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EIZO Rugged Solutions Targets Avionics and Vetronics With Dual 3G-SDI Video Input and Output on Rugged XMC Graphics Card

ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Florida, May 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

    Low Power, SWaP-optimized Condor 4107xX Conduction-cooled Card Functions as an XMC
Graphics Card and 3G-SDI Video Capture With OpenCL Support.

    EIZO Rugged Solutions Inc. (formerly Tech Source, Inc.) has announced the Condor
4107xX conduction-cooled XMC graphics card with OpenCL support.

    Based on the AMD E8860 GPU and designed for seamless integration with VPX single board
computers (SBCs), the low-power, SWaP-optimized Condor 4107xX XMC graphics/video card
provides 3G-SDI video capture capability with dual 3G-SDI video inputs and outputs on the
rear XMC I/O connector. The 3G-SDI interface has several advantages. It supports the HDTV
resolution (1080p) at the full refresh rate of 60 Hz. It can also carry video up to 100
meters on thin coaxial cables that are far smaller and lighter compared with RGB and DVI
interfaces.

    Selwyn L. Henriques, president & CEO of EIZO Rugged Solutions, said, "The Condor
4107xX provides the ideal all-in-one solution for modern airborne applications, where
3G-SDI is becoming the interface of choice. The dual functionality offers an optimized
solution with a large reduction in size, weight, and power (SWaP) and makes the Condor
4107xX particularly useful for rugged avionics and vetronics applications where SWaP
reduction is key."

    The AMD GPU on the Condor 4107xX supports OpenGL, DirectX, and OpenCL and can be used
for high-performance GPGPU applications. This enables developers to capture video data
from a camera or other SDI source, perform video tracking or analysis on the data using
the GPU, and then send the 3G-SDI video to a compatible display device.

    Applications can access video streams in the form of raw frames for processing, 360
stitching, frame/video analysis, compression, or video streaming. All decoding, scaling,
video combining, and format conversions can be performed in the GPU with minimal impact on
the CPU.

    For more information on the Condor 4107xX card or any other product from EIZO Rugged
Solutions, please visit http://www.eizorugged.com, email condor@eizo.com, or call +1 (407)
262-7100.

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    Product datasheet: 

    http://www.eizorugged.com/support/brochures/pdfs/Condor_4107xX.pdf

    About EIZO Rugged Solutions 

    EIZO Rugged Solutions Inc., formerly Tech Source, Inc., has been developing graphics
and video solutions for air traffic control, military, and embedded applications for over
28 years. The ISO9001:2008 certified company offers a range of commercial off-the-shelf
(COTS) products, including graphics processors targeted at GPGPU applications, video input
solutions, video compression and streaming boards, imaging cards, recording solutions and
software libraries. The company designs and manufactures its core MIL-STD-810 graphics and
video products in the USA from its facility in Altamonte Springs, Florida and serves
customers in defense, security, aerospace, avionics, transportation, maritime, and
industrial markets.

    All product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective
companies. Tech Source is a trademark and EIZO is a registered trademark of EIZO
Corporation. 

EIZO Rugged Solutions

CONTACT: Media Contact : Bill Fox, EIZO Rugged Solutions Inc., Phone: +1 (407) 262-7100, Email: condor@eizo.com

Baidu and Inspur Build Heterogeneous Acceleration Platform to Facilitate the Development of Driverless Cars

BEIJING, May 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Chinese IT manufacturer Inspur announced recently that its NF5568M4 server has been selected by internet giant Baidu to provide hardware support for the deep learning platform of Baidu's driverless car. Deep learning is one of the core areas of driverless technology.

In December 2015, Baidu's driverless car passed the road test starting from the Baidu Tower in Zhongguancun High-tech Park in Beijing, driving onto the G7 Beijing-Xinjiang Expressway, through the Fifth Ring Road and reaching Olympic Forest Park, and back.

The driverless technology adopted throughout the course included decelerating, lane switching, overtaking, going on and off ramps and turning around. The car passed each of these testing criteria and reached a top speed of 100 kilometers per hour.

Another core technology in driverless cars is image sensing and recognition and Baidu's car is able to accurately sense objects and pedestrians, even effectively following traffic lights and avoiding accidents. 

Image recognition is a super large computing project, which requires hundreds of thousands -- in some cases even billions -- of learning samples to train a model. A GPU made up of thousands of smaller and more energy-saving cores has therefore become the main force for the application of image recognition training.

Inspur is a leading solution provider of an artificial intelligence application and has strategic partnerships with NVIDIA (the largest vision computing company in the world) in the field of GPU heterogeneous computing. To produce the high-performance computing application, Inspur has launched the NF5568M4 co-processing acceleration server, carrying two Intel E5-2600v3 processors and four Nvidia Tesla K40 GPUs. The highest single computing capacity of a single GPU server reaches 17 teraflops.

Presently, in the KITTI test for common vehicles, Baidu has reached a recognition accuracy of 90% -- thanks to a big contribution by Inspur's GPU co-processing acceleration server NF5568M4, which guarantees greater safety in the operation of driverless cars.

Baidu plans to set up demonstration regions in 10 cities within China and officially put commercial-purposed driverless cars to use. Large scale production is projected in five years, and within 15 years it is estimated that 80% of newly manufactured cars will be equipped with the driverless function.

Inspur possesses 100,000-core-and-above CPU+GPU/MIC/FPGA large-scale paralleling algorithms, program development and software optimization abilities. Additionally, through research and development, Inspur's open-source Caffe-MPI and ClusterEngine high-performance computing management platform focus on artificial intelligence and deep learning to build a professional heterogeneous acceleration platform. This platform facilitates the launch of deep learning applications such as driverless cars, and other innovative applications.

SOURCE  Inspur Group Co., Ltd.

Inspur Group Co., Ltd.

CONTACT: Yan Panpan, +86 (0)10-82581473, yanpanpan@Inspur.com

Minecraft Will Officially Enter China on Mobile and PC via NetEase

Microsoft, Mojang and NetEase Games introduce the sandbox game Minecraft to China

GUANGZHOU, China, May 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Soon Chinese Minecraft fans will be able to create and explore their very own worlds limited only by their imaginations. Microsoft, Mojang and NetEase, Inc. today announced a five-year exclusive agreement to license Mojang's Minecraft mobile and PC editions to a NetEase, Inc. affiliate in mainland China. As part of the agreement, Mojang will develop a version of Minecraft tailored for the Chinese market and release it in partnership with NetEase. Minecraft is a world-renowned sandbox game that enables players to adventure in uncharted realms, collect resources and build in an infinite world.

Minecraft officially launched in 2011, and has received numerous global awards and accolades. There are more than 100 million registered Minecraft players of all ages in nearly every country in the world.

Minecraft features multiple game modes and offers players limitless ways to play. In survival mode, the players gather resources to keep themselves alive and build shelters and other contraptions. While in creative mode, players have access to endless resources so they can construct any building or scene out of almost any block in the game. Players also can enjoy maps and scenarios created by others in adventure mode. Besides these various game modes, the Minecraft community has over the years created countless numbers of mods and custom content for use in Minecraft. Minecraft provides players an open platform and enables them to create their very own utopia with endless possibilities.

"We'll always embrace opportunities to bring Minecraft to new players around the world, widening our community, and giving us a new perspective on our game," said Jonas Martensson, CEO of Mojang, creators of Minecraft. "NetEase understands our long-term vision for Minecraft and supports Mojang's ideals, so we're delighted to have them on board. We look forward to welcoming China's builders and adventurers to the world of Minecraft."

"We are excited to bring Minecraft to Chinese audiences, and expect our large online community to embrace this preeminent game," said William Ding, CEO and founder of NetEase, Inc. "With our deep understanding of the Chinese market and our ability to successfully launch world-renowned online and mobile games, we offer a strong platform for the introduction of Minecraft to China's vast user base. We believe this cooperation could leverage the strengths of both Mojang and NetEase, as well as provide the world's largest audience with a superior user experience."

To learn more about Minecraft, please visit http://www.minecraft.net.

About Microsoft

Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @microsoft) is the leading platform and productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

About Mojang

Mojang is a game development studio based in Sweden, best known for developing Minecraft. In 2014, Mojang joined Microsoft Studios to continue work on Minecraft and bring their vision, creative energy and innovative mindset to the development of future games.

About NetEase, Inc.

NetEase, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTES) is a leading Internet technology company in China. Dedicated to providing online services centered around content, community, communication and commerce, NetEase develops and operates some of China's most popular online PC and mobile games, advertising services, email services and e-commerce platforms. In partnership with Blizzard Entertainment, NetEase operates some of the most popular international online games in China.

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains statements of a forward-looking nature. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. You can identify these forward-looking statements by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates" and similar statements. The accuracy of these statements may be impacted by a number of business risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or anticipated, including risks related to: the risk that the online game market will not continue to grow or that NetEase will not be able to maintain its leading position in that market, which could occur if, for example, its new online games or expansion packs and other improvements to its existing games do not become as popular as management anticipates; the ability of NetEase to successfully expand its mobile internet offerings; the ability of NetEase to effectively market its games and other services and achieve a positive return on its marketing expenditures; the risk that Shanghai EaseNet will not be able to continue operating World of Warcraft(®), StarCraft(®) II, Hearthstone(®): Heroes of Warcraft((TM)), Diablo III(®): Reaper of Souls((TM)), Heroes of the Storm((TM)), Overwatch((TM) )or other games licensed by it for a period of time or permanently due to possible governmental actions or the risk that such games will not be popular with game players in China; the risk that changes in Chinese government regulation of the online game market and the market for NetEase's e-commerce services may limit future growth of NetEase's revenues or cause revenues to decline; competition in the online advertising business and the risk that investments by NetEase in its content and services may not increase the appeal of the NetEase websites among internet users or result in increased advertising revenues; the risk that NetEase may not be able to continuously develop new and creative online services, including its ability to maintain and enhance the popularity of its e-mail, mobile and e-commerce services and develop attractive mobile games; the risk that NetEase will not be able to control its expenses in future periods; competition in NetEase's existing and potential markets; governmental uncertainties (including possible changes in the effective tax rates applicable to NetEase and its subsidiaries and affiliates and the ability of NetEase to receive and maintain approvals of the preferential tax treatments and general competition and price pressures in the marketplace); the risk that fluctuations in the value of the Renminbi with respect to other currencies could adversely affect NetEase's business and financial results; and other risks outlined in NetEase's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. NetEase does not undertake any obligation to update this forward-looking information, except as required under the applicable law.

For further information please contact:

Juliet Yang
NetEase, Inc.
hzyangyy@corp.netease.com
Tel: (+86) 571-8985-3378

Brandi Piacente
Investor Relations
brandi@corp.netease.com
Tel: (+1) 212-481-2050

SOURCE  NetEase, Inc.

NetEase, Inc.

Web Site: http://corp.netease.com

Flightfinder Soars into New Markets with Worldpay

LONDON, May 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

    Leading Nordic OTA partners with Worldpay to deliver localised service in new markets 

    Uvet Nordic, one of the fastest growing Nordic online travel agencies (OTA), has
selected Worldpay as its exclusive online payments provider to ensure the success of its
international growth. Based in Sweden and part of the Uvet Global Business Travel Group,
the company currently operates in 12 European countries, with brands Flightfinder,
Airfinder, Farefinder, FlyUvet, Doodle, Travelstore, and Flygpoolen.

    Uvet Nordic selected Worldpay as it was best positioned to deliver the global coverage
it needed to help it rapidly expand into new countries, whilst also allowing the OTA to
deliver a consistent and personalised experience in each of the local markets it serves.
Worldpay's insight into customer data and local spending habits will help inform Uvet
Nordic's global strategy, enabling the company to tailor its service to the preferences of
travellers in each country.

    Working with one provider also means Uvet Nordic will avoid the complications of
dealing with multiple payment processors in multiple markets as it continues to grow.

    Uvet Nordic plans to expand its service to 18 new markets across the world, and needed
a partner who could help them do so. Worldpay has begun processing the company's online
transactions in the Nordics and will take on all of its international activity as the
company begins serving travellers abroad - starting with Italy, France, Germany, the UK,
and Russia.  

    Worldpay is also enabling Uvet Nordic to accept the growing range alternative payment
methods (APMs) favoured by consumers across Europe, such as Carte Bancaire in France,
PostePay in Italy, Sofort in Germany, or Qiwi in Russia, in addition to ensuring the
company can support online payments in multiple currencies.

    Patric Wagenknecht, CEO of Uvet Nordic, said: "Our ambition isn't just to grow as a
company; it is to deliver the best online shopping experience for our customers globally
by offering local payment solutions and customer services in each market we operate in.
Worldpay is the perfect partner. They have the global expertise and full range of services
we need to continue expanding internationally while delivering the personalised experience
our customers' value."

    Thomas Helldorff, VP Travel and Airlines, Global eCommerce at Worldpay said: "Today's
consumers want to use their preferred payment options when booking flights and hotels. The
challenge for online travel agencies is to deliver this localised service in each market
while keeping complexity to a minimum as they continuing to grow. Our years of
international experience and granular view of local payment behaviours help companies like
Flightfinder understand their customers in more detail, which allows them to deliver a
more personal and convenient online experience to travellers in every country they serve."

    About Worldpay
Worldpay is a leading payments company with global reach. We provide an extensive range of
technology-led payment products and services to over 400,000 customers, enabling their
businesses to grow and prosper. We manage the increasing complexity of the payments
landscape for our customers, allowing them to accept the widest range of payment types
around the world. Using our network and technology, we are able to process payments from
geographies covering 99% of global GDP, across 146 countries and 126 currencies. We help
our customers to accept more than 300 different payment types, by providing an end-to-end
service including acquiring, treasury, gateway, alternative payments and risk management,
all via a single integration to Worldpay. Worldpay makes global payments simple for many
of the world's leading organisations.

    http://www.worldpay.com/global

    @Worldpay

    About Uvet Nordic 

    UVET Nordic is a global multi brand and multi GDS international online travel agency
(OTA). The company was founded in 1998 as one of the first OTAs in Sweden, and has since
2013 been part of the Italian global travel and tourism group UVET. The business model is
to offer private customers flight tickets and related services such as hotels, car rental,
events and travel insurance etc. During 2015 the company changed name in connection with
the new ownership and operates the brands: Flygpoolen, Doodle, Travelstore, Flightfinder,
Airfinder, Farefinder and FlyUvet, and all their related OTAs in currently twelve
different markets.

    http://www.flightfinder.se ,  http://www.flygpoolen.se , 
http://www.airfinder.it ,  http://www.farefinder.ru ,  http://www.flyuvet.com,
http://www.flightfinder.no , http://www.travelstore.se ,
 http://www.airfinder.de , http://www.flyuvet.co.uk,http://www.flightfinder.dk
,  http://www.doodle.se , http://www.airfinder.at, http://www.flightfinder.fi ,
 http://www.airfinder.pl, http://www.flightfinder.es,
 http://www.flightfinder.fr

Worldpay

CONTACT: For more information please contact: Nitesh Khetani: Worldpayecommerceteam@golin.com, +44-(0)2070670836

Feiyutech Introduces Integrated Handheld Gimbal Camera

SHENZHEN, China, May 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Feiyutech, a high-tech company from China, will hold a launch event for their summer new arrivals in Shenzhen. Two new products will be unveiled: MGLite, an upgrade of the gimbal for their Micro SLR camera to a knob, allowing users to adjust the gravity of the camera without a tool, and a newly-designed storage bag, which makes it much easier to carry the MGLite around.

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But the most exciting new product is SUMMON, a handheld gimbal camera. While Feiyutech has always been the world's leading brand in handheld gimbals for sports cameras, this newly-released handheld gimbal camera will have a greater impact on the whole sports camera industry. By deeply integrating an anti-shake function, the handheld gimbal camera will bring clear, stable, and high-quality videos and a more relaxed operating experience to users.

SUMMON integrates 4K & 25FPS and it can continue shooting for 180 minutes, even though it weighs only 350g (without batteries). Its 4k image quality is complimented by functions including anti-shake slow motion, time lapse, a programmable 360-degree auto-rotation time-lapse system, long exposure & anti-shake photography, and remote controlled photography via an APP on a smart phone. Compared with the traditional combination mode of sports cameras and handheld gimbals, this innovative handheld gimbal camera not only realizes high image quality and a gimbal anti-shake function, but also helps users create in a simpler way and brings a huge boost in efficiency.

Customers can find more information about and purchase this camera on TMALL, AliExpress, Amazon, B&H and other online outlets, as well as on Feiyutech official website, http://www.feiyu-tech.com.

This is a huge breakthrough for Feiyutech to transform from its focus on single handheld gimbal development to the sports camera field. It is a testament to the courage and strength of Chinese high-tech companies to march into the world's brand new fields.

For further information, please contact:

Big Mu
+86-159-1592-7879
13726797066@163.com

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Feiyutech

Web Site: http://www.feiyu-tech.com

Feiyutech Introduces Integrated Handheld Gimbal Camera

SHENZHEN, China, May 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Feiyutech, a high-tech company from China, will hold a launch event for their summer new arrivals in Shenzhen. Two new products will be unveiled: MGLite, an upgrade of the gimbal for their Micro SLR camera to a knob, allowing users to adjust the gravity of the camera without a tool, and a newly-designed storage bag, which makes is much easier to carry the MGLite around.

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But the most exciting new product is SUMMON, a handheld gimbal camera. While Feiyutech has always been the world's leading brand in handheld gimbals for sports cameras, this newly-released handheld gimbal camera will have a greater impact on the whole sports camera industry. By deeply integrating an anti-shake function, the handheld gimbal camera will bring clear, stable, and high-quality videos and a more relaxed operating experience to users.

SUMMON integrates 4K & 25FPS and it can continue shooting for 180 minutes, even though it weighs only 350g (without batteries). Its 4k image quality is complimented by functions including anti-shake slow motion, time lapse, a programmable 360-degree auto-rotation time-lapse system, long exposure & anti-shake photography, and remote controlled photography via an APP on a smart phone. Compared with the traditional combination mode of sports cameras and handheld gimbals, this innovative handheld gimbal camera not only realizes high image quality and a gimbal anti-shake function, but also helps users create in a simpler way and brings a huge boost in efficiency.

Customers can find more information about and purchase this camera on TMALL, AliExpress, Amazon, B&H and other online outlets, as well as on Feiyutech official website, http://www.feiyu-tech.com.

This is a huge breakthrough for Feiyutech to transform from its focus on single handheld gimbal development to the sports camera field. It is a testament to the courage and strength of Chinese high-tech companies to march into the world's brand new fields.

For further information, please contact:

Big Mu
+86-159-1592-7879
13726797066@163.com

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SOURCE  Feiyutech

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Feiyutech

Web Site: http://www.feiyu-tech.com

Feiyutech Introduces Integrated Handheld Gimbal Camera

SHENZHEN, China, May 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Feiyutech, a high-tech company from China, will hold a launch event for their summer new arrivals in Shenzhen. Two new products will be unveiled: MGLite, an upgrade of the gimbal for their Micro SLR camera to a knob, allowing users to adjust the gravity of the camera without a tool, and a newly-designed storage bag, which makes is much easier to carry the MGLite around.

http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnvar/20160519/369724

But the most exciting new product is SUMMON, a handheld gimbal camera. While Feiyutech has always been the world's leading brand in handheld gimbals for sports cameras, this newly-released handheld gimbal camera will have a greater impact on the whole sports camera industry. By deeply integrating an anti-shake function, the handheld gimbal camera will bring clear, stable, and high-quality videos and a more relaxed operating experience to users.

SUMMON integrates 4K & 25FPS and it can continue shooting for 180 minutes, even though it weighs only 350g (without batteries). Its 4k image quality is complimented by functions including anti-shake slow motion, time lapse, a programmable 360-degree auto-rotation time-lapse system, long exposure & anti-shake photography, and remote controlled photography via an APP on a smart phone. Compared with the traditional combination mode of sports cameras and handheld gimbals, this innovative handheld gimbal camera not only realizes high image quality and a gimbal anti-shake function, but also helps users create in a simpler way and brings a huge boost in efficiency.

Customers can find more information about and purchase this camera on TMALL, AliExpress, Amazon, B&H and other online outlets, as well as on Feiyutech official website, http://www.feiyu-tech.com.

This is a huge breakthrough for Feiyutech to transform from its focus on single handheld gimbal development to the sports camera field. It is a testament to the courage and strength of Chinese high-tech companies to march into the world's brand new fields.

For further information, please contact:

Big Mu
+86-159-1592-7879
13726797066@163.com

Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20160519/369724

SOURCE  Feiyutech

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Feiyutech

Web Site: http://www.feiyu-tech.com

Feiyutech Introduces Integrated Handheld Gimbal Camera

SHENZHEN, China, May 19, 2016 /CNW/ -- Today, Feiyutech, a high-tech company from China, will hold a launch event for their summer new arrivals in Shenzhen. Two new products will be unveiled: MGLite, an upgrade of the gimbal for their Micro SLR camera to a knob, allowing users to adjust the gravity of the camera without a tool, and a newly-designed storage bag, which makes is much easier to carry the MGLite around.

http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnvar/20160519/369724

But the most exciting new product is SUMMON, a handheld gimbal camera. While Feiyutech has always been the world's leading brand in handheld gimbals for sports cameras, this newly-released handheld gimbal camera will have a greater impact on the whole sports camera industry. By deeply integrating an anti-shake function, the handheld gimbal camera will bring clear, stable, and high-quality videos and a more relaxed operating experience to users.

SUMMON integrates 4K & 25FPS and it can continue shooting for 180 minutes, even though it weighs only 350g (without batteries). Its 4k image quality is complimented by functions including anti-shake slow motion, time lapse, a programmable 360-degree auto-rotation time-lapse system, long exposure & anti-shake photography, and remote controlled photography via an APP on a smart phone. Compared with the traditional combination mode of sports cameras and handheld gimbals, this innovative handheld gimbal camera not only realizes high image quality and a gimbal anti-shake function, but also helps users create in a simpler way and brings a huge boost in efficiency.

Customers can find more information about and purchase this camera on TMALL, AliExpress, Amazon, B&H and other online outlets, as well as on Feiyutech official website, http://www.feiyu-tech.com.

This is a huge breakthrough for Feiyutech to transform from its focus on single handheld gimbal development to the sports camera field. It is a testament to the courage and strength of Chinese high-tech companies to march into the world's brand new fields.

For further information, please contact:

Big Mu
+86-159-1592-7879
13726797066@163.com

Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20160519/369724

SOURCE  Feiyutech

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Feiyutech

Web Site: http://www.feiyu-tech.com

"Low Battery Anxiety" Grips 9 Out Of Ten People

LG Survey Uncovers Questionable Behavior When a Smartphone Battery Drops to 20 Percent or Below

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., May 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Have you ever ordered something at a bar just so you can ask to plug in your phone? Do you argue with loved ones because your phone died and you missed their calls or texts? Are you regularly accused of secretly 'borrowing' someone else's charger?

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If so, you may be suffering from "Low Battery Anxiety." LG recently surveyed thousands of people(1) and, although not a real illness or anxiety disorder, have dubbed the concept of Low Battery Anxiety to exemplify the behavior of people who are changing their everyday lives - just to accommodate their dying battery. The survey found that nearly nine out of 10 people "felt panic" when their phone battery drops to 20 percent or lower.

Five Signs You Could Be Suffering from Low Battery Anxiety
Some "symptoms" of Low Battery Anxiety exhibited by those surveyed included:

    1. Asking a total stranger to charge their smartphone
    2. Arguing with a significant other or romantic interest because of
       unanswered calls or texts
    3. Ordering something at a bar or restaurant just to use their power outlet
    4. Secretly 'borrowing' someone else's charger
    5. Owning three or more smartphone charging cables
Low Battery Anxiety Can Lead to Unhealthy Choices
When it comes to choosing between hitting the gym or charging their smartphone, one in three people are likely to skip the gym. But millennials tend to have it worse - with 42 percent likely to skip the gym when choosing between working out or charging their phone. Smartphone users will even "drop everything" (32 percent) and make a U-turn to head back home to charge their phone.

Low Battery Anxiety Could be a Cause of Break Ups
Chances are Low Battery Anxiety is ruining relationships; a loved one you believed was "ghosting" you could simply be exhibiting classic symptoms, as 60 percent of those surveyed reported that they've blamed a dead phone for not speaking to a family member, friend, co-worker or significant other if their battery was low. And what's more, one in three people have gotten into an argument with a significant other or romantic interest as a result of unanswered calls or texts because their smartphone was dead.

Low Battery Anxiety Can Be Avoided
LG has made it easy to counter Low Battery Anxiety by including a removable battery in their latest LG G5 smartphone. By simply being able to switch out a used battery with a fresh one in just seconds, there is no need to change your behavior. If you or a loved one appear to be exhibiting symptoms of Low Battery Anxiety, please visit here for more information.

About LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A., Inc.
LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A. Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the U.S. sales subsidiary of LG Electronics, Inc. a global innovator and trend leader in the global mobile communications industry. LG is driving the evolution of mobile forward with its highly competitive core technologies in the areas of display, battery and camera optics and strategic partnerships with noted industry leaders. LG's consumer-centric products -- including the flagship premium G Series models -- incorporate unique, ergonomic designs and intuitive UX features that enhance the user experience. The company remains committed to leading consumers into the era of convergence, maximizing inter-device connectivity between smartphones, tablets and a wide range of home and portable electronics products. For more information, please visit http://www.LG.com.

(1) The LG Electronics Smartphone "Low Battery Anxiety" Survey was completed online among a random sample of 2,000 smartphone users among U.S. adult population. Interviewing was conducted by Ebiquity between February 26 and March 2, 2016. The results have an overall margin of error of +/- 2.2%; at the 95 percent level of confidence.

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CONTACT: LG Electronics MobileComm USA, Inc., Frank Lee, franc.lee@lge.com, 908-312-3233; LG-One, Asif Husain, asif.husain@lg-one.com, 212-880-5273

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

LG Highlights Innovative HVAC Control And Software Solutions At AIA Expo 2016

Systems-Based Technologies Rooted in Software and Controls Bring Exceptional Versatility to Architects

PHILADELPHIA, May 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- LG Electronics USA, a featured exhibitor at the American Institute of Architects' AIA Expo 2016, is showing how new, upgraded HVAC software, systems and controls are providing architects, engineers and contractors a new level of versatility for residential and commercial projects of all sizes.

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At AIA Expo 2016, LG, an industry leader in variable refrigerant flow (VRF) technology and home comfort solutions, is showcasing innovative ways to create seamless connections between installed products, and helping engineers, contractors and architects create efficient and user-friendly systems. Attendees visiting LG's booth (#3301) will be able to interact with LG's latest air conditioning products, software and controls while learning how these technologies can be integrated into a host of applications.

"A growing number of U.S. architects, engineers and contractors are recognizing the benefits of VRF technology and are attracted to LG's superior efficiency, personalized service, innovative technologies and system-based solutions for the U.S. market," said Kevin McNamara, senior vice president, Air Conditioning Systems, LG Electronics USA. "The range of LG systems at this year's AIA Expo helps architects design buildings that save energy and drive personal comfort in both residential and commercial settings."

Innovative LG software programs, products, controls and interfaces demonstrated at AIA Expo 2016 include a new remote temperature button sensor, proprietary design tools, gateways and more:

LG Remote Temperature Button Sensor
LG's Remote Temperature Button Sensor is an innovative and flexible solution for home and business owners who want the freedom to deliver personal comfort without sacrificing beautiful design in any room. The temperature sensor provides fast and accurate temperature readings suspended in a tiny round enclosure that can be painted with typical interior wall paint, providing an aesthetically pleasing temperature measuring option. About the size of a quarter, the sensor measures less than an inch in diameter and requires minimal installation - requiring a 7/16" hole at its mounting location and is easily secured to the wall using a provided adhesive.

LG Multi V S
LG is proudly introducing the Multi V S, the next generation of the popular Multi V Mini-series that is compact, efficient and can support up to nine individual indoor units. The Multi V S provides cooling or heating zoning capabilities and allows for individual control of room temperatures. The system utilizes single-phase power so it can be used in a wide range of building types, offering overall increased flexibility and efficiency. The Multi V S requires little or no ductwork, resulting in smaller space requirements for piping that preserves the integrity of the exterior of buildings. The system is compatible with LG's Art Cool Mirror, Art Cool Gallery, as well as several other LG ducted and non-ducted indoor unit styles.

New 4-Way Ceiling Cassette Grilles
Also featured at AIA Expo are two new Ceiling Cassette Grilles. The 4-way Black Ceiling Cassette comes in a 3'X3' configuration with a new, aesthetically-pleasing black color that can easily fit into any space and blend into any commercial ceiling environment. Also featured is a new true 2'X2' 4-Way Ceiling Cassette Grille that is designed to perfectly fit into a standard 2 ft. square ceiling grid.

LATS CAD 2
The LG Air Conditioner Technical Solutions Computer-Aided Drafting (LATS CAD 2) software is fully integrated, industry-changing design software that arms engineers with a more efficient platform to design commercial VRF systems - and reduces design time by up to 80 percent. LATS CAD 2 operates as a seamless extension of AutoCAD, an industry-standard building design program. By eliminating transitional errors between previously incompatible programs, AutoCAD and LATS CAD 2 maintain building design integrity between programs, creating a more fluid and accurate design process that results in time efficiencies and cost-savings.

AC Smart IV BACnet
LG's AC Smart IV BACnet* Gateway combines a full-featured user interface with the open BACnet(TM) protocol for integration between the LG air conditioning unit and various building automation systems. The LG Smart IV BACnet Gateway can be accessed from the web, a user-friendly 10.2-inch LCD touch screen or through the BAS. The integrated central control and gateway is ideal for office buildings, schools and other commercial applications, making monitoring and controlling an HVAC system simple. By combining the BACnet Gateway with LG's AC Smart IV controller, LG has created one product that provides multiple ways to access and control the air conditioning systems.

At AIA Expo 2016 and beyond, LG is demonstrating successful and sustainable installations that meet the needs of residential and commercial applications as well as hospitality, high rises and education facilities.

*BACnet is a registered trademark of ASHRAE

For more information on LG products featured at AIA Expo 2016, visit LG booth #3301. Additional information on the complete portfolio of LG's air conditioning systems can be found atwww.lghvac.com.

LG Electronics USA Air Conditioning Systems
The LG Electronics U.S.A., Inc., Air Conditioning Systems business is based in Alpharetta, Ga. A 2016 ENERGY STAR(®) Partner of the Year-Sustained Excellence, LG is a leading player in the global air conditioning market, manufacturing both commercial and residential air conditioners and providing total sustainability and building management solutions. From consumer and individual units to industrial and specialized air conditioning systems, LG provides a wide range of products for heating, ventilating and air conditioning. The company's industry-leading variable refrigerant flow (VRF) technology minimizes efficiency losses, provides sustainable energy savings and offers the lowest life cycle cost of any system on the market today. LG Electronics USA., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics Inc., a $56 billion global force and technology leader in consumer electronics, mobile communications, home appliances and air solutions. For more information, please visit http://www.lghvac.com.

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CONTACT: LG Electronics USA, Kim Regillio, 847 941 8184, kim.regillio@lge.com; or Abha Gunjal, 212 880 5280, abha.gunjal@lg-one.com

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

Pii Launches New 3D Printing Business Unit

Pii's new business unit introduces benefits of 3D printing to current and prospective customers

BLOOMINGTON, Ill., May 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Progressive Impressions International (pii), one of the largest full-service direct marketing service providers, today unveiled its new 3D printing business unit. Over the past year, pii has made significant investments in 3D printing equipment and established a strategic business development pipeline to make the benefits of 3D printing available to clients and prospects.

"Pii's ability to serve as a one-stop-shop printing solution, with the resources to design, implement and support 360-degree marketing programs has been hugely beneficial to our customers' marketing programs over the past 25 years," said Jamie Huff, president of pii. "3D printing is the new frontier for impactful marketing programs, and pii will work with customers to leverage our massive production capacity and experience to execute on all aspects and possibilities within 3D printing."

Over the past year, pii has conducted extensive research and made strategic investments to launch this business unit. Pii worked closely with innovation consultancy firm gravitytank to develop a specific proprietary process to guide customer entry into 3D printing and create tangible offerings. Additionally, pii partnered with Illinois State University's Department of Technology to further explore the technologies needed for 3D printing, including manufacturing equipment, software and implementation technologies.

Pii has already invested in top-of-the-line 3D printing equipment to move this vision forward, and additional investments as the offering grows will enable larger scale production capability.

"3D printing has unlimited possibilities for direct marketers - everything from 3D prints of a home for a prospective homeowner to customer follow-up from a tradeshow with a personalized design," said Tim Henning, general manager of pii. "Pii's expansion into 3D printing provides a unique competitive advantage for our clients and prospects - we're able to help them efficiently customize products and create impactful marketing campaigns that move the needle for their business."

For customers interested in entering 3D printing, pii is currently conducting "Customer Shaping Sessions." During each session, pii works one-on-one with clients to immerse them in 3D printing technology and generate relevant use cases. The team then maps the work against the company's business goals and provides tangible prototypes to bring each concept to life.

To learn more about pii's 3D printing offering, please visit http://www.whateverittakes.com/3Dprint.pdf.

About Progressive Impressions International (pii)
Since 1993, Progressive Impressions International (pii) has been providing direct mail marketing with personalization for leading companies in insurance, financial services and healthcare. As one of the largest full-service direct marketing service providers, pii builds integrated solutions that bring together the best of data segmentation techniques, applied through various communication channels and made available to distributed sales forces via an easy-to-use Web-based tool called Conductor. Pii solutions help companies achieve maximum marketing ROI. Digital print with variable content and personalization is a core competency for pii. In addition, pii offers a full range of commercial and specialty printing services.

Pii operates in 11 countries and 22 states within the U.S. Pii is owned by Taylor Corporation. Pii-owned facilities include Bloomington, Ill., Lansing, Mich., Pompano Beach, Fla., Tianjin, China, Cebu City, Philippines and Chennai, India.

Media Contacts:
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Samantha Schoenauer
Sam.Schoenauer@zenogroup.com
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Progressive Impressions International (pii)

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

Canadian League of Gamers announces Northern Arena, the first professional eSports League in Canada

Strategic partnerships with Fan Expo and Vantrix to include events in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver for professional video gamers and game fans

TORONTO, May 19, 2016 /CNW/ - The Canadian League of Gamers (CLG) is pleased to announce the launch of Northern Arena, a world-class competition for professional gamers. Consisting of both live and online qualifiers throughout the year, Northern Arena will connect millions of gaming fans in Canada and around the world by streaming competitions globally and also hosting live spectator events across Canada. Northern Arena's 2016 competitions will culminate in Canada's largest professional eSports championship this November.

From September 1(st) - 4(th )at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Northern Arena will co-locate with Fan Expo and the 120,000+ genre and gaming superfans that attend the event every year. In November, Northern Arena's 2016 Grand Finals will be held in Montreal. Live events will be streamed using Vantrix's 360 streaming virtual reality infrastructure, providing online viewers with a "live" vantage point while viewing the competitions.

Professional competitions will host 8-12 teams per event in either a PC, console or mobile game. Upcoming pros will have the chance to enter the pro competition in an open spot in each final, providing a unique opportunity to discover new talent in Canadian eSports.

Northern Arena's live events will host professional competitions, as well as a BYOC LAN party and weekend long gaming festival. Live events will allow fans to connect with professional eSports stars and see them in action. Amateur competitive gamers will have the chance to bring their own equipment, log into the local network and play against other gamers for some great prizes in a variety of genres.

"Canada has some of the most passionate gamers in the world," said Carl-Edwin Michel, the visionary behind Northern Arena and Co-Founder of the Canadian League of Gamers. "Connecting Northern Arena with the audiences at Fan Expo and working with Vantrix is a perfect fit. I can't wait to press play with Canadian and international gaming elite and kick off Northern Arena's 2016 competitions." 

"eSports is exploding with interest and becoming one of the fastest growing sports in the world," says Greg Spievak, Co-Founder of the Canadian League of Gamers. "eSports already has millions of established fans worldwide and an estimated potential to generate over $1 billion in 2016, so we're excited to tap into this market and foster its huge potential here in Canada."

"Fan Expo Canada has a strong history of presenting the very best in all things pop culture. We are delighted to be working with Northern Arena to do just that - not only for our PC Gaming fans - but for all the fans who will experience this activation at the show this year," said Andrew Moyes, Show Director.

"Vantrix is excited to partner with the Northern Arena to provide 360 streaming virtual reality to Canadian League of Gamers' fans", said Kjell Kolstad, Vice President - Cloud Services. "We believe fans will love the immersive 'be-there-from-anywhere' experience enabled by our end-to-end Vantrix Cloud 360 solution. Fans can enjoy gaming action in first person VR mode or as a second screen experience on mobile devices and computers."

About the Canadian League of Gamers
In 2015, Greg Spievak and Carl-Edwin Michel launched the Canadian League of Gamers as a world-class venture for video game players, fans, sponsors and broadcasters in the growing eSports market in Canada. The league hosts finals and qualifiers across the country throughout the year, including the nation's largest live and streamed eSports events. The goal is to bring professional and non-professional gamers together in an official league that offers a structured, professionally managed and credible platform to promote eSports in North America and throughout the world.

About Fan Expo
FAN EXPO CANADA(TM) boasts the largest comics, sci-fi, horror, anime, and gaming event in Canada, the third largest in North America. It is packed with exciting family-friendly activities and celebrity guests including Jenna Coleman (Doctor Who), Tyler Posey (Teen Wolf), and more announced soon! The all-ages pop culture convention expects to host over 127,000 fans at 750,000 sq. ft. of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre for the four-day event September 1-4, 2016. http://www.fanexpocanada.com

For further information, please visit http://www.northernarena.ca.

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The Canadian League of Gamers

CONTACT: Contact information: Kiel Hume, Environics Communications, Phone: 416.969.2807, Email: khume@environicspr.com; Valerie Burnatowski, Environics Communications, Phone: 416.969.2717, Email: vburnatowski@environicspr.com

AIR Wireless Companion Speaker to Debut at InfoComm 2016

Battery powered, wire-free companion speaker, designed by Anchor Audio, Inc.

CARLSBAD, Calif., May 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- InfoComm 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada, marks the debut of the Liberty AIR and MegaVox AIR wireless companion speakers designed by portable sound system manufacturer, Anchor Audio, Inc. The company has offered unpowered companion speakers for many years, but now Liberty AIR and MegaVox AIR set a new industry standard, as the first battery-powered wireless companion speakers in Anchor Audio's line.

Anchor Audio has set out to perfect the concept of a wireless companion speaker that offers dramatically expanded wireless range, increased system capacity, and instant ADA compliance. The AIRs are battery powered, perform 6-8 hours or more on a single charge, and can be placed 150+ feet from the transmitter. (Transmitters come as an optional built-in upgrade to the main sound system.) One transmitter can connect to an unlimited number of AIR wireless companion speakers. The AIR wireless technology offers 100 user-selectable channels operating within the 900 MHz frequency, which is one of the few clear channel ranges available and therefore limits interference from competing signals. Furthermore, the 900 MHz band offers expanded wireless range for an increased transmission distance. AIR companion speakers can also operate in 'wired mode,' which includes simply flipping a switch and plugging in a cable.

Currently, Anchor's Liberty Platinum Portable Sound System and MegaVox Pro Portable PA System offer AIR wireless companion speakers.

The AIR companion transmitter also connects seamlessly with Anchor Audio's Assistive Listening Devices (ALB-9000), which operate on the same 902-928 MHz, resulting in an immediate ADA-compliant sound system. Main-unit systems are available with up to two wireless microphone receivers in addition to the AIR wireless companion transmitter.

Like all of Anchor Audio's portable sound systems, the AIR wireless companion speakers are manufactured in the USA, ship same day, and are covered by an industry-leading six-year warranty.

"Our dealer network started asking seriously for battery-powered wireless companion speakers last year, and because we work in close partnership with our dealers we went immediately into designing and engineering the AIR line after our successful 2015 launch of our Bigfoot Portable Line Array," said Alex Jacobs, VP of sales for Anchor Audio. "Today the world is exceedingly wireless, especially in the portable sound system industry. Our customers simply expect wireless, and we are happy to continue delivering portable sound systems that meet and exceed our customers wishes."

The Liberty AIR wireless companion speaker is priced at $1000 MSRP, and the MegaVox AIR wireless companion speaker is $550 MSRP. Both AIR wireless companion speakers will premiere at the 2016 InfoComm International Tradeshow this June at Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, in Anchor Audio's booth C9321. The Liberty AIR and MegaVox AIR will ship June 1(st), 2016. To pre-order an AIR companion speaker, or for more information about Anchor Audio products, contact Anchor Audio at 800.262.4671, via email at sales@anchoraudio.com, or visit http://www.anchoraudio.com. Visit the press kit at http://infocomm.vporoom.com/AnchorAudio.

About Anchor Audio, Inc.

Anchor Audio, Inc. is the leading manufacturer of portable sound systems, portable PA systems, speaker monitors, wired and wireless intercoms, and lecterns.

Established in 1975, Anchor Audio manufactured their first portable sound system in a small workshop in Torrance, California. Forty years later and in a much larger, state-of-the-art facility in Carlsbad, California, production includes more than 20 different models with sound solutions for every type of market - including education, commercial, hospitality, places of worship, government, and military.

The company guarantees the quality of its made in the USA products, offers quick delivery, and is renowned for its 40-year tradition of delivering excellent products covered by an industry-leading six-year warranty.

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Anchor Audio, Inc.

CONTACT: Emily Golding, Phone: 800.262.4671 ext. 116, Email: emilyg@anchoraudio.com, Web: http://www.anchoraudio.com, InfoComm Booth: C9321, Press Kit: http://infocomm.vporoom.com/AnchorAudio

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

No More Sweaty Shirts: Dry-Active Wearable Dehumidifier Keeps Your Skin Comfy and Dry

New Kickstarter campaign brings relief to active people with portable drying pack

SAN FRANCISCO, May 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Which of us has never experienced the cold, clammy feeling of sweating inside our jackets after exercise or hard work? Dry-Active Technologies is putting an end to sweaty shirts with their upcoming Kickstarter campaign. Dry-Active is the world's first wearable dehumidifier that decreases core humidity levels by up to 40%. It creates a dry localized environment around your upper torso which enhances your comfort level while you engage in activities. Dry-Active's Kickstarter campaign launched May 18 with early backers accessing the product for about $99 USD ($120 CDN) at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1010882448/dry-active-the-worlds-first-wearable-dehumidifier.     

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Dry-Active's patented system actively circulates air around your upper body, at the same time taking away the moisture inside your jacket. This is especially important in cold weather when wet fabrics sitting against the skin will transfer the cold from the surrounding environment. This will lead to a drop in your body temperature. Just think of how much colder a cool breeze feels on wet skin as opposed to when you are dry. By keeping your clothing drier, our system will prevent this additional cooling effect for a more consistent experience.

The Dry-Active System

Dry-Active sits comfortably over your shoulders and instantly enhances the performance of any water-resistant or waterproof jacket you choose to wear. Lightweight and ergonomic, the product draws power from a USB battery that drives a circulation unit, drawing away moisture via airflow conduits. A refillable filter that uses common low-cost materials found in your local hardware store can last for a whole day's use.

The built-in temperature and humidity sensors detect conditions within the user's jacket, triggering activation. Settings can be adjusted and customized via the smartphone app.

"Dry-Active is a brilliant system that can sense when your activity levels increase and automatically controls the device to return you to a more comfortable state," says co-founder Lawrence Liu. "While clothing exists to wick moisture away from the skin, there are many situations when its effectiveness is compromised. That's where Dry-Active comes in."

The Dry-Active App

Through Bluetooth connectivity, Dry-Active can be controlled by its smartphone app. The app allows users to turn the device on or off. It also monitors temperature and humidity readings. Users can even set their own personal comfort range to automatically activate when moisture levels rise, then shut off when the desired comfort levels are reached.

"Dry-Active looks deceivingly simple but it is not," says co-founder Marco Tozzini. "I had to draw on all twenty years of my experience in design and automation, combined with a multitude of tests on different prototypes and systems to achieve today's consistent positive results. Now I feel uncomfortable just thinking of doing my activity without wearing Dry-Active."

Who Dry-Active Is For

Dry-Active is a perfect fit for:

Outdoor Workers

Whether you work in warmer or colder temperatures, Dry-Active ensures that your body is not adversely affected by excessive moisture inside your jacket. When heat is combined with other stresses such as hard physical work, loss of fluids and fatigue may occur. It may lead to heat-related illnesses, disability or worse. Dry-Active compliments other heat stress prevention techniques to help outdoor working warriors.

Bicycle Commuters

Pedalling a few miles can generate a good amount of sweat. Avoid looking like you just stepped out of a sauna with Dry-Active.

Skiers and Snowboarders

Having fun on the slopes generates different degrees of exertion at different times. Try sitting on a 15 minute chairlift ride in the cold right after sweating hard.  Moisture in your jacket makes you feel colder, faster! When you are working harder than what your jacket can handle, you need that extra help. With Dry-Active, you can automatically regulate the humidity levels in your jacket, so you feel more comfortable and dry.

Other Activities

Dry-Active can be used for fishing, hiking, traveling, even riding a scooter during a monsoon... basically anytime a jacket is required but the activity is causing you to sweat inside.

Learn more about the Dry-Active Kickstarter campaign with special pricing for early backers at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1010882448/dry-active-the-worlds-first-wearable-dehumidifier.

About Dry-Active Technologies

Dry-Active Technologies is the world's first wearable dehumidifier that keeps active people more comfortable in their jackets. The patented system is lightweight, ergonomic and easy to use. Learn more about the company at http://www.dry-active.com.

Media Contact: Edward M. Yang, Email, 1-888-317-4687 ext 702

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CoolGames Brings Tetris® to Browsers With HTML5

AMSTERDAM, May 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

    CoolGames, the world's leading HTML5 games publisher, today announced that it has
released Tetris(R) Twist, a new take on one of the most addictive and recognizable video
games of all time. The all-new Tetris Twist brings a world of new levels and game
mechanics to Internet browsers using HTML5 technology.

    Tetris Twist is free to play and currently offers 100 levels of gameplay, including
multiple levels that players can unlock which will then take them through various cities.
Among these are New York, Tokyo, London, Paris, and Amsterdam, with more cities to be
added continuously to provide game fans with an endless path of new levels and challenges.
Tetris Twist also features new innovative mechanics, such as Gravity mode, where
Tetriminos rise "up" instead of falling "down", Hourglass mode, in which Tetriminos are
mixed-up, like you would see in an hour glass, and Score Cells mode, where select cells in
the Matrix must be filled with Tetriminos to receive extra bonus points.

    Laurens Rutten, founder and CEO of CoolGames comments, "With Flash about to disappear
soon, HTML5 is now one of the fastest growing games technologies worldwide, and we
couldn't have wished for a better or more popular game IP in our catalogue than Tetris."

    Maya Rogers, President and CEO of Blue Planet Software, sole agent for the Tetris
brand adds, "We are continuously working to bring fun, unique experiences to Tetris fans
across the globe, and the introduction of Tetris Twist is a great new addition to our
growing lineup of Tetris branded games."

    Tetris(R) Twist was developed by the CoolGames Studio in Amsterdam, and is available
for desktop browsers globally, as well as for tablet and smartphone browsers in Japan.
While Yahoo! Japan will serve as the worldwide launch partner, Tetris Twist will also be
distributed by key channels such as Miniclip and Spil Games. Tetris Twist is available to
play now at CoolGames (http://www.coolgames.com)

    About CoolGames

    CoolGames is the first specialized HTML5 casual games publishing company in the world.
It publishes HTML5 games via hundreds of distribution channels worldwide, including many
leading game websites and media brands. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, with satellite offices in Tokyo and San Francisco.
CoolGames has published hundreds of HTML5 casual games of which dozens are developed by
its in-house HTML5 specialist game studio. For more information about CoolGames, please
visit http://www.coolgames.com.

    About the Tetris(R) Brand

    The Tetris(R) brand is one of the leading and most distinctive video game brands and
franchises in the world, with over half a billion mobile downloads and billions of games
played online per year. In the game's 32-year history, hundreds of millions of players
have experienced the Tetris Effect. Tetris is loved globally by people of all ages and all
cultures.
Working with Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Sega, and many others, the Tetris game continues to
be one of the most widely recognized video games of all time. Tetris Holding, LLC is the
owner of Tetris rights worldwide and The Tetris Company, LLC is its exclusive licensee.
For the latest information about the Tetris brand and Tetris products, please visit
http://www.tetris.com.

    Become a fan of Tetris on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/Tetris
[https://www.facebook.com/Tetris ]) and follow Tetris on Twitter (@Tetris_Official
[https://twitter.com/Tetris_Official ]) and Instagram (@Tetris_Official
[https://www.instagram.com/tetris_official ]).

CoolGames

CONTACT: Laurens Rutten, CoolGames, Laurens.rutten@coolgames.com Andrea Piotraszewski,  Zebra Partners (on behalf of Tetris), 206-910-7606, andrea@zebrapartners.net

Microsemi Announces RTG4 PROTO FPGAs to Enable Lower Cost Prototyping and Design Validation for High-Speed Radiation-Tolerant FPGAs

Timing and Functionality of Prototype Devices is Identical to Space Flight Models

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., May 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today announced the availability of its RTG4(TM) PROTO field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The devices, developed specifically to enable prototyping of space systems, enable lower cost prototyping and design validation activities for the latest radiation-tolerant high-speed FPGAs. The RTG4 PROTO FPGAs are also the only reprogrammable prototyping solution of their kind providing the same timing and power characteristics as space flight units.

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"Our new RTG4 PROTO FPGAs continue Microsemi's legacy of providing leading capabilities to the space industry, as the devices use the same silicon and packaging as flight model FPGAs without completing flight model tests, reducing costs for our customers," said Minh Nguyen, senior marketing manager, space and aviation, at Microsemi. "We maintain our commitment to providing additional cost-effective prototyping solutions, enabling highly complex applications, to help customers evaluate and design with our latest technologies."

Microsemi's new RTG4 PROTO FPGAs enable easy hardware timing verification, as well as power evaluation. As the devices use the same reprogrammable flash technology as flight units, they can be reprogrammed multiple times without being removed from the development board. Catering to the requirements of space system designers who must design for the harsh environment beyond earth's atmosphere, the RTG4 PROTO FPGAs are electrically tested to ensure reliable performance over full military temperature ranges and are offered in non-hermetic, ceramic packages.

According to Euroconsult's 2015 report titled, "Satellites to Be Built and Launched by 2024," 60 percent more satellites will be launched by 2024 versus the past decade. This increase is driven primarily by civilian government agencies as established space countries replace and expand their in-orbit satellite systems and more countries acquire their first operational satellite systems.

In addition to satellite applications, Microsemi's RTG4 FPGAs are ideal for space launch vehicles, planetary orbiters and landers, and deep space probes. Target customers include designers, program managers, system architects and component engineers serving the space market.

The company's RTG4 FPGAs, launched in 2015, bring new capabilities to the space market and help solve satellite signal processing congestion, among other challenges common within space applications. Microsemi's solutions provide designers of space-flight systems with a prototyping vehicle for every step of the design phase, ranging from cost-effective commercial-equivalent devices to its new radiation-tolerant PROTO devices. These PROTO FPGAs will be used in future RTG4 development kits, providing space designers a comprehensive evaluation and design platform.

Product Availability
Microsemi's RTG4 PROTO FPGAs are available now. For more information, visit http://www.microsemi.com/products/fpga-soc/radtolerant-fpgas/prototyping-solutions and http://www.microsemi.com/document-portal/doc_download/135422-rt-proto-fpga-description, or contact sales.support@microsemi.com.

About Microsemi's RTG4 FPGAs
RTG4 FPGAs bring new capabilities to the market and combine a wealth of features with the highest quality and reliability to meet the increasing demands of modern satellite payloads. The devices feature reprogrammable flash configuration, making prototyping easier for customers. RTG4's reprogrammable flash technology offers complete immunity to radiation-induced configuration upsets in the harshest radiation environments, without the configuration scrubbing required with SRAM FPGA technology. RTG4 supports space applications requiring up to 150,000 logic elements and up to 300 MHz of system performance. RTG4 is Microsemi's latest development in a long history of radiation-tolerant FPGAs that are found in many NASA and international space programs. For more information, visit http://www.microsemi.com/products/fpga-soc/radtolerant-fpgas/rtg4.

Microsemi Leading Space Innovation for More than Half a Century
With one of the industry's most comprehensive portfolios of space products, Microsemi provides radiation-tolerant field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), rad-hard mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs), radiation-hardened DC-to-DC converters, precision time and frequency solutions, linear and POL hybrids, custom hybrid solutions, and rad-hard discretes including the broadest portfolio of JANS Class diodes and bipolar products. Microsemi is committed to supporting its products throughout the lifetime of its customer programs. The company continues to innovate and expand its portfolio, most recently adding its new LX7730 radiation-tolerant telemetry controller IC providing key functions for sensor monitoring, attitude and payload control, as well as its RTG4(TM) high-speed signal processing radiation-tolerant FPGA family. The RTG4's reprogrammable flash technology offers complete immunity to radiation-induced configuration upsets in the harshest radiation environments, requiring no configuration scrubbing, unlike SRAM FPGA technology. For more information about Microsemi's space products, visit http://www.microsemi.com/applications/space.

About Microsemi
Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC) offers a comprehensive portfolio of semiconductor and system solutions for aerospace & defense, communications, data center and industrial markets. Products include high-performance and radiation-hardened analog mixed-signal integrated circuits, FPGAs, SoCs and ASICs; power management products; timing and synchronization devices and precise time solutions, setting the world's standard for time; voice processing devices; RF solutions; discrete components; enterprise storage and communication solutions, security technologies and scalable anti-tamper products; Ethernet solutions; Power-over-Ethernet ICs and midspans; as well as custom design capabilities and services. Microsemi is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, Calif., and has approximately 4,800 employees globally. Learn more at http://www.microsemi.com.

Microsemi and the Microsemi logo are registered trademarks or service marks of Microsemi Corporation and/or its affiliates. Third-party trademarks and service marks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Any statements set forth in this news release that are not entirely historical and factual in nature, including without limitation statements related to the availability of its RTG4 PROTO field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and its potential effects on future business, are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations and are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements. The potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, such factors as rapidly changing technology and product obsolescence, potential cost increases, variations in customer order preferences, weakness or competitive pricing environment of the marketplace, uncertain demand for and acceptance of the company's products, adverse circumstances in any of our end markets, results of in-process or planned development or marketing and promotional campaigns, difficulties foreseeing future demand, potential non-realization of expected orders or non-realization of backlog, product returns, product liability, and other potential unexpected business and economic conditions or adverse changes in current or expected industry conditions, difficulties and costs of protecting patents and other proprietary rights, inventory obsolescence and difficulties regarding customer qualification of products. In addition to these factors and any other factors mentioned elsewhere in this news release, the reader should refer as well to the factors, uncertainties or risks identified in the company's most recent Form 10-K and all subsequent Form 10-Q reports filed by Microsemi with the SEC. Additional risk factors may be identified from time to time in Microsemi's future filings. The forward-looking statements included in this release speak only as of the date hereof, and Microsemi does not undertake any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.

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CONTACT: Farhad Mafie, VP Worldwide Product Marketing, 949-356-2399 OR Beth P. Quezada, Director, Corporate Communications, 949-380-6102, press@microsemi.com

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

IDT's Latest Broadband RF Switches Deliver Industry-Leading Isolation and Power Handling While Maintaining Low Insertion Loss

Drop-In Compatible with GaAs Switches, IDT's 50 to 8000 MHz Broad Bandwidth, 50 Ohm Absorptive SPDT Switches Offer an Unparalleled Combination of RF Specs

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT) (NASDAQ: IDTI), today introduced two high-isolation, low-loss, high linearity broad band RF switches for a wide variety of applications. Operating at 50 to 8000 MHz, the IDT® F2932 and F2933 are silicon-based, low-distortion 50-ohm single-pole, double-throw (SPDT) switches. With industry-standard 4x4mm 16-pin QFN packages and drop-in compatible footprints and control, their rich combination of specs make the devices ideal for communications and public safety systems, radar and general purpose switching.

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At 4 GHz the F2932 and F2933 deliver:

    --  high isolation of 66dB
    --  low distortion of 64dBm IIP3 @ 15dBm tones, 1MHz channel spacing
    --  insertion loss of 0.93 dB
    --  P1dB of >35dBm
The inherent benefits over most competitive products, particularly when compared to typical GaAs-based switches, are:

    --  better RF performance
    --  greater reliability
    --  easier integration
    --  lower total solution cost
"These two new devices offer one of the industry's highest isolation values, and when combined with their low distortion and low insertion loss they provide superior performance for many different high-isolation applications," said Chris Stephens, general manager of IDT's RF division.  "These switches represent the latest way IDT is helping engineers meet the demanding requirements of today's RF designs."

F2932 and F2933 offer similar RF performance, pin out and control, with the F2932 having an additional Enable/Disable feature allowing all RF paths to be put into an off state and disabling the VCTL feature.

About IDT RF Products

IDT offers high-performance and full-featured radio frequency (RF) products that deliver exceptional performance in compact packages. All IDT RF signal path devices are silicon based, offering inherent advantages over GaAs-based products. The portfolio includes RF mixers, RF and IF variable gain amplifiers (VGA), digital step attenuators (DSA), demodulators, broadband modulators, RF switches, and wideband voltage variable attenuators. IDT's RF devices are ideal for use in such products as cellular 4G base stations, broadband repeaters, distributed antenna systems and microwave backhaul equipment.

About IDT

Integrated Device Technology, Inc. develops system-level solutions that optimize its customers' applications. IDT's market-leading products in RF, timing, wireless power transfer, serial switching, interfaces and sensing solutions are among the company's broad array of complete mixed-signal solutions for the communications, computing, consumer, automotive and industrial segments. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., IDT has design, manufacturing, sales facilities and distribution partners throughout the world. IDT stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Stock Market® under the symbol "IDTI." Additional information about IDT is accessible at http://www.IDT.com. Follow IDT on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and Google+.

© 2016, IDT. IDT and the IDT logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Integrated Device Technology, Inc., or its wholly-owned subsidiaries around the world. All other brands, product names and marks are or may be trademarks or registered trademarks used to identify products or services of their respective owners.

IDT Press Contact:

Dean Solov

Public Relations Manager

Phone: (408) 284-2608

E-mail: dean.solov@idt.com

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Virtual Press Office Exhibitor Profiles: SID Display Week 2016

SID Display Week 2016 is in San Francisco from May 22-27

NEW YORK, May 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The following event roundup from Virtual Press Office is a list of featured exhibitors for SID Display Week 2016, the premier international event for the electronic display industry, which takes place from May 22-27 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California.

SID Display Week 2016 press kits, news releases and photos are available on the Official Online Press Office, managed by Virtual Press Office/PR Newswire: http://sid.vporoom.com/

SID Display Week 2016 press kits on Virtual Press Office

E Ink
Booth #521
For more information, visit eink.com.

Fujitsu Components America Inc.
Booth #1347
For more information, visit us.fujitsu.com/components.

Nanosys Inc.
Booth #1329
For more information, visit nanosysinc.com.

Tianma NLT USA, Inc.
Booth #905
Tianma NLT USA, Inc.(TNU) A leading provider of small to medium size display solutions to the Americas, utilizing cutting edge technologies from Tianma Micro-electronics and NLT Technologies Ltd., coupled with state-of-the-art manufacturing resources of the Tianma Group,  TNU offers a comprehensive range of Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) products and associated technologies.  Products include passive character and monochrome, a-Si and LTPS-TFT LCD, as well as AMOLED products with standard product sizes ranging from 1-inch to 21.3-inch and resolutions from QVGA to QSXGA for standard 4:3 aspect and from WQVGA to HD for wide aspect. macrovis.net/tianma2016/ 

The above press kits will continue to be updated throughout the show. Please check back during SID Display Week 2016 for the latest news.

Virtual Press Office (http://www.vporoom.com/) is a PR Newswire company. Follow us on Twitter @VPOEventZone or subscribe to our RSS feed for more trade show news. If you have questions about Virtual Press Office services, or if you would like to offer feedback on this exhibitor profile roundup, please email sales@vpoinc.com.

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'Build Your Own Laptop' Pi-Top Kit Now In Stock at RS Components

Innovative pi-top development kit extends the functionality of the Raspberry Pi board to provide the ideal platform for makers and educators

SINGAPORE, May 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), the global distributor for engineers, has announced that it is extending its portfolio of high-quality processor board development kits with the addition of the competitively priced pi-top 'build your own laptop' kit, which offers opportunities in the maker and educational arena helping users to 'learn, play and create'. pi-top has now scaled up production of its crowd-funded kit, enabling RS to offer it for the first time.

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The pi-top concept is essentially a Raspberry Pi powered laptop that is ideal for students to learn about programming, computing and hardware creation including electronics fabrication. It also teaches students transferable skills that will help them to create their own hacker and maker hardware projects. With no need for a soldering iron, the pi-top concept allows users to quickly start to experiment with electronics, create PCBs and produce 3D printing projects such as a pi-top case. This is facilitated through step-by-step online tutorials and lesson plans, and provides for collaborative learning and sharing with others in a cloud-based learning model.

The kit allows the building of a customised laptop with the addition of a Raspberry Pi board to provide the computing power. The kit comprises: a 13.3-inch HD LCD screen with eDP interface and 1366 x 768 resolution; a smart battery with more than 10 hours run time; a two-Wire SMBus V2.0 interface; a trackpad and fully programmable keyboard; an 8GB SD card with pre-installed pi-topOS; power supply; acrylic slice; and an image-based build manual.

The pi-top comes bundled with pi-topOS -- the pi-top maker-based operating system -- and other engaging educational software. The OS makes it easy to connect to Wi-Fi, monitor battery life and also personalise the OS. Also included on pi-topOS is CEEDUniverse, a game that teaches users how to code, build circuits and make hardware with their Raspberry Pi. Other features include: pi-topDASHBOARD - a real time code editor and lesson plan guide, which will have over 100 hours of tutorial content by summer 2016; kit component guide; plus all the features on Raspbian and other software including Python, Scratch, and Microsoft Office compatible software suite (Minecraft, Libre Writer, Libre Impress, and Libre Calc, Chromium, and 3D Slash).

The pi-top has been designed to be upgradeable and will work with all current and future versions of the Raspberry Pi. It is easy to swap out older boards for newer ones when released, meaning that users can upgrade their pi-top laptop for the price of a new Pi board. The pi-top laptop design was initially developed using the DesignSpark PCB and DesignSpark Mechanical design tools from RS. In particular, the use of DesignSpark PCB helped pi-top overcome the challenge of enabling the Raspberry Pi to use a 13.3inch high-definition laptop screen.

The pi-top is shipped from RS in grey and green variants with UK, EU and US power supply options available.

About RS Components

RS Components and Allied Electronics are the trading brands of Electrocomponents plc, the global distributor for engineers. With operations in 32 countries, we offer more than 500,000 products through the internet, catalogues and at trade counters to over one million customers, shipping around 44,000 parcels a day. Our products, sourced from 2,500 leading suppliers, include electronic components, electrical, automation and control, and test and measurement equipment, and engineering tools and consumables.

Electrocomponents is listed on the London Stock Exchange and in the last financial year ended 31 March 2015 had revenues of GBP1.27bn.

For more information, please visit the website at http://sg.rs-online.com/web/.

Editorial Contacts:                                                             

Vivian Zee
Public Relations & Advertising Manager
RS Components
vivian.zee@rs-components.com
+852 2610 6472

Matthew Keefe
Customer Marketing Manager
RS Components
matthew.keefe@rs-components.com
+852 2610 6476

Further information is available via these links:

Twitter: @RSComponents; @alliedelec; @designsparkRS

RS Components on Linkedin
http://www.linkedin.com/company/rs-components

Relevant Links:

Electrocomponents plc
http://www.electrocomponents.com

RS Components
http://www.rs-online.com

DesignSpark
http://www.designspark.com

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'Build Your Own Laptop' Pi-Top Kit Now In Stock at RS Components

Innovative pi-top development kit extends the functionality of the Raspberry Pi board to provide the ideal platform for makers and educators

HONG KONG, May 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), the global distributor for engineers, has announced that it is extending its portfolio of high-quality processor board development kits with the addition of the competitively priced pi-top 'build your own laptop' kit, which offers opportunities in the maker and educational arena helping users to 'learn, play and create'. pi-top has now scaled up production of its crowd-funded kit, enabling RS to offer it for the first time.

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The pi-top concept is essentially a Raspberry Pi powered laptop that is ideal for students to learn about programming, computing and hardware creation including electronics fabrication. It also teaches students transferable skills that will help them to create their own hacker and maker hardware projects. With no need for a soldering iron, the pi-top concept allows users to quickly start to experiment with electronics, create PCBs and produce 3D printing projects such as a pi-top case. This is facilitated through step-by-step online tutorials and lesson plans, and provides for collaborative learning and sharing with others in a cloud-based learning model.

The kit allows the building of a customised laptop with the addition of a Raspberry Pi board to provide the computing power. The kit comprises: a 13.3-inch HD LCD screen with eDP interface and 1366 x 768 resolution; a smart battery with more than 10 hours run time; a two-Wire SMBus V2.0 interface; a trackpad and fully programmable keyboard; an 8GB SD card with pre-installed pi-topOS; power supply; acrylic slice; and an image-based build manual.

The pi-top comes bundled with pi-topOS -- the pi-top maker-based operating system -- and other engaging educational software. The OS makes it easy to connect to Wi-Fi, monitor battery life and also personalise the OS. Also included on pi-topOS is CEEDUniverse, a game that teaches users how to code, build circuits and make hardware with their Raspberry Pi. Other features include: pi-topDASHBOARD - a real time code editor and lesson plan guide, which will have over 100 hours of tutorial content by summer 2016; kit component guide; plus all the features on Raspbian and other software including Python, Scratch, and Microsoft Office compatible software suite (Minecraft, Libre Writer, Libre Impress, and Libre Calc, Chromium, and 3D Slash).

The pi-top has been designed to be upgradeable and will work with all current and future versions of the Raspberry Pi. It is easy to swap out older boards for newer ones when released, meaning that users can upgrade their pi-top laptop for the price of a new Pi board. The pi-top laptop design was initially developed using the DesignSpark PCB and DesignSpark Mechanical design tools from RS. In particular, the use of DesignSpark PCB helped pi-top overcome the challenge of enabling the Raspberry Pi to use a 13.3inch high-definition laptop screen.

The pi-top is shipped from RS in grey and green variants with UK, EU and US power supply options available.

About RS Components

RS Components and Allied Electronics are the trading brands of Electrocomponents plc, the global distributor for engineers. With operations in 32 countries, we offer more than 500,000 products through the internet, catalogues and at trade counters to over one million customers, shipping around 44,000 parcels a day. Our products, sourced from 2,500 leading suppliers, include electronic components, electrical, automation and control, and test and measurement equipment, and engineering tools and consumables.

Electrocomponents is listed on the London Stock Exchange and in the last financial year ended 31 March 2015 had revenues of GBP1.27bn.

For more information, please visit the website at http://www.hken.rs-online.com.

Editorial Contacts:                                                             

Vivian Zee
Public Relations & Advertising Manager
RS Components
vivian.zee@rs-components.com
+852 2610 6472

Matthew Keefe
Customer Marketing Manager
RS Components
matthew.keefe@rs-components.com
+852 2610 6476

Further information is available via these links:

Twitter: @RSComponents; @alliedelec; @designsparkRS

RS Components on Linkedin
http://www.linkedin.com/company/rs-components

Relevant Links:

Electrocomponents plc
http://www.electrocomponents.com

RS Components
http://www.rs-online.com

DesignSpark
http://www.designspark.com

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'Build Your Own Laptop' Pi-Top Kit Now In Stock at RS Components

Innovative pi-top development kit extends the functionality of the Raspberry Pi board to provide the ideal platform for makers and educators

BEIJING, May 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), the global distributor for engineers, has announced that it is extending its portfolio of high-quality processor board development kits with the addition of the competitively priced pi-top 'build your own laptop' kit, which offers opportunities in the maker and educational arena helping users to 'learn, play and create'. pi-top has now scaled up production of its crowd-funded kit, enabling RS to offer it for the first time.

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The pi-top concept is essentially a Raspberry Pi powered laptop that is ideal for students to learn about programming, computing and hardware creation including electronics fabrication. It also teaches students transferable skills that will help them to create their own hacker and maker hardware projects. With no need for a soldering iron, the pi-top concept allows users to quickly start to experiment with electronics, create PCBs and produce 3D printing projects such as a pi-top case. This is facilitated through step-by-step online tutorials and lesson plans, and provides for collaborative learning and sharing with others in a cloud-based learning model.

The kit allows the building of a customised laptop with the addition of a Raspberry Pi board to provide the computing power. The kit comprises: a 13.3-inch HD LCD screen with eDP interface and 1366 x 768 resolution; a smart battery with more than 10 hours run time; a two-Wire SMBus V2.0 interface; a trackpad and fully programmable keyboard; an 8GB SD card with pre-installed pi-topOS; power supply; acrylic slice; and an image-based build manual.

The pi-top comes bundled with pi-topOS -- the pi-top maker-based operating system -- and other engaging educational software. The OS makes it easy to connect to Wi-Fi, monitor battery life and also personalise the OS. Also included on pi-topOS is CEEDUniverse, a game that teaches users how to code, build circuits and make hardware with their Raspberry Pi. Other features include: pi-topDASHBOARD - a real time code editor and lesson plan guide, which will have over 100 hours of tutorial content by summer 2016; kit component guide; plus all the features on Raspbian and other software including Python, Scratch, and Microsoft Office compatible software suite (Minecraft, Libre Writer, Libre Impress, and Libre Calc, Chromium, and 3D Slash).

The pi-top has been designed to be upgradeable and will work with all current and future versions of the Raspberry Pi. It is easy to swap out older boards for newer ones when released, meaning that users can upgrade their pi-top laptop for the price of a new Pi board. The pi-top laptop design was initially developed using the DesignSpark PCB and DesignSpark Mechanical design tools from RS. In particular, the use of DesignSpark PCB helped pi-top overcome the challenge of enabling the Raspberry Pi to use a 13.3inch high-definition laptop screen.

The pi-top is shipped from RS in grey and green variants with UK, EU and US power supply options available.

About RS Components

RS Components and Allied Electronics are the trading brands of Electrocomponents plc, the global distributor for engineers. With operations in 32 countries, we offer more than 500,000 products through the internet, catalogues and at trade counters to over one million customers, shipping around 44,000 parcels a day. Our products, sourced from 2,500 leading suppliers, include electronic components, electrical, automation and control, and test and measurement equipment, and engineering tools and consumables.

Electrocomponents is listed on the London Stock Exchange and in the last financial year ended 31 March 2015 had revenues of GBP1.27bn.

For more information, please visit the website at http://www.china.rs-online.com.

Editorial Contacts:                                                             

Vivian Zee
Public Relations & Advertising Manager
RS Components
vivian.zee@rs-components.com
+852 2610 6472

Matthew Keefe
Customer Marketing Manager
RS Components
matthew.keefe@rs-components.com
+852 2610 6476

Further information is available via these links:

Twitter: @RSComponents; @alliedelec; @designsparkRS

RS Components on Linkedin
http://www.linkedin.com/company/rs-components

Relevant Links:

Electrocomponents plc
http://www.electrocomponents.com

RS Components
http://www.rs-online.com

DesignSpark
http://www.designspark.com

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GoPlayr Claims to Have Built the One-stop Sporting and Fitness Solution for all

PUNE, India, May 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

    GoPlayr Could be the Face of Indian Sports Industry  

    Life is empty without passion. We're passionate about sports. With a small team of
developers, GoPlayr rose from nothing to a full-fledged sports community, where users can
find their play buddies, see matches happening around, request to join matches, host their
own match, build their sporting portfolio, rate each others sports skills, rent venues,
find trainers or coaches, subscribe membership etc. GoPlayr [https://www.goplayr.com ]
wants to be one stop sporting solution for everyone, encourage sporting for everyone. Here
are some of the benefits for users:

    How a user is benefitted: 

    "We believe there is a huge gap between people interested in sports and people
participating in sports. Our aim is to bridge this gap by facilitating easy access to
sporting resources at fingertips, in return we promise a healthy lifestyle for all. We
have something to benefit from, for everyone," said R.D. Shwetang, Founder and CEO,
GoPlayr.

    For Sports Enthusiasts: 

    With the help of GoPlayr app, a user can connect to another user, who has similar
sporting interest and time availability. For example, if a user wishes to play badminton
and is unable to find another player nearby, then this app is really useful. The user just
has to install this app in his smartphone and choose badminton as one of his interested
sports in My Sports tab, and then can start seeing all badminton matches happening nearby
and badminton players.

    After login, the user can use all the features of this excellent app. Users have to
ensure that the location or GPS functionality is enabled in their smartphone so that
suggestions can be given depending upon their exact location. With the help of this app,
users can invite other players based upon their sports skill and availability and also
host matches as well. They can also make a portfolio for themselves, depending upon the
game they play and rate other player's sporting skills.

    For Coaches or Trainers: 

    This app provides excellent opportunity for coaches or trainers to showcase their
skills to the world. They just need to register and login to the app. While registering
they need to enter some details such as name, email-id, contact number, city, etc. Sports
enthusiasts can  easily connect to the trainers in no time with this app.

    Profitable for Sports Clubs:

    The app is helpful for a sports club owner as it provides SAAS (Software as a Service)
to venue owners with a wide variety of features. A sports club owner can manage batches
and club membership, while at the same time he can maintain trainer's profile and keep a
track of payment packages as well. SAAS is no doubt one of the best way to offer cheap and
affordable software solution and company is making good use of it.

    For Companies and Corporates: 

    Inactive employees? GoPlayr brings the fun to work. GoPlayr organizes on demand
sporting activities for employees, Intra and Inter company. Companies and corportes can
make arrangements to organize a sporting event for their employees by filling a simple
form here [https://www.goplayr.com/Pages/tournament ].

    Ideal for Staying Fit: 

    This app is useful for any person who wishes to stay fit by playing sport or by doing
any other activity that gives health benefits. In fact it's suitable for people of all age
groups irrespective of their caste, creed or religion. This app covers gamut of activities
including all kind of sports and other activities such as yoga, adventure sports and even
PC gaming. In this regard, the company has made sure that no activity is missed out.

    GoPlayr App Specifications: 

    As of now GoPlayr is available on Android and web platform, but the company is working
on versions supporting iOS (Apple) operating system. The app can be downloaded from the
link provided below or from the Google Play Store. The current version of the app as of
today is 1.2.11 and its size is around 10 MB. The users can download and install this app
in their smartphone and can login using your Facebook or Google.

    The GoPlayr app can be downloaded for free here
[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dl.goplayr ].

    You can read more about sporting tips and tricks at GoPlayr blog here
[https://www.goplayr.com/app/webroot/blog ].

    Watch the YouTube video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nno5r9ApCHk
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nno5r9ApCHk ]     

    About GoPlayr:

    GoPlayr is India's first one-stop sporting solution by DribbleLogics Systems Private
Limited, which provides on-demand sporting services like sporting activities for
corporates. GoPlayr aims to be the preferred outdoor activity partner of individual and
corporates.

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

       
         
        Media Contact: 
        R. D. Shwetang 
        s@goplayr.com 
        hello@goplayr.com 
        +91-9611360801, +91-2065304077 
        Founder and CEO, GoPlayr 

     

DribbleLogics Systems Pvt. Ltd. (GoPlayr)

Beepsend Announces New Viber API Integration

MALMÖ, Sweden, May 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

    - Enterprises can now reach their customers on Viber using the Beepsend Messaging API

    Beepsend AB, a market leader in enterprise SMS messaging services known as Application
to Person (A2P) SMS messaging, is now working together with Viber, enabling businesses to
communicate with their customers on Viber's world leading messaging app. By integrating
Viber's Service Messages API with Beepsend's cloud-based innovative REST API, this joint
effort provides a secure and seamless experience for companies to engage their customers
worldwide using their phone number.

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    "We are happy to extend our existing SMS-offering with the ability to also reach
Viber's 760 million users globally. With Viber we can offer our customers the ability to
send rich content such as pictures and videos, enhancing their user experience. Combined
with our extensive SMS-coverage, our offering is now more comprehensive and competitive."
says Fredrik Knutsson, Director of Sales, Beepsend.

    OTT (over-the-top) messaging applications such as Viber seem to be driving a threefold
increase in messaging traffic which is forecast to double by 2019, as reported by Juniper
Research
[http://www.juniperresearch.com/document-library/white-papers/ott-a-threat-networks-cant-shake-off ]
. Beepsend sees the collaboration with Viber as an opportunity to improve global
communication and provide businesses with an opportunity to engage their customers in
another channel.

    Beepsend reported [https://www.beepsend.com/2016/01/26/a2p-sms-growth ] earlier this
year that a strong demand for A2P SMS fueled a revenue growth of 25 percent for their
Enterprise segment. This growth is primarily due to companies realizing the value of SMS
as a simple, fast and secure communication platform as shown here
[https://www.beepsend.com/2015/09/30/sms-mobile-marketing ]. 90% of people read an SMS
message within the first 3 minutes of receiving it. And, with an open rate of 98% as
opposed to 22% for emails, SMS is a reliable channel for companies such as Google and
Facebook sending critical messages like Two-Factor Authentication (2FA). Beepsend's
cloud-based SMS API is also used for banking, security and fraud, bookings, notifications,
confirmations, marketing and increasing Net Promoter Score (NPS) for surveys using 2-Way
SMS.

    About Beepsend:  

    Beepsend is a Swedish mobile operator and a market leading global SMS messaging
supplier with over 10 years of industry experience. An active member of GSMA, they paved
the way for an amended AA.60 agreement simplifying the setup of operator relations. In
2015, Beepsend was ranked Top 10 Leading A2P SMS Provider Globally by ROCCO and was
awarded Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 in Sweden in 2014 and EMEA Fast 500 in 2013.

    For more information, please visit http://www.beepsend.com

       
         
        Contact:

         
        Beepsend  

         
        Susan Stjernberger 
        +46-76-000-5631 
        susan@beepsend.com 

     

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RAPT Touch Introduces 'SOLAS(TM)' Multi-Touch Software Platform For All Interactive Screen Sizes

RAPT TO DEMONSTRATE SOLAS(TM) AND 2nd GENERATION REFERENCE DESIGNS AT COMPUTEX AND INFOCOMM TRADE SHOWS.

DUBLIN and SAN MATEO, Calif., May 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, RAPT Touch introduced the SOLAS(TM) software platform.  SOLAS(TM) provides developers with the platform necessary to work seamlessly with the RAPT 2(nd) Generation Reference Designs.  With SOLAS(TM), customers have the ability to fully customize and enhance the experience of RAPT enabled products.  SOLAS(TM) adds to the growing portfolio of RAPT Touch products, already boasting the OPTEO(TM) Chipset, all of which are based on RAPT's patented 'Frustrated Total Internal Reflection' (FTIR) multi-touch technology.

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"Our customers recognize the multitude of opportunities to develop new and breakthrough interactive experiences with the RAPT Technology," said Cathal Phelan, chief executive officer at RAPT.  "With SOLAS(TM), Developers are provided with a level of control and precision never experienced before in projected capacitive touch technologies.  Unique end-user features of RAPT'S Technology, most notably stylus and pressure recognition, are leading to entirely new applications which invigorate the market for interactive products."

The software tools available with SOLAS(TM) enhance the value proposition of RAPT's Technology:

    --  'Off-the-shelf' Components
    --  'Flush-finish' Designs
    --  Extreme Low Latency
    --  Pressure Recognition
    --  No Special Layers
    --  Ease in Manufacturing
    --  Low Cost Basis
RAPT will demonstrate SOLAS(TM) and its 2(nd) Generation Reference Designs at Computex Taipei May 31 - June 2 and Infocomm Las Vegas June 8-10.

Established in 2008 by Owen Drumm and Gerry Giblin, RAPT's patented FTIR multi-touch technology is the only alternative to projected capacitive systems. RAPT's technology provides new breakthrough features at a cost which enables OEMs to sell in mass volume.  RAPT provides OEMs with the tools to integrate RAPT's technology into their products and enables OEMs to work with their existing ODMs or Contract Manufacturers to build touch kits.  RAPT is not a manufacturer.

About RAPT (http://www.rapttouch.com)

RAPT is the leading provider of alternative multi-touch reference designs and software for Global Consumer OEMs and Systems Integrators. The RAPT technology is widely accepted today as the best solution for large screen format and will be adopted in smaller screen sizes over time. RAPT is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland and led by a world-class team of industry veterans with expertise in launching products which can be manufactured in the millions of units.  Besides Dublin, RAPT has offices in Silicon Valley, Taiwan and Switzerland.

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CONTACT: Mark Anderson, SVP Sales and Marketing, mark@rapttouch.com

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

RAPT Touch Introduces 'SOLAS(TM)' Multi-Touch Software Platform For All Interactive Screen Sizes

RAPT TO DEMONSTRATE SOLAS(TM) AND 2nd GENERATION REFERENCE DESIGNS AT COMPUTEX AND INFOCOMM TRADE SHOWS.

DUBLIN and SAN MATEO, Calif., May 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, RAPT Touch introduced the SOLAS(TM) software platform.  SOLAS(TM) provides developers with the platform necessary to work seamlessly with the RAPT 2(nd) Generation Reference Designs.  With SOLAS(TM), customers have the ability to fully customize and enhance the experience of RAPT enabled products.  SOLAS(TM) adds to the growing portfolio of RAPT Touch products, already boasting the OPTEO(TM) Chipset, all of which are based on RAPT's patented 'Frustrated Total Internal Reflection' (FTIR) multi-touch technology.

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"Our customers recognize the multitude of opportunities to develop new and breakthrough interactive experiences with the RAPT Technology," said Cathal Phelan, chief executive officer at RAPT.  "With SOLAS(TM), Developers are provided with a level of control and precision never experienced before in projected capacitive touch technologies.  Unique end-user features of RAPT'S Technology, most notably stylus and pressure recognition, are leading to entirely new applications which invigorate the market for interactive products."

The software tools available with SOLAS(TM) enhance the value proposition of RAPT's Technology:

    --  'Off-the-shelf' Components
    --  'Flush-finish' Designs
    --  Extreme Low Latency
    --  Pressure Recognition
    --  No Special Layers
    --  Ease in Manufacturing
    --  Low Cost Basis
RAPT will demonstrate SOLAS(TM) and its 2(nd) Generation Reference Designs at Computex Taipei May 31 - June 2 and Infocomm Las Vegas June 8-10.

Established in 2008 by Owen Drumm and Gerry Giblin, RAPT's patented FTIR multi-touch technology is the only alternative to projected capacitive systems. RAPT's technology provides new breakthrough features at a cost which enables OEMs to sell in mass volume.  RAPT provides OEMs with the tools to integrate RAPT's technology into their products and enables OEMs to work with their existing ODMs or Contract Manufacturers to build touch kits.  RAPT is not a manufacturer.

About RAPT (http://www.rapttouch.com)

RAPT is the leading provider of alternative multi-touch reference designs and software for Global Consumer OEMs and Systems Integrators. The RAPT technology is widely accepted today as the best solution for large screen format and will be adopted in smaller screen sizes over time. RAPT is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland and led by a world-class team of industry veterans with expertise in launching products which can be manufactured in the millions of units.  Besides Dublin, RAPT has offices in Silicon Valley, Taiwan and Switzerland.

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CONTACT: Mark Anderson, SVP Sales and Marketing, mark@rapttouch.com

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

Pasternack Introduces their PE15A5025 GaN Power Amplifier Operating in the Popular 2 to 6 GHz Band

New 50 Watt GaN Power Amplifier with 47 dBm Psat and 50 dB Small Signal Gain Available from Pasternack

IRVINE, Calif., May 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Pasternack, a leading provider of RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, announces their new PE15A5025 50 Watt gallium nitride (GaN) coaxial power amplifier operating in the popular 2 to 6 GHz frequency band.  The compact and rugged design delivers high levels of output power and efficiency and has the advantage of high output load impedance that makes port matching easier over wider bandwidths using lower loss components. Applications for the PE15A5025 amplifier include commercial and military radar, jamming systems, medical imaging, wireless communications and electronic warfare.

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This GaN power amplifier from Pasternack offers 50 dB of small signal gain with a saturated output power level of +47 dBm typical and 30% power added efficiency (PAE). While generating 50 watts of saturated output power under worst case conditions, the output harmonic response is -15 dBc and spurious levels are kept at -70 dBc. The amplifier requires a +28 Vdc power supply and is unconditionally stable. Other desired features include integrated voltage regulation, bias sequencing circuitry, DC control TTL logic, DC current monitoring, and over temperature shutdown at +90°C baseplate temperature for added reliability.

The PE15A5025 amplifier uses female SMA input/output RF connectors and a 15 Pin Micro-D Female socket is used for DC, TTL blanking, and over current and temperature monitoring. The assembly operates over the temperature range of -40°C and +85°C and the rugged package is designed to withstand harsh military standard environmental test conditions that include humidity, altitude, shock and vibration. An external heatsink with fan for cooling (see PE15A5990) is recommended for this model.

"Pasternack's new PE15A5025 GaN power amplifier operates in the popular 2 to 6 GHz frequency band and offers leading edge performance for power and efficiency in a compact package that makes it an excellent choice for demanding applications," explains Tim Galla, Active RF Components Product Manager at Pasternack.

You can view Pasternack's new GaN power amplifier, PE15A5025, by visiting http://www.pasternack.com/6-ghz-medium-power-amplifier-sma-pe15a5025-p.aspx.

About Pasternack

A leader in RF products since 1972, Pasternack is an ISO 9001:2008 certified manufacturer and supplier offering the industry's largest selection of active and passive RF, microwave and millimeter wave products available for same-day shipping.

Press Contact:

Shaun Gameroz
Pasternack
17802 Fitch
Irvine, CA 92614
+1 (949) 261-1920

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Roush Media Upgrades SAN System with Infortrend Storage Solutions

4K, 6K+ and Higher Frame Rate (60P) Are "No Problem" Now!

TAIPEI, Taiwan, May 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Roush Media, an award-winning boutique post-production company providing finishing services for film and TV, upgraded its SAN system with Infortrend "EonStor DS 4000" storage systems to deliver the outstanding performance they needed to give artwork in 4K, 6K+, high frame rate (60P), and high dynamic range projects, impressive colors.

Specializing in dailies, digital intermediate color grading and digital cinema mastering, Roush Media needs to deal with a huge amount of data every day, and only the most modern and fastest storage systems can handle those requirements. Roush Media chose Infortrend EonStor DS 4000 storage systems with 16Gb/s Fibre Channel host board and Tiger Serve for its recently upgraded SAN environment.

Keith Roush, CEO at Roush Media Inc. said: "There are three important values delivered by Infortrend's solutions. First, the ability to increase the number of projects we work on at the same time. Second, we increased the speed of our work, which resulted in improved efficiency and savings for our clients and us. And the third is we have the ability to do work we could not do before with high frame rate, high dynamic range projects."

Keith Roush concluded "I found Infortrend EonStor DS 4000 Series to be exactly the perfect fit for our needs as a state of the art replacement to our old storage. It's fast and rock solid reliable. It provides top performance at a value price that cannot be beat."

Tony Chu, President of Infortrend Corporation commented: "Our Media and Entertainment storage solutions are renowned for their high performance and the ability to handle even the most demanding media workflows. We are happy to have been able to satisfy Roush Media's needs and wish them great success with their upgraded system."

For Roush Media's full success story, please click here. Or you can watch the YouTube testimony here.

About Roush Media

Roush Media is an award winning boutique post-production company providing finishing services for Film & TV. They specialize in Dailies, Digital Intermediate Color grading, and Digital Cinema Mastering, managing data and color workflows from acquisitions to delivery. For more information, click here: http://roush-media.com

About Infortrend

Infortrend (TWSE: 2495) has been developing and manufacturing storage solutions since 1993. With a strong emphasis on in-house design, testing, and manufacturing, Infortrend storage delivers performance and scalability with the latest standards, user friendly data services, personal after-sales support, and unrivaled value. For more information, please visit http://www.infortrend.com

Infortrend®, EonStor®, ESVA®, SANWatch®, and EonPath® are trademarks or registered trademarks of Infortrend Technology, Inc. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Infortrend Europe Ltd.
Agnieszka Wesolowska
Tel:+44-1256-305-220
E-mail:marketing.eu@infortrend.com

Infortrend Technology, Inc.

Web Site: http://roush-media.com

The Power of Android OS Brought to the Car Using Qualcomm Snapdragon Automotive Processors

-- Qualcomm Snapdragon 820A and 602A processors support new Google in-car platform demonstrated at Google I/O --

SAN DIEGO, May 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., is working with Google on an initiative bringing the power of Android OS embedded directly into the car. The initiative aims to help car makers create powerful infotainment systems using Android as a common platform, making it easier to add connected services and applications while delivering a safer and more intuitive driving experience. The goal is to accelerate innovation in the car with an approach that offers openness, customization, and scale.

The concept car functions demonstrated at Google I/O run on the Qualcomm® Snapdragon(TM) 820 Automotive processor for connected cars and infotainment. With its power-efficient custom-designed CPU, stunning GPU performance, lightning fast X12 LTE modem capable of Cat 12 speeds, and powerful video processing capabilities, the flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Automotive processor is empowering automakers with scalable solutions that are connected, smart and aware.

Car manufacturers, automotive suppliers and developers can create Android-powered infotainment solutions using Automotive Development Platforms (ADP) for Snapdragon 820A and Snapdragon 602A processors. The ADPs, available for purchase through Intrinsyc, will provide access to the platform for developing, testing, optimizing and showcasing next-generation infotainment solutions. Using this platform, OEMs, developers and system integrators can significantly reduce their software development time and risk and begin final production software qualification earlier.

"Google is committed to building Android into a platform that fuels innovation in the automotive space," said Patrick Brady, director of Android engineering, Google. "We are in close collaboration with industry leaders such as Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. to bring the best of Android into the automobile in a safe and seamless way. This initiative represents the next step in bringing the power of an open platform and rich ecosystem that enables car makers to create powerful infotainment systems designed for the digital age."

"Snapdragon Automotive processors, combined with Android, will enable the automotive ecosystem to create cutting-edge connected car and infotainment platforms," said Nakul Duggal, vice president, product management, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. "Android as the infotainment OS in the car will allow drivers and passengers to interact with their vehicles in new and exciting ways. We are pleased to be working with Google and the automotive ecosystem to usher in the next generation of in-car experiences."

Qualcomm Technologies and Google will be demonstrating the Android in-car concept powered by Snapdragon 820A processor in the Sandbox during Google I/O today through Friday, May 20(th).

About Qualcomm Incorporated
Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) is a world leader in 3G, 4G and next-generation wireless technologies. Qualcomm Incorporated includes Qualcomm's licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of its patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, substantially all of Qualcomm's engineering, research and development functions, and substantially all of its products and services businesses, including its semiconductor business, QCT. For more than 30 years, Qualcomm ideas and inventions have driven the evolution of digital communications, linking people everywhere more closely to information, entertainment and each other. For more information, visit Qualcomm's website, OnQ blog, Twitter and Facebook pages.

Qualcomm and Snapdragon are trademarks of Qualcomm Incorporated, registered in the United States and other countries. Qualcomm Snapdragon is a product of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Other product and brand names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Qualcomm Contacts:
Pete Lancia, Corporate Communications
Phone:  1-858-845-5959
Email:  corpcomm@qualcomm.com

Warren Kneeshaw, Investor Relations
Phone:  1-858-658-4813
Email:  ir@qualcomm.com

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Qualcomm Incorporated

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

Resolution Games Announces it is one of the First to Commit to Bringing Games to Daydream, Google's Platform for High Performance Mobile VR

Company's upcoming VR game, Wonderglade, to be a carnival-themed game anyone can enjoy

STOCKHOLM and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at Google I/O, virtual reality (VR) games studio Resolution Games announced it is one of the first developers committed to creating VR games for the launch of Daydream, Google's platform for high performance mobile VR. The integration aligns the two companies in an effort to push VR further towards mainstream adoption.

"With Daydream's potential reach and accessibility and the current mobile VR headsets on the market, mobile is on track to become the number one VR platform in regards to headsets in the marketplace and potential for mainstream adoption," said Resolution Games' CEO Tommy Palm. "We are very excited to have been invited to be a part of Google's new VR initiative. We feel we share the same vision for VR and are looking forward to working together to increase VR's spread into mainstream and setting additional standards for the future of VR."

Resolution Games also unveiled details about its upcoming title for Daydream, Wonderglade. The game invites players to explore a whole world of carnival-themed gameplay and will be family friendly and accessible so everyone can get in on the fun and revisit the wonders of new and familiar carnival games. Like Resolution Games' other VR games, Bait! and Solitaire Jester, the aim with Wonderglade is to provide the perfect content to introduce VR to those new to the platform, while also delivering the sort of compelling and quality gameplay that keeps the most avid gamer enticed for hours.

"We think Wonderglade will be an ideal component in helping Google reach mass market as a game everyone can enjoy and the perfect door-opener for those new to VR," added Palm. "Virtual Reality is something that everyone can enjoy. It is a far too important human discovery to be exclusive to a handful of gamers. The world needs interactive VR worlds that are intuitive, social and non violent."

About Resolution Games:
Resolution Games is the first virtual reality (VR) games studio that solely focuses on creating accessible, fun games that everyone can enjoy - pushing the limits of the emerging VR games space. The studio is composed of highly respected game industry veterans, serial entrepreneurs and thoughts leaders with a proven track record of widely acclaimed success spanning across mass market and AAA games, free-to-play games, hardware and more. Resolution Games is privately held and based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Follow the company at http://www.resolutiongames.com and on Twitter and Facebook.

Press Contact:
Paul Brady
Tel. 646-491-2777
paul@resolutiongames.com

SOURCE  Resolution Games

Resolution Games

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

Plastc and Fit Pay Team-Up to Provide One Tap Payment Capabilities For Users On The Go

Fit Pay's Contactless Payment Platform to Power Plastc All-in-One Card

SAN FRANCISCO, May 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Plastc, Inc., creator of the Plastc Card, the most intelligently-designed and secure digital card ever invented, announced today that they will be teaming up with Fit Pay to enable contactless payments on the Plastc Card. The partnership will give the Plastc Card the capability of transacting NFC payments for the first time through the Fit Pay's Trusted Payment Manager platform which uses tokenization to enable secure, contactless payment transactions.

"Plastc has always been about making the payment experience more seamless and convenient for consumers, and with contactless payments being a must have for consumers, the Fit Pay partnership was a no brainer for us," said Ryan Marquis, CEO and founder of Plastc. "With Fit Pay's platform, our users will now have the ability to simply tap and go."

Plastc Card, which allows consumers to add all of their payment cards into one beautifully designed device, was built with the hardware to support NFC payments. This new relationship with Fit Pay will provide Plastc with the software platform and payment network relationship needed to offer contactless payments on the Plastc device for the first time. Fit Pay was one of the first IoT-related companies to join the Visa Ready Program, the payment technology company's program to help embed secure payments in devices, software and solutions. As a participant in the Visa Ready program, Fit Pay will ensure Visa payments in Plastc's new NFC payment card utilize the Visa Token Service, which replaces sensitive payment account information with a unique digital identifier so that actual account details are not exposed.

"The Fit Pay platform is designed to power a whole new generation of payment devices such as Plastc," said Michael Orlando, chief executive officer of Fit Pay. "Matching the convenience of having all your cards on Plastc with the ease of contactless payments will be an entirely new user experience."

Named a Gartner "Cool Vendor" for 2016, Fit Pay's payment platform uses Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, combined with card network tokenization to interact with point-of-sale terminals at retail locations. NFC, which is available at more than 9 million retail point-of-sale (POS) terminals worldwide, is becoming a ubiquitous payment acceptance technology. Fit Pay's Trusted Payment Manager(TM) platform allows manufactures to seamlessly integrate payment and other contactless authentication capabilities into their product roadmap. 

About Fit Pay, Inc.

Based in San Francisco, California, Fit Pay, Inc. is led by former CyberSource and Visa, Inc. executives with more than 20 years of payment platform and identity authentication domain expertise. Fit Pay's platform provides a frictionless experience allowing consumers to conduct highly secure, contactless payment transactions. http://www.fit-pay.comhttp://www.fit-pay.com/

About Plastc, Inc.

Plastc (http://www.plastc.com) is a FinTech company focused on designing innovative products that improve the lives of everyday people.

Plastc Card is the most intelligently designed, full-featured, and secure payment device on the market. In conjunction with the Plastc Wallet app, the Plastc Card can store credit, debit, gift, loyalty and membership cards on a single device. Each Plastc Card is equipped with a secure PIN lock, proximity alerts, and a unique 'Return Me' mode, making it more secure than both traditional credit cards and other payment technologies.

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Fit Pay, Inc. Contact:
Chris Orlando
Orlando & Associates
Chrisorlando@orlando-inc.com
(760) 468-7273

Plastc Inc. Contact:
Courtney Geesey-Dorr
Highwire Public Relations
courtney@highwirepr.com
(415) 963-4174, ext.65

SOURCE  Fit Pay, Inc.

Fit Pay, Inc.

Web Site: http://www.fit-pay.com