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Entrust Digital Certificates Now Embedded on Popular Chipsets

Entrust SSL certificates enable secure management of Intel Core vPro processor-based PCs for enterprise environments

DALLAS, Feb. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Entrust, Inc., has added SSL Certificates for Intel® Core(TM) vPro(TM) processors to its large portfolio of digital certificate offerings. This new capability, core to an identity-based security approach, will allow Intel Core vPro Technology customers to use encrypted access to enable remote maintenance of enterprise PCs.

"Entrust is a pioneer in embedding and deploying digital certificates to servers, desktops, browsers and even RFID chips," said Entrust President and CEO Bill Conner. "This strategy enables us to move our digital certificates to that next layer -- securing PCs and providing additional value for security-conscious organizations."

Entrust SSL Certificates for Intel Core vPro processors are purchased by enterprises or organizations to authenticate  IT staff to more securely administer any PC using Intel Core vPro technology on a corporate network -- even when the machine is turned off or disabled -- for maintenance and other necessary tasks. Thanks to the embedded roots and the deployed SSL certificate, the channel between the networked machine and the administrator is encrypted.

Intel will embed Entrust certificates in the latest 5th Generation Intel Core vPro processors and chipsets.

"Intel Core vPro processor-based platforms are designed to deliver cost-savings and control for businesses while improving security and remote manageability," said Lisa Watts, director of Intel's Business Client Enabling Division. "Unlike software-only security solutions, these advantages are built right into the Intel Core vPro processors, which are enabled by Entrust's trusted certificates."

Entrust Certificate Services, which also offers customers services for discovering and managing digital certificates, drives the company's leadership and innovation in this space. More than 98 percent of all Certificate Management Service (CMS) customers renew their subscription to the service. And bookings of Entrust digital certificates and related services grew more than 33 percent in 2010.

"This agreement with Intel marks the natural progression of our technology, but also demonstrates the growth of our SSL digital certificate offerings and services," said Conner. "The future of security is moving to the chip -- whether that's for mobile devices, tablets, meters, smartcards or chipsets for desktops."

Entrust assists organizations in discovering and managing the digital certificates deployed within their environment -- regardless of type or the issuing vendor. By identifying and evaluating deployed digital certificates, Entrust Discovery helps organizations avoid compliance ramifications, costly outages or even losses from data.

Entrust offers a comprehensive portfolio of today's most-used digital certificates, including basic SSL certificates, more advanced EV multi-domain SSL certificates, or specialty certificates for secure e-mail and Adobe PDFs.

About Entrust

Entrust provides identity-based security solutions that empower enterprises, consumers, citizens and Web sites in more than 4,000 organizations spanning 60 countries. Entrust's identity-based approach offers the right balance between affordability, expertise and service. For strong authentication, fraud detection, digital certificates, SSL and PKI, call 888-690-2424, e-mail entrust@entrust.com or visit http://www.entrust.com.

Entrust is a registered trademark of Entrust, Inc. in the United States and certain other countries. In Canada, Entrust is a registered trademark of Entrust Limited. All Entrust product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of Entrust, Inc. or Entrust Limited. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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CONTACT: Lindsey Jones, Media Relations of Entrust, Inc., +1-972-728-0374, lindsey.jones@entrust.com

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

Purekit.com Reduces Online Fraud With SagePay

LONDON, February 10, 2011/PRNewswire/ --     Leading UK footwear retailer has chosen Sagepay to counter online fraud
and provide a 100% secure payment system for its customers

    Operating an online business can be fraught with problems, especially
when it comes to taking secure online payments for products and services.
Fraud can cost a company dearly, and in most instances, the cost of
fraudulent transactions has to be borne by the retailer. With online fraud on
the rise, and cyber crime a very real problem, any business needs to take
steps to prevent the loss of funds or products. Setting up a secure payment
system is a vital step to take to ensure that losses can be kept to an
absolute minimum, and that customers can have complete confidence in making
an online transaction.

    There are numerous options available to businesses for setting up online
payments; however few offer such a level of security as Sagepay. The service
from the internet payment processor is renowned for its stringent security,
which can reduce the chance of online fraud to virtually zero. Leading
footwear and outdoor clothing retailer Purekit.com is one company which has
got it right from the outset, choosing Sagepay to handle all of its online
credit card transactions.

    "Online transactions inherently have a higher risk, and we wanted to
ensure that our customers receive the same stringent levels of security as
are available in bricks and mortar retail outlets" says PurekIt.com MD
Richard Gundle, when asked about the reasons for choosing Sagepay over the
many other companies vying for their business. The Purekit.com footwear and
outdoor clothing online store was formed by two internet entrepreneurs with a
history of successful e-tailing. The founders have benefitted from over 10
years experience in providing online retail services, and well aware of the
cost implications of fraudulent transactions. Experience taught them to opt
for the highest possible levels of security, which provide value for money
which is immeasurable.

    Anyone considering opening up a company website to provide an online
product ordering service should be aware of the risks involved. Whilst little
can be done to check the authenticity of the card payments taken with many
online payment systems, with Sagepay handling the transactions, the problem
ceases to be a worry. "Thanks to Sage Pay, fraudulent purchases have been
virtually zero. We cannot even begin to imagine how much money would have
been lost without the secure payment system offered by Sage Pay, and the
peace of mind this has given us has prevented many sleepless nights" says
Richard.

    Purekit.com is a relatively new website, having been launched in the
spring of 2009; however the company has grown at an extraordinary rate,
buying other retail sites and bringing them into its fold. The company has
increased its revenue to a turnover in excess of GBP10 million per annum in
the space of 18 months, and with such a high volume of online payments being
taken, caution is paramount. Fraud could have been the difference between
success and total failure. By selecting the Sagepay service they safeguarded
their income, and have done all that is possible to reduce online fraud, and
have ensured that their customers can purchase with confidence, safe in the
knowledge that they get the full protection and security that they would in a
bricks and mortar store.

    Full details of Purekit.com's success story with Sagepay can be found on:
http://www.sagepay.com/case_study/purekit

Source: Purekit.com

Luke Barlow, 0844-561-0991, onlinepr@purekit.com

Ixonos Showcases AN Innovative Android Solution With Inspiring User Experience AT Mobile World Congress 2011

HELSINKI, February 10, 2011/PRNewswire/ --     Ixonos, a world leader in creating wireless technologies, software and
solutions for mobile devices and services, showcases its broad Android
capabilities at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on 14-17 February
2011.

    Ixonos demonstrates an innovative Android-based multi-window solution,
which runs on various popular hardware platforms. The solution is
demonstrated on a tablet developed by Aava Mobile as a multi-window system,
which enables the use of several applications simultaneously, for example the
viewing of messages and calendar side by side.

    "The multi-window solution brings Android user experience to a whole new
level. Running the solution on a device with a 7-inch or bigger screen allows
for new efficiency in handling daily tasks. The user can now see the whole
workspace at one glance and run multiple applications at the same time,"
explains Mr Vesa Metso, Director, Key Customer Accounts, Android, at Ixonos.

    Ixonos has also made the multitasking user experience available on a
dual-screen configuration. This takes multitasking use cases even further by
enabling the device to be used like a laptop, with a touch pad QWERTY
keyboard below the second activity window, or as a highly-advanced two-screen
tablet, where both screens are used either for different activities or the
activity is expanded across both screens.

    "Multitasking is a functionality people expect from superior user
experience and two-screen tablet devices are now debuting the market. With
our solution, multitasking is the norm for tablets. Moving from one
application to another is quick and easy, and the user can move applications
or activities from one screen to another. This truly takes efficiency to new
heights," Mr. Metso adds.

    The multitasking solution has been developed at Ixonos' Android
Competence Centres in Europe, demonstrating Ixonos' deep know-how of Android
components and modules.

    Links:

   
    - Ixonos' website: http://www.ixonos.com

    - Mobile World Congress: http://www.mobileworldcongress.com (Ixonos
      booth: Hall 1, #1E19)

    - Ixonos Online Press kit at MWC2011:
      http://www.virtualpressoffice.com/public/kit/IxonosMWC11

    _________________________________________________________________________

    Ixonos (http://www.ixonos.com) is an ICT services company creating
innovative solutions for mobility, social media and digital services.
Together with our customers we develop products and services which let people
enjoy inspiring digital experience, anyplace, anytime. Our client
organizations benefit from new business opportunities and new productivity.
We have offices in Finland, China, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Great Britain,
Slovakia and the U.S. Ixonos Plc is listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki. The
company's turnover in 2010 was 84.9 M EUR and operating profit 5.3 M EUR.

Source: Ixonos

For more information, please contact: Ixonos: - Vesa Metso, Director, Key Customer Accounts, Android, tel. +358-40-522-8611, vesa.metso@ixonos.com; - Tapani Stjernvall, Director, Key Customer Accounts, tel.+358-40-765-6508, tapani.stjernvall@ixonos.com; - Nigel Alexander, EMEA Sales Director, tel. +44-783-148-5081, nigel.alexander@ixonos.com

Vivienne Tam, Twitter Creator Jack Dorsey Unveil Must-Have Tech Accessory of 2011-The 'Double Happiness' Square

NEW YORK, Feb. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Vivienne Tam announces the launch of a limited edition "Double Happiness" Square credit card reader.Square is a revolutionary service enabling anyone to accept credit cards by plugging a card reader into your phone or iPad. Tam collaborated with Twitter creator Jack Dorsey, CEO and co-founder of Square, to create a one-of-a-kind reader, merging technological simplicity with elegance.

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The branded Square reader is black lacquer-like, and features the Chinese symbol for double happiness in red. Inspired by Tam's 'China Chic' style and representative of her personal mantra, two characters for happiness (xi) are joined to express the joy of wedded union. Chinese culture favors equilibrium; yin is balanced by yang, and symmetry is an underlying principle in all realms of design. The 'Double Happiness' Square represents the worlds of technology and fashion hand in hand.  "I believe this will resonate with customers -- it's cutting edge, and easy to use. It will inspire women to start or grow their businesses," said Tam.

"We're thrilled to partner with a world class talent like Vivienne on the first ever branded Square reader," said Jack Dorsey co-founder and CEO. "She has continuously demonstrated that she applies beautiful aesthetics to technology."

'Double Happiness' Square will be available exclusively at viviennetam.com for ten dollars. Proceeds will be donated to Happy Hearts Fund, which improves children's lives through educational and sustainable programs in natural disaster areas.

About Square

Square is a revolutionary service that enables anyone to accept credit cards. Payments are simple by offering a free, easy-to-use app and a beautiful card reader that plugs into a phone or iPad.  No contracts. No monthly fees. No merchant account. The only cost is 2.75% + 15 cents per transaction. Download the free app from the Android Market or iTunes App Store. Square is currently available for use in the U.S.  For more information: squareup.com. 

About Vivienne Tam

Vivienne Tam is known for creating beautiful clothes that appeal to all ages, ethnicities, and income levels. She has earned the reputation for offering stylish, high-quality products and inviting the consumer to experience the inspiration behind it. A longstanding dedication to innovation and exotic imagery, Vivienne Tam is one of the world's most passionate and symbolic designers in fashion today. Learn more at viviennetam.com

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MansionPoker.com Announces New Benefits for its Poker Players

LONDON, February 10, 2011/PRNewswire/ --

    - Popular Online Poker Room Offers Freeroll Poker Tournaments for
Newcomers and Amazing Rewards for Veteran Players in its Club Mansion Loyalty
Program

    MansionPoker.com, (http://www.mansionpoker.com/) one of the industry's
top-ranked online poker rooms, has increased the benefits it offers to its
poker players. Alongside its extremely popular and rewarding Club Mansion
Loyalty Program, Mansion Poker has introduced a large selection of freeroll
tournaments open to new poker players, allowing them to experience the
user-friendly and graphically pleasing poker software at absolutely no cost.

    Mansion Poker invites players to download its poker software
(http://www.mansionpoker.com/download.html) and sign up to the twice daily
$25 Bankroll Builder Freeroll tournaments. In addition, Mansion Poker gives
its new depositing players two free entries to the twice monthly New
Depositors $2500 Freeroll, as well as access to the weekly Depositors $250
Freeroll. All new depositors also enjoy an extremely generous 100% up to $500
First Deposit Bonus, redeemed into real cash as they play at Mansion Poker's
cash games and tournaments. These are just some of new player promotions
(http://www.mansionpoker.com/promotions/new-players.html) available at
Mansion Poker.

    Poker players continue to enjoy the popular Club Mansion Loyalty Program,
(http://www.mansionpoker.com/club-mansion) which rewards veteran players by
allowing them to choose how much and how often to claim their benefits. The
Club Mansion Shop gives players a chance to redeem their hard-earned Club
Mansion Points into cash, luxury merchandise, or custom-designed poker
products.

    As part of its regular schedule, Mansion Poker stages a weekly $200,000
Guaranteed Prize tournament, a Lord of the Rungs stepped sit 'n' go
tournament promotion, a double point Happy Hour on weekends, progressive
jackpot sit 'n' go tournaments, and satellite tournament series awarding
seats to the leading poker events in the world.

    About Mansion Poker

    Mansion Poker, an internationally acclaimed online poker rooms operating
on the iPoker Network, offers players download poker software developed and
maintained by Playtech, a public company and leading gaming software
developer. Mansion Poker's software and professional customer support
services are available in ten languages. Mansion Poker was established in
2004 and is regulated and licensed by the Government of Gibraltar. The
Mansion Poker brand is promoted exclusively by Euro Partners. (
http://www.europartners.com/)

   
    For more information, please contact:

    Euro Partners
    Robin Becker
    Public Relations
    robecker @ europartners.com

Source: Mansion Poker

For more information, please contact: Euro Partners, Robin Becker, Public Relations, robecker @ europartners.com, +972-37646200 x 2637

SOI Industry Consortium Announces FD-SOI Technology Offers Substantial Power Advantages for Next-Generation Mobile and Consumer Applications

FD-SOI Reduces Power Consumption and Significantly Improves Performance at a Competitive Cost

BOSTON, February 10, 2011/PRNewswire/ --     The SOI Industry Consortium today announced results of an assessment and
characterization of Fully-Depleted Silicon-on-Insulator (FD-SOI) technology,
demonstrating that this advanced CMOS silicon technology is well suited to
address the increasing low-power, high-performance requirements for mobile
and consumer applications. A joint collaboration between Consortium
members-ARM, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, IBM, STMicroelectronics, Soitec, and
CEA-Leti-has demonstrated key benefits of planar FD-SOI technology for these
applications based on an ARM processor. Planar FD-SOI technology enables
substantial improvements in performance and power consumption for
next-generation mobile devices, delivering high-performance applications with
rich multimedia and communications functionality, reduced power consumption
and improved battery life.

    As SoC designs increase in complexity to deliver the enhanced features
required by today's mobile consumer, designers face the challenge of
continuing to reduce the voltage while maintaining the stability of the SRAM
bit-cells. Early benchmarks on FD-SOI technology demonstrate the ability to
reduce the SRAM operating voltage by 100-150mV, thereby reducing memory power
consumption up to 40 percent while maintaining the stability of the SRAM.

    Using an ARM Cortex(TM) processor as a prototyping vehicle, a team of SOI
Industry Consortium members demonstrated that planar FD-SOI technology
enables designers to continue to decrease the voltage to reduce the overall
power, while maintaining system performance.

    The inherent benefits of FD-SOI can also significantly improve system
performance as you transition from generation to generation. Traditionally,
low-power manufacturing technology processes from one generation node to
another yield a performance gain ranging from 20 percent to 30 percent. This
assessment indicates that when the same transition also includes FD-SOI
technology an additional 80 percent gain can be achieved beyond the
traditional increase. This level of improvement can enable higher-performance
handheld products while significantly reducing the overall system power,
which translates into a superior user experience.

    FD-SOI also provides a compelling manufacturing advantage compared to
other potential solutions. Due to its advanced starting substrate, FD-SOI
wafer processing is simpler for the chip manufacturer. The elimination of a
considerable number of mask layers during transistor-formation processing
drives simpler manufacturing process flow, and thereby a cost-efficient
approach to further shrinking CMOS transistors.

    "Through our collaboration, Consortium members have demonstrated the
advantages of FD-SOI for mobile and consumer applications," said Horacio
Mendez, Executive Director of the SOI Industry Consortium. "FD-SOI is a great
option to improve the key metrics for mobile markets: power, frequency,
manufacturability and most importantly cost efficiency."

    "This implementation indicates that FD-SOI technology is an attractive
alternative for those designing SoCs for advanced mobile devices," said Simon
Segars, Executive Vice President and General Manager, ARM, Physical IP
Division. "It also demonstrates a significant opportunity for our customers
to produce leading low-power, high-performance consumer devices, while
potentially lowering their system cost."

    "FD-SOI represents a tremendous technology opportunity for low-power
mobile designs," said Dr. Suresh Venkatesan, Vice President, Technology
Development, GLOBALFOUNDRIES. "FD-SOI offers a number of potential benefits
through simplified manufacturing integration and a compelling power and
frequency proposition."

    SOI, recognized as a green semiconductor technology, has been in
high-volume manufacturing for over a decade, enabling high-performance
computing, gaming and communications products, with hundreds of millions of
SOI chips shipped. FD-SOI also allows for full design re-usability: all
established design tools and methodologies are fully implementable. SOI wafer
manufacturers have affirmed that the ultra-thin SOI wafers needed for FD-SOI
meet all specifications and are ready for high-volume manufacturing.

    "As the Chairman of the SOI Consortium, I am extremely excited about the
potential that the FD-SOI technology can bring to the industry. The testing
and modeling to date would indicate that FD-SOI offers an ideal combination
to achieve ultra-low-power, high-performance and cost-effective
manufacturability attributes. The consortium members are all working together
on the development and technology evaluations, with assistance from process
R&D, IP design, manufacturing members and the substrate suppliers," said
Michael Cadigan, Chairman of the SOI Industry Consortium and General Manager,
IBM Microelectronics, Systems & Technology Group.

    SOI Consortium Executives will be available to discuss the results at the
Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, 14-17 February 2011. Please contact
Camille Darnaud-Dufour, camille.darnaud-dufour@soiconsortium.org or Horacio
Mendez, hmendez@soiconsortium.org to arrange an appointment.

    About the SOI Industry Consortium:

    The SOI Industry Consortium is chartered with accelerating
silicon-on-insulator (SOI) innovation into broad markets by promoting the
benefits of SOI technology and reducing the barriers to adoption.
Representing innovation leaders from the entire electronics industry
infrastructure, current SOI Industry Consortium members include: AMD, Applied
Materials, ARM, BroadPak, Cadence Design Systems, CEA-Leti, FEI, Freescale
Semiconductor, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, IBM, IMEC, Infotech,, Kanazawa Institute of
Technology , KLA-Tencor, MEMC, Mentor Graphics, MIT Lincoln Laboratories,
Nvidia, Ritsumeikan University, Samsung, Semico, SEH Europe, Soitec, Stanford
University, STMicroelectronics, Synopsys, Tyndall Institute, University of
California-Berkeley, University Catholique de Louvain, UMC and Varian.
Membership is open to all companies and institutions throughout the
electronics industry. For more information, please visit
http://www.soiconsortium.org.

    Legal Note

    The views and opinions expressed by the SOI Industry Consortium through
officers in the SOI Industry Consortium or in this presentation or other
communication vehicles are not necessarily representative of the views and
opinions of individual members. Officers of the SOI Industry Consortium
speaking on behalf of the Consortium should not be considered to be speaking
for the member company or companies they are associated with, but rather as
representing the views of the SOI Industry Consortium. Views and opinions are
also subject to change without notice, and the SOI Industry Consortium
assumes no obligation to update the information in this communication or
accompanying discussions.

   
    Press Contact (all time zones):

    Camille Darnaud-Dufour
    Mobile : +33(0)6-79-49-51-43
    Email : camille.darnaud-dufour@soiconsortium.org

Source: The SOI Industry Consortium

Press Contact (all time zones): Camille Darnaud-Dufour, Mobile : +33(0)6-79-49-51-43, Email : camille.darnaud-dufour@soiconsortium.org

Lawline.com Launches Streaming-Video Mobile CLE Website

NEW YORK, Feb. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Lawline.com, the leading provider in online continuing legal education (CLE), has launched a first of its kind mobile CLE website. The company's 300+ on-demand video CLE programs are now fully compatible with all major mobile and smartphone devices. With the launch of the mobile website, Lawline.com aims to set a new industry standard for technology and convenience by allow CLE credit to be more suitable to today's active and time-strapped lawyers.

According to the 2010 American Bar Association Legal Technology Survey Report, just over 75 percent of respondents utilize smart phones, mainly divided between the BlackBerry, iPhone, Palm, and Android. Some researchers estimate that 172 million smartphones were sold worldwide last year.  In addition, Apple has sold over 14 million iPads since launching the product in mid-2010. The research shows strong direction that mobile technology is the future of CLE.

"The goal is to make the attorney's life simpler," says Lawline.com CEO David Schnurman. "Today's professional is time-stressed and constantly on the move. Our new site allows lawyers to complete their CLE requirements and learn from high-quality streaming video courses, from anywhere and at anytime."

Lawline.com's new site features streaming video, downloadable written materials, MP3 capability, e-mailed certificates of completion, and a user friendly dashboard that tracks all course history. Finally, all programs can be viewed at no charge by visiting the website (though credit reception and access to written materials does require course payment).

To learn more, visit http://www.lawline.com from your mobile device and choose from any of available courses.

About Lawline.com

Established in 1999, Lawline.com has rapidly become a leading provider of Online Continuing Legal Education courses for attorneys across the country. Focusing on its customers, technology, and content has always been its primary mission. In addition to producing its own high quality programming, Lawline.com has partnered with bar associations, law schools, and CLE providers across the country to bring the best possible course catalog to its diverse customer base of attorneys. In 2010, Crain's New York Business ranked Lawline.com the 21st best place to work in New York City.

SOURCE  Lawline.com

Lawline.com

CONTACT: Jeff Reekers, +1-646-448-3275, jeff@lawline.com

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

Google will be pushing new programming APIs into Android 3.0 to allow closer to hardware manipulation. The higher you get in abstraction, the slower the programs will be (to a point). This will allow developers to get closer to the hardware to make more high performance programs.

Quote

he new interface, is called Renderscript, said R. Jason Sams, an Android performance and graphics programmer at Google. He didn't say so in so many words, but the goal for the feature has to be better games on Android. It's a broader feature, though: it's used in Honeycomb's YouTube and Books apps.

"The target audience is the set of developers looking to maximize the performance of their applications and are comfortable working closer to the metal to achieve this," Sams said in a blog post yesterday. "The target use is for performance-critical code segments where the needs exceed the abilities of the existing APIs."

To that end, Renderscript exposes two hardware-accelerated interfaces, one for rendering 3D graphics and one for for power-efficient computing operations. To use it, Renderscript relies on a variant of the C99 version of the C programming language. And the Renderscript plumbing that comes along with Honeycomb, aka Android 3.0, makes the decisions about whether to run the computing jobs on regular or graphics processors.

Sounds like a bit of OpenCL is thrown into the mix.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20031301-264.html

New XMC Module with Configurable Spartan-6 FPGA Targets Cost-Sensitive Embedded Computing Tasks

Acromag's new XMC module employs Xilinx's cost-optimized Spartan-6 FPGA to help engineers with tight budget and time constraints solve high-speed DSP, logic, and algorithm computing challenges.

WIXOM, Mich., Feb. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --To address the need for low-cost configurable FPGA computing solutions, Acromag released new XMC-SLX mezzanine modules featuring an economical Xilinx® Spartan®-6 FPGA. These thrifty XMC modules still provide plenty of computing power for custom signal processing and algorithm acceleration with the FPGA's integrated DSP, logic, and memory resources. The Spartan-6 FPGA's logic structure also leverages the premium-performance Virtex FPGA platform's architecture and system-level blocks for faster, easier and more compatible development. Acromag supports the FPGA with a high-throughput PCIe interface, generous memory, and convenient access to field I/O signals. Typical uses include hardware simulation, in-circuit diagnostics, communications, signal intelligence, and image processing. Pricing starts at $2895 with options for extra memory and extended temperature operation.

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"Although the Spartan FPGA line is known for low cost, it now offers performance and capabilities beyond those of the largest FPGA from just a few years ago," remarked Joseph Primeau, Acromag's sales and marketing director. Engineers familiar with other Xilinx or Acromag FPGA cards can greatly reduce design time by capitalizing on shared resources. Many Spartan-6 system-level blocks and interface cores are derived from Virtex FPGAs for cross-platform compatibility and better integration. Additionally, the XMC-SLX's support software is very similar to the design kits for other Acromag modules.

Field I/O interfaces to the FPGA via the rear J4/P4 connector and/or with optional front mezzanine I/O extension modules. 64 I/O or 32 LVDS lines are accessible through the rear connector. Acromag's plug-in AXM mezzanine cards provide additional I/O processing capabilities. A variety of these AXM mezzanine I/O cards are available to provide front-end 14-bit 105 MHz A/D conversions or an interface for CMOS digital I/O, RS-485 differential signals, or extra LVDS I/O lines.

All models employ the logic-optimized SLX150 version of the Spartan-6 FPGA which provides 147,433 logic cells and 180 DSP slices. Units are ready for use in conduction-cooled systems and offer an option to upgrade with extended temperature range parts suitable for -40 to 85°C operation.

Large, high-speed memory banks enable high-efficiency data handling. 256k x 64-bit, or optional 1M x 64-bit, dual-ported SRAM facilitates high-speed DMA transfers to the bus or CPU. This memory provides direct links from the PCIe bus and to the FPGA. The high-bandwidth PCIe 4-lane interface ensures fast data throughput.

Acromag's Engineering Design Kit provides utilities to help users develop custom programs, load VHDL into the FPGA, and establish DMA transfers between the FPGA and the CPU. The kit includes a compiled FPGA file and example VHDL code provided as selectable blocks with examples for the local bus interface, read/writes, and change-of-state interrupts to the PCI bus. A JTAG interface allows users to perform on-board VHDL simulation. Further analysis is supported with a ChipScope(TM) Pro interface.

For easy integration of the boards with embedded Windows® applications, Acromag developed a DLL driver software package for compatibility with Microsoft® Visual C++(TM), and Visual Basic. Sample files with "C" source demonstration programs provide easy-to-use tools to test operation of the module.

For real time and open source applications, Acromag offers C libraries for VxWorks®, Linux®, and other operating systems. The libraries provide generic routines (source code included) to handle reads, writes, interrupts, and other functions. Demonstration programs enable the developer to quickly exercise the I/O modules before attaching the routines to the application program. This diagnostic tool can save hours of troubleshooting and debugging. The Linux example programs are a free download.

About Acromag

Acromag has designed and manufactured measurement and control products for more than 50 years. They are an international corporation with a world headquarters near Detroit, Michigan and a global network of sales representatives and distributors. Acromag offers a complete line of embedded I/O and industrial computer products for military, aerospace, manufacturing, transportation, utilities, and scientific research applications.

http://www.acromag.com

All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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CONTACT: Robert Greenfield, Marketing Communications Manager, Acromag, Inc., +1-248-295-0865, rgreenfield@acromag.com

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

For multimedia infrastructure applications, Texas Instruments' multicore TMS320C6678 DSP delivers increased density, low power, cost efficient solution

Industry's highest performing 10-GHz multicore DSP delivers 3x the channel density for multimedia gateways and IMS media servers

DALLAS, Feb. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Responding to the growing need for increasing channel densities and higher quality media services in mobile networks, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) is offering the industry's highest performance multimedia solution based on its TMS320C6678 digital signal processor (DSP). Ideal for applications such as multimedia gateways, IMS media servers, video conferencing servers and video broadcast equipment, the C6678 offers OEMs a highly dense media solution that is both power and cost efficient at the system level. Based on its newest DSP generation of devices, the TMS320C66x, TI's C6678 features eight 1.25 GHz DSP cores with 320 GMACs and 160 GFLOPs of combined fixed- and floating-point performance on a single device, enabling users to consolidate multiple DSPs to save board space and cost, as well as reduce overall power requirements.

"There is no other DSP in the industry that can support all of the key features needed for the development of high density and high quality multimedia infrastructure products in one device, like ours," said Brian Glinsman, general manager of TI's communications infrastructure business. "Our C6678 based multimedia solution delivers superior levels of performance coupled with improved channel density, providing customers with the right tools, software and support to help accelerate their designs to market."

To ease application development, TI's new multimedia solution includes a comprehensive portfolio of video, audio and voice codecs, which will be accessible through TI's website. The available portfolio of video codecs includes the H.264, H.263, MPEG4, MPEG2, JPEG, VC1, Soren Spark encoders and decoders. New codecs and functions including Universal SVC, MVC, AVC Intra and H.265 are also supported on the C6678 DSP. The portfolio of audio codecs includes the AAC, AACv2, AC3, MP3, WMA8, WMA9 encoders and decoders. The codec portfolio also includes a comprehensive set of wireline and wireless voice codecs.

Combined with the multicore software developer's kit (MC-SDK), suite of multicore tools, free codecs and a rich ecosystem of software and hardware partners, the power of TI's multicore DSP enables customers to develop new multimedia infrastructure products that offer greater channel densities, at lower power levels and more cost efficiently. The C6678 is also software compatible with TI's existing TMS320C6000((TM)) DSPs, enabling vendors to reuse their existing software and preserve their investment in TI embedded processors.

The C6678 enables high density solutions for numerous multimedia applications, such as:

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    Multimedia Application             System Solution Density (# of channels)
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                                            PCIe card -        ATCA card -
                                            8 C6678 DSP       20 C6678 DSP
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Mobile Voice Applications                 
    AMR Encode + Decode, 12.2Kbps             11,000             27,500
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Mobile Video Applications
    H.264 BP encode + decode, CIF, 30fps         240                600
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Content Delivery Network
    H.264 BP Encode + Decode, SD, 30fps          120                300
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    HD Conferencing MCU, MRFP
    H.264 BP Encode + Decode, 1080p30             12                 30
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    HD Broadcast
    AVCIntra-50, 10-bit, 4:2:0, 60fps              8                 20
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Robust third-party ecosystem

TI's multimedia third party network features a worldwide community of respected and well established companies offering products and services that support TI DSPs. Companies offering supporting multimedia solutions to the C6678 multicore DSP include:

    --  Hardware Partners: Advantech, Emerson Network Power, and Radisys;
    --  Hardware and Software Partners: Media Excel, SURF Communication
        Solutions and Tata Elxsi.

Availability

Designers can begin development on the C6678 DSP with the low-cost TMDXEVM6678L evaluation module (EVM) for $399. The EVM also includes a free MC-SDK, Code Composer Studio (CCS) integrated development environment, and suite of application/demo codes to allow programmers to quickly come up to speed on the new platform. Pricing for the C6678 DSP starts at $169 for 1Ku and order entry is open today for both the C6678 and EVM.

TI's comprehensive suite of multimedia codecs and third party ecosystem solutions will be available in March.

TI @ Mobile World Congress

While at MWC, visit TI at Booth 8A84 (Hall 8) to learn more about the latest communications infrastructure, analog, wireless and DLP news, and to check out a broad range of TI-based demos. For more information please visit http://www.ti.com/mwc2011.

About Texas Instruments

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

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Flash Networks Video Optimization Relieves Network Bottlenecks With Quality User Experience

HERZLIA, Israel, February 10, 2011/PRNewswire/ --

    - Video Starts 5 Seconds Faster With 96% Fewer Stalls and 46% Less Data
Consumption

    Flash Networks, a global provider of intelligent mobile Internet
solutions, announced the dramatic reduction in network load achieved during
active deployments and network trials of its Video Optimization solution in
North America, Europe, and Asia. As a result of implementing network
optimization tuned for user quality of experience, Flash Networks achieved,
on the average, a 49% improvement in video start time, or an average of 5.74
seconds faster loading, and a 96% reduction of stalls, together with up to
46% reduction in consumed data.

    Flash Networks recently analyzed video traffic from optimization systems
installed in five operator networks that serve more than 130 Million
subscribers in APAC, North America, Western Europe, and Eastern Europe.
Analysis at the application layer revealed:

   
    - Video traffic is increasing at a rate of 12% month over month

    - Android and Apple handheld devices account for only 25% of the
      handset market but over 65% of mobile Internet handset traffic

    - 75% of users abandon videos before completion

    Effective network optimization is required to alleviate bandwidth
bottlenecks created by the massive increase in mobile data usage, driven by
video traffic. Speaking at a conference recently, France Telecom Orange's
CEO, Stephane Richard, revealed that he anticipates ten times more data
traffic in their network within two years.

    "We are seeing more and more players entering the optimization
market with basic solutions that are insufficient because they don't take
into account local network congestion and the individual user experience,"
said Merav Bahat, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at
Flash Networks. "Harmony's Video Optimization factors in network load at the
cell level, as well as subscriber session information, to provide the most
relevant level of optimization, ensuring subscriber satisfaction while
reducing network load."

    Flash Networks' Video Optimization is part of the Harmony Mobile
Internet Services Gateway which enables operators to enhance user quality of
experience, reduce operational expenses, and manage and monetize access to
the open Internet by applying best-in-class services to mobile data traffic.

    Harmony sits at the heart of the network, inspecting,
identifying, and then optimizing video traffic. Due to a highly efficient and
unique system architecture, Flash Networks' Video Optimization has the lowest
footprint in the market, resulting in a solution that is up to five times
more cost-effective than competitive solutions.

    Flash Networks' cell-based video optimization solution will be
demonstrated at Mobile World Congress 2011, February 14-17 in Barcelona,
Spain at Flash Networks' booth in Hall 2.0, Stand 2B75.

    About Flash Networks

    Flash Networks is a global provider of intelligent mobile
Internet solutions that enable operators to improve quality of experience,
reduce network operational expenses, and manage and monetize the mobile
Internet. Providing a faster, safer, richer, and more personalized user
experience, Flash Networks' Harmony Mobile Internet Services Gateway helps
operators achieve significant cost savings through intelligent data traffic
optimization, and applies intelligent policies for targeted marketing and
charging. With offices in Europe, Asia, and North America, Flash Networks'
installed base of top-tier mobile carriers includes O2, Orange, SingTel
Group, T-Mobile, Telefonica, and Wind. For more information, visit
http://www.flashnetworks.com.

   
    CONTACT:

    Flash Networks
    Naomi Rabbie
    Phone:  +972-9-961-0841
    Mobile: +972-54-7744539
    naomir@flashnetworks.com

    Spicetree Communications
    Monica Maron
    Mobile: +972-545-429-529
    monica.maron@spicetreecom.com

Source: Flash Networks

CONTACT: Flash Networks, Naomi Rabbie, Phone: +972-9-961-0841, Mobile: +972-54-7744539, naomir@flashnetworks.com; Spicetree Communications, Monica Maron, Mobile: +972-545-429-529, monica.maron@spicetreecom.com

Parkmobile USA, Inc. Introduces Pay by Phone Parking in Petoskey, Michigan

PETOSKEY, Mich., Feb. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Parkmobile USA, Inc. announced today an innovative new service that will allow residents and visitors in Petoskey to save time and money by using their mobile phone to pay for parking.

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"Parkmobile is very excited to launch our pay by phone parking service with the City of Petoskey," said Albert Bogaard, President & CEO of Parkmobile USA, Inc. "With this technology, customers no longer have to search for change or estimate the time needed at their destination.  The Pay by phone service is an example of another technology that can make our lives easier and more efficient."

To use the new Parkmobile system, customers register for free at http://www.parkmobile.com. Once registered, motorists can use a mobile app, the internet, or a toll free phone call, 800-280-4146 to pay for parking. After setting up the account, customers can immediately start using the system with their registered mobile phone. Motorists can also select the option to receive text message alerts and reminders.  In addition, Petoskey users will receive waived transaction fee.

Becky Goodman, Petoskey Downtown Director, said, "Many of our regular parking customers know that we have offered a pay with your credit card by using your cell phone system in Petoskey for more than a couple of years now.  We were actually one of the first in the country to follow that trend.  We learned from that experience that there is a real need and appreciation for the service.  We are excited to begin our new relationship with Parkmobile because we see that they offer some customer service advantages over our old provider and they are helping us with marketing the service.  It's great to be able to provide something that you know your customers want, but we have not been particularly successful in letting our customers know about our pay by phone system in the past.  With Parkmobile we expect that to change. We also like the fact that Parkmobile is established in the United States and many of our visitors from other communities will know about Parkmobile - maybe will even be their customers - and be comfortable using the system when they come to Petoskey."

Starting today, customers parking in Petoskey will be able to pay for parking online or via phone from the comfort and safety of their own vehicle. The service is being offered citywide at over 900 parking meters. Enrollment in the new program is free, quick and easy.  Parkmobile's pay by phone parking is an ideal parking option for motorists, and is simple and convenient.

For additional information, please visit: http://www.parkmobile.com.

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CONTACT: Sara Engel, Director of Marketing, +1-770-405-0153, sara.engel@parkmobileglobal.com, http://www.parkmobile.com

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

ControlCircle Launches Max2Go Tool for iPhone(R) to Manage the Datacentre on the go

LONDON, February 10, 2011/PRNewswire/ --

   
    Mobile World Congress
    Barcelona - 14-17 February 2011
    ControlCircle
    Hall 2.1 stand A73

    - Mobile App for Management of Global Datacentre Infrastructure
to Debut at MWC 2011, Barcelona

    ControlCircle, the leading datacentre and managed services
provider, today announced the debut of its Max2Go, a mobile tool for managing
a company's global datacentre operations on the iPhone(R) mobile phone at MWC
Barcelona 2011. The mobile device application provides real-time datacentre
management information and the means to provision IT services within the
datacentre from an iPhone.

    Damian Milkins, CEO ControlCircle said, "Reporting technology
status information and the provisioning of IT services on the fly is a
prerequisite for CIOs, CTOs and any other professional tasked with the
management and handling of mission-critical systems. With the explosion of
iPhones in the workplace it was natural to begin the development of a Max2Go
tool onto this popular platform, so we're very excited about this release
which is in time for MWC Barcelona 2011. Max2Go for the iPhone is based on
the same easy-to-use GUI used in the Blackberry release but with improved
information views and the power to manage the most important aspects of your
global datacentre infrastructure."

    The mobile application connects directly into ControlCircle's own
management portal capturing a real-time snapshot of a company's datacentre
infrastructure. From Max2Go's touch screen interface you can oversee the
power, connectivity, critical impact, critical patch, warranty alerts and the
uptime status of servers and applications within the datacentre. To make
changes to that IT infrastructure, an authorised user simply 'clicks' into
the menu to add servers, on-demand services or storage. Critical system
monitoring including the issuing of warranty alerts and the managing of
ticketing requests to ControlCircle can all be executed from the application.

    In addition, the datacentre infrastructure is co-supervised by
ControlCircle's 24x7 Network Operations Team.

    "It's all about mobility and giving optimal control to the user,"
continued Milkins. "If an organisation suffered a prolonged DDoS assault to
its systems Max2Go is able to present information to you wherever you happen
to be allowing you to act on any fast-moving or developing situation. To
invoke a DDoS service that may need to reroute server traffic or switch over
network facilities comes at a significant financial cost if it meant a
website needed to be closed down temporarily. The Max2Go tool enables you to
get information in front of the right people to make that critical decision
bringing a new dimension to global datacentre management."

    Max2Go for the iPhone will soon be available for free through the Apple
Apps Store .

    About ControlCircle

    ControlCircle is a privately owned company, founded in 2001 to
provide solutions ranging from secure hosting and global connectivity to
managing all security, networking, server and database technologies covering
a full range of market sectors.

    The company offers highly skilled and vastly experienced data
specialists who design and support resilient enterprise hosting solutions,
built on highly available platforms backed by ultra reliable support.

    Customers include many of the World's largest online
businesses and blue chip companies in the banking, legal, accounting and
commercial sectors. They rely on our industry knowledge, technical expertise,
innovation, accuracy and skillful team management.

    For more information, please visit:
http://www.controlcircle.com.

Source: ControlCircle

Contact: Jimmy Tse | VP Communications | Tel: +44-208-964-0260 | jimmy@vp-pr.com

MLB.TV: One Billion Served

Internet's Most Prolific Live Video Product on Sale Now at MLB.com

Fully portable to iPad, iPhone, Android, PS3 and additional connected platforms

NEW YORK, Feb. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- As one of the largest subscription video offerings on the Internet, MLB.TV has served one billion live video streams since its inception, 25% of which were delivered in 2010 alone. The 2011 season packages for MLB.TV are on sale now at MLB.com, the official Web site of Major League Baseball.

"Fans have continued to demonstrate, in record numbers, their desire to consume live baseball in the most convenient ways possible," said Noah Garden, Executive Vice President, Revenue, MLB.com. "We remain committed to expanding MLB.TV for our subscribers by leveraging emerging technological platforms and partnerships that deliver a rich experience."

In 2011, fans will be able to follow every game wherever they are with MLB.TV support across a variety of mobile and connected platforms, including iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Android devices through the top-selling MLB.com At Bat apps for each and Sony PS3 and other connected devices. Additional platform offerings for MLB.TV live streaming will be announced as they become available.

Along with portability, this year's product offers subscribers a host of cutting-edge features in the award-winning MLB.TV media player, delivering a dynamic live viewing experience for every out-of-market regular season game. Those include:

    --  HD Quality Picture - Speed detection technology delivers live high
        definition video at the industry standard of 720p on any size monitor.
    --  Home and Away Feeds - Watch either the home or away teams' broadcasts.
    --  Alternate Audio Options - Overlay the home or away teams' radio
        broadcasts over the live video or use the "Park" option to include the
        ballpark's natural sounds.
    --  Live Game DVR Functionality - Pause and rewind or fast-forward live
        games.
    --  Clickable Linescores - Go directly to any at-bat or half-inning of a
        game.
    --  Multi-Game Viewing Options - Watch up to four games simultaneously.
    --  Picture-in-Picture - Choose one game and track another or watch in-game
        highlights simultaneously in a secondary window.
    --  Live Game Highlights - Real-time highlights and player stats
        automatically load into the media player. With one click, the clip
        instantly launches in a picture-in-picture window.
    --  Player Tracker - Customize a list to feature entire fantasy rosters and
        receive on-deck notifications to watch live at-bat look-ins for each
        player.
    --  Spring Training - Watch about 150 live games from Florida and Arizona.

MLB.com: Where Baseball is Always On

SOURCE  MLB.com

MLB.com

CONTACT: Matthew Gould, +1-212-485-8959, cell +1-908-892-3143, matthew.gould@mlb.com

Web Site: http://mlb.com

Tagetik Announces its Partnership With Fujitsu

LUCCA, Italy, February 10, 2011/PRNewswire/ --

    - A Strategic, Global Agreement to Resell Fujitsu Interstage XWand and
Support Organizations With XBRL and iXBRL Filing Requirements

    Tagetik, a global provider of enterprise software solutions
for Performance Management, Governance, Risk & Compliance and Business
Intelligence, today announced an agreement with Fujitsu
(http://www.fujitsu.com ), a leading global provider of ICT-based business
solutions, to resell its market-leading XBRL software, Interstage(R)
XWand(R).

    eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is fast becoming
the standard for financial reporting across the world, allowing regulators to
define the data they require from organizations in a clear and concise
fashion as XBRL taxonomies. iXBRL - or inline XBRL - is a further development
of XBRL that allows users of financial data to interpret the information
quickly and effectively. In the UK, HMRC (http://www.hmrc.gov.uk) has
mandated that all CT Returns (CT600, computation and entity accounts) for
accounting periods ending after 31 March 2010 and submitted after 31 March
2011 must now be filed on-line using iXBRL. As a result, organizations will
no longer be able to make submissions using XML and PDF formats.

    "Fujitsu is very pleased to provide the XBRL and iXBRL
capabilities of Interstage XWand to Tagetik and its customers,"
says Tsune Yoshizawa, Senior Vice President, Software Business, Fujitsu
America. "Powered by Interstage XWand, Tagetik will be able to provide a more
complete reporting solution and further deliver on the promise of XBRL.
Customers will gain confidence from knowing that Tagetik is leveraging the
same XBRL engine that is trusted in the major financial capitals of the
world."

    "Using Tagetik 3.0 Collaborative Disclosure Management, finance
departments can unify the processes of preparing, sharing and publishing all
types of financial data ranging from budget and management reports to
statutory filings and sustainability reports," adds Manuel Vellutini, EVP
Chief Operating Officer at Tagetik.

    "What makes Tagetik 3.0 unique is the ability to automate the entire
Closing process offering full Microsoft Office integration and now, also,
XBRL/iXBRL native support," continues Marco Pierallini, EVP Chief Development
Officer at Tagetik. "This partnership marks a strategic milestone and
investment for Tagetik's product development, providing organizations with a
platform that can cover and streamline all the phases of corporate
disclosures, from data collection, adjustment, reconciliation, analysis
through to the final step of plugging financial information and regulatory
reports, including state-of-the-art XBRL technology."

    Fujitsu has aggressively led the development and adoption of XBRL
standards and technologies for many years. Fujitsu Interstage XWand is the
outcome of those pioneering efforts and is a market-tested solution used by
regulators, auditors, filers, analysts, and enterprises in more than 25
countries around the world.

    Tagetik 3.0 works seamlessly with Fujitsu Interstage XWand, enabling
organizations to tag financial data and output it in XBRL/iXBRL while
providing support for all the phases of the financial information lifecycle
including the preparation, validation, analysis and dissemination of reports.
Organizations can thus automate the creation of XBRL/iXBRL reports, reducing
the administration around this activity, saving time and improving accuracy,
as well as create error-free submissions and validate them before
filing. Along with providing detailed tagging support in Microsoft Word,
Tagetik 3.0 gives the ability to generate the XBRL/iXBRL document directly
from the Word document.

    About Tagetik

    Tagetik delivers a unified software solution for Performance Management,
Enterprise Governance, Risk & Compliance, and Disclosure Management with
specialized Business Intelligence tools to optimize Collaboration and
Communication.

    Tagetik 3.0 creates value by simplifying complex business processes for
CFOs and CIOs: budgeting, forecasting, cash flow planning, statutory and
management consolidation, cost allocation, profitability analysis, financial
close and fast closing, dashboard, score carding, collaborative disclosure
management and compliance/industry requirements. Tagetik 3.0 is the solution
to translate strategy into operations, manage and control overall performance
down to business transactions, and improve decision-making across the whole
organization while achieving faster ROI and lower total cost of ownership
(TCO). Tagetik's vision to extend Performance Management and Business
Intelligence to collaborative decision-making inspired us to develop Tagetik
3.0 Enabled by Microsoft SharePoint, moving CPM from Corporate to
Collaborative Performance Management.

    Tagetik operates in 18 countries leveraging a close partnership with
Microsoft. Its market experts are totally committed to the success of 400
customers worldwide, including some of the largest Fortune 1000 companies
representing all industry sectors, as well as to build strong relationships
with system integrators, technology leaders and local consulting specialists.

    Tagetik is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

    To learn more: http://www.tagetik.com

    Fujitsu, Interstage and XWand are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Fujitsu Limited in the United States and other countries.

   
    Corporate Press Contacts:

    Elisabetta Pierallini
    Luca Pieretti
    +39-0583-96811
    press@tagetik.com

    UK Press Contact:
    Jacqui Freeman
    +44(0)20-8297-5388
    jacquif@jdmarketing.co.uk

    US Press Contact:
    Alessandra Gamba
    +1-203-391-7520
    alessandragamba@tagetik.com

Source: Tagetik

Corporate Press Contacts: Elisabetta Pierallini, Luca Pieretti, +39-0583-96811, press@tagetik.com . UK Press Contact: Jacqui Freeman, +44(0)20-8297-5388, jacquif@jdmarketing.co.uk . US Press Contact: Alessandra Gamba, +1-203-391-7520, alessandragamba@tagetik.com .

Ford CEO Alan Mulally to Deliver Keynote Speech at CeBIT Highlighting European Introduction of Ford SYNC(TM) with MyFord Touch

COLOGNE, Germany, Feb. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

    --  Ford President and CEO Alan Mulally will make a keynote address at the
        2011 CeBIT technology show, March 1, on SYNC(TM) with MyFord Touch,
        Ford's connectivity technology

    --  Advanced SYNC(TM) connectivity platform offers voice control, hands-free
        operation and extensive connectivity options in Ford vehicles

    --  Ford's presence at CeBIT highlights its role at the forefront of driver
        communication solutions and its increasing reputation as a technology
        innovator

Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) President and CEO Alan Mulally will deliver the keynote address at the 2011 CeBIT show on March 1 in Hannover, Germany, promising exciting news about the company's ground-breaking SYNC(TM) with MyFord Touch driver connect technology.

Ford's increasing role as a developer and manufacturer of industry-leading in-car communications technology and interactive solutions has placed it at the forefront of this rapidly developing segment of the automotive world, and has been reflected in the company's growing presence at technology events worldwide.

"I am honored that I will be sharing our Ford story at CeBIT," Mulally said. "We committed to our customers that we will deliver best-in-class quality, fuel economy, safety, value and really smart technologies such as SYNC(TM) with MyFord Touch in every vehicle from Ford, including the all-new Ford Focus."

Introducing SYNC(TM) in European tech showcase

SYNC(TM) with MyFord Touch is a voice-activated in-car connectivity platform that allows the driver to control the vehicle's major functions through spoken commands.

Also boasting the ability to synchronise with media and telecommunications devices - offering hands-free voice control of external business and personal communication or entertainment tools - SYNC(TM) with MyFord Touch is set to revolutionise the way that car drivers communicate both with the car and with the outside world whilst in the car.

Ford SYNC(TM) was developed with the help of Microsoft to offer drivers the ultimate solution to the challenge of staying connected, safely, while on the move.

Originally available to Ford customers in North America, the system has been significantly developed by Ford's specialist engineers to make it compatible with European markets.

In North America, where more than 3 million vehicles have now been equipped with the advanced voice control and connectivity system, SYNC(TM) has been proven to offer users considerable benefits in terms of simplicity and convenience, particularly when combined with Ford's integrated touchscreen interface, MyFord Touch.

Visitors to the CeBIT technology show will have the opportunity to try out the advanced new Ford technologies for themselves at Ford's show stand.

CeBIT offers new audience for Ford

CeBIT has become a focal point for the latest technological advances across a huge range of industries and applications since coming to the fore in its present form in 1986.  The annual event is now the world's largest digital, IT and telecommunications fair and plays host to more than 6,000 exhibitors.

Mulally's keynote speech at the 2011 CeBIT technology show will be a further example of Ford's ground-breaking approach of talking directly to technology consumers and media that began with a similar appearance at the 2009 International CES in Las Vegas.

Ford has returned to the CES event in both 2010 and 2011, with Mulally delivering keynote addresses each year. In doing so, Ford has recognised the importance and value of bringing its increasingly sophisticated in-car connectivity and communication technology directly to a technology-focused audience alongside the traditional automotive audience.

About Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company, a global automotive industry leader based in Dearborn, Mich., manufactures or distributes automobiles across six continents. With about 164,000 employees and about 70 plants worldwide, the company's automotive brands include Ford and Lincoln. The company provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company. For more information regarding Ford's products, please visit http://www.fordmotorcompany.com.

Ford of Europe is responsible for producing, selling and servicing Ford brand vehicles in 51 individual markets and employs approximately 66,000 employees. In addition to Ford Motor Credit Company, Ford of Europe operations include Ford Customer Service Division and 22 manufacturing facilities, including joint ventures. The first Ford cars were shipped to Europe in 1903 - the same year Ford Motor Company was founded. European production started in 1911.

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SOURCE  Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company

CONTACT: Jay Ward, Ford of Europe, +49 221 901-8213, jward35@ford.com; Ralph Caba, Ford Germany, +49 221 901-6015, rcaba@ford.com; Alan Hall, Ford North America, +1-313-594-3744, ahall32@ford.com

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

3D Titles From WealthTV Now Available on Roku

WealthTV Takes Users to a New Dimension on Roku - 3D

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- WealthTV, the premier luxury lifestyle and entertainment network, today announced that several of its original 3D titles are now available via the award-winning Roku streaming player.  The launch of 3D titles by WealthTV marks the first deployment of broadcast quality 3D programming delivered over the top to Roku users.  Current available titles include:  Wonders of the World - Statue of Liberty, The Enchanted Hill - Inside Hearst Castle, and Wheel on Wheels - The Classic Benz.   WealthTV is providing native 3D programming in side-by-side format.   

"WealthTV is committed to ensuring that 3D enthusiasts have easy access to a wide range of 3D programming," said Robert Herring, Sr., founder and CEO of WealthTV.  "Our 3D library and on-going 3D productions will deliver an abundance of entertaining 3D titles via Roku over the coming months."

"3D set owners can now turn to Roku as a source for family-friendly and highly entertaining 3D content," stated Anthony Wood, founder and CEO of Roku, Inc.  "With WealthTV's inaugural launch of 3D programming on Roku, we're pleased to be a recognized source for consumers looking for a new dimension in television viewing."

WealthTV's 3D content is available via its existing service on Roku, which also features WealthTV's 24/7 live feed and over thirty video on demand titles.   The service is available for one single price of $2.99 per month, giving Roku users a number of viewing experiences for less than a dime a day.  WealthTV launched its high definition programming services in June of 2004 making it one of the oldest high definition national programmer networks.  The first deployment of 3D content by WealthTV took place in July of 2010.

About WealthTV

WealthTV is the premier lifestyle and entertainment network --the destination for exclusive and original programming, simultaneously transmitted in high definition and standard definition.  WealthTV delivers informative shows that provide invaluable insights on what every American dreams of - from travel secrets to fast cars, from better etiquette to better investing, and much more.  The network fills a television vacuum by delivering intellectually stimulating, thought-provoking entertainment and always-unbiased news from an insider's perspective.  For more information, please visit http://www.wealthtv.com

    For more information, contact:

    Cameron Westfall
    WealthTV
    Phone:  858-270-6900
    cameron.westfall@wealthtv.com
    -----------------------------

SOURCE  WealthTV

WealthTV

CONTACT: Cameron Westfall of WealthTV, +1-858-270-6900, cameron.westfall@wealthtv.com

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

CellGuide and Rx Networks Collaborate on Delivering Multi Beacon, Hybrid & Assisted-GPS Technologies

REHOVOT, Israel, and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, February 10, 2011/PRNewswire/ --     CellGuide, a leading host based GNSS solution provider, and Rx Networks,
a leading mobile positioning-assistance technology company, today announced
that they are collaborating in bringing to market a solution comprising of
CellGuide's GPSense(TM) Multi Beacon Engine and Rx Networks' suite of
location assistance products.

    The Rx Networks GPStream(TM) and XYBRID(TM) solutions are integrated with
CellGuide's GPSense(TM) location engine, which supports CellGuide's ACLYS GPS
chip or CGsnap GPS IP baseband. Within the integrated solution, the Rx
Networks suite provides both assisted services for the GPS technology and
complementary hybrid location technology for WiFi and Cellular-based devices.
In combination, the technologies provide a comprehensive, end-to-end location
solution for a broad range of platforms and operating systems, including
Android, Linux, WinCE and Windows Mobile.

    CellGuide's GPSense(TM) engine supports the following Rx Networks
technologies:

   
    - SUPL 1.0 client: Mobile network standards-compliant client.
    - GPStream PGPS(TM): a multi-day extended ephemeris solution that
      provides improved GPS sensitivity and faster times to first fix,
      enhancing the user experience.
    - GPStream SAGPS(TM): an extended ephemeris solution that does not
      require network connectivity to operate.
    - XYBRID RT(TM): a real-time hybrid positioning service for devices
      equipped with WiFi, Cellular or GPS.
    - XYBRID SUPL LE(TM): A SUPL 1.0 service hosted by Rx Networks over
      its carrier-grade, 99.999% service infrastructure.

    "Rx Networks' products effectively augment our GPSense(TM) location
engine," said Boaz Efroni Rotman, VP of Sales and Marketing at CellGuide.
"The combined solution provides our customer with an advanced hybrid
positioning platform that can be used seamlessly both indoors and outdoors,
for various solutions including mobile handsets, tablets, and car
infotainment systems."

    "CellGuide is a valuable partner with their full utilization of our
location solutions., said Adrian Stimpson, Senior VP of Sales & Marketing at
Rx Networks. "Their GPSense(TM) and our products will jointly enable the
market to develop and implement the next stage in location-based applications
for use anywhere."

    An evaluation and demo platform based on CellGuide's GPSense(TM) engine
and Rx Networks' products is available for developers and ODMs using
application processors from a range of providers, including Samsung, Marvell,
Freescale, and Telechips.

    To learn more about CellGuide's complete line of advanced GPS products,
visit

    CellGuide's booth at Mobile World Congress 2011, February 14-17th,
Barcelona, Spain, Hall 2, stand 2C12, or email mwc2011@cell-guide.com.

    To learn more about Rx Networks and to see a demonstration of XYBRID
RT(TM), visit booth C30, hall 2.1.

    About CellGuide

    CellGuide is a fabless semiconductor and design services company,
providing leading performance multi-beacon positioning solutions for consumer
devices. CellGuide's unique and patented GNSS technology is the product of
years of research, development, and field experience. A pioneer in GNSS SNAP
technology and host-based architecture, the company was founded in 1999 by
experts in navigation, communication and signal processing coming from the
Israeli defense industry.

    About Rx Networks

    Solving Every "Where". Rx Networks is a mobile positioning technology
company that develops hybrid positioning and assisted-GPS solutions that
unify any available GPS, GLONASS, cell tower or WiFi information. These
solutions, already licensed by leading GNSS semiconductor vendors, device
OEMS, network equipment vendors, and mobile operators, bring instant location
awareness and help deliver an unmatched mobile location user experience on
any device and for any application. GPStream GRN(TM) provides global
real-time and long-term prediction GPS/GLONASS reference data for use by any
mobile network location server. GPStream PGPS(TM) adds GPS and GLONASS
extended ephemeris support to increase the sensitivity and acquisition speed
of any GNSS chipset, while XYBRID RT(TM) and XYBRID SUPL LE(TM) combine
WiFi/Cell positioning with real-time A-GPS/A-GLONASS support to extend the
location performance of GNSS chips in difficult areas, such as indoors or
urban cores.

   
    Media Contacts:
    Lital Mamon
    CellGuide Ltd.
    +972-8-9365152
    lital@cell-guide.com

    Adrian Stimpson
    Rx Networks Inc.
    +1-604-699-6161
    astimpson@rxnetworks.com

Source: CellGuide Ltd

Media Contacts: Lital Mamon, CellGuide Ltd., +972-8-9365152, lital@cell-guide.com; Adrian Stimpson, Rx Networks Inc., +1-604-699-6161, astimpson@rxnetworks.com

When CellGuide Announces Licensing of the CGsnap GPS/GLONASS IP Core, a Breakthrough in Highly Integrated GNSS Architecture

REHOVOT, Israel, February 10, 2011/PRNewswire/ --     CellGuide, a leading host-based GNSS solution provider, announced today
the availability of the CGsnap core, an ultra-small footprint GPS/GLONASS
baseband IP solution for mobile applications. Designed for integration in
mobile processors, CGsnap operates with CellGuide's GPSense multi-beacon
positioning firmware to provide industry-leading navigation and positioning
performance.

    CGsnap state-of-the-art architecture meets the demanding requirements of
consumer mobile environments. The ultra-small footprint, low power
consumption and resulting unit cost are significantly better than competitive
solutions while exceeding industry requirements for deep urban navigation
performance. Relying on SNAP technology, extremely low power consumption
enables longer battery life for mobile devices. CGsnap seamlessly integrates
with CellGuide's ACLYS-L GPS L1 RF front-end solution, offering simple system
integration. In addition, CGsnap can operate with industry standard GNSS RF
front-end solutions

    The GPS constellation support in the CGsnap is available today for
licensing with the GLONASS constellation support ready by mid 2011. Key to
the solution is CellGuide's GPSense multi-beacon firmware, which runs on a
variety of commonly available application and multi-media processors, CGsnap
and GPSense radically reduces the size of dedicated GNSS silicon and enhances
user experience.

    To learn more about CellGuide's complete line of GNSS products, including
the ACLYS, visit http://www.cell-guide.com or email info@cell-guide.com.
CellGuide is exhibiting at the Mobile World Congress 2011, February 14-17th,
Barcelona, Spain, Hall 2, stand 2C12.

    About CellGuide

    CellGuide is a fabless semiconductor and design services company,
providing leading performance multi-beacon positioning solutions for consumer
devices. CellGuide's unique and patented GNSS technology is the product of
years of research, development, and field experience. A pioneer in GNSS SNAP
technology and host-based architecture, the company was founded in 1999 by
experts in navigation, communication and signal processing coming from the
Israeli defense industry.

    CGsnap is a trademark of CellGuide Ltd. Other products and trade names
mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners.

   
    Media Contact:
    Lital Mamon
    CellGuide Ltd.
    Tel: +972-8-9365152
    lital@cell-guide.com

Source: CellGuide Ltd

Media Contact: Lital Mamon, CellGuide Ltd., Tel: +972-8-9365152, lital@cell-guide.com

EpicSocial Announces New Branding and Industry-Leading Social Media Solutions for Advertisers

Publicly announces its emergence after a year of exponential growth during incubation stage; poised for further rapid growth in the expanding social media marketing industry.

NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- EpicSocial (http://www.EpicSocial.com), an operating unit of the Epic Media Group and a leader in social media audience acquisition, measurement, targeting and management, announced today the public launch of its new brand identity. In addition, the group announced the rollout and expansion of its distinctive social media solutions, which provide brands and advertisers with unsurpassed measurability and profitability in their social media marketing efforts. This announcement comes on the heels of rapid growth while operating with a concentrated and limited set of clients for the last year. Launched in early 2010, Epic's social unit grew 513% in the last two quarters of the year, and experienced an 840% increase in action-based transactions through the EpicSocial platform in this same period.

EpicSocial's growth parallels several upward trends in social media as a whole. The enormous shift towards consumer adoption of social media has provided the opportunity for advertisers to reach larger numbers of potential consumers efficiently, and to target them intelligently. EpicSocial has built cutting-edge technology tools to allow the group to deliver maximum earned media value for its clients. EpicSocial is now poised to substantially increase the number and the type of clients served as the group leverages an ever more comprehensive suite of integrated tools.

"We are pleased to publically launch EpicSocial. Building on the great momentum we achieved in 2010, we believe our exceptional social team will provide continued robust growth," said Don Mathis, President and Co-CEO of Epic Media Group. "We deliberately stayed under the radar screen last year as we worked on getting our social strategy right, while enjoying unprecedented growth along the way. We are now able to deploy what we believe to be the most comprehensive social marketing solution available in the marketplace today. The EpicSocial team actually provides the first true turn-key set of solutions that give clients a better understanding of the medium, how they are performing against their goals, and the overall value they are creating for themselves by owning their audiences. We are tremendously excited to bring this solution to a broader client base."

According to recent reports by eMarketer, social network ad revenues are expected to soar to over $8 billion worldwide by 2012, up from just over $2 billion in 2009. Additionally, social games are attracting sizeable worldwide audiences and gaming revenues expected to double by 2012. The sale of virtual goods, the largest category in social gaming, is likewise an area expected to keep momentum with triple-digit increases over the next few years. EpicSocial is uniquely positioned to help clients capitalize on all of these upward trends.

For more information, please log onto: http://www.EpicSocial.com. If your brand or agency would like real time strategy consulting on how EpicSocial's products can help you integrate across social platforms, contact advertisers@epicsocial.com.

About EpicSocial:

EpicSocial (http://www.EpicSocial.com) is an operating unit of the Epic Media Group and is a leading social advertising specialist helping advertisers and agencies measure, manage and profit from social media. The group offers solutions across four major channels including social, open web, in-application and in-game advertising. EpicSocial is able to measure effectiveness, brand impact and engagement across a variety of metrics tailored to the client. EpicSocial provides transparency and a greater understanding of advertising effectiveness for our clients. 

About Epic Media Group:

Epic Media Group (http://www.theepicmediagroup.com) is the preeminent privately-held global digital marketing solutions company, with deep expertise in managing a full spectrum of advertising services for advertisers, brands and agencies, from brand-building and engagement to performance-based customer acquisition solutions. The company relentlessly focuses on delivering the most comprehensive and cost-effective strategic digital marketing campaigns for advertisers of all sizes, across all industries and around the world. Epic Media Group intelligently and cost effectively accesses consumers across multiple traffic distribution channels through integrated campaigns which include display, search, social media, rich media, mobile, video and more.

SOURCE  Epic Media Group

Epic Media Group

CONTACT: Cherilyn Cubeta, Marketing Director, +1-212-308-8509, pr@theepicmediagroup.com

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

Update to YP(SM)-Yellow Pages App Brings Local Deals, Search Capabilities to iPhone Users

GLENDALE, Calif., Feb. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T* today announced that an updated version of its YP(SM)-Yellow Pages App is now available on the App Store. The update delivers a completely redesigned user experience that offers more ways for iPhone users to quickly find local businesses and great savings. In addition to encouraging users to cash in on local deals, AT&T's flagship local search app now greets users with a fresh look packed with new features that also support discovery and interaction with local businesses.

The YP(SM) brand offers a unique mobile experience built from the ground up to help users quickly find more of what they are really looking for - whether it's local businesses, events or ways to save money. AT&T's relationships with thousands of advertisers and leading coupon providers amplify the opportunity to offer access to a wide range of local deals everyday and with no upfront purchase or additional steps.

The next-gen YP app experience offers iPhone users:

    --  Convenient "Deals" section to browse nearby coupons, specials, and
        discounts across a variety of categories that can be redeemed on the
        spot or tucked away for later.
    --  Location-aware homescreen that displays local weather and can be
        personalized to show nearby deals, local events, and shortcuts to
        favorite searches.
    --  Ability to save deals, favorite businesses, and events to "My Stuff" for
        easy access.
    --  Enhanced features including location detection that automatically
        pinpoints a users' location down to the street address, making it easier
        to quickly find things nearby.
    --  Swipe listings for a quick access menu to quickly call, see a map or get
        directions to a business nearby.

New features complement popular YP app functionality including:

    --  Quickly search comprehensive information for over 18M U.S. businesses by
        typing, speaking, or browsing popular categories.
    --  Thousands of ratings and reviews by locals and the ability to post your
        own review on the spot.
    --  Access to thousands of video profiles that bring users "face-to-face"
        with local businesses.
    --  Numerous ways to share businesses with friends including via text,
        email, Twitter and Facebook.
    --  Seasonal "discovery modules" that provide timely suggestions for
        exploring nearby places to eat, drink, play and shop.

"The new YP App is designed to meet the needs of users who live a mobile lifestyle -- by making it easier and quicker to navigate their daily lives," said David Williams, VP of Mobile Products at AT&T Interactive. "Developed with iPhone users in mind, the app is super intuitive, quickly helps users find nearby stores, well-reviewed restaurants or entertainment options and delivers coupons and discounts straight to their fingertips."

The YP-Yellow Pages App is available for free from the App Store or at http://www.itunes.com/appstore.

For more information on YP apps visit http://www.yp.com/products, YP on Facebook or YP on Twitter.

*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 Interactive

AT&T Interactive, a subsidiary of AT&T Inc, is an industry leader in creating local search products that encourage consumers to discover and engage with local businesses across three screens - online, mobile, and TV. YP.com, AT&T Interactive's flagship web property, attracts over 30 million monthly online unique visitors.(1)  AT&T Interactive consumer apps have a pre-activation presence or have been downloaded through digital app stores on over 40 million mobile phones.(2)

The YP Local Ad Network helps advertisers grow their business and distributes ads to a distinguished list of top publishers whose presence spans online, mobile and TV. AT&T Interactive's wide range of local ad products such as premium listings, performance-based advertising, and search engine marketing provides advertisers an opportunity to increase their presence among consumers who are looking for a local business.

AT&T Interactive products are supported by over 5,000 media consultants from AT&T Advertising Solutions and third party resellers. To learn more visit http://www.adsolutions.att.com.

Keep tabs on YP products on YP on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/YP.

(1) Source: AT&T Interactive internal data, 2010 YTD average through December. This data has not been subject to third party review and are not subject to audit

(2) Source: AT&T Mobility and AT&T Interactive internal data

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. All other marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.

SOURCE  AT&T Inc.

AT&T Inc.

CONTACT: Dawn Benton of AT&T Inc., +1-404-986-1824, dawn.benton@att.com

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

Rock the House: Sonos Introduces Sonos Controller for Android

Wireless Music System for Android Provides Unlimited Music, Incredible Control and Amazing Sound in Every Room

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Feb. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sonos, the leading developer of wireless multi-room music systems for the home, today introduced the Sonos Controller for Android, a free app that transforms most Android(TM) smartphones into a wireless music controller for the award-winning Sonos Multi-Room Music System.  The Sonos Controller for Android, available in late March as a free download from Android Market(TM), will make its public debut next week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.  To watch a video introduction of the Sonos Controller for Android, please visit http://www.sonos.com/android.

With the award-winning Sonos S5 in any room and an Android phone in hand, music lovers will enjoy an unmatched wireless music experience in the home. You'll be able to access and play all the music on earth--from the Internet and your personal music library--throughout the home, wirelessly.  Use the free Sonos Controller for Android app to control all your music and rooms, all from the palm of your hand.  And, Sonos Controller for Android features Sonos' latest innovation in the home music experience - music voice search - allowing users to find any artist, album or track by simply speaking into the phone.

"Sonos' mission is to fill every home with music," said John MacFarlane, CEO, Sonos, Inc.  "We are thrilled to bring the joy of music to the homes of Android fans worldwide."

To get started enjoying music in any or every room of the home, all you need is a Sonos ZonePlayer and a Sonos Controller such as the free Sonos Controller for Android.  The most popular Sonos ZonePlayer is the Sonos S5, an all-in-one wireless music system you can plug in anywhere.  Now you can play any track you like, anytime you like, in any room you like.  Wirelessly play the same song in every room of the house - perfectly synchronized. Or, mix it up and play different songs in different rooms.

When it comes to controlling Sonos, you simply reach into your pocket for your Android smartphone. With Sonos Controller for Android, you can search for songs and stations by typing or speaking, choose the music and control the volume in as many rooms as you like.  And because your Android phone is controlling the music, and not the source of it, when a text comes in or you need to make a phone call, the music doesn't stop.

Sonos connects directly to the Internet so you can access a world of music without ever turning on your computer.  Search and play more than 100,000 Internet radio stations, shows and podcasts -- from around the world.  Play songs, playlists and radio from the most popular music services like Deezer, iheartradio, Last.fm, Napster, Pandora, Rdio, Rhapsody, SiriusXM Internet Radio, Spotify, Wolfgang's Vault, and more.  And of course, Sonos can play your entire digital music library (such as iTunes) stored on a computer or Network Attached storage drive.

The Sonos Controller for Android is designed to work on any Android smartphonerunning Android 2.1 or later with a screen size of HVGA 320 x 480, WVGA 480 x 800 or WVGA 480 x 854.  Sonos Controller for Android joins the family of Sonos Controllers which includes free apps for iPhone and iPad, a dedicated touchscreen controller, the Sonos Controller 200, and free software for your Mac or PC, included with every ZonePlayer. All controllers work together seamlessly.

Sonos will be demonstrating the Sonos Controller for Android at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain February 13-17, 2011. For a demonstration in person, you'll find Sonos at the following locations:

    --  Android:  Hall 8; Booth 8C25
    --  Motorola:  Hall 8, Booth 8A28
    --  Sonos:  Hall 7; Suite 7HS11

For more information about Sonos or to locate an authorized Sonos dealer in your area, please visit http://www.sonos.com or call 877.80.SONOS.

About Sonos, Inc.

Sonos® is the leading developer of wireless multi-room music systems for the home. The Sonos Multi-Room Music System is the first, wireless multi-room music system that lets you play all the music you want all over your house - and control it all from the palm of your hand.  Sonos liberates the music stored on a computer so it can be enjoyed all over the house.  In addition, by partnering with audio services like iheartradio, Last.fm, Napster®, Pandora®, RadioTime, Rdio, Rhapsody®, SiriusXM Internet Radio, Spotify, Wolfgang's Vault, and more, Sonos gives music lovers instant, computer-free access to millions of songs, thousands of radio stations, audiobooks, and more.  The award-winning Sonos Multi-Room Music System is available at more than 6200 retailers in over 65 countries worldwide; or direct from Sonos at http://www.sonos.com.  Sonos is a privately-held company, headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA with offices in Cambridge, MA, Hilversum, Netherlands and Penang, Malaysia.  To find out more about the company or the Sonos Multi-Room Music System, please visit: pr.sonos.com.

© 2004-2011 by Sonos, Inc. All rights reserved. Sonos is a registered trademark of Sonos, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries with pending trademark registrations worldwide.SonosNet, ZonePlayer, ZoneBridge and all Sonos logos are trademarks of Sonos, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other products and services may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.

Android and Android Market are trademarks of Google, Inc.

SOURCE  Sonos, Inc.

Sonos, Inc.

CONTACT: Thomas Meyer of Sonos, Inc., +1-949-212-6201, Thomas.Meyer@sonos.com, Twitter @Sonos

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

PR Newswire Extends Reach to Mobile and Social Web

NEW YORK, Feb. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- PR Newswire today announced the launch of a new mobile version of its main website, PRNewswire.com, and a significant upgrade to its free iPad, iPhone and iPod app featuring push alerts, offline reading and a Spanish interface.

To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click:  http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/prnewswire/47778/

(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20000306/PRNLOGO)

The launches, which broaden PR Newswire's already-extensive mobile footprint, provide users with multiple choices for finding, viewing and sharing press releases, images, videos and other content on cell phones, tablets and other handheld devices, increasing the reach and impact of customers' press releases and other announcements.

The new mobile web site brings the same or improved levels of user experience that users currently enjoy on PRNewswire.com, the PR industry's most highly trafficked web site. The new iPad, iPhone and iPod app offers users enhanced searching capabilities, including customized email and push alerts, saved searches based on multiple keywords and stock market tickers,and the ability to switch between English or Spanish user interfaces. The alerts will enable users to track topics or companies via their device and receive an email or an alert on their device whenever a press release is issued or when the @prnewswire or @profnet Twitter feeds include certain keywords.

"With PR Newswire content currently available on 56 downloadable mobile apps, we enable our customers to reach more individuals in a more direct manner by literally putting their news and messages into their audiences' hands," said Rod Nicolson, vice president, User Experience Design & Workflow, PR Newswire. "The surge in adoption of smart phones, such as the iPhone and Android-based devices, and the expansion of 3G networks in many countries has made the mobile web a common medium for accessing information and sharing it with friends and colleagues. PR Newswire's mobile site and apps are designed to provide an easily accessible and intuitive experience for viewing up-to-the-minute content on tablets and cell phones."

From the mobile version of PRNewswire.com, users can access all press releases, photos and images and conduct searches for specific information by company name, ticker symbol or by selecting from a list of subject categories and topics. Additionally, the site serves as an on-the-go resource for users who need immediate information on PR Newswire's industry-leading marketing and communications services. The site is optimized for iPhones and devices from Motorola, Blackberry, Nokia and HTC, among others and plays to the strong social inclinations of mobile users by enabling them to share stories quickly and easily. The site can be accessed by going to http://www.prnewswire.com on a mobile device.

Nicolson continued, "The launch of our mobile site and the enhancements to our iPhone, iPad and iPod apps clearly demonstrate PR Newswire's commitment to building a leadership position in the mobile news and communications space."

In keeping with the company's objective to facilitate mobile access to its products, services and press releases, the mobile version of PRNewswire.com provides a comprehensive access point for mobile users. The mobile site includes features that give a user the ability to:

    --  Share releases via email and social media like Facebook, Twitter and
        LinkedIn
    --  Access all press releases sent in the US
    --  Contact PR Newswire directly using the call icon
    --  Submit comments, questions and feedback directly from a mobile device

Apps carrying PR Newswire's content include Pulse Reader, Cross Reader, NewsCast and My Nucleus.

About PR Newswire

PR Newswire (http://www.prnewswire.com) is the premier global provider of multimedia platforms that enable marketers, corporate communicators, sustainability officers, public affairs and investor relations officers to leverage content to engage with all their key audiences. Having pioneered the commercial news distribution industry 56 years ago, PR Newswire today provides end-to-end solutions to produce, optimize and target content - from rich media to online video to multimedia - and then distribute content and measure results across traditional, digital, mobile and social channels. Combining the world's largest multi-channel, multi-cultural content distribution and optimization network with comprehensive workflow tools and platforms, PR Newswire enables the world's enterprises to engage opportunity everywhere it exists. PR Newswire serves tens of thousands of clients from offices in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, and is a United Business Media company.

    Media Contact:
    Rachel Meranus
    Vice President, Marketing and
     Communications
    PR Newswire
    +1.201.360.6776
    rachel.meranus@prnewswire.com

SOURCE  PR Newswire

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PR Newswire

CONTACT: Rachel Meranus, Vice President, Marketing and Communications, PR Newswire at +1-201-360-6776 or rachel.meranus@prnewswire.com

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

WCC Smart Search & Match Announces ELISE in the Cloud

UTRECHT, The Netherlands, February 10, 2011/PRNewswire/ --     WCC Smart Search & Match, the leading provider of the search and match
platform, today announced the availability of its flagship product, ELISE, in
the cloud.

    To view the Multimedia News Release, please click:

    http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/prne/wcc/47588/

    ELISE, the Smart Search & Match platform is currently used by many large
enterprises and by government agencies around the globe. "Our clients are
increasingly making use of cloud computing or planning to do so, both within
public cloud infrastructure and within private clouds when additional
security is required. We wanted ELISE to be cloud ready to help them make
this transition," said Peter Went, CEO of WCC Smart Search & Match.

    For many applications, deploying cloud-based ELISE immediately translates
into more cost-effective use of data center resources. ELISE easily handles
dynamic scaling in the cloud to provide flexible resource allocation for
changes in data volumes and changes in the number of users. Similarly,
scaling ELISE in the cloud enables response times to be adjusted easily to
maintain customer service levels regardless of loading.

    About cloud computing

    Conventional IT infrastructures are sized for the peak requirements of a
particular application. Multiple applications therefore have multiple IT
infrastructures that often share the same data center. Cloud computing allows
the dynamic sharing of a single IT infrastructure by multiple applications so
that only the part of an IT infrastructure that is required is actually used.
This translates into reduced costs by requiring less hardware (and hardware
maintenance) and by reducing infrastructure management costs.

    About WCC

    WCC is a global leader in smart search and match software, serving both
enterprise and government customers for over thirteen years. Its flagship
ELISE Smart Search & Match is deployed worldwide to address identification
and job matching needs. WCC partners with large systems integrators to help
build solutions that meet government challenges. The company is headquartered
in the Netherlands with offices in Silicon Valley (Palo Alto) and the
Washington DC Area (Reston). For more information, please visit:
http://www.wcc-group.com

Video:
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Source: WCC Smart Search & Match

Press contact: Eliska Went, +31(30)7503200, EWent@wcc-group.com

New Funambol MediaHub(TM) Lets Consumers SyncVideo and Music With Their Phones and Tablets

Wirelessly Syncs Rich Media, Files and PIM Data With Mobile and Connected Devices via the Cloud

REDWOOD CITY, California, February 10, 2011/PRNewswire/ --     Funambol (http://www.funambol.com), the open source mobile cloud company,
today announced its new MediaHub software to sync rich media (e.g. pictures,
video and music), files and PIM data (e.g. contacts and calendars) across
smartphones, tablets, PCs and mobile devices via the cloud. MediaHub syncs
media and data with enterprise systems such as Outlook and file servers,
mobile devices (e.g. phones, tablets & PCs) and cloud services such as
Facebook, Flickr and Picasa. It is a white-label solution for service
providers that enables them to become a trusted vault for a customer's
digital mobile assets. Unlike clouds from Google and Facebook, MediaHub
assets are not inherently mined for marketing purposes. The software includes
core device management functions to assist cross-device syncing. Funambol is
debuting MediaHub at Mobile World Congress (booth #1J46, Hall 1).

    "MediaHub is the Swiss Army knife of cloud-based media sharing," said
Amit Chawla, Funambol CEO.

    "It connects everything by syncing virtually any data across any device
via the cloud. It helps carriers reenergize customer relationships by
becoming the trusted vault for their mobile digital assets."

    "As the number of mobile and connected devices multiplies, so does the
difficulty of sharing and accessing data and media across them," said Dr.
Windsor Holden, Principal Analyst, Juniper Research. "Service providers are
faced with myriad operating systems that each have native protocols, but
services such as this that are based on open source technology can provide
the 'glue' that stitches disparate devices and platforms together."

    The need to wirelessly connect devices is exploding, as consumers and
businesses expand their repertoire of mobile devices, from PCs/laptops to
smartphones, tablets and beyond. It is an environment that suits using the
cloud to connect devices, both to back up data and media, and to support
roving devices. MediaHub syncs the widest variety of data across the broadest
array of devices, uniquely supported by Funambol's global mobile open source
community. The software simplifies the syncing of multiple device types e.g.
sharing media on an iPhone or BlackBerry with an Android tablet.

    Funambol MediaHub is scheduled to be available in Q2, 2011.

    Funambol and MediaHub are trademarks of Funambol. Other names may be the
trademarks or property of their respective owners.

Source: Funambol

Matt Humphries or Sam Tring at Babel PR, +44(0)20-7434-5550, funambol@babelpr.com

Spread Betting Away From Your Desk

LONDON, February 10, 2011/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --     Spread bettors should not and cannot dedicate all their time to sitting
in front of their trading platform, so must devise new ways of managing their
spread betting. Here, spread betting provider City Index (
http://www.cityindex.co.uk/) offers a few valuable pointers:

    1) Mobile Trading

    Mobile trading (
http://www.cityindex.co.uk/trading-platform/mobile-trading-platform.aspx) now
accounts for 15 percent of trades with City Index. Market Strategist Joshua
Raymond believes this is down to the greater level of autonomy it allows
traders. "It allows you to keep abreast of the markets wherever you are,
whenever you want. With many markets available to trade 24 hours a day, and
especially since the markets have been volatile recently, it is imperative
that you can react with just a few clicks of a button."

    2) Timeframe Consideration

    Having the ability to react quickly to market movements can make a
significant difference in short-term spread betting. For this reason, unless
you have constant access to a trading platform and your spread betting
account (http://www.cityindex.co.uk/learn-to-trade/demo-account.aspx), it may
be worth considering more medium to long-term spread betting. For a
short-term trader there can be a lot of pressure to frequently check the
markets, which can lead to spread betting mistakes and indecision.

    3) Exit Strategy

    Some traders focus their analysis on finding the perfect entry price
point for their spread bet. While this is important, the price at which you
plan to exit the spread bet is of equal value. Concentrating on stop losses
and limit orders can be an effective way of managing your trading away from a
computer.

    To find out more about spread betting with City Index, visit:

    http://www.cityindex.co.uk/spread-betting/

    About City Index:

    Today more and more individual traders are discovering the benefits of
derivatives, and many of them are discovering them through a City Index
trading platform.

    As a group, we transact in excess of 1.5 million trades every month for
individuals in over 50 countries worldwide. We provide access to a wide range
of instruments including margined foreign exchange, contracts for differences
(CFDs) and, in the UK, spread betting.

    We constantly look to widen the range of assets we offer, improve the
performance of our platforms and expand the range of services we provide. The
result is that our customers benefit from innovative trading tools with
transparent pricing, competitive spreads, and a high standard of customer
service and support.

    Spread betting and CFD trading are leveraged products which can result in
losses greater than your initial deposit. Ensure you fully understand the
risks.

    Apple, the Apple logo, iPod, iPod touch, and iTunes are trademarks of
Apple Inc., registered in the US and other countries. iPhone is a trademark
of Apple Inc.

Source: City Index

Contact: Joshua Raymond, City Index Group, Tel: +44(0)20-7107-7002, Email: joshua.raymond[at]cityindex.co.uk; Jonathan Smith / Alex Nekrassov, New Century Media, Tel: +44(0)20-7930-8033, Email: jsmith[at]newcenturymedia.co.uk, alexnekrassov[at]newcenturymedia.co.uk

'Learn the Switch to Mac' for $0.99 with a Genuine Mac Enthusiast

CUPERTINO, Calif., Feb. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- If you are one of the millions switching to Mac, you want this app. At its launch in the Mac App Store, "Learn the Switch to Mac" cracked the top 10 paid app downloads. CNET's Joe Aimonetti says, "Each lesson is led by a friendly looking dude (Saied) who gives you several tasks to complete within each function. Completing these tasks will help novice users get the hang of their new Mac." 

(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110210/SF45516)

"Today is a great day for Switchers," Saied Ghaffari said, CEO of It's About Time Products. "Now with one click for $0.99 in the Mac App Store, Switchers can learn the Mac at their own pace with our completely interactive learning app."

"Learn the Switch to Mac" was created by 26-year old Silicon Valley entrepreneur Saied Ghaffari. Back in 2001, Ghaffari was the youngest employee to work at the Apple Store in Tysons Corner, Virginia. Within a short period of time, Ghaffari proved to be one of the most successful Apple Store employees, having the highest metrics attach rates for .mac. In 2005, Apple hired Ghaffari as the .mac evangelist, and sent him around the world demonstrating the features of .mac. In 2006, Ghaffari launched It's About Time Products to reinvent at-home learning with his eyes set on teaching the switch to Mac. In this way, "Learn the Switch to Mac" was created by a genuine Mac enthusiast who understands the product to its core and can teach its features with ease and confidence.

Designed for all users--power to beginners, we recommend using "Learn the Switch to Mac" in the first couple weeks after you purchase your new Mac. Start by clicking what you want to learn, then watch Saied, your instructor, teach you about the feature. After he teaches you, you try it yourself on the virtual Mac we've built into the learning environment. If you complete the lesson correctly, you get a gold star. It's really fun.

Thank you for giving us the opportunity to teach you how to use the Mac.

Pricing & Availability

Learn the Switch to Mac is available now for a special launch price of $0.99 in the Mac App Store

LINKS:

Mac App Store:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/learn-the-switch-to-mac/id412667520?mt

Demo video:

http://vimeo.com/2230768

CNET REVIEW:

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20030914-263.html

TUAW

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/02/05/switchers-get-learn-the-switch-to-mac-for-a-buck-in-the-mac-a/

http://www.ItsAboutTimeProducts.com/

SOURCE  It's About Time Products

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It's About Time Products

CONTACT: Saied Ghaffari of It's About Time Products, saied@ItsAboutTimeProducts.com

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

Verizon Commences Tender Offer for all Outstanding Shares of Terremark Worldwide, Inc.

NEW YORK, Feb. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) today announced the commencement of the tender offer for all outstanding shares of Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (Nasdaq: TMRK) for $19.00 per share in cash without interest and less any required withholding taxes. The tender offer is being made by Verizon Holdings Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Verizon, pursuant to a previously announced Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of Jan. 27, 2011, by and among Verizon, Verizon Holdings Inc. and Terremark.   

The tender offer will expire at midnight Eastern time on March 10, 2011, unless extended in accordance with the definitive agreement and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Any extension of the tender offer will be followed as promptly as practicable by public announcement thereof, and such announcement will be made no later than 9 a.m. Eastern time on the next business day after the previously scheduled expiration date. The tender offer is subject to customary conditions, including the acquisition by Verizon of a majority of the outstanding shares of Terremark common stock on a fully diluted basis and the expiration or termination of the applicable waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act.  As previously disclosed, stockholders holding shares representing approximately 27.6 percent of the outstanding voting shares of Terremark have agreed, among other things, to tender all of their shares in the tender offer.

Today, Verizon will file with the SEC a tender offer statement on Schedule TO, setting forth in detail the terms of the tender offer. Terremark  will shortly file with the SEC a solicitation/recommendation statement on Schedule 14D-9, setting forth in detail, among other things, the unanimous recommendation of Terremark's board of directors that Terremark's stockholders accept the tender offer and tender their Terremark shares pursuant to the tender offer.

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ), headquartered in New York, is a global leader in delivering broadband and other wireless and wireline communications services to mass market, business, government and wholesale customers.  Verizon Wireless operates America's most reliable wireless network, serving 94.1 million customers nationwide.  Verizon also provides converged communications, information and entertainment services over America's most advanced fiber-optic network, and delivers innovative, seamless business solutions to customers around the world.  A Dow 30 company, Verizon employs a diverse workforce of more than 194,000 and last year generated consolidated revenues of $106.6 billion.  For more information, visit http://www.verizon.com.

VERIZON'S ONLINE NEWS CENTER: Verizon news releases, executive speeches and biographies, media contacts, high-quality video and images, and other information are available at Verizon's News Center on the World Wide Web at http://www.verizon.com/news.  To receive news releases by e-mail, visit the News Center and register for customized automatic delivery of Verizon news releases.

Additional Information and Where to Find It

This release is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to sell securities. Verizon - through a new subsidiary, Verizon Holdings Inc. - will file a tender offer statement on Schedule TO with the SEC.  Terremark stockholders are strongly advised to read the tender offer statement (including the offer to purchase, letter of transmittal and related tender offer documents) and the related solicitation/recommendation statement on Schedule 14D-9 that will be filed by Terremark with the SEC because they will contain important information about the proposed transaction. These documents will be available at no charge on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov. In addition, a copy of the offer to purchase, letter of transmittal and certain other related tender offer documents once they become available may be obtained free of charge by directing a request to Verizon at 212-395-1525. A copy of the tender offer statement and the solicitation/recommendation statement will also be made available to all stockholders of Terremark by contacting Terremark Investor Relations at 305-860-7822.

This communication may be deemed to be solicitation material in respect of the proposed acquisition of Terremark by Verizon.  In connection with the proposed acquisition, Terremark intends to file relevant materials with the SEC, including Terremark's proxy statement in preliminary and definitive form.  Terremark stockholders are strongly advised to read all relevant documents filed with the SEC, including Terremark's definitive proxy statement, because they will contain important information about the proposed transaction.  These documents will be available at no charge on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov. In addition, documents will also be available for free from Terremark by contacting Terremark Investor Relations at 305-860-7822.

Participants in Solicitation

Verizon and its directors and executive officers, and Terremark and its directors and executive officers, may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from the holders of Terremark common stock in respect of the proposed transaction.  Information about the directors and executive officers of Verizon is set forth in the proxy statement for Verizon's 2010 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which was filed with the SEC on March 22, 2010.  Information about the directors and executive officers of Terremark is set forth in the proxy statement for Terremark's 2010 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which was filed with the SEC on June 17, 2010.   Investors may obtain additional information regarding the interest of such participants by reading the definitive proxy statement regarding the acquisition when it becomes available.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements in this communication regarding the proposed transaction between Verizon and Terremark, the expected timetable for completing the transaction, benefits and synergies of the transaction, future opportunities for the combined company and products and any other statements regarding Verizon's and Terremark's future expectations, beliefs, goals or prospects constitute forward-looking statements.  Any statements that are not statements of historical fact (including statements containing the words "believes," "plans," "anticipates," "expects," "estimates" and similar expressions) should also be considered forward-looking statements.  A number of important factors could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements, including the parties' ability to consummate the transaction; the timing for satisfying the conditions to the completion of the transaction, including the receipt of Terremark stockholder approval and the regulatory approvals required for the transaction; the parties' ability to meet expectations regarding the timing, completion and accounting and tax treatments of the transaction; the possibility that the parties may be unable to achieve expected synergies and operating efficiencies within the expected time-frames or at all and to successfully integrate Terremark's operations into those of Verizon or that such integration may be more difficult, time-consuming or costly than expected; operating costs, customer loss and business disruption (including, without limitation, difficulties in maintaining relationships with employees, customers, clients or suppliers) may be greater than expected following the transaction; the retention of certain key employees of Terremark may be difficult; and the other factors described in Verizon's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009 and in its most recent quarterly report filed with the SEC, and Terremark's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2010 and in its most recent quarterly report filed with the SEC.  Verizon and Terremark assume no obligation to update the information in this communication, except as otherwise required by law.  Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements that speak only as of the date hereof.

The Depositary for the tender offer is Computershare Trust Company, N.A.  The Information Agent for the tender offer is Georgeson Inc. The tender offer materials may be obtained at no charge by directing a request by mail to Georgeson Inc., 199 Water Street, 26th Floor, New York, New York 10038 or by calling toll-free at (800) 903-2897, and may also be obtained at no charge at http://www.verizon.com and the website maintained by the SEC at http://www.sec.gov. Additionally, any questions related to the tender offer may be directed to Georgeson Inc. at the mailing address or telephone number provided above.

SOURCE  Verizon Communications Inc.

Verizon Communications Inc.

CONTACT: Peter Lucht, +1-617-743-6809, peter.lucht@verizon.com

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

JCPenney Joins Forces With Stardoll.com to Make Virtual Fashion a Reality for Tween Girls

JCPenney to be the Exclusive Retailer for New Stardoll Branded Clothing and Accessories

PLANO, Texas, Feb. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- J. C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE: JCP) and Stardoll.com, one of the world's largest online communities for teen and tween girls who love fashion, shopping and design, are coming together to create the first-ever, exclusive Stardoll brand of clothing and accessories.  This exciting, new brand will launch in 300 JCPenney stores and on jcp.com for the 2011 back-to-school season.

(Logo:  http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101229/MM22866LOGO)

This new collaboration capitalizes on the strengths of both companies to make a virtual fashion and gaming experience into a reality. Stardoll has built a large and loyal following among fashion-minded teen and tween girls with fun, interactive games that allow users to create and dress their own personalized "MeDoll" avatars.  JCPenney has long been a leader in the digital space, known for introducing innovative approaches to the way our customers shop. In keeping with this, JCPenney recognized the opportunity to leverage the insights from the Stardoll virtual community to introduce a line of Stardoll clothing and accessories for girls, a customer category where JCPenney has significant market share and a track record of brand-building success.

"Given the enormous popularity of Stardoll, which has over 90 million members around the world, bringing the Stardoll brand to life presents an exceptional opportunity to reinforce JCPenney as the first-choice style destination for tween girls," said Clark McNaught, senior vice president and general merchandising manager for JCPenney's children's division. "Beyond that, this innovative collaboration will allow us to continually improve this new brand, by observing and reacting to the style trends that resonate with the Stardoll community."

The first Stardoll collection to launch exclusively at JCPenney will feature a mix of trendy apparel and accessories for girls sizes 7-16 in 300 stores and jcp.com. The collection will retail from $11.99 - $23.99, making it easy and affordable to mix-and-match pieces for multiple "glam" looks. The first collection features a candy-colored array of tops and bottoms adorned with girly embellishments such as sparkling glitter and 3-D appliques.  An additional collection inspired by the young Latina customer will debut for holiday.

"This is a truly exciting venture and we're proud to partner with one of America's most popular department stores to bring the Stardoll fashion experience to life for the very first time," said Stardoll Network CEO Mattias Miksche. "With millions of aspiring fashionistas throughout the U.S., we're confident that our brand of clothing at JCPenney will resonate with girls everywhere as their online involvement and creative fashion sensibilities will successfully drive those lines that will ultimately be available on the sales floor."

About JCPenney

JCPenney, one of America's leading retailers, operates over 1,100 department stores throughout the United States and Puerto Rico, as well as one of the largest apparel and home furnishing sites on the Internet, jcp.com. Serving more than half of America's families each year, JCPenney offers a wide array of private, exclusive and national brands which reflect the Company's vision to be America's shopping destination for discovering great styles at compelling prices. Traded as "JCP" on the New York Stock Exchange, the $17.8 billion retailer is transforming its organization to support its Long Range Plan strategies to build a sustainable, profitable enterprise that serves its customers, engages its associates and rewards its shareholders.  For more information, visit http://www.jcpenney.net.

About Stardoll

The Stardoll Network is the world's leading group of websites devoted to young women and teens. Launched in early 2009, the network includes: Stardoll.com - the entertainment destination for young women focused on fame, fashion and friends; Piczo.com - the original platform devoted to social self expression and visual blogging; and PaperDollHeaven.com - a simpler game-play environment for the younger, female demographic. The Stardoll Network works with the world's largest brands as they look to engage with an increasingly elusive teen audience. The network is the number one publisher in ComScore's teen category, both in Europe and globally. The business is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden with offices in the US, UK and Germany, and is backed by two of the world's top venture capital firms: Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures.

JCPenney Media Contact:

April Dinwoodie or Daphne Avila; 972-431-3400; jcpcorpcomm@jcpenney.com

Stardoll Network Media Contact:

Joan Lockwood; +44-020-7292-7143; joan@stardoll.com

SOURCE  J. C. Penney Company, Inc.

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J. C. Penney Company, Inc.

CONTACT: April Dinwoodie or Daphne Avila, both of JCPenney, +1-972-431-3400, jcpcorpcomm@jcpenney.com; or Joan Lockwood of Stardoll Network, +44-020-7292-7143; joan@stardoll.com

Web Site: http://www.jcpenney.net

Mindspark Acquires VoxPop Gaming Platform

Leading Game Site IWON® To Feature New Trivia Games

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Feb. 10, 2011/PRNewswire/ -- Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc. ("Mindspark"), an operating business of IAC (Nasdaq: IACI), today announced that it has acquired a leading pop culture gaming platform developed by VoxPop Network Corp. ("VoxPop"), one of the largest pop culture gaming companies in the market. The gaming platform is used by many of the leading entertainment and media sites on the web.

The VoxPop platform, including its trivia engine, has been used to power pop culture games in genres ranging from music to news. The technology enables the fast and flexible creation of new trivia game mechanics across a spectrum of product types and genres, and will serve as the platform for several products to be featured on Mindspark brand IWON, one of the Internet's original casual gaming destinations and a top 20 online gaming site*. Terms of the transaction are not being disclosed.

"VoxPop's trivia engine is a perfect match for the IWON brand and we are excited to add this technology to our platform and portfolio of games," said Gui Karyo, President, IWON. "As the VoxPop team has proven with their many top-tier partnerships, trivia games are a perennially and ubiquitously popular form of gaming that evokes a passion in their players."

By enabling rapid content conversion into compelling and contextually relevant online games for their audiences, VoxPop-powered games have helped publishers generate additional revenue and engagement.   The company's client list includes many of the top-tier publishers in the areas of movies, TV, music, sports, celebrities, and food.

"IWON is a fantastic home for VoxPop," said Mike Derezin, Co-Founder of VoxPop. "Gui and his leadership team share a similar vision for the potential of online gaming and pop culture.  With its 7 million worldwide monthly unique visitors and popular entertainment brands, IWON is uniquely positioned to scale VoxPop's gaming platform."

VoxPop was founded in 2006 by Bill Armistead, Mike Derezin, and Michael Hoffman. The company's Series A investment was led by True Ventures and its Series B by Hearst Interactive Media.

About IWON®

IWON® (http://www.iwon.com), one of the fastest growing casual gaming destinations on the Web, and a top 20 online gaming site (comScore January 2011) with 7 million worldwide monthly unique visitors (internal data, January 2011), celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2009. The site offers a range of both classic and new games, including Puzzle, Arcade, Casino, Card, Sports, Action and Board game favorites. Users can win cash and prizes instantly or through daily, weekly, monthly and annual sweepstakes opportunities. The site also features a Team Challenge initiative, through which players earn and award donations to their favorite charities.  Over the past 11 years, IWON has awarded over 500,000 prizes worth more than $72 million.

About Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc.

Mindspark, an operating business of IAC (Nasdaq: IACI), is home to some of the most popular and engaging brands on the Web.  Mindspark  features social and entertainment destinations including Zwinky®, IWON®, Excite®, Retrogamer(TM), Kazulah(TM), and GirlSense®, and fun and interactive products that enable users to creatively express themselves online including Webfetti(TM), My Fun Cards(TM), SmileyCentral®, Smiley Creator(TM), MyWebFace(TM), Cursor Mania(TM), and Popular Screensavers(TM).

(*Source: comScore January 2011)

SOURCE  Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc.

Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc.

CONTACT: Emily Florin, Mindspark Interactive Network, +1-914-826-2161

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