Truphone Introduces Rewards Program for Travel Industry
VIP-level incentives for using Truphone Local Anywhere
ATLANTA, May 6 -- Truphone, the global mobile operator, today announced its Rewards Program for the travel industry, incentivising travel workers to use its Truphone Local Anywhere service to save money on their international calling - and put an end to juggling multiple phones or suffering 'bill shock' when travelling abroad.
The Truphone Rewards Program was introduced on the first day of the TRAVDEX travel technology conference at the Cobb Galleria Centre. The Rewards Program will open in the summer and will apply to travel workers including airline pilots, flight attendants, cruise ship and commercial-shipping crew members, travel agents and meeting planners who work internationally.
By subscribing to Truphone Local Anywhere, members of the Truphone Rewards Program will receive exclusive VIP-level benefits, including:
-- Bonus calling credit for volume use of the service
-- VIP customer service, with round-the-clock support available
-- Choice of their own telephone numbers from a specific pool of
memorable numbers
-- A personal referral code, under which users can earn credits against
their monthly phone bills by referring their friends, colleagues or
family members to become new users of Truphone Local Anywhere
-- Designations of an "Ambassador of the Quarter" or "Ambassador of the
Year" for users who sign up the most new subscribers in a month or a
year
Truphone Local Anywhere is a mobile service, which makes it easier and more convenient for international travellers to stay in touch while making savings of up to 90 percent on calls, text and data, on standard cell phone bills. For example, AT&T subscribers roaming in the UK pay between 99 cents and $1.29 per minute(1), pending on their calling plans, but with Truphone Local Anywhere it would cost only 12 cents per minute.
"Truphone Local Anywhere is designed specifically for people with an international lifestyle, and who better fits that definition than those who earn their livelihoods travelling for their work," said Truphone CEO Geraldine Wilson. "When they experience the convenience and huge savings they gain from using Truphone Local Anywhere, we're certain that travel workers will want to tell others about our service. Gone are the days of juggling multiple phones or SIM cards to save money when travelling abroad."
Truphone Local Anywhere is available in the United States and the UK with Australia coming soon. The company plans to make the service available in over 20 countries by the end of 2011. In addition to travel workers, the service is ideal for expatriates, business travellers, those with second homes in other countries and students studying abroad.
The service provides consumers with local calling rates and local numbers in both the United States and the UK - allowing friends, family and colleagues to get in touch without paying the cost of an international call - all on a single SIM card which can be inserted into any unlocked cell phone.
As Truphone Local Anywhere combines low cost calling and convenience at home and abroad, it provides an all in one solution which can replace a standard operator's SIM in an unlocked GSM phone, making it the only phone service travel workers ever need. Truphone Local Anywhere offers savings of up to 70 percent off standard operator roaming rates when using your phone outside of Truphone countries.
NOTE TO EDITORS: About Truphone Truphone provides people with international lifestyles unique, borderless phone services that simplify communication and dramatically reduce the cost of roaming and global calling. Founded in 2006, the company uses innovation to drive convenience up and costs down. Truphone firsts include: downloadable apps that enable smartphones and other mobile devices to make free calls over WiFi networks; intelligent SIM-based technology that make every call local; and more. The company's flagship product, Truphone Local Anywhere, brings an end to international travellers' need to carry multiple phones or SIMs for each country. Using a patented, intelligent SIM, the Truphone Local Anywhere service provides users unique phone numbers for each place they spend time - creating a local presence and eliminating the need for friends, families and colleagues to make costly international calls to communicate. /CONTACT: UK / Europe, Mark Walsh of Hill & Knowlton, +44 (0)20 7413 3495, Mark.walsh@hillandknowlton.com, or North America, Sue Huss of Comunicano Inc., +1-619-379-4396, sue.huss@comunicano.com, both for Truphone
Diguang International Features LED Products at 2010 China Optoelectronics and Display EXPO in Shenzhen
SHENZHEN, China, May 6 -- Diguang International Development Co., Ltd. (BULLETIN BOARD: DGNG) ("Diguang" or "the Company") today announced that the Company will participate in the 2010 China Optoelectronics and Display EXPO ("CODE") at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center from May 8 to May 10, 2010.
Diguang will showcase the Company's CCFL and LED backlights and liquid crystal modules, 19", 22", 24" LED ultra-slim monitors, and 19", 22", 32", 42" and 46" LED TVs. Visitors can view Diguang's products at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center booth No. A013.
"CODE is China's largest show in the optoelectronics and display industry and we are excited to display our diversified product portfolio to the attendees in Shenzhen this year," commented Mr. Song Yi, President and Chief Executive Officer of Diguang. "Our LED products include energy saving and environmentally friendly features, which command positive market recognition and growing acceptance in the industry. We believe our participation at CODE 2010 will help further our efforts in developing strong cooperative relationships with several well-known TV manufacturers and expand the market for our large-sized ultra-thin LED backlights and LED TVs."
Through its subsidiaries, Diguang International develops and produces CCFL and LED backlights for a wide range of TFT-LCD products. A backlight is the typical light source of a liquid crystal display (LCD), with applications spanning televisions, computer monitors, cellular phones, digital cameras, DVDs and other home appliances. Leveraging its LED expertise, the Company also creates and markets energy-saving technologies and solutions for rapidly growing markets such as LED backlight monitors and LED general lighting. For more information, contact CCG Investor Relations directly or go to Diguang's website at http://www.diguangintl.com/ .
Safe Harbor Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward looking statements are based upon the current plans, estimates and projections of Diguang's management and are subject to risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from the forward- looking statements. Therefore, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ from those set forth in the forward-looking statements: prospective success of the Company's participation in CODE 2010, government support of LED products, prospective success of new and existing products, business conditions in China and globally; weather and natural disasters; legislative or regulatory environments, requirements or changes adversely affecting the businesses in which Diguang is engaged; fluctuations in customer demand; management of rapid growth; intensity of competition; timing approval and market acceptance of new product introductions; general economic conditions; geopolitical events and regulatory changes, as well as other relevant risks, including but not limited to risks outlined in the Company's periodic filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Diguang does not assume any obligation to update the information contained in this press release.
For more information, please contact:
Company Contact:
Viola Tse
Diguang International Development Co., Ltd.
Tel: +1-626-593-5486
Email: viola@diguang.com
CONTACT: Viola Tse of Diguang International Development Co., Ltd.,
+1-626-593-5486, viola@diguang.com; or Investors, Elaine Ketchmere, Partner at
CCG Investor Relations, +1-310-954-1345, Elaine.ketchmere@ccgir.com
Motorola Leads DHS Compliance Assessment Program with First SDoCs for Multi-band Project 25 APX Family of Radios
Motorola in collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security's Compliance Assessment Program continues to advance interoperability initiatives supporting mission critical communications.
SCHAUMBURG, Ill., May 6 -- The Enterprise Mobility Solutions business of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) today announced the publication of the first multi-band (VHF/700/800) Project 25 (P25) portable and mobile radios on the Responders Knowledge Base website (http://www.rkb.us). The publication of the SDoCs (Supplier's Declaration of Compliance) and STRs (Summary Test Report) comply with the DHS Office of Emergency Communications: Fiscal Year 2010 SAFECOM Guidance for Federal Grant Programs for purchasing Project 25 LMR equipment/systems providing mission critical users with access to those grant funds to purchase Motorola products (http://www.safecomprogram.gov/SAFECOM/grant/default.htm).
The Motorola multi-band APX(TM) 7000 portable and APX(TM) 7500 mobile radios SDoCs and STRs document the successful completion of the current DHS CAP suite of Interoperability and Performance Tests. Specifically this documents the successful interoperability testing of the APX radios with Motorola's P25 system, with Harris Corporation's P25 system, and with an EFJohnson Technologies P25 system.
The Motorola APX radio portfolio is the industry's first Project 25 true multi-band subscriber family combining seamless VHF and 700/800 MHz operation for both FDMA and TDMA operation to have an SDoC and STR posted as part of the DHS CAP Program. The APX radio portfolio incorporates the most recent enhanced full rate P25 vocoder to support existing P25 Phase 1 FDMA operation while leading the way for full P25 Phase 2 TDMA operation with the enhanced half-rate vocoder.
In addition to the improvements in voice clarity gained with the enhanced P25 vocoder, Motorola has uniquely enhanced the overall APX audio experience through a comprehensive design integrating additional noise cancelling circuitry, noise suppression system, microphone and speaker systems to meet the needs of public safety customers.
In addition to the APX family of radios, also published on the DHS RKB website are Motorola's ASTRO® 25 system infrastructure and Motorola's XTS® 5000, XTS® 2500, XTS® 1500, XTL(TM) 5000, XTL(TM) 2500, and XTL(TM) 1500 radios.
The Motorola ASTRO 25 SDoC and Summary Test Report document the successful trunked interoperability testing of Motorola's ASTRO 25 infrastructure with radios from 10 leading industry subscriber manufacturers: Motorola, EFJohnson Technologies, Harris Corporation, Icom, Kenwood, PowerTrunk, RELM Wireless, Tait Radio Communications, Technisonic and Thales.
Over the past 24 months, Motorola's support of the DHS CAP program included the hosting of two formal interoperability events on the Motorola ASTRO 25 system infrastructure and the participation in three other P25 infrastructure manufacturer's interoperability events. Additionally, Motorola was in the first batch of DHS recognized labs for DHS CAP testing in May 2009.
"In addition to the P25 CAP, Motorola continues to provide P25 subscriber manufacturers with opportunities to informally test on Motorola's ASTRO 25 system infrastructure, promoting interoperability within the industry," said Brenda Herold, corporate vice president, Motorola Global ASTRO Product Solutions. "These opportunities further demonstrate Motorola's unwavering commitment to the advancement of multi-manufacturer interoperability and our support of the DHS CAP. "
For example, earlier this year, Motorola and five other manufacturers demonstrated the successful testing of interoperable communications between the Motorola ISSI.1 Network gateway and ISSI Gateways from the five other manufacturers.
Motorola continues to be a key technical contributor in the P25 standards body, providing technical resources to write the compliance tests outlined by TIA and referenced as part of the DHS CAP Program.
About Motorola
Motorola is known around the world for innovation in communications and is focused on advancing the way the world connects. From broadband communications infrastructure, enterprise mobility and public safety solutions to high-definition video and mobile devices, Motorola is leading the next wave of innovations that enable people, enterprises and governments to be more connected and more mobile. Motorola (NYSE:MOT) had sales of US $22 billion in 2009. For more information, please visit http://www.motorola.com.
Media Contact:
Steve Gorecki
Motorola, Inc.
+ 1 847- 538-0368
steve.gorecki@motorola.com
TEMIS Introduces Version 5.2 of Luxid(R) Content Enrichment and Discovery Solution
With Luxid(R) 5.2, TEMIS Targets Pervasive Text Analytics Corporate Deployments and Brings Intuitive Knowledge Discovery Into Users' Workspaces
NEW YORK, May 6, 2010-- TEMIS, the leading provider of Text Analytics solutions for
the Enterprise, today released the latest version of its flagship software
platform, Luxid(R).
Based on patented, award-winning TEMIS technology, Luxid(R) is
a powerful and scalable content enrichment and knowledge discovery solution.
Luxid(R) gives immediate access to business-critical insights and delivers
industry-specific knowledge, powering highly demanding activities such as
Market Intelligence, Sentiment Analysis, Scientific Discovery, and Agile
Publishing.
"Luxid(R) 5.2 is designed to meet the growing demand for
delivering the benefits of Text Analytics throughout the Enterprise," said
Eric Bregand, CEO of TEMIS. "Luxid(R) 5.2 can be deployed seamlessly within
all Enterprise applications, delivering leading-edge content enrichment, and
bring next-generation content discovery tools into the user's workspace."
Leading-Edge Content Enrichment
With Luxid(R) 5.2, TEMIS introduces a series of leading-edge features
improving the connectivity, coverage and quality of its knowledge extraction.
Luxid(R) 5.2 enables powerful content networking by linking
the extracted information to existing or external knowledge bases, providing
highly relevant and contextual insights as well as intuitive navigation.
Luxid(R) 5.2 also dramatically extends the scope of its
knowledge extraction with the new Events Skill Cartridge(R), a unique
annotator that extracts targeted information pertaining to terrorism, armed
conflict, and criminal activities. The Events Skill Cartridge(R) enables the
intelligence community to better monitor and anticipate threats. Luxid(R) 5.2
also brings enhanced versions of its acclaimed Skill Cartridges(R) dedicated
to Scientific Discovery. They provide scientists with an extended scope of
extracted entities as well as cross-over links between biological, medical
and chemical content.
More generally, Luxid(R) 5.2 introduces a series of advanced
semantic capabilities to increase the accuracy and the relevance of the
knowledge extraction with contextual resolution of ambiguity and anaphora.
Seamless Deployment and Integration
Luxid(R) 5.2 delivers pervasive integration capabilities,
thanks to its second generation web services featuring enhanced security and
scalability. Luxid(R) 5.2 also provides an extended library of connectors to
strategic applications such as Accelrys(R) Pipeline Pilot for scientific
discovery, i2 TextChart for intelligence activities and Endeca(R) Information
Access Platform for semantically-enriched corporate information access.
Luxid(R) 5.2 easily leverages domain-centric taxonomies and
combines them with companies' internal knowledge to rapidly align content
enrichment to the customer's processes and objectives. Luxid(R) 5.2 also
provides powerful and easy-to-customize information analytics that adapt the
knowledge delivery to the users' communities and uses cases.
With Luxid(R) 5.2, TEMIS introduces LuxidBar(TM), a
straightforward way to extend the power and benefits of content enrichment
all the way to the desktop. LuxidBar(TM), replacing the previous Luxid(R)
Toolbar, is an easy-to-deploy sidebar that brings to the browser immediate
information annotation, highlighting and summarization, as well as contextual
content linking.
Finally, Luxid(R) 5.2 introduces the next-generation Luxid(R)
Knowledge Manager. This unique productivity tool, connecting to the Luxid(R)
Content Enrichment Platform, is the gateway to building, organizing and
managing domain knowledge through an easy-to-learn point & click interface.
Next Generation Knowledge Discovery
Luxid(R) 5.2 also delivers unprecedented analytics to the user
through an innovative series of corpus-level tools.
Users can now go beyond the traditional drill-down approach to
knowledge discovery. The unique Cross-Match tool "drills across" multiple
collections of documents, uncovering relationships and placing each corpus in
the context of the others. The Cross-Match tool further establishes a
multi-dimensional view of information. Along the same lines, the Combined
Queries tool enables users to recognize patterns in content at the document
collection level.
Luxid(R) 5.2 also enables users to leverage document clusters
as a starting point for new discoveries by instantly detecting topics of
interest with the new clustering characterization feature, automatically
describing clusters with their most relevant entities and facts.
Luxid(R) 5.2 is available now through TEMIS and its network of
partners and system integrators.
About TEMIS
TEMIS is the leading provider of Text Analytics software
solutions for the Enterprise. Its cutting-edge solution Luxid(R) addresses
the needs of Life Sciences, Enterprise, Publishing and Homeland Security. Its
powerful information intelligence capabilities power strategic corporate
activities such as Competitive Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, Opinion
Mining, Voice of the Customer and Content Publishing. Luxid(R) turns
unstructured data into actionable knowledge, enabling advanced content
analysis and strategic information discovery.
Founded in 2000, TEMIS operates in the United States, France
and Germany, and is represented worldwide through its network of certified
partners.
TEMIS' innovative solutions have attracted the business of
leading organizations such as Agence France-Presse, BASF, Bayer Schering
Pharma, BNP Paribas, Boehringer Ingelheim, CARMA International, Convera,
Editions Lefebvre-Sarrut, Elsevier, EMC, Europol, French Ministry of Defence,
French Ministry of Finance, Ingenuity, Invest in France Agency, Merck Serono,
Nature Publishing Group, Novartis, Philip Morris International, PSA
Peugeot-Citroen, Roche Diagnostics, Sanofi-aventis, Solvay Pharmaceuticals,
Springer Science+Business Media, The McGraw-Hill Companies, and Thomson
Reuters.
Canadian Pharmacy Intermediary SaveRxCanada.com Launches Free Shipping Promotion for International Generics Program (IGP)
SaveRxCanada.com introduces free shipping for IGP orders over $99.
MIAMI, May 6 -- SaveRxCanada.com the premier Canadian pharmacy intermediary since 2004, launches its free shipping promotion for the International Generics Program (IGP).
SaveRxCanada.com has been at the forefront of connecting consumers to affordable medications though its unique network of licensed Canadian pharmacies and Foreign pharmacies. The International Generics Program (IGP) has become increasingly popular with consumers due to the additional cost savings realized. Consumers have more to smile when they receive free shipping for any IGP orders over $99.
SaveRxCanada.com lists over 3000 medications including generic Canada drugs and specialty cancer drugs.
About SaveRxCanada.com
SaveRxCanada.com is a prescription marketing broker, negotiating the best prices for its clientele. All prescriptions are dispensed by licensed pharmacies and pharmacists located in Canada, Italy, the UK, New Zealand, India, Switzerland, South Africa, Israel, and Fiji.
Buying prescription medications online through Canada and other countries that regulate drug prices is a true alternative to paying the high prices that local pharmacies are charging. More and more people each day are taking advantage of the substantial savings that a Canadian pharmacy offers. This is a true win/win situation for customers: low prices with high customer service.
ECommerce Merchants See Boost in Traffic from BigCommerce SocialShop
BigCommerce SocialShop application allows online merchants to sell products from their e-retail sites on Facebook(R) Platform
AUSTIN, Texas, May 6 -- BigCommerce, the leading provider of ecommerce software for small business merchants, today announced that its new SocialShop application is driving significant traffic and sales for its merchants, with nearly 20% of its customers deploying SocialShop in the month since its launch. SocialShop is among the first applications that allow online merchants to sell products from their e-retail sites using Facebook Platform.
SocialShop early adopters are lauding its effectiveness in boosting sales and attracting new customers. For example, Richard Potvin reports that traffic for his online tire studs site Maxigrip Store has increased by about 7% since implementing SocialShop one month ago.
"Facebook is already an important traffic driver for Maxigrip - we get about 9% of our traffic from our Facebook Page," says Potvin. "SocialShop couldn't have come at a more perfect time - at no cost, we've been able to boost sales by 7% during a season that is traditionally slow for us. SocialShop is a really great social window for our store and has allowed us to expand our audience. And all of this at zero added cost - love it!"
SocialShop is also proving effective for highly specialized retailers such as Jason Mellet of Cricket Store Online. This online seller of cricket gear derives more than 10% of his traffic from Facebook, and reports that website sales have doubled since implementing BigCommerce SocialShop just one month ago. Says Mellet, "I think SocialShop is a great way of getting your products out there; I sell to a very niche market, so it's been very rewarding to see that this kind of social tool works for less mainstream products."
BigCommerce SocialShop is easy to install, works with a just a few clicks and is available as a free application. Merchants simply add the BigCommerce SocialShop application to their Facebook Page, enter their store URL, and choose which products they want to display. A "Shop" tab appears on the company's Facebook Page, showing new or popular products from their BigCommerce store. Facebook users can then easily click on a product to learn more, buy the product through the merchant's BigCommerce store, or share the product with their friends on Facebook.
"We've seen enormous uptake from our online merchants who understand the huge opportunity presented by Facebook to drive business and engage directly with customers," said Mitchell Harper, co-Founder and co-CEO of BigCommerce. "We look forward to working with more merchants to expand their marketing and connect with their customers in a social context."
BigCommerce is transforming the ecommerce landscape with its agile approach to product innovation, leapfrogging competitors such as Yahoo! Stores by actively soliciting customer feedback and delivering a steady stream of high-impact feature enhancements. This approach has fueled the company's more than 100% monthly growth rate since its launch in August 2009 and led more than 25% of the company's customers to switch to BigCommerce after using solutions from Yahoo! and others. BigCommerce was voted the #1 ecommerce platform by popular software review Website TopTenReviews.
BigCommerce is the leading provider of ecommerce software for small business merchants. BigCommerce enables any small business to easily set up and operate a professional ecommerce site, combining advanced ecommerce functionality with simple, intuitive design and administration. More than just an ecommerce platform, BigCommerce also helps small businesses attract more customers to their stores with just a few simple clicks, and offers more features than other ecommerce solutions. BigCommerce is the latest offering from Interspire(TM), a leading provider of shopping cart software used by more than 40,000 organizations worldwide. For more information, please visit http://www.bigcommerce.com.
Media Contact:
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Leyl Black
Sparkpr
leyl@sparkpr.com
415-378-6395
Facebook® is a registered trademark of Facebook Inc.
Source: BigCommerce
CONTACT: Leyl Black of Sparkpr, +1-415-378-6395, leyl@sparkpr.com
Videocall Announce New Integration to Enable Business's Appetite for Unified Communications With Video Communication
CAMBERLEY, England, May 6, 2010--
- Integration With Microsoft Office Communicator Shows Clear Path to
Bring Telepresence and Videoconferencing Together With Unified Communications
Videocall, a leading telepresence and video collaboration managed
services provider today announced its telepresence and videoconference
service management environment, Eagle is helping enterprises throughout the
world enhance and enable growth of telepresence, together with unified
communications solutions, through integration with Microsoft Office
Communicator.
Unified Communications is no longer a luxury; it is fast becoming a
business critical standard. As part of its ongoing UC strategy, Videocall
continues to develop tools such as Eagle to enable organisations to integrate
their telepresence and videoconferencing deployment with their core corporate
applications, therefore increasing ROI while also enabling a better
collaboration environment.
Eagle is Videocall's telepresence and videoconferencing service
management environment to enable the delivery of real time meeting management
services by driving Videocall's globally distributed business exchange to
customers regardless of platform, device, connectivity, location or user
group. Designed to bring systems, applications and services together in a
combined, seamless, high quality environment Eagle ensures that users are
able to create meetings with any combination of system, platform and
connectivity, with the entire process automated from booking to billing.
Used within organisations Eagle acts as a Unified Communications enabler
to allow enterprises to bring their telepresence and videoconferencing
estates into the umbrella of their Unified Communication strategy.
Integration with Microsoft Office Communicator, other 3rd party applications
and open collaboration networks to enable further reach, functionality and
access are available.
Rob Portwood, Videocall's Chief Executive Officer commented: "For too
long Unified Communications strategies have not integrated with enterprises'
video communication deployments. As a result video communication is left as a
sidelined island unable to deliver on its ROI promises. Eagle changes this
and is the enabler organisations have been waiting for to integrate their
telepresence and videoconferencing estates into the wider picture of Unified
Communications. This will enable employees, empower usage and drive return on
investment."
To learn more about the benefits of unifying your video communication
strategy and how Videocall and Eagle can help visit http://www.videocall.co.uk.
About Videocall
Videocall is a leading telepresence and video collaboration managed
services provider for global businesses. Videocall provides bespoke solutions
including personal and immersive telepresence, high definition and
traditional videoconferencing, together with a world-class managed service
that delivers measurable business value to our customers.
Global Payments Expands China UnionPay Card Acceptance Service to Five Additional Asian Markets
Allowing merchants to capture mainland Chinese tourists' spending
HONG KONG, SINGAPORE, PHILIPPINES, SRI LANKA, MALDIVES & BRUNEI, May 6-- Global Payments Asia-Pacific Limited ("Global Payments"), a joint venture between the U.S.-based Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN) and The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited ("HSBC"), has launched China UnionPay ("CUP") card acceptance service in Brunei, the Maldives, the Philippines, Singapore and Sri Lanka. This service allows mainland Chinese tourists to pay for goods and services with their CUP cards at merchants served by Global Payments. The extension of the CUP service to those five markets marks another major milestone for Global Payments' CUP card acceptance programme, which was started 6 years ago in Hong Kong and has since grown successfully into Macau, Malaysia and Taiwan.
With more than 2.1 billion CUP cards in circulation and the rising number of Mainland Chinese travelling around Asia, the new service empowers Global Payments merchants in Brunei, the Maldives, the Philippines, Singapore and Sri Lanka to capture the rising spending trends of the mainland Chinese visitors, who presently pay mostly with cash. Merchants can simply add the CUP card acceptance functionality to their Global Payments' point-of-sale terminals through a simple and free programming of the terminals.
Commenting on the launch, President - Global Payments Asia Pacific, Mr. Ian Courtnage, said, "Global Payments is the largest regional card merchant acquirer of China UnionPay by merchant base and we are proud to extend our regional expertise in processing CUP card transactions to more markets across Asia Pacific. China is contributing significantly to outbound tourism in many Asian destinations and our merchants in those markets can now welcome more mainland Chinese tourists to their establishments by accepting CUP card payments. CUP acquiring adds to our broad range of card types that we already support and this new service enhances Global Payments' one-stop-shop card processing strategy for merchants."
"We have a recognized partner in Global Payments with a reputation for providing high quality and innovative payment processing services. We are delighted to expand the acceptance of CUP cards to more Asian markets through Global Payments' extensive distribution network across Asia Pacific. This further expands our strategic relationship with Global Payments and the new service will offer added payment convenience for the growing number of Mainland Chinese travelers, " said Mr. Cai Jianbo, Executive Vice President of CUP.
About Global Payments Asia-Pacific Limited
Global Payments Asia-Pacific Limited (Global Payments), currently serving merchants in 11 countries and territories across Asia, is the largest pan-Asian card processing company in the region. The company is a strategic joint venture between Global Payments Inc. (NYSE:GPN), a leading worldwide payment processor and The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited. The company brings a new level of innovation to merchant services in the region with an expanded range of innovative payment solutions, industry-leading merchant reporting tools, and unparalleled merchant services. Global Payments has established a strong presence in the Asia-Pacific region and now operates in Brunei, Mainland China, Hong Kong, India, Macau, Malaysia, the Maldives, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Taiwan. For more information about the company and its services, please visit http://www.globalpayments-asia.com/ .
About China UnionPay
China UnionPay, established in 2002, is the national bankcard association in China. As the pivotal role of China's bankcard industry, China UnionPay is responsible for operating unified inter-bank clearing and settlement system in China and developing the international acceptance network for CUP cards. To date, the total number of CUP cards issued worldwide has exceeded 2.1 billion. As of now, CUP card international acceptance network has been extended to 90 countries and regions. Amongst these markets, over 10 of them, including Japan, Korea, Singapore, Russia, Mongolia, etc., have issued CUP cards. For more information about the company and its services, please visit http://www.chinaunionpay.com/ .
Media Relations Contact:
Christine Li
Tel: +852-3529-5853
Email: christine.li@globalpay.com
STMicroelectronics Enhances AC Motor Switches, Cutting Cost-of-Control for Competitive Appliance Markets
New AC switch families for white goods and industrial applications provide built-in protection and enhanced switching for robust motor controls with minimal parts count
GENEVA, May 6 -- STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM), a world leader in power semiconductors, has unveiled new AC switches that are ideal for controlling appliance motors. These AC switches can be used without many of the additional components normally needed to ensure smooth switching and provide protection. The new devices will allow one-stop design for heavy-duty home appliances such as washing machines or refrigerators. Consequent ruggedness will lower the end products' total cost of ownership.
The latest-generation ACST4, ACST6 and ACST8 switches include a power triac delivering enhanced commutation performance to turn the motor off without requiring external components to suppress voltage transients and to ensure reliable switching. Unlike conventional triacs, the switches also integrate protection against surge voltages up to 2kV on the AC line, in accordance with the international IEC 61000-4-5.
In addition, the ACST410 and ACST610 switches have a low trigger current of 10mA, allowing direct control by a CMOS device such as a microcontroller without requiring a buffer or driver. The ACST435 and ACST830 are high-immunity devices specifying noise immunity of at least 1000V and 2000V per microsecond, respectively, complying with the IEC 61000-4-4 fast transient burst test and eliminating any need for conditioning of the trigger signal. Competing switches typically have lower, or unspecified, noise immunity.
Key features of the ACST4/6/8 families:
-- 4A (ACST4), 6A (ACST6) or 8A (ACST8) maximum on-state current
-- 800V blocking voltage
-- 100A per microsecond turn-on rate
-- TO-220FPAB (full-pack) package, 1500Vrms insulation
-- Surface-mount DPAK and D2PAK packages also available
The ACST4, ACST6 and ACST8 families comprise 14 part numbers in total, and are priced from $0.70 in quantities of 10,000. Further pricing options are available for larger quantities.
About STMicroelectronics
STMicroelectronics is a global leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications with innovative semiconductor solutions. ST aims to be the undisputed leader in multimedia convergence and power applications leveraging its vast array of technologies, design expertise and combination of intellectual property portfolio, strategic partnerships and manufacturing strength. In 2009, the Company's net revenues were $8.51 billion. Further information on ST can be found at http://www.st.com.
Source: STMicroelectronics
CONTACT: Michael Markowitz of STMicroelectronics, +1 781-591-0354,
michael.markowitz@st.com
New Survey by Norton Reveals 44 Percent of People Have Been Victimized by Cybercrime on a Social Network
Free Norton Safe Web for Facebook Application Fights Social Networking Threats by Scanning News Feeds for Malicious Links
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 6 --
To help consumers fight back and protect their online
identities, Norton from Symantec has launched the Norton
Safe Web for Facebook application, a free tool that uses
site rating technology to scan computer users' Facebook news
WHAT: feeds for malicious web links.
As social networks continue to grow, cybercriminals are
finding them lucrative places to find victims. A new survey
by Norton* revealed that 44% of people have been a victim of
a cybercrime perpetrated via a social network -viruses,
online credit fraud, unsolicited pornography, receiving
excessive spam and 'phishing' e-mails (bogus messages sent
by fraudsters posing as banks and other retail companies).
WHY: Additionally, the survey unveiled:
--72% of people have been victim of a cybercrime, ranging
from viruses, online credit fraud, unsolicited pornography,
phishing, to receiving excessive spam
-- 76% of people worry about identity theft
--Compared with women, men take more risks online and are
more often victims of cybercrime
As cybercriminals focus on social networks, consumers need to
follow best practices and use available tools to protect
themselves from online dangers. In addition to using Norton
Safe Web for Facebook, computer users can look up a site's
safety rating at the free Norton Safe Web community site, or
download Norton Safe Web Lite, a new free toolbar that
automatically flags fraudulent or harmful sites as users
surf the Web.
Marian Merritt, Norton's Internet Safety Advocate, will be on
hand to walk through the features of the new Norton Safe Web
for Facebook application and talk about emerging security
threats that computer users should look out for. Marian
will also provide smart, simple tips that consumers can use
WHO: to stay safe on social networks.
Cisco and EMC Appoint Michael D. Capellas to Lead VCE Coalition; Named CEO of Acadia Joint Venture
New Position Brings Top-Flight Leadership to Accelerate Transformation of the Data Center, Helping Organizations Reduce Costs, Improve Business Agility through Private Cloud Computing
HOPKINTON, Mass., May 5 -- Cisco and EMC today announced industry veteran Michael D. Capellas has joined the team to lead all aspects of the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition and has also been appointed to the complementary role of CEO of Acadia, a Cisco-EMC joint venture with investment from Intel and VMware. The VCE coalition with Acadia is focused on accelerating the transformation of the data center, helping organizations reduce costs and more quickly and securely deploy new business applications through private cloud computing.
Cloud computing brings together the best elements of information management, next-generation networks, high-performance computing and systems management to redefine how information technology is deployed. Private cloud is an enterprise-strength model designed to give organizations flexibility and more control and security over their computing environments.
The VCE coalition was formed to bring together industry-leading IT infrastructure from three companies and deliver it to customers as a single entity. In his role as the VCE coalition leader, Capellas, 55, will drive broad customer and partner adoption of the coalition's business-ready IT solutions including Vblock packages. In addition, Capellas will work to help ensure that customers benefit from the VCE coalition's value of full accountability and will also attract additional partners to the coalition.
Capellas will also lead Acadia's unique "build, operate and transfer" business model designed to enable a broad set of partners to accelerate customer build-outs of private cloud infrastructures. He will report to Joe Tucci, EMC Chairman and CEO, and John Chambers, Cisco Chairman and CEO, and the Acadia Board.
Capellas has tremendous experience in executive and technology leadership roles. Most recently, he was Chairman and CEO of First Data Corporation, a global leader in electronic commerce and payment processing. Under the leadership of Capellas, the company drove innovation through new product development, including a joint partnership with EMC to deliver secure, encrypted payment card data. Prior to First Data, Capellas served as MCI's president and CEO and oversaw its successful rebuilding and transformation from a long distance carrier to the leading Internet Protocol networks company. Capellas was President of HP after merging Compaq with HP. At Compaq, he started out as CIO, then COO and later became Chairman and CEO. Prior to Compaq, he spent 20 years in technology positions for Oracle, SAP and Schlumberger. He currently serves as a senior advisor to Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts (KKR) and First Data. Capellas serves on the board of directors of Cisco Systems, Inc. and the national board of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America.
Joe Tucci, Chairman and CEO, EMC, said, "We are very fortunate to have someone of Michael Capellas' stature lead VCE and take on the role of CEO for Acadia. With more than three decades of experience, Michael has made a career out of leading and transforming large corporations. Today, IT departments are undergoing their own transformation as they begin their journey to the private cloud to reduce their computing costs and have more flexibility in the way they deploy applications. I believe Michael is the perfect executive to build added confidence and trust in the power of Cisco, EMC and our partners to help them along the way."
John Chambers, Cisco Chairman and CEO, said, "Michael's appointment to lead the VCE coalition and his role as CEO of Acadia underscores our long-term commitment to deliver a seamless engagement model for customers and partners to access the advanced technologies, support and services they have come to expect from Cisco and EMC. As we work together with VMware and other key partners to help our customers realize the potential of the private cloud, we couldn't be more confident in the value of the VCE coalition with a leader of Michael's distinction at the helm."
Michael Capellas said, "There's never been a better time to be in the heart of the industry helping customers take advantage of the next great wave of information technology innovation, the private cloud. The experience I've gained working and leading amazing companies will allow me to foster this truly unique opportunity. With unmatched talent, financial resources and industry-leading technologies from three visionary companies, we can change the face of IT. I'm extremely excited and fortunate to lead the VCE coalition and work with many of the best minds in the industry."
The appointment of Capellas by Cisco and EMC comes at a time when the VCE coalition is seeing strong market acceptance for Vblock, its pre-integrated, pre-tested technology packages for fully-virtualized data centers. VCE has already secured 45 partners and six system integrators that are currently selling Vblocks, and some 200 additional partners are in the certification phase. The total market for private cloud infrastructure, including the elements that can be addressed by the VCE coalition, is estimated to be $85B by 2015.
About Acadia
Acadia helps enterprises more quickly and easily virtualize their data centers, and evolve to private cloud infrastructures, while minimizing cost and complexity. A joint venture of Cisco and EMC, with investments from VMware and Intel, Acadia leverages integrated technologies and innovations from its three parent companies to simplify the journey. Acadia also provides the field-expertise and operational know-how to reduce risk and improve time to value. More information about Acadia can be found at http://www.acadia.com.
About Cisco
Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Information on Cisco can be found at http://www.cisco.com/. For ongoing news, please go to http://newsroom.cisco.com/.
About EMC
EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at http://www.EMC.com.
Vblock is a trademark of EMC Corporation in the United States. All other trademarks used are the property of their respective owners.
This release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined under the Federal Securities Laws. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain risk factors, including but not limited to: (i) adverse changes in general economic or market conditions; (ii) delays or reductions in information technology spending; (iii) EMC and Cisco's ability to protect our respective proprietary technology; (iv) risks associated with managing the growth of EMC and Cisco's respective businesses; (v) competitive factors, including but not limited to pricing pressures and new product introductions; (vi) the relative and varying rates of product price and component cost declines and the volume and mixture of product and services revenues; (vii) component and product quality and availability; (viii) the transition to new products, the uncertainty of customer acceptance of new product offerings and rapid technological and market change; (ix) insufficient, excess or obsolete inventory; (x) war or acts of terrorism; (xi) the ability to attract and retain highly qualified employees; (xii) fluctuating currency exchange rates; and (xiii) other one-time events and other important factors disclosed previously and from time to time in EMC's and Cisco's respective filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. EMC and Cisco disclaim any obligation to update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release.
SHAPE Services to Release Smart Scanner for iPhone
STUTTGART, Germany and BOSTON, May 5 -- SHAPE Services, the developer of best selling IM+ and Business Card Reader for iPhone today announced the launch of Smart Scanner app, available for $4.99 in the App Store.
Smart Scanner scans text, recognizes it and identifies phone numbers, e-mail addresses or URLs for immediate action: call, e-mail or open URL in Safari.
Designed to work on iPhone 3GS, Smart Scanner utilizes the industry best mobile OCR engine from ABBYY.
"Smart Scanner is our next hardware replacing app that brings an enormous added value to users," explains Igor Berezovsky, CEO of SHAPE Services. "In this series we already have iDisplay, Business Card Reader, Headset and Webcam for different smartphones. Each of the apps allows to use iPhone or BlackBerry as a magic replacement of a hardware".
SHAPE Services is probably the worlds' most successful mobile app development company, maker of several bestsellers for iPhone and other smartphones. SHAPE is the only company with apps reached the top rankings in four App Store categories: Social Networking, Business, Utilities and Productivity.
Aon Launches Industry's First Insurance Policy for Space Investors
NEW YORK and LONDON, May 5 -- Aon's International Space Brokers, the largest specialist risk adviser in the sector, today announced the launch of Investment Protection Insurance, a game-changing policy for space investors. IPI is the first policy strictly for investors, and is designed to cover the loss of an investment in a space satellite, launch failure and satellite assets.
Previously, investors could not protect their financial interest due to lack of insurance capacity and first-party rights to the spacecraft. For start-up companies, which rely on the revenue generated by the early launches, the ability for the satellite to be successful is crucial. IPI is the solution, enhancing the satellite operator's initial credit rating by relieving investors of the biggest risk - failure to launch.
"Aon used its leverage with the insurance markets to introduce new capital, supporting both investors and operators by protecting their investments," said Clive Smith, space business unit leader for Aon's International Space Brokers. "As developments continue to increase for areas such as delivering broadband as well as pollution and disaster monitoring, lack of liquidity in the financial markets has delayed industry growth. IPI will restore that growth."
A claim will be triggered by any damage to or total loss of the satellite. The policy will react to fluctuations in bond yield and the share price before and after the launch or orbit. It pays an amount that recoups the loss of the publicly or privately traded securities of the satellite operating company in which the insured has invested. In the event of a loss paid, the insurers will receive the securities as salvage.
"IPI will benefit companies beyond the space industry. Aon is already looking into applications in industries with similar needs that have a technical and financial trigger, which will help avoid the product slipping into the area of financial guarantees," said Michael Hewins, chief commercial officer of Aon's International Space Brokers.
Aon Corporation (NYSE:AON) is the leading global provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, and human capital consulting. Through its more than 36,000 colleagues worldwide, Aon delivers distinctive client value via innovative and effective risk management and workforce productivity solutions. Aon's industry-leading global resources and technical expertise are delivered locally through more than 500 offices in more than 120 countries. Named the world's best broker by Euromoney magazine's 2008 and 2009 Insurance Survey, Aon also ranked highest on Business Insurance's listing of the world's largest insurance brokers based on commercial retail, wholesale, reinsurance and personal lines brokerage revenues in 2008 and 2009. A.M. Best deemed Aon the number one insurance broker based on brokerage revenues in 2007, 2008 and 2009 and Aon was voted best insurance intermediary, best reinsurance intermediary and best employee benefits consulting firm in 2007, 2008 and 2009 by the readers of Business Insurance. For more information on Aon, log onto http://www.aon.com/.
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Google and SBA Launch 'Tools for Online Success' Partnership to Boost Small Businesses
- See Below for Success Stories and Helpful Tips for Small Businesses -
WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Today the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and Google announced a new partnership and unveiled "Tools for Online Success," an array of online resources and training designed to help small business owners harness technology to grow their businesses. The "Tools for Online Success" site (http://www.google.com/help/sba) features tutorials, video testimonials, and tips from savvy small business people who have leveraged the web to become more efficient, more cost-effective, and more successful.
"The SBA is pleased to partner with Google to put these important tools in the hands of small businesses across the country," said SBA Administrator Karen Mills. "As the web evolves and consumers adapt accordingly, we know that more customers are finding traditional 'Main Street' businesses online. With these tools for online success, we can ensure these small businesses reach new markets and customers so they can continue to create jobs."
"One fifth of searches on Google are related to location, which shows that people are looking to the Internet to make decisions about where to go and what to do in their daily lives," said John Hanke, Vice President of Product Management, Google. "We want to connect our users with the businesses that provide the goods and services they need, but the first step is for those businesses to have an online presence. We're excited to team up with the SBA to make that process easier for business owners across the country."
Google and the SBA unveiled the partnership during a forum held today at the SBA's national headquarters in Washington, D.C., and broadcast live online to press and small business owners across the country. Susan Holt, Principal and Owner of CulinAerie, a recreational cooking school in downtown D.C., shared her experiences working with the SBA and explained how she has used online tools like Google Places and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to attract more aspiring cooks.
Holt is just one of the many small business owners from across the country who are sharing how they've used online tools to reach new customers. Many are featured in the video testimonials found at the "Tools for Online Success" site. Each video documents the unique success stories that these small businesses have created using online technology:
-- Masha Hleap-Hershkovitz, Owner of Fuego Mundo in Sandy Springs,
Georgia, uses social media to request feedback from restaurant
customers for improvement. Ms. Hleap-Hershkovitz even used social
media to name her restaurant. "We bounced back and forth with a
potential name for months, and we were kind of bottle-necked," she
says. "We put it out there [on social media], and it came back 70
percent 'Fuego Mundo.'" Visit http://www.fuegomundo.com/.
-- Sean Vahey, Owner of Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream in San Francisco
launches new menu items and cultivates a worldwide following for his
company's unique ice cream flavors using social media and Google
Places. "I don't have a lot of time do marketing," Mr. Vahey says.
"I don't have a lot of time to sit down and reach out to people. I'm
able to get on the computer and two minutes later, I've gotten the
word out...Our Google Places page is important, because it's got all
of our information in one spot - our website, our phone number, you
can see where we are on a map, and you can even get directions." Visit http://www.humphryslocombe.com/.
-- Sumul Shah, Owner of Lumus Construction in Woburn, Massachusetts, uses
its website and online maps to research projects all over the United
States and show potential customers examples of its past work.
According to Mr. Shah, "Customers can see and visualize the types of
projects and the complexity of the work we do...In the future, our
website will not only talk about how much renewable energy we're
building, but we'll actually quantify it. We'll be able to take live
data coming from all the wind turbines and solar panels that we've
installed, simulate it, and be able to report not only how much energy
we're producing, but also what the environmental benefits are." Visit http://www.lumusinc.com/.
-- Aliyyah Baylor, Owner of Make My Cake in Harlem, New York City,
redesigned her website to display vivid imagery of its baked goods.
Make My Cake is family-owned and operated, and Ms. Baylor says, "Our
website is an extension of our business when it's too busy for someone
to answer the phone. It's our virtual salesperson, and that is very
key." Visit http://www.makemycake.com/.
-- Mandy Scott, Owner of Mandy Scott Flowers in San Francisco uses highly
targeted online advertising to help her premium flower boutique
compete with national brands on a small marketing budget. She says,
"We are tiny compared to the big players. I can't hope to compete
with them on any kind of national scale, but I feel locally we do very
well. Showing up in both natural and paid search results is important
for us because we want to be on a level playing field with the big
guns." Visit http://www.mandyscottflowers.com/.
-- Jessica Soler, Owner of Salon Red in Decatur, Georgia, uses a website
and local online listings to help her customers find salon locations
and book appointments. She says, "A great example of how the web
helps Salon Red is we were nominated with one of the local papers to
be a 'Best Of' salon in Atlanta, and tons of people went online to
vote for all of our locations. We just were flooded with business,
and it all came from online." Visit http://www.salonred.com/.
-- Christopher Bartlett, Owner of Skaters Landing in West Hartford,
Connecticut, uses online videos to teach customers from all over the
world how to properly shop for and use ice skating products. "We
really were able to reach out to new markets," says Mr. Bartlett. "I
don't look at [our online efforts] as a place to go to and hard sell,
but to really talk with people and answer some of the questions that
people might have." Visit http://www.skaterslanding.com/.
-- Louis Rossetto, CEO of TCHO in San Francisco brings a start-up
mentality to his company's premium chocolate production. TCHO uses
web analytics to constantly improve its website's layout, ensuring
consumers are engaging with its products in the most effective way
possible. "You can't be a modern company without using modern tools,
and online is just fundamental to being in business today," says
Rossetto. "Our website represents our direct link to our customers.
We use it to explain who we are, engage our community, and it's
certainly a storefront for us. You're inviting the whole world into
your store if you do that online." Visit http://www.tcho.com/.
Continued success stories like these are the goal of the Google/SBA partnership. Visit the "Tools for Online Success" website for a full run-down, but here are a few easy tips all small business owners should be using:
-- Establish your online presence. One out of five searches on Google are
related to location. Most local online listings such as Google Places
are free, and if your business doesn't have a website, there are
ready-made site templates and free hosting services that make
establishing an online presence easy.
-- Use free marketing to reach customers. You can build a fan base with
free services like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter that keep your
customers in-the-know about new products or specials and aware of
promotions. These services are great "word of mouth" platforms - where
a customer following you might tell their friends about your business.
-- Know your customers. Easy to use web analytics tools can tell you a
lot about your customers by analyzing what search term brought them to
your website or what they look at while they are there. This
information can help you make smart decisions about what you feature
and what search terms you should run search ads on.
-- Keep an eye on the latest trends. The growing popularity of
smartphones means that more and more customers are searching for local
information on the go. This makes it all the more important that a
business's online presence be accurate and up-to-date. You can link to
your menu, give users driving directions, and even post digital
coupons.
Source: U.S. Small Business Administration
CONTACT: Hayley Matz at SBA: +1-202-205-6948; Mistique Cano at Google:
+1-202-596-2266
Woodside Ranch 'Wisconsin's Famous Guest Ranch' Launches New Website
MAUSTON, Wis., May 5 -- The historic and family-friendly vacation destination Woodside Ranch launched their newly designed website. Easy to navigate, picturesque and informative, you will find everything at your fingertips to plan that perfect country guest ranch getaway. Ideal for family vacations, family reunions, corporate retreats, group events or weddings, Woodside Ranch is your all-inclusive one-stop destination for convenience and fun.
Consisting of over 1,200 acres and situated on a wooded hillside just five miles east of Mauston and 15 miles northwest of Wisconsin Dells, Woodside Ranch offers panoramic views of the beautiful Lemonweir River Valley. Activities are abundant and suit a variety of tastes: horseback riding, nature hikes, fishing, swimming, tennis, volleyball, basketball, canoeing, miniature golf, hay rides, pony rides and more. Start your morning with our daily breakfast horseback ride or visit our newly renovated Fitness Center complete with cardiovascular and strength training equipment.
Choose from a rustic 1,2, or 3-bedroom cabin complete with cozy fireplace or Ranch House rooms in the Main Lodge that can accommodate 2-6 people. All accommodations have thermostatically controlled heating, air conditioning and private bath.
Savory home cooked meals are served family-style in our pine-paneled ranch house dining room. Gather at days end in the Trading Post complete with horseshoe cocktail bar, souvenirs, and evening snacks or enjoy the fun-filled movie nights in our stadium seating theater.
Business guests will enjoy our newly designed Conference Center that can accommodate groups up to 100. Offering high-speed Internet access, complimentary Wi-Fi and a host of AV equipment, our Conference Center combines professional amenities with the informal atmosphere for which the ranch is famous. Meeting Planners will appreciate the comfort, privacy and convenience of our facilities, which are notably ideal for receptions, business banquets, family reunions, and group events.
Business travelers in search of executive housing will enjoy the beauty and privacy of the property in our new luxurious dual-level cabin complete with a two-car garage, six bedrooms, six bathrooms and full-service kitchen.
Best of all Woodside Ranch is pet-friendly and your all-inclusive rates include lodging, meals and activities. For more information on this historic guest ranch visit http://www.woodsideranch.com or call (800) 626-4275.
UNX Adds Direct Access to Knight's Electronic Trading Services, Smart-Order Routing and Algorithms Through Catalyst(R) Portal and EMS
Catalyst open portal includes SDK, enabling Knight to add new products and strategies as they're developed
NEW YORK, May 5 -- UNX LLC, a leading provider of innovative trading technology solutions, has integrated the full suite of Knight Direct's electronic trading services and algorithms for equities into UNX's broker-neutral Catalyst Execution Management System (EMS) and Portal.
While UNX has long provided access to Knight Link and Knight Match products, this new connectivity allows both firms' clients to directly route DMA and worked orders to Knight for execution using the Catalyst Portal front end.
Clients also can employ Knight's suite of algorithmic trading and smart-order routing strategies, taking advantage of Knight's industry-leading technology and liquidity in displayed and dark markets. Solutions include VWAP and participation algorithms, as well as Knight's latest FAN, Oasis, Covert and Sumo liquidity-seeking and SOR strategies.
Furthermore, Catalyst's open technology framework and advanced Software Development Kit (SDK) will allow Knight to directly control the integration, customization and deployment of new services and strategies as they are being developed. This innovative ability for brokers to quickly integrate their own specific offerings into a multi-broker platform represents a dramatic departure from existing trading technology.
"Buy-side clients always have been dependent upon their EMS provider's ability to integrate brokerage trading products and services rapidly and efficiently, and the sell side often is limited in what it can integrate with independent platforms," explains UNX CEO Thomas Kim.
"Catalyst is redefining broker-neutral trading technology by empowering broker-dealers to rapidly and seamlessly integrate new algorithmic strategies as well as other proprietary content/services at their own discretion."
Knight Direct Managing Director Joseph Wald affirms that Catalyst's new paradigm aligns with the company's approach. "Our objective is to offer buy- and sell-side clients the customized features that support individual trading styles and enhance tactical efficiencies, and Catalyst's open technology provides the ideal tool and gateway to do so."
"What's more, Knight is continually enhancing our algorithmic trading solutions to adapt to client needs, changes in market structure and competitive forces, so Catalyst will enhance our ability to deliver our solutions to mutual clients as quickly as possible," he adds.
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 in a modular fashion using the latest .NET and WPF technology from Microsoft® for flexibility and scalability, Catalyst is ideally suited to creating custom tailored solutions for buy-side institutions and sell-side broker dealers through the UNX SDK. An independent offering, Catalyst streamlines multi-broker trading workflow, provides for greater efficiency in the markets and delivers to broker dealers and third-party vendors a platform to deliver proprietary content with complete control.
About UNX LLC:
Founded in 1999, UNX is an independent trading technology firm and agency broker that provides advanced electronic trading technology solutions for buy-side institutions and sell-side broker-dealers through its open architecture platform, Catalyst® and the UNX Network. Its innovative, open technology helps institutional traders find best execution opportunities, streamlines trade operations and provides broker-dealers with an open platform to deliver proprietary content.
About Knight:
Knight Capital Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:NITE) is a global financial services firm that provides market access and trade execution services across multiple asset classes to buy- and sell-side firms. Knight's hybrid market model features complementary electronic and voice trade execution services in global equities and fixed income as well as foreign exchange, futures and options. The firm is the leading source of liquidity in U.S. equities by share volume. Knight also offers capital markets services to corporate issuers. Knight is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ with a growing global presence across North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. The Knight Direct algorithmic suite is offered through Knight Direct LLC and Knight Equity Markets, L.P., members FINRA & SIPC and subsidiaries of Knight Capital Group.
CA Delivers Total Data Protection, Recovery and Availability to Help Customers Manage Changing Business Needs
DATCHET, England, May 5, 2010--
- New Releases of CA ARCserve Family of Products and New Disk-to-Disk
Backup and Restore Solution
- Offer a Comprehensive Recovery Management Strategy Across Physical and
Virtual Environments
CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) today announced the latest evolution of the CA
ARCserve(R) Family of Products designed to provide total protection, recovery
and availability for customers' systems, applications and data.
The major new releases of CA ARCserve(R) Backup, CA ARCserve Replication,
CA ARCserve High Availability (formerly CA XOsoft Replication and High
Availability), and an innovative new disk-to-disk backup and restore product,
CA ARCserve D2D, help organizations control their critical data anywhere,
anytime as business needs change.
Announced today, CA ARCserve r15 builds on the award-winning CA ARCserve
r12.5, which included virtualization enhancements and built-in data
deduplication, with new features like infrastructure visualization and
granular restore of Microsoft(R) Active Directory(R), to continue to help
companies reduce cost and increase operational efficiency.
This new release also includes the new CA ARCserve D2D product for near
instantaneous recovery and patent-pending I2 Technology(TM) that, like
deduplication, drastically reduces storage space, network traffic and load on
production servers.
"Our customers need to leverage new technologies and solutions to make IT
more effective in meeting today's demanding business requirements," said Adam
Famularo, senior vice president and general manager of CA's Recovery
Management and Data Modeling business unit. "With the CA ARCserve Family of
Products, we continue to deliver enhanced data protection and availability
products to help them achieve these goals."
The r15 products are focused on delivering total protection, recovery and
availability of critical business information by extending the IT
administrator's ability to protect systems, applications and data regardless
of changes in their environment such as remote office/branch office
expansion; policy changes driven by regulatory compliance; M&A activity and
technology transformation such as deployment and upgrades to new applications
like Microsoft SharePoint(R) or server virtualization and data migration.
With more than 20 applications and platforms supported, the CA ARCserve
Family of Products is designed to provide a complete strategy for managing
data on everything from a single physical server to multi-server, hybrid
physical and virtual IT environments.
"Today, IT managers face a multitude of challenges and business
requirements forcing them to adapt their data protection requirements to
adequately safeguard their business-critical data," said Robert Amatruda,
research director, data protection and recovery at IDC. "CA's ARCserve r15
release provides IT managers an integrated set of tools allowing them to
support multiple protection and availability use cases, from legacy to the
latest physical and virtualized servers and operating systems."
The new CA ARCserve solution includes:
CA ARCserve Backup r15
CA ARCserve Backup extends its comprehensive data protection, centralized
management and advanced features designed to help IT do more with less at a
lower cost while helping to minimize the risk of data loss and ensure the
integrity and availability of data. This high-performance solution now
combines innovative disk and tape backup features-including data
deduplication, granular restore and infrastructure visualization-with
state-of-the-art technologies to support efficient backup, reduce management
time, avoid unplanned downtime and provide fast ROI across Microsoft
Windows(R), UNIX(R), Linux(R) and NetWare(R) in both physical and virtual
environments.
Highlights of the new features and enhancements include:
- Granular Restoration of Microsoft Active Directory to help save time
and maximize flexibility for restores.
- Granular Restoration of SharePoint to help speed recovery of critical
business information within a SharePoint environment.
- Infrastructure Visualization supports efficient administration and
system utilization by providing an easy-to-read network diagram view of
the entire environment and a simple drill down on each component to
check status, backup methodology, and other key information.
- UNIX/Linux Data Movers for SAN-Based Backups helps save time, resources
and costs by providing faster, more efficient backup and restoration of
databases and file systems on UNIX and Linux servers.
- Global Dashboard reduces management complexity, helps avoid unplanned
downtime and helps ensure compliance with corporate policies via
world-wide operational monitoring and SRM reporting across all offices
from a single location.
- Enhanced SRM Reporting provides greater reliability and supports
compliance with new reports that help ease management of the
environment and enable proactive problem avoidance.
- Agent Support for Microsoft Exchange 2010, SharePoint 2010 and IBM(R)
Lotus(R) Domino(R) 8.5 Attachment and Object Service (DAOS) to support
seamless backup across a broad range of platforms.
"CA has taken ARCserve Backup to yet another level with this new release,
continuing to add very useful features, while improving ease-of-use and
performance," said Kernel Thomas, manager of networking services for
TheStreet.com. "The improvements in user-friendliness and automation for
daily maintenance tasks, as well as new alerts and features that help
optimize backup scheduling, reaffirm CA ARCserve as the best way for us to
ensure reliable backup and recovery of files, email and video across our
physical and virtual servers."
CA ARCserve D2D
The new addition to the CA ARCserve Family of Products provides rapid,
simple and reliable protection and recovery for Windows disk-based servers,
supporting multiple Windows platforms and Microsoft applications. It provides
bare metal restoration to dissimilar hardware, and CA's new, block-level
incremental backup technology to help drastically reduce backup windows,
network traffic, disk storage requirements and the impact of backup and
recovery on the performance of business applications. CA ARCserve D2D is
quick to download and install, and is designed to improve productivity and
collaboration by offering an easy-to-use Web 2.0 interface and browser. It
can be used stand-alone, or work with other CA ARCserve products to manage
environments that include tape or require that data be replicated to remote
offices.
Highlights of the new product include:
- Protection for Virtual Servers simplifies operations and saves training
time by providing a single user interface to help protect both virtual
and physical platforms.
- Block-Level Infinite Incremental Backup saves time, storage space and
CPU resources using CA's patent-pending, block-level I2 Technology for
intelligently managed backups.
- Single Snapshot Backup with Four Restore Types saves time and helps
maximize flexibility by rapidly restoring files, volumes, databases, or
the entire system to any server in both physical and virtual
environments in just one pass.
- Bare Metal Recovery to Dissimilar Hardware saves time and improves
reliability by providing a very fast way to recover a crashed server to
hardware that can be the same or different than the original
machine-which can reduce to just minutes a process that can potentially
take as much as 36 hours.
- Application-Consistent Snapshot Backups support rapid and accurate
application recovery by helping to ensure the integrity of backups.
- High-Frequency Backups help ensure strong protection and improved
control over recovery points by leveraging new I2 Technology to
facilitate backups as frequently as every 15 minutes.
- New Web 2.0 Interface with Dynamic Documentation enables faster
learning, easy access to more resources, and a better user experience
for the administrator.
- End-User Search and Restore saves time and resources by finding and
recovering data in files and folders without administrator
intervention.
- Use with CA ARCserve Backup r15 provides the flexibility to store data
on tape for off-site, long-term retention by enabling administrators to
easily migrate CA ARCserve D2D backup files to tape.
- Use with CA ARCserve Replication and High Availability r15 provides the
flexibility to provide additional protection and rapid recovery in the
event of a data center outage by replicating ARCserve D2D backups to a
remote site.
- Remote Office / Branch Office Protection helps improve protection and
reliability by enabling CA ARCserve D2D to back up all ROBO office data
to local disk, and then use CA ARCserve Replication to replicate the
backup files to a central location.
- Broad Platforms and Application Support that protects multiple customer
IT environments by supporting Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2008 on 32 and
64 bit platforms; Microsoft Exchange (2003, 2007, 2010), SQL Server(R)
2005 and 2008 databases; and SharePoint 2007 & 2010. It also supports
VMware(R), Hyper-V(TM) and Citrix(R) XenServer(TM) virtualization
platforms.
"CA ARCserve D2D is an essential piece of software that completes the
data protection solution puzzle," said Yeap Kah Hoe, consultant at Maxmulia
Holdings. "With CA ARCserve D2D, we are now able to offer a simple,
easy-to-use and yet powerful data protection solution for SMB customers. In
addition, large organizations can also use CA ARCserve D2D to protect their
small remote sites, with the added flexibility to keep the backup data at
either the remote locations or centralized at headquarters."
CA ARCserve Replication r15
CA ARCserve Replication, formerly known as CA XOsoft(TM) Replication,
helps IT ensure continuous data protection, and fast and easy data migration
at the data center and remote offices. Designed to complement any backup
solution, it is quickly and easily deployed and managed through a unified,
web-based console. It helps integrate application-aware replication and
continuous data protection (CDP) to help ensure the protection and
recoverability of applications, files, emails and databases across Windows,
Linux and UNIX in both physical and virtual environments.
It also helps customers migrate data from old servers to new servers,
from physical servers to virtual servers, from remote offices to the data
center, and from the data center to any remote location for disaster
recovery. It helps IT ensure replicated data is available and recoverable
when needed. Integrated VSS Snapshot Management enables
application-consistent backups when used with CA ARCserve Backup, CA ARCserve
D2D, or other commercial backup solutions.
Highlights of the new features include:
- Offline Synchronization reduces network constraints, speeds deployment
and cuts time-to-protection for large data sets and databases by
transferring a VSS snapshot to removable media and restoring to the
replica server for the initial data synchronization.
- Multiple Replication Levels (continuous, periodic, ad-hoc) helps IT
optimize network efficiency by balancing network resource utilization
with the required level of protection-ideal for events such as
periodically replicating data from remote offices to a central data
center or disaster recovery site.
- New Application Support extends flexibility and reliability by adding
support for Exchange 2010 and Dynamics CRM v4, as well as enhancements
for IIS Server.
- NTFS Sparse File Support saves additional time and resources by
enabling replication of compressed/deduplicated files, avoiding
unnecessary replication for lower bandwidth and storage requirements.
- Linux/UNIX Hard Links Support helps further extend time and resource
savings by avoiding unnecessary replication.
CA ARCserve High Availability r15
CA ARCserve High Availability, formerly known as CA XOsoft(TM) High
Availability, helps maximize system, application and data uptime and
availability to meet demanding service level agreements (SLAs) and disaster
recovery strategies. It protects any Windows, Linux and UNIX file servers,
applications or databases, including Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server,
SharePoint, IIS, and Dynamics CRM, as well as Oracle and Blackberry Servers
on physical and virtual servers. It includes all CA ARCserve Replication r15
features, and adds server and application-level monitoring, automated and
push-button failover, and push-button failback. CA ARCserve Assured Recovery
provides automated non-disruptive recovery testing to help ensure failover
systems will work when needed.
Highlights of the new features include:
- Full System High Availability provides replication and failover of an
entire physical or virtual server in a Windows-based system, including
the operating system, system state, applications and data.
- Server Group Management helps improve application performance after
failover (typically to a remote location) by handling groups of servers
collectively to protect distributed, farm-deployed applications such as
SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, web applications, and document repositories.
- UNIX/Linux High Availability extends High Availability to Windows,
UNIX, and Linux systems, applications and data through a unified
management console.
- New Application Support extends protection and high availability to
Exchange 2010 and Dynamics CRM v4.
"We are delighted with the new features we tested in CA ARCserve High
Availability r15," said Srikanth Subramanian, systems manager at Sify
Technologies Limited. "Powerful facilities like Offline Synchronization and
Full System High Availability will help customers maintain the integrity and
availability of applications with minimal strain on resources. By helping us
test our DR setup without business disruption, the automated DR testing
feature is also very valuable, while Continuous Data Protection capabilities
establish a highly reliable DR environment with very, very minimal difference
between primary and secondary data."
The numerous enhancements to the CA ARCserve Family of Products offer
customers tremendous business value in safeguarding their systems,
applications and data stored on diverse physical and virtual environments,
both locally and in remote offices.
"It's very refreshing to see a software company like CA put such effort
into truly listening to customers and understanding their business needs-and
this effort is plainly evident in the powerful products that make up the CA
ARCserve r15 Family," said Bob Venero, president and CEO of Future Tech
Enterprise, a global value-added solutions provider. "Having taken a close
look at this latest impressive release, we're so convinced that businesses
will share our excitement with the value delivered here that we are giving
our qualified customers-new and existing alike-net 150 day terms on all
products included in the CA ARCserve r15 Family. We're not a company that
takes big risks, but we're willing to bet big on the exceptional value
proposition that CA and the ARCserve r15 release brings to the table."
"As a new CA reseller partner, we're having a very good experience
working with the company and are drawn to its products, like CA ARCserve
Replication and CA ARCserve D2D, which are tremendous fits for the needs of
our small-company customer base," said Chris Porosky, president of Red Road
Networks. "CA ARCserve D2D is a really powerful product on a lightweight
footprint, coupling fast backup and bare metal restoration capabilities with
support for virtualization, which will help customers get the most of out of
IT environments that sometimes rely on just a single server. We're excited to
see CA, a larger, more established company become more involved in this
market, and were pleasantly surprised to find the CA ARCserve D2D beta to be
more solid than many similar backup products already in general
availability."
"CA ARCserve Backup r15 packs a lot of flexible features and
functionality into a very easy-to-use package," said Sal Rando, lead systems
operator for the Fashion Institute of Technology. "We're particularly
impressed with its recoverability and the granular restore capabilities for
Active Directory, which are huge considerations as we look to consolidate our
point products and settle on a single backup and recovery solution."
"Customers are increasingly expressing the need for a lightning-fast
backup and recovery tool that is easy to operate, extremely reliable and
technically flexible," said Kai Wittenburg, CEO of neam IT-Services. "CA has
found that sweet spot in the impressive new CA ARCserve D2D, with an
intuitive Web 2.0 user interface that enables administrators to set up and
perform backups in minutes, and quickly recover data in multiple formats-all
with the flexibility to conduct bare metal restores on hardware that can be
very different than the source system."
"Compared to many other backup products, CA ARCserve D2D is refreshingly
easy to install, configure and use-enabling customers to set up and begin
backup processes in less than an hour and without tinkering with SCSI
controllers or tape drives," said Zelko Lukacevic, consulting engineer at
Computer Integrations Australia. "Given the increasingly affordable and
readily available external hard drives on the market today, CA ARCserve D2D
presents a very compelling value proposition to SMEs, empowering them to be
more backup-conscious than ever before."
"A key enabler of remote disaster recovery, the support for server group
failover in CA ARCserve High Availability r15 allows us to reliably fail over
all the servers and applications that depend on each other as a group to
perform critical business functions," said Jennifer Lim, product manager,
Avnet Partner Solutions Pte Ltd. "What's more, we can now also include Oracle
for UNIX and Linux platforms among our high availability plans. This
additional platform support, combined with ease of use and implementation,
helps ensure that we provide availability as fast as possible and across the
full range of systems in the business environment."
"After testing the CA ARCserve Backup r15 beta, the new benefits became
obvious, starting with significant improvement in backup throughput and
smaller backup windows," said Darren Ong, system engineer at Maxmulia
Holdings Sdn Bhd. "In addition, while improved management capabilities are
sure to make our lives easier as well, we liked the enhanced interface and
visualization the most, giving us a new level of control over our backup
environment."
"Like many organizations, we rely heavily on email systems to conduct our
day-to-day business, and our users expect nothing less than 24x7
availability," said David Jao, director of Corporate Information Technology
at Hazen and Sawyer, P.C. "With support for Microsoft Exchange 2010, CA
ARCserve High Availability r15 delivers automated failover after unplanned
outages that provides the system uptime our users demand, and without
unnecessary complexity."
"Given our finite resources, we're looking to get reliable backup and
restore functionality from a product that is simple to use and able to handle
technical nuances without a fuss," said Eric Evans, communications
coordinator at Geer Nursing and Rehabilitation. "We are very impressed by the
streamlined interface and Web 2.0 capability of CA ARCserve D2D, as well as
its flexible bare-metal restore capability, which gets the job done right the
first time and without a lot of configuration complexity or second-guessing."
About CA
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expertise across all IT environments-from mainframe and physical, to virtual
and cloud. CA manages and secures IT environments and enables customers to
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provide the insight and control essential for IT organizations to power
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Starz and Encore Offer Exclusive Free Preview to Verizon FiOS TV Customers
Premium Channels and Video-on-Demand Programming Available For Free Viewing From May 13-17
NEW YORK and ENGLEWOOD, Colo., May 5 -- Verizon and Starz Entertainment LLC are offering FiOS TV subscribers an exclusive free preview of all Starz and Encore programming. From May 13 through May 17, FiOS TV customers will get a chance to check out all Starz and Encore premium channels and video-on-demand content.
"Starz and Encore programming is part of the Verizon FiOS TV Movie Package featuring an unmatched entertainment value for consumers, and this free preview gives us a unique opportunity to showcase our deep, rich content offering," said Shawn Strickland, vice president of consumer strategy for Verizon. "With FiOS TV's amazing picture-and-sound quality, our customers will feel like they're sitting in the movie theater while sampling the hit films and series from these channels in the comfort of their homes."
Keno Thomas, senior vice president, affiliate sales and marketing for Starz Entertainment, said, "The FiOS TV free preview of our programming is an incredible showcase for displaying Starz's commitment to movies and specifically, an opportunity for presenting the unmatched collection of commercial-free premium programming found on the Starz and Encore channels and on-demand services. As witnessed by the ratings hit 'Spartacus: Blood and Sand' and critically acclaimed comedy series 'Party Down,' Starz is also home to exclusive, must-see original programming that FiOS TV subscribers will have the opportunity to sample and preview for their enjoyment."
Verizon offers FiOS TV customers a total of 21 Starz and Encore channels (channels 340-362 in standard definition and 840-850 in HD, including both East and West Coast feeds) in addition to Starz Entertainment's IndiePlex and RetroPlex and the popular Starz and Encore on-demand programming. Starz and Encore are part of FiOS TV's 47-channel Movie Package, which includes Showtime, The Movie Channel, IFC, FLIX and the entire suite of Starz, Encore and Plex channels and on-demand programming, for $15.99 per month. Customers who sign up for the Movie Package before Aug. 20 will get the premium package free for the first three months.
Starz Entertainment provides an unmatched collection of exclusive commercial-free hit movies and original series. During the FiOS TV free preview this includes:
Starz movies: "Bolt," "Up," "The Proposal," "Julie & Julia," "Obsessed" and "Angels & Demons"
Starz Originals: "Spartacus: Blood and Sand," "Party Down" and "Gravity"
Encore movies: "Hancock," "The Mummy Returns," "Parenthood," "America's Sweethearts," "The Rookie" and "Far from Heaven"
FiOS TV offers a broad collection of programming, with more than 565 all-digital channels including up to 140 HD channels and 18,000 monthly video-on-demand titles. FiOS also provides next-generation interactive services including an advanced interactive media guide; social networking, news and entertainment widgets; remote DVR management via broadband or cell phone; and more.
About Verizon
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ)(NASDAQ:VZ), headquartered in New York, is a global leader in delivering broadband and other wireless and wireline communications services to mass market, business, government and wholesale customers. Verizon Wireless operates America's most reliable wireless network, serving nearly 93 million customers nationwide. Verizon also provides converged communications, information and entertainment services over America's most advanced fiber-optic network, and delivers innovative, seamless business solutions to customers around the world. A Dow 30 company, Verizon employs a diverse workforce of more than 217,000 and last year generated consolidated revenues of more than $107 billion. For more information, visit http://www.verizon.com.
About Starz Entertainment
Starz Entertainment, LLC, is a premium movie service provider operating in the United States. It offers 16 movie channels including the flagship Starz® and Encore® brands with approximately 16.9 million and 30.6 million subscribers respectively. Starz Entertainment airs more than 1,000 movies and new original series every month across its pay TV channels and offers advanced services including Starz HD, Encore HD, Starz On Demand, Encore On Demand, MoviePlex On Demand, Starz HD On Demand, Encore HD On Demand, MoviePlex HD On Demand, and Starz Play. Starz Entertainment (http://www.starz.com) is an operating unit of Starz, LLC, which is a controlled subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation, and is attributed to Liberty Starz, a tracking stock group of Liberty Media Corporation.
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heather.b.wilner@verizon.com; or Eric Becker, Starz Entertainment,
+1-720-852-4065, eric.becker@starz.com
AAA Wisconsin Applauds Governor Doyle, Wisconsin Legislators for Keeping Roads Safe by Banning Texting While Driving
MADISON, Wis., May 5 -- AAA Wisconsin applauds Governor Doyle and Wisconsin legislators for their commitment to keep Wisconsin's roads safe by passing AB496 into law, which bans text messaging while driving for all drivers. With the passage of this bill into law, Wisconsin becomes the 25th state to expressly prohibit texting while driving for all drivers.
"AAA Wisconsin applauds the Wisconsin Assembly and Governor Doyle for banning texting while driving, which will significantly enhance driving safety across our state," said Tom Frymark, Regional President, AAA Wisconsin. "We'll continue to make drivers aware of the dangers of texting while driving and of the importance of obeying this new law."
The data on texting while driving are clear. A recent study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute found that 80 percent of crashes and 65 percent of near-crashes involve some type of driver distraction. According to the study, cell phone use - including texting - was one of the principal distractions that led to crashes.
The law carries the support of AAA Wisconsin's members as well. A 2008 survey of AAA members across Wisconsin found that 92 percent of respondents support a law that bans texting while driving for all drivers. Furthermore, in the same survey, distracted driving was AAA members' second biggest traffic safety concern, second only to drunk driving.
New Enterprise Search Solution Based on Apache Solr Released by Comintelli
STOCKHOLM, May 5, 2010-- Finding information, and acting on it in an intelligent way, requires
increasingly sophisticated tools and technologies that truly allow
organizations to maximize the value of the information they have.
Comintelli (http://www.comintelli.com), the innovative provider of
Enterprise Knowledge Management software, today announced a new Enterprise
Search solution embedded in its award-winning application Knowledge
XChanger(TM).
The new Enterprise Search solution is based on Apache Solr, the popular,
blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene
project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit
highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, and
rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling. Solr is highly scalable, providing
distributed search and index replication, and it powers the search and
navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites.
"Our Knowledge XChanger application has always been strong in search, but
with Solr in the back-end, it is now well-positioned to tackle any
information access problems without the traditional huge license fees," says
Jesper Martell, CEO of Comintelli. "Several of our competitive and market
intelligence customers are already using the new open source search solution
and have been impressed with the extraordinary speed, simplicity and
scalability."
On the 26th May, Comintelli will host a webinar about "Enterprise Search
using Solr and Knowledge XChanger" together with Findwise
(http://www.findwise.se), a premier partner of Lucid Imagination. To sign up,
please visit http://www.comintelli.com/webinars or e-mail
sales@comintelli.com.
About Comintelli
Comintelli is a cutting-edge developer of Enterprise Knowledge Management
software. Comintelli helps thousands of persons in every industry to improve
Time To Knowledge and make better business decisions.
Comintelli develops, markets and sells the award-winning product
Knowledge XChanger(TM). The versatile product automates the tasks of
aggregating content from several sources, structuring it using topic maps,
analyzing, searching and delivering content in a relevant format to
authorized users. Customers include successful companies such as Covidien,
Eniro, ICA, Teliasonera, Tetra Pak and Thermo Fisher Scientific.
The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden, with
global representation through an extensive partner network.
netomat Partners With MLB Advanced Media to Deliver Mobile Picture and Video Blogging Services
New offerings debuting include MLB.com HitPix, Mobile Bullpen, and Mobile postcards
NEW YORK, May 5 -- netomat, Inc., a leading provider of mobile social media, messaging, web and video solutions, announced today that it has partnered with MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM), the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball, to launch new mobile social media services utilizing the netomat Mobility Platform. The offerings include the following:
-- MLB.com HitPix - The new multimedia sharing tool that enables MLB.com
reporters, Club staff, players, celebrities and baseball legends such
as Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda to post photos and videos on
MLB.com and automatically sends content updates to each individual's
Twitter account.
-- Mobile Bullpen - A new mobile blogging/vlogging service available for
all MLB.com registered users. Fans can post pictures, videos and
messages about their favorite teams or players, their experiences at
the ballpark, or while watching games at home on their TV or computer.
The Mobile Bullpen is integrated into a fan's MLB.com profile page and
accessible on any device via its internet browser.
-- Mobile Postcards - Game and behind-the-scenes photos and videos posted
on the official Club sites by team officials and fans. The Mobile
Postcard initially debuted during the 2009 post-season as a "good luck
and thank you card" for the New York Yankees. Members of Yankees
Universe, the Club's official fan club, sent pictures and videos from
their mobile phones wishing the team and players well for the playoffs
and eventually congratulating them on their World Series victory.
This season, the Chicago White Sox used Mobile Postcards to allow
their fans to send Opening Day well wishes to the team.
These initiatives, along with other new offerings that MLBAM and netomat plan to roll out during the season, will provide baseball fans more immediate and deeper access to their favorite teams and players while also giving them the ability to easily create and share their own baseball-related content, ideas and conversations.
"We are excited and proud to be partnering with MLBAM to provide creative and innovative offerings for fans to share their baseball experiences with friends and to engage with the overall baseball community," said Kris Ramanathan, CEO of netomat. "At netomat, we are obsessed with our sports but we care even more about making it simple for all fans - young and old - to access, create and share content and information that is important to them."
"Working with netomat and its seamless technology helps further our objective to provide a best-in-class fan experience that easily and instantaneously connects fans with their teams and friends," said Jason Yeh, Director - New Media at MLB.com.
About netomat
netomat, Inc. is a full-service partner for mobilizing web content and community, offering strategy, execution, monetization and content delivery across thousands of mobile devices. Using the netomat Mobility Platform, enterprises can offer integrated messaging, mobile web, social media and ground-breaking new video services which enable users to seamlessly create, view and share text and multimedia content on web and mobile devices. Our team has extensive mobile industry experience and expertise in creating fun, useful and creative mobile solutions. netomat clients include some of the world's top media and entertainment companies. netomat is based in New York City. More at http://www.netomat.net
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AT&T Extends U-verse Brand Across Screens With Introduction of U-verse Online
DALLAS, May 5 -- AT&T* today introduced U-verse Online, the newly rebranded and expanded AT&T Entertainment website that lets you watch streaming TV shows, movies and video clips on your PC. U-verse Online is open to any online user at att.net/uverseonline, and it offers additional features and account integration for AT&T U-verse® TV customers.
U-verse Online is part of AT&T's strategy to make popular U-verse content available to consumers across multiple screens, including the TV, PC and mobile devices. In March, AT&T previewed plans to offer U-verse Mobile, a mobile app that will allow U-verse TV customers to download and watch select shows on their Wi-Fi enabled mobile phones later this year.
"The benefits of multi-screen convergence are coming to life for AT&T U-verse customers," said Dan York, president of content, AT&T. "With AT&T U-verse, you can enjoy your favorite content on U-verse TV, U-verse Online, and soon, your mobile device with U-verse Mobile. We have an unmatched ability to deliver on the multi-screen vision, and working with leading programmers, we're providing entertainment to consumers in new and integrated ways not yet offered by our competitors."
U-verse Online is now also home to a wide range of U-verse TV information (formerly found on the AT&T U-connect site at uconnect.att.com), giving U-verse TV customers a one-stop online destination for details about U-verse TV programming and television events, including channel lineups, On Demand titles, Pay Per View events, interactive U-verse TV apps and more. U-verse customers can also schedule and manage DVR recordings directly from U-verse Online with U-verse Web Remote Access.
U-verse Online features tens of thousands of hours of entertainment, and since its initial launch in September 2009, has continued to add content from additional networks and studios.
Later this year, AT&T plans to offer U-verse TV customers the ability to log in to U-verse Online for access to even more TV content choices and features at no extra charge.
U-verse Online is the latest example of AT&T delivering compelling cross-platform content. AT&T has a unique set of integrated services and networks that make it easy for an audience of millions to enjoy and follow their favorite programming across devices.
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
About AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates - AT&T operating companies - are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. With a powerful array of network resources that includes the nation's fastest 3G network, AT&T is a leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet and voice services. A leader in mobile broadband, AT&T also offers the best wireless coverage worldwide, offering the most wireless phones that work in the most countries. It also offers advanced TV services under the AT&T U-verse(SM) and AT&T | DIRECTV(SM) brands. The company's suite of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in the world. In domestic markets, AT&T Advertising Solutions and AT&T Interactive are known for their leadership in local search and advertising. In 2010, AT&T again ranked among the 50 Most Admired Companies by FORTUNE® magazine.
Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com/. This AT&T news release and other announcements are available at http://www.att.com/newsroom and as part of an RSS feed at http://www.att.com/rss. Or follow our news on Twitter at @ATTNews. Find us on Facebook at http://www.Facebook.com/ATT to discover more about our consumer and wireless services or at http://www.Facebook.com/ATTSmallBiz to discover more about our small business services.
Geographic and service restrictions apply to AT&T U-verse. Call or go to http://www.uverse.att.com to see if you qualify. AT&T U-verse services are provided by AT&T local telephone companies. Customizing options require AT&T U-verse High Speed Internet Service. Wireless phone with Internet access required and standard data charges may apply.
Synopsys Unveils Ethernet Controller IP With New Audio Video Bridging Feature
DesignWare Ethernet QoS Controller Enables Efficient Streaming of 802.1 Audio and Video Applications
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 5 -- Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced the immediate availability of the DesignWare® Ethernet Quality-of-Service (QoS) Controller IP which implements the new IEEE specifications for audio video bridging (AVB) features. The DesignWare Ethernet IP solution supports the new IEEE 802.1AS and 802.1-Qav version D6.0 specifications. These specifications enable efficient networking of streaming audio video (AV) applications through IEEE 802.1 networks found in consumer electronics, automotive AV and professional sound system products. Synopsys' DesignWare Ethernet QoS Controller, which supports 10/100/1G data transfer speeds, allows designers to develop system-on-chips (SoCs) that deliver time-synchronized, low-latency audio and video over Ethernet networks with exceptional quality-of-service while retaining compatibility with legacy networks.
"Ambarella experienced great success using Synopsys' DesignWare Ethernet IP for our innovative hybrid camera SoC platform," said Chan Lee, vice president of engineering at Ambarella. "The high-quality DesignWare Ethernet IP solution is clearly the best we have used, providing advanced features, high performance and the smallest silicon area. By providing the new Ethernet QoS Controller IP with support for the audio video bridging feature, Synopsys continues to demonstrate its technology leadership in this space."
The configurable DesignWare Ethernet QoS Controller provides:
-- Low power consumption by supporting the IEEE 802.1az (Energy Efficient
Ethernet) specification
-- Improved network performance by easing server bottlenecks through
multiple TCP/IP offload functions
-- A programmable PHY interface, which enables easy connection to all
industry-standard Ethernet PHYs
-- Ease of integration by supporting multiple system interfaces such as
ARM® AMBA® 2.0, AHB(TM) and AMBA 3 AXI(TM) interconnect, allowing
designers to easily add Ethernet connectivity to their SoCs.
"As a leader in Ethernet IP, Synopsys continues to develop features and products that support the latest IEEE specifications. The DesignWare Ethernet QoS Controller IP enables designers to efficiently support streaming audio video applications such as set-top boxes and network storage," said John Koeter, vice president of marketing for the Solutions Group at Synopsys. "As streaming audio video applications become more prevalent in today's devices, the availability of high-quality Ethernet IP supporting the quality-of-service specifications helps designers deliver a more enhanced and reliable user experience."
Availability
The DesignWare Ethernet QoS Controller supporting 10/100/1G data transfer rates is available now. The DesignWare Ethernet 10/100/1G MAC, 10/100 MAC, 1G/2.5G/10G MAC, Ethernet PCS controllers and Ethernet Verification IP including SystemC models are also available now. For more information, visit: http://www.synopsys.com/IP/InterfaceIP/Ethernet/Pages/default.aspx.
About DesignWare IP
Synopsys is a leading provider of high-quality, silicon-proven interface and analog IP solutions for system-on-chip designs. Synopsys' broad IP portfolio delivers complete connectivity IP solutions consisting of controllers, PHY and verification IP for widely used protocols such as USB, PCI Express, DDR, SATA, Ethernet, HDMI and MIPI IP including 3G DigRF, CSI-2 and D-PHY. The analog IP family includes Analog-to-Digital Converters, Digital-to-Analog Converters, Audio Codecs, Video Analog Front Ends, Touch Screen Controllers and more. In addition, Synopsys offers SystemC transaction-level models to build virtual platforms for rapid, pre-silicon development of software. With a robust IP development methodology, extensive investment in quality and comprehensive technical support, Synopsys enables designers to accelerate time-to-market and reduce integration risk. For more information on DesignWare IP, visit: http://www.synopsys.com/designware. Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/designware_ip.
About Synopsys
Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) is a world leader in electronic design automation (EDA), supplying the global electronics market with the software, intellectual property (IP) and services used in semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing. Synopsys' comprehensive, integrated portfolio of implementation, verification, IP, manufacturing and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) solutions helps address the key challenges designers and manufacturers face today, such as power and yield management, software-to-silicon verification and time-to-results. These technology-leading solutions help give Synopsys customers a competitive edge in bringing the best products to market quickly while reducing costs and schedule risk. Synopsys is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and has more than 65 offices located throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Asia and India. Visit Synopsys online at http://www.synopsys.com/.
Synopsys and DesignWare are registered trademarks or trademarks of Synopsys, Inc. Any other trademarks or registered trademarks mentioned in this release are the intellectual property of their respective owners.
Editorial Contact:
Sheryl Gulizia
Synopsys, Inc.
650-584-8635
sgulizia@synopsys.com
Lisa Gillette-Martin
MCA
650-968-8900
lgmartin@mcapr.com
Source: Synopsys, Inc.
CONTACT: Sheryl Gulizia of Synopsys, Inc., +1-650-584-8635,
sgulizia@synopsys.com; or Lisa Gillette-Martin of MCA, +1-650-968-8900,
lgmartin@mcapr.com, for Synopsys, Inc.
The GRE Search Service is an Internet-based student recruitment tool that allows graduate institutions to identify potential graduate school candidates.
"The market spoke and we responded," said Craig Heldman, CEO, Hobsons. "With expanded accessibility and new user-friendly features, the GRE Search Service allows institutions across the globe* to easily leverage valuable student data to shape incoming classes and drive enrollment."
Becoming a GRE Search Service user enables graduate and business programs to draw comprehensive information from a diverse candidate pool of more than 400,000 prospective students from more than 200 countries, while generating candidate mailing lists based upon the institution's preferred criteria.
"We have been working to increase the flexibility and usefulness of the GRE Search Service and are very pleased to be able to offer the service to institutions outside the United States and U.S. territories," said David G. Payne, VP and COO for College and Graduate Programs at ETS. "With graduate student recruitment becoming globally competitive, this online service is an essential tool that helps graduate and business schools to be very strategic in their recruitment and outreach efforts."
The GRE Search Service includes many user-friendly features that make the tool easy to use for graduate institutions from regions throughout the world.
-- Users can search the database based upon a number of criteria to
receive customized data, including student demographics, enrollment
factors, and GRE test score bands
-- This data can be viewed in a variety of formats that are compatible
with most campus management systems, including plain text formatting
-- A user-friendly interface gives graduate institutions easy access to
the information they need, with wizard-like pages to help guide them
through more advanced tasks
-- The Search Service provides year-round access users can place orders
at any time
With the GRE Search Service, institutions that award graduate degrees or graduate fellowships can receive a list of prospective graduate students who have registered for or taken the GRE® General Test and/or a GRE® Subject Test. Individuals considering graduate study may also register for the GRE Search Service. Graduate programs will experience the benefit of knowing that they are sending the right message, to the right person, at the right time.
Institutions interested in learning more about the GRE Search Service can visit http://gresearch.ets.org/ or contact our experienced Customer Service Team at 1-513-924-3330 or gresearch@hobsons-us.com.
GRE Search Service is available in the following countries
*American Samoa, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guam, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, U.S. Virgin Islands.
About Hobsons
Hobsons is a premier provider of innovative technology and integrated marketing solutions that empower education professionals to manage the entire student lifecycle including recruitment, enrollment, and retention. With end-to-end, enterprise-class products built from over thirty years of education experience and market knowledge, Hobsons helps more than 5,000 global secondary schools, colleges, and universities achieve their goals. A Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) subsidiary, Hobsons is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH with offices in Washington DC; Fairfax, VA; Oakland, CA; London, England; and Melbourne, Australia.
For more information about Hobsons and its complete line of technology solutions, please visit http://www.hobsons.com.
About ETS
At nonprofit ETS, we advance quality and equity in education for people worldwide by creating assessments based on rigorous research. ETS serves individuals, educational institutions and government agencies by providing customized solutions for teacher certification, English-language learning, and elementary, secondary and post-secondary education, as well as conducting education research, analysis and policy studies. Founded in 1947, ETS develops, administers and scores more than 50 million tests annually -- including the TOEFL® and TOEIC® tests, the GRE® tests and The Praxis Series(TM) assessments -- in more than 180 countries, at over 9,000 locations worldwide. http://www.ets.org
EMC Announces Continued Growth in its EMC Documentum xCP Partner Ecosystem
System Integrators and Independent Software Vendors Benefit from Speed of Development and Reduced Project Risks
HOPKINTON, Mass., May 5 -- EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced continued growth in its partner ecosystem who are building intelligent case-based solutions that leverage EMC® Documentum® xCP. Companies including BRT, HCL, Paragon Solutions, Selectica, Tata Consulting Service, Unisys and Wipro have adopted Documentum xCP enabling them to rapidly develop new applications while reducing project risks.
BRT specializes in solutions for financial process automation and their accounts payable automation solution, APSolution(TM), is based on the Documentum xCP platform. APSolution handles the receipt of paper and electronic invoices and automates downstream processes, from invoice approval and exception processing through posting for payment. "By leveraging Documentum xCP, we are now able to more rapidly configure our accounts payable offering to fulfill each customer's unique business and cultural requirements, allowing them to realize value faster at a lower total cost," said John Middleton, Chief Operating Officer, BRT, Inc. "As we apply Documentum xCP to other offerings, such as accounts receivables, contracts management and human resources solutions, customers will realize similar benefits."
As one of the early adopters of Documentum xCP, Paragon Solutions has extensively used the platform to build applications for clients in insurance, financial services, life sciences and healthcare. "One of our leading offerings is the Payer Claims Processing solution, which handles the receipt and processing of all medical and dental claim forms for a paperless, straight-through processing of claims," said Daniel O'Connor, president and CEO at Paragon. "Documentum xCP enables us to jump-start a significant part of the engagement resulting in lowered implementation costs and a faster time-to-benefit. We're seeing a reduction of 25 to 50 percent of traditional implementation times. And using Documentum xCP, we're creating other solutions to address property and casualty claims management, policy and procedure management and new member enrollment."
"Unisys applied its deep expertise in developing criminal justice solutions to create an Integrated Courts Management System (ICMS) based on Documentum xCP in less than four months," said Rob Sprecher, Solutions Director for the Global Justice and Public Safety Portfolio at Unisys Corporation. "ICMS automates the process of creating, filing, docketing and maintaining detailed case information. The solution also configures easily to accommodate multiple languages. Documentum xCP's pre-integrated technologies and full-featured capabilities will allow us to leverage what we've done with ICMS and apply it to other types of application modernization projects for public safety and judicial procedures including civil, criminal, probate, administrative and family cases."
Documentum xCP is also being utilized by partners to develop cloud-based applications. "With Documentum xCP, we were able to expand our business by enabling us to build a variety of solutions that support multi-tenant requirements and cloud-based infrastructure," said Mansoor Ahmad, Vice President and Business Head of Global IT Business, Wipro. "For example, we provide a hosted human resources onboarding solution that helps HR departments of large organizations automate and manage manual, paper-based processes. In addition, we also offer hosted solutions for accounts payable management, brand management, real estate document management -- all built using Documentum xCP."
EMC Documentum xCP Overview
Documentum xCP is a dynamic applications composition platform that provides fully integrated technologies, development and deployment tools as well as application accelerators. Emphasizing configuration versus coding, xCP unites content management, business process management, intelligent capture, customer communications management, collaboration case management, analysis, reporting and compliance management into a single environment. With Documentum xCP, system integrators, independent software vendors and IT organizations can rapidly build intelligent case-based applications substantially faster, at a much lower cost and with fewer resources. The platform also allows organizations to significantly reduce the total cost of ownership by delivering applications that are easier to modify and maintain.
Join the Documentum xCP communities on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and the EMC Community Network.
About EMC
EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at http://www.EMC.com.
EMC and Documentum are registered trademarks of EMC Corporation and its subsidiaries. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
Source: EMC Corporation
CONTACT: Liza S. Goldberg, +1-925-600-5991, goldberg_liza@emc.com
Rribit Launches Hyperspots Ad Technology for Anatolian Festival
LOS ANGELES, May 5 -- Rribit Multimedia and Lara Film in Istanbul will launch an Interactive Video Commercial at the Second Anatolian Cultures and Food Festival, which will run in May in California.
The ad utilizes a new technology called Hyperspots, which allows the viewer to click inside a video on any part of the moving image or scene. Similar to a hyperlink, the viewer can now click on anything of visual interest and link out to the website of a vendor or sponsor.
"This is an exciting way to use new web technology in marketing," said Berfin Haymes, founder and managing partner of Rribit Multimedia, which specializes in creating advertising and public relations campaigns. "It's immersive advertising, where you have the choice to step into a sponsor's information with the click of your mouse."
The 30-second commercials for the festival were created using footage from the first event in 2009 and they contain up to 30 Hyperspots. Each one takes the viewer to the websites of the products, locations and sponsors that participated at the event. The commercials were released on Facebook and third party blogs.
The festival is an annual event organized by the Pacifica Institute (http://www.pacificainstitute.org), an LA-based non-profit organization. This year's festival is planned for May 6 to May 9 at OC Great Park in Irvine, which will feature more than 100 products and brands. The "Hyperspot" commercial gives each participant the opportunity to attract customers to their websites after the event in a virtual marketplace.
Hyperspot technology can be embedded in any kind of content with web distribution, ranging from television series, movies, commercials and still photos. The links can be added or changed after the content has been published, giving clients control and flexibility in monetization.
Rribit Multimedia (http://www.rribit.com) and Lara Film (http://www.larafilm.com) focus on introducing Turkish and other foreign companies and brands to new markets through marketing and public relations.
Hyperspots (http://www.hyperspots.com) is a trademark technology created by Sherpa Technologies in California.
StyleSpot.com Launches Shopping Engine for Fashion and Beauty; Announces Content Partnerships
Shopping engine contains 500,000 fashion and beauty products from over 200 retail partners.
LOS ANGELES, May 5 -- StyleSpot.com, a fashion, style and celebrity content provider, launched the first of its women-oriented shopping catalogs - a fashion database of nearly 500,000 products, including apparel, bags, shoes, beauty, and accessories. The company now has partnerships with over 200 retailers, including Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdales, Nordstrom, Macy's, Banana Republic, Zappos, Gap, Shopbop, Sephora, Target, and Sears.
Founded by online entrepreneurs Alex Amin and Rafi Gordon in 2009, the launch marks the first of several women-oriented shopping verticals StyleSpot plans to roll out this coming year, with Children and Home verticals targeted for launch in fall 2010. "Shopping online is often a frustrating experience for women because it's very generic," said Amin. "Shopping for a dress or a necklace is very different than shopping for a plasma television. We saw the need to 'verticalize' the shopping experience and address it from its core, which is data."
Visitors to StyleSpot and its publishing partners now have access to all the products they love from all their favorite retailers - in one place, with standardized image sizes, categories, search terms and browsing.
StyleSpot provides content to premium publishers, including Philly.com, The Tribune Company, TooFab, Blackbook Magazine, Hollywood.com, and Glo, a joint venture from BermanBraun, MSN and Hachette Filipacchi.
The Company has raised $750,000 from founders Gordon and Amin and other angel investors including Allen Morgan, an active angel investor and Venture Partner at Mayfield Fund. Mr. Morgan has also joined the Company as senior adviser. "We're thrilled to have Allen on board to advise us through such an exciting growth stage at the Company," said Gordon. "His experience and relationships will prove invaluable as we seek to grow and build our partnerships with premium online publishers."
"There is a real opportunity to marry women's content and e-commerce in an elegant, monetizable way," said Morgan. "And there are few companies as well positioned to help online publishers address this challenge as StyleSpot."
StyleSpot launched in beta in October 2009, and has been covered by The Wall Street Journal, InStyle.com, OK!, MediaPost, AOL.com, and KTLA Los Angeles.
StyleSpot is a shopping engine for women. With nearly 500,000 products from over 200 retailers, it is the ultimate source to shop apparel, bags, shoes, beauty, and accessories. StyleSpot also provides celebrity photos as a curatorial layer to the shopping experience, letting its visitors know what their favorite celebrities wore, where they can buy it, or how to get the look for less. StyleSpot provides its content to several of the most trafficked consumer internet sites in the world.
StyleSpot was founded by Alex Amin and Rafi Gordon who previously founded FilmTracker, a leading entertainment industry database and portal. Under their leadership, FilmTracker successfully grew, ultimately acquiring The Studio System and merging with Baseline, the world's preeminent provider of film and TV data. The combined entity was acquired by The New York Times in 2006.
StyleSpot editorial director, Lily Hollander, has worked with some of the biggest names in fashion for events and award shows in Hollywood, and is a recognized style expert.
Source: StyleSpot
CONTACT: Enjoli Duval of PMKBNC, +1-310-854-4800,
Enjoli.Duval@pmkbnc.com for StyleSpot
Inova Technology Offers Corporate Profile for Investors
LAS VEGAS, May 5 -- Inova Technology, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: INVA), which provides RFID, Lead Tracking and Network Solutions in the U.S. and internationally, is pleased to announce it has prepared a Corporate Profile to answer inquiries about the Company from brokers, investors or other interested individuals. It is available at http://www.inovatechnology.com/PRMay32010profile.html.
"The Corporate Profile carefully details our strategies, our management team, and provides investors with an excellent overview of Inova Technology along with what we intend to accomplish in the future," said Adam Radly, CEO.
About Inova Technology
Inova Technology, Inc. (INVA) is an enterprise level information technology solutions provider specializing in providing RFID solutions, wireless networking, storage and security technology solutions and IT professional services. Its objective is to implement and optimize solutions for clients with best of breed technology and the best possible service. INVA has two complimentary business units, RightTag Inc., providing RFID solutions to manage and track objects, and Desert Communications, Inc., providing network solutions for hundreds of entities since its inception in 1994.
Contact: Adam Radly, CEO
ir@inovatechnology.com
Source: Inova Technology, Inc.
CONTACT: Adam Radly, CEO of Inova Technology, Inc.,
ir@inovatechnology.com
Motorola Debuts New Family of Multi-Screen Media Servers
Solid-state Motorola M3 Media Server provides efficient delivery of on-demand media to any device, enables creation of scalable content delivery network
HORSHAM, Pa., May 5 -- The Mobile Devices and Home business of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) introduced today a new family of on-demand servers designed to deliver multimedia content and services across television, personal computer (PC) and mobile devices - the three screens core to service providers' success in creating new revenue-generating applications and services in the "Internet Era of TV." The introduction of the Motorola M3 Media Server family demonstrates Motorola's focus on the delivery of solutions that connect people to personalized content by creating compelling consumer experiences.
The fault-resilient, carrier-class Motorola M3 Media Server family will be offered as part of the Motorola Media Delivery System, which also includes the Motorola CPS-1000 Content Propagation System for cable and the BitBand Maestro content delivery network (CDN) management system for over-the-top (OTT) Internet video and IPTV environments. The new server family is scheduled to begin shipping in the third quarter of 2010.
"Video service providers are looking for new ways to cost-effectively deliver high-value media to their subscribers across all three screens without overwhelming their networks' limited bandwidth capabilities or sacrificing the quality of the end-user experience," said Bob Wilson, vice president, Networked Video Solutions Group, Motorola Mobile Devices and Home. "To the benefit of our customers, Motorola offers a broad, flexible range of solid-state media servers that provide a combination of scalability, efficiency, flexibility and reliability on industry-standard hardware. The new Motorola M3 Media Server gives service providers a highly configurable solution that can support the delivery of content across TV, Internet and mobile video platforms from a single platform."
The Motorola M3 Media Server utilizes sophisticated software designed to optimize the performance and reliability of commodity off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware, enabling revenue-generating services such as video on demand (VOD), Internet video, time-shifted TV, network DVR and on-demand advertising. It can be deployed in either clusters of high-performance rack mount servers or in high-availability, chassis-based blade server platforms. This flexibility allows Motorola to support virtually any networking topology or streaming requirement, including low-density edge streaming and large, centralized deployments.
The Motorola M3 Media Server family initially comprises four primary platforms and represents the integration of best-in-class technology from Motorola's acquisitions of Broadbus Technologies and BitBand Techonologies:
-- M3-S100 - a high-performance solid-state edge server that supports
2,500 SD streams in a 1RU enclosure
-- M3-S200 - a library server and video streamer that stores up to 12TB
of media content per 2RU, while simultaneously enabling live ingest
and streaming
-- M3-C600 & C1000 Media Centers - massively scalable, modular systems
for three-screen media delivery, supporting up to 40,000 SD streams,
up to 12 TB of Flash storage from a 10RU chassis, and the ability to
run streaming, management, distribution and certified third-party
applications within a single platform
The Motorola M3 Media Server family leverages the media management capabilities of the Motorola CPS-1000 and BitBand Maestro media distribution applications to enable a flexible, media-optimized CDN. Through the intelligent caching of media content and placement of streams to media servers, the Motorola Media Delivery System optimizes network, streaming and storage resources while reliably delivering content across three screens.
Motorola is known around the world for innovation in communications and is focused on advancing the way the world connects. From broadband communications infrastructure, enterprise mobility and public safety solutions to high-definition video and mobile devices, Motorola is leading the next wave of innovations that enable people, enterprises and governments to be more connected and more mobile. Motorola (NYSE:MOT) revenues reached $22 billion in 2009. For more information, please visit http://www.motorola.com.
Media Contacts
Kalia Farrell
Motorola Public Relations
+1 215-323-1059
kalia.farrell@motorola.com
Kathy Wiesner
Mobile: +1 847-875-0166
k.wiesner@motorola.com
Motorola, Inc. Analysts
Relations
CONTACT: Kalia Farrell, Public Relations, +1-215-323-1059,
kalia.farrell@motorola.com, or Kathy Wiesner, Analysts Relations, Mobile,
+1-847-875-0166, k.wiesner@motorola.com, both of Motorola, Inc.
NetMotion Wireless Takes Leading Role in Government Use of Mobile Computing
Newly published information reflects growing use of mobile computing in public sector
SEATTLE, May 5 -- NetMotion Wireless, a leading provider of mobile productivity and management software, today released a new white paper entitled "Mobilizing Public Service" which describes the key role played by its award winning mobile Virtual Private Network (VPN) Mobility XE(TM) in helping government agencies with their mobile deployments.
Long used in law enforcement, fire response and emergency medical services, mobile deployments are finding their way into other branches of government as equipment and service costs decrease, and governments look for new ways to improve efficiency and productivity. The paper describes some of the uses of mobile computing in areas as diverse as law enforcement and emergency response, health and safety inspections, and child and family services.
The paper also explains the elements of a wireless deployment including devices, software and wireless networks; the various challenges presented by a mobile deployment and how to overcome them; and management concerns and best practices for handling authentication, security, visibility, bandwidth management and other issues.
"We have found that government agencies are increasingly interested in mobile deployments," said Pam Cory, Vice President of Marketing for NetMotion Wireless. "We hope that agency directors and managers as well as IT departments find the information in this paper useful for evaluating the potential of these technologies to improve citizen service in their agencies and make better use of taxpayer dollars."
Through its mobile VPN software, Mobility XE, NetMotion Wireless enables more than 450,000 mobile workers around the globe to mitigate some of the most common challenges in mobile deployments today. These include software application crashes as users move in and out of wireless coverage areas; roaming between Wi-Fi and wide-area cellular networks; secure connectivity; and, device and policy management. Mobility XE securely enhances mobile worker productivity at more than 1,600 of the world's most respected organizations across multiple industries including utilities, healthcare, insurance, communications, public safety, local government, transportation, field service and many others.
NetMotion Wireless develops software to enable businesses and agencies to maintain and optimize connections to applications as their mobile workers change locations or networks multiple times each day. Based in Seattle, Washington, NetMotion Wireless Mobility XE is an award-winning mobile VPN designed to enhance mobile worker productivity. Mobility XE is deployed at more than 1,600 of the world's most respected organizations across multiple industries including utilities, healthcare, insurance, communications, public safety, local government, transportation, field service and many others. For more information about NetMotion Wireless or to evaluate Mobility XE at no charge, please visit http://www.netmotionwireless.com or call (206) 691-5500.
Source: NetMotion Wireless
CONTACT: Pam Cory of NetMotion Wireless, +1-206-691-5612,
pam.cory@netmotionwireless.com