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China Education Alliance Announces Participation in March 2010 Financial Conferences

CFO Zack Pan Featured in Beijing, China and Los Angeles

HARBIN, China, March 2 -- China Education Alliance, Inc. (NYSE:CEU) announced today it will participate in two financial conferences in March in Beijing and Los Angeles.

-- Zack Pan, Chief Financial Officer, will present at the March 7-9 Annual Rodman & Renshaw China Investment Conference at The Regent Hotel in Beijing, China. Mr. Pan is scheduled to present on March 8th at 10:40 a.m. Beijing time in Ballroom I. Mr. Xiqun Yu, Chairman and CEO, will also attend this conference. Company officials will be available for one-on-one meetings with investors during this conference. For more information regarding this conference, please visit http://rodm.com/conferences .

-- Mr. Pan will also be a featured speaker during the 22nd Annual OC Growth Stock Conference being held March 15-17, 2010 at the Ritz Carlton Laguna Niguel in Dana Point, California. Mr. Pan is scheduled to present on March 15th at 3:30 p.m. PST (Track 4). Mr. Pan will be available for one-on-one meetings with investors during this conference.

For more information on these events or to schedule one-on-one meetings with the Company, please call Jon Cunningham at 407-644-4256, Ext. 107.

About China Education Alliance, Inc.

China Education Alliance, Inc. ( http://www.chinaeducationalliance.com/ ) is a fast-growing, leading, China-based company offering high-quality education resources and services to students ages 6 to 18 and adults (university students and professionals) ages 18 and over. For students ages 6 to 18, China Education Alliance offers supplemental, online exam-oriented training materials and onsite, exam-oriented training and tutoring services. The company provides online, downloadable famous-teacher resources and onsite, personalized instruction. All resources and tutoring services are provided by famous teachers within mainland China. The purpose of online exam-orientated resources and onsite tutoring is to help Chinese students (ages 6 to 18) pass the two most important and highly competitive exams in their educational career:  the senior high school entrance and college entrance exams. For graduates and professionals age 18 and over, China Education Alliance provides vocational training including IT and several professional training programs.

  For more information, please contact:

  At the Company:

   Zack Pan, CFO
   China Education Alliance, Inc.
   Tel:   +1-405-315-9987
   Email: zackpan08@gmail.com

  Investor Relations:

   RedChip Companies, Inc.
   Jon Cunningham
   Tel:   +1-800-733-2447 x107
   Email: info@redchip.comwww.RedChip.com

Source: China Education Alliance, Inc.
   

CONTACT: Zack Pan, CFO of China Education Alliance, Inc., +1-405-315-9987,
zackpan08@gmail.com; or Investors, Jon Cunningham of RedChip Companies, Inc.,
+1-800-733-2447 x107, info@redchip.comwww.RedChip.com

Web site: http://rodm.com/conferences
http://www.chinaeducationalliance.com/

Bintel Group Awards Redknee License Expansion

Redknee Supports Growth of Bintel Operation in Gabon

TORONTO, March 2 -- Redknee (TSX:RKN), a leading provider of business-critical billing and charging software and solutions for communications service providers, today announced it has received an order for a software license expansion for its Turnkey Converged Billing (TCB) and Airtime Reseller solution at Azur, Gabon's newest mobile provider, to support their rapid growth and subscriber acquisition.

Azur Gabon, a subsidiary of Bintel Ltd, has successfully entered the market with a vision of providing the best value, quality voice and data services to the people of Gabon. Redknee's TCB and Airtime Reseller solution are a fundamental part of this strategy, which equips Azur Gabon with a full solution suite that delivers real-time rating, charging, billing and customer care.

"We are excited about Bintel's rapid, ahead-of-schedule growth and the opportunity to expand the license for Redknee's market-leading, turnkey converged billing solution. We look forward to a long-term, strategic partnership with the Bintel Group and supporting its further success in Gabon," said Redknee CEO Lucas Skoczkowski. "At Redknee, we are continuing our investment in the high growth markets of Africa, the Middle East and Asia Pacific, along with the Tier-1 markets of the Americas, Europe and Australia, to support the execution of our growth strategy."

Redknee's Turnkey Converged Billing solution delivers a functionally rich platform that extends beyond basic rating, charging and billing models, enabling operators to differentiate service offerings in competitive markets. The TCB platform provides operators with the ability to launch creative, real-time promotions and incentives to their customers, along with consumer-friendly features that optimize the overall subscriber experience and boost operator productivity and efficiency. A key feature of the TCB platform is Redknee's Airtime Reseller, which enables voucherless, prepaid wireless airtime top-up.

Bruno Valat, General Manager of Azur Gabon stated:

"Bintel has established itself as a leading and innovative telecom operator in Middle East and West Africa within a short time period. Completely in tune with our African markets, we aim to provide innovative and flexible mobile solutions, based on best price, best value as well as the highest level of customer service and network quality. Azur's successful entry into the Gabon market is part of our continued growth in Africa. Redknee's market experience and innovative solutions makes them our partner of choice on billing, CRM and electronic voucher, which additionally ensures that Azur is competitively positioned to provide a wide range of packages and services to our subscribers."

For more information about Redknee and their solutions, please go to http://www.redknee.com.

About Bintel:

Bintel is registered in Jebel Ali - Dubai in 2007, headquartered in Bahrain, and operates in the telecom operations and service providing sector with a current focus on the emerging markets. The company presently has offices in Bahrain, UAE, and Lebanon.

Bintel currently operates two mobile services in Central African Republic since mid 2007 and in Somaliland since mid 2008. Most recently, Bintel launched service in Gabon in October 2009. It holds a majority stake in Swiss-based Telesonique. Bintel has also recently been awarded the 4th telecom license in Congo Brazzaville.

  (http://www.bintel-ltd.com)

  About Redknee:

Redknee is a leading global provider of innovative communication software products, solutions and services. Redknee's award-winning solutions enable operators to monetize the value of each subscriber transaction while personalizing the subscriber experience to meet mainstream, niche and individual market segment requirements. Redknee's revenue generating solutions provide advanced converged billing, rating, charging and policy for voice, messaging and new generation data services to over 70 network operators in over 50 countries. Established in 1999, Redknee Solutions Inc. (TSX: RKN) is the parent of the wholly-owned operating subsidiary Redknee Inc. and its various subsidiaries. References to Redknee refer to the combined operations of those entities. For more information, visit http://www.redknee.com.

Source: Redknee Solutions Inc.
   

CONTACT:  Media Relations Contact: Rachael Parker, Mi liberty, +44 (0)20
7751 4444, rparker@miliberty.com; Humera Malik, Director of Marketing and
Product Management, (905) 625-2102, humera.malik@redknee.com; Redknee
Solutions: David Charron, Chief Financial Officer, (905) 625-2943; Investor
Relations: Isabel Fernandes-Cunha, (905) 625-2421,
isabel.fernandes@redknee.com or investor_relations@redknee.com

Rentrak to Present at the ROTH 22nd Annual OC Growth Stock Conference

PORTLAND, Ore., March 2 -- Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ:RENT), the leader in multi-screen media measurement serving the advertising and entertainment industries, today announced that David Chemerow, the company's Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, will present an overview of Rentrak's business and growth strategy at the ROTH 22nd Annual OC Growth Stock Conference at The Ritz-Carlton in Laguna Niguel, California.  Chemerow is scheduled to speak at 3:30pm PT on Tuesday, March 16, 2010.

About Rentrak Corporation

Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ:RENT) is a global digital media measurement and research company, serving the most recognizable companies in the entertainment industry.  With a reach across numerous platforms including box office, home entertainment, on-demand and linear television, broadband and mobile, Rentrak is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with additional offices worldwide in Los Angeles, New York City, Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom.  For more information on any of Rentrak's services, please visit http://www.rentrak.com.

  CONTACT:
  Investors
  PondelWilkinson Inc.
  Laurie Berman
  310-279-5962
  lberman@pondel.com

Source: Rentrak Corporation
   

CONTACT:  Investors, Laurie Berman of PondelWilkinson Inc.,
+1-310-279-5962, lberman@pondel.com, for Rentrak Corporation

Web Site:  http://www.rentrak.com/

DEMO Conferences to Feature Top Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs for DEMO Spring Panel Sessions

Industry Mavericks Join DEMO Roster to Speak to Key DEMO Themes

PALM DESERT, Calif., March 2 -- The DEMO conference, the world-renowned launch platform for some of the most notable emerging technologies introduced over the past two decades, has announced the agenda for DEMO Spring 2010, March 21-23, 2010, in Palm Desert, Calif.

(Logo:  http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090218/DEMOLOGO)

In addition to exciting, category-defining demonstrator and AlphaPitch companies that will take the stage to launch the latest technology developments, DEMO is adding to the roster some of the single most influential entrepreneurs, organizations and venture capitalists in the industry to participate in panel sessions on the seven key themes for the show.  Matt Marshall, Executive Producer of DEMO and Editor in Chief of VentureBeat will lead these panel discussions throughout the multi-day conference.

Some highlighted panelists and topic areas attendees can expect to see at this season's conference include the following:

  -- DEMOfocus on Social and Media Technologies
       Mike Brown, Manager, Corporate Development, Facebook;
       Ronny Conway, Associate, Andreessen Horowitz
  -- DEMOfocus on Health and Life Sciences Technologies
       Don Jones, Vice President, Business Development, Health & Life
        Sciences, Qualcomm Incorporated;
       Rob McCray, CEO, Wireless Life Sciences Alliance;
       Nagraj Kashyap, Vice President Qualcomm Ventures;
       Michael Yuan, CEO, Ringful
  -- DEMOfocus on Clean and Sustaining Technologies
       Drew Clark, Director of Strategy, IBM Venture Capital Group
  -- DEMOfocus on Cloud Technologies
       Mike Maples, Managing Partner, Maples Investments;
       Satish Dharmaraj, Partner, Redpoint Ventures;
       Peter Fenton, General Partner, Benchmark Capital
  -- DEMOfocus on Enterprise Technologies
       Keng Lim, Chairman and CEO, NextLabs;
       Gordon Ritter, Founder and General Partner, Emergence Capital
        Partners;
       John Taschek, Vice President, Market Strategy, Salesforce.com
  -- DEMOfocus on Mobile Technologies
       Rich Wong, Partner, Accel Partners;
       Wesley Chan, Partner, Google Ventures

  -- DEMOfocus on Consumer Technologies
       Mark Sugarman, Managing Partner, MHS Capital;
       Chi-Hua Chien, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

The DEMO Spring 2010 conference embraces the full span of the technology product life cycle - from business plan to concept to product launch. Throughout the 2 1/2  day conference, DEMO provides superior networking opportunities to visionary investors, innovators, entrepreneurs and industry influencers.

The exciting DEMO conference days will be broadcast via BitGravity live stream. This year, live viewing will be available only to registered press who are unable to attend the conference. Visitors to http://www.DEMO.com may view all DEMO stage presentations within 24 hours of each product launch.  Contact neal@demo.com with any questions.

  Stay tuned to additional DEMO news at:

  --  Facebook: http://www.demo.com/fbdemo
  --  LinkedIn: http://www.demo.com/linkedin
  --  Twitter:  http://www.twitter.com/demotweets;
      http://www.twitter.com/mmarshall

  About the DEMO Conferences

Produced by the IDG Enterprise events group, the DEMO conferences in the United States and China focus on emerging technologies and new products innovations, which are hand selected from across the spectrum of the technology marketplace. The DEMO conferences have earned their reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow's cutting-edge technologies, and have served as launch pad events for companies such as Palm, E*Trade, Handspring, and U.S. Robotics, helping them to secure venture funding, establish critical business relationships, and influence early adopters. For more information on the DEMO conferences, visit http://www.demo.com/.

The DEMO community also benefits from the award winning DEMOletter. A weekly e - newsletter designed to reach the people who are creating companies, building products and launching new ideas, DEMOletter provides smart insight and analysis of entrepreneurial business issues. To subscribe, go to: http://www.demo.com/

About International Data Group (IDG)

International Data Group (IDG) is the world's leading technology media, events, and research company.  IDG's online network includes more than 450 web sites spanning business technology, consumer technology, digital entertainment and video games worldwide.  IDG also publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers.  Media brands are in more than 90 countries and include CIO, CSO, Computerworld, GamePro, InfoWorld/TechWorld/TecChannel, ITworld, Macworld, Network World, and PC World.  The company's lead-generation service, IDG Connect, matches technology companies with an audience of engaged, high-quality IT professionals, influencers, and decision makers.

IDG is a leading producer of more than 750 technology-related events including Macworld Conference & Expo, OpenSource World, E3 Expo, DEMO, Storage Networking World, and IDC Directions. IDC, a subsidiary of IDG, is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events.   Over 1000 IDC analysts in more than 100 countries provide global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends.

Additional information about IDG, a privately held company, is available at http://www.idg.com/

All product and company names are trademarks of their respective companies.

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Source: DEMO Conferences
   

CONTACT:  Lisa Peterson of Porter Novelli, +1-512-241-2233,
Lisa.Peterson@porternovelli.com, for DEMO Conferences

Web Site:  http://www.idg.com/
http://www.demo.com/

Henry Schein Announces the Launch of Innovative Henry Schein ConnectHealth(TM) Collaborative

New alliance unites Henry Schein, Allscripts, Midmark, Siemens, Welch Allyn, Dell, and Medline to provide a total integrated technology solution for physicians

MELVILLE, N.Y., March 2 -- Henry Schein, Inc. (NASDAQ:HSIC), the largest distributor of health care products and services to office-based practitioners, today announced the launch of Henry Schein ConnectHealth(TM), an innovative new initiative that is a partnership of Henry Schein and leading electronic health record, medical device, and computer services companies, which have come together to help physicians meet the demands of creating and maintaining a coordinated, efficient digital office.  Henry Schein ConnectHealth will help physician practices by simplifying the selection of compatible digital equipment that will seamlessly connect to their electronic health record, coordinating the implementation, providing enhanced decision support and single-call customer concierge support after implementation.

"Henry Schein ConnectHealth provides a reliable, relevant, and coordinated solution for physicians who are looking for the best way to leverage the benefits that electronic health records can bring to their practice," said Stanley M. Bergman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for Henry Schein.  "By facilitating a sophisticated interaction of the data derived from digital devices in a medical office with the electronic medical record, Henry Schein ConnectHealth makes it easier for the modern physician's office to achieve the future of information-technology based medicine.  This exciting, new collaborative enables physicians to deliver superior quality care for their patients, improve efficiency, and increase the profitability of their practice."

"Physicians are currently faced with hundreds of individual products, services and companies providing electronic health records, equipment and hardware options. Henry Schein ConnectHealth brings together this extraordinary alliance of industry leaders to provide a total technology integration solution for our customers' practices. It does so by consulting, selecting, implementing, financing and providing front and backend support services to a physician," said Dave McKinley, President of Henry Schein Medical.  "Henry Schein ConnectHealth includes the best of the best in the medical technology industry:  Allscripts (NASDAQ:MDRX), the leading electronic health record company; Midmark, Siemens Healthcare (NYSE:SI) and Welch Allyn, the leading digital medical device companies uniquely working with Henry Schein; Dell, the industry's leading healthcare IT services provider; and Medline, a primary manufacturer and distributor in major hospitals and health care systems."

Henry Schein ConnectHealth will seamlessly connect electronic health records with medical devices and coordinate all information technology aspects of the physician's office.  By providing certified  connectivity between Midmark, Welch Allyn, and Siemens Healthcare devices and Allscripts Professional EHRs, Henry Schein ConnectHealth will ensure that all of the information from the connected medical devices is automatically populated as discreet data within a patient's health record at the push of a button. Physician practices will no longer need to manage the difficulties that typically arise when trying to integrate a third-party device into their EHR.

Connecting digital equipment to electronic health records will provide many benefits, including eliminating errors in transcription, eliminating duplicate data entry, saving time and cost through effective workflow, and enabling practitioners to access patient information anywhere.

In 2009, Henry Schein signed an exclusive marketing agreement for Allscripts award-winning Professional Electronic Health Records, which provides health care professionals with instant and secure access to patient records anytime and anywhere; automates everyday clinical tasks; and connects physicians to pharmacies, laboratories, and other health stakeholders.

"Physicians want to practice medicine using the best tools that provide the best information.  ConnectHealth will make it easier for physicians to adopt and use comprehensive Electronic Health Records," said Glen Tullman, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts. "We're proud to be partnered with Henry Schein and expect to benefit from their close relationships with more than 112,000 physicians across the United States."

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 provides maximum incentives of between $44,000 and $64,000 over five years, beginning in 2011, for physicians who adopt and use a certified electronic health record to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of patient care.

To learn more about Henry Schein ConnectHealth and view a video introduction to the partnership, please visit http://www.henryschein.com/connecthealth.

About the Henry Schein ConnectHealth Alliance Member Companies

Allscripts uses innovation technology to bring health to health care. More than 160,000 physicians, 800 hospitals and nearly 8,000 post-acute and homecare organizations utilize Allscripts to improve the health of their patients and their bottom line. The company's award-winning solutions include electronic health records, electronic prescribing, revenue cycle management, practice management, document management, care management, emergency department information systems and homecare automation.  Allscripts is the brand name of Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc. To learn more, visit http://www.allscripts.com.

Midmark Corporation helps bring efficient patient care to millions of people each day in the human and animal health care industries around the world. Midmark digital diagnostic devices, including IQecg, IQholter, IQ spiro, and IQstress, provide robust connectivity and seamless workflow, helping physicians and their staff to be more productive. With over 1,100 teammates worldwide, Midmark is dedicated to making a positive difference in the practice of healthcare. Headquartered in Versailles, Ohio, Midmark Corporation maintains four subsidiaries in the United States. To support international health care markets, it holds a subsidiary in France, and partners with a leading health care manufacturer in India. For more information about Midmark, visit the company's Web site at http://www.midmark.com.

The Siemens Healthcare Sector is one of the world's largest suppliers to the healthcare industry and a trendsetter in medical imaging, laboratory diagnostics, medical information technology and hearing aids. Siemens offers its customers products and solutions for the entire range of patient care from a single source - from prevention and early detection to diagnosis, and on to treatment and aftercare. By optimizing clinical workflows for the most common diseases, Siemens also makes healthcare faster, better and more cost-effective. Siemens Healthcare employs some 48,000 employees worldwide and operates around the world. In fiscal year 2009 (to September 30), the Sector posted revenue of 11.9 billion euros and profit of around 1.5 billion euros. For further information please visit: http://www.siemens.com/healthcare.

Founded in 1915 and headquartered in Skaneateles Falls, NY (USA), Welch Allyn is a leading global manufacturer of medical diagnostic equipment and a complete range of digital and connected solutions.  With over 2,500 employees working in 26 different countries, Welch Allyn specializes in helping doctors, nurses, and other frontline practitioners across the globe provide the best patient care by developing innovative products, breakthrough technologies, and cutting-edge solutions that help them see more patients, detect more conditions, and improve more lives.  More information about Welch Allyn and its complete line of connected products and solutions may be found at http://www.welchallyn.com.

Dell, the industry's leading provider of healthcare IT services, provides technology solutions that transform the business and technology of healthcare. Dell helps healthcare organizations harness the power of information to improve the quality and efficiency of patient care, streamline administration and maximize competitiveness.  Learn more at:  http://www.dell.com/healthcare.

Medline, the nation's largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of healthcare products, manufactures and distributes more than 100,000 products to hospitals, extended care facilities, surgery centers, home care dealers and agencies and other markets.  Headquartered in Mundelein, IL, Medline has more than 850 dedicated sales representatives nationwide to support its broad product line and cost management services.

About Henry Schein

Henry Schein, a Fortune 500® company and a member of the NASDAQ 100® Index, is recognized for its excellent customer service and highly competitive prices. The Company's four business groups - Dental, Medical, International and Technology - serve more than 600,000 customers worldwide, including dental practitioners and laboratories, physician practices and animal health clinics, as well as government and other institutions. The Company operates through a centralized and automated distribution network, which provides customers in more than 200 countries with a comprehensive selection of more than 90,000 national and Henry Schein private-brand products in stock, as well as more than 100,000 additional products available as special-order items. Henry Schein also provides exclusive, innovative technology offerings for dental, medical and veterinary professionals, including value-added practice management software and electronic health record solutions.

Headquartered in Melville, N.Y., Henry Schein employs more than 13,500 people and has operations or affiliates in 23 countries. The Company's net sales reached a record $6.5 billion in 2009. For more information, visit the Henry Schein Web site at http://www.henryschein.com.

In accordance with the "Safe Harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, we provide the following cautionary remarks regarding important factors that, among others, could cause future results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements, expectations and assumptions expressed or implied herein.  All forward-looking statements made by us are subject to risks and uncertainties and are not guarantees of future performance.  These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance and achievements or industry results to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.  These statements are identified by the use of such terms as "may," "could," "expect," "intend," "believe," "plan," "estimate," "forecast," "project," "anticipate" or other comparable terms.  A full discussion of our operations and financial condition, including factors that may affect our business and future prospects, is contained in documents we have filed with the SEC and will be contained in all subsequent periodic filings we make with the SEC.  These documents identify in detail important risk factors that could cause our actual performance to differ materially from current expectations.

Risk factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from current and historical results include, but are not limited to: decreased customer demand and changes in vendor credit terms; disruptions in financial markets; general economic conditions; effects of a highly competitive market; changes in the healthcare industry; changes in regulatory requirements; risks from expansion of customer purchasing power and multi-tiered costing structures; risks associated with our international operations; fluctuations in quarterly earnings; our dependence on third parties for the manufacture and supply of our products; transitional challenges associated with acquisitions, including the failure to achieve anticipated synergies; financial risks associated with acquisitions; regulatory and litigation risks; the dependence on our continued product development, technical support and successful marketing in the technology segment; risks from disruption to our information systems; our dependence upon sales personnel, manufacturers and customers; our dependence on our senior management; possible increases in the cost of shipping our products or other service issues with our third-party shippers; risks from rapid technological change; possible volatility of the market price of our common stock; certain provisions in our governing documents that may discourage third-party acquisitions of us; and changes in tax legislation.  The order in which these factors appear should not be construed to indicate their relative importance or priority.  We caution that these factors may not be exhaustive and that many of these factors are beyond our ability to control or predict.  Accordingly, any forward-looking statements contained herein should not be relied upon as a prediction of actual results.  We undertake no duty and have no obligation to update forward-looking statements.

Source: Henry Schein, Inc.
   

CONTACT:  Steven Paladino, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial
Officer, +1-631-843-5500, or steven.paladino@henryschein.com, Susan Vassallo,
Vice President, Corporate Communications, +1-631-843-5562, or
susan.vassallo@henryschein.com, both of Henry Schein, Inc.

Web Site:  http://www.henryschein.com/
http://www.allscripts.com/
http://www.midmark.com/
http://www.siemens.com/healthcare
http://www.welchallyn.com/
http://www.dell.com/healthcare

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IBM Donates Supercomputer to Rice University for Biomedical Research Collaboration with Texas Medical Center

$7.6 Million Award from IBM Aimed at Helping Scientists Uncover Breakthroughs in Cancer Research

HOUSTON, March 2 -- Rice University and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled a new high-performance computing (HPC) initiative for biomedical and life sciences research that features one of the most powerful supercomputers in the Texas Medical Center. Rice scientists will use the supercomputer in collaboration with researchers from across the medical center to study cancer, AIDS and other complex diseases.

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The POWER7-based supercomputer is the centerpiece of a $7.6 Million IBM Shared University Research (SUR) award to Rice for advanced biomedical research. The award -- the largest for HPC infrastructure in Rice's history -- also includes HPC software, services and life sciences expertise from IBM. Dubbed "BlueBioU," the HPC project will bring together researchers from Rice, IBM and collaborating partners within the Texas Medical Center.

The supercomputer at Rice is the first system deployed with IBM's new POWER7 microprocessors, which makes it especially attractive for researchers faced with computationally demanding and memory-intensive problems often encountered in biomedical and life sciences research. For example, the system will be particularly useful for genomic sequencing, protein folding, drug modeling and simulations of molecular-level interactions in tissues. In addition, the real-time analytics capabilities of the POWER7 hardware and software are well-suited for mining vast genomic and medical databases for clues to new treatment options and cures for complex diseases.

Capable of 18.8 teraflops -- or 18.8 trillion floating point calculations per second -- the BlueBioU platform is as powerful as the combined total of Rice's existing supercomputers.

"Our vision is to facilitate collaboration among researchers and among institutions by providing a world-class computing resource that's well-suited to a range of bioscience applications," said Kamran Khan, Rice's vice provost for information technology and one of the Rice co-leaders of the project.

"It's exciting to have the world's first POWER7 clusters here at Rice. The productivity and performance benefits of the POWER7 platform are well aligned with Rice's future directions for research computing, as well as our ultimate goal of working with the medical center to enhance treatment options and find new cures for patients," said co-leader Vivek Sarkar, Rice's E.D. Butcher Professor of Computer Science and professor of electrical and computer engineering.

The Texas Medical Center is one of the world's largest medical complexes. The medical center's 46 member institutions conduct more than $1 billion worth of research and see more than 5 million patients each year.

Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), a Texas Medical Center partner that is collaborating with Rice on the BlueBioU project, is planning to explore the entire spectrum of genomic change in cancer through the application of genome analysis technologies, including large-scale genome sequencing.

"We are unlocking the mysteries of human cancer by analyzing the genomes of 50 patients with ovarian cancer to discover the mutation profile underlying their disease," said BCM's Kim Worley, associate professor of molecular and human genetics. "If successful, we will analyze 1,000 patients with different cancers over the next year. This project will have a huge impact on our understanding of the biology of cancer and may identify potential future treatment avenues."

Largely developed at IBM's Austin, Texas research labs, the Linux-based BlueBioU system is uniquely designed for parallel processing, or running thousands of programs at the same time. It has 608 POWER7 processors, which are capable of simultaneously running 2,432 tasks.

"IBM's $7.6 million donation is a significant investment in life sciences research in Texas and will help promote Houston as a premier research collaboration center," said Tony Befi, vice president, POWER Systems and IBM senior state executive for Texas. "The POWER7 is ideal for the type of research performed at Rice and the Texas Medical Center and will help make it possible to detect and analyze patterns that may one day lead to important medical breakthroughs and smarter healthcare."

"We're proud to be working with Rice on a research project that not only supports IBM's worldwide university initiatives but is so important to the advancement of medical science," said Bernie Meyerson, IBM Fellow and vice president of innovation and global university programs. "It's exciting that we have technology available today that can help biomedical researchers tackle some of the most challenging and complex diseases we face."

The BlueBioU supercomputer is housed at Rice's $16 million state-of-the-art data center, which supports the new green-enabled technologies available on the POWER7 platform. The energy-efficient features of the POWER7-based supercomputer include the ability to create policies and protocols that optimize the balance between energy usage and performance.

The data center is connected to the Rice campus and to Texas Medical Center partners via a new $22 million network with a multi-gigabit backbone and more than a terabit of aggregate bandwidth. In addition, Rice has a new high-availability storage infrastructure that provides multiple terabytes of data storage in the data center.

Rice's BlueBioU team includes Khan, Sarkar, John Mellor-Crummey, professor of computer science and of electrical and computer engineering; Kim Andrews, manager of academic and research computing; and Chandler Wilkerson, lead system architect. For more information about BlueBioU, visit http://bluebiou.rice.edu/.

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IBM Shared University Research Awards Program

IBM's Shared University Research awards program strives to connect the research and researchers at universities with IBM Research, IBM Life Sciences, IBM Global Services and IBM's development and product labs. The SUR Awards program is designed to, among other things, increase access to IBM technologies for research and in curriculum.

More information about IBM's University Programs is available at http://www.ibm.com/press/university. For more information on IBM Power Systems, visit http://www.ibm.com/systems/power.

Rice University

Located in Houston, Rice University is consistently ranked one of America's best teaching and research universities. Known for its "unconventional wisdom," Rice is distinguished by its: size -- 3,279 undergraduates and 2,277 graduate students; selectivity -- 12 applicants for each place in the freshman class; resources -- an undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5-to-1; sixth largest endowment per student among American private research universities; residential college system, which builds communities that are both close-knit and diverse; and collaborative culture, which crosses disciplines, integrates teaching and research, and intermingles undergraduate and graduate work.

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  Jade Boyd                       Jeff Tieszen
  Rice University                 IBM
  713-348-6778                    512-286-2279
  jadeboyd@rice.edujtieszen@us.ibm.com

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Source: IBM
   

CONTACT:  Jade Boyd of Rice University, +1-713-348-6778,
jadeboyd@rice.edu; or Jeff Tieszen of IBM, +1-512-286-2279,
jtieszen@us.ibm.com

Web Site:  http://www.ibm.com/

Spectral granted IDE approval by U.S. FDA to conduct pivotal trial for Toraymyxin(TM)

TORONTO, March 2 -- Spectral Diagnostics Inc. (TSX:SDI), a company developing products for the treatment of sepsis, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) approval for Toraymyxin(TM), a therapeutic hemoperfusion device that removes endotoxin from the bloodstream, allowing the Company to conduct a pivotal trial in the United States.

The EUPHRATES (Evaluating the Use of Polymyxin B Hemoperfusion in a Randomized controlled trial of Adults Treated for Endotoxemia and Septic shock) trial is a randomized, double-blinded control trial of standard of care versus standard of care and Toraymyxin(TM) directed by Spectral's Endotoxin Activity Assay (EAA(TM)), an FDA cleared assay for use in sepsis. The trial is expected to enroll approximately 360 patients at 15 sites throughout the U.S. and will have a primary end point of 28 day mortality.

"The FDA's approval of our IDE is a major step forward in the development of Toraymyxin(TM) for the U.S. market. We are on track to start the pivotal trial in the first half of 2010, using the EAA(TM) guided approach to endotoxin removal by Toraymyxin(TM) hemoperfusion in patients with septic shock. This theranostics approach, a combination of a therapeutic and diagnostic, is included in the design of our EUPHRATES trial," said Dr. Paul Walker, President and CEO of Spectral. "Also incorporated in the trial design is clinical information already available on the use of the Toraymyxin(TM) column from many previously conducted positive trials completed internationally. We look forward to confirming these findings."

Dr. Walker continued: "This theranostics strategy should address a major unmet need for more than 250,000 patients per year in the United States alone who suffer from severe sepsis and are at high risk of dying."

About Spectral Diagnostics

Spectral is a leader in the battle against sepsis. Spectral's lead product is its Endotoxin Activity Assay (EAA(TM)), the only FDA cleared assay for the measurement of endotoxin. With the growing awareness for the role of endotoxemia in sepsis and the increasing number of therapies being developed for this indication, Spectral is well-positioned to drive the adoption of the EAA(TM), which can be used to identify patients, enable therapeutics and monitor treatment. In March 2009, Spectral obtained the exclusive development and commercial rights in the U.S. for Toraymyxin(TM), a therapeutic for the treatment of sepsis that removes endotoxin from the bloodstream. Spectral will seek FDA approval for Toraymyxin(TM) and intends to commercialize the product together with EAA(TM). Spectral is listed on TSX under the symbol SDI.

Forward-looking statement

Information in this news release that is not current or historical factual information may constitute forward-looking information within the meaning of securities laws. Implicit in this information, particularly in respect of the future outlook of Spectral and anticipated events or results, are assumptions based on beliefs of Spectral's senior management as well as information currently available to it. While these assumptions were considered reasonable by Spectral at the time of preparation, they may prove to be incorrect. Readers are cautioned that actual results are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including the availability of funds and resources to pursue R&D projects, the successful and timely completion of clinical studies, the ability of Spectral to take advantage of business opportunities in the biomedical industry, the granting of necessary approvals by regulatory authorities as well as general economic, market and business conditions, and could differ materially from what is currently expected.

The TSX has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this statement.

Source: Spectral Diagnostics Inc.
   

CONTACT:  Dr. Paul Walker, President & CEO, (416) 626-3233 ex. 2100;
Casey Gurfinkel, Investor Relations, (416) 815-0700 ext. 283,
cgurfinkel@equicomgroup.com

Bintel Group Awards Redknee License Expansion

TORONTO, March 2, 2010--

    - Redknee Supports Growth of Bintel Operation in Gabon

    Redknee (TSX:RKN), a leading provider of business-critical billing and
charging software and solutions for communications service providers, today
announced it has received an order for a software license expansion for its
Turnkey Converged Billing (TCB) and Airtime Reseller solution at Azur,
Gabon's newest mobile provider, to support their rapid growth and subscriber
acquisition.

    Azur Gabon, a subsidiary of Bintel Ltd, has successfully entered the
market with a vision of providing the best value, quality voice and data
services to the people of Gabon. Redknee's TCB and Airtime Reseller solution
are a fundamental part of this strategy, which equips Azur Gabon with a full
solution suite that delivers real-time rating, charging, billing and customer
care.

    "We are excited about Bintel's rapid, ahead-of-schedule growth and the
opportunity to expand the license for Redknee's market-leading, turnkey
converged billing solution. We look forward to a long-term, strategic
partnership with the Bintel Group and supporting its further success in
Gabon," said Redknee CEO Lucas Skoczkowski. "At Redknee, we are continuing
our investment in the high growth markets of Africa, the Middle East and Asia
Pacific, along with the Tier-1 markets of the Americas, Europe and Australia,
to support the execution of our growth strategy."

    Redknee's Turnkey Converged Billing solution delivers a functionally rich
platform that extends beyond basic rating, charging and billing models,
enabling operators to differentiate service offerings in competitive markets.
The TCB platform provides operators with the ability to launch creative,
real-time promotions and incentives to their customers, along with
consumer-friendly features that optimize the overall subscriber experience
and boost operator productivity and efficiency. A key feature of the TCB
platform is Redknee's Airtime Reseller, which enables voucherless, prepaid
wireless airtime top-up.

    Bruno Valat, General Manager of Azur Gabon stated:

    "Bintel has established itself as a leading and innovative telecom
operator in Middle East and West Africa within a short time period.
Completely in tune with our African markets, we aim to provide innovative and
flexible mobile solutions, based on best price, best value as well as the
highest level of customer service and network quality. Azur's successful
entry into the Gabon market is part of our continued growth in Africa.
Redknee's market experience and innovative solutions makes them our partner
of choice on billing, CRM and electronic voucher, which additionally ensures
that Azur is competitively positioned to provide a wide range of packages and
services to our subscribers."

    For more information about Redknee and their solutions, please go to
http://www.redknee.com.

    About Bintel:

    Bintel is registered in Jebel Ali - Dubai in 2007, headquartered in
Bahrain, and operates in the telecom operations and service providing sector
with a current focus on the emerging markets. The company presently has
offices in Bahrain, UAE, and Lebanon.

    Bintel currently operates two mobile services in Central African Republic
since mid 2007 and in Somaliland since mid 2008. Most recently, Bintel
launched service in Gabon in October 2009. It holds a majority stake in
Swiss-based Telesonique. Bintel has also recently been awarded the 4th
telecom license in Congo Brazzaville.

    (http://www.bintel-ltd.com)

    About Redknee:

    Redknee is a leading global provider of innovative communication software
products, solutions and services. Redknee's award-winning solutions enable
operators to monetize the value of each subscriber transaction while
personalizing the subscriber experience to meet mainstream, niche and
individual market segment requirements. Redknee's revenue generating
solutions provide advanced converged billing, rating, charging and policy for
voice, messaging and new generation data services to over 70 network
operators in over 50 countries. Established in 1999, Redknee Solutions Inc.
(TSX: RKN) is the parent of the wholly-owned operating subsidiary Redknee
Inc. and its various subsidiaries. References to Redknee refer to the
combined operations of those entities. For more information, visit
http://www.redknee.com.

    For further information: Media Relations Contact: Rachael Parker, Mi
liberty, +44(0)20-7751-4444, rparker@miliberty.com; Humera Malik, Director of
Marketing and Product Management, +1-905-625-2102, humera.malik@redknee.com;
Redknee Solutions: David Charron, Chief Financial Officer, +1-905-625-2943;
Investor Relations: Isabel Fernandes-Cunha, +1-905-625-2421,
isabel.fernandes@redknee.com or investor_relations@redknee.com

Source: Redknee Solutions Inc.

For further information: Media Relations Contact: Rachael Parker, Mi liberty, +44(0)20-7751-4444, rparker@miliberty.com; Humera Malik, Director of Marketing and Product Management, +1-905-625-2102, humera.malik@redknee.com; Redknee Solutions: David Charron, Chief Financial Officer, +1-905-625-2943; Investor Relations: Isabel Fernandes-Cunha, +1-905-625-2421, isabel.fernandes@redknee.com or investor_relations@redknee.com

Follett Software Company Achieves More Than 8,000 Percent ROI on Marketing Campaign Powered by Silverpop

ATLANTA, March 2 -- Known for empowering educators with its comprehensive educational resource management solutions, Follett Software Company was certain many customers weren't taking full advantage of all the services that could enhance their library management product. Informative email and direct mailers weren't resonating with the customer base. As a result, the company turned up its creativity, creating a "try it before you buy it" campaign to cross sell its most popular product, TitlePeek(TM), to current customers.

While marketing hoped to achieve a 2 to 5 percent conversion rate on the campaign, it achieved results significantly higher. In fact, the campaign was so successful that Follett Software recently received a gold award at MarketingSherpa's 5th Annual Email Marketing Awards in the category of Best Promotional Email Message.

"We distributed two email communications to clients who had never subscribed to our TitlePeek(TM) product before--the first announcing a free trial of the product and the second reminding them they had two weeks left before the trial was over," said Kathleen Schroeder, product marketing manager.  "Using Silverpop's marketing automation solution, we were able to integrate reporting with our CRM system so we could track results from start to finish."

The results were phenomenal. Six months after the campaign launch, conversion rates were over 17 percent and the program delivered an ROI of more than 8,000 percent, far exceeding the company's original campaign goals. Schroeder said the marketing team is looking forward to creating many other successful campaigns based on this model.

"Silverpop's B2B marketing automation solution made it easy to analyze responses to the campaign,"  said Schroeder. "The reports proved the success as the campaign progressed, and helped gain management buy-in to offer these types of trial programs for some of our other products."

"Follett Software Company is a prime example of how creative strategy combined with a robustly sophisticated marketing automation solution can harvest powerful results," said Silverpop's CEO Bill Nussey. "And the ability to dig into the metrics of a B2B campaign to better understand what drives customers to conversion can be seen as a critical component to a highly successful program like this."

About Silverpop

Silverpop is the world's only provider of both email marketing and marketing automation solutions specifically tailored to the unique needs of B2C and B2B marketers. Silverpop's Engagement Marketing suite helps turn prospects into customers, and customers into fans. Silverpop's Web-based solutions enable companies worldwide to build relationships with customers and prospects through the creation, automation and delivery of relevant, online messaging.

Companies rely on the Silverpop Engage platform to create and manage multichannel marketing campaigns that reach millions of individuals--one at a time--enhancing lifetime customer value and brand loyalty. Silverpop's Engage B2B platform seamlessly scores sales leads, nurtures them through the pipeline and measures campaign return on investment. Best practices and white papers are available on the Silverpop Web site at http://www.silverpop.com.

  Media Contact:
  Wyatt Jefferies
  Silverpop Corporate Communications
  770-763-3049
  wjefferies@silverpop.com

Source: Silverpop
   

CONTACT:  Wyatt Jefferies, Silverpop Corporate Communications,
+1-770-763-3049, wjefferies@silverpop.com

Web Site:  http://www.silverpop.com/

Sonic Solutions Expands Small Screen Access to Digital Entertainment

Roxio CinemaNow Offers Movie Streaming to the Windows Mobile Operating System

NOVATO, Calif., March 2 -- Sonic Solutions® (NASDAQ:SNIC), today announced that the Roxio CinemaNow(TM) entertainment platform now supports digital movie delivery to the Windows Mobile platform. The latest support further expands the reach of the Roxio CinemaNow platform and provides retailers and content owners with another way to reach entertainment lovers on the go.

While supporting handsets running the Windows Mobile Operating System, the Roxio CinemaNow platform provides retailers and content owners with the opportunity to provide instant entertainment access to consumers using Android-based smartphones, as well as DivX Certified® mobile devices. In addition to supporting a range of mobile operating systems, the Roxio CinemaNow platform allows partners to also provide premium content services on an ever expanding ecosystem of connected TVs, Blu-ray Disc players, PCs, set-top boxes, mobile media players, and netbooks from a range of manufacturers.

"Sonic's goal is to leverage device and format expertise built over two decades to power digital delivery as a format that offers consumers greater convenience and flexibility than physical discs," said Dave Habiger, president and CEO of Sonic Solutions. "In collaboration with our retail partners, we will continue to add new platform support and build out an open system that will enable consumers to buy a piece of content once, then seamlessly play it back on virtually any type of device with a screen."

The Roxio CinemaNow entertainment platform serves a broad range of premium content, including new movies and next-day TV programs, to a growing, multi-manufacturer ecosystem of home and mobile electronics including PCs, connected TVs, set-top DVRs, Blu-ray Disc players, smartphones, and mobile media devices. The platform enables retailers and consumer electronics companies to participate in the entertainment supply chain, add value to product offerings and form ongoing relationships with customers. Roxio CinemaNow-powered stores enable consumers to instantly rent and purchase high-quality entertainment on their favorite device and, through Roxio CinemaNow online entertainment locker, the flexibility to playback content ordered on additional consumer electronics devices. As well as being available on a range of consumer electronics, Roxio CinemaNow powers digital entertainment delivery for Best Buy and Blockbuster.

About Sonic Solutions

Sonic Solutions® (NASDAQ:SNIC) is powering the digital media ecosystem through its complete range of Hollywood to Home(TM) applications, services, and technologies. Sonic's Roxio® products enable consumers to easily manage and enjoy personal digital media content and, through Roxio CinemaNow(TM), access premium Hollywood entertainment on a broad range of connected devices. A wide array of leading technology firms, professionals, and developers rely on Sonic to bring innovative digital media functionality to next-generation devices and platforms. Sonic Solutions is headquartered in Marin County, California.

Forward Looking Statements

This release may contain forward looking statements that are based upon current expectations, including the launch, distribution, and market acceptance of Roxio CinemaNow. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward looking statements as a result of various risks and uncertainties, including those discussed in Sonic Solutions' annual and quarterly reports on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This press release should be read in conjunction with Sonic Solutions' most recent annual report on Form 10-K, Form 10-Q and other reports on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which contain a more detailed discussion of the Company's business including risks and uncertainties that may affect future results. Sonic Solutions does not undertake to update any forward looking statements.

Sonic, the Sonic logo, Sonic Solutions, Roxio, Roxio CinemaNow, and Hollywood to Home, are trademarks or registered trademarks owned by Sonic Solutions in the United States and/or other countries. All other company or product names are trademarks of their respective owners and, in some cases, are used by Sonic Solutions under license. Specifications, pricing and delivery schedules are subject to change without notice.

Source: Sonic Solutions
   

CONTACT:  Chris Taylor of Sonic Solutions, +1-408-367-5231,
chris_taylor@sonic.com

Web Site:  http://www.sonic.com/

SonicWALL Strengthens Enterprise Presence With Suite of New Security Solutions

Advanced Firewall with Application Intelligence and Virtual Security Appliances Are Key Steps Towards Enabling a Vision for a Secure Future

SAN FRANCISCO, March 2 -- SonicWALL, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNWL), a leading secure network infrastructure company, announced today an advanced firewall for the enterprise delivered with Application Intelligence and Intrusion Prevention System (IPS). SonicWALL also announced a portfolio of Virtual Security Appliances as part of its vision to deliver Dynamic Security for the Global Network.  These new offerings underscore SonicWALL's commitment to deliver intelligent solutions providing real time adaptation as organizations change and protect against evolving threats. To learn more visit SonicWALL at the RSA Conference at booth #2551.

Vision for a Secure Future: Dynamic Security for the Global Network

Companies strive to optimize productivity and maximize ROI by leveraging the benefits of flexible IT capabilities. The drive toward borderless networks replacing static infrastructure with dynamic platforms based on cloud-based, virtualized or mobile technologies present novel challenges for network owners.

SonicWALL's vision for a secure future combines comprehensive network protection capability with security policies linked to dynamically identified users, applications and content. This unique approach liberates network owners from the straightjacket of statically defined networks which deprived them of the choice to move to more effective network architectures.

The newly announced Network Security Appliance (NSA) E8500 enables enterprises to take advantage of technology trends such as Web 2.0, converged communications and mobility without compromising performance.   SonicWALL protects the network against damage by  proactively blocking threats while giving network owners the total application control they need to increase overall network performance and efficiency.

"As technology has changed so too have the threats that look to exploit new vulnerabilities," said Matt Medeiros, President and CEO, SonicWALL. "The speed at which cybercriminals attack susceptible points in a network is staggering and while traditional security measures have been sufficient in the past, that is no longer the case. Our vision of Dynamic Security compels us to deliver solutions designed to remain one step ahead of the threats and, in some instances, repel the attacks before they happen."

Today's enterprises are also challenged with capitalizing on technologies such as virtualization, cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to overcome the previous "one-application-per-server" model.  SonicWALL's suite of Virtual Security Appliances enables enterprises to take advantage of scalable security solutions while taking advantage of equipment optimization and lower costs.

SonicWALL's vision of Dynamic Security for the Global Network leverages the SonicWALL GRID Network, comprised of millions of end points that provide continuous communication, feedback and analysis.  SonicWALL's Threat Center processes this real-time information, proactively delivering defenses through dynamic updates to repel emerging threats.

SonicWALL further leverages technological innovation with its Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection (RFDPI) technology - the foundation for all SonicWALL network security products.  By combining our single engine with a high speed, multi-core, parallel hardware architecture, we enable simultaneous, multi-threat scanning and analysis at wire speed. This core technology provides the framework allowing the entire solution to scale for deployment in high bandwidth networks.  Integrating advanced networking and remote access technologies enables SonicWALL to verify and defend the security of traditional and mobile wireless networks, users and applications --and their endpoint devices--while simultaneously scanning and disinfecting the data stream across platforms and perimeters. SonicWALL's policy and administration management provides scalability in parallel as your organization grows.

About SonicWALL, Inc.

SonicWALL is committed to improving the performance and productivity of businesses of all sizes by engineering the cost and complexity out of running a secure network. Over one million SonicWALL appliances have been shipped through its global network of ten thousand channel partners to keep tens of millions of worldwide business computer users safe and in control of their data. SonicWALL's award-winning solutions include network security, secure remote access, content security, backup and recovery, and policy and management technology. For more information, visit the company Web site at http://www.sonicwall.com/.

Safe Harbor Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements in this press release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The forward-looking statements include but are not limited to statements regarding the benefits associated with the SonicWALL's dynamic vision for a secure future; the benefits associated with flexible information technology capability; the benefits associated with the NSA E8500; our ability to protect networks before they are damaged; and the our RFDPI technology.  These forward-looking statements are based on the opinions and estimates of management at the time the statements are made and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements. In addition, please see the "Risk Factors" described in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, for a more detailed description of the risks facing our business. All forward-looking statements included in this release are based upon information available to SonicWALL as of the date of the release, and we assume no obligation to update any such forward-looking statement.

NOTE: SonicWALL is a registered trademark of SonicWALL, Inc. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies

Source: SonicWALL, Inc.
   

CONTACT:  Colleen Nichols of SonicWALL, +1-408-962-6131,
cnichols@sonicwall.com; or Drew Smith of Bite Communications, +1-415-365-0401,
drew.smith@bitepr.com, for SonicWALL, Inc.

Web Site:  http://www.sonicwall.com/

SonicWALL Combines Virtual Appliance Advantages With Hardened Security oS to Deliver Powerful, Dynamic and Efficient Virtual Security Solutions

SonicWALL Global Management System (GMS), ViewPoint Reporting, Email Security, SSL VPN Appliances Form Foundation for Comprehensive Virtual Appliance Portfolio

SAN FRANCISCO, March 2 -- SonicWALL, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNWL), a leading secure network infrastructure company, announced today at RSA Conference 2010 (booth #2551), its Security Virtual Appliance portfolio.  The company announced that the first two Security Virtual Appliances (SonicWALL Global Management System Virtual Appliance and ViewPoint Virtual Appliance) are available immediately. The company expects to ship its Enterprise-class anti-spam Email Security Virtual Appliance later this quarter.  Additional Security Virtual Appliances will ship in future quarters. As enterprises continue to consolidate IT assets and take advantage of cloud-based computing to drive down costs, they are accelerating the deployment of solutions as Virtual Platforms.  SonicWALL's release of multiple security-focused Virtual Appliances gives enterprises more flexibility while improving security and productivity of their corporate network.

"Delivering key security and productivity solutions as Virtual Appliances is required for enterprises to take advantage of equipment optimization, lower costs, utilization of data center capacities and cloud infrastructures," said Patrick Sweeney, vice president of Product Management at SonicWALL. "Today's announcement enables mid and large enterprises to exploit scalable security solutions in virtualized environments. Our extensive VAR channel can now 'be the cloud' and deliver security focused virtualized solutions to businesses of all sizes. We see this as a win for large and small companies alike."

SonicWALL Global Management System (GMS) and ViewPoint Virtual Appliances

The GMS Virtual Appliance is based on SonicWALL GMS version 6.0 announced earlier this year. The solution provides enterprises and managed service providers (MSPs) with a flexible, powerful and intuitive solution to centrally manage and rapidly deploy all of their SonicWALL firewall, anti-spam, backup and recovery, and secure remote access solutions. Enterprises and MSPs use SonicWALL GMS to manage thousands of appliances simultaneously and to centrally create and deploy security policies, provide real-time monitoring and alerting functionality and to deliver intuitive compliance and usage reports from a single management interface. The ViewPoint Virtual Appliance provides granular reporting on one or more SonicWALL security devices, allowing administrators to closely track network utilization, monitor security activity and view Web usage.

Dynamic Security for the Global Network

To help customers cope with rapidly evolving and continuously changing threats, SonicWALL is committed to its vision of Dynamic Security for the Global Network, in which security solutions dynamically adapt to the continuously shifting threats and easily adjust to new technologies or business demands.

SonicWALL also announced today the launch of its NSA E8500 and its vision of Dynamic Security for the Global Network, further strengthening its enterprise portfolio and presence.  For more information, visit the company Web site at http://www.sonicwall.com/.

About SonicWALL, Inc.

SonicWALL is committed to improving the performance and productivity of businesses of all sizes by engineering the cost and complexity out of running a secure network. Over one million SonicWALL appliances have been shipped through its global network of ten thousand channel partners to keep tens of millions of worldwide business computer users safe and in control of their data. SonicWALL's award-winning solutions include network security, secure remote access, content security, backup and recovery, and policy and management technology. For more information, visit the company Web site at http://www.sonicwall.com/.

Safe Harbor Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements in this press release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The forward-looking statements include but are not limited to statements regarding the benefits associated with SonicWALL Virtual Appliance Solutions and the anticipated launch date of other SonicWALL Virtual Appliances.  These forward-looking statements are based on the opinions and estimates of management at the time the statements are made and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements. In addition, please see the "Risk Factors" described in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, for a more detailed description of the risks facing our business. All forward-looking statements included in this release are based upon information available to SonicWALL as of the date of the release, and we assume no obligation to update any such forward-looking statement.

NOTE: SonicWALL is a registered trademark of SonicWALL, Inc. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies

Source: SonicWALL, Inc.
   

CONTACT:  Colleen Nichols, SonicWALL, +1-408-962-6131,
cnichols@sonicwall.com; Drew Smith, Bite Communications, +1-415-365-0401,
drew.smith@bitepr.com

Web Site:  http://www.sonicwall.com/

New Multi-Gigabit Application Intelligent Firewall from SonicWALL Secures the Enterprise

Provides Intrusion Prevention, Application Intelligence and Control functionality While Offering Improved Efficiency, Scalability and Performance

SAN FRANCISCO, March 2 -- SonicWALL, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNWL), a leading secure network infrastructure company, announced today at RSA Conference 2010, (booth #2551), the SonicWALL E-Class Network Security Appliance (NSA) E8500, a new advanced Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) firewall with Application Intelligence and Control designed for the enterprise. The NSA E8500 extends the protection of SonicWALL's network security appliances to include the management and control of data and applications that pass through the network. The NSA E8500 enhances this threat protection with intuitive visualization tools that offer network administrators a wide range of data points on applications traversing the network, including who is using them, as well as the potential security impact. The product is expected to ship in the second quarter this year.

Unparalleled Intelligence, Security and Control

As enterprises attempt to achieve more productivity benefits from their network infrastructure, they have witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of mobile devices allowing employees to work from anywhere, anytime. At the same time, the growth of Web 2.0 applications has provided widely used collaboration tools. Converged communications has emerged as another powerful productivity enabler as voice and video traffic start to co-exist with the more traditional data traffic. These technology trends present a fundamental problem for network administrators - total traffic intelligence. This intelligence is required for performance analysis, discovery and immediate action to provide smooth operations of critical systems, yet this intelligence has become increasingly elusive to capture. As a result, traditional firewalls have grown blind to the application traffic on the network and to the threats that can travel through these applications.

Intuitive traffic visualization allows the NSA E8500 to display traffic intelligence in an easy-to-understand form that enables fast network assessment. The integration of advanced networking and remote access technologies allows SonicWALL to verify and defend the security of traditional and mobile wireless networks, users and applications -- and their endpoint devices -- while scanning and disinfecting the data stream across platforms and perimeters.  Robust Re-assembly Free Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) capabilities feed into the NSA E8500's integrated Application Intelligence engine, allowing the appliance to inspect hundreds of thousands of connections simultaneously with near zero latency and no file size limitations. Along with the technological scalability, SonicWALL's policy and administration management can scale as customers grow and evolve.

"The last few years have seen a fundamental shift in working styles and practices that requires organizations to implement new policies through which they can maximize employee productivity. At the same time, nefarious actions of cybercriminals and hackers have raised threats that are radically different from what these companies have seen in the past," said Patrick Sweeney, vice president of Product Management at SonicWALL. "Our vision is simple: we plan to deliver security solutions that evolve along with the organizations and the threats they encounter: dynamically and globally. With the NSA E8500 we give customers worldwide the ability to control, manage and protect their global networks seamlessly and automatically."

Through the incorporation of SonicWALL's existing foundation of E-Class NSA Series firewalls, the NSA E8500 delivers the following enterprise class features:

  --  Application Intelligence and Control  provides a configurable set of
      granular policies per user, application, schedule or IP subnet. These
      policies can be used to automate application bandwidth allocation,
      restrict transfer of specific files, scan attachments using
      user-configurable criteria, control and inspect both internal and
      external Web access and enable users to add custom signatures.
  --  Intuitive Visualization Tools offer IT administrators a wide range of
      data points on applications traversing the network, including who is
      using them, and potential security impact.
  --  SonicWALL Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection is capable of
      controlling more than 1,100 unique applications on the network and
      inspecting hundreds of thousands of connections simultaneously across
      65,535 ports, with nearly zero latency and unlimited stream size.
  --  Powerful intrusion prevention and malware protection against a
      comprehensive array of network-based application layer threats by
      scanning packet payloads for worms, Trojans, software vulnerabilities,
      peer-to-peer and instant messenger applications, backdoor exploits,
      and other malicious code.
  --  Flexible deployment as either a traditional gateway or as an inline
      solution that allows administrators to keep their existing
      infrastructure, while adding application intelligence and control as
      an extra layer of network security and visibility to their network.

  Dynamic Security for the Global Network

To help customers cope with rapidly evolving and continuously changing threats, SonicWALL is committed to its vision of Dynamic Security for the Global Network, in which security solutions dynamically adapt to the continuously shifting threats and easily adjust to new technologies or business demands.

SonicWALL also announced today the launch of its Global Management System (GMS) Virtual Appliance and its vision of Dynamic Security for the Global Network, further strengthening its enterprise portfolio and presence.  For more information, visit the company web site at http://www.sonicwall.com/.

About SonicWALL, Inc.

SonicWALL is committed to improving the performance and productivity of businesses of all sizes by engineering the cost and complexity out of running a secure network. Over one million SonicWALL appliances have been shipped through its global network of ten thousand channel partners to keep tens of millions of worldwide business computer users safe and in control of their data. SonicWALL's award-winning solutions include network security, secure remote access, content security, backup and recovery, and policy and management technology. For more information, visit the company web site at http://www.sonicwall.com/.

Safe Harbor Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements in this press release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The forward-looking statements include but are not limited to statements regarding the benefits associated with the NSA E8500 Appliance; the anticipated ship date for the NSA E8500; challenges associated with total traffic intelligence; challenges associated with changes styles and practices; the impact of Web 2.0 applications and converged communications: and our vision to provided security solutions capable to adjusting to threats and adjusting to technology and business demands.  These forward-looking statements are based on the opinions and estimates of management at the time the statements are made and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements. In addition, please see the "Risk Factors" described in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, for a more detailed description of the risks facing our business. All forward-looking statements included in this release are based upon information available to SonicWALL as of the date of the release, and we assume no obligation to update any such forward-looking statement.

NOTE: SonicWALL is a registered trademark of SonicWALL, Inc. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies

Source: SonicWALL, Inc.
   

CONTACT:  Colleen Nichols of SonicWALL, +1-408-962-6131,
cnichols@sonicwall.com; or Drew Smith of Bite Communications, +1-415-365-0401,
drew.smith@bitepr.com, for SonicWALL, Inc.

Web Site:  http://www.sonicwall.com/

China Power Equipment to Present at Rodman & Renshaw Conference in Beijing on March 8, 2010

XI'AN, China, March 2 -- China Power Equipment, Inc. ("China Power Equipment", OTC Bulletin Board: CPQQ), the manufacturer of a new generation of energy saving electric transformer cores and transformers in the People's Republic of China, today announced that it will participate in the Rodman & Renshaw investment conference on March 8, 2010 in Beijing.

  Conference:        Rodman & Renshaw Annual China Investment Conference

  Event:             Company presentation, answers to questions, and smaller
                      meetings

  Date:              Monday, March 8, 2010

  Presentation time: 4:05 p.m. to 4:25 p.m.

  Location:          Diamond Room 3 in The Regent Hotel,
                     99 Jinbao Street, Beijing, China

  Participants:      Mr. Yongxing (Henry) Song, Chairman, President, and CEO
                     Ms. Yarong (Lillian) Feng, Director and Vice General
                      Manager
                     Ms. Elaine Zhao, Chief Financial Officer

China Power Equipment will present the company's strategy, products, market, and financial results during the presentation. Mr. Song, Ms. Feng, and Ms. Zhao will answer questions during the presentation and at smaller meetings. Investors interested in attending the Rodman & Renshaw event should contact their Rodman & Renshaw sales representative. For more about the conference, please visit http://www.rodm.com/conferences?idI .

About China Power Equipment, Inc.

China Power Equipment, Inc., through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Xi'an Amorphous Zhongxi Co., Ltd., has developed a proprietary patented technology to produce a new generation of energy saving electricity transformers and transformer cores. The company currently manufactures 59 models of transformers in four product series that are sold throughout China. The company was formed in 2006 as a U.S. corporation, and in November 2006, created a Chinese subsidiary that was granted a license as a privately held wholly owned foreign enterprise by the Chinese government.

Safe harbor

Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements.

The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding the success of our investments, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in earnings, our ability to sustain our previous levels of profitability including on account of our ability to manage growth, intense competition, wage increases in China, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions, withdrawal of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability and regional conflicts, and legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside China.

Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our filings with United States Securities and Exchange Commission. These filings are available at http://www.sec.gov/ .

We may, from time to time, make additional written and oral forward-looking statements, including statements contained in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. We do not undertake to update any forward-looking statements that may be made from time to time by or on our behalf except as required by law.

For more information on China Power Equipment please visit our website at http://www.chinapower-equipment.com/ .

  For more information, please contact:

  Christensen
   Mr. Yuanyuan Chen (English and Chinese)
   Mobile: +86-139-2337-7882 in Beijing
   Email:  ychen@christensenir.com

   Mr. Tom Myers (English)
   Mobile: +86-139-1141-3520 in Beijing
   Email:  tmyers@christensenir.com

   Ms. Kathy Li (English and Chinese)
   Phone:  +1-212-618-1978 in the USA
   Email:  kli@christensenir.com

Source: China Power Equipment, Inc.
   

CONTACT:  Christensen - Mr. Yuanyuan Chen (English and Chinese), mobile,
+86-139-2337-7882 in Beijing, or ychen@christensenir.com; Mr. Tom Myers
(English), mobile, +86-139-1141-3520 in Beijing, or tmyers@christensenir.com;
Ms. Kathy Li (English and Chinese), +1-212-618-1978 in the USA, or
kli@christensenir.com

Web Site:  http://www.chinapower-equipment.com/
http://www.rodm.com/conferences?idI

Carefx to Provide Clinical Workflow Solutions for Military Health System

Carefx solution to provide clinical workflow technology to enhance health care documentation for Military Health System personnel across the Department of Defense Enterprise

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., March 2 -- Carefx Corp., a leading provider of interoperable workflow solutions, has been chosen to supply clinical workflow technology to the Department of Defense's (DoD's) Military Health System (MHS).  As part of Vangent's $20 million contract with the DoD announced in December 2009, when fully deployed, Carefx's clinical workflow solution will be used by military clinicians providing patient care to MHS beneficiaries in the U.S. and around the world.

Carefx, in partnership with Vangent, a leading global provider of information management and strategic business process solutions, will deploy the DoD Enterprise Solution for single sign-on and context management to medical practitioners across the entire Military Health System.

The goal of the technology deployment is to improve care for Service members by providing clinicians with up-to-date information about the right patient at the right time -- from the battlefield, to the Theater of Operations, to military treatment facilities around the world.  The quality of patient care is expected to be enhanced and delivered in a more timely fashion.

"The capabilities provided by the Carefx workflow technology will provide military medical personnel with a streamlined, efficient and secure method of accessing and viewing patient information and clinical data," said Mac Curtis, President and CEO of Vangent.

"Carefx is honored to participate in a project that has such wide-reaching, positive implications for U.S. military personnel," said Andrew Hurd, Chairman and CEO of Carefx.  "We believe that enhancing the clinical user experience for physicians and clinicians will result in a higher quality of care for our soldiers both at home and overseas."

About Carefx Corporation

Carefx supports healthcare organizations in achieving their vision of advancing the quality and safety of patient care delivery through its Fusionfx suite of interoperable workflow solutions.  Fusionfx streamlines and simplifies clinical and business workflow and connects care providers to the information they need -- where, when, and how they need it.  By managing care transitions and information gaps between diverse systems, departments and facilities, Fusionfx delivers crucial patient information with speed, efficiency and logic.  Carefx supports more than 700 hospitals, health systems, regional health information organizations (RHIOs) and health information exchanges (HIEs) across North America and Europe.

For more information, visit http://www.carefx.com, or contact Carefx at (480) 833-5010 or by email at info@carefx.com.

Source: Carefx Corporation
   

CONTACT:  Christopher Capot, KNB Communications, +1-212-505-2441, or
+1-203-379-8019, ccapot@knbpr.com, for Carefx Corporation

Web Site:  http://www.carefx.com/

Accertify Opens New Operations Center to Meet Growing Demand For Outsourced Review Service

Helps companies focus on core business by accessing industry-leading experts and technology Full and partial outsourcing options offered

CHICAGO, March 2 -- Accertify, a leading provider of enterprise-wide transaction screening products and services, today announced that it has more than doubled its staff and moved into a new and expanded operations center in order to meet rising demand for its Outsourced Review Service. The Service combines Accertify's industry-leading Interceptas® fraud prevention platform with seasoned fraud prevention experts to manage merchants' transaction screening and order review needs.

Accertify is currently providing both full and partial outsourcing services to major e-commerce retailers and airlines.

"We ended a highly successful 2009 by more than doubling our client base. Our outsourcing service has received an extremely positive response from the marketplace and has been a factor in our growth," said Jeff Liesendahl, Accertify's CEO.

"While many organizations deploy our Interceptas platform for use within their own fraud prevention departments, others find that outsourcing their entire transaction screening and fraud prevention function is the best option for concentrating on their core competence," Liesendahl said. "Other organizations prefer to retain an in-house function but desire to supplement it with additional staffing coverage on weekends, holidays and/or evenings, or with our specialized consulting or data analysis skills."

"Each company's needs are unique," said Mark Michelon, Accertify's Vice President of Professional Services. "Whether a merchant needs additional fraud analyst staffing on weekends or in peak sales periods, desires to completely outsource fraud prevention, or is seeking to use our Interceptas fraud-fighting platform on a hosted or licensed basis, Accertify can tailor a plan to meet their specific requirements."

"We've chosen Accertify because we can rest assured knowing we are always protected," said Francisco Reynoso Echegoll, Vice President, Information Technology, Mexicana Airlines, an outsourcing customer. "Accertify's professionals are experts with insight from years of fighting fraud in many industries."

Accertify provides expert advice, services and advanced technology that helps companies significantly reduce fraud and policy abuse across the Enterprise. Its customers include a growing number of leading companies in a wide array of industries, including the airline, retail, event ticketing, electronics, social networking, digital download and money transfer industries.

"Businesses are seeking outsourcing solutions as a way of cutting costs, increasing efficiency and upgrading their in-house capabilities," Liesendahl said. "But moreover,  outsourcing to Accertify ensures that an organization  receives the best possible results from its fraud prevention investment.  Our team of experts has a proven track record of significantly reducing fraud and fraud losses while improving customer service. They have many years of experience in combating fraud across a wide variety of industries and companies.  And our professionals are skilled in leveraging the full benefits of our industry-leading platform, Interceptas, on behalf of customers."

About Accertify

Accertify Inc. is a leader in providing e-commerce companies with software, tools and strategies for preventing online fraud and mitigating enterprise-wide risks. Our Interceptas platform integrates every component of fraud prevention, applies state-of-the-art automation to each step in process and offers advanced capabilities for managing fraud data. Built with a merchant's perspective, Interceptas delivers unparalleled flexibility in preventing various types of criminal behavior, including fraud related to card-not-present purchases, online scams and policy abuse, merchandise returns and exchanges and other data management challenges. Accertify is committed to providing online companies with the most cost-effective solution to fraud available. For more information, visit http://www.accertify.com.

Source: Accertify Inc.
   

CONTACT:  Carol Jouzaitis of Accertify, +1-312-342-7304,
cjouzaitis@accertify.com

Web Site:  http://www.accertify.com/

CaseCruzer Secures all Military, Police and Sportsmen Rifles up to 41" in length with New One-for-All Gun Carrying Case

Double-strength weapons case isone-size-fits-all transport innovation

MONTCLAIR, Calif., March 2 -- Civilian, military and law enforcement professionals who travel with multiple rifles and handguns can now ditch their large and clumsy 'case' collections.  A new innovative one-for-all mobile transport solution called the GunCruzer KR-20 by CaseCruzer safely secures various firearms up to 41" in length.

The versatile CaseCruzer gun case is appropriate for civilian rifle and handgun enthusiasts, as well as military and law enforcement personnel.  Its sleek design allows for many combinations of long rifles and handguns, depending on brand and size.  Worry-free transport is possible because the new upgraded GunCruzer KR-20 is lighter than comparable gun case designs - a mere 18.5 lbs when empty - and yet more than double the strength.

The case's easy-trigger latch system outperforms competitors and is fitted with four padlock flanges that comply with new military security regulations.  Also, the gun case can be fitted with optional Transportation Security Administration (TSA) approved key locks or padlocks.  Side and front handles - with snap-down rubber over-molded cushion grips - and embedded wheels make tarmac, airport terminal and gun show floor maneuvers fast and smooth.

The trim one-for-all GunCruzer KR-20 allows law enforcers, hunters and collectors to simply set their firearms and gear into the case, snap it shut and move on.  The base and lid interiors are padded with inter-locking, convoluted egg-crate-style foam that firmly holds guns in place so that they won't collide during turbulent transport.  For even more protection, the carrying case is fitted with continuous molded-in reinforced hinges.

The case can accommodate two rifles - or one rifle and two handguns, depending on firearm dimensions.  The case can also be used to transport two shotguns or a combo of one shot gun and two pistols.  There is also room for magazines and desiccant.

The 45"L x 17"W x 6.38"H inch exterior dimensions of the new GunCruzer KR-20 gun case is an upgrade of previous designs because it is suitable for popular military weapons, such as the M4 or the M16 rifle, as well as many handgun brands and sizes, including the M9 and M11 (or P228).  Smith & Wesson, Colt, Sig Sauer, Springfield, are among some of the brands the case can easily transport.

Other features of this gun case include a lid that stays upright after opening.  The breakthrough case is ideal for rough terrain and stressful travel because it is shock proof.  But CaseCruzer knows that tough is not enough.  The new case is airtight, waterproof and dustproof and it is MIL-C-4150J certified.  The case also protects guns from harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays, solvents, corrosion, fungus and is MIL-STD-810F certified.

Each KR-20 case is reusable and fitted with an automatic pressure release valve.   And like all CaseCruzer gun cases, it travels with a lifetime guarantee.

Whether defending the United States from terrorism and other crimes, or enjoying the American pastimes of hunting and shooting competitions, CaseCruzer is the model of all-for-one.

The CaseCruzer network of companies provides the community with the most comprehensive packaging solutions available on reusable carrying cases for applications such as Communications, Photography, Computers, Electronics, Weapons, Medical, Transportation and other industrial shipping and carrying case uses.  For more info about the new gun case, visit http://www.casecruzer.com; call 800-440-9925 in the U.S. or 909-613-1999 internationally; fax 909-465-5598; or write to CaseCruzer at 4665 State Street, Montclair, CA  91763

  Tatiana Briceno

  (909) 613-1999

  (800) 882-4730

  pr@casecruzer.com

Source: CaseCruzer
   

CONTACT:  Tatiana Briceno, CaseCruzer, +1-909-613-1999, 1-800-882-4730,
pr@casecruzer.com

Web Site:  http://www.casecruzer.com/

Audience Appoints New Senior Executives

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 2 -- Audience Inc., the leading provider of advanced voice and audio processors for the mobile and telecom marketplace, today announced two senior executive appointments:  Sanjay Adkar as vice president of engineering and Manish Singh as vice president of marketing.  Both positions report directly to president and chief executive officer Peter Santos.

In his new role, Adkar is responsible for the company's product development and technology roadmap, while leading the engineering teams managing VLSI, software and systems design.  Singh assumes responsibility for product strategy, management and marketing, plus applications development, and is charged with driving market growth and promotion of Audience technology worldwide.

"With proven track records in their respective fields of expertise, the addition of Sanjay and Manish to our senior leadership team will be instrumental to the company's efforts to maintain product leadership, develop markets, and continue our rapid growth," said Peter Santos, president and chief executive officer, Audience.  "Sanjay brings a wealth of semiconductor expertise in product design and development and the vision to advance our dynamic noise suppression and voice processing solutions.  Manish, with his extensive experience in technology marketing, will play a key role in identifying market and product development strategies that build demand, expand our global presence, and support sales growth."

Sanjay Adkar

Sanjay Adkar brings over 20 years of experience in engineering leadership positions with semiconductor businesses.  Most recently, he was executive vice president of engineering at Brightscale, Inc. managing worldwide engineering teams responsible for video processors and software development.  Previously, he was executive vice president of engineering for Netcell Corp. and held the same position with NeoMagic Corp. with additional responsibility for marketing and sales in Japan.  He also held engineering positions with National Semiconductor Corp., LSI Logic Corp., and Tandem Computers, Inc. earlier in his career.  Adkar earned a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Virginia Tech, and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, India.

Manish Singh

Manish Singh brings extensive marketing and operational experience with technology start-ups and large corporations to his new role as vice president of marketing for Audience.  He was previously with STMicroelectronics, directing business and marketing strategies for the DisplayPort and Monitor product lines.  Before that, he served as vice president of cellular marketing for Mobilygen, Inc., which was acquired by Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.  He also held senior marketing roles with NVIDIA Corp. leading product management for the company's wireless media processors, MediaQ, Inc. (acquired by NVIDIA) and Synplicity, which was acquired by Synopsys, Inc.  Earlier in his career, he worked as a design engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc.  Singh holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from Rice University and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Manipal Institute of Technology in India.

About Audience

Audience is a voice processor semiconductor company that enables clear communications anywhere with noise suppression technology based on the intelligence of the human hearing system.  The technology is applicable across a broad range of consumer products where voice needs to be intelligible in noisy environments.  Audience was the Silver Winner in the 2008 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards and the Winner of the Semiconductor category.  The company was included in Gartner's "Cool Vendors in Semiconductors, 2008" and selected as the Most Innovative True Mobile Start-Up for the "2008 GSMA Mobile Innovation Global Awards."  Audience is one of 34 founding member companies of the Open Handset Alliance and the only provider of advanced noise suppression technology.  Investors in Audience include New Enterprise Associates, Vulcan Capital, Tallwood Venture Capital and VentureTech Alliance.  Audience is based in Mountain View, California.  http://www.audience.com

Source: Audience, Inc.
   

CONTACT:  Carrie Worley of Audience, Inc., +1-917-714-7458,
cworley@audience.com, or Sean Stevens of Atomic PR, +1-415-402-0230,
sean@atomicpr.com

Web Site:  http://www.audience.com/

March Networks Provides Italian Casino with High-Definition Video Surveillance

OTTAWA, March 2 -- March Networks(R) (TSX: MN), a global provider of intelligent IP video solutions, today announced that the Casino de la Vallee is using the company's VideoSphere(R) solution to meet the demanding surveillance requirements of its popular gaming venue in Saint-Vincent, Valle D'Aosta, Italy. Equipped with more than 380 VideoSphere IP cameras, Video Management System (VMS) software and an integrated control room application, VideoSphere delivers powerful live monitoring and archiving capabilities for asset protection, dispute resolution and security.

The casino, which operates 400 slot machines, 96 gaming tables, a restaurant and a 220-room hotel, recently upgraded to the fully-digital video system to enhance its surveillance coverage of all gaming areas, counting rooms, entries/exits and other public spaces. Control room staff use integrated site maps and pre-set camera tours provided through the VideoSphere software to monitor activities in real-time and quickly search and analyze recorded video when necessary to respond to specific incidents. Security staff may also request archived video footage to address customer disputes more effectively.

"We are extremely impressed with the VideoSphere solution," said Gualtiero Giovanardi, Director of Integrated Security Services at Casino de la Vallee. "The outstanding quality of the high-definition video images and the advanced software functionality will significantly enhance our ability to manage and resolve potential security breaches across our property."

The solution provides the casino with high-quality video at frame rates of up to 30 fps. High-definition MegaPX 720p cameras capture crystal clear images with vivid color, as well as associated audio, while MicroDome PTZ cameras with optical zoom enable detailed surveillance. Both cameras feature H.264 video compression and Power over Ethernet operation, significantly reducing bandwidth and storage requirements and simplifying installation. The cameras and system servers also provide exceptional reliability through high-capacity internal camera storage, RAID 5 server configuration, and redundant storage for protection from network outages.

"In a casino environment, where a slight-of-hand can occur in a second, every video frame is critical and system reliability is of paramount importance," said Paolo Magalini with Mega Italia, the March Networks' certified solution provider working with Casino de la Vallee. "March Networks' distributed IP video solution delivers the reliability required by our customer, and the scalability necessary for future expansion or enhancements, including support for advanced analytics."

"March Networks continues to expand its position as a leader in the delivery of high-definition IP video management solutions that meet the demanding performance requirements of customers in a number of commercial and industrial applications," said Peter Strom, President and CEO, March Networks. "We are pleased to add Casino de la Vallee to the growing list of customers who are standardizing on the VideoSphere platform."

About March Networks

March Networks(R) (TSX:MN) is a global provider of intelligent IP video solutions. For close to a decade, the Company has helped some of the world's largest commercial and government organizations transition from traditional CCTV to networked video surveillance used for advanced security, loss prevention and risk mitigation. VideoSphere(R), the Company's enterprise-class video management portfolio, includes open-platform VMS software complemented by high-definition IP cameras, encoders, video analytics and recording platforms, as well as outstanding professional and managed services. March Networks systems are delivered through an extensive distribution and partner network and currently support over one million channels of video in more than 50 countries. For more information, please visit http://www.marchnetworks.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This release contains certain forward-looking information, including expectations of future business. This information is based on the Company's current expectations and assumptions that are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict and that may be beyond March Networks' control. Actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements due to factors such as customer demand and timing of purchasing decisions, increased levels of competition, technological changes and the successful development of new products, dependence on third-party manufacturers, risks relating to intellectual property infringement claims, and other risks and factors identified in March Networks' public filings with regulatory authorities in Canada. March Networks assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements as a result of new information or future events.

*MARCH NETWORKS, VideoSphere and the MARCH NETWORKS logo are registered trademarks of March Networks Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Source: MARCH NETWORKS CORPORATION
   

CONTACT:  Peter Wilenius, March Networks Corporation, (613) 591-8181,
pwilenius@marchnetworks.com

STMicroelectronics Launches New Dual-Interface EEPROM Enabling Remote Access to Electronic Device Parameters

New RFID-compatible EEPROMs simplify lifetime management and enable new features and capabilities

GENEVA, March 2 -- STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM), a world leader in RF Memory and EEPROM ICs, has announced sample availability of the first in a new family of products that provide the flexibility to remotely program or update electronic products, anytime during their lifetime, and anywhere in the supply chain. The new devices enable manufacturers to update parameters, regionalize or activate software without connecting a programmer, or even opening the retail packaging. This pioneering way to access the memory will allow businesses to add new functions and capabilities to their products, but also reduce manufacturing costs, simplify inventory management, and respond more quickly to changing market demands.

The M24LR64 is an EEPROM memory with a standard I2C serial interface, providing communication with most microcontrollers or ASICs, and also a standard ISO15693 RF (radio frequency) interface for wireless communications with RFID readers. The ISO15693 standard is passive RFID technology, which gathers both the energy and the data from the RF system. No power is required to operate the M24LR64 in RF mode, which enables on-board energy savings and provides easy and convenient remote access to electronic product parameters.

"This highly innovative ability to program or read a memory wirelessly, as well as electrically, will provide tremendous added-value to our customers, enabling highly flexible supply-chain management and also stimulating new types of products with powerful features and capabilities," said Benoit Rodrigues, General Manager, Memories Division, STMicroelectronics. "Moreover this new memory is compatible with existing RFID equipment, thereby delivering a wide range of solutions and an accessible technology to product manufacturers"

Based on two industry-standard interfaces, the new dual-interface product line provides a link between the operation of electronic devices and the RFID world. This will enable new types of products, including those requiring asset tracking, data collection, diagnostics, or traceability, such as medical devices, industrial equipment, and automotive electronics. Computer peripherals and consumer products will take advantage of the M24LR64 feature set for easy and convenient parameter and regional setting update, even when the device is in its package seal. Also, RFID systems requiring additional monitoring, such as cold-chain verification, will also benefit from the high memory density of the M24LR64.

The M24LR64 has a 64-Kbit capacity for storage of program code, product parameters, serial numbers, calibration data, or event-log data. Its RF ISO15693 interface can be accessed by a wide range of RF readers, covering hand-held devices, pad antennas, gate systems and tunnel readers. The memory also communicates with the host system via an industry-standard I2C interface operating at 400kHz from 1.8 to 5.5V. It also comes with a unique and flexible 32-bit password protection scheme to protect the application from unauthorized tampering or to prevent unexpected access to memory.

The Dual-Interface EEPROM products can be used with either on-board or off-board antenna types in a variety of form factors, allowing product designers to optimize aspects such as overall dimensions, communication range, and pc-board complexity. The M24LR64 is available in TSSOP-8, SO-8, and MLP 2 x 3 packages, or as bare die, at prices from $0.90 for orders of 1000 pieces. Sampling has already begun, with volume production scheduled for Q2 2010. ST plans to introduce additional members of the Dual-Interface EEPROM family in the second half of 2010.

About STMicroelectronics

STMicroelectronics is a global leader in developing and delivering semiconductor solutions across the spectrum of microelectronics applications. An unrivalled combination of silicon and system expertise, manufacturing strength, Intellectual Property (IP) portfolio and strategic partners positions the Company at the forefront of System-on-Chip (SoC) technology and its products play a key role in enabling today's convergence markets. The Company's shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange, on Euronext Paris and on the Milan Stock Exchange. In 2009, the Company's net revenues were $8.51 billion. Further information on ST can be found at http://www.st.com.

Source: STMicroelectronics
   

CONTACT:  Michael Markowitz of STMicroelectronics, +1-781-591-0354,
michael.markowitz@st.com

Web Site:  http://www.st.com/

Audience Closes $15 Million In Series E Funding

Total Funding for Mobile Voice Chip Company Reaches $75 Million

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 2 -- Audience, Inc. announced today that is has closed a new round of financing with $15 million in Series E funding from existing investors New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Tallwood Venture Capital, Vulcan Capital and VentureTech Alliance. This brings total funding to date to $75 million and supports continued product development and rollout of the company's industry-leading noise suppression technology for mobile phones across global markets.

"This latest round of funding provides a strong endorsement of our business achievements which include expansion of our portfolio of advanced voice processors and rapid market growth through partnerships with leading handset manufacturers and mobile service providers," said Peter Santos, president and chief executive officer, Audience. "Audience dynamic noise suppression technology is redefining the mobile customer experience by providing unsurpassed call clarity even in noisy environments, enabling successful communications nearly anywhere. We see exciting opportunities to continue advancing voice quality, and to enable speech as the next generation interface for mobile phone applications."

Audience voice processor chips for the mobile and telecom marketplace are based on reverse-engineering the human hearing system to optimize voice communication and speech-based applications in noisy environments. Designed to mimic the functions of the human auditory pathway, the Audience voice processor can distinguish and identify sounds, isolate the primary voice in conversation and cancel out background noise, intermittent sounds (siren, nearby conversation) and echoes, to improve mobile call quality.  It also automatically equalizes and adjusts voice volume to optimize the calling experience, so the user can hear clearly without the need to speak over surrounding noise. In addition, the technology enhances performance for speech-based mobile applications such as voice search and user verification and is applicable across a broad range of consumer products where voice needs to be intelligible in noisy environments.

About Audience

Audience is a voice processor semiconductor company that enables clear communications anywhere with noise suppression technology based on the intelligence of the human hearing system. The technology is applicable across a broad range of consumer products where voice needs to be intelligible in noisy environments. Audience was the Silver Winner in the 2008 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards and the Winner of the Semiconductor category. The company was included in Gartner's "Cool Vendors in Semiconductors, 2008" and selected as the Most Innovative True Mobile Start-Up for the "2008 GSMA Mobile Innovation Global Awards." Audience is one of 34 founding member companies of the Open Handset Alliance and the only provider of advanced noise suppression technology. Investors in Audience include New Enterprise Associates, Vulcan Capital, Tallwood Venture Capital and VentureTech Alliance. Audience is based in Mountain View, California. http://www.audience.com

Source: Audience, Inc.
   

CONTACT:  Carrie Worley of Audience, Inc., +1-917-714-7458,
cworley@audience.com; or Sean Stevens of Atomic PR, +1-415-402-0230,
sean@atomicpr.com

Web Site:  http://www.audience.com/

Netlist to Present at the Roth OC Growth Stock Conference in Dana Point, CA

IRVINE, Calif., March 2 -- Netlist, Inc. (NASDAQ: NLST) today announced that management is scheduled to make an investor presentation at the Roth 22nd Annual Growth Stock Conference on Monday, March 15, at 12:30 pm Pacific Time.  The conference is being held March 15-17, at the Ritz Carlton Laguna Niguel in Dana Point, CA.

The presentation will be accessible by live webcast in the Investors section of the Netlist website at http://www.netlist.com.  A replay of the webcast will be available on the Netlist website for 30 days.

About Netlist, Inc.

Netlist designs and manufactures high-performance memory subsystems for the server and high- performance computing and communications markets.  The Company's memory subsystems are developed for applications in which high-speed, high-capacity memory, functionality, small form factor, and heat dissipation are key requirements.  These applications include tower-servers, rack-mounted servers, blade servers, high-performance computing clusters, engineering workstations, and telecommunication equipment.  Netlist maintains its headquarters in Irvine, California with manufacturing facilities in Suzhou, China.

Safe Harbor Statement

This news release contains forward-looking statements regarding future events and the future performance of Netlist, including the outcome of pending litigation, future opportunities and growth for the company's business. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expected or projected. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the rapidly-changing nature of technology; volatility in the pricing of DRAM ICs and NAND; changes in and uncertainty of customer demand, including delays in product qualifications; delays in the Company's and its customers' product releases and development; introductions of new products by competitors; changes in end-user demand for technology solutions; the Company's ability to attract and retain skilled personnel; the Company's reliance on suppliers of critical components; fluctuations in the market price of evolving industry standards; and the political and regulatory environment in the People's Republic of China. Other risks and uncertainties are described in the Company's annual report on Form 10-K, dated February 19, 2010, and subsequent filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission made by the Company from time to time. Netlist undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

  Contact:  Allen & Caron Inc              Gail Itow
            Jill Bertotti (investors)      Chief Financial Officer
            jill@allencaron.com            Netlist, Inc.
            Len Hall (media)               (949) 435-0025
            len@allencaron.com
            (949) 474-4300

Source: Netlist, Inc.
   

CONTACT:  Jill Bertotti (investors), jill@allencaron.com, Len Hall
(media), len@allencaron.com, both of Allen & Caron Inc, +1-949-474-4300; or
Gail Itow, Chief Financial Officer of Netlist, Inc., +1-949-435-0025

Web Site:  http://www.netlist.com/

Walmart.com Offers Up to 40 Percent Savings on the Top 500 Children's Books in Support of Read Across America Day

Online Prices Start Under $3 with Free Shipping on Top 500 Children's Books This Month

BRISBANE, Calif., March 2 -- Walmart.com is announcing special savings on its top 500 children's books for as low as $3 (including free shipping) to make it easy and affordable for parents to share the joy of reading with their children -- a savings of up to 40 percent. This special month-long promotion kicks off today at Walmart.com on Dr. Seuss's birthday, which coincides with the National Education Association's 13th annual Read Across America Day.

Studies show that by the age of two, children who are read to regularly display greater language comprehension, larger vocabularies, and higher cognitive skills. In fact, The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study found that children who were read to at least three times a week by a family member were almost twice as likely to score in the top 25 percent in reading.

"We are strong believers in helping mom create teachable moments where she can engage with her family, from playing together to reading books together," said Kelly Thompson, Walmart.com's head of merchandising. "Offering online savings up to 40% on so many of these beloved children's books makes reading at home easy and affordable."

Walmart.com Children's Books Savings

These 500 popular children's books were selected by both parents and kids and include classic and modern family favorites. Highlights include:

  --  Dr. Seuss's ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book! by Dr. Seuss
  --  Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
  --  The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
  --  In My Family by Carmen Lomas Garza
  --  Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
  --  Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
  --  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
  --  Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan (Boxed Set)

  About Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT)

Every week, millions of customers visit Walmart stores, Neighborhood Markets and Sam's Club locations across America or log on to its online store at http://www.walmart.com. The company and its Foundation are committed to a philosophy of giving back locally. Walmart is proud to support the causes that are important to customers and associates right in their own neighborhoods, and last year gave more than $378 million to local communities in the United States. More information about Walmart can be found by visiting http://www.walmartstores.com.

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Source: Walmart.com
   

CONTACT:  Amy Lester of Walmart.com, +1-650-837-5232

Web Site:  http://www.walmart.com/

Attorney in Civil Contempt Case Marks One Year in Solitary 'Coercive Confinement' in L.A. County Jail

Full Disclosure Network(R) Reports

WASHINGTON, March 2 -- On March 4, 2010, Richard I Fine will mark one year in the L.A. County Jail. He accused Superior Court Judge David Yaffe of corruption for taking illegal payments from L.A. County in a case involving the County. Full Disclosure Network is releasing a seven minute video news report http://tiny.cc/aclu12 featuring court appointed ACLU jail monitors relating attempts made to get the Los Angeles County Sheriff to respond to Fine's inmate complaints. Fine has been held in solitary "coercive confinement" and since January 5, 2010 without dentures, preventing his ability to chew.

Richard Fine was ordered taken into custody by Superior Court Judge Yaffe who failed to disqualify himself from the contempt case where Fine had alleged the Judge had a conflict. Fine is a 70 year old anti-trust attorney, who holds a Ph.D in International Law. Having never been convicted of a crime, he is being held without a jury trial, without bail or hearing date and circumstances that violate U.S. Supreme Court precedent In Re Farr (1974), that ruled a five-day limit in "coercive confinement" for civil contempt of court.

The ACLU previously informed Mr. Fine's family and Full Disclosure they were unable to assist him. But when his upper dental plate broke on January 5, 2010 he complained to his jailers of difficulty eating, he realized he desperately needed help.

Full Disclosure notified Actor Ed Asner, long known as a humanitarian and who was recently honored by the ACLU for his support of Civil Liberties. Mr. Asner unhesitatingly offered to call Ramona Ripston executive director of the ACLU and wife of Ninth Circuit Court Justice Steven Reinhardt, to request help. For years the ACLU has served as the court appointed monitors of L.A. County jails to prevent inmate abuse and assure the Sheriff's response to inmate complaints.

  Watch 7 minute video news update   featuring:

  Richard I. Fine by collect telephone call from his jail cell
  Mary Tiedeman ACLU Jail Project Coordinator
  Peter Eliasberg ACLU Managing Attorney

  Related Links & Video:

  Ed Asner, Requests Medical Updates On Richard Fine
  http://tiny.cc/Asner

  L A Sheriff Denies Full Disclosure Interview of Richard Fine
  http://tiny.cc/Sheriff

  Inmate Complaint Claims Sheriff Guilty of Unlawful Imprisonment
  http://tiny.cc/Complaint15

  Contact: Leslie Dutton 310-822-4449, ldutton@fulldisclosure.net

Source: Full Disclosure Network
   

CONTACT:  Leslie Dutton of Full Disclosure Network, +1-310-822-4449, or
ldutton@fulldisclosure.net

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

XsunX Invited to Present at International Workshop on CIGS Solar Cell Technology in Germany

Company's Chief Technology Officer Will Take Stage Alongside Internationally Renowned CIGS Experts

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., March 2 -- XsunX, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: XSNX), the developer of advanced, thin-film photovoltaic (TFPV) solar cell technologies and manufacturing processes, is pleased to announce that the company was asked to participate in the International Workshop on CIGS Solar Cell Technology in Berlin, Germany from April 20 - 22, 2010.  Chief Technology Officer Robert Wendt has been invited to present the company's unique cross-industry CIGS (copper indium gallium di selenide) thin-film manufacturing technology to an audience of distinguished scientists and executives from the solar industry.

Taking place during the world's largest thin-film event - Photovoltaics Thin-Film Week - this workshop will address a wide range of topics relevant to the growing CIGS industry, including high-deposition rate processes, large-area processes, uniformity and laser scribing as well as longer-term issues such as new materials and structures and tandem cell concepts. It will be held at WISTA on Rudower Chaussee 17 - 12489 Berlin-Adlershof.

"CIGS thin-film technology has attracted the most attention of all the thin-film technologies because it is less expensive than traditional silicon and has a high performance record," said XsunX's Chief Technology Officer Robert Wendt. "During the workshop, I will explain how XsunX is working to harness these high performance levels while simultaneously offering a commercially viable manufacturing solution that uses stationary small-area, high-rate, production technologies, that leverage hard disk industry material handling and automation techniques, to provide precise control of the thin-film properties in a production environment."

Working with Intevac, the leader in hard disk manufacturing equipment, to help revolutionize the solar industry, the scientific team at XsunX is combining their thin-film photovoltaic (TFPV) process knowledge with Intevac's state-of-the-art magnetic media thin-film manufacturing technologies. The result is a high-productivity, cross-industry technology intended to not only increase cell efficiency levels, but to also improve production speeds and yields - thereby, reducing the cost of solar cells.

The workshop will consist of invited presentations from not only Mr. Wendt but also his peers in the industry, including Dr. Michael Powalla of ZSW Stuttgart, Dr.Rommel Noufi of NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) and Professor Hans-Werner Schock of the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin and Technical University. For the full list of speakers, click here: https://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/projects/pvcomb/thin-film-week/cigs-workshop/s peakers-cigs_en.html

About XsunX

XsunX specializes in the development and commercialization of advanced, thin-film photovoltaic (TFPV) solar cell technologies and manufacturing processes. We are currently working to develop new proprietary manufacturing systems to deliver low cost solar products based on the use of CIGS (copper indium gallium selenide) solar thin films. Utilizing cross-industry enabling technologies, these systems are being developed to deliver low cost and high yield front end CIGS solar cell manufacturing methods coupled with customized backend solar module assembly and packaging systems.

This CIGS production technology is being designed as a turn-key solution to either enable upgrades to existing infrastructure or to establish new large scale solar manufacturing capacity for the production of CIGS solar cells that can be utilized in a multitude of applications. We plan to offer joint venture manufacturing opportunities for this technology to regional partners in a number of industry types and solar applications.

For more information please call 888-797-4527, or visit the company's website at http://www.xsunx.com.

Safe Harbor Statement

Matters discussed in this press release contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. When used in this press release, the words "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "may," "intend," "expect" and similar expressions identify such forward-looking statements. Actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those contemplated, expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements contained herein. These forward-looking statements are based largely on the expectations of the Company and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. These include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties associated with: the impact of economic, competitive and other factors affecting the Company and its operations, markets, product, and distributor performance, the impact on the national and local economies resulting from terrorist actions, and U.S. actions subsequently; and other factors detailed in reports filed by the Company.

Source: XsunX, Inc.
   

CONTACT:  XsunX Media Relations: Christina Brozek, Beckerman Public
Relations, cbrozek@beckermanpr.com, +1-201-465-8002

Web Site:  http://www.xsunx.com/

Fan Appz Harnesses Viral Engagement in Social Media For Businesses, Brands and Celebrities

Social Media Marketing Company Introduces New Subscription Service for Companies to Engage, Grow and Monetize Their Online Fan Base

SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 2 -- Fan Appz, a leading developer of social media marketing applications, today announced the launch of a new, low-cost subscription service that helps small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) engage, grow and monetize their fan base on Facebook® Platform.  Fan Appz Professional gives any Facebook Page admin the ability to create and distribute brand-specific polls, quizzes and promotions that fans can enjoy and share with their friends to extend brand awareness and drive traffic.

Fan Appz Professional is ideal for SMBs and local businesses.  With just a few clicks, anyone can quickly install Fan Appz's integrated suite of marketing applications and begin creating custom Top 5 polls, quizzes, gifts, coupons and promotions that engage users.  More importantly, Fan Appz applications provide a built-in mechanism for viral marketing: Each time a fan takes a quiz or participates in a poll, they can publish their responses to their Facebook stream, exposing a whole new set of people to the company, brand or person in a fun and engaging way.

  Key features and benefits of Fan Appz include:
  --  Delivers a complete and easily customizable toolset of social media
      marketing applications for just $50 per month.
  --  Enables businesses to better understand their fan base so they can
      continually learn and improve their marketing.
  --  Insulates businesses from the continual change of the underlying
      social media platforms.

"Most businesses and brands have only scratched the surface of how they communicate with their fans - there is a huge potential for people to harness the collective passion of their followers," said Jon Siegal, Founder and CEO of Fan Appz.  "Fan Appz gives customers an accessible and affordable way to spark user engagement and extend viral sharing and social competition, while delivering a compelling way for brands to solidify and monetize their relationships with fans."

A wide variety of businesses, brands, organizations, athletes and celebrities currently use Fan Appz including the NBA, NBC Universal, Hulu, Relativity Media and digital marketing company, Molotov.

"Fan Appz is a critical part of our digital marketing strategy," said Darrin McAfee, SVP Digital Marketing at Molotov, a leading digital marketing firm for brands, celebrities and comedians such as George Lopez, David Spade, and Jeff Dunham.  "Fan Appz has helped us virally grow our clients' online fan base through its integrated application suite. In a recent promotion for a client's TV series, Fan Appz achieved a 50% conversion rate, resulting in more than 30,000 fan sign-ups and over 12 million brand impressions."

Based in Santa Monica, CA, Fan Appz is led by founder and CEO Jon Siegal, an early pioneer in the area of technology-enabled CRM and marketing.  Siegal was previously a VP of Sales at Siebel Systems, where he helped grow the company from $40 million to $2 billion in annual revenue.  The Fan Appz Board of Directors and Advisors includes current and former executives from Gap, Inc., Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, Siebel Systems, Business.com, as well as present Directors at Open Table, Avon Products, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, and Salesforce.com.

Facebook Platform is a development system that enables companies and developers to build social applications for Facebook.com and around the web with Facebook Connect, where Facebook's more than 400 million users can interact with them.

About Fan Appz

Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Santa Monica, CA., Fan Appz helps businesses, celebrities, musicians, athletes, public figures and brand owners engage, grow and monetize their social network fan base through an integrated suite of applications and tools.  Fan Appz is privately funded by a successful group of business executives and entrepreneurs who are dedicated to creating powerful and customizable tools to maximize viral engagement online.  For more information, please visit http://www.fanappz.com, or Fan Appz on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/FanAppz.

Facebook® is a registered trademark of Facebook, Inc.

Source: Fan Appz
   

CONTACT:  Kristin Thomson, +1-310-210-2129, Kristin@corp.sparkpr.com, or
Lauren Karp, +1-415-533-4000, Lauren@corp.sparkpr.com, both of Sparkpr

Web Site:  http://www.fanappz.com/
http://www.facebook.com/FanAppz

Two Compounds Discovered That Pave the Way for New Class of AIDS Drug

IBM World Community Grid's computing strength powers breakthrough research that will guide their development

LA JOLLA, Calif., March 2 -- A team of researchers at the renowned Scripps Research Institute has discovered two new compounds that prove the existence of new binding sites on HIV protease.  Associate Professor C. David Stout, senior author of the study, explained "These results open the door to a whole new approach to drug design against HIV protease," which is an enzyme used by HIV to create new, infectious viral particles.

To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/two-compounds-discovered-that-pave-the -way-for-new-class-of-aids-drug-85830882.html

According to the World Health Organization, about 33 million people currently live with HIV infections.  Several drugs used to treat AIDS inhibit this HIV protease target, but drug-resistant mutants that impede the effectiveness of these drugs keep appearing and getting worse.

Two members of the FightAIDS@Home team, Research Associate Alex L. Perryman, Ph.D., and Professor Arthur J. Olson, were part of this innovative research and are now working to extend it.  This experimental breakthrough will serve as the basis for new drug development to combat the increasing number of drug-resistant HIV strains and to improve the potency of current drug therapies.   The results form the groundwork for a new class of more powerful treatments to fight HIV/AIDS. The findings appear as the March cover story in the journal Chemical Biology and Drug Design.

To view video news release, visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5iCBsUsDSQ

Utilizing computing power from 1.5 million devices networked through IBM's (NYSE:IBM) World Community Grid, the new sites on the HIV protease are being used as docking targets for virtual screening experiments, in order to guide the development of these chemical compounds into a new class of potent HIV inhibitors.  Using the massive computational resources of the World Community Grid, the FightAIDS@Home team has already docked over 500,000 compounds against these newly characterized binding sites.

By aggregating the unused cycle time of 1.5 million personal computers donated by volunteers in over 80 countries, World Community Grid is now the world's largest public humanitarian grid, equivalent in power to a Top 15 supercomputer, and crunched more than 107,000 years of computational time in just 5 years for the Scripps Research Institute project, providing more than 104 million calculations.

"IBM's World Community Grid and its volunteers help us run millions of computations to evaluate the potential interactions between compounds and mutant viral proteins," said Dr. Arthur J. Olson, Anderson Research Chair Professor, Department of Molecular Biology at The Scripps Research Institute.  "Through this effort we were able to significantly speed up our investigation. Without the computational power of World Community Grid, it would have taken us many more years to get to this important step in our research."

Once the HIV virus enters a human cell, it uses a small set of proteins called enzymes to force the cell to produce many new copies of itself, which then go on to infect other cells.  Most HIV drugs work by blocking the operation of one or more of these enzymes.  In the current work, the Scripps researchers are looking for new compounds that will stabilize the inhibited conformation, or shape, of the HIV protease enzyme, and thus help stop the virus from replicating.  Because HIV mutates so frequently, some drugs that inhibit the enzyme from replicating are no longer working, or are not working as effectively.  By running calculations on the World Community Grid FightAIDS@Home project, the team at Scripps is trying to develop new drugs that bind to more parts of the mutant enzyme, thereby shutting it down more effectively.

World Community Grid speeds up humanitarian research by providing scientists with millions of dollars of supercomputer power, for free, that would otherwise not be available to them.

In a second paper recently published in the Journal of Molecular Biology, the Scripps team has used computational modeling to improve understanding of another HIV enzyme and key drug target - integrase.  Integrase, along with protease and a third enzyme, reverse-transcriptase, is one of three key proteins that allow the HIV virus to take over the cellular machinery of the host cell and replicate itself.  By producing a more accurate model of integrase, the research allows further searches for new drug molecules that will inhibit the mutant drug resistant forms of this enzyme, as well. The Scripps team was recently awarded government stimulus funding as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to advance their new project against HIV integrase.

"The volunteers around the world who donate their computer time have helped usher in a potentially new class of drugs that may save lives and increase the quality of life for people living with HIV," said Dr. Joseph Jasinski, Distinguished Engineer and Program Director of IBM's Healthcare and Lifesciences Institute.  "World Community Grid enables a smarter way to conduct promising research by providing unprecedented computing power to projects that might not be positioned to make a difference in the world without access to a free supercomputer."

The FightAIDS@home project will continue to run calculations to further this research against drug-resistant mutant "superbugs" of HIV.

"In the fight against HIV/AIDS it is important to remind people that HIV has not gone away, and that there are many things still to be done," said Joe Solmonese, President of the Human Rights Campaign.  "World Community Grid is one way to get involved and makes it easy to contribute to this important research in a meaningful and effective way."

To donate your computer cycle time to humanitarian research covering areas from cancer to more nutritious rice to more efficient energy sources, please visit: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org.  From this site you can install a small, safe, and secure program that will connect you to the grid.  When your computer is idle, data is requested from World Community Grid's server to perform a computation.  Once finished, the result is sent back to the server, prompting it for a new piece of work.  It is not necessary to leave a computer on more than usual and we encourage members to continue their normal routines. We can harvest substantial computational power during a normal work day just by taking advantage of the time when someone is on the phone, talking with colleagues, taking a coffee break or doing simple tasks that don't require the full power of the computer.

Other projects running on World Community Grid have produced results including:

  --  The Help Defeat Cancer project proved their more accurate technique
      for identifying cancer and received a $2.5 million grant from NIH to
      further deploy its system.
  --  Discovering Dengue Drugs Together project has identified potential
      antiviral compounds and is continuing with laboratory work on those.
  --  Nutritious Rice for the World project has already returned 12 million
      transactions and 11,000 years of compute time.

Note to registered journalists and bloggers: View and download a video news release and b-roll. All materials are in broadcast and in streaming quality. You can register online. Please go to: http://www.thenewsmarket.com/ibmworldcommunitygrid

For more information about IBM, please visit ibm.com/smarterplanet/healthcare

For more information about World Community Grid, please visit: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org

Follow World Community Grid on Twitter: http://twitter.com/WCGrid

Become a fan on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?idX33215229&ref=ts

  Contacts:
  Sandra Dressel
  IBM Communications
  914-499-6609
  sdressel@us.ibm.com

  Cary Barbour
  IBM Communications
  646-246-4599
  barbour@us.ibm.com

  Keith McKeown
  Vice President, Communications and Public Relations
  The Scripps Research Institute
  858-784-8134
  kmckeown@scripps.edu

Video:  http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/two-compounds-discovered-that-pave-the-way-for-new-class-of-aids-drug-85830882.html
Source: IBM
   

CONTACT:  Sandra Dressel, +1-914-499-6609, sdressel@us.ibm.com, or Cary
Barbour, +1-646-246-4599, barbour@us.ibm.com, both of IBM Communications; or
Keith McKeown, Vice President, Communications and Public Relations, The
Scripps Research Institute, +1-858-784-8134, kmckeown@scripps.edu

Web Site:  http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/

Upstar Comunicacoes Selects Eutelsat to Broadcast "ZAP", The New Satellite TV Bouquet of Angola

PARIS, March 2, 2010--     Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) announced today that it has
signed a major contract with UPSTAR Comunicacoes for satellite capacity for
the broadcasting of ZAP pay-TV platform, expected to launch shortly in
Angola. UPSTAR Comunicacoes is a joint venture between ZON Multimedia, one of
the leading Portuguese media groups and the Angolan group SOCIP. The
five-year contract covers the lease of five Ku-band transponders on the
Southern Africa beam of Eutelsat's W7 satellite which began operational
service in January this year.

    ZAP will assemble a strong component of channels in Portuguese, and will
drive innovation into content broadcast in high definition. It will include a
"Max package" of 50 channels and a "Premium package" of 80 channels with a
mix of channels featuring TV series, films, music, children's programmes,
news, sports and documentaries.

    Content for ZAP will be uplinked to Eutelsat's W7 satellite from UPSTAR's
teleports, in Luanda and in Vendas Novas, Portugal. The high power of W7's
African beam will enable reception across Angola with small antennas. User
equipment will include a 60-cm dish connected to decoders equipped with
Nagravision encryption and a HD-DVR with 250 hours of storage capacity. To
optimise bandwidth usage, channels will be broadcast in DVB-S2 with MPEG4
compression.

    "With Eutelsat's W7 satellite now on stream, we are equipped with
perfectly suited in-orbit resources for the launch of ZAP, the Angolan pay-TV
platform able to address households nationwide with state-of-the-art
technology," said Nuno Aguiar, CEO of ZAP. "Eutelsat's W7 satellite meets our
precise requirements for building a pay-TV network across Angola using small
consumer terminals. The availability of this powerful new satellite marks a
critical step forward towards the launch of a compelling new product in the
audiovisual landscape."

    Olivier Millies-Lacroix, Eutelsat's Commercial Director, responded: "This
new contract underscores the continuing dynamic of digital television across
sub-Saharan Africa. The high-power African beams on our new W7 satellite
represent a substantial asset for broadcasters operating in these markets,
providing the means to extend their service and audience reach in Africa and
meeting growing consumer demand for an enhanced television experience. We are
delighted to welcome ZAP onto W7 and to accompany the development of a new
player in Angola's broadcasting market."

    About Eutelsat Communications

    Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL, ISIN code: FR0010221234) is
the holding company of Eutelsat S.A.. With capacity commercialised on 27
satellites that provide coverage over the entire European continent, as well
as the Middle East, Africa, India and significant parts of Asia and the
Americas, Eutelsat is one of the world's three leading satellite operators in
terms of revenues. At 31 December 2009, Eutelsat's satellites were
broadcasting more than 3,400 television channels and close to 1,100 radio
stations. More than 1,000 channels broadcast via its HOT BIRD(TM) video
neighbourhood at 13 degrees East which serves over 123 million cable and
satellite homes in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Group's
satellites also serve a wide range of fixed and mobile telecommunications
services, TV contribution markets, corporate networks, and broadband markets
for Internet Service Providers and for transport, maritime and in-flight
markets. Eutelsat's broadband subsidiary, Skylogic, markets and operates
services through teleports in France and Italy that serve enterprises, local
communities, government agencies and aid organisations in Europe, Africa,
Asia and the Americas. Headquartered in Paris, Eutelsat and its subsidiaries
employ 635 employees from 27 countries.

    http://www.eutelsat.com

   
    Eutelsat Press Contacts
    Vanessa O'Connor
    Tel: +33(0)1-53-98-38-88
    voconnor@eutelsat.fr

    Frederique Gautier
    Tel: +33(0)1-53-98-38-88
    fgautier@eutelsat.fr

    Eutelsat Investor Relations
    Gilles Janvier
    Tel: +33(0)1-53-98-35-30
    investors@eutelsat-communications.com

Source: Eutelsat Communications

Eutelsat Press Contacts: Vanessa O'Connor, Tel: +33(0)1-53-98-38-88, voconnor@eutelsat.fr;  Frederique Gautier, Tel: +33(0)1-53-98-38-88, fgautier@eutelsat.fr; Eutelsat Investor Relations: Gilles Janvier, Tel: +33(0)1-53-98-35-30, investors@eutelsat-communications.com

AdMob's Southeast Asia Regional Metrics Report Highlights Key Trends By Country & Device Manufacturer for Q4 2009

Smartphone Penetration Increasing Rapidly Across Region, Nokia and Apple Leading in Different Countries

SINGAPORE, March 2 -- AdMob, one of the world's largest and fastest growing mobile advertising networks, complemented the release of its January 2010 Mobile Metrics Report with supplemental report focused on trended manufacturer share, smartphone OS share, and the top devices in Southeast Asia, Australia, and India in Q4 2009.

The report found that smartphone penetration reached 40 percent across Southeast Asia in Q4 2009. Singapore had the highest smartphone penetration at 77 percent and Vietnam had the lowest at 22 percent.

Highlights from the Q4 2009 AdMob Southeast Asia Regional Metrics Report include:

  -- Singapore, Hong Kong and Vietnam grew the fastest in 2009 with an
     average monthly traffic growth rate of 458 percent.
  -- Nokia continued to be the leading manufacturer in Southeast Asia with
     52 percent of requests, followed by Apple with 15 percent and
     Sony Ericsson with 12 percent in Q4 2009. The remaining 10
     Manufacturers accounted for 21 percent of traffic.
  -- Symbian OS is the most popular operating system in the region and
     accounted for 77 percent of smartphone requests in Q4 2009. The iPhone
     OS came in second with 19 percent of requests. Combined, they
     represented 96 percent of smartphone traffic in Southeast Asia.
  -- The Nokia N70 smartphone has a deeply entrenched position in Southeast
     Asia based on ad requests in December 2009. The N70 is the most popular
     smartphone device in Indonesia, Philippines and India. In Malaysia,
     Thailand and Vietnam, the N70 is the most popular device running on the
     Symbian OS.
  -- The iPhone OS was most dominant in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong
     with 93 percent, 84 percent and 76 percent, respectively, of ad
     requests in December 2009. These three countries are responsible for 69
     percent of the region's total iPhone traffic. The Symbian OS lost 39
     percent, 29 percent and 16 percent of ad requests in Australia,
     Singapore and Hong Kong, respectively.

AdMob stores and analyzes handset and operator data from every ad request in its network of more than 15,000 mobile Web sites and iPhone, Android, and webOS applications to optimize ad serving.  The AdMob Mobile Metrics Reports aggregate this data to provide insights into major trends in the mobile ecosystem. The AdMob share is calculated by the percentage of requests received from a particular handset; it is a measure of relative mobile Web and application usage and does not represent handset sales. See additional detail on report methodology at http://metrics.admob.com/2009/10/placing-admob- metrics-in-context/ .

Visit AdMob's Metrics Report site (http://metrics.admob.com/ ) to access the full Southeast Asia Q4 2009 report, view past reports, or sign up to get an email notification when future reports become available. Alternatively, you may contact Sonya Madeira Stamp at Sonya.Madeira@ricecomms.com or Natasha Kiroyan at Natasha.kiroyan@ricecomms.com to obtain the full report.

About AdMob

AdMob is one of the world's largest mobile advertising networks, serving billions of mobile banner and text ads a month across a wide range of leading mobile Web sites and applications. AdMob helps advertisers connect with a relevant audience of consumers on mobile devices and gives publishers the ability to effectively monetize their mobile traffic.  Incorporated in April 2006, AdMob provides the tools, data, and business models fueling the explosive growth of mobile media in more than 160 countries and territories worldwide.

AdMob has been named one of the most innovative companies in advertising and marketing in 2009 by Fast Company magazine, a 2008 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, and one of Wired.com's 2008 Companies to Watch. AdMob works with thousands of advertisers and publishers, including Adidas, CBS News, Gap, Lonely Planet, MovieTickets.com, MySpace, P&G, Tapulous, and Universal Pictures. To learn more about AdMob, visit http://www.admob.com/ .

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CONTACT: Sonya Madeira Stamp of Rice Communications for AdMob, +65-6223-
8729, +65-9450-1090, sonya.madeira@ricecomms.com

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Microsoft Helps U.K. Retailer With Online Technology Makeover to Drive More Rapid Growth

Shop Direct Group improves employee efficiency, reduces costs with Windows 7 operating system upgrade.

REDMOND, Wash., March 2 -- Microsoft Corp. today announced that the Shop Direct Group has embraced the Windows 7 operating system to support its ambitious online growth plans for 2011. As the leader in store systems, business intelligence and digital marketing IT solutions for retail, Microsoft helps companies such as Shop Direct build their competitive position in today's challenging economic environment.

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Shop Direct Group is one of the largest online and shop-at-home retail companies in the United Kingdom, operating under 11 well-known brands such as Littlewoods, Very, Woolworths, Marshall Ward, Kays and Great Universal. The company has 10,000 employees and is based in Liverpool, England, with warehouses and contact centers throughout the United Kingdom.

Primarily an online shop-at-home business, Shop Direct Group plans to increase online trading to more than 70 percent by 2011. The company recognizes that increasing its business online will require a technology makeover. To be successful, it must offer up-to-date applications to its employees on an up-to-date operating system. Also driving the decision to upgrade was the need to improve remote access for mobile workers -- approximately 10 percent of the company's employees.

"Shop Direct can't expect users to connect on an older, unreliable VPN connection," said Leslie Hand, research director at IDC Retail Insights. "This enables colleagues to work wherever they are located, giving employees easy access to the information they need when they need it. This allows them to work smarter and is a critical step for Shop Direct to evolve the business."

"The Shop Direct Group provides an excellent example of how innovative retailers can implement advanced information technology today to gain competitive advantage tomorrow," said Brendan O'Meara, managing director, worldwide retail industry, Microsoft. "Consumers are driven by value and convenience. Through delivery of better connected shopping experiences, online retailers such as the Shop Direct Group can add tangible value while enhancing their brand and cementing customer loyalty through these challenging economic times."

To help drive rapid growth, Shop Direct Group decided to upgrade its 10,000 computers to Windows 7, in addition to Windows Internet Explorer 8 Internet browser, based on a successful pilot deployment of over 100 computers in the company's lab environment. It also implemented Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 for centralized deployment and management. The company is also planning to upgrade its 350 servers from the Windows Server 2003 operating system to Windows Server 2008 R2.

To address its virtual private network (VPN) challenges, Shop Direct Group evaluated DirectAccess, a feature of Windows 7 that, when combined with Windows Server 2008 R2, enables employees to connect to the corporate network from virtually any Internet connection. The company's IT staff can also manage computers connected to the corporate network via DirectAccess as if they were locally connected -- helping ensure configurations are up to date and secure.

In addition, Shop Direct Group wanted to enhance its IT security, particularly with encryption, in an effort to not only protect sensitive company information but to also comply with government security regulations. As part of the upgrade, the company is implementing security enhancements to help strengthen compliance regulations. The company evaluated several encryption products but chose BitLocker drive encryption and BitLocker To Go, built-in features of Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise, as the solutions that would help best meet security standards and save costs. With its up-to-date IT infrastructure, including System Center Configuration Manager, Intel vPro technology, Forefront Client Security, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, and features such as DirectAccess, Shop Direct Group is able to manage IT more efficiently and reduce management costs.

Shop Direct Group now can perform IT management tasks, such as pushing software updates and provisioning new computers, from a central location. It will be able to service remote computers and those at other locations more quickly and without using third-party, onsite IT resources, and is expected to save valuable IT budget.

About Microsoft in Retail

Microsoft is the leading provider of global retail information technology solutions. Microsoft is No. 1 in store systems, in terms of retail point-of-service operating systems. Microsoft also is the leader in business intelligence with the vast majority of retailers using Excel as a decision support tool. Microsoft also leads in digital marketing with the most comprehensive end-to-end solutions. Its digital marketing solutions range from the stack (Windows, Windows Server, SQL Server, .NET, Visual Studio) to online (Commerce Server) to mobile (Windows Mobile), and from digital advertising (Bing, adCenter) to entertainment (Xbox, Xbox LIVE, Zune, Silverlight). Microsoft delivers connected experiences for stores, commerce and the enterprise via the "three screens" (PC, browser, mobile) for easy access across your digital world.

Microsoft's Retail Group provides software that helps retailers thrive in today's competitive global marketplace by meeting the demand for a highly personalized and connected shopper experience. Microsoft helps retailers deliver a consistent shopping experience through seamless multi-channel integration and via innovative technologies and mobile and new social networking channels. Through a combination of Microsoft- and partner-based solutions, retailers can turn data into insight, ideas into action and change into opportunity. More information about Microsoft's Retail Group can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/retail.

About Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

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CONTACT:  Wendy Grover of Microsoft Corp., +1-425-705-7609,
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