Panopto Transforms Corporate Presentation Capture and Management with a Uniquely Integrated Cloud-Based Solution
Panopto Focus 4.0 and Panopto Unison provide an on-demand solution for recording, searching and collaborating with video and multimedia assets
SEATTLE, PITTSBURGH and LONDON, Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Panopto Inc., an SIIA award and Red Herring 2011 Top 100 North America winner, launched today Panopto Focus 4.0 and Panopto Unison, the next generation of end-to-end video and multimedia capture and management solutions. The affordable cloud-based system is currently used by over 3 million people worldwide for its simple yet sophisticated tools for searching, editing and viewing recordings on any desktop or mobile device.
The newest Panopto release builds upon the company's success with state-of-the-art functionality including:
-- Remixing. Recordings remain engaging and up-to-date with the ability to
add a polished lead-in track, re-recorded segment, or part of another
recording.
-- High Definition Recording and Smooth Streaming. Maximize the viewing
experience on connections ranging from 3G wireless to gigabit LAN.
-- DVR-like functionality. Never miss a minute of a live broadcast. Start
at the beginning whenever you arrive, rapidly seek anywhere, or "go
live" and follow along in real time.
-- Social Media Integration. You can now post links to available Pancasts
on Facebook and Twitter.
"With its high-definition recording and adaptive-streaming live broadcasts, Panopto Focus 4.0 is a huge leap forward for Panopto's already industrial-strength media capture functionality," said Eric Burns, Panopto's co-founder and Chief Technology Officer. "Combined with Panopto Unison's ability to import and manage media from any source, Panopto now offers organizations an unparalleled level of integration of their media assets. Companies are tired of having to cobble together enterprise solutions built from systems that work well individually but don't integrate well, and the Panopto platform provides the ideal alternative for those looking to deploy great video tools for everyone. Video capture, management, search, and delivery are no longer just the domain of AV experts - Panopto is an easy-to-use solution for everyone."
"Panopto Unison enables us to meet our users' needs by providing a more secure ad-free YouTube style site," said Corey Ray, Manager of Digital Media Solutions at Wichita State University. "By utilizing the same hardware, we are able to be more cost effective on labor and hardware and provide better scalability and management than simply adding another server or service provider."
About Panopto
Panopto, Inc., based in the US and the UK, is a leading provider of presentation capture and management solutions for the education, corporate, government and healthcare markets. Panopto's flagship product, Panopto Focus, is used by hundreds of educational institutions and businesses around the world to capture lectures and presentations for on-demand and on-the-go viewing. Panopto's leading edge search engine makes it quick and easy for your audience to find the information they need in any video, slide, audio transcript or note archived in your Panopto library. For additional information about Panopto and its comprehensive suite of video and multimedia capture and management solutions, please visit http://www.panopto.com.
Media Contact: Chris Airola, marketing@panopto.com, (855)-PANOPTO
AT&T Earns a Positive Rating From Leading Analyst Firm
DALLAS, Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T* today announced that it has received a positive vendor rating from Gartner, the leading provider of research and analysis on the global information technology industry.(1) AT&T has an abundant portfolio of products and services, designed to meet the needs of businesses and consumers in the U.S. and abroad.
Gartner's Vendor Rating is an evaluation of a vendor as a whole and is based on Gartner's assessment of the vendor's vision and execution for a product or service, relative to Gartner's analysis of clients' requirements. In the July 2011 review of AT&T, Gartner looked at several different categories, including Traditional and Next Generation Telecom Services, Wireless, Communications and Outsourcing Professional Services, Hosting and Consumer.
For the Hosting Product/Services category, which includes cloud services, and the Organization category, AT&T earned "strong positives." Strong positive is the highest possible rating given. In the Traditional and Next Generation Telecom Services Technology/Methodology and Product/Services categories, AT&T received "positive" ratings.
"With sharp focus on strategic services such as cloud, enterprise mobility and next-generation networking, we believe that AT&T has laid out a strong roadmap for the future," said Kevin Peters, Chief Marketing Officer, AT&T Business Solutions. "We feel that Gartner's evaluation of AT&T speaks to the strength of our portfolio and our ability to meet our customers' needs."
(1) Gartner, Vendor Rating: AT&T, Robert F. Mason, Eric Goodness et al, July 28, 2011.
*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.
The Vendor Rating is copyrighted 2011 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Vendor Rating is an evaluation of a vendor as a whole, not just on its position within a single market. It is based on Gartner's assessment of the vendor's vision and execution for a product or service, relative to Gartner's analysis of clients' requirements. It is not intended as a comparison relative to competitors in the market. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Vendor Rating, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
SOURCE AT&T Inc.
AT&T Inc.
CONTACT: Jessica Rich, +1-908-234-7034, jr105t@att.com, or Melissa (Mirabile) Salottolo, +1-212-453-2327, mmirabil@attnews.us, both of AT&T Corporate Communications
Xilinx Flagship Spartan-6 FPGAs Built Into New National Instruments CompactRIO Systems and Single-Board RIO Devices
Spartan-6 high performance hardware acceleration and low-power operation enables NI to improve performance and reduce size of NI RIO advanced control & monitoring product portfolio
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced at NIWeek 2011 that National Instruments has expanded its NI Reconfigurable I/O (RIO) advanced control and monitoring product portfolio with the introduction of the highest performance and first multicore NI CompactRIO systems and smallest NI Single-Board RIO devices built using Xilinx flagship Spartan®-6 FPGAs.
The successful collaboration between Xilinx and National Instruments spans more than a decade with the delivery of more than 60 flagship NI RIO products, which combine LabVIEW system design software and NI RIO hardware systems with embedded Xilinx FPGAs. The productivity of LabVIEW FPGA allows any engineer or scientist to quickly leverage high-performance FPGAs within innovative control, measurement and test systems without the need to learn traditional electronic design automation tools and methodologies.
With today's announcement, the new NI CompactRIO 908x systems offer designers the highest processing power of any CompactRIO product configuration for monitoring and control applications that require exceptional performance and ruggedness. The Spartan-6 FPGA enables complex signal processing performance and control for applications such as rapid control prototyping, advanced motion control and machine vision.
In addition, the new NI Single-Board RIO 9605/06 devices provide designers with a small, cost-optimized form factor sized from less than 102.87mm x 96.52mm for high-volume and OEM applications, and offer greater customization and I/O support than previous versions for embedded monitoring and control in industries such as energy and medical. Together, the Spartan-6 FPGA and 400 MHz processor provide reliability and performance at a low price point for OEMs, with built-in peripherals such as RS232, CAN, USB and Ethernet and the ability to add peripherals for further customization.
Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGAs are designed for cost-sensitive applications requiring high-speed connectivity and low-power operation with embedded serial transceivers and advanced power management. These devices provide a rich mix of integrated system features, including memory controllers, digital signal processing, and Endpoint block for PCIe®, as well as RoHS-compliant lead-free package options for developing 'greener' electronics products.
"Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGAs play a critical role in the enhanced performance our customers will see from advanced NI RIO systems," said Eric Starkloff, Vice President of Embedded Systems and Test Marketing at National Instruments. "The combination of NI LabVIEW and Xilinx FPGAs gives our customers the ability to design innovative embedded systems while significantly reducing their time-to-market. In the future, we look forward to enabling our customers' applications with Xilinx by delivering phenomenal NI RIO products based on the company's newest 7 series FPGAs and Zynq embedded processing platforms."
"National Instruments continues to drive engineering innovation by offering new high-performance solutions to domain experts using the intuitive LabVIEW graphical system design tools," added Vin Ratford, Xilinx Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Business Development. "We're delighted with the results of our longtime collaboration in delivering an easy-to-use rapid innovation platform to NI customers over many generations of the NI RIO product platform. Going forward, we're excited to see what engineering challenges customers can solve with next-generation NI products built with Xilinx's new flagship 28nm FPGA family and Zynq extensible processing platform."
About the NI RIO Advanced Control and Monitoring Platform
An integral part of the NI graphical system design platform, NI RIO technology combines LabVIEW software with commercial off-the-shelf hardware to simplify development and shorten time-to-market when designing advanced control, monitoring and test systems. NI RIO hardware, which includes CompactRIO, NI Single-Board RIO, R Series boards and PXI-based NI FlexRIO, features an architecture with powerful floating-point processors, reconfigurable FPGAs and modular I/O. All NI RIO hardware components are programmed with LabVIEW to give engineers the ability to rapidly create custom timing, signal processing and control for I/O without requiring expertise in low-level hardware description languages or board-level design. Visit http://www.ni.com/compactrio to learn more about the NI cRIO-908x systems and http://www.ni.com/singleboard to learn more about the new NI Single-Board RIO devices.
About Xilinx 6 series FPGAs
Since their introduction in February 2009, Xilinx award-winning 6 series FPGAs have been widely adopted by customers worldwide in a broad range of applications and key end markets including: Aerospace and Defense, automotive, consumer, industrial, medical, scientific and wired/wireless communications. To date, Xilinx has sold more than 10,000 Targeted Design Platforms. More than 30 6 series Targeted Design Platforms and 70 FMC daughter cards are available in production today from Xilinx and members of its global ecosystem (Distribution Channel and Alliance Program).
Spartan-6 FPGAs are designed for cost-sensitive applications requiring high-speed connectivity and low-power operation with embedded serial transceivers, advanced power management, and proven 45-nanometer architecture. The Virtex®-6 FPGA family is the high-performance silicon foundation for Xilinx Targeted Design Platforms, built with the right mix of programmability, integrated blocks for digital signal processing, memory, and connectivity support - including high-speed transceiver capabilities - to satisfy the insatiable demand for higher bandwidth and higher performance.
National Instruments (http://www.ni.com) is transforming the way engineers and scientists design, prototype and deploy systems for measurement, automation and embedded applications. NI empowers customers with off-the-shelf software such as NI LabVIEW and modular cost-effective hardware, and sells to a broad base of more than 30,000 different companies worldwide, with its largest customer representing approximately 4 percent of revenue in 2010 and no one industry representing more than 15 percent of revenue. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has approximately 5,500 employees and direct operations in more than 40 countries. For the past 12 years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America. Readers can obtain investment information from the company's investor relations department by calling (512) 683-5090, e-mailing nati@ni.com or visiting http://www.ni.com/nati.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the world's leading provider of programmable platforms. For more information, visit: http://www.xilinx.com/.
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Crash Test Ratings on the Go; IIHS Launches Mobile Site
ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Crash test ratings help consumers find the vehicles that afford the best protection in the most common kinds of crashes. Now, car shoppers can look up results of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's crash tests from anywhere. The Institute is launching a mobile site so consumers can easily compare vehicle safety ratings using their smartphones.
People are doing a lot of research before they buy a new vehicle. The proportion of web visitors accessing Institute ratings from mobile devices more than doubled in the last year. The new site makes it handier to look up crash test results right from the showroom floor.
Consumers going to the Institute's website from smartphones are automatically directed to the mobile site. It can also be accessed from the Institute's homepage at http://www.iihs.org/mobile.html
The Institute conducts tests assessing how well vehicles protect people in the most common kinds of front, side, rollover, and rear impact crashes. Based on their performance, vehicles are rated good, acceptable, marginal, or poor. Vehicles that perform the best across the board are listed as TOP SAFETY PICKs. These vehicles earn the top rating of good in all 4 evaluations, and have electronic stability control for helping to avoid many kinds of crashes.
The mobile site will help consumers choose the best safety performers from wherever they are.
SOURCE Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
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Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
CONTACT: Russ Rader, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, office: +1-703-247-1530, mobile: +1-202-257-3591, twitter: iihs_autosafety
Ticketmaster and Walmart Bring Tickets to 145 Texas Stores
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas fans can purchase live event tickets from their local Walmart store. Using point of sale touch screens located in the electronics departments of 145 participating Walmart stores, fans throughout the area can browse available tickets for family shows, concerts and sporting events. Once the desired event is selected by the fan, a Walmart employee helps complete the transaction and immediately prints the tickets.
"By integrating ticketing into Walmart stores, we are able to offer fans this very convenient way to learn about upcoming events, purchase and take home tickets without leaving their neighborhood," said Nathan Hubbard, CEO of Ticketmaster. "In addition, Ticketmaster will continue to work closely with our clients to create exclusive high value offers for Walmart customers."
Before August 15th, Dallas and Houston area Walmart shoppers can save money with the purchase of a special 4-Pack for concerts including: Rockstar Energy Uproar Festival, Journey, Maroon 5 and Train, Santana, Blink 182 and 311 & Sublime with Rome in the Gexa Energy Pavillion in Dallas and Houston's Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavillion.
The Texas stores with ticketing capabilities include stores in the Dallas, Houston and El Paso areas:
Dallas:
U.S. Hwy 28, Arlington
South Cooper St., Arlington
East Randol Mill Rd., Arlington
Athens
Azle
Balch Springs
Bedford
Burleson
Carrollton
Cedar Hill
Cleburne
Commerce
Montfront Dr., Dallas
N. Cockrell Hill, Dallas
March Ln., Dallas
Wheatland Rd., Dallas
Forest Ln., Dallas
Samuell Blvd., Dallas
Decatur
Denton
Desoto
Ennis
Farmers Branch
Forney
Anderson Blvd., Ft. Worth
N. Beach St., Ft. Worth
Airport Freeway, Ft. Worth
Mccart Ave., Ft. Worth
Clifford St., Ft. Worth
Oakmonth Blvd., Ft. Worth
Frisco
Marketplace Dr., Garland
West I-30, Garland
N. Garland Ave., Garland
Gilmer
Grandbury
Grand Prarie
Grapevine
Greenville
Hickory Creek
Highland Village
Hudson Oaks
Hurst
W. Airport Freeway, Irving
Market Place Blvd., Irving
Kilgore
Lake Worth
Lancaster
E. Round Grove, Lewisville
State Hwy 121, Lewisville
West Main, Lewisville
Estes Parkway, Longview
Gilmer Rd., Longview
Loop 281, Longview
Mansfield
Marshall
Mckinney Ranch Pkwy., Mckinney
Redbud Blvd., Mckinney
N. Custer., Mckinney
Mesquite
Midlothian
Mineral Wells
Loop 820, N. Richland Hills
N. Tarrant Pkwy., Richland Hills
425 Coit Road, Plano
Central Expressway, Plano
6000 Coit Rd, Plano
Dallas Pkwy, Plano
Ohio Drive, Plano
Quinlan
Roanoke
Rockwall
Rowlett
Saginaw
Seagoville
Terrell
Tyler
Waxahachie
Weatherford
Westworth Village
Wylie
El Paso:
S. Walton Blvd., Las Cruces
S. Valley Dr., Las Cruces
Woodrow Bean Transmtn Dr., El Paso
Gateway Blvd. West, El Paso
Mesa, El Paso
Alameda Ave., El Paso
Gateway Blvd., El Paso
N. Zaragoza Rd., El Paso
Houston:
Alvin
Angleton
Baytown
Cleveland
Loop 336 Conroe
State Hwy 105, Conroe
Cypress
Friendswood
Galveston
Hempstead
Fm 529 Rd., Houston
Hwy 6., Houston
S. Post Oak Rd., Houston
S. Kirkwood Dr., Houston
7075 Fm 1960 Rd. West, Houston
3450 Fm 1960 Rd. West, Houston
W. Sam Houston Pkwy., Houston
E. Freeway, Houston
12353 Fm1960 W, Houston
Northwest Freeway, Houston
Westview Dr., Houston
Rowlett Rd., Houston
E. Sam Houston Pkwy., Houston
N Freeway 45, Houston
Dunvale Rd., Houston
Fm 1960 E, Humble
Fm 1960 Bypass, Humble
North Sam Houston Pkwy East, Humble
Fry Rd., Katy
Market Place Dr., Katy
N. Fry Rd., Katy
Kemah
La Marque
La Porte
Lake Jackson
League City
Liberty
Missouri City
S. Shaver St., Pasedena
Fairmont Pkwy., Pasedena
Broadway, Pearland
N. Main, Pearland
Broadway St., Pearland
Porter
Fm 1640 Richmond
Grand Pkwy South, Richmond
Woodlands Pkwy, Spring
Sawdust Rd., Spring
Louetta Crossing, Spring
Kuykendahl Rd., Spring
Stafford
Sugar Land
The Woodlands
Tomball
Tomball
West Columbia
About Ticketmaster:
With operations spanning 19 countries, Ticketmaster is the world leader in event ticketing and ranks among the top five eCommerce sites globally. Ticketmaster is a division of Live Nation Entertainment. Live Nation Entertainment is the world's leading live entertainment and eCommerce company, comprised of four market leaders: Ticketmaster.com, Live Nation Concerts, Front Line Management Group and Live Nation Network. Ticketmaster.com is the global event ticketing leader and one of the world's top five eCommerce sites, with over 26 million monthly unique visitors. Live Nation Concerts produces over 20,000 shows annually for more than 2,000 artists globally. Front Line is the world's top artist management company, representing over 250 artists. These businesses power Live Nation Network, the leading provider of entertainment marketing solutions, enabling over 800 advertisers to tap into the 200 million consumers Live Nation delivers annually through its live event and digital platforms. For additional information, visit http://www.livenation.com/investors.
SOURCE Ticketmaster
Ticketmaster
CONTACT: Jacqueline Peterson of Ticketmaster, +1-310-360-3051, Jacqueline.Peterson@ticketmaster.com
NetProspex Releases 2011 Social Business Report; Reveals Rankings for Most Social Media-Savvy U.S. Companies, Industries, Job Functions and Cities
Comprehensive Social Business Report ranks The New York Times, San Francisco as category leaders; recruiting and finance professionals lead the social savvy job category
WALTHAM, Mass., Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- NetProspex, a leading B2B sales and marketing contact database, today announced the launch of the Summer 2011 NetProspex Social Business Report, a snapshot of the social media activity and trends of business people in the U.S. across major social networks.
NetProspex developed the report through an analysis of the verified business contacts available in its crowd-sourced database. 12 million employees at U.S.-based businesses were analyzed for Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn activity. The newly released report ranks the top performers--breaking them down by company, industry, job title and geographic region. Following the successful debut of prior NetProspex Social Reports, the company developed several new, comprehensive categories to illustrate the widespread social media adoption in the US business community.
The report, which includes infographics and data visualization, measured and ranked activity across three of the largest networks: LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. The rankings are based on the NetProspex Social Index (NPSI), a score comprised of social media presence (the number of employees in a category with social media profiles registered under a business email address), and social connectedness (the average number of connections per employee across major social networks).
Notable findings in the NetProspex Summer Social Media Report include:
-- The Most Social Company: The New York Times: The companies with the
highest overall score represent a socially connected employee base. The
New York Times topped the list at #1, with Intuit and Juniper Networks
earning the second and third rankings, respectively.
-- Computer Technology Tops Industry List: The Computer Technology industry
was ranked #1 of the Top 50 most social media-savvy industries in the
US.
-- Job Recruiters Are the Most Social: When it comes to employees, job
recruiters ranked among as the #1 most savvy employees in the US this
year, beating out last year's #1 employees, communications and marketing
professionals.
-- CEOs Not Engaged, For the Second Year in a Row: CEOs did not break the
top 10 of the report's job titles category.
-- Silicon Valley Reigns Supreme: San Francisco and San Jose remain the #1
and #2 most social media-savvy cities in the US, respectively
-- West Coast More Social Media-Savvy than East Coast: West coast cities
are far ahead of east coast when it comes to social media usage. San
Francisco, San Jose, Ventura, CA, Seattle, and Denver all cracked the
Top 10 list, while NYC, Stamford, CT, and Boston were the only east
coast cities that made the Top 10 list.
The complete NetProspex Social Media Business report and millions of verified business contacts with social media information are available at http://www.netprospex.com/np/social.
About NetProspex
NetProspex is the world's most accurate and fastest-growing sales and marketing database, helping BtoB decision makers find, reach, and connect with nearly 24 million sales prospects in a uniquely direct and measurable way.
Founded in 2006 by online publishing and marketing industry veterans Gary Halliwell and Jeff Clewley, NetProspex understands that effective sales and marketing efforts require the most in-depth and accurate prospect data. The core product line overlays crowd-sourced, user-contributed contact information with proprietary verification technology to produce an entirely unique and highly effective sales and marketing contact database.
With a 100% replacement guarantee and continual data scrubbing, NetProspex is the leading source of accurate, crowd-sourced business intelligence.
Media Contact:Matt RizzettaNorth 6th Agency212-334-9753mrizzetta@n6a.com
Cloud Engines Recalls Pogoplug Video File Sharing Device Due to Fire Hazard
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.
Name of product: Pogoplug Video file sharing device
Units: About 9,500 in the United States and 1,500 in Canada
Importer: Cloud Engines Inc. of San Francisco, Calif.
Hazard: The unit can overheat or catch fire, emitting excessive heat, sparks, smoke or flames.
Incidents/Injuries: Cloud Engines has received three reports of the units overheating. One device caught fire, one device emitted smoke, and one device melted, damaging the desk it was on.
Description: This recall involves the Pogoplug Video file sharing device. The device is a black desktop electronics box, measuring about 2.5 inches wide, 7 inches deep, and 5.5 inches high. It is used to stream and share videos, photos, and music and to provide remote access to files stored on drives attached to the device. The device has the word "Pogoplug" on the side. "Model: Pogoplug Video" is listed on a label on the bottom of the device.
Sold at: Adorama, B&H, Best Buy, Buy.com, J&R, Pogoplug.com, New Egg, and Sony Style from March 2011 through June 2011 for about $200.
Manufactured in: China
Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using and unplug the devices, and contact Cloud Engines to receive a refund or replacement device.
Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact Cloud Engines toll-free at (866) 582-6651 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. PT, by e-mail at videorecall@cloudengines.com or visit the firm's website at http://www.pogoplug.com.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is still interested in receiving incident or injury reports that are either directly related to this product recall or involve a different hazard with the same product. Please tell us about your experience with the product on SaferProducts.gov
CPSC is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of the thousands of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product incidents cost the nation more than $900 billion annually. CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard. CPSC's work to ensure the safety of consumer products--such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters, and household chemicals--contributed to a decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 30 years.
Under federal law, it is illegal to attempt to sell or resell this or any other recalled product.
To report a dangerous product or a product-related injury, go online to: SaferProducts.gov, call CPSC's Hotline at (800) 638-2772 or teletypewriter at (800) 638-8270 for the hearing impaired. Consumers can obtain this news release and product safety information at http://www.cpsc.gov. To join a free e-mail subscription list, please go to http://www.cpsc.gov/cpsclist.aspx.
Firm's Recall Hotline: (866) 582-6651
CPSC Recall Hotline: (800) 638-2772
CPSC Media Contact: (301) 504-7908
HC Media Contact: (613) 957-2983
SOURCE U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
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SAN RAMON, Calif., Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The GENIVI Alliance, an automotive and consumer electronics industry association driving the development and adoption of an open In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) reference platform, today announced the availability of its newly-created Compliance Program to its member companies. This milestone program is the result of 14 months of painstaking research and investigation among GENIVI "expert groups" -- with broad representation across the membership -- to define a detailed set of technical requirements.
GENIVI members Canonical, Mentor Graphics, MontaVista, and Wind River are the first to have offerings approved as GENIVI compliant, enabling them to qualify for OEM request for proposals requiring GENIVI compliant products.
"This program embodies the natural flow within GENIVI from aligned requirements, to identified components which meet those requirements, to a packaged, re-usable platform," said Steve Crumb, executive director, GENIVI Alliance. "The program clarifies what is expected for members wishing to provide compliant software solutions."
"Jaguar Land Rover and other GENIVI member automotive OEMs are now specifying GENIVI compliance in their requests for proposals (RFPs) for future IVI systems," said Matt Jones, Jaguar Land Rover Infotainment Lead and GENIVI vice president. "To respond to these RFPs, software suppliers need to have demonstrated that they can produce products and services that meet the GENIVI compliance requirements."
The program also provides the foundations for delivering the benefits of using the GENIVI platform. These benefits are: speeds time-to-market; dramatically reduces development costs; provides code transparency; broadens options for integrating and customizing solutions and increases IVI interchangeability across vehicle makes and models.
In addition to allowing multiple distributions to be compliant, the program encourages member companies to offer different versions of components enabling diversity while still being compliant, allowing replacement of a particular component or group of components with another open-source or proprietary implementation that satisfies the compliance criteria.
For further information on GENIVI's compliance program and current list of GENIVI complaint products, visit http://www.genivi.org/compliance.
About GENIVI Alliance
GENIVI Alliance is a non-profit industry association whose mission is to drive the broad adoption of an In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) open source development platform. GENIVI will accomplish this by aligning requirements, delivering reference implementations, offering certification programs and fostering a vibrant open source IVI community. GENIVI's work will result in shortened development cycles, quicker time-to-market, and reduced costs for companies developing IVI equipment and software. GENIVI is headquartered in San Ramon, Calif. http://www.genivi.org.
Mentor Embedded IVI Base Platform
The Mentor Embedded IVI Base Platform provides a GENIVI compliant foundation for in-vehicle infotainment software development. The IVI Base Platform integrates graphics, communication and multimedia middleware with libraries, system infrastructure, and management components on top of Linux and relevant drivers. When combined with Mentor Embedded development tools and expert services, automotive OEMs and their suppliers have a comprehensive solution for building the next generation of IVI systems on open source software. The Mentor Embedded IVI Base Platform is available for Intel® Atom(TM) architecture and ARM architectures.
MontaVista Automotive Technology Platform (ATP)
Leveraging MontaVista's 10+ years of Embedded Linux experience, the MontaVista Automotive Technology Platform (ATP) contains hardened frameworks for graphics, video, sound, USB, Bluetooth, Location Based Services, security, customizable UI and much more. The MontaVista ATP is highly tuned in the areas of performance, ultra fast boot and power management on select automotive-specific platforms based on ARM and Intel® Atom(TM)-based architectures.
Some of the key components of MontaVista Automotive Technology Platform include: Linux-based, GENIVI Compliant platform with fast boot/start up, high performance, power management and security options built in; comprehensive networking and internet support; multimedia capabilities for audio and video requirements; integration for consumer devices via Bluetooth or APIs; vendor specific UI customization and fully integrated tool set for application development.
Ubuntu IVI Remix
The Ubuntu IVI Remix is based on Ubuntu Core, a sub set of Ubuntu technologies suited for the next generation of Internet-enabled embedded devices such as IVI systems. It supports both Intel and ARM-based microprocessors, allowing software development to easily target platforms using either architecture.
The Ubuntu IVI Remix also supports Ubuntu One, a personal cloud service that enables users to access their personal media and stream their music from anywhere in the world. Ubuntu One's APIs are fully open allowing developers to take advantage of innovation in loud technology in future designs to deliver advanced capabilities into IVI solutions.
Wind River Platform for Infotainment
Wind River Platform for Infotainment is a software platform for in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) devices. By providing automotive equipment manufacturers with a powerful and reliable foundation for IVI devices as well as world-class commercial support and services, Wind River helps customers save on development time and costs, allowing them to focus on the technologies that will differentiate their IVI products and accelerate time-to-market. Wind River is a founding member of the GENIVI Alliance and plays a key role in this consortium by developing, integrating, testing and contributing key automotive middleware and hardware integration components. With Wind River's strong history of automotive expertise and innovation, OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers worldwide have long relied on Wind River to deliver leading edge and proven automotive technologies and services supporting both Intel® architecture and ARM architectures.
Media Contact- GENIVI:
Craig Miner
248.840-8368
Cminer1@att.net
U.S. Cellular Launches Mobile TV Service Powered By MobiTV
Service features include ability to download and store content for offline viewing; enhanced user interface for simple discovery and a more personalized experience
CHICAGO and EMERYVILLE, Calif., Aug. 2, 2011/PRNewswire/ -- Delivering on the increasing demand for mobile media services, U.S. Cellular has launched U.S. Cellular Mobile TV, powered by MobiTV.
U.S. Cellular Mobile TV, a downloadable application, features live TV, video-on-demand programming and the option to download content for offline viewing. Subscribers will have access to top programming from ABC, CBS, NBC, ESPN, The Disney Channel, MTV, Comedy Central and more. In addition to the core entertainment package consisting of news, sports and other select entertainment, genre-specific content packages are also available, including a Spanish-speaking package featuring content from Univision and other providers, and a children's programming package featuring premium content from Nickelodeon, PBS Kids and more.
"Our partnership with MobiTV represents another opportunity for us to delight customers with quality TV entertainment whenever and wherever they want," said Joe Settimi, Senior Director of Data Strategy and Services for U.S. Cellular. "Additionally, U.S. Cellular Mobile TV will operate on our high-speed nationwide network so users can access information quickly and enjoy everything their cell phone has to offer."
U.S. Cellular Mobile TV provides subscribers with access to compelling features powered by the latest version of MobiTV, Inc.'s converged media platform. These include an enhanced user interface for simple discovery, providing subscribers with tools to create a more personalized experience, and the ability to download and store content for offline viewing.
"Being selected by one of America's top carriers not only showcases the strength of the MobiTV technology platform, but also the demand for a reliable and flexible platform on which a service can grow upon," said Charlie Nooney, CEO, MobiTV, Inc.
For more information on U.S. Cellular Mobile TV, other deals, plans and phones, and other restrictions on these offers, visit any U.S. Cellular store, go to uscellular.com or check out U.S. Cellular on Facebook.
About U.S. Cellular
U.S. Cellular rewards its customers with unmatched benefits and industry-leading innovations designed to elevate the customer experience. The Chicago-based carrier has a strong line-up of cutting-edge devices that are all backed by its high-speed nationwide network that has the highest call quality of any national carrier. U.S. Cellular was named a J.D. Power and Associates 2011 Customer Service Champion and received PC Magazine's 2011 Readers' Choice Award. To learn more about U.S. Cellular, visit one of its retail stores or uscellular.com. To get the latest news, promos and videos, connect with U.S. Cellular on Facebook.com/uscellular, Twitter.com/uscellular and YouTube.com/uscellularcorp.
About MobiTV, Inc.
MobiTV, Inc. is a leading provider of premium end-to-end mobile media solutions.The MobiTV converged media platform delivers live TV, video-on-demand, and the ability to download-and-store content for offline viewing to millions of users on all major wireless networks and all major mobile operating systems. The MobiTV platform is designed to help carriers monetize their network, allow content partners to extend their reach to millions of mobile viewers and offer OEMs a canvas to market new innovations and device features.
Founded in 1999, MobiTV, Inc. is a privately-held company with headquarters in Emeryville, Calif. For more information about MobiTV, Inc.'s convergence-capable platform and some of its patented components, please visit http://www.mobitv.com/platform-technology.
U.S. Cellular Contact:
Chelsea L. Whittington
773-355-3561
MobiTV Contact:
Andy Kill
650-691-7311
kill@airfoilpr.com
Zendesk Launches Into the Enterprise with Customer Support Solution Tailored to Large Organizations
New Enterprise-Grade Security and Customization Capabilities for Leading Cloud-Based Help Desk
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Zendesk, the proven cloud-based help desk software provider, today announced its new Zendesk Enterprise Plan, offering a fast, customizable, and secure customer support solution specifically designed for large, international, or multi-brand organizations. The new plan gives companies the ability to tailor their help desks according to their own needs while maintaining the highest levels of security. In addition, subscribers can provide unlimited internal usage through light agents, giving everyone in an organization the ability to collaborate internally on support issues.
Zendesk's philosophy has always been that whether a company is a start up or a large multi-national organization, we will offer a variety of plans so that customers have the choice to pick the one that best meets their specific needs. As a result more than 10,000 customers in 100 countries have chosen Zendesk ranging from small and medium businesses such as Livescribe and Cloudera to large multi-national companies including Adobe and Sony Music.
In 2007, Zendesk started a revolution in customer service by allowing small and medium-sized companies to stay on top of all any type of customer conversation including those through the web, email, social media, and more. For the first time, companies who loved their customers could also love their help desks. Today, Zendesk brings that revolution to the enterprise.
"Help desk needs vary from company to company. We're always listening to customer feedback to fine tune our offerings to provide the best choice for all organizations, regardless of size," said Zack Urlocker, COO of Zendesk. "Zendesk has become the de facto standard for small and medium businesses. Our largest customers started asking for enterprise-grade features that provide sophisticated customization capabilities and added layers of security. We responded with Zendesk Enterprise."
New features available in Zendesk Enterprise Plan include:
-- Unlimited Internal Usage: Organizations can now access and collaborate
internally on support conversations through light agents without having
to pay for additional seats. This new capability is a direct result of
Zendesk's large customers asking to enable company-wide insight into
customer engagements.
-- Multi-brand Help Desk: Parent companies with multiple brands can work
efficiently by centralizing their support teams while maintaining
multiple uniquely-branded customer facing support portals.
-- Custom Agent Roles: Organizations can customize permission levels for a
group of agents by allowing or restricting access to specific features
within Zendesk, such as access to private comments or channels, or
ability to change ticket fields.
-- Business Rules Analysis: Companies can now analyze the performance of
their business rules and support workflows.
-- Network Restrictions: Administrators can restrict access to Zendesk by
defining a range of IP addresses.
-- Email Archiving: Customer support interactions can be automatically
archived, making e-discovery and adherence to compliance regulations
easier in case of audits or legal requests.
-- Priority Support: Zendesk commits to respond to customer submissions in
less than an hour, in addition to access to our agents by phone 24/7.
"At Box.net, we pride ourselves on our product's simplicity, security and performance," said Jon Herstein, Box.net's Vice President, Customer Success. "When looking for a help desk solution to meet the support needs of thousands of customers, we required the same. Zendesk has always offered simplicity and performance. With its new Enterprise plan, it now delivers the enterprise-grade features we require. And, with the plan providing unlimited usage by light agents without having to pay for additional seats, we are able to engage our entire company in the support process."
Zendesk Enterprise Plan is now available for $99 per agent per month on an annual subscription basis. To learn more about the Zendesk Enterprise Plan, visit http://www.zendesk.com/enterprise.
About Zendesk
Zendesk is the leading provider of proven, cloud-based helpdesksoftware. For growing organizations, Zendesk is the fastest way to enable great customer service. More than 10,000 Zendesk customers, including Adobe, MSNBC, Sony, OpenTable and Groupon, trust Zendesk with their most valuable assets: their customers, partners, and employees. Founded in 2007, Zendesk is funded by Charles River Ventures, Benchmark Capital and Matrix Partners. Learn more at http://www.zendesk.com.
SOURCE Zendesk
Zendesk
CONTACT: Lisa Kornblatt of SSPR, +1-847-415-9330, lkornblatt@sspr.com, for Zendesk
SUNBURY-ON-THAMES, England, August 2, 2011/PRNewswire/ --
Kingston SandForce based HyperX SSD range with fully
qualified, mass-production level firmware and hardware shipping now
- Shipping in 120GB and 240GB capacities.
- Based on SandForce SF-2281 controller featuring SATA Rev 3.0
(6Gb/s).
- Incredible sequential read/write throughputs of 555/510MB/s.
- Max 4KB random read95,000 IOPS (both capacities).
- SandForce DuraClass(TM) Technology to provide best in class
endurance.
- Coming as a standalone part or as a bundle with the HyperX
Upgrade Kit for easy installation.
Kingston Digital Europe Ltd, an affiliate of Kingston Technology Company
Inc, the independent world leader in memory products, today announced the
Kingston HyperX SSD, its first SATA Rev. 3.0 6Gb/s based SSD (Solid-State
Drive) range, is now shipping with fully qualified, mass production level
firmware and hardware. The HyperX SSD features the latest SandForce
controller, perfect for enthusiasts, gamers and performance users.
"We are thrilled to announce that the Kingston HyperX SSD range is now
shipping," says Krystian Jaroszynski, Product Marketing Manger Flash,
Kingston Technology Europe. "The HyperX SSD matches up the SandForce
controller with premium Intel 25nm Compute NAND (P/E 5K) and has undergone
extended rigorous testing and qualifications, the same standard that
Kingston applies to all of its products, in order to bring a stable and high
performing product to market."
The Kingston HyperX SSDs are backed by a three-year warranty, 24/7 tech
support and legendary Kingston reliability.
- Form factor: 2.5"
- Interface: SATA Rev. 3.0 (6Gb/s), SATA Rev. 2.0 (3Gb/s)
- Guaranteed: Three-year Kingston warranty, 24/7 tech support
- Capacity[1]: 120GB, 240GB
- Storage temperatures: -40degree(s)C ~ 85degree(s)C
- Operating temperatures: 0degree(s)C ~ 70degree(s)C
- Dimensions: 69.85mm x 100mm x 9.5mm
- Vibration operating: 2.17G
- Vibration non-operating: 20G
- Operating shock: 1500G
- Power specs:
120GB: 0.455 W (TYP) Idle / 1.6 W (TYP) Read / 2.0 W (TYP) Write
240GB:0.455 W (TYP) Idle / 1.5 W (TYP) Read / 2.05 W(TYP) Write
* Based on internal testing. Performance may vary based on system
settings.
1 Some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions
and thus is not available for data storage. For more information, please
consult Kingston's Flash Memory Guide at Kingston.com/Flash_Memory_Guide.
Kingston HyperX SSD
MRSP (excl.
Part number Capacity and features VAT)
SH100S3/120G 120GB STAND-ALONE SSD GBP206
SH100S3/240G 240GB STAND-ALONE SSD GBP392
SH100S3B/120G 120GB HYPERX UPGRADE KIT GBP218
SH100S3B/240G 240GB HYPERX UPGRADE KIT GBP404
Check out Kingston's refreshed consumer website full of news,
competitions and tips & tricks:http://www.rememberkingston.com
About Kingston Digital, Inc.
Kingston Digital, Inc. ("KDI") is the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston
Technology Company, Inc., the world's largest independent manufacturer of
memory products. Established in 2008, KDI is headquartered in Fountain
Valley, California, USA. For more information, please call +44(0)1932-738888
or visit http://www.kingston.com/europe
Kingston and the Kingston logo are registered trademarks of Kingston
Technology Corporation. All rights reserved. All other marks may be the
property of their respective titleholders.
Source: Kingston Digital Europe Ltd
Media Relations: Emilie Beneitez Lefebvre, Kingston Technology Europe Ltd, +44(0)1932-738813, ebeneitez@kingston-technology.com Toby Felder, Zaboura Consultancy Ltd, +44(0)7834221570, toby@zaboura.com
Globant Acquires Mobile-Focused Nextive and Creates New Job Opportunities in the US
US-based Nextive brings deep expertise in mobile and social technologies allowing Globant to expand in North America. To face this growth, Globant plans to add more domestic talent.
SAN FRANCISCO,Aug. 2, 2011/PRNewswire/ -- Globant, leader in the creation of innovative software products that appeal to global audiences, acquired Nextive (http://www.nextive.com), expanding Globant's presence in the US, widening its expertise in mobile and social technologies and strengthening its position as leader in the creation of innovative software products.
With this acquisition, Globant plans to expand its portfolio of mobile and social services through Nextive's capabilities. Founded in 2008 in San Francisco, California, Nextive has a broad set of clients in the US, including companies like Crowdstar, GSN and Zynga. Nextive's team will lead Globant's Mobile Studio, adding new practices and increasing its reach. Nextive's more than 130 professionals will join Globant's team, working from their development centers in San Francisco, Buenos Aires and Cordoba.
Nextive's US headquarters will allow Globant to strengthen its presence near its customers and propel its growth in North America. After this transaction, Globant plans to expand the US team. The Company is currently hiring 120 new Globers per month worldwide, and expects to add 200 US-based professionals in the next two years as well.
"We are really excited about this deal. We are glad Nextive is joining us because it will allow us to keep growing in the US. Since we founded Globant, we wanted to create a company that brought opportunities for talent worldwide, so with this acquisition, we will be creating job opportunities for US professionals," commented Martin Migoya, Globant CEO & Co-founder. He added: "For us it's key to continue working on the specialized expertise we have built with our Studios. Nextive strongly complements our knowledge in mobile innovative solutions, which will benefit our customers."
"Nextive and Globant share the same culture of innovation and challenge. Globant's global vision, constant growth and creativity, combined with the experience and talent of both companies, will allow us to augment our services and relationships with customers," pointed out Martin Umaran, Globant COO, M&A chief & Co-founder.
"We are excited to join the ever-growing Globant team in the US and Argentina, where we will find plenty of challenges and new opportunities with companies like EA, LinkedIn and Google. We will also be able to realize the full potential of our combined efforts to produce outstanding mobile and social experiences for larger audiences," stated Andrew Burgert, Nextive CEO.
About Globant
Globant is the Latin American leader in the creation of innovative software products that appeal to global audiences, specializing in the use of agile methodologies and a rational blend of open source and proprietary software. At Globant we have a holistic view of software development, where the best engineers team up with art design studios and innovation labs to deliver a superb user experience. Globant is a privately held, privately funded company headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina with offices in Tandil, Cordoba, Rosario, Resistencia, Bahia Blanca and La Plata in Argentina, San Francisco, New York and Boston in the United States, Montevideo, Bogota, and London. For more information, visit http://www.globant.com.
CONTACT:
For Globant:
Wanda Weigert
wanda.weigert@globant.com
+1-212-400-7686
Adds Tier IV Data Center and IT Security & Support Platform to EarthLink's Managed Services
ATLANTA, Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- EarthLink, Inc. (NASDAQ: ELNK), a leading IP infrastructure and services company, completed its acquisition of Business Vitals, a national provider of managed information technology (IT), security and professional services based in Columbia, South Carolina. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition provides EarthLink with an additional Tier IV secure data center connected to its fiber network, a fully redundant Security Operations Center (SOC) and a broad set of security-centric IT outsourcing solutions.
With Business Vitals, EarthLink will enable clients to focus on core business issues by outsourcing the management of a broad range of IT operations, infrastructure and systems. Business Vitals brings to EarthLink additional IT security and professional services capabilities currently provided to businesses in the financial, retail, legal, engineering, manufacturing and healthcare industries as well as universities and government agencies. As a SAS70 Type II tested operation, Business Vitals supports clients in 35 states and 10 countries.
Combined with its recently launched EarthLink Cloud(TM) and existing managed services, this acquisition will allow EarthLink to rapidly offer a full range of secure IT solutions to business customers through its newly formed Premier, National, and partner distribution channels. The new Tier IV data center is connected to the EarthLink fiber network and to its other on-net regional data centers to provide cloud and disaster recovery services. These services will be supported by certified engineers in EarthLink's Security Operations Center, IT Solutions Center, and Network Operations Centers.
"EarthLink is building a full range of managed IT services that focus on security as a key capability," said Brian Fink, EarthLink Executive Vice President of Managed Services. "Business Vitals is an important extension of our managed services portfolio, and we will be actively leveraging the assets, capabilities and proven expertise we have acquired to enhance our national managed services business."
Jeff Brewer, Chief Executive Officer of Business Vitals, joins EarthLink as Vice President of IT Solutions and Security. "Business Vitals has built a premier IT managed security services and IT risk management firm with a strong customer base. We are pleased to become part of EarthLink, which translates into more and better options for current and future clients," added Brewer.
About EarthLink
EarthLink, Inc. (NASDAQ: ELNK) is a leading provider of Internet Protocol (IP) infrastructure and services to medium-sized and large businesses, enterprise customers, and over 1.6 million customer relationships across the United States. The company has provided Internet access and communications services for decades and has earned an award-winning reputation for both outstanding customer service and product innovation. Its EarthLink Business(TM) division provides a full complement of voice, data, mobile, cloud hosting and equipment services over a 28,000 mile fiber network and MPLS-based services nationwide. EarthLink Consumer is a leading Internet Service Provider connecting people to the power and possibilities of the Internet. For more information, visit EarthLink's website http://www.earthlink.net
Cautionary Information Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes "forward-looking" statements (rather than historical facts) that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described. Although we believe that the expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot promise that our expectations will turn out to be correct. Our actual results could be materially different from and worse than our expectations. With respect to such forward-looking statements, we seek the protections afforded by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These risks include (1) that we may not be able to execute our business strategy to transition to a leading IP infrastructure and managed services provider, which could adversely impact our results of operations and cash flows; (2) that we may be unsuccessful in making and integrating acquisitions into our business, which could result in operating difficulties, losses and other adverse consequences; (3) that the continuing effects of adverse economic conditions could harm our business; (4) that if we do not continue to innovate and provide products and services that are useful to individual subscribers and business customers, we may not remain competitive, and our revenues and operating results could suffer; (5) that our failure to implement cost reduction initiatives will adversely affect our results of operations; (6) that we will require a significant amount of cash, which may not be available to us, to service our debt and fund our other liquidity needs; (7) that we face significant competition in the Internet industry that could reduce our profitability; (8) that our consumer business is dependent on the availability of third-party network service providers; (9) that the continued decline of our consumer access subscribers, combined with the change in mix of our consumer access base from narrowband to broadband, will adversely affect our results of operations; (10) that our commercial and alliance arrangements may not be renewed or may not generate expected benefits, which could adversely affect our results of operations; (11) that privacy concerns relating to our business could damage our reputation and deter current and potential users from using our services; (12) that changes in technology in the Internet access industry could cause a decline in our business; (13) that we face significant competition in the communications industry that could reduce our profitability; (14) that decisions by the Federal Communications Commission relieving ILECs of certain regulatory requirements, and possible further deregulation in the future, may restrict our ability to provide services and may increase the costs we incur to provide these services; (15) that our wholesale services, including our broadband transport services, will be adversely affected by pricing pressure, network overcapacity, service cancellations and other factors; (16) that our operating performance will suffer if we are not offered competitive rates for the access services we need to provide our long distance services; (17) that we may experience reductions in switched access and reciprocal compensation revenue; (18) that our inability to maintain our network infrastructure, portions of which we do not own, could adversely affect our operating results; (19) that if we are unable to interconnect with AT&T, Verizon and other incumbent carriers on acceptable terms, our ability to offer competitively priced local telephone services will be adversely affected; (20) that we may not be able to compete effectively if we are unable to install additional network equipment or convert our network to more advanced technology; (21) that failure to obtain and maintain necessary permits and rights-of-way could interfere with our network infrastructure and operations; (22) that we may be unable to retain sufficient qualified personnel, and the loss of any of our key executive officers could adversely affect us; (23) that interruption or failure of our network and information systems and other technologies could impair our ability to provide our services, which could damage our reputation and harm our operating results; (24) that our business depends on effective business support systems and processes; (25) that government regulations could adversely affect our business or force us to change our business practices; (26) that our business may suffer if third parties used for customer service and technical support and certain billing services are unable to provide these services or terminate their relationships with us; (27) that we may not be able to protect our intellectual property; (28) that we may be accused of infringing upon the intellectual property rights of third parties, which is costly to defend and could limit our ability to use certain technologies in the future; (29) that if we, or other industry participants, are unable to successfully defend against legal actions, we could face substantial liabilities or suffer harm to our financial and operational prospects; (30) that we may be required to recognize additional impairment charges on our goodwill and intangible assets, which would adversely affect our results of operations and financial position; (31) that we may have to undertake further restructuring plans that would require additional charges, including incurring facility exit and restructuring charges; (32) that we may have exposure to greater than anticipated tax liabilities and the use of our net operating losses and certain other tax attributes could be limited in the future; (33) that we may reduce, or cease payment of, quarterly cash dividends; (34) that our stock price may be volatile; (35) that our indebtedness could adversely affect our financial health and limit our ability to react to changes in our industry; and (36) that provisions of our second restated certificate of incorporation, amended and restated bylaws and other elements of our capital structure could limit our share price and delay a change of management. These risks and uncertainties, as well as other risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ significantly from management's expectations, are not intended to represent a complete list of all risks and uncertainties inherent in our business, and should be read in conjunction with the more detailed cautionary statements and risk factors included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010.
SOURCE EarthLink, Inc.
EarthLink, Inc.
CONTACT: Media: Michele Sadwick, +1-404-748-7255, +1-404-769-8421 (mobile), sadwick@corp.earthlink.net; or Investors: Louis Alterman, +1-404-748-7650, +1-678-472-3252 (mobile), altermanlo@corp.earthlink.net
TVW Upgrades with Comcast Business Class Ethernet for Reliable Internet Connectivity and Cost-Effective Solution
-- Scalable 30 Mbps Metro Ethernet Solution Provides a High-Capacity Connection and Saves TVW $12,000 a Year --
SEATTLE, Aug. 2, 2011/PRNewswire/ -- Comcast Corporation, one of the nation's leading providers of entertainment, information and communications products and services, today announced that TVW, one of the oldest and most respected state public affairs networks in the country, has upgraded its infrastructure with Comcast Business Class Ethernet.
TVW, often called the Washington state version of C-SPAN, provides unedited television coverage of state government, elections and public policy events to more than 3.5 million viewers. From its state-of-the-art media center in Olympia, TVW sends a television signal to a satellite service at the University of Washington's main campus in Seattle, which transmits the signal for distribution to cable television households statewide.
TVW is leveraging Comcast's Ethernet Private Line Service for a secure, high-capacity fiber connection between its Olympia media center and the University of Washington satellite service.
"Our viewers trust TVW to bring them not only unbiased but uninterrupted legislative programming. A network outage would take us off the air, and we would lose credibility with our viewers," said Greg Lane, President of TVW. "As a previous T1 customer, we began looking for a new point-to-point solution. With Comcast, we found a reliable, cost-effective solution with scalable bandwidth that can be easily ramped up when we need it in the future."
TVW made history in 1995 with the first televised state court proceeding - a death penalty case being heard by the Washington Supreme Court. The TV network has big plans for the future to ensure Washingtonians have access to all public proceedings; therefore, the cable television network needs a data connection with flexible and scalable bandwidth to grow with it.
About Comcast Business Services
Comcast Business Services, a unit of Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK), provides advanced communication solutions to help organizations of all sizes meet their business objectives. Through a modern, company-owned fiber network that is backed by 24/7 technical support, Comcast delivers Business Class Internet, TV and Voice services for cost-effective, simplified communications management.
Launched in 2011, the Comcast Business Class Ethernet suite offers high-performance point-to-point and multi-point Metro Ethernet services with the capacity to deliver cloud computing, software-as-a-service, business continuity/disaster recovery and other bandwidth-intensive applications. Comcast Metro Ethernet services are significantly faster than T1 lines and other legacy technologies, providing scalable bandwidth from 1 Mbps up to 10 Gigabits-per-second (Gbps) in more than 20 major US markets.
Hammacher Schlemmer Introduces The Best Portable Pocket Digital Television
NEW YORK, Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hammacher Schlemmer Institute announces The Best Portable Pocket Digital Television after it outperformed all other models in tests for reception, ease of use, and durability.
"For 28 years, the Hammacher Schlemmer Institute has performed comparison tests to determine which products are The Best of their kind," explained Sheri Camarata, Manager of Product Research for the Hammacher Schlemmer Institute.
The portable televisions were tested from the 21st floor of an urban high-rise, inside a suburban, brick ranch house, and in a corporate office. The Best model displayed an average of 34 channels, 47% more channels than any other television, and its percentage of stations with crystal clear reception was 57% higher than its closest competitor.
Built for ease of portability, The Best model is only 4 3/4" long and its durable construction helps it withstand the rigors of travel.
"The Best Portable Pocket Digital Television did not incur any damage after repeated drops from 3 1/2' high, unlike other models that suffered damage to their battery compartment or housing," explained Ms. Camarata.
The Best Portable Pocket Digital Television's superior features include 480 x 272 resolution that produces crisp images and sharp motion devoid of streaking or blurring and a generous 60 degree viewing angle that allows adjacent viewers to watch programs easily.
The Best Portable Pocket Digital Television is available from Hammacher Schlemmer for $199.95. For more information about this product, please visit http://www.hammacher.com/78845 or contact Trish Hammond at (847) 581-8987 or via e-mail at pr@hammacher.com
About Hammacher Schlemmer
Hammacher Schlemmer is America's longest running catalog, offering the Best, the Only and the Unexpected since 1848. The company provides unique products that solve problems or represent the only one of their kind, backing all products with The Hammacher Schlemmer Lifetime Guarantee. Hammacher Schlemmer's innovative offerings are available through its catalog, website, and its famed landmark store on East 57th Street in New York City.
CVS/pharmacy Launches New Digital Savings Option for ExtraCare, the Nation's Largest Retail Rewards Program
New "Send to Card" Feature Makes it Easier and More Convenient for Shoppers to Choose How They Want to Receive Select ExtraCare Offers
WOONSOCKET, R.I., Aug. 2, 2011/PRNewswire/ --CVS/pharmacy's ExtraCare Rewards Program, the largest retail rewards program with more than 67 million active cardholders, today announced the launch of a "Send to Card" digital savings option, a new feature that gives cardholders the ability to send select ExtraCare coupons received by email directly to their ExtraCare card. Customers who have opted in to receive ExtraCare emails can choose to send select coupons directly to their ExtraCare cards for automatic, digital in-store redemption, eliminating the need to print those coupons at home and submit paper copies at the register. As digital couponing rises in popularity, and today's shoppers look for easier and more convenient ways to save money, this new feature provides customers with the option to receive paperless savings, giving them the choice to save the way they prefer.
To take advantage of this new feature, cardholders can sign up for ExtraCare emails at http://www.cvs.com/extracareemail. Once enrolled, customers will receive personalized offers to use when shopping at CVS/pharmacy. When receiving these offers by email, customers will have the option to either "Send to Printer" and bring the coupon with them to the store to redeem, or "Send to Card" to send it directly to their ExtraCare card for automatic redemption to realize instant savings when scanning their card at the register during check out.
ExtraCare's new "Send to Card" feature makes it easier for shoppers who forget coupons at home or prefer not to print paper rewards. Shoppers that prefer paper coupons so they can physically collect and carry their rewards can still use this method as their preferred savings option.
"Our goal is to offer all 67 million ExtraCare cardholders the choice of how they personally want to engage with our program to receive offers and rewards at CVS/pharmacy," said Melissa Studzinski, vice president of customer relationship management for CVS/pharmacy. "We encourage all of our cardholders to sign up for ExtraCare emails to take advantage of this new, easy way to save while shopping at CVS/pharmacy."
The launch of "Send to Card" is the latest example of how CVS/pharmacy is listening to customer feedback and encouraging more ExtraCare members to take advantage of more of the rewards and coupons available to them.
For more information on how the ExtraCare Rewards program works, or to enroll, customers can visit http://www.cvs.com/extrarewards. Follow CVS/pharmacy on Twitter at http://twitter.com/CVS_Extra to learn about upcoming promotions and to receive exclusive deals and insider scoop.
About CVS/pharmacy
CVS/pharmacy, the retail division of CVS Caremark Corporation (NYSE: CVS), is America's leading retail pharmacy with more than 7,200 CVS/pharmacy and Longs Drug stores. CVS/pharmacy is committed to improving the lives of those we serve by making innovative and high-quality health and pharmacy services safe, affordable and easy to access, both in its stores and online at CVS.com. General information about CVS/pharmacy and CVS Caremark is available at info.cvscaremark.com.
Net Savings Link Responds to Master Blogger Input and Plans Newest "One Stop Savings" Link - Special Occasion Gift Section
CLEARWATER, Fla., Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Net Savings Link, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CXLT), a company in the business of offering quality choices of discount deals to the mass consumer market of individuals, families, organizations, and networks throughout the United States, announced today that it is developing the latest link to its "one stop savings" corporate mantra - a Special Occasion Gift Division, scheduled to open by September of this year, announced David Saltrelli, CEO.
"Our Master Bloggers informed us that this is one of the top motivators for their frequency of site visitations, and therefore tops on their list of commissionable blogging efforts for us.
"According to industry statistics the average family purchases 72 gifts per year for an annual total of approximately $2,000 with nearly half being spent during the traditional Holiday Season. Our members are conditioned to solicit substantial discounts on any item or service that they purchase and by offering them this 'one stop' targeted gift category, we should be able to capture a substantial percentage of their gift-giving budget. Our members will be shopping online from home, at a substantial discount, at one of our vendor selected websites within the controlled environment of our website.
"We are grateful for our Master Blogger input, happy to respond to their preferences, and excited to commence sales in this targeted segment of our member family's annual budget. The system is working, and as a result, we are currently in discussions with some of the nation's top gift and gift basket providers," added Saltrelli.
Statements included in this update that are not historical in nature, are intended to be, and are hereby identified as, "forward-looking statements". Forward-looking statements may be identified by words including "anticipate," "believe," "intends," "estimates," "expect," and similar expressions. The Company cautions readers that forward-looking statements including, without limitation, those relating to the Company's future business prospects are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements, due to factors such as those relating to economic, governmental, technological, and other risks and factors identified from time to time in the Company's reports filed with the SEC.
Contact:
Net Savings Link, Inc.
David Saltrelli, 727-442-2600
david@netsavingslink.com
NetSavingsLink.com
Continuity Software Signs Strategic Partnership Agreement With SVA GmbH
Leading Systems Integrator (SI) to Offer RecoverGuard Disaster Recovery (DR), High Availability (HA) and Private Cloud Management Software to Clients Across Germany
NEW YORK, TEL AVIV, Israel and WIESBADEN, Germany, August 2, 2011/PRNewswire/ --
Continuity Software [http://www.continuitysoftware.com ](TM), the
world's leading provider of disaster recovery (DR)
[http://www.continuitysoftware.com/solutions/disaster_recovery_testing ],
high availability (HA)
[http://www.continuitysoftware.com/ha-testing-monitoring ] and private cloud
monitoring and management solutions, today announced it has entered into a
strategic partnership agreement with SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH, one
of Germany's foremost systems integrators (SI). Under terms of the
agreement, SVA will expand its broad data center infrastructure solutions
portfolio with Continuity Software's RecoverGuard(TM) software, enhancing
SVA's Integrative Disaster Recovery (IDR) solution, in order to provide SVA
clients with the most comprehensive customer-proven solution for ensuring
data protection, application availability and disaster recovery across
physical, virtualized and cloud computing environments.
"Our clients, many of whom are among the largest, most well-known and
respected business organizations in Europe, cannot afford even the slightest
data loss, downtime or service interruption. Any such occurrence could lead
to significant damages ranging from customer loss to missed revenue
opportunities to fines for regulatory compliance violations," said Michel
Baus, Manager Corporate Strategy, SVA. "Continuity Software's RecoverGuard
is the only solution that can ensure complete data protection and
application availability across our clients' enterprise IT environments.
Moreover, RecoverGuard is the only solution that provides 24/7 visibility
into all changes that take place across private, public or hybrid cloud
infrastructures, thereby enabling the elimination of any vulnerability
before it becomes a threat."
"We are delighted and proud to enter into a strategic partnership with
SVA - a company trusted by its clients for delivering only the most
advanced, cost effective and reliable technology solutions found anywhere in
the world," said Gil Hecht, Founder and CEO, Continuity Software.
"RecoverGuard will now ensure that SVA client data and applications are
protected and highly available at all times."
Continuity Software RecoverGuard is now generally available from SVA.
About SVA
Founded in 1997, SVA is one of Germany's leading data center
infrastructure systems integrators (SI). Its corporate mission is to seek
and leverage the world's highest quality technology products in order to
provide its clients with end-to-end data center infrastructure solutions
that provide optimum IT and business results. Its areas of expertise include
scalability, high availability, high performance, data security, disaster
recovery, virtualization and cloud computing infrastructures. For further
information please visit: http://www.sva.de.
About Continuity Software
Continuity Software is the leading provider of high availability (HA)
[http://www.continuitysoftware.com/ha-testing-monitoring ], disaster
recovery (DR)
[http://www.continuitysoftware.com/solutions/disaster_recovery_testing ] and
private cloud monitoring and management solutions, trusted by many of the
world's largest banks, telecommunications, energy and other leading
companies. Continuity's award-winning RecoverGuard
[http://www.continuitysoftware.com/products.html ] software provides these
organizations with 24/7 visibility into their entire business continuity
infrastructure, so customers can be confident their data is protected,
systems are recoverable and business continuity goals are met. For further
information, please visit: http://www.continuitysoftware.com, email:
info@continuitysoftware.com, or call: +1-888-782-8170 (United States) or
+972 (3) 6470888 (Israel).
(c) 2011 Continuity Software. Continuity Software, RecoverGuard and DR
Assurance are trademarks of Continuity Software. All other brand and product
names in this announcement may be trademarks or registered trademarks of
their respective holders.
Healthcare Software Company Kareo Introduces Free Customer Support
New program the latest in a series of customer service enhancements the company introduced this year, which also included tripling headcount, extending hours and creating professional training materials
IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Kareo, Inc., the leading provider of easy and affordable web-based medical billing software for physicians in the United States, announced today the availability of free support for all customers, eliminating the additional fee previously charged for customer support. The new program is the latest in a series of customer service enhancements this year, which also included tripling customer support headcount, extending support and training hours, and creating professional training courses and documentation. In connection with this announcement, Kareo has promoted James Armijo to VP of Customer Support.
"Kareo has long been known for its intuitive and innovative product," said Dan Rodrigues, Founder and CEO of Kareo. "Now we're striving to earn a reputation for industry leading customer service by making our support more accessible to all customers, improving response times, providing effective training and documentation, and simplifying and accelerating the setup process."
Key customer service enhancements in 2011:
-- Introduced free email & chat support to all customers and eliminated the
additional $99/mo. support fee
-- Tripled headcount in customer service to improve the quality of
interactions and support its rapid growth
-- Extended customer support hours to Mon-Fri from 6am-5pm PT to better
serve our east coast customers
-- Launched live chat to provide customers with an additional real-time
customer support option
-- Built a guided setup wizard in the product to simplify and accelerate
the setup process
-- Doubled the number of training webinars each week and introduced early
morning webinars
-- Hired a professional trainer to create a library of self-paced video
training courses
-- Hired a professional technical writer to develop product documentation
and other self-help content
-- Added account managers to offer more proactive support to high volume
users
-- Established lifeline@kareo.com email address that customers can use to
contact the CEO
The recent customer service enhancements have resulted in a 325% increase in customer satisfaction over the past 6 months as measured by the industry standard Net Promoter Score (NPS) based on customer responses to monthly surveys.
"Our transition to Kareo was greatly enhanced by the helpfulness and timeliness of their support team," said James Davidson, MD of Willoughby, Ohio. "During our transition, we quickly learned that Kareo's trainers made themselves available during and after webinars to answer our questions. The friendly and helpful answers moved us along quickly. We had a number of questions and issues in the first couple months, but now we often go months without seeking assistance. All of our issues have been resolved, usually within a day or two. Although we opted for email support, in several instances a Kareo support representative called or provided a contact phone number to more efficiently resolve an issue. The level of professionalism has been superb and Kareo has support personnel that truly understand the program, medical billing, and are based here in the U.S."
By the end of this year, Kareo will also introduce a redesigned enrollment process for electronic claims, remittance and real-time eligibility services and a new online help center with a searchable knowledgebase of self-help content, videos, and answers to frequently asked questions for the company's knowledgeable customer support team.
About Kareo
Kareo is a leading provider of easy to use, affordable, web-based practice management and medical billing software to thousands of physicians and hundreds of medical billing companies. Kareo's user-friendly and quick-to-implement solution enables physicians to get paid faster by storing patient records, verifying insurance eligibility, submitting electronic claims to insurers, posting electronic insurance payments, billing patients, managing accounts receivable, and much more. For more information, visit Kareo on the web at http://www.kareo.com/.
SOURCE Kareo, Inc.
Kareo, Inc.
CONTACT: Kate Casey, +1-949-723-0520, kate@katecasey.com, for Kareo
SparkFun Electronics Announces ProtoSnap, a New Line of Products to Enable Beginners to Explore the World of Embedded Electronics
New product line aims to enable beginners in programming, prototyping and designing with electronics
BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SparkFun Electronics (http://www.sparkfun.com), a provider of parts, knowledge and passion for electronics creation, today announced a new line of products designed to help the novice electronics enthusiast ease into the world of programming, prototyping and design.
Each product in the new ProtoSnap line features various input and output boards that are linked together, complete with traces, to form a multi-use prototyping platform. This allows users to experiment with embedded electronics without the burden of soldering, wires or other typical prototyping limitations.
There currently are three different products in the ProtoSnap line - the ProtoSnap Pro Mini, the ProtoSnap LilyPad Development Board and the ProtoSnap LilyPad E-sewing kit.
The Pro Mini combines an Arduino Pro Mini with a host of inputs and outputs to allow users to experiment with the Arduino language. When they have mastered programming the ProtoSnap Pro Mini, it can be broken apart so the individual components can be used separately. Both the ProtoSnap LilyPad Development Board and the ProtoSnap LilyPad E-sewing kits are designed to help users ease into e-textiles. They, too, can be broken apart into individual components and used in any number of different projects and applications.
"The ProtoSnap line is really designed with the beginner in mind," said SparkFun Engineer Ryan Owens. "We really think it will help introduce people to prototyping in an easy-to-understand and user-friendly way."
While the ProtoSnap line currently has three products, the range of possibilities for expansion is endless. SparkFun is excited to see the implications this new product holds for beginner electronics enthusiasts and hopes the ProtoSnap line will introduce a new group of people to the wonders of embedded electronics.
Founded in 2003, SparkFun shares its passion for electronics by providing parts, knowledge, and innovation for those looking to explore the world of embedded electronics. It helps anyone discover their inner inventor and enables individuals to create their own electronics projects. SparkFun currently offers more than 1,800 products, ranging from simple components, like capacitors and resistors to GPS units and Bluetooth modules. The company employs 120 people and is based in Boulder, Colorado.
Media Contact:
Jeremy Douglas
Catapult PR-IR
O: (303) 581-7760, ext. 12
jdouglas@catapultpr-ir.com
Rhapsody Members Get an Exclusive First Listen to Steven Curtis Chapman's New Album, re:creation
The iconic, multi-platinum selling and GRAMMY-Award winning artist's 17th album release is now streaming on Rhapsody
SEATTLE, Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Rhapsody, the most popular premium, on-demand digital music service, today announced that its members are the first to hear the latest release from Christian music icon Steven Curtis Chapman, re:creation.
"I'm excited for everyone, especially fans of my music, to hear what I've been working on. I'm really grateful to Rhapsody for the opportunity to unveil my new recording, re:creation here," says Chapman.
The new album features six new songs from the five-time GRAMMY® Award winner, including the Top 5 single "Do Everything" and all new re-imagined recordings of his eight biggest hits. The entire record has a progressive and fresh acoustic sound, which reflects the energy and life found in the songs. The title speaks to the actual recreation of these songs, which are all new recordings.
"Over the course of his nearly 25-year career, Steven Curtis Chapman has chronicled his own journey through song while creating a soundtrack for our lives," said Wendy Lee Nentwig, Christian editor, Rhapsody. "We've watched him grow from a baby-faced Kentucky boy to the winner of more than 50 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards, including seven wins for Artist of the Year. His new album, re:creation, finds Steven Curtis emerging from a family tragedy to revisit some of his classic tunes, giving them a creative overhaul. Time and experience gives these songs new meaning, while Chapman delivers six brand-new tracks."
Rhapsody members are often privy to music and editorial content that can't be found anywhere else. In addition to leaks from popular artists such as TV on the Radio, Jack Johnson, The Black Eyed Peas and Zac Brown, Rhapsody produces exclusive concerts, videos, playlists, reviews and listening guides. Not yet a member? Rhapsody offers a free trial that includes mobile access, to prospective members. Access to Rhapsody's member benefits and massive collection of 12-million songs begins at http://www.rhapsody.com.
About Rhapsody
The Rhapsody® digital music service (http://www.rhapsody.com) gives subscribers unlimited on-demand access to more than 12 million songs, whether they're listening on a PC, laptop, Internet connected home stereo or TV, MP3 player or mobile phone. Rhapsody allows subscribers to access their music through more touch-points than any other digital music service, including mobile phones from Verizon Wireless, through Rhapsody applications on the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, RIM BlackBerry and Android mobile platforms as well as through devices from Vizio, SanDisk, HP, Sonos and Philips. Rhapsody, and the Rhapsody logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Rhapsody International Inc. Follow @Rhapsody on Twitter and keep up with the latest on the Rhapsody Facebook page.
Verizon Wireless Introduces First Netbook To Use Verizon's 4G LTE Network
BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless today announced the Compaq(TM) Mini CQ10-688nr with built-in 4G LTE will be available online at http://www.verizonwireless.com on August 4.
Previously announced at this year's Consumer Electronics Show and powered by Verizon Wireless' 4G LTE network, the Compaq Mini CQ10-688nr is the ideal balance of performance and size. Customers can stream videos; video chat; and download music, photos and videos on a slim and stylish netbook. Customers can also stay connected using 4G LTE and access digital files on HP Cloud Drive, a digital filing cabinet to download or upload files while mobile.
Small business customers can take advantage of the 4G LTE speeds to quickly download and send email attachments and utilize word processing and Web browsing on-the-go. The ultraportable Compaq Mini CQ10-688nr is designed to help business owners and frequent travelers get their work done fast and efficiently.
Key features:
-- 4G LTE - customers can expect download speeds of 5 to 12 Mbps and upload
speeds of 2 to 5 Mbps in 4G Mobile Broadband coverage areas
-- Windows® 7 Home Starter 32-bit
-- 10.1" WSVGA Anti-glare LED Display (1024 x 600)
-- 1.66 GHz Intel® Atom(TM) Processor N455
-- 250 GB hard drive
-- Memory: 1 GB DDR3 RAM
-- VGA webcam with integrated digital microphone
-- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
-- Multi-format digital media card reader for SD cards, multimedia cards,
memory stick and memory stick pro
-- Weight: 3.10 lbs
Pricing and availability:
-- The Compaq Mini CQ10-688nr will be available online at http://www.verizonwireless.com on August 4 for $499.99.
-- Customers will be able to choose one of the following Mobile Broadband
plans:
-- $30 monthly access for 2 GB monthly allowance
-- $50 monthly access for 5 GB monthly allowance
-- $80 monthly access for 10 GB monthly allowance
For more information on Verizon Wireless products and services, visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or go to http://www.verizonwireless.com.
About Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless operates the nation's fastest, most advanced 4G network and largest, most reliable 3G network. The company serves 106.3 million total wireless connections, including 89.7 million retail customers. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with 83,000 employees nationwide, Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE, NASDAQ: VZ) and Vodafone (LSE, NASDAQ: VOD). For more information, visit http://www.verizonwireless.com. To preview and request broadcast-quality video footage and high-resolution stills of Verizon Wireless operations, log on to the Verizon Wireless Multimedia Library at http://www.verizonwireless.com/multimedia.
SOURCE Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless
CONTACT: Albert Aydin, Verizon Wireless, +1-908-559-7513, Albert.Aydin@verizonwireless.com
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Wired Real Estate Group Inc. ("WiredRE") today announced an alliance with Deerns America to offer data center design and data center project management services. As a leader in data center real estate, WiredRE is an early stage participant in some of the nation's largest developments, including Vineyard Data Park, Colorado Springs, a 100 MW data center development featuring both colocation and single-tenant sites, Fiber Depot, San Francisco, an over 100k sq-ft carrier hotel, and Vinakom Colocation, Chicago, a Chicago central loop carrier neutral colocation facility. Via the partnership with Deerns, WiredRE intends to support large and small-scale developments with integrated solutions for high-density and high-efficiency computing, from feasibility assessment and conceptual design through commissioning and full scale operations. Deerns has designed more than 2.3 million sq-ft of IT space globally, with a critical load of more than 670 MW.
"It's critical to integrate the technical aspects of data center development, design and operations with business planning and commercial feasibility. Having advised half of the top investment banks in the US, our commercial planning and advisory practice is leading the nation, so we began to look to integrate design and operational expertise via a best-in-breed design firm. We wanted a firm that works exclusively on mission critical infrastructure, and Deerns was an obvious fit," commented Everett Thompson, CEO, WiredRE. "Deerns has an 80+ year track record producing high-efficiency designs on some of the largest and most complex developments on the planet, and we expect their 100% free cooling solution to find a strong audience."
"We are growing rapidly in North American, and we have been looking for a partner with a complimentary brand to help us scale," commented Barry Weisscher, GM, Deerns America. "We considered numerous firms, but the approach, relationships, and national reach of WiredRE are unmatched to support our growth goals for the US Data Center market. Our 'Best in Class' data center solutions meet the most demanding standards for reliability, scalability and efficiency." Deerns are currently working on scalable, high availability data center design projects with efficiency as low as 1.12.
About WiredRE
The Wired Real Estate Group Inc. ("WiredRE") is the nation's leading colocation and data center brokerage firm. The company maintains a proprietary data base of sites and supply / demand trends and conducts detailed primary market research on the colocation and wholesale data center markets, on a facility-by-facility basis. WiredRE uses this proprietary data center research to consult on data center design, equipment, project management, brokerage and finance. The firm has completed over 200 engagements in the last 36 months, including Agilent Technologies, Verizon, and half of the top investment firms in the US. Nationally, the firm represents nearly 1 M square feet of colocation and data center real estate for lease. To search over 1,500 data centers for lease or sale, go to http://www.WiredRE.com.
About Deerns
Deerns is a privately owned firm founded in 1928 with its headquarters in The Netherlands and branches in The United States (Denver, CO and Rockville, MD) Germany, France, Spain, United Kingdom and Dubai. The company has grown into one of the largest independent mechanical and electrical consulting firms in the building services engineering industry in Europe. Deerns is exclusively focused on critical infrastructure, including data centers, airports, hospitals, clean rooms, and Level 3 & 4 bio hazard labs. Deerns' approach is focused on energy efficiency, reliability, modularity, and scalability. Deerns employees over 500 engineers worldwide and has a turnover of more than $65M.
Alfamation Introduces New Test Development Software for Enhanced NI TestStand Programming
SuperNova Offers Easier, Faster Development and Management of Manufacturing Test Applications
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Alfamation today released SuperNova, a visual, configuration-based development environment for automated test built on National Instruments TestStand test management software. With this new, fully integrated test application framework, engineers can quickly and easily create and manage test applications from development to deployment in the electronic manufacturing test environment.
With its graphical user interface and workflow mapping, Alfamation SuperNova offers test engineers more efficient application development, while leveraging the proven functionality and performance of NI TestStand.
"We are excited to see the continued growth of NI TestStand partner products with the introduction of SuperNova," said Santiago Delgado, Product Manager at National Instruments. "As devices, and the systems needed to test them, continue to grow in complexity, test engineers can now take advantage of the powerful and efficient tools provided by SuperNova to simplify development and focus more time on their core competency of test."
SuperNova saves time, resources, and development costs by simplifying NI TestStand custom configurations. The fully integrated Alfamation SuperNova software provides test engineers with an intuitive, visual experience to develop and deploy NI TestStand applications with easier maintenance and without sacrificing quality.
The Test Project Concept
A key feature of Alfamation SuperNova is the Test Project Concept function, which stores all the information about a single Device Under Test (DUT) and the device's product variants. Test engineers can export the Test Project Concept and send it to the production environment to be loaded on the test equipment, for greater efficiency and less risk of lost or missing files.
In addition to the Test Project Concept function, SuperNova test development software also features:
-- Release management system
-- Product variant management
-- Signal management for naming, compensation, and calibration
-- Communication messages and commands management
-- Visual and interactive test reporting and label customization
-- Develop once/deploy multiple parallel test instances
-- Easily configurable process definition
-- Simplified parallel test management
Pricing and Availability
SuperNova will begin shipping in August 2011 with prices starting at $9,300 for a development license and $1,030 for the runtime version. SuperNova packages include all necessary NI TestStand licenses. For more information, visit http://www.alfamationglobal.com/products/5/SuperNova-Test-Software.html.
About Alfamation
Alfamation is a global provider of functional test products and solutions for the automotive, consumer electronics, telecom and medical industries. Alfamation challenges the traditional approach to functional test with technology innovations that address the test needs of continually changing markets, empowering today's manufacturing teams to manage and run sophisticated and rigorous functional tests, without the high costs and set up time of traditional systems. With more than twenty years of experience, Alfamation is a preferred vendor of engineers at many of the leading Fortune 500 engineering companies. Alfamation has been a leading National Instruments Alliance Partner since 2000, and honored as one of only 17 Select National Instruments Alliance Partners globally.
Alfamation and SuperNova are trademarks of Alfamation, in the U.S. and other countries. LabVIEW, National Instruments, NI, ni.com, National Instruments Alliance Partner and NI TestStand are trademarks of National Instruments. Other product and company names listed are trademarks or trade names of their respective companies. A National Instruments Alliance Partner is a business entity independent from National Instruments and has no agency, partnership or joint-venture relationship with National Instruments.
Iomega Introduces New Mac Companion Hard Drive With First of its Kind High Powered Charging Port for your iPad and Other Apple Devices
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --
Mac Users Need It, the Iomega Mac Companion Hard Drive has It:
-- Keep your iPad, iPhone and iPod Charged to Go
-- Two FireWire 800 Interfaces
-- A USB 2.0 Hub
-- 2TBs or 3TBs of Storage with Fast 7200 RPM Hard Drive
-- Bundled Iomega Protection Suite with Mac-Specific Software
Iomega, an EMC company (NYSE: EMC) and a global leader in data protection, today announced the new Iomega® Mac Companion Hard Drive, a speedy, large capacity desktop hard drive styled to match the latest Mac computers with a first-of-its-kind convenient high-powered port to charge your iPad, iPhone and iPod, as well as selection of computer interfaces for connecting peripherals like a printer or other external storage device.
"With the new Iomega Mac Companion Hard Drive, Mac users now have a convenient and stylish way to quickly charge their iPads with the bonus of plenty of new storage capacity for their Mac computer," said Jonathan Huberman, president of Iomega Corporation. "With more than nine million iPads sold in the last quarter alone, the new Mac Companion Hard Drive is the perfect complement for all those iPad owners. This futuristic drive blends effortlessly with the latest Mac computers and the Apple ecosystem of mobile devices. Together, form and function rarely looks as good or works as well as the new Iomega Mac Companion Drive."
Who wouldn't want the ultimate desktop hard drive for Mac computers?
Available in 2TB* and 3TB capacities, the new Iomega Mac Companion Hard Drive utilizes a fast 7200 RPM 3.5-inch hard drive formatted HFS+ for compatibility with Mac computers right out of the box. Rather than sitting off to the side and being in the way, the space-saving design of the Mac Companion Hard Drive allows it to fit perfectly on the base of your Apple iMac or your Apple monitor.
Of the many features included with the Mac Companion Hard Drive, Mac users may most appreciate the first-of-its-kind high powered USB charging port for their iPad, iPhone or iPod. (Apple portable products sold separately.) The charging port is a high-powered 2.1 Amp hookup that makes it easy and convenient to charge your iPad and other portable Apple devices so they're ready to go when you are. **
Adding peripheral devices to your Apple iMac computer is no problem with the new Iomega Mac Companion Hard Drive. The stylish drive includes two FireWire 800 ports, one USB 2.0 port and a two port integrated USB 2.0 hub that lets you connect multiple devices such as a printer or other external storage device. The Mac Companion Hard Drive doesn't require the user to buy extra cables - the drive comes complete with one FireWire 800, one conversion FireWire 400-800, and one USB 2.0 cable.
The new Iomega Mac Companion Hard Drive is the only major branded external HFS+ Mac desktop hard drive on the market today that incorporates a high powered Apple device charging port and a two-port USB 2.0 hub.
How much storage space is available on my desktop hard drive?
Users of the Iomega Mac Companion Hard Drive never have to ask that question because a handy capacity indicator gauge*** lets them know approximately how much space is available to store their data. Four LEDs on the front of the Mac Companion Hard Drive tell you the total capacity of the data volume that is being used to store files:
-- 4 LEDs lit white: less than 20% capacity in use
-- 3 LEDs white: 20-40% capacity in use
-- 2 LEDs white: 40-60% capacity in use
-- 1 LED white: 60-80% capacity in use
-- 1 LED red: more than 80% capacity in use
Iomega Protection Suite, Mac Edition, included
Owners of the new Iomega Mac Companion Hard Drive also receive a powerful suite of software solutions bundled with their drive:
-- Iomega® QuikProtect for simple scheduled file-level backup
-- MozyHome® Online Backup for convenient online backup of up to 2GB free
-- A free 12-month subscription of Trend Smart Surfing for Mac allows users
to shop, bank and surf online while staying safe from attacks to your
identity and confidential information
Availability and Warranty
The new Iomega® Mac Companion Hard Drive is available worldwide in two capacities: the 2TB model is $195.00, and the 3TB model is $295.00. (Pricing is U.S. suggested retail.) The Mac Companion Hard Drive will initially be available exclusively at Apple retail stores and the Apple online store. Later this month, the product will be available from additional retailers, etailers and at http://www.iomega.com.
Both models of the Iomega Mac Companion Hard Drive include a three-year warranty with registration.
EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset -- information -- in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at http://www.EMC.com.
About Iomega
Iomega is a worldwide leader of innovative storage solutions for small businesses, distributed enterprises, home offices, and consumers. A wholly-owned subsidiary of EMC, the world's premier information infrastructure technology provider, Iomega has shipped more than 14 million terabytes of storage since its inception in 1980. Today, Iomega's portfolio includes industry-leading network attached storage solutions that utilize world class EMC storage and security technologies as well as Iomega's Personal Cloud technology; one of the industry's broadest selections of portable and desktop hard drives; multimedia drives that make it easy to view video and Internet content in the living room; and the one-of-a-kind Iomega® SuperHero(TM) Backup & Charger for iPhone. To learn more go to http://www.iomega.com. Resellers worldwide can visit http://www.ioclub.net.
NOTE: This release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined under the Federal Securities Laws. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain risk factors, including but not limited to: (i) adverse changes in general economic or market conditions; (ii) delays or reductions in information technology spending; (iii) the relative and varying rates of product price and component cost declines and the volume and mixture of product and services revenues; (iv) competitive factors, including but not limited to pricing pressures and new product introductions; (v) component and product quality and availability; (vi) fluctuations in VMware, Inc.'s operating results and risks associated with trading of VMware stock; (vii) the transition to new products, the uncertainty of customer acceptance of new product offerings and rapid technological and market change; (viii) risks associated with managing the growth of our business, including risks associated with acquisitions and investments and the challenges and costs of integration, restructuring and achieving anticipated synergies; (ix) the ability to attract and retain highly qualified employees; (x) insufficient, excess or obsolete inventory; (xi) fluctuating currency exchange rates; (xii) threats and other disruptions to our secure data centers or networks; (xiii) our ability to protect our proprietary technology; (xiv) war or acts of terrorism; and (xv) other one-time events and other important factors disclosed previously and from time to time in EMC's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. EMC disclaims any obligation to update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release.
*1 TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes.
** For the fastest charge, the Mac Companion Hard Drive must be connected to the computer via FireWire rather than USB 2.0.
*** Requires software utility installation to enable capacity gauge feature.
Dungeons & Dragons Returns to the Legendary City of Neverwinter; Fans Vie for Glory in the City of a Thousand Fates
Exciting, New Suite of Neverwinter Offerings Unveiled at Gen Con Indy 2011
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Wizards of the Coast today announced that its iconic roleplaying game of fantasy and imagination, Dungeons & Dragons®, will return to one of the most well-known and fascinating cities within D&D lore and the Forgotten Realmsnovels - the city of Neverwinter. Along with the new D&D Neverwinter Campaign Setting comes an extensive suite of products and in-store play offerings, including a new comic mini-series, a board game, organized play sessions, and a new novel from New York Times best-selling author R.A. Salvatore. Wizards of the Coast will showcase new Neverwinter product offerings at Gen ConIndy2011 on August 4-7 at Booth #2031, and fans can also get in on the adventure at http://www.ExploreNeverwinter.com.
"The Neverwinter suite of products and programs offer something for all players and fans, both new and seasoned," said Liz Schuh, Dungeons & Dragons Brand Director, Wizards of the Coast. "With so many different ways to engage with the city, players will be immersed in the storyline and find themselves vying for glory alongside their fellow adventurers no matter how they choose to play."
-- Neverwinter Mass Adventure at Gen Con 2011 - Show attendees of Gen Con
Indy 2011 will have the opportunity to participate in a Neverwinter
adventure using a series of QR codes to guide attendees to different
Wizards of the Coast sponsored special events and locations. Attendees
will be challenged along the way to choose between a quest for glory, a
quest for power, or a quest for riches with hints provided by D&D on
Facebook and Twitter.
-- Neverwinter Game Day - On August 6, join D&D players around the world
for an epic day of Dungeons & Dragons. This year, D&D Neverwinter Game
Day spotlights an exclusive adventure entitled Gates of Neverdeath, in
which characters are introduced to the intrigues and dangers that await
in the city of Neverwinter. For the first time, players will create
their own D&D characters at the event and play in a prelude adventure to
the upcoming D&D Encounters season! Visit the Store and Event Locator
to find participating retailers.
-- D&D Encounters: Lost Crown of Neverwinter & Fortune Cards - Beginning
August 10, players both young and old will gather on Wednesday evenings
in local game stores around the world to experience the D&D Encounters
Lost Crown of Neverwinter season. D&D Encounters is the first D&D
Organized Play program designed exclusively for weekly play at retail
locations worldwide - and this summer, adventuring parties will be hot
on the trail of the Lost Crown of Neverwinter. D&D Neverwinter Fortune
Cards, which launched this summer, enhance D&D Encounters game play by
adding an element of unpredictability as each card provides a game
effect that enhances attacks, defenses, or other benefits to characters.
-- Neverwinter Campaign Setting - The Neverwinter Campaign Setting is the
ultimate encyclopedia on the inner workings of the city of Neverwinter,
containing everything from history and geography to character themes.
It is the first-ever RPG book focused solely on one city and
conveniently presents Neverwinter content in a single hardcover format
containing information for both players and DMs.
-- D&D Lair Assault - Beginning this September, devoted Dungeons & Dragons
players worldwide will have the opportunity to gather at their local
participating game stores as part of a new, highly tactical D&D
Organized Play program named D&D Lair Assault. The first challenge,
Forge of the Dawn Titan, will feature thrilling "convention-style" play
that players and spectators alike are drawn to, challenging players on
two levels - character building and tactical knowledge.
-- The Legend of Drizzt: Neverwinter Tales Comic Mini-series -- For a
lighter story, fans can pick up the new 5-part mini-series The Legend of
Drizzt: Neverwinter Tales comic mini-series this summer. Published by
IDW and co-written by R.A. Salvatore and Geno Salvatore, the comic
mini-series delves into the characters that inhabit Neverwinter as the
city teeters on the brink of chaos.
-- D&D Heroes of Neverwinter Facebook game - For lighter digital game play,
fans can also take part in the D&D Heroes of Neverwinter game on
Facebook, a turn-based strategy game launching this summer with
pre-fabricated or user-generated dungeons, gifting and more.
-- Neverwinter, The Neverwinter Saga Book II by R.A. Salvatore - With a
fascinating cast of new secondary characters, Neverwinter launches on
October 4 and takes the dual-scimitar wielding dark elf Drizzt and
brings him to an area of the Realms he's never adventured in -
Neverwinter. With the last of his trusted companions having fallen,
Drizzt is alone--and free--for the first time in almost a hundred years.
Forced to see the dark deeds of common men, Drizzt begins to find
himself on the wrong side of the law in an effort to protect those the
law has failed. The paperback release of Gauntlgrym, The Neverwinter
Saga Book I by R.A. Salvatore that lays the groundwork for all of the
Neverwinter product offerings this fall, just released on July 5th.
-- The Legend of Drizzt Board Game - Launching October 18, this thrilling
board game is based on the adventures of Drizzt Do'Urden, as told in the
New York Times best-selling Forgotten Realms novels by R.A. Salvatore.
Players take on the role of the legendary drow ranger or one of his
famous adventuring companions, battle fearsome foes, and win treasure
and glory.
Dungeons & Dragons is the iconic roleplaying game of fantasy and imagination that is part storytelling, part social interaction and part chance. Visit DungeonsandDragons.com for more details on the Dungeons & Dragons follow D&D on Facebook and Twitter.
About Wizards of the CoastWizards of the Coast LLC, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAS), is the leader in entertaining the lifestyle gamer. The company holds an exclusive patent on trading card games (TCGs) and their method of play and produces the premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering, among many other trading card games and family card and board games. Wizards is also a leading publisher of roleplaying games, such as Dungeons & Dragons, and publisher of fantasy series fiction with numerous New York Times best-sellers. For more information, visit the Wizards of the Coast Web site at http://www.wizards.com.
CONTACT: Marcella Kallmann, Wizards of the Coast, Marcella.Kallmann@wizards.com,+1-425-254-2263; Sheila Tayebi, 360PR for Wizards of the Coast, STayebi@360publicrelations.com, +1-617-585-5764
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ThinRDP Transforms Web Browsers into Virtual Desktops to Maximize Remote Computing Potential
ThinRDP leverages HTML5 Web browser technology to deliver virtual RDP access to Windows applications from any PC, Mac, Chromebook, iPad, iPhone, or Android tablets
WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cybele Software, Inc. announces the release of ThinRDP for Microsoft® Remote Desktop Services, the premier software tool for high-performance, remote access to Windows applications. ThinRDP dramatically expands the possibilities of remote, virtual computing by converting any modern Web browser into a powerful Desktop Client capable of securely accessing Windows applications remotely. With ThinRDP, users can access all of their programs, documents, files, and network resources through their preferred device -- PC, iPhone, iPad, Android tablet, Chromebook, or any other device that supports HTML5.
ThinRDP enables secure access to any PC on the corporate LAN through a single, public IP address. This includes access to applications and desktops running Microsoft RDS/ Terminal Services and RDS/VDI platforms, such as session-based applications and virtual desktops.
ThinRDP facilitates the complete spectrum of cross-browser, cross-platform access. With ThinRDP, users of Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android, and iOS can connect remotely into their Windows desktops through their favorite browser. ThinRDP supports Internet Explorer 9, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and all other HTML5-capable Web browsers. Earlier versions of Internet Explorer may be enhanced with HTML5 features by the addition of the Google ChromeFrame plug-in.
ThinRDP is remarkably simple to set up. It does not require Flash, Java, ActiveX, Silverlight or any other setup on the end-user side. Through its exclusive use of standard Web technologies like Ajax, WebSockets, and JavaScript, ThinRDP provides pure Web access. Because no additional software is required, ThinRDP provides both a simplified implementation and optimal performance.
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AT&T Expands Mobile Broadband Wireless Capacity in the Greater Baltimore Area
Additional Spectrum Expected to Improve Connectivity and Performance of Mobile Broadband Data and Voice Connectivity
BALTIMORE, Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Customers in greater Baltimore are expected to experience improved mobile broadband coverage and voice performance as a result of continued investment and innovation by AT&T*. The company announced today that it has completed a key initiative in its ongoing efforts to enhance the wireless capacity and performance of its mobile broadband network throughout the greater Baltimore area. From 2008 through 2010, AT&T invested more than $325 million in its Baltimore area wireless and wireline network.
Today's network enhancement adds new layers of frequency, also known as "carriers," to more efficiently manage available spectrum and increase mobile broadband capacity at local cell sites. The expansion helps manage ever-growing demand for mobile broadband services by allocating more network resources for AT&T's mobile broadband network. It also comes in time to handle the influx of visitors and competitors for the highly anticipated inaugural Baltimore Grand Prix in September.
"Our goal is for our customers to have an extraordinary experience. As part of the Baltimore community, we're always looking for new opportunities to provide an enhanced customer experience and our investment in the local wireless network is just one way we're accomplishing that," said J. Michael Schweder, president of AT&T Mid-Atlantic. "In addition, our recently announced agreement to acquire T-Mobile USA will strengthen and expand our network in Baltimore. 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."
Charles R. Owens, president of the Baltimore City Chamber of Commerce, said AT&T's significant investment to improve its network will further bolster Baltimore's reputation as a great place to live and work.
"High-tech expansions like this one help our business community, our local economy and our overall quality of life," Owens said. "Few businesses today are more competitive than the wireless industry. That level of competition results in investment and new technology, which delivers benefits to the entire community."
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 best 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.
"We want you to have an extraordinary experience in Charm City and across the country, whether you are sharing videos and photos with friends, watching a movie, checking the latest scores or keeping your business mobile on your AT&T device," said Rob Forsyth, vice president and general manager for AT&T in the greater Washington/Baltimore area. "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 Baltimore to meet these needs and ensure an advanced broadband experience for all our customers."
AT&T also operates the nation's largest Wi-Fi network** with more than 26,000 hotspots in the U.S. and provides access to more than 135,000 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 Baltimore or anywhere in the United States, consumers can visit the AT&T Coverage Viewer.
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.
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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National Instruments Extends Leading PXI RF Test Performance to 14 GHz
New Vector Signal Analyzer Delivers Industry's Best Performance, Surpasses Box Instrumentation
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- NIWeek - National Instruments (Nasdaq: NATI) today introduced a 14 GHz version of its NI PXIe-5665 high-performance RF vector signal analyzer (VSA), which delivers best-in-class dynamic range and accuracy in a cost-effective PXI form factor. The new VSA features industry-leading phase noise and dynamic range, regardless of form factor, including traditional rack-and-stack instruments. Because of its PXI platform, the VSA can deliver measurement speeds up to 20 times faster than box instruments and for less cost. Additionally, it takes advantage of multicore computing architectures and parallel programming capabilities through NI LabVIEW system design software. It also offers peer-to-peer data streaming for signal processing and a flexible multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) architecture for phase-coherent measurements. Such features make it ideal for demanding RF test applications including radio detection and ranging (RADAR), satellite, radio and harmonic testing.
"The new NI PXIe-5665 VSA gives ST-Ericsson the performance and accuracy we need for 3GPP RF IC design validation in our characterization labs," said Sylvain Bertrand, RF broadband validation manager at ST-Ericsson. "At the bottom line, the VSA reduces our system cost while increasing flexibility and decreasing physical bulk compared to our previous box solutions."
The VSA offers the same industry-leading performance as the 3.6 GHz version of the NI PXIe-5665 while extending the capabilities into the 14 GHz frequency range. The VSA consists of the new NI PXIe-5605 downconverter, the NI PXIe-5653 local oscillator synthesizer and the NI PXIe-5622, a 150 MS/s intermediate frequency (IF) digitizer. This combination creates an ideal solution for spectrum and wideband vector signal analysis over a frequency range of 20 Hz to 14 GHz with analysis bandwidths up to 50 MHz. It features the industry's best third-order intercept point at +24 dBm with an absolute amplitude accuracy of +/- 0.10 dB as well as an impressive error vector magnitude of 0.33 percent for a 256 QAM modulated signal. It also delivers an exceptionally low phase noise of -129 dBc/Hz at a 10 kHz offset at 800 MHz and an average noise level of -165 dBm/Hz.
Because the new 14 GHz NI PXIe-5665 joins an industry portfolio of more than 1,500 software-defined PXI modular instruments, engineers can mix and match the VSA with a variety of modules and control an entire automated test system with LabVIEW system design software. Engineers can take advantage of the VSA's software-defined performance with RF software toolkits for LabVIEW, NI LabWindows(TM)/CVI and .NET to test the latest RADAR, satellite, radio and numerous RF and wireless communication standards including GSM/EDGE, WCDMA, LTE, WLAN and WiMAX.
The 14 GHz NI PXIe-5665 VSA will be available for shipping this October. To learn more about the new VSA, readers can visit http://www.ni.com/rf.
About National Instruments
National Instruments (http://www.ni.com) is transforming the way engineers and scientists design, prototype and deploy systems for measurement, automation and embedded applications. NI empowers customers with off-the-shelf software such as NI LabVIEW and modular cost-effective hardware, and sells to a broad base of more than 30,000 different companies worldwide, with its largest customer representing approximately 4 percent of revenue in 2010 and no one industry representing more than 15 percent of revenue. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has approximately 5,500 employees and direct operations in more than 40 countries. For the past 12 years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America. Readers can obtain investment information from the company's investor relations department by calling (512) 683-5090, emailing nati@ni.com or visiting http://www.ni.com/nati.
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Priced* from $49,999; euro 39,999; yen Tel: (800) 258-7022, Fax: (512)
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