Pace Launches 'Elements' Software Platform With Cloud-Based Capabilities
SALTAIRE, England, August 30, 2011/PRNewswire/ --
- New video and broadband software gives operators full
control to develop their services how and when they want
Pace plc today announced the launch of Elements, a new software platform
for the broadcast and broadband industries. Elements supports the design,
delivery and management of digital content and services into and around the
home, enabling operators to provide an outstanding consumer experience
anywhere, anytime, across any device. The platform's open, modular design
gives control to the operator, allowing them to add new features to their
services quickly and cost effectively, and to integrate it with other parts
of their infrastructure as needed.
Elements:
- Gives operators the power to simply and cost-effectively
innovate at the speed they want, in the way they want for their
subscribers.
- Opens up new revenue opportunities by giving service providers
the tools to quickly deploy exciting new applications and features
across different devices. Examples include creating new live TV
experiences by personalising your own football viewing, recommending
must-see moments to friends, and instantly pulling and sharing team
stats, as well as popular social networking and over-the-top (OTT)
content.
- Delivers advanced search capabilities that help consumers
quickly and easily discover and access different types of content across
multiple sources within a managed service.
- Includes a cloud-based user interface, so that subscribers can
personalise their video experience and access content in a consistent
way across a broad range of connected devices.
- Links with Pace's management systems for remote monitoring and
control of operator and home networks, removing the complexity
traditionally faced by service providers when delivering converged
services to multiple devices.
- Has an open, modular design that easily integrates with a wide
range of other vendors' software and devices. This allows operators to
build Elements into their existing infrastructure, and augment their
systems rapidly and easily, as needed.
Mark Loughran, Regional Pace President, said: "Consumers are demanding
new services, but want home entertainment to be a straightforward, enjoyable
experience - as simple as turning on a light switch. This challenge demands
a new way of thinking."
"Elements is an important leap forward. It puts our customers in the
driving seat, giving them complete power over how they develop their
services. By taking control of their platform and the consumer experience it
delivers, operators can grow their subscriber base, find new ways to
monetise, and stay one step ahead of their market."
Today the platform consists of three modular products, customisable
according to operators' specific requirements. These extend from the
operator's network into consumers' homes, supporting all aspects of
multi-device content management, delivery and user experience, as follows:
- Cobalt - A range of powerful cloud-based software components
that delivers customisable, fast, highly visual and interactive services
across all devices. Cobalt attaches detailed metadata to content to
support easy search and discovery, helping service providers maximise
revenue opportunity from their valuable content.
- Oxygen - Pace's contemporary user interface product that
provides the visual components for creating great end-user experiences.
Oxygen leverages the capabilities of the set-top box and exposes the
rich functionality of the Cobalt / Tungsten Elements.
- Tungsten - Device software incorporating middleware, operating
system and SDKs for set-top boxes, media gateways and other client
devices around the home. Tungsten enables delivery of new applications
and services across IP and broadcast to multiple client devices so that
operators can attract and retain subscribers and increase revenue
opportunities.
The Element platform is fully compatible with Pace's existing systems
management solutions, which are today deployed with Pace customers
monitoring multi-play services. These systems provide operators with a
complete view of the subscriber's digital home including: diagnostics
reporting to reduce unnecessary truck rolls and call handling times; quality
of experience monitoring to provide feedback on customer satisfaction
levels; automatic proactive fault diagnosis to identify network issues
before they become critical; audience behaviour monitoring to support
marketing and drive user experience improvements.
Elements is the latest addition to Pace's expanding product and service
portfolio, which enables operators to evolve digital services at the speed
they want, how they want. This portfolio includes a wide range of pioneering
set-top boxes and gateways, sophisticated software, highly specialised
customer care call centres, business consulting and product delivery
services. These products and services are designed to support telco, cable
and satellite operators in different global markets, regardless of their
technology needs or market stage.
Pace will be on stand B19 in Hall 1 at this year's IBC in Amsterdam,
September 9th - 13th.
About Pace
Pace (LSE: PIC) creates technologies, software, hardware and services
for the broadband and broadcast industries. Pace solutions empower cable,
telco and satellite operators to simply and cost-effectively innovate at the
speed they want, in the way they want for their subscribers. Pace has built
up its experience and expertise over 25 years and this is now recognised by
a customer base of over 160 operators around the globe.
Headquartered in the UK, Pace operates in markets across the world, and
employs around 2300 people in locations that also include the USA, France,
India and China. For more information on Pace, please visit http://www.pace.com.
Source: Pace
Paul Crouch of Chameleon PR, +44-(0)207-680-5500, Paul.crouch@chameleonpr.com
New Cell Site Activated as Part of Ongoing AT&T Investment in Local Wireless Network
MALVERN, Pa., Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of its continuing network investment to support growing demand for advanced mobile devices and applications, AT&T* today announced the activation of a new mobile broadband cell site in Malvern that will enhance coverage for area residents and businesses in the Malvern community and also along portions of the Schuylkill and Routes 202, 30, 29 and 252. With mobile broadband speeds, AT&T customers can surf the Web, download files faster, and enjoy the very latest interactive mobile applications.
The new cell site is one part of AT&T's ongoing efforts to drive investment and innovation to deliver the nation's best, most advanced mobile broadband experience for customers. With the nation's fastest mobile broadband network, AT&T provides accelerated mobile data speeds and simultaneous voice and data capabilities.
"Our goal is for our customers to have an extraordinary experience. As part of the Malvern community, we're always looking for new opportunities to provide enhanced coverage, and our investment in the local wireless network is just one way we're accomplishing that," said J. Michael Schweder, president, AT&T Pennsylvania. "In addition, our recently announced agreement to acquire T-Mobile USA will strengthen and expand our network in Chester County. If approved, this deal means that we'll be able to expand the next generation of mobile broadband - 4G LTE - from our current plan of 80 percent of the U.S. population to more than 97 percent."
"We want you to have an extraordinary experience whether you're making a phone call, sharing videos and photos with friends, checking the latest scores, or keeping your business mobile on your AT&T device," said Tiffany Baehman, vice president and general manager, AT&T greater Philadelphia market. "Smartphones, tablets and laptops are continuing to drive unprecedented demand for wireless access everywhere. We're investing in a combination of technologies right here in Chester County to meet these needs and ensure an advanced broadband experience for all our customers."
AT&T's mobile broadband network is based on the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) family of technologies that includes GSM and UMTS, the most widely used wireless network platforms in the world. AT&T has the broadest international coverage of any U.S. wireless provider, providing access to voice service in more than 220 countries and data service in more than 200 countries. AT&T also offers voice and data roaming coverage on more than 135 major cruise ships, as well as mobile broadband services in more than 130 countries.
AT&T also operates the nation's largest Wi-Fi network** with nearly 27,000 hotspots in the U.S. and provides access to nearly 190,000 hotspots globally through roaming agreements. Most AT&T smartphone customers get access to our entire national Wi-Fi network at no additional cost, and Wi-Fi usage doesn't count against customers' monthly wireless data plans.
For more information about AT&T's coverage in Pennsylvania or anywhere in the United States, consumers can visit the AT&T Coverage Viewer. Using the online tool, AT&T customers can measure quality of coverage from a street address, intersection, ZIP code or even a landmark.
For updates on the AT&T wireless network, please visit the AT&T network news page.
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
** Largest based on company branded and operated hotspots. Access includes AT&T Wi-Fi Basic. A Wi-Fi enabled device required. Other restrictions apply. See http://www.attwifi.com for details and locations.
About AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates - AT&T operating companies - are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. With a powerful array of network resources that includes the nation's fastest mobile broadband network, AT&T is a leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet, voice and cloud-based services. A leader in mobile broadband and emerging 4G capabilities, AT&T also offers the best wireless coverage worldwide of any U.S. carrier, offering the most wireless phones that work in the most countries. It also offers advanced TV services under the AT&T U-verse® and AT&T | DIRECTV brands. The company's suite of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in the world. In domestic markets, AT&T Advertising Solutions and AT&T Interactive are known for their leadership in local search and advertising.
Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com. This AT&T news release and other announcements are available at http://www.att.com/newsroom and as part of an RSS feed at http://www.att.com/rss. Or follow our news on Twitter at @ATT.
THE WOODLANDS, Texas, Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- AppTech Corp (Pink Sheets: APCX) is pleased to announce the release of two new game/entertainment apps. Touch Graffiti and EggBreaker are the latest releases and are now available for download on iPhones and iPads for 99 cents. Eric Ottens, CEO of AppTech Corp, said the company is committed to releasing two to four game apps every month with the objective of building a library of game and entertainment applications for smart phones and tablet computers. In addition to game apps, AppTech is also developing business apps that will provide tools designed to improve productivity for busy business executives.
Ottens commented: "In addition to the apps that we have released, and are scheduling to release, we continue to work with our partner SuperStar Learning on apps designed to teach and entertain. We are planning to make AppTech a major force in the most promising market in the IT world."
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Web Business Provides Position in Leading Online Communities for Managed Services, Cloud Services and Value Added Resellers (VARs) in the IT Channel
NEW YORK, Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sharon Rowlands, CEO of Penton Media, announced today that the company has acquired Nine Lives Media and its leading online destinations: MSPmentor, Talkin' Cloud and The VAR Guy. Nine Lives will become a business unit of Penton's Technology Group, joining Windows IT Pro, SQL Server Magazine, SharePoint Pro, DevPro, Cloud IT Pro, Mobile DevPro, Connected Planet and System iNetwork. Terms were not disclosed.
"While Penton's Technology Group is largely focused on providing content to IT professionals and developers, Nine Lives focuses on the IT channel, a strategic audience that's shaping rapidly growing markets like IT services, managed services and cloud computing," said Rowlands.
Nine Lives Media was founded in 2008 by CEO Amy Katz, and Executive VP/Editorial Director Joe Panettieri. Katz and Panettieri join Penton, effective immediately. The unit will report to Peg Miller, Penton's Technology Group market leader.
"Nine Lives is the perfect complement to our leading IT and developer brands, enabling us to provide both business and technology acumen to the entire technology ecosystem of IT professionals and developers, channel providers, and independent software vendors and hardware vendors. We've already seen strong growth in the IT channel with adoption of our newly launched Penton Marketing Services -- helping them to run their businesses more effectively," said Miller.
"We're thrilled to combine our growing audiences and growing brands with Penton Media," said Katz. "We see clear opportunities to drive additional growth and offer more of what our readers and sponsors have requested."
Through blogs, research, Internet video and sponsored events, Nine Lives' sponsors engage with a unique community of VARs, MSPs and cloud services providers. Each Nine Lives brand serves a strategic, influential technology market, with more than 18,500 Twitter followers in the IT channel:
-- MSPmentor (http://www.mspmentor.net and @mspmentor) is the #1 media platform
covering managed services.
-- Talkin' Cloud (http://www.talkincloud.com and @talkin_cloud) is the first
video-enhanced blog in the IT Channel, reporting on the rapidly growing
cloud industry.
-- The VAR Guy (http://www.thevarguy.com and @thevarguy) is the #1 channel blog in
the value-added reseller and IT service provider market.
Foundation Partners, LLC (http://www.foundation-partners.com) acted as an advisor to Nine Lives Media Inc. in connection with this transaction.
About Penton Media
As a leading, independent, business-to-business media company, Penton knows business and how to create and disseminate vital content that moves markets. Penton is where professionals turn to gain the critical insight, expert analysis and relevant connections needed to compete and succeed. Headquartered in New York City, the privately held company is owned by MidOcean Partners and U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP, and its co-investors. For additional information on the company and its businesses, visit http://www.penton.com.
Congressman John Tierney and Z Corporation Announce New Education Program Aimed at Skills Crisis
EngineeringZONE Introduces New England High School Students to the Wonder of Making Things
BURLINGTON, Mass., Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --Despite persistent high unemployment, technical jobs are hard to fill, and the pipeline of American students to fill them is thin.
To help counter this threat to national competitiveness, Congressman John Tierney (D-Mass.) joined 3D printing innovator Z Corporation today in launching "EngineeringZONE(TM)." The initiative invites high school classes to visit Z Corporation monthly for an afternoon to experience some of the latest 3D printing and 3D laser scanning technology, increasingly used in the design and engineering world.
"I applaud Z Corporation's continued efforts to support our local economy with high tech manufacturing jobs, and its most recent initiative to ensure that local students are aware of these new and creative job opportunities," said Congressman Tierney, the only New England Member on the House Education and Workforce Committee. "We know that jobs focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics are growing at a faster rate than many other fields, and we need to do a better job of engaging our students in these areas. By bringing high school students into Z Corporation for a day of hands-on learning, they will have exposure to careers they may otherwise overlook."
3D printing, one of the fastest-growing areas of manufacturing, is the creation of three-dimensional physical models from 3D engineering design data much as a document printer creates a business letter from a word-processing file. More and more manufacturers are adopting the process to quickly create physical prototypes and refine designs during every phase of the product development process.
Z Corporation is maker of the world's fastest, most affordable and easiest to use 3D printers, and the only ones capable of printing in multiple colors. Students in the EngineeringZONE program will try their hand at some introductory computer-aided design (CAD) software and will make their own 3D printed models. Interested high schools should contact Z Corporation for more details.
"We're thrilled to open our doors to curious students because this is where the magic happens, where you can see a design on a computer screen turn into a physical object before your eyes," said Scott Harmon, Z Corporation vice president of business development. "In addition to the sizzle, 3D printing brings together all of the disciplines - science, technology, engineering and mathematics - that our students so desperately need to master now and in the future. We're honored that Congressman Tierney was able join us on this important initiative."
Jobs available
American businesses often complain about the supply and availability of STEM workers, according to "STEM: Good Jobs Now and for the Future,"a report from the US Department of Commerce.And it's bound to get worse.Over the past 10 years, growth in STEM jobs was three times as fast as growth in non-STEM jobs, the report says. STEM occupations are projected to grow by 17 percent from 2008 to 2018, compared to 9.8 percent growth for non-STEM occupations.
On a more positive note, young scientists and engineers have been using Z Corporation 3D printers, called ZPrinters, at thousands of high schools, vocational schools and universities, following the lead of companies like Black & Decker, Cisco Consumer Business Group, New Balance, Timberland and Pixar.
About Z Corporation
Z Corporation enables design professionals to create more. More ideas. More communication. More innovation. Wherever innovators use technology to develop ideas, we stretch the boundaries of what is possible. Product design. Architecture. Education. Even the leading edge of entertainment, health care, and retail mass customization. Z Corporation provides 3D printing and 3D scanning technologies used to create new products and services more effectively than any other means. We serve the world's most productive designers and engineers, and are committed to making our solutions the fastest, easiest, most accessible, and most valuable. Z Corporation. Create more. http://www.zcorp.com.
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ReadyTalk Launches Audio and Web Conferencing App on Salesforce.com's AppExchange 2, the World's Most Popular Marketplace for Business Apps
Customers can now save time by automatically capturing registration and attendance data in salesforce.com
SAN FRANCISCO and DENVER, Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference, ReadyTalk announced it has launched ReadyTalk for Salesforce on salesforce.com's AppExchange 2, helping to accelerate the market shift to Cloud 2, the next cloud computing paradigm. By integrating its audio and web conferencing platform with salesforce.com, ReadyTalk automates the manual processes associated with managing webinars and online training and exposes these programs to others in the organization.
With ReadyTalk for Salesforce, marketers and trainers can:
-- Eliminate time-consuming spreadsheet work by capturing registration and
attendance details directly in salesforce.com.
-- Increase visibility across the organization and provide sales, support
and others the ability to invite customers and prospects to important
marketing, training and sales programs.
-- Speed sales follow up by providing immediate access to attendance data.
"For our training department, who are power users of both web conferencing and Salesforce, this integration is very exciting. They will be using the app to manage an annual event that includes 30 live web sessions and approximately 15,000 registrants," said Jill Myers, business systems analyst at OverDrive, Inc. "ReadyTalk for Salesforce will enable our team to seamlessly invite customers and track attendance, which will eliminate time consuming processes so our trainers can focus on content rather than event logistics. Because we will have clear insight into participation across all webinars, our marketing, sales and account management teams can more effectively prioritize and customize our post-event tasks and messaging."
In addition to training programs, webinars play an increasingly important role in lead generation activities. In a recent study, 92 percent of the marketers surveyed indicated that webinars are the second most effective means for generating high quality leads and one of the most affordable tools available.
"As webinars continue to grow in popularity and sophistication, clients seek out more efficient ways to implement their programs," said Marc Beattie, Senior Analyst at Wainhouse. "This integration from ReadyTalk decreases the steps required in hosting a webinar and gives visibility across the company, which greatly improves the effectiveness of the webinar."
ReadyTalk's reliable audio and web conferencing services currently support webinars of up to 3,000 participants and give customers access to a full-suite of tools for planning webinars, engaging audiences and following up effectively. By integrating with salesforce.com, ReadyTalk customers now also will be able to:
-- Send polished email invitations to salesforce.com leads, contacts and
campaign members through ReadyTalk's invitation tool or a third-party
email marketing system.
-- Collect registrations with a customized form and automatically create
new leads for registrants and attendees not already in salesforce.com.
-- Automatically record attendance data and give sales instant visibility
into the sessions their prospects and customers are involved in.
-- View key webinar and training metrics right in salesforce.com.
The ReadyTalk for Salesforce app is free and available now in the AppExchange 2. For additional information, including a demo, visit ReadyTalk at Dreamforce in the Astadia booth, #1021. Information is also available at http://www.readytalk.com/salesforce.
Force.com is the only proven enterprise platform for building and running business applications in the cloud. The Force.com platform powers the Salesforce CRM applications (http://www.salesforce.com/), more than 1,100 ISV partner applications like those from CA Technologies, FinancialForce.com and Fujitsu, and 200,000 custom applications used by salesforce.com's 97,700 customers such as Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE and Sprint Nextel. Force.com also enables developers to make any enterprise app social by leveraging the social collaboration components including profiles, status updates, and real-time feeds available with Chatter.
Applications built on the Force.com platform can be easily distributed to the entire cloud computing community through the salesforce.com AppExchange marketplace http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/.
About ReadyTalk
ReadyTalk provides audio and web conferencing and webinar services designed for lead generation, interactive training, sales demos and collaborative meetings. ReadyTalk combines ease-of-use with sophisticated marketing tools to increase audience engagement, event ROI and meeting productivity while integrating seamlessly with existing business processes. Visit http://www.readytalk.com for more information.
Network Instruments Now Assures Public and Private Cloud Application Delivery
New Observer Infrastructure Expands Visibility into Complex Cloud and Application Environments
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Network Instruments, a worldwide leader in network and application performance monitoring, today announced its infrastructure monitoring solution Observer Infrastructure (OI) now provides visibility into public and private cloud components and in-depth tracking of cloud provider performance.
The newest version of OI provides insight into Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) performance for major providers, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google App Engine, Rackspace, GoGrid, and Hosting.com, by utilizing cloud vendor APIs and CloudKick. Critical cloud service performance metrics including CPU, disk activity, user experience, and memory can be viewed within the context of overall IT operations to validate performance of cloud investments. Using the Observer platform, teams can seamlessly view cloud health alongside internal network, application, and infrastructure performance to quickly isolate and resolve the source of performance problems.
"As operations teams outsource services to the cloud, they often sacrifice visibility to successfully manage performance," said Jim Frey, managing research director of Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). "Solutions like Network Instruments OI play a critical role in ensuring IT teams have an end-to-end view of service delivery and can proactively identify performance problems before they impact users."
Tracking Private Cloud
While many organizations are implementing public cloud services, larger companies driven by business and security needs are rolling out private cloud initiatives. Pre-packaged, standardized units, such as VCE Vblock and NetApp FlexPod, offer organizations the power of a data center consolidated into a single appliance.
"To make sense of the many Vblock or FlexPod devices and constructs, OI provides the ability to auto-discover, group and manage all virtual and physical components in a single dashboard view," said Brad Reinboldt, senior product manager of Network Instruments. "Based upon the alarm or potential issue, the IT manager can then quickly navigate to the problem component."
Managing Multi-Tiered Environments
OI now provides the ability to monitor many essential components associated with multi-tiered application environments. For example, network teams can now proactively monitor database response times and behavior through SQL scripts on Microsoft SQL, Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, and DB2 databases. In addition, monitors have been added for critical servers, including GlassFish, Java Runtime Environment, Lotus Domino Server, Microsoft .NET and Sharepoint, and IBM WebSphere Application Server. Teams can also regularly track performance of SAN environments such as: Dell EqualLogic; EMC CLARiiON, Celerra, and Symmetrix; InforTrend EonStor Series; NetApp and IBM N Series; and SAN fabric switches. Additional support has been added for communication systems, including Cisco UC Manager, Microsoft Lync Server and Blackberry servers.
Additional Polling Sources
OI leverages Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) to obtain infrastructure configuration metrics, even when connected devices are powered off.
About Network Instruments
Since 1994, Network Instruments, a leading provider of performance management and troubleshooting solutions, has helped organizations ensure the delivery of business-critical applications. The company's platform of management and reporting products provides comprehensive visibility into networks, infrastructure, and applications to optimize performance, speed troubleshooting, and assist long-term capacity planning. Headquartered in Minneapolis, the company does business in more than 50 countries. For more information, please visit http://www.networkinstruments.com.
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mSpot Launches the Holy Grail of Mobile Movies: Instant Streaming Plus Progressive Downloads
Lenovo's New IdeaPad(TM) Tablets First to Offer New Feature for U.S. Consumers; ThinkPads(TM) Shortly After
On-the-Go? Start Watching and Downloading your Movie at the Same Time
PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Popular cloud entertainment provider mSpot, Inc., today announced it has enabled downloading capabilities to mSpot Movies(TM), and that the new feature will be offered as an update to the preloaded mSpot Movie streaming application on Lenovo IdeaPad K1 and Lenovo ThinkPad tablets in September. The new feature enables people to start watching a movie while the download is in progress, and finish it later when they're offline - making entertainment on the tablet easier and more accessible.
Lenovo users can access the preinstalled mSpot Movies application on their tablets to find a selection of new release movies available for instant downloading and streaming.
"Our tablets were designed to give spontaneous and instantaneous entertainment - anywhere you want it. We're excited to provide the most accessible movie-watching experience with mSpot Movies, giving Lenovo users the best on the market," stated Ninis Samuel, Global Director of Mobile Product Marketing for Lenovo.
"Anyone who has ever streamed a movie knows how much the Internet connection impacts the experience. Now, you can say goodbye to buffering issues; start watching and downloading the movie in the airport, and continue watching it offline on the airplane," stated Daren Tsui, CEO and co-founder, mSpot.
mSpot also offers white labeled cloud entertainment services to Consumer Electronics OEMs and cellular carriers, and currently serves Verizon, AT&T and Sprint. mSpot cloud entertainment services reach more than six million mobile customers.
mSpot, Inc., delivers music, movie and radio content instantly to users - bringing effortless, Cloud-based syncing across all devices. The company offers three services: mSpot Music (TM) enables people to upload their entire music collections online and listen wherever they are; mSpot Movies(TM) - a premium Video On Demand (VOD) movie service; and mSpot Radio® - an all-format radio service that includes over 400 channels of music. More information is available at http://www.mspotcorporate.com/
"Game on" for Game-Changing Innovation at SAP® TechEd 2011 as Global Ecosystem Convenes in Four Locations Worldwide
Worldwide Technical Community Gets a Peek Under the Hood of Latest Advances in Mobile Business, In-Memory Computing and More at 15th Annual Event Series
First Event Features Sybase TechWave Conference, New Focus on Dedicated Training for SMEs, Brings "Gamification" to World's Entertainment Capital
LAS VEGAS, BANGALORE, India, MADRID and BEIJING, Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced the kick-off of the SAP® TechEd 2011 event season, the company's premium technical education conference series. In its 15th year, SAP TechEd will be held in four locations: Las Vegas, Nevada, September 12-16; Bangalore, India, October 19-21; Madrid, Spain, November 8-10; and Beijing, China, November 15-17. New this year, the events in Madrid and Beijing will be co-located with the SAP customer conference SAPPHIRE® NOW.
SAP TechEd 2011 stands to bring together more than 19,000 attendees worldwide for a look under the hood of today's business motors: the latest advances in in-memory and mobile technologies, and in on-premise, on-demand and on-device applications from SAP and more than 75 partners.
The event series features keynotes by Vishal Sikka, member of the SAP Executive Board leading technology and innovation. Sikka will show how the SAP HANA(TM) platform, mobile technologies from Sybase and SAP and cloud computing are fueling the intellectual renewal of SAP and the SAP community, and will offer insight into the latest product updates and a visionary look at the future (for more, read Sikka's pre-event blog: "An Ongoing Renewal").
Hands-On Workshops and In-Depth Lectures
SAP TechEd workshops and lectures will focus on the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform, Sybase® Unwired Platform and SAP® BusinessObjects(TM) solutions. More than 385 demo-rich sessions will cover a broad range of topics, including mobilizing the enterprise, integrating on-demand solutions and running better with SAP in-memory computing technology. The educational program includes elements designed for everyone from beginners to experts, with "Meet-the-Speaker" pods, expert networking sessions and exhibiting partner lectures.
SAP TechEd and Sybase TechWave: Co-Located in Las Vegas
This year in Las Vegas, Sybase, an SAP company, will also host its annual TechWave 2011 as a co-located event. TechWave provides in-depth training and education across the range of Sybase products, access to key Sybase partners and networking opportunities. The event agenda will feature over 150 breakout sessions, from application development, to analytics, to mobile commerce.
New Focus on SME
For the first time, SAP is offering dedicated training and education sessions to its small and midsize enterprise (SME) channel and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners. This year, roughly 40 of the education lectures and hands-on workshops at SAP TechEd Las Vegas will be dedicated to SME. The event will also offer partners the opportunity to participate in a "Midnight Mobile Madness" after-hours seminar, to learn about the latest mobile apps from SAP and Sybase Unwired Platform through hands-on exercises.
"Gamification" Invades Gaming Capital
The Las Vegas event will feature guest keynote speaker Dr. Jane McGonigal, best-selling author and director of Game Research and Development at the Institute for the Future. McGonigal will address the power and future of gaming and how its collaborative and motivational aspects are being used to solve some of the most difficult challenges facing humanity -- a topic covered in her book, The New York Times best seller Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World.
Attendees will be able to experience gamification in action with Knowledge Quest, a game layer added to the event this year that will combine SAP TechEd content with points and challenges. For attendees, game elements will be accessible via smart phone, laptop or from on-site info kiosks. The goal of Knowledge Quest is to learn and network as well as have fun -- and earn points to win prizes.
SAP InnoJam and Demo Jam
This year's pre-conference event is SAP InnoJam. Participants will get 30 hours of hands-on experience with the newest SAP technologies with on-site SAP domain experts to collaborate and learn while taking an idea from concept to prototype. Themes for each SAP InnoJam vary, with the winning team at each event getting the chance to participate in Demo Jam, a regular highlight of SAP TechEd. At each of the four conferences, Demo Jam will once again feature high-energy demonstrations by developers competing and celebrating innovation.
Connect With the SAP Ecosystem
As the physical gathering place for the SAP ecosystem, SAP TechEd is an opportunity to forge close ties with SAP experts, partners, employees, customers and other community members. The SAP Clubhouse features an environment in which the SAP online communities come to life on site, where attendees can interact with SAP experts including mentors, peers and event speakers. The event fosters networking and builds community through a series of special programs and activities, such as the partner exhibit hall and SAP interactive stations.
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The event provides an opportunity for individuals who participate in SAP® Community Network online communities -- the SAP® Developer Network (SDN), Business Process Expert (BPX) and Business Analytics communities -- to gather offline. The more than 2.5 million members of these communities contribute their knowledge, experience and perspectives daily in the discussion forums, articles, blogs and wikis hosted by SAP.
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Contacts Reachable in Emergency - itrezzo Unified Contact Management
Through earthquakes, hurricanes, and network failures, itrezzo UCM ensures leadership, disaster recovery, and continuity teams can communicate
CAMPBELL, Calif., Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ask any continuity planner what the most important part of their planning is, and they will tell you that communication is the pivotal requirement in their emergency response.
Hit with a 5.8 magnitude earthquake and Hurricane Irene in the same week, customers (up to 100,000 users in size), using itrezzo Unified Contact Management(TM) (UCM), made it their top priority to ensure that all their emergency contact lists and information were up-to-date and loaded on thousands of employees' smart phones, tablets, and desktops.
While typical organizations struggle with contact information on a mish-mash of spreadsheets, USB drives, Post-it Notes, or third-party apps on each handheld, itrezzo customers had all their critical contact data ready. With itrezzo UCM, contact data is where it is needed most urgently - in the smart phone address books of first responders, crisis teams, DR Staff, and senior leaders.
During the recent East Coast earthquake, many organizations were hampered by overloaded telephone lines, outdated employee contact information, incomplete disaster plans, or outdated business continuity plans. Meanwhile, itrezzo customers leveraged its Unified Contact Manager, to reach critical staff, using SMS and PIN messages. With the assurance that critical contacts are current and correctly distributed to address books of employee phones, itrezzo customers stood ready for the anticipated impact of Hurricane Irene. They were able to send and receive:
-- Vital instructions, through text messages and PIN broadcast, to hundreds
or thousands of employees
-- Disaster Recovery and safety documents, such as evacuation plans, via
BlackBerry browser channels
One itrezzo customer - a large school district in Florida - relied on itrezzo during and after Hurricane Wilma, the most intense cyclone recorded in the Atlantic basin. Using itrezzo Unified Contact Manager, the Outlook folders and smart phone address books of district school principals and responder staff, were kept up to date. Emergency management memos were pushed out to individual BlackBerry handhelds with specific emergency instructions for the approaching hurricane. Even if the BlackBerry or email servers were unavailable, the team had the ability to communicate via BlackBerry PIN-to-PIN connections, or push to talk handsets.
With an outstanding track record of excellent performance at major government and corporate organizations, itrezzo UCM addresses a wide range of contact optimization for business productivity and continuity issues. The major components of itrezzo UCM are:
-- Itrezzo Unified Contact Manager (itrezzoAgent EPS) - enterprise-grade
server infrastructure and contact management applications, that
automatically disseminate employee contact information. Data is
gathered from disparate sources to optimize contact data, by enhancing
its accuracy and completeness. The itrezzo Unified Contact Manager
completes the optimization by automatically delivering updates to their
point of usage: the address books in employees' mobile devices. No
software is required on the mobile device.
-- itrezzo Self Service Update - an efficient, trustworthy component in
optimizing accuracy and completeness of employee contact information,
Self Service Update automates the collection of updates and corrections
so they can be synced to employee mobile phones and the global address
list.
-- itrezzo Lockstep - automatically updates the corporate global address
list with precision updates.
-- itrezzo InterOrg Connector - extends Unified Contact Management across
organizational boundaries by optimizing contact data, and sharing it
between designated staff groups at different companies or agencies.
InterOrg Connector is unique. There is no other solution that allows
turnkey sharing of handheld contacts between organizations.
Although it works with all handhelds, itrezzo UCM requires no handheld software. It deploys within minutes or hours, and typically achieves ROI within four months, based on just its day-to-day productivity improvements. The ROI for reachability of critical team members during a disaster is incalculable. Free trials are available for itrezzo UCM for qualified enterprises and organizations.
About itrezzo
Since 2001, itrezzo, based in Campbell, California,has developed enterprise-grade infrastructure and applications that solve the problems of Unified Contact Management for enterprises, private equity firms, federal and local governments, schools, healthcare organizations, law firms, energy companies, media and news organizations, and services firms. The itrezzo UCM software platform was designed as a comprehensive full-cycle, end-to-end solution for unified contact management. The itrezzo platform optimizes contact data in everyday circumstances, and sustains communications during emergency situations. For eight years, itrezzo UCMhas been trusted with servers deployed behind the firewalls of companies and government agencies, including the Department of Justice, FCC, US Army Corp of Engineers, The Carlyle Group, City of Berkeley, St. Jude Hospital, Shell, Hogan Lovells, HBO, and CNN. For immediate help, contact itrezzo at 800-313-6796. For more information, please visit: http://www.itrezzo.com.
BlueKai Launches Hub for Analyzing All Audience and Media Performance Data in DMP
TrackSimple RAD 360(TM) Analytics Provides Marketers and Agencies with Single Solution to Learn and Discover Audiences, Optimize Performance and Take Action from Analytics
CUPERTINO, Calif., Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- BlueKai, the world's only complete platform for data management, analysis and acquisition, today announced the launch of TrackSimple RAD 360(TM) Analytics, a centralized hub for analyzing all audience and performance data in order to help marketers better plan, model, target, optimize and buy media with confidence and ease. TrackSimple RAD 360(TM) Analytics, offered as part of BlueKai's data management platform (DMP) marks the company's continued focus on measurement as transactional analytics becomes the next big trend in data management solutions.
"At BlueKai, we've known from the beginning that marketers and agencies need a simpler data-driven solution to drive ROI," said Jon Ingalls, CMO of BlueKai. "The BlueKai DMP is a critical piece of this platform. Next, it's bringing a layer of sophisticated analytics to the data to find out what it's telling you. Finally, we created TrackSimple RAD 360(TM) Analytics with the user in mind. Great analytics is one thing but being able to transact an insight is the key here - put new insights in motion."
In order for today's sophisticated marketer and CMO to gain ROI on their media efforts, they need to recognize that there are various forms of data that intersect between media and audience analytics making it difficult to piece together disconnected bits of information. Through TrackSimple RAD 360(TM) Analytics, marketers and agencies can now address many of their pain points like the inability to truly understand the value of differentiated data assets due to a lack of an effective transactional platform in the marketplace while helping them become more efficient in targeting the profile of their audiences and reaching them at scale
"For Omnicom Media Group, BlueKai's Tracksimple RAD 360 provides the ability to quickly harmonize and dynamically re-categorize audience and performance data," said Scott Hagedorn, CEO of Annalect at Omnicom Media Group. "We've cut considerable time out of data prepping in order to focus on higher order analysis. Such as using the product to intersect audiences and how they performed against various media channels brings clarity and accountability to media strategies. With a comprehensive analytics solution, we don't spray and pray, we sense and respond."
TrackSimple RAD 360(TM) Analytics provides:
-- Audience learning & discovery - Modeling of target audiences and
profiling of current visitors against look-alike, act-alike, in-market,
etc. attributes
-- Performance-based planning - Optimization of audience and media mix
based on known first party performers who drive the most valuable parts
of the funnel
-- Transactable analytics - Live and transactional audience analytics
providing integrated activation for ad targeting and integrated
acquisition for data-driven prospecting
-- Analytics now - Ready to go audience discovery reports including
audience profile, discovery and funnel analysis
In addition, TrackSimple RAD 360(TM) Analytics offers out of the box media performance reports like pacing, KPI tracking and multi-channel trending, as well as volume vs. efficiency and response vs. volume comparisons to help marketers and ad agencies better track campaign goals and objectives. Customers will also be able to customize campaign performance through RAD 360(TM) reporting.
BlueKai (http://www.bluekai.com) provides leading solutions for comprehensive data management, acquisition and analytics to maximize performance from all audience data. The BlueKai Platform(TM) is a complete technology solution for managing private data assets and analyzing campaign performance to maximize return on marketing dollars. The BlueKai Exchange(TM) is the world's largest marketplace for anonymous 3rd party audience data, with exclusive access to BlueKai Intent(TM) and branded data in reaching more than 200M unique users across the entire marketing funnel. As an industry leader in consumer transparency and control, BlueKai has created book-end solutions including a registry for consumers to see what marketers know about them, edit their online preferences and gain rewards through charitable donations. The privately-held company is based is based in Cupertino, Calif., and is a recipient of the 2011 OnMedia B2B Company of the Year award.
SOURCE BlueKai
BlueKai
CONTACT: Rachel Vakneen of Sparkpr , +1-415-321-1881, rvakneen@sparkpr.com, for BlueKai
EMV Training Academy Launches in the United States
New EMV Academy Fast Tracks EMV Migration for Banking and Retail
North American Curriculum to Support U.S. and Canadian Banking Migration to EMV Based Chip and Pin Card Payments
PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A new U.S. based EMV Training Academy that supports the U.S. and Canadian banking and payment industries migration to more secure, effective and convenient EMV chip and pin technologies was announced today. Led by a group of veteran payment industry professionals and key strategic technology partners, EMV Training Academy offers a broad range of EMV training courses, test tools and consultancy services to banks, credit unions, acquirers, issuers, card manufacturers and others, covering the North American contact, contactless and NFC mobile payment systems markets.
The transition to an EMV chip and pin infrastructure in Canada and the USA will help stem growing bankcard fraud estimated in the tens of billions of dollars. Through the advent of new contactless and mobile technologies, it also provides an opportunity for banks, credit unions and other financial organizations to market a broader and more secure suite of products to consumers and businesses, creating new market opportunities in the process. EMV Academy helps banks and others make the transition from less secure magnetic stripe debit and credit cards to new EMV chip and pin cards seamless.
"12 years ago, customers and partners collaborated to pioneer EMV in Europe creating a framework for a new wave of innovative payment technologies," noted Stewart Chalmers, EMV Academy Executive Director. "One simple principle sits at the core of our training curriculum - helping our clients succeed."
"Given Visa's recent announcement laying out a specific timeframe for EMV migration, it became obvious to EMV Academy, its founders and technology partners that our EMV training roadmap and roll out must be accelerated to support the industry's migration," Gregg Smith, EMV Academy, Co-Founder.
The Academy provides a wide range of training courses, test tools and consultancy services. These include:
-- Introduction to EMV
-- EMV, For Banking Executives
-- EMV For Journalists
-- Mobile/NFC
-- Contactless
-- Card Payments Instant Card Issuance
-- Chip Training 1 & 2 day versions
-- 3-Day EMV, Contactless & NFC Mobile Fundamentals
-- Group & Custom Classes on request.
Compliance
EMV Academy services, and strategic partners products and training are developed in compliance with International Card Specifications EMVCo, VISA, MasterCard, EPCA and MULTOS. The EMV Academy's experienced instructors and its strategic technology partners have more than a decade of EMV payment industry training and expertise.
Group and Custom Classes:
Customized group training is conducted onsite at your company or organization.
Faculty
EMV Academy instructors and partners have developed and implemented more than 100 EMV training programs worldwide. At its core, the EMV Training Academy curriculum advances a more secure and seamless banking, and payment ecosystem.
About the EMV Academy
EMV Academy, Inc. is a U.S. based EMV training organization headquartered in Pasadena, California with instructors and technology partners throughout North America. The Academy and it staff of experienced EMV instructors provide state-of-the art, up to the minute EMV training, compliance, documentation and knowledge across the contact, contactless and mobile NFC payment markets in the U.S. and Canada. Besides its training courses, the EMV Academy provides training on the latest product demonstrations, and access to a broad array of EMV test tools. To learn more or schedule a class, visit http://www.emvacademy.com or contact stew@emvacademy.com.
Casio Offers a Portfolio of Educational Solutions for Back-To-School Season
Casio's Graphing and Scientific Calculators Provide Students With Innovative Tools For Math Classes
DOVER, N.J., Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --As the global pioneer of handheld learning devices, Casio America, Inc. is providing students with innovative technology that will help them prepare for their math classes; available at reduced prices for back-to-school shopping.
Casio's back-to-school product offerings feature two budget-friendly graphing calculators and two feature-rich scientific units, as well as some exciting social media contests and promotions.
Graphing Calculators
Casio's PRIZM(TM) is the first full-color graphing calculator that includes a high-resolution LCD display with various functions designed to assist with math lessons and help students see math in a new light. Equipped with the world's first Picture Plot*(1) function, students and teachers can experiment by graphing mathematical expressions on top of real-life images, allowing for more visual, discovery-based learning. PRIZM(TM) will become the standard among graphing calculators with features that enhance the users' understanding of mathematics.
PRIZM(TM) is available during this back-to-school season for just $99.00 and comes with a free skin (http://www.skinit.com) -- a $30 value. Redeemable after purchase, students can choose from thousands of designs -- or simply create their own.
The fx-9750GII is another affordable graphing calculator which retails for under $50 andcomes packed with features such as USB Connectivity, AP Statistics, Pie Charts, Bar Graphs and more.
Additionally, Casio's graphing solutions are available as a robust software package, serving as a powerful teaching and learning tool that goes beyond emulation and allows users to record key strokes, screen capture and screen receive. The fx-Manager PLUS Software is available in both single license and site/school license versions making it a true classroom solution. For more information on how to purchase please visit http://www.casioeducation.com.
Scientific Calculators
Casio's fx-300ES and fx115ES scientific calculators feature a 2-line Natural Textbook Display, which makes it possible to display fractions, exponents, logarithms, powers, and square roots just as they are written in the textbook. The result is enhanced student comprehension and improved math class efficiency. These calculators have 230/280 functions respectively and are great for most math courses, including Algebra I/II, Geometry, Trigonometry and Statistics.
Back-To-School Contests
As social media continues to be a key platform for students and parents to interact, Casio has launched several sweepstakes and challenges to engage consumers and offer them a chance to win prizes, including graphing calculators, cameras and G-Shock watches.
The PRIZM(TM) Sweepstakes on Facebook provides an opportunity to register for a chance to win an autographed graphing calculator kit signed by Kari Byron and Grant Imahara from the popular Discovery Channel show "MythBusters." The kit includes a PRIZM(TM) and a Casio EX-S200 digital camera. Participants simply need to "like" Casio's Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/casioeducation) to enter to win.
In addition to The PRIZM(TM) Sweepstakes, the PRIZM(TM) Math Challenge, an online quiz, will test the math skills of Casio's Facebook fans. Fans who achieve a passing score will have an opportunity to win a PRIZM(TM) Prize Pack, including a PRIZM(TM) graphing calculator, a digital camera and a G-Shock watch. This contest will go live on Facebook at the end of August.
Where to Buy
Casio calculators are available at most retailers, including Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Staples, Office Max and Office Depot. For additional information on PRIZM(TM), please visit:
Casio America, Inc., Dover, N.J., is the U.S. subsidiary of Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, one of the world's leading manufacturers of consumer electronics and business equipment solutions, established in 1957. Casio America, Inc. markets timepieces, digital cameras, calculators, musical instruments, mobile presentation devices, disc title and label printers, cash registers and other consumer electronic products. Casio has strived to realize its corporate creed of "creativity and contribution" through the introduction of innovative and imaginative products.
*(1) As of October 7, 2010, for built-in calculator functions. According to a survey by Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
SOURCE Casio America, Inc.
Casio America, Inc.
CONTACT: Tania Fonovic, tfonovic@coynepr.com, or Christine Azzolino, cazzolino@coynepr.com, both of Coyne PR, +1-973-588-2000; or Elizabeth Garcia, egarcia@casio.com, or Sue Vander Schans, svanderschans@casio.com, both of CASIO AMERICA, INC.
Lakeside Software and Atlantis Computing Introduce Integrated Data Reporting & Optimization of VDI Storage
Deeper insight into Virtual Storage Utilization Enables more Efficient and Cost-Effective Storage
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Lakeside Software®, a leader in business intelligence solutions for IT professionals, and Atlantis Computing(TM), a leader in VDI storage and performance optimization solutions, today announced the integration of Lakeside SysTrack® and Atlantis ILIO(TM) solutions, giving IT professionals deeper insight into VDI storage utilization and the means to more efficiently reduce storage cost per desktop while delivering faster desktop performance.
Atlantis ILIO enables customers to dramatically cut the amount of storage required for VDI by up to 90% and deliver a "Better than PC" experience. During the pilot phase of a VDI deployment, joint customers use Lakeside's SysTrack Virtual Machine Planner (VMP) to quantify the storage reduction and performance improvements realized by deploying Atlantis ILIO.
Through this integration, SysTrack VMP tracks, aggregates and reports comprehensive statistics projecting VDI storage utilization and disk access performance before and after a VDI deployment with Atlantis ILIO optimization, and provides projected savings realized through this implementation. Data is provided in both tabular and graphical formats to facilitate actionable interpretation of VDI storage statistics. SysTrack also monitors and manages the post-VDI deployment environment to assure continued storage optimization.
"To justify implementation, VDI must deliver cost, performance and scalability improvements over the existing physical PC-based computing infrastructure," said Dan Salinas, Vice President of Business Development for Lakeside Software. "Atlantis ILIO provides measurable benefits in all three."
"There is a pervasive problem with VDI projects under sizing the amount of storage and IOPS needed per desktop to deliver acceptable desktop performance. Ultimately, this results in users rejecting virtual desktops," said Rajiv Pimplaskar, VP of Corporate Development, Atlantis Computing. "Lakeside SysTrack VMP helps IT teams identify the optimal storage specifications required to deliver the desired virtual desktop user experience."
Lakeside Software is the leading provider of business intelligence solutions for IT. SysTrack solutions for Windows 7 Migration, VDI Assessment and Planning, User Experience Scoring, End-to-End Monitoring and Problem Diagnostics empower IT with the knowledge to dramatically improve productivity and reduce costs. SysTrack's patented and massively scalable DataMine(TM) distributed database architecture aggregates node-level data unmatched in depth and quality, enabling SysTrack's sophisticated reporting intelligence to deliver an unprecedented level of insight into application usage and resource utilization.
About Atlantis Computing
Atlantis Computing is transforming enterprise desktop computing by solving the challenges of virtual desktop deployments: storage costs, performance and the impact of security on server density. The Atlantis ILIO software complements Citrix, VMware, and Quest VDI solutions to cut VDI costs and deliver a desktop that is faster than a PC. With Atlantis ILIO, IT organizations can deploy 4-7 times more desktops on the same storage footprint, making VDI more affordable by both cutting the amount of storage needed per desktop and enabling the use of less expensive storage. Atlantis Computing is privately held and funded by El Dorado Ventures, Partech International and Cisco Systems with headquarters in Mountain View, California, and offices in London, England and Bangalore, India.
Lakeside Software, SysTrack, Resolve and DataMine are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of Lakeside Software, Inc. Atlantis Computing and Atlantis ILIO are trademarks of Atlantis Computing, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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Lakeside Software, Inc.
CONTACT: Brinton E. Baker, Lakeside Software, Inc., +1-248-686-1676, brinton@lakesidesoftware.com, or Sabrina Sanchez, Ventana Public Relations for Atlantis Computing Inc., +1-925-785-3014, sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com
NEW APP LETS FRIENDS SHARE, LIKE AND SAVE RECIPES THEIR FRIENDS ARE COOKING RIGHT ON FACEBOOK
SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- With two-thirds of visitors to Foodily (http://www.foodily.com) already sharing their favorite recipes via Facebook, the popular recipe network has taken its mission to make recipe search more social a step further with the launch of Foodily on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com). Now people can share recipes from across the web, get insights into their friend's best-loved dishes and daily cravings without leaving the Facebook Platform. Using its visual recipe search and social feed of friend's recipes, the new Foodily on Facebook experience makes it even easier to discover new recipes, share recipes you love and ask your friends about the recipes they are sharing.
"Eating is one of the most social things we do every day," said Andrea Cutright, CEO of Foodily. "People want to use their friends and family to figure out what to cook and it's clear that Facebook is the place where so many of these conversations are happening. This release brings Foodily even closer to that community with an 'on canvas' experience tailored to Facebook."
In addition to seeing favorite recipes and what friends are cooking in the Facebook Foodily app, people are able to invite and follow new friends or follow popular topics to stay updated on what's new on the web and discover new recipes. All of this news is kept in a streamlined feed that tracks food-related posts and comments in one easy-to-find location right on Facebook.
Foodily's recipe index includes hundreds of sources that range from mainstream food sites to independent food blogs and gives people the ability to visually browse recipes side by side before deciding what to cook, whether searching for "buttermilk biscuits," "gluten-free brownies," or a dish "with pesto and without nuts."
Moreover, people are able to compare recipe details like ingredients, calories, fat content and other nutritional values, which can be a priority when dealing with food allergies, losing weight or merely trying to be healthy. Having their circle of friends available when making these choices can be critical in helping maintain dietary goals. *
The app also lets people go beyond their circle of friends to follow favorite cooking styles, dietary requirements, celebrities and chefs, or simply discover people with similar food interests. In the welcome email from Foodily, people will find the first of continued recipe recommendations from food authorities such as culinary expert Victoria Von Biel, so you can go beyond just your friend network and see recipes from categories you care about.
About Foodily:
Foodily makes sharing recipes a social experience and empowers people to make more informed decisions about the foods they eat. Through its comprehensive recipe network, influenced by friends, people can find and share the food they love online. Based in San Mateo, CA, Foodily is driven by a team of seasoned, food-passionate search, linguistic and consumer product experts. The company is backed by leading venture capital firm Index Ventures. Visit http://www.foodily.com and get cooking!
*(Sources: "Role of social support in lifestyle-focused weight management interventions," European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 59(S1): S179-S186, Verheijden MW, et al., 2005; "Treatment of obesity," Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 82(1): 93-102, Thompson WG, et al., 2007)
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Laura Goldberg, LBG Public Relations
347-683-1859
lauragoldberg@gmail.com
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CloudPassage Partners with RightScale to Deliver Elastic, Scalable, and Portable Security
CloudPassage Now Deployable Directly From RightScale
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CloudPassage, Inc., a pioneering security SaaS company, today announced availability with RightScale, the leader in cloud computing management, through the MultiCloud Marketplace. Through this relationship, RightScale users will have instant access to the CloudPassage Halo solution, a security SaaS purpose-built to deliver host-based network security, vulnerability management, server access administration, intrusion detection, and intrusion prevention.
"RightScale is well-known as the foremost leader in IaaS management and automation, and RightScale also delivers a key security function for IaaS: server asset inventory and control," said Carson Sweet, co-founder and CEO of CloudPassage. "Given that CloudPassage Halo delivers a multitude of security capabilities at the server level, automating Halo deployment through RightScale is a natural and high-value integration."
Security and compliance remain major challenges that stop companies from experiencing the benefits that the tremendous scalability and agility of cloud hosting provides. Server-level asset control and security management are critical when deploying steady-state applications or temporary workloads in the cloud. Customers deploying cloud infrastructure in many environments are largely on their own to protect themselves, which makes strong and highly automated host-based controls essential.
"The CloudPassage security solution now available in RightScale's MultiCloud Marketplace offers our customers an additional layer of security that is designed to be lightweight, portable, and elastic," said Josh Fraser, RightScale VP of Business Development. "CloudPassage Halo is fully automatable and highly scalable, making it a natural fit for RightScale customers. We are excited to have CloudPassage as a member of our ISV Partner Program."
RightScale offers a fully automated cloud management platform that enables organizations to easily deploy and manage business critical applications across multiple clouds with complete control and portability. RightScale's ability to enable instant deployment of preconfigured multi-server configurations enables companies to control their public cloud deployments, a critical and otherwise challenging issue for IaaS adopters.
CloudPassage Halo was built from the ground up to deliver security at the virtual machine level, which is the intersection of control, portability, and scale for IaaS. Halo centralizes and automates security management at high scale, and includes an extensive REST API that unlocks extensive integration capabilities.
About CloudPassage
CloudPassage is a security SaaS company offering the industry's first and only server security and compliance solutions purpose-built for elastic cloud environments. The company addresses the technical challenges of securing highly dynamic cloud hosting environments where consistent physical location, network control and perimeter security are not guaranteed. The company's Halo cloud server security product offers high-accuracy server security configuration and vulnerability management, centralized management of host-based firewalls and server account auditing for Linux servers. The innovative capabilities of the Halo platform operate across infrastructure models and seamlessly handle cloud server bursting, cloning, and migration.
Headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., CloudPassage is backed by Benchmark Capital. Gartner, Inc. named CloudPassage one of four "Cool Vendors in Cloud Security Services, 2011." For more information, please visit: http://www.CloudPassage.com.
ElcomSoft Recovers Passwords to BlackBerry Password Keeper & BlackBerry Wallet
MOSCOW, August 30, 2011/PRNewswire/ --
ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. updates Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker with the
ability to recover BlackBerry Password Keeper and Wallet master passwords,
enabling forensic access to user's login credentials and financial
information kept in BlackBerry devices. The tool becomes the first
commercially available product to offer access to information stored in
BlackBerry Password Keeper and BlackBerry Wallet.
By enabling forensic access to encrypted information stored in
BlackBerry Password Keeper and Wallet apps, ElcomSoft helps investigators
recover more valuable pieces of otherwise inaccessible information stored in
RIM BlackBerry smartphones.
Background
BlackBerry users have an option to securely store and quickly access
their passwords and their financial information including credit card
numbers, billing addresses etc. This information is being held in BlackBerry
Password Keeper and Wallet apps, and is securely protected with additional
master passwords. In order to access information stored in these apps,
BlackBerry users have to enter the correct master password first. After 10
unsuccessful attempts, all data stored in BlackBerry Password Keeper or
Wallet could be permanently erased from the device.
Information stored in Password Keeper and Wallet gets into off-line
backups. However, even when the backup gets decrypted, the users' passwords
and financial data remain securely protected with Password Keeper and Wallet
master passwords.
Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker can now recover master passwords to
Password Keeper and Wallet, providing investigators full access to stored
login credentials and financial information in plain-text. Elcomsoft Phone
Password Breaker can try hundreds of thousands passwords per second, making
dictionary and brute-force attacks feasible.
Pricing and Availability
Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker is available immediately in Home and
Professional editions. Licenses start from $79.
About ElcomSoft Co. Ltd.
Founded in 1990, ElcomSoft Co.Ltd. develops state-of-the-art computer
forensics tools, provides computer forensics training and consulting
services. Since 1997, ElcomSoft has been providing support to businesses,
law enforcement, military and intelligence agencies. ElcomSoft tools are
used by most of the Fortune 500 corporations, multiple branches of the
military all over the world, foreign governments, and all major accounting
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Digital sketch pen bridges the gap between traditional, freehand sketching and digital development by capturing a digital likeness of a pen-on-paper sketch.
VANCOUVER, Wash., Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Wacom® introduces Inkling, a new digital sketch pen that captures a digital likeness of your work while you sketch with its ballpoint tip on any sketchbook or standard piece of paper. Designed for rough concepting and creative brainstorming, Inkling bridges the gap between paper sketching and digital drawing by giving users at the front end of the creative process a way to rough-out ideas with real ink on paper and capture their concepts digitally so that they can be later refined on their computer. Inkling even allows users to create layers in the digital file while sketching on paper in the following creative software applications: Adobe® Photoshop®, Adobe® Illustrator® and Autodesk® Sketchbook® Pro.
Virtually anyone who uses sketching to capture their creative ideas and wants to have their drawings in a digital format to e-mail, archive or further refine on their computer can benefit from Inkling. For example, artists, illustrators, or storyboarders who appreciate the convenience, speed and spontaneity of loosely sketching their ideas on paper could profit from the capabilities of Wacom's Inkling digital sketch pen. In everyday use, a graphic designer could use Inkling to create rough concepts on paper for a new advertising campaign and then review and share these concepts on the computer with colleagues during a brainstorming meeting later that day. The pen and receiver store and recharge in a compact case making it easy to transport inkling between home, office, hotel or any typical workspace.
"Inkling's inspiration comes from a desire to give artistic people the freedom to draw on paper and to provide an easy way to transition the drawings to digital media," said Don Varga, Director of Professional Products at Wacom Technology Services Corp.
Inkling Specifics
The Inkling digital sketch pen is comprised of both hardware and software components. Hardware includes both the pen and a wireless receiver that captures a likeness of the sketch and stores it digitally. The ballpoint pen uses Wacom's pressure sensing technology (1024 levels of sensitivity) to detect how hard the pen is being pressed to the paper while sketching. These pressure variations will appear in the digital version of your drawing. "Through its pressure sensitivity, Inkling captures the varied line weights created by the ink pen," adds Varga.
The receiver can be clipped to the edge of standard paper or sketchbooks and the position can be adjusted for left or right handed users to provide the receiver with an uninterrupted line of sight with the pen tip. When sketching is complete, the receiver is connected to the user's computer via USB to transfer the digital files. Files can be opened with the included Inkling Sketch Manager software to edit, delete or add layers as well as to change formats and transfer the files for adjustment and editing in creative software applications.
Inkling can store thousands of sketches and export layered files directly to Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator (CS3 or newer), as well as Autodesk Sketchbook Pro (2011). Alternatively, files can be saved in JPG, BMP, TIFF, PNG, SVG and PDF formats for use with other applications. According to Varga, "Inkling's support of raster based applications such as Adobe Photoshop, as well as vector based applications such as Adobe Illustrator, will provide users with options for incorporating their preliminary sketches into further developed work."
The Ideal Companion for Intuos® and Cintiq®
Users of Wacom Intuos pen tablets and Cintiq interactive pen displays gain extra firepower by adding an Inkling to their creative arsenal. "For those working with our professional products, the pen is already their input tool of choice," continued Varga. "Inkling can deliver an immediate ROI to these users by delivering an accelerated and more mobile workflow resulting in digital files that can easily and quickly be transferred to their home or office computer and redrawn using the Intuos or Cintiq pen."
Wacom's vision to bring people and technology closer together through natural interface technologies has made it the world's leading manufacturer of pen tablets, interactive pen displays and digital interface solutions. The advanced technology of Wacom's intuitive input devices has been used to create some of the most exciting digital art, films, special effects, fashions and designs around the world and provides business and home users with the ability to explore digital content creation in a comfortable, natural way. Today, millions of customers use Wacom's cordless, battery-free, pressure-sensitive pen technology to express their creativity.
For more information, please contact:
Douglas A. Little
Sr. Public Relations Manager
Wacom Technology Services Corp.
360-896-9833 x174
douglas.little@wacom.com
BOCA RATON, Fla., Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- MediaNet Group Technologies, Inc. (OTCQB: MEDG), a global shopping and entertainment community, today announced that DubLi.com has launched its Customer Referral Program and the DubLi Shopping Mall in Spain.
The Customer Referral Program rewards V.I.P. Members for referring new customers who subscribe to the V.I.P. Member package. Existing DubLi V.I.P. Members can earn cash rewards that will be deposited directly into their DubLi Cash Organizer. All V.I.P. Member package holders are eligible to receive the DubLi-branded Debit Card to which they may deposit funds from their Cash Organizer. The DubLi Debit Card will be available in multiple currencies to better serve DubLi's global customer base.
The Company also announced the launch of the DubLi Shopping Mall in Spain that features some of the country and Europe's most notable brands including El Corte Ingles, Fnac, Carrefour and Tienda Real Madrid. The Spanish Shopping Mall was built in response to significant interest from Business Associates and potential Partner Programs serving the Spanish market.
Michael Hansen, President and Chief Executive Officer stated, "We are excited about the launch of the Customer Referral Program. DubLi's history in network marketing has taught us well about the power of direct and referral marketing and the Customer Referral Program sets the stage for us to capture many more consumer shoppers from our portals around the world. At the forefront of our growth strategy, we will continue to offer additional products, services and benefits to our already loyal global customers. This new program provides customers with an additional medium by which to engage with DubLi."
Mr. Hansen continued, "The launch of the DubLi Shopping Mall in Spain is the fourth this year under our new platform and we expect to launch Denmark before our fiscal year ends in September. We are pleased with the response to our new platform and search capabilities and look forward to additional opportunities for DubLi Shopping Malls around the world during next year."
About MediaNet Group Technologies, Inc.:
MediaNet Group Technologies, Inc. has created a global online shopping community that includes its reverse auction concept, Shopping Mall platform and Entertainment portal. The Company's unique operating strategy combines online shopping with its distribution network to reach customers directly on a global scale.
The foundation of MediaNet Group is grounded in innovative technology, a global platform and an expertise in understanding and capitalizing on global economic trends and changing consumer behaviors. The central hub of the MediaNet Group community is DubLi.com from which all other components of the business model are derived. Additional information about the Company is available in its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission at http://www.sec.gov.
Except for historical matters contained herein, statements made in this press release are forward-looking. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, words such as "may," "will," "to," "plan," "expect," "believe," "anticipate," "intend," "could," "would," "estimate," or "continue" or the negative other variations thereof or comparable terminology are intended to identify forward-looking statements.
Investors and others are cautioned that a variety of factors, including certain risks, may affect our business and cause actual results to differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements. These risk factors include, without limitation, the risk of (i) an inability to establish and/or maintain a large, growing base of business associates; (ii) an inability to develop and/or maintain brand awareness for our online auctions; (iii) a failure to maintain the competitive bidding environment for our online auctions; (iv) a failure to adapt to technological change; and (v) a failure to maintain adequate internal controls. The Company is also subject to the risks and uncertainties described in its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2010.
Contacts:
MediaNet Group Technologies, Inc.:
Stefanie Kitzes
stefanie@medianetgroup.com
561-417-1500
Silicon Valley Bank Introduces International Online Payment Service
Internet Payment System Helps Companies Sell Overseas by Collecting Foreign Payments of All Major Types or Currencies
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the premier bank for the innovation sector, introduced a new service that will allow its clients to accept 85 different online payment types from their customers globally. With SVB's Global Treasury Platform, companies that sell their products and services globally, can collect payments in foreign currencies, and automatically deposit those funds into their SVB multi-currency or in-country accounts. SVB's card processing services are provided through Merchant e-Solutions and Adyen, its international card processing partner.
"Almost half of our business is outside the U.S.," said Derrick Morton, CEO of FlowPlay. "In order to maximize international revenue, it's important that we transact in the local currency and payment methods. Adyen has an incredible system for managing our complex currency and pricing matrix and with SVB's international presence we are able to make local deposits of these foreign currencies."
SVB clients now have the ability to accept electronic payments in local payment methods, such as credit or debit cards, PayPal, iDEAL, and Dankort among many others, in countries across Europe, North America, South America and Asia.
"Our tech-focused clients are selling internationally, even at their earliest stages, so we make every effort to make it easy for them to operate globally," said Pradeep T. Moudgal, Head of Global Cards and Merchant Services, Silicon Valley Bank. "Our clients will find our new payments service is extremely convenient, giving them the ability to deposit funds of any major currency directly into their SVB multi-currency or in-country accounts."
With enhanced merchant services from SVB, companies will also reduce processing expenses and cross-border fees, at the same time covering PCI (payment card industry) compliance requirements. Since the hosted payment Web page can be designed to mirror the look and feel of each retailer's Web site, it also ensures a higher conversion rate during the payment process.
"By accepting convenient, international payments, retailers have the opportunity to create new revenue streams overseas," said Peter Caparso, U.S. President at Adyen. "With SVB and Adyen services, our clients can now accelerate customer payments, minimize chargebacks, help ensure PCI compliance, and mitigate fraud and risk."
About Silicon Valley Bank
Silicon Valley Bank is the premier bank for technology, life science, cleantech, venture capital, private equity and premium wine businesses. SVB provides industry knowledge and connections, financing, treasury management, corporate investment and international banking services to its clients worldwide through 26 U.S. offices and seven international operations. (Nasdaq: SIVB) http://www.svb.com.
Silicon Valley Bank is the California bank subsidiary and the commercial banking operation of SVB Financial Group. Banking services are provided by Silicon Valley Bank, a member of the FDIC and the Federal Reserve System. SVB Private Bank is a division of Silicon Valley Bank. SVB Financial Group is also a member of the Federal Reserve System.
About Adyen
Adyen is the leading provider of global Internet payment and e-commerce technology solutions for mid, large and enterprise e-commerce merchants. Adyen's revolutionary Internet payment solution enables merchants to significantly increase online conversion by optimizing the online payment process. This "one-stop" solution can be implemented within days and connects companies to global customers through a growing offering of payment methods. Adyen clients include industry leaders such as Vodafone, Getty Images, ROIWorld (a division of A+E Networks), Popcap Games, Mango, Musicnotes.com and Branchout. To learn more please visit the Adyen website at http://www.adyen.com.
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CONTACT: Carrie Merritt of SVB Financial Group, +1-503-574-3705, cmerritt@svb.com, @SVBCarrie, or Nicole Messier of Portfolio PR Group for Adyen, +1-518-306-4029, nicole@portfolioprgroup.com, @nmessier
Trend Micro(TM) Deep Security Continues to Accelerate the Industry-wide Virtualization and Cloud Journey with Landmark Release
The journey to the cloud for enterprises and service providers -- aided by protection that works effectively, adaptively and efficiently in all its stages -- is secured by new versions of Trend Micro(TM) Deep Security in concert with Trend Micro(TM) SecureCloud.
LAS VEGAS, Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at VMworld® 2011, Trend Micro Incorporated, (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), the number one market leader in serverand virtualization security, the first vendor to introduce agentless anti-malware for virtual environments, and the first to include intrusion prevention and web application protection as part of an all agentless solution, announced the next release of Deep Security that further cements its leadership as a leading server security platform in the industry - across physical, virtual and cloud computing environments.
With an all-new agentless integrity monitoring capability purpose-built for VMware vSphere® 5 virtual environments, including hypervisor integrity checks and other cloud-sourced innovations, Deep Security 8 will lower the barrier to adoption of file integrity monitoring across the datacenter and help organizations achieve higher levels of data protection and compliance without added cost and complexity.
Deep Security 8
Trend Micro Deep Security has already established itself as a market leading server and virtualization security offering. A server security platform comprising anti-malware, firewall, IDS/IPS, web application protection, integrity monitoring and log inspection in one integrated solution, Trend Micro now extends its leadership and innovation even further withDeep Security 8 with the following new feature benefits:
For physical servers:
-- Automatic cloud-based event white-listing and configurable trusted
events lower the operational complexity of integrity monitoring, further
opening the technology to a much wider set of customers.
-- Agent-based anti-malware allows organizations to extend the same Deep
Security protections to physical servers for Windows and Linux operating
systems.
For virtual servers:
-- Agentless File Integrity Monitoring, through the same Deep Security
Virtual Appliance that already provides agentless anti-malware and
agentless intrusion prevention in a virtual environment, removes
integrity scan storms and significantly lowers the operational
complexity.
-- Flexible deployment architecture allows select VMs to be set up with
optional agents that coordinate with the virtual appliance for added
defense in depth.
-- Hypervisor integrity monitoring utilizing Intel TPM/TXT technology is
one of the first market solutions available to monitor whether the
hypervisor is compromised
-- Support for VMware vSphere 5 and VMware vShield(TM) Manager 5, with
VMware vShield Endpoint Security API 2, also permits backward
compatibility with VMware vSphere 4.1 with VMware vShield 1.0.
For virtual desktops:
-- Agent-based anti-malware for VDI local mode allows continuously
optimized protection of virtual desktops as they move outside, and back,
into the data center.
-- Leverages web reputation capabilities to protect users from accessing
compromised websites.
-- For virtual desktop environments protected by Deep Security agentless
anti-malware, Deep Security now provides an optional End-user Notifier
that can provide malware notifications in lieu of a full-blown
anti-malware agent.
For cloud servers:
-- See below for Deep Security 8 integration with SecureCloud 2.
U.S. Deep Security 8 Pricing and Availability
Organizations need only license those security components they currently need on specific servers--adding a module is a simple license key switch. Deep Security is priced in the U.S. starting at $1000 per server, with volume discounts available. Deep Security 8 is expected to ship by the end of the year. Channel partners can gain a differentiated virtualization portfolio along with the prospect of increased deal sizes.
Total Cloud Protection with Deep Security 8 and Trend Micro(TM) SecureCloud 2
Trend Micro was the premier vendor to deliver security architected for private and public clouds, and pioneered the market with security architected for VMware virtualization and cloud infrastructure platforms. While Deep Security is a server security platform that provides a secure container for applications and servers in the cloud, SecureCloud augments Deep Security by encrypting and protecting the data that the servers and applications use. SecureCloud is a cloud data protection and policy-based encryption key management solution that makes it easy to encrypt and protect data in physical, virtualized and cloud computing environments. It simply enables faster cloud adoption, greater cost reduction, and better compliance. With this upcoming release, Deep Security customers and channel partners can choose to reap the benefits of integrated bundling with SecureCloud's encryption and policy-based key management features.
Deep Security and SecureCloud work together to create a context-aware framework that responds to the constantly evolving state of the dynamic datacenter. For instance, SecureCloud communicates with Deep Security, using the security status information from Deep Security to ensure that any server requesting access to encrypted data has up-to-date protection before encryption keys are released. If integrity checks by Deep Security determine that a VM with out-of-date or inadequate protection is trying to startup, or that a VM has been compromised by an attack, SecureCloud adaptively responds and the VM's data access is blocked via denial of encryption key and an action is flagged to the administrator for remedial action.
New and Enhanced
SecureCloud 2 also features significant new enhancements, including a new encryption agent complete with FIPS 140-2 certification. Government agencies, and companies held to the highest security standards, require FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) certification of encryption products. In addition, new Deep Security Manager (DSM) linking points allow SecureCloud to query the DSM and gather information about the servers it is protecting. SecureCloud administrators can build policies around this new information and enhance the rules that govern which servers are allowed access to encryption keys. This increases the overall security posture and provides additional validation criteria queried from the Deep Security operating environment.
U.S. SecureCloud 2 Pricing and Availability
SecureCloud is delivered as a convenient hosted SaaS solution under a free two-month trail or as an on-premise software application. Service provider delivery options that provide unified billing and rapid deployment are also available. Perpetual-based pricing aligns with traditional security pricing, but there is also subscription-based pricing. The current SecureCloud product version is available for purchase now through Trend Micro sales and channel partners, and through cloud brokers and service providers. SecureCloud 2 is projected to be available by the end of the year. It can be purchased separately or as part of a Total Cloud Protection pack with Deep Security 8.
Supporting quotes:
Todd Redfoot, Chief Information Security Officer, GoDaddy.com
"Since Trend Micro Deep Security has a small footprint, it allows us to keep the same customer density on our servers. The Deep Security console is very easy to use, and anything you can do from the console can be carried out automatically to keep the cost of administration low."
Andrew Hay, senior security analyst with The 451 Group's Enterprise Security Program.
"Organizations are leery of moving systems into cloud environments due to the perception of inadequate security controls. Products like Trend Micro's Deep Security 8.0 may help alleviate some of those concerns by providing a suite of security controls that are surreptitiously woven into the very fabric of customers cloud and virtualization infrastructure."
Dave Zylyk, (former) senior systems analyst, Information services/corporate services, City of Kelowna, Canada
"When we researched security within a VMware environment, everything pointed us to Trend Micro. Trend Micro has become a security leader in virtualization and it is also important to us that they have been working very closely with VMware."
Paula Musich, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Networking and Security, Current Analysis
"With Deep Security, Trend Micro led the charge in developing agent-less security tailored specifically for virtual servers - especially VMware virtual servers. With the addition of an agent for physical servers, Trend Micro can now provide common policy management across both environments, helping to reduce complexity for server administrators as they transition more applications to the virtual world. At the same time, the ability to monitor for potential hypervisor breaches gives customers greater assurance that they can virtualize more mission critical applications without exposing them to greater risks."
Rob Ayoub, CISSP - global program director for Frost & Sullivan's Information Security Practice
"Trend Micro has done a great job with Deep Security in building out a security platform focused on servers - including physical, virtual and cloud-bases ones. They have been on the forefront of innovation in virtualization and cloud security, and Deep Security 8.0 will now do for file integrity monitoring what it has already done for anti-malware and IDS/IPS in terms of simplifying security operations and reducing barriers to adoption."
John Maddison, Executive GM of data center business unit
"Customers will not and sometimes cannot change out their entire server infrastructure overnight. They do expect their security systems to be optimized for Physical (Operating Systems), Virtual (Hypervisor Integration) and Cloud (Management Integration) environments. Further with today's threat environment focused on data stealing they expect a dynamic threat defense system combined with a policy driven data protection deployment. Trend Micro Deep security is the only Server Security Platform to provide all this via a single Policy Management console."
Parag Patel, VMware Vice President of Global Strategic Alliances
"Trend Micro and VMware have continued to collaborate to extend our mutual efforts of delivering customers groundbreaking security offerings. Working together on the latest enhancements in VMware vSphere® and VMware vShield(TM), Trend Micro is able to provide broad protection to virtualized environments, increase operational efficiency, and ensure regulatory compliance, giving customers confidence to move forward in their journey to cloud computing."
Supporting Assets on Deep Security and SecureCloud
-- Trend Micro rated #1 in Server Security by IDC here.
-- Trend Micro declared virtualization security market management leader
here.
-- In a Tolly Group report, Trend Micro Deep Security, with its agentless
anti-malware architecture, was observed to be up to 11 times more
efficient in the use of key system resources in virtual environments
than competing solutions. The report also showed that Deep Security can
support over three times the virtual machine density of these solutions.
Read the full report here.
-- In Network World Magazine's Clear Choice Test in virtualization security
ranking, Trend Micro Deep Security was rated first among the five tested
virtualization security products. Read the announcement here.
-- Trend Micro was the first-to-market agentless anti-malware in VMware
environments.
-- Only security product in its class to be rated Common Criteria EAL 3+.
-- Learn how Trend Micro can secure your journey to the cloud.
-- Trend Micro CEO whitepaper, "A Brave New (Security) World"
-- Individual whitepapers on Private, Public and Hybrid cloud.
-- Visit the Cloud Security Blog for the latest dialogue on where the cloud
is headed and what's at stake.
About Trend Micro
Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global cloud security leader, creates a world safe for exchanging digital information with its Internet content security and threat management solutions for businesses and consumers. A pioneer in server security with over 20 years' experience, we deliver top-ranked client, server and cloud-based security that fits our customers' and partners' needs, stops new threats faster, and protects data in physical, virtualized and cloud environments. Powered by the industry-leading Trend Micro(TM) Smart Protection Network(TM) cloud computing security infrastructure, our products and services stop threats where they emerge - from the Internet. They are supported by 1,000+ threat intelligence experts around the globe.
Additional information about Trend Micro Incorporated and the products and services are available at Trend Micro.com This Trend Micro news release and other announcements are available at http://trendmicro.mediaroom.com/ and as part of an RSS feed at http://www.trendmicro.com/rss Or follow our news on Twitter at @TrendMicro.
VMware, VMware vShield, VMware vSphere and VMworld are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions.
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More Than 250 AT&T Cell Sites Upgraded Year-to-Date to Provide Advanced Mobile Broadband Experience for Tampa Bay Area Customers
More Than $425 Million Invested in AT&T Florida Wireless and Wireline Networks in First Half of 2011
TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T* customers in the Tampa Bay area are expected to experience improved mobile broadband coverage and voice performance as a result of continued investment by AT&T. The company announced today network improvements made year-to-date to enhance the wireless capacity and performance of its local mobile broadband network.
Since the start of 2011, AT&T has made the following improvements in Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Hernando, and Citrus counties:
-- Deployed enhanced backhaul connections to approximately 150 cell sites.
Combined with HSPA+ technology, these backhaul deployments enable 4G
speeds.
-- Added spectrum carriers or an extra layer of frequency (capacity) to
approximately 110 cell sites to support more traffic.
-- Hillsborough County - Added additional mobile broadband capacity to
more than 60 cell sites in the areas of Tampa, Plant City, Lithia,
Durant, Gibsonton, Apollo Beach, Wimauma, Ruskin, Sun City Center,
Brandon, Riverview, and Valrico.
-- Pinellas County - Added additional mobile broadband capacity to 20
cell sites in the areas of St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Dunedin,
Largo, Belleair Bluffs, Pinellas Park, Tierra Verde, Oldsmar, Palm
Harbor, Safety Harbor, and Tarpon Springs.
-- Pasco County - Added additional mobile broadband capacity to more
than 10 cell sites in Zephyrhills, Spring Hill, Dade City, Wesley
Chapel, Lutz, Land O' Lakes, Odessa, New Port Richey, Hudson, and
Port Richey.
-- Hernando County - Added additional mobile broadband capacity to five
cell sites in Brooksville and Spring Hill.
-- Citrus County - Added additional mobile broadband capacity to a
dozen cell sites in Homosassa, Lecanto, Beverly Hills, Crystal
River, Hernando, Dunnellon, Floral City, and Inverness.
-- Installed three new cell sites to improve network coverage in the areas
of Davis Island and the mall on West Shore Boulevard in Hillsborough
County, and near the intersection of Mariner and Northcliffe boulevards
in Spring Hill in Hernando County.
"More than ever before, customers look to wireless communications to stay in touch with family, friends and business colleagues," said Rich Guidotti, vice president and general manager, AT&T Mobility & Consumer Markets for West, Central and North Florida. "We're working to make this possible by investing in new wireless coverage in the Tampa area. In addition, our recently announced agreement to acquire T-Mobile USA represents a major commitment to strengthen and expand our network. If approved, this deal means that we'll be able to expand the next generation of mobile broadband - 4G LTE - from our current plan of 80 percent of the U.S. population to more than 97 percent."
AT&T invested more than $425 million in its Florida wireless and wireline networks in the first half of 2011.
"Our goal is to deliver a network experience that mobilizes everything for customers," said Marshall Criser, III, AT&T Florida president. "The ongoing investment we're making in Florida is designed to increase coverage, reliability and offers advanced services for our customers so they can do more with their wireless devices."
AT&T plans to support the build or upgrade of thousands of cell sites nationwide to increase network speed, coverage and reliability for both mobile voice and broadband services. AT&T also plans to install additional radio "carriers" at thousands of cell sites nationally this year, enabling new layers of spectrum capacity to carry larger volumes of mobile broadband traffic. Additional capacity helps support rising mobile data traffic volumes, which have increased more than 8,000 percent over the past four years.
For more information about AT&T's coverage in the Tampa area or anywhere in the United States, consumers can visit the AT&T Coverage Viewer. Using the online tool, AT&T customers can measure quality of coverage from a street address, intersection, ZIP code or even a landmark.
For updates on the AT&T wireless network, please visit the AT&T network news page.
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
About AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates - AT&T operating companies - are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. With a powerful array of network resources that includes the nation's fastest mobile broadband network, AT&T is a leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet, voice and cloud-based services. A leader in mobile broadband and emerging 4G capabilities, AT&T also offers the best wireless coverage worldwide of any U.S. carrier, offering the most wireless phones that work in the most countries. It also offers advanced TV services under the AT&T U-verse® and AT&T |DIRECTV brands. The company's suite of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in the world. In domestic markets, AT&T Advertising Solutions and AT&T Interactive are known for their leadership in local search and advertising.
Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com. This AT&T news release and other announcements are available at http://www.att.com/newsroom and as part of an RSS feed at http://www.att.com/rss. Or follow our news on Twitter at @ATT.
Cautionary Language Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
Information set forth in this press release contains financial estimates and other forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, and actual results might differ materially. A discussion of factors that may affect future results is contained in AT&T's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. AT&T disclaims any obligation to update and revise statements contained in this news release based on new information or otherwise.
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AT&T Inc.
CONTACT: Kelly Starling of AT&T Inc., Office: +1-561-775-4259, Mobile: +1-561-301-1414, kelly.starling@att.com
Gay-Friendly Deals to be Found With the Launch of New Website
Gaypon to partner with local, regional and national businesses to offer coupons and discounts to consumers in the LGBT and allied communities
DETROIT, Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Gaypon, an online source for coupons and discounts provided by gay-friendly businesses, today announced the official launch of its website DailyGaypon.com. The site provides its subscribers with daily offers from local, regional and national businesses that welcome and support consumers from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and allied communities.
"Gaypon gives you the opportunity to receive awesome discounts on everything from dining, nightlife and entertainment to the latest gadgets, fashion and fitness," said Gaypon Founder & CEO, Robert Graham. "You don't have to be part of the LGBT community to participate with Gaypon. Our online community is a place where individuals who believe in equal and fair employment practices can find great deals and support businesses that share the same philosophy."
The Benefits of Being A Gaypon Subscriber
There is no cost to become a subscriber and registration can be completed at DailyGaypon.com. Gaypon subscribers, once registered, will receive coupons and discounts via email with a limited timeframe for purchase. After a deal is purchased, a coupon or unique coupon-code will arrive via email. The subscriber can then present the coupon to a business for redemption or enter the coupon-code at the merchant's website.
Giving Back to the Community
Gaypon gives back to local and national LGBT organizations and charities with a portion of proceeds being donated. "Through our support of nonprofits, Gaypon gives our subscribers more than one reason to feel good about their purchase," said Graham.
How Businesses Can Be Featured on Gaypon
"A business does not have to be gay-owned to be featured on Gaypon, just proud to support a diverse workforce and customer base," said Graham. Before a business can become participating merchant, Gaypon performs a background check for complaints of discrimination and/or poor hiring practices. Gaypon also uses additional tools to evaluate potential businesses for corporate policies and practices such as the Human Rights Campaign's "Corporate Equality Index," which rates Americans businesses on LGBT equality.
Switch Datacenter Group Opens High Density State-of-the-art Network Neutral Datacenter in Amsterdam South East
AMSTERDAM, August 30, 2011/PRNewswire/ --
"The answer to the growing demand for affordable high quality Carbon &
Network Neutral Datacenter capacity in Amsterdam."
"Switch Datacenters Amsterdam delivers 700 m2 of high end datacenter
space to its first anchor client Internet Unie."
After 2 years of construction Switch Datacenter Group today finalized
the first phase of its innovative hyper modern purpose-built datacenter in
Amsterdam.
With space and power for more than 1.500 racks and 60.000 servers Switch
Datacenter Amsterdam provides a direct answer to the growing demand for high
quality Carrier Neutral datacenter capacity in Amsterdam. The 8.320 m2
facility is equipped with an ultra-efficient cooling infrastructure, which
guarantees PUE levels between 1,2 and 1,3. "This lower power consumption
provides a direct price advantage to customers of 25% to 30% in average
compared to most datacenters in Europe," says Gregor Snip, Founder and
Commercial Director of Switch Datacenter Group.
The highly secured facility is purpose built for providing sufficient
and easy expandable datacenter space to Internet Service Providers, Multi
Media companies and large scale web environments. This robust facility is
equipped with highest standards of the current datacenter industry.
Another advantage from Switch Datacenter is that it is located in
Amsterdam South East, which has one on the highest densities of
International Carrier Fiber Backbones in the world. At present Switch
Datacenter is already connected to 460 fibers from 40 different Carrier
Networks to which customers can connect directly against the best
conditions.
Gregor Snip: "Primary partner of Switch for the development of its
datacenters is Compertius -Total Datacenter Solutions-. Besides up to date
and relevant knowledge and engineering capabilities, Compertius has more
than 10 years experience in 24x7 Operations Management of Datacenters. This
experience brings an enormous advantage compared to traditional and mainly
technical oriented market-players. Based on this combination of technical
resources, datacenter-knowledge and Operations Management we are able to
introduce a new generation datacenters that will bring an unrivalled
combination of capacity, energy performance and customer friendliness to the
market."
For more information about Switch Datacenters: press@switchdatacenters.com, tel. +31(0)20-691-6424; For more information about Internet Unie: info@iu.nl, tel. +31(0)20-463-0506; For more information about Compertius: info@compertius.nl, tel. +31(0)20-8202730
Google and Wananchi Group Launch New Wi-Fi Product in Kenya With Aptilo Networks
Wazi WiFi Network Explores High Speed, Low-Cost Wireless in Emerging Markets
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 30, 2011/PRNewswire/ --
Wananchi Group [http://wananchi.com/home/index.html ], in collaboration
with Google [http://www.google.com ] and wireless data service management
company Aptilo Networks [http://www.aptilo.com ], have today announced the
launch of Wazi Wi-Fi [http://www.waziwifi.co.ke/index.htm ], a high-speed
wireless broadband network in Nairobi, Kenya. This bolsters the company's
efforts to explore business models that can sustain high speeds and low cost
Wi-Fi in emerging markets.
The network already delivers affordable, high-speed internet access at
Nairobi's Junction Shopping Mall area. The service is free for the first ten
minutes of use per day on each device. Users can then purchase a single day
pass for Shs.50 per device and Shs.500 for one month per device.
Customers can pay for the service online using credit cards or local
mobile money solutions including M-PESA, Airtel Money and PesaPal.
"We are having discussions with local businesses to explore expansion
plans. We see big opportunities in using WiFi technology for mobile data
offloading [http://www.aptilo.com/solutions_mobile-data-offloading.htm ] and
providing high speed unmetered access away from home. The African region has
always been ahead with mobile data services, and the rapid uptake of newer
affordable smartphones and tablets keeps driving up the demand for data
capacity on the move," says Wananchi Group CEO Richard Bell.
Wazi WiFi utilises the Aptilo Service Management Platform for service
management and policy control. The platform facilitates easy and scalable
service delivery, administration and monitoring. Wazi Wi-Fi is being
delivered via Aptilo Cloud Services(TM), a hosted solution that meets rapid
time to market and time to revenue objectives.
"The internet is a powerful source of information. Wazi Wi-Fi is part of
our broader goal in Africa; to get more users online, to reduce internet
access barriers and to help develop a vibrant internet environment,"
commented Euan Guttridge, Technical Program Manager, Emerging Markets,
Google Sub Saharan Africa. "Bit by bit, the web in Africa is helping to
transform communication and open up new economic opportunities."
"Capabilities for gathering statistics and reporting are key components
of the Aptilo solution for Wazi Wi-Fi, as they will allow Wananchi and
Google to monitor use and tailor service delivery to meet the needs of
users," said Zakaria Bennani, Director Sales, Europe & Africa, Aptilo
Networks. "We are proud to work with Wananchi Group, BelAir and Google in
furthering their mission in making internet accessible in Africa."
NOTES TO EDITOR:
About WANANCHI
The Wananchi Group, established in 2007, is the leading provider of
cable and internet services in Eastern Africa. As Africa's pioneering
provider of "triple play" (broadband, TV, VoIP) with a cable network passing
40,000 Kenyan homes, Wananchi Group is positioned to become the premier
media operator in the region.
Wananchi's consumer brand, Zuku, offers the modern African consumer
fresh, innovative and affordable options for entertainment and
communication. There are currently three commercial products under Zuku,
namely; Zuku TV (DTH satellite TV covering 12 countries), Zuku Triple Play
(a bundled cable offering of TV, high speed broadband & VoIP) and Zuku Biz
(our cable SME offering).For more information about our products, please
visit our Web site at http://www.zuku.co.ke
About Aptilo Networks
Aptilo Networks is the global leader in pre-integrated management
solutions for control of billing, user services and access in Wi-Fi,
WiMAX(TM) and LTE networks. Aptilo's solutions have been deployed in more
than 50 countries. For more information, please visit http://www.aptilo.com.
For further information please contact:
Hillary Call
Public Relations Manager
Aptilo Networks AB
c/o Call Communications
P: +917-414-9262
hillary.call@aptilo.com
Ann Nderi
Account Director
Tell-Em Public Relations (EA) Ltd
For Wananchi Group
P: +254-722-217-692
ann.nderi@tell-em-pr.com [vata.nganda@ke.wananchi.com ]
Qualcomm Atheros Collaborates with Acer to Bring the Latest Bluetooth Technology to the Consumer Laptop Platform
-- Delivers Industry-First Bluetooth 4.0 + HS to Enable Laptops to Detect and Connect with Bluetooth Low Energy-Only Devices --
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Qualcomm Atheros Inc., the networking and connectivity subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), today announced its new Bluetooth 4.0 + HS chip solution for laptops and other computing devices. An industry first, the Qualcomm Atheros chip for Bluetooth 4.0 + HS enables laptops to detect and connect wirelessly with Bluetooth low energy (LE) devices such as those for proximity detection and health monitoring. Acer will use Qualcomm Atheros' new WB225 combo module, which includes the AR9485 802.11b/g/n for wireless LAN (WLAN) and the AR3012 chip for Bluetooth 4.0 + HS, to enable computing platforms to communicate with Bluetooth LE-only devices. Previously, LE-only product manufacturers lacked user computing gateways, such as laptops and tablets, to collect data from LE devices.
Bluetooth 4.0 introduced LE technology to the Bluetooth Core Specification, enabling new types of devices to operate for months or even years on tiny batteries. Bluetooth 4.0 + HS supports data transfer speeds of up to 24 Mbps, whereby the Bluetooth link is used for negotiation and pair establishment and the high data rate traffic is carried over a co-located 802.11g link (the "+HS" portion). Qualcomm Atheros' Universal Wireless Cooperation technology, which enables Bluetooth's coexistence with WLAN, provides consumers with a seamless user experience during scenarios such as simultaneous VoIP calls and streaming video over the Internet, which utilizes WLAN for data connection and Bluetooth for the audio I/O for the consumer.
"Our collaboration with Qualcomm Atheros highlights our greater commitment to delivering industry leading connectivity technology to consumers that truly enhances their living," said David Lee, assistant vice president of the mobile computing business unit, Acer Inc.
The Qualcomm Atheros WB225 combo module allows users to connect with other Bluetooth + HS-enabled platforms and devices and is compatible with previous Bluetooth 3.0 + HS for fast file transfers, mobile phonebook syncing and personal area network (PAN) applications. The "+HS" feature uses WLAN technology for high speed data. Qualcomm Atheros and Acer have pre-enabled several qualified Bluetooth LE usage cases such as proximity detection, time synchronization and network availability. The platform is software and hardware ready for LE connectivity with no user upgrades required.
"We are excited to work with Acer to provide the latest Bluetooth connectivity solutions to consumers," said Amir Faintuch, senior vice president and general manager of consumer business unit for Qualcomm Atheros. "Acer and Qualcomm Atheros have a long history of delivering superior WLAN and Bluetooth solutions. With this latest offering, end users will more easily be able to utilize Bluetooth LE-enabled devices for applications such as proximity detection and health monitoring."
About Qualcomm Atheros Inc.
Qualcomm Atheros Inc., the networking and connectivity subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, is a leading provider of wireless and wired technologies for the mobile, networking, computing and consumer electronics markets. The organization is focused on inventing technologies that connect and empower people in ways that are elegant and accessible to all. With its broad connectivity portfolio, Qualcomm Atheros provides its global customer base with high-performance, end-to-end solutions featuring Wi-Fi®, GPS, Bluetooth®, Ethernet, HomePlug® powerline and PON technologies. Qualcomm Atheros leverages its substantial expertise in RF, signal processing, software and networking to deliver highly integrated, low-power, system-level solutions that enable customers to create high-performance, differentiated products. For more information, go to http://www.qca.qualcomm.com.
Qualcomm Atheros is a trademark of Qualcomm Atheros Inc. HomePlug is a registered trademark of the HomePlug Powerline Alliance. Wi-Fi is a registered trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance. Bluetooth is a registered trademark of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group. All other trademarks are the sole property of their respective owners.
Who's In and Who's Out: TripIt Launches Company Calendar
New Calendar View Makes it Easy to See When and Where Colleagues are Traveling in One Place
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- TripIt, the leading mobile trip organizer from Concur (Nasdaq: CNQR), today announced the launch of a new company travel calendar that makes it easy for everyone in the office to see who's traveling when and where - all in one place. So everything from coordinating travel schedules, to simply planning office meetings, is more efficient and frustration-free.
The month-at-a-glance view helps both traveling and "in the office" employees. Colleagues can discover if they're traveling to the same place around the same time, so they can coordinate transportation, client meetings, or activities. Those in the office can now easily see where colleagues are and when they'll be back in the office. Dates and locations are visible on the calendar, but sensitive itinerary details remain private.
Access to the company calendar is now available at http://www.tripit.com on the "Business" tab for:
-- Any member of TripIt Groups, the free service for companies that makes
it easy to view and share travel plans with colleagues. More than
25,000 companies use TripIt Groups, ranging from those in the Fortune
500 to small businesses.
-- Any employee whose company is a TripIt for Business customer, the simple
solution for companies who want to take the pain out of traveling,
planning, and organizing office travel. TripIt for Business customers
get premium features including: a quick view of who's in/out today;
historical and future month access; company sub-groups; and the ability
to invite partners or participants outside the company to join the
group. TripIt for Business pricing starts at $29/month.
"A company travel calendar is one of the most requested features we've received from our business users," said Scott Hintz, co-founder and VP of Business Development for TripIt. "With this launch, we're bringing the familiar and super-useful in/out board into the 21st century. Now employees have one place where they can quickly view colleagues' travel schedules, eliminating the need to cut and paste travel plans elsewhere."
To learn more about TripIt for Business, the easier way for companies to organize and plan office travel, visit: http://tripit.com/business.
TripIt®, the leading mobile travel organizer from Concur® (Nasdaq: CNQR), makes it easy for millions of travelers to organize and share their trips. Simply forward confirmation emails from anywhere you book to plans@tripit.com and TripIt automagically creates one simple, smart itinerary to access on a smartphone, calendar, or anywhere online. For even greater peace of mind while traveling, TripIt Pro acts like a personal travel assistant that keeps travelers in the know regarding flight status, alternate flights, and more; tracks all frequent traveler points in one place; and monitors eligible flights for fare refunds. TripIt for Business is an easier way for companies to organize office travel; keep track of who's traveling when and where, and whether travel dollars are being spent wisely. For more information, please visit http://www.tripit.com and follow @TripIt at http://twitter.com/tripit.
About Concur
Concur® is a leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions for companies of all sizes. Concur's easy-to-use web-based and mobile solutions help companies and their employees control costs and save time. Learn more at http://www.concur.com.
SOURCE Concur
Concur
CONTACT: Amy Jackson, Senior Public Relations Manager, TripIt, Concur, +1-415-401-1152, press@tripit.com; or Helen McClenahan, Weber Shandwick, +1-206-576-5502, hmcclenahan@webershandwick.com, for Concur
This week The Sunday Times' award-winning app edition becomes available
for the first time on Android tablet devices. The new Android tablet app is
the latest addition to The Sunday Times' digital portfolio, following the
hugely successful Sunday Times iPad app, which has been voted Newspaper App
of the Year* and the World's No.1 Newspaper and Magazine app**.
The new Android tablet app includes all 12 sections of Britain's biggest
and best-selling quality newspaper, with exclusive video and stunning
photography, interactive graphics, high definition slideshows plus live and
updated news and sport results.
Tristan Davies, Executive Editor of The Sunday Times says, 'We are
delighted to launch our full app edition in the Android Marketplace. The
Sunday Times Android tablet edition has all the qualities of design and
interactivity that have made our iPad edition the world's leading newspaper
and magazine app. Now owners of Galaxies, Xooms and other Android Honeycomb
devices can enjoy a fully immersive, page-turning reading experience
designed specifically for touch-screen tablets.'
The Android tablet app is available via The Times and Sunday Times
newspaper and digital subscription packages. The digital subscription is
only GBP1 for the first 30 days, then GBP2 per week thereafter. You can
download a sample edition of the Android tablet app free via the Android
Marketplace.
Qualcomm Collaborates with Leading OEMs to Announce the Availability of Multi-mode LTE TDD Devices in India
-- Huawei, ZTE, Quanta and BandRich Announce LTE TDD with Multi-mode Devices Based on Qualcomm MDM9x00 chipsets --
NEW DELHI, Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), in collaboration with Huawei, ZTE, Quanta and BandRich, today announced the launch of LTE TDD multi-mode devices based on Qualcomm's MDM9x00(TM) chipsets at Qualcomm's signature event, IndiaOn 2011. This launch demonstrates the ecosystem's readiness for deployment and commercialization of LTE TDD in concert with 3G to enable seamless mobile broadband experience for Indian consumers.
"Qualcomm is pleased to collaborate with Huawei, ZTE, Quanta and BandRich for the launch of LTE TDD multimode devices based on our MDM9x00 chipsets in India," said Avneesh Agrawal, senior vice president of Qualcomm and president of Qualcomm India and South Asia. "The announcement of multi-mode LTE TDD devices today is a significant milestone for the commercialization and deployment of LTE in concert with 3G for Indian BWA operators."
LTE's interoperability with existing 3G HSPA and EV-DO networks enables operators to leverage investments in current infrastructure to offer seamless mobile broadband services through multi-mode devices. Offering the industry's first 3G/LTE multi-mode chipsets, Qualcomm continues to play a central role in accelerating the commercialization of LTE TDD with its announcements of multiple generations of multi-mode chipsets, support of interoperability trials with operators and, now, enabling the launch of LTE TDD multi-mode devices based on our chipsets.
"We are pleased to collaborate with Qualcomm to announce the world's first multi-mode LTE TDD Dongle E392 based on Qualcomm's MDM9600, which is anticipated to be commercially available in the third quarter of 2011," said Mr. Victor Shan, president of Huawei Devices India. "Based on our experience of working with operator partners and serving more than 55 percent of global and Indian consumers' datacard needs, we believe that E392 offers a strong and unique proposition to Indian customers that enables seamless mobile broadband experience for services such as internet surfing, HD video downloading, 3D multi-media, navigation and gaming."
"ZTE, a publicly-listed global provider of telecommunications equipment, network solutions and services, is a strategic collaborator with Qualcomm the LTE. Today we are pleased to announce that ZTE's multimode LTE TDD dongles based on Qualcomm's MDM9x00 chipset which is anticipated to be available in the fourth quarter of 2011," said Cui Liangjun, chief executive officer of ZTE Telecom India Pvt. Ltd.
"As a leading IT company, Quanta is committed to support cloud computing on mobile networks," Mr. Frank Jiang, vice president and general manager of Connectivity BU, Quanta Computer Inc. "By providing a complete line of LTE TDD terminal devices that includes USB dongles, CPE, MiFi, smartphones and tablets based on Qualcomm's MDM9x00 multimode chipsets, Quanta is working diligently to be the partner of choice for enabling seamless mobile broadband experience on 3G and LTE in India."
"BandRich is excited to work with Qualcomm, mobile operators and network equipment vendors to bring 2.3GHz LTE TDD multi-mode devices to the India market before the end of 2011," said Dr. Wen-Yi Kuo, chief executive officer of BandRich. "BandRich is proud to bring innovative products and worldwide deployment experiences to accelerate LTE TDD deployment by Indian operators."
Qualcomm has played a key role in contributing to India's wireless revolution by making mobile communication affordable and accessible and is now accelerating the growth of mobile broadband with 3G HSPA, EV-DO and LTE. In collaboration with its ecosystem participants, Qualcomm continues to play the role of a technology enabler and innovator, to ensure that the benefits of 3G, EV-DO and LTE touch the lives of every Indian.
About Qualcomm
Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) is the world leader in 3G and next-generation mobile technologies. For more than 25 years, Qualcomm ideas and inventions have driven the evolution of wireless communications, connecting people more closely to information, entertainment and each other. Today, Qualcomm technologies are powering the convergence of mobile communications and consumer electronics, making wireless devices and services more personal, affordable and accessible to people everywhere. For more information, visit Qualcomm around the Web:
Qualcomm is a registered trademark of Qualcomm Incorporated. MDM9x00 is a trademark of Qualcomm Incorporated. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Qualcomm Contacts:
Dimple Kapur, Qualcomm India & South Asia
Phone: +91-98205-25305
Email: dkapur@qualcomm.com
Tina Asmar, Corporate Communications
Phone: 1-858-845-5959
Email: casmar@qualcomm.com
UMC Delivers High Endurance, Variable Voltage Range Embedded EEPROM Solution
1.8V-5V I/O voltage range and 1 million program erase cycles vastly improve device battery life and reliability
HSINCHU, Taiwan, Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- United Microelectronics Corporation (NYSE: UMC; TWSE: 2303) ("UMC"), a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced that the company has achieved breakthroughs in its development of embedded electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (eEEPROM) solutions, delivering an I/O voltage range of 1.8V-5V and endurance at 1 million program erase cycles. The milestones follow several years of successful eEEPROM development at the foundry. Embedded EEPROM applications include banking cards, smart cards, ID cards, and microcontrollers.
UMC's eEEPROM I/O voltage range of 1.8V-5V achieves a breakthrough in battery life extension for mobile systems. Standard 2.5V/3.3V or 1.8V/3.3V inputs require dual devices and a regulator to reach beyond these fixed voltages. UMC's best-in-class eEEPROM solution offers a 1.8V-5V variable voltage range via a single device without the need for additional circuitry, which in conventional designs consumes extra chip real estate. This flexible and efficient SoC process facilitates longer battery life while occupying less space on the platform.
For endurance, UMC now offers 1 million program erase cycles compared to the standard 100K program erase cycles for alternative eEEPROM solutions. This high-performance technology enables UMC's customers to deliver devices with high reliability embedded memory that enable a much longer product life.
"Our success with eEEPROM, a challenging technology, underscores UMC's commitment to specialty technologies that offer customers a full range of innovative, high-performance, and compact solutions," said Anchor Chen, senior director of Special Technology Development at UMC. "UMC is delighted to make major strides in battery life extension and program erase cycles that enable customers to meet the diversified and demanding requirements of today's cutting-edge applications."
UMC's eEEPROM technologies are currently in mass production at 0.35um and 0.25um nodes and in pilot production at the 0.18um node. The 0.11um node is in development and is expected to be available early next year. Fundamental IPs, such as eEEPROM macros, standard cell library, and SRAM, are included in the offerings to enable customers to optimize their microsystem designs and accelerate design-in.
About UMC
UMC (NYSE: UMC, TSE: 2303) is a leading global semiconductor foundry that provides advanced technology and manufacturing services for applications spanning every major sector of the IC industry. UMC's customer-driven foundry solutions allow chip designers to leverage the strength of the company's leading-edge processes, which include production proven 65nm, 45/40nm, mixed signal/RFCMOS, and a wide range of specialty technologies. Production is supported through 10 wafer manufacturing facilities that include two advanced 300mm fabs; Fab 12A in Taiwan and Singapore-based Fab 12i are both in volume production for a variety of customer products. The company employs approximately 13,000 people worldwide and has offices in Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Europe, and the United States. UMC can be found on the web at http://www.umc.com.
Note From UMC Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
Some of the statements in the foregoing announcement are forward looking within the meaning of the U.S. Federal Securities laws, including statements about future outsourcing, wafer capacity, technologies, business relationships and market conditions. Investors are cautioned that actual events and results could differ materially from these statements as a result of a variety of factors, including conditions in the overall semiconductor market and economy; acceptance and demand for products from UMC; and technological and development risks.
Editorial Contacts:
In the USA:
UMC-USA
Charlene Loveless
+1-408-523-7850
charlene.loveless@umc-usa.com
In Taiwan:
UMC
Richard Yu
+886-2-2658-9168 ext. 16951
richard_yu@umc.com