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Cellufun Launches Gulf Rescue Game for Mobile

Company Donates Portion of the Revenues to Greater New Orleans Foundation

NEW YORK, June 15 -- Cellufun, the world's leading mobile social gaming community, announced the launch of the Gulf Rescue game for mobile.  Gulf Rescue raises broad consumer awareness on mobile about the devastating environmental impact created by the British Petroleum's spill pumping more than 500,000 gallons of oil daily into the Gulf of Mexico.  The game may be found on the mobile web at m.Cellufun.com.

In Gulf Rescue, players search the Gulf of Mexico for oil slicks out on the open water and for animals covered in oil on the beaches. Players can then choose to clean up the oil slicks using one of several tools, or to rescue the oil tainted animals by cleaning them up. As with other Cellufun community-based games, players can invite their friends to join the cleanup efforts via an SMS message.

While the game is free to play, players may opt to purchase special tools to clean up the oil more quickly.  Cellufun shall be donating a percentage of all virtual goods revenues generated by the game.  The donation shall go to the Greater New Orleans Foundation.  This foundation has been designated as the conduit for donations to help on the clean up related to the oil spill.

"Cellufun, with games like Mobile Pets, Farming, and Made-Off, is a socially conscious, green company committed to doing our part to help with the gulf recovery efforts.  Over the past few weeks, our members have asked several times for an educational game to spread the word on the recovery effort in a fun, light hearted way.  Cellufun created Gulf Rescue to spread a simple message and create a fun donation option to fund the recovery effort," said Neil Edwards, Chief Executive Officer of Cellufun.

About Cellufun

New York-based Cellufun is a mobile social gaming community where people meet, shop, and play social games. Cellufun is available on any phone with a data plan, including smart phones, with no download required. People around the world can access the Cellufun platform on any mobile network in more than 10 languages to create personal avatars, play social games, chat, shop and make new friends. Cellufun partners with mobile operators and media companies such as Verizon Wireless, AT&T, T-Mobile, Virgin, MetroPCS, AOL, and Gannett USA Today to deliver branded entertainment and custom-designed mobile marketing solutions. With over 600 million monthly page views, Cellufun offers a unique brand-building opportunity for media, marketers and agencies seeking to broaden their reach to the ever-present "third screen."   The company was recently ranked number 7 in North America, ahead of Yahoo Mobile ranked number 8.

    Cellufun
    Contact: Neil Edwards
    48 Wall Street, 29th Floor
    New York, NY 10005
    Telephone: 212-385-2255
    http://www.cellufun.com
    Email: nedwards@cellufun.com

Source: Cellufun
   

CONTACT:  Neil Edwards of Cellufun, +1-212-385-2255,
nedwards@cellufun.com

Web Site:  http://www.cellufun.com/

Skyline's DirectFED Payment Solutions Announces Partnership With Mitek Systems Inc. to Provide Mobile Deposit® Application for Immediate Banking

Convenient Smartphone Application Serves As An Ideal Payment Solution For Remote Deposit Capture Customers

SAN DIEGO and LOS ANGELES, June 15 -- Skyline's DirectFED Payment Solutions, the first business-centric processor performing Remote Deposit Capture (RDC) for businesses has teamed up with Mitek Systems Inc.  (BULLETIN BOARD: MITK) , an innovator of image analytics and mobile document capture applications, to offer DirectFED Mobile(TM) powered by Mitek. This new product offering provides a fast, secure and most-importantly easy form of depositing checks in the bank by simply taking a photo of the check with an iPhone(TM), BlackBerry(TM) or other smartphone device.

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"By partnering with Mitek Systems, institutions that use Skyline's DirectFED's RDC service can now offer their customers the ability to avoid any trip to the bank by taking a snapshot of the front and back of the check," said Shai Z. Stern who serves as Co-Chairman of Skyline's DirectFED Payment Solutions as well as Co-Chairman of EDGAR filings and print publishing company Vintage Filings and corporate compliance company Vcorp Services. "This new application is ideal for the busy professional, business owner and agents on the road who need the funds to be processed as soon as possible; it is a service that many community banks and credit unions across the country are looking to offer and one that Skyline's DirectFED is proud to add to our product line up."

"As electronic banking continues to improve, depositing physical checks becomes more and more of a hassle, and remote deposit capture has become the solution," said Stern. "We are always dedicated to providing the best technology to our users and DirectFED Mobile powered by Mitek will allow all of Skyline's DirectFED's credit union customers and community banks the ability to compete with even the largest institutions by offering a simple and in-demand service to their busy customers."

DirectFED Mobile powered by Mitek is designed to be secure and simple to use; when depositing a check, the user initiates a mobile-deposit session, keys in the deposit amount and snaps a photo of the front and back of the check with their smartphone camera.  Mitek's IMagePROVE(TM) technology then formats the image, automatically corrects any image distortions or skewing and prepares it for transmission. With Skyline's DirectFED's accuracy in RDC and Mitek's IMagePROVE(TM) technology that also corrects image distortions, both services go above and beyond to meet Check 21 image-quality standards.

"The alliance with Skyline's DirectFED Payment Solutions extends our expertise and 'Gold Standard' leadership in mobile deposit," said James DeBello, CEO of Mitek Systems Inc. "We will be able to bring mobile merchant capture to a broader range of industries with Skyline's DirectFED's remote deposit capture users."

Stern added, "This is another example of how a long distance relationship can work, allowing account holders to retain accounts with their financial institution without the hassle involved in making physical deposits."

Mitek's Mobile Deposit supports the payments industry standards for RDC and extends mobile deposit capabilities to users who use smartphones equipped with a camera. It is available on the iPhone(TM) and selected Blackberry(TM) and WindowsMobile(TM) handsets.

About Mitek Systems

Mitek Systems  (BULLETIN BOARD: MITK) , an innovator of advanced image analytics and mobile document capture applications for smartphones, has created the Gold Standard for Mobile Check Deposit.  For more than 20 years, the company has developed a comprehensive suite of intelligent character recognition software used to test, clean, authenticate and extract data from imaged checks, documents and objects, and its software is used to process more than 10 billion items per year.  For more information about Mitek Systems, contact the company at 858-503-7810 or visit http://www.miteksystems.com.

About Skyline's DirectFED Payment Solutions

Founded in 2004, Skyline's DirectFED Payment Solutions is the first business-centric processor performing Remote Deposit Capture for a wide range of companies and organizations. Skyline's DirectFED was created to take advantage of the benefits created by Congress passing The Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act ("Check 21"). Our goals for our customers are to optimize float to their advantage, reduce bank fees and provide significant back-office savings by using the new laws and technology to their advantage. Our patented suite of products provides unique solutions for businesses that range from multinationals to small enterprises, not-for-profits, municipalities and all types of financial institutions. For more information on Skyline's DirectFED, visit http://www.directfed.com.

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Source: Skyline's DirectFED Payment Solutions
   

CONTACT:  Laura Finlayson of Beckerman, for Skyline's DirectFED Payment
Solutions, +1-201-465-8007, lfinlayson@beckermanpr.com

Web Site:  http://www.directfed.com/

Cernium Launches Archerfish 'Eye Think' Ad Campaign

Archerfish Solo, the first Thinking Camera, introduces Video Monitoring Done Right to consumers

RESTON, Va., June 15 -- Cernium has launched a new advertising campaign featuring Archerfish Solo(TM) with a creative and brand strategy that challenges conventional approaches to consumer security products. Instead of confronting consumers with threatening images, the Eye Think(TM) campaign humanizes the award-winning wireless security camera while highlighting the distinctive feature that sets Archerfish Solo apart from other consumer security cameras -- patented, homeland security technology that allows it to understand what it sees.

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"Consumers have been conditioned to accept products that require them to spend hours watching video," said Craig Chambers, president and CEO, Cernium Corporation.  "Archerfish elevates the entire video monitoring experience by watching video for you and showing you only what matters.  It's transforming the consumer video surveillance category, and we wanted an innovative campaign that was as ingenious as the product."

"Like you, Archerfish Solo thinks," said Helen Shepro, vice president of marketing and product management, Cernium Corporation. "The Eye Think double entendre intrigues consumers and draws them in to learn more about the product and its unique capabilities."

Most people don't realize that video monitoring systems available to them today are based on decades-old technology that requires them to spend countless hours watching live video to see if anything happens, or searching through footage after an event occurs. Archerfish Solo revolutionizes the video monitoring paradigm by making video technology that understands what it sees available for the first time to consumers. You tell Solo what to watch for, and it instantly sends a video alert to your mobile phone or email when something of interest occurs.

Developed by Hitchcock, Fleming & Associates, Eye Think is the largest multi-media campaign for do-it-yourself video monitoring products, and features national print, online and radio advertisements. For more information about Archerfish®, visit http://www.myarcherfish.com.

About Cernium

Cernium Corporation develops innovative, high-value products that employ video to deliver useful and timely information for better security, communications and lifestyle management. Cernium has brought advanced video technology to customers worldwide, from residential and business consumers to Fortune 100 manufacturers and government institutions. Cernium's product portfolio includes Archerfish®, the first interactive video monitoring and recording solution for consumers; CheckVideo(TM), managed intelligent video for central monitoring stations; Perceptrak®, video surveillance software for medium-large enterprise; and ExitSentry®, passenger flow monitoring for airport checkpoints and exit lanes. For more information, visit http://www.cernium.com.

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Source: Cernium Corporation
   

CONTACT:  John Terrill of SpeakerBox Communications for Cernium,
+1-703-287-7825, jterrill@speakerboxpr.com

Web Site:  http://www.cernium.com/

The A-Team(TM) Explodes Onto Mobile Devices With the Official Game From GameHouse and Fox Digital Entertainment

SEATTLE, June 15 -- GameHouse®, the casual games division of RealNetworks®, Inc. (NASDAQ:RNWK), and Fox Digital Entertainment today announced the release of The A-Team game, available now for purchase on major North American mobile carrier portals. An expanded version of the game with additional exclusive content is also available for iPhone and iPod touch through the iTunes App Store, with an iPad-specific version coming later this month. The action-packed game offers players the chance to join former Special Forces commandos Hannibal, B.A., Face and Murdock on an explosive action prequel to the Twentieth Century Fox film, which debuted in theaters this past weekend.

The A-Team mobile game's 15 levels take the iconic A-Team characters on adventures through deserts, jungles, and mercenary strongholds. Players can mobilize the entire A-Team or use each team member's unique abilities to ambush enemies, attacking them head-on with hand-to-hand combat, automatic weapons, fragmentation grenades and helicopter-launched missiles. Exclusive content for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch features five additional levels of combat plus enhanced special effects, narrated by Quinton "Rampage" Jackson in the role of B.A.

The A-Team movie follows the daring exploits of a colorful team of former Special Forces soldiers who were set up for a crime they did not commit. Going "rogue," they utilize their unique talents to try to clear their names and find the true culprit.

"In cooperation with Fox Digital Entertainment, we're expanding our games portfolio with the official mobile game of one of the most entertaining movies of the summer," said John Barbour, president of GameHouse. "With The A-Team game, GameHouse is thrilled to introduce a new mobile entertainment dimension to the millions of A-Team fans worldwide."

"This game is another great example of Fox Digital Entertainment's efforts to broaden the reach of exciting content like The A-Team and extend its reach onto the mobile platform," said Andrew Stalbow, senior vice president of Fox Digital Entertainment.  "We are pleased to partner with GameHouse to dynamically capture the energy and explosiveness of this film for fans on mobile devices."

North American mobile subscribers can download The A-Team game now by searching for the title on major wireless carrier decks.  The game will be available in additional coverage areas as the movie rolls out in those regions. The A-Team App for iPhone and iPod touch is available for $2.99 USD, or $1.99 USD for a limited time through June 18, on the App Store.

GameHouse is a leader in the digital games industry worldwide and develops content across multiple platforms, with a vertically integrated development, publishing, licensing, distribution and retail business.

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  About RealNetworks

RealNetworks, Inc. delivers digital entertainment services to consumers via PC, handheld device, home entertainment system or mobile phone. Real® created the streaming media category in 1995 and has continued to lead the market with pioneering products and services, including: RealPlayer®, the first mainstream media player to enable one-click downloading and recording of Internet video; GameHouse, one of the largest casual games destinations on the Web; and a variety of mobile entertainment services, such as ringback tones, offered to consumers through leading wireless carriers around the world. RealNetworks' corporate information is located at http://www.realnetworks.com/about-us.

About Fox Digital Entertainment

Fox Digital Entertainment (FDE) is the exclusive mobile licensor of all Fox Filmed Entertainment content. In addition to distributing mobile video and managing mobile video channels, FDE focuses on the exploitation of Fox Filmed Entertainment intellectual property across all mobile platforms.  Popular titles licensed through FME include the television properties 24, The Simpsons, and Family Guy, as well as major motion pictures such as Ice Age 3, Predators, and The A-Team.

Real, RealNetworks, GameHouse and RealPlayer are trademarks or registered trademarks of RealNetworks, Inc.  All other trademarks, names of actual companies and products mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

Source: RealNetworks
   

CONTACT:  Tiffany Dunning of RealNetworks, +1-206-892-6733,
tdunning@real.com; Dan Berger of Fox Digital Entertainment, +1-310-369-1274,
dberger@newscorp.com

Web Site:  http://www.realnetworks.com/about-us

New Apple Store App Makes Buying Apple Products Easier Than Ever

CUPERTINO, Calif., June 15 -- Apple® today introduced the new Apple Store® app which lets US customers purchase Apple products, including the new iPhone® 4, right from the convenience of their iPhone or iPod touch®. The Apple Store app is available as a free download on the App Store beginning today.

The new Apple Store app makes it easy for US customers with an iPhone or iPod touch to find an Apple retail store near them and make reservations for amazing retail services including free tech support and advice at the Genius Bar, hands-on workshops, Personal Shopping appointments and personal training sessions through Apple's popular One to One program. Customers can also shop the full selection of more than 1,000 products and accessories available from the Apple Online Store, get the latest Apple product news, read customer reviews and get answers to their product questions.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution with the Apple II, then reinvented the personal computer with the Macintosh. Apple continues to lead the industry with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system, and iLife, iWork and professional applications. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store, has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.

© 2010 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, Mac, Mac OS, Macintosh, Apple Store, iPhone and iPod touch are trademarks of Apple. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Source: Apple
   

CONTACT:  Amy Bessette, +1-408-862-8012, abessette@apple.com, or Amy
Barney, +1-408-974-2046, abarney@apple.com, both of Apple

Web Site:  http://www.apple.com/

Harris Corporation Introduces Modular, Flexible FalconFighter(TM) for Future Soldier System Programs

PARIS, June 15 -- (Eurosatory Booth #H571) -- Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, today introduced FalconFighter(TM), a new modular soldier system that integrates a variety of advanced technologies into a single wearable uniform.

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Harris FalconFighter links C4 devices, sensors, networking components and power modules into a centralized wearable platform controlled by the individual soldier.  FalconFighter is uniquely designed to accommodate products with open standards and interfaces -- making it easier for the system to adapt to incorporate changing mission requirements and integrate new emerging technologies.

"Harris created FalconFighter understanding that battlefield technology is dynamic and constantly evolving," said Paul Zweers, director of international product line management, Harris RF Communications.  "Our new system is future-focused so modules and parts can be exchanged and upgraded over time to meet new requirements. This eliminates the need for long lead-time soldier system programs seen in recent years."

The core of the system is the Harris RF-7800S Leader Radio, the only personal soldier radio with a built-in computer.  The Harris RF-7800S Leader Radio combines a lightweight tactical radio with a personal digital assistant to provide field commanders with advanced situational awareness and battle management tools.

Harris provides its own power management, personal area networking, sensor systems and other accessories, and will integrate devices from other original manufacturers in a way that emphasizes functionality while limiting size and weight burdens.

"Our focus is on improving effectiveness for the individual soldier," Zweers said.  "FalconFighter is a powerful, adaptable, affordable system that speeds the integration of new developments in soldier technology."

Harris RF Communications is the leading global supplier of secure radio communications and embedded high-grade encryption solutions for military, government and commercial organizations.  The company's Falcon family of software-defined tactical radio systems encompasses manpack, handheld and vehicular applications.  Falcon III is the next generation of radios supporting the U.S. military's Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) requirements, as well as network-centric operations worldwide.  Harris RF Communications is also a leading supplier of assured communications® systems and equipment for public safety, utility and transportation markets -- with products ranging from the most advanced IP voice and data networks to portable and mobile single- and multiband radios.

About Harris Corporation

Harris is an international communications and information technology company serving government and commercial markets in more than 150 countries.  Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, the company has approximately $5 billion of annual revenue and more than 15,000 employees -- including nearly 7,000 engineers and scientists.  Harris is dedicated to developing best-in-class assured communications® products, systems, and services.  Additional information about Harris Corporation is available at http://www.harris.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements that reflect management's current expectations, assumptions and estimates of future performance and economic conditions.  Such statements are made in reliance upon the safe harbor provisions of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.  The company cautions investors that any forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results and future trends to differ materially from those matters expressed in or implied by such forward-looking statements.  Statements about the expected value of the program to Harris are forward-looking and involve risks and uncertainties.  Harris disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

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CONTACT:  Kevin Aman, RF Communications, +1-585-241-8186,
Kevin.Aman@Harris.com, or Jim Burke, Corporate Headquarters, +1-321-727-9131,
Jim.Burke@harris.com

Web Site:  http://www.harris.com/

InterCall Launches eCommerce Platform and New Conferencing Product Packages for Small and Medium Size Businesses

Convenience of Buying Online and Near Immediate Set-Up at SMB Pricing

CHICAGO, June 15 -- InterCall, the world's largest conferencing and collaboration services provider, today announced the launch of a new line of conferencing packages designed for small and medium size business (SMB) users. Everything from pricing, experience and support has been created solely for the SMB market and includes a newly designed eCommerce portal (http://www.intercall.com/smb).

The new InterCall SMB eCommerce portal features easy to understand product offerings, clear pricing, a features comparison and a streamlined set up process. New customers can create an account and get a confirmation within minutes.

"Based on research commissioned by InterCall, we know that decision makers at SMBs want to present a credible, professional image to their clients. They're also looking for more value and want to address urgent short-terms needs," said Kathleen Finato, senior vice president of marketing and product management at InterCall. "InterCall's small business conferencing packages help SMBs accomplish all this by making conferencing simple, affordable and easy to use. The new packages allow customers to conduct on-demand audio conference calls with no reservations, no time limits and no operators."

Finato continued: "InterCall supports more than 75,000 organizations and over 1.5 million unique conference leaders worldwide, including companies of all sizes - from the largest of the Fortune 1000 to small 'mom and pop' operations. This translates into matchless experience in delivering quality collaboration solutions to many different kinds of organizations and our unparalleled expertise in customer care."

Offering a full spectrum of communication tools to help SMBs connect with people around the world, InterCall's Conferencing Plans for Small Business can be tailored to meet the needs of any organization. Competitively priced packages include:

  Conference Calls:
  --  Unlimited plan (up to 10 people)
  --  Unlimited plan (up to 20 people)
  --  Pay as you go (up to 125 people)

  Online Meetings:
  --  Unlimited plan (up to 20 people)
  --  Pay as you go (up to 125 people)

The Conferencing Plans for Small Business offer anytime conferencing (no reservations required), 24/7 technical support, permanent dial-in numbers and conference codes, with no set up fees. More information on the new conferencing plans for small business and other InterCall packages is available at http://www.intercall.com/smb.

About InterCall

InterCall, a subsidiary of West Corporation, is the largest service provider in the world specializing in conference communications. Founded in 1991, InterCall helps people and companies be more productive by providing advanced audio, event, Web and video conferencing solutions that are easy-to-use and save them time and money. Along with a team of over 500 Meeting Consultants, the company employs more than 1,500 operators, customer service representatives, call supervisors, accounting, marketing and IT professionals. InterCall's strong U.S. presence, which includes four call centers and 26 sales offices, is bolstered by a global reach that extends to Canada, Mexico, Latin America, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, China, India, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. For more information, please visit http://www.intercall.com.

About West Corporation

West Corporation is a leading provider of technology-driven, voice-oriented solutions. West offers its clients a broad range of communications and infrastructure management solutions that help them mange or support critical communications. West's automated customer contact solutions and conferencing services are designed to improve its clients' cost structure and provide reliable, high-quality services. West also provides mission-critical services, such as public safety and emergency communications.

Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, West serves Fortune 100 companies and other clients in a variety of industries, including telecommunications, banking, retail, financial, technology and healthcare. West has sales and operations in the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Latin America. For more information on West Corporation, please call 1-800-841-9000 or visit http://www.west.com.

Source: InterCall
   

CONTACT:  David Friedman, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide,
+1-303-634-2674, David.Friedman@ogilvypr.com, for InterCall

Web Site:  http://www.intercall.com/
http://www.west.com/

Raytheon Introduces New System for Tactical Networked Communications

PARIS, June 15, 2010 -- Raytheon Company (NYSE:RTN) is introducing the new Enhanced Mobile Ad-Hoc Network Radio System(TM) to provide netted communications and tactical data for coalition interoperability.

Available for coalition forces, EMARS delivers easy-to-use and proven capabilities for seamless coalition use on vehicular and dismounted applications.

"Our new EMARS system supports a broad range of time-critical missions such as air defense, command and control, and situational awareness, as well as user-defined host applications," said Brian McKeon, vice president, Raytheon Network Centric Systems Integrated Communications Systems. "It supplies twice the data rate of our earlier system to enable EMARS' enhanced multifunction capability and provides even greater efficiency in secure wireless data exchange."

EMARS brings together Raytheon's proven Enhanced Position Location Reporting System-XF-I and MicroLight® DH500 handheld radio and leverages the company's integral MANET (mobile ad-hoc networking) technology. The tactical system automatically and continually adapts to network changes, including those in challenging urban environments. It provides a wireless, Internet Protocol capability network that implements Advanced Encryption Standard encryption over an extended frequency range.

The system also uses the most advanced EPLRS waveform available for simultaneous voice, video, data and critical position location information. With more than 25,000 units fielded across the U.S. armed services, Canada and Australia, EPLRS is one of the most widely used tactical wireless networks today.

Raytheon Company, with 2009 sales of $25 billion, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning 88 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a broad range of mission support services. With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs 75,000 people worldwide.

  Contact:
  Kevin J. Wynn
  508-490-2607

Source: Raytheon Company
   

CONTACT:  Kevin J. Wynn, Raytheon Company, +1-508-490-2607

Web Site:  http://www.raytheon.com/

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GOWEX Starts its Listing on NYSE-Euronext

PARIS, June 15, 2010--

    - GOWEX, European Leading Company of Internet Mobile That
Creates WiFi Cities Start Listing on NYSE-Euronext.

    - GOWEX, After Becomes the First Company of Internet
Technology and Mobility to be Listed on the MAB Madrid Stock Exchange,
Becomes the First, and the Only one, Spanish Company to be a DUAL LISTING on
NYSE - Euronext.

    GOWEX Group, a Spanish telecommunications and wireless
services founded in 1999 and headquartered in Madrid's Paseo de la Castellana
has already given its official break parquet stock in the NYSE - Euronext, in
Paris.

    From 9:00 am today, GOWEX is officially a company listed on
the NYSE - Euronext Alternative Stock Market

    DUAL LISTING

    This "dual listing" has been made by a technical listing of
the existing shares of GOWEX.

    The process do not involves a capital increase or subscription
of new shares.

    The starting price has been set at 3.5 euros per share, and it
is the same as the one of the capital increase that took place in Spain in
March 12th, 2010.

    In the capital increase, GOWEX group with Caja Madrid Bolsa as
underwriters, have signed up 6 million euros in new shares. The result of
Subscription Offer, in which there has been no sale of shares, represents
about 15% of free float of the company. The Market Cap of the company is over
40 million euros divided into 11.511 million shares.

    GOWEX has selected shareholders based on the commitment of
maintaining a shareholder of the company's during a medium-long term.

    The information is available to shareholders on the company's
web, on NYSE Euronext website, and on MAB Madrid Stock Exchange website.

    We further emphasize that GOWEX has no debt, is profitable
since 2005, with 2, 9 million euros of Net Profit in 2009 and has been doing
business in Telecommunications in four continents, Europe, America, Asia and
Africa.

    "ALGOW"

    The code to continue negotiating the price of GOWEX in
Alternext is "ALGOW". The pricing is determined by the modality of "fixing."

    All Spanish and foreign shareholders will buy or sell in both
markets: at the NYSE- Euronext as well as the MAB Madrid Stock Exchange.

    The "listing sponsor" that carried out the operation is Avenir
Finance which is the European leader in IPO's on NYSE Euronext to small caps
and BNP Paribas Securities Services will become the paying agent in Madrid
and Paris.

    WiFi Cities

    Jenaro Garcia, GOWEX CEO, said, "This milestone will allow us
to continue growing in Europe and abroad at the base of our strategy of
creating economically sustainable cities and allowing WiFi roaming between
all actors." Jenaro grateful for the courage and commitment of his entire
team, as he mentions, "it is a large multidisciplinary team on the Internet,
telecommunications, financial and marketing media content."

    "And thanks to investors, partners and customers, we get leading projects
that involve several 'actors' of municipal life in all its sectors
(universities, trade associations, companies, kiosks, users, etc...). Through
the deployment and management of WiFi networks we will get a market of
abundance to increase the benefits for all".

    About GOWEX Group

    GOWEX Group is a Spanish company, founded in 1999, which
operates in the technology sector, Internet mobility and telecommunications,
where it occupies a unique position as neutral operator service provider of
infrastructure and interconnection of operators. Today is dedicated to two
main areas of activity:

   
    - "GOWEX wireless (the main driver of growth), which provides
      services related to wireless telecommunications consultancy, management
      and operation of WiFi networks, wireless roaming platform and
      advertising operation geo located e-commerce wireless networks.

    - GOWEX Telecom (traditional business), focused on B2B products
      and telecommunications services (bandwidth, data transmission circuits,
      virtual private networks, etc...), through its trading platform.

    GOWEX has received the National Award for Innovation in Spain
and is vice president of e-Mobility, European private entity that decides
standards on mobile communications technology.

    Also GOWEX is a member of the Executive Committee of the ITU,
an international agency of the United Nations oversees the technological
development of developing countries and the Third World, it is the only
Spanish SME that has the OSEO ANVAR certification, and created
REDSINFRONTERAS.ORG Foundation that promotes the use of technologies and
Internet access to disadvantaged groups and geographical areas.

   
    Contact details GOWEX Group:
    Florencia Mate: fmate@gowex.com
    Telephone: +34-670738579

    Links:
    http://www.lavidawifi.com
    http://www.gowex.com

Source: GOWEX Group

Contact details GOWEX Group: Florencia Mate: fmate@gowex.com, Telephone: +34-670738579

CounterPath Brings Enterprise-Class and Carrier-Grade VoIP Softphone to the Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

Bria iPhone Edition Enables Highly Secure, User-Friendly and Standards-Based Mobile VoIP for Consumers, Enterprises and Government Agencies

VANCOUVER, June 15 -- CounterPath Corporation (TSX-V: CCV; OTC Bulletin Board: CPAH), an award-winning provider of desktop and mobile VoIP software solutions, today announced the worldwide availability of Bria iPhone Edition for Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Bria iPhone Edition is a highly secure, standards-based VoIP softphone that works over both 3G and Wi-Fi networks.

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Bria iPhone Edition integrates seamlessly with other CounterPath desktop and convergence solutions, as well as with enterprise and carrier infrastructure equipment from major vendors such as Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, BroadSoft, Metaswitch, Avaya, Cisco and NEC. Bria iPhone Edition also supports Asterisk-based telephony systems.

Bria iPhone Edition is the latest CounterPath solution for mobile platforms and its first standalone mobile SIP application. Earlier this year, CounterPath launched Linux, Mac and Windows versions of Bria, all of which received strong approval and endorsement from Internet telephony service providers (ITSPs) and telecom infrastructure vendors. In addition to the Bria-branded version, CounterPath will also be developing customized white-label versions of Bria iPhone Edition for carriers, OEMs and enterprise customers worldwide through its professional services team.

One hundred percent compatible with Apple's iPhone 3.0 and new iOS (formerly iPhone 4.0), the CounterPath softphone client takes advantage of the growing number of SMEs, large enterprises and governments that are deploying iPhones, iPod Touches and iPads for mobile workers, many of whom require full access to their communications services while away from their desk or office. Bria iPhone Edition leverages the iPhone's native address book and its embedded Bluetooth technology to provide a seamless calling experience while on the move.

Apple currently ranks third in smartphone shipments, with 16 percent of all units in the category in Q1 2010, according to several analyst firms. For all handset types - smartphones and feature phones - Apple is No. 6, with more than 8.7 million shipped worldwide in Q1.

"When you factor in the number of business professionals switching to the iPhone, and add in the iPod Touch user base and the 2 million iPads sold in that device's first two months, this adds up to an enormous opportunity for widespread global adoption of Bria iPhone Edition," said Donovan Jones, CEO of CounterPath.

  Bria iPhone Edition's key features include:
  --  Full SIP compliance, enabling use with any SIP-compliant server and
      hundreds of ITSPs that currently offer CounterPath-based services.
      --  Bria iPhone Edition appears as another endpoint to service
          providers or PBX equipment, enabling fast, cost-effective
          deployments.
  --  Call quality that's superior to circuit-switched wireline and wireless
      voice, and based on the G.711, G.729 and GSM codecs.
  --  An intuitive user interface that provides one-touch access to
      voicemail, call history, speakerphone and other frequently used
      telephony features such as 4-digit dialing.
  --  Support for DTMF, which lets users enter numbers to access an auto
      attendant.
  --  Bluetooth support, enabling hands-free calling for convenience, as
      well as safety while driving.
  --  Multi-call management options, including the ability to switch
      between, merge and split calls, all in ways that are already familiar
      to iPhone users so they can start using these features immediately.
  --  Signaling and call encryption via TLS and SRTP, enabling
      enterprise-class security.
  --  Optional customized branding available for enterprises and telephony
      providers.

"The new Bria iPhone Edition is what a VoIP softphone should be for the Apple iOS family of devices," said Todd Carothers, Vice President of Product Management, CounterPath. "Our customers have asked us to provide a high-quality solution for the mobile device market, and Bria iPhone Edition meets that challenge. As the leading SIP-based softphone for the desktop, we leveraged our experience to release a product that has been built with both the consumer and enterprise customer in mind."

"There are already more than 75 million iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad owners today who can potentially use our Bria iOS softphone," Carothers said. "This release is another milestone in bringing the Bria experience to a wider range of mobile devices. Within the next six months, we'll add versions offering even more features and support for additional mobile operating systems, further extending Bria's reach into the massively growing mobile market."

Bria iPhone Edition is sold exclusively through the following link on the iTunes Store (http://itunes.apple.com/app/bria-iphone-edition/id373968636?mt=8) for an introductory price of $3.99. Customers have the ability to upgrade the client to include G.729 support.

About CounterPath

CounterPath Corporation is an award-winning provider of innovative desktop and mobile VoIP software products and solutions. The company's product suite includes SIP-based softphones, server applications and Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) solutions that enable service providers, enterprises and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) to cost-effectively integrate voice, video, presence and Instant Messaging (IM) applications into their VoIP offerings and extend functionality across both fixed and mobile networks.

CounterPath's customers include some of the world's largest telecommunications service providers and network equipment providers including AT&T, Verizon, BT (British Telecommunications PLC), Deutsche Telekom, Cisco Systems, and Mitel.

Visit http://www.counterpath.com.

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CounterPath Corporation

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

Top-Selling Mobile Games From Verizon Wireless Run the Gamut From Classic Arcade Games to Puzzles

BASKING RIDGE, N.J., June 15 -- Mobile gamers who want to experience the nation's largest and most reliable wireless network have more than 350 games to play on their Verizon Wireless phones.  In time for the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2010 taking place this week in Los Angeles, Verizon Wireless announced that the top-selling new titles for its 3G Multimedia phones and select Simple Feature phones during the first six months of 2010 include:

  1. "Final Fantasy" by Namco Networks America Inc.
  2. "The Sims 3 World Adventures" by EA Mobile
  3. "Jewel Quest III" by EA Mobile
  4. "More Brain Exercise" by Namco Networks America Inc.
  5. "Where's Waldo? In Hollywood" by Capcom Interactive, Inc.
  6. "Iron Man 2" by Gameloft
  7. "The Oregon Trail" by Gameloft
  8. "Tournament Blackjack" by GOSUB 60, Inc.
  9. "Prison Poker" by Cyberhull, LLC
  10. "Pocket Farmer" by Sonic Boom, Inc.

Verizon Wireless customers can purchase and download these games and many other titles from the Media Center/Get It Now® under the Games category on their 3G Multimedia phones and select Simple Feature phones.  Verizon Wireless offers exclusive games, including "Pocket Farmer" and "BioShock 3D," and is featuring "Doodle Jump" and "Guitar Hero 5" on these phones.  Download charges vary and airtime or megabyte charges may apply when browsing, downloading and using certain applications.

Customers can also get easy access to games and other applications using the Verizon Wireless Media Store, which features a keyword search, making it easier for customers to find games and applications they already know about or discover new ones with one or two clicks.

For more information about Verizon Wireless products and services, visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or go to http://www.verizonwireless.com.

About Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless operates the nation's most reliable and largest wireless voice and 3G data network, serving nearly 93 million customers. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with 81,000 employees nationwide, Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ)(NASDAQ:VZ) and Vodafone (NASDAQ:VOD).  For more information, visit http://www.verizonwireless.com. To preview and request broadcast-quality video footage and high-resolution stills of Verizon Wireless operations, log on to the Verizon Wireless Multimedia Library at http://www.verizonwireless.com/multimedia.

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CONTACT:  Debra Lewis, Verizon Wireless, +1-908-559-7512,
Debra.Lewis@verizonwireless.com

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Ektron Launches eIntranet, Brookstone Employees Benefit From Integrated Social Enterprise Collaboration

BOSTON, June 15 -- Ektron Inc. today, at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston, announced the release of eIntranet(TM), a "total solution" for intranets, that integrates elements of Ektron's core technology and gives businesses a powerful and trusted intranet solution.  Combining social software and web content management in one enterprise application, the familiar interface and Ektron's advanced web content management functionality raises the daily value of the intranet for businesses.  Activity streams, a gallery of widgets, mobile engagement and in-context analytic tools ensure that eIntranet is easy to deploy, use and extend - on-premise, hosted or in the cloud.

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"Approximately 400 million people use Facebook for personal collaboration everyday without having been taught how to do so, but other similar business collaboration offerings have failed - Facebook for the enterprise isn't enough," said Bill Rogers, Ektron's CEO and Founder. "The new eIntranet is built on Ektron's best practices from more than 12 years of web content management research and development. Our software has proven to increase adoption for many Fortune 500 and big-brand public-facing web sites. Today's intranet needs to keep pace with the digital world and become a mashup of internal and external content and applications that employees will adopt and trust for years to come."

Research shows that 36% of a company's overall performance is driven by its ability to collaborate (Source: Meetings Around the World: The Impact of Collaboration on Business Performance by Frost & Sullivan). eIntranet is designed to break down the silos between departments and geographic locations. Because eIntranet is built on both social and .NET best practices, this collaborative application scales to the size and needs of every company.

Seeking to implement an intranet for better communication and collaboration with over 3,000 employees across nearly 310 stores nationwide, Brookstone chose Ektron's eIntranet because of the customization and the immediate return on investment.  "At Brookstone, we place a priority on cohesive communication and consistent branding," said Bill Wood, CIO of Brookstone.  "Ektron's eIntranet enables easier sharing of  training materials with corporate and regional locations, to ensure that permanent and seasonal employees are always on the same page.  A best-in-class collaboration and communication tool like eIntranet is a great addition to our software portfolio."

  Top ten cool features of Ektron's eIntranet application include:
  1. Activity streams and timeline navigation - With eIntranet, the most
     useful information finds the employees who need it most.  Like ratings,
     status and activity updates on social networking sites, eIntranet gives
     employees a real-time picture of what's happening in a company at the
     moment and what information has been the most effective for their
     peers.
  2. Collaboration - Using personal profiles, groupspaces, forums, blogs,
     calendars and wikis, internal teams can collaborate on documents before
     sharing them with the entire organization.  eIntranet ensures that
     everyone is informed instantly of status updates and has access to the
     most recent versions of documents.
  3. Micro-messaging - Notification and filtering engines provide only
     relevant information.
  4. Mobile engagement - Critical information is delivered to employees via
     SMS alerts, e-mail or the eIntranet Mobile App anywhere, anytime.
  5. Analytics - The Ektron Open Analytics provider gives in-context
     information about eIntranet usage and adoption by tracking activity,
     trends and popular areas.
  6. Findability - Ektron's Search and Tag Clouds are built on search and
     navigation best practices. Taxonomy enhances how information and
     documents are organized, going beyond folder structure to make
     collateral more findable.
  7. Widget-based functionality - IT departments can use Ektron's
     customizable widgets to integrate with business-critical systems.
     Ektron widgets also extend the functionality of eIntranet. Developers
     and marketers can create their own widgets or download the latest
     widgets from the Ektron Exchange.  Drag-and-drop widgets may be added
     or removed based on preference or advanced technical intranet demands.
  8. Combination of social software and web content management - Social
     software by itself does not make an effective intranet. Intranets
     require a content management platform to provide the workflow, document
     and content management and organization capabilities that are essential
     to productive and secure collaboration.
  9. Integration - The eIntranet can become a portal for other enterprise
     applications such as Sharepoint, CRM, HR and ERP systems.
  10. Easy to deploy, customize and extend - eIntranet gives authors the
      power to create, edit and manage web and document content without
      technical resources.  Corporate branding, content and "look-and-feel"
      are easy to deploy, so eIntranet is ready to use.

  Pricing and Availability

eIntranet is available immediately starting at $5,000 for a 25-seat user license.  eIntranet integrates technology elements from Ektron's core content management system, but does not require a separate purchase of Ektron's CMS400.NET platform.  Ektron Partners can create innovative new joint solutions that extend and maximize existing IT investments for their clients. Full system requirements, online tutorials and more information on eIntranet may be found at http://www.ektron.com/eIntranet.

About Ektron

Ektron Inc. has innovated web technology since 1998. By combining web content management (WCM), marketing optimization and social software, Ektron has a single web platform that improves operational efficiency, drives revenue growth and builds customer loyalty. Ektron empowers marketers to create, publish and optimize web content that engages, converts and retains customers. Developers benefit from Ektron's extensibility and commitment to the Microsoft .NET framework. Headquartered in Nashua, New Hampshire, with offices in Australia, Canada, Singapore and the United Kingdom, Ektron has more than 8,000 customers worldwide including Carnegie Hall, Home Depot, Kodak, Microsoft, NASDAQ, Texas Children's Hospital and the University of Notre Dame. For more information, please visit http://www.ektron.com.

Ektron, the Ektron logo and eIntranet, are trademarks of Ektron Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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UNX Integrates Credit Suisse Advanced Execution Services (AES) and Algorithms into its Catalyst(R) Execution Management System (EMS)

Groundbreaking .NET framework and open Software Development Kit (SDK) lauded for speed of integration and broker-customizable content via Catalyst portal

NEW YORK, June 15 -- UNX LLC, a leading provider of innovative trading technology solutions, is now offering access to Credit Suisse's acclaimed equity algorithms and electronic trading services through UNX's Catalyst® Portal and EMS.

Catalyst users also can access Credit Suisse's internal crossing network, Crossfinder, the #1 alternative trading system (ATS) in the U.S. by volume matched.  Clients can send orders to Crossfinder directly, or through any trading strategy offered by Advanced Execution Services (AES), Credit Suisse's suite of algorithmic trading strategies, tools, and analytics.

The AES suite now offers individual algorithms that support core strategies, as well as more specialized tactical, portfolio, conditional and dark strategies, including Guerilla, Sniper, Pathfinder and Reserve.

"While Credit Suisse AES has always been an early adopter of important technology and trends that can benefit our clients, we believe UNX's Catalyst empowers all entities in the effort to maximize the capabilities and efficiency of an electronic trading offering," states Credit Suisse Spokesperson Guy Cirillo. "We are pleased with the speed and ease of the entire deployment process using Catalyst's revolutionary open technology, and look forward to harnessing the UNX SDK to increase our breadth of content and offerings."

"Credit Suisse AES is a major global provider of liquidity and algorithmic trading strategies, so UNX is excited to welcome them into our broker distribution network," states UNX CEO Thomas Kim.  "And now that they're onboard, our 'plug and play' technology gives them the ability to add additional content and updates whenever they want -- putting them in the driver's seat."

About UNX LLC

Founded in 1999, UNX is an independent trading technology firm and agency broker that provides advanced electronic trading technology for the institutional trading community through its open-architecture platform Catalyst®. UNX has offices in New York and Los Angeles.

About Catalyst

Catalyst is an electronic trading portal and broker-neutral execution management system (EMS) for single stock and portfolio trading for institutional clients.  Built on open/modular architecture using the latest technology, Catalyst allows buy-side institutions and sell-side broker-dealers to create customized solutions using the UNX Software Development Kit (SDK).  An independent offering, Catalyst streamlines multi-broker trading workflow and serves as an efficient delivery mechanism for broker-dealers and third-party vendors to distribute and update their offerings to clients.

©2010 UNX LLC Member FINRA/SIPC. All rights reserved.  UNX and Catalyst are registered trademarks of UNX LLC.

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CONTACT:  Anne Aldrich, +1-312-787-1642, media@unx.com, for UNX

ABBYY(R) Offers Recognition Server iFilter to Extend Capabilities of Microsoft(R) Search Systems Beyond Text Formats

New Solution Enhances Indexing Capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server and Windows® Search to Make Image Files Easily Discoverable throughout Corporate Networks

MILPITAS, Calif., June 15 -- ABBYY®, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced that it is expanding its offering for enterprise search systems with the new ABBYY Recognition Server iFilter solution. Integrated with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) Search or Windows Search, it unlocks image files such as TIFF, JPEG, DjVu, and PDF for full-text content indexing and therefore enables faster and more complete search of all documents in a corporate network. As a result, corporate users have a reliable tool to easily sort through volumes of image files accumulated in their organization.

"Enterprise search systems give corporate users quick access to information contained in a variety of documents necessary to perform everyday tasks. A document that cannot be quickly retrieved is usually considered to be lost even if, nominally, it still exists somewhere in the archives. But some documents are stored in formats that are not convenient for search and retrieval, such as image formats," commented Andrey Isaev, director of Technology Products for ABBYY. "Our product, designed to enhance Microsoft systems with the image search support, provides an easy solution to simplify access to corporate information and knowledge, and increase work efficiency in an organization."

Many important documents, such as scanned faxes, agreements, correspondence, etc., are stored as images and, therefore, cannot be indexed by the Microsoft search engine. The ABBYY solution provides the iFilter plug-in to integrate with the Microsoft search system and gives access to a background optical character recognition (OCR) service which is performed by the award-winning ABBYY Recognition Server software.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server indexes text documents which are located in the corporate network itself, and utilizes ABBYY Recognition Server iFilter when image files need to be processed. iFilter transmits the image-based documents to Recognition Server for OCR processing and then submits the recognized text back to the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server for indexing. This processing makes the documents available for full-text search. To avoid the possibility of overloading the search system, ABBYY Recognition Server is installed on a separate computer and can be scaled up with additional capacity at any time.

ABBYY Recognition Server iFilter also works with Microsoft Windows Search, a system for searching files on desktop PCs and connected recourses. One copy of ABBYY Recognition Server can perform OCR for all Windows Search clients installed on the corporate network, and therefore is enough capacity for all employees of the organization to be able to search through images on their computers. The background image processing is performed on the server and does not consume resources of the users' PCs.

For more information about the product's functionality and availability, please visit http://www.abbyy.com/recognition_server/scenarios/OCR_iFilter_for_Microsoft

About ABBYY Recognition Server

ABBYY Recognition Server is a powerful server-based solution for document capture and conversion based on widely renowned ABBYY OCR technologies. The solution "reads" scanned, photographed documents, and PDF files in over 190 languages including multilingual documents with various language combinations (e.g. Japanese and German, Chinese and Russian, etc.). It supports input of a variety of images formats including TIFF, JPEG, PDF, DjVu, BMP, PCX, and DCX. With its scalable and flexible architecture, it can process large volumes of documents while remaining easy to integrate and use.

About ABBYY

ABBYY is a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and language software. Its products include the ABBYY FineReader line of optical character recognition (OCR) applications, ABBYY FlexiCapture line of data capture solutions, ABBYY Lingvo dictionary software, and development tools. Paper-intensive organizations from all over the world use ABBYY software to automate time- and labour-consuming tasks and to streamline business processes. ABBYY products are used in large-scale government projects such as those of Australian Taxation Office, Lithuanian Tax Inspectorate, Ministry of Education of Russia, Ministry of Education of Ukraine, and Montgomery County Government of the USA. Companies that license ABBYY technologies include BancTec, Canon, EMC/Captiva, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, NewSoft, Notable Solutions, Samsung Electronics and more. ABBYY OCR applications are shipped with equipment from the world's top manufacturers such as BenQ, Epson, Fujitsu, Fuji Xerox, Microtek, Panasonic, Plustek, Toshiba, and Xerox. ABBYY is headquartered in Moscow, Russia, with offices in Germany, the United States, Ukraine, the UK, Japan and Taiwan. For more information, visit http://www.ABBYY.com.

ABBYY, the ABBYY Logo, FineReader, ADRT, Lingvo, FlexiCapture, PDF Transformer, and Recognition Server are either registered trademarks or trademarks of ABBYY Software Ltd. Other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners and are hereby recognized.

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CONTACT:  Derek James, McGrath/Power Public Relations, +1-408-727-0351,
derekj@mcgrathpower.com, for ABBYY

Web Site:  http://www.abbyy.com/

BlueSwarm Celebrates Associated Press Profile and Partnership with the Democratic Governors Association

BOSTON, June 15 -- BlueSwarm (http://www.BlueSwarm.com), the nation's #1 social fundraising platform, was selected by the Democratic Governors Association finance council (DGA) to help power its fundraising efforts. Additionally, the company was just profiled in this Associated Press story.

BlueSwarm is an online social fundraising platform that removes barriers between potential donors and recipient organizations by empowering a campaign's supporters to easily tap their social networks and leverage personal relationships on behalf of a chosen candidate. Among the tools used to make this interaction possible;

  --  A Facebook application linking candidate's websites to a supporters
      Facebook page; address book integration; direct mail/email
      solicitation tools and templates. (This is the first time it has been
      possible to process donations inside of Facebook, convert those donors
      into fundraisers, and tie all of the Facebook activity back into an
      enterprise-scale fundraising platform.)
  --  Customizable individual donor pages featuring a dashboard; progress
      reports; request/pledge/donation tracking; and down-line donor
      tracking.
  --  Campaign compliance and oversight tools, including pledge/donor
      tracking; fundraising goals oversight; all donors and gifts are
      programmatically monitored for Federal and State election law
      violations.
  --  Contribution processing including a donations widget for any webpage
      and tailored donation pages.
  --  Merchant Banking Services, including credit card processing; check
      caging; merchant bank accounts.

The DGA will use BlueSwarm to empower the supporter networks of the Governors finance council, providing each member of the council with a web-based platform that integrates with the email and social networking accounts of their donors and volunteers. The Governors Association finance council supports the 26 sitting Democratic Governors and assists leading gubernatorial candidates with their campaigns. Moreover, the platform will be used to extend the online marketing and social fundraising footprint of the DGA.

"The DGA has broken all our fundraising records in the past few years as we head into the most important election in our organization's history," said Nathan Daschle, executive director of the Democratic Governors Association. "We have selected BlueSwarm as a tool to build on that success by extending efforts into distributed social networks and putting a consistent tool in the hands of each member of our Governor's finance council."

As of today BlueSwarm has helped candidates raise over $150 million and it is being used in:

  --  50% of US Senate races
  --  30% of gubernatorial races
  --  scores of congressional, state, and local races

"Social Fundraising has proven to be an extremely effective way of activating distributed supporters for raising money," said Erik Nilsson, president of BlueSwarm. "We are proud to be working with one of the nation's largest and most powerful networks, the DGA, to help them raise money."

The strength of online Social Fundraising is rooted in the concept that the best donor base is a broad donor base. Everyone should be able to contribute - no matter the size of the donation - and the best way to reach a broad donor base is to use social networks that already exist. When friends ask friends for support, a positive response is 10 times more likely, and the resulting gift is 52% higher. Most campaigns have understood this dynamic for some time but were limited in their ability to organize and manage volunteer fundraising at scale. BlueSwarm's platform has scaled to support thousands of volunteer fundraisers for a single campaign, with each fundraiser leveraging their own personal social network.

  About BlueSwarm
  http://www.BlueSwarm.com

Based in Boston, MA, BlueSwarm was launched in 2009 and has over 100 customers in higher education, non-profit, and politics. Current clients include Meg Whitman for Governor (CA), Marco Rubio for Senate (FL), and Charlie Baker for Governor (MA).

The company has won multiple awards, including two 2009 Pollie Awards and two 2009 Reed awards.

Dave Boyce - CEO |Erik Nilsson - President & Founder | James Nicol - VP Product Development

http://www.facebook.com/blueswarm | http://www.twitter.com/blueswarm | http://www.youtube.com/blueswarm

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CONTACT:  Felix Schein, +1-971-221-7170, for BlueSwarm

Web Site:  http://www.blueswarm.com/

Context Optional Acquires Buzzeo, Leading Platform for Creating Facebook Applications

Provider of Enterprise Social Marketing Solutions Gains Platform Leader and Technology

SAN FRANCISCO, June 15 -- Context Optional, the social marketing company, today announced the acquisition of unwrap, inc., makers of Buzzeo, a leading platform for Facebook application creation, management and deployment. The move expands Context Optional's leadership position in providing comprehensive social marketing solutions for brands.

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The Buzzeo platform enables companies to engage customers on Facebook with a variety of easy-to-deploy applications including e-commerce virtual goods, polls and product listings, among others. The company's app platform is a natural complement to Context Optional's Social Marketing Suite, a highly customizable, feature-rich SaaS solution that integrates publishing, moderation, analytics and app-building into a single tool.

As part of the acquisition, the Buzzeo team, including co-founders Waynn Lue and Joshua Reeves, will be joining Context Optional and taking on leadership roles in product development, marketing and engineering. Buzzeo will remain a standalone product and now be offered to customers free of charge. The company has proven leadership in the space: Buzzeo has worked with companies including Ben & Jerry's and Gold's Gym on Facebook and enabled a variety of social shopping experiences for sellers on CafePress and Zazzle. In addition, over 175,000 accounts have been created on the Buzzeo platform and applications built using Buzzeo have been installed by over 41 million Facebook users.

As more and more brands dive into and expand their presences on Facebook--72% of Fortune 500 companies already have Facebook fan pages--Context Optional will be providing customers with a broader set of solutions to suit their unique social marketing needs.

Having launched its Social Marketing Suite in February 2010 and more recently its Retail Solution for brand marketers, Context Optional has been steadily expanding its software offerings, with Buzzeo as the latest addition.

"We strongly believe in the potential of Facebook as an advertising vehicle for brands and businesses. Going forward, as people spend more and more time on social networks like Facebook, we'll continue to see companies spending resources to reach their customers on the social web," said Waynn Lue.

"Context Optional is a clear leader in the space and is in a unique position to help businesses take full advantage of social platforms such as Facebook to achieve new levels of customer engagement," said Joshua Reeves. "We're excited to bring the Buzzeo team's expertise and platform to Context Optional and together continue to expand and develop the company's industry-leading suite of products."

"We're looking forward to incorporating Buzzeo's talented team and product into our company and product family," said Kevin Barenblat, CEO and co-founder, Context Optional.  "We believe that brands will continue to expand their activities on the social web, and we're looking forward to helping them get started."

To learn more about what this means for Buzzeo users, please visit: http://www.getbuzzeo.com

To read an open letter from Context Optional's CEO, please visit the Context Optional blog: http://www.contextoptional.com/news/blog

About unwrap, inc.

unwrap, inc. was founded with the goal of making Facebook more useful for businesses by connecting consumers with the products and brands they care about. unwrap, inc.'s first product is Buzzeo, an online marketing platform that empowers businesses to create, deploy and manage applications across Facebook. These applications can be used to drive leads for e-commerce, increase engagement with existing customers or to run brand marketing promotions. Using Buzzeo doesn't require any technical knowledge and there are a variety of different app frameworks for businesses to choose from, including e-commerce stores, virtual goods gifting, polls, blog syndication and more. unwrap, inc. is headquartered in Palo Alto and was co-founded by Stanford alums. For more information, please visit http://www.getbuzzeo.com/.

About Context Optional

Context Optional is the leading provider of social marketing software and services to global brands and advertising agencies.  The company provides marketers with comprehensive solutions to build, manage, monitor and measure brand presence across the social web to meet their acquisition, engagement and retention goals.  By combining industry expertise, a leading technology platform, and comprehensive analytics into an integrated approach, Context Optional delivers the most effective social CRM and marketing solutions to Fortune 500 brands and agencies.  Context Optional is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York.  For more information, please visit http://www.contextoptional.com/.

Contact: Kasey Fleisher Hickey, +1-415-738-7997, ext. 34, kasey (at) contextoptional (dot) com

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CONTACT:  Kasey Fleisher Hickey of Context Optional, +1-415-738-7997,
ext. 34, kasey (at) contextoptional (dot) com

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

PBworks Announces Customer Relationship Edition for Collaborative CRM

BOSTON, June 15 -- PBworks, the leading provider of hosted collaboration solutions for business and education, today announced the launch of PBworks Customer Relationship Edition, which extends CRM solutions such as Salesforce.com by offering shared online workspaces for collaborating with customers and prospects throughout the entire customer lifecycle.

While existing CRM solutions have done a good job of tracking the sales funnel and customer support tickets, they have done little to generate the deeper customer engagement and information exchange that is so essential to complex sales.  Most communications still take place using traditional channels such as email and telephone, with little context or permanent record. PBworks Customer Relationship Edition fills this gap by providing a persistent, shared environment that companies can use with their customer throughout the relationship lifecycle, from prospecting and sales to ongoing account management and support.  Businesses can build a stronger relationship with customers and increase conversion, satisfaction, and retention.

"The big difference between what PBworks is doing and standard CRM is that PBworks is interactive for the customer," said David Coleman, Founder and Managing Director of Collaborative Strategies.  "The customer interaction is where the rubber hits the road.  The problem with regular CRM is that the rubber never sees the road."

PBworks Customer Relationship Edition incorporates new features specifically designed to enhance the customer relationship management process. Businesses can use the product to:

  --  Collaboratively author important content such as proposals and
      agreements
  --  Share key documents and files such as contracts and collateral
  --  Set meeting agenda, take real-time notes, and capture and assign
      action items
  --  Manage critical processes like RFPs with project management tools
  --  Communicate in real-time with built-in chat, instant messaging, and
      teleconferencing
  --  Track customer interactions to better evaluate engagement and
      interests

"Our customers tell us that one of the most important and valuable ways they use PBworks is to help them collaborate with prospects and customers," said PBworks CEO Jim Groff.  "Traditional CRM systems treat a customer as just a few rows in a database.  With our Customer Relationship Edition, businesses treat their customers like partners and can communicate and collaborate much more closely with them."

Chicago-based Objective Arts uses PBworks to manage its presales customer relationships.  "Every time we put together a proposal for a potential client, we like to invite them to a PBworks workspace," said Steve Grant, President of Objective Arts.  "Our sales process is very interactive, and PBworks gives us the environment we need to collaborate with our prospects to get a deal done.  Using PBworks as part of the sales process helps us reduce the sales cycle and increase our sales."

IT consulting firm CBE Technologies has also made PBworks a core part of its CRM strategy.  "PBworks is the key technology we use to work with our customers," said Alison Rossi, Project Manager.  "We start the customer collaboration process during the presales phase, once we feel there's a greater than 75% chance the deal will close.  We place PDFs of the statement of work on each client workspace, allowing a clean transition from sales to operations.  Once a project is complete, we transition the workspace over to the support staff.  With PBworks, everyone on the team has access and can present a unified front to the client.  It's had a major impact on productivity and customer satisfaction."

The new product is focused on complex, high-value sales, where improved information and smoother processes can have a significant revenue impact.  This makes it ideal for service providers such as agencies, consultancies, and law firms, which maintain a long-term relationship with high-value clients.

"PBworks truly focuses on solving specific problems and making us successful," said Courtney Franklin, Director of CRM Operations for Anderson DDB Health & Lifestyle.  "We're looking forward to using the Customer Relationship Edition to enhance our relationships with our clients."

PBworks Customer Relationship Edition taps into larger trends in the market.  "Collaboration is far richer than traditional CRM approaches because it engages customers in trust-building conversations rather than merely tracking their intentions and activities," said Larry Hawes, Lead Analyst, Collaboration and Social Software for the Gilbane Group.

PBworks Customer Relationship Edition includes all of the functionality in the company's flagship Business Edition, such as unlimited storage for documents and files, full-text search of document content, Mobile Edition access via BlackBerry and iPhone, and 24/7 customer service.  The new product adds a shared collateral library for publishing important marketing pieces and documents to all prospects and customers, as well as advanced activity tracking to let sales and support representatives judge customer/prospect engagement levels and see which documents are being viewed.  Connectors with CRM platforms will allow 1-click creation of new prospect and client workspaces, starting with Salesforce.com.

On June 15 and 16, PBworks will be demonstrating the Customer Relationship Edition at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston (Booth #609).

Pricing and Availability

PBworks Customer Relationship Edition will be available in Q3 2010 at a starting price of $30/user/month.  Unlimited customer/prospect workspaces and licenses are included at no additional cost.

About PBworks

PBworks (http://pbworks.com/) is the world's leading provider of hosted collaboration solutions for businesses and education.  Leading companies and organizations like FedEx, DePaul University, and the FDA choose PBworks to help teams work more effectively across geographic and organizational boundaries, including teams that span employees, customers, partners, and vendors.

Over 85,000 businesses have chosen PBworks to share knowledge, interact with customers, manage, projects, and support other forms of teamwork.  We host over a million team workspaces, serve several million users each month, and 96% of users would recommend PBworks to a friend.  Investors in PBworks include Mohr Davidow Ventures, Seraph Group, Sippl Investments, and Ron Conway.

PBworks is a trademark of PBwiki, Inc.  All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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CONTACT:  Chris Yeh of PBworks, +1-650-224-6362, chris.yeh@pbworks.com

Web Site:  http://pbworks.com/

Entrust Credentialing Services - A New End-to-End, SAAS Approach for Identity-Based Smartcards

Integrated hosted service provides simple, cost-effective, unified smartcards for physical, logical access

DALLAS, June 15 -- Building on its heritage of providing identity-based security credentials for government, enterprise and border security initiatives, Entrust, Inc., is extending their public key infrastructure technology to provide a comprehensive multipurpose smartcard offering. The Entrust Credentialing Service is an end-to-end hosted solution for organizations to issue unified smartcard credentials -- tailored for enterprise, citizen or government environments -- to secure physical and logical access, virtual private networks (VPN) and other enterprise functions and capabilities.

"Whether for employees, citizens or government officials and agents, organizations will no longer be forced to consolidate interoperable technologies on their premises to deploy proper identity-based smartcards," said Entrust President and CEO Bill Conner. "From identity vetting to issuance, Entrust is a single source to help organizations implement a proven, cost-effective credentialing solution -- regardless of environment or scope."

Based on Entrust Managed Services PKI, Entrust's credentialing service includes all necessary components including identity vetting, data capture, personalization, printing, issuance and revocation. The credential facilitates mobility, interoperability and security of end-user access by employing one credential for building access, computer/logical access and a wide range of useful applications, including secure e-mail, document-signing and more.

In advanced deployments, the multipurpose smartcards can also include the electronic machine-readable travel document (eMRTD) data identical to an ePassport. This capability helps extend the value of the service, particularly for law enforcement organizations and government departments. Entrust's multipurpose smartcards that include eMRTD credentials are compliant with all ICAO standards, including Basic Access Control (BAC) and Extended Access Control (EAC).

As a hosted service, Entrust credentials can even be scaled to take advantage of future biometric standards, including fingerprints, retina scans or facial recognition -- all on the same smartcard.

An additional layer of security can be implemented for organizations that require strong authentication for user access to VPNs or sensitive applications. Entrust's patented grid authenticator can be seamlessly embedded on the reverse side of the smartcard. The easy-to-use grid consists of numbers and characters in a row-column format. Upon login, users are presented with a coordinate challenge and must respond with the information in the corresponding cells from the unique grid tied to their identity.

Entrust Managed Services PKI allows organizations to establish and maintain a trustworthy environment by providing certificates that secure many off-the-shelf applications using encryption, digital signatures and strong certificate authentication. This enables organizations to control access to resources, prevent theft of information, and comply with privacy and digital signature regulations.

Approximately 1,000 government and commercial organizations have purchased Entrust PKI solutions since Entrust brought the first PKI to market in the 1990s. Entrust also offers a convenient hosted PKI service that helps reduce upfront investment, or the need for in-house experts and secure facilities.

About Entrust

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

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

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

Web Site:  http://www.entrust.com/

Harmonie Support for Microsoft Outlook 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Puts Enterprise Users on the Same Page

Free Outlook Plug-In Extends Microsoft's New Social Features to Bring Document Collaboration to Every Business User

BOSTON and MILPITAS, Calif., June 15 -- Enterprise 2.0 Conference -- Mainsoft® today announced Microsoft Office 2010 integration for its Harmonie product. Harmonie is a free Outlook sidebar that provides full-featured access to Microsoft SharePoint® and Google Docs, from within email. One example of this integration is that business personnel can now "drag, drop and share" documents from Outlook 2010's new People Pane to SharePoint. The "People Pane" enables users to easily access messages and documents exchanged with specific colleagues; Harmonie makes it easy to share this information with groups by simply dragging and dropping documents directly from the pane into SharePoint. In turn, documents residing within individual people panes can now be easily shared by groups in a centralized location, enabling everyone to be on the same page.

Mainsoft will be conducting a survey of attendees at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference to understand how business users are really collaborating with documents using email. The survey is available at Mainsoft's booth #200, or online to the general public at http://www.WeAreALLonTheSamePage.com.

"Outlook 2010 is transforming the email client into a collaboration console," said Yaacov Cohen, CEO for Mainsoft. "Harmonie completes the email social experience by adding document collaboration to dramatically increase SharePoint adoption within the enterprise."

Tim Walters, Senior Analyst for Forrester, posts, "Email sucks, right? It undermines workplace communication and knowledge sharing with its 1-to-1, letter-writing paradigm. Its lame attempt to be open and communal via carbon copies... leads only to splintered conversations and further confusion. And then there are attachments, which are modeled on the stuff that used to accompany your letter...Attachments mock security policies and the effort to establish a single version of the truth." Finally, he concludes, "Recent releases...from vendors suggest they're taking a third approach: Retaining Email as the addictive workplace app, but avoid the deficiencies of Email by making it smarter, social, dynamic, and an interactive part of business processes."  This post is available at: http://bit.ly/97187o.

Harmonie - We Are All On The Same Page

This announcement dovetails with the market trend to allow people to continue working within their familiar email environment.  The Harmonie sidebar promotes the social aspects of collaborating on documents - enabling people to share a single, centralized copy of the document, eliminating the many intermediary steps associated with sending email attachments back and forth. Harmonie provides immediate access to documents within SharePoint or Google Docs, directly within the Outlook client; providing one centralized location for document sharing.

Availability

The easy-to-install Harmonie plugin has received over 70,000 downloads since launching three months ago. The new integration is currently available in Harmonie for Google Docs. The new integration will be available for Harmonie for SharePoint in August.

  Download Harmonie for free at harmon.ie.

  About Mainsoft Corporation

Mainsoft has been delivering integrated, cross-platform enterprise solutions since 1993.  Its latest product, Harmonie, enables employees to access and share SharePoint or Google Docs documents directly from their email client. Users are able to easily find documents without digging through their Inbox, and they no longer have to deal with multiple document versions when sending out documents for comments. The benefits of document sharing are realized without having to change work habits or learn new applications. Organizations are able to boost the benefits of document collaboration through vastly increased user adoption.

All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.

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CONTACT:  Kathryn Shantz, +1-415-350-3518, kathryn@tanjable.com, for
Mainsoft Corporation

Web Site:  http://weareallonthesamepage.com/

Atmel Next-Generation 32-bit AVR UC3L MCU Lowers Power Consumption by up to 90 Percent

Atmel enables picoPower(R) technology on AVR UC3 architecture to make world-class 32-bit performance available for portable consumer applications

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 15 -- Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ:ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced production availability of the next-generation Atmel 32-bit AVR® UC3L microcontroller (MCU) with picoPower® technology and embedded capacitive touch controller peripherals. By lowering the static power consumption by 90 percent and active power consumption by 45 percent, Atmel enables a performance/power ratio unsurpassed in the microcontroller market. With 1.5 DMIPS per MHz and DSP (digital signal processing) instructions at your fingertips, embedded system engineers have more performance than ever before. Target applications for these products include audio processing applications such as USB and Bluetooth headsets, game pads and advanced voice or touch-enabled human interface devices. The Atmel 32-bit AVR UC3L series includes high-performance, low-power capabilities in an extremely compact physical form factor, at 5.5 x 5.5mm TLLGA package, to address the size constraints of portable applications.

The new Atmel 32-bit AVR UC3L MCUs cut static power consumption by 90 percent down to 9nA. This figure is lower than the tantalum capacitor decoupling the board power supply and comparable to leakage currents in even the most advanced battery technologies. Active power consumption is reduced to 165uA/MHz, a 45 percent improvement from previous generations. The performance of the Atmel 32-bit UC3L core enables further power savings by running at a far lower speed than conventional MCUs when providing the same performance.

The power saving is enabled by the Atmel picoPower low-power technology leadership that addresses all aspects of a microcontroller's power consumption, including active operation modes as well as all sleep modes. The enabling technology innovations include peripheral SleepWalking, where peripherals can operate in extremely low-power states and make qualified decision during CPU sleep.

"As portable applications designers demand more ease-of-use and increased capabilities, more compute power packed in extremely small spaces with an extended battery life becomes a must," said Dr. Oyvind Strom, product marketing director for AVR products, Atmel Corporation. "The next-generation Atmel 32-bit AVR UC3L MCU addresses these demanding tasks, including voice control, capacitive touch interfaces and other signal processing with a form factor and power consumption previously addressable by ASICs only."

About Atmel AVR UC3L Series

The Atmel AVR UC3L series is the first 32-bit MCUs with picoPower low-power technology. The L series delivers a wide range of unique capabilities to embedded engineers using 32-bit microcontrollers, such as a built-in capacitive touch peripheral module. A unique glue logic controller eliminates external PLDs, reducing the total system cost. The series also includes Atmel FlashVault code protection to allow the on-chip flash to be partially programmed and locked, creating secure on-chip storage for software intellectual property.

Additional innovative technologies, which were industry first in the UC3L series, include the interrupt eliminating Peripheral Event System, Clock Failure Protection, Spread Spectrum Clocks with fast startup times, a Frequency Meter, an RTC with Crystal Precision Tuner and calendar mode, and a PWM output on all 36 I/O pins. More information on the Atmel AVR UC3L series is available at: http://www.atmel.com/UC3.

Development Tools

The AT32UC3L-EK is the evaluation kit supporting the AT32UC3L0 family. The kit facilitates evaluation of power consumption and the Atmel QTouch® peripheral hardware module. It gives easy access to all I/O pins and can be used with the ATAVRRZ600 plug-in (sold separately) to evaluate wireless applications. The kit works with all Atmel AVR debuggers and is supported by the AVR UC3 Software Framework. The kit is available now at distributors with a suggested resale price of U.S. $79.00.

Availability, Pricing and Photos

The AT32UC3L0 series is available in 48-pin QFP, QFN and TLLGA packages down to a 5.5 x 5.5mm size. Production volumes are available now and are priced at U.S. $3.18 in 10k quantities.

To download a high-resolution photo, please click one of the following links:

  For an evaluation kit, click: http://www.atmel.com/pressroom/photos/
   at32uc3l-ek.jpg.
  For a photo of the chip, click: http://www.atmel.com/pressroom/photos/
   at32uc3l.png.
  For a photo of the block diagram, click: http://www.atmel.com/pressroom/
   photos/at32uc3l-2.png.

  About Atmel

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

© 2010 Atmel Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Atmel®, Atmel logo and combinations thereof, AVR®, picoPower®, QTouch®, and others are registered trademarks, and others are trademarks of Atmel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other terms and product names may be trademarks of others.

  Press Contact:
  Agnes Toan, PR Manager
  Tel: (+1) 408 487-2963, Email: agnes.toan@atmel.com

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CONTACT:  Agnes Toan, PR Manager of Atmel Corporation, +1-408-487-2963,
agnes.toan@atmel.com

Web Site:  http://www.atmel.com/
http://www.atmel.com/UC3

Traffic Marketplace Announces Expansion of tmpSocial Engagement Platform

Social Media Unit Acquires Social Suitcase & Expands Offerings to Advertisers

LOS ANGELES and NEW YORK, June 15 -- Traffic Marketplace, a division of Epic Media Group, today announced the expansion of its tmpSocial platform to include the acquisition of Social Suitcase, a notable social media company with a reputation for providing advertisers with brand campaigns that increase user engagement, monetization and brand impact. The acquisition further strengthens Traffic Marketplace's social web capabilities, enhanced targeting capabilities, and distribution via the tmpSocial platform. Traffic Marketplace's collective expertise gives clients a comprehensive offering of social media tools and proven techniques that increase the impact and effectiveness of social media campaigns.

Epic Media Group CEO, Art Shaw, explained, "tmpSocial provides results-driven social media programs for advertising clients. This is critical, as advertisers are realizing they must leverage social media to succeed. The challenge for advertisers today is not only monetization or demonstrating ROI when pursuing social-based advertising, but rather ensuring their methodology is reaching their target audience effectively. Traditional direct-response methods simply do not apply here; more creative solutions are a must."

Sheldon Owen, General Manager of tmpSocial added "We are emerging as a leader in online advertising and the acquisition of Social Suitcase is an important addition to our suite of tools and offerings necessary to ensure our current and future clients' success in this rapidly evolving market."

"I couldn't be happier to be a part of a strong, winning company that will allow Social Suitcase to succeed and leverage what we've built on a more robust platform," said Jason Beckerman of Social Suitcase.

Traffic Marketplace now offers solutions such as branded Facebook applications, branded Twitter campaigns, video distribution and engagement, in-game promotions and virtual currency, and a premium application display network. Traffic Marketplace is also investing heavily in behavioral targeting technology and distribution capabilities through the expansion of tmpSocial, as a result of the recent merger of Epic Advertising and Connexus Corporation to form Epic Media Group.,

  For more information, log on to http://www.tmpsocial.com.

  About Epic Media Group:

Epic Media Group (http://www.theepicmediagroup.com) is the preeminent privately-held global digital marketing solutions company, with deep expertise in managing a full spectrum of advertising services, from brand-building and engagement to performance-based customer acquisition solutions. The company relentlessly focuses on delivering the most comprehensive and cost-effective strategic digital marketing campaigns for advertisers of all sizes, across all industries and around the world. Epic Media Group provides its advertising services by intelligently and cost effectively accessing consumers across multiple traffic distribution channels in integrated campaigns, while simultaneously offering the most sophisticated campaign analytics and integrity assurance capabilities available in the marketplace today.

Source: Epic Media Group
   

CONTACT:  Sharon Nieuwenhuis, RLM Public Relations, +1-212-741-5106 x237,
Epic@RLMpr.com

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

EPM Live Announces Release of Agile WorkEngine for Product Development

Built on SharePoint

CARLSBAD, Calif., June 15 -- EPM Live, a global leader in SharePoint-based Project and Work Management Applications, announced today its release of Agile WorkEngine for Product Development, built on the SharePoint platform.

EPM Live has extended its WorkEngine SharePoint Project and Work Management Application portfolio by adding Agile for Software and Product Development to its offerings. As an industry leader and a long time implementer of project and work management solutions, EPM Live combines its many years of field consulting expertise with its innovative product development approach to bring powerful SharePoint solutions to market.

Agile development supports a disciplined project management process that promotes frequent product review and acceptance, individual resource accountability, high quality deliverables with reduced time to market, a teamwork driven environment and a business approach methodology that ensures development alignment with customer satisfaction.  It is an iterative approach to software development that if done correctly can produce a high quality product efficiently and affordably.

The Agile WorkEngine Application supports the most common Agile SCRUM methodology and can be configured or customized to align with other company-specific iterative methodologies as well. EPM Live's SharePoint Agile WorkEngine Application provides support for all common SCRUM processes including product planning, backlog management, release management, iteration management, iteration tracking, and test case management.  While the EPM Live Agile Application provides "out-of-box" support for the most common terminology and SCRUM processes, it can also be easily configured to support additional iterative cycles such as Sprints, Epic Stories, and Themes.

The EPM Live Agile WorkEngine Application provides an Agile Planner which provides drag-and-drop capabilities for moving backlog items into specific iterations, moving items between iterations, and for decomposing user stories and defects into tasks and subtasks.  The WorkEngine Agile Planner provides dynamic rollups of Story Points and Work Estimates compared to Point and Work Capacity Values, so that over-allocations can be viewed and addressed immediately.

EPM Live's SharePoint Agile Product and Software Development application will aid in higher quality products with reduced time to market and will ensure that customer product goals and needs are being met.  EPM Live will continue to bring full solution SharePoint applications to market to help organizations build a powerful and robust SharePoint Project and Work management platform.

About EPM Live

EPM Live is a global leader in Microsoft SharePoint Project and Work Solutions. EPM Live's products and services are cutting-edge, revolutionizing the way organizations manage their work. EPM Live can be consumed online or on premise.

EPM Live has evolved the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server stack to a more comprehensive and integrated Enterprise Project and Work Management system. Building on familiar Microsoft tools, the WorkEngine solution includes web parts, Microsoft Project Add-ins, SharePoint Features, and Industry Best Practices & Process templates designed to work together to help you address your Business Productivity needs.

For additional information: Please contact EPM Live Director of Marketing, Heather Champoux at 858-431-9403 or hchampoux@epmlive.com.

Product or service names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Source: EPM Live
   

CONTACT:  Heather Champoux, EPM Live Director of Marketing, +1-
858-431-9403, hchampoux@epmlive.com

Web Site:  http://www.workengine.com/

Study.Net Unveils New Site With Self-Publishing Capabilities

SALT LAKE CITY, June 15 -- As electronic delivery of academic material continues to grow, Study.Net Corporation this week unveiled the newest version of its Web site at http://www.study.net.

A long-time leader in the electronic delivery of academic content, Study.Net has expanded its service to support self-publishing for both instructors and students.

"We continue to enhance what our business has provided for more than a decade: an innovative, convenient and cost-efficient method for educators to provide relevant content - in all of its forms - instantly to their students," said Jay McGoodwin, President and CEO of Study.Net Corporation. "The addition of self-publishing for instructors and students is a natural extension of sharing knowledge and leveraging the value of the Internet."

Among the key features of the site, Study.Net's historical content delivery platform has been expanded to allow instructors and students the means to package original content in up to 20 different file formats, assign a royalty to that content, and make it available for purchase and use by Study.Net users around the world.  Instructor content is added to a database that can be adopted for use in a course by other registered instructors. Original content published by students is added to a store available to other students.

"Publishing and distributing your own content can be challenging because the numbers are usually small and even minor glitches in production or distribution can wreak havoc in a class," said David St. Clair, Professor of Economics at California State University, East Bay. "Everything has to work well to make it a success. Fortunately, Study.Net provides an indispensable platform for putting it all together and making custom publishing work."

Study.Net's ability to make original content available immediately is as convenient as it is profitable. Professors at more than a dozen schools have already used Study.Net to deliver their own content electronically and collect usage royalties.  Students can promote the sale of their original content to thousands of like-minded, highly receptive peers.  For both, Study.Net manages content delivery, customer service, usage reporting, and royalty payments.

For more information on Study.Net's self-publishing features, or a list of new service features, please contact Kristen@study.net.

Source: Study.Net Corporation
   

CONTACT:  Kristen Radford, Marketing Communications of Study.Net
Corporation, +1-801-787-2127, Kristen@study.net

Web Site:  http://www.study.net/

Australia Modernizes GNSS Infrastructure Networks With Trimble Technology

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 15 -- Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today it has been selected by three Australian state government organizations to modernize their respective Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) infrastructure networks for high accuracy positioning--the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) in Victoria, the Land and Property Management Authority (LPMA) in New South Wales, and the Department of Environment and Resource Management (DERM) in Queensland. In addition, a private network in Perth, RTKnetwest, also chose Trimble hardware and software to modernize and expand its network.

For the DSE in Victoria, Trimble will provide 57 GNSS Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) receivers and Trimble® VRS(3)Net(TM) software for the Positioning Regional Victoria project which is expanding the Vicmap(TM) Position - GPSnet(TM) CORS network. The availability of consistent, high accuracy, Real Time Kinematic (RTK) corrections across the state of Victoria will provide an infrastructure that can enable private industry, government, academia, agriculture and other industries to achieve cost savings and improved efficiencies using positioning technology.

Trimble will provide its VRS(3)Net software for the LPMA's CORSnet-NSW network. CORSnet-NSW currently consists of 35 stations with a planned rollout of 70 stations to service the state of New South Wales by 2013. CORSnet-NSW provides fundamental positioning infrastructure for the state to support a variety of applications such as surveying, precision agriculture, mining, construction, mapping and asset management, utilities, aerial photography and LiDAR, marine hydrography and navigation, ports and aviation.

The DERM in Queensland purchased Trimble VRS(3)Net software to manage its 20-station network along with three additional reference receivers for network expansion. This network is part of the national AuScope project as well as the SunPOZ service in southeast Queensland. The information provided from the network is used for both real-time and post-processed positioning services by a variety of private and government users, including other network operators and research institutions.

In addition, RTKnetwest, formerly GPS Network Perth, a privately owned and operated GNSS network covering a large portion of Western Australia, recently purchased Trimble VRS(3)Net software along with six reference receivers, enabling them to modernize and expand to a 19-station network. RTKnetwest provides cost-efficient solutions for its surveying, civil construction, engineering, service location, asset management and other clients that require high-accuracy positioning data.

About the Department of Sustainability and Environment

The Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) is Victoria's leading environmental policy-maker, playing a key role in supporting that State Government's priorities in environmental sustainability. It leads the Government's efforts to sustainably manage water resources and catchments, climate change, bushfires, parks and other public land, forests, biodiversity and ecosystem conservation.  For more information, visit: http://www.dse.vic.gov.au.

About Land and Property Management Authority

The Land and Property Management Authority (LPMA) was established in 2009, comprising the staff and functions of the former Department of Lands (Land and Property Information, Crown Lands, Soil Conservation Service), the State Property Authority, the Office of Strategic Lands, the Lake Illawarra Authority, the Hunter Development Corporation, the Festival Development Corporation, the Office of Rural Affairs and the Office of Biofuels.

LPMA is the key public land management agency in New South Wales, with responsibility for land information and management, including the ownership and management of government land, land valuation, surveying, mapping and related spatial information, land title records, Crown land asset management, government property management and soil management services. For more information, visit: http://www.lands.nsw.gov.au.

About the Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management

The Department of Environment and Resource Management (DERM) manages the state's environment and natural environment for the benefit of all Queenslanders. From promoting sustainable living and resource use to strengthening the response to climate change to using the latest science for responsible decision making, the DERM aims to deliver long-term sustainability for the state's natural environment. By planning for, allocating and managing natural resources in a way that considers social, economic and environmental outcomes by also supporting economic growth, DERM can maintain the natural environment today and for future generations. Key responsibilities include climate change (meeting the challenge), environment (conserving natural and cultural heritage), land (managing land wisely) and water (securing water for Queensland's future). For more information, visit: http://www.derm.qld.gov.au/about/organisation/whatwedo.html.

About RTKnetwest

RTKnetwest is a privately owned and operated VRS network providing services in the Perth Metropolitan area and southwest of Western Australia. The network provides cost efficient solutions for clients and is dedicated to the technological advances for RTK GPS including surveying, civil construction, engineering, service locations, asset management and other high-accuracy positioning applications. For more information, visit: http://www.gpsnetworkperth.com.au.

About Trimble's Infrastructure Division

Trimble's Infrastructure solutions and services span a wide variety of applications, market segments and industries, including engineering, surveying, construction, agriculture and mapping and GIS. From building a large or small VRS(TM) network to monitoring the movement of land, dams, bridges or plate tectonics, Trimble's technologically-advanced hardware and software combine to provide exceptional performance and high-accuracy positioning data that can lead to cost savings, improved productivity and greater efficiency.

Today, there are currently more than 200 infrastructure network installations using Trimble technology throughout the world including: Albania, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Corsica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Lithuania, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Republic of South Africa, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, the United Kingdom and U.S. For more information about Trimble's infrastructure solutions, visit: http://www.trimble.com/infrastructure.

About Trimble

Trimble applies technology to make field and mobile workers in businesses and government significantly more productive. Solutions are focused on applications requiring position or location--including surveying, construction, agriculture, fleet and asset management, public safety and mapping. In addition to utilizing positioning technologies, such as GPS, lasers and optics, Trimble solutions may include software content specific to the needs of the user. Wireless technologies are utilized to deliver the solution to the user and to ensure a tight coupling of the field and the back office. Founded in 1978, Trimble is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif.

For more information, visit http://www.trimble.com.

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Source: Trimble
   

CONTACT:  Investor Relations, Willa McManmon, +1-408-481-7838,
willa_mcmanmon@trimble.com, or Media, Lea Ann McNabb, +1-408-481-7808,
leaann_mcnabb@trimble.com, both of Trimble

Web Site:  http://www.trimble.com/
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Agilisys Awarded Selected Bidder Status to Provide ICT Services to St. Helens Council's Building Schools for the Future (BSF) Programme

LONDON, June 15, 2010--

    - Generations of Learners Throughout St. Helens to Benefit From Major ICT
Investment to Transform Learning Environments Through the Building Schools
for the Future programme

    Agilisys, the UK's most innovative IT services and outsourcing provider,
has been awarded Selected Bidder status for a contract worth provisionally
GBP35m to provide ICT services to the St. Helens Council BSF programme. Just
under half of this is for the capital cost whilst the remainder is for an
eight-year managed service covering all secondary and primary education
establishments across the whole of the borough's estate, including non-BSF
schools.

    Agilisys was selected as part of a consortium called Environments for
Learning (E4L) together with Interserve and Barclays Investments.

    Following a rigorous evaluation process, on Wednesday June 2nd the
Council appointed E4L as its selected bidder to start the crucial building
work later this year under the St. Helens BSF programme.

    The BSF programme will see a provisional GBP150m invested in St. Helens
secondary schools over the next few years, giving the opportunity to
transform education for generations of learners, providing state of the art
teaching and learning facilities and services for community use. Eleven
schools in the Borough are expected to benefit from the BSF scheme.

    It is anticipated that work will begin this summer at the two sample
sites, Rainford High Technical College and De La Salle School, with the
buildings due to open - and be fully operational - by September 2012. Kay
Andrews, Agilisys CEO, commented: "This is an exciting opportunity for us to
transform the learning environments across the Borough, through the
implementation of innovative IT solutions. The BSF programme will change
people's lives and we are delighted to be a part of that."

    About Agilisys Ltd

    Agilisys is the UK's most innovative IT services and outsourcing
provider, transforming the way our clients deliver services to their
customers through the use of strategic, affordable, shared service platforms.

    Working for both the public and private sector, we have earned a strong
reputation and hold deep domain expertise within local government, education
and healthcare. Agilisys has over 1,200 employees in the UK and India.
(http://www.agilisys.co.uk)

    About Environments for Learning (E4L)

    E4L is a consortium made up of Interserve and Barclays Private Equity.
Agilisys is a sub-contractor to E4L to provide Managed ICT Services.

Source: Agilisys

For further information: Louise Kerrigan, Agilisys, louise.kerrigan@agilisys.co.uk, +44(0)7595-892-292

Inspire Dad to Take a Break With 1-800-FLOWERS.COM® This Father's Day

World's Leading Florist and Gift Shop Helps Consumers Celebrate Dad with Unique Gift Ideas!

CARLE PLACE, N.Y., June 15 -- According to the U.S. Census Bureau, this Father's Day marks the centennial of the first observance of Father's Day(1).  With 58,000 stay at home dads(2), 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, INC. (FLWS), the world's leading florist and gift shop, encourages Dad to take some time for himself this Father's Day.

"1-800-FLOWERS.COM is dedicated to helping our customers express their appreciation for the Everyday Heroes in their lives," said Jim McCann, CEO and Founder of 1-800-FLOWERS.COM. "Father's Day is the perfect time to show Dad that he can take his cape off for a break every now and then."

The 1-800-FLOWERS.COM Father's Day collection is your one-stop shop for all your Father's Day needs.  Whether he is grilling at the barbeque or found lounging on the couch watching sports, the Father's Day collection features gifts that are in-tune with what Dad really wants this year, including:

  --  The Sauza® Tequila Grilling Steak Sauces Gift Set- Get Dad's taste
      buds going with the three delicious bottles of tequila-based sauces
      which are sure to liven up his next summer barbeque.
  --  Dad can't leave for the green or the range without the Cool Golf Bag
      Cooler with Snacks. With golf tees, golf balls, bottled water, and an
      assortment of salty and sweet snacks, this cooler is essential for
      every golf outing.
  --  The Fishing Creel Full of Fisherman's Favorite Snacks is perfect for
      Dad's next trip to the lake.  Not only will the wide array of snacks
      fill him and his friends from sunrise to sunset, but this real creel
      can be used to bring home the catch of the day.
  --  If Dad has a knack for gardening, the Father's Day Dish Garden,
      includes a variety of green plants and a regal decorative suede box,
      which is a great way for him to get a little taste of the outdoors
      inside his "man room."

1-800-FLOWERS.COM offers a wide selection of gifts, from nut crackers to delicious meat and cheese sets suited for the home or office.  To learn more about the 1-800-FLOWERS.COM Father's Day 2010 collection, visit http://www.1800flowers.com.

About 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc.

1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc. is the world's leading florist and gift shop. For more than 30 years, 1-800-FLOWERS® (1-800-356-9377 or http://www.1800flowers.com) has been providing customers with fresh flowers and the finest selection of plants, gift baskets, gourmet foods, confections, balloons and plush stuffed animals perfect for every occasion.  As always, 100% satisfaction is guaranteed. 1-800-FLOWERS.COM has earned the 2009 Gold Award in the Online Flower Delivery category from TopTenREVIEWS; was listed as a TOP TEN MOBILE RETAILER by Internet Retailer magazine in 2009; and was recognized by Computerworld magazine as a Premier 100 IT Leader for 2010. The Company's BloomNet® international floral wire service (http://www.mybloomnet.net) provides a broad range of quality products and value-added services designed to help professional florists grow their businesses profitably. The 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc. "Gift Shop" also includes gourmet gifts such as popcorn and specialty treats from The Popcorn Factory® (1-800-541-2676 or http://www.thepopcornfactory.com); cookies and baked gifts from Cheryl&Co.® (1-800-443-8124 or http://www.cherylandco.com); premium chocolates and confections from Fannie May® confections brands (http://www.fanniemay.com and http://www.harrylondon.com); wine gifts from Ambrosia® (http://www.ambrosia.com) and Geerlings&Wade(SM)  (http://www.geerwade.com); gift baskets from 1-800-BASKETS.COM® (http://www.1800baskets.com)  as well as Celebrations® (http://www.celebrations.com), a premier online destination for fabulous party ideas and planning tips. 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc. is involved in a broad range of corporate social responsibility initiatives including continuous expansion and enhancement of its environmentally-friendly "green" programs, various philanthropic and charitable efforts and special private-sector skills training programs for military veterans. Shares in 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc. are traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, ticker symbol: FLWS.

(1) http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_ed itions/cb10-ff11.html

(2) http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_s pecial_editions/cb10-ff11.html

Source: 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc.
   

CONTACT:  Maria Donado, 1-800-Flowers.com, +1-516-237-4867,
mdonado@1800flowers.com

Web Site:  http://www.1800flowers.com/

Blackboard Releases Mobile Learning Apps for All Major Mobile Platforms

New Native Apps are Free to Students and Faculty Through App Stores

WASHINGTON, June 15 -- Expanding the reach of mobile learning opportunities to a full range of the world's most popular mobile platforms, Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ:BBBB) today released native applications for Android(TM), BlackBerry® and iPhone® OS powered devices that give millions of students full access to their course information directly from their smartphones.

Like the existing iPad® version, the new Blackboard Mobile Learn(TM) apps are available free at app stores. They recreate and enrich the course experience of Blackboard Learn(TM), the leading online teaching and learning platform, in native applications designed specifically for each mobile platform. With the apps, students can check grades and assignments, add discussion board comments and blog posts, email their classmates and instructors, and more.

Leveraging the unique user experience of each platform - like the Android HTC EVO(TM) 4G running on Sprint 3G and 4G (which delivers download speeds up to 10 times faster than 3G)(1), or the Multi-Touch capabilities of iPhone OS devices - the apps offer students an immersive and engaging way to access their course work and interactive learning opportunities.

"Blackboard Mobile Learn gives users the ability to teach, learn, and interact - all through their mobile devices," said Chris Bray, Blackboard Administrator at the University of Arkansas. "I'm really excited about the application, as are students and instructors who have seen it."

Blackboard also announced plans to offer a mobile Web version of Blackboard Mobile Learn later this year to extend access beyond smartphones to users of a wide range of Web-enabled phones and mobile devices.

"We're moving quickly to support broader access to mobile learning with applications that leverage the best of what this fast evolving area has to offer," said Michael L. Chasen, Blackboard's president and CEO. "These apps make learning a central part of the mobile experience that is quickly becoming a way of life for so many students and learners."

Schools have multiple options for deploying Blackboard Mobile Learn, either through an annual license that supports all device platforms or a no cost option, made possible through a special partnership with Sprint (NYSE: S), which supports Android and BlackBerry smartphones on the Now Network(TM), as well as iPad, iPhone® and iPod touch® devices over a Wi-Fi connection.

"We've had a great experience with Blackboard Mobile Learn and we're very pleased with the direction Blackboard is taking with mobile learning," said Kara N. Monroe, Assistant Vice Provost at Ivy Tech Community College. "The feedback from faculty and students has been very positive. We continue to look for ways to give our students access to the tools they need to be successful, and this is another one of those opportunities. And the no cost option including Sprint will help us bring mobile learning to our students more quickly than we might have otherwise."

Support for Blackboard Mobile Learn is included in the upcoming release of Blackboard Learn (Service Pack 1 for Release 9.1), making it the first to feature built-in support for mobile learning. Higher education and professional education institutions in the U.S. and Canada running Blackboard Learn Release 8 or higher can also enable access by installing the free Blackboard Mobile Web Services Building Block(TM). Availability will expand to U.S. and Canadian K-12 markets and to international markets outside the U.S. beginning in August.

For more information on the apps and their availability from app stores, as well as a series of short demo videos, please visit: http://www.blackboard.com/resources/mobile/landingpage_devices.html

For more information about Blackboard Mobile Learn, please visit http://blackboard.com/Mobile/Overview.aspx. For more information about Blackboard Mobile Learn on Sprint devices, please visit http://www.sprint.com/blackboard.

About Blackboard Inc.

Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ:BBBB) is a global leader in enterprise technology and innovative solutions that improve the experience of millions of students and learners around the world every day. Blackboard's solutions allow thousands of higher education, K-12, professional, corporate, and government organizations to extend teaching and learning online, facilitate campus commerce and security, and communicate more effectively with their communities. Founded in 1997, Blackboard is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Any statements in this press release about future expectations, plans and prospects for Blackboard and other statements containing the words "believes," "anticipates," "plans," "expects," "will," and similar expressions, constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including the factors discussed in the "Risk Factors" section of our Form 10-Q filed on May 7, 2010 with the SEC. In addition, the forward-looking statements included in this press release represent the Company's views as of June 15, 2010. The Company anticipates that subsequent events and developments will cause the Company's views to change. However, while the Company may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the Company's views as of any date subsequent to June 15, 2010.

Android is a trademark of Google Inc. Use of this trademark is subject to Google Permissions.

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

Apple, iPad, iPhone and iPod touch are registered trademarks of Apple Inc.

(1) "Up to 10x faster" based on download speed comparison of 3G's 600 kbps vs. 4G's 6 Mbps. Industry published 3G avg. speeds (600 kbps-1.7 Mbps); 4G avg. speeds (3-6 Mbps). Actual speeds may vary. Sprint 4G currently available in over 30 markets and counting, and on select devices.  See http://www.sprint.com/4G for details. Not all services available on 4G and coverage may default to 3G/separate network where 4G unavailable.

Source: Blackboard Inc.
   

CONTACT:  Matthew Maurer of Blackboard Inc., +1-202-463-4860 ext. 2637,
matthew.maurer@blackboard.com

Web Site:  http://www.blackboard.com/

Zebra Technologies Responds to Mobile Workforce Industry Demands With the Introduction of the RW 420 Print Station

BOURNE END, England, June 15, 2010--

    - Mobile Printer Designed to Hold Motorola Handheld Terminals
Offers Slimmer, Lighter Profile Form Factor for Increased Productivity in the
Mobile Workforce

    Zebra Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: ZBRA), a global leader in
specialty printing and automatic identification solutions, today announces
the new RW 420 Print Station (model RW4-PS), a printer and hand-held in one
unit. The RW4-PS enhances worker productivity by delivering more efficient
and effective mobile equipment management. Now workers will carry less
equipment and fewer charging devices, allowing for quick end-user adoption.

    The RW4-PS is designed to address the evolving business challenges of the
mobile workforce by incorporating Zebra's mobile printing technology into a
single, compact, lightweight and rugged unit capable of supporting the
Motorola MC70 and MC75 removable handheld terminals.

    "The Zebra RW 420 Print Station boosts productivity and maximises
efficiencies for the supply chain of a business," said Les Dickin, Product
marketing team manager EMEA, Zebra Technologies. "This new product delivers
significant improvements in terms of having an integrated printer and yet is
lightweight and rugged enough for mobile workers to easily carry on their
work routes to visit more customers. This relieves the burden of carrying
multiple devices and products or making multiple trips to the vehicle."

    Industries that benefit from Zebra's new mobile solution include:

   
    - Direct Store Delivery: Requires accurate and real-time invoicing and
    document production. This model can produce and manage receipts,
    invoices, pick lists, load manifests and settlement report printing.
   
    - Field Services: Workers in the field are tasked with increasing
    customer satisfaction by providing superior service. This can be done
    more efficiently by using the RW4-PS to print invoices, work orders,
    order verifications and spare parts inventory reports.
   
    - Government: Mobile printing and data collection are critical to helping
    government agencies ensure information accuracy and improve officer
    safety. The RW4-PS solution allows officers to enter and verify eCitation
    data quickly in the field, decreasing manual paperwork and clerical
    errors.

    "The RW 420 Print Station illustrates the strong partnership between
Motorola and Zebra," said Marco Landi, VP EMEA Channels, Motorola Enterprise
Solutions. "Motorola is particularly excited that the unit supports our
popular MC70 and MC75 units creating a complete solution that will help our
joint customers increase their mobile worker productivity and efficiency and
overall customer satisfaction."

    Available in North America and Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The
RW4-PS will be sold primarily through Zebra's vast network of channel
partners across a range of verticals and region. For more information, please
call +44(0)1628-556000 or visit http://www.emea.zebra.com/en/rwseries.

    About Zebra Technologies

    Zebra Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: ZBRA) provides the broadest range
of innovative technology solutions to identify, track, and manage the
deployment of critical assets for improved business efficiency. Zebra's core
technologies include reliable on-demand printer and state-of-the-art software
and hardware solutions. By enabling improvements in sourcing, visibility,
security and accuracy, Zebra helps its customers to put the right asset in
the right place at the right time. Zebra serves more than 90 percent of
Fortune 500 companies worldwide. For more information about Zebra's
solutions, visit http://www.zebra.com.

    For more information, please call +44(0)1628-556000 or visit
http://www.emea.zebra.com/en/rwseries.

Source: Zebra Technologies

Contact: Kate Woodruff, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, +44(0)207-345-3162, kate.woodruff@ogilvy.com; Sue Lynn Goh, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, +44(0)207-309-1016, suelynn.goh@uk.ogilvypr.com

Apple Unveils All New Mac mini

CUPERTINO, Calif., June 15 -- Apple® today unveiled a completely redesigned Mac® mini, featuring up to twice the graphics performance, a new HDMI port and a new SD card slot, all in an amazingly compact aluminum enclosure. Mac mini is the world's most energy efficient desktop and starting at $699, is the most affordable way to enjoy Mac OS® X, iLife® or Mac OS X Snow Leopard® Server.

  (Photo:  http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100615/SF20941)
  (Photo:  http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100615/SF20941)

"The sleek, aluminum Mac mini packs great features, versatility and value into an elegant, amazingly compact design," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "With twice the graphics performance, HDMI support and industry-leading energy efficiency, customers are going to love the new Mac mini."

Created with the unibody construction process pioneered by Apple, the new Mac mini features a compact aluminum enclosure just 7.7 inches square and 1.4 inches thin. A new integrated power supply eliminates the need for an external power adapter, reducing overall system volume by 20 percent and keeping cable clutter to a minimum. A removable panel underneath provides quick access for memory expansion. Mac mini is incredibly versatile, effortlessly connecting to existing peripherals such as mice, keyboards and digital displays, while the new HDMI output connects Mac mini to an HDTV and the new SD card slot enables easy transfer of photos and videos from a digital camera.

Inside its sleek, compact enclosure, the new Mac mini includes the fastest integrated graphics processor on the market today. With 48 processing cores, the NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor delivers up to twice the graphics performance of its predecessor, making Mac mini ideal for graphics intensive applications or visually rich games. Mac mini comes standard with a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 320GB hard and 2GB of RAM for $699.

With twice the graphics performance, the new Mac mini is still the world's most energy efficient desktop.* The new Mac mini reduces power consumption by an incredible 25 percent to less than 10W at idle, less than half the power required by competing systems. Mac mini meets Energy Star 5.0 requirements and achieves EPEAT Gold status.** The new aluminum enclosure is highly recyclable and Mac mini uses PVC-free components and cables, contains no brominated flame retardants and features material-efficient system and packaging designs.

Mac mini comes with Mac OS X Snow Leopard, the world's most advanced operating system, and iLife, Apple's innovative suite of applications for managing photos, making movies and creating and learning to play music. Snow Leopard builds on a decade of OS X innovation and success with hundreds of refinements, new core technologies and out of the box support for Microsoft Exchange. iLife features iPhoto®, to easily organize and manage photos; iMovie® with powerful easy-to-use new features such as Precision Editor, video stabilization and advanced drag and drop; and GarageBand® which introduces a whole new way to help you learn to play piano and guitar.

Mac mini with Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server fulfills all the server needs of a workgroup or small business including email, calendar, file serving, Time Machine® backup, Wiki Server, Podcast Producer and more. Mac mini with Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server uses less than 11W of power at idle, a fraction of the power consumed in comparison to typical entry-level tower servers.*** Mac mini with Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server is faster than before with a 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, two 500GB hard drives now running at 7200 rpm, 4GB of RAM and supports unlimited clients for $999.

Pricing & Availability

The new Mac mini is shipping today and will be available through the Apple Store® (http://www.apple.com), Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers.

  The Mac mini, for a suggested retail price of $699 (US), includes:
  --  2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB of shared L2 cache;
  --  2GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 SDRAM, expandable up to 8GB;
  --  a slot-load 8X SuperDrive® (DVD+/-R DL/DVD+/-RW/CD-RW) optical drive;
  --  320GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 5400 rpm;
  --  NVIDIA GeForce 320M integrated graphics;
  --  AirPort Extreme® 802.11n wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR;
  --  Gigabit Ethernet;
  --  four USB 2.0 ports;
  --  SD card slot;
  --  one FireWire® 800 port;
  --  one HDMI port and one Mini DisplayPort;
  --  HDMI to DVI video adapter;
  --  combined optical digital audio input/audio line in (minijack); and
  --  combined optical digital audio output/headphone out (minijack).

Build-to-order options and accessories include up to 8GB 1066 MHz DDR3 SDRAM, 500GB hard drive running at 5400 rpm, Apple Remote, Aperture(TM) 3, Final Cut® Express 4, Logic® Express, iWork® (pre-installed), Apple Wireless Keyboard, Magic Mouse, Apple 24 inch LED Cinema Display and the AppleCare® Protection Plan.

The Mac mini with Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server, for a suggested retail price of $999 (US), includes:

  --  2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB of shared L2 cache;
  --  4GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 SDRAM, expandable up to 8GB;
  --  two 500GB Serial ATA hard drives running at 7200 rpm;
  --  NVIDIA GeForce 320M integrated graphics;
  --  AirPort Extreme 802.11n wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR;
  --  Gigabit Ethernet;
  --  four USB 2.0 ports;
  --  SD card slot;
  --  one FireWire 800 port;
  --  one HDMI port and one Mini DisplayPort;
  --  HDMI to DVI video adapter;
  --  combined optical digital audio input/audio line in (minijack); and
  --  combined optical digital audio output/headphone out (minijack).

Build-to-order options and accessories include up to 8GB 1066 MHz DDR3 SDRAM, External SuperDrive, Apple Wireless Keyboard, Magic Mouse, Apple 24 inch LED Cinema Display and the AppleCare Protection Plan.

*Claim based on energy efficiency categories and products listed within the EPA Energy Star 5.0 database as of June 2010.

**EPEAT is an independent organization that helps customers compare the environmental performance of notebooks and desktops. Products meeting all of the 23 required criteria and at least 75 percent of the optional criteria are recognized as EPEAT Gold products. The EPEAT program was conceived by the US EPA and is based on IEEE 1680 standard for Environmental Assessment of Personal Computer Products. For more information visit http://www.epeat.net.

***Claim based on energy efficiency categories and products listed within the EPA Energy Star Small Scale Server database as of June 2010.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution with the Apple II, then reinvented the personal computer with the Macintosh. Apple continues to lead the industry with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system, and iLife, iWork and professional applications. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store, has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.

© 2010 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, Mac, Mac OS, Macintosh, iLife, Snow Leopard, iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, Time Machine, Apple Store, SuperDrive, AirPort Extreme, FireWire, Aperture, Final Cut, Logic, iWork and AppleCare are trademarks of Apple. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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Source: Apple
   

CONTACT:  Colin Smith, +1-408-862-1171, colins@apple.com, or Jennifer
Hakes, +1-408-974-7439, jenniferh@apple.com, both of Apple

Web Site:  http://www.apple.com/

Milano Design International Launch PowerPad iPhone and iPod Charger

LONDON, June 15, 2010--     Milano Design International launch PowerPad, the only charger you will
ever need. Not only can you charge your iPhone including the soon to be
launched iPhone 4 but also charge over 500 compatible electronic devices from
manufacturers such as Blackberry, Nintendo and Sony.

    Gone are the days that you need to have a separate charger for each of
your portable devices, the Milano PowerPad does it all and in the most
stylish, sleek and unobtrusive way conceivable. The Milano PowerPad uses
conductive charging technology which can charge up to five devices
simultaneously while only using power when a device is connected. The
PowerPad also has strong green credentials as it incorporates an Energy Star
5-star rated charger, the highest industry classification given only to the
most efficient charging devices while in a stand-by mode. An important
consideration when the average mobile phone charger consumes two-thirds of
its power even when a phone is disconnected.

    The Power pad is also completely safe, if the charging mat is touched by
anything but the PowerPad conductive receiver, then the power is shut off
instantly and then restored once the object is removed. Even spills and
splashes won't affect the PowerPad or its functionality.

    Daran Charlton, Milano product design commented, "we have been developing
the PowerPad with our partners at Wildcharge and now feel we have the perfect
charging platform available in the world today. At Milano we take green
issues very seriously and the PowerPad ticks all the boxes when it comes to
economic power saving."

    The Milano PowerPad is available to buy now at
http://www.milanoandyou.com. Milano are also proud to be supporting UK breast
cancer charities by giving a percentage from the sale of the unique Pink
iPhone PowerPad pack.

    Visit http://www.milanoandyou.com for full details of this charity
supporting product.

   
    Chris Simmons
    business development director
    Milano Design (International) Ltd
    T: +44(0)20-3086-7788
    E: hello@milanoandyou.com
    W: http://www.milanoandyou.com

Source: Milano Design (International) 1 Ltd.

Chris Simmons, business development director, Milano Design (International) Ltd, T: +44(0)20-3086-7788, E: hello@milanoandyou.com