Microsoft employs 280 people, whose vision, shared by more than
3,000 partners, is to help the customer become more successful with the help
of Microsoft solutions. World-wide, Microsoft employs some 92,000 people in
102 countries. Microsoft's turnover in the financial year of 2009 was 62.48
billion USD.

Source: Techila Technologies Ltd

Techila Technologies Oy: Rainer Wehkamp, CEO, Tel. +358-40-960-5233, rainer.wehkamp@techilatechnologies.com; Microsoft Oy: Matti Antila, Sales, Solution Sales Manager, Windows Azure, Tel. +358-50-499-9623, matti.antila@microsoft.com; University of Helsinki, Sampsa Hautaniemi, Docent, Tel. +358-50-336-4765, sampsa.hautaniemi@helsinki.fi

DAP Technologies Debuts Tiny and Rugged M1000 Voice-Ready Handheld Computer Ideal for Retail and Warehouse Use

New voice-ready handheld packs simple data capture and ultra-rugged performance into one of the smallest rugged handheld computers available

TEMPE, Ariz. and BERLIN, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- European Supply Chain and Logistics Summit (June 14, 2011) -- DAP Technologies' newest M1000 packs the most in-demand data-capture functionality for retail and warehouse environments into a rugged handheld computer about the size of a mobile phone. Equipped with voice capability and barcode scanners, DAP's M1000 puts the functionality needed for inventory control, picking and packing in one of the smallest rugged form factors available.

Featuring the data-capture technology usually found in much larger devices, DAP's M1000 is just 5.7 x 2.4 x 1 inch (144 x 62 x 25 mm) and 8.2 oz. (232 grams), making it a palm-sized and featherweight solution that can be used all day without fatigue and slipped into a pocket between tasks. The M1000 is sealed to IP65, providing protection against dust and water.

DAP's M1000 scans barcodes and allows for easy manual data input via a 12-key numeric keypad or its 2.8-inch color touchscreen 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 of hands.

"With our new M1000 we're addressing a need for users--particularly in retail and warehouse environments--to have full data-capture functionality in a computer that's sized for comfortable use by a variety of users," said Khalid Kidari, DAP's director of product management and marketing. "In addition to reducing user strain, its compact form factor also makes it a discrete choice for storefront retail use."

The M1000 ships voice-ready for warehouse and distribution environments looking to boost picking and packing efficiency.

"DAP's new M1000 is an exceptional option for use with our Jennifer(TM) Voice Plus voice-directed picking and warehouse logistics solution," said Thomas Schluep, vice president of global technologies for Lucas Systems Inc., a leading provider of voice-directed warehouse applications that help associates work faster with fewer errors. "The M1000's voice-enabled design provides the flexibility to incorporate voice recognition alongside traditional data-capture technologies, such as barcode scanning, in a lightweight, pocket-sized computer."

Equipped with Windows® CE 6.0 Professional, a Marvell® PXA310 624 MHz processor, 256 MB Flash memory and 128 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®.

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About Lucas Systems, Inc.

Since 1998, Lucas Systems has delivered more voice-directed warehouse applications on a wider variety of mobile computers than any other company.  Jennifer(TM) VoicePlus, the Lucas voice solution, creates a conversation with warehouse workers that frees their hands and eyes to focus on the job at hand. Tens of thousands of associates at hundreds of distribution centers work with Jennifer every day. http://www.lucasware.com

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

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