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Downloadable MP4 Video Enhances Online Education Programs from Leading Universities

University Alliance Online Introduces MP4 Download Availability for All Online Certificate Programs Offered Through Villanova, Tulane, Notre Dame and the University of San Francisco

TAMPA, Fla., March 3 -- With the advent of mobile learning technology and the rising demand for virtual m-learning classroom applications, the University Alliance Online, a global leader in interactive professional education, continues to be on the cutting edge of technology.

Now, students attending Villanova University, Tulane University, the University of Notre Dame and the University of San Francisco can take their online learning mobile thanks to the new MP4 course lecture downloads for all online certificate programs.

According to the "2010 Horizon Report" by the New Media Consortium (NMC), the mobile market is booming. Over a billion new phones are produced each year, and thousands of applications are available for virtually any smart phone - with more entering the market each day.

"Today, people expect anytime, anywhere access to data and services that used to be available only on a desktop," said Adrian Marrullier, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of University Alliance Online. "The portability of mobile devices and their ability to store and play MP3 and MP4 files makes them ideal tools for mobile learning."

Students currently utilizing the MP3 audio feature for Villanova's online certificate programs are touting the added benefits of the new downloadable MP4 video formats.

"I really enjoy the online learning experience and especially the new MP4 video download feature," said Dafe Ojaide, a business professional completing Villanova's Six Sigma online Master Certificate program. "I am always on the go so the ability to download my classes onto my iPod and Blackberry is perfect for my busy schedule."

The MP4 feature supports mobile learning by offering course lectures in video formats. Students in the programs can simply select the online certificate course files they want, download them to their computers, and transfer the files to their iPods, iPhones, Blackberries, Droids or other mobile devices.

The University Alliance's state-of-the-art e-learning system immerses students in a multimedia environment that allows them to study at their convenience. The advantages of 100% online and mobile learning include:

  --  Virtual Classroom - Two-way voice over IP, instant messaging and
      shared virtual whiteboards allow students to interact with fellow
      classmates and faculty in real time. It's just like being in a real
      classroom, but this one is live on the Internet.

  --  Streaming Video Lectures - In addition to the MP3 and new MP4 media
      download features, participants can watch and learn from industry
      professionals as they deliver lectures and course material 100% online
      via streaming video or on CD-ROM.

  --  Message Boards - Students can interact with instructors and classmates
      on key topics and class assignments.

  --  Live Chat Rooms and Email - Being able to collaborate and communicate
      with faculty and classmates makes online learning convenient.

To learn more about all of the online certificate programs and universities offering the new MP4 media download feature, visit http://www.universityalliance.com/.

About University Alliance Online

The University Alliance (UA) facilitates the promotion and online delivery of associate's, bachelor's and master's degrees as well as professional certificate programs from the nation's leading traditional universities and institutions. Powered by UA's technology and support services, its university partners have surpassed 300,000 online enrollments - making UA the largest facilitator of e-learning in the country. All University Alliance partners are consistently rated among America's best universities in national publications such as U.S. News & World Report and BusinessWeek. University Alliance partners include Villanova University, the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, Tulane University's Freeman School of Business, the University of San Francisco, the University of South Florida, Florida Institute of Technology, The University of Scranton, Dominican University and Jacksonville University.

  Contact Information:

  Sandy Levine, VP of Marketing Services
  Bisk Education/University Alliance Online
  813-621-6200
  http://www.universityalliance.com/

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Source: University Alliance Online
   

CONTACT:  Sandy Levine, VP of Marketing Services of Bisk
Education/University Alliance Online, +1-813-621-6200

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

More Than Seven-in-Ten Workers Age 60+ Are Putting Off Retirement Due to Financial Restraints, According to a New CareerBuilder Survey

--Career Expert Offers Tips on How to Survive Delaying Retirement--

CHICAGO, March 3 -- The economy continues to change the retirement timeline for many mature workers, leaving them with tough decisions about their futures.  More than seven-in-ten (72 percent) workers over the age of 60 who said they are putting off their retirement are doing so because they can't afford to retire financially, according to a new survey by CareerBuilder. When comparing genders, the survey found that three-quarters (76 percent) of female workers over the age of 60 who said they are putting off retirement are doing so because they can't afford it, while 68 percent of males said the same. The survey was conducted among more than 700 U.S. workers age 60+ between November 5 and November 23, 2009.

Financial reasons are not the only grounds for postponing retirement for workers over the age of 60. Other reasons cited among those putting off retirement include:

  --  Either enjoy their job or enjoy where they work and don't want to
      leave it (71 percent)
  --  Plan to stay because they need the health insurance and additional
      benefits provided (50 percent)
  --  Fear retirement may just be boring (24 percent)
  --  Enjoy feeling needed (15 percent)

"The economy continues to cast doubt in the minds of mature workers regarding executing on their future retirement plans. As a result, they are requesting to stay with employers a bit longer," said Jason Ferrara, senior career adviser at CareerBuilder. "Twenty-seven percent of hiring managers say they were approached about postponing retirements last year and were open to retaining mature workers. The key is to let your employer know sooner than later that you would like to put off your plans to leave."

PrimeCB.com, CareerBuilder's job site for mature workers, offers tips for those workers who may be planning to postpone retirement:

Talk to your HR department - Keep an open and honest dialogue with your company as soon as you decide what to do about your retirement. HR can be a good resource if you are having trouble mapping out your future.

Be open minded - Your employer may have been working around a pre-determined date you set. Therefore, deciding abruptly that you want to stay in the same job may not be in the cards.  Talk to supervisors and if you have already been replaced on one assignment, determine what other projects may be a good fit for you.

Network. Network. Network. - While you try to figure out if you can stay with your current employer, it is in your best interest to network socially and professionally to see if anyone knows of any other positions for which you should apply. If your goal is to have a job, your network may be able to help you find a new one.

Mentor inside and outside your company - One of your greatest assets is your experience level and intellectual capital. Leverage this knowledge as a mentor to show your worth to your current employer and those you may work for in the future.

Survey Methodology

This survey was conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Interactive© on behalf of CareerBuilder.com among 2,720 hiring managers (employed full-time; not self-employed; non-government) ages 18 and over and 792 U.S. employees (employed full-time; not self-employed; non-government) age 60+ between November 5 and November 23, 2009 (percentages for some questions are based on a subset of U.S. employees, based on their responses to certain questions). With a pure probability sample of 2,720 and 792 one could say with a 95 percent probability that the overall results have a sampling error of +/- 1.88 percentage points and +/- 3.48, respectively. Sampling error for data from sub-samples is higher and varies.

About CareerBuilder®

CareerBuilder is the global leader in human capital solutions, helping companies target and attract their most important asset - their people. Its online career site, CareerBuilder.com®, is the largest in the United States with more than 23 million unique visitors, 1 million jobs and 32 million resumes. CareerBuilder works with the world's top employers, providing resources for everything from employment branding and data analysis. More than 9,000 websites, including 140 newspapers and broadband portals such as MSN and AOL, feature CareerBuilder's proprietary job search technology on their career sites. Owned by Giannett Co., Inc. (NYSE:GCI), Tribune Company, The McClatchy Company (NYSE:MNI) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT), CareerBuilder and its subsidiaries operate in the United States, Europe, Canada and Asia. For more information, visit http://www.careerbuilder.com.

  Media Contact:
  CareerBuilder
  Michael Erwin
  773-527-3637
  Michael.Erwin@careerbuilder.comhttp://www.twitter.com/CareerBuilderPR

Source: CareerBuilder
   

CONTACT:  Michael Erwin of CareerBuilder, +1-773-527-3637,
Michael.Erwin@careerbuilder.com, http://www.twitter.com/CareerBuilderPR

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

ProGreen Properties, Inc. Joins Information Portal StockProfile.com

BIRMINGHAM, Mich., March 3 -- ProGreen Properties Inc.  (BULLETIN BOARD: PGEI)   today announced that it has joined http://www.StockProfile.com, a customized web-based platform showcasing emerging growth stocks.

StockProfile.com provides the investing public with a free unique information portal for investors who like to conduct their own research and make their own investment decisions. The platform allows users to review and investigate dynamic publicly traded companies in a user-friendly environment.

"We are exited about joining StockProfile.com. This represents the beginning of a Investor Relations Program  that will be rolled out over the coming months," says Jan Telander, CEO.

If you are interested in viewing - ProGreen Properties Inc. profile, please visit http://www.StockProfile.com.

About ProGreen Properties Inc. (PGEI - OTCBB) is engaged in the business of primarily acquiring, refurbishing and upgrading income-producing residential real estate, with a view to create more comfortable and energy efficient homes, reduce carbon emissions and promote sustainable living in the State of Michigan, where the Company believes favorable investment opportunities exist based on current market conditions.

This press release contains statements, which may constitute 'forward-looking statements' within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. 'Forward-looking statements' are based upon expectations, estimates and projections at the time the statements are made that involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those anticipated. Such factors include; our ability to create, sustain, manage or forecast our growth; our ability to attract and retain key personnel; changes in our business strategy or development plans; competition; business disruptions; adverse publicity; and international, national and local general economic and market conditions.

Source: ProGreen Properties Inc.
   

CONTACT:  Jan Telander, ProGreen Properties Inc., +1-248-530-0770,
info@progreenproperties.com

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

Travel Channel Accelerates Production With Isilon IQ

Leading International Broadcaster of Travel-themed Content Partners with Boxer Systems to Deploy Isilon Scale-out NAS, Reducing Production Workload by 30 Percent

SEATTLE, March 3 -- Isilon® Systems (NASDAQ:ISLN) today announced that Travel Channel, the leading international travel broadcaster, has deployed Isilon scale-out NAS as the primary storage solution for its new file-based production, scheduling and distribution workflow. Using Isilon IQ, featuring its OneFS® operating system, Travel Channel has unified content from more than 30,000 tapes onto a single, high-performance, highly scalable shared pool of storage, streamlining data access to reduce its production workload by 30 percent.

"The complexity and scope of our content caused us to waste a lot of time with physical tapes, while the switch to a file-based environment provided us with clear financial and creative advantages," said Matt Westrup, head of operations, Travel Channel. "Boxer was instrumental in the deployment process and now our massive content library is available on-demand. With Isilon, we've expanded our operations into new areas such as video on-demand and Internet TV, which would have been extremely costly with our old workflow."

Working closely with Boxer Systems, Travel Channel has deployed a file-based production, management and distribution system featuring Apple's Final Cut Pro 7 editing tools, Phoenix 7's Zeus media management platform, and transcoding and ingest technology from Telestream. The new unified environment uses Isilon scale-out NAS to power multiple editing suites and viewing stations, increasing data access, availability and reliability.

By deploying Isilon IQ, Travel Channel has unified content from its 30,000 tape media library onto a central repository capable of scaling performance and capacity on-demand to meet intense performance and data growth demands. With Isilon scale-out NAS, Travel Channel has eliminated the need to locate, duplicate and ingest media from its tape library, reducing its production staff's workload by 30 percent and enabling them to focus their efforts on producing more content faster, and with higher quality.

"We selected the Isilon solution instead of a SAN as it provided us with several clear advantages in terms of compatibility, performance and reliability," added Westrup. "The solution requires minimal management and our data is always 100 percent available."

"As leading media companies look to increase productivity and reduce costs, they need leading-edge technologies that create seamless, end-to-end solutions," said Mark Stevens, VP and general manager for EMEA, Isilon Systems. "Travel Channel is at the forefront of this shift and its use of Isilon IQ to unify the entire production workflow is indicative of the productivity and cost-saving benefits our solutions deliver."

About Travel Channel International Ltd.

Travel Channel is the leading international travel broadcaster, transmitting 24 hours a day in 18 languages across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Asia Pacific region. It is operated by Travel Channel International Limited (TCI) - an independent company headquartered in London, UK. Launched in 1994, TCI uses 20 satellite feeds to reach over 700 cable, satellite and IPTV Affiliates. The company produces and commissions original programming across the world.

About Isilon Systems

Isilon Systems (NASDAQ:ISLN) is the proven leader in scale-out NAS. Isilon's clustered storage and data management solutions drive unique business value for customers by maximizing the performance of their mission-critical applications, workflows, and processes. Isilon enables enterprises and research organizations worldwide to manage large and rapidly growing amounts of file-based data in a highly scalable, easy-to-manage, and cost-effective way. Information about Isilon can be found at http://www.isilon.com/.

The names of companies mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

Source: Isilon Systems
   

CONTACT:  Lucas Welch of Isilon Systems, +1-206-315-7621,
lucas.welch@isilon.com; or James McIntyre of McClenahan Bruer,
+1-503-546-1016, james@mcbru.com

Web Site:  http://www.isilon.com/

Mercedes-Benz Financial Expands Mobile Platform to Include smartphones

"Coolest way to pay" now includes users of BlackBerry, Droid and more

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., March 3 -- Mercedes-Benz Financial is now the first automotive financial services company to expand personalized and convenient account management features to all of its customers using smartphones like BlackBerry®, Droid ®, and other mobile devices with internet capability.

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Mercedes-Benz Financial last Fall became the first auto finance company to offer account management features with the launch of its iPhone® App free download.

Account holders must first register online at http://www.Mercedes-BenzFinancial.com to access secure account management features. Detailed instructions for smartphone users are available at http://www.Mercedes-BenzFinancial.com/mobile.

All smartphone users, even those who are not customers of Mercedes-Benz Financial, will be able to locate the nearest Mercedes-Benz authorized dealer, contact a customer service representative and see what's new from Mercedes-Benz Financial.

Account holders of Mercedes-Benz Financial will be able to make a payment, view their account summary and request a payoff quote.

"We are closing in on 10,000 downloads of our iPhone App which validates our decision to expand our mobile capabilities to all customers who are smartphone users," said Andreas Hinrichs, Vice President of Marketing for Mercedes-Benz Financial. "By expanding our mobile services to smartphone users, more of our customers will enjoy the conveniences of connecting with us from the palm of their hand."

About Mercedes-Benz Financial

Mercedes-Benz Financial, now in its 28th year of operation, provides financing for Mercedes-Benz dealers' inventories and their retail customers. Currently, more than 450,000 drivers in the United States enjoy the benefits of leasing or financing their Mercedes-Benz vehicles through Mercedes-Benz Financial. For more information visit Mercedes-BenzFinancial.com

Photo:  http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100303/MM62975
PRN Photo Desk, photodesk@prnewswire.comVideo:  http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/mercedes-benzfinancial/42508
Source: Mercedes-Benz Financial
   

CONTACT:  Jack Ferry, +1-248-991-6610, john.r.ferry@daimler.com

Web Site:  http://www.mercedes-benzfinancial.com/

AT&T Investment in Florida Network Aimed at Enhancing Mobile Broadband Service Across the State

Plans Call for Addition of More Than 65 New Cell Sites and the Expansion of Backhaul to Increase Wireless Network Capacity

MIAMI, March 3 -- AT&T* today unveiled its Florida wireless network investment plans for 2010, which include the addition of more than 65 new cell sites and the upgrade of nearly 200 additional cell sites to 3G throughout the state.

The planned wireless network enhancement strategy is part of AT&T's 2010 wireline and wireless capital investment, which is expected to be in the $18 billion to $19 billion range companywide, an increase of between 5 and 10 percent over 2009. This planned amount also includes an increase of about $2 billion in capital expenditures for wireless and backhaul related to AT&T's wireless network. This planned level of investment is framed by the expectation that regulatory and legislative decisions relating to the telecom sector will continue to be sensitive to investment.

"Investment in the state's broadband networks is critical to keeping Florida competitive and providing our citizens with the best technology," said Senate President-Designate Mike Haridopolos. "Expanding and enhancing the mobile broadband network extends the benefits of broadband access to many consumers who are relying more and more on wireless technology to access the Internet."

Today's announcement builds on AT&T's 2009 wireless investment, during which it added 65 new cell sites in Florida and upgraded nearly 250 existing sites to 3G. From 2007 through 2009, AT&T's total capital investment in its Florida wireless and wireline networks was nearly $2.8 billion. From 2007 through 2009, AT&T's wireless network investment in Florida was more than $550 million.

"By advancing public policy that encourages companies like AT&T to invest in our state, the Florida legislature and Governor Crist are providing the leadership that will keep Florida competitive," said Marshall Criser, III, AT&T president, Florida. "This investment translates into good jobs, the tools to succeed in the global marketplace and a rising quality of life for all Floridians."

Internet usage growth has brought tremendous benefits for consumers, but requires tremendous investments in infrastructure.  This significant investment in infrastructure and jobs is possible due to policy that enables companies to compete and offer the innovative services that consumers are increasingly demanding. AT&T has been working with policy makers to support a national broadband plan that enables broadband adoption and ensures broadband access to every American by 2014.

Wireless data traffic on the AT&T network has grown more than 5,000 percent over the past three years, largely attributed to today's advanced smartphones that are generating dramatically increasing volumes of network traffic.  In fact, roughly 40 percent of AT&T's postpaid customer base uses a smartphone today, representing twice the number of smartphone customers than any other U.S. provider.

AT&T recently completed a software upgrade at 3G cell sites nationwide that prepares the nation's fastest 3G network for even faster speeds. The deployment of High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) 7.2 technology is the first of multiple initiatives in AT&T's network enhancement strategy designed to provide customers with an enhanced mobile broadband experience, both today and well into the future.

Faster 3G speeds are scheduled to become available this year and in 2011 as AT&T combines the new technology with our second initiative to dramatically increase the number of high-speed backhaul connections to cell sites, primarily with fiber-optic connections, adding capacity from cell sites to the AT&T backbone network.

The backhaul upgrades are also a key step in the evolution toward next-generation LTE mobile broadband technology.  AT&T is designing its new backhaul deployments to accommodate both faster 3G and future LTE deployments. AT&T currently plans to begin trials of LTE technology this year, and to begin LTE deployment in 2011, matching industry time lines for broader availability of compelling devices and supporting network equipment.

AT&T's 3G mobile broadband network is based on the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) family of technologies that includes GSM and UMTS, the most open and widely used wireless network platforms in the world. AT&T offers 3G data roaming in more than 115 countries, as well as voice calling in more than 220 countries. The technology also provides customers the ability to talk and surf the Internet at the same time.

AT&T is also an industry leader in Wi-Fi with the nation's largest Wi-Fi network, which complements its wired broadband and wireless 3G networks, offering Wi-Fi connectivity in more than 20,000 U.S. hotspots -- including retail stores and restaurants from coast-to-coast. A full list of AT&T Wi-Fi locations is available at http://www.attwifi.com.

AT&T operates 170 AT&T-owned retail locations in Florida. AT&T's products and services are also available at a number of other authorized dealers and national retail locations.

For more information about AT&T's wireless coverage in Florida or anywhere in the United States, consumers can go to http://www.wireless.att.com/coverageviewer/.  The online tool can measure the quality of coverage based on a street address, intersection, ZIP code or even a landmark.

*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.

Largest Wi-Fi network claim based on non-municipal company and owned and operated hotspots. A Wi-Fi enabled device required. Other restrictions apply. See http://www.attwifi.com for additional services, details and locations.

About AT&T

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates - AT&T operating companies - are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. With a powerful array of network resources that includes the nation's fastest 3G network, AT&T is a leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet and voice services. AT&T 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's Yellow Pages and YELLOWPAGES.COM organizations are known for their leadership in directory publishing and advertising sales. In 2009, AT&T again ranked No. 1 in the telecommunications industry on FORTUNE® magazine's list of the World's Most Admired Companies.

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.

Cautionary Language Concerning Forward-Looking Statements

Information set forth in this press release contains financial estimates and other forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, and actual results might differ materially. A discussion of factors that may affect future results is contained in AT&T's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. AT&T disclaims any obligation to update and revise statements contained in this news release based on new information or otherwise.

© 2010 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. 3G service not available in all areas. AT&T, the AT&T logo and all other marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies.

Source: AT&T Inc.
   

CONTACT:  Kelly Starling, South & West Florida, +1-561-775-4259, Mobile,
+1-561-301-1414, kelly.starling@att.com, or Gretchen Schultz, Central & North
Florida, +1-407-237-3324, Mobile, +1-407-324-6009, gretchen.schultz@att.com,
or Sue Sperry, Panhandle, +1-504-830-1896, Mobile, +1-504-343-2350,
sue.sperry@att.com

Web Site:  http://www.att.com/

Percello to Demonstrate Unmatched Performance of PRC6100 at Femtocell Asia

SoC with Integrated DDR Increases Security While Reducing Overall Cost and Size

RA'ANANA, Israel, March 3 -- Percello Ltd., an Israeli fabless semiconductor company developing highly integrated and low-cost digital baseband processors for UMTS and LTE femtocells, will demonstrate the unmatched performance of its PRC6100, the industry's most integrated digital baseband system on a chip (SoC) for residential use, at Femtocell Asia 2010, March 8-9, 2010. The newest member of the Percello Aquilo(TM) femtocell SoC product line, the PRC6100 enables femtocell vendors to reduce cost, size and power of femtocells while ensuring security.

The PRC6100 maximizes digital integration on a single chip to deliver the lowest cost and greatest security available for an HSPA+ femtocell. The chip contains high speed MIPS24Kc CPU, peripherals, femtocell L1 engine (FLE) and embedded DDR memory. As a result, it does not require any external memory or digital parts on a four layer printed circuit board (PCB). The PRC6100 is compliant with 3GPP HNB specs. It supports at least eight users and offers HSPA+ data rates of 21.6 Mbps downstream and 5.76 Mbps upstream.

"The PRC6100 enables carriers to deploy HSPA+ femtocells that are smaller and cost much less than $100," said Yoav Volloch, vice president of Product Management at Percello. "In addition, the PRC6100 introduces new security standards for femtocell with its integrated DDRs."

  Samples of the PRC6100 are available.

  About Percello

Percello, a fabless semiconductor company, was founded to provide digital baseband solutions to address challenges of the 3G/HSDPA/HSUPA/HSPA+/LTE femtocell and picocell market: cost, power, level of integration, development time and flexibility. Percello has vast knowledge in silicon design, software and 3G/HSDPA/HSUPA/HSPA+/LTE communication systems. Percello's architecture combines programmable multi-processing DSPs and dedicated hardware accelerators. With this approach, Percello's solution reduces cost and power consumption, while minimizing risk. For more information about Percello, please visit http://www.percello.com.

Source: Percello Ltd.
   

CONTACT:  Theresa Maloney of Cogenta Communications, +1-925-287-1509,
theresa@cogentacom.com, for Percello Ltd.

Web Site:  http://www.percello.com/

Huntkey Show at CeBIT a Great Success

HANNOVER, Germany, March 3 -- Huntkey took its line-up products and gave audiences a great show at CeBIT this year. "Providing customers with safe, stable, and functional products is Huntkey's aim," Alva Li, Huntkey Global Marketing Manager said. This year, Huntkey has stayed true to its mission, with its blue and white fresh design distinguishing it from so many booths. Besides power supply and PC cases, Huntkey has its first consumer products display in CeBIT.

The 80PLUS power supply ranges from 350W to 1200W. All of them have no more than 20% power consumption. The 1200W 80PLUS Gold power supply has no more than 13% power consumption when it is used, which means it is more energy saving, more environmentally friendly and more economical. In addition, the X7 900W certified 80PLUS SILVER again attracts many visitors because it has 900W rated power with better quality but a more competitive price.

As for PC cases, besides the traditional middle-end stable case, Huntkey is also featuring a Mini-ITX case and gamer-looking cases such as the H403 and H202. Both black cool designs meet most DIY users' tastes. Moreover, H202 has a fire-new ventilation design, brilliant LED lighting design and LED display screen. Larger extending room makes it highly attractive to gamers.

As for consumer products, Huntkey showed not only universal "green" notebook adapters and power strips, but also multi-functional chargers. Some of these chargers have USB functions and some of them are made just for the iPad and iPhone. They follows the trends of the "Apple." In terms of power strips, Huntkey has also taken this opportunity to show consumers the highly functional nature of the company's products. Power strips with USB function, smart master-slave control function (automatic power on/off for computer peripherals) and with surge protection for both Net and TV are suitable for home-users.

For more detailed information, please visit the Huntkey booth at Hall 17 K12.

  For more information, please contact:

   Alva Li
   Email: markets@huntkey.com
   Web:   http://www.huntkeydiy.com/

Source: Huntkey Enterprise Group
   

CONTACT: Alva Li, +86-755-8960-6654, or markets@huntkey.com

Web site: http://www.huntkeydiy.com/

China 3C Group CEO Elected Vice Chairman of Jinhua Enterprise Association in Hangzhou

HANGZHOU, China, March 3 -- China 3C Group ("China 3C" or the "Company")  (BULLETIN BOARD: CHCG) , a retailer and wholesale distributor of consumer and business products in China, today announced that Mr. Zhenggang Wang, CEO of China 3C Group, was elected Vice Chairman of Jinhua Enterprise Association in Hangzhou city.

Jinhua Enterprise Association in Hangzhou has a membership network of about 400 corporate entities. The objectives of the association are to bring together enterprise owners from Jinhua city to advance the economic development of Jinhua. The association holds conferences, seminars and discussion panels to promote communication and cooperation between enterprises in Jinhua and Hangzhou. The association also organizes product exhibitions and trade fairs to help member enterprises market their products.

Mr. Zhenggang Wang commented, "It is a great honor to serve the fellow members of the association. The association is truly a business resource center for our members. Our goal is to help member companies reach their maximum potentials."

About China 3C Group

China 3C is a leading wholesale distributor and retailer of 3C merchandise: computers, communication products and consumer electronics. The Company specializes in wholesale distribution and retail sales of 3C products in Eastern China, focusing on products that make life more comfortable, convenient and connected. The Company's goal is to become the number one retailer of 3C products in China. For more information, visit http://www.china3cgroup.com/ .

Source: China 3C Group
   

CONTACT: Investors Relations, China 3C Group, +86-571-8160-3666, or
ir@china3cgroup.com

Web site: http://www.china3cgroup.com/

Universal Travel Group to Present at the Rodman & Renshaw Annual China Investment Conference

SHENZHEN, China, March 3 -- Universal Travel Group (NYSE:UTA) ("Universal Travel Group" or the "Company"), a growing travel services provider in China offering package tours, air ticketing, and hotel reservation services online and via customer service representatives, today announced the Company's management team will present at the upcoming Rodman & Renshaw Annual China Investment Conference in Beijing, China.

The date, time and location of Universal Travel Group's presentation at the Rodman & Renshaw Annual China Investment Conference are as follows:

  Date:         Tuesday, March 9, 2010
  Time:         12:20 PM Beijing Time, Ballroom I
  Presenter:    Philip Zhang, Chief Financial Officer
  Venue:        The Regent Hotel
                99 Jinbao Street
                Beijing, China

The Rodman & Renshaw Annual China Investment Conference is a three-day conference that brings together executives from more than 130 U.S.-listed Chinese companies. This event is designed to provide investors with access to companies across a variety of sectors, including agriculture, auto, cleantech & energy, consumer, retail, education, healthcare, industrial and technology. The conference combines company presentations, management one-on-one meetings, and daily networking opportunities over breakfast, lunch and cocktails to provide institutional clients with extensive interaction with senior management. Interested parties and investors who wish to meet with Universal Travel Group's management may contact Rodman & Renshaw.

About Universal Travel Group

Universal Travel Group is a leading travel services provider in China offering package tours, air ticketing, and hotel reservation services via the Internet and customer service representatives. The Company also operates TRIPEASY Kiosks, which are placed in shopping malls, office buildings, residential apartment buildings, and tourist sites. These kiosks are designed for travel booking with credit and bank cards, and serve as an advertising platform for Universal Travel Group. The Company's headquarters and main base of operations is in Shenzhen in the Pearl River Delta region of China. More recently, Universal Travel Group has expanded its business into Western China, opening a second home base in the Chongqing Delta region, and other attractive, under-penetrated tier-two travel markets throughout the country. For more information on the Company, please visit http://us.cnutg.com/ .

  For more information, please contact:

  Company Contact:
   Mr. Jing Xie
   Secretary of Board and Vice President
   Universal Travel Group
   Phone: +86-755-8366-8489
   Email: 06@cnutg.cn
   Web:   http://us.cnutg.com/

  Investor Relations Contact:
  CCG Investor Relations
   Mr. Athan Dounis, Account Manager
   Phone: +1-646-213-1916
   Email: athan.dounis@ccgir.com

   Mr. Crocker Coulson, President
   Phone: +1-646-213-1915
   Email: crocker.coulson@ccgir.com
   Web:   http://www.ccgirasia.com/

Source: Universal Travel Group
   

CONTACT: Company Contact: Mr. Jing Xie, Secretary of Board and Vice
President, Universal Travel Group, +86-755-8366-8489, or 06@cnutg.cn; or
Investor Relations Contact: CCG Investor Relations, Mr. Athan Dounis, Account
Manager, +1-646-213-1916, or athan.dounis@ccgir.com; or Mr. Crocker Coulson,
President, +1-646-213-1915, or crocker.coulson@ccgir.com

Web site: http://us.cnutg.com/
http://www.ccgirasia.com/

Autonomy Interwoven First to Deliver Integrated Web Content Management, Search, Optimization, and Rich Media on a Single Platform

Hundreds of Customers Now Leveraging Modern Web Capabilities of TeamSite, LiveSite, and Virage MediaBin 7.1

CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, March 3, 2010--     Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader
in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced significant
enhancements to the company's flagship line of web content management (WCM)
platform. Powered by Autonomy's Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL),
Autonomy Interwoven TeamSite, LiveSite, and Virage MediaBin include new
capabilities designed to enable a modern, next-generation web experience. To
date, hundreds of customers worldwide - including American Medical
Association, Arkema, BNP Paribas, Fidelity International, and Loma Linda
University Medical Center - are leveraging the new release of TeamSite,
LiveSite, and Virage MediaBin to deliver an intelligent and engaging global
web presence.

    "Autonomy Interwoven's web content management platform plays a
vital role in allowing us to provide a contextually rich and engaging
customer experience," said Nick Abruzzo, Vice President of Interactive
Marketing at American Medical Association. "We are leveraging Autonomy
Interwoven's WCM solution and IDOL site search engine to create a world-class
web presence. The web solution was chosen by IT and marketing because of its
ability to meet our needs today - and for years to come."

    Autonomy Interwoven - the Platform for the Modern Web

    Autonomy Interwoven's web content management platform contains
all the elements required to deliver a modern, next-generation web
experience, including new capabilities to support global deployments,
leverage rich media, and deliver highly targeted and optimized content. The
new platform includes the following innovations:

    Rapidly Rollout a Global Web Presence

   
    - Global Web Presence - the new version of TeamSite provides
      dependency management, automatic language detection, and clustering of
      conceptually related content. This means new content will always be
      accurately and consistently represented in each region.

    - Allow Marketers to Create Websites Faster - the new WCM
      platform provides marketers with new surf-and-edit capabilities like
      keyword shortcuts, fixed area layout and in-line editing for
      unsurpassed usability. Additionally, the platform provides seamless
      integration with Microsoft Office, such as Outlook for task-based
      approval and alerts.

    - Streamlined Installation - the platform also provides
      streamlined installation and administration capabilities through a
      consolidated administration console.

    Automatically Deliver Targeted, Dynamic Content to Any Channel

   
    - Agnostic Dynamic Content Delivery - LiveSite delivers
      industry-first agnostic content delivery capabilities which allow
      marketers to dynamically display content to any display environment,
      including portal, Flash, AJAX, and .NET. This is a huge benefit to
      today's global organizations, which manage distributed IT environments,
      and struggle to deliver relevant, dynamic content to portals, ecommerce
      sites, and mobile applications.

    - Dynamic Targeting - the platform provides the full spectrum
      of implicit and explicit targeting capabilities across all channels,
      including web, contact center, and social media. Unlike other marketing
      technologies, Autonomy automatically tags and forms a conceptual
      understanding of all content, inside and outside a corporation. This
      underlying capability allows businesses to instantly deliver more
      relevant, targeted content to customers.

    - Integrated Ecommerce - the WCM platform provides out-of-the
      box capabilities for intelligent recommendations, directed navigation,
      merchandising, and advanced search marketing.

    - Integrated WCM and Optimization - Autonomy Interwoven is the
      only platform that combines WCM and Multivariate Testing in a single
      interface. Announced in Q2 of 2009, this combination allows marketers
      to quickly make adjustments that lead to proven increases in online
      conversions.

    Create a Visually Stunning Web Presence

   
    - Intelligent Use of Rich Media Content - the platform
      leverages Autonomy Virage MediaBin rich media analytics to obtain a
      conceptual understanding of all images or videos, regardless of format
      or language. The system automatically tags all content and presents
      digital assets through a new rich media interface, allowing marketers
      and agency partners to more quickly and easily find and present the
      right image, every time.

    - Ease-of-Use Enhancements - Virage MediaBin also includes a
      new lightweight, browser-based graphics file editor that allows
      marketers to edit, resize, crop, and adjust brightness and color of
      logos and other images directly on a web page.

    Benefit from a Powerful, Meaning-Based Architecture

   
    - Autonomy Interwoven is the industry's only marketing
      platform that combines a meaning-based architecture - based on IDOL ?
      with world-class web content solutions. As a result, Autonomy
      Interwoven is uniquely positioned to deliver a comprehensive marketing
      platform that enables businesses to automatically gain insight on all
      forms of information, act on new opportunities as they emerge, and
      continually optimize these interactions to maximize results.

    - With IDOL as the underlying architecture, customers benefit
      from world-class reliability, scalability, and high-performance,
      capable of evolving as their IT environment and overall web presence
      becomes more complex.

    "As the global economy shifts towards an upturn, marketers
have a tremendous opportunity to deepen customer engagement to drive their
business," said Rafiq Mohammadi, CEO of Autonomy Interwoven. "Autonomy
Interwoven is the only company that provides a platform to allow businesses
to truly understand their customers, act on these insights, and continually
optimize their web presence to maximize results. We are very pleased with the
positive market adoption of TeamSite, LiveSite, and Virage MediaBin 7.1, and
look forward to working with our customers as they deliver world-class,
modern web experiences."

    For more information please visit
http://www.interwoven.com/wcm.

    About Autonomy Interwoven

    Autonomy Interwoven, the leader in web content management,
leverages its unique meaning-based technology to deliver the most
comprehensive suite of marketing optimization and customer interaction
solutions. Our flagship products, TeamSite and Optimost, enable marketers to
increase results by automatically delivering the right combination of content
and offers by understanding the intentions and profile of each customer. This
Meaning Based Marketing approach produces the most engaging, timely and
profitable customer experiences regardless of whether people interact with
your organization by phone, Web, email, chat, or social networks. Unlike
legacy approaches that analyze historical trends, Autonomy Interwoven does
not require tagging, enabling marketing and IT professionals to work on
higher value activities. Automated capabilities such as multivariable testing
(MVT), segmentation and targeting, product recommendations, and advanced
analytics provide advanced functions that increase conversion rates, sales,
customer engagement and lifetime value while automating processes to lower
costs and increase marketing agility.

    Autonomy Interwoven powers the world's leading corporate
websites, media and ecommerce sites with 9 of the top 10 global brands
relying on Autonomy Interwoven to maximize their marketing and customer
interactions. Autonomy's customer base is comprised of more than 20,000
organizations, including Adidas, Allstate, the American Medical Association,
AT&T, Avaya, Bank of America, BT, Channel 4, Delta Air Lines, Discovery
Communications, FedEx, Ford, Konica Minolta, Lenovo, McAfee, Qantas Airways,
Schneider Electric, Shutterfly, Tesco and Virgin Mobile.

    Please visit http://www.autonomy.com/interwoven to learn more.

   
    Autonomy Editorial Contacts:
   
    Randy Cairns
    Autonomy (US)
    +1-408-953-7111
    randy.cairns@autonomy.com

    Ian Bain
    The Red Consultancy (US)
    +1-415-618-8806
    ian.bain@redconsultancy.com

    Edward Bridges
    Financial Dynamics (UK)
    +44-207-831-3113
    edward.bridges@fd.com

    David Vindel
    The Red Consultancy (UK)
    +44-207-025-6529
    david.vindel@redconsultancy.com

Source: Autonomy Corporation plc

Autonomy Editorial Contacts: Randy Cairns, Autonomy (US), +1-408-953-7111, randy.cairns@autonomy.com . Ian Bain, The Red Consultancy (US), +1-415-618-8806, ian.bain@redconsultancy.com . Edward Bridges, Financial Dynamics (UK), +44-207-831-3113, edward.bridges@fd.com . David Vindel, The Red Consultancy (UK), +44-207-025-6529, david.vindel@redconsultancy.com

Autonomy Delivers New Innovations Across Meaning Based Marketing Platform

Autonomy Reshapes Marketing Landscape with New Analytics Visualization, Self-Service, and Multichannel Optimization Solutions

CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, March 3, 2010--     Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader
in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced significant
innovations across the company's Meaning Based Marketing platform - allowing
businesses to understand, act on, and optimize all forms of information.
Based on Autonomy's ability to automatically identify concepts in structured
and unstructured information, Autonomy's Meaning Based Marketing platform is
uniquely enabled to handle the scale, complexity, and speed required to
succeed in the modern era. As a result, marketers are increasingly turning to
Autonomy's end-to-end marketing platform as an engine to engage customers,
capitalize on emerging opportunities, and drive growth and profits for their
businesses.

    "As host of CMO CLUB dinners around the world, I hear from
Chief Marketing Officers every day about how their job is becoming more and
more difficult," said Pete Krainik, Founder, The CMO CLUB. "They are
overwhelmed with the exponential growth of new forms of information -
especially social networks and video - and how to bring all this data
together to move quickly on business opportunities and protect their brand.
I'm hearing lots of excitement from club members about Autonomy's Meaning
Based Marketing platform for allowing marketers to see what is really
happening inside and outside their business, act quickly on the information,
and deliver the revenue and customer engagement results they need."

    Marketers today enjoy thrilling new opportunities - as well as
significant risks. A new world has opened up for marketers - in the form of
social media, video, and blogs - however businesses still struggle to
identify the useful information amidst the ocean of data generated in these
networks every day. Businesses have invested billions in CRM, business
intelligence, contact center, demographic, and campaign management systems,
but find it challenging to link data between these legacy systems and social
networks in order to act on new opportunities or risks to their business. A
small amount of chatter about a company's product today can yield a sales
bonanza if recognized and acted on quickly, and likewise can turn into a
major reputation hit if overlooked and unmanaged.

    Autonomy's Meaning Based Marketing platform is built for the
next-generation of marketers looking to understand, act on, and optimize all
forms of information - linking together internal systems with external data
in order to deliver the most compelling and targeted data to customers across
every channel. Autonomy has delivered several significant innovations,
including new self-service modules, across every part of the company's
integrated, comprehensive platform.

    Automatically Understand All Forms of Customer Information

    At the core of Autonomy's Meaning Based Marketing platform is
the Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) which allows businesses to
automatically detect, analyze, and act on concepts, allowing computers to see
patterns in information the way people do. This unique technology is based on
hundreds of patents and powers a wide range of applications with over 20,000
customers around the world.

    Autonomy has delivered a new console, called Explore, which
provides marketers with a visualization interface to Autonomy IDOL's deep
analytics capabilities. Autonomy Explore provides marketers with the
following:

   
    - A new analytics visualization console, which connects to every
      customer touchpoint, including social networks, contact centers, and
      the web.
    - Discovers patterns, trends, and sentiment across all channels inside
      and outside an enterprise.
    - Includes out of the box widgets for automatically categorizing and
      understanding market trends and clusters of customers.

    Automatically Act on Insights to Win Market Share and Manage Reputation

    Autonomy provides the most comprehensive platform for allowing
marketers to automatically act on the insight obtained from all customer
touchpoints, whenever and wherever interactions take place. This includes
information from internal systems, like corporate websites, as well as
external sources like social media networks. Autonomy has added significant
enhancements to the company's web content management, rich media management,
and contact center solutions.

    Autonomy Interwoven Web Content Management

   
    - Interwoven TeamSite - new dependency management and automatics
      language detection capabilities to support global web deployments,
      as well as several surf and edit enhancements such as keyword
      shortcuts, fixed area layout and in-line editing for unsurpassed
      usability. The product also includes new desktop tools to allow
      seamless integration with Microsoft Office.

    - Interwoven LiveSite - industry-first agnostic content delivery
      capabilities which allow marketers to dynamically display content to
      any display environment, including portal, Flash, AJAX, and .NET.
      The new version of LiveSite also allows marketers to more easily
      leverage Autonomy's full spectrum of capabilities, including explicit
      and implicit targeting.

    - Editors note: to see today's press release on the new version of
      Autonomy TeamSite and LiveSite, please visit:
      http://www.autonomy.com/content/News/Releases/2010/index.en.html.

    Autonomy Virage Rich Media Management

   
    - VirageMediaBin - Autonomy's market-leading technology includes new
      capabilities that automatically tag and classify any image or video,
      regardless of format or language. This allows marketers to more
      quickly and easily find the right image through a new rich media
      interface, allowing them to deliver more accurate, relevant, and
      brand-consistent content to customers.

    Autonomy eTalk Contact Center Solutions

   
    - eTalk Qfiniti - provides active "listening" across all customer
      interactions - including contact center, website, email, in-store,
      and social media. Autonomy etalk's Qfiniti platform for the contact
      center provides the most advanced speech analytics of enterprise voice
      and chat interactions. Autonomy's IDOL platform provides intelligent
      connectors to all forms of data - including unstructured - to bring
      back analysis that can be leveraged across an organization.

    Automatically Optimize Customer Interactions Across All Customer
Touchpoints

    Autonomy's Multichannel Optimization solution combines
meaning-based technology with Autonomy Optimost's multivariate testing
technology to ensure businesses deliver the most compelling combination
targeted content to customers across all channels.

   
    - Autonomy has added an intuitive self-service console to its
      Optimost offering, allowing customers to choose between managed
      service offerings as well as self-service. The new user interface
      includes a marketing dashboard, as well as a new experiment
      authoring process.

    - Now customers can more easily test and optimize content between
      customer touchpoints. For instance, a marketer managing a potentially
      damaging product recall can seamlessly test the most effective
      message and content across the company's contact center, web, and
      in-store channels.

    - Optimost Adaptive Targeting provides new analytics capabilities to
      mine all major types of customer attributes to create customer
      segments, including context (how the visitor arrives at the Website,
      e.g. search keyword), geography, time of day, and demographic,
      behavior, and account profile information. Once customer segments
      are created, multivariate tests are conducted on an unlimited number
      of copy ideas, offers, and layouts to determine the best solution
      for each audience segment.

    To learn more about Autonomy's Meaning Based Marketing platform, please
visit http://www.interwoven.com/mbm.

    About Autonomy

    Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader
in infrastructure software for the enterprise, spearheads the Meaning Based
Computing movement. IDC recently recognized Autonomy as having the largest
market share and fastest growth in the worldwide search and discovery market.
Autonomy's technology allows computers to harness the full richness of human
information, forming a conceptual and contextual understanding of any piece
of electronic data, including unstructured information, such as text, email,
web pages, voice, or video. Autonomy's software powers the full spectrum of
mission-critical enterprise applications including pan-enterprise search,
customer interaction solutions, information governance, end-to-end
eDiscovery, records management, archiving, business process management, web
content management, web optimization, rich media management and video and
audio analysis.

    Autonomy's customer base is comprised of more than 20,000
global companies, law firms and federal agencies including: AOL, BAE Systems,
BBC, Bloomberg, Boeing, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Daimler AG, Deutsche Bank, DLA
Piper, Ericsson, FedEx, Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Lloyds Banking Group, NASA,
Nestle, the New York Stock Exchange, Reuters, Shell, Tesco, T-Mobile, the
U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. More than 400 companies OEM Autonomy
technology, including Symantec, Citrix, HP, Novell, Oracle, Sybase and TIBCO.
The company has offices worldwide. Please visit http://www.autonomy.com to
find out more.

    Autonomy and the Autonomy logo are registered trademarks or
trademarks of Autonomy Corporation plc. All other trademarks are the property
of their respective owners.

   
    Autonomy Editorial Contacts:

    Randy Cairns                    Ian Bain
    Autonomy (US)                   The Red Consultancy (US)
    +1-408-953-7111                 +1-415-618-8806
    randy.cairns@autonomy.com       ian.bain@redconsultancy.com


    Edward Bridges                  David Vindel
    Financial Dynamics (UK)         The Red Consultancy (UK)
    +44-207-831-3113                +44-207-025-6529
    edward.bridges@fd.com           david.vindel@redconsultancy.com

Source: Autonomy Corporation plc

Autonomy Editorial Contacts: Randy Cairns, Autonomy (US), +1-408-953-7111, randy.cairns@autonomy.com; Edward Bridges, Financial Dynamics (UK), +44-207-831-3113, edward.bridges@fd.com; Ian Bain, The Red Consultancy (US), +1-415-618-8806, ian.bain@redconsultancy.com; David Vindel, The Red Consultancy (UK), +44-207-025-6529, david.vindel@redconsultancy.com

Valeo Joins GENIVI Alliance for the Development of Vehicle Infotainment Solutions

PARIS, March 3, 2010--     Valeo announces that it has become a core member of the GENIVI
Alliance, an association of automakers, suppliers and other industrial
companies committed to the development and broad adoption of an open source
In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) reference platform for the automotive industry.

    IVI is a constantly evolving field that encompasses automotive
infotainment products and services such as music, news, multimedia,
navigation, telephone and the Internet. Connections can be made via sources
outside of the vehicle, including mobile phones and MP3 players using
Bluetooth, WIFI or other means.

    Valeo, as a major supplier of driver interface solutions, aims
to provide correspondent hardware and software platforms enabling advanced
connectivity and driver interface technologies. Valeo has been anticipating
this architectural evolution for several years in the development of its
product offer which includes integrated control panel modules combining
climate control and various other functions, tactile surfaces and large touch
screens with haptics feedback.

    The GENIVI Alliance is driving the development and adoption of
advanced IVI systems, which will increase the demand for new connectivity
solutions. By joining the Alliance, Valeo will help accelerate the pace at
which these new solutions can be made available to automakers.

    Valeo is an independent industrial Group fully focused on the
design, production and sale of components, integrated systems and modules for
cars and trucks. Valeo ranks among the world's top automotive suppliers. The
Group has 120 plants, 21 Research centers, 40 Development centers, 10
distribution platforms and employs 52,200 people in 27 countries worldwide.

    For more information about the Valeo Group and its activities,
please visit our web site http://www.valeo.com.

Source: Valeo

For additional information, please contact: Kate Philipps, Valeo Group Communications Director, Tel.: +33-1-40-55-20-65. Sylvie Delion, Product Media Relations, Tel.: +33-1-40-55-20-96.

RADCOM to Supply UMTS Monitoring Expansion to Cellcom Israel

Cellcom Israel Expands Deployment of RADCOM's RANalysis to  Cover Cellcom Israel's Entire UMTS Network

TEL AVIV, Israel, March 3, 2010--     RADCOM, Ltd.(NASDAQ: RDCM), a leading network test and service assurance
solution provider, today announced that Cellcom Israel, the largest cellular
communications operator in Israel, has decided to expand deployment of
RADCOM's RANalysis to monitor and optimize its entire UMTS radio network.
RANalysis is a world leader in radio optimization of UMTS networks.

     (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090331/342930)

    Cellcom Israel previously selected RANalysis to optimize the service
quality of its UMTS network. This expanded RANalysis deployment throughout
Cellcom Israel's complete UMTS radio network, means that RANalysis is now
part of all the site deployments done by Cellcom Israel. Cellcom Israel's
expansion proves it satisfaction with RADCOM's solution, which enabled
Cellcom Israel to optimize its mobile data network.

    RADCOM's RANalysis provides a complete solution to the challenges of UMTS
network maintenance, such as neighboring interference, pilot pollution and
handover issues. In addition, it provides a solution to the challenges that
operators face today with the advent of Smartphones that present a heavy load
on network resources. It is a multi-user application that offers critical
performance data for all of the cells simultaneously. Cellular operators use
RANalysis to facilitate the daily task of tuning the Radio Access Network
(RAN) to support subscribers' changing needs. RADCOM's solution has already
helped Cellcom Israel save engineering resources due to the trouble-free
maintenance it provides.

    "We have been very pleased with the RADCOM solution, which is why we are
expanding coverage to our whole UMTS RAN," said Baruch Bar, Radio System
Engineering Department Manager at Cellcom Israel. "RANalysis has simply
streamlined the work of the radio group and removed many of the challenges of
radio network monitoring. By allowing engineers to isolate problems and their
sources efficiently, it has simplified our job of troubleshooting network
faults, which means that our customers are getting better service."

    "Not only does the RADCOM solution provide monitoring of specific cells,
it also identifies which of several common problems is adversely affecting
service quality," said Adar Eyal, RADCOM's VP European Sales and Worldwide
Strategic Alliances, "RANalysis is an extremely effective everyday tool that
gives rapid return on investment due to its ability to quickly reflect
subscriber experience."

    About RADCOM

    RADCOM develops, manufactures, markets and supports innovative network
test and service assurance solutions for communications service providers and
equipment vendors. The Company specializes in next-generation Cellular as
well as IMS, Voice, Data and VoIP networks. Its solutions are used in the
development and installation of network equipment and in the maintenance of
operational networks. The Company's products facilitate fault management,
network service performance monitoring and analysis, troubleshooting and
pre-mediation. RADCOM's shares are listed on the NASDAQ Capital Market under
the symbol RDCM. For more information, please visit http://www.RADCOM.com.

    Risks Regarding Forward Looking Statements

    Certain statements made herein that use the words "estimate," "project,"
"intend," "expect", "believe" and similar expressions are intended to
identify forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements
involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties which could cause the
actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially
different from those which may be expressed or implied by such statements,
including, among others, changes in general economic and business conditions
and specifically, decline in demand to the Company's products, inability to
timely develop and introduce new technologies, products and applications and
loss of market share and pressure on prices resulting from competition. For
additional information regarding these and other risks and uncertainties
associated with the Company's business, reference is made to the Company's
reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Company does not undertake to update forward-looking statements.

   
    Contact:
    Eyal Harari
    VP Products and Marketing
    +972-3-7668248
    eyalh@radcom.com

Photo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090331/342930

Source: Radcom Ltd

Contact: Eyal Harari, VP Products and Marketing, +972-3-7668248, eyalh@radcom.com

Rabbit Introduces Industry's First Wireless Communications and Control System on Chip for Industrial Automation Applications

- Easy-to-use, ultra-compact MiniCore networking modules to be released based on new chip -

MINNETONKA, Minn., March 3 -- Rabbit, a Digi International (NASDAQ:DGII) brand, today introduced the Rabbit 6000, the industry's first embedded wireless communications and control System on Chip (SoC) ideal for industrial automation applications.  The Rabbit 6000 combines wireless communications and an industrial control feature set on a single chip to reduce the time to market of network-enabled industrial devices.  Rabbit will release versions of its popular MiniCore series of easy-to-use, ultra- compact, low-profile, low-cost networking modules based on this new processor.

(Logo: http://www.prnasia.com/xprn/sa/200706131247.jpg )

"This chip allows us to further expand our MiniCore series and offer modules designed specifically for flexible networking and control of industrial devices," said Larry Kraft, senior vice president of global sales and marketing, Digi International.  "The networking speed performance of the new MiniCore modules will be six times faster than previous MiniCore modules, and the already low power requirements will be reduced."

The Rabbit 6000 features integrated 10/100 Base-T Ethernet and secure 802.11a/b/g with WPA2 support for the highest levels of security.  It also offers an industrial control feature set that includes Pulse Width Modulation (PWM), Pulse Position Modulation (PPM) and Quadrature decoder outputs for efficient industrial motor control, and an on board analog-to-digital (A/D) converter with 12-bit resolution to enable measurement of sensor data such as water, temperature and humidity.  It also features USB 2.0 full-speed host and two on-board Flexible Interface Modules (FIMs) that enable further protocol support such as CANbus, Secure Digital (SD) and Secure Digital Input Output (SDIO).

Digi will introduce pin-compatible and interchangeable wired and wireless MiniCore modules based on the Rabbit 6000.  The MiniCore family provides a rich embedded feature set on an ultra-compact mini PCI Express form factor. Its small size makes it easy for customers to place wired or wireless network connectivity anywhere on a mother board.  Systems developers can easily interchange MiniCore family products to tailor connectivity for any given application.

Early adopter MiniCore development kits will be available in April.   For more information, visit http://www.rabbit.com/products/rab6000/ .

About Rabbit

Rabbit, a Digi International(R) brand, is a leading global provider of easy-to-use eight and 16-bit microprocessors, core modules and single board computers; and development tools for embedded control, communications, and Ethernet and wireless connectivity. Rabbit offers customers a complete embedded design system, including low-cost development kits and comprehensive technical support for both hardware and software issues.  For more information, visit http://www.rabbit.com/ .

All brand names and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

  Press Contact:

   Kylie Chan
   Channel Marketing Manager, Asia Pacific
   Digi International
   Tel:   +852-2833-1008
   Fax:   +852-2572-9989
   Email: kylie.chan@digi.com

Source: Digi International
   

CONTACT: Kylie Chan of Digi International, Channel Marketing Manager,
Asia Pacific, +852-2833-1008, fax, +852-2572-9989, kylie.chan@digi.com

Web site: http://www.rabbit.com/
http://www.rabbit.com/products/rab6000

Digi Launches Industry's First Foolproof Programmable ZigBee Module

- Isolated wireless software makes ZigBee development easy and fast -

MINNETONKA, Minn., March 3 -- Digi International (NASDAQ: DGII) today introduced the programmable XBee-PRO(R) ZB, the industry's first foolproof programmable ZigBee(R) module for easy and safe ZigBee application development.  Customer applications can be programmed directly on the module, eliminating the need and cost of a separate processor and reducing time-to- market.  Because the Digi-provided wireless software is isolated, customers can easily develop applications with no risk to RF performance and security. As part of iDigi(TM), customers can also use the iDigi platform to easily integrate XBee(R) ZigBee endpoints into their systems.

(Logo: http://www.prnasia.com/xprn/sa/200706131247.jpg )

"In other programmable modules, there is risk of upsetting radio firmware or certifications during customization because wireless code is comingled with core product code," said Larry Kraft, senior vice president of global sales and marketing, Digi International.  "The programmable XBee-PRO ZB enables application development without risk because the wireless software is isolated. We make it easy to deliver customized ZigBee applications without wireless design expertise, and iDigi makes it easy for customers to integrate those applications into their business systems."

A product designed using the programmable XBee-PRO ZB can be updated remotely with new ZigBee profiles, feature updates or security enhancements. Digi is also developing downloadable sample applications for developing Smart Energy Load Controllers, Smart Energy Simple Meters, Smart Energy Thermostats, iDigi endpoints, U-SNAP endpoints and for Modbus support over Ethernet.

The programmable XBee-PRO ZB features an 8-bit Freescale SO8 microprocessor and offers an outdoor RF line-of-sight range of up to one mile. XBee products are easy to use and share a common hardware footprint. Available in a variety of protocols for different applications, one XBee can be substituted for another with minimal development time or risk.

Programmable XBee-PRO ZB development kits will be available in April 2010 for US $299.  For more information about the programmable XBee-PRO ZB, visit http://www.digi.com/progxbee .  For more information about iDigi, visit http://www.idigi.com/ .

About Digi International

Digi International is making wireless M2M easy by developing reliable products and solutions to connect and securely manage local or remote electronic devices over the network or via the Web.  Digi offers the highest levels of performance, flexibility and quality, and markets its products through a global network of distributors and resellers, systems integrators and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).  For more information, visit Digi's Web site at http://www.digi.com/ , or call +852-2833-1008.

All brand names and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

  Press Contact:

   Kylie Chan
   Channel Marketing Manager, Asia Pacific
   Digi International
   Tel:   +852-2833-1008
   Fax:   +852-2572-9989
   Email: kylie.chan@digi.com

Source: Digi International
   

CONTACT: Kylie Chan of Digi International, Channel Marketing Manager,
Asia Pacific, +852-2833-1008, fax, +852-2572-9989, kylie.chan@digi.com

Web site: http://www.digi.com/progxbee
http://www.idigi.com/
http://www.digi.com/
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Amdocs Receives Highest Possible Overall Rating in BSS Market Report From Leading Analyst Firm

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, March 3, 2010--     Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), the leading provider of customer experience systems,
today announced that it received the highest possible overall rating of "Very
Strong" in Gartner's business support systems (BSS) vendor evaluation. This
was reported in the Gartner(1) Dataquest report published in December 2009
titled, "Dataquest Insight: Business Support System Market Overview and
Strategic Scorecard for Vendors, 2009."

    In May 2009, Gartner ranked Amdocs as the worldwide market share leader
in 2008 in the Telecommunications Software Management Systems marketplace,
based on total revenue from BSS, operational support systems (OSS) and
service delivery platforms (SDPs), in a report(2), titled, "Market Share:
Telecom Operations Management Systems (BSS, OSS and SDP), Worldwide,
2006-2008."

    In January Amdocs announced the new version of its product portfolio -
Amdocs CES 8 - the industry's most comprehensive portfolio of customer
experience systems (CES) spanning BSS, operational support systems (OSS) and
network-connected service delivery platforms (SDP). New BSS products
introduced can help service providers lower their operational costs and grow
their business profitably as they launch new services include:

   
    - Amdocs Convergent Charging (Turbo Charging) - A single,
      real-time charging product for both prepaid and postpaid services; set
      an industry record while measuring real-time charging for prepaid
      services on blade servers in a recent benchmark test that ran charging
      scenarios for 150 million subscribers, including 120 million prepaid
      subscribers, demonstrating the ability to process 276 million busy hour
      call attempts (BHCA) - executing 3,300 events per second per core; the
      product also supports the Linux/x86 operating system, and can run on
      multiple servers based on x86 processors;
    - Amdocs Universal Storefront - Delivers one e-commerce
      experience for all goods and services - from devices and accessories to
      pricing plans, ring tones and video by hiding the complexity of service
      providers' different offerings and configurations, allowing consumers
      to experience a familiar, simple shopping experience;
    - Amdocs BSS Pack - Off-the-shelf solution for rapid, low-risk
      deployment, pre-packaging products, services and business processes for
      convergent charging (based on Amdocs' Turbo Charging technology),
      ordering, CRM, self-service and a product catalog; can be deployed for
      trial within two weeks.

    Amdocs also received the highest possible overall rating of "Very Strong"
in Gartner's OSS vendor evaluation. This was reported in the Gartner(3)
Dataquest report published in January 2010 titled, "Dataquest Insight:
Operations Support System Market Overview and Strategic Scorecard for
Vendors, 2009."

    (1) Gartner: "Dataquest Insight: Business Support System Market Overview
and Strategic Scorecard for Vendors, 2009" by Norbert J. Scholz, December 22,
2009.

    (2) Gartner: "Market Share: Telecom Operations Management Systems (BSS,
OSS and SDP), Worldwide, 2006-2008" by Martina Kurth, Norbert J. Scholz,
Kamlesh Bhatia, May 5, 2009.

    (3) Gartner: "Dataquest Insight: Operations Support System Market
Overview and Strategic Scorecard for Vendors, 2009" Martina Kurth, January
13, 2010.

    About Amdocs

    Amdocs is the market leader in customer experience systems innovation.
The company combines business and operational support systems, service
delivery platforms, proven services, and deep industry expertise to enable
service providers and their customers to do more in the connected world.
Amdocs' offerings help service providers explore new business models,
differentiate through personalized customer experiences, and streamline
operations. A global company with revenue of $2.86 billion in fiscal 2009,
Amdocs has approximately 18,000 employees and serves customers in more than
60 countries worldwide. For more information, visit Amdocs
at http://www.amdocs.com.

    Amdocs' Forward-Looking Statement

    This press release includes information that constitutes forward-looking
statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provision of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about Amdocs'
growth and business results in future quarters. Although we believe the
expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon
reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will
be obtained or that any deviations will not be material. Such statements
involve risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to differ from
those anticipated. These risks include, but are not limited to, the effects
of general economic conditions, Amdocs' ability to grow in the business
segments it serves, adverse effects of market competition, rapid
technological shifts that may render the Company's products and services
obsolete, potential loss of a major customer, our ability to develop
long-term relationships with our customers, and risks associated with
operating businesses in the international market. Amdocs may elect to update
these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, however the
Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These and other risks
are discussed at greater length in the Company's filings with the Securities
and Exchange Commission, including in our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the
fiscal year ended September 30, 2009, filed on December 7, 2009 and our Form
6-K filed for the first quarter of fiscal 2010 on February 8, 2010.

    Web site: http://www.amdocs.com

Source: Amdocs

Contact: Garland Harwood of Weber Shandwick, +1-212-445-8373, gharwood@webershandwick.com, for Amdocs

QNB Chooses Misys BankFusion Equation to Underpin Banking Operations With Latest Technology

LONDON, March 3, 2010--     Misys plc (LSE: MSY), the global application software and
services company, today announced that QNB, the leading national bank in
Qatar, has licensed Misys BankFusion(TM) Equation to ensure it has the most
modern technology platform available to underpin its business strategy.

    QNB has the largest distribution network in Qatar, comprising
44 branches in addition to eleven Islamic branches and offices operated by
its Islamic banking subsidiary QNB Al Islami, and more than 160 ATMs. QNB's
international presence is rapidly expanding to include new locations around
the world to supplement long-established branches in London and Paris. The
Bank has affiliates and subsidiaries in 22 countries including, most recently
Syria and Switzerland where the Bank commenced operations in 2009.

    QNB is also among the highest rated regional banks according
to leading credit rating agencies including Standard & Poor's, Moody's,
Fitch, and Capital Intelligence.

    BankFusion Equation tailors business processes to the exact
requirements of each bank eliminating any constraints of underlying
technology. BankFusion Equation automatically generates the system's Java
code, significantly reducing manual input and errors and accelerating
solution modifications. This helps bring new solutions to market faster and
better serve customers.

    In this latest release of the solution, Equation has been
re-architected into an SOA environment using Misys' revolutionary
BankFusion(TM) platform. Misys BankFusion Equation provides improved security
and risk management capabilities as well as the flexibility to scale the
business rapidly when required.

    "QNB is one of the most advanced banking groups in the GCC
region and invests considerable resources in deploying innovative technology
and expertise to ensure the seamless delivery of its banking solutions to
customers," the bank states. "Advanced platforms such as BankFusion Equation
serve the strategic growth objectives of QNB Group by, most importantly,
providing an automated risk management framework, whilst seamlessly
integrating with existing systems and technologies."

    QNB is already a leader in modern banking solutions such as
straight through processing of foreign currency transactions and has won
awards from Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan for the quality of its Euro and
Dollar payments. The Bank is also one of the first institutions in Qatar to
have developed an integrated eBanking platform. Branded "EAZYLife", it is a
suite of internet, mobile, telephone and ATM banking solutions serving
customers in Qatar and abroad.

    Guy Warren, EVP and General Manager, Banking, Misys states,
"The ground-breaking technology in BankFusion Equation will allow QNB to
launch innovative new products and services quickly to the market. The
management team has chosen to invest in Misys, our BankFusion strategy and
the future roadmap of the solution. This gives them the most modern, flexible
next-generation core banking platform available on the market today to
underpin the bank's operations."

    About QNB

    Qatar National Bank (QNB), established in 1964 as the country's first
Qatari-owned commercial bank, has an ownership structure split between the
Qatar Investment Authority (50%) and the private sector (50%).

    QNB has steadily grown to be among the largest banks in the region and is
by far the leading financial institution in the country, with a market share
approaching 40% of banking sector assets.

    QNB offers a full range of Retail, Corporate, Investment, Treasury,
Wealth Management, and Islamic Banking products and services for individuals,
corporate institutions and government entities in Qatar as well as
internationally.

    QNB has the largest distribution network in Qatar, comprising 44 branches
and offices (including 3 mobile branches), in addition to 11 Islamic branches
and offices operated by QNB Al Islami, and more than 160 ATMs.

    QNB was the first conventional bank in Qatar to offer Shari'a-compliant
banking products and services through QNB Al Islami, established in 2005.

    QNB's international presence is rapidly expanding to include new
locations around the world to supplement long-established branches in London
and Paris. Currently QNB has presence in 22 countries including branches in
Yemen, Oman Kuwait & Singapore as well as Representative Offices in Iran &
Libya. An Islamic branch was inaugurated in Sudan during 2009, offering a
full range of Islamic banking services and products.

    QNB has also extended its regional reach by acquiring shares in various
financial institutions including 33.5% stake in the Jordan based, The Housing
Bank for Trade and Finance (HBTF), 23.8% of the shares of Commercial Bank
International (CBI) based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), 50% of the
Tunisian-Qatari bank and 20% stake in the Doha-based Al Jazeera Islamic
Company. QNB also retains 49% stake in QNB-Syria, a private stock company
established jointly with other Syrian private and public sector institutions
which started operations mid November 2009.

    The Bank recently established a new investment company "QNB Capital"
providing an array of investment banking services to corporate, government
and institutional clients within Qatar and globally. These include one of the
best corporate finance teams in the GCC region offering extensive transaction
experience, in depth advisory services - including mergers and acquisitions,
equity, debt and project advisory - as well as first-class research
capabilities.

    QNB is among the highest rated regional banks from leading credit rating
agencies including Standard & Poor's, Moody's, Fitch, and Capital
Intelligence. The Bank has also been the recipient of many awards from
leading international specialized financial publications for its innovative
products, services and remarkable performance.

    QNB has an active community support program and sponsors various social,
educational, and sporting events

    About Misys plc

    Misys plc (FTSE: MSY.L), provides integrated, comprehensive solutions
that deliver significant results to organisations in the financial services
and healthcare industries. We maximise value for our customers by combining
our deep knowledge of their business with our commitment to their success.

    In banking and treasury & capital markets, Misys is a market leader, with
over 1,200 customers, including all of the world's top 50 banks. In
healthcare, Misys plc owns a controlling stake in NASDAQ-listed
Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc, a clear leader in the provision
of healthcare technology, serving more than 150,000 physicians, 700 hospitals
and nearly 7,000 post-acute and homecare organisations. Misys employs around
6,000 people who serve customers in more than 120 countries.

    We aspire to be the world's best application software and services
company, delivering results for the most important industries in the world.

    Misys: experience, solutions, results

    Contact us today, visit: http://www.misys.com

   
    For further information please contact

    Edward Taylor
    Global Head of Public Relations
    Misys
    Solutions for Banking and Treasury & Capital Markets
    +44(0)20-3320-5530
    edward.taylor@misys.com

    Sebastian Mathews
    Financial Dynamics
    +44(0)207-269-7158
    sebastian.mathews@fd.com

    For further information, please contact QNB's Public Relations Department
at +974-4252477, Fax +974-4252589, email: PR@qnb.com.qa or visit the Bank's
website http://www.qnb.com.qa

Source: Misys plc

For further information please contact: Edward Taylor, Global Head of Public Relations, Misys, Solutions for Banking and Treasury & Capital Markets, +44(0)20-3320-5530, edward.taylor@misys.com; Sebastian Mathews, Financial Dynamics, +44(0)207-269-7158
    sebastian.mathews@fd.com

www.CyberDodo.org Launches Game to Fight Sexual Exploitation of Children

MONACO, March 3, 2010--     To explain International Day Against Sexual Exploitation,
http://www.CyberDodo.org (an interactive multimedia platform and family-oriented
educational site) is launching an international video game tournament on
March 4, 2010.

    Sexual exploitation is one of the most serious acts of aggression that
can be committed against a child - it's a crime! We are talking about child
prostitution for all human beings under the age of 18 who are active in the
sex trade, whether this be forced or voluntarily. Although it is difficult to
obtain exact figures, UNICEF estimates that more than 3 million children are
involved in prostitution throughout the world and that they represent over a
third of all sex workers in Asia.

    To let all victims of this hateful industry, which affects rich countries
as well as poor ones, know that they don't have to suffer, and that the
international Convention on the Rights of the Child protects them against all
kinds of abuse, http://www.CyberDodo.org has developed an extensive collection of
free multimedia content (already available in French, English, Spanish and
Arabic) whose originality lies in its ability to capture the interest of the
entire family by offering various formats (cartoons, video games, files,
quizzes, etc.).

    CyberDodo is a universal ambassador, unaffiliated with any race, gender,
religion, politics or social level, which broadcasts its message of
protection through the Internet, notably in partnership with the UN's Office
of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Interpol, who demonstrated
through Operation VICO that identified pedophiles no longer had refuge
anywhere.

    The object of the game, according to http://www.CyberDodo.org, is to save
virtual child victims from sexual exploitation. Thus informed, motivated and
convinced, each one of us can take concrete action to fight this scourge.

    CyberDodo's slogan is "Because freedom is born of knowledge". A
non-profit initiative, CyberDodo is supported by major international
organizations. To find the press release and links, click here:

http://en.cyberdodo.com/files/international-day-against-sexual-exploitation/

    Contact : contact (at) cyberdodo.com and http://www.CyberDodo.org

Source: CyberDodo

Contact Cyberdodo : Alice Martin +377-93-30-27-18, cell +377(0)680-86-65-16, alicemartin (at) cyberdodo.com

Intel, Orange Collaborate on MeeGo* Platform to Deliver a New Mobile Multimedia Experience on Intel(R) Atom(TM) Processor Based Devices

SWINDON, England and PARIS, March 3, 2010--     Intel and Orange today announced a strategic agreement to deliver Orange
multimedia services across a number of devices based on the Intel(R) Atom(TM)
Processor and MeeGo software platform. MeeGo, a result of a merger of the
Linux-based Moblin(TM) and Maemo software projects unveiled at Mobile World
Congress in Barcelona, enables an open software environment for rapid
development of a range of smart, PC-like devices and exciting new services.

    Establishing a common software framework across multiple devices, ranging
from smartphones and tablets to netbooks, Intel and Orange will simplify
access to an increasingly mobile and personalized internet and drive uptake
of new and existing applications and services. MeeGo builds on the
capabilities of the Moblin core OS and its support for a wide range of device
types and reference user experiences, combined with the momentum of Maemo in
the mobile industry and the broadly adopted Qt application and UI framework
for software developers.

    Intel and Orange will work to increase the availability of Orange
Signature Services, such as Orange TV and Orange Maps, which will be
supported by the MeeGo environment. Intel and Orange will also work to
harness the potential of a converging computing and communication's platform
enabling customers to enjoy services across multiple devices and screens.

    "Seventy-five percent of our customer base has yet to embrace the mobile
internet. With the increasing number of phones and operating systems for
customers to choose from, it is our role to make sure our customer's journey
into this richer mobile multimedia environment is simple and easy," said Yves
Maitre, SVP Devices, Orange Group. "Our collaboration with Intel on the MeeGo
software platform will not only ensure a broader choice in terms of screens
and devices, but that customers continue to benefit from a consistent user
experience delivered through Orange Signature services, including a
customized home-screen they trust and recognize, the highest quality network
and secure and simplified billing."

    "The Intel Atom processor has been a terrific success in the marketplace
so far," said Doug Fisher, vice president, Software and Services Group and
general manager, Systems Software Division, Intel Corporation. "Combined with
the MeeGo software platform, these PC-like devices will deliver a wealth of
Internet, computing and communications experiences with rich graphics,
multitasking and multimedia capabilities and the best applications
performance. Orange and Intel share a similar vision around digital devices
and consumer experiences and our joint work will connect people to the
content that matters most, wherever they may be."

    About Intel

    Intel [NASDAQ: INTC], the world leader in silicon innovation, develops
technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work
and live. Additional information about Intel is available at
http://www.intel.com/pressroom and http://blogs.intel.com.

    Intel, the Intel logo and Intel Atom are trademarks of Intel Corporation
in the United States and other countries.

    * MeeGo is a trademark of The Linux Foundation Corporation.

    Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

    About Orange

    For more information (on the internet and on your mobile):
http://www.orange.com, http://www.orange-business.com,
http://www.orange-innovation.tv

Source: Orange

Press Contacts: Orietta Sutherberry, Intel Corporation: +44(0)7803-137-126, Orietta.Sutherberry@intel.com ; Georgina Hart, Orange: +44(0)7730-989-693, georgina.hart@orange-ftgroup.com ; Vanessa Clarke, Orange: +44(0)7891-056-593, vanessa.clarke@orange-ftgroup.com .

Kingston Technology Releases World's First, Fastest Low-Voltage, Ultra-Low Voltage Performance Memory

First to Market with HyperX 1.25 Volts at 1600MHz; 1.35 Volts at 1866MHz

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., March 3 -- Kingston Technology Co., Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced the release of the world's first ultra-low voltage memory running at 1.25 volts at 1600MHz. The new offering is part of the new Kingston® 'LoVo' (low voltage) HyperX® DDR3 High-Performance memory product line. The dual-channel kit (Kingston part #: KHX1866C9D3LK2/4GX) comes preprogrammed with two XMP-ready profiles: 1.25 volts at 1600MHz and 1.35 volts at 1866MHz. The latter profile is also a world's first for speed matching higher frequency with a lower voltage.

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"Kingston is proud to lead the charge with memory for the new generation of energy efficient systems that yield higher performance," said Mark Tekunoff, senior technology manager, Kingston. "Energy-conscious consumers need to look no further for memory than the HyperX 'LoVo' line when they are assembling the components needed to achieve better PC power performance."

The flagship product, running an ultra-low 1.25 volts at 1600MHz, is the lowest voltage to date for desktop PCs. In all, Kingston is debuting three HyperX DDR3 dual-channel products in the 'LoVo' line: the dual-profile kit, a mainstream low voltage 1600MHz, 1.35 volt kit and an ultra-low voltage 1333MHz, 1.25 volt kit. Kingston tested all three kits to great success on the Asus P7P55D EVO motherboard. All of the memory offerings are designed for use in eco-friendly PCs as systems delivering higher performance while using smaller energy footprints become reality.

Kingston HyperX memory is backed by a lifetime warranty and free 24/7 technical support. For detailed information please visit the Kingston Web site at http://www.kingston.com.

    Kingston HyperX DDR3 'LoVo' Ultra-Low & Low Voltage Kit Specifications
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
  Part Number              Capacity and Features           MSRP (U.S. only).
  -----------              ---------------------           -----------------
  KHX1866C9D3LK2/4GX       4GB 1866MHz (CL9-9-9-27 @ 1.35v       $203.00
  (XMP Profile 1)          low voltage) kit of 2 for XMP     
  (XMP Profile 2)          4GB 1600MHz (CL9-9-9-27@ 1.25v
                           ultra-low voltage) kit of 2 for XMP
  ---------------          -----------------------------------   -------
  KHX1600C9D3LK2/4GX       4GB 1600MHz (CL9-9-9-27 @ 1.35v       $158.00
                           low voltage) kit of 2 for XMP       
  ------------------       -----------------------------         -------
  KHX1333C9D3UK2/4GX       4GB 1333MHz (CL9-9-9-27 @ 1.25v       $154.00
                           ultra-low voltage) kit of 2 for XMP     
  ------------------       --------------------------            -------

  About Kingston Technology Company, Inc.

Kingston Technology Company, Inc. is the world's largest independent manufacturer of memory products. Kingston designs, manufactures and distributes memory products for desktops, laptops, servers, printers, and Flash memory products for PDAs, mobile phones, digital cameras, and MP3 players. Through its global network of subsidiaries and affiliates, Kingston has manufacturing facilities in California, Taiwan, China and sales representatives in the United States, Europe, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Australia, New Zealand, India, Taiwan, China, and Latin America. For more information, please call 800-337-8410 or visit http://www.kingston.com.

Kingston and the Kingston logo are registered trademarks of Kingston Technology Corporation. All rights reserved. All other marks may be the property of their respective titleholders.

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Source: Kingston Technology Co., Inc.
   

CONTACT:  David Leong of Kingston Technology, Co. Inc., +1-714-438-1817,
david_leong@kingston.com

Web Site:  http://www.kingston.com/

Sybase and Orange Business Services Partner to Provide Mobile Device Management Services for Enterprises Worldwide

PARIS, LONDON and CeBIT, HANOVER, Germany, March 3, 2010--

    - Partnership Extends Best-In-Class Enterprise Mobility Platform
Addressing Management, Security, Back-End Integration and Application
Deployment Challenges

    Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), an industry leader in enterprise and mobile
software, and Orange Business Services, a leading global communications
solutions integrator, today announced a partnership to offer innovative
mobile device management as a managed service to enterprises who want to
control their mobile assets. This service is available on any carrier in the
world, many mobile devices and numerous operating systems.

    Managed Cloud-Ready Mobility Service

    Orange Business Services will leverage Sybase's enterprise device
management platform to help companies tackle the challenge resulting from the
increasing number of mobile workers, devices, applications, and ever-growing
heterogeneity of corporate mobile environments. Orange Business Services will
enable enterprises to consolidate their global mobile assets (devices and SIM
cards), implement a mobile security policy, deploy all mobile applications
and control wireless spending. This device management service is hosted in
the Orange network, with Service Level Objectives, and can be easily accessed
by any enterprise that requires cross-operator, cross-device management and
is scaleable to meet both large mobile fleet demand and bursting usage.

    "Security compliance, centralised mobile device control, and application
deployment are major challenges that global enterprises must overcome to
benefit from the 21st century corporate mobility world," said Caroline
Comet-Fraigneau, Head of Mobility Business Unit, Orange Business Services.
"Our cloud-ready approach to mobile device management not only addresses
these issues, but also ensures a positive return on investment by avoiding
heavy CAPEX investment, ensuring a low unit cost per user by sharing our
platform across multiple customers and helping reduce enterprise mobility
costs."

    "Security issues, combined with the difficulties of managing the
heterogeneity and complexity of a mobile infrastructure, require a proven and
easy-to-deploy mobile solution," said Nigel Doust, VP of EMEA, Sybase
iAnywhere. "Orange Business Services chose to work with Sybase to offer
device management as a service, providing their enterprise customers with an
instant solution that removes many of the obstacles previously experienced."

    In August 2009, IDC found that 40 percent of organisations plan to deploy
a mobile SaaS solution in the next 12-18 months[i]. Many business customers
are struggling to control their mobile costs while trying to empower
end-users to take advantage of mobile applications without compromising
security.

    "The managed service model is emerging as a way to effectively meet the
needs of the rapidly growing enterprise mobility market," said Stephen Drake,
Program Vice President for Mobility & Telecom, IDC. "By leveraging Sybase's
mobility solution, Orange Business Services will offer its customers
complete, centralised device management to overcome the complexities of an
increasing mobile information workforce."

    New Device Management and Security Service

    Orange Business Services uses Sybase's mobility platform to support the
new managed service with:

   
    - Mobile Device Management for device inventory, corporate settings,
      upgrades and distribution, application management, email control,
      cost management, monitoring the end-user experience;
    - Mobile Security that enforces access codes, establishes "lock/wipe"
      policies, encrypts devices and data cards, delivers firewall and
      antivirus applications, and controls mobile access to corporate
      applications.

    About Orange

    Orange is the key brand of France Telecom, one of the world's leading
telecommunications operators. With 131.8 million customers, the Orange brand
now covers internet, television and mobile services in the majority of
countries where the Group operates. At the end of 2009, France Telecom had
consolidated sales of 50.9 billion euros, including its activities in the
United Kingdom, and at Dec. 31, 2009, the Group had a customer base of almost
193 million customers in 32 countries. These include 132.6 million mobile
customers and 13.5 million broadband internet (ADSL) customers worldwide.
Orange is the number three mobile operator and the number two provider of
broadband internet services in Europe and, under the brand Orange Business
Services, is one of the world leaders in providing telecommunication services
to multinational companies.

    The Group's strategy, which is characterized by a strong focus on
innovation, convergence and effective cost management, aims to establish
Orange as an integrated operator and benchmark for new telecommunications
services in Europe. Today the Group remains focused on its core activities as
a network operator, while working to develop its position in new growth
activities. To meet customer expectations, the Group strives to provide
products and services that are simple and user-friendly, while maintaining a
sustainable and responsible business model that can be adapted to the
requirements of a fast-paced and changing eco-system.

    France Telecom (NYSE:FTE) is listed on Euronext Paris (compartment A) and
on the New York Stock Exchange.

    For more information (on the internet and on your mobile):
http://www.orange.com, http://www.orange-business.com,
http://www.orange-innovation.tv

    Orange and any other Orange product or service names included in this
material are trade marks of Orange Personal Communications Services Limited,
Orange France or France Telecom.

    About Sybase

    Sybase is an industry leader in delivering enterprise and mobile software
to manage, analyse and mobilise information. We are recognised globally as a
performance leader, proven in the most data-intensive industries and across
all major systems, networks and devices. Our information management,
analytics and enterprise mobility solutions have powered the world's most
mission-critical systems in financial services, telecommunications,
manufacturing and government. For more information, visit
http://www.sybase.com. Read Sybase blogs: http://blogs.sybase.com.

    Sybase is a registered trademark of Sybase, Inc. or its subsidiaries. All
other company and product names mentioned may be trademarks of the respective
companies with which they are associated.

    Special Note: Statements concerning Sybase's future growth,
prospects and new product releases are, by nature, forward-looking statements
that involve a number of uncertainties and risks, and cannot be guaranteed.
Factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially
include shifts in customer demand, rapid technology changes, competitive
factors and unanticipated delays in scheduled product availability. These and
other risks are detailed from time to time in Sybase's Securities and
Exchange Commission filings, including, but not limited to, its annual report
on Form 10-K and its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q (copies of which can be
viewed on Sybase's Web site).

   
    ---------------------------------

    [i] "The State of Mobile Enterprise Software in 2009: An IDC Survey of
        Applications and Platforms - Decisions and Deployments," IDC,
        August 2009.

    Orange PR Contacts                      SY PR contact

    Orange Business Services                Danielle Cook/Lauren Wood
    - Global, Europe and Asia Pacific       Noiseworks for Sybase
    Frederic Gielec                         +44(0)1628-628080
    +33-1-46-46-2189                        Sybase@noiseworks.com
    frederic.gielec@orange-ftgroup.com

    Orange Business Services - Americas     Scott Malinowski
    Elizabeth Mayeri                        Sybase, Inc.
    +1-212-251-2086                         +1-978-287-1793
    elizabeth.mayeri@orange-ftgroup.com     scott.malinowski@sybase.com

    Erika Gelinard
    +33-1-44-44-93-93
    egelinard.ext@orange-ftgroup.com

Source: Sybase, Inc.

Orange PR Contacts: Orange Business Services - Global, Europe and Asia Pacific, Frederic Gielec, +33-1-46-46-2189, frederic.gielec@orange-ftgroup.com; Orange Business Services - Americas, Elizabeth Mayeri, +1-212-251-2086, elizabeth.mayeri@orange-ftgroup.com; Erika Gelinard, +33-1-44-44-93-93, egelinard.ext@orange-ftgroup.com; SY PR contact: Danielle Cook/Lauren Wood, Noiseworks for Sybase, +44(0)1628-628080, Sybase@noiseworks.com; Scott Malinowski, Sybase, Inc., +1-978-287-1793, scott.malinowski@sybase.com

Citi Tap and Pay Mobile Payments Pilot Breaks New Ground

Identifies Essentials for Commercial Viability of Mobile Proximity Payments

LONDON, March 3, 2010--     Edgar, Dunn & Company (EDC) a leading independent global financial
services and payments consultancy, today announced the release of its white
paper titled "Citi Tap and Pay mobile NFC proximity payments pilot -
Bengaluru, Results & Findings" that captures its views, perspectives and
conclusions on the Citi Tap and Pay pilot service launched in the city of
Bengaluru in July 2009. With over 3000 customers, 250 merchant locations and
nearly 50,000 purchases made, the recently concluded 26-week pilot is one of
the world's largest and most comprehensive next-generation contactless credit
card payments pilot ever undertaken based on Near Field Communications[1]
technology.

    Among some of the noteworthy highlights of the Citi Tap and Pay pilot was
that it reported positive customer feedback on all key fundamentals such as
customer interest, usage and satisfaction. In fact, the service generated
very high growth rates in overall transaction activity resulting in a
significant increase in total spends, which crossed INR 26 Million. Features
such as secure and hassle-free activation and enhancement in transaction
speed scored positively with customers. Merchant Establishments too polled
favourably for the service on its ability to speed-up payments at check-out
counters.

    According to the Nielsen Company, the consumer insights partner to the
pilot, customer satisfaction with the Citi Tap and Pay service, as measured
with the proprietary eQTM customer satisfaction index based on over 1740
studies conducted across the world, was ranked in the 'World Class' category.

    To download and view the full text of the white paper, visit
http://www.edgardunn.com/pointsOfView/whitepaper.cfm.

    "This pilot has shown, once and for all, that suitably conceived and
efficiently implemented NFC programmes, can unlock hidden demand for growth
in electronic payments," says Samee Zafar, Director, Edgar Dunn & Company,
who leads the firm's Advanced Payments Consulting practice. "NFC technology
can help achieve a longstanding aspiration that has eluded everyone so far -
migrating cash transactions to electronic means," adds Zafar.

    Satish Menon, Executive Vice President, Citi Growth Ventures, said, "The
Citi Tap and Pay pilot has more than validated expectations, with a clear
consumer demand emerging for contactless mobile payments and services during
the pilot. This is an extremely strong endorsement and validates our belief
that mobile payments have the potential to transform the way our highly
mobile, international and increasingly urban customers make everyday
payments. We are also happy that this pilot provides insights which will
prove crucial to getting the customer experience right as we, together with
the industry, bring next-generation mobile financial services to market."

    Vijay Ramchandran, Chief Marketing Officer, Citi South Asia, Director,
E-Business & Liabilities, Insurance & Investments, Citi India, said, " The
mobile phone is without doubt the most successful consumer product ever and
our customers' response to this pilot service demonstrates that they expect
to do more of everything through their mobile phone, including payments. We
are especially pleased that Citi Tap and Pay marks a key global milestone in
bringing to reality the convergence of the wallet with the mobile phone. We
will continue to build on Citi's legacy of innovation to add momentum for
quicker and wider adoption of this smart, everyday, everywhere technology."

    Conceived by Citi Growth Ventures, and spearheaded by Citibank India, in
collaboration with Nokia, Vodafone, MasterCard and ViVotech, Citi Tap and Pay
offered customers in Bengaluru an opportunity to experience the simplicity,
ease and convenience of using their mobile phone as a credit card. Early
adopters of this technology enjoyed promotional offers such as discounts at
popular merchant establishments across a wide range of categories including
department stores, food courts at shopping malls and office buildings,
restaurants and fast food chains, bookstores and multiplexes.

    About Edgar, Dunn & Company

    Edgar, Dunn & Company (EDC) is an independent global financial services
and payments consultancy. Founded in 1978, the firm is widely regarded as a
trusted advisor to its clients, providing a full range of strategy consulting
services, expertise and market insight. Global capabilities include in-depth
industry knowledge and expert advice on strategy, operations, risk
management, marketing, profitability improvement, product development, and
new products and technologies. With offices in Atlanta, Frankfurt, London,
Paris, San Francisco, Singapore and Sydney, EDC serves clients in over 30
countries on six continents. More information can be found at
http://www.edgardunn.com.

    Citi

    Citi, the leading global financial services company, has approximately
200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 140 countries.
Through Citicorp and Citi Holdings, Citi provides consumers, corporations,
governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and
services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment
banking, securities brokerage, and wealth management. Additional information
may be found at http://www.citigroup.com or http://www.citi.com.

    ---------------------------------

    [1]Near Field Communication (NFC) is a short-range wireless connectivity
technology standard designed for intuitive, simple and safe communication
between electronic devices. NFC communication is enabled by bringing two NFC
compatible devices within a few centimeters of one another. Applications of
NFC technology include contactless transactions such as payment and transit
ticketing, simple and fast data transfers including calendar synchronization
or electronic business cards and access to online digital content.

   

Source: Edgar, Dunn & Company (EDC)

Media Contacts: Edgar, Dunn & Company: Volker Schloenvoigt, +44-20-7283-1114, volker.schloenvoigt@edgardunn.com; Citi India: Indu Aishwerya Anand, +91-124-418-6766, +91-981177-1912, indu.anand@citi.com; Citi Growth Ventures: Stephen Silverman, +1-212-793-0321, silvermans@citi.com

Citi Tap and Pay Mobile Payments Pilot Breaks New Ground

LONDON, March 3, 2010--

    - Identifies Essentials for Commercial Viability of Mobile Proximity
Payments
   

    Edgar, Dunn & Company (EDC) a leading independent global financial
services and payments consultancy, today announced the release of its white
paper titled "Citi Tap and Pay mobile NFC proximity payments pilot -
Bengaluru, Results & Findings" that captures its views, perspectives and
conclusions on the Citi Tap and Pay pilot service launched in the city of
Bengaluru in July 2009. With over 3000 customers, 250 merchant locations and
nearly 50,000 purchases made, the recently concluded 26-week pilot is one of
the world's largest and most comprehensive next-generation contactless credit
card payments pilot ever undertaken based on Near Field Communications[1]
technology.

    Among some of the noteworthy highlights of the Citi Tap and Pay pilot was
that it reported positive customer feedback on all key fundamentals such as
customer interest, usage and satisfaction. In fact, the service generated
very high growth rates in overall transaction activity resulting in a
significant increase in total spends, which crossed INR 26 Million. Features
such as secure and hassle-free activation and enhancement in transaction
speed scored positively with customers. Merchant Establishments too polled
favourably for the service on its ability to speed-up payments at check-out
counters.

    According to the Nielsen Company, the consumer insights partner to the
pilot, customer satisfaction with the Citi Tap and Pay service, as measured
with the proprietary eQTM customer satisfaction index based on over 1740
studies conducted across the world, was ranked in the 'World Class' category.

    To download and view the full text of the white paper, visit
http://www.edgardunn.com/pointsOfView/whitepaper.cfm.

    "This pilot has shown, once and for all, that suitably conceived and
efficiently implemented NFC programmes, can unlock hidden demand for growth
in electronic payments," says Samee Zafar, Director, Edgar Dunn & Company,
who leads the firm's Advanced Payments Consulting practice. "NFC technology
can help achieve a longstanding aspiration that has eluded everyone so far -
migrating cash transactions to electronic means," adds Zafar.

    Satish Menon, Executive Vice President, Citi Growth Ventures, said, "The
Citi Tap and Pay pilot has more than validated expectations, with a clear
consumer demand emerging for contactless mobile payments and services during
the pilot. This is an extremely strong endorsement and validates our belief
that mobile payments have the potential to transform the way our highly
mobile, international and increasingly urban customers make everyday
payments. We are also happy that this pilot provides insights which will
prove crucial to getting the customer experience right as we, together with
the industry, bring next-generation mobile financial services to market."

    Vijay Ramchandran, Chief Marketing Officer, Citi South Asia, Director,
E-Business & Liabilities, Insurance & Investments, Citi India, said, " The
mobile phone is without doubt the most successful consumer product ever and
our customers' response to this pilot service demonstrates that they expect
to do more of everything through their mobile phone, including payments. We
are especially pleased that Citi Tap and Pay marks a key global milestone in
bringing to reality the convergence of the wallet with the mobile phone. We
will continue to build on Citi's legacy of innovation to add momentum for
quicker and wider adoption of this smart, everyday, everywhere technology."

    Conceived by Citi Growth Ventures, and spearheaded by Citibank India, in
collaboration with Nokia, Vodafone, MasterCard and ViVotech, Citi Tap and Pay
offered customers in Bengaluru an opportunity to experience the simplicity,
ease and convenience of using their mobile phone as a credit card. Early
adopters of this technology enjoyed promotional offers such as discounts at
popular merchant establishments across a wide range of categories including
department stores, food courts at shopping malls and office buildings,
restaurants and fast food chains, bookstores and multiplexes.

    About Edgar, Dunn & Company

    Edgar, Dunn & Company (EDC) is an independent global financial services
and payments consultancy. Founded in 1978, the firm is widely regarded as a
trusted advisor to its clients, providing a full range of strategy consulting
services, expertise and market insight. Global capabilities include in-depth
industry knowledge and expert advice on strategy, operations, risk
management, marketing, profitability improvement, product development, and
new products and technologies. With offices in Atlanta, Frankfurt, London,
Paris, San Francisco, Singapore and Sydney, EDC serves clients in over 30
countries on six continents. More information can be found at
http://www.edgardunn.com.

    Citi

    Citi, the leading global financial services company, has approximately
200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 140 countries.
Through Citicorp and Citi Holdings, Citi provides consumers, corporations,
governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and
services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment
banking, securities brokerage, and wealth management. Additional information
may be found at http://www.citigroup.com or http://www.citi.com.

    ---------------------------------

    [1]Near Field Communication (NFC) is a short-range wireless connectivity
technology standard designed for intuitive, simple and safe communication
between electronic devices. NFC communication is enabled by bringing two NFC
compatible devices within a few centimeters of one another. Applications of
NFC technology include contactless transactions such as payment and transit
ticketing, simple and fast data transfers including calendar synchronization
or electronic business cards and access to online digital content.

Source: Edgar, Dunn & Company (EDC)

Media Contacts: Edgar, Dunn & Company: Volker Schloenvoigt, +44-20-7283-1114, volker.schloenvoigt@edgardunn.com; Citi India: Indu Aishwerya Anand, +91-124-418-6766, +91-981177-1912, indu.anand@citi.com; Citi Growth Ventures: Stephen Silverman, +1-212-793-0321, silvermans@citi.com

Atari To Transform Online Racing With Test Drive(R) Unlimited 2

Join Thousands of Players Online, Race the Worlds Most Coveted Cars, and Live the Ultimate Luxury Lifestyle

NEW YORK, March 3 -- Atari, SA, one of the world's most recognized videogame publishers, and much-acclaimed developer Eden Games, are proud to announce the newest installment in the legendary racing franchise with Test Drive® Unlimited 2 for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC coming Fall 2010.

Test Drive Unlimited 2 expands on the traditional racing experience providing gamers with M.O.O.R.®: Massively Open Online Racing®; immersing drivers in a persistent online environment and revolutionizing multiplayer racing communities as players compete, team up, and share their achievements and creations online.  Unlike any other driving game, TDU2 blends the open world experience with realistic vehicles and performance dynamics and for the first time, TDU2 features vehicle damage, weather effects, day and night cycles, and a brand new island to explore.

The first Test Drive® Unlimited innovated the racing genre with an immersive online and offline experience - over 1 million players created online accounts.  Test Drive Unlimited 2 blends the single player and multiplayer experiences seamlessly, creating a dynamic world of unique content and challenges.  Test Drive Unlimited 2 is "always live," with automatic updates and seamless online/offline integration.  A revamped single player narrative mode can be played offline or as part of the multiplayer experience.

"After the highly successful Test Drive Unlimited which redefined the genre with massively open online racing, Test Drive Unlimited 2 will be an innovative evolution in racing games, expanding its unparalleled multiplayer experience and immersing players in a world full of new online content and lifestyle customization." said Jeff Lapin, CEO of Atari, SA. "The game fits squarely into our strategy of moving online and generating new revenue streams while maintaining our current retail business."

Test Drive Unlimited 2 puts the world's most desirable vehicles in the players hands.  These ultra-limited edition masterpieces are flawlessly replicated with Eden's finely tuned driving technology.  Players define their online persona through the customization of their vehicles, and the acquisition of property, clothing and all the accoutrements of a luxurious car-based lifestyle.  The challenge comes to life with the most expansive and comprehensive multiplayer offering on the console and the ultimate refinement of the core Test Drive driving experience.  All-new race types, vehicle classes, environmental challenges, locations and much more push this epic franchise to new levels of performance and luxury.

For more information on Test Drive Unlimited 2 please visit http://www.testdriveunlimited2.com or log on to http://www.atari.com.

The latest Test Drive Unlimited 2 assets are available on the Atari press vault.

  Log onto: http://www.atari-press.com.

  ABOUT ATARI, SA

Atari group is a global creator, producer and publisher of interactive entertainment for interactive game platforms that include PC, online, consoles from Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony and advanced smart phones (i.e. iPhone).  Divisions of Atari, SA include Cryptic Studios, Atari London Studio, Eden Studios, Atari Interactive, Inc. and Atari, Inc.

Atari benefits from its global brand and an extensive catalogue of popular games based on classic owned game franchises (Asteroids®, Centipede®, Missile Command®, Lunar Lander®), original owned franchises (Test Drive®, Backyard Sports(TM), Deer Hunter®), MMO games from Cryptic Studios (Star Trek Online, Champions Online) and third party franchises (Ghostbusters, Project Runway, Dungeons and Dragons).

  For more information please visit http://www.atari.com

  © 2010 Atari Europe SASU. All rights reserved.
  Atari word mark and logo are trademarks owned by Atari Interactive, Inc.

  About Eden Games

The second largest game development studio in France, Eden Games has achieved international recognition through the creation of games including V-Rally 1, 2 and 3, Need For Speed: Porsche, Kya: Dark Lineage, Titeuf, Test Drive Unlimited and Alone in the Dark. Base in Lyon, France, Eden Games is a wholly owned subsidiary of Atari SA. For more information, please visit http://www.edengames.com.

Source: Atari
   

CONTACT:  Alissa Bell, Atari, +1-212-726-4217, alissa.bell@atari.com; or
Sujata Mitra, Dan Klores Communications, +1-212-981-5235,
sujata_mitra@dkcnews.com

Web Site:  http://www.atari.com/

Xilinx Simplifies Development of Real-time Ethernet Networks for Industrial Automation Applications

New Spartan-6 FPGA Industrial Automation Targeted Design Platform brings high-speed connectivity and real-time processing performance to the factory floor

NUREMBERG, Germany, March 3 -- At Embedded World 2010 today, Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) introduced the first market-specific Targeted Design Platform optimized for industrial automation system design with low-cost, low-power Xilinx® Spartan®-6 field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The Xilinx Industrial Automation Targeted Design Platform accelerates development of real-time Ethernet networks enabling high-speed connectivity and reliable communications beyond the industrial enterprise to the factory floor.

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Industrial equipment developers can now easily integrate multiple Ethernet protocols and custom processing algorithms into industrial network and automation systems using a single Spartan-6 FPGA as a cost-effective, flexible and reprogrammable alternative to application-specific standard product (ASSP) or application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) implementations. The new platform offers a complete development environment tailored specifically for industrial applications, including network gateways or bridges, programmable logic controllers (PLC), machine vision systems, as well as a variety of embedded control systems. Xilinx is showcasing its industrial automation platform at Embedded World 2010 this week in Nuremberg, Germany from March 2nd through March 4th with live application demonstrations in Hall 12, Booth #12-515 at the NurnbergMesse.

"The worldwide market for industrial infrastructure and wireline networking products exceeded 5 million nodes in 2008 and is projected to grow over 10 percent annually through 2013(1). This convergence of automation technologies and ubiquitous industrial networks is being driven by new manufacturing business models, collaborative manufacturing initiatives, and the need for more energy and cost-efficient operations," said Mark Jensen, director of industrial, scientific and medical marketing at Xilinx. "Our Spartan-6 FPGA industrial automation platform provides the flexibility to address the different requirements of factory and enterprise networks and the scalability to develop highly integrated automation equipment while balancing energy efficiency and real-time performance."

Optimizing for Industrial Networking Applications

The Industrial Automation Targeted Design Platform provides next-generation programmable technologies and smart design methodologies delivered in the Spartan-6 FPGA Industrial Ethernet Kit. Jointly developed with Avnet, the Industrial Ethernet Kit is fully integrated and highly scalable with all the hardware and software needed to design industrial communications protocols right out of the box.

The kit includes the Avnet Spartan-6 LX150T FPGA development board and industrial networking daughter card based on the industry-standard FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) specification(2), third-party evaluation EtherCAT core from Beckhoff, ISE® Design Suite Embedded Edition software environment, and an EtherCAT Targeted Reference Design. Future add-ons for the Industrial Ethernet Kit will offer additional daughter cards and reference designs to enable faster time to market for designing factory automation applications.

"Avnet is pleased to offer designers a full-featured, versatile development platform that can help with their Industrial Networking applications," said Jim Beneke, vice president of global technical marketing at Avnet Electronics Marketing. "This kit provides a great deal of flexibility and expandability that developers will appreciate as they explore their design options."

EtherCAT Targeted Reference Design

Industrial product developers can leverage the 32-bit MicroBlaze(TM) soft processor, dedicated DSP blocks, and low-power features of Spartan-6 FPGAs to create single-chip systems with hardware-based processing to accelerate network performance and extraordinary computational bandwidth to implement advanced algorithms. Integrated memory controllers, industry-standard interfaces, and power-optimized serial transceivers embedded in the Spartan-6 LX150T device enable single or multiple industrial Ethernet protocol designs that easily support legacy network standards like CAN while providing a bridge to PCIe®-based networks.

The EtherCAT Targeted Reference Design is supplied in either pre-compiled or source format. The design can be used out of the box with the base board and industrial networking daughter card to quickly set-up an EtherCAT slave device for PC-based automation systems. The instantiated EtherCAT protocol can be used to evaluate data characteristics and performance with the Spartan-6 FPGA, and to send and process real-time data between EtherCAT master and slave devices modifying the evaluation version of the EtherCAT soft IP core as needed to accommodate system requirements. (A full version of EtherCAT core can be purchased from Beckhoff directly.) The reference design also provides a streamlined and easy-to-use environment for developers to add their differentiating value into the FPGA design.

Scalable Development Environment

The Spartan-6 FPGA Industrial Ethernet Kit with the Spartan-6 FPGA LX150T base board leverages dual FMC connectors to simplify development of multiple Ethernet and legacy networks. One FMC connector is utilized to integrate the industrial networking daughter card with market-specific interfaces for dual port 10/100 Ethernet (IEEE1588 capable), dual CAN physical layer (PHY), and legacy serial standards (RS-232, RS-485). The second FMC connector can be used to further expand the system with custom modules. This enables embedded hardware and software engineers to evaluate, test, design and integrate industrial Ethernet protocols in silicon earlier than is typically feasible with ASSPs or ASICs, and to easily update systems throughout product development and production with the latest networking standards and proprietary algorithms.

Pricing & Availability

The Spartan-6 FPGA Industrial Ethernet Kit is available today in limited quantities from Xilinx's distribution partner Avnet with general availability in April 2010. The kit is priced at US$1,895 and comes complete with all tools, reference designs, documentation, and cables, needed to get started. For more information about the Spartan-6 FPGA Industrial Ethernet Kit, visit: http://www.em.avnet.com/spartan6ethernet.

About Xilinx in Industrial

Xilinx is the worldwide leader in programmable logic solutions offering the optimum mix of programmable silicon and IP to meet the high performance, processing, and deterministic operation required for factory automation applications. These capabilities are delivered as part of Xilinx Targeted Design Platforms that simplify development and enable greater differentiation of industrial networking and industrial imaging solutions. For more information on how Xilinx enables industrial electronic manufactures to bring low cost, innovative products to market faster, visit: http://www.xilinx.com/ism.

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XILINX, the Xilinx logo, Spartan, ISE, and other designated brands included herein are trademarks of Xilinx in the United States and other countries. PCI Express is trademarks of PCI-SIG and used under license. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

  Editorial Contacts:
  Silvia Gianelli
  Xilinx, Inc. Public Relations
  408-626-4328
  silvia.gianelli@xilinx.com

  (1) Source: VDC Research group, Control Engineering, February 2009
  (2) FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) is a VITA specification.

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Source: Xilinx, Inc.
   

CONTACT:  Silvia Gianelli of Xilinx, Inc. Public Relations,
+1-408-626-4328, silvia.gianelli@xilinx.com

Web Site:  http://www.xilinx.com/

thePlatform Unveils New Social Media Player for Professional Video Sites and Content Owners

Enables online audiences of media companies to embed and share premium online video across leading social networks Lets consumers easily share clips or segments of premium video and maintains business relationships between content owners and advertisers Available to customers of thePlatform through Player Development Kit 4.2

SEATTLE and SAN FRANCISCO, March 3 -- At the "TV of Tomorrow Show 2010" today in San Francisco, thePlatform, the leading white-label video publishing company, unveiled a new social media player enabling media companies to embed and share premium online video across leading social networks. In addition, thePlatform's newest Player Development Kit (PDK 4.2) provides standard features that enable consumers to more easily share their favorite clips of premium online video, while preserving the financial obligations between content owners, advertisers and distributors.

"With the right tools in place, media companies can embrace the notion of consumers becoming the best distributors of their video," said Ian Blaine, co-founder and CEO of thePlatform. "With our new Player Development Kit, audiences can clip and share a favorite portion of video with a few simple clicks. Historically, there has been some resistance from traditional media companies to fully empower consumers to share their videos across social networks because of the need to maintain some control over branding and monetization. Our video management system gives them this control. The advertisements can travel with their virally syndicated content, no matter where it has been embedded."

Premium Video Goes Social

Customers who use thePlatform's new PDK 4.2 will be able to place their entire video player experience - with all of its features, add-ins and components - into a single Adobe Flash file for embedding into social networks, blogs, and affiliate sites. Customers can immediately launch video players that are pre-integrated with 10 leading social media sites. Customers can also easily expand to more social media sites by using thePlatform's fully documented APIs. The pre-integrated social media sites include:

  --  Facebook
  --  MySpace
  --  Twitter
  --  Digg
  --  reddit
  --  StumbleUpon
  --  Delicious
  --  Windows Live
  --  Yahoo! Buzz
  --  Vodpod

Users can also share video with simple e-mail-to-a-friend features, RSS feeds and embeddable links. In addition, thePlatform's Community Toolkit enables consumers to comment, rate, tag and create favorites via their players. For Twitter, thePlatform has added additional features including support for automatically adding hash tags based on the video's metadata and short URLs generation to simplify the experience for consumers.

The new social media player also lets consumers legally share specific sections of a video in a manner that preserves the financial obligations between content owners and advertisers.

"One of the most common types of messages when consumers Tweet or e-mail about an online video is to include a note like, 'Watch what happens at 2 minutes into the video - it's hilarious,'" continued Blaine. "Our new social media player provides a win-win for consumers and our customers. Consumers can embed and share the portion of the video that most interests them, but the content owner maintains the ability to show advertising and keep the integrity of the financial model."

"There's no question that sharing and other social media capabilities are becoming increasingly important features for video players, and that's also true on AP's Online Video Network," said Bill Burke, global director, Online Video Products, Associated Press. "Right now, we're building enhanced players for our 1500-affiliate network, and having these features as a standard part of thePlatform's tool set means faster and less costly player development - a real long-term benefit."

thePlatform publishes video and other media to PCs, mobile devices and TV. Media companies rely on thePlatform as their open, central hub for managing, monetizing and syndicating billions of professionally produced video views annually. thePlatform currently provides online video management services to numerous programmers, leading media companies, and five of the top cable TV service providers in North America, including the largest "TV Everywhere" deployments.

Full details about the new PDK 4.2, which is available at no additional cost to customers of thePlatform, can be found at http://www.thePlatform.com.

About thePlatform

thePlatform(TM) is the leading white-label video management and publishing company. Media companies rely on thePlatform as their open, central hub for managing, monetizing, and syndicating billions of professionally produced video views annually. The company's services provide unmatched versatility for designing and supporting video businesses on PCs, mobile, and TV. Customers include: Associated Press, BBC, Big Ten Network, Cablevision, CBS College Sports, CNBC, Comcast, Corus Entertainment, Cox Communications, ExerciseTV, Fox Sports Network, HIT Entertainment, NBC Local Media, PBS, PBS KIDS Sprout, Rogers, Sony BMG, Starz Play, Time Warner Cable, Travel Channel Media, and numerous others. With a 10-year history of service, thePlatform is an independent subsidiary of Comcast based in Seattle, Wash. For more information: http://www.theplatform.com.

Source: thePlatform
   

CONTACT:  Jeremy Pemble, +1-206-381-3600, jeremy@jlmpartners.com, or Val
Petrova, +1-206-381-3600, val@jlmpartners.com, both of JLM Partners, for
thePlatform

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

Nokia 5230 Nuron Delivers Apps, Maps and Free Navigation to T-Mobile USA Customers

Affordable 3G Touch-Screen Smartphone Offers Rich Mobile Experiences, Ovi Maps and Ovi Store

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. and BELLEVUE, Wash., March 3 -- Nokia and T-Mobile USA today announced the upcoming availability of the Nokia 5230 Nuron, a smartphone solution for the masses packed with applications, maps with turn-by-turn directions, and more. Operating on T-Mobile's blazing-fast 3G network, the Nokia Nuron offers dynamic Web browsing and rich experiences on a 3.2" touch screen. The device is also the first pre-loaded with Ovi Maps, a free turn-by-turn navigation solution from Nokia, and the first to have the Ovi Store pre-loaded, giving consumers access to thousands of compelling applications and games. The Nokia Nuron is expected to be available in the coming weeks exclusively from T-Mobile.

(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100303/DA64072)

"The Nokia 5230 Nuron is a great product of our collaboration with T-Mobile USA and provides consumers with more compelling mobile experiences as they navigate, watch video, play games and social network," said Mark Slater, Vice President, Sales, Nokia. "The Nokia Nuron offers U.S. consumers a unique and compelling mobile experience that caters to their everyday needs and enables them to connect to their passions with an affordable 3G touch smartphone."

The Nokia Nuron is a mobile solution that allows consumers to easily make their way around town, download content and applications to keep them entertained, or help to manage their busy lives. Consumers can keep up with friends and family via IM, text, personal or work e-mail, and offers the ability to easily surf the Web with a full HTML browser.

"Many of our customers are looking for smartphones that deliver a great mobile Web experience with access to games and applications, all at an affordable price," said Travis Warren, director, product marketing, T-Mobile USA. "We are excited to partner with Nokia to offer our customers the Nokia 5230 Nuron, a 3G smartphone for the masses that delivers features like a full touch screen, free turn-by-turn navigation and a premium storefront for applications."

The Nokia Nuron is the first U.S. carrier -supported Nokia smartphone to pre-load Ovi Maps, a solution from Nokia that offers consumers free turn-by-turn directions and navigation. Additionally, Ovi Maps makes it easy to discover great places to eat, concerts, movies and more with Lonely Planet guides. Other features include the ability to check the weather forecast and even share one's current location on Facebook. With pedestrian navigation, Ovi Maps delivers the best routes through pedestrian zones and shortcuts as well as pathways through parks and buildings. Exploring the world or rediscovering your own city has never been easier or more fun with Ovi Maps.  Nokia Nuron also comes preloaded with maps for the USA, Canada and Mexico - with the ability to access over 180 country maps at http://www.nokiausa.com/maps.

The Nokia Nuron will be the first device from a national U.S. carrier to come pre-loaded with Ovi Store by Nokia - giving consumers access to thousands of applications and other exciting content.

T-Mobile also plans to simplify the purchase experience for its customers and expects to enable them to pay for this great content by having it billed to their monthly bill or via a credit card.

To learn more about Ovi by Nokia, or for more information on how to develop for Ovi Store, please visit http://www.ovi.com/ and http://publish.ovi.com/, respectively.

Availability

The Nokia 5230 Nuron is expected to be available on in the coming weeks in select T-Mobile retail stores and online at http://www.t-mobile.com/. For more information, please visit http://www.nokiausa.com/NokiaNuron or http://www.t-mobile.com/.

Use of some features or services may incur separate, additional charges and/or require a qualifying data plan. 3G coverage is available in locations nationwide, but may not be available everywhere. For more details on where T-Mobile network coverage is available, please visit http://www.t-mobile.com/coverage.

About Nokia

Nokia is a pioneer in mobile telecommunications and the world's leading maker of mobile devices. Today, we are connecting people in new and different ways - fusing advanced mobile technology with personalized services to enable people to stay close to what matters to them. We also provide comprehensive digital map information through NAVTEQ; and equipment, solutions and services for communications networks through Nokia Siemens Networks.

About T-Mobile USA, Inc.

Based in Bellevue, Wash., T-Mobile USA, Inc. is the U.S. wireless operation of Deutsche Telekom AG. By the end of the fourth quarter of 2009, almost 152 million mobile customers were served by the mobile communication segments of the Deutsche Telekom group -- 33.8 million by T-Mobile USA -- all via a common technology platform based on GSM and UMTS, the world's most widely used digital wireless standards. T-Mobile USA's innovative wireless products and services help empower people to connect to those who matter most. Multiple independent research studies continue to rank T-Mobile among the highest in numerous regions throughout the U.S. in wireless customer care and call quality. For more information, please visit http://www.t-mobile.com/. T-Mobile is a federally registered trademark of Deutsche Telekom AG.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements that reflect the current views of Deutsche Telekom management with respect to future events. The words "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "plan," "project" and "should " and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on current plans, estimates, and projections, and therefore you should not place too much reliance on them. Such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, most of which are difficult to predict and are generally beyond Deutsche Telekom`s control, including, without limitation, those factors set forth in "Forward-Looking Statements" and "Risk Factors" contained in Deutsche Telekom's annual report on Form 20-F filed on February 28, 2008. If these or other risks and uncertainties materialize, or if the assumptions underlying any of these statements prove incorrect, Deutsche Telekom's actual results may be materially different from those expressed or implied by such statements. Deutsche Telekom does not intend or assume any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

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CONTACT:  T-Mobile USA, +1-425-378-4002, mediarelations@T-Mobile.com, or
Nokia, North America Communications, +1-972-894-4573,
communications.corp@nokia.com

Web Site:  http://www.nokia.com/

Atmel Capacitive Touchscreen Controller Wins Embedded 2010 Special Merits Award

Award-winning Atmel(R) maXTouch(TM) capacitive touchscreen controller enables designers to easily implement multiple touch functionality in consumer and display applications

NUREMBERG, Germany, March 3 -- EMBEDDED WORLD 2010 -- Atmel(R) Corporation (NASDAQ:ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced it has received the Embedded 2010 Special Merits Award in the Hardware category. The Embedded 2010 awards are selected by a panel of four industry experts based on the products' innovative, unique and forward-looking qualities for the industry. Atmel's maXTouch(TM) mXT224 capacitive touchscreen controller was selected among nine other company products that were nominated for the Hardware, Tools and Software categories.

"Winning the Embedded 2010 Special Merits Award highlights the innovative technology behind Atmel's maXTouch capacitive touchscreen controller," said Jon Kiachian, sr. marketing director for touch products, Atmel Corporation. "Atmel's maXTouch controller makes it easier for our customers to bring multiple touches to their touchscreens for the consumer and display markets. The combination of Atmel's maXTouch superior performance, low power consumption, and patented charge transfer method of signal acquisition makes the product extremely responsive by providing real-time characteristics for demanding applications such as handwriting recognition and video games."

Atmel's maXTouch solutions provide uncompromising capacitive touch capability combined with the industry's lowest power consumption and unsurpassed configurability to exceed user interface requirements. The Atmel mXT224 is the first capacitive touchscreen solution able to support the touch of a finger, stylus or fingernails for drawing or signature capture and character recognition. It is so sensitive that it can even detect touches from a user that has gloves on. It has 224 nodes that allow it to accurately report the positions of unlimited, simultaneous touches and can completely redraw the screen every 4/1000 of a second (4 mS). The Atmel mXT224 includes a large number of nodes and fast performance to make it the world's first touchscreen solution suitable for advanced touch screen functionality, such as rejection of unintended touches, stretch/pinch and rotate gestures, handwriting and shape recognition on mobile phones, mobile Internet devices (MID) and Netbook screens surpassing 10 inches. To learn more about Atmel's touchscreen controllers, click the following link: http://www.atmel.com/products/touchscreens/default.asp

Photo

To view a photo of Atmel Representative Jon Kiachian receiving the award, please click the following link: http://www.atmel.com/pressroom/photos/embeddedaward.jpg.

About Atmel

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

© 2010 Atmel Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Atmel(R), Atmel logo and combinations thereof, and others are registered trademarks, maXTouch(TM) and others are trademarks of Atmel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other terms and product names may be trademarks of others.

  Press Contacts:
  Agnes Toan, PR Manager
  Agnes.toan@atmel.com
  +1-408-250-1814

Source: Atmel Corporation
   

CONTACT:  Agnes Toan, PR Manager of Atmel, +1-408-250-1814,
Agnes.toan@atmel.com

Web Site:  http://www.atmel.com/

Atmel Expands Touch Portfolio to Offer More Functionality to Everyday Applications

Easy-to-implement reference designs, devices and tools offer touch capability to consumer, industrial and white good applications

NUREMBERG, Germany, March 3 -- EMBEDDED WORLD 2010 -- Atmel(R) Corporation (NASDAQ:ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced several new and existing device and software products that will enable designers to easily implement capacitive touch functionality to buttons, sliders and wheels for applications in the consumer, industrial and white goods markets.

Atmel uses its proprietary AVR capacitive touch microcontroller technology as a foundation for these products and offers a complete portfolio of devices and software for applications that require touch enabled buttons, sliders and wheels and touch screens. At Embedded World 2010, Atmel is introducing solutions that will enable designers to include touch functionality in existing and new applications. These introductions include:

  --  Atmel's low-power 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) ATtiny 10/20/40 family
      with optimized touch sensing support. Based on Atmel's
      high-performance AVR(R) MCU, these easy to design in products provide
      ultra-low cost solutions for embedded control and touch interface
      applications such as buttons, sliders and wheels. The high-performance
      RISC controller architecture of the ATtiny 10/20/40 include enough
      memory to support a wide range of requirements with excellent
      integration for cost-sensitive applications that require touch
      capability. In addition, these products have multiple communication
      options and low power operation. For more information about these
      products, please click the following link:
      http://www.atmel.com/attiny_touch.
  --  Atmel's enhanced QTouch Studio with added graphical design facilities.
      Designers can now develop low-power applications with touch
      functionality using any of Atmel's industry-leading AVR(R)
      microcontrollers. It has never been easier to design complete user
      interfaces with touch buttons, sliders and wheels. In addition,
      designers can develop designs with touch functionality for virtually
      any end product using any of Atmel's industry-leading AVR(R)
      microcontrollers. For more information on QTouch Studio, please click
      the following link:
      http://www.atmel.com/products/touchsoftware/qtouchsuite.asp?family_id=
      702
  --  Atmel's QTouch Suite with added functionality to provide third party
      CAD developers easy access to QTouch(R) technology. By offering
      Atmel's QTouch Suite with CAD software tools, designers will now have
      an easy approach to add touch buttons, sliders and wheels during
      schematics, printed circuit board (PCB) layout design and prototyping
      stage. In addition, designers can develop low-power applications with
      touch functionality using any of Atmel's industry-leading AVR(R)
      microcontrollers. For more information about these products, please
      click the following link:
      http://www.atmel.com/pressrelease/qtouch_cad.
  --  Atmel has joined forces with third-party CAD software company, Altium,
      to provide engineers an automated printed circuit board (PCB) layout
      capability in Altium's industry-leading CAD software, Altium Designer.
  --  A control reference design platform with 3D Accelerometer (3DA),
      capacitive touch sensing, and intuitive radio frequency (RF) lighting
      control developed by Atmel and i-Novi, a company with experience in
      the consumer and lighting market. This reference design is based on
      Atmel's ATmega128RFA1 RF single-chip, which includes a
      high-performance AVR(R) microcontroller with a best-in-class 2.4GHz RF
      transceiver in a single die, and is supported by Atmel's QMatrix(R)
      capacitive touch method. This easy-to-implement reference design
      includes a capacitive touch sensing-enabled RF remote control with
      Atmel's patented QTouch(R) capacitive touch technology for buttons,
      sliders and wheels so consumers can bring their products
      faster-to-market. Along with Atmel's ZigBee RF4CE-compliant software
      platform and i-Novi's expertise, this reference design will reduce a
      lighting designer's workflow. For more information about this new
      reference design, please click the following link:
      http://atmel.com/pressrelease/atmega128rfa1design.
  --  Atmel's family of single-key touch controllers for the portable device
      market with power consumption below 17 uA for next-generation portable
      touch devices, including power buttons, hearing devices, consumer toys
      and proximity sensors. The embedded low-power features in Atmel's new
      family of single-key touch controllers also enable longer battery life
      for these portable devices. To learn more about Atmel's single-key
      touch controllers, click the following link:
      http://www.atmel.com/products/bsw/default.asp.

  More Information

To learn more about Atmel's touch solutions at Embedded World Nuremberg 2010, please click the following link: http://www.atmel.com/ew2010.

About Atmel

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

© 2010 Atmel Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Atmel(R), Atmel logo and combinations thereof, tinyAVR(R), picoPower(R) and others, are registered trademarks and others are trademarks of Atmel Corporation or its subsidiaries.

  Press Contact
  Agnes Toan, PR Manager
  +1-408-487-2963
  Agnes.toan@atmel.com

Source: Atmel Corporation
   

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

Web Site:  http://www.atmel.com/