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Introducing Checkdent, The Social Network for Dental Health

LOS ANGELES, May 16, 2011/PRNewswire/ --Checkdent, the dental video platform launched in 2006, today announced the relaunch of its site with the addition of a social network for dentists and patients.

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The newly launched social network offers a combination of features not available on any other dental health site, including:

    --  a dental health forum where patients can get answers from dentists and
        other users on popular topics like teeth bleaching, braces, wisdom teeth
        and root canal treatments
    --  an extensive collection of over 200 educational dental video clips and
        300 articles  continuously updated and added by a team of experts
    --  an interactive dentist directory with profile pages linked to the
        Checkdent social network
    --  the option for verified patients to write detailed reviews and rate
        dentists in key areas such as chairside manner, patient information and
        average wait time
    --  an easy way for dentists to reach out to new and existing patients

"We are proud to be part of an empowering health care trend in which the Internet and specialized social networks have an important role to play. It has been extremely gratifying to see that both dentists and patients are eager to use this new tool to mutual benefit," Checkdent's CEO and Founder, Jaroslav Belsky, DMD, said.

Checkdent intends to revolutionize communication between patients and dentists. As patients embrace the Internet and social media as a new way to take control of their health, Checkdent helps dentists to adapt to their patients' changing needs.

For years, Checkdent's jargon-busting dental videos have been helping people to make more informed decisions about oral health. Now the site has been enhanced by the addition of a social network allowing people to join their dentist's network, ask questions in the forum and post dentist reviews.

ABOUT CHECKDENT

Checkdent is the first dental health platform that combines a video encyclopedia with a social network including a busy dental forum, blog and dentist reviews. Checkdent is the first port of call for people who want to get a second opinion, find a dentist, prepare for an upcoming treatment or share experiences with other patients. Bringing together dedicated dentists and web-savvy patients to create an active dental health community, Checkdent helps people to better understand and prevent dental problems. All medical content is based on the latest findings of Evidence-Based Medicine, the international gold standard in medical care and research. As a gateway between medical research, patients and dentists, Checkdent is a powerful resource for anyone interested in dental health.

With an easy to use interface, Checkdent is a smart and affordable way for dentists to communicate with existing patients and market themselves to new ones. To find out more, please visit http://www.checkdent.com. To access press images, screenshots and logos, you can visit the Checkdent press portal at http://www.checkdent.com/en/press. Checkdent Media inquiries can be sent to media@checkdent.com, via phone at 310.926.0932 or via skype at checkdentpr.

Media Contact:Jennifer SearleUS Media RelationsT: 310.926.0932jennifer@checkdent.com

SOURCE  Checkdent

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Checkdent

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

New IntelliJ IDEA: Java 7, New Features, New Pricing

JetBrains Converts More Developers With a new, Specially Priced IntelliJ IDEA Featuring Cutting-Edge Technologies Such as Java 7, Groovy 1.8 and Spring 3.1

PRAGUE, May 16, 2011/PRNewswire/ --     JetBrains, the creators of intelligent, productivity-enhancing tools for
software developers, have announced the public availability of IntelliJ IDEA
10.5, a free update for its award-winning IDE for JVM-based and polyglot
development.

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    Being able to use the latest technologies available is a key to making
your development project a success. Yet another key is being highly
productive with them.

    That is exactly what you get with this free IntelliJ IDEA update-worth a
full major release-which is loaded with support for the latest technologies
as well as further usability improvements.

    "While this release focuses on Java 7 support, we also worked hard on
making the most common IDE operations easier to use. Some of these changes,
such as new in-place refactorings and a reworked search/replace UI, made it
to this release, while others will be available in version 11 later this
year," said Max Shafirov, IntelliJ IDEA project lead. "On the market side of
things, in 2010 we experienced amazing user base growth with the free edition
of IntelliJ IDEA. To build on this success, we are now offering IntelliJ IDEA
10.5 Ultimate at a special lower price for both individual developers and
companies."

    The key features of IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 update include:

    - Full Java 7 Support

    - Reworked UI for refactorings and Search/Replace, simplified code
completion

    - JavaScript Debugger in Google Chrome

    - Groovy 1.8 and Spring 3.1 support

    - JavaScript, Android and Flex enhancements

    - Jetty integration

    - XSLT2 support

    To learn more about what's new in JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA and to download
the edition of your choice, please visit the official IntelliJ IDEA website
at http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/?IJ105PR.

    For information on the new pricing and licensing options for IntelliJ
IDEA, please visit http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/buy/?IJ105PR.

    About JetBrains

    JetBrains is a technology-leading software development firm specializing
in the creation of intelligent, productivity-enhancing software. The company
is widely known for its award-winning Java(TM) integrated development
environment IntelliJ(R) IDEA (see details at http://www.jetbrains.com/idea),
TeamCity - a continuous integration and build management environment
(http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity), and YouTrack - an innovative web-based
bug tracker (http://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack), among others. JetBrains
maintains its headquarters in Prague, Czech Republic and has R&D labs in St.
Petersburg, Russia, Munich, Germany and Boston, Massachusetts. For more
information see http://www.jetbrains.com.

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    Note to Editors: JetBrains, IntelliJ, IntelliJ IDEA, YouTrack and
TeamCity are trademarks or registered trademarks of JetBrains, s.r.o. All
other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

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Source: JetBrains

Contact: Ann Oreshnikova, Marketing Director, +7-921-930-6703, Ann.Oreshnikova@jetbrains.com

IBM Expands Further Into Africa, Opens Senegal Subsidiary

New office is part of company's geographic expansion strategy into key growth markets

DAKAR, Senegal, May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced the opening of a new branch office in Dakar, Senegal, as part of the company's geographic expansion initiative to strategically increase its presence in key growth markets.

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The new subsidiary will enable IBM to deliver high-value solutions and services to meet the growing needs of clients in Senegal and West Africa, where the company is working closely with a number of business partners. IBM already serves a number of key clients in West Africa, spanning sectors including telecommunications, oil & gas, finance and government. The expanded presence in Senegal will allow the company to increase its level of service, and deliver more complex and high-value solutions such as cloud computing and business analytics.

For example, the Customs Directorate of Senegal's Ministry of Finance recently chose IBM to help modernize Senegal's import and export processes. Together with business partner CFAO Technologies, IBM is helping the Ministry put its import and export processes for 30 border crossings on-line, while also digitizing its payroll and Human Resources processes. In another West African agreement with CFAO Technologies, IBM has provided a mainframe system to the Cameroon Ministry of Finance to help modernize the Ministry's payroll processes. In Nigeria, IBM is also working with several West African banks to help increase efficiencies and with Bharti airtel across 16 African countries to help transform its telecommunications operations.   

"Today's expansion into Senegal demonstrates IBM's commitment to the African market as we work to build out high-value solutions for our clients and partners across the continent," said Bruno Di Leo, General Manager, IBM Growth Markets.  "Dakar will become one of more than 230 IBM branch offices across 54 growth market countries.  Our success in Africa is a pivotal part of our overall growth markets strategy.  Expanding into Senegal offers IBM a significant opportunity for doing business with suitable market conditions, established IT infrastructure, telecommunications and transportation."

The Dakar office is part of IBM's West Africa operations and will complement IBM's other West African branch offices in Accra, Ghana and Lagos, Nigeria, which acts as a hub for business in the region. IBM has supplied products and solutions to Senegal since the 1940's.

With offices in more than 20 African countries including South Africa, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, and Mauritius, IBM is planning on significantly increasing its footprint on the continent. A critical component of that effort is to help cultivate local technology talent.  To do that, IBM has begun partnering with African universities.  For example, IBM is working with Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar and Thies University in Thies as part of a global academic program to help teach students the information technology skills they need to be competitive in the workplace. Faculty at both institutions has been trained on a range of software products to help build skills in these areas as the courses are incorporated into the university curricula. 

The new office in Dakar was inaugurated at a ceremony on Monday

About IBM

For more information on IBM please visit: http://www.ibm.com

Editor's note: Photos are available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ibm_media/?saved=1.

Contact:
Michael Moeller
IBM
Phone: 1-914-766-4266
moeller2@us.ibm.com

Jonathan Batty
IBM
Phone: 48-22-609-5403
Jonathan.Batty@pl.ibm.com

Arlene Wainstein
IBM
arlenewainstein@fr.ibm.com
Phone: 33 (0) 1 5875-5951
Mobile: 33 (0) 672 759574

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

Starz Digital Media Returns to Facebook With "Camelot: The Game"

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Starz Original series, "Camelot," gets its own social media game from Starz Digital Media, the digital and on-demand licensing arm of Starz, with today's worldwide Beta launch of the new Camelot: The Game on Facebook. Presented in association with international distributor GK-tv, Camelot: The Game is Starz Digital Media's second global social media game launch to leverage a new Starz Originals series, following this past January's successful Spartacus: Gods of the Arena social game.  The Spartacus: Gods of the Arena social game on Facebook surpassed one million monthly users last month according to appdata.com.

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The Camelot: The Game social media game (apps.facebook.com/camelotgame) is free to play and brings players a unique gaming challenge that combines resource management and turn-based battle/combat game mechanics.  The game immerses you into King Arthur's Camelot as lord of your own hamlet.

"Camelot" fans who register on Facebook (apps.facebook.com/camelotgame) and enter the password "Merlin" will be eligible to play the sneak preview. Starz Digital Media has partnered again with social media gaming publisher 6waves to launch the Rise of Camelot social game.  With more than 55 million monthly active users, 6waves is one of the largest social gaming publishers worldwide. Its published games include Spartacus: Gods of the Arena with Starz Digital Media, Mystery Manor, Big Business and Ravenwood Fair. 

"Fans of social gaming, the 'Camelot' original series, and the successful 'Spartacus' Facebook game, are sure to love 'Camelot: The Game," said Marc DeBevoise, senior vice president, digital media, business development and strategy for Starz Media. "The action, adventure, and challenge of this game is unmatched in the marketplace today and is a beautiful complement and extension of the Starz Original series." 

More on Camelot: The Game Facebook Social Media Game

The Facebook-based Rise of Camelot social game is free to play and allows you to build out your own hamlet and contribute to the glory of Camelot through various quests.  Players decide how to get the most from their hamlet's natural resources, including gold, ore, and wood, which they use to upgrade their hamlet or equip their army.  Different building types, soldier types, and special items will allow players to pursue different strategies in the game.

Quests are a key component and provide players with an opportunity to test their soldiers' mettle.  The turn-based battle mechanic allows players to have a high degree of control over the movement and attacks of their soldiers, bringing the epic battles of Camelot to life within the game.  The game quests will borrow liberally from series plot points.  Players can use special items to give soldiers different abilities, such as enhanced movement, vision, or attacks.  New quests, soldier types, and special items will be introduced on an ongoing basis.

Building, soldier, and special upgrades are available for purchase from within the game using gold.  Players may purchase Facebook Credits to speed their progress by collecting more resources, adding premium upgrades, or deploying additional soldiers.

As with other successful social media games on Facebook, there will be several ways to recruit friends and assist each other to contribute to the glory of Camelot.  Each player will begin with a special bonus based on a randomly assigned leader trait (for example, enhanced gold production or a defensive bonus in battle).  Players may add their friends to their council table and get the benefit of pooling special bonuses.  Players may also swap friends out of the council table at any time, providing another element of strategy to the game.

Special events and game content tied to the Ten-episode airing of "Camelot" will be rolled out during the series run.

Starz Digital Media's Camelot: The Game social media game was co-developed and co-published with Sarbakan and Large Animal Games in association with GK-tv, and is the latest digital extension of a Starz Original series.  Starz Digital Media, the digital and on-demand distribution arm of Starz, has produced several innovative games and apps based on Starz Originals for PCs, iPhones, iPads and other devices. 

About Camelot

"Camelot" is the latest event television series from STARZ. the first two episodes debuted on Friday, April 1, 2011 at 10pm et/pt, following a successful sneak preview on STARZ on Feb. 25, after the conclusion of "Spartacus: Gods of the Arena." "Camelot" premiered on STARZ to strong reviews and large audiences.

The 10-episodes of "Camelot" is a fresh telling of one of the western world's most revered tales.

In the wake of King Uther's sudden death, chaos threatens to engulf Britain.  When the sorcerer Merlin has visions of a dark future, he installs the young and impetuous Arthur, Uther's unknown son and heir, who has been raised from birth as a commoner. But Arthur's cold and ambitious half sister Morgan will fight him to the bitter end, summoning unnatural forces to claim the crown in this epic battle for control. These are dark times indeed for the new king, with Guinevere being the only shining light in Arthur's harsh world. Faced with profound moral decisions, and the challenge of uniting a kingdom broken by war and steeped in deception, Arthur will be tested beyond imagination.

Forget everything you think you know...this is the story of "Camelot" that has never been told before.

"Camelot's" fresh approach to telling the Arthur story extends to the casting of Joseph Fiennes as the wizard Merlin and Eva Green, in her first television role, as the powerful sorceress Morgan. The essential roles of Arthur and Guinevere are played by Jamie Campbell Bower and Tamsin Egerton, respectively.

Fiennes was most recently lead in the ABC series "Flash Forward" but is probably best known for playing the title role in the Best Picture Oscar®-winner Shakespeare in Love and as Robert Dudley in the acclaimed Elizabeth. Green is best known for her role as the mysterious Bond girl Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale, Sybilla in Ridley Scott's saga Kingdom of Heaven and as Serafina Pekkala the beautiful, good witch in The Golden Compass.

Bower gained notice playing Anthony in Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, as well as his performance as Caius Volturi in Twilight: New Moon, and is generating buzz for his role in the two-part conclusion of the Harry Potter saga, when he plays Gellert Grindelwald in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, Parts I and II. Egerton has had notable roles in such features as Keeping Mum and St. Trinian's and got her first taste of the Arthurian legend playing the young Morgaine in the mini-series "The Mists of Avalon."

Shot on-location in Ireland, "Camelot" is an Irish-Canadian co-production from KA Television Productions Limited and T5 Camelot Productions, Inc. Starz is the U.S. distributor and GK-tv is the international distributor of the series excluding Canada where the series is distributed by Take 5 Distribution, Inc.

The official "Camelot" trailer behind the scenes videos, and more are available at http://www.starz.com/camelot. Follow "Camelot" on Twitter: @camelot_starzand on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/camelot.starz.

About Starz Digital Media

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

About Starz Entertainment

Starz Entertainment, LLC, is a premium movie and original programming entertainment service provider operating in the United States. The company offers 16 premium channels including the flagship Starz® and Encore® brands with approximately 18.8 million and 33.1 million subscribers respectively.  Starz Entertainment airs in total more than 1,000 movies and original series every month across its pay TV channels. Starz Entertainment is recognized as a pay TV leader in providing HD, On Demand, HD On Demand and online advanced services for its STARZ, ENCORE and MOVIEPLEX brands.  Starz Entertainment (http://www.starz.com) is an operating unit of Starz, LLC, which is a controlled subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation and is attributed to the Liberty Starz tracking stock group (NASDAQ: LSTZA).

About GK-tv

Launched in January of 2010, GK-tv is the television division of GK Films.  Led by President, Craig Cegielski, GK-tv is dedicated to the development, production and worldwide distribution of cinematic-quality television programming.  GK-tv's first series, "Camelot," is an Irish-Canadian co-production starring Joseph Fiennes and Eva Green, which premiered on Starz on April 1, 2011 and set a ratings record for the network.  Academy Award®-winning producer Graham King and Tim Headington launched the independent production company, GK Films, in May 2007.  GK Films and GK-tv can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.gk-films.com.

Contact:

Eric Becker
Starz Entertainment & Starz Digital Media
(720) 852-4065
(303) 638-3469 (cell)
eric.becker@starz.com

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Elsevier Launches Apps for Library Idea Challenge

AMSTERDAM, May 16, 2011/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --

    - Global Competition to Recognize Top Concepts for SciVerse Applications

    Elsevier, a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical
information products and services, today announced the launch of the SciVerse
Applications Apps for Library Idea Challenge (http://www.appsforlibrary.com/
). The international competition encourages librarians and information
professionals to conceptualize solutions to the challenges that they and
their constituents face in addressing the search and discovery of
information.

    Entrants are invited to submit specific ideas for applications for the
SciVerse suite that solve problems affecting the search and discovery of
information within librarian and researcher workflows alike. Selected app
concepts will be posted on the challenge website and open to commentary from
peers and the public, enabling a dialogue within the librarian community to
identify problems and discuss potential solutions. Two grand-prize winners
will be selected - one by a panel of judges and one by community vote.

    The winners will each receive a cash prize of EUR 750 (approximately
$1,000 USD). The winners' names and concepts will also be featured in the
relevant Elsevier library and information science journals. Other prizes will
be available to eligible idea entrants and commenters.

    The call for entries opened May 13th and the deadline for submissions is
September 2nd, 2011. An international panel of judges will select up to 10
finalist app idea entries. The community will then be invited to comment on
the finalist ideas with suggestions to improve them and vote for app ideas
they believe will deliver the most value to researchers. The winners will be
announced in November 2011. Elsevier will explore development of the two
winning app concepts for inclusion in SciVerse Applications.

    "Librarians have a good understanding and knowledge of which tools are
most needed to manage information and improve the research workflow,"
explained Rafael Sidi, Vice President, Application Marketplace and Developer
Network at Elsevier. "We view this challenge as an opportunity for the
library communities to share their ideas around the unmet workflow needs of
researchers and propose innovative, customized solutions. We look forward to
bringing these concepts to life through the vibrant developer communities
that exist within universities we serve."

    The Apps for Library Idea Challenge is part of a series of community
competitions launched by Elsevier that engage the scientific research
communities, librarians and application developers in the creation and
conceptualization of search and discovery applications. Most recently, the
Developer Network at Elsevier introduced the "Apps for Science Challenge,"
(http://appsforscience.com/) an international competition calling
specifically upon developers to build applications within this vein. Through
SciVerse Applications (http://www.applications.sciverse.com/), researchers
and librarians can collaborate with developers to create new applications and
customize their SciVerse search and discovery workflow. The Developer Network
(http://developers.sciverse.com/) features a community for developers and
opens up opportunities for developers to gain recognition, prestige and
revenue through the contribution of new applications to SciVerse.

    To enter the Apps for Library Idea Challenge, and for complete official
rules and additional information, please visit http://www.appsforlibrary.com.

    About the Elsevier SciVerse Suite

    The SciVerse (http://www.sciverse.com) suite of search and discovery
offerings provides the global research community access to a constantly
expanding universe of content and solutions which can now be accessed in one
platform. The suite currently includes SciVerse ScienceDirect (
http://www.sciencedirect.com), the world's largest source of peer-reviewed
content containing more than 10 million articles, and SciVerse Scopus
(http://www.scopus.com), an abstract and citation database containing 41
million records, 70% with abstracts and nearly 18,000 titles from 5,000
publishers worldwide. The platform also includes SciVerse Hub beta
(http://www.hub.sciverse.com), which enables researchers to perform a single
search across all of the SciVerse content as well as targeted web content
with results ranked by relevancy and without duplication. SciVerse
Applications (http://www.applications.sciverse.com) and Developer Network
(http://www.developers.sciverse.com) allow the scientific community to build,
find and use applications that enhance the SciVerse research experience.

    About Elsevier

    Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and
medical information products and services. The company works in partnership
with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000
journals, including The Lancet (http://www.thelancet.com) and Cell
(http://www.cell.com), and close to 20,000 book titles, including major
reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions include
SciVerse ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com), SciVerse Scopus (
http://www.scopus.com), Reaxys (http://www.reaxys.com), MD Consult
(http://www.mdconsult.com) and Nursing Consult (http://www.nursingconsult.com
), which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and
the SciVal suite (http://www.scival.com) and MEDai's Pinpoint Review
(http://www.medai.com), which help research and health care institutions
deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.

    A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier (
http://www.elsevier.com) employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part
of Reed Elsevier Group PLC (http://www.reedelsevier.com), a world-leading
publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier
PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam),
REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).

   
    Media Contact
    Sandra Plasse
    +1-212-752-8338
    splasse@psbpr.com

Source: Elsevier

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USA TODAY Launches Windows Phone App

MCLEAN, Va., May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- USA TODAY, a multi-platform news and information company, announced today that the USA TODAY App for Windows Phone is now available.

The USA TODAY App for Windows Phone features a custom look and design specifically for the Windows Phone with the signature content readers have come to trust from USA TODAY providing them with eye catching photos and graphics while delivering the latest award-winning USA TODAY news in a convenient interactive package. The USA TODAY for Windows Phone app has all the latest news, sports scores, weather, photos and snapshots available. More information on the app can be found at http://www.usatoday.com/windowsphone.

"We're excited about the design and performance of this app.  We think it will be a big hit with Windows Phone users who want a best-in-class news app for everyday use.  USA TODAY remains committed to launching new products so our readers can receive their news on any platform they choose," said Steve Kurtz, vice president of digital development for USA TODAY.

"With its glanceable format, USA TODAY for Windows Phone is a prime example of the dynamic applications users have access to on Windows Phone Marketplace to help them get the most out of their phone," said Todd Brix, senior director, Windows Phone Marketplace, Microsoft Corp. "Windows Phone 7 is backed by a rich developer ecosystem that continues to create a variety of quality apps and games, like USA TODAY for Windows Phone, that take advantage of the phone's unique features and design," he continued.

The release of the USA TODAY App for Windows Phone follows on the January release of the USA TODAY App for Windows-Slate PCs, enabling readers to choose which app best matches their lifestyle and news reading needs.  The USA TODAY Slate PC app provides readers with a similarly stunning display and intuitive interface to access up to the minute content from USA TODAY. 

USA TODAY is now available on major platforms and devices including Windows Phone, iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch), Android (phones and tablets), Chrome Web Store, Google TV, Windows-based slate PCs and Intel's AppUp store for netbook PCs.

USA TODAY is a multi-platform news and information media company. Founded in 1982, USA TODAY's mission is to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation. Today, through its newspaper, website and mobile platforms, USA TODAY connects readers and engages the national conversation. USA TODAY, the nation's number one newspaper in print circulation with an average of more than 1.8 million daily, and USATODAY.com, an award-winning newspaper website  launched in 1995, reach a combined 5.9 million readers daily. USA TODAY is a leader in mobile applications with more than eight million downloads on mobile devices.  The USA TODAY brand also includes USA TODAY Education and USA TODAY Sports Weekly. USA TODAY is owned by Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI).

SOURCE  USA TODAY

USA TODAY

CONTACT: Heidi Zimmerman, Director/Communications, 7950 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, VA 22108, +1-703-854-5304 or hzimmerman@usatoday.com, or Ed. Cassidy, VP/Communications & Event Marketing, 7950 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, VA 22108, +1-703-854-4597 or ecassidy@usatoday.com

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

It doesn't appear to have a release date scheduled yet, but at least some of the "Mango" features have been talked about. Here's a quick list of what's to come so far in the new update:

Office Integration with SkyDrive and Office 365
Pinning Email Folders to the Start Screen
Conversation View in Email
Email Server Search
Lync Integration
Complex password support
Information Rights Management support
Support for access to hidden corporate Wi-Fi networks

This comes direct from the official blog: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/

From another site, these features were mentioned:

Facebook Chat/AIM/Live Messanger support
Group Messaging
Visual Voicemail
Improved Xbox Live game data sync
Lockscreen option to show album art of playing audio tracks
Multitasking (webOS style)
Internet Explorer Mobile 9
Twitter Integration

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/windows-phone-7-5-adds-facebookaim-chat-visual-voicemail-skydrive-support-20110516/

It looks like it's shaping up to be a big realease.

McGraw-Hill Relaunches PAEasy(TM)

Comprehensive Online Test Preparation for Physician Assistants

NEW YORK, May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- As physicians and health care institutions increasingly utilize Physician Assistants (PAs) to help contain costs, PAs have become one of the fastest growing occupations in the U.S. But after two-to-three years of post-college study, students must still pass the challenging Physician Assistant National Certifying Examination (PANCE) administered by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.  In addition, PAs must be re-certified every six years by passing the Physician Assistant National Recertifying Examination (PANRE).

Responding to this growing need, McGraw-Hill Professional is relaunching PAEasy (http://www.paeasy.com), a comprehensive online test prep product with many new and innovative features to help students study and prepare for the PANCE and PANRE exams.  In addition to individual purchase plans, McGraw-Hill is now licensing the product to institutions for the first time, offering unlimited access.

Presenting more than 1,200 questions and answers covering every exam topic, PAEasy offers customizable features, including multiple testing modes within which users will have the ability to choose their content, as well as a testing mode that simulates the actual exam interface.   Questions are written and developed by practicing Physician Assistants, who also teach the material.

Continuing the innovations begun with McGraw-Hill's renowned online Access medical and scientific resources, PAEasy provides targeted remediation based on test results--links to selected readings from AccessMedicine's LANGE Library--providing the knowledge students need to review their most challenging exam subjects.  PAEasy provides users with a robust performance profile that allows result tracking by topic and test scores over time and allows users to compare their scores to others using the product, including test-takers at the users' specific institutions. 

"We are continuously expanding and enhancing our digital products to meet the changing needs of students and our relaunch of PAEasy was designed to do just that, with new content, up-to-date questions, targeted readings based on individual test performance linked to the AccessMedicine LANGE library, and more," says Scott Grillo, vice president and medical publisher, McGraw-Hill Professional. "Additionally, by offering institutions unlimited access to PAEasy, we can now provide this important test prep service to a much larger audience."

About McGraw-Hill Professional

McGraw-Hill Professional is a leading global provider of print and electronic content and services for the medical, technical, and business communities. Its offerings include reference and certification books for all professional and educational disciplines and online solutions on medical and health, engineering, business, and scientific topics. For more information, visit http://www.mhprofessional.com/.

McGraw-Hill Professional is a unit of McGraw-Hill Education. McGraw-Hill Education, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), is a leading global innovator in the development of teaching and learning solutions for the 21st century. Through a comprehensive range of traditional and digital education content and tools, McGraw-Hill Education empowers and prepares professionals and students of all ages to connect, learn and succeed in the global economy. McGraw-Hill Education has offices in 33 countries and publishes in more than 65 languages. Additional information is available at http://www.mheducation.com.

SOURCE  McGraw-Hill Professional

McGraw-Hill Professional

CONTACT: Lydia Rinaldi, +1-212-512-3600, lydia_rinaldi@mcgraw-hill.com

According to Juniper Networks Android malware is up 400% since the summer of last year. That's pretty significant, but considering Android's growth in the market, not really suprising. Evidently, it's easy to develop malware for Android, and most people don't secure their devices with anti-virus (myself included). I just try and stick to one rule: don't download applications or visit websites unless they're reputable.

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The volume of attacks that target the Android mobile operating system has increased by 400% since the summer of 2010. Also in that timeframe, one in 20 enterprise mobile devices has gone missing.

Those two findings come from the "Mobile Malicious Threats" report released Tuesday by Juniper Networks, which sells networking hardware and security products.

While significant, the four-fold increase in malware targeting Android isn't unexpected. "You don't have to be extraordinarily smart to write mobile malware these days because most devices don't have any security tools to stop the malware," said Dan Hoffman, chief mobile security evangelist at Juniper Networks, in a telephone interview.

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New GSX Consolidated Monitor & Analyzer Adds Microsoft SharePoint, Enhanced Exchange Support

Latest v.10 release provides broad support for Microsoft collaboration environments

ATLANTA, May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- [Microsoft Tech Ed] GSX, the global leader in proactive, consolidated monitoring and analysis of enterprise collaboration environments, including Microsoft Exchange, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, and Lotus Notes, today announced that its new v.10 release of the GSX Monitor & Analyzer supports Microsoft SharePoint collaboration, and a rich array of Exchange facilities. The new Microsoft SharePoint support includes monitoring of key services and components, monitoring of site availability and response times, and reporting on site usage, indexer workload, and catalog statistics. GSX Monitor & Analyzer further supports SCOM; the two solutions complement each other providing a centralized, global monitoring and reporting platform on all server levels.

Version 10 monitoring of Microsoft Exchange 2010 now includes:

    --  Database Stores, including size, white space, number of mailboxes, and
        average mailbox size
    --  Database Availability Groups (DAGs), including replication and
        validation of high availability implementations
    --  Client Access Servers (CAS), including status, and threshold alerts on
        OWA average response time and download tasks queued
    --  CAS protocol checks including MAPI & OWA connectivity tests, POP3
        service verification, IMAP service verification, and ActiveSync
        configuration tests

"We are excited to announce that our new GSX Monitor & Analyzer v.10 extends support to Microsoft SharePoint, and to an expanded range of Exchange facilities," said Antoine Leboyer, CEO of GSX. "Together with other expanded systems support, this gives our partners and customers more freedom than ever to implement an optimal mix of communications and collaboration systems from diverse suppliers, while keeping a consolidated eye on the overall health of their server environment."

The new GSX Monitor & Analyzer installs quickly and easily on a client workstation, and provides real-time monitoring with proactive alerts for all supported servers throughout an enterprise. Other v.10 enhancements include:

    --  Monitoring and reporting for IBM Traveler and Quickr
    --  Modular install of only the server types and components you need
    --  New reports to track mail forwarding
    --  New alerts for BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5 HA environments

Trial version of GSX Monitor & Analyzer v.10 available for immediate download

GSX is on display at Microsoft TechEd at booth#647, May 16-19, and will available for purchase June 7th at gsx.com. A 60-day trial version of GSX Monitor & Analyzer v.10 will be available for download at http://www.gsx.com on June 7th. For more information on GSX solutions and partner opportunities, please visit http://www.gsx.net/Monitorv10-landing-page/

About GSX Solutions

GSX provides the most widely used consolidated monitoring and analysis solutions for mixed enterprise collaboration infrastructures, including support for Lotus Domino, Microsoft Exchange, and Blackberry Enterprise Server, as well as LDAP and SMTP ports, and any URL. GSX solutions provide automated server maintenance for Domino and Windows-based servers. Monitoring millions of mailboxes for over 600 global enterprises, GSX is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with R&D in Nice, France, and offices in the UK and the US. For more information, please visit http://www.gsx.com .

All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered owners.

GSX company contact: info@gsx.com, Media contact; Xenia von Wedel (408)740-5630 GSX@socialradius.com

SOURCE  GSX Solutions

GSX Solutions

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

Informa Healthcare, COPD Foundation's COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Goes Digital

NEW YORK, May 16, 2011/PRNewswire/ --     COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - the first
journal dedicated to publishing research on the impact of COPD - is launching
a new media-rich digital format to accompany its standard electronic and
print issues. The new digital format is available on
http://www.copdjournal.com and will feature a wide range of features that
makes access to the latest COPD news, data and research easier than ever.

    "We are proud to unveil our new media-rich digital format - designed to
complement our existing issues - which will offer users swift and easy access
to the latest research and developments on COPD, delivered right to their
desks or mobile devices," says Ashley Petrylak, Publisher of COPD: Journal of
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

    "The new media-rich digital format includes live web links,
instant-loading video, high resolution images and crisp texts, as well as
multiple views and zoom features for easy reading," she adds. "Through the
digital edition, readers can add bookmarks and notes to articles, search by
keyword and forward articles of interest easily and swiftly to colleagues."

    "We hope this new format for delivering up-to-date information to
researchers will help improve the quality of life for those affected by the
disease," says John W. Walsh, co-founder and president of the COPD
Foundation. "The number of those affected is increasing, therefore it's
important to improve the communication avenues of research news so we can
prevent, and eventually cure, COPD.

    Readers of COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease are
keenly aware of the immediate need that recent COPD statistics present to the
research community. The COPD patient population across the seven major
markets is expected to rise from an estimated 28.1 million in 2005 to 32
million in 2015, representing an astounding 14% increase.

    "COPD continues as a major uncontrolled disease worldwide," says Dr.
James D. Crapo, Editor-in-Chief and member of the COPD Foundation board of
directors. "The Center for Disease Control recently named COPD the third
leading cause of death in the United States. Among the top ten causes of
death in the United States, only COPD has continued to increase in frequency
over the past four decades. Research and development are needed in order to
stem the tide and minimize the burden which COPD will put on patients, their
families, and the healthcare system."

    "Our journal will continue to serve medicine by publishing the most
up-to-date research and our new format will help to make articles and
information as accessible as possible."

    COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is available by
subscription. For a free subscription to the new media-rich digital format,
please visit the journal's webpage at http://www.copdjournal.com.

    About the Journal:

    COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease publishes six
times per year, is PubMed/ISI indexed and is available
http://www.copdjournal.com and http://www.informahealthcare.com/copd.

    About the COPD Foundation:

    The COPD Foundation is dedicated to developing and supporting programs,
which improve the quality of life through research, education, early
diagnosis, and enhanced therapy for persons whose lives are impacted by
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). The COPD Foundation has
several programs dedicated to informing, empowering, educating, and engaging
individuals affected by COPD, including both diagnosed and undiagnosed
individuals, their families and friends, and their medical professionals.
For more information, please visit: http://www.copdfoundation.org.

   
    Contact:

    COPD Foundation
    Ifdy Perez
    +1-866-731-2673, ext. 398
    iperez@copdfoundation.org

Source: Informa Healthcare

Kirstin Stocker  +44(0)7716756453  or kirstin.stocker@informa.com

MyWeather.com Launches As World's Most Precise, Personalized Digital Weather Service: Weather Just Got Personal(TM)

Weather Information Leader, Weather Central, Announces New Website, Apps for iPhone & Android That Are 6x More Precise Than Competitors

MADISON, Wis., May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, MyWeather is changing the way consumers receive and use weather information with the launch of MyWeather.com and the announcement of new, free apps for the iPhone and Android devices. An app for the iPad will also launch in the coming weeks. The most personal and precise suite of weather products for consumers anywhere on the globe, MyWeather is six times more precise in providing location-specific weather conditions than its competitors and offers users completely personalized weather reports tailored for their lives, locations, and interests, whether they're online or on the go.

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This means MyWeather users receive forecasts specific to their block, not merely their city, with data that lets them anticipate lightning strikes during a golf round; determine the best time on a cloudy day to walk the dog in the park; or decide whether or not to pack an umbrella for a sporting event.

"MyWeather is a weather application for the Facebook generation," said Chris Kelly, President, MyWeather. "We set out to provide users with a degree of customization and portability that they demand in an increasingly mobile world. MyWeather does that better than anyone else, offering a platform that is as intuitive as it is expert."

"With the launch of MyWeather, Weather Central is thrilled to bring its industry-leading weather data and graphics directly to consumers worldwide, and with a new level of personalization that's never before been available," said Terry Kelly, Founder and CEO of Weather Central, LP. "We've been a trusted weather information provider for more than 35 years, and we're confident that consumers will find our products as reliable, useful, and accurate as our enterprise clients do."

From Weather Central, the world's leading provider of interactive weather graphics and data services for television, the Web, and mobile devices, comes a powerful website - MyWeather.com - and free apps for the iPhone and Android devices. With MyWeather, the weather information you need most in your everyday life comes right to you; there's no need to go and search for it. Each visitor to MyWeather.com has the opportunity to custom-design the site to deliver exactly the information they want to see using drag-and-drop widgets to display radar maps, "Futurecasts," Twitter feeds, severe weather alerts, and more. That same information is neatly packaged into a suite of mobile apps, and each user's unique profile migrates seamlessly across the devices they use throughout the day.

MyWeather also sets new standards for precision in weather information. As an innovator since 1974, Weather Central prides itself on a truly scientific approach to weather. As a result, MyWeather delivers location-specific weather information at a roughly half-mile radius, which is six times more precise than competitors including The Weather Channel's Weather.com, Weather Underground, and others.

MyWeather is:

    --  Personal: MyWeather delivers customized weather reports online and on
        leading mobile devices, via apps for iPhone and Android, as well as
        iPad.
    --  Portable: Users customize MyWeather only once, and then receive weather
        updates they want wherever they want them, whether online or on their
        mobile devices. Alerts are also available and configurable, warning
        users when severe weather is likely to affect one of their selected
        locations.
    --  Precise: MyWeather was created by Weather Central, the industry-leading
        provider for decades of precise and accurate weather information. The
        high-resolution images and hyper-precise forecasts are available only
        from MyWeather.

Early reports from beta users of MyWeather have garnered rave reviews:

    --  "I love this app. It's timely, accurate, and beautiful. It gives me the
        info I need as I travel or make my daily plans. It is very quickly
        replacing any and all other weather apps."
    --  "MyWeather lets me view an extended forecast, and keep my location the
        same all the time, while being able to check the weather in different
        parts of the country or world."
    --  "MyWeather is a great product and brings together tools that are better
        than the competition."

In a world where weather events and climate changes are making headlines almost daily, the need for accurate, personalized weather information is greater than ever, and MyWeather delivers.

About MyWeather & Weather Central, LP:

MyWeather was created by Weather Central, LP (WXC.com), to provide consumers with personalized, precise, portable weather data and graphics online and on mobile devices. Weather Central, founded in 1974 by broadcasters and meteorologists based in Madison, Wisconsin, is the leading provider of professional on-air, online, print, mobile, and enterprise weather solutions and forecasting in North America and to major customers worldwide. Utilizing the company's dynamic weather graphics, precise forecast models and data, and patented technology, more than 1000 partners and hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide benefit from Weather Central's attention to weather presentation, detail and insight. For more information please visit MyWeather.com, like facebook.com/myweather, watch youtube.com/myweather and follow @myweather.

Contact:Kyle GiuntaMediaLink kyle@medialinkllc.com646-259-3006

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New Global Security Solution for Business Travelers

Market-leading providers combine to offer complete travel package for risk management and protection services

ANNAPOLIS, Md., May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- AXA Assistance, iJET, a 3i-MIND company, and G4S have confirmed the formation of a new global partnership to provide full travel risk management and protection services for business travelers and expatriate staff working overseas.

The companies, each world leaders in their respective domain, have combined their expertise to create a comprehensive and integrated global travel risk management solution that will provide optimum protection for staff when traveling to or living in countries worldwide.

By combining their complementary areas of expertise, customers will receive:

    --  Medical assistance, provided by AXA Assistance medical teams, and a full
        range of medical services from advice and coverage of medical costs for
        top quality specialists and hospitals, to medical repatriation.
    --  Global Travel Intelligence®, Tracking and Communication from iJET,
        providing online destination information, travel advice and email threat
        alerts; giving managers the capability to monitor threats to travelers
        and expats - as well as to contact employees at risk - all from iJET's
        award-winning Worldcue® technology platform.
    --  Security support from G4S in 120 countries through its specialized risk
        consulting business, Hill & Associates - giving advance trip planning,
        training, advice and support to allow companies to prepare for,
        understand and manage any crisis that may arise.

Business travelers and expatriate staff will be able to access the unified service online or by calling a dedicated command center. Companies signed up to the service can offer their employees a complete package of protection via a single contract with centralized management procedures and standardized processes, no matter where they are in the world.

The operational efficiency of the partnership has already been proven in various North African and Middle Eastern hotspots, as well as in Japan during the recent tsunami disaster. Serge Morelli, Chairman of AXA Assistance declares: "Associating AXA Assistance's medical offering with the Security services proposed by Hill & Associates, G4S and iJET, creates a turnkey package that meets companies' real needs and will thus ensure the enduring success of the partnership."

Richard Hickson, CEO of G4S Hill & Associates said: "This new partnership brings together a unique travel risk management and protection solution from three market-leading businesses. It provides any company with the ability to help both their business travelers and expatriate staff feel safe and secure anywhere in the world."

"iJET is delighted to be partnered with two world class response organizations in providing the market a best of breed option for complete Travel Risk Management," added Steve Hoffman, CEO of iJET International. "Our partnership will act as one in addressing client requirements as we leverage the global presence and reach of all three companies."

For more information:

    --  Media contact at AXA Assistance: Mr. Vincent Mouray, in France - Tel:
        +33 1 55 92 10 96 or +33 6 81 95 81 68; Email:
        vincent.mouray@axa-assistance.com
    --  Media contact at G4S: Ms. Cindy Yeung, in Hong Kong - Tel:
        +852-2802-2123; Email: cindy.yeung@hill-assoc.com
    --  Media contact at iJET: Ms. Erin Auci, in the U.S.A., at DBC PR+New Media
        - Tel: +1-202-292-4571; email: iJET@dbcpr.com

About AXA Assistance

AXA Assistance is a leading global assistance provider that earned revenues of 883 million euros in 2009, handles 8 million cases and year and employs over 6,000 people in more than 30 countries on five different continents. AXA Assistance supports professionals working outside their home country, providing a full range of essential services that includes medical repatriation, safety, clinic management in isolated areas, second medical opinions, coordinated care services at centers of excellence, personal concierge services, and administrative and logistical assistance with expatriation and safety.

About iJET, a 3i-MIND company

iJET International, Inc. (iJET) is an intelligence-driven provider of business resiliency and risk management solutions to over 500 multinational corporations and government organizations - helping them survive and thrive amidst global threats to their people, facilities and supply chain assets. iJET's team of world-class intelligence analysts and patented Worldcue® Global Control Center technology solutions equip decision makers and organizations with real-time information to anticipate, respond to and emerge from business disruptions with a competitive edge.

About G4S and Hill & Associates

G4S is the world's leading security solutions group, which specializes in outsourcing of business processes in sectors where security and safety risks are considered a strategic threat. G4S is the largest employer quoted on the London Stock Exchange and has a secondary stock exchange listing in Copenhagen. G4S has operations in more than 120 countries and more than 625,000 employees. For more information on G4S, visit http://www.g4s.com. Hill & Associates (H&A) is G4S' specialized risk consulting subsidiary. For the last 20 years, H&A has advised and supported corporations and financial institutions doing business in emerging and 'frontier' markets, assisting them to identify, mitigate and manage operational risks. H&A delivers excellent intelligence, assessment and risk management capabilities, while maintaining high ethical standards and discretion.

iJET®, Travel Intelligence and Worldcue® are registered trademarks of iJET Intelligent Risk Systems, Inc.  All rights reserved.

SOURCE  iJET Intelligent Risk Systems

iJET Intelligent Risk Systems

Hanvon Dual-Touch ERT Technology Improves Touch Screen Flexibility, Accuracy and Manufacturing Costs

LOS ANGELES, May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Hanvon, a leading global eReader and touch technology manufacturer, today unveiled the Hanvon ERT Touch Technology, a revolutionary new method of enabling touch-based interfaces, at the Society for Information Display (SID)'s 49th International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition (Display Week 2011). The Hanvon Dual-Touch ERT Technology is a flexible, highly accurate, lower-cost touch technology that outperforms comparable capacitive, resistive and acoustic pulse recognition technologies in precision, data report rate and ease of use. For the first time, Hanvon allows manufacturers to enable both electromagnetic resonance technology (ERT) and touch technology on a display. The new technology is currently commercially available to manufacturers in the U.S. and globally.

"With the increasing adoption of mobile, eReader and tablet products, touch screens have become the primary user interface," said Mr. Liu Yingjian, president of Hanvon. "Consumers should be able to interact with their devices quickly and accurately and manufacturers should be able to meet those demands at a reasonable cost. Hanvon's Dual-Touch ERT Technology is the first finger touch plus ERT in the market to deliver this experience to both consumers and manufacturers."

The Hanvon Dual-Touch ERT Technology combines the functionality of touch with the accuracy and convenience of an electromagnetic resonance technology (ERT) stylus, which shuts down "false" touches when in use. Hanvon brings the two technologies together, while allowing dual-touch input. Hanvon's new technology meets consumer demand for finger touch displays while also lowering the cost to eReader manufacturers by adding a series of antenna sensors to the sensor board.

Hanvon's Dual-Touch ERT Technology has a number of key benefits compared to other alternatives:

    --  Dual-touch interface - Touch displays integrating the technology will
        work with both ERT styli as well as traditional touch interfaces.
    --  Increased precision - Using an ERT input pen, accuracy is as great as
        0.1mm.
    --  Lower cost - Compared to capacitive touch, Hanvon's technology is 30-50
        percent less expensive;
    --  Easier manufacturing - Hanvon's Dual-Touch ERT Technology works by
        adding an antenna network just above the sensor board. This can easily
        be added to any existing manufacturing process.

"The eReader market has had rapid growth in recent couple of years. DisplaySearch forecast the worldwide eReader display market will reach 98 million units in 2018," said Dr. Jennifer Colegrove, vice president, Emerging Display Technologies at DisplaySearch. "Touch screen technologies with high transmissivity, capable of sensing both finger touch and pen writing and at low cost, will be widely adopted on eReader devices and tablet PCs."

The Hanvon Dual-Touch ERT Technology uses less power than comparable technologies but offers superior precision and a more natural handwriting experience. It also offers a transmittance rate of 100% and a data report rate of 200 dots per second. The typical thickness of the control is less than 0.8mm and less than 2 mm for the board.

The technology will be on display and available for demonstration at Display Week 2011 Booth #1455.

    For more information, please contact:
    Wendy Hua
    Tel: +86-10-8278-6679
    Email: huajia@hanwang.com.cn
    Sophy Tang
    Tel: +86-10-8278-6651
    Email: tangzhe@hanwang.com.cn

SOURCE  Hanvon

Hanvon

Inovonics Signs Four New Dealers for Radius Location, Situation Awareness, Mass Notification Product

Company's new Radius product is garnering attention and interest among channel partners

LOUISVILLE, Colo., May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Inovonics (http://www.inovonics.com), the industry leader in high-performance wireless sensor networks for commercial and life safety applications, today announced it has signed four new channel partners to resell its new Radius(TM) product. Radius is the security industry's first situational awareness system that combines mass notification capabilities with advanced wireless positioning technology to pinpoint mobile duress alarm devices. The new dealers that will sell and implement Radius are CyberMedix Medical Systems, Capture Technologies, Phase 1 Electronics and VSA Security Systems.

Introduced last fall, Radius is quickly gaining the attention of dealers, integrators and other channel partners because of its advanced location capabilities and ease of integration with other life safety and business monitoring systems. For instance, unlike traditional hard-wired control panel systems that have been used to detect safety issues and report alarms, Radius provides a complete end-to-end, IP-enabled wireless solution for the security market. Radius can work alone or be integrated with other safety and security systems.

CyberMedix Medical Systems

CyberMedix Medical Systems (http://www.cybermedix.com/), a Dana Point, California-based integrator, provides wireless patient data management, communication and information solutions for the hospital and home care industries. CyberMedix has developed the InteleNett(TM) family of patient data management products for hospitals and the PatientLynx Medical Data Exchange(TM) family of device management products for home care. These systems increase productivity, reduce cost, improve efficiency and extend the operational life expectancy to existing patient monitoring and therapy delivering devices. This strategy provides rapid deployment of products to meet market demands at the speed of technology.

"CyberMedix is committed to improving quality patient care and substantially reducing health care costs by maximizing information and communication management technology," said Ron Barnett, president of CyberMedix. "Through our partnership with Inovonics, we are able to leverage its world-class wireless security technologies and products, such as Radius, which pinpoints location and situation awareness. Radius will allow our customers to implement flexible, durable and reliable solutions that are critical for life safety applications."

Capture Technologies

For more than 60 years, Capture Technologies (http://www.capturet.com)has been an independent VAR and is a leading provider of top-tier solutions, services and integration for identity and voice. Its clients span a variety of industries, including financial, public safety, legal services, healthcare, education and government. Capture Technologies works with the leading brand names in VoIP, voice recording, video surveillance, access control, photo ID and dictation.

"Capture Technologies strives to deliver high-quality security solutions to customers in several different industries," said Lou Parrague, CEO at Capture Technologies. "As a dealer of Radius, we can leverage Inovonics' wireless technology and offer an innovative security system with monitoring, notification and location all in one package."

Phase 1 Electronics

Founded in 1976 and based in Scottsdale, Ariz., Phase 1 Electronics (http://www.phaseonepower.com/) focuses on the most advanced technologies in security, surveillance and access control. It also installs and services basic networks and automation systems. Its leading-edge technology is backed by a team of highly trained professionals who take pride in their work. Company technology and training is personally directed by the company's President who is a professional engineer with experience in all the directed categories. The company is bonded with commercial and residential licenses and certifications.   

"Phase 1 Electronics is excited to offer Inovonics' Radius location and situation awareness system," said Howard Brown, president. "Because of our background and strong technical knowledge, Radius fits neatly into our focused offerings of product and services. And because of Inovonics' reputation for offering wireless products that are built on flexibility and reliability, we know it is the ideal match for any type of critical security application."

VSA Security Systems

VSA Security Systems (http://www.vsasecuritysystems.com/) has been providing security for families and businesses in its community for more than 30 years. From one side of Georgia to the other, as well as much of Alabama, VSA Security Systems has installed burglar alarms, camera systems, access control, fire alarm systems, telephone systems and many other custom security solutions. A great part of VSA Security Systems' success has been based on long-term customers and word-of-mouth referrals.

"Providing top-notch security to our local community customer base is our foremost priority at VSA security," said Pete Berry, president, VSA Security Systems. "We trust Inovonics' wireless technology because of its proven reliability and ease of installation. With Radius, we can offer our customers a comprehensive security system that is unique to the marketplace."

Configurations, Availability and Pricing:

Radius can be used within single buildings or scale to large multi-building campuses spread over hundreds of acres. It can be easily integrated with other fire and safety and security systems and be customized based on customer preference. It is available now and is priced based on customer configuration. For more information, visit Inovonics website at (http://www.inovonics.com/radius.aspx) or join the conversation at(http://www.twitter.com/inovonics).

"Inovonics is proud to be working with the caliber of channel partners, such as these," said Mark Jarman, president. "Radius fills a unique void in the security industry by providing clear pinpoint location. This capability is a requirement for when critical or life safety situations are present. Working together with our growing dealer network, we now can offer a truly integrated solution that will meet this need."

About Inovonics Wireless Corporation

Inovonics is the industry leader in high-performance wireless sensor networks for commercial and life safety applications. Founded in 1986, the company pioneered and patented the use of 900 MHz wireless technology to deliver the most reliable, cost-effective and flexible solutions for critical wireless applications. A leader in security and senior care markets, and the standard for multi-family submetering solutions, the Inovonics family of transmitters, receivers and control modules provides the wireless backbone for many of the world's most widely used wireless systems. Renowned for exceptional performance and reliability, more than 6.5 million Inovonics wireless systems have been deployed in the most challenging of commercial environments, where structural limitations and multiple wireless networks can prove disruptive to lower quality systems. Working with leading OEMs and service provider partners, Inovonics provides network design and system engineering support to continuously advance the use of wireless technologies for corporate, industrial, government and educational applications. For more information contact Inovonics at (http://www.inovonics.com), or call 800-782-2709.

Contact:
Christie Denniston
Catapult PR-IR
Office: 303-581-7760, ext. 13
Mobile: 303-827-5164
cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com

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Inovonics

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

PrecisionIR Group and Bloomberg Markets Magazine Launch Bloomberg Markets Spotlight -- Integrated Media Platform Targeting Institutional Investors

RICHMOND, Va., May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The PrecisionIR Group and Bloomberg Markets magazine are partnering on a new integrated media platform targeting institutional investors, Bloomberg Markets Spotlight, which will launch September 1, 2011.

Combining the unsurpassed reach of Bloomberg Markets among institutional investors with PrecisionIR's multi-media investor outreach assets, Bloomberg Markets Spotlight is an investor relations showcase for public companies, providing an innovative way for companies to target and communicate with institutional investors.

Bloomberg Markets Spotlight will be a stand-alone website built on mediarich content capabilities and on-demand webcasting, presenting public companies committed to increasing their stock liquidity and extending their shareholder base among investors. Content will include road show investor conference presentations, earnings reports, analyst day highlights, CEO interviews, corporate development overviews and much more. Participating companies receive substantial, upfront promotion for their presentation followed by ongoing exposure via a searchable directory, optimized for audience building.

The website will be promoted with an ongoing campaign in Bloomberg Markets magazine, and additional audience building generated by PrecisionIR's proprietary investor marketing engine.

PrecisionIR will take the lead on client sales and services as a core component of its IR services. Due to expected demand among corporate clients, PrecisionIR has established a rolling closing schedule. Contracts for the September launch will be due in by June 1.

"Bloomberg Markets is the most potent name in finance, business and financial media," says Michael Pepe, CEO of PrecisionIR Group. "The magazine's 355,000 global subscribers offer the highest concentration of financial services professionals including fund managers, brokers, dealers and investment bankers - an essential audience for IR professionals."

Bloomberg Markets has won more of the top business and investigative journalism awards in the past 10 years than its competitors combined. Bloomberg Markets was recently named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for its "Duping The Families of Fallen Soldiers" series. The magazine won the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award (IRE) in the Magazine category for the same series. On March 18th, Bloomberg Markets won nine Society of Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) Awards, more than any other magazine. Last year, Bloomberg Markets had a record-setting year in advertising revenue.

For further information, please contact the PrecisionIR Group: Scott Moody, Vice President North American Sales (smoody@precisionir.com; 1-804-327-3440) or Jeremy Derenne, EU Managing Director (jderenne@precisionir.com 44-(0) 207-192-0873)

About PrecisionIR

For over 20 years, PrecisionIR has helped issuers build interest in their companies amongst retail and institutional investors. Through its unique network of over 100 media partners around the world, and a proprietary database of more than one million investors, PrecisionIR provides unmatched distribution for issuers' investor communications initiatives. Over 2,500 public and private companies worldwide trust PrecisionIR to provide them with best-in-class investor outreach solutions.

About Bloomberg Markets magazine

Bloomberg Markets magazine serves the global financial elite, providing insight and perspective on the companies, trends, issues and people that move the world's markets. Bloomberg Markets readers are the youngest and most affluent among all financial and business publications. Bloomberg Markets magazine's rate base is 355,000.

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PrecisionIR Group

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

KEMP Launches Hyper-V Load Balancing Virtual Appliance for Microsoft Exchange 2010

Selected as a product finalist for Best of TechEd, the VLM-Exchange for Microsoft Hyper-V offers instant high availability and performance optimization for Microsoft Exchange 2010

Visit KEMP Technologies at Tech North America Ed 2011, Booth #243

YAPHANK, N.Y., May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- KEMP Technologies today announced the availability of its new Virtual LoadMaster Exchange (VLM-Exchange) for Microsoft Hyper-V(TM). This product offering from KEMP was selected as a Microsoft Best of TechEd 2011 finalist by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro, SQL Server Magazine, DevProConnections and SharePointPro, in the virtualization category. The new virtual appliance application delivery controller (ADC) is specifically designed for Microsoft Exchange 2010 running on Hyper-V machines, allowing businesses to easily establish high-availability and redundancy for Client Access Servers (CAS) and other critical Microsoft Exchange 2010 Server roles. The VLM-Exchange for MS Hyper-V ensures that a company's investment in Microsoft Hyper-V based server virtualization is further leveraged by turning its virtual machines into fully-featured, production-capable ADCs.

The VLM-Exchange for MS Hyper-V is the software-based solution of the recently launched LoadMaster-Exchange for Microsoft Exchange 2010. As with the hardware version, it includes features such as SSL offload, caching, compression, content switching and Exchange Server affinity (persistence). Moreover, advanced Exchange application health checking and the ability to be deployed in a redundant, active/hot-standby configuration ensure high availability of Microsoft Exchange 2010.

"For businesses running MS Exchange in a virtual environment, we recognize that they aren't necessarily familiar with load balancing technology and how to optimally deploy and configure its various features and options so we designed the VLM-Exchange to be simple and quickly deployed through pre-configured Virtual Services that are already optimized to support the most common Exchange 2010 Services," said Peter Melerud, vice president of product management at KEMP.

The VLM-Exchange for MS Hyper-V is preconfigured out-of-the-box for four virtual services supporting RPC Client Access, Hub/Edge/SMTP, and HTTPS-based services such as Outlook Web Access, Outlook Anywhere and ActiveSync. The product has an intuitive, easy-to-use web-user interface for straightforward management and administration so it is easy to customize certain capabilities and traffic management policies for specific Exchange 2010 services.

The VLM-Exchange is currently available for shipping and has an MSRP of $2,990.00.

About KEMP Technologies

KEMP Technologies is a leader in affordable server load balancer appliances and application delivery controllers tailored to meet the needs of businesses that rely on the Internet for e-commerce and business-critical applications. KEMP helps companies rapidly grow their business with 24/7 high-availability, better web infrastructure performance, scalability and secure operations - while streamlining IT costs.

Thousands of KEMP LoadMaster products are in use today to improve customer satisfaction by accelerating user access to business-critical web applications. Service providers also rely upon KEMP products to enable fast time-to-market and cost-effective operations for new and existing managed services.

KEMP's highly affordable LoadMaster products include Layers 4-7 load balancing, content switching, server persistence, SSL offload/acceleration, and application front-end capabilities (caching, compression, intrusion prevention system), plus one full year of product support - delivering industry leading price/performance value.

The company is headquartered in Yaphank, New York. For more information, visit http://www.KEMPtechnologies.com, or call at +1 631-345-5292.

Application delivery solutions are known as application delivery controllers (ADC), server load balancers (SLB), application front-end devices (AFE), web switches, content switches and application switches.

Press Contact:
Fran Bosecker
Vantage Communications for KEMP Technologies
(845) 536-1416
fbosecker@pr-vantage.com

Peter Melerud
KEMP Technologies
pmelerud@kemptechnologies.com

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KEMP Technologies

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

Foodily to Give Food Lovers Instant Access to In-Depth Nutrition Information for Recipes Across the Web

USERS CAN MAKE HEALTHY PICKS AND THEN SHARE WITH FAMILY & FRIENDS ONLINE

Partners With Healthline To Increase Consumer Access To Reliably Healthy Recipes

Stanford Prevention Research Center Founder Dr. John W. Farquhar Serves As Medical Advisor & Expert Contributor

SAN MATEO, Calif., May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Foodily (http://www.foodily.com), the social recipe network that lets you compare recipes from across the web and share favorites via Facebook, has introduced the first reliable place for health-conscious "foodies" to get detailed nutritional information on online recipes, no matter the original source. Now on Foodily, people can search by keywords such as "low-fat" or "high-fiber," compare content beyond calorie count to look at everything from sugar to cholesterol content, and browse healthy eating search results influenced by their friends. People can also benefit from checking out recipes shared by friends and family with similar food concerns, whether they are simply trying to stay healthy, lose weight or deal with dietary restrictions due to allergies or conditions such as high cholesterol or diabetes.

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"With America's weight concerns and the rise in food allergies, people are looking for a dependable way to quickly find recipes that meet their dietary needs," said Andrea Cutright, CEO of Foodily. "Many websites have inaccurate nutrition information or just caloric data for recipe choices, which provides a very limited scope of search when it comes to one of the most important factors in health today: what we eat."

Foodily's proprietary nutrition search feature fully integrates USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) standards, weights and measurements. Nutritional content addressed will include:

    --  Average Calories Per Gram
    --  Saturated Fat
    --  Unsaturated Fat
    --  Carbohydrates
    --  Sugar
    --  Protein
    --  Cholesterol
    --  Sodium
    --  Dietary Fiber

Calculated from the moment that a user hits "search" for either an ingredient, dish or nutritional criteria such as "low-sodium" or "high-protein," Foodily presents an easy visual color cue to let a user know if a recipe has a high or low amount of key nutritional elements. Unlike other food search and recipe sites, Foodily's nutritional results are instantly tabulated based on USDA data rather than basic tagging or other subjective methods.

Cutright also emphasized how Foodily's social networking focus enhances the nutrition feature's benefits: "Staying on track can be difficult at times, but research* has shown social support to have a positive effect on diet changes. It's all so simple now, with Foodily showcasing your friends' favorite healthy recipes right on the homepage. We want to help entire circles of friends and family to be there for each other to promote healthy eating."

Foodily has also partnered with Healthline (http://www.healthline.com), a leading health website, to make access to health-minded recipes easier than ever. Starting today, Foodily will power recipe search on Healthline.com, so that consumers seeking diet-specific information have access to data-rich recipes.

"Healthline.com is a premier destination for information seekers who want to learn about a variety of health concerns, in particular how they can manage living with a condition, or lifestyle changes to improve their health," said Bill McGee, senior vice president of marketing at Healthline. "With Foodily, we can now offer our audience a powerful recipe search product that will help them identify meals that are most appropriate to their condition or lifestyle. Foodily's new nutritional search feature furthers our goal of connecting consumers to better health."

"We hope to continue to develop relationships with respected partners like Healthline to support consumers whenever and wherever they want control over their selection of recipes," added Cutright.

In the development of the nutrition feature, Foodily tapped into the expertise of Dr. John W. Farquhar, Professor of Medicine and Health Research and Policy, Founder and Senior Faculty Member of the Stanford Prevention Research Center (SPRC), and the first holder of the C. F. Rehnborg Professorship in Disease Prevention in the Stanford University School of Medicine. In addition to serving as a medical advisor for Foodily, Dr. Farquhar will be writing regular blog posts for the site that address the deep connections between good health and good nutrition.

"Research has undoubtedly linked health and disease prevention to a person's diet, but science advances quickly, and rarely reaches the public in an effective and actionable manner," said Dr. Farquhar. "I am excited by Foodily's vision to combine online recipe search--which tens of millions of people do everyday--with the latest information on nutrition and diet to let consumers make better food decisions that can lead to better health."

About Foodily:

Foodily empowers people to make fully informed decisions about the foods they eat. Through its comprehensive recipe network, influenced by friends, people can find and share the food they love online. Based in San Mateo, CA, Foodily is driven by a team of seasoned, food-passionate search, linguistic and consumer product experts. The company is backed by leading venture capital firm Index Ventures. Visit http://www.foodily.com and get cooking!

About Healthline:

Healthline Networks is the fastest growing provider of intelligent health information services, enabling 100 million consumers a month to make more confident, informed healthcare decisions. The company's proprietary consumer healthcare taxonomy, the largest of its kind, powers a suite of intelligent health search, content and advertising services. Combining advanced search technology with deep medical expertise, Healthline partners with a network more than 50 trusted destination sites that include publishers, portals, search engines, employers and health plans. Headquartered in San Francisco and ranked #54 in Deloitte's 2010 Technology Fast 500, Healthline is backed by Aetna, GE/NBC Peacock Fund, Investor Growth Capital, Kaiser Permanente, Reed Elsevier, U.S. News & World Report, and VantagePoint Venture Partners. For more information, visit http://www.healthline.com.

*(Sources: "Role of social support in lifestyle-focused weight management interventions," European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 59(S1): S179-S186, Verheijden MW, et al., 2005; "Treatment of obesity," Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 82(1): 93-102, Thompson WG, et al., 2007)

Media Contacts:For Foodily:Laura Goldberg, LBG Public Relations347-683-1859lauragoldberg@gmail.comFor Healthline Networks:Jennifer Conway, Dotted Line Communications978-463-0289 Jennifer@dottedlinecomm.com

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This weekend Sony finally restored PSN after the highly publicized security breach. They assure everyone that they have made changed to security so this won't happen again. I don't have a Playstation myself, but I do use Xbox Live and I can imagine how much it must have sucked. Have they at least tried to make it up to you in any way?

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Sony has announced the PlayStation Network has begun restoration today. The PSN will be restored in a series of phases with phase one restoring access to the PSN, online gaming for the PS3 and PSP, access to Netflix, Hulu, MLB.com and PlayStation Home. The remaining features, such as the ability to make purchases from the PSN Store will return soon.

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Numerex builds UK presence to tap European M2M market growth

Company opens new international business development office in London, and partners with Arkessa, an established UK M2M service provider

ATLANTA, May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Numerex Corp (NASDAQ: NMRX), a leading single source provider of secure machine-to-machine (M2M) products and services, today announced the opening of its London office and a collaboration with Arkessa Limited, to foster Numerex's advance in the European M2M market. Arkessa, headquartered in Cambridge, England, is an established presence in the M2M market in the United Kingdom and provides European systems integrators and major corporate users with wide area wireless internet connections and services that enable remote information and management for a multitude of users.

The European M2M market is showing visible signs of rapid improvement, driven by a favorable regulatory environment and increased awareness of the technology capabilities. In a recent announcement, International Data Corporation (IDC) reported that "the European machine-to-machine (M2M) market is quickly recovering from the economic crisis of 2008-2009 and is starting to prosper again with growth rates exceeding 12% over the 2010-2015 period" (IDC press release of February 28, 2011).   

Arkessa provides European systems integrators and corporate users with cellular-based wireless internet connectivity and data services, enabling the connection, control and management of remote systems and equipment for a multitude of users across borders and applications.  The critical factors leading to Numerex's selection of Arkessa as a partner in Europe were its market presence and focus on pervasive, secure, and reliable connectivity, which allows its users to extract information from the harvested data in real-time.

"Arkessa provides Numerex with a proven, solid, European presence that delivers a package of additional data service capabilities coupled with market reach and insight.  Our customers will also benefit from access to highly reliable and rapidly available M2M turnkey solutions developed through, by and with Numerex," stated Ian Orrock, Executive Chairman of Arkessa.

"Through partnerships with wireless carriers and infrastructure providers, we have built a seamless and ubiquitous M2M development platform, which has contributed to establishing a robust international service offering," said Louis Fienberg, Executive Vice President, Corporate Development of Numerex. "The growing interest in our products and services received from the UK, and elsewhere in Europe, has led us to strengthen our presence in that market. With the addition of Arkessa's expertise and our London office, we are now in a much better position to respond quickly and effectively to European customers' needs." As an integral part of this strategic relationship, Numerex has acquired a minority stake in Arkessa. Funds will be used to support Arkessa's expanding business development initiatives.

The Numerex UK office is headed by Simon Glassman, a telecommunications veteran with a broad and deep experience and knowledge of the European M2M industry acquired with market leaders such as TomTom, Symbian, and Unisys. 

The Numerex European expansion will focus on presenting Numerex's products and services combined with Arkessa's, to the European market, and developing relationships with European companies interested in extending their M2M activities using the Numerex platform in the North American market and beyond.

Please direct sales and business development inquiries to sglassman@numerex.com.

About Arkessa

Arkessa uses wireless cellular communication systems to connect things to other things, systems and people, enabling them to operate, be managed and controlled as though they were connected directly via the internet. Within Europe, Arkessa is a pioneer of machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions for systems integrators and government organizations that support critical infrastructure, environmental services and mission-critical facilities. It also provides vital tools to those building an internet of things. Arkessa's wireless network services enable organizations to innovate, get closer to their customers, reduce costs, improve performance and enhance profitability. Supported by its partnership with global telecoms giant KDDI Telehouse, Arkessa's services are meeting the growing demand for wireless networking in many markets. It is a founder member of Cambridge Wireless and of the m2mglobal network. For additional information, please visit http://www.arkessa.com

About Numerex

Numerex Corp (NASDAQ: NMRX) is a leading provider of machine-to-machine (M2M) business services, technology, and products used in the development and support of M2M solutions for the enterprise and government markets worldwide. The Company offers Numerex DNA(R) that includes hardware and smart Devices, cellular and satellite Network services, and software Applications that are delivered through Numerex FAST(R) (Foundation Application Software Technology). Customers typically subscribe to device management, network, and application services through hosted platforms. Business services enable the development of efficient, reliable, and secure solutions while simplifying and speeding up deployment through streamlined processes and comprehensive integration services. Numerex is ISO 27001 information security-certified. "Machines Trust Us(R)" represents the Company's focus on M2M data security, service reliability, and round-the-clock support of its customers' M2M solutions. For additional information, please visit http://www.numerex.com.

This press release contains, and other statements may contain, forward-looking statements with respect to Numerex future financial or business performance, conditions or strategies and other financial and business matters, including expectations regarding growth trends and activities in the wireless data business. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words or phrases such as "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "estimate," "assume," "strategy," "plan," "outlook," "outcome," "continue," "remain," "trend," and variations of such words and similar expressions, or future or conditional verbs such as "will," "would," "should," "could," "may," or similar expressions. Numerex cautions that these forward-looking statements are subject to numerous assumptions, risks and uncertainties, which change over time. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release, and Numerex assumes no duty to update forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements and future results could differ materially from historical performance.

Certain information contained in this press release concerning our industry and the European market in which we plan to operate is based on information from third-parties.  We have not independently verified this third-party information and cannot assure you of its accuracy or completeness. While we believe the market opportunity and market size information included in this press release is generally reliable, such information is inherently imprecise.

Numerex Corp. Contact:
Alan Catherall
770 485-2527

Investor Relations Contact:
Seth Potter
646 277-1230

SOURCE  Numerex Corp

Numerex Corp

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

Marvell Announces New Optimized LED Retrofit Lamp Reference Designs, Featuring Cree LEDs, Primed for Mass Production

Marvell's new 40 watt equivalent A-Lamp and 100 watt equivalent PAR LED lamp reference design kits to deliver faster time-to-market and cost benefits for lighting OEMs and ODMs

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL), a worldwide leader in integrated silicon solutions  today announced the first mass manufacturing-ready 40 and 100 watt equivalent reference LED retrofit lamp designs that enable OEMs to reduce time-to-market while delivering the highest performance at the lowest cost. Benefitting from rigorous pre-testing, a process that typically takes OEMs four-to-six months, these designs also meet critical environmental and regulatory specifications, as well as safety requirements.

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"Cree is committed to driving the LED lighting revolution," said Mike Watson, Senior Director of Marketing and Applications at Cree. "The Marvell designs deliver excellent overall system performance with just four lighting-class XLamp XP-E High Efficiency White LEDs in the 40 watt equivalent A19 design and just one XLamp MT-G in the 100 watt equivalent PAR38 reference design. This efficient use of Cree LEDs, combined with Marvell's novel Digital Flyback LED Controller, can reduce overall system cost and accelerate the adoption of LED lighting."

"Energy efficiency has long been a crucial focus at Marvell; we've been delivering bleeding-edge low-power solutions to various markets for more than a decade," said Kishore Manghnani, vice president of Green Technology Products Group at Marvell. "We understand the inherent challenges in designing the most efficient light bulb and are proud to support an industry leader like Cree to deliver a turnkey, energy saving solution for lighting manufacturers. I am confident we can deliver unparalleled, ecologically friendly solutions that will help combat unneeded energy waste."

Key Reference Design Highlights

The jointly-developed 40 and 100 watt equivalent LED lamp reference designs are based on Cree's XLamp XP-E and MT-G LED components respectively and Marvell's 88EM8081 Digital Flyback PFC Controller, with patented adaptive control-loop design and an innovative Digital Signal Processing (DSP) solution. Built on industry-leading technology, these new reference designs enable OEMs to recognize superior performance with the highest color consistency while reducing the bill of materials to lower overall system costs.

For example, the A19 40 watt equivalent LED lamp reference design only consumes 7.5W power to deliver 475lm at 3,000K CCT. Whereas, the PAR38 100 watt equivalent LED lamp reference design consumes 23.5W power to deliver 3700 CBCP (center beam candle power) with 27 BA (beaming angle) at 3000K CCT. Also, the 40 and 100 watt equivalent LED lamp reference designs both delivers 0.99 power factor and under 10 percent total harmonic distortion.

Marvell will highlight its technology from May 15 - 19 in Cree's booth (#1925 in the Pennsylvania Convention Center) at Lightfair International 2011.  For more information about Marvell's LED reference designs, visit http://www.marvell.com/green-technology.

About Marvell

Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) is a world leader in the development of storage, communications and consumer silicon solutions. Marvell's diverse product portfolio includes switching, transceiver, communications controller, wireless and storage solutions that power the entire communications infrastructure, including enterprise, metro, home and storage networking. As used in this release, the term "Marvell" refers to Marvell Technology Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries. For more information, visit Marvell.com.

Marvell and the M logo are registered trademarks of Marvell and/or its affiliates.  Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

    For Further Information Contact:
    Marvell Media Relations   Kim Anderson
    Daniel Yoo                Tel: 408-222-0950
    Tel: (408) 222-2187       kimander@marvell.com
    yoo@marvell.com

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TRAFFIQ Launches Mobile Media Calculator

Free TRAFFIQ App Enables Instant Access to Error-Proof Calculations for Digital Media Professionals

NEW YORK, May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- TRAFFIQ®, the digital media workflow platform, today announced the launch of its new TRAFFIQ Mobile Media Calculator, a mobile application that puts powerful digital media planning tools right in the palm of your hand. Now available for iPhone, iPad and Android, TRAFFIQ's Mobile Media Calculator enables media planners and buyers to easily solve for various media calculations, including:

    --  Impression amounts, based on campaign budget and pricing methodology
    --  Key Performance Indicators: Determine the metrics needed to be
        successful on a campaign based on budget, click-through rate, CPM, CPC,
        or CPA goals
    --  Net vs. Gross: Quickly convert rates from net to gross, and vice versa

"Our mission at TRAFFIQ is to empower planners with great technology that helps them be more successful," said Chris O'Hara, SVP, Sales and Marketing, TRAFFIQ.  "We designed the Mobile Media Calculator to take some of the pain out of digital media analytics, and easily show the path to performance."

The Media Calculator eliminates the time-consuming and tedious work of manual, spreadsheet-based data analysis with built-in, error-proof calculation templates to solve for all types of campaigns. For improved campaign planning, the TRAFFIQ Mobile Media Calculator supports what-if scenario forecasting based on total campaign budget or KPI goals. Based on the values entered, the app generates a table of target goals for various performance scenarios.

"TRAFFIQ's mission is to make the low-value tasks involved in digital media, such as billing and reconciliation, easier so that agencies can focus on their clients. This fun and free resource reflects that sentiment," added Jamie Bernheim, TRAFFIQ's Senior Marketing Manager.

TRAFFIQ's free Mobile Media Calculator is available now for iPhone, iPad and Android platforms at http://www.traffiq.com, or by searching TRAFFIQ at the iTunes Store and Android Market. The BlackBerry version is coming soon.

About TRAFFIQ

TRAFFIQ is a web-based media management platform built for advertisers. Our workflow solution streamlines the digital media planning and buying process. With hundreds of agencies and direct advertisers on our demand side, and over 2,500 of the Web's best sites providing inventory on our supply side, TRAFFIQ's marketplace is where agencies and advertisers transact in an open, transparent, environment while maintaining total deal point control. Not a network. Not an exchange. TRAFFIQ is the smarter way to plan and buy digital media. For more information, contact us at info@traffiq.com.

SOURCE  TRAFFIQ

TRAFFIQ

CONTACT: Belinda Rooney of SSPR, +1-609-750-9110, brooney@sspr.com, for TRAFFIQ

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

RUN Powered by ADP Payroll Platform Now Available for Small Business Owners Using Android Smartphones

Innovative, Easy-to-use Payroll Management Application Compatible with Leading U.S. Smartphone Operating Platform

ROSELAND, N.J., May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ADP ®, a leading provider of human resource outsourcing, payroll services, tax and compliance services, benefits administration and integrated computing solutions for vehicle dealers, today announced that its popular payroll management platform for small businesses, RUN Powered by ADP®, is now also available for the Android(TM) smartphone operating platform.  Clients using RUN Powered by ADP® can now download the free mobile payroll app for their Android(TM) smartphone and begin managing and processing payroll for their employees and contractors through their mobile device.

The Android operating platform is now the leading smartphone operating system in the United States with 31.2% of the market, according to recent research from comScore.  Following the launch of ADP's highly successful first mobile payroll app for the iPhone® platform in October, 2010, today a larger population of small business owners can take advantage of ADP's secure payroll solution on a mobile device.  Furthering the company's commitment to continuous mobile enhancements, in the near future RUN Powered by ADP will soon be available on Blackberry devices.

"RUN Powered by ADP is redefining mobility for small business owners.  Now that our innovative payroll solution is accessible on the popular Android smartphones, many more professionals will be able to manage their payroll at any time from any location--simply by using ADP's mobile app," said Regina Lee, President of ADP's Small Business Services and Major Account Services.  "RUN Powered by ADP offers a secure, convenient and remarkably efficient way to manage payroll, allowing users to administer payroll quickly and securely on a handheld device," Lee added.

RUN Powered by ADP also satisfies the demand of an increasingly mobile workforce.  According to a 2010 nationwide survey conducted by ADP Research Institute, a specialized group within ADP, small businesses are leading the trend toward increased mobility.  The survey showed that 90 percent of small business executives spend at least some time outside of the office for business, averaging nine hours a week or 23 percent of a 40-hour work week.  Additionally, a third of that 90 percent indicated that time "on the go" is increasing.

"We are committed to delivering on our promise to help enable small business owners focus on what matters most to them--namely, growing their business and investing in their human capital," Lee continued.  "Soon, our mobile payroll solution will also be available on BlackBerry-compatible devices to further increase its availability to small business owners on their device of choice," Lee added.

ADP recently announced that 100,000 of its small business clients use the innovative and convenient RUN Powered by ADP online platform, which also helps to reduce risk by assisting them with best practices for HR compliance, including employee policy handbooks, hiring guidelines and employment law tips and alerts.

Jeff Phillips of HP Investments in Daly City, CA illustrated the convenience of ADP's mobile solution.  "The freedom of being able to schedule my payroll runs on my calendar, set up an appointment and run payroll on the day it was due, anywhere I happened to be, was too much to pass up.  The iPhone app took a couple of minutes to find and install, and I ran my first payroll all from the 15th tee!" Phillips explained.

With RUN Powered by ADP payroll's secure system, small businesses can:

    --  Enter and review payroll information for employees and contractors;
    --  Pay via checks or direct deposits;
    --  Calculate earnings and deductions as well as federal, state and local
        taxes;
    --  Review hours and earnings to confirm accuracy before payroll is
        processed;
    --  Preview payroll liability and cash required, and confirm funds to be
        withdrawn;
    --  Review reports from the current and previous periods in real time; and
    --  Access HR411®, a suite of simple yet powerful tools to help better
        manage HR needs.

Whether using the online or mobile version, RUN Powered by ADP features an interface that allows business owners and executives to enter their workers' hours and deductions, as well as calculate and preview payroll before approving.  It is available for free from both the Android Market (market.android.com) and the App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).  It will soon be made available for RIM devices.

About ADP

Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADP), with nearly $9 billion in revenues and about 550,000 clients, is one of the world's largest providers of business outsourcing solutions.  Leveraging over 60 years of experience, ADP offers a wide range of HR, payroll, tax and benefits administration solutions from a single source. ADP's easy-to-use solutions for employers provide superior value to companies of all types and sizes.  ADP is also a leading provider of integrated computing solutions to auto, truck, motorcycle, marine and recreational vehicle dealers throughout the world.  For more information about ADP or to contact a local ADP sales office, reach us at 1 (800) 225-5237 or visit the company's website at http://www.ADP.com.

For more information, contact:James DuffyADP(973) 974 - 7612James_Duffy@ADP.com

SOURCE  Automatic Data Processing, Inc.

Automatic Data Processing, Inc.

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

Marvell Introduces Industry's First Single Chip Dual-String Dimmable LED Lighting Controller Family

The 88EM8801 is the first chip in the new 8800 family, which brings high-level functionality at a lower cost and reduced design complexity for use in professional and consumer lighting

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL), a worldwide leader in integrated silicon solutions, today announced the world's first dual-string smart LED controller chip, the 88EM8801, which uses the company's unique power technology to enable superior lighting performance. Using high-levels of integration and advanced mixed-signal technology, Marvell is able to pack high-end lighting features into a single chip that would otherwise require multiple driver chips, a micro-controller and many discrete components to implement. The on-chip intelligent digital controls and ultra-small form factor of the Marvell® new 88EM8801 chip enables customers to introduce superior lighting features and controls into mainstream professional and consumer lighting products, such as down lights, Zhaga-compliant LED modules, PAR lamps, AR lamps, A19 lamps and MR bulbs.

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The 88EM8801 is the first offering in the new Marvell 8800 LED lighting controller family, which offers intelligent digital controls to drastically reduce system design complexity and the engineering effort required to implement high-end lighting features. The unique current tuning capability of the new 8800 series enables the use of loosely binned, lower-cost LEDs to deliver uniform light output and constant color temperature during the manufacturing process and throughout the long lifespan of the LED lamps themselves. Additionally, the 8800 family leverages intelligent pulse width modulation (PWM) dimming controller circuitry and other digital controls to achieve deep dimming levels up to 0.1 percent.

In addition to reducing the size, design complexity and cost of LED power electronics, the intelligence of the 88EM8801 chip significantly enhances light quality while reducing LED component expenses, which accounts for up to 60 percent of the total cost of typical LED light bulbs. Leveraging Marvell's dual-string driver technology, the 88EM8801 offers an unparalleled solution for mixing and controlling different color LED strings to achieve high color rendering index (CRI) and high lumens per watt. Lastly, the 8801 solution delivers up to 95 percent efficiency while providing an on-chip communication interface for wireless lighting controls.

Marvell is currently sampling the 88EM8801 and the evaluation boards to key OEMs. The 88EM8801 chip and the reference LED bulb using 88EM8801 will be shown at LIGHTFAIR International from May 17-19 in Philadelphia.

Supporting Quotes:

"Marvell's new 8800 LED driver family will significantly diminish the cost of implementing high-quality LED technology in professional and consumer lighting, accelerating the mass market adoption of sustainable LED solutions," said Kishore Manghnani, vice president of Green Technology Products Group at Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. "The 88EM8801 is the first LED driver chip of its kind to handle dual-string LEDs with unique differentiating features, enabling superior lighting products that are currently unaffordable for the general consumer market."

Product Overview:

Integrated with four high-power metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs), an I2C interface and a One-Time Programmable (OTP) memory block, Marvell's 88EM8801 allows precise and efficient current control for each LED string. This is made possible by pre-programming calibration and compensation data in the OTP memory or by dimming control signals via PWM and I2C interfaces which achieves targeted light specification. Due to the high integration, 88EM8801 eliminates most external components, such as MOSFETs and rectifying diodes, significantly reducing modular bill of materials (BOM) cost and board space. Moreover, the 88EM8801 deploys two-channel buck topology with synchronous rectification, which delivers up to 95 percent efficiency.

Details include:

    --  Independent control of two LED strings, which allows the mixing of red
        LEDs with cool white or bluish green LEDs to achieve warmer color and
        better CRI
    --  Up to 40 volts DC input
    --  Up to 1000 mA LED current for first string and 500 mA for second string
    --  Dual channel DC/DC synchronous Buck with integrated MOSFETs
    --  High-switching frequency up to 800 KHz for reduced component size
    --  On-chip OTP memory block for compensations and calibrations data
    --  0.1 percent deep dimming with 10-bit PWM control resolution
    --  I2C interface for OTP memory programming and communication protocol
        support, such as ZigBee, Wi-Fi and power line communication (PLC)
    --  PWM dimming input control
    --  Input ripple cancellation
    --  Soft startup
    --  Over-current and over-temperature protection
    --  Under-voltage lockout

Related Links:

    --  Product information:
        http://www.marvell.com/green-technology/led/led-driver.html
    --  Marvell media materials: http://www.marvell.com/company/press_kit/

About Marvell

Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) is a world leader in the development of storage, communications and consumer silicon solutions. Marvell's diverse product portfolio includes switching, transceiver, communications controller, wireless and storage solutions that power the entire communications infrastructure, including enterprise, metro, home and storage networking. As used in this release, the term "Marvell" refers to Marvell Technology Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries. For more information, visit Marvell.com.

Marvell and the M logo are registered trademarks of Marvell and/or its affiliates.  Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

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    yoo@marvell.com           kimander@marvell.com

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Crowd Factory Introduces DIY Landing Page Creation for Group Deals and Social Marketing Campaigns

New functionality enables marketers to instantly create flash deals and group offers or launch custom microsites and Facebook tabs for their social campaigns with just a few clicks

SAN FRANCISCO, May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Crowd Factory, the leader in crowd-powered marketing applications, today introduced new functionality in its social marketing suite that allows customers to instantly create a custom microsite and Facebook-based landing page for their group deal campaigns and other social marketing programs.  Crowd Factory's wizard-driven approach enables marketers to generate custom landing pages for any campaign with just a few clicks, making it easy to integrate campaigns across multiple customer touch points.  Marketers can also use this new landing page creation functionality to instantly create their own flash deals or group offers, with full control over the campaign design and the ability to track visitors and their social interactions.

Landing page creation often requires involvement of IT personnel or the corporate website team, an unnecessary layer that adds complexity and potential campaign delays.  Using Crowd Factory's do-it-yourself approach, marketers can now create a unique, hosted web landing page or Facebook tab using a simple wizard interface that guides them through text, image and other information entry.  Once a few details are complete, publishing the web-based landing page or Facebook tab requires only the click of a button. 

This new functionality is the latest in Crowd Factory's "codeless campaign" innovations that empower marketers to quickly and easily set up social campaigns without involving IT.  Most recently, Crowd Factory introduced Social Offer, which allows companies to develop and launch their own group deals and promotions. 

"No longer limited to increasing engagement and brand awareness, social marketing is becoming a powerful engine for monetization.  Today's introduction of self-service landing page creation is a big step forward for social marketers and underscores Crowd Factory's commitment to empowering companies to socialize every customer interaction," said Sanjay Dholakia, CEO of Crowd Factory.

The Crowd Factory suite, including this new functionality, is generally available with pricing starting at $1,500 per month.  For more details visit http://crowdfactory.com/product/social-offer.php

About Crowd Factory

Crowd Factory helps brands drive customer acquisition and increase conversion rates by adding a quantifiable social boost to every digital interaction.  The Crowd Factory Social Marketing Suite is a robust set of enterprise-grade social marketing applications that allow companies to embed social elements into any marketing experience -- including videos, emails, registration pages, ecommerce sites, ads and more -- with built-in analytics to track, measure and optimize these programs in real-time. For the first time, marketers can offer social engagement across their entire online presence and measure social ROI from engagement to conversion.  Customers include HBO, Sony Music, Microsoft, Molson Coors, PR Newswire, American Red Cross and McAfee.  Crowd Factory is a privately held company based in San Francisco, Calif.  For more information about Crowd Factory, please visit http://www.crowdfactory.com.

SOURCE  Crowd Factory

Crowd Factory

CONTACT: Nate Hermes, +1-212-365-0908, nhermes@sparkpr.com

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

Marvell Introduces Mass Production-Ready LED Retrofit Lamp Reference Design Kit

Philips Lumileds to showcase innovative new LED reference design at LIGHTFAIR International 2011, based on Marvell's 88EM8081 Digital Flyback LED Controller

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL), a worldwide leader in integrated silicon solutions, today announced the availability of a highly optimized, manufacturing-ready 40 watt equivalent LED  lamp reference design kit. The reference design with Philips Lumileds is for a 40 watt equivalent LED light bulb based on the Marvell® 88EM8081 Digital Flyback PFC Controller with patented adaptive control-loop design and an innovative Digital Signal Processing (DSP) solution, and the newly announced LUXEON A LED.

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These turnkey LED solutions have undergone rigorous pre-testing, a process that typically takes OEMs four-to-six months, significantly reducing lighting manufacturers time-to-market. The designs also meet critical environmental and regulatory specifications, as well as safety requirements. 

"Building high performance and cost effective retrofit light bulbs requires intimate system knowledge to optimize the characteristics of the system design.  Marvell's driver expertise coupled with the latest LUXEON LEDs yields a highly quality, high performance go to market bulb," said Ray Chockof Philips Lumileds. "To capture critical LED market share it's imperative that customers can quickly reach mass-production and recognize cost savings that can be passed on to the end user. Through our engineering teams' close collaboration, we can now offer a fully optimized reference design that enables customers to quickly bring high quality, energy-efficient retrofit bulbs to the consumer and commercial markets."

"Our newest dual-string smart LED single chip, the 88EM8081, builds on Marvell's extensive heritage in low-power, energy-efficient solutions," said Kishore Manghnani, vice president of Green Technology Products Group at Marvell. "We're pleased to work with a company like Philips Lumileds that shares our commitment to environmentally-friendly silicon solutions. Through Marvell's wide-ranging IP portfolios and deep engineering acumen, OEM and ODM customers can quickly get to market with superior solutions that are as easy on consumers' wallets as they are on the Earth."     

For more information about Marvell's LED reference designs, visit http://www.marvell.com/green-technology. LUXEON LEDs are available from Future Lighting Solutions, http://www.futurelightingsolutions.com.

Reference Design Details

The A19 40 watt equivalent LED lamp reference design uses the Marvell 88EM8081 Digital Flyback LED Controller and LUXEON A LEDs. The lamp is designed to consume 6.5W power to deliver 475lm at 3,000K CCT with color reading indicator (CRI) great than 80. The LED reference design works with universal AC voltage input with 0.99 power factor and under 10 percent total harmonic distortion.

About Philips Lumileds

Philips Lumileds is a leading provider of LEDs for illumination solutions. The company's leading quality of light, light output, efficacy and thermal management are direct results of the ongoing commitment to advancing solid-state lighting technology and enabling lighting solutions that are more environmentally friendly, help reduce CO2 emissions and reduce the need for power plant expansion. Philips Lumileds' LUXEON LEDs are enabling new solutions for shop, outdoor, office, school, and home lighting applications. More information about the company's LUXEON LED products and solid-state lighting technologies can be found at http://www.philipslumileds.com.

About Marvell

Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) is a world leader in the development of storage, communications and consumer silicon solutions. Marvell's diverse product portfolio includes switching, transceiver, communications controller, wireless and storage solutions that power the entire communications infrastructure, including enterprise, metro, home and storage networking. As used in this release, the term "Marvell" refers to Marvell Technology Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries. For more information, visit Marvell.com.

Marvell and the M logo are registered trademarks of Marvell and/or its affiliates.  Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

For Further Information Contact:

    Marvell Media Relations
    Daniel Yoo                Kim Anderson
    Tel: (408) 222-2187       Tel: 408-222-0950
    yoo@marvell.com           kimander@marvell.com

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SAP and Dell Join Forces on Cloud and In-Memory Computing

Charmer Sunbelt and University of Kentucky See Value, Agility and Cost Savings by Using Dell Platforms to Run SAP® Solutions and Real-Time Applications

ORLANDO, Fla., May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) and Dell today announced an expansion of their long-standing relationship that will deliver new cloud and in-memory computing offerings to help organizations transform their businesses. SAP® applications will now be available for deployment via Dell's VIS Next Generation Datacenter Platform, opening up new ways for customers to increase IT responsiveness and business efficiency. In addition, with Dell's PowerEdge R910 now among the hardware platforms certified by SAP for running SAP® In-Memory Computing technology, Dell customers can dramatically increase the availability and speed of business information, leading to faster and more insightful decision-making. The announcement was made at SAPPHIRE® NOW, being held in Orlando, Florida, May 15-18, 2011.

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Cloud delivery models are becoming a top priority for many corporate IT departments due to their quick deployments, cost-effectiveness and overall flexibility. For Dell customers, deployment of SAP applications using Dell's cloud solutions makes moving to the cloud an easy and secure transition. Both Dell and SAP offer open, affordable solutions and choice, allowing customers to build on their prior investments in software from diverse vendors.

Dell is also now an SAP-certified provider of cloud services, as well as an SAP-certified provider of hosting services, providing high-quality standards for cloud-based delivery of SAP applications. As part of the certification, Dell's cloud delivery offerings have passed SAP's criteria for delivering SAP applications on its platform.

Customers Benefit from Use of SAP Applications in Dell's Cloud

Dell is a major provider of cloud solutions. The ability to run SAP applications on Dell cloud solutions can help customers increase resiliency, performance and efficiencies of scale without the overhead of traditional IT environments. The University of Kentucky, currently testing a proof-of-concept roll out of SAP applications on a Dell cloud solution, highlights the value of these complementary offerings.

"Cloud computing is not only coming of age, it represents a significant opportunity in enterprise computing," said Vince Kellen, CIO, University of Kentucky. "With our enhanced collaboration with Dell and SAP, here at the University of Kentucky we are planning right now how we can improve the agility and cost-effectiveness of our infrastructure. "The initial tests have shown some impressive results. Over the short and long term we expect to take advantage of the scale, openness and flexibility that Dell's cloud solutions will provide."

Delivering Real-Time Applications by Optimizing Software and Hardware

SAP® In-Memory Appliance software (SAP HANA(TM)) lets customers analyze massive amounts of data in real time, allowing for faster decision-making and better business insights that can be acted upon immediately. Dell's PowerEdge R910 platform has been certified for SAP HANA, meeting SAP's rigorous testing requirements. The combination of Dell's PowerEdge R910 platform and SAP HANA allows users to conduct analytics, performance management and operations in a single system. Together, the solutions help enable a business to react faster to events impacting operations today. Through this, an organization can quickly identify and analyze trends and patterns to improve planning, forecasting and price optimization.

The Charmer Sunbelt Group has recently committed to work with Dell to deploy SAP HANA. "SAP and Dell offer a breadth of solutions to meet the needs of our suppliers and customers, while enabling future growth that fully leverages our existing investments," said Paul Fipps, CIO and vice president, Business Services, The Charmer Sunbelt Group. "Real-time analytics and new applications advanced by in-memory computing technology will allow us to analyze massive quantities of data in local memory, quickly and easily. We expect that business decisions can be executed without delay in mission-critical processes and reports such as profitability analysis and customer segmentation on complex and detailed data."

In addition, Dell Services provides capabilities in support of SAP HANA, helping customers deploy SAP In-Memory Computing technology alongside the enterprise resource planning (ERP) application SAP® ERP and SAP® BusinessObjects(TM) analytic applications. Through certification and support, SAP and Dell offer customers an avenue to simplify their analytics environment, providing real-time insight into operations. Additionally, with the combination of SAP HANA and Dell hardware, enterprise customers can standardize on a cost-effective, optimized in-memory computing platform, which can further reduce risks and costs.

Through Increased Cooperation, Dell-SAP Deliver End-to-End Solutions to Customers

An SAP global technology partner, Dell offers customers a portfolio of end-to-end solutions in support of SAP applications including hardware, software and services that help reduce IT costs while increasing operating effectiveness.

"The expansion of our current collaboration with SAP demonstrates our mutual resolve to help customers solve real business problems," said Steve Schuckenbrock, president, Dell Services. "We are proud to align with SAP to bring organizations new offerings utilizing cloud and in-memory computing technologies that increase efficiencies and boost performance."

"SAP is committed to delivering its solutions in open and flexible ways that best support customer success," said Sanjay Poonen, president, Global Solutions, SAP. "This announcement underscores our commitment to delivering enterprise applications via the cloud in cooperation with our leading partner ecosystem. Through this expanded cooperation with Dell, customers will benefit from our complementary cloud and in-memory solutions, enabling them to transform their businesses, flexibly and affordably."

For announcements, blog posts, videos and other coverage during SAPPHIRE NOW, visit the SAPPHIRE NOW newsroom.

SAPPHIRE® NOW

With SAPPHIRE® NOW, SAP offers its customers, partners and prospects even more opportunities to engage in dialogue with peers, participants and thought leaders around the globe. Being held in Orlando, Florida, May 15-18, 2011, this enhanced, real-time event connects attendees on site with global participants through state-of-the-art broadcast studios and an online experience that incorporates the latest social media and community functionality. Whether on site or online, participants can gain insight as to how SAP is delivering on its product strategy and helping organizations around the world to run better  For more information, visit http://www.sapphirenow.com. Follow SAPPHIRE NOW on Twitter at @SAPPHIRENOW and visit the event newsroom at http://www.sapphirenow.news-sap.com.

About DELL

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services that give them the power to do more. Dell Services develops and delivers a comprehensive suite of services and solutions in applications, business process, consulting, infrastructure and support to help customers succeed.  Learn more at http://www.dell.com.

Dell is a trademark of Dell Inc.
Dell disclaims any proprietary interest in the marks and names of others.

About SAP

As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (NYSE: SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device - SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable more than 170,000 customers (includes customers from the acquisition of Sybase) to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For more information, visit http://www.sap.com.

Any statements contained in this document that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "forecast," "intend," "may," "plan," "project," "predict," "should" and "will" and similar expressions as they relate to SAP are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. SAP undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. The factors that could affect SAP's future financial results are discussed more fully in SAP's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including SAP's most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates.

Copyright © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

SAP, R/3, mySAP, mySAP.com, xApps, xApp, SAP NetWeaver and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries all over the world. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies. Data contained in this document serve informational purposes only. National product specifications may vary.

For customers interested in learning more about SAP products:
Global Customer Center: +49 180 534-34-24
United States Only: 1 (800) 872-1SAP (1-800-872-1727)

For more information, press only:
Scott Behles, SAP, +1 (917) 494-2009, scott.behles@sap.com, EDT
SAP Press Office, +49 (6227) 7-46315, CET; +1 (610) 661-3200, EDT; press@sap.com
Debra Dekelbaum, Dell, +1 (972) 577-2885, Debra_Dekelbaum@dellteam.com, CDT

During SAPPHIRE NOW (from May 15 to 18), to speak with press contacts on site, please dial the SAP press room: +1 (610) 661-0469.

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Atmel Launches Industry's First EEPROM Device With AES-CCM Authentication

Atmel ATAES132 offers larger storage capacity, rich feature set, true random number generation and secure counter capabilities with AES-CCM authentication for industrial, consumer, computing, and embedded applications

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced an extension to the Atmel CryptoAuthentication(TM) family, the ATAES132 devices. These new devices offer secure data storage using the AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) authentication for industrial, consumer, computing and embedded applications with flexible key management features and secure counters. AES is a symmetric-key encryption standard adopted by governments and cryptographic experts around the world.

These security features are available in two devices compatible with standard serial EEPROMs, one supporting I2C and the other supporting SPI. This allows system developers to add security to existing systems without retooling their printed circuit board. This direct replacement can extend the life of a system's architecture by including security features within the hardware to make the system more secure than software implementations. The new secure devices also extend a current system's security into the future with the AES-CCM (AES in Counter and Cipher block chaining modes with message authentication code) authentication.

"There is a current void in the consumer, medical and computing sectors for increased security in microcontroller-based applications," said Kerry Maletsky, cryptographic product line director, Atmel Corporation. "Atmel helps fill this void by enabling developers to simply replace their serial EEPROM with the new ATAES132. These devices offer world-class hardware protection for keys and data to help system developers easily integrate a higher level of trust in their system. Features like non-reversible monotonic counters and the ability to securely move keys on and off the chip provide a level of system flexibility not previously available."

The Atmel ATAES132 development kits can be plugged into a variety of Atmel AVR® or ARM®-based development kits for a complete project solution. All Atmel ATAES132 devices support 2.5V to 5.5V supply voltages and consume less than 250nA standby/sleep current.

For more information on Atmel CryptoAuthentication products, please visit the following link: http://www.atmel.com/products/cryptoauthentication.

Pricing and Availability

The Atmel ATAES132 devices are available now in 8-pin SOIC , TSSOP  and UDFN packages. Pricing starts at $0.55 for 1,000-piece quantities. Additionally, the AT88CK427GREEN demonstration kit is available for $19.95, and the AT88CK101STK8 development kit is available for $89.95 through Atmel's normal distribution channels.

About Atmel

Atmel Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of microcontrollers, capacitive touch solutions, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio frequency (RF) components. Leveraging one of the industry's broadest intellectual property (IP) technology portfolios, Atmel is able to provide the electronics industry with complete system solutions focused on industrial, consumer, communications, computing and automotive markets.

© 2011 Atmel Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Atmel®, Atmel logo and combinations thereof, AVR® (  )and others are registered trademarks, CryptoAuthentication(TM) and others are trademarks of Atmel Corporation or its subsidiaries. ARM® is a registered trademark of ARM Ltd. Other terms and product names may be trademarks of others.

Press Contact
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Email: agnes.toan@atmel.com
Ph: (+1) (408) 487-2963

SOURCE  Atmel Corporation

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New OpenNebula Pro 2.2 Cloud Platform Targeted at Telcos, Hosting Providers and HPC Centers

OpenNebulaPro 2.2 Adds new Features and Tools to Address the Scalability, Reliability, Flexibility and Security Requiremeents of Large-scale Production Environments

MADRID, May 16, 2011/PRNewswire/ --     C12G Labs announced today the availability of OpenNebulaPro 2.2 for
customers and partners with an active subscription to OpenNebula.pro. This is
the third major release of the commercially supported, enterprise-ready
distribution of the OpenNebula open-source toolkit, which is used by
thousands of organizations worldwide.

    OpenNebulaPro 2.2 offers a comprehensive solution for the management of
virtualized data centers to enable private, public, hybrid (cloudbursting)
and virtual private clouds. OpenNebulaPro 2.2 extends the fault-tolerance
features of previous versions, includes out-of-the-box integration with
data-center's monitoring systems, and brings the new Sunstone web
application. C12G complements OpenNebulaPro 2.2 with additional tools to
simplify the deployment and operation of Cloud instances and to help in the
migration path from previous versions. As result of its certification
process, it also provides a better integration with richer functionality on
VMware and XenServer hypervisors.

    OpenNebulaPro 2.2 includes state-of-the-art features developed to meet
the requirements from High Performance Computing, Hosting and Telecom cloud
environments. Telecom Operators can offer Virtual Private Cloud environments
to extend the Private Clouds of their custormers over virtual private
networks, so offering a more reliable and secure alternative to traditional
Public Cloud providers. Supercomputing and leading research centers use
OpenNebula to build clouds for hosting virtualized computational environments
or for providing users with new "HPC as a service" resource provisioning
models. Hosting providers are adopting OpenNebula to manage their
infrastructure and to build new IaaS cloud offerings.

    About C12G

    C12G Labs, the leader in private cloud computing management, is a
Technology Company built on understanding the needs of their customers and
partners, and delivering the Cloud Management Software, Support and Services
to make them successful. C12G offers a comprehensive set of support
subscription services, through which customers and partners can get
production level support or build a custom cloud infrastructure or solution.

    For more info: http://www.C12G.com

    About OpenNebula

    OpenNebula is the most advanced open-source platform for building IaaS
clouds, offering unique features for cloud management and providing the
integration capabilities that many enterprise IT shops need for internal
cloud adoption.

    For more info: http://www.OpenNebula.org

Source: DSA Research Group

Carlos Martin, contact@opennebula.org +34-91-3947616

Startup Expert Launches Entrepreneurial Advisory Service

Startup Expert is the simple way to launch your new business

ATLANTA, May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Startup Expert has recently announced the launching of their new entrepreneurial advisory service. The service helps aspiring entrepreneurs and startups overcome common challenges that most entrepreneurs face in their first 24 months of operation.

With the state of the economy where it is and a lack of stable jobs, income security is a big thing on people's minds. One of the most popular routes people are taking now is to venture out and start their own business. Entrepreneurship can be a very scary avenue for people because there are many unknowns. Some people may not feel they have enough experience, education or knowledge to be successful. Startup Expert was created to help those people.

"Startup Expert is geared towards people looking to start their own business and entrepreneurs who are looking to take their business to the next level," said Dezmon Landers, founder of Startup Expert. "We offer a monthly advisory service which allows people to interact with our business strategists and advisory team to seek advice and troubleshoot problems as necessary."

Startup Expert uses technology to collaborate with clients all over the world. Through webinars and other online software, the team at Startup Expert is able to connect and interact with clients to hold meetings, view and edit documents and more as if they were in the office working side by side.

In a time when having an edge over your competition can determine whether or not your business succeeds or fails, it is crucial to have a strong business plan as well as a strategy team to assist you in all of a business's daily functions like marketing, accounting, sales pitches, human resources and more.

The team at Startup Expert consists of business professionals with over 60 years of real business experience in different industries -- Internet, construction, legal, financing, advertising -- who have the knowledge to take business from idea to revenue quickly.

"We created Startup Expert to help eliminate the confusion and guesswork of running a business," said Landers. "Through webinars, strategy meetings, email, phone support and consultations with business advisors, we provide all of the vital pieces in one package."

Working with Startup Expert is a very cost-effective way of getting the real information you need about starting and becoming profitable in your new business. Alternatively, consultations with individual advisors like attorneys, accounts and financial advisors can cost thousands of dollars. Taking the DIY or Do It Yourself approach isn't necessarily wrong but it may take longer than anticipated and cost more money in the long run.

"Each of our packages offers unique services geared towards entrepreneurs whether they're still working full-time or their business is experiencing rapid startup growth," said Landers. "Our team has become successful in our individual fields because we execute strategies that work in the real business world."

"It is important for people to realize that they don't have to go through the ups and downs so commonly associated with opening a business," said Landers. "They can start their business off on the right foot with Startup Expert's services and hit the ground running. Large and small companies all over the world have boards of directors, advisors and consultants aiding in their success; why are new entrepreneurs any different?"

Startup Expert is like having your own personal business advisory team to bounce ideas off of and seek solutions to problems.

About Dezmon Landers

Dezmon Landers is a graduate of The Ohio State University and currently works as a Startup Business Strategist. He has real startup experience working with Gobignetwork.com and Gotcast.com, and through his efforts he's helped raise more than $500,000 in venture capital. He also sat on the Ohio Department of Education's Entrepreneurial Advisory Council. Having the chance to have worked closely with and be mentored by some of the top business professionals in the country, he has gained a strong understanding of what works and what doesn't work when it comes to starting a new business.

For more information, visit: http://www.startupexpert.us

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Startup Expert

CONTACT: Dezmon Landers, 404-941-4148, dezmon(at)startupexpert(dot)us

Web Site: http://www.startupexpert.us