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March 3, 2011
AT&T Building Most Advanced Mobile Broadband Experience in Seattle, Announces 2011 Network Upgrade Plans
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 4:35:02 PM
AT&T Building Most Advanced Mobile Broadband Experience in Seattle, Announces 2011 Network Upgrade Plans
AT&T to Expand Backhaul in 2011 in Seattle to Enable 4G Speeds, Increase Wireless Network Capacity at More Than 400 Cell Sites, Upgrade Hundreds of Cell Sites
SEATTLE, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T*, building on its strong 2010 record of network accomplishments, today announced network improvement plans designed to enable 4G speeds** and enhanced reliability to Seattle and surrounding communities in 2011. The wireless network enhancement plans are part of AT&T's planned $19-billion investment in its wireless and wireline networks and other capital projects in 2011.
Dan Youmans, president of AT&T Washington, says AT&T plans the following network improvements in the Seattle area in 2011:
-- Deploying enhanced backhaul connections to two-thirds of the area's cell
sites. Combined with HSPA+ technology, these backhaul deployments will
enable 4G speeds for local customers.
-- Delivering additional wireless capacity to more than 400 cell sites in
the area through the addition of new layers of frequency, also known as
"carriers." Adding extra capacity to a cell site is like widening a
highway - you're creating more lanes to accommodate increasing traffic.
-- Installing new cell sites to improve network coverage.
-- Installing distributed antenna systems in high-traffic areas and
facilities, such as office buildings and sporting and event venues, to
provide enhanced wireless coverage to customers in indoor or outdoor
spaces where geographical limitations might otherwise prevent an optimal
wireless experience.
Youmans said AT&T invested more than $200 million in its Seattle area wireless and wireline network from 2008 through 2010 as part of its commitment to superior service in the area.
The nation's fastest mobile broadband network is getting faster with 4G. A key planned upgrade for 2011 is deployment of enhanced backhaul connections to more than two thirds of the cell sites in the Seattle area to enable 4G speeds. Backhaul connections carry traffic between cell sites and AT&T's nationwide network. Enhanced fiber-optic and ethernet backhaul connections expand capacity many times over, and enable additional expansion in the years to come.
"We're investing in our Seattle network to help AT&T customers take advantage of the numerous capabilities of their wireless devices," Youmans said. "This year, we're committed to providing best-in-class wireless voice service to our customers, and we're backing that up with the right investments."
The investments made in the Seattle area wireless and wireline networks are part of the $1.3 billion AT&T invested from 2008-2010 across Washington, Youmans said.
This year's plans build upon the improvements AT&T completed in 2010 to strengthen its Seattle area mobile broadband network, including the installation of four new cell sites, increasing wireless capacity by at least an additional 50 percent on more than 170 cell sites and the installation of distributed antenna systems in several targeted venues to handle increased traffic.
AT&T's advanced network provides several important advantages for customers. Unlike some competitors, AT&T's mobile-broadband network provides customers with the ability to talk and surf at the same time. For instance, you can look up directions to an event while staying on the phone with your boss, or browse your favorite social media sites while chatting with a friend. AT&T's mobile broadband network also is up to 35 percent faster than our largest competitor's CDMA-based network on average nationally.
AT&T also provides access to voice service in more than 220 countries and data service in more than 200 countries. AT&T's largest competitor's CDMA-based devices work in fewer than 45 countries. Business Traveler magazine recently named AT&T as having the "Best Mobile Coverage in the World" - the fourth time AT&T has received the distinction.
"AT&T is consistently among the top companies in the U.S. in terms of our capital investment and we're committed to helping our customers right here in the Seattle market take advantage of the numerous capabilities of their wireless devices," said Mike Maxwell, AT&T's vice president and general manager for the Pacific Northwest.
Daniel Malarkey, Deputy Director of the Washington State Department of Commerce, said AT&T's significant investment to improve its network will further bolster Seattle's reputation as a great place to live and work.
"High-tech expansions like this one help our business community, our local economy and our overall quality of life," Malarkey said. "Few businesses today are more competitive than the wireless industry. That level of competition results in investment and new technology, which delivers benefits to the entire community."
AT&T's focus is delivering the nation's most advanced mobile broadband experience, which includes delivering the benefits of mobile broadband networks, devices and applications. With the nation's fastest mobile broadband network, AT&T provides accelerated mobile data speeds and simultaneous voice and data capabilities for an amazing wireless voice and data experience. At the same time, AT&T is widening its lead in smartphones and devices, with 20 4G devices planned for 2011, including an industry-leading Android lineup. And we're driving development of wide-ranging mobile applications with three AT&T Foundry collaborative innovation centers planned for this year, as well as leadership in multiple initiatives to provide new tools for apps developers.
AT&T's mobile broadband network is based on the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) family of technologies that includes GSM and UMTS, the most widely used wireless network platforms in the world.
AT&T also operates the nation's largest Wi-Fi network*** with more than 24,000 hotspots in the U.S. and access to more than 125,000 hotspots globally through roaming agreements. Most AT&T smartphone customers get access to our entire national Wi-Fi network at no additional cost, and Wi-Fi usage doesn't count against customers' monthly data plans.
For more information about AT&T's coverage in Seattle or anywhere in the United States, consumers can visit the AT&T Coverage Viewer. Using the online tool, AT&T customers can measure coverage quality from a street address, intersection, ZIP code or even a landmark.
For updates on the AT&T wireless network, please visit the AT&T network news page.
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
**4G speeds delivered by HSPA+ with enhanced backhaul. Available in limited areas. Availability increasing with ongoing backhaul deployment. Requires 4G device. Learn more at att.com/network. Actual speeds experienced will vary and depend on several factors, including device, location, capacity, facilities, and other conditions.
***Largest based on company branded and operated hotspots. Access includes AT&T Wi-Fi Basic. A Wi-Fi enabled device required. Other restrictions apply. See http://www.attwifi.com for details and locations.
About AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates - AT&T operating companies - are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. With a powerful array of network resources that includes the nation's fastest mobile broadband network, AT&T is a leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet and voice services. A leader in mobile broadband, AT&T also offers the best wireless coverage worldwide, offering the most wireless phones that work in the most countries. It also offers advanced TV services under the AT&T U-verse® and AT&T |DIRECTV brands. The company's suite of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in the world. In domestic markets, AT&T Advertising Solutions and AT&T Interactive are known for their leadership in local search and advertising. In 2010, AT&T again ranked among the 50 Most Admired Companies by FORTUNE® magazine.
Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com. This AT&T news release and other announcements are available at http://www.att.com/newsroom and as part of an RSS feed at http://www.att.com/rss. Or follow our news on Twitter at @ATT. Find us on Facebook at http://www.Facebook.com/ATT to discover more about our consumer and wireless services or at http://www.Facebook.com/ATTSmallBiz to discover more about our small business services.
© 2011 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. Mobile broadband not available in all areas. AT&T, the AT&T logo and all other marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies.
Cautionary Language Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
Information set forth in this press release contains financial estimates and other forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, and actual results might differ materially. A discussion of factors that may affect future results is contained in AT&T's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. AT&T disclaims any obligation to update and revise statements contained in this news release based on new information or otherwise.
SOURCE AT&T Inc.
AT&T Inc.
CONTACT: Colleen Smith of AT&T Corporate Communications, Office, +1-415-318-4183, Mobile, +1-408-505-7723, csmith@attnews.us
Web Site: http://www.att.com
AT&T to Expand Backhaul in 2011 in Seattle to Enable 4G Speeds, Increase Wireless Network Capacity at More Than 400 Cell Sites, Upgrade Hundreds of Cell Sites
SEATTLE, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T*, building on its strong 2010 record of network accomplishments, today announced network improvement plans designed to enable 4G speeds** and enhanced reliability to Seattle and surrounding communities in 2011. The wireless network enhancement plans are part of AT&T's planned $19-billion investment in its wireless and wireline networks and other capital projects in 2011.
Dan Youmans, president of AT&T Washington, says AT&T plans the following network improvements in the Seattle area in 2011:
-- Deploying enhanced backhaul connections to two-thirds of the area's cell
sites. Combined with HSPA+ technology, these backhaul deployments will
enable 4G speeds for local customers.
-- Delivering additional wireless capacity to more than 400 cell sites in
the area through the addition of new layers of frequency, also known as
"carriers." Adding extra capacity to a cell site is like widening a
highway - you're creating more lanes to accommodate increasing traffic.
-- Installing new cell sites to improve network coverage.
-- Installing distributed antenna systems in high-traffic areas and
facilities, such as office buildings and sporting and event venues, to
provide enhanced wireless coverage to customers in indoor or outdoor
spaces where geographical limitations might otherwise prevent an optimal
wireless experience.
Youmans said AT&T invested more than $200 million in its Seattle area wireless and wireline network from 2008 through 2010 as part of its commitment to superior service in the area.
The nation's fastest mobile broadband network is getting faster with 4G. A key planned upgrade for 2011 is deployment of enhanced backhaul connections to more than two thirds of the cell sites in the Seattle area to enable 4G speeds. Backhaul connections carry traffic between cell sites and AT&T's nationwide network. Enhanced fiber-optic and ethernet backhaul connections expand capacity many times over, and enable additional expansion in the years to come.
"We're investing in our Seattle network to help AT&T customers take advantage of the numerous capabilities of their wireless devices," Youmans said. "This year, we're committed to providing best-in-class wireless voice service to our customers, and we're backing that up with the right investments."
The investments made in the Seattle area wireless and wireline networks are part of the $1.3 billion AT&T invested from 2008-2010 across Washington, Youmans said.
This year's plans build upon the improvements AT&T completed in 2010 to strengthen its Seattle area mobile broadband network, including the installation of four new cell sites, increasing wireless capacity by at least an additional 50 percent on more than 170 cell sites and the installation of distributed antenna systems in several targeted venues to handle increased traffic.
AT&T's advanced network provides several important advantages for customers. Unlike some competitors, AT&T's mobile-broadband network provides customers with the ability to talk and surf at the same time. For instance, you can look up directions to an event while staying on the phone with your boss, or browse your favorite social media sites while chatting with a friend. AT&T's mobile broadband network also is up to 35 percent faster than our largest competitor's CDMA-based network on average nationally.
AT&T also provides access to voice service in more than 220 countries and data service in more than 200 countries. AT&T's largest competitor's CDMA-based devices work in fewer than 45 countries. Business Traveler magazine recently named AT&T as having the "Best Mobile Coverage in the World" - the fourth time AT&T has received the distinction.
"AT&T is consistently among the top companies in the U.S. in terms of our capital investment and we're committed to helping our customers right here in the Seattle market take advantage of the numerous capabilities of their wireless devices," said Mike Maxwell, AT&T's vice president and general manager for the Pacific Northwest.
Daniel Malarkey, Deputy Director of the Washington State Department of Commerce, said AT&T's significant investment to improve its network will further bolster Seattle's reputation as a great place to live and work.
"High-tech expansions like this one help our business community, our local economy and our overall quality of life," Malarkey said. "Few businesses today are more competitive than the wireless industry. That level of competition results in investment and new technology, which delivers benefits to the entire community."
AT&T's focus is delivering the nation's most advanced mobile broadband experience, which includes delivering the benefits of mobile broadband networks, devices and applications. With the nation's fastest mobile broadband network, AT&T provides accelerated mobile data speeds and simultaneous voice and data capabilities for an amazing wireless voice and data experience. At the same time, AT&T is widening its lead in smartphones and devices, with 20 4G devices planned for 2011, including an industry-leading Android lineup. And we're driving development of wide-ranging mobile applications with three AT&T Foundry collaborative innovation centers planned for this year, as well as leadership in multiple initiatives to provide new tools for apps developers.
AT&T's mobile broadband network is based on the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) family of technologies that includes GSM and UMTS, the most widely used wireless network platforms in the world.
AT&T also operates the nation's largest Wi-Fi network*** with more than 24,000 hotspots in the U.S. and access to more than 125,000 hotspots globally through roaming agreements. Most AT&T smartphone customers get access to our entire national Wi-Fi network at no additional cost, and Wi-Fi usage doesn't count against customers' monthly data plans.
For more information about AT&T's coverage in Seattle or anywhere in the United States, consumers can visit the AT&T Coverage Viewer. Using the online tool, AT&T customers can measure coverage quality from a street address, intersection, ZIP code or even a landmark.
For updates on the AT&T wireless network, please visit the AT&T network news page.
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
**4G speeds delivered by HSPA+ with enhanced backhaul. Available in limited areas. Availability increasing with ongoing backhaul deployment. Requires 4G device. Learn more at att.com/network. Actual speeds experienced will vary and depend on several factors, including device, location, capacity, facilities, and other conditions.
***Largest based on company branded and operated hotspots. Access includes AT&T Wi-Fi Basic. A Wi-Fi enabled device required. Other restrictions apply. See http://www.attwifi.com for details and locations.
About AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates - AT&T operating companies - are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. With a powerful array of network resources that includes the nation's fastest mobile broadband network, AT&T is a leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet and voice services. A leader in mobile broadband, AT&T also offers the best wireless coverage worldwide, offering the most wireless phones that work in the most countries. It also offers advanced TV services under the AT&T U-verse® and AT&T |DIRECTV brands. The company's suite of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in the world. In domestic markets, AT&T Advertising Solutions and AT&T Interactive are known for their leadership in local search and advertising. In 2010, AT&T again ranked among the 50 Most Admired Companies by FORTUNE® magazine.
Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com. This AT&T news release and other announcements are available at http://www.att.com/newsroom and as part of an RSS feed at http://www.att.com/rss. Or follow our news on Twitter at @ATT. Find us on Facebook at http://www.Facebook.com/ATT to discover more about our consumer and wireless services or at http://www.Facebook.com/ATTSmallBiz to discover more about our small business services.
© 2011 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. Mobile broadband not available in all areas. AT&T, the AT&T logo and all other marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies.
Cautionary Language Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
Information set forth in this press release contains financial estimates and other forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, and actual results might differ materially. A discussion of factors that may affect future results is contained in AT&T's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. AT&T disclaims any obligation to update and revise statements contained in this news release based on new information or otherwise.
SOURCE AT&T Inc.
AT&T Inc.
CONTACT: Colleen Smith of AT&T Corporate Communications, Office, +1-415-318-4183, Mobile, +1-408-505-7723, csmith@attnews.us
Web Site: http://www.att.com
Gaggle Increases School Options for Simple and Secure Account Management
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 3:07:01 PM
Gaggle Increases School Options for Simple and Secure Account Management
Gaggle Now Supports RADIUS Authentication
BLOOMINGTON, Ill., March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --Gaggle, the leading provider of safe online learning tools, announced today that they now support RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial In User Service) authentication for educational institutions. RADIUS is a system that can be used to allow user access to multiple services using a single set of account credentials. Students in districts using RADIUS authentication are able to login to Gaggle with the same username and password that they use to access the local network resources in their schools.
"One of the great benefits of using RADIUS for logging into Gaggle is the centralized management of user accounts." Brett Woudenberg, COO of Gaggle, went on to say that "not only can usernames and passwords be controlled, but system administrators can also customize which individual services each user is allowed to access."
"Gaggle's RADIUS authentication provides an extra layer of security for districts who are concerned about providing student login credentials to outside systems," says Scott Wolf, System Support Engineer with Gaggle. "Furthermore, Gaggle does not keep a copy of the student's RADIUS password. It is only used temporarily to validate against the district's RADIUS server, and is then discarded after the login is complete."
About Gaggle
Gaggle is dedicated to providing safe online communication tools for schools, and has been a leading provider to school districts throughout the United States since 1998. Based in Bloomington, IL, Gaggle currently hosts over 4 million users in the US and 23 countries. The company is an expert in secure communications for schools and has developed proprietary technology and monitoring systems. Gaggle's collaboration tools are the winner of numerous education industry awards, including a finalist nomination for the prestigious CODiE awards in 2010 and recipient of a 2010 Technology & Learning Award of Excellence. You can read more about Gaggle's awards and review all Press Releases at https://www.gaggle.net/home/other-resources/press-releases-awards/.
For information, visit Gaggle at http://www.gaggle.netor call 800-288-7750.
Contact:
Susan Heykamp
Marketing Manager, Gaggle.Net, Inc.
800.288.7750
sheykamp@gaggle.net
For additional media support and information,
Visit http://www.gaggle.net
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SOURCE Gaggle
Gaggle
CONTACT: Susan Heykamp, Marketing Manager of Gaggle, +1-800-288-7750, sheykamp@gaggle.net
Web Site: https://www.gaggle.net
Gaggle Now Supports RADIUS Authentication
BLOOMINGTON, Ill., March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --Gaggle, the leading provider of safe online learning tools, announced today that they now support RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial In User Service) authentication for educational institutions. RADIUS is a system that can be used to allow user access to multiple services using a single set of account credentials. Students in districts using RADIUS authentication are able to login to Gaggle with the same username and password that they use to access the local network resources in their schools.
"One of the great benefits of using RADIUS for logging into Gaggle is the centralized management of user accounts." Brett Woudenberg, COO of Gaggle, went on to say that "not only can usernames and passwords be controlled, but system administrators can also customize which individual services each user is allowed to access."
"Gaggle's RADIUS authentication provides an extra layer of security for districts who are concerned about providing student login credentials to outside systems," says Scott Wolf, System Support Engineer with Gaggle. "Furthermore, Gaggle does not keep a copy of the student's RADIUS password. It is only used temporarily to validate against the district's RADIUS server, and is then discarded after the login is complete."
About Gaggle
Gaggle is dedicated to providing safe online communication tools for schools, and has been a leading provider to school districts throughout the United States since 1998. Based in Bloomington, IL, Gaggle currently hosts over 4 million users in the US and 23 countries. The company is an expert in secure communications for schools and has developed proprietary technology and monitoring systems. Gaggle's collaboration tools are the winner of numerous education industry awards, including a finalist nomination for the prestigious CODiE awards in 2010 and recipient of a 2010 Technology & Learning Award of Excellence. You can read more about Gaggle's awards and review all Press Releases at https://www.gaggle.net/home/other-resources/press-releases-awards/.
For information, visit Gaggle at http://www.gaggle.netor call 800-288-7750.
Contact:
Susan Heykamp
Marketing Manager, Gaggle.Net, Inc.
800.288.7750
sheykamp@gaggle.net
For additional media support and information,
Visit http://www.gaggle.net
---------------------------
SOURCE Gaggle
Gaggle
CONTACT: Susan Heykamp, Marketing Manager of Gaggle, +1-800-288-7750, sheykamp@gaggle.net
Web Site: https://www.gaggle.net
Kawasaki Motors Teams Up With Shopatron to Create Online Store in UK
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 2:28:01 PM
Kawasaki Motors Teams Up With Shopatron to Create Online Store in UK
SAN LUIS OBISPO, California, March 3, 2011/PRNewswire/ --
Kawasaki Motors UK has partnered with retail-integrated eCommerce
provider Shopatron to launch a new online store stocked with the very latest
Kawasaki branded clothing and merchandise.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101109/SHOPATRONLOGO)
The store, accessible via http://www.kawasaki.co.uk, will allow customers
to place orders via the website and have those orders processed by selected
franchised UK Kawasaki dealers.
Kawasaki's network of road motorcycle retailers will fulfill orders
providing a welcome additional element of personal attention to the ordering
process re-enforcing Kawasaki's commitment to the highest quality customer
service.
"We wanted a way for our Kawasaki brand fans to easily find and purchase
our products online while not losing the connection to their local dealer,"
said Tim Holden, Clothing and Accessory Coordinator for Kawasaki Motors UK.
"The local dealer is an essential component in our superior customer
experience, and this Shopatron initiative allows us to include them
seamlessly in every sale - including offering a delivery or collection
service to suit our customers' individual needs."
"This initiative will confirm Kawasaki as a leading brand in eCommerce
within the European motorcycle industry," added Shaun Moores, General Manager
of Shopatron's European operations.
ABOUT KAWASAKI
Kawasaki was founded in 1878 by Shozo Kawasaki, and currently boasts 15
plants in Japan with many others around the world employing over 28,000
people. Kawasaki is involved in many high tech industries, from aircraft and
aerospace, to robotics and precision engineering, and many more.
Kawasaki understatedly supplies its products and engineering skills to
many world-leading products, assisting both Boeing and Rolls Royce with the
787 Dreamliner. Kawasaki is more widely appreciated for creating some of the
most iconic motorcycles ever built, including the legendary Z1, GPZ900R, and
most recently the awesome and class-leading Ninja ZX10-R.
ABOUT SHOPATRON
Founded in 2001, Shopatron is the No. 1 retail-integrated eCommerce
solution for branded manufacturers, distributors and multi-channel retailers.
Working with more than 800 manufacturers and 12,000 retail partners across 35
industries, Shopatron meets the evolving eCommerce needs of branded
manufacturers and multi-channel retailers.
Shopatron's European Headquarters is located in Swindon, United Kingdom.
It provides support in the local language for many great brands across
mainland Europe like Marshall Amplification, Katadyn, K2 Sports and Sevenoaks
Sound and Vision. For more information, visit http://ecommerce.shopatron.com.
Source: Shopatron
Micaela Hichborn of Shopatron, Inc., +1-805-269-5200, pr@shopatron.com
SAN LUIS OBISPO, California, March 3, 2011/PRNewswire/ --
Kawasaki Motors UK has partnered with retail-integrated eCommerce
provider Shopatron to launch a new online store stocked with the very latest
Kawasaki branded clothing and merchandise.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101109/SHOPATRONLOGO)
The store, accessible via http://www.kawasaki.co.uk, will allow customers
to place orders via the website and have those orders processed by selected
franchised UK Kawasaki dealers.
Kawasaki's network of road motorcycle retailers will fulfill orders
providing a welcome additional element of personal attention to the ordering
process re-enforcing Kawasaki's commitment to the highest quality customer
service.
"We wanted a way for our Kawasaki brand fans to easily find and purchase
our products online while not losing the connection to their local dealer,"
said Tim Holden, Clothing and Accessory Coordinator for Kawasaki Motors UK.
"The local dealer is an essential component in our superior customer
experience, and this Shopatron initiative allows us to include them
seamlessly in every sale - including offering a delivery or collection
service to suit our customers' individual needs."
"This initiative will confirm Kawasaki as a leading brand in eCommerce
within the European motorcycle industry," added Shaun Moores, General Manager
of Shopatron's European operations.
ABOUT KAWASAKI
Kawasaki was founded in 1878 by Shozo Kawasaki, and currently boasts 15
plants in Japan with many others around the world employing over 28,000
people. Kawasaki is involved in many high tech industries, from aircraft and
aerospace, to robotics and precision engineering, and many more.
Kawasaki understatedly supplies its products and engineering skills to
many world-leading products, assisting both Boeing and Rolls Royce with the
787 Dreamliner. Kawasaki is more widely appreciated for creating some of the
most iconic motorcycles ever built, including the legendary Z1, GPZ900R, and
most recently the awesome and class-leading Ninja ZX10-R.
ABOUT SHOPATRON
Founded in 2001, Shopatron is the No. 1 retail-integrated eCommerce
solution for branded manufacturers, distributors and multi-channel retailers.
Working with more than 800 manufacturers and 12,000 retail partners across 35
industries, Shopatron meets the evolving eCommerce needs of branded
manufacturers and multi-channel retailers.
Shopatron's European Headquarters is located in Swindon, United Kingdom.
It provides support in the local language for many great brands across
mainland Europe like Marshall Amplification, Katadyn, K2 Sports and Sevenoaks
Sound and Vision. For more information, visit http://ecommerce.shopatron.com.
Source: Shopatron
Micaela Hichborn of Shopatron, Inc., +1-805-269-5200, pr@shopatron.com
ZT844x Series RF/IF Digitizers Allow Engineers to Test New 802.11ac Standards and WiMAX Protocols
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:28:01 PM
ZT844x Series RF/IF Digitizers Allow Engineers to Test New 802.11ac Standards and WiMAX Protocols
New ZTEC Instruments Offer Widest Instantaneous Bandwidth and Highest Dynamic Range on the Market
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ZTEC Instruments ZT844x Series RF/IF digitizers/baseband signal analyzers offer engineers a cutting-edge combination of more instantaneous bandwidth to receive and process next-generation digital communication signals, and more input signal dynamic range to provide higher wireless data rates. With the ZT844x Series, engineers have software-defined, synthetic modular instruments that easily and efficiently achieve accurate design verification, characterization and test of RF and microwave integrated devices, circuits, and systems. The new devices address the current bandwidth and dynamic range challenges that test engineers face in testing new communication standards such as the 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard and WiMAX protocols and are ideal for RF and microwave receiver applications including wireless and semiconductor RFIC testing.
Emerging Standards Require New, Enhanced Tools
The new 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard will achieve a 1 Gbps data rate by increasing the instantaneous bandwidth to 160 MHz with 80 dB spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR). With In-Stat studies expecting one billion 802.11ac devices to ship by 2015, engineers must be prepared to meet market demands and test these devices with adequate and accurate tools. To test the 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard, engineers need the ZT844x devices, high-performance instruments that provide a combination of instantaneous bandwidth and dynamic range.
In addition, the ZT844x can receive and analyze 802.11n (as well as other Wi-Fi standards that use OFDM modulation, including 802.11a and 802.11g) signals. ZTEC begins with the 802.11n protocol and adds 802.11ac functionality to extend the 802.11n standard with instantaneous bandwidth up to 160MHz, more MIMO channels, and higher density modulation, up to 256QAM.
A Flexible Solution for Test Engineers
The ZT844x Series of RF/IF digitizers provide the core digital communication signal processing functionality of a vector signal analyzer (VSA) used to receive, capture and measure digital communication signals. As a stand-alone instrument, the ZT844x can be used as a baseband, IF, or low-frequency RF VSA covering a frequency range from DC up to 1 GHz. When combined with a microwave down-converter, the VSA capability of the ZT844x can be extended to microwave frequencies of 50 GHz or more.
For more information on the ZT844x Series, readers can visit http://www.ztecinstruments.com.
Morgan Norris, TREW Marketing, morgan.norris@trewmarketing.com,
832.477.6316
Gary Tilley, Sales and Marketing Vice President, ZTEC, gtilley@ztec-
inc.com, 505.924.0594
SOURCE ZTEC Instruments
ZTEC Instruments
CONTACT: Morgan Norris of TREW Marketing, +1-832-477-6316, morgan.norris@trewmarketing.com, for ZTEC Instruments; or Gary Tilley, Sales and Marketing Vice President of ZTEC Instruments, +1-505-924-0594, gtilley@ztec-inc.com
Web Site: http://www.ztecinstruments.com
New ZTEC Instruments Offer Widest Instantaneous Bandwidth and Highest Dynamic Range on the Market
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ZTEC Instruments ZT844x Series RF/IF digitizers/baseband signal analyzers offer engineers a cutting-edge combination of more instantaneous bandwidth to receive and process next-generation digital communication signals, and more input signal dynamic range to provide higher wireless data rates. With the ZT844x Series, engineers have software-defined, synthetic modular instruments that easily and efficiently achieve accurate design verification, characterization and test of RF and microwave integrated devices, circuits, and systems. The new devices address the current bandwidth and dynamic range challenges that test engineers face in testing new communication standards such as the 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard and WiMAX protocols and are ideal for RF and microwave receiver applications including wireless and semiconductor RFIC testing.
Emerging Standards Require New, Enhanced Tools
The new 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard will achieve a 1 Gbps data rate by increasing the instantaneous bandwidth to 160 MHz with 80 dB spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR). With In-Stat studies expecting one billion 802.11ac devices to ship by 2015, engineers must be prepared to meet market demands and test these devices with adequate and accurate tools. To test the 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard, engineers need the ZT844x devices, high-performance instruments that provide a combination of instantaneous bandwidth and dynamic range.
In addition, the ZT844x can receive and analyze 802.11n (as well as other Wi-Fi standards that use OFDM modulation, including 802.11a and 802.11g) signals. ZTEC begins with the 802.11n protocol and adds 802.11ac functionality to extend the 802.11n standard with instantaneous bandwidth up to 160MHz, more MIMO channels, and higher density modulation, up to 256QAM.
A Flexible Solution for Test Engineers
The ZT844x Series of RF/IF digitizers provide the core digital communication signal processing functionality of a vector signal analyzer (VSA) used to receive, capture and measure digital communication signals. As a stand-alone instrument, the ZT844x can be used as a baseband, IF, or low-frequency RF VSA covering a frequency range from DC up to 1 GHz. When combined with a microwave down-converter, the VSA capability of the ZT844x can be extended to microwave frequencies of 50 GHz or more.
For more information on the ZT844x Series, readers can visit http://www.ztecinstruments.com.
Morgan Norris, TREW Marketing, morgan.norris@trewmarketing.com,
832.477.6316
Gary Tilley, Sales and Marketing Vice President, ZTEC, gtilley@ztec-
inc.com, 505.924.0594
SOURCE ZTEC Instruments
ZTEC Instruments
CONTACT: Morgan Norris of TREW Marketing, +1-832-477-6316, morgan.norris@trewmarketing.com, for ZTEC Instruments; or Gary Tilley, Sales and Marketing Vice President of ZTEC Instruments, +1-505-924-0594, gtilley@ztec-inc.com
Web Site: http://www.ztecinstruments.com
AT&T Building Most Advanced Mobile Broadband Experience in Detroit, Announces 2011 Network Upgrade Plans
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:07:01 PM
AT&T Building Most Advanced Mobile Broadband Experience in Detroit, Announces 2011 Network Upgrade Plans
AT&T to Expand Backhaul in 2011 in Detroit to Enable 4G Speeds, Increase Mobile Broadband Capacity, Upgrade Hundreds of Cell Sites
DETROIT, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T*, building on its strong 2010 record of network accomplishments, today announced network improvement plans designed to enable 4G speeds** and enhanced reliability to Detroit and surrounding communities in 2011. The wireless network enhancement plans are part of AT&T's planned $19-billion investment in its wireless and wireline networks and other capital projects in 2011.
Jim Murray, president of AT&T Michigan, says AT&T plans the following network improvements in the Detroit area in 2011:
-- Deploying enhanced backhaul connections to 380 cell sites to enable 4G
speeds and add capacity to support more mobile traffic, like adding
traffic lanes to a highway
-- Installing nearly 50 new cell sites to improve network coverage and
upgrading 15 additional sites to enable mobile broadband
-- Adding spectrum carriers to more than 300 cell sites to support more
traffic
Murray said AT&T invested more than $150 million in its metro Detroit wireless and wireline network from 2008 through 2010 as part of its commitment to superior service in the area:
-- Installing 15 new cell sites
-- Upgrading more than 120 cell sites for mobile broadband
-- Deploying HSPA+ to more than 560 cell sites to enable 4G speeds when
combined with enhanced backhaul
-- Adding spectrum carriers to more than 275 cell sites
-- Deploying a DAS network at Joe Louis Arena
The nation's fastest mobile broadband network is getting faster with 4G**. A key planned upgrade for 2011 is deployment of enhanced backhaul connections to carry traffic between cell sites and AT&T's nationwide network. Enhanced fiber-optic and ethernet backhaul connections expand capacity many times over, and enable additional expansion in the years to come.
"We're investing in our Detroit network to help AT&T customers take advantage of the numerous capabilities of their wireless devices," said Brian Ducharme, vice president and general manager for AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets in Michigan. "We're committed to providing best-in-class wireless voice service to our customers, and we're backing that up with the right investments."
The investments made in the Detroit area were part of the $1.7 billion AT&T invested from 2008-2010 in its wireless and wireline networks across Michigan, Murray said.
N. Charles Anderson, President and CEO of the Detroit Urban League, said AT&T's significant investment to improve its network will bolster Detroit's reputation as a great place to live and work.
"The Detroit Urban League is committed to education but even the best training can be wasted if there isn't a job waiting on the other side of graduation," said Anderson. "This is why we believe investments in and around Detroit like what's being announced by AT&T today are so significant. Investments attract jobs for those who have made the decision to stay, live and work here, and we are pleased to see AT&T leading the way for economic empowerment in our community."
AT&T's advanced network provides several important advantages for customers. Unlike some competitors, AT&T's mobile broadband network provides customers with the ability to talk and surf at the same time. For instance, you can look up directions to an event while staying on the phone with your boss, or browse your favorite social media sites while chatting with a friend. AT&T's mobile broadband network also is up to 35 percent faster than our largest competitor's CDMA-based network on average nationally.
AT&T also provides access to voice service in more than 220 countries and data service in more than 200 countries. AT&T's largest competitor's CDMA-based devices work in fewer than 45 countries. Business Traveler magazine recently named AT&T as having the "Best Mobile Coverage in the World" - the fourth time AT&T has received the distinction.
"AT&T is consistently among the top companies in the U.S. in terms of our capital investment and we're committed to helping our customers right here in Detroit take advantage of the numerous capabilities of their wireless devices," said Murray.
Charles A. DeVries, Senior Director of Business Development at Automation Alley said AT&T's commitment to its mobile broadband network will benefit job makers across the region.
"Businesses looking to move or expand in the metro Detroit region are looking for a strong, fast, reliable wireless network," said DeVries. "AT&T's planned investment means job makers in Detroit and across the region will be able to quickly and reliably connect with one another and the rest of the world and that creates an environment where job makers from around the globe can come and succeed."
AT&T's focus is delivering the nation's most advanced mobile broadband experience, which includes delivering the benefits of mobile broadband networks, devices and applications. With the nation's fastest mobile broadband network, AT&T provides accelerated mobile data speeds and simultaneous voice and data capabilities for an amazing wireless voice and data experience. At the same time, AT&T is widening its lead in smartphones and devices, with 20 4G devices planned for 2011, including an industry-leading Android lineup. And we're driving development of wide-ranging mobile applications with three AT&T Foundry collaborative innovation centers planned for this year, as well as leadership in multiple initiatives to provide new tools for apps developers.
AT&T's mobile broadband network is based on the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) family of technologies that includes GSM and UMTS, the most widely used wireless network platforms in the world.
AT&T also operates the nation's largest Wi-Fi network*** with more than 24,000 hotspots in the U.S. and access to more than 125,000 hotspots globally through roaming agreements. Most AT&T smartphone customers get access to our entire national Wi-Fi network at no additional cost, and Wi-Fi usage doesn't count against customers' monthly data plans.
For more information about AT&T's coverage in Detroit or anywhere in the United States, consumers can visit the AT&T Coverage Viewer. Using the online tool, AT&T customers can measure coverage quality from a street address, intersection, ZIP code or even a landmark.
For updates on the AT&T wireless network, please visit the AT&T network news page.
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
**4G speeds delivered by HSPA+ with enhanced backhaul. Available in limited areas. Availability increasing with ongoing backhaul deployment. Requires 4G device. Learn more at att.com/network. Actual speeds experienced will vary and depend on several factors, including device, location, capacity, facilities, and other conditions.
*** Largest based on company branded and operated hotspots. Access includes AT&T Wi-Fi Basic. A Wi-Fi enabled device required. Other restrictions apply. See http://www.attwifi.com for details and locations.
About AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates - AT&T operating companies - are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. With a powerful array of network resources that includes the nation's fastest mobile broadband network, AT&T is a leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet and voice services. A leader in mobile broadband, AT&T also offers the best wireless coverage worldwide, offering the most wireless phones that work in the most countries. It also offers advanced TV services under the AT&T U-verse® and AT&T |DIRECTV brands. The company's suite of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in the world. In domestic markets, AT&T Advertising Solutions and AT&T Interactive are known for their leadership in local search and advertising. In 2010, AT&T again ranked among the 50 Most Admired Companies by FORTUNE® magazine.
Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com. This AT&T news release and other announcements are available at http://www.att.com/newsroom and as part of an RSS feed at http://www.att.com/rss. Or follow our news on Twitter at @ATT. Find us on Facebook at http://www.Facebook.com/ATT to discover more about our consumer and wireless services or at http://www.Facebook.com/ATTSmallBiz to discover more about our small business services.
© 2011 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. Mobile broadband not available in all areas. AT&T, the AT&T logo and all other marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies.
Cautionary Language Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
Information set forth in this press release contains financial estimates and other forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, and actual results might differ materially. A discussion of factors that may affect future results is contained in AT&T's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. AT&T disclaims any obligation to update and revise statements contained in this news release based on new information or otherwise.
SOURCE AT&T Inc.
AT&T Inc.
CONTACT: Rick Fox, AT&T Corporate Communications, Office, +1-312-729-3734, Mobile, +1-312-286-4983, rfox@attnews.us
Web Site: http://www.att.com
AT&T to Expand Backhaul in 2011 in Detroit to Enable 4G Speeds, Increase Mobile Broadband Capacity, Upgrade Hundreds of Cell Sites
DETROIT, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T*, building on its strong 2010 record of network accomplishments, today announced network improvement plans designed to enable 4G speeds** and enhanced reliability to Detroit and surrounding communities in 2011. The wireless network enhancement plans are part of AT&T's planned $19-billion investment in its wireless and wireline networks and other capital projects in 2011.
Jim Murray, president of AT&T Michigan, says AT&T plans the following network improvements in the Detroit area in 2011:
-- Deploying enhanced backhaul connections to 380 cell sites to enable 4G
speeds and add capacity to support more mobile traffic, like adding
traffic lanes to a highway
-- Installing nearly 50 new cell sites to improve network coverage and
upgrading 15 additional sites to enable mobile broadband
-- Adding spectrum carriers to more than 300 cell sites to support more
traffic
Murray said AT&T invested more than $150 million in its metro Detroit wireless and wireline network from 2008 through 2010 as part of its commitment to superior service in the area:
-- Installing 15 new cell sites
-- Upgrading more than 120 cell sites for mobile broadband
-- Deploying HSPA+ to more than 560 cell sites to enable 4G speeds when
combined with enhanced backhaul
-- Adding spectrum carriers to more than 275 cell sites
-- Deploying a DAS network at Joe Louis Arena
The nation's fastest mobile broadband network is getting faster with 4G**. A key planned upgrade for 2011 is deployment of enhanced backhaul connections to carry traffic between cell sites and AT&T's nationwide network. Enhanced fiber-optic and ethernet backhaul connections expand capacity many times over, and enable additional expansion in the years to come.
"We're investing in our Detroit network to help AT&T customers take advantage of the numerous capabilities of their wireless devices," said Brian Ducharme, vice president and general manager for AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets in Michigan. "We're committed to providing best-in-class wireless voice service to our customers, and we're backing that up with the right investments."
The investments made in the Detroit area were part of the $1.7 billion AT&T invested from 2008-2010 in its wireless and wireline networks across Michigan, Murray said.
N. Charles Anderson, President and CEO of the Detroit Urban League, said AT&T's significant investment to improve its network will bolster Detroit's reputation as a great place to live and work.
"The Detroit Urban League is committed to education but even the best training can be wasted if there isn't a job waiting on the other side of graduation," said Anderson. "This is why we believe investments in and around Detroit like what's being announced by AT&T today are so significant. Investments attract jobs for those who have made the decision to stay, live and work here, and we are pleased to see AT&T leading the way for economic empowerment in our community."
AT&T's advanced network provides several important advantages for customers. Unlike some competitors, AT&T's mobile broadband network provides customers with the ability to talk and surf at the same time. For instance, you can look up directions to an event while staying on the phone with your boss, or browse your favorite social media sites while chatting with a friend. AT&T's mobile broadband network also is up to 35 percent faster than our largest competitor's CDMA-based network on average nationally.
AT&T also provides access to voice service in more than 220 countries and data service in more than 200 countries. AT&T's largest competitor's CDMA-based devices work in fewer than 45 countries. Business Traveler magazine recently named AT&T as having the "Best Mobile Coverage in the World" - the fourth time AT&T has received the distinction.
"AT&T is consistently among the top companies in the U.S. in terms of our capital investment and we're committed to helping our customers right here in Detroit take advantage of the numerous capabilities of their wireless devices," said Murray.
Charles A. DeVries, Senior Director of Business Development at Automation Alley said AT&T's commitment to its mobile broadband network will benefit job makers across the region.
"Businesses looking to move or expand in the metro Detroit region are looking for a strong, fast, reliable wireless network," said DeVries. "AT&T's planned investment means job makers in Detroit and across the region will be able to quickly and reliably connect with one another and the rest of the world and that creates an environment where job makers from around the globe can come and succeed."
AT&T's focus is delivering the nation's most advanced mobile broadband experience, which includes delivering the benefits of mobile broadband networks, devices and applications. With the nation's fastest mobile broadband network, AT&T provides accelerated mobile data speeds and simultaneous voice and data capabilities for an amazing wireless voice and data experience. At the same time, AT&T is widening its lead in smartphones and devices, with 20 4G devices planned for 2011, including an industry-leading Android lineup. And we're driving development of wide-ranging mobile applications with three AT&T Foundry collaborative innovation centers planned for this year, as well as leadership in multiple initiatives to provide new tools for apps developers.
AT&T's mobile broadband network is based on the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) family of technologies that includes GSM and UMTS, the most widely used wireless network platforms in the world.
AT&T also operates the nation's largest Wi-Fi network*** with more than 24,000 hotspots in the U.S. and access to more than 125,000 hotspots globally through roaming agreements. Most AT&T smartphone customers get access to our entire national Wi-Fi network at no additional cost, and Wi-Fi usage doesn't count against customers' monthly data plans.
For more information about AT&T's coverage in Detroit or anywhere in the United States, consumers can visit the AT&T Coverage Viewer. Using the online tool, AT&T customers can measure coverage quality from a street address, intersection, ZIP code or even a landmark.
For updates on the AT&T wireless network, please visit the AT&T network news page.
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
**4G speeds delivered by HSPA+ with enhanced backhaul. Available in limited areas. Availability increasing with ongoing backhaul deployment. Requires 4G device. Learn more at att.com/network. Actual speeds experienced will vary and depend on several factors, including device, location, capacity, facilities, and other conditions.
*** Largest based on company branded and operated hotspots. Access includes AT&T Wi-Fi Basic. A Wi-Fi enabled device required. Other restrictions apply. See http://www.attwifi.com for details and locations.
About AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates - AT&T operating companies - are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. With a powerful array of network resources that includes the nation's fastest mobile broadband network, AT&T is a leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet and voice services. A leader in mobile broadband, AT&T also offers the best wireless coverage worldwide, offering the most wireless phones that work in the most countries. It also offers advanced TV services under the AT&T U-verse® and AT&T |DIRECTV brands. The company's suite of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in the world. In domestic markets, AT&T Advertising Solutions and AT&T Interactive are known for their leadership in local search and advertising. In 2010, AT&T again ranked among the 50 Most Admired Companies by FORTUNE® magazine.
Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com. This AT&T news release and other announcements are available at http://www.att.com/newsroom and as part of an RSS feed at http://www.att.com/rss. Or follow our news on Twitter at @ATT. Find us on Facebook at http://www.Facebook.com/ATT to discover more about our consumer and wireless services or at http://www.Facebook.com/ATTSmallBiz to discover more about our small business services.
© 2011 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. Mobile broadband not available in all areas. AT&T, the AT&T logo and all other marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies.
Cautionary Language Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
Information set forth in this press release contains financial estimates and other forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, and actual results might differ materially. A discussion of factors that may affect future results is contained in AT&T's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. AT&T disclaims any obligation to update and revise statements contained in this news release based on new information or otherwise.
SOURCE AT&T Inc.
AT&T Inc.
CONTACT: Rick Fox, AT&T Corporate Communications, Office, +1-312-729-3734, Mobile, +1-312-286-4983, rfox@attnews.us
Web Site: http://www.att.com
Packademics- Makes School Supplies Easy
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 11:56:01 AM
Packademics- Makes School Supplies Easy
ORDER ON-LINE, SHIPPED TO YOUR DOOR
WICHITA, Kan., March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Packademics is a new company that is making life for the busy parent much easier. The firm gathers school supply lists for every grade in each school, and does the shopping - and shipping - so the supplies are delivered to the home in time for the school year.
The company, called Packademics , is an online business that pre-packages back to school supplies. "Packademics has made it the most convenient way to purchase your child's required supplies," parent Sarah Cundiff says. "You just visit http://www.packademics.com, and get a hassle-free experience: No more running from store to store, fighting the crowds, having children demand other supplies, and so on."
The concept is very simple. Packademics has compiled the required school supply lists from schools, and offer them in customized packs on their website, http://www.packademics.com. Shoppers simply go on-line, click on the state and city where the child's school is located, and find the grade they are in. Packademics also offers other products such as Jansport back-packs and Texas Instrument calculators all in an effort to make the school supply shopping a one-stop place. Parents purchase in the spring, and orders are shipped to their doorstep shortly before their children start school.
As Sarah Cundiff states, "As a mother of four school age kids from kindergarten to high school, I am very thankful for http://www.packademics.com! This one stop shop is a lifesaver for busy moms. The preliminary work is done. I just click on my school and grade level and all the needed supplies are shipped directly to my home. No more running around town searching for that green vinyl folder with brads! Packademics has made school supply shopping friendly, fast and affordable. The prices are competitive with all discount chains. I am sold! Now when does school start???"
Check it out at http://www.packademics.com and let us make being a parent a little easier for you! Also find us on facebook! Packademics is currently in 4 states, and expanding rapidly.
SOURCE Packademics
Packademics
CONTACT: Mary Blasi of Packademics, +1-316-842-3190, mblasi@packademics.com
Web Site: http://www.packademics.com
ORDER ON-LINE, SHIPPED TO YOUR DOOR
WICHITA, Kan., March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Packademics is a new company that is making life for the busy parent much easier. The firm gathers school supply lists for every grade in each school, and does the shopping - and shipping - so the supplies are delivered to the home in time for the school year.
The company, called Packademics , is an online business that pre-packages back to school supplies. "Packademics has made it the most convenient way to purchase your child's required supplies," parent Sarah Cundiff says. "You just visit http://www.packademics.com, and get a hassle-free experience: No more running from store to store, fighting the crowds, having children demand other supplies, and so on."
The concept is very simple. Packademics has compiled the required school supply lists from schools, and offer them in customized packs on their website, http://www.packademics.com. Shoppers simply go on-line, click on the state and city where the child's school is located, and find the grade they are in. Packademics also offers other products such as Jansport back-packs and Texas Instrument calculators all in an effort to make the school supply shopping a one-stop place. Parents purchase in the spring, and orders are shipped to their doorstep shortly before their children start school.
As Sarah Cundiff states, "As a mother of four school age kids from kindergarten to high school, I am very thankful for http://www.packademics.com! This one stop shop is a lifesaver for busy moms. The preliminary work is done. I just click on my school and grade level and all the needed supplies are shipped directly to my home. No more running around town searching for that green vinyl folder with brads! Packademics has made school supply shopping friendly, fast and affordable. The prices are competitive with all discount chains. I am sold! Now when does school start???"
Check it out at http://www.packademics.com and let us make being a parent a little easier for you! Also find us on facebook! Packademics is currently in 4 states, and expanding rapidly.
SOURCE Packademics
Packademics
CONTACT: Mary Blasi of Packademics, +1-316-842-3190, mblasi@packademics.com
Web Site: http://www.packademics.com
Comwave's India 1000 Bundle: Call to India for Just 1 Cent per Minute from Landline or Cell
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 11:42:01 AM
Comwave's India 1000 Bundle: Call to India for Just 1 Cent per Minute from Landline or Cell
TORONTO, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Comwave announces the launch of its best value ever for people calling overseas to India. It's the India 1000 Bundle. For only $10 per month, callers get 1,000 minutes per month of overseas calling to India from their choice of landline or mobile phone.
"That's a cost of just one penny per minute, superb value for the South Asian community," says Abe Benitah, VP of Marketing for Comwave. "Our customers love the convenience of calling overseas from their home or even from their cell phones."
Comwave guarantees its customers the lowest rates to call anywhere in the world for life, standing behind its Rate and Service Guarantee. If a Comwave long distance customer ever sees a lower advertised rate, they simply call Comwave to match the rate. That way, customers never have to go through the hassle of switching phone companies. Call 1-866-516-0958 for more information on the India 1000 Bundle or go to http://www.comwave.net to learn more about Comwave.
About Comwave
For more than a decade, Comwave has provided cost-conscious American and Canadian customers with truly low cost home phone service, unlimited mobile calling and the market's lowest long distance rates guaranteed - whether calling from a home phone, cell phone or the company's own e-phone. As a Long Distance specialist, Comwave gives customers dramatic savings on each and every call. As a VoIP expert, Comwave offers high quality, reliable phone service for a fraction of the cost of traditional phone service, leveraging a robust coast-to-coast digital network with vast coverage throughout Canada and the United States. With more than 200,000 customers served, Comwave offers the most extensive coverage in Canada. Mobile users turn to Comwave to avoid high charges for outgoing calls and long distance by their mobile provider. Comwave's free applications for Blackberry and iPhone can be downloaded to turn outgoing calls into free incoming ones, and long distance calls into local ones. Learn more at http://www.comwave.net .
SOURCE Comwave
Comwave
CONTACT: Patti Jordan, Director Marketing Communications, +1 416-663-9700 x 374, pjordan@comwave.net
Web Site: http://www.comwave.net
TORONTO, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Comwave announces the launch of its best value ever for people calling overseas to India. It's the India 1000 Bundle. For only $10 per month, callers get 1,000 minutes per month of overseas calling to India from their choice of landline or mobile phone.
"That's a cost of just one penny per minute, superb value for the South Asian community," says Abe Benitah, VP of Marketing for Comwave. "Our customers love the convenience of calling overseas from their home or even from their cell phones."
Comwave guarantees its customers the lowest rates to call anywhere in the world for life, standing behind its Rate and Service Guarantee. If a Comwave long distance customer ever sees a lower advertised rate, they simply call Comwave to match the rate. That way, customers never have to go through the hassle of switching phone companies. Call 1-866-516-0958 for more information on the India 1000 Bundle or go to http://www.comwave.net to learn more about Comwave.
About Comwave
For more than a decade, Comwave has provided cost-conscious American and Canadian customers with truly low cost home phone service, unlimited mobile calling and the market's lowest long distance rates guaranteed - whether calling from a home phone, cell phone or the company's own e-phone. As a Long Distance specialist, Comwave gives customers dramatic savings on each and every call. As a VoIP expert, Comwave offers high quality, reliable phone service for a fraction of the cost of traditional phone service, leveraging a robust coast-to-coast digital network with vast coverage throughout Canada and the United States. With more than 200,000 customers served, Comwave offers the most extensive coverage in Canada. Mobile users turn to Comwave to avoid high charges for outgoing calls and long distance by their mobile provider. Comwave's free applications for Blackberry and iPhone can be downloaded to turn outgoing calls into free incoming ones, and long distance calls into local ones. Learn more at http://www.comwave.net .
SOURCE Comwave
Comwave
CONTACT: Patti Jordan, Director Marketing Communications, +1 416-663-9700 x 374, pjordan@comwave.net
Web Site: http://www.comwave.net
Maryland Home Performance Company Launches New Website
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 11:07:01 AM
Maryland Home Performance Company Launches New Website
BRENTWOOD, Md., March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Spartan Green Energy, a division of Spartan Plumbing, Heating and Air Conditioning, recently launched a new website to inform homeowners about home energy improvements, retrofits, and home performance rebates, incentives and tax credits.
Spartan Green Energy is a full service home performance contractor that offers Maryland and Washington DC homeowners a full range of energy improvements and HVAC services. "We're different from companies that just do heating and cooling; we look at your home as a whole system," said Frank Robbins, Weatherization Director at Spartan Green Energy.
The process begins with an Energy Audit from a BPI Certified Auditor. This service educates homeowners on how they can improve the safety, efficiency and comfort of their homes through weatherization measures like air sealing, duct sealing and insulation; and retrofitting the home with properly sized, higher efficiency air conditioning systems, heat pumps, furnaces, boilers and water heaters. Robbins said, "On average these measures save about 20% in heating and cooling bills, but it can be a whole lot more." He goes on to say, "Aside from saving money, customers can enjoy better comfort. No more rooms that get too cold in the winter or too hot in the summer; you can enjoy your whole house all year long!"
Robbins, a LEED AP who has performed energy auditor services and overseen retrofits on over 200 homes, hopes the new website "will help inform homeowners of all the rebates, incentives and tax credits that are available towards home energy improvements and the benefits of increasing your home's performance level." Most Maryland homeowners are eligible for rebates from Maryland Home Performance with Energy Star and utility programs on energy retrofits. Rebates for heating and cooling systems are also available from Maryland utility companies as part of Governor Martin O'Malley's "EmPOWER Maryland" initiative, to reduce Maryland's energy consumption by 15 percent by 2015.
About Spartan Green Energy
Spartan Green Energy is a Maryland Home Performance with Energy Star Program Contractor that has been serving Maryland and Washington, DC residential homes for almost half a century with a Better Business Bureau A+ rating. Visit http://www.spartangreenenergy.com for more information.
SOURCE Spartan Green Energy
Spartan Green Energy
CONTACT: Bobby Leizear, PR Contact, Spartan Green Energy, +1-866-370-0404, info@spartanman.com
Web Site: http://www.spartangreenenergy.com
BRENTWOOD, Md., March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Spartan Green Energy, a division of Spartan Plumbing, Heating and Air Conditioning, recently launched a new website to inform homeowners about home energy improvements, retrofits, and home performance rebates, incentives and tax credits.
Spartan Green Energy is a full service home performance contractor that offers Maryland and Washington DC homeowners a full range of energy improvements and HVAC services. "We're different from companies that just do heating and cooling; we look at your home as a whole system," said Frank Robbins, Weatherization Director at Spartan Green Energy.
The process begins with an Energy Audit from a BPI Certified Auditor. This service educates homeowners on how they can improve the safety, efficiency and comfort of their homes through weatherization measures like air sealing, duct sealing and insulation; and retrofitting the home with properly sized, higher efficiency air conditioning systems, heat pumps, furnaces, boilers and water heaters. Robbins said, "On average these measures save about 20% in heating and cooling bills, but it can be a whole lot more." He goes on to say, "Aside from saving money, customers can enjoy better comfort. No more rooms that get too cold in the winter or too hot in the summer; you can enjoy your whole house all year long!"
Robbins, a LEED AP who has performed energy auditor services and overseen retrofits on over 200 homes, hopes the new website "will help inform homeowners of all the rebates, incentives and tax credits that are available towards home energy improvements and the benefits of increasing your home's performance level." Most Maryland homeowners are eligible for rebates from Maryland Home Performance with Energy Star and utility programs on energy retrofits. Rebates for heating and cooling systems are also available from Maryland utility companies as part of Governor Martin O'Malley's "EmPOWER Maryland" initiative, to reduce Maryland's energy consumption by 15 percent by 2015.
About Spartan Green Energy
Spartan Green Energy is a Maryland Home Performance with Energy Star Program Contractor that has been serving Maryland and Washington, DC residential homes for almost half a century with a Better Business Bureau A+ rating. Visit http://www.spartangreenenergy.com for more information.
SOURCE Spartan Green Energy
Spartan Green Energy
CONTACT: Bobby Leizear, PR Contact, Spartan Green Energy, +1-866-370-0404, info@spartanman.com
Web Site: http://www.spartangreenenergy.com
Stay Connected at 30,000 Feet: The First InFlight Messaging Service Debuts
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 10:14:01 AM
Stay Connected at 30,000 Feet: The First InFlight Messaging Service Debuts
InFlight Labs, LLC announced today the availability of the first ever inflight messaging service, allowing passengers to enjoy real-time communication with business associates, friends and family while in the air.
NEW YORK, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- InFlight Labs, LLC announced today the deployment of a powerful new online service that has airline passengers all around the nation singing its praises. InFlightMessenger.com(TM)leverages the aircraft's Wi-Fi connection tomake it quick and easy for passengers to have single or group two-way text message conversations with their business associates, family and friends while in flight.
This proprietary technology combines the best features of instant messaging and text messaging to offer a new "Advanced Real-Time Communication" experience for its subscribers.
"Business travelers can use their laptop or iPad (coming soon) to access this simple web interface to send and receive messages (approx. 4-7 seconds) to any mobile phone in the U.S. Add to that the ability to group message up to 25 colleagues at once and hold 'text conversations' while at 30,000 feet, and you have a powerful business productivity tool," says Tiffany Van Alst, Head of Strategic Alliances for the InFlight Labs, LLC.
With InFlight Messenger,it will no longer be necessary to wrestle with "size challenged" mobile keyboards or number pads to type messages. Travelers can communicate with the ease and comfort of a full-sized computer keyboard. Passengers can use the service while in-flight or on the ground to send and receive messages anywhere an Internet connection is available.
InFlight Messenger offers a time-stamped Message History, and aText Message Calendar which enable a subscribing passenger to enter a business associate, family member or friend's schedule, appointments or events. The individual will be sent text message reminders any hour, day, month or year. All replies to the text message reminder will be forwarded to a subscribing passenger's mobile phone even if they are off the InFlightMessenger.com website. This will ensure the utmost connectivity.
"InFlight Messenger can be the 'missing piece to the puzzle' for in-flight Wi-Fi providers and airlines. This service will move the market forward for in-flight Wi-Fi companies such as GoGo and Row44, as well as many airlines, to help achieve large-scale in-flight Wi-Fi adoption much sooner than projected," states Tiffany Van Alst.
When a Wi-Fi provider or airline partners with the InFlight Messenger Team, they will gain invaluable branding benefits. The partner's brand will be featured in the header of hundreds of thousands of messages sent and received daily. Additionally, because InFlight Messenger works from any Internet connection; passengers can use it in-flight and on the ground, which will further extend the partner's branding strategy.
InFlight Messenger will be priced between just $1 and $1.99 depending on which package a passenger subscribes. But for a very limited time, customers can sign-up for this exciting new service for free at http://www.InFlightMessenger.com.
About InFlight Labs, LLC:InFlight Labs, LLC is a privately held company with offices in Manhattan, NY, and Los Gatos, CA. The company is currently in the process of launching a world-class proprietary platform to aggregate an advanced real-time communication experience for its subscribers.
Tiffany Van Alst
5703013837
tvanalst@inflightlabs.com
SOURCE InFlight Labs, LLC
InFlight Labs, LLC
CONTACT: Tiffany Van Alst, +1-570-301-3837, tvanalst@inflightlabs.com
Web Site: http://www.InFlightMessenger.com
InFlight Labs, LLC announced today the availability of the first ever inflight messaging service, allowing passengers to enjoy real-time communication with business associates, friends and family while in the air.
NEW YORK, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- InFlight Labs, LLC announced today the deployment of a powerful new online service that has airline passengers all around the nation singing its praises. InFlightMessenger.com(TM)leverages the aircraft's Wi-Fi connection tomake it quick and easy for passengers to have single or group two-way text message conversations with their business associates, family and friends while in flight.
This proprietary technology combines the best features of instant messaging and text messaging to offer a new "Advanced Real-Time Communication" experience for its subscribers.
"Business travelers can use their laptop or iPad (coming soon) to access this simple web interface to send and receive messages (approx. 4-7 seconds) to any mobile phone in the U.S. Add to that the ability to group message up to 25 colleagues at once and hold 'text conversations' while at 30,000 feet, and you have a powerful business productivity tool," says Tiffany Van Alst, Head of Strategic Alliances for the InFlight Labs, LLC.
With InFlight Messenger,it will no longer be necessary to wrestle with "size challenged" mobile keyboards or number pads to type messages. Travelers can communicate with the ease and comfort of a full-sized computer keyboard. Passengers can use the service while in-flight or on the ground to send and receive messages anywhere an Internet connection is available.
InFlight Messenger offers a time-stamped Message History, and aText Message Calendar which enable a subscribing passenger to enter a business associate, family member or friend's schedule, appointments or events. The individual will be sent text message reminders any hour, day, month or year. All replies to the text message reminder will be forwarded to a subscribing passenger's mobile phone even if they are off the InFlightMessenger.com website. This will ensure the utmost connectivity.
"InFlight Messenger can be the 'missing piece to the puzzle' for in-flight Wi-Fi providers and airlines. This service will move the market forward for in-flight Wi-Fi companies such as GoGo and Row44, as well as many airlines, to help achieve large-scale in-flight Wi-Fi adoption much sooner than projected," states Tiffany Van Alst.
When a Wi-Fi provider or airline partners with the InFlight Messenger Team, they will gain invaluable branding benefits. The partner's brand will be featured in the header of hundreds of thousands of messages sent and received daily. Additionally, because InFlight Messenger works from any Internet connection; passengers can use it in-flight and on the ground, which will further extend the partner's branding strategy.
InFlight Messenger will be priced between just $1 and $1.99 depending on which package a passenger subscribes. But for a very limited time, customers can sign-up for this exciting new service for free at http://www.InFlightMessenger.com.
About InFlight Labs, LLC:InFlight Labs, LLC is a privately held company with offices in Manhattan, NY, and Los Gatos, CA. The company is currently in the process of launching a world-class proprietary platform to aggregate an advanced real-time communication experience for its subscribers.
Tiffany Van Alst
5703013837
tvanalst@inflightlabs.com
SOURCE InFlight Labs, LLC
InFlight Labs, LLC
CONTACT: Tiffany Van Alst, +1-570-301-3837, tvanalst@inflightlabs.com
Web Site: http://www.InFlightMessenger.com
Milestone Integration Platform SDK Released
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 10:07:01 AM
Milestone Integration Platform SDK Released
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, March 3, 2011/PRNewswire/ --
- Development Framework Provides Easy Plug-in Architecture for
Integrating Security, Analytics and Business Systems
Milestone Systems has announced a major release: the Milestone
Integration Platform Software Development Kit version 1.0 (MIP SDK 1.0). It
was presented at the Milestone Integration Platform Symposium held March 2-4
in San Antonio, Texas.
The Milestone Integration Platform SDK 1.0 provides Milestone partners
with a world of innovative possibilities: the comprehensive development
framework makes it easy to integrate security and business solutions
(including multiple video analytics applications) with the open platform
Milestone XProtect(R) video management software (VMS) products.
The Milestone Integration Platform SDK 1.0 is flexible, supporting a
multitude of integration methods. The unique plug-in architecture enables
seamless integration of third-party applications with the Milestone
management interface and XProtect Smart Client user interface.
"Our Milestone Integration Platform offers extensive video
interoperability to achieve ultimate user experience and higher customer
satisfaction. This powerful development tool supports an easy-to-use plug-in
approach resulting in a shorter time to market," says Christian Bohn, VP
Product Mangement & Marketing at Milestone Systems. "Building a reliable,
unified interface to our advanced XProtect products can be based on the
concept of 'develop once - apply on all': the MIP SDK secures forward
compatibility, enables automatic access to new capabilities, and reduces
solution maintenance costs."
Key features of the MIP SDK 1.0 development framework include a number of
new capabilities:
- The MIP environment means that partner integrations can continue to
operate with new releases of XProtect as they become available.
- Support for many different integration methods includes various levels
of abstractions and multiple integration layers.
- There are many options for dynamic video overlaying, server-side MIP
integrations, and unique intra-MIP plug-in communications.
- Extensive documentation is delivered with application and code samples,
Microsoft(R) Visual Studio(R) project templates, and a toolbox with
proven Milestone libraries and code components.
The Milestone Integration Platform SDK 1.0 for developing integrated
solutions is available for Milestone Solution Partners (and new ones who are
interested may apply via the Milestone website:
http://www.milestonesys.com/partners/solution_partners/msp_program). A quick
introductory presentation is provided, including a product overview and a
technical walkthrough. Full training classes are being scheduled.
Link to download the Milestone Open Platform Integration 3D puzzle
graphic: http://www.milestonesys.com/download/mip-sdk/
About Milestone
Founded in 1998, Milestone Systems is the worldwide industry leader in
open platform IP video management software, according to IMS Research six
years in a row. Milestone XProtect(R) products have been installed in
thousands of customer installations, sold through authorized and certified
partners in more than 100 countries. With support for the widest choice in
network hardware and integration with other systems, XProtect provides
best-of-breed solutions to 'video enable' organizations - managing risks,
protecting people and assets, optimizing processes, and reducing costs.
For more information please visit http://www.milestonesys.com.
Source: Milestone Systems
Press Contact: Courtney Dillon Pedersen, PR & Communications Manager, Tel. +45-88-300-330
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, March 3, 2011/PRNewswire/ --
- Development Framework Provides Easy Plug-in Architecture for
Integrating Security, Analytics and Business Systems
Milestone Systems has announced a major release: the Milestone
Integration Platform Software Development Kit version 1.0 (MIP SDK 1.0). It
was presented at the Milestone Integration Platform Symposium held March 2-4
in San Antonio, Texas.
The Milestone Integration Platform SDK 1.0 provides Milestone partners
with a world of innovative possibilities: the comprehensive development
framework makes it easy to integrate security and business solutions
(including multiple video analytics applications) with the open platform
Milestone XProtect(R) video management software (VMS) products.
The Milestone Integration Platform SDK 1.0 is flexible, supporting a
multitude of integration methods. The unique plug-in architecture enables
seamless integration of third-party applications with the Milestone
management interface and XProtect Smart Client user interface.
"Our Milestone Integration Platform offers extensive video
interoperability to achieve ultimate user experience and higher customer
satisfaction. This powerful development tool supports an easy-to-use plug-in
approach resulting in a shorter time to market," says Christian Bohn, VP
Product Mangement & Marketing at Milestone Systems. "Building a reliable,
unified interface to our advanced XProtect products can be based on the
concept of 'develop once - apply on all': the MIP SDK secures forward
compatibility, enables automatic access to new capabilities, and reduces
solution maintenance costs."
Key features of the MIP SDK 1.0 development framework include a number of
new capabilities:
- The MIP environment means that partner integrations can continue to
operate with new releases of XProtect as they become available.
- Support for many different integration methods includes various levels
of abstractions and multiple integration layers.
- There are many options for dynamic video overlaying, server-side MIP
integrations, and unique intra-MIP plug-in communications.
- Extensive documentation is delivered with application and code samples,
Microsoft(R) Visual Studio(R) project templates, and a toolbox with
proven Milestone libraries and code components.
The Milestone Integration Platform SDK 1.0 for developing integrated
solutions is available for Milestone Solution Partners (and new ones who are
interested may apply via the Milestone website:
http://www.milestonesys.com/partners/solution_partners/msp_program). A quick
introductory presentation is provided, including a product overview and a
technical walkthrough. Full training classes are being scheduled.
Link to download the Milestone Open Platform Integration 3D puzzle
graphic: http://www.milestonesys.com/download/mip-sdk/
About Milestone
Founded in 1998, Milestone Systems is the worldwide industry leader in
open platform IP video management software, according to IMS Research six
years in a row. Milestone XProtect(R) products have been installed in
thousands of customer installations, sold through authorized and certified
partners in more than 100 countries. With support for the widest choice in
network hardware and integration with other systems, XProtect provides
best-of-breed solutions to 'video enable' organizations - managing risks,
protecting people and assets, optimizing processes, and reducing costs.
For more information please visit http://www.milestonesys.com.
Source: Milestone Systems
Press Contact: Courtney Dillon Pedersen, PR & Communications Manager, Tel. +45-88-300-330
eDoorways International Corporation and Paddington Media Working to Pilot Revenue Sharing Functionality
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 9:56:01 AM
eDoorways International Corporation and Paddington Media Working to Pilot Revenue Sharing Functionality
AUSTIN, Texas, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- eDoorways International Corporation (Pink Sheets: EDWY) is working closely with Paddington Media, an Austin based software development company, to implement and offer a Groupon-like feature to eDoorways PowerChannel owners. VoucherHounds, as the software is known, allows eDoorways PowerChannel owners to offer daily offers to their PowerChannel consumers and follows the proven Groupon revenue model.
Paddington Media and Austin based media company, 512 Unscripted, are working together to pilot this new technology within the eDoorways PowerChannels. "We're very excited to be working with Paddington Media to pilot the voucher technology," stated Deborah Toodle, CEO and Co-Founder of 512 Unscripted. "We feel this is a huge value add to the Austin companies we feature on our monthly show." 512 Unscripted also plans to do a feature on Austin based Paddington Media within the next few months.
The VoucherHounds technology will allow eDoorways PowerChannel owners to offer daily Groupon-like deals to their PowerChannel users allowing them to promote their products or services and also generate a revenue split with eDoorways on the sale of the coupons.
For example, if a retail shop has a PowerChannel on eDoorways and wants to promote a special for the day regarding a certain brand of shoes, the offer would appear on their PowerChannel and also any other sites the owner would like to utilize. They could offer a $60 pair of shoes for $40, where the $40 is shared between the PowerChannel owner and eDoorways. The PowerChannel owner can also add their VoucherHounds code to their own website and to other social media sites.
This new technology has the flexibility to appear as a unique service offering from each PowerChannel owner and is fully customizable to each PowerChannel owner's needs. This will give eDoorways the ability to reach out to their customers in a value added way to not only add revenue to the company, but to share that ability to the PowerChannel owners in a proven revenue sharing model.
Groupon is a registered trademark of Groupon, Inc. and has no affiliation with eDoorways International Corporation.
For more information on eDoorways International Corporation and/or the "eDoorways" (http://www.eDoorways.com) initiative, e-mail a package request to info@eDoorwaysCorp.com. Visit the corporate Web site at eDoorwaysCorp.com (http://www.eDoorwaysCorp.com), make comments via the corporate blog (http://www.eDoorways.wordpress.com), or follow the company on Twitter (http://twitter.com/edoorways).
Safe Harbor for Forward-Looking Statements:
Except for historical information contained herein, the statements in this press release are forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause the company's actual results in future periods to differ materially from forecast results. These risks and uncertainties include, among other things, product price volatility, product demand, market competition, risk inherent in the company's domestic and international operations, imprecision in estimating product reserves and the company's ability to replace and expand its holdings.
Contact:
Heritage Corporate Services, Inc.
Jeffrey Staller, President, 561-210-5675
Jeffrey@HeritageCorporateServices.com
SOURCE eDoorways International Corporation
eDoorways International Corporation
CONTACT: Jeffrey Staller, President of Heritage Corporate Services, Inc., +1-561-210-5675, Jeffrey@HeritageCorporateServices.com, for eDoorways International Corporation
Web Site: http://www.edoorwayscorp.com
AUSTIN, Texas, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- eDoorways International Corporation (Pink Sheets: EDWY) is working closely with Paddington Media, an Austin based software development company, to implement and offer a Groupon-like feature to eDoorways PowerChannel owners. VoucherHounds, as the software is known, allows eDoorways PowerChannel owners to offer daily offers to their PowerChannel consumers and follows the proven Groupon revenue model.
Paddington Media and Austin based media company, 512 Unscripted, are working together to pilot this new technology within the eDoorways PowerChannels. "We're very excited to be working with Paddington Media to pilot the voucher technology," stated Deborah Toodle, CEO and Co-Founder of 512 Unscripted. "We feel this is a huge value add to the Austin companies we feature on our monthly show." 512 Unscripted also plans to do a feature on Austin based Paddington Media within the next few months.
The VoucherHounds technology will allow eDoorways PowerChannel owners to offer daily Groupon-like deals to their PowerChannel users allowing them to promote their products or services and also generate a revenue split with eDoorways on the sale of the coupons.
For example, if a retail shop has a PowerChannel on eDoorways and wants to promote a special for the day regarding a certain brand of shoes, the offer would appear on their PowerChannel and also any other sites the owner would like to utilize. They could offer a $60 pair of shoes for $40, where the $40 is shared between the PowerChannel owner and eDoorways. The PowerChannel owner can also add their VoucherHounds code to their own website and to other social media sites.
This new technology has the flexibility to appear as a unique service offering from each PowerChannel owner and is fully customizable to each PowerChannel owner's needs. This will give eDoorways the ability to reach out to their customers in a value added way to not only add revenue to the company, but to share that ability to the PowerChannel owners in a proven revenue sharing model.
Groupon is a registered trademark of Groupon, Inc. and has no affiliation with eDoorways International Corporation.
For more information on eDoorways International Corporation and/or the "eDoorways" (http://www.eDoorways.com) initiative, e-mail a package request to info@eDoorwaysCorp.com. Visit the corporate Web site at eDoorwaysCorp.com (http://www.eDoorwaysCorp.com), make comments via the corporate blog (http://www.eDoorways.wordpress.com), or follow the company on Twitter (http://twitter.com/edoorways).
Safe Harbor for Forward-Looking Statements:
Except for historical information contained herein, the statements in this press release are forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause the company's actual results in future periods to differ materially from forecast results. These risks and uncertainties include, among other things, product price volatility, product demand, market competition, risk inherent in the company's domestic and international operations, imprecision in estimating product reserves and the company's ability to replace and expand its holdings.
Contact:
Heritage Corporate Services, Inc.
Jeffrey Staller, President, 561-210-5675
Jeffrey@HeritageCorporateServices.com
SOURCE eDoorways International Corporation
eDoorways International Corporation
CONTACT: Jeffrey Staller, President of Heritage Corporate Services, Inc., +1-561-210-5675, Jeffrey@HeritageCorporateServices.com, for eDoorways International Corporation
Web Site: http://www.edoorwayscorp.com
Heartland Dental Care's SMILING Magazine Goes Viral
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 9:49:01 AM
Heartland Dental Care's SMILING Magazine Goes Viral
Leading Dental Group's Publication Now Available Online
EFFINGHAM, Ill., March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SMILING Magazine, a Heartland Dental Care, Inc. publication, can now be viewed online at http://www.smilingmagazine.com.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110112/CG29129LOGO)
SMILING Magazine offers the latest news on current technology trends in dentistry, activities and accomplishments of Heartland Dental Care practices, and new resources available to doctors. With the addition of SmilingMagazine.com, the publication can reach an even bigger audience.
"Our company continues to grow by leaps and bounds, and SMILING Magazine is no different. It's become such a great way to show what Heartland represents - providing the best and most up-to-date dental care possible, quality through never-ending improvement, and continual leadership in dentistry," said Rick Workman, DMD, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Heartland Dental Care, Inc. "The print version of SMILING Magazine has just scratched the surface in terms of the impact it could have on the industry. The additional online access at SmilingMagazine.com will allow us to reach and mentor many more individuals in the dental industry that we previously wouldn't have reached."
SmilingMagazine.com will feature the current issue in its entirety and will additionally offer readers the ability to browse archived issues, search by article topic, find Heartland locations near them, request more information about Heartland careers and affiliations and much more.
"We are living in an online, interactive world, and it's important that Heartland embraces that," said Patrick C. Bauer, President and Chief Operations Officer. "To further our expansion, we need to take advantage of online opportunities and create an interactive environment for potential Heartland Dental Care family members. SmilingMagazine.com is an important step in that direction."
About Heartland Dental Care
Heartland Dental Care, Inc. is one of the leading dental practice management groups in the United States with close to 300 dental practices located within 17 states. Based in Effingham, Ill., Heartland provides its dentists and team members with continuing professional education and leadership training along with a variety of management services which include staffing, human relations, purchasing, administration, financial, marketing and information technology support. For more information, visit http://www.HeartlandDentalCare.com.
For more information, contact:
Ashley Buehnerkemper, Corporate and Brand Manager
(217) 540-5653
ABuehnerkemper@HeartlandDentalCare.com
SOURCE Heartland Dental Care, Inc.
Photo:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110112/CG29129LOGO
http://photoarchive.ap.org/
Heartland Dental Care, Inc.
CONTACT: Ashley Buehnerkemper, Corporate and Brand Manager of Heartland Dental Care, Inc., +1-217-540-5653, ABuehnerkemper@HeartlandDentalCare.com
Web Site: http://www.smilingmagazine.com
Leading Dental Group's Publication Now Available Online
EFFINGHAM, Ill., March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SMILING Magazine, a Heartland Dental Care, Inc. publication, can now be viewed online at http://www.smilingmagazine.com.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110112/CG29129LOGO)
SMILING Magazine offers the latest news on current technology trends in dentistry, activities and accomplishments of Heartland Dental Care practices, and new resources available to doctors. With the addition of SmilingMagazine.com, the publication can reach an even bigger audience.
"Our company continues to grow by leaps and bounds, and SMILING Magazine is no different. It's become such a great way to show what Heartland represents - providing the best and most up-to-date dental care possible, quality through never-ending improvement, and continual leadership in dentistry," said Rick Workman, DMD, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Heartland Dental Care, Inc. "The print version of SMILING Magazine has just scratched the surface in terms of the impact it could have on the industry. The additional online access at SmilingMagazine.com will allow us to reach and mentor many more individuals in the dental industry that we previously wouldn't have reached."
SmilingMagazine.com will feature the current issue in its entirety and will additionally offer readers the ability to browse archived issues, search by article topic, find Heartland locations near them, request more information about Heartland careers and affiliations and much more.
"We are living in an online, interactive world, and it's important that Heartland embraces that," said Patrick C. Bauer, President and Chief Operations Officer. "To further our expansion, we need to take advantage of online opportunities and create an interactive environment for potential Heartland Dental Care family members. SmilingMagazine.com is an important step in that direction."
About Heartland Dental Care
Heartland Dental Care, Inc. is one of the leading dental practice management groups in the United States with close to 300 dental practices located within 17 states. Based in Effingham, Ill., Heartland provides its dentists and team members with continuing professional education and leadership training along with a variety of management services which include staffing, human relations, purchasing, administration, financial, marketing and information technology support. For more information, visit http://www.HeartlandDentalCare.com.
For more information, contact:
Ashley Buehnerkemper, Corporate and Brand Manager
(217) 540-5653
ABuehnerkemper@HeartlandDentalCare.com
SOURCE Heartland Dental Care, Inc.
Photo:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110112/CG29129LOGO
http://photoarchive.ap.org/
Heartland Dental Care, Inc.
CONTACT: Ashley Buehnerkemper, Corporate and Brand Manager of Heartland Dental Care, Inc., +1-217-540-5653, ABuehnerkemper@HeartlandDentalCare.com
Web Site: http://www.smilingmagazine.com
AT&T Implemented 4,200 Energy Efficiency Projects in 2010 Resulting in an Annualized Energy Savings of $44 Million
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 9:35:01 AM
AT&T Implemented 4,200 Energy Efficiency Projects in 2010 Resulting in an Annualized Energy Savings of $44 Million
DALLAS, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T* announced today that it realized $44 million in annualized energy savings as a result of implementing 4,200 energy efficiency projects at AT&T facilities in 2010. Examples of the energy efficiency projects include:
-- Replaced tower light controllers and incandescent bulbs with LEDs at
over 1,100 cell sites.
-- As part of ongoing network upgrades, removed switches at 11 central
office sites in 2010, thus cutting power consumption across the network
by more than 300,000 kilowatt hours.
-- Deployed desktop power management software on 169,000 computers
generating a total estimated annualized savings of $614,000.
This past year AT&T launched a comprehensive online energy management training program for AT&T corporate real estate managers. In 2008, AT&T established an energy intensity metric based on kWh per terabyte of data carried on their network and set a goal for 2009 to reduce that intensity by 15 percent. In 2009, AT&T achieved a 23.8 percent decrease in energy intensity using 498 kWh per terabyte of data carried on their network. For 2010, AT&T set a goal to further reduce energy intensity by an additional 15 percent as compared with 2009's KWh per terabyte of data figure.
Also in 2009 AT&T rolled out a comprehensive Energy Scorecard, which is used to grade energy performance at each of AT&T's 500 top energy-consuming facilities. The Scorecard tracks data, sets goals and actually awards scores based on the real estate managers' energy performance. AT&T real estate managers identified many of the 4,200 energy related projects implemented over the last year.
"The roll out of the Energy Scorecard and energy training program were key factors which enabled AT&T to achieve these significant energy savings," said John Schinter, AT&T's Director of Energy. "We provided our employees with the needed tracking tools, training and incentives for them to be successful in their tremendous efforts to reduce AT&T's energy use and realize significant cost savings," added Schinter.
In 2010, AT&T participated in the EDF Climate Corps program, an initiative launched by Environmental Defense Fund to help leading companies shave operational costs and reduce emissions by identifying large-scale energy efficiency opportunities. "AT&T is on the right path by aggressively exploring ways to reduce energy consumption," said Victoria Mills of EDF. "Through our Climate Corps program, we were able to help AT&T identify a potential savings of 80% in electricity usage associated with lighting use across more than 100 million square feet of space. This underscores that a compelling business case for energy efficiency can be made at any company."
AT&T is committed to integrating sustainable business practices across its business and was recently added to Corporate Responsibility Magazine's 12th Annual 100 Best Corporate Citizens List. AT&T was also included in the 2010 Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index (DJSI) and in Carbon Disclosure Project's (CDP) 2010 Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI.) Visit http://www.att.com/csr and http://www.att.com/sustainability to learn more about sustainability at AT&T. Also visit http://www.att.com/csr to download the AT&T's Citizenship & Sustainability Reports.
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
About AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates - AT&T operating companies - are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. With a powerful array of network resources that includes the nation's fastest mobile broadband network, AT&T is a leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet and voice services. A leader in mobile broadband, AT&T also offers the best wireless coverage worldwide, offering the most wireless phones that work in the most countries. It also offers advanced TV services under the AT&T U-verse® and AT&T |DIRECTV brands. The company's suite of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in the world. In domestic markets, AT&T Advertising Solutions and AT&T Interactive are known for their leadership in local search and advertising. In 2010, AT&T again ranked among the 50 Most Admired Companies by FORTUNE®magazine.
Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com. This AT&T news release and other announcements are available at http://www.att.com/newsroom and as part of an RSS feed at http://www.att.com/rss. Or follow our news on Twitter at @ATTNews. Find us on Facebook at http://www.Facebook.com/ATT to discover more about our consumer and wireless services or at http://www.Facebook.com/ATTSmallBiz to discover more about our small business services.
© 2011 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. Mobile broadband not available in all areas. AT&T, the AT&T logo and all other marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies. All other marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.
SOURCE AT&T Inc.
AT&T Inc.
CONTACT: Alexander Hahn of AT&T Inc., +1-202-772-5029, ahahn@att.com
Web Site: http://www.att.com
DALLAS, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T* announced today that it realized $44 million in annualized energy savings as a result of implementing 4,200 energy efficiency projects at AT&T facilities in 2010. Examples of the energy efficiency projects include:
-- Replaced tower light controllers and incandescent bulbs with LEDs at
over 1,100 cell sites.
-- As part of ongoing network upgrades, removed switches at 11 central
office sites in 2010, thus cutting power consumption across the network
by more than 300,000 kilowatt hours.
-- Deployed desktop power management software on 169,000 computers
generating a total estimated annualized savings of $614,000.
This past year AT&T launched a comprehensive online energy management training program for AT&T corporate real estate managers. In 2008, AT&T established an energy intensity metric based on kWh per terabyte of data carried on their network and set a goal for 2009 to reduce that intensity by 15 percent. In 2009, AT&T achieved a 23.8 percent decrease in energy intensity using 498 kWh per terabyte of data carried on their network. For 2010, AT&T set a goal to further reduce energy intensity by an additional 15 percent as compared with 2009's KWh per terabyte of data figure.
Also in 2009 AT&T rolled out a comprehensive Energy Scorecard, which is used to grade energy performance at each of AT&T's 500 top energy-consuming facilities. The Scorecard tracks data, sets goals and actually awards scores based on the real estate managers' energy performance. AT&T real estate managers identified many of the 4,200 energy related projects implemented over the last year.
"The roll out of the Energy Scorecard and energy training program were key factors which enabled AT&T to achieve these significant energy savings," said John Schinter, AT&T's Director of Energy. "We provided our employees with the needed tracking tools, training and incentives for them to be successful in their tremendous efforts to reduce AT&T's energy use and realize significant cost savings," added Schinter.
In 2010, AT&T participated in the EDF Climate Corps program, an initiative launched by Environmental Defense Fund to help leading companies shave operational costs and reduce emissions by identifying large-scale energy efficiency opportunities. "AT&T is on the right path by aggressively exploring ways to reduce energy consumption," said Victoria Mills of EDF. "Through our Climate Corps program, we were able to help AT&T identify a potential savings of 80% in electricity usage associated with lighting use across more than 100 million square feet of space. This underscores that a compelling business case for energy efficiency can be made at any company."
AT&T is committed to integrating sustainable business practices across its business and was recently added to Corporate Responsibility Magazine's 12th Annual 100 Best Corporate Citizens List. AT&T was also included in the 2010 Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index (DJSI) and in Carbon Disclosure Project's (CDP) 2010 Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI.) Visit http://www.att.com/csr and http://www.att.com/sustainability to learn more about sustainability at AT&T. Also visit http://www.att.com/csr to download the AT&T's Citizenship & Sustainability Reports.
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
About AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates - AT&T operating companies - are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. With a powerful array of network resources that includes the nation's fastest mobile broadband network, AT&T is a leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet and voice services. A leader in mobile broadband, AT&T also offers the best wireless coverage worldwide, offering the most wireless phones that work in the most countries. It also offers advanced TV services under the AT&T U-verse® and AT&T |DIRECTV brands. The company's suite of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in the world. In domestic markets, AT&T Advertising Solutions and AT&T Interactive are known for their leadership in local search and advertising. In 2010, AT&T again ranked among the 50 Most Admired Companies by FORTUNE®magazine.
Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com. This AT&T news release and other announcements are available at http://www.att.com/newsroom and as part of an RSS feed at http://www.att.com/rss. Or follow our news on Twitter at @ATTNews. Find us on Facebook at http://www.Facebook.com/ATT to discover more about our consumer and wireless services or at http://www.Facebook.com/ATTSmallBiz to discover more about our small business services.
© 2011 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. Mobile broadband not available in all areas. AT&T, the AT&T logo and all other marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies. All other marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.
SOURCE AT&T Inc.
AT&T Inc.
CONTACT: Alexander Hahn of AT&T Inc., +1-202-772-5029, ahahn@att.com
Web Site: http://www.att.com
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Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 9:21:01 AM
Call of Duty®: Black Ops 'First Strike' Downloadable Content Now Available on PlayStation®3
SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Call of Duty: Black Ops First Strike, the first map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops, the #1 best-selling PlayStation 3 title ever (according to NPD, ChartTrack and GfK), is now available worldwide for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system via the Playstation®Network. Released today by Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI), Treyarch's Call of Duty: Black Ops First Strike adds five all new intense maps spanning the globe.
"Berlin Wall" enlists players across both sides of Cold War Berlin; "Stadium" delivers fast-paced, close-quarters combat within the backdrop of a sports complex; "Discovery" features an abandoned German outpost set along the coast of Antarctica; "Kowloon" pits players onto the tiered levels of high-rises and rooftops of Kowloon City, Hong Kong. And for Zombie fans the world over, Call of Duty: Black OpsFirst Strike also features an all new Zombie experience. The new level, "Ascension," pits players against hoards of vicious, perk-stealing zombie monkeys, flesh-eating Soviet Zombies and more in a trap-filled, Cold War era cosmodrome.
"The First Strike map pack significantly expands the intense experience for the millions of fans enjoying Call of Duty:Black Ops on the PlayStation®3 every day," said Mark Lamia, Studio Head, Treyarch. "Across each of First Strike's multiplayer maps and the newest Zombie level, we have created unique experiences that will appeal to everyone playing online in the PSN Call of Duty® community around the world."
Call of Duty: Black Ops is rated "M" (Mature) by the ESRB for Blood and Gore, Intense Violence and Strong Language. Additional information and updates are available through http://www.callofduty.com/blackops and also via Twitter @Treyarch.
About Activision Publishing, Inc.
Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Activision Publishing, Inc. is a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and leisure products.
Activision maintains operations in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Australia, South Korea, China and the region of Taiwan. More information about Activision and its products can be found on the company's website, http://www.activision.com.
Call of Duty and Activision are registered trademarks of Activision Publishing, Inc. All other trademarks and trade names are the properties of their respective owners.
"PlayStation" is a registered trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
SOURCE Activision Publishing, Inc.
Activision Publishing, Inc.
CONTACT: Kyle Walker, PR Manager of Activision, Inc., +1-424-744-5677, kyle.walker@activision.com
Web Site: http://www.activision.com
SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Call of Duty: Black Ops First Strike, the first map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops, the #1 best-selling PlayStation 3 title ever (according to NPD, ChartTrack and GfK), is now available worldwide for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system via the Playstation®Network. Released today by Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI), Treyarch's Call of Duty: Black Ops First Strike adds five all new intense maps spanning the globe.
"Berlin Wall" enlists players across both sides of Cold War Berlin; "Stadium" delivers fast-paced, close-quarters combat within the backdrop of a sports complex; "Discovery" features an abandoned German outpost set along the coast of Antarctica; "Kowloon" pits players onto the tiered levels of high-rises and rooftops of Kowloon City, Hong Kong. And for Zombie fans the world over, Call of Duty: Black OpsFirst Strike also features an all new Zombie experience. The new level, "Ascension," pits players against hoards of vicious, perk-stealing zombie monkeys, flesh-eating Soviet Zombies and more in a trap-filled, Cold War era cosmodrome.
"The First Strike map pack significantly expands the intense experience for the millions of fans enjoying Call of Duty:Black Ops on the PlayStation®3 every day," said Mark Lamia, Studio Head, Treyarch. "Across each of First Strike's multiplayer maps and the newest Zombie level, we have created unique experiences that will appeal to everyone playing online in the PSN Call of Duty® community around the world."
Call of Duty: Black Ops is rated "M" (Mature) by the ESRB for Blood and Gore, Intense Violence and Strong Language. Additional information and updates are available through http://www.callofduty.com/blackops and also via Twitter @Treyarch.
About Activision Publishing, Inc.
Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Activision Publishing, Inc. is a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and leisure products.
Activision maintains operations in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Australia, South Korea, China and the region of Taiwan. More information about Activision and its products can be found on the company's website, http://www.activision.com.
Call of Duty and Activision are registered trademarks of Activision Publishing, Inc. All other trademarks and trade names are the properties of their respective owners.
"PlayStation" is a registered trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
SOURCE Activision Publishing, Inc.
Activision Publishing, Inc.
CONTACT: Kyle Walker, PR Manager of Activision, Inc., +1-424-744-5677, kyle.walker@activision.com
Web Site: http://www.activision.com
AT&T Introduces New Monthly Billing Option for Tablets
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 8:42:01 AM
AT&T Introduces New Monthly Billing Option for Tablets
Customers Get First Month Free When Activating New Postpaid Plan
DALLAS, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T* today introduced convenient new postpaid billing options for tablets. Beginning today, customers can choose between AT&T's existing prepaid billing options or the new postpaid plans. The new plans can be added to customers' existing monthly wireless statements, offering the simplicity of a single monthly bill. For a limited time, customers who activate a new postpaid $25/2 GB plan will receive the first month free(1).
The new postpaid billing option will be available across AT&T retail locations, as well as att.com, Best Buy, Fry's, select Nexcom locations, and Walmart stores nationwide.
"Tablets offer the convenience of mobile broadband virtually anywhere and our new billing options give customers the flexibility to choose how they prefer to be billed," said David Christopher, chief marketing officer, AT&T Mobility & Consumer Markets.
Customers may choose from the following options.
-- Postpaid: $14.99 for 250 MB or $25 for 2 GB. Customers on the 2 GB plan
who exceed their monthly data allotment will be charged $10 per 1 GB of
overage. Charges will appear on customers' monthly wireless statements.
-- Prepaid: $14.99 for 250 MB or $25 for 2 GB. Customers on the 2 GB plan
who exceed their monthly data allotment may choose to purchase an
additional 2 GB for $25. Charges will appear on customers' credit card
statements.
Both options are month-to-month and do not require a long-term commitment.
For the complete array of AT&T offerings, visit http://www.att.com.
(1) Mobile broadband not available in all areas. Plan is for 30 days. Service free for new postpaid activations for first 30 days or the first 2GB of usage, whichever comes first. Offer available for DataConnect Personal for Tablets 2GB Plan only. Subsequent thirty day periods to be billed by AT&T Mobility at $25 for 2GB usage. To avoid subsequent charges, service must be cancelled prior to 30 days after activation of the plan, or prior to usage in excess of 2GB within the first 30 days after activation of the Plan. Usage in excess of 2GB during the first 30 days and in each subsequent thirty day period to be billed at $10 per each additional GB. Unused data does not rollover to the next 30 day period. Offer not available for on-tablet activation. DataConnect Personal for Tablets Plans are for compatible tablets only. Plans are not suitable for corporate email or intranet systems. Credit check required. No term commitment or termination fees apply. Plan automatically renews every 30 days, unless you cancel service prior to the start of the 30 day renewal. Service may be cancelled at any time by calling 1-800-331-0500 or seeing store representative. Limited time offer.
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
About AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates - AT&T operating companies - are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. With a powerful array of network resources that includes the nation's fastest mobile broadband network, AT&T is a leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet and voice services. A leader in mobile broadband, AT&T also offers the best wireless coverage worldwide, offering the most wireless phones that work in the most countries. It also offers advanced TV services under the AT&T U-verse® and AT&T |DIRECTV brands. The company's suite of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in the world. In domestic markets, AT&T Advertising Solutions and AT&T Interactive are known for their leadership in local search and advertising. In 2010, AT&T again ranked among the 50 Most Admired Companies by FORTUNE®magazine.
Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com. This AT&T news release and other announcements are available at http://www.att.com/newsroom and as part of an RSS feed at http://www.att.com/rss. Or follow our news on Twitter at @ATT. Find us on Facebook at http://www.Facebook.com/ATT to discover more about our consumer and wireless services or at http://www.Facebook.com/ATTSmallBiz to discover more about our small business services.
© 2011 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. Mobile broadband not available in all areas. AT&T, the AT&T logo and all other marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies.
SOURCE AT&T Inc.
AT&T Inc.
CONTACT: Mark Siegel, +1-404-986-1803, mark.a.siegel@att.com
Web Site: http://www.att.com
Customers Get First Month Free When Activating New Postpaid Plan
DALLAS, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T* today introduced convenient new postpaid billing options for tablets. Beginning today, customers can choose between AT&T's existing prepaid billing options or the new postpaid plans. The new plans can be added to customers' existing monthly wireless statements, offering the simplicity of a single monthly bill. For a limited time, customers who activate a new postpaid $25/2 GB plan will receive the first month free(1).
The new postpaid billing option will be available across AT&T retail locations, as well as att.com, Best Buy, Fry's, select Nexcom locations, and Walmart stores nationwide.
"Tablets offer the convenience of mobile broadband virtually anywhere and our new billing options give customers the flexibility to choose how they prefer to be billed," said David Christopher, chief marketing officer, AT&T Mobility & Consumer Markets.
Customers may choose from the following options.
-- Postpaid: $14.99 for 250 MB or $25 for 2 GB. Customers on the 2 GB plan
who exceed their monthly data allotment will be charged $10 per 1 GB of
overage. Charges will appear on customers' monthly wireless statements.
-- Prepaid: $14.99 for 250 MB or $25 for 2 GB. Customers on the 2 GB plan
who exceed their monthly data allotment may choose to purchase an
additional 2 GB for $25. Charges will appear on customers' credit card
statements.
Both options are month-to-month and do not require a long-term commitment.
For the complete array of AT&T offerings, visit http://www.att.com.
(1) Mobile broadband not available in all areas. Plan is for 30 days. Service free for new postpaid activations for first 30 days or the first 2GB of usage, whichever comes first. Offer available for DataConnect Personal for Tablets 2GB Plan only. Subsequent thirty day periods to be billed by AT&T Mobility at $25 for 2GB usage. To avoid subsequent charges, service must be cancelled prior to 30 days after activation of the plan, or prior to usage in excess of 2GB within the first 30 days after activation of the Plan. Usage in excess of 2GB during the first 30 days and in each subsequent thirty day period to be billed at $10 per each additional GB. Unused data does not rollover to the next 30 day period. Offer not available for on-tablet activation. DataConnect Personal for Tablets Plans are for compatible tablets only. Plans are not suitable for corporate email or intranet systems. Credit check required. No term commitment or termination fees apply. Plan automatically renews every 30 days, unless you cancel service prior to the start of the 30 day renewal. Service may be cancelled at any time by calling 1-800-331-0500 or seeing store representative. Limited time offer.
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
About AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates - AT&T operating companies - are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. With a powerful array of network resources that includes the nation's fastest mobile broadband network, AT&T is a leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet and voice services. A leader in mobile broadband, AT&T also offers the best wireless coverage worldwide, offering the most wireless phones that work in the most countries. It also offers advanced TV services under the AT&T U-verse® and AT&T |DIRECTV brands. The company's suite of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in the world. In domestic markets, AT&T Advertising Solutions and AT&T Interactive are known for their leadership in local search and advertising. In 2010, AT&T again ranked among the 50 Most Admired Companies by FORTUNE®magazine.
Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com. This AT&T news release and other announcements are available at http://www.att.com/newsroom and as part of an RSS feed at http://www.att.com/rss. Or follow our news on Twitter at @ATT. Find us on Facebook at http://www.Facebook.com/ATT to discover more about our consumer and wireless services or at http://www.Facebook.com/ATTSmallBiz to discover more about our small business services.
© 2011 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. Mobile broadband not available in all areas. AT&T, the AT&T logo and all other marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies.
SOURCE AT&T Inc.
AT&T Inc.
CONTACT: Mark Siegel, +1-404-986-1803, mark.a.siegel@att.com
Web Site: http://www.att.com
U.S. Home Systems Announces Availability of Online Kitchen Designer Tool
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 8:14:01 AM
U.S. Home Systems Announces Availability of Online Kitchen Designer Tool
Allows Home Remodelers to Design and Select Pre-Set Kitchen Cabinet Refacing and Other Options Anytime, Anywhere
DALLAS, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Home Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: USHS) today announced the availability of an online kitchen designer tool (http://www.cabinetrefacing.com) to help homeowners update kitchens with cabinet refacing and other pre-set options. The site is sponsored by US Remodelers, an operating subsidiary of U.S. Home Systems.
US Remodeler'ssite will guide remodelers, meeting specific requirements, with a variety of cabinet styles, colors and wood selections as well as optional countertop selections. In addition, the website allows users to schedule free in-home estimates, contains information on sale promotions, and provides a link to an informative video from The Home Depot, with whom U.S. Home Systems has a service provider agreement.
Murray Gross, chairman and chief executive officer, commented, "We are excited to offer this 24/7 service to homeowners who want to remodel their kitchens. The latest report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard has indicated that remodeling is moving to replacement and system upgrades from the upper-end discretionary remodeling that was done prior to 2007. Our new online design tool taps into this trend and allows homeowners to get a head start on their kitchen cabinet refacing projects. Consumers will be able to select cabinet doors, styles and profiles as well as a variety of optional countertops to design a comprehensive upgrade. Homeowners who remodel kitchens are increasingly savvy and informed about what they want and we are utilizing the power of the Internet to market these quality remodeling options to potential customers."
About U.S. Home Systems, Inc.
U.S. Home Systems, Inc. (http://www.ushomesystems.com) manufactures or procures, designs, sells and installs custom quality specialty home improvement products. The Company's product lines include kitchen cabinet refacing products utilized in kitchen remodeling, bathroom tub liners and wall surround products utilized in bathroom remodeling, and storage organization systems for closets and garages. The Company manufactures its own cabinet refacing products and bathroom cabinetry.
This press release contains certain statements that may include "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements, other than statements of historical fact included herein are "forward-looking statements" including statements regarding the Company's business strategy, plans and objective and statements of non-historical information. These forward-looking statements are often identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "believes," "expects" or similar expressions, involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, they do involve assumptions, risks and uncertainties, and these expectations may prove to be incorrect. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of factors, including those discussed in the Company's periodic reports that are filed with and available from the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by these factors. Other than as required under the securities laws, the Company does not assume a duty to update these forward-looking statements.
Contacts:
Murray H. Gross Brett Maas
Chairman & CEO Hayden IR
Email: mgross@ushomesystems.com Email: brett@haydenir.com
(214) 488-6300 (646) 536-733
SOURCE U.S. Home Systems, Inc.
U.S. Home Systems, Inc.
CONTACT: Murray H. Gross, Chairman & CEO of U.S. Home Systems, Inc., +1-214-488-6300, mgross@ushomesystems.com, or Brett Maas of Hayden IR, +1-646-536-733, brett@haydenir.com, for U.S. Home Systems, Inc.
Web Site: http://www.cabinetrefacing.com
Allows Home Remodelers to Design and Select Pre-Set Kitchen Cabinet Refacing and Other Options Anytime, Anywhere
DALLAS, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Home Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: USHS) today announced the availability of an online kitchen designer tool (http://www.cabinetrefacing.com) to help homeowners update kitchens with cabinet refacing and other pre-set options. The site is sponsored by US Remodelers, an operating subsidiary of U.S. Home Systems.
US Remodeler'ssite will guide remodelers, meeting specific requirements, with a variety of cabinet styles, colors and wood selections as well as optional countertop selections. In addition, the website allows users to schedule free in-home estimates, contains information on sale promotions, and provides a link to an informative video from The Home Depot, with whom U.S. Home Systems has a service provider agreement.
Murray Gross, chairman and chief executive officer, commented, "We are excited to offer this 24/7 service to homeowners who want to remodel their kitchens. The latest report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard has indicated that remodeling is moving to replacement and system upgrades from the upper-end discretionary remodeling that was done prior to 2007. Our new online design tool taps into this trend and allows homeowners to get a head start on their kitchen cabinet refacing projects. Consumers will be able to select cabinet doors, styles and profiles as well as a variety of optional countertops to design a comprehensive upgrade. Homeowners who remodel kitchens are increasingly savvy and informed about what they want and we are utilizing the power of the Internet to market these quality remodeling options to potential customers."
About U.S. Home Systems, Inc.
U.S. Home Systems, Inc. (http://www.ushomesystems.com) manufactures or procures, designs, sells and installs custom quality specialty home improvement products. The Company's product lines include kitchen cabinet refacing products utilized in kitchen remodeling, bathroom tub liners and wall surround products utilized in bathroom remodeling, and storage organization systems for closets and garages. The Company manufactures its own cabinet refacing products and bathroom cabinetry.
This press release contains certain statements that may include "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements, other than statements of historical fact included herein are "forward-looking statements" including statements regarding the Company's business strategy, plans and objective and statements of non-historical information. These forward-looking statements are often identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "believes," "expects" or similar expressions, involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, they do involve assumptions, risks and uncertainties, and these expectations may prove to be incorrect. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of factors, including those discussed in the Company's periodic reports that are filed with and available from the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by these factors. Other than as required under the securities laws, the Company does not assume a duty to update these forward-looking statements.
Contacts:
Murray H. Gross Brett Maas
Chairman & CEO Hayden IR
Email: mgross@ushomesystems.com Email: brett@haydenir.com
(214) 488-6300 (646) 536-733
SOURCE U.S. Home Systems, Inc.
U.S. Home Systems, Inc.
CONTACT: Murray H. Gross, Chairman & CEO of U.S. Home Systems, Inc., +1-214-488-6300, mgross@ushomesystems.com, or Brett Maas of Hayden IR, +1-646-536-733, brett@haydenir.com, for U.S. Home Systems, Inc.
Web Site: http://www.cabinetrefacing.com
Vanguard Configuration Manager Continuously Monitors System z Security Configuration Controls
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 8:14:01 AM
Vanguard Configuration Manager Continuously Monitors System z Security Configuration Controls
Automates Lengthy Processes Required by NIST, DHS National Checklist Program, DISA STIG for z/OS
LAS VEGAS, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Vanguard Integrity Professionals, the largest independent provider of enterprise security software for System z, today announced a new version of its automated software scanner that enables continuous monitoring of security configuration settings on z/OS systems. Vanguard Configuration Manager supports implementing and utilizing the z/OS RACF checklist provided by the National Checklist Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Department of Homeland Security.
Continuous monitoring is one of six steps in the Risk Management Framework described in NIST Special Publication 800-37, Revision 1. In the report, NIST states "A critical aspect of managing risk to information from the operation and use of information systems involves the continuous monitoring of the security controls employed within or inherited by the system. Conducting a thorough point-in-time assessment of the deployed security controls is a necessary but not sufficient condition to demonstrate security due diligence."
Vanguard Configuration Manager significantly reduces the cost and time required for government agencies and contractors to test and assess their accordance with NCP guidelines for IBM z/OS and RACF. Organizations that have deployed Vanguard Configuration Manager are saving thousands of hours each year when performing quarterly assessments of their accordance with NCP requirements. Those that implement continuous monitoring will save tens or hundreds of thousands of hours each year by deploying Vanguard Configuration Manager.
"Without Vanguard Configuration Manager, it is extremely difficult for government agencies and contractors to report quarterly on their accordance with the z/OS guidelines of the National Checklist Program," said Keegan O'Neill, director of research and development at Vanguard. "Continuous monitoring of National Checklist controls for the zSeries is virtually impossible without a tool like Vanguard Configuration Manager."
The National Checklist Program currently recognizes the Defense Information Systems Agency Security Technical Implementation Guidelines as the required configuration controls for z/OS and RACF systems. The new release of Vanguard Configuration Manager supports version 6.4 and 6.5 of the DISA z/OS RACF STIG Checklist and is the only fully automated baseline configuration scanner for z/OS DISA STIGs.
"Vanguard Configuration Manager provides the fastest, most cost effective and accurate method of testing and responding to z/OS NCP and DISA STIG requirements," O'Neill continued. "We've automated the difficult and time-consuming DISA STIG processes. Within a couple of hours, using Vanguard Configuration Manager, organizations can test their mainframe security configuration controls and produce everything they need to report on DISA STIG compliance."
Vanguard Configuration Manager leverages the expertise of some of the most experienced z/OS mainframe system and RACF security experts in the world. The United States-based Vanguard team worked together to extensively analyze all of the mainframe DISA STIG checks and then built that knowledge into each check to create an intelligent and automated configuration control scanner.
For more information on Vanguard Configuration Manager, or to read case studies about how customers are already benefiting from its use, visit http://www.go2vanguard.com/configuration.php.
About Vanguard Integrity Professionals
Vanguard Integrity Professionals, an IBM Business Partner, provides enterprise security software and services that solve complex security and regulatory compliance challenges and deliver a rapid return on investment. With automated solutions for Audit and Compliance, Operational Security and Intrusion Management, Vanguard enables government agencies and corporations around the world to ensure continuous monitoring of z/OS systems, safeguard cloud computing secure domains, and protect critical data and applications from cybersecurity threats.
IBM and RACF are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States and other countries. Vanguard Configuration Manager is a trademark of Vanguard Integrity Professionals in the United States and/or other countries.
SOURCE Vanguard Integrity Professionals
Vanguard Integrity Professionals
CONTACT: Roxane Rosberg of Vanguard Integrity Professionals, +1-702-794-0014, roxane.rosberg@go2vanguard.com
Web Site: http://www.go2vanguard.com
Automates Lengthy Processes Required by NIST, DHS National Checklist Program, DISA STIG for z/OS
LAS VEGAS, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Vanguard Integrity Professionals, the largest independent provider of enterprise security software for System z, today announced a new version of its automated software scanner that enables continuous monitoring of security configuration settings on z/OS systems. Vanguard Configuration Manager supports implementing and utilizing the z/OS RACF checklist provided by the National Checklist Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Department of Homeland Security.
Continuous monitoring is one of six steps in the Risk Management Framework described in NIST Special Publication 800-37, Revision 1. In the report, NIST states "A critical aspect of managing risk to information from the operation and use of information systems involves the continuous monitoring of the security controls employed within or inherited by the system. Conducting a thorough point-in-time assessment of the deployed security controls is a necessary but not sufficient condition to demonstrate security due diligence."
Vanguard Configuration Manager significantly reduces the cost and time required for government agencies and contractors to test and assess their accordance with NCP guidelines for IBM z/OS and RACF. Organizations that have deployed Vanguard Configuration Manager are saving thousands of hours each year when performing quarterly assessments of their accordance with NCP requirements. Those that implement continuous monitoring will save tens or hundreds of thousands of hours each year by deploying Vanguard Configuration Manager.
"Without Vanguard Configuration Manager, it is extremely difficult for government agencies and contractors to report quarterly on their accordance with the z/OS guidelines of the National Checklist Program," said Keegan O'Neill, director of research and development at Vanguard. "Continuous monitoring of National Checklist controls for the zSeries is virtually impossible without a tool like Vanguard Configuration Manager."
The National Checklist Program currently recognizes the Defense Information Systems Agency Security Technical Implementation Guidelines as the required configuration controls for z/OS and RACF systems. The new release of Vanguard Configuration Manager supports version 6.4 and 6.5 of the DISA z/OS RACF STIG Checklist and is the only fully automated baseline configuration scanner for z/OS DISA STIGs.
"Vanguard Configuration Manager provides the fastest, most cost effective and accurate method of testing and responding to z/OS NCP and DISA STIG requirements," O'Neill continued. "We've automated the difficult and time-consuming DISA STIG processes. Within a couple of hours, using Vanguard Configuration Manager, organizations can test their mainframe security configuration controls and produce everything they need to report on DISA STIG compliance."
Vanguard Configuration Manager leverages the expertise of some of the most experienced z/OS mainframe system and RACF security experts in the world. The United States-based Vanguard team worked together to extensively analyze all of the mainframe DISA STIG checks and then built that knowledge into each check to create an intelligent and automated configuration control scanner.
For more information on Vanguard Configuration Manager, or to read case studies about how customers are already benefiting from its use, visit http://www.go2vanguard.com/configuration.php.
About Vanguard Integrity Professionals
Vanguard Integrity Professionals, an IBM Business Partner, provides enterprise security software and services that solve complex security and regulatory compliance challenges and deliver a rapid return on investment. With automated solutions for Audit and Compliance, Operational Security and Intrusion Management, Vanguard enables government agencies and corporations around the world to ensure continuous monitoring of z/OS systems, safeguard cloud computing secure domains, and protect critical data and applications from cybersecurity threats.
IBM and RACF are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States and other countries. Vanguard Configuration Manager is a trademark of Vanguard Integrity Professionals in the United States and/or other countries.
SOURCE Vanguard Integrity Professionals
Vanguard Integrity Professionals
CONTACT: Roxane Rosberg of Vanguard Integrity Professionals, +1-702-794-0014, roxane.rosberg@go2vanguard.com
Web Site: http://www.go2vanguard.com
Filmakers Library, Inc. Joins Forces with Alexander Street Press, LLC
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 7:49:01 AM
Filmakers Library, Inc. Joins Forces with Alexander Street Press, LLC
ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press today announced that it has acquired Filmakers Library, the highly regarded New York-based distributor of documentary films. Filmakers was founded in 1969 by Linda Gottesman and Sue Oscar to distribute high quality, issue-based documentaries to the educational market. Over the past 40 years it has brought a wide range of titles from around the world to a receptive academic audience. Recent award-winning titles include films such as Original Intent: The Battle for America; Who Killed Vincent Chin?; Prison Lullabies; The Danish Solution: The Rescue of the Jews in Denmark; and Muslims in Love.
Said Stephen Rhind-Tutt, president of Alexander Street Press, "This is a wonderful match. Together we'll be able to give library and education customers the best documentary content on the most flexible delivery platform. Filmakers has a long history of service to film makers and librarians -- we feel honored to be continuing the tradition."
Alexander Street plans to launch the complete Filmakers Library as a subscription-based online streaming database, Filmakers Library Online, in the next month or so. Eventually, the publisher will also make it possible for libraries and educational institutions to order individual films via the Alexander Street streaming platform.
Said Linda Gottesman, "This new relationship ensures that the Filmakers Library of documentary films will reach an ever wider audience." Co-founder Sue Oscar agreed. "It will be easier than ever for faculty and students in particular to access these films -- wherever they are, whenever they want to watch. Filmakers Library is thrilled that the collection will have a new life in this new medium, and we're confident that Alexander Street will maintain the high standards for which we are known."
Co-founder Sue Oscar and Filmakers director Andrea Traubner will remain with Filmakers following the acquisition, both based out of the Filmakers offices in New York. To learn more about the Filmakers collection of videos, visit http://filmakers.com. To learn more about the launch of Filmakers Library Online, visit http://alexanderstreet.com.
About Alexander Street Press
Alexander Street Press is an electronic publisher of award-winning online collections in the humanities, social sciences, music, and performing arts. Alexander Street online collections are available to libraries and educational institutions world-wide via annual subscription and outright purchase. For more information or for media access to any of the Alexander Street streaming video collections, visit http://alexanderstreet.com or contact Meg Keller at mkeller@alexanderstreet.com.
Reviewers, media contacts, libraries, and university faculty may request extended access to Alexander Street online collections by emailing marketing@alexanderstreet.com.
Contact Details:
Meg Keller, Director of Marketing
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x 116 / 202-441-8930
mkeller@alexanderstreet.com
http://alexanderstreet.com
This press release was issued through eReleases(R). For more information, visit eReleases Press Release Distribution at http://www.ereleases.com.
SOURCE Alexander Street Press
Alexander Street Press
CONTACT: Meg Keller, Director of Marketing, Alexander Street Press, +1-703-212-8520, Ext. 116 or +1-202-441-8930, mkeller@alexanderstreet.com
Web Site: http://www.alexanderstreet.com
ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press today announced that it has acquired Filmakers Library, the highly regarded New York-based distributor of documentary films. Filmakers was founded in 1969 by Linda Gottesman and Sue Oscar to distribute high quality, issue-based documentaries to the educational market. Over the past 40 years it has brought a wide range of titles from around the world to a receptive academic audience. Recent award-winning titles include films such as Original Intent: The Battle for America; Who Killed Vincent Chin?; Prison Lullabies; The Danish Solution: The Rescue of the Jews in Denmark; and Muslims in Love.
Said Stephen Rhind-Tutt, president of Alexander Street Press, "This is a wonderful match. Together we'll be able to give library and education customers the best documentary content on the most flexible delivery platform. Filmakers has a long history of service to film makers and librarians -- we feel honored to be continuing the tradition."
Alexander Street plans to launch the complete Filmakers Library as a subscription-based online streaming database, Filmakers Library Online, in the next month or so. Eventually, the publisher will also make it possible for libraries and educational institutions to order individual films via the Alexander Street streaming platform.
Said Linda Gottesman, "This new relationship ensures that the Filmakers Library of documentary films will reach an ever wider audience." Co-founder Sue Oscar agreed. "It will be easier than ever for faculty and students in particular to access these films -- wherever they are, whenever they want to watch. Filmakers Library is thrilled that the collection will have a new life in this new medium, and we're confident that Alexander Street will maintain the high standards for which we are known."
Co-founder Sue Oscar and Filmakers director Andrea Traubner will remain with Filmakers following the acquisition, both based out of the Filmakers offices in New York. To learn more about the Filmakers collection of videos, visit http://filmakers.com. To learn more about the launch of Filmakers Library Online, visit http://alexanderstreet.com.
About Alexander Street Press
Alexander Street Press is an electronic publisher of award-winning online collections in the humanities, social sciences, music, and performing arts. Alexander Street online collections are available to libraries and educational institutions world-wide via annual subscription and outright purchase. For more information or for media access to any of the Alexander Street streaming video collections, visit http://alexanderstreet.com or contact Meg Keller at mkeller@alexanderstreet.com.
Reviewers, media contacts, libraries, and university faculty may request extended access to Alexander Street online collections by emailing marketing@alexanderstreet.com.
Contact Details:
Meg Keller, Director of Marketing
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x 116 / 202-441-8930
mkeller@alexanderstreet.com
http://alexanderstreet.com
This press release was issued through eReleases(R). For more information, visit eReleases Press Release Distribution at http://www.ereleases.com.
SOURCE Alexander Street Press
Alexander Street Press
CONTACT: Meg Keller, Director of Marketing, Alexander Street Press, +1-703-212-8520, Ext. 116 or +1-202-441-8930, mkeller@alexanderstreet.com
Web Site: http://www.alexanderstreet.com
New SharePoint 2010 Hosting Products and Services Now Available from SharePointHoster.Com
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 7:49:01 AM
New SharePoint 2010 Hosting Products and Services Now Available from SharePointHoster.Com
WILMINGTON, Del., March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SharePoint Hoster announces the immediate availability of SharePoint Online 2010 Enterprise features, Free SharePoint Foundation 2010 Hosting, and new SharePoint 2010 site templates for all hosting plans. Customers looking for Office 365 can get full featured SharePoint 2010 hosting today without having to wait for an updated version of the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). Here is the full rundown on these exciting upgrades:
Low-Cost SharePoint Enterprise Hosting: This new offering meets the needs of many customers that are looking for a way to take advantage of SharePoint Enterprise features like InfoPath Forms, Visio/Excel Services, and Complex Workflows without the expense and hassle of a dedicated SharePoint 2010 server. In addition, a complete collection of SharePoint Enterprise Web Parts is available along with full support for SharePoint Designer customizations. http://www.sharepointhoster.com/pricing
Free SharePoint Foundation Hosting: New SharePoint users can now experience the power of SharePoint Foundation 2010 for free. That's right, our entry-level hosting plan is now completely free and allows you to test SharePoint functionality without a trial expiration date. Additional users, storage, and features may be purchased a la carte as your requirements dictate. http://www.sharepointhoster.com/free-sharepoint
Installable SharePoint 2010 Site Templates: Previously known as the "Fab 40" templates for SharePoint 2007, many of these templates have now been converted for SharePoint 2010. SharePoint Hoster has produced a series of helpful screencast tutorials that show users how to install and take advantage of these quick start templates for things like Sports Team Management, Help Desk, Inventory Tracking, and Equipment Reservations. http://www.sharepointhoster.com/free-sharepoint-2010-templates
SharePointHosting.Com is a Microsoft-centric hosting provided focused on affordable SharePoint solutions and services. For more information, visit http://www.sharepointhoster.com
Contact:
Mike Gnade
salessupport@sharepointhoster.com
PO Box 724
Hockessin, Delaware 19707
302-409-0167
This press release was issued through eReleases(R). For more information, visit eReleases Press Release Distribution at http://www.ereleases.com.
SOURCE SharePoint Hoster
SharePoint Hoster
CONTACT: Mike Gnade, SharePoint Hoster, +1-302-409-0167, salessupport@sharepointhoster.com
Web Site: http://www.sharepointhoster.com
WILMINGTON, Del., March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SharePoint Hoster announces the immediate availability of SharePoint Online 2010 Enterprise features, Free SharePoint Foundation 2010 Hosting, and new SharePoint 2010 site templates for all hosting plans. Customers looking for Office 365 can get full featured SharePoint 2010 hosting today without having to wait for an updated version of the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). Here is the full rundown on these exciting upgrades:
Low-Cost SharePoint Enterprise Hosting: This new offering meets the needs of many customers that are looking for a way to take advantage of SharePoint Enterprise features like InfoPath Forms, Visio/Excel Services, and Complex Workflows without the expense and hassle of a dedicated SharePoint 2010 server. In addition, a complete collection of SharePoint Enterprise Web Parts is available along with full support for SharePoint Designer customizations. http://www.sharepointhoster.com/pricing
Free SharePoint Foundation Hosting: New SharePoint users can now experience the power of SharePoint Foundation 2010 for free. That's right, our entry-level hosting plan is now completely free and allows you to test SharePoint functionality without a trial expiration date. Additional users, storage, and features may be purchased a la carte as your requirements dictate. http://www.sharepointhoster.com/free-sharepoint
Installable SharePoint 2010 Site Templates: Previously known as the "Fab 40" templates for SharePoint 2007, many of these templates have now been converted for SharePoint 2010. SharePoint Hoster has produced a series of helpful screencast tutorials that show users how to install and take advantage of these quick start templates for things like Sports Team Management, Help Desk, Inventory Tracking, and Equipment Reservations. http://www.sharepointhoster.com/free-sharepoint-2010-templates
SharePointHosting.Com is a Microsoft-centric hosting provided focused on affordable SharePoint solutions and services. For more information, visit http://www.sharepointhoster.com
Contact:
Mike Gnade
salessupport@sharepointhoster.com
PO Box 724
Hockessin, Delaware 19707
302-409-0167
This press release was issued through eReleases(R). For more information, visit eReleases Press Release Distribution at http://www.ereleases.com.
SOURCE SharePoint Hoster
SharePoint Hoster
CONTACT: Mike Gnade, SharePoint Hoster, +1-302-409-0167, salessupport@sharepointhoster.com
Web Site: http://www.sharepointhoster.com
Gameloft and Audi Shift Gears to Launch a Free App, Asphalt Audi RS 3, on iPhone/iPod Touch Devices
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 7:49:01 AM
Gameloft and Audi Shift Gears to Launch a Free App, Asphalt Audi RS 3, on iPhone/iPod Touch Devices
Offers Consumers a Chance to Win a Brand New Audi A3 Sportback
PARIS, March 3, 2011/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gameloft, a leading developer and publisher of digitally
distributed video games, has partnered with premium car brand Audi to launch
Asphalt Audi RS 3, a new demo game with exclusive content featuring the brand
new Audi RS 3 driving on two tracks of Asphalt 6: Adrenaline. Racers will
have a chance to hop into the driver's seat to compete to win a high-end Audi
A3 Sportback. The game is available now for free download on the App Store.
"We have had a long standing and successful relationship with
Audi since the beginning of our Asphalt franchise," said Gonzague de Vallois,
senior vice president of publishing, Gameloft. "The quality built into our
racing games involve an adrenaline-pumping, totally immersive speed
experience which is completely in line with the power of the new Audi RS 3."
"What better way to celebrate our partnership with Gameloft
then to premiere the Audi RS 3 in one of the most iconic racing video game
franchises on the market," said Lothar Korn, head of marketing
communications, AUDI AG. "From the detailed graphics to the high performance,
the Audi RS 3 is perfectly represented in the demo version of Asphalt 6:
Adrenaline."
The game features a short career mode with three events, two
normal races and an elimination round, across two tracks in Tokyo and the
Bahamas. From March 3rd-16th, players will be able to join in a two week
competition to race three laps on the Bahamas track. The highest score can
then be posted on Gameloft Live with a chance to win an Audi A3 Sportback 2.0
TFSI quattro.
Countries qualified for the contest include: United States,
Canada (excluding Quebec), United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia, Japan,
Switzerland, Hong Kong, Russian Federation, Spain, Austria, Mexico, Belgium,
Netherlands, China and South Korea.
In addition to this special version of Asphalt, Gameloft has
updated Asphalt 6: Adrenaline, already available on the App Store, to offer a
new version with real time reflections on cars and even more precise
controls.
About Gameloft
A leading global developer and publisher of downloadable video games,
Gameloft(R) has established itself as one of the top innovators in its
field since 2000. Gameloft creates games for all digital platforms,
including mobile phones, smartphones and tablets (including Apple(R) iOS
and Android(R) devices), set top box, connected TVs and consoles. Gameloft
partners with leading international brands such as UNO(R), Spider-Man(R),
James Cameron's Avatar(TM), Ferrari(R) and Sonic Unleashed(R). Gameloft
also operates its own established franchises, such as Real Football,
Asphalt(TM), Modern Combat 2 : Black Pegasus and N.O.V.A Near Orbit
Vanguard Alliance(R). Gameloft is present in all continents, distributes
its games in 100 countries and employs over 4,000 developers.
Gameloft is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange (ISIN: FR0000079600,
Bloomberg: GFT FP, Reuters: GLFT.PA).
For more information, consult http://www.gameloft.com
Source: Gameloft
Contact: Sanette Chao, Director, Public Relations, Tel +1-212-994-2495, Email: sanette.chao@gameloft.com
Offers Consumers a Chance to Win a Brand New Audi A3 Sportback
PARIS, March 3, 2011/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gameloft, a leading developer and publisher of digitally
distributed video games, has partnered with premium car brand Audi to launch
Asphalt Audi RS 3, a new demo game with exclusive content featuring the brand
new Audi RS 3 driving on two tracks of Asphalt 6: Adrenaline. Racers will
have a chance to hop into the driver's seat to compete to win a high-end Audi
A3 Sportback. The game is available now for free download on the App Store.
"We have had a long standing and successful relationship with
Audi since the beginning of our Asphalt franchise," said Gonzague de Vallois,
senior vice president of publishing, Gameloft. "The quality built into our
racing games involve an adrenaline-pumping, totally immersive speed
experience which is completely in line with the power of the new Audi RS 3."
"What better way to celebrate our partnership with Gameloft
then to premiere the Audi RS 3 in one of the most iconic racing video game
franchises on the market," said Lothar Korn, head of marketing
communications, AUDI AG. "From the detailed graphics to the high performance,
the Audi RS 3 is perfectly represented in the demo version of Asphalt 6:
Adrenaline."
The game features a short career mode with three events, two
normal races and an elimination round, across two tracks in Tokyo and the
Bahamas. From March 3rd-16th, players will be able to join in a two week
competition to race three laps on the Bahamas track. The highest score can
then be posted on Gameloft Live with a chance to win an Audi A3 Sportback 2.0
TFSI quattro.
Countries qualified for the contest include: United States,
Canada (excluding Quebec), United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia, Japan,
Switzerland, Hong Kong, Russian Federation, Spain, Austria, Mexico, Belgium,
Netherlands, China and South Korea.
In addition to this special version of Asphalt, Gameloft has
updated Asphalt 6: Adrenaline, already available on the App Store, to offer a
new version with real time reflections on cars and even more precise
controls.
About Gameloft
A leading global developer and publisher of downloadable video games,
Gameloft(R) has established itself as one of the top innovators in its
field since 2000. Gameloft creates games for all digital platforms,
including mobile phones, smartphones and tablets (including Apple(R) iOS
and Android(R) devices), set top box, connected TVs and consoles. Gameloft
partners with leading international brands such as UNO(R), Spider-Man(R),
James Cameron's Avatar(TM), Ferrari(R) and Sonic Unleashed(R). Gameloft
also operates its own established franchises, such as Real Football,
Asphalt(TM), Modern Combat 2 : Black Pegasus and N.O.V.A Near Orbit
Vanguard Alliance(R). Gameloft is present in all continents, distributes
its games in 100 countries and employs over 4,000 developers.
Gameloft is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange (ISIN: FR0000079600,
Bloomberg: GFT FP, Reuters: GLFT.PA).
For more information, consult http://www.gameloft.com
Source: Gameloft
Contact: Sanette Chao, Director, Public Relations, Tel +1-212-994-2495, Email: sanette.chao@gameloft.com
GTEC to be Sold to an Affiliate of Ares Management
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 7:14:01 AM
GTEC to be Sold to an Affiliate of Ares Management
Proceeds to be Used by GLOBAL to Pursue New Investment Opportunities in Defence and National Security
LONDON, March 3, 2011/PRNewswire/ -- Global Strategies Group (GLOBAL), the former owner and now largest
shareholder in GLOBAL Defense Technology and Systems (GTEC), and the GTEC
board have accepted an offer to sell the GTEC business to a US based
investment firm, Ares Management LLC (Ares).
GLOBAL acquired GTEC (then SFA) in February 2007. Over the following two
and a half years, GLOBAL transformed the business, doubling revenue, trebling
earnings and adding strategic focus and direction before completing a highly
successful IPO of the company in November 2009.
Ares has made a cash tender offer of USD24.25 per share, representing a
premium of approximately 51% over GTEC's closing stock price as of March 2,
2011, and 56% over its 90-day average closing stock price. For GLOBAL, the
sale will add significant funds to an already strong balance sheet and
dynamic organic growth performance, allowing for the development of
investment opportunities that will keep GLOBAL at the forefront of the
defence and national security sector.
Commenting on the transaction, Damian Perl, Chairman and Chief Executive
of Global Strategies Group said:
"The sale of GTEC is a very positive step forward for GLOBAL, and
completes a very successful investment cycle. The sale proceeds will add to
our already strong balance sheet and will allow for investment across the
Group, strengthening our overall business and enhancing our ability to
support clients in tackling an increasingly complex range of threats to
national security worldwide. I would like to wish the GTEC team well as they
move across to Ares."
About Global Strategies Group
Global Strategies Group (GLOBAL) is one of the world's leading providers
of integrated security and defense technology for clients operating in
high-stakes situations - when the problem is complex, when the mission is
vital and when ingenuity is key. We empower our clients to achieve their
toughest goals by strengthening national security, transforming critical
environments and enabling opportunities.
For more information, please visit http://www.globalgroup.com.
Source: Global Strategies Group
Media Contact: Tim Matthews, t: +44-207-766-3609, e: Tim.Matthews@globalgroup.com
Proceeds to be Used by GLOBAL to Pursue New Investment Opportunities in Defence and National Security
LONDON, March 3, 2011/PRNewswire/ -- Global Strategies Group (GLOBAL), the former owner and now largest
shareholder in GLOBAL Defense Technology and Systems (GTEC), and the GTEC
board have accepted an offer to sell the GTEC business to a US based
investment firm, Ares Management LLC (Ares).
GLOBAL acquired GTEC (then SFA) in February 2007. Over the following two
and a half years, GLOBAL transformed the business, doubling revenue, trebling
earnings and adding strategic focus and direction before completing a highly
successful IPO of the company in November 2009.
Ares has made a cash tender offer of USD24.25 per share, representing a
premium of approximately 51% over GTEC's closing stock price as of March 2,
2011, and 56% over its 90-day average closing stock price. For GLOBAL, the
sale will add significant funds to an already strong balance sheet and
dynamic organic growth performance, allowing for the development of
investment opportunities that will keep GLOBAL at the forefront of the
defence and national security sector.
Commenting on the transaction, Damian Perl, Chairman and Chief Executive
of Global Strategies Group said:
"The sale of GTEC is a very positive step forward for GLOBAL, and
completes a very successful investment cycle. The sale proceeds will add to
our already strong balance sheet and will allow for investment across the
Group, strengthening our overall business and enhancing our ability to
support clients in tackling an increasingly complex range of threats to
national security worldwide. I would like to wish the GTEC team well as they
move across to Ares."
About Global Strategies Group
Global Strategies Group (GLOBAL) is one of the world's leading providers
of integrated security and defense technology for clients operating in
high-stakes situations - when the problem is complex, when the mission is
vital and when ingenuity is key. We empower our clients to achieve their
toughest goals by strengthening national security, transforming critical
environments and enabling opportunities.
For more information, please visit http://www.globalgroup.com.
Source: Global Strategies Group
Media Contact: Tim Matthews, t: +44-207-766-3609, e: Tim.Matthews@globalgroup.com
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Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 7:14:01 AM
Case-Mate Debuts Accessories for the Just-Announced Apple® iPad 2
Featuring Fashion-Forward Designs and Practical Cases for New Tablet
ATLANTA, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Case-Mate®, known for its innovative accessories that protect, adorn and enhance mobile technology, today unveiled a collection of cases for the Apple iPad 2, the latest release after its highly successful iPad. The collection includes seven new accessories, from sleek and sophisticated to bold and playful, perfect for any fashion sensibility or occasion.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110112/NY28848LOGO)
"Case-Mate developed a broad line of iPad 2 cases which satisfies a range of consumer desires," says Shashi Reddy, founder and CEO of Case-Mate. "From high design to functionality to playfulness, Case-Mate offers early adopters the best case designs for their new devices."
The following Apple iPad 2 cases will be available from Case-Mate starting in late March:
One Step Ahead:
Pop!, $49.99: Offering a support system like no other, the iPad 2 Pop! case brings a new standard to the power of two. Co-molded materials of plastic and soft rubber unite to create a hard case with a soft touch. A built in stand extends for an ideal viewing screen or remains hidden to create a flat back cover. Available in black/grey and white/grey.
Get Your Play On:
Simple, $34.99: Go retro with the Simple Slab. This two-toned protective case strips the iPad 2 down to its truest geometric form, a rectangle. Straightforward and linear, the angular case looks unforgiving but is actually squishy and grippy; blurring the lines between high design and playfulness. Available in black, orange and blue.
In The Office, On The Town:
Leo, $99.99: This high profile case unfolds into a portable workstation that is perfect for boardroom meetings and road warriors. Made of leather and nylon, Leo comes equipped with a convenient grip handle for an easy carry solution. Secured with a zipper closure, the textured embossed case features an adjustable viewing stand and provides convenient storage for a notebook and pens. Available in black.
Venture, $49.99: This case is a case that is meant to be seen. Take it out on the town or into a meeting, either way it's ready to perform. The Venture protects the device while on the go and doubles as a secure stand whenever and wherever it's needed. The stylish cover snaps closed to keep the screen scratch-free. Unsnap the cover, flip it over, and the Venture case works as a stable stand, ready to take notes or show your portfolio at a moment's notice. Available in black/red.
Just What's Needed:
Versant, $39.99: This sophisticated tablet case folds back to reveal a multi-use design. Prop up your tablet using the built-in stand, which offers adjustable heights ideal for both viewing and typing. The attached nylon strap provides extra mobility when it's just one of those days. Available in black, brown and pink.
Gelli, $29.99: Stand out from the sea of monotonous cases with the Gelli iPad 2 case. Striking flashes of translucent colors blend together for an eye-catching case that offers protection and individual style. The form fitting shape of the Gelli absorbs impacts and offers a soft grip. Available in red, pink and gray.
Anti-Glare Anti-fingerprint Screen Protector, $19.99: No muss, no fuss. Keep your screen free of prints, smudges, wandering eyes and most importantly, scratches with this screen protector.
All of these cases for the Apple iPad 2 will be available for purchase at http://www.case-mate.com. You can also find cases for a wide variety of smartphones and other tablets on the Case-Mate website.
About Case-Mate
Case-Mate is the leader in design of fashion-forward accessories for mobile technology and tablets. Since 2006, the company has helped consumers express their individual style with products that protect, adorn and enhance their mobile devices. Working with top designers from around the world and using cutting-edge materials, Case-Mate's team of technology and design aficionados have created an extensive repertoire of mobile and tablet cases right for any style and every occasion. For more information, visit http://www.case-mate.com.
SOURCE Case-Mate
Photo:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110112/NY28848LOGO
http://photoarchive.ap.org/
Case-Mate
CONTACT: Lauren Montero, Case-Mate, +1-770-888-9965 Ext. 147, lauren.montero@case-mate.com; or Katie Cwayna, Case-Mate, +1-212-221-1713, kcwayna@kaplowpr.com
Web Site: http://www.case-mate.com
Featuring Fashion-Forward Designs and Practical Cases for New Tablet
ATLANTA, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Case-Mate®, known for its innovative accessories that protect, adorn and enhance mobile technology, today unveiled a collection of cases for the Apple iPad 2, the latest release after its highly successful iPad. The collection includes seven new accessories, from sleek and sophisticated to bold and playful, perfect for any fashion sensibility or occasion.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110112/NY28848LOGO)
"Case-Mate developed a broad line of iPad 2 cases which satisfies a range of consumer desires," says Shashi Reddy, founder and CEO of Case-Mate. "From high design to functionality to playfulness, Case-Mate offers early adopters the best case designs for their new devices."
The following Apple iPad 2 cases will be available from Case-Mate starting in late March:
One Step Ahead:
Pop!, $49.99: Offering a support system like no other, the iPad 2 Pop! case brings a new standard to the power of two. Co-molded materials of plastic and soft rubber unite to create a hard case with a soft touch. A built in stand extends for an ideal viewing screen or remains hidden to create a flat back cover. Available in black/grey and white/grey.
Get Your Play On:
Simple, $34.99: Go retro with the Simple Slab. This two-toned protective case strips the iPad 2 down to its truest geometric form, a rectangle. Straightforward and linear, the angular case looks unforgiving but is actually squishy and grippy; blurring the lines between high design and playfulness. Available in black, orange and blue.
In The Office, On The Town:
Leo, $99.99: This high profile case unfolds into a portable workstation that is perfect for boardroom meetings and road warriors. Made of leather and nylon, Leo comes equipped with a convenient grip handle for an easy carry solution. Secured with a zipper closure, the textured embossed case features an adjustable viewing stand and provides convenient storage for a notebook and pens. Available in black.
Venture, $49.99: This case is a case that is meant to be seen. Take it out on the town or into a meeting, either way it's ready to perform. The Venture protects the device while on the go and doubles as a secure stand whenever and wherever it's needed. The stylish cover snaps closed to keep the screen scratch-free. Unsnap the cover, flip it over, and the Venture case works as a stable stand, ready to take notes or show your portfolio at a moment's notice. Available in black/red.
Just What's Needed:
Versant, $39.99: This sophisticated tablet case folds back to reveal a multi-use design. Prop up your tablet using the built-in stand, which offers adjustable heights ideal for both viewing and typing. The attached nylon strap provides extra mobility when it's just one of those days. Available in black, brown and pink.
Gelli, $29.99: Stand out from the sea of monotonous cases with the Gelli iPad 2 case. Striking flashes of translucent colors blend together for an eye-catching case that offers protection and individual style. The form fitting shape of the Gelli absorbs impacts and offers a soft grip. Available in red, pink and gray.
Anti-Glare Anti-fingerprint Screen Protector, $19.99: No muss, no fuss. Keep your screen free of prints, smudges, wandering eyes and most importantly, scratches with this screen protector.
All of these cases for the Apple iPad 2 will be available for purchase at http://www.case-mate.com. You can also find cases for a wide variety of smartphones and other tablets on the Case-Mate website.
About Case-Mate
Case-Mate is the leader in design of fashion-forward accessories for mobile technology and tablets. Since 2006, the company has helped consumers express their individual style with products that protect, adorn and enhance their mobile devices. Working with top designers from around the world and using cutting-edge materials, Case-Mate's team of technology and design aficionados have created an extensive repertoire of mobile and tablet cases right for any style and every occasion. For more information, visit http://www.case-mate.com.
SOURCE Case-Mate
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Case-Mate
CONTACT: Lauren Montero, Case-Mate, +1-770-888-9965 Ext. 147, lauren.montero@case-mate.com; or Katie Cwayna, Case-Mate, +1-212-221-1713, kcwayna@kaplowpr.com
Web Site: http://www.case-mate.com
D3 Hits the Fashion Runway; Unveils Stunning LED Digital Display for New GUESS Flagship Store on Fifth Avenue in New York City
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 7:07:01 AM
D3 Hits the Fashion Runway; Unveils Stunning LED Digital Display for New GUESS Flagship Store on Fifth Avenue in New York City
Company continues its domination as the leader in LED retail applications.
NEW YORK, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- D3 LED, LLC (D3), the world's leader in specialized LED (light emitting diode) digital display applications, has created a custom LED digital display for American lifestyle brand GUESS that was unveiled Feb. 17 at the opening of the brand's 13,000 square foot flagship store at 575 Fifth Avenue in New York City.
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110303/NY58075 )
D3, headquartered in New York City and Rancho Cordova, Calif., was selected by GUESS in 2010 to design and manufacture the display for what is now the largest GUESS flagship store in the world. This display is the first installed on Fifth Avenue by D3, and first created for the iconic GUESS brand.
The innovative 6mm ST6 SMD LED display is located inside the GUESS store on the main level and will play behind-the-scenes footage from fashion shows and campaign shoots, in addition to being used for in-store events. The 143,360-pixel screen, encased in a sleek aluminum frame, measures 9 feet 4 inches high by 6 feet 4 inches wide, and is capable of delivering live and pre-recorded video, plus photos and animations.
"D3 is pleased to have been selected by GUESS to be part of the new flagship store on Fifth Avenue, said Jason Barak, managing partner, D3. "Our LED digital display serves as an integral part of the store's overall brand experience for consumers."
Having created several of the industry's most talked about LED displays last year for Aeropostale, Disney Store, Forever 21 and Quiksilver, D3 continues its domination in 2011 as the leader in LED retail applications. D3 LED digital displays can be found throughout the world, and the Company is responsible for designing and manufacturing more than 70% of all LED digital displays in New York's Times Square since 2005. For additional information about D3 please visit http://www.D3Led.com.
About GUESS?, INC.
Established in 1981, GUESS began as a denim company and has since successfully grown into a global lifestyle brand. Today, GUESS designs, markets and distributes full collections of women's, men's and children's apparel as well as accessories. Throughout the years, the GUESS image has been portrayed in unforgettable, innovative campaigns that have made the brand a household name. GUESS is distributed throughout the world in fine department and specialty stores, its retail and factory stores, and on its online store http://www.GUESS.com. GUESS has licensees and distributors in South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Middle East.
About D3 LED, LLC (D3)
Founded in 2005, and with principal operations in New York, NY and Rancho Cordova, CA, D3 is the world's leader in specialized LED digital display applications. Pioneers in design, engineering and technology, D3 manufactures highly sophisticated and innovative LED displays and out of home digital media systems that create engaging customer experiences for global brands and sports and entertainment venues. The Company's displays can be found throughout the world, and most notably include the Walgreens spectacular, ABC Studios super sign, JVC billboard display, Disney Store, Aeropostale, Quiksilver, and Forever 21--all located in New York's Times Square. For more information please visit http://www.D3led.com.
SOURCE D3 LED, LLC
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D3 LED, LLC
CONTACT: Jamie Dunne, D3, +1-917-727-0795, jamie.dunne@dunnepr.com
Web Site: http://www.d3led.com
Company continues its domination as the leader in LED retail applications.
NEW YORK, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- D3 LED, LLC (D3), the world's leader in specialized LED (light emitting diode) digital display applications, has created a custom LED digital display for American lifestyle brand GUESS that was unveiled Feb. 17 at the opening of the brand's 13,000 square foot flagship store at 575 Fifth Avenue in New York City.
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110303/NY58075 )
D3, headquartered in New York City and Rancho Cordova, Calif., was selected by GUESS in 2010 to design and manufacture the display for what is now the largest GUESS flagship store in the world. This display is the first installed on Fifth Avenue by D3, and first created for the iconic GUESS brand.
The innovative 6mm ST6 SMD LED display is located inside the GUESS store on the main level and will play behind-the-scenes footage from fashion shows and campaign shoots, in addition to being used for in-store events. The 143,360-pixel screen, encased in a sleek aluminum frame, measures 9 feet 4 inches high by 6 feet 4 inches wide, and is capable of delivering live and pre-recorded video, plus photos and animations.
"D3 is pleased to have been selected by GUESS to be part of the new flagship store on Fifth Avenue, said Jason Barak, managing partner, D3. "Our LED digital display serves as an integral part of the store's overall brand experience for consumers."
Having created several of the industry's most talked about LED displays last year for Aeropostale, Disney Store, Forever 21 and Quiksilver, D3 continues its domination in 2011 as the leader in LED retail applications. D3 LED digital displays can be found throughout the world, and the Company is responsible for designing and manufacturing more than 70% of all LED digital displays in New York's Times Square since 2005. For additional information about D3 please visit http://www.D3Led.com.
About GUESS?, INC.
Established in 1981, GUESS began as a denim company and has since successfully grown into a global lifestyle brand. Today, GUESS designs, markets and distributes full collections of women's, men's and children's apparel as well as accessories. Throughout the years, the GUESS image has been portrayed in unforgettable, innovative campaigns that have made the brand a household name. GUESS is distributed throughout the world in fine department and specialty stores, its retail and factory stores, and on its online store http://www.GUESS.com. GUESS has licensees and distributors in South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Middle East.
About D3 LED, LLC (D3)
Founded in 2005, and with principal operations in New York, NY and Rancho Cordova, CA, D3 is the world's leader in specialized LED digital display applications. Pioneers in design, engineering and technology, D3 manufactures highly sophisticated and innovative LED displays and out of home digital media systems that create engaging customer experiences for global brands and sports and entertainment venues. The Company's displays can be found throughout the world, and most notably include the Walgreens spectacular, ABC Studios super sign, JVC billboard display, Disney Store, Aeropostale, Quiksilver, and Forever 21--all located in New York's Times Square. For more information please visit http://www.D3led.com.
SOURCE D3 LED, LLC
Photo:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110303/NY58075
http://photoarchive.ap.org/
D3 LED, LLC
CONTACT: Jamie Dunne, D3, +1-917-727-0795, jamie.dunne@dunnepr.com
Web Site: http://www.d3led.com
Digital Disruption Drives Change
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 7:07:01 AM
Digital Disruption Drives Change
LONDON, March 3, 2011/PRNewswire/ --
- Capco's Nick Levy Offers Banks a Transformation Checklist for Their
Digital Banking Plans
Financial services firms need to transform their digital platforms to
create bottom line growth through increased levels of loyalty, engagement and
sales. With increasing levels of online engagement across their customer base
banks are increasingly re-assessing their digital proposition with a view to
acquire and retain customers.
Nick Levy, Managing Principal at Capco, the financial services business
and technology consultancy, says:
"There is a ferocious pace of change within the digital domain and this
requires banks to reconsider their approach to providing access to their
products and services online. Banks must adopt more flexible and capable
platforms to ensure they are able to bring consumers innovative and engaging
services which ensure they remain relevant in the digital domain where social
networking, person to person payment services and new market entrants are
increasingly challenging the relationships banks have with their customers.
Consider this
It took 38 years for radio to attract 50 million listeners. 13 years for
television to attract 50 million viewers. In just 4 years the Internet
attracted 50 million surfers. Facebook has more than 600 million active
users, people spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook, there are
more than 200 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their
mobile devices. YouTube has more than 2 billion views per day, 24 hours of
video are uploaded every minute and more video footage is uploaded to YouTube
in 60 days than the three major US networks have created in 60 years.
As the range of digital banking propositions matures and banks move to
deliver enhanced features and capabilities, executives are increasingly being
asked to reconsider their underlying business and technology capabilities to
deliver more and deliver faster.
This transformation journey for digital banking is now entering a
critical phase. The checklist below shows what financial services
institutions need to do to prepare for the changes ahead.
A transformation checklist
- Define a target for multi-channel engagement - what services, to which
customer segments; consider what it takes for your business to deliver
a great customer service in the digital domain, for some customers the
digital channel will augment an existing relationship with the bank and
for other customers it will be the relationship
- Deliver incremental change to transform customer behaviour - very
simple services such as SMS alerts drive customer adoption of the
digital channel, innovation such as advice and guidance requires higher
levels of trust but all of this transformation can be delivered with a
transformed digital platform designed for flexibility
- Understand the shifting demand and create platforms which support
innovation - moving from the cash paradigm / cash replacement the
mobile banking (NFC) proposition must be able to deliver seamlessly to
meet customers' user experience expectations (link in Fax machines and
pagers - rate of adoption v rate of decline - rate of IPAD adoption -
number of searches on line each day)
- Leverage the insight and data flows available from real-time
interaction - close looped marketing delivers improved customer loyalty
by converting insight; multi-dimensional analysis allowing high levels
of customisation can drive significant sales
- Security is not a solution - risk based and flexible identity and
access management ensures flexibility to support emerging technology
and functional innovation such as real time payments (faster payment)
and drives higher levels of customer activity on low cost channels
- Pervasive computing is here - tablet, smart phone and mobile appliance
adoption has reach a tipping point, access to the internet on the move
is here; location awareness and more powerful devices are driving a
user interface transformation and improving usability. Support a
digital proposition for segments of customers who only ever access
services on the move via connected devices."
About Capco
Capco, a global business and technology consultancy dedicated solely to
the financial services industry. Our professionals combine innovative
thinking with our unrivalled first-hand industry knowledge to offer our
clients consulting expertise, complex technology and package integration, and
managed services to move their organisations forward.
Through our collaborative and efficient approach, we help our clients
successfully increase revenue, manage risk and regulatory change, reduce
costs and enhance control. We specialise in banking; capital markets; wealth
and investment management; finance, risk & compliance; and technology. We
serve our clients from offices in leading financial centres across North
America and Europe. To learn more, visit our web site at capco.com.
Subscribe to Capco's newsroom RSS feed by clicking on the following link:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/capco/newsroom
Source: Capco
Contact: Robert Akam, T: +44(0)20-7400-4480, E: rakam@hanovercomms.com, Contact: Joe Eldridge, T: +44(0)20-7400-4480, E: jeldridge@hanovercomms.com
LONDON, March 3, 2011/PRNewswire/ --
- Capco's Nick Levy Offers Banks a Transformation Checklist for Their
Digital Banking Plans
Financial services firms need to transform their digital platforms to
create bottom line growth through increased levels of loyalty, engagement and
sales. With increasing levels of online engagement across their customer base
banks are increasingly re-assessing their digital proposition with a view to
acquire and retain customers.
Nick Levy, Managing Principal at Capco, the financial services business
and technology consultancy, says:
"There is a ferocious pace of change within the digital domain and this
requires banks to reconsider their approach to providing access to their
products and services online. Banks must adopt more flexible and capable
platforms to ensure they are able to bring consumers innovative and engaging
services which ensure they remain relevant in the digital domain where social
networking, person to person payment services and new market entrants are
increasingly challenging the relationships banks have with their customers.
Consider this
It took 38 years for radio to attract 50 million listeners. 13 years for
television to attract 50 million viewers. In just 4 years the Internet
attracted 50 million surfers. Facebook has more than 600 million active
users, people spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook, there are
more than 200 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their
mobile devices. YouTube has more than 2 billion views per day, 24 hours of
video are uploaded every minute and more video footage is uploaded to YouTube
in 60 days than the three major US networks have created in 60 years.
As the range of digital banking propositions matures and banks move to
deliver enhanced features and capabilities, executives are increasingly being
asked to reconsider their underlying business and technology capabilities to
deliver more and deliver faster.
This transformation journey for digital banking is now entering a
critical phase. The checklist below shows what financial services
institutions need to do to prepare for the changes ahead.
A transformation checklist
- Define a target for multi-channel engagement - what services, to which
customer segments; consider what it takes for your business to deliver
a great customer service in the digital domain, for some customers the
digital channel will augment an existing relationship with the bank and
for other customers it will be the relationship
- Deliver incremental change to transform customer behaviour - very
simple services such as SMS alerts drive customer adoption of the
digital channel, innovation such as advice and guidance requires higher
levels of trust but all of this transformation can be delivered with a
transformed digital platform designed for flexibility
- Understand the shifting demand and create platforms which support
innovation - moving from the cash paradigm / cash replacement the
mobile banking (NFC) proposition must be able to deliver seamlessly to
meet customers' user experience expectations (link in Fax machines and
pagers - rate of adoption v rate of decline - rate of IPAD adoption -
number of searches on line each day)
- Leverage the insight and data flows available from real-time
interaction - close looped marketing delivers improved customer loyalty
by converting insight; multi-dimensional analysis allowing high levels
of customisation can drive significant sales
- Security is not a solution - risk based and flexible identity and
access management ensures flexibility to support emerging technology
and functional innovation such as real time payments (faster payment)
and drives higher levels of customer activity on low cost channels
- Pervasive computing is here - tablet, smart phone and mobile appliance
adoption has reach a tipping point, access to the internet on the move
is here; location awareness and more powerful devices are driving a
user interface transformation and improving usability. Support a
digital proposition for segments of customers who only ever access
services on the move via connected devices."
About Capco
Capco, a global business and technology consultancy dedicated solely to
the financial services industry. Our professionals combine innovative
thinking with our unrivalled first-hand industry knowledge to offer our
clients consulting expertise, complex technology and package integration, and
managed services to move their organisations forward.
Through our collaborative and efficient approach, we help our clients
successfully increase revenue, manage risk and regulatory change, reduce
costs and enhance control. We specialise in banking; capital markets; wealth
and investment management; finance, risk & compliance; and technology. We
serve our clients from offices in leading financial centres across North
America and Europe. To learn more, visit our web site at capco.com.
Subscribe to Capco's newsroom RSS feed by clicking on the following link:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/capco/newsroom
Source: Capco
Contact: Robert Akam, T: +44(0)20-7400-4480, E: rakam@hanovercomms.com, Contact: Joe Eldridge, T: +44(0)20-7400-4480, E: jeldridge@hanovercomms.com
Gemini Releases Real-Time Log Processing Based on Flume and Cassandra
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 6:07:01 AM
Gemini Releases Real-Time Log Processing Based on Flume and Cassandra
FOSTER CITY, Calif., March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Gemini Mobile Technologies ("Gemini") released a Real-Time Log Processing System based on Flume and Cassandra ("Flume-Cassandra Log Processor") as open source today. The Flume-Cassandra Log Processor enables massive volumes of production system logs to be collected and processed into graphical reports, in real-time. In addition, logs from multiple data centers can be simultaneously aggregated and analyzed in a single database. With its ability for real-time analysis at unprecedented volumes, Gemini's Flume-Cassandra Log Processor enables businesses to vastly improve both the quality and timeliness of business intelligence gained from their online operations. This dramatic scalability at low cost and small footprint is enabled by NOSQL (Not Only SQL) technology, which originates from Cloud Storage technologies at Google, Facebook, and Amazon.
Logs record online activities of users and applications, in real-time. Web service providers, telecom carriers, eCommerce providers, and corporate websites analyze logs to improve customer experience and their business operations. Traditional systems process logs offline because log files are too big for relational databases, typically producing reports days to weeks after the time when logs were generated. Gemini's solution uses Flume to stream log entries as they occur, data is extracted on the fly and inserted in real-time into a Cassandra NOSQL database. This allows reports to be updated in real-time, less than a second after the log event. Offline analysis is also supported by querying the Cassandra database and running MapReduce jobs. The Flume-Cassandra Log Processor can be easily scaled from a few PCs to multiple clusters, allowing hundreds of Terabytes of logs to be stored, analyzed, and automatically deleted upon expiration.
"Business intelligence is the key ingredient for enterprises and service providers to provide a personal and effective web experience to their customers," said Michael Tso, co-founder and COO of Gemini. "Our Flume-Cassandra Log Processor delivers business intelligence in real-time, at data volumes and velocities that were previously unattainable. We are pleased to release it as open source, allowing easy customization and improvement by the community."
"Gemini's real-time log processing solution is an impressive demonstration of Cassandra's capabilities for solving big data problems in real-time," said Matt Pfeil, CEO of DataStax, the commercial leader in Apache Cassandra. "Cassandra is quickly gaining momentum as the scalable platform for web and enterprise applications. We look forward to continuing our innovation and collaboration with Gemini."
The Flume-Cassandra Log Processor can be downloaded from Github: https://github.com/geminitech/logprocessing
About Gemini
Gemini is a leading provider of high-performance, cloud-enabled messaging platforms. Gemini is a pioneer in real-time Big Data and NOSQL database technology, developing the Hibari® Key Value Store, Hibari Gigabyte-Maildir Email Store, and the Cloudian(TM) Multi-Tenant Cloud Storage System. Gemini has offices in San Francisco, Tokyo and Beijing. Gemini's customers include NTT DOCOMO, Softbank Mobile, Vodafone, and Nextel International; the company also has OEM partnerships with Alcatel-Lucent and Bytemobile. Gemini is backed by Goldman Sachs, Mitsubishi-UFG Capital, Nomura Securities, Mizuho Capital, Access, and Aplix. For more information, visit http://www.geminimobile.com/.
Hibari® is a registered trademark of Gemini Mobile Technologies, K.K.
About Flume and Cassandra: visit: https://github.com/cloudera/flume and http://cassandra.apache.org/
CONTACT: Giorgio Propersi, +1-805-312-6379, gpropersi@geminimobile.com
SOURCE Gemini Mobile Technologies
Gemini Mobile Technologies
CONTACT: Giorgio Propersi of Gemini Mobile Technologies, +1-805-312-6379, gpropersi@geminimobile.com
Web Site: http://www.geminimobile.com/
FOSTER CITY, Calif., March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Gemini Mobile Technologies ("Gemini") released a Real-Time Log Processing System based on Flume and Cassandra ("Flume-Cassandra Log Processor") as open source today. The Flume-Cassandra Log Processor enables massive volumes of production system logs to be collected and processed into graphical reports, in real-time. In addition, logs from multiple data centers can be simultaneously aggregated and analyzed in a single database. With its ability for real-time analysis at unprecedented volumes, Gemini's Flume-Cassandra Log Processor enables businesses to vastly improve both the quality and timeliness of business intelligence gained from their online operations. This dramatic scalability at low cost and small footprint is enabled by NOSQL (Not Only SQL) technology, which originates from Cloud Storage technologies at Google, Facebook, and Amazon.
Logs record online activities of users and applications, in real-time. Web service providers, telecom carriers, eCommerce providers, and corporate websites analyze logs to improve customer experience and their business operations. Traditional systems process logs offline because log files are too big for relational databases, typically producing reports days to weeks after the time when logs were generated. Gemini's solution uses Flume to stream log entries as they occur, data is extracted on the fly and inserted in real-time into a Cassandra NOSQL database. This allows reports to be updated in real-time, less than a second after the log event. Offline analysis is also supported by querying the Cassandra database and running MapReduce jobs. The Flume-Cassandra Log Processor can be easily scaled from a few PCs to multiple clusters, allowing hundreds of Terabytes of logs to be stored, analyzed, and automatically deleted upon expiration.
"Business intelligence is the key ingredient for enterprises and service providers to provide a personal and effective web experience to their customers," said Michael Tso, co-founder and COO of Gemini. "Our Flume-Cassandra Log Processor delivers business intelligence in real-time, at data volumes and velocities that were previously unattainable. We are pleased to release it as open source, allowing easy customization and improvement by the community."
"Gemini's real-time log processing solution is an impressive demonstration of Cassandra's capabilities for solving big data problems in real-time," said Matt Pfeil, CEO of DataStax, the commercial leader in Apache Cassandra. "Cassandra is quickly gaining momentum as the scalable platform for web and enterprise applications. We look forward to continuing our innovation and collaboration with Gemini."
The Flume-Cassandra Log Processor can be downloaded from Github: https://github.com/geminitech/logprocessing
About Gemini
Gemini is a leading provider of high-performance, cloud-enabled messaging platforms. Gemini is a pioneer in real-time Big Data and NOSQL database technology, developing the Hibari® Key Value Store, Hibari Gigabyte-Maildir Email Store, and the Cloudian(TM) Multi-Tenant Cloud Storage System. Gemini has offices in San Francisco, Tokyo and Beijing. Gemini's customers include NTT DOCOMO, Softbank Mobile, Vodafone, and Nextel International; the company also has OEM partnerships with Alcatel-Lucent and Bytemobile. Gemini is backed by Goldman Sachs, Mitsubishi-UFG Capital, Nomura Securities, Mizuho Capital, Access, and Aplix. For more information, visit http://www.geminimobile.com/.
Hibari® is a registered trademark of Gemini Mobile Technologies, K.K.
About Flume and Cassandra: visit: https://github.com/cloudera/flume and http://cassandra.apache.org/
CONTACT: Giorgio Propersi, +1-805-312-6379, gpropersi@geminimobile.com
SOURCE Gemini Mobile Technologies
Gemini Mobile Technologies
CONTACT: Giorgio Propersi of Gemini Mobile Technologies, +1-805-312-6379, gpropersi@geminimobile.com
Web Site: http://www.geminimobile.com/
ViaSat Expands Ka-band Broadband Mobility Coverage
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 6:07:01 AM
ViaSat Expands Ka-band Broadband Mobility Coverage
Update to network infrastructure agreement with YahSat enables Ka-band Yonder service in the Middle East
CARLSBAD, Calif., March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq: VSAT) is building on its success in the global mobile satellite networking business at Ku-band by expanding to Ka-band in key international markets. The Yonder® mobile broadband network service has been ViaSat's fastest growing business over the past two years. The network serves business jets, maritime vessels, and government and defense customers around the world. Based on the ArcLight® spread spectrum networking system, the Yonder service offers much higher speeds, lower airtime pricing and much greater total bandwidth availability than L-band mobile services. The ArcLight system also enables smaller and lower cost terminals than conventional mobile Ku-band VSAT systems.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20091216/VIASATLOGO)
Last fall, ViaSat and JetBlue reached a landmark accord to deploy the first Ka-band commercial aviation broadband network using ViaSat-1, the world's highest capacity Ka-band satellite. Ka-band extends the benefits of the ArcLight system even further, offering higher transmission speeds and even more attractive airtime pricing.
Concurrently, ViaSat has been working with key Yonder high-speed mobile Internet service customers in the Middle East region to test a Ka-band version of the VR-12, the leading airborne broadband Ku-band satellite antenna. Government customers have also begun using the next generation ArcLight Solo modem, which provides transmit speeds up to 4 Mbps from the 12-inch VR-12 airborne antenna over Ku-band.
Now ViaSat and Star Satellite Communications Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Al Yah Satellite Communications Company PrJSC (Yahsat), have restructured their prior services agreement to better capitalize on the mobility opportunity. The new agreement will make Yahsat Y1B Ka-band bandwidth available for subscribers to the ViaSat Yonder global mobile network when the satellite is launched and establishes a partnership to offer mobile broadband services for commercial and business aviation, maritime, and government applications. ViaSat anticipates that the availability of Ka-band satellite mobility in the Middle East will meaningfully accelerate the already fast growth in broadband satellite mobility due to the substantial improvements it enables in bandwidth availability, transmission speeds, and airtime pricing.
Under the revised agreement, the SurfBeam® 2 consumer broadband network infrastructure procurement portion is deleted and a corresponding portion of ViaSat order backlog for the YahSat contract will be adjusted. The backlog adjustment is not expected to have a material impact on earnings or business outlook. Instead, ViaSat will provide Ka-band networking infrastructure in the YahSat Y1B gateway teleports and deliver and manage wholesale and retail mobile broadband services via the new partnership services agreement.
"We believe that broadband mobility will be a leading application for Ka-band bandwidth in the Middle East and welcome Yahsat Y1B as a very valuable portion of our global Yonder network," said Paul Baca, VP and general manager of ViaSat's Global Mobile Broadband business. "We expect this agreement to make the extensive Yahsat network of Ka-band coverage accessible to our rapidly growing network of aviation, maritime, and government Yonder global mobile subscribers in the region. We believe the transmission speeds and airtime pricing afforded by high-capacity Ka satellites will have a transformational effect on global mobile broadband and expect broader availability of Yonder Ka coverage to help stimulate demand for Ka-band mobile user terminals."
"We see the rapid growth of global mobile broadband as an attractive near-term opportunity for Yahsat," said Shawkat Ahmed, chief commercial officer of Yahsat. "This agreement with ViaSat creates the potential for Yahsat to grow its Ka-band network services more quickly by tapping into the Yonder mobile satellite service subscriber base, and to become a key regional element in a rapidly growing FSS mobile broadband network."
About ViaSat (http://www.viasat.com)
ViaSat produces innovative satellite and other digital communication products that enable fast, secure, and efficient communications to virtually any location. The company provides networking products and managed network services for enterprise IP applications; is a key supplier of network-centric military communications and encryption technologies and products to the U.S. and allied governments; is the primary technology partner for gateway and customer-premises equipment for consumer and mobile satellite broadband services; and owns WildBlue, the premier Ka-band satellite broadband service provider. ViaSat also offers design capabilities and a number of complementary products including monolithic microwave integrated circuits and modules, DVB-S2 satellite communication components, video data link systems, data acceleration and compression, and mobile satellite antenna systems. Based in Carlsbad, Calif., ViaSat has established a number of worldwide locations for customer service, network operations, and technology development.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to the safe harbors created under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements include statements that refer to business growth, improved performance and economics, greater data speeds, lower pricing, more customers, leading application, satellite launch and commencement of service, transformational effect, and broader availability. ViaSat wishes to caution you that there are some factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, including but not limited to: contractual problems, product defects, manufacturing issues or delays, regulatory issues, technologies not being developed according to anticipated schedules, or that do not perform according to expectations; and increased competition and other factors affecting the defense industry generally. In addition, please refer to the risk factors contained in ViaSat's SEC filings available at http://www.sec.gov, including ViaSat's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which they are made. ViaSat undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements for any reason.
ArcLight, Yonder, and SurfBeam are registered trademarks of ViaSat Inc.
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Web Site: http://www.viasat.com
Update to network infrastructure agreement with YahSat enables Ka-band Yonder service in the Middle East
CARLSBAD, Calif., March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq: VSAT) is building on its success in the global mobile satellite networking business at Ku-band by expanding to Ka-band in key international markets. The Yonder® mobile broadband network service has been ViaSat's fastest growing business over the past two years. The network serves business jets, maritime vessels, and government and defense customers around the world. Based on the ArcLight® spread spectrum networking system, the Yonder service offers much higher speeds, lower airtime pricing and much greater total bandwidth availability than L-band mobile services. The ArcLight system also enables smaller and lower cost terminals than conventional mobile Ku-band VSAT systems.
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Last fall, ViaSat and JetBlue reached a landmark accord to deploy the first Ka-band commercial aviation broadband network using ViaSat-1, the world's highest capacity Ka-band satellite. Ka-band extends the benefits of the ArcLight system even further, offering higher transmission speeds and even more attractive airtime pricing.
Concurrently, ViaSat has been working with key Yonder high-speed mobile Internet service customers in the Middle East region to test a Ka-band version of the VR-12, the leading airborne broadband Ku-band satellite antenna. Government customers have also begun using the next generation ArcLight Solo modem, which provides transmit speeds up to 4 Mbps from the 12-inch VR-12 airborne antenna over Ku-band.
Now ViaSat and Star Satellite Communications Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Al Yah Satellite Communications Company PrJSC (Yahsat), have restructured their prior services agreement to better capitalize on the mobility opportunity. The new agreement will make Yahsat Y1B Ka-band bandwidth available for subscribers to the ViaSat Yonder global mobile network when the satellite is launched and establishes a partnership to offer mobile broadband services for commercial and business aviation, maritime, and government applications. ViaSat anticipates that the availability of Ka-band satellite mobility in the Middle East will meaningfully accelerate the already fast growth in broadband satellite mobility due to the substantial improvements it enables in bandwidth availability, transmission speeds, and airtime pricing.
Under the revised agreement, the SurfBeam® 2 consumer broadband network infrastructure procurement portion is deleted and a corresponding portion of ViaSat order backlog for the YahSat contract will be adjusted. The backlog adjustment is not expected to have a material impact on earnings or business outlook. Instead, ViaSat will provide Ka-band networking infrastructure in the YahSat Y1B gateway teleports and deliver and manage wholesale and retail mobile broadband services via the new partnership services agreement.
"We believe that broadband mobility will be a leading application for Ka-band bandwidth in the Middle East and welcome Yahsat Y1B as a very valuable portion of our global Yonder network," said Paul Baca, VP and general manager of ViaSat's Global Mobile Broadband business. "We expect this agreement to make the extensive Yahsat network of Ka-band coverage accessible to our rapidly growing network of aviation, maritime, and government Yonder global mobile subscribers in the region. We believe the transmission speeds and airtime pricing afforded by high-capacity Ka satellites will have a transformational effect on global mobile broadband and expect broader availability of Yonder Ka coverage to help stimulate demand for Ka-band mobile user terminals."
"We see the rapid growth of global mobile broadband as an attractive near-term opportunity for Yahsat," said Shawkat Ahmed, chief commercial officer of Yahsat. "This agreement with ViaSat creates the potential for Yahsat to grow its Ka-band network services more quickly by tapping into the Yonder mobile satellite service subscriber base, and to become a key regional element in a rapidly growing FSS mobile broadband network."
About ViaSat (http://www.viasat.com)
ViaSat produces innovative satellite and other digital communication products that enable fast, secure, and efficient communications to virtually any location. The company provides networking products and managed network services for enterprise IP applications; is a key supplier of network-centric military communications and encryption technologies and products to the U.S. and allied governments; is the primary technology partner for gateway and customer-premises equipment for consumer and mobile satellite broadband services; and owns WildBlue, the premier Ka-band satellite broadband service provider. ViaSat also offers design capabilities and a number of complementary products including monolithic microwave integrated circuits and modules, DVB-S2 satellite communication components, video data link systems, data acceleration and compression, and mobile satellite antenna systems. Based in Carlsbad, Calif., ViaSat has established a number of worldwide locations for customer service, network operations, and technology development.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to the safe harbors created under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements include statements that refer to business growth, improved performance and economics, greater data speeds, lower pricing, more customers, leading application, satellite launch and commencement of service, transformational effect, and broader availability. ViaSat wishes to caution you that there are some factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, including but not limited to: contractual problems, product defects, manufacturing issues or delays, regulatory issues, technologies not being developed according to anticipated schedules, or that do not perform according to expectations; and increased competition and other factors affecting the defense industry generally. In addition, please refer to the risk factors contained in ViaSat's SEC filings available at http://www.sec.gov, including ViaSat's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which they are made. ViaSat undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements for any reason.
ArcLight, Yonder, and SurfBeam are registered trademarks of ViaSat Inc.
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Web Site: http://www.viasat.com
Atmel's New CryptoAuthentication Device Offers Improved Security for Microcontroller-based Systems
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Posted on March 3, 2011 at 3:07:01 AM
Atmel's New CryptoAuthentication Device Offers Improved Security for Microcontroller-based Systems
ATSHA204 First Authentication Device with 4K Secure Storage and SHA-256 Crypto Algorithm
Visit Atmel at Embedded World Nuremberg 2011 in Messe Nurnberg / Hall 12 Stand 12-268
NUREMBERG, Germany, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Embedded World 2011 -- Today at Embedded World Nuremberg 2011, Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, announced a new, easy-to-use cryptographic authentication device with enhanced hardware security features and increased flexibility. The ultra-low power Atmel ATSHA204 is the first turnkey, optimized authentication device to include a 4.5Kbit EEPROM and a hardware SHA-256 accelerator. Fully tested ASF software libraries are available for Atmel AVR® and ARM®-based microcontrollers and are integrated within the new AVR Studio® 5. The new Atmel device is ideal for industrial, consumer, energy metering, home automation, computing and medical applications.
This new member of the Atmel CryptoAuthentication(TM) family includes optimized hardware security features designed to authenticate objects, control the OEM supply chain, prevent piracy of software or other intellectual property (IP), and protect sensitive data. The capability of this product to securely generate, store or transfer secret keys makes it the ideal complement to the AES accelerators in microcontroller-based systems. Because the device has 256-bit keys, which makes it larger than any other authentication device on the market, system architects can have the confidence that their designs will remain secure over the complete lifecycle of the system.
"Atmel is committed to offering easy-to-use crypto products that incorporate the latest NIST cryptographic algorithms for the highest level of trust," said Kerry Maletsky, director of Crypto Products, Atmel Corporation. "These products fill the void for secure storage needs missing in most microcontroller and ASIC solutions for component authenticity, firmware integrity checks, secure storage of proprietary and confidential data storage, and so on. Even more, these devices are so easy to use that an application developer can confidently implement an authenticity check without knowledge of cryptography."
The new Atmel CryptoAuthentication device includes enhanced security features to protect the EEPROM content including an active metal shield, internal memory encryption, secure test modes, glitch protection and voltage tamper detection. Designed using the same methods and components as Atmel's Common Criteria Certified TPM, the device offers an internal high-quality random number generator that can be used in crypto protocols to prevent replay attack. Combined with many other internal hardware features, the ATSHA204 greatly increases the difficulty of a successful hardware attack on the security devices in OEM batteries, game consoles, printer cartridges, licensed accessories and more.
For more information on Atmel CryptoAuthentication products, please visit the following link: http://www.atmel.com/products/cryptoauthentication.
Pricing and Availability
The ATSHA204 is available now in industry-standard SOT-3, SOIC-8, UDFN-8 and TSSOP-8 packages with either a single-wire or I2C interface. Pricing starts at $0.41 for 1,000-piece quantities.
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. Other terms and product names may be trademarks of others.
Press Contact
Agnes Toan, PR Manager
Email: agnes.toan@atmel.com
Ph: (+1) (408) 487-2963
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CONTACT: Agnes Toan, PR Manager of Atmel Corporation, +1-408-487-2963, agnes.toan@atmel.com
Web Site: http://www.atmel.com
ATSHA204 First Authentication Device with 4K Secure Storage and SHA-256 Crypto Algorithm
Visit Atmel at Embedded World Nuremberg 2011 in Messe Nurnberg / Hall 12 Stand 12-268
NUREMBERG, Germany, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Embedded World 2011 -- Today at Embedded World Nuremberg 2011, Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, announced a new, easy-to-use cryptographic authentication device with enhanced hardware security features and increased flexibility. The ultra-low power Atmel ATSHA204 is the first turnkey, optimized authentication device to include a 4.5Kbit EEPROM and a hardware SHA-256 accelerator. Fully tested ASF software libraries are available for Atmel AVR® and ARM®-based microcontrollers and are integrated within the new AVR Studio® 5. The new Atmel device is ideal for industrial, consumer, energy metering, home automation, computing and medical applications.
This new member of the Atmel CryptoAuthentication(TM) family includes optimized hardware security features designed to authenticate objects, control the OEM supply chain, prevent piracy of software or other intellectual property (IP), and protect sensitive data. The capability of this product to securely generate, store or transfer secret keys makes it the ideal complement to the AES accelerators in microcontroller-based systems. Because the device has 256-bit keys, which makes it larger than any other authentication device on the market, system architects can have the confidence that their designs will remain secure over the complete lifecycle of the system.
"Atmel is committed to offering easy-to-use crypto products that incorporate the latest NIST cryptographic algorithms for the highest level of trust," said Kerry Maletsky, director of Crypto Products, Atmel Corporation. "These products fill the void for secure storage needs missing in most microcontroller and ASIC solutions for component authenticity, firmware integrity checks, secure storage of proprietary and confidential data storage, and so on. Even more, these devices are so easy to use that an application developer can confidently implement an authenticity check without knowledge of cryptography."
The new Atmel CryptoAuthentication device includes enhanced security features to protect the EEPROM content including an active metal shield, internal memory encryption, secure test modes, glitch protection and voltage tamper detection. Designed using the same methods and components as Atmel's Common Criteria Certified TPM, the device offers an internal high-quality random number generator that can be used in crypto protocols to prevent replay attack. Combined with many other internal hardware features, the ATSHA204 greatly increases the difficulty of a successful hardware attack on the security devices in OEM batteries, game consoles, printer cartridges, licensed accessories and more.
For more information on Atmel CryptoAuthentication products, please visit the following link: http://www.atmel.com/products/cryptoauthentication.
Pricing and Availability
The ATSHA204 is available now in industry-standard SOT-3, SOIC-8, UDFN-8 and TSSOP-8 packages with either a single-wire or I2C interface. Pricing starts at $0.41 for 1,000-piece quantities.
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. Other terms and product names may be trademarks of others.
Press Contact
Agnes Toan, PR Manager
Email: agnes.toan@atmel.com
Ph: (+1) (408) 487-2963
SOURCE Atmel Corporation
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CONTACT: Agnes Toan, PR Manager of Atmel Corporation, +1-408-487-2963, agnes.toan@atmel.com
Web Site: http://www.atmel.com
Virgin Casino Introduces Exciting New Games in March
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Virgin Casino Introduces Exciting New Games in March
LONDON, March 3, 2011/PRNewswire/ -- Virgin Casino, part of the leading online gaming company - Virgin Games,
has today announced that it is launching a number of exciting new games in
March, including the highly anticipated Star Trek by IGT and Who Wants to be
a Millionaire by Electracade.
Warren Eloff, Head of Products at Virgin Games, commented:
"We're committed to launching at least one new game every week to give
our customers the best online gaming experience available. Having introduced
over 100 new games in 2010, we now have one of the best online casinos in the
industry - offering our players choice, excellent rewards through our
unbeatable V*Points loyalty scheme and a fantastic customer community. These
latest additions from leading online game developers demonstrate yet another
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and help cement our position as the home of online slots."
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retriggered multiple times.
Based on one of the most successful TV quiz shows of all time,
Electracade brings Virgin Casino customers the opportunity to win the big
time by playing the exciting and tension building game, Who Wants to be a
Millionaire. Players can win up to 15,000 times their total stake on this
5-reel, 20-payline slot that features scatter and line based rewards, as well
as multiple bonus games.
Founded in 2004, Virgin Games has over 1,000,000 players and
over 250 games on its site. Through the introduction of a custom built Virgin
Games platform in 2008, Virgin Games seeks to provide its players with the
widest possible choice of casino games. A growing selection of games can be
found at Virgin Games from a number of producers including Microgaming, IGT,
Cryptologic, Freemantle, Ash Gaming and Mazooma Interactive Games.
To play these exciting new games visit
http://www.virgingames.com/casino
About Virgin Games:
Virgin Games (http://www.virgingames.com) launched in June 2004 and has
quickly established itself as one of the leading gaming websites in the UK.
Virgin Games comprises three distinct offerings:
- Virgin Casino (http://www.virgingames.com/casino/), offers content
from a range of games suppliers including IGT, Microgaming,
Cryptologic, Freemantle and Ash Gaming, bringing consumers classic
casino games like Blackjack and Roulette, as well as great feature
slots like Monopoly, Rubik's, X-Factor and the highly popular
MegaJackpots progressive games.
- Virgin Poker (http://www.virgingames.com/poker/), part of the Boss
Media network, offers a huge array of games and content for
beginners through to experienced pros - as well as the most generous
loyalty scheme in the industry.
- Virgin Bingo (http://www.virgingames.com/bingo/), part of the
Virtue Fusion network, offers cash prizes worth thousands of pounds in
the progressive jackpots, as well as Virgin prize bingo and a range of
unique Virgin Games bingo games.
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For further information please contact: Rebecca Clark, PR Consultant, Tel. +44(0)7909-918478, Email rebecca@virgingames.com
LONDON, March 3, 2011/PRNewswire/ -- Virgin Casino, part of the leading online gaming company - Virgin Games,
has today announced that it is launching a number of exciting new games in
March, including the highly anticipated Star Trek by IGT and Who Wants to be
a Millionaire by Electracade.
Warren Eloff, Head of Products at Virgin Games, commented:
"We're committed to launching at least one new game every week to give
our customers the best online gaming experience available. Having introduced
over 100 new games in 2010, we now have one of the best online casinos in the
industry - offering our players choice, excellent rewards through our
unbeatable V*Points loyalty scheme and a fantastic customer community. These
latest additions from leading online game developers demonstrate yet another
enhancement of both choice and player experience for Virgin Casino customers,
and help cement our position as the home of online slots."
Players can beam themselves up to Virgin Casino to play IGT's Star
Trek(TM). The game has 30 paylines of thrilling action and four futuristic
Free Spins bonuses, each based on a Star Trek(TM) officer. Not only are there
a huge number of bonus opportunities to explore, but every bonus can be
retriggered multiple times.
Based on one of the most successful TV quiz shows of all time,
Electracade brings Virgin Casino customers the opportunity to win the big
time by playing the exciting and tension building game, Who Wants to be a
Millionaire. Players can win up to 15,000 times their total stake on this
5-reel, 20-payline slot that features scatter and line based rewards, as well
as multiple bonus games.
Founded in 2004, Virgin Games has over 1,000,000 players and
over 250 games on its site. Through the introduction of a custom built Virgin
Games platform in 2008, Virgin Games seeks to provide its players with the
widest possible choice of casino games. A growing selection of games can be
found at Virgin Games from a number of producers including Microgaming, IGT,
Cryptologic, Freemantle, Ash Gaming and Mazooma Interactive Games.
To play these exciting new games visit
http://www.virgingames.com/casino
About Virgin Games:
Virgin Games (http://www.virgingames.com) launched in June 2004 and has
quickly established itself as one of the leading gaming websites in the UK.
Virgin Games comprises three distinct offerings:
- Virgin Casino (http://www.virgingames.com/casino/), offers content
from a range of games suppliers including IGT, Microgaming,
Cryptologic, Freemantle and Ash Gaming, bringing consumers classic
casino games like Blackjack and Roulette, as well as great feature
slots like Monopoly, Rubik's, X-Factor and the highly popular
MegaJackpots progressive games.
- Virgin Poker (http://www.virgingames.com/poker/), part of the Boss
Media network, offers a huge array of games and content for
beginners through to experienced pros - as well as the most generous
loyalty scheme in the industry.
- Virgin Bingo (http://www.virgingames.com/bingo/), part of the
Virtue Fusion network, offers cash prizes worth thousands of pounds in
the progressive jackpots, as well as Virgin prize bingo and a range of
unique Virgin Games bingo games.
Source: Virgin Games
For further information please contact: Rebecca Clark, PR Consultant, Tel. +44(0)7909-918478, Email rebecca@virgingames.com
Made in IBM Labs: IBM Reinvents the Patient Portal
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Made in IBM Labs: IBM Reinvents the Patient Portal
New healthcare portal offers increased patient safety and empowerment
HANOVER, Germany, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced the next evolution of the patient portal, significantly expanding the types of information, alerts, recommendations and interactive coaching healthcare providers can offer to their patients online.
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The IBM Patient Empowerment System goes beyond simply allowing patients to schedule appointments online or access a personal health record. The portal is based on new technology developed by IBM Research in collaboration with physicians and administrators of the Gacheon University Gil Hospital in Korea. Among the largest medical centers in Korea with approximately one million patients, the hospital recently decided to provide physicians and patients with access to the portal as part of a pilot project to increase efficiency and reduce costs.
The IBM Patient Empowerment System is a standards-based platform, enabling patients to integrate and manage their healthcare data for all medical needs, receive personalized recommendations or alerts for safer medical treatment, and immediately access data from a vast range of sources including: third-party health portals, hospital electronic medical record systems, sensors, home devices for monitoring health conditions, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) alerts, medical sites like PubMed, and more. IBM is previewing the system this week at CeBIT in Hanover Germany.
"Today, patients want to be more involved in managing their clinical data, and are eager to discover relevant and useful medical information for their benefit," noted Dr. DongKyun Park from Gacheon University Gil Hospital in Korea. "By giving patients access to information that is relevant to them in an easy and understandable form, we can greatly improve patient safety during medical treatments."
The system's easy-to-use analytical services can reduce costs, increase safety and improve patient satisfaction. By integrating social and medical data from multiple sources, the system allows patients to take an active role in their treatment, bringing the interaction between patients and caregivers to a new level of collaborative teamwork.
The system is also designed to protect privacy at various levels of granularity, enabling members to exercise fine-grained control over the level of information in their profile that can be viewed by others and its usage.
"Most patients do not have the same access to information available to physicians, such as treatment updates or new warnings from the FDA," said Joseph Jasinski, IBM Research. "And physicians are not always privy to ongoing patient updates, such as eating habits or long-term monitoring of vital signs. These partial pictures limit the level of care that physicians can provide, as well as the care patients can provide for themselves. The IBM Patient Empowerment System merges these realms, bringing important data to both parties."
Although more public sources for medical information are becoming available on the Internet all the time, this onslaught often leaves patients more confused rather than more knowledgeable. Weeding out relevant and accurate information in this sea of data is difficult for the typical patient but the IBM Patient Empowerment System uses expert analytics to take into account a patient's personal medical history and offer decision support information that is appropriate for them.
One example where public knowledge could improve patient safety involves personalized alerts for adverse drug events (ADE) -- incidents where different medications could be dangerous when taken together. The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that there are 7,000 deaths per year due to medication errors alone -- about 16 percent more deaths than those attributable to work-related injuries.
ADE contributes greatly to added expenses in hospitalization and insurance costs every year. This service uses the platform's knowledge-bases alongside public repositories for drug-drug, drug-disease, drug-food, and pharmacogenetics interactions; these are then analyzed together with the most current patient clinical and genetic data. The output is an alert that can be given at the point of care to avoid potential harm associated with various drug interactions.
For example, if a patient is already being treated with prescription medicines and wants to take an over-the-counter medication, she would log into the IBM Patient Empowerment System and add the name of the drug to her list of medications. The system immediately crawls through her medical data, performs deep analytics, and then issues a warning message with details about a potentially dangerous interaction between one of the drugs she's already taking and the new one.
Because the system incorporates the patient's genetic profile, it can also issue warnings to the patient and prescribing physician if certain dosages or drug combinations are problematic given her personal genetic variations. Such genetic variations can lead a person to metabolize certain drugs differently than the greater population, raising the risk of dangerous adverse drug reactions. This information might otherwise be unavailable or even unknown to her physician.
Other smart services developed as part of this healthcare portal include socio-medical search and personalized recommendation services. The system maintains a unique dataspace that represents social entities, such as patients and healthcare personnel, and their relationship with medical entities, such as medications, allergies and treatment plans. The IBM Patient Empowerment System also offers search capabilities and recommendations about patients who suffer from similar problems, potential treatment plans, expert physicians, and more. These features are built on IBM's Big Data Analytics platform, which can process structured and unstructured data at scale and speed not possible with traditional data warehouse technologies, allowing the system to discover relations hidden in the data and correlate with external information.
Because the system is designed as a standards-based clinical data warehouse and supports standard interoperability profiles, it can also immediately incorporate any medical information from sensors, home medical devices, monitoring systems, labs, or hospital information systems. Moreover, this interoperability makes it possible to add new data sources or services at any time.
This solution is just one example of how IBM researchers are helping transform the healthcare industry. IBM is also focused on the area of health analytics, which uses sophisticated software to analyze vast amounts of medical data from many different sources at once to quickly help doctors make more informed decisions. For example, IBM's Watson computing system has the ability to analyze the meaning and context of human language to provide physicians with helpful information for diagnosing and treating patients. Helping doctors unlock important knowledge buried within huge volumes of information, technologies like Watson pave the way for a more evidence-based healthcare system that offers more informed diagnosis and treatment for patients - at lower costs for providers, insurers and patients.
The IBM Patient Empowerment System is the result of collaboration among three IBM centers around the world: the IBM Ubiquitous Computing Laboratory in Korea, IBM Research - Haifa and IBM Research - China.
IBM Media Contacts:
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Tel: 972-4-8296166
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Email: CIA@zurich.ibm.com
Tel: 41-78 60 44 092
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New healthcare portal offers increased patient safety and empowerment
HANOVER, Germany, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced the next evolution of the patient portal, significantly expanding the types of information, alerts, recommendations and interactive coaching healthcare providers can offer to their patients online.
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110303/NY57307 )
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO )
The IBM Patient Empowerment System goes beyond simply allowing patients to schedule appointments online or access a personal health record. The portal is based on new technology developed by IBM Research in collaboration with physicians and administrators of the Gacheon University Gil Hospital in Korea. Among the largest medical centers in Korea with approximately one million patients, the hospital recently decided to provide physicians and patients with access to the portal as part of a pilot project to increase efficiency and reduce costs.
The IBM Patient Empowerment System is a standards-based platform, enabling patients to integrate and manage their healthcare data for all medical needs, receive personalized recommendations or alerts for safer medical treatment, and immediately access data from a vast range of sources including: third-party health portals, hospital electronic medical record systems, sensors, home devices for monitoring health conditions, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) alerts, medical sites like PubMed, and more. IBM is previewing the system this week at CeBIT in Hanover Germany.
"Today, patients want to be more involved in managing their clinical data, and are eager to discover relevant and useful medical information for their benefit," noted Dr. DongKyun Park from Gacheon University Gil Hospital in Korea. "By giving patients access to information that is relevant to them in an easy and understandable form, we can greatly improve patient safety during medical treatments."
The system's easy-to-use analytical services can reduce costs, increase safety and improve patient satisfaction. By integrating social and medical data from multiple sources, the system allows patients to take an active role in their treatment, bringing the interaction between patients and caregivers to a new level of collaborative teamwork.
The system is also designed to protect privacy at various levels of granularity, enabling members to exercise fine-grained control over the level of information in their profile that can be viewed by others and its usage.
"Most patients do not have the same access to information available to physicians, such as treatment updates or new warnings from the FDA," said Joseph Jasinski, IBM Research. "And physicians are not always privy to ongoing patient updates, such as eating habits or long-term monitoring of vital signs. These partial pictures limit the level of care that physicians can provide, as well as the care patients can provide for themselves. The IBM Patient Empowerment System merges these realms, bringing important data to both parties."
Although more public sources for medical information are becoming available on the Internet all the time, this onslaught often leaves patients more confused rather than more knowledgeable. Weeding out relevant and accurate information in this sea of data is difficult for the typical patient but the IBM Patient Empowerment System uses expert analytics to take into account a patient's personal medical history and offer decision support information that is appropriate for them.
One example where public knowledge could improve patient safety involves personalized alerts for adverse drug events (ADE) -- incidents where different medications could be dangerous when taken together. The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that there are 7,000 deaths per year due to medication errors alone -- about 16 percent more deaths than those attributable to work-related injuries.
ADE contributes greatly to added expenses in hospitalization and insurance costs every year. This service uses the platform's knowledge-bases alongside public repositories for drug-drug, drug-disease, drug-food, and pharmacogenetics interactions; these are then analyzed together with the most current patient clinical and genetic data. The output is an alert that can be given at the point of care to avoid potential harm associated with various drug interactions.
For example, if a patient is already being treated with prescription medicines and wants to take an over-the-counter medication, she would log into the IBM Patient Empowerment System and add the name of the drug to her list of medications. The system immediately crawls through her medical data, performs deep analytics, and then issues a warning message with details about a potentially dangerous interaction between one of the drugs she's already taking and the new one.
Because the system incorporates the patient's genetic profile, it can also issue warnings to the patient and prescribing physician if certain dosages or drug combinations are problematic given her personal genetic variations. Such genetic variations can lead a person to metabolize certain drugs differently than the greater population, raising the risk of dangerous adverse drug reactions. This information might otherwise be unavailable or even unknown to her physician.
Other smart services developed as part of this healthcare portal include socio-medical search and personalized recommendation services. The system maintains a unique dataspace that represents social entities, such as patients and healthcare personnel, and their relationship with medical entities, such as medications, allergies and treatment plans. The IBM Patient Empowerment System also offers search capabilities and recommendations about patients who suffer from similar problems, potential treatment plans, expert physicians, and more. These features are built on IBM's Big Data Analytics platform, which can process structured and unstructured data at scale and speed not possible with traditional data warehouse technologies, allowing the system to discover relations hidden in the data and correlate with external information.
Because the system is designed as a standards-based clinical data warehouse and supports standard interoperability profiles, it can also immediately incorporate any medical information from sensors, home medical devices, monitoring systems, labs, or hospital information systems. Moreover, this interoperability makes it possible to add new data sources or services at any time.
This solution is just one example of how IBM researchers are helping transform the healthcare industry. IBM is also focused on the area of health analytics, which uses sophisticated software to analyze vast amounts of medical data from many different sources at once to quickly help doctors make more informed decisions. For example, IBM's Watson computing system has the ability to analyze the meaning and context of human language to provide physicians with helpful information for diagnosing and treating patients. Helping doctors unlock important knowledge buried within huge volumes of information, technologies like Watson pave the way for a more evidence-based healthcare system that offers more informed diagnosis and treatment for patients - at lower costs for providers, insurers and patients.
The IBM Patient Empowerment System is the result of collaboration among three IBM centers around the world: the IBM Ubiquitous Computing Laboratory in Korea, IBM Research - Haifa and IBM Research - China.
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March 2, 2011
MirrorCloud: The Next Generation for Business Continuity in the Cloud
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Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:07:01 PM
MirrorCloud: The Next Generation for Business Continuity in the Cloud
SmartStyle Computing software add-on provides exceptional scalability, fault tolerance and redundancy when compared to other business continuity technologies
WARRENDALE, Pa., March 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Zenith Infotech, a technology innovation company specializing in cloud, business-continuity and virtual help-desk solutions, today introduces MirrorCloud, a revolutionary lightweight backup and disaster recovery software application for the upper SMB market. Through a process of advanced data cloning, MirrorCloud takes zero-copy data snapshots of any physical and virtual Windows server or desktop, dramatically increasing Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs). MirrorCloud quickly reproduces a virtual image of any failed server or desktop within minutes, circumventing downtime should disaster strike. It is the latest add-on to Zenith's pioneering SmartStyle Computing line of cloud solutions.
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Leveraging Zenith's SmartStyle Computing platform, MirrorCloud is ideal for companies between 500 and 1,000 users requiring less than 100 TB of storage. Since the virtual "mirror" images are presented at block level, settings such as the NetBIOS name, IP address and more remain the same within the replicated data scheme. Once the server or desktop is virtualized, a live bare-metal restore (BMR) can be invoked for data restoration to physical hardware. Live BMR allows users to continue to access data while the BMR is taking place, further increasing up-time.
"MirrorCloud is a key development in what we call our Cloud Revolution," said Ryan Morse, director of product management for Zenith Infotech. "Its Business Continuity features have catapulted SmartStyle Computing beyond the small business environment, facilitating an exceedingly reliable cloud-based infrastructure. The technical prowess of this application singles out the Zenith brand in the backup space. It will compel the cloud computing trend forward, removing one of the cloud's perceived barriers-to-market."
Next-Generation Business Continuity in a Private-Cloud Solution
MirrorCloud is a software add-on to the SmartStyle Computing platform that allows servers and workstations to achieve exemplary, next-generation business continuity. Its advanced technologies safeguard data in a secure, private cloud environment. Exponentially more reliable than a RAID system, MirrorCloud is part of Zenith Infotech's turn-key suite of SmartStyle Cloud Computing solutions, designed to drive the Cloud Revolution ahead in the IT channel.
Key features include:
-- Continuous data mirroring
-- Failover virtualization
-- Live bare metal restore
-- Granular exchange recovery
-- Off-site transfer
About Zenith Infotech
Zenith Infotech Ltd is a technology innovation company and a leading provider of Managed Service Back Office, Business Continuity and Help Desk Solutions. The company's award-winning solutions enable its channel partners to scale their business without increasing their overhead. The SmartStyle Cloud Computing family of products is the latest addition to Zenith's offerings. MirrorCloud, a software add-on to the SmartStyle Platform, represents the next generation of back-up and disaster recovery solutions. Zenith Infotech Ltd. has US headquarters in Pittsburgh, Penn. and world-wide headquarters in Mumbai, India. Its stock is traded on the Bombay Stock exchange.
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CONTACT: Lynette Bohanan of CommCentric Solutions Inc., +1-813-727-0196, lbohanan@commcentricsolutions.com, for Zenith Infotech
Web Site: http://www.zenithinfotech.com
SmartStyle Computing software add-on provides exceptional scalability, fault tolerance and redundancy when compared to other business continuity technologies
WARRENDALE, Pa., March 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Zenith Infotech, a technology innovation company specializing in cloud, business-continuity and virtual help-desk solutions, today introduces MirrorCloud, a revolutionary lightweight backup and disaster recovery software application for the upper SMB market. Through a process of advanced data cloning, MirrorCloud takes zero-copy data snapshots of any physical and virtual Windows server or desktop, dramatically increasing Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs). MirrorCloud quickly reproduces a virtual image of any failed server or desktop within minutes, circumventing downtime should disaster strike. It is the latest add-on to Zenith's pioneering SmartStyle Computing line of cloud solutions.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090519/LA19770LOGO)
Leveraging Zenith's SmartStyle Computing platform, MirrorCloud is ideal for companies between 500 and 1,000 users requiring less than 100 TB of storage. Since the virtual "mirror" images are presented at block level, settings such as the NetBIOS name, IP address and more remain the same within the replicated data scheme. Once the server or desktop is virtualized, a live bare-metal restore (BMR) can be invoked for data restoration to physical hardware. Live BMR allows users to continue to access data while the BMR is taking place, further increasing up-time.
"MirrorCloud is a key development in what we call our Cloud Revolution," said Ryan Morse, director of product management for Zenith Infotech. "Its Business Continuity features have catapulted SmartStyle Computing beyond the small business environment, facilitating an exceedingly reliable cloud-based infrastructure. The technical prowess of this application singles out the Zenith brand in the backup space. It will compel the cloud computing trend forward, removing one of the cloud's perceived barriers-to-market."
Next-Generation Business Continuity in a Private-Cloud Solution
MirrorCloud is a software add-on to the SmartStyle Computing platform that allows servers and workstations to achieve exemplary, next-generation business continuity. Its advanced technologies safeguard data in a secure, private cloud environment. Exponentially more reliable than a RAID system, MirrorCloud is part of Zenith Infotech's turn-key suite of SmartStyle Cloud Computing solutions, designed to drive the Cloud Revolution ahead in the IT channel.
Key features include:
-- Continuous data mirroring
-- Failover virtualization
-- Live bare metal restore
-- Granular exchange recovery
-- Off-site transfer
About Zenith Infotech
Zenith Infotech Ltd is a technology innovation company and a leading provider of Managed Service Back Office, Business Continuity and Help Desk Solutions. The company's award-winning solutions enable its channel partners to scale their business without increasing their overhead. The SmartStyle Cloud Computing family of products is the latest addition to Zenith's offerings. MirrorCloud, a software add-on to the SmartStyle Platform, represents the next generation of back-up and disaster recovery solutions. Zenith Infotech Ltd. has US headquarters in Pittsburgh, Penn. and world-wide headquarters in Mumbai, India. Its stock is traded on the Bombay Stock exchange.
SOURCE Zenith Infotech
Photo:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090519/LA19770LOGO
http://photoarchive.ap.org/
Zenith Infotech
CONTACT: Lynette Bohanan of CommCentric Solutions Inc., +1-813-727-0196, lbohanan@commcentricsolutions.com, for Zenith Infotech
Web Site: http://www.zenithinfotech.com