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Insider Pages(TM) Expands Upon Doctor Finder Tool Adding One Million Complementary and Alternative Medicine Providers

Users Can Search Key Criteria on Over Two Million Doctors, Dentists and Alternative Care Providers to Find the Professional That Best Fits Their Needs

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17 -- Insider Pages(TM) (http://www.insiderpages.com), a subsidiary of CityGrid, LLC, and operating business of IAC (NASDAQ:IACI), today announced the addition of over one million complementary and alternative care providers to their local search directory. The new listings are in addition to over one million doctors and dentists that have been added as part of the site's Doctor Finder tool launched in May. Currently, almost 40 percent of adults in the U.S. use some form of complementary or alternative medicine. (1)

"Health has become our number one search category since we launched Doctor Finder this spring so we know the tool is resonating with consumers," said Eric Peacock, General Manager, Insider Pages(TM). "Adding alternative care providers is the next step in our continued innovation in the category with the intention of giving people one place they can go to find the right professionals to meet all their healthcare needs."

Users will now be able to search and read reviews for alternative care providers in fields including:

  --  Physical Therapists
  --  Counselors
  --  Nurse Practitioners
  --  Chiropractors
  --  Psychologists
  --  Optometrists
  --  Midwives
  --  And more

Consumers can view ratings and reviews from other patients to help them make the most informed decision when choosing a traditional or alternative healthcare provider. Through a partnership with HealthGrades, Insider Pages continues to expand the amount of patient surveys available, with over 660,000 patient surveys currently on the site.

While millions of Americans already use alternative care providers to meet some of their healthcare needs, that number is likely to increase in coming years. The new health care bill expands the power of nurse practitioners under Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act will establish new nurse-managed health clinics to train nurse practitioners and operate in underserved communities.

"As many of the recent trends have highlighted, including the passage of the healthcare reform bill, healthcare is not a one-size-fits-all industry," continued Peacock. "By expanding the number and type of providers on our site we're better able to help consumers find exactly what they're looking for - whether it's a general practitioner, a chiropractor or a nutritionist."

For additional information on Insider Pages' health & medical services, or to find the right doctor or alternative care provider in your area, please visit: http://www.insiderpages.com/

About Insider Pages

Insider Pages(TM) (http://www.insiderpages.com) is a place where people go to read and post reviews of local businesses and services.   Insider Pages(TM) has over 2,000,000 customer-written reviews of local businesses and industry-leading coverage in services relevant to parents and homeowners such as doctors, dentists, contractors, landscapers, veterinarians and much more. Over nine million people visit Insider Pages(TM) each month. Insider Pages(TM) is headquartered in San Francisco, California and is a subsidiary of CityGrid, LLC, an operating business of IAC (NASDAQ:IACI).

(1) Barnes PM, Bloom B, Nahin R. CDC National Health Statistics Report #12. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Among Adults and Children: United States, 2007. December 2008.

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  781.849.2022
  denise@dottedlinecomm.com

Source: Insider Pages
   

CONTACT:  Denise Welsh of Dotted Line Communications, +1-781-849-2022,
denise@dottedlinecomm.com, for Insider Pages

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

PlayStation®3 (PS3(TM)) System to Feature New Higher Capacity Hard Drives in North America This Fall

New models include a 320GB PS3 Featured in the PS3(TM) Sports Champions(TM) Move Bundle and a 160GB model PS3 Core SKU; Consumers Will Have 1/3 More Hard Drive Space to Store Games and Digital Content from PlayStation®Network

FOSTER CITY, Calif., Aug. 17 -- Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC. (SCEA) today announced that the PlayStation®3 (PS3(TM)) system will be offered in North America with 160GB or 320GB Hard Disk Drives (HDD), offering more capacity to download games and entertainment content from PlayStation®Network along with personal digital content, such as music, photos, and videos. The new models will continue to offer the same advanced features and functions of the current models, but with approximately 33 percent more capacity and at compelling price points. This increased HDD space addresses the growing demand for the digital content offered on PlayStation®Network, where more than 1 billion pieces of content have been downloaded as of July 2010.

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At $299.99 (MSRP), the 160GB model PS3 system offers tremendous value to consumers and is now shipping to retailers at the same price as the existing PS3 model. As part of the September 19 launch of PlayStation®Move, the new and innovative motion gaming experience that delivers precise, intuitive control, the PS3(TM) Sports Champions(TM) Move bundle will introduce the 320GB model PS3 system along with one PlayStation®Move motion controller, PlayStation®Eye camera, a copy of Sports Champions, and bonus Blu-ray game demo disc all in one complete package for $399.99 (MSRP).

"With the launch of PlayStation Move just around the corner, we're expecting many new consumers to join the PlayStation® family. The PS3(TM) Sports Champions(TM) Move bundle provides those families with everything they need to get into motion control gaming at a great value, with the 320GB model PS3 system as the centerpiece of the package," said Scott A. Steinberg, vice president of product marketing. "Also, as PlayStation Network continues to evolve with exciting new services, the hunger for digital content grows; these larger storage capacities address that demand and encourage consumers to take full advantage of the complete PS3 experience."

With more than 52 million accounts registered worldwide, PlayStation Network is fueling momentum for PS3 and providing more value to consumers. An integral part of the PS3 system's rich digital entertainment offering, PlayStation Network is the premier destination for content, with a compelling library of downloadable games, more than 23,000 HD and SD movies and TV episodes, exclusive programming, and PlayStation®Home, a social game network where users can meet friends and play games. Key games launching on PlayStation Network this year include PixelJunk(TM) Shooter 2,  and Dead Nation(TM), as well as PlayStation Move titles such as echochrome(TM) ii, Tumble, and Beat Sketcher.

For nearly 15 years, the PlayStation brand has been redefining entertainment, fueling innovation and providing more reasons for families to gather in their living rooms. With the recent introduction of stereoscopic 3D gaming and the upcoming launch of PlayStation Move, the PS3 system is set to revolutionize gaming once again. Those innovations -- combined with the relentless line-up of blockbuster games launching this year, the built-in Blu-ray player that will be updated for 3D Blu-ray Disc(TM) movies later this year, and the expanded digital entertainment options on PlayStation Network -- truly position the PS3 system as the entertainment hub of the family room this holiday and beyond.

About Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC.

Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC. continues to redefine the entertainment lifestyle with its PlayStation® and PS one® game console, the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, the PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) handheld entertainment system, the ground-breaking PlayStation®3 (PS3(TM)) computer entertainment system and its online and network services the PlayStation®Network and PlayStation®Store. Recognized as the undisputed industry leader, Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC. markets the PlayStation family of products and develops, publishes, markets and distributes software for the PS one, PlayStation 2, PSP and PS3 systems for the North American market. Based in Foster City, Calif., Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC. serves as headquarters for all North American operations.

Visit us on the Web at http://www.us.playstation.com/

"PlayStation,"  "PSP," and "PS one" are registered trademarks and "PS3" is a trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

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CONTACT:  Al De Leon, +1-650-655-7348, al_deleon@playstation.sony.com, or
Abby Reyes, +1-650-655-7573, abby_reyes@playstation.sony.com, both of Sony
Computer Entertainment America LLC

Web Site:  http://www.us.playstation.com/

Monsoon Multimedia Launches Vulkano

World's First Universal and Affordable Video Platform for Smartphones, PC/Macs, iPads and TVs Available Now

SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug. 17 -- Monsoon Multimedia, a leading provider of video convergence products, today announced the general availability for Vulkano and Vulkano Pro from select retail and distribution partners and Vulkano Deluxe and Vulkano Deluxe Pro direct from Monsoon at http://www.myvulkano.com. Vulkano integrates multiple disruptive technologies - DVR, web video, place shifting, Universal Plug and Play streaming and Mobile Video Recording - while eliminating the need for multiple boxes.

Vulkano, a sleek consumer device with a tightly integrated hardware and software platform that has a powerful video processor and local storage, is set to replace multiple boxes such as TiVo, Slingbox and Roku providing consumers incredible performance at a low cost. Vulkano is available now at prices ranging from $259 to $379, depending on storage capacity.

When connected to a set-top box and a TV, Vulkano enables a complete video experience across Android, iPhones, iPads, PCs, the living room TV and soon on Macs and BlackBerry smartphones. Vulkano allows users to experience their TV channels, videos and photos on whichever screen they want, when they want it.

Consumers can now watch and control any home TV channel through a wired or Wi-Fi (and soon on 3G) connection from anywhere in the world simply by installing a Vulkano and downloading a free software application on to their device of choice from http://www.myvulkano.com or from the respective app store. They can watch and control live TV and schedule a recording through an included EPG (electronic program guide), transfer, watch and control these recordings at any time on their TV, computers, smartphones or iPad type devices.

Vulkano lets users watch YouTube on their big screen TV and by leveraging UPnP (Universal Plug n Play) they can stream video and photos from their smartphones, computers and cameras wirelessly onto their living room TV without having to use messy cables. In the near future, Vulkano will offer free service upgrades such as Google TV, Yahoo! Widgets, Netflix, Hulu and others.

In recent weeks, the industry has seen announcements from Dish, AT&T and Motorola hinting at products that will stream video. However, these solutions are geared toward their own users to whom they provide services and cannot be used by those of other services and set-top boxes. "Vulkano can be enjoyed by any worldwide user who has a set-top box and an Internet connection," said Steve Stone, Monsoon CTO. "Our products are available at retail and you don't need to buy a new set-top box or subscribe to new, expensive services. Moreover, we offer a complete solution, not separate pieces."

"Vulkano is the next-generation entertainment standard that allows consumers to access services including YouTube and enjoy a total video experience on their smartphones, iPads, PCs and soon Macs," said Colin Stiles, EVP Sales and Marketing at Monsoon. "We are proud to the be first to deliver your live and recorded TV content anywhere, anytime and will continue to deliver new apps to Vulkano owners for free as we integrate new technologies, content streams, devices and all their TV and Internet media needs."

  Summary of Vulkano Features:
  --  Transforms smartphones, iPads, iPod touches, PCs and soon Macs into
      Mobile Video Recorders
  --  Recorded programs play back on smartphones, iPads, PCs and soon Macs
  --  Direct record mode allows for Pause, Fast Forward/Rewind
  --  Schedule TV recording by show, channel or date and time
  --  Browse EPG for shows and episode descriptions
  --  Mark channels as Favorite for quick access
  --  Watch and control your live TV on the go via Wi-Fi or 3G
  --  Watch at home on iPads and computers in near HD resolution
  --  Change channels just like at home
  --  Search and watch YouTube videos on your home television
  --  Enjoy photos, video and music on home TV from UPnP supported devices,
      such as smartphones, PCs/Macs and cameras
  --  Multiple users can have recordings on Vulkano hard-drive and access
      independently
  --  Control Vulkano features and settings through intuitive television
      menu
  --  Connect to all major TV sources - cable, DVD, satellite, DVR, TiVo
  --  Stream video at H.264 and MPEG-4 standards at rates as low as 150kbps
  --  Includes 8GB or 16GB of SD card storage or e-SATA hard drives up to
      1TB
  --  Connects wirelessly through Vulkano's on board .11n WiFi to home
      router
  --  TV content is passed from the set-top box's analog output (component,
      composite) to Vulkano; using resolutions up to 1080i

  Pricing and Availability

Both Vulkano Deluxe and Vulkano Deluxe Pro are available immediately at http://www.myvulkano.com. Vulkano Deluxe comes with 16GB of SD storage costing $279 and Vulkano Deluxe Pro comes with 1 Terabyte e-SATA hard disk and costs $379. Select retailers such as http://www.amazon.com are shipping Vulkano, which comes with 8GB SD storage and costs $259 and the Vulkano Pro at $349 which includes a 500GB e-SATA hard disk. Monsoon will release its 3G version for the recently introduced iPhone 4 in August 2010.

About Monsoon Multimedia

Monsoon Multimedia provides advanced, standards-based multimedia products and convergence technologies for the PC, Mac, iPad and major smartphones. Founded by the founders of Dazzle and Emuzed, the company has offices in California, India, Russia and Singapore. For more information, please visit http://www.monsoonmultimedia.com.

  For regular Vulkano updates follow us at http://www.Twitter.com/MyVulkano

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All trademarks and product names are the property of their respective companies.

  Contact:
  Seana Norvell
  FortyThree, Inc.
  831.401.3175
  vulkano@43pr.com

Source: Monsoon Multimedia
   

CONTACT:  Seana Norvell of FortyThree, Inc., +1-831-401-3175,
vulkano@43pr.com, for Vulkano

Web Site:  http://www.myvulkano.com/
http://www.monsoonmultimedia.com/

Certs 4 Less Launches Affiliate Program with Signing Bonus

CHATSWORTH, Calif., Aug. 17 -- Technology provider Certs 4 Less, a Division of 4 Less Communications, launches an Affiliate Program to promote the sale and renewal of SSL and Code Signing Certificates.

Top Brands and Competitive Pricing

4 Less Communications, Inc., has provided VeriSign, RapidSSL, Thawte and GeoTrust certificates through its Hosting 4 Less website for several years. Certs 4 Less expands its product offerings and is dedicated exclusively to the sale and renewal of SSL and Code Signing Certificates. Consequently, Certs 4 Less is already a top-tier, 'Gold Partner' representing the top 4 brands in the industry. Certs 4 Less' buying power allows them to purchase certificates in bulk, and pass the savings on to its customers.

Affiliate Program

The Certs 4 Less Affiliate Program is free to join. It has a multi-level structure which begins with an industry-leading 15% commission payout on all approved sales, coupled with significant performance bonuses. Below are some of the highlights of the program:

  --  Low payout threshold of only $25.00 - Affiliates can begin to receive
      payments with just a single sale (via check or Paypal).
  --  Certs 4 Less provides all marketing materials, including
      professionally designed banner ads, page peels, lightboxes and text
      ads.
  --  Affiliate Portal - https://www.certs4less.com/affiliate/. Through the
      portal, affiliates can monitor their traffic and track their
      performance in real time.
  --  10% commission on all second-tier affiliates' earnings.

  Signing Bonus

To jump-start their new affiliate program, Certs 4 Less is giving away a $20 signing bonus, no strings attached, to all new, approved affiliates that enroll in the program. The program is free to join, and affiliates will receive their signing bonus with their very first payout.

About 4 Less Communications, Inc.

In business since 1998, 4 Less Communications, Inc. offers Website and Ecommerce Hosting, Online Back-up, SSL Certificates, Code Signing, and Dial-up Internet Access through their related companies. 4 Less Communications, Inc was founded on the concept of offering the best Internet technologies with less stress, less confusion and for less money. 4 Less Communications, Inc. maintains its own data center and is proudly operated entirely in the United States.

  Contact Information:
   Bill Perry
  +1-888-818-0444
  Certs 4 Less
  http://www.certs4less.com

Source: Certs 4 Less
   

CONTACT:  Bill Perry, +1-888-818-0444 , Certs 4 Less, http://www.certs4less.com

Web Site:  http://www.certs4less.com/

The Work Number Bundles Services to Assist Small-Mid Tier Mortgage Banks

- Increased regulations and unstable loan volumes drive lenders to automate verifications -

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 17 -- The Work Number®, announced it has expanded its presence within the small-mid tier mortgage banking industry.  Within the last six months, more than 450 small-mid tier financial institutions have implemented The Work Number's suite of automated verification services - allowing lenders to access pre-funding identity verification, employment & income verification, and IRS tax transcript solutions from a single website to aid compliance, reduce risk and help combat mortgage fraud.

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Government regulations have been established to improve compliance with underwriting and eligibility guidelines and mitigate repurchase risk. A primary focus of the new guidelines is capturing critical loan data earlier in the process and validating it before, during and immediately after loan delivery.  Today, more than ever, small-mid tier financial institutions, as well as community banks, are turning to an automated verification solution to remain in compliance with these increased government regulations, as well as meet the requirements of wholesale and correspondent lenders, investors and investment banks. Having solutions in place that automate the verification processes provide an efficient and cost-effective way for lenders to verify borrower income and identity at the beginning of the loan application process, further decreasing the risk of mortgage fraud.

"The current mortgage lending environment, with the increased government and GSE mandated requirements, forces us to spend a significant amount of time on the front-end of a loan verifying and gathering borrower documents, which is a timely and expensive process to complete," said Barbara L. Stumpf, 1st Mortgage head underwriter/processing manager for NASA Federal Credit Union.  "Utilizing The Work Number's automated verification suite enables our lending department to perform all required verifications - employment, income, 4506-T - all from one location, making it a very efficient, easy and cost-effective bundle."

"Not only has the industry seen a huge increase in government mandated guidelines but wholesale and correspondent lenders are now often requiring verifications such as income, employment, 4506-T and Social Security Number checks be completed before they receive the loan files," said Janet Ford, senior vice president of The Work Number.  "Having these verifications completed on the front-end of a loan makes the entire loan process more efficient and gives the lenders and investors a better confidence level of the type of loan they are underwriting or purchasing, while reducing the risk of fraud throughout the transaction."

Lenders who use The Work Number solutions can meet the new standards by requesting a social security number verification directly against the Social Security Administration's (SSA) database, fulfill Form 4506-T requests for tax transcript income directly from the Internal Revenue System (IRS), and verify current employment and income from any employer including self employed borrowers.

About The Work Number

The Work Number, a service of Equifax, is the largest source for employer direct, and up-to-date, employment and income verification. The service offers access to over 200 million payroll records instantly and will manually complete remaining employment and income verification requests in days. Additionally, The Work Number offers IncomeChek, a 4506-T tax transcript fulfillment service, and DirectChek, an identity assessment and authentication service. All of these tools provide more authentic, complete information to help in servicing, underwriting, fraud prevention, loan modifications and more recently loan repurchase.

About Equifax (http://www.equifax.com/)

Equifax empowers businesses and consumers with information they can trust. A global leader in information solutions, we leverage one of the largest sources of consumer and commercial data, along with advanced analytics and proprietary technology, to create customized insights that enrich both the performance of businesses and the lives of consumers. With a strong heritage of innovation and leadership, Equifax continuously delivers innovative solutions with the highest integrity and reliability.  Businesses - large and small - rely on us for consumer and business credit intelligence, portfolio management, fraud detection, decisioning technology, marketing tools, and much more.  We empower individual consumers to manage their personal credit information, protect their identity, and maximize their financial well-being. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Equifax Inc. operates in the U.S. and 14 other countries throughout North America, Latin America and Europe. Equifax is a member of Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500® Index. Our common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol EFX

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CONTACT:  Pam Stevens, TALX, Provider of Equifax Workforce Solutions,
+1-314-214-7235, pstevens@talx.com

Web Site:  http://www.equifax.com/

Digital Sandbox Risk Analysis Center (RAC) Expands Customers' Risk Management Capabilities Through New Mobile Application for iPhone®/iPad(TM)

RAC Mobile Monitor Provides 24/7 Access to Customers' Asset and Risk Data through New iPhone/iPad App

MCLEAN, Va., Aug. 17 -- Digital Sandbox, the leader in public safety risk management, has announced the release of its RAC Mobile Monitor -- a mobile version of its Risk Analysis Center (RAC) software platform that runs on Apple's® iPhone and iPad devices.

The RAC Mobile Monitor provides users with immediate access to information about their critical assets through a one-touch interface.  Those involved with emergency and special event monitoring activities can view key information about high-risk assets while in the field or from any location.  Additional vulnerability and security data, if available, can be quickly accessed through the RAC Mobile Monitor's direct link to the users' RAC data repository.

In addition, the RAC Mobile Monitor leverages Digital Sandbox's new intel threat monitoring application.  Through a sophisticated aggregation of RSS news and information feeds, the Intel Threat Monitor can identify threat information that is deemed relevant for the customer.  If any threat is identified, its location is automatically displayed on the RAC Mobile Monitor home screen.  Data on the threat event is immediately accessible through the touch screen display.

"The RAC Mobile Monitor provides an exciting view of data in our Risk Analysis Center, tailored for the mobile user," explains Michael J. Sherman, Vice President of Research and Development.  "This application, the first of our RAC Mobile Applications family, focuses on quick access to our clients' critical asset catalog, giving them immediate data on assets that may be involved in an emergency or risk situation. Through the geolocating of all assets and possible threats with a single touch, our clients can quickly gain an operational picture of where risk is most prevalent."

The RAC Mobile Monitor also includes the ability to upload key documents for assets (floor plans, EOPs, evacuation plans) for immediate access, total GPS and mapping functionality integrated with the customer's entire asset database, and key attribute filtering (for example, enabling instant identification of the location and name of all Priority 1 assets).

Introduced to Digital Sandbox's client, the City of Anaheim, during the recent Major League Baseball All-Star Game, the iPad with the beta version of the RAC Mobile Monitor drew accolades from Anaheim public safety officials.   "This will change the face of law enforcement," stated one member of the Anaheim Police Department, after a seeing a demonstration of the iPad and the RAC Mobile Monitor's functionality, which included the ability to access real-time asset and risk information relevant to the All-Star Game.

Digital Sandbox provides analytic tools and information products to government agencies and large enterprises enabling them to optimize their strategic, policy, and budgetary decisions for risk-based resource allocation. Since 1998, Digital Sandbox's analytic risk management solutions have helped customers in the public safety, corporate, and homeland security fields lower their risk exposure, increase the impact of their risk management budgets, and maximize the effectiveness of their resources. Visit Digital Sandbox on the Web at http://www.dsbox.com.

  iPhone and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple, Inc.

  Contact:
  Jeanne-Marie Thomas
  Director of Marketing
  Digital Sandbox, Inc.
  jthomas@dsbox.com
  571-297-3769

Source: Digital Sandbox, Inc.
   

CONTACT:  Jeanne-Marie Thomas, Director of Marketing, Digital Sandbox,
Inc., +1-571-297-3769, jthomas@dsbox.com

Web Site:  http://www.dsbox.com/

BB&T Payment Solutions kicks off series of free, convenient webinars for small business owners

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Aug. 17 -- BB&T Payment Solutions kicks off a new series of free educational webinars this month.

Available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the webinars are designed with client convenience in mind.

"Clients choose when and where to view the webinars which fit easily into business owners' busy schedules," said Joseph Blount, BB&T Payment Strategies consultant. "By offering educational webinars on demand, business owners can go online at work, or even wait until they get home at night. The focused and concise webinars feature subject-matter experts who provide information to help business owners and managers identify solutions to current business challenges that will help them manage their payment processes."

The first in this season's series, "BB&T Merchant Services - Streamlining Payment Acceptance," is available at http://www.bbt.com/paymentswebinar. The webinar, presented by Martin Currin, BB&T Merchant Services sales manager; and Marybeth Eason, BB&T Merchant Services product development manager, provides an overview of the convenient and flexible processing methods available through BB&T's Merchant Services division.

Additional webinars are planned for the 2010 season. All will be available on the Payment Solutions Webinar page at http://www.bbt.com/paymentswebinar along with archives of past webinars.

About BB&T

BB&T Corporation (NYSE:BBT) is one of the 10th largest financial services holding companies in the U.S. with more than $155.1 billion in assets and market capitalization of $18.2 billion, as of June 30, 2010. Based in Winston-Salem, N.C., the company operates 1,800 financial centers in 12 states and Washington, D.C., and offers a full range of consumer and commercial banking, securities brokerage, asset management, mortgage and insurance products and services. A Fortune 500 company, BB&T is consistently recognized for outstanding client satisfaction by J.D. Power and Associates, the U.S. Small Business Administration, Greenwich Associates and others. More information about BB&T and its full line of products and services is available at http://www.BBT.com.

Source: BB&T Corporation
   

CONTACT:  Joseph Blount, Senior Vice President, BB&T Payment Systems,
+1-703-549-1883, or Merrie Betbeze Tolbert, Vice President, BB&T Corporate
Communications, +1-336-733-1475

Web Site:  http://www.bbt.com/

BlueCava and Crisp Thinking Partner to Rid MMOGs and Online Worlds of Criminals and Predators

BlueCava and Crisp Thinking Protect Online Games from Gold Farmers, Bullies and Cheats

IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 17 -- BlueCava (http://www.bluecava.com), the credit bureau for devices, and Crisp Thinking (http://www.crispthinking.com), the global leader in user management and analytics technology for social media, today announced a strategic partnership to integrate the BlueCava Device Identification Platform into Crisp's award-winning User Management Platform - NetModerator(TM) for games, virtual worlds and social networks.

BlueCava's Device Identification Platform uniquely identifies each computer or mobile device being used in massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) and online world platforms, together with Crisp technology allowing customers to block fraudsters, child predators, community code violators and botnet attackers.

"Users who cheat, grief, spam, bully or engage in dangerous, fraudulent or anti-social behavior in online communities monitored by Crisp's NetModerator(TM) technology, will find not only their accounts banned, but will also find that their devices may be flagged, or banned outright, from the community," said David Norris, CEO of BlueCava.

NetModerator(TM) is a unique, intuitive system that allows developers, publishers and their moderating staff to ensure online safety through a single system that both blocks in real-time and offers ongoing in-depth analysis of online communications.

Crisp clients include Sony Online Entertainment (SOE), Cartoon Network's FusionFall, and LEGO.

About BlueCava

BlueCava is the credit bureau for devices, providing information about good, bad, and historical activities conducted from desktop and mobile devices. Our reputation data fights fraud and improves online communications. Using a low priced, disruptive business model, BlueCava allows all customers the chance to identify any online device, retrieve valuable history about it and use our technology for every transaction.

Our innovative Device Reputation Exchange lets businesses share information about fraudulent, good, and useful transactions from recognized computers, enabling decisions regarding doing business, or not, with any specific computer.

For more information, visit us online at http://www.bluecava.com or follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/bluecava.

About Crisp Thinking

Crisp is the global leader of user management and analytics technology for social media.  Established in 2005, the Crisp User Management Platform allows gaming and social network companies to profile, manage, and protect across both moderation and customer service functions from within one single system, using one simple dashboard.

With offices in the UK and the United States, Crisp helps brands create engaging and healthy online communities and reduce customer service and moderation costs by more than 80 per cent. Its full reporting and dashboard capabilities analyse levels of user engagement and overall moderation and CSR team performance.

The Crisp Platform both blocks in real time and offers ongoing in-depth analysis of conversations in multiple languages including English, Spanish, French, Russian, Portuguese, German and Dutch. These analysis engines are constantly updated to detect new behaviours, new language forms and slang, as well as new abuse tactics. The Crisp Platform also provides end users with the most up-to-date COPPA compliant online child safety service available today. In tests it has a proven accuracy rating of 98.4 per cent in the detection of online predators and cyber bullies.

Proven to scale, with millions of messages and users per day, the Crisp Platform is the solution of choice by some of the world's largest online media companies, including LEGO, Sony Online Entertainment and Turner Broadcasting Inc. For more information, visit http://www.crispthinking.com.

  Media Contact:
  Kayla Zerby
  The Morris + King Company for BlueCava
  212.561.7454
  kayla.zerby@seismk.com

Source: BlueCava
   

CONTACT:  Kayla Zerby, The Morris + King Company, for BlueCava,
+1-212-561-7454, kayla.zerby@seismk.com

Web Site:  http://www.bluecava.com/

TI delivers industry's first cross-wire immunity transceiver for fail-safe installations

SymPol(TM) transceiver averts potential system damage if signal wires become reversed

DALLAS, Aug. 17 -- Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today introduced a new symmetric polarity transceiver that protects the system from communication losses and potential damage should the signal wires be inadvertently reversed during installation or maintenance. The SN65HVD96, using TI's patent-pending SymPol(TM) technology, provides high bus fault protection, making it desirable for harsh industrial environments where third-party installers often make the connections. The inverted bus wires are detected internally and corrected automatically, eliminating the need for intervention by the controller or operator without the need for firmware changes. Download a datasheet, request an evaluation module (EVM), or order free samples here: http://www.ti.com/sn65hvd96-pr.

Applications that can benefit from this technology include heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment, surveillance cameras, surveillance IP network cameras, building automation, industrial lighting, and other industrial applications. This device works well with isolation devices such as TI's ISO7241C. TI also provides IBIS models for the SN65HVD96, which designers can use for simulations.

  Key features and benefits
  --  Reversed-wire-immunity saves the technical time-consuming fail search
      should a crossed-wire mistake be made.
  --  Using the same pin-out as RS-485 eliminates the need for board
      redesigns.
  --  Bus pins survive faults of up to -35V to +40V, minimizing damage from
      direct shorts to typical 24 Vac HVAC supplies.
  --  High input impedance for up to 32 nodes allows multiple nodes on a
      single network, reducing system cost by eliminating repeaters.

  Availability and pricing

The SN65HVD96 is available now in a SOIC (D) package with eight pins and is priced at $1.20 in quantities of 1,000.

  Learn more about TI's interface portfolio at the links below:
  --  Order free samples and download a datasheet: http://www.ti.com/sn65hvd96-pr.
  --  Request EVMs: http://www.ti.com/sn65hvd96evm-pr.
  --  Quickly search TI's entire interface portfolio or download the latest
      selection guide: http://www.ti.com/interface-pr.
  --  Ask questions and help solve problems with fellow engineers in the
      Industrial Interface Forum at the TI E2E(TM) Community.

  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 manufacturing, design and sales operations in more than 30 countries.  For more information, go to http://www.ti.com.

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SymPol and Texas instruments are trade marks of Texas Instruments Incorporated. All registered trademarks and other trademarks belong to their respective owners.

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IBM to Deliver New POWER7 Systems to Manage Data-Intensive Applications

- New systems announced as record number of customers migrate from the competition to IBM Power Systems - Industry's highest TPC-C benchmark result beats HP and Oracle by wide margin - New high-end system is five times more energy efficient than comparable UNIX systems from HP and Oracle - New entry POWER7 servers designed to meet the demands of midsize companies - starting at less than $6,500

ARMONK, N.Y., Aug. 17 -- IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced new POWER7® systems designed to manage the most demanding workloads and emerging applications, including a high-end system that offers markedly better energy efficiency than competitive systems from HP and Oracle.

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IBM also announced a pair of developments that illustrate the company's continued momentum for Power in the $13 billion UNIX market, in which IBM has experienced a 14-point revenue share gain since 2005.

  --  IBM has achieved the industry's highest ever TPC-C (transaction
      processing) benchmark using a Power Systems configuration with DB2,
      hitting 10,366,254 transactions per minute(1), which beat HP's best
      result by more than 2.5 times(2) and Oracle's best by more than
      35%(3).  The IBM result represents 2.7 times better performance per
      core than the Oracle result, 41% better price performance, and 35%
      better energy efficiency per transaction. HP's best result is over
      twice as expensive per transaction as the IBM result.

  --  A record 285 customers moved critical business workloads to IBM
      systems and storage from the competition in the second quarter of
      2010, including 171 from Oracle and 86 from HP.  More than 2,600
      companies have switched from the competition to IBM Power Systems
      since IBM established its Migration Factory program four years ago.
      Of particular note, IBM's business helping customers reduce x86 server
      sprawl by consolidating to Power increased four-fold over the first
      quarter.

The new systems - servers, software and IBM's industry-leading PowerVM virtualization capabilities - allow customers to better manage ever-increasing amounts of data in an interconnected world and to conserve energy and floor space in burdened data centers.  They are part of a year-long rollout by IBM of workload-optimized systems for the demands of emerging business models such as smart electrical grids, real-time analytics in financial markets and healthcare, mobile telecommunications, and smarter traffic systems.

New technology from IBM announced today includes the new high-end IBM Power® 795 system; four entry-level POWER7 processor-based servers designed specifically for mid-market clients; and a POWER7 processor-based workload-optimized Smart Analytics System that helps businesses draw real-time information from massive amounts of data.

The new 256-core IBM Power® 795 offers more than five times better energy efficiency compared to servers from Oracle and HP(4).  It uses IBM's leading-edge EnergyScale(TM) technology that varies frequencies depending upon workloads. This new system supports up to 8 terabytes of memory and provides over four times the performance in the same energy envelope as the fastest Power 595 IBM POWER6 processor-based high-end system.

The new POWER7 technology supports four times as many processor cores as prior systems and uses the latest PowerVM(TM) virtualization software to allow customers to run over 1,000 virtual servers on a single physical system, enabling a substantial improvement in operating efficiency.  For the many customers nearing capacity limits for energy, space and cooling in data centers, consolidating older systems to the new high-end Power 795 could result in more headroom - with energy reductions of up to 75% for equivalent performance capacity - allowing for workload growth in existing data centers and helping companies to potentially avoid or reduce the cost of expanding or building new data centers.(5)

IBM also announced Power Flex, a new environment composed of two or more Power 795 systems, PowerVM Live Partition Mobility and a Flex Capacity Upgrade on Demand option. This solution enables clients to shift running applications from one system to another to perform system maintenance without downtime, helping to balance workloads and more easily handle peaks in demand.

  IBM also announced a new version of IBM's UNIX® operating system, AIX® 7.

  Express Servers

The four Express servers announced today - IBM Power 710, 720, 730 and 740 Express - offer mid-market clients the outstanding performance, energy efficiency and other benefits of POWER7 technology in compact rack-mount or tower packages. These high-density, cost efficient servers minimize complexity and provide the memory capacity, internal storage options, I/O expandability and RAS features needed for demanding workloads in today's high-growth midsize business.

Attractively priced starting at $6,385 (6) and available from IBM and IBM Business Partners, these easy-to-order IBM Express models allow clients to choose the configuration that satisfies their requirements and receive half the processor core activations at no additional charge.  The new Express servers run over 15,000 applications based on AIX, IBM i and Linux operating systems.  PowerVM software is also optionally available on the four new Express models, allowing clients to consolidate multiple workloads on one or more servers.

GHY International, a family-owned business in Winnipeg, Manitoba, which has been operating for more than a century, is using Power Systems running three operating environments - AIX, IBM i and Linux -- in concert with other IBM hardware and software to manage a growing international trade services and consulting business. Dedicated to helping clients buy and sell goods internationally, GHY is using POWER7 systems to help customers manage the staples of worldwide trade, such as compliance and risk management, in real time, saving businesses time and money by expediting the production of customs forms.

"This is critically important in a time when we have smarter applications and the horsepower to drive them," said Nigel Fortlage, vice president of information technology for GHY International. "IBM Power Systems have allowed us to use a cross platform server consolidation and virtualization strategy to effectively manage these new, emerging customs workloads. The ability of IBM Power servers to run multiple operating systems simultaneously is an enormous benefit to GHY, and the impact of virtualization on productivity has been astounding."

Smart Analytics System

The IBM Smart Analytics System 7700 with POWER7 technology delivers a single, optimized system with the right balance of software, systems and storage capabilities for workloads generating unprecedented amounts of data at extreme speeds - providing a powerful analytics platform that can be deployed and customized for clients in a matter of days. This solution helps clients quickly draw insights from vast amounts of data to anticipate emerging business trends, capture new opportunities and avoid risks.

The Smart Analytics System, which features several pretested Power Systems 740 Express server configurations, IBM DB2® powered and InfoSphere(TM) Warehouse software and AIX, analyzes data where it resides. This is important as clients seek to shorten the cycle time between processing and results, and seek to avoid the costs of migrating data from one system to another.

Roanoke, VA-based, Advance Auto Parts, a leader in the automotive aftermarket, has more than 3,500 stores with more than 51,000 employees. Recently, the chain deployed the Smart Analytics System to more efficiently analyze national sales and inventory data up to 10 times faster than before.

"IBM's level of optimization addresses the growing demands of data-intensive workloads versus other competitive offerings while also helping to reduce IT costs.  The system makes it easier to analyze data integrated from multiple databases; turning that data into actionable insight quickly," said Bill Robinette, Director of Business Intelligence, Advance Auto Parts.  "That insight allows us to understand what our customers are buying at specific store locations.  Data on the make and model of the cars they own can help us more effectively manage inventory to ensure the right auto parts such as batteries, headlights, and brakes are in stock."

Additional Power Announcements

For IBM i clients, IBM is offering four new IBM i Solution Editions, integrated and optimized for rapid ERP deployment. These packages feature software from SAP, JD Edwards, Infor and Lawson and offer significant savings for customers running older versions of the i operating system who are looking to upgrade.

"Infor and IBM have partnered to deliver the IBM i Solution Edition for Infor System i Solutions.   This is an important step in bringing a combination of Infor System i ERP and POWER7 processor-based systems to a set of customers that want simple, integrated solutions at a lower price," said Joe Marino, Vice President of System I Development and Support, Infor.  "We believe that this solution will be valuable to a large set of customers and will be a great success in the market."

IBM also announced IBM Rational Power Appliance, a family of software appliances comprised of Power Express servers that are pre-loaded and pre-configured with IBM Rational® software for AIX development.  Available in a range of sizes and programming languages to suit specific user requirements, these ready-to-use systems provide customers a fully-enabled software development environment that can be put to use in a matter of hours, rather than days or weeks.

As part of today's news, existing IBM Power System customers can benefit from expanded exchange/upgrade opportunities. IBM Global Financing will offer side-by-side migrations of a customer's existing IBM POWER high end system to the newer IBM POWER7 technology. This will minimize downtimes during the upgrade process. IBM Global Financing will also provide competitive financing rates for customers acquiring or upgrading to the new technology. For more information please visit: http://www-03.ibm.com/financing/us/lifecycle/manage/migration/index.html

Systems announced today will be generally available on September 17, 2010.

For more information on IBM workload optimized systems, please visit http://www.ibm.com/systems/smarter.

IBM is a trademark of IBM Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other company/product names and service marks may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.  UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries licensed exclusively through The Open Group.  Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvald.

Footnotes

(1) IBM Power7 Benchmark Result: IBM Power 780: 10,366,254 tpmC at $1.38USD/tpmC available October 13, 2010, running on 3 nodes with a total of 24 processors, 192 cores and 768 threads. Energy requirements generated using customer-available energy estimation tools for IBM servers and IBM Techline services for storage. Energy estimates are not related to, and should not be compared to official TPC-Energy results.

(2) HP Benchmark Result: HP Integrity Superdome: 4,092,799 tpmC at $2.93 USD/tpmC, available August 6, 2007, running on 1 node with a total of 64 processors, 128 cores and 256 threads.

(3) Oracle Sun Benchmark Result: Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440: 7,646,486 tpmC at $2.36USD/tpmC, available March 19, 2010, running on 12 nodes with a total of 48 processors, 384 cores and 3,072 threads. Energy requirements taken from an Oracle-commissioned report located at http://www.oracle.com/features/strategic-focus-report.pdf. Energy estimates are not related to, and should not be compared to official TPC-Energy results.

Results current as of August 17, 2010. TPC, TPC Benchmark, TPC-C and tpmC are trademarks of the Transaction Processing Performance Council, http://www.tpc.org.

(4) Efficiency is measured by performance per watt. Using SPECint_rate2006 as the measure for performance and the Maximum power usage for the IBM Power 795 and from the HP QuickSpecs and Sun SPARC Enterprise Site Planning Guides as the measure of energy usage. .

SPECint_rate 2006 results: IBM Power 795 with 256 cores, 32 processor chips, and four threads per core had a peak result of 11,200. HP SuperDome with 128 cores, 64 processor chips and one thread per core had a peak result of 1,648.  The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 with 256 cores, 64 processor chips and two threads per core had a peak result of 2,586.

SPEC® and the benchmark names SPECrate®, SPECint®, and SPECjbb® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. For the latest SPEC benchmark results, visit http://www.spec.org/.  All results are the best result posted at http://www.spec.org as of August 11, 2010 for the system indicated except for the IBM Power 795 result which was submitted to SPEC as of August 17, 2010.

(5) Based on four times higher system performance advantage of Power 795 vs. HP SuperDome, as noted above, combined with the ability to achieve much higher utilization rates with PowerVM and the scalability of the Power 795, clients can consolidate the workload from over 1,200 SPARC or Itanium processor cores reducing energy consumption by up to 75%

(6) Prices reflect US list prices as of August 17, 2010; reseller prices may vary.

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  Joe Barkan
  IBM Media Relations
  512-276-2237
  jbarkan@us.ibm.com

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  IBM Media Relations
  845-892-5463
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shopkick App Now Available on the App Store

Just Walk In & Collect: Big Retailers Reward Shoppers Simply for Walking In, at More Than 600 Stores In Four Major Cities Free shopkick App Delivers High-Value Rewards, Offers and Shopping Fun; American Eagle Outfitters and Sports Authority Join Best Buy, Macy's and Simon Malls as Launch Partners

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17 -- shopkick, a new location-based shopping app for iPhone that rewards shoppers just for visiting stores, is now available on the App Store.  Launched today with an event at the American Eagle Outfitters flagship store in Times Square, the app allows shoppers to start earning rewards - simply by visiting retailers who want their business.

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In addition to American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. (NYSE:AEO), launch partners include Best Buy (NYSE:BBY), Macy's, Inc. (NYSE:M), Simon Property Group, Inc. (NYSE:SPG) and The Sports Authority.

Rewards and offers are live now in all partner store locations in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and will kick-off in Chicago and other cities in the coming weeks. Rewards will be delivered simply for walking into participating stores with the shopkick app open. Within the next four weeks, more than 600 individual stores and 100 of the country's largest malls will participate and will have fully deployed shopkick's technology, in time for the holidays.  In addition, at thousands of other stores across America, smaller rewards will be offered for "checking in" and for scanning products.

The app detects a "shopkick Signal" coming from the shopkick device located in each participating store, and because the detection occurs on the user's iPhone, the privacy of presence information is completely under the user's control. Once a shopkick Signal is detected, the app delivers reward points called "kickbucks" to the user simply for walking through the door. kickbucks can be collected across all partner stores. kickbucks can be collected across all partner stores.

  Other shopper-related benefits of the shopkick app include:
  --  Collect kickbucks for trying on clothes and scanning a barcode in the
      American Eagle Outfitters dressing room
  --  Receive special offers, for example, a discount on specific products
      at Macy's, or in a particular Macy's department
  --  Get more kickbucks for scanning and learning about products and
      services at Best Buy
  --  Receive special offers for trying featured products at Sports
      Authority, and get extra kickbucks again
  --  Earn kickbucks from every retailer and redeem them at any partner
      retailer

kickbucks can be redeemed, with just one touch, for Facebook Credits to play games online, song downloads, in-store gift card rewards at shopkick partner stores, magazine subscriptions, iPods, and even donations to 30 different causes and charities.

"Imagine walking into a Macy's, Best Buy, American Eagle Outfitters or Sports Authority store, or a Simon Mall, and having special offers and rewards practically fall from the sky right into your hands," said shopkick Co-Founder and CEO Cyriac Roeding. "Upon entering the store, the shopkick app will greet you with 'Welcome - You just collected kickbucks.' You will then receive special offers directly through the app, and if you like, you can even leave your Facebook picture on a virtual store Wall of Fans."

  Why partners love shopkick:
  --  American Eagle Outfitters "We believe shopkick's location-based retail
      app is a potential game changer in retail," said Michael Dupuis, Vice
      President Marketing at AEO, Inc. "It is designed to make the shopping
      experience more rewarding and fun for consumers, which in turn brings
      more shoppers to our stores. We're proud to be the host of shopkick's
      consumer launch event at our Times Square store in New York City.  It
      is the perfect location to show off the future of shopping."
  --  Best Buy, Co. "shopkick's technology is a real breakthrough: it
      provides a way to help our customers bridge their physical and digital
      shopping experiences," said Richard Rommel, senior vice president, new
      business customer solutions group, Best Buy.  "We think shopkick will
      help us to personalize a Best Buy shopping experience, from check-in
      to check-out, with rewards and offers delivered right on a customer's
      smart phone. It's a great example of our commitment to help consumers
      connect through technology in meaningful ways."
  --  Macy's, Inc. "The retail world is typically divided between the
      'bricks' of physical stores and the 'clicks' of online shoppers," said
      Martine Reardon, Macy's Executive Vice President of Marketing and
      Advertising. "shopkick is like bricks on steroids; it will help us
      find new ways to communicate with consumers at the right time with
      just the right offer."
  --  Simon Property Group, Inc. "After a year of due diligence researching
      location-based apps, we found shopkick offers by far the best way for
      retailers and brands to communicate directly with shoppers - on the
      phone, the only interactive device they bring with them to the mall,"
      said Mikael Thygesen, President of SBV, and Chief Marketing Officer of
      SPG. "We're excited to be among the first to deliver this unique
      benefit. We invite our valued retailer tenants to join the roll-out of
      this cost-effective solution in their own stores, to drive additional
      traffic and enhance the overall shopping experience for customers."
  --  The Sports Authority, Inc. "shopkick finally delivers on the elusive
      promise of mobile in-store marketing.   They've successfully managed
      to combine location-based services, social features, and gaming into
      an application that's both simple and fun!  We believe this is a great
      tool to reward our customers in a new way, and we're excited to be
      among the first launch partners," said Sean Collins, SVP Marketing,
      Strategy, & Business Development for The Sports Authority.

Roeding added, "Our forward-looking retail launch partners are shaping the future by bringing personal rewards and offers to shoppers just for visiting - literally delivering rewards on contact. With the shopkick App for iPhone, our retailers' physical stores transform into interactive worlds where shoppers get more value, have more fun, and are more engaged."

The shopkick App is available for free from the App Store on iPhone or from http://www.itunes.com/AppStore/.

About shopkick (http://www.shopkick.com)

shopkick is a new Palo Alto-based startup funded by Kleiner Perkins's iFund, Greylock Partners and Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, and investor in Facebook and Zynga. shopkick, Inc. brings the power of the mobile internet to the retail experience. shopkick launched its mobile application CauseWorld in the United States in December 2009, in partnership with Citi, Kraft Foods and Procter & Gamble, which became the fastest-growing location-based retail app in the App Store within weeks.

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Stream TV Prepares to Introduce Groundbreaking 7-Inch Mobile Tablet With Android OS

iPad competitor available for pre-order starting August 24th

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 17 -- Stream TV Networks is preparing to launch a new mobile tablet that optimizes portability, connectivity and computing power like never before in one sleek device. With a high resolution seven-inch screen and streamlined dimensions of 8.2 inches by 4.8 inches, the new eLocity A7 tablet is more portable than the iPad and sports a striking design expected to appeal to a wide demographic of users. Stream TV will be working with leading national online retailers to offer the A7 tablet for pre-order starting August 24th, when the product will be officially unveiled.

Running the Android operating system, the eLocity A7 offers access to a wide range of mobile apps and a higher degree of compatibility with common office software than products running competing operating systems. The eLocity A7 also stands to take video viewing and gaming on a tablet device to a whole new level, integrating high-end display and graphics technology. The eLocity A7's detailed technical specifications will be made public at the time of official launch on August 24th, 2010.

CEO Mathu Rajan of Stream TV comments, "We look forward to the launch of the eLocity A7 tablet, which provides a cutting edge solution to meet the needs of technology enthusiasts with a beautiful, versatile and affordable device. We believe we have created a worthy competitor to the iPad."

The introduction of the eLocity A7 tablet is the first step in Stream TV's strategic growth plan to bring to market innovative products featuring state of the art technology designed to transform consumer communications and a digital lifestyle.

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CONTACT:  Esther Koo, Southard Communications, +1-212-777-2220,
esther@southardinc.com

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MTV Games and Harmonix Reveal More International Songs and Artists for Rock Band(TM)3 at Gamescom 2010

Soundtrack To Feature Musicians from Around the Globe, Including Rammstein, Bob Marley, HIM, INXS, Tokio Hotel and More!

COLOGNE, Germany, Aug. 17 -- Using the international stage of Gamescom 2010, MTV Games, a part of Viacom's MTV Networks (NYSE:VIA)(NYSE:VIA.B), Harmonix Music Systems Inc., and distribution partner Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) today confirmed a standout selection of international acts to be featured on the 83 song on-disc soundtrack for the highly anticipated Rock Band(TM)3 music video game, including INXS, Bob Marley, Slipknot, Rammstein, Tokio Hotel, HIM, Poni Hoax and more.  Rock Band 3 will be released Oct. 29 in Europe for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft (MSRP euro 59.99/49.99 pounds Sterling), PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system (MSRP euro 59.99/49.99 pounds), Nintendo Wii(TM) (MSRP euro 49.99/39.99 pounds) and Nintendo DS(TM) (MSRP euro 29.99/24.99 pounds).

"We believe music transcends boundaries, and intend to prove it with a committed effort to release more music from around the world on the Rock Band platform," said Paul DeGooyer, senior vice president of music and electronic games for MTV Games. "Fans will have access to our incredible line-up of music via simultaneous global releases, and we think everyone will find each song tremendously fun to play, no matter what language they speak."

MTV Games and Harmonix invite Gamescom 2010 attendees to get some hands-on time with Rock Band 3, located at the Electronic Arts (EA) show floor area located in Hall 6.1.

  Rock Band 3 on-disc tracks announced today are listed below:
  --  Bob Marley & The Wailers, "Get Up, Stand Up" (Jamaica)
  --  INXS, "Need You Tonight" (Australia)
  --  Poni Hoax, "Antibodies" (France)
  --  Rammstein, "Du Hast" in German (Germany)
  --  Roxette, "The Look" (Sweden)
  --  Tokio Hotel, "Humanoid" (Germany)
  --  HIM, "Killing Loneliness" (Finland)
  --  Mana, "Oye Mi Amor" in Spanish (Mexico)
  --  Slipknot, "Before I Forget" (United States)
  --  War, "Low Rider" (United States)

As previously announced, the Rock Band 3 on-disc setlist also includes international acts such as Phoenix (France), Ida Maria (Norway), Juanes (Colombia), Metric (Canada) and The Vines (Australia). Stay tuned to http://www.rockband.com/press for more setlist announcements.

With more than 30 awards and nominations following its impressive E3 2010 debut, including multiple Best Music and Best Casual/Social Game accolades, Rock Band 3 will feature an incredible 83-song setlist and access to far more music than any other music game, as well as innovative new game play modes and instruments. In addition to guitar, bass, drums and solo vocals, Rock Band 3 adds three-part vocal harmonies and introduces a keyboard peripheral to the band.

Rock Band 3's deep Career Mode takes the band on a journey to gain new levels of status while the environment around them changes from streets and subways to tour stops and venues. And for those just looking for fun, Rock Band 3 has a streamlined experience, with easy drop-in and drop-out, easier no-fail accessibility and an all-new Party Shuffle. Up to seven players can rock together for the ultimate social gaming experience.

The Rock Band platform stands next to none in music content, with more than 1,500 songs already available from more than 400 artists, including Jimi Hendrix, The Who, AC/DC and Green Day, who are exclusive to Rock Band. With more choices for fans than any other music-based videogame, Rock Band is, without question, the industry leader in providing the best selection of interactive musical content, songs and artists. Rock Band pioneered offering content in a variety of ways, through on-disc game play, game export, downloadable content and the Rock Band Network. The Rock Band platform allows fans to interact with their favorite music in a unique and hands-on way, as well as giving artists the ability to reach fans through a whole new channel.

Rock Band 3 will be compatible with all Rock Band(TM) and The Beatles(TM): Rock Band(TM) peripherals, as well as most Guitar Hero® and other authorized third-party music video game peripherals and microphones. Mad Catz is the official peripheral manufacturer and distributor for Rock Band 3 game controllers.  Rock Band Pro Guitar is compatible with the Rock Band 3 Fender(TM) Mustang(TM) PRO-Guitar(TM) Controller and the Rock Band 3 Squier® by Fender Stratocaster® Guitar Controller.

For Rock Band 3 art and video assets, please visit http://www.rockband.com/press.

Follow Rock Band on Twitter (http://twitter.com/rockband) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/rockband).

About MTV Networks

MTV Networks, a division of Viacom (NYSE:VIA)(NYSE:VIA.B), is one of the world's leading creators of entertainment content, with brands that engage and connect diverse audiences across television, online, mobile, games, virtual worlds and consumer products.  The company's portfolio spans more than 150 television channels and 350 digital media properties worldwide, and includes MTV, VH1, CMT, Logo, Harmonix, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Noggin, The N, AddictingGames, Neopets, COMEDY CENTRAL, Spike TV, TV Land, Atom, Gametrailers and Xfire.

About MTV Games

MTV Games is dedicated to creating, marketing and publishing high-quality, innovative interactive products that are relevant to the MTV audience and complement the core values of the MTV Networks brands.

About Harmonix Music Systems, Inc

Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., based in Cambridge, MA, and established in 1995, is the leading developer of groundbreaking music-oriented videogames. Harmonix was founded by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy, who formed the company to invent new ways for non-musicians to experience the unique joy that comes from making music and have pioneered music and rhythm gaming in the US. For more information please visit http://www.harmonixmusic.com.

About Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is a leading global interactive entertainment software company. Founded in 1982, the Company develops, publishes, and distributes interactive software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers, wireless devices and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under four brand names: EA(TM), EA SPORTS(TM), EA Mobile(TM) and POGO(TM). In fiscal 2010, EA posted GAAP net revenue of $3.7 billion and had 27 titles that sold more than one million units. EA's homepage and online game site is http://www.ea.com. More information about EA's products and full text of press releases can be found on the Internet at http://info.ea.com/.

© 2010 Harmonix Music Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Harmonix, Rock Band, Rock Band 2, Rock Band 3, Rock Band Network and all related titles and logos are trademarks of Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., a MTV Networks company. Rock Band, Rock Band 2, Rock Band 3 and Rock Band Network developed by Harmonix Music Systems, Inc. MTV: Music Television, MTV Games and all related titles and logos are trademarks of MTV Networks, a division of Viacom International Inc. EA, EA SPORTS, EA Mobile and POGO are trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. Microsoft, Xbox. Xbox 360 and Xbox LIVE are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. "PlayStation" is a registered trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Wii and Nintendo DS are trademarks are trademarks of Nintendo. Guitar Hero is a registered trademark of Activision. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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CONTACT:  For MTV Games/Harmonix:  Mariana Agathoklis , +1-212-846-5755,
Mariana.Agathoklis@mtvstaff.com, or Stephanie Myers, +1-617-491-6144, Ext.
111, stephanie.myers@harmonixmusic.com; or For EA: Jon Goddard,
+44-1483-463340, jgoddard2@europe.ea.com

Web Site:  http://www.mtv.com/

Virtual Personal Assistant Now Tackles Personal Tasks in Minutes

Time management gets easier with Rent A Smile meeting task requests in minutes rather than hours. Unique, first of its kind service enables smarter living.

NEW YORK, Aug. 17 -- Productivity gurus have long been extolling the virtues of virtual concierge services for some time now - how they make the work week shorter, enable smarter living and time management. One such virtual concierge is Rent A Smile - but with a difference. Based on customer survey results, it has delivered a virtual personal assistant service that meets to-do lists instantly.  The CEO of this aptly named service, Nikunj Mittal, says, "Our standard response time to task requests sent by email is 4 hours. While this is better than the industry average of 24 hours, sometimes customers need even more urgent attention to their requests. This service, which we have initially introduced for BlackBerry Messenger, is meant for those time critical requests that cannot wait. The response time is in minutes rather than hours."

The instant virtual concierge was called upon by a busy executive who had a car breakdown while driving to a business meeting. The gentleman just sent an instant message to his virtual personal assistant who called AAA for providing immediate help. The virtual concierge also informed the client about the delay and apologized on the gentleman's behalf. In another instance, a working mom was supposed to pick up her child from school when a client dropped in unexpectedly. She sent an instant message to her virtual personal assistant who had her husband paged to immediately cover for her.

In negotiating task requests within minutes rather than hours, this time management service for smarter living seems to have filled a void and found its own niche in differentiating itself from it's counterparts. For more information or to try Rent A Smile visit http://www.rentasmile.com/.

Company Information: Rent A Smile is your very own personal and business concierge service. We take all those tasks off your hands that you don't particularly enjoy doing yourself.

Right from airline ticket booking, wakeup calls, scheduling appointments and arranging a bedtime storyteller for your child, we do it all.

We fill in the shoes of your personal assistant, economically. Letting us handle your chores will give you more time to do what you like doing. Find us at http://www.rentasmile.com.

Source: Rent A Smile
   

CONTACT:  Mike Holland, Octagon PR, +1-609-228-1431,
mike.holland@eoctagon.com; or Nikunj Mittal, CEO - Rent A Smile,
+1-732-579-5763, nikunj@rentasmile.com

Web Site:  http://www.rentasmile.com/

Random House Children's Books and Dr. Seuss Enterprises Launch an All-New Seussville.com, the Official Online Home of Dr. Seuss

Seussville.com brings Dr. Seuss books to life in an interactive world

NEW YORK, Aug. 17 -- Random House Children's Books together with Dr. Seuss Enterprises is thrilled to announce the launch of the all-new Seussville (http://www.seussville.com), the official online home of Dr. Seuss. The enhanced interactive site showcases the wonderfully whimsical books and classic characters of the beloved Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss. The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, Oh, the Places You'll Go!, and all of Dr. Seuss's books leap to life in this completely new website, designed to ignite a child's creative thinking and imagination.

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Seussville.com is home to a dazzling array of entertaining and educational features that will delight Seuss fans young and old for hours on end. Lush animated environments offer an exploratory experience, and visitors to the site will uncover a wealth of innovative games and information--including a comprehensive character guide, searchable book catalog, an authoritative author section featuring a new biography and galleries of Dr. Seuss's early sketches and artwork, robust parent and teacher resources, a customizable avatar activity, and more.

Dr. Seuss, believed that books and learning to read should be fun and exciting for children. Seussville.com maintains this spirit of fun and honors the tenets of his work: discovery, imagination, and creativity. "Seussville is the definitive online resource for children of all ages to play with, learn about and explore their favorite Dr. Seuss characters and books, and to discover new ones," said Judith Haut, Senior Vice President, Communications and Marketing, Random House Children's Books. "Dr. Seuss created over 400 illustrated characters and with Seussville our goal was to bring those characters to life."

Random House Children's Books collaborated with Big Bad Tomato Interactive Agency, based in Los Angeles, to develop the new online experience. "We strived to create a site that would introduce Dr. Seuss's classic books to a generation of children who are immersed in digital media," said Robert Bruza, Principle at Big Bad Tomato. "Seussville is a place where children can discover the magic of Dr. Seuss, and at the same time, it will inspire a sense of nostalgia and rediscovery for the adults who grew up reading the iconic books."

Random House is also partnering with Big Bad Tomato to create a new Facebook game, set to launch in September. Similar to Farmville, the game will allow players to accumulate votes by completing a variety of Seuss-themed activities in pursuit of becoming the Mayor of Seussville. Fans can sign up on Seussville.com or by "liking" the Seussville fan page (Facebook.com/DrSeussBooks) on Facebook.

  Fans can also follow Seussville on Twitter at Twitter.com/Seussville.

  ABOUT RANDOM HOUSE CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Random House Children's Books is the world's largest English-language children's trade book publisher. Creating books for preschool children through young adult readers, in all formats from board books to activity books to picture books and novels, Random House Children's Books brings together award-winning authors and illustrators, world-famous franchise characters, and multimillion-copy series. In 1957, Random House pioneered the beginning reader genre when it launched the Beginner Books series with Dr. Seuss's classic The Cat in the Hat. Each year, Random House Children's Books, along with Dr. Seuss, proudly supports the National Education Association's Read Across America initiative, which calls on America's children to celebrate the joys of reading in conjunction with Dr. Seuss's birthday, March 2. Random House Children's Books is a division of Random House, Inc., whose parent company is Bertelsmann AG, a leading international media company.

ABOUT DR. SEUSS ENTERPRISES, L.P.

The primary focus of the Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. is to protect the integrity of the Dr. Seuss books while expanding beyond books into ancillary areas. This effort is a strategic part of the overall mission to nurture and protect the relationship consumers have with Dr. Seuss characters. Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) said he never wanted to license his characters to anyone who would "round out the edges." That is one of the guiding philosophies of Dr. Seuss Enterprises. Audrey S. Geisel, the widow of Dr. Seuss, heads Dr. Seuss Enterprises as President.

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Source: Random House Children's Books
   

CONTACT:  Dominique Cimina, Random House Children's Books,
+1-212-782-9314, dcimina@randomhouse.com

Web Site:  http://www.randomhouse.com/kids
http://www.seussville.com/

Big Star Media Group Completes Corporate Video

CLARKSDALE, Miss., Aug. 17 -- Big Star Media Group, Inc. (Pink Sheets: BMGI) (the "Company") a diversified entertainment and information distribution company, today announced that the Company has completed a new corporate video that summarizes the Company's primary areas of focus.

The video, which is posted on the Company's website, http://www.bigstarmediagroup.com, depicts the Company's philosophy on the use of modern technology to market and distribute media and entertainment to its target audiences.

About Big Star Media Group, Inc.

Big Star Media Group, Inc. is a multi-faceted entertainment and information distribution company focused on web-based presentations of live music events, the promotion of new musical talent, film production, and corporate messaging. Big Star Media Group holds several subsidiaries that are each focused on specific aspects of the Company's strategic plan, including: Big Star Live, Big Star Records, Big Star Informative Media, Big Star Films, and Big Star Communications. Its various entities focus on everything from the webcasting of live music events, to promoting new musical talent, producing film, and performing corporate messaging. For more information, please visit: http://www.bigstarmediagroup.com.

Forward-Looking Statements Disclosure

This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws, commonly identified by such terms as "believes," "will," "looking ahead," "anticipates," "estimates" and other terms with similar meaning. Although the Company believes that the assumptions upon which its forward-looking statements are based are reasonable, it can give no assurance that these assumptions will prove to be correct. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's projections and expectations are disclosed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements in this press release are expressly qualified by such cautionary statements and by reference to the underlying assumptions.

  Contact:
  Jeff Skillen
  662-655-1002

Source: Big Star Media Group, Inc.
   

CONTACT:  Jeff Skillen, +1-662-655-1002, for Big Star Media Group, Inc.

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

Boston Private Bank & Trust Company "Goes Live" on CapitalStream Straight Through Processing Solution

$3.2 Billion Bank Achieves On-Budget and On-Time Implementation

SUNNYVALE, California and NOIDA, India, August 17, 2010--     HCL Technologies, a leading global provider of software-led solutions,
infrastructure management and BPO services, announced Boston Private Bank &
Trust Company has successfully implemented the CapitalStream(TM) "Straight
Through Processing" (http://www.hcltech.com/capitalstream) (STP) solution.
CapitalStream was selected by the Boston Private Bank for
its proven track record of success along and ability to automate and
integrate into existing systems and functions throughout the lending process,
providing faster and easier access to information. HCL's well-formed and
highly detailed implementation plan and its ability to lead the
implementation was appealing, as Boston Private Bank had limited internal
resources to handle a project of this size and scope.

    CapitalStream is an integrated software platform enabling commercial
banks and finance companies to implement Straight Through Processing across
lending and leasing portfolios. CapitalStream has revolutionized lending by
integrating and automating sales, origination, credit, decisioning,
documentation, funding, booking and account monitoring. CapitalStream is a
core component of HCL FinanceSolution(TM), a suite of software platforms,
best practice methodologies and business transformation services specifically
designed for lending and leasing including specialized configurations of
enterprise solutions for CRM, content management, business intelligence and
more.

    Boston Private Bank implemented the CapitalStream "Best Practice Model,"
which incorporates standard business processes required to support front
office operations. The system is delivered with a core set of workflows,
checklists, documents, reports, and flexible configuration capabilities,
providing the ability to customize the platform to support Boston Private
Bank's unique requirements. The model and subsequent implementation plan have
been developed utilizing HCL's industry experience and direct input from
existing customers.

    "Configurability of the system by bank staff was a critical requirement
for the selected platform, and where CapitalStream differentiated itself from
the competition," commented Neal O'Hurley, Sr. Vice President and Chief
Credit Officer for Boston Private Bank. "With CapitalStream, we now have a
single system to handle the underwriting, approval and monitoring of standard
and complex loans."

    The project began last September with three core members of the
implementation team - a project manager, a credit administrator and an
executive sponsor. Resources were pulled from different areas of the bank as
needed, with no more than seven people working on the project at any given
time. Other than the project manager who dedicated the majority of his time
to the project, and the system admin (credit administration manager) who was
fully dedicated on several occasions, it wasn't necessary for anyone else at
the Bank to commit more than 50 percent of their time to the implementation.

    "HCL provided a realistic implementation timetable and very clearly
defined the benchmarks that needed to be achieved prior to moving to the next
step," stated Tim Rowell, Project Manager for Boston Private Bank.
"Communication both internally and with HCL was key to our success. We had a
daily call with the involved parties so everyone was on the same page and any
issues could be resolved on an ongoing basis."

    "We are very pleased to have another successful on-time and on-budget
midsize bank implementation," states Mike Pennell, Vice President, HCL
CapitalStream Lending Group. "By implementing the CapitalStream "Best
Practice" model, Boston Private Bank gets the best of both worlds - industry
leading best practices that can adapt to their specific needs and easy
accommodation for future growth and expansion."

    About HCL

    HCL is a $5 billion leading global Technology and IT Enterprise that
comprises two companies listed in India - HCL Technologies & HCL Infosystems.
Founded in 1976, HCL is one of India's original IT garage start-ups, a
pioneer of modern computing, and a global transformational enterprise today.
Its range of offerings spans Product Engineering, Custom & Package
Applications, BPO, IT Infrastructure Services, IT Hardware, Systems
Integration, and distribution of ICT products across a wide range of focused
industry verticals. The HCL team comprises over 64,000 professionals of
diverse nationalities, who operate from 26 countries including over 500
points of presence in India. HCL has global partnerships with several leading
Fortune 1000 firms, including leading IT and Technology firms. For more
information, please visit http://www.hcl.in.

    About HCL Technologies

    HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company, working with
clients in the areas that impact and redefine the core of their businesses.
Since its inception into the global landscape after its IPO in 1999, HCL
focuses on 'transformational outsourcing', underlined by innovation and value
creation, and offers integrated portfolio of services including software-led
IT solutions, remote infrastructure management, engineering and R&D services
and BPO. HCL leverages its extensive global offshore infrastructure and
network of offices in 26 countries to provide holistic, multi-service
delivery in key industry verticals including Financial Services,
Manufacturing, Consumer Services, Public Services and Healthcare. HCL takes
pride in its philosophy of 'Employee First' which empowers our 64,557
transformers to create a real value for the customers. HCL Technologies,
along with its subsidiaries, had consolidated revenues of US$ 2.7 billion
(Rs. 12,565 crores), for the year ended on 30th June 2010. For more
information, please visit http://www.hcltech.com.

    Forward-looking Statements

    Certain statements in this release are forward-looking
statements, which involve a number of risks, uncertainties, assumptions and
other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those
in such forward-looking statements. All statements, other than statements of
historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking
statements, including but not limited to the statements containing the words
'planned,' 'expects,' 'believes,' 'strategy,' 'opportunity,' 'anticipates,'
'hopes' or other similar words. The risks and uncertainties relating to these
statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding
impact of pending regulatory proceedings, fluctuations in earnings, our
ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services, Business
Process Outsourcing and consulting services including those factors which may
affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, customer acceptances of
our services, products and fee structures, our ability to attract and retain
highly skilled professionals, our ability to integrate acquired assets in a
cost effective and timely manner, time and cost overruns on fixed-price,
fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on
immigration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced
demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in
telecommunication networks, our ability to successfully complete and
integrate potential acquisitions, the success of our brand development
efforts, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the
companies /entities in which we have made strategic investments, withdrawal
of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability, legal restrictions
on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, and unauthorized use
of our intellectual property, other risks, uncertainties and general economic
conditions affecting our industry. There can be no assurance that the
forward-looking statements made herein will prove to be accurate, and
issuance of such forward-looking statements should not be regarded as a
representation by the Company, or any other person, that the objective and
plans of the Company will be achieved. All forward-looking statements made
herein are based on information presently available to the management of the
Company and the Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking
statement that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the Company.

    About Boston Private Bank & Trust Company

    Established in 1987, Boston Private Bank offers deposit and cash
management services, residential mortgages, investment management and trust
services, and commercial banking for both individuals and businesses. The
Bank is a leader in residential lending and provides commercial banking
services to many of New England's leading small and mid-size corporations.
Under its Accessible Banking program, the Bank is an active provider of real
estate financing for affordable housing, economic development, and small
businesses. Boston Private Bank's investment management emphasis is on mid to
large cap equity and actively managed fixed income portfolios. For further
information, visit http://www.bostonprivatebank.com.

   
    For More Information, Contact:

    Geoff Merten
    Marketing Communications, HCL CapitalStream
    +1-949-930-1655
    geoff.merten@hcl.in

    Kirsten Paragona
    Director of External Communications, HCL America
    +1-857-350-5393
    kparagona@hcl.in

    Danielle Millerick
    BluePoint Venture Marketing for HCL
    +1-781-861-7800
    Danielle@bluepointmktg.com

Source: HCL Technologies

For More Information, Contact: Geoff Merten, Marketing Communications, HCL CapitalStream,   +1-949-930-1655, geoff.merten@hcl.in; Kirsten Paragona, Director of External Communications, HCL America, +1-857-350-5393, kparagona@hcl.in; Danielle Millerick, BluePoint Venture Marketing for HCL, +1-781-861-7800, Danielle@bluepointmktg.com

Chrysalis Software Launches Outbound Notification Service for Contact Centers

Delivering A Comprehensive Multimedia Service Via Phone, Text Message, Email And Twitter

CARMEL, Calif., Aug. 17 -- Chrysalis Software Inc., a leading provider of contact center professional services and products, today introduced a cloud or premise-based multimedia information delivery service that manages outbound notifications for contact centers.  The Chrysalis Notification Service delivers information quickly via a variety of media such as phone, text message, email, or Twitter.  Messages can be sent on a one-by-one basis, or broadcast to tens of thousands of recipients.

The Chrysalis Notification Service uses a Campaign Manager to manage a list of contacts and a set of rules for how recipients should be contacted.  The rules include the media to be used, the specific media parameters, for example Twitter login credentials, and any restrictions on the way the messages should be handled.  A campaign can be large or small, one-time or continuous and is used to manage notifications that may be sent in real time or in batches.  A one-time campaign includes the start and end time, allowing a contact center to load it overnight and run it the next day.  A continuous campaign is up and running all the time, but can be configured to different time zones.  Using the web service interface built into the Chrysalis Notification Service, new or updated contacts can be inserted into the campaign list at any time and the notification will be queued for launch.  Campaigns can be configured to limit the hours during which dialing occurs, to make sure that calls aren't launched too early or late in the day.  For nationwide campaigns, the Chrysalis Notification Service can examine the time zone of each contact to be sure that time restrictions are respected in the recipient's time zone.

The Chrysalis Notification Service is extremely flexible and supports a wide-range of notifications:

  --  Informing pharmacy customers that a prescription is ready for pickup
  --  Informing an entire customer base of a 48-hour sale
  --  Notifying students of a snow day
  --  Advising utility customers of an impending scheduled outage and
      informing them when power is restored

"Providing the best possible customer service requires more than staffing a contact center and waiting for calls to arrive," said Debbie Diersch, President and CEO, Chrysalis Software.  "Today customers expect that the companies they do business with will contact them proactively with the information they need.  Outbound notifications can generate significant cost savings by modulating inbound call center traffic.  By launching outbound calls when the contact center is quiet and allowing customers to opt out to less busy agents, a percentage of calls can be deflected away from the contact center busy hours.  The Chrysalis Notification Service allows contact centers to provide these notifications to their customers, resulting in fewer calls and lower staffing levels during busy hours."

The Chrysalis Notification Service works with the Call Progress Detection (CPD) capabilities of the Interactive Voice Response (IVR) platform to monitor every outbound call in order to determine whether or not the call is successful.  If a call fails due to a busy signal or other problem, the Chrysalis Notification Service schedules the call to be retried at a later time.

Delivering a notification via a text message may be much more convenient and preferable for many customers.  It can be viewed at the recipient's convenience, while a phone call must be answered in real time or ignored and later fetched from voicemail.  The Chrysalis Notification Service can embed the URL of a mobile web page in the text message, which can be viewed optimally on both messaging phones and smart phones.  Simple messaging phones receive the SMS message giving the basic information, while smart phones with web browsers allow the recipient to tap the URL, bringing up more detailed information on a mobile web page.

The Chrysalis Notification Service is available immediately.  For more information on Chrysalis solutions, please visit http://www.chrysalis.net.

About Chrysalis

From its inception Chrysalis Software, Inc. has helped businesses to improve their customer relationships with their call center products and professional services. Today, Chrysalis customers are taking advantage of the latest advances in hosted and premises-based Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems, Advanced Speech Recognition (ASR), Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) and call center management systems.  Information about Chrysalis Software's products and services can be found at http://www.chrysalis.net.

Source: Chrysalis Software, Inc.
   

CONTACT:  Julie Blue of Chrysalis Software, Inc., +1-831-620-1472,
julie.blue@chrysalis.net

Web Site:  http://www.chrysalis.net/

U.S. Cellular Adds to its Smartphone Portfolio With the Launch of the BlackBerry Bold 9650 Smartphone

CHICAGO, Aug. 17 -- U.S. Cellular today announced that the BlackBerry® Bold(TM)9650 smartphone will be available online and in U.S. Cellular stores beginning Aug. 18. This much-anticipated smartphone is stylish and feature-rich, satisfying customers' needs to stay connected with their business and personal email, Internet and social networks, all on U.S. Cellular's nationwide 3G network. The BlackBerry Bold 9650 can be used around the world; it supports high-speed EV-DO Rev. A networks in North America, as well as UMTS/HSPA (2100Mhz) and quad-band EDGE/GPRS/GSM networks abroad.

"When you combine the BlackBerry Bold with our industry-first programs such as Overage Protection and Battery Swap, our customers can have a powerful smartphone with a unique wireless experience," said Edward Perez, vice president of sales and marketing operations for U.S. Cellular. "The international voice and data capabilities of the BlackBerry Bold give our customers options while traveling for business or with their friends and families."

With its combination of quality, performance, functionality and entertainment features, the BlackBerry Bold 9650 appeals to both professionals and consumers. Customers can view videos and pictures on the brilliant 2.4-inch HVGA+ display and browse the Web at fast 3G speeds. The 3.2 MP camera features auto-focus and takes high-quality pictures that can easily be shared on popular social networking sites. Plus with a microSD/SDHC memory card slot that supports up to 32 GB cards, customers have plenty of storage to take their music, pictures and videos with them wherever they go. And of course, customers get the convenience and reliability of BlackBerry email and access to instant messaging services like BlackBerry® Messenger (BBM(TM)).

Customers can use the BlackBerry Bold 9650 smartphone's built-in Wi-Fi® to connect to the Internet over wireless hotspots at home or on the road, and the built-in GPS along with BlackBerry® Maps offers step by step directions and easy searches for local points of interest. The full-QWERTY keyboard makes typing fast and comfortable and the optical trackpad allows fluid scrolling through menus and icons.

The BlackBerry Bold 9650 includes easy access to a range of U.S. Cellular applications such as My Contacts Backup, Tone Room Deluxe and Your Navigator Deluxe. Thousands more applications are available on BlackBerry App World(TM), making it easy for customers to personalize their phone to suit their style.

The BlackBerry Bold 9650 ships with BlackBerry® 5 and is BlackBerry® 6 ready. BlackBerry 6 is a new operating system for BlackBerry smartphones that was announced earlier this month.  It retains the trusted features that distinguish the BlackBerry brand while delivering a fresh and engaging experience that is both powerful and easy to use. BlackBerry 6 is expected to be available for the BlackBerry Bold 9650, subject to certification by U.S. Cellular, in the coming months. For more information about the BlackBerry Bold 9650 smartphone, visit http://www.blackberry.com/bold.

About U.S. Cellular

The 9,000 associates of U.S. Cellular believe a wireless phone enhances people's lives and a wireless company should be in the business of bringing people together. U.S. Cellular has a wide range of monthly plans, including those with unlimited nationwide calling, unlimited free incoming calls and options to prepay. The company has a growing catalog of phones like the BlackBerry® Bold, the touch-screen LG Tritan and HTC Touch Pro 2 and the Android-powered Samsung Acclaim and HTC Desire, which offer e-mail and Web access. Those features are delivered 10 times faster over U.S. Cellular's 3G Mobile Broadband network. U.S. Cellular believes in the power of the community and has made a commitment to invest more than $4.5 million in teachers and schools during 2009 and 2010. Based in Chicago, the company serves 6.2 million customers across the country. To learn more about the company visit one of its retail stores or uscellular.com. You can also check out U.S. Cellular on Facebook.

The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited.

Source: U.S. Cellular
   

CONTACT:  Steve Carlson of U.S. Cellular, +1-312-217-0606,
steve.carlson@uscellular.com

Web Site:  http://www.uscellular.com/
http://worldwide.blackberry.com/blackberrybold

ISTEC Enhances Student Learning with a Robust and Reliable 802.11n Network from Xirrus

Xirrus Delivers Unmatched Coverage and Bandwidth for ISTEC's e-Learning Platform

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Aug. 17 -- Xirrus®, the leader in High Performance Wi-Fi that delivers the most coverage, bandwidth, and user density in the industry, announced today the deployment of Xirrus high performance 802.11n Wi-Fi Arrays at the Instituto Superior de Tecnologias Avancadas in Lisbon, Portugal. ISTEC prides itself in providing the best and most advanced technologies to aid in the education of their students. Their Xirrus deployment helps them attain this goal by providing more wireless range and throughput for their e-Learning platform with fewer devices than any other wireless vendor.

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Paulo Silva, Network Administrator at ISTEC explains why they chose Xirrus over other Wi-Fi vendors, "Xirrus was the best option for us because they require less infrastructure. With the other systems, in order to have the same coverage that Xirrus gives us, we needed something between 25-30 access points. With Xirrus we cover the same area with four Arrays, one of which is a backup because three could do it but due to the saturation of the number of students per area we decided to use a fourth as backup."

Paulo continued by explaining how Xirrus has improved their wireless experience, "We had Wi-Fi before Xirrus but the problem with those access points was that they quickly became saturated due to the number of devices hooking up to the wireless network. Changing the old system to the Xirrus solution only took about an hour and a half - basically 20 minutes per Array. We just unhooked the old ones, plugged in the Arrays and it was working. As simple as that. We've had Xirrus installed for about three months and all this time we've had no need for any technical support. They simply came out, configured each Array, installed them, and it has been working ever since."

Learn valuable lessons from others deploying Wi-Fi by visiting http://www.xirrus.com/customerdeployments/

Sign up for your site survey by visiting us at http://www.xirrus.com/sitesurvey or by calling 800-947-7871.

About Xirrus

Xirrus, Inc., the leader in High Performance Wi-Fi, manufactures the only fully distributed, dense radio Wi-Fi architecture available in the industry today. The innovative Xirrus architecture delivers unmatched RF innovation and wireless performance on a per access point and system-wide basis, yet requires fewer devices, switch ports, cabling with less effort to implement and maintain than traditional offerings, thereby accelerating Time-to-Value.  Xirrus manufactures its products in the USA and is Wi-Fi Alliance, Verisign, PCI, FIPS 140-2, and ISO 9001:2008 certified.  For more information, please visit http://www.xirrus.com.

  Xirrus. High Performance Wi-Fi(TM)

  Xirrus. The Wi-Fi Array®

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Source: Xirrus
   

CONTACT:  John Merrill, +1-805-262-1644, john.merrill@xirrus.com, Mandy
Kakavas, Horn Group, +1-415-905-4015, mandy.kakavas@horngroup.com

Web Site:  http://www.xirrus.com/

Examiner.com Launches Upgraded Site

Shift To Drupal Expands Versatility And Functionality Of Local Content Leader

DENVER, Aug. 17 -- Examiner.com, the insider source for local, launched its upgraded site this week, unveiling innovative technology and an enhanced user experience for the nation's leading media network.

"This upgraded site represents the future of user-focused online content," said Jim Davidson, president of Examiner.com. "As we continue to set ourselves apart from other content sites, our offering of high quality local content is now amplified by this new platform."

Examiner.com's strategic vision leverages social media and community for improving online content distribution. This commitment has led to Examiner.com's decision to migrate the entire site to open source Drupal. With this migration complete, Examiner.com is now the largest consumer website living on the Drupal platform.

The scalability Drupal offers Examiner.com is critical to support the site's incredible growth. With now over 50,000 contributors across 240 US and Canadian editions, Examiner.com is the fastest-growing local content network in the U.S., and shows no signs of slowing down.

Ranked by comScore as one of the top 10 fastest-growing websites in the US, the company also reports more than 35% growth in unique visitors so far in 2010.

Known as Examiners, contributors to Examiner.com are passionate local insiders who offer a range of viewpoints on locally-relevant topics. With plans to hit 85,000 Examiners by the end of 2010, Examiner.com is actively recruiting individuals who are passionate about their interests and excited to share their knowledge of politics and other categories.

More information on Examiners and how to become one is available at Examiner.com.

About Examiner.com

Launched in April 2008, Examiner.com serves 240 markets across North America and is the insider source for everything local. Examiner.com feeds the passion the local community has for its favorite interests, activities and establishments by connecting them with credible and informed contributors who write and share information with the passion and insights only a local insider can provide. Examiner.com is a division of the Clarity Digital Group, LLC, wholly owned by The Anschutz Company, a Denver-based investment company with a broad array of assets in print and digital media, live sports and entertainment, hospitality, film production and exhibition, and wind energy development.

Source: Examiner.com
   

CONTACT:  Kristen Stippich of Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide,
+1-212-880-5278, kristen.stippich@ogilvypr.com, for Examiner.com; or Justin
Jimenez of Examiner.com, +1-303-990-0951, jjimenez@examiner.com

Web Site:  http://www.examiner.com/

CA Technologies New, Expanded Service Catalog Transforms IT Into a Proactive, Strategic Business Partner

Latest Version Delivers Greater Visibility into Core Business Processes

ISLANDIA, N.Y., Aug. 17 -- CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced the availability of CA Service Catalog r12.5, designed to enable enterprise business and service providers to provide transparency in their Service Offerings, align service quality to business needs, and to gain greater business insight.

"CA Service Catalog enables you to publish a top-down oriented service catalog that provides a 360-degree view of offerings, and helps remove the disconnect between what IT provides and the expectations of their business users. This allows IT to better align with the business and to replace costly, labor-intensive manual fulfillment methods," said Brian Bell, general manager of Service Portfolio Management at CA Technologies. "With this new version, companies can better manage service costs and consumption, and provide visibility into service usage in financial or business terms, rather than as technical operational metrics."

  CA Service Catalog r12.5 delivers:

  --  Increased Value by communicating service offerings in rich descriptive
      business language in a centralized Service Catalog
  --  Reduced Risk by helping to ensure that service delivery is aligned
      with request service levels and customer expectations
  --  Agility by automating service delivery processes from request to
      approval to fulfillment and speeding time to service provisioning
  --  Reduced Costs by understanding the value of services consumed in
      financial terms and comparing rates to industry benchmarks

"Since we began using the new CA Service Catalog, customer satisfaction has increased to 98 percent for requests, from a low of 62 percent," said Harry K. Butler, director of Infrastructure, Elbit Systems of America. "File share access service used to be a two to four day process. Now we are turning those requests around in just two to four hours. Best of all, our Finance team confirmed that while we had originally planned for ROI in 14 months, based on number of requests processed and human cost savings, we actually realized ROI in six months instead."

According to Ovum*, "The tight integration of CA Service Catalog and CA Service Accounting provides businesses with visibility into IT service costs and consumption by business unit. Businesses can then implement corporate cost allocation for IT services based on actual usage and business rules, and generate billing adjustments for breaches in service quality."

  The new features in CA Service Catalog r12 include:

  --  New IT Process Automation Manager - enterprise class tool provides
      repeatable and extensible automation
  --  Included Service Accounting - automated invoicing, usage-based billing
      and rollup of charges, and support for standardized allocation
      methodologies
  --  New CA Business Intelligence - powerful enterprise reporting engine
      based on SAP Business Objects Enterprise
  --  New Forms Designer - automated data capture and third party
      integration that speeds user requests and reduces errors
  --  Enhanced Request Service Level Agreements - set expectation of service
      delivery and improve the IT customer relationship
  --  Enhanced Service Request Controls - reduce administration and increase
      management oversight
  --  Enhanced End-User Experience - updated interface and a reduction in
      steps needed to create a request

  Availability

CA Service Catalog r12.5 is available now for Microsoft Windows Server with Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle database support.

  For more information on CA Service Management, please visit:

  --  On the Web:
      http://www.ca.com/us/products/detail/CA-Service-Catalog.aspx
  --  Blog: http://community.ca.com/blogs/itil/
  --  On Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/caitservice
  --  On YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/CAincVideo
  --  Case Study: Raymond James enhances service quality and reduces costs
      with improved request and asset management
  --  Tech Brief: Service Level Management Through An Automated Service
      Catalog

*Ovum Butler Group, "Technology Audit: CA Service Management Suite r12", by Balachandar Ganesh and Stephen Mann, February 2010.

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  About CA Technologies

CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) is an IT management software and solutions company with expertise across all IT environments - from mainframe and distributed, to virtual and cloud. CA Technologies manages and secures IT environments and enables customers to deliver more flexible IT services. CA Technologies innovative products and services provide the insight and control essential for IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of the Global Fortune 500 relies on CA Technologies to manage evolving IT ecosystems. For additional information, visit CA Technologies at http://www.ca.com.

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Copyright © 2010 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.

  Press Contact

  Michael Zeglin
  (650) 298-3117
  michael.zeglin@ca.com

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CONTACT:  Michael Zeglin, +1-650-298-3117, michael.zeglin@ca.com

Web Site:  http://ca.com/

Melexis Receives "Supplier of the Year 2009" Award From Flexpower

YPRES, Belgium, August 17, 2010--     Melexis, a leading supplier in mixed signal semiconductors and sensors,
today announces it was honored by the Dr. Bob Roohparvar, CEO of Flexpower, a
subsidiary of Flextronics and leading manufacturer of battery chargers for
handheld devices, with the award of "Supplier of the Year 2009". For both
companies this is the result and reward of a long-lasting relationship.

    "Melexis is honored to receive Flexpower's "Supplier of the Year 2009"
award. This recognition validates a significant mutual effort to achieve
world-class quality and performance in power supplies. Both our companies
believe close alignment is fundamental to achieving the optimal combination
of product performance, manufacturing cost and time-to-market", says Rudi De
Winter, CEO of Melexis.

    Melexis has developed several exclusive products over the past years for
Flexpower that are used in chargers and switched mode power supplies with a
green label. Thanks to these highly energy friendly products Flexpower and
Melexis contributed to the global reduction in CO2.

    About Flexpower

    Flexpower is a subsidiary of Vistapoint Technologies which on its turn is
a Business Division of Flextronics. Headquartered in Singapore, Flextronics
is a leading Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider focused on
delivering complete design, engineering and manufacturing services to
automotive, computing, consumer digital, industrial, infrastructure, medical
and mobile OEMs. Flextronics helps customers design, build, ship, and service
electronics products through a network of facilities in 30 countries on four
continents. For more information you can visit http://www.flextronics.com

    About Melexis

    Melexis Microelectronic Integrated Systems N.V. (Euronext Brussels:MELE)
imagines, creates and delivers innovative mixed signal integrated circuits.
Melexis ICs are driving green solutions that enable our customers to bring
more energy efficient automotive systems to market. Melexis product portfolio
addresses 4 classes of ICs; Sensor, Optoelectronic, Wireless and Actuators.
Sensors include magnetic, MEMs, and sensor interface ICs. Optoelectronic
products encompass linear arrays, single point sensors, infrared thermometers
and CMOS wide dynamic range and night vision cameras. Wireless ICs focus on
RKE, TPMS, ISM band applications, NFC, RFID reader and smart tag solutions.
Actuator ICs cover LIN and CAN bus networking ICs and advanced BLDC motor
driver technology. Melexis is proud of its participation toward reducing the
human race's global environmental footprint. For more information visit
http://www.melexis.com

Source: Melexis

Rik Moens, E-mail: rmo@melexis.com, Phone: +32-13-67-07-95

TRUSTe Gives Mpire's AdXpose Its Seal of Approval For Outstanding Data Privacy Practices

AdXpose Undergoes Data and Privacy Practices Certification to Become the First Verification Service to Earn the TRUSTe Seal, Setting the Standard for the Rest of the Industry

SEATTLE, Aug. 17 -- Mpire, the market-leading advertising verification and optimization technology company, and TRUSTe®, provider of the leading online privacy trust mark, jointly announced today that TRUSTe has certified Mpire's Web privacy practices and verified that the customer data management practices of its AdXpose(TM) verification and optimization platform uphold Mpire's privacy and customer data usage commitments. The TRUSTe seal will reside on the AdXpose site and platform, giving agencies, networks and advertisers added confidence when they engage AdXpose to protect and optimize their media.

"The question - 'Who is verifying the verification companies?' - has been posed in multiple venues, but never adequately answered until today," said Kirby Winfield, Mpire's president and chief revenue officer. "Being the leader in the ad verification and optimization space, we're an outspoken advocate for greater transparency throughout the online advertising industry.  The TRUSTe Seal unequivocally communicates that our own business practices stand up to the same level of scrutiny that advertisers expect of the rest of the industry."

Winfield continues, "When a new market emerges quickly with no recognized standards or best practices, customers can be at risk.  That's why we approached TRUSTe - we wanted to be the first company to step up and be held accountable by a trusted and credible privacy authority."

Verification services traditionally collect data ranging from content and context to geographic and domain detail. Advertisers, publishers and privacy advocates have expressed concern that this data might be misused or even resold by companies with inadequate oversight, security or risk management policies, or those seeking to create additional revenue streams.  Earning the TRUSTe Web Privacy Seal demonstrates Mpire's commitment to transparency and accountability, which are foundations of online privacy.

"TRUSTe has broken important new ground in the online advertising ecosystem by working with AdXpose to certify its data practices," said Chris Babel, CEO, TRUSTe. "From this collaboration, we've created new best practices and benchmarks that, for the first time, gives agencies, advertisers, networks and publishers a standard by which to measure their verification vendor's data operations and privacy policies."

The TRUSTe certification process included two main phases: data collection practices and presentation.  TRUSTe reviewed AdXpose's data collection management practices to ensure data was not used for unauthorized purposes or accessed by third-parties.  Mpire's internal access was also reviewed to ensure only essential employees were granted access to client data, and that privileges could be revoked.

The second phase reviewed the AdXpose Web portal and API to ensure access to data was encrypted and available only to the client.  Finally, the AdXpose privacy policy was modified and given TRUSTe's certification and seal of approval for meeting the highest standards of client privacy.

"Ad verification is a valuable tool for marketers and agencies, with the potential to catalyze brands' utilization of more scalable display advertising solutions and accelerate the shift of offline advertising budgets to the online ecosystem. AdXpose is taking an important step in seeking third-party certification, which we expect will accelerate adoption of this important market innovation," said Robert Coolbrith, Vice President, Equity Research - Internet and Digital Media at ThinkEquity LLC.

About TRUSTe

Thousands of companies rely on TRUSTe's leading privacy trustmark to enhance consumer trust, drive increased registrations and transactions, and comply with complex privacy requirements. Consumers know that when they see the TRUSTe seal they can "Click with Confidence" because the certified website is responsible with their personal information. TRUSTe has certified more than 40 percent of the top fifty websites including Facebook, Yahoo!, Microsoft, eBay, AOL, Adobe, AT&T, Comcast, Disney, Weather.com, Apple, LinkedIn, Web MD, and Yelp. TRUSTe also certifies many of the top advertising and technology service providers for websites. For additional information on TRUSTe and its services, please visit http://www.truste.com/.

About AdXpose

AdXpose Analytics help advertisers and platforms verify and optimize billions of campaign data points captured in real time. Agencies representing the major holding companies, multiple Demand Side Platforms, and more than 20% of the comScore Ad Focus Top 40 Properties, currently use AdXpose technology.

About Mpire

Mpire is the market-leading advertising optimization technology company that is evolving traditional online advertising into a more relevant and engaging medium for publishers and advertisers. Its patent-pending and award-winning AdXpose(TM) is the first and only verification and optimization technology suite that gives brand marketers and agencies transparency and confidence anywhere their ads run across the Internet, including exchanges, ad networks and direct publisher placements. Backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Ignition Partners, Mpire is based in Seattle, Washington.

  For media inquiries only, please contact:

  Eric Sokolsky                     Tonja Aldus
  Sparkpr for Mpire                 Storyboard PR for TRUSTe
  eric@sparkpr.comtonja@storyboardpr.com
  908-288-7201                      613-608-5360

Source: Mpire Corp.
   

CONTACT:  Eric Sokolsky of Sparkpr, +1-908-288-7201, eric@sparkpr.com,
for Mpire; or Tonja Aldus of Storyboard PR, +1-613-608-5360,
tonja@storyboardpr.com, for TRUSTe

Web Site:  http://www.truste.com/

Nasuni Issues Disaster Recovery Challenge

Campaign targets futility of traditional tape and disk-based DR plans, offers solutions in the cloud

NATICK, Mass., Aug. 17 -- Nasuni(TM), creator of the industry's leading cloud storage gateway, today announced its follow-up to last month's daring Security Challenge. The Cloud Storage Disaster Recovery Challenge aims to confront common notions that the cloud cannot provide a practical disaster recovery plan; to raise awareness of faults inherent in traditional disaster recovery schemes; and to help businesses find viable solutions in cloud storage.

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As data volumes grow, so do backup costs - and thus the expense of data recovery: in a report titled The Cost of Lost Data, Pepperdine University calculated the price of a lost megabyte as upwards of $10,000. Given these expenses, businesses ought to consider whether their backup model adequately protects mission-critical data from catastrophe - be it natural disaster, software corruption, hardware failure, or even human error. In its free white paper, Disaster Recovery and the Cloud: New solutions for offsite data protection, Nasuni addresses tape, disk, and cloud technologies, then covers pros and cons of each approach as they relate to the following considerations: downtime, data integrity, cost, simplicity and security.

"This white paper serves a dual purpose - the first is to help users establish their own priorities when developing a DR plan, and the second is to help determine whether cloud-based DR can meet their business' need for offsite data protection," said Andres Rodriguez, Nasuni's CEO.

The white paper can be found at http://www5.nasuni.com/l/2922/2010-08-16/1AG51

As a supplement to the white paper, Nasuni has also produced a short, humorous video about disaster recovery. Titled Restoration Frustration: a Creation of the Nasuni Corporation, the video juxtaposes two disaster recovery scenarios: one using tape backup, and the other using cloud storage with the Nasuni Filer. Said Rodriguez, "Restoration Frustration is our own form of IT satire."

The lynchpin of the Disaster Recovery Challenge is the challenge itself: for stories. Nasuni encourages IT professionals throughout the industry to send tales of their own restoration frustrations - writers whose stories are published on Nasuni's website will be given a $50 iTunes gift card. Stories should be no fewer than 200 words.

According to Rodriguez, "Everyone has their own exasperations with DR. Whether its busted tapes or corrupted software, we want to hear about it - we want the industry to hear."

Follow Nasuni on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nasuni and Facebook http://www.facebook.com/Nasuni

For cloud storage news and commentary on data protection, subscribe to the Nasuni blog at http://www.nasuni.com/news/nasuni-blog/

About Nasuni

Nasuni was founded in 2009 by storage veterans to deliver a secure gateway to cloud storage that makes the cloud feasible for business users. The Nasuni Filer is a virtual NAS file server that runs on VMware and leverages the resources of the cloud to simplify file storage and protection. Targeting the mid-market, Nasuni's solution eliminates the need for incremental storage hardware and the resulting capital expense to manage unstructured file growth. The company is backed by North Bridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners. To download the Nasuni Filer, or for more information, visit http://www.nasuni.com.

  CONTACT AGENCY:
  Dan Miller
  JPR Communications
  818-884-8282
  dan@jprcom.com

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CONTACT:  Dan Miller of JPR Communications, +1-818-884-8282,
dan@jprcom.com, for Nasuni

Web Site:  http://www.nasuni.com/

Speed and Performance for Analytics Accelerate as Next-Gen Analytics Platform Optimizes Flash Memory Usage

BILLERICA, Mass., Aug. 17 -- Vertica Systems, the leading provider of next-generation software platforms for real-time analytics, today announced the availability of FlexStore(TM) for Flash memory, producing the most efficient and cost effective use of Flash technology for analytics.  Benchmark performance of Vertica's FlexStore leveraging Fusion-io's flash-based memory tier for a portion of database data has consistently produced significant overall throughput gains on both loading and querying.  The benchmarks have yielded database performance gains over 10x compared to the fastest hard drives and nearly 75 percent as fast as an all-memory system, thereby significantly boosting analytic operations.

FlexStore provides customers with the deployment flexibility of both traditional storage media and solid-state in a hybrid analytics platform that accelerates performance while enabling real-time business decisions at a fraction of the cost of traditional architectures.  FlexStore, along with Vertica's unique ability to provision and move data on the fly, allows companies to take advantage of flash memory in combination with their existing hard disk technology on industry standard x86 servers from Cisco, Dell, IBM, HP and others.

Speed is critical as companies strive to access and query large sets of data in near real-time to support mission-critical initiatives.  Some analytical operations, such as large sorts and joins, do not fit in main memory and require temporary space.  Due to high latency and low throughput, magnetic disks can be the bottleneck in these operations even with a true column store database.  Substituting enterprise-grade flash memory for disks in these situations yields a higher performance/lower cost solution.

"Vertica's FlexStore architecture leverages Fusion's technology in a unique and cost-effective way.  FlexStore for Flash enables Vertica to dynamically assign resource allocations at the most granular level, including by column.  This means we are able to direct the most active or 'hot' data elements to the most appropriate resources, e.g., flash memory," said Colin Mahony, vice president of products and business development, Vertica.  "FlexStore enables Vertica customers to deploy a hybrid of solid-state and traditional disk on industry-standard servers for the highest performing analytics platform on the market - at a fraction of the cost."

Fusion-io is the pioneer of a new memory tier of flash-based solid-state technology called ioMemory that offers unprecedented performance, density and reliability; combining Fusion's ioMemory technology with Vertica's FlexStore capability delivers exponentially faster access and dramatically reduced latency to company data.

"Vertica's unique columnar approach is ideally suited to leverage Fusion's Virtual Storage Layer (VSL) for unparalleled performance improvements and cost reductions in data warehousing," said Tyler Smith, vice president of business development for Fusion-io.  "The Company's FlexStore analytics platform takes unique advantage of the unprecedented performance, scalability, endurance, flexibility and reliability of Fusion's ioMemory technology."

As companies contend with growing amounts of data and the increasing strategic importance of that data and associated analytics, the need for speed and performance is paramount in adopting an analytics platform.  Not only does this hybrid approach to Flash maximize value by allowing the most frequently accessed data to be stored on the fastest media, but also allows companies the most cost efficient manner to develop their analytic environment.

About Vertica

Vertica Systems is the leading provider of next-generation analytics platforms enabling companies to monetize their data at the speed and scale necessary to deliver significant value to customers and shareholders.  Vertica's scalability and flexibility is unmatched in the industry, delivering over 5000x faster performance at 30% the cost of traditional solutions.  Vertica is used by customers worldwide including Verizon, Guess Inc., Zynga, Capital IQ, Mozilla and Comcast. Vertica's North American headquarters is located in Billerica, MA.

Vertica and FlexStore a registered trademarks of Vertica in the United States and other countries.  Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

Source: Vertica Systems
   

CONTACT:  Elizabeth Laneri, SHIFT Communications, +1-617-779-1852,
vertica@shiftcomm.com, or Jennifer Sullivan, Vertica, Inc., +1-978-600-6336,
jsullivan@vertica.com

Web Site:  http://www.vertica.com/

IssueTrak Launches IssueTrak Mobile to Provide Anytime, Anywhere Issue Management

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Aug. 17 -- IssueTrak, an internationally recognized leader in issue tracking, help desk and customer support software, today announced the release of IssueTrak Mobile, which allows users to track, assign, manage and report on issues from their mobile device.

Field service technicians are empowered by real-time access to important information while at a client's site or in transit. They can submit, edit, assign and close issues remotely, without needing a PC or a laptop computer.

Managers can monitor their help desk or service desk at any time. With real-time access to their dashboard, they can view issue volume and the status of specific issues, modify workloads and assign tickets immediately.

"Issues occur 24/7. Support organizations need to respond quickly and take action immediately. With IssueTrak Mobile, field technicians, managers and end users alike can use their issue tracking system no matter where they are," said Hank Luhring, CEO of IssueTrak, Inc. "Having mobile access makes any support or service organization more productive, able to provide a higher level of support and achieve greater customer satisfaction."

IssueTrak Mobile introduces an interface that is optimized for mobile devices. It provides quick and easy access to perform the most common events such as add notes, edit, assign, and close issues. Other features include:

  --  Search lets users find the information they need quickly.
  --  Knowledge base access to view solutions to previously resolved
      problems.
  --  Immediate deployment -- no wait time.
  --  Instant data synchronization -- data security is strong because no
      data is stored on the mobile device.

There is no need to install any software on the mobile device to use IssueTrak Mobile. Users simply navigate to their IssueTrak site URL and login. IssueTrak Mobile also gives users the option to switch back to the full IssueTrak product, which provides the complete functionality of the software.

Pricing and Availability

IssueTrak Mobile is available now. It works on most mobile operating systems, including RIM Blackberry, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Google Android, and Apple iPhone. IssueTrak Mobile is a capability introduced in IssueTrak software version 9.5.5. Customers who are using the hosted (Software as a Service, or SaaS) version of the software will be upgraded on a rolling schedule.  Customers who are running the software on their own servers can download the upgrade at http://support.issuetrak.com/. Upgrades are free to all customers with a current software subscription and support agreement.

About IssueTrak

IssueTrak develops, sells and supports issue tracking software. First released in 2000, its signature software package has become a robust platform for internal and external customer support, IT help desk, workflow management, and issue tracking throughout the enterprise. The 100% web-based software is currently used by more than 1,500 companies in 34 countries, and across 54 major industry groups. Based in Virginia Beach, VA, the company is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and has been recognized with a number of awards, including the Inc 500, Inc 5000, and Deloitte Technology Fast 500. IssueTrak was also named one of the Best Places to Work in Hampton Roads by Inside Business.

More information about IssueTrak is available at 1-866-ISSUETRAK or http://www.issuetrak.com.

All product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.

  For more information, contact:
  Lisa Strack
  Marketing Manager
  lisa.strack@issuetrak.com
  757-213-1327

Source: IssueTrak
   

CONTACT:  Lisa Strack, Marketing Manager, +1-757-213-1327,
lisa.strack@issuetrak.com

Web Site:  http://www.issuetrak.com/

Sports Fans: Show Your Team Spirit with Official Major League Baseball Electronics and Accessories, Now Available at GameTimeGeeks.com

Get Licensed MLB Team Logos on iPhone Cases, BlackBerry Covers, USB Flash Drives, and other Electronics, Peripherals, and Accessories at http://www.GameTimeGeeks.com

NEW YORK, Aug. 17 -- GameTimeGeeks.com, a website dedicated to combining style and team spirit to create accessories for the essential gear that powers your digital life, today announced the availability of its officially licensed Major League Baseball line of products. Baseball fans can now purchase mobile device and computer accessories, from iPhone cases to USB drives, adorned with the logos of their favorite MLB teams at http://www.GameTimeGeeks.com. In addition to its MLB collection, GameTimeGeeks carries a full line of officially licensed NCAA products from over 70 colleges and universities and is launching NBA, NFL, and NHL collections in upcoming months.

Today's baseball fans want to show off their devotion to their favorite teams with more than just player jerseys, caps, and basic T-shirts. GameTimeGeeks.com enables them take their pride to the next level with electronics and tech gear customized with their team's logos and colors.

"More and more consumers are personalizing their electronics, whether it's with a bejeweled smartphone case, a laser-engraved iPod, or a designer laptop sleeve," said Tony Rindsberg, Director of Online Operations at GameTimeGeeks.com. "Now, MLB fans have the same opportunity to show off their team spirit with custom-designed electronics and accessories that are made for today's tech savvy sports enthusiasts."

On http://www.GameTimeGeeks.com, shoppers can find electronics and accessories designed with logos, colors, and mascots of all 30 Major League Baseball teams and over 70 NCAA colleges and universities. GameTimeGeeks.com is also finalizing deals with the National Football League, National Basketball Association, and National Hockey League to add NFL, NBA, and NHL team logos and colors to its collection of sports licensed products for fans and technophiles. With the arrival of the new collections, GameTimeGeeks will be the only website to offer a full collection of mobile electronics and accessories across all major leagues.

The collection of GameTimeGeeks.com products include: iPhone Silicone Cases, iPhone Hard Cases, iPod Silicone Cases, Leather iPhone Wallets, BlackBerry Curve Cases, Laptop Messenger Bags, USB Flash Drives, Tote Bags, and more.

All company names, brand name, and product names herein are trademarks of their respective holder(s).

Source: GameTimeGeeks.com
   

CONTACT:  Christina Halper, Resound Marketing, +1-609-279-0050 x103,
christina@resoundmarketing.com

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

Nikon's New Projector Camera With Computer Connectivity Takes On-The-Go Content Sharing to a New Level of Fun

The New COOLPIX S1100pj Offers Exciting Ways to Share Photos, Movies and Even Presentations, While the New COOLPIX S5100 Delivers Versatile Performance in a Slim Stylish Design

MELVILLE, N.Y., Aug. 17 -- At the forefront of product innovation and market firsts, Nikon Inc. introduces two new COOLPIX cameras into the Style Series, marrying first-of-its-kind technology and portable design to enhance the experience of making and sharing great photos and videos.

Building upon its award-winning projector camera, Nikon continues to broaden content sharing with the new COOLPIX S1100pj's computer connectivity offering a new way to view photos, movies and even presentations. The chic and vibrant new COOLPIX S5100 delivers the speed and ease-of-use that have made the S-Series the preferred choice among consumers who seek style and performance, and advanced Nikon technologies to help create amazing pictures even in low light.

"As the first to introduce a built-in projector in a compact digital camera, our consumers have come to expect innovation from Nikon's COOLPIX S-Series," said Bo Kajiwara, director of marketing, Nikon Inc.  "In order to meet the evolving needs of our consumers, we have further advanced our award-winning technology, while delivering the high performance and shooting and sharing versatility they have come to trust."

The New COOLPIX S1100pj: Innovative Sharing Experiences for Work and Play

On the heels of its ground-breaking predecessor, the new COOLPIX S1100pj takes advanced technology a step further with a 40 percent brighter, 14-lumen internal projector complete with a built-in stand and an easy-to-use touch screen interface, allowing the user to share photos and movies in even more environments. With the computer connection feature, the S1100pj also allows the user to connect the camera to a computer via USB and project whatever is on the computer screen or JPEG image files saved to the camera's memory card or internal memory. Additional creative features include a built-in slide show function that plays photos with music and one-touch HD 720p movie recording with easy projection playback. Whether sharing family photos and videos with loved ones or presenting an important presentation to a client, users can make a big impression by projecting up to 47-inches from over 7-feet away.

Truly putting creativity at the user's fingertips, the COOLPIX S1100pj features a 3-inch 460,000-dot touch LCD screen with Clear Color Display. A new Paint function allows users to write and draw on projected images in real time, while a wide range of new Retouch functions allow users to add stamps for an entertaining effect or rate their favorite photos for a more convenient search. Other new functions in the S1100pj's in-camera Retouch Menu include Soft, Selective Color, Cross Screen, Fisheye Effect, Miniature Effect and Makeup Effect, giving the user creative freedom without the need for a computer.

The 14.1-megapixel COOLPIX S1100pj includes a 5x Wide-Angle Optical Zoom-NIKKOR glass lens (28-140mm) and a 5-way VR Image Stabilization System with ISO settings up to 6400 to ensure incredibly sharp, crisp images in low light or while shooting handheld.  To further help users capture stunning photos easily, the S1100pj also features 17 scene modes, Subject Tracking, Easy Auto Mode and Nikon's Smart Portrait System all packed into a colorful, compact design.

The COOLPIX S1100pj will be available in September 2010 for $349.95* MSRP in a choice of colors including black, violet, green and silver.

The New COOLPIX S5100: Style, Speed and Simplicity

The new COOLPIX S5100 combines speedy performance with sleek design for a stylish, yet convenient accessory for wherever life leads. Sporting a fast start-up time, a short shutter-release time and one-touch HD 720p movie recording at 30 fps, the S5100 helps to ensure memories are captured as soon as they happen. The S5100 plays host to a myriad of Nikon technologies used to capture beautiful nighttime and low light shots with less blur and noise. These features include image processing that results in less noise at high sensitivities, a motion detection function, lens-shift vibration reduction (VR) function and a new flash control system.

In addition to must-have features including 12.2-megapixel resolution, a bright 2.7-inch LCD display, 5x Optical Zoom and a 4-way VR Image Stabilization System with ISO settings to 3200 at full resolution, the COOLPIX S5100 also adds a new tripod detection function found on premium NIKKOR lenses. This function detects handheld or tripod shooting and automatically selects the ideal exposure, ISO sensitivity and shutter speed in order to reduce image blur and ensure sharp photos.

The stylish design and vivid color options of the COOLPIX S5100 make the camera a perfect outlet to express one's personality, while user-friendly features like 18 scene modes, Scene Auto Selector, Subject Tracking and Nikon's Smart Portrait System make the S5100 an easy-to-use tool for capturing remarkable photos virtually anywhere.

The COOLPIX S5100 will be available in October 2010 for $179.95* MSRP in a choice of attractive colors including black, pink, purple and blue.

COOLPIX Technology

At the core of all new COOLPIX cameras are Nikon's world-class NIKKOR lenses, delivering accurate detail, brilliant color and amazing clarity. For the first time, Nikon's new EXPEED C2(TM) high performance digital image processing engine is implemented and custom-optimized for each COOLPIX model to ensure high-quality pictures with stunning color and sharpness. The new S-Series models embrace the addition of High Definition (HD) video accessible via an ideally located video record button on the back of the camera. Other COOLPIX features include Scene Auto Selector or Easy Auto Mode, which automatically recognizes the shooting situation and adjusts camera settings accordingly for great pictures anywhere. To help users create better portraits easier, the Smart Portrait System incorporates a series of automatic functions including In-Camera Red-Eye Fix(TM), Improved Face-Priority AF, Face-Priority AE, Smile Mode, Blink Warning and Skin Softening to flatter even the most camera-shy subject (features vary by model).

About Nikon

Nikon, At the Heart of the Image(TM). Nikon Inc. is the world leader in digital imaging, precision optics and photo imaging technology and is globally recognized for setting new standards in product design and performance for its award-winning consumer and professional photographic equipment. Nikon Inc. distributes consumer and professional digital SLR cameras, NIKKOR optics, Speedlights and system accessories; Nikon COOLPIX® compact digital cameras; COOLSCAN® digital film scanners; 35mm film SLR cameras; Nikon software products and Nikon sports and recreational optics. For more information, dial (800) NIKON-UX or visit http://www.nikonusa.com/, which links all levels of photographers to the Web's most comprehensive photo learning and sharing communities.

*Estimated selling price listed is only an estimate. Actual prices are set by dealers and are subject to change at any time.

Source: Nikon Inc.
   

CONTACT:  Geoffrey Coalter, gcoalter@mww.com, or Matthew Kopacz,
mkopacz@mww.com, both of MWW Group, +1-201-507-9500, press.nikonusa.com

Web Site:  http://www.nikonusa.com/

AnalogicTech Introduces Powerful, High-Efficiency Multi-String Backlight LED Drivers Optimized for Notebooks, Netbooks, Monitors and Portable TVs

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 17 -- Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc. (AnalogicTech(TM)) (NASDAQ:AATI), an analog semiconductor company focused on powering innovative solutions in consumer, industrial, and communications markets, today introduced its AAT1409/7/5 family of multi-string LED backlight drivers. Offering integrated boost converters and precision current sinks that can support up to 88 LEDs at 360mA total LED current, the AAT1409/7/5 drivers are among the most powerful in the marketplace. These new drivers bring to market a fully featured solution that reduces the number of backlight PCBs, reducing costs, yet is capable of driving high brightness LEDs and ensuring uniformity across the display by precisely controlling the backlight intensity.

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"As LCD displays continue to gain traction in the computing, consumer and industrial markets, features like power, efficiency, accuracy and flexibility of the backlight drivers are all critical differentiators," said Ray Chan, technical marketing manager at AnalogicTech. "By offering a product family designed for a specific range of LCD panels - 10-inch to 22-inch in this case - we are able to offer a very powerful and effective approach to LCD power management."

The AAT1409/7/5 drivers operate from DC inputs, cigarette lighter adapters or multi-cell Li-ion batteries over the 4.5V to 26V range. The family is available in 8, 6 and 4 channels making them ideal for driving white LED (WLED) edge backlighting for LCD panels ranging from 10 to 22 inches in size. The drivers also support up to 100 kHz PWM dimming frequency to ensure silent operation.

An additional consideration is that many portable LCD devices are battery-powered and operate under low ambient lighting conditions or in power saving modes, so require low level backlight dimming to extend battery run time. The AAT1409/7/5 addresses this with a design that maintains high efficiency during low PWM duty cycles to reduce wasted energy during light load conditions. The driver's high resolution 1000:1 PWM dimming range delivers precise control of backlight brightness, equivalent to a 10-bit resolution.

  Key Features and benefits:
  --  High-efficiency light load mode achieves up to 88 percent conversion
      efficiency at a 5 percent dimming duty cycle
  --  Step-up converter can deliver up to 360mA total LED current at a 45V
      operating voltage
  --  100kHz PWM dimming frequency and optionally synchronized switching
      frequency to system clock reduces audible noise
  --  +/- 2 percent LED current accuracy and matching between strings
  --  Selectable switching frequency accommodates various inductor and
      capacitor sizes
  --  Up to 92 percent efficiency over wide input voltage (VIN) range of
      4.5V to 26.0V
  --  LX rated to 50V
  --  Up to eight LED current sinks at 45mA each
  --  Flexible configurations with disable or parallel channels
  --  Open/shorted LEDs enable fault tolerance
  --  Current limit protection, over-voltage protection and over-temperature
      protection
  --  Soft-start to minimize inrush current
  --  TQFN34-24 low profile package
  --  -40 C to +85C operating temperature range

  About Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc:

Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc. (AnalogicTech(TM)) (NASDAQ:AATI) develops advanced semiconductor system solutions that play a key role in the continuing evolution of feature-rich, energy efficient electronic devices. The company focuses on addressing the application-specific power management needs of consumer devices such as mobile handsets, digital cameras, and netbooks/notebooks, as well as devices in a broad range of industrial, medical and telecom applications. AnalogicTech also licenses device, process, package, and application-related technologies. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, AnalogicTech has design centers in Santa Clara and Shanghai, and Asia-based operations and logistics. For more information, please visit http://www.analogictech.com (AnalogicTech - G).

The AnalogicTech logo is a registered trademark of Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc. AnalogicTech is a trademark of Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc. All other brand and product names appearing in this document are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders.

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Source: Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc.
   

CONTACT:  Headquarters, Karolien Cools-Wittry of AnalogicTech,
+1-408-737-4600, karoliencw@analogictech.com; or Dave Richardson of Impress
Public Relations, +1-415-994-1423, dave@impress-pr.com, for AnalogicTech

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