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Tile Launches Second-Generation Hardware, Easiest Way to Find Your Phone, and Nationwide T-Mobile Retail Store Rollout

New Tiles are now three times louder and include new Find Your Phone functionality, will be sold in over 3,000 T-Mobile US retail stores starting today.

SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Tile, makers of a tiny Bluetooth tracker and accompanying app, announced new hardware and an app update that includes the easiest Find Your Phone solution on the market. Customers can now find their misplaced smartphone or device from their physical Tile, any smart device (Android or iOS), or a web app. Tile has shipped more than two million of its Bluetooth trackers to help its global community stay connected to the things that matter most to them.

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"We aim to help our global community of customers never lose anything ever again. Knowing that a cell phone is misplaced every 3.5 seconds, we created Find Your Phone, a solution that lives up to the experience our community members already know and love - it's simple, intuitive, and most importantly, effective," says Mike Farley, CEO and co-founder of Tile. "This news is particularly timely as we are thrilled to expand the Tile community to include T-Mobile.  As a disruptor in the mobility space, T-Mobile has attracted a customer base of loyal, tech-savvy people that we are now happy to keep connected to their phones and other things they need to keep their daily life running smoothly."

Tile will be sold in all 3,000+ T-Mobile (NYSE: TMUS) locations in the US starting today. This is particularly timely since its second-generation hardware allows you to find your phone via your Tile, a web app, or the cross-platform app on various devices.

"We start with revolutionary Un-carrier benefits and plans, and add the hottest devices and accessories to deliver what customers want in wireless," said Andrew Sherrard, Chief Marketing Officer for T-Mobile. "So it makes sense for T-Mobile to be the first to offer Tile in retail stores and give customers a totally new and incredibly cool way to keep track of their mobile lives."

The new Gen 2 hardware and app update that Tile is announcing today for its global community include:

    --  A 3X louder tone (90 decibels) compared to first-generation Tiles for
        quick and easy locating.
    --  Find Your Phone, the easiest solution on the market. With phones
        becoming such an essential tool for so many people, Tile's new
        functionality works in three ways so Tilers can find their phones
        quickly and easily:
        --  Ring a phone within the 100-foot Bluetooth range by simply
            double-pressing the "e" button on the Tile. The phone will ring even
            if it's on silent or vibrate.
        --  Turn Android and iOS devices into virtual Tiles with no hardware
            needed. Simply download the app on multiple devices and then ring
            any compatible devices or see them on a map.
        --  A web app that allows customers to find their phone or tablet from
            any web browser. Simply login to the website to ring a lost phone,
            to see its last known location on a map, or to send message to the
            lock-screen.
Customers can purchase second-generation Tiles at any T-Mobile store, T-Mobile.com, Amazon.com, and at thetileapp.com. The new app is available for free download at DownloadTile.com or in the App Store or Google Play.

About Tile
Tile keeps you close to the things that matter. The company's first product, also called Tile, is a tiny Bluetooth tracker and companion app that helps people find misplaced and lost items. Tile is a mass market internet of things device, providing community members with a platform to choose the items that matter to them most - keys, luggage, valuables, cars, you name it - and giving those things a voice by connecting them to the internet. Based in San Mateo, CA, Tile's mission is to connect everything, and the company already has a global community of members in over 100 countries helping make that happen. For more information, please visit thetileapp.com.

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andrew.hussey@porternovelli.com

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LG Welcomes Football Season With Expanded Audio Lineup For Ultimate Game Day Experience

New Speakers Pair Versatility with Premium Sound for an Enhanced Listening Experience

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., Aug. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- LG Electronics USA today introduced an expanded family of wireless audio products, just in time for football season, when home entertainment is at an all-time high and sports enthusiasts are looking for the best game day experience possible. Highlights of the new lineup include rechargeable battery-powered, Bluetooth-enabled speakers that can deliver premium sound anywhere inside or outside the home, and a powerful home theater system for the most premium sound possible. The majority of new audio products will be available through select U.S. retailers starting October.

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"Today's consumers are looking for entertainment innovations designed to match their ever-evolving lifestyles," said David VanderWaal, vice president of marketing, LG Electronics. "Sports enthusiasts are among the most passionate when it comes to elevating their game, and LG's speakers offer the connectivity and versatility to help them create the ultimate game day experience. Whether it's a surround sound system for your home theater or augmented sound for tailgating, LG is enhancing the most exciting sporting events of the season to a level that can only be matched by being in the stadium itself."

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Delivering an Immersive Stadium Experience at Home or on the Go

The new battery-powered, Bluetooth-enabled LG speakers were developed for consumers who want the convenience of portability but are uncompromising in their expectations for high sound quality. LG understands that not all game day viewing party needs are the same, so the lineup has three different battery-powered portable speaker variations for users to choose from: the LG Music Flow P7 and P5 and the SoundPop 360.

The LG Music Flow P7 is a 20-watt speaker with up to 10 hours of battery life and that can be controlled using LG's intuitive Music Flow mobile app. Its sister speaker, the LG Music Flow P5, is an even lighter weight 10-watt model that delivers powerful sound with up to eight hours of battery life.

With the TV Sound Sync feature, either speaker can be connected to a compatible LG TV Bluetooth-capable TV for more private listening or an all-out game day experience. For guests who would rather listen to music than commercials, Multipoint allows the speakers to connect to multiple Bluetooth devices at once, unlike most Bluetooth speakers that only allow one controlling device at a time. Plus, the Dual Play feature lets users connect their device to two speakers at once for increased sound potential.

As part of LG's Music Flow series, the speakers support LG's Auto Music Play feature, which automatically begins playing music when the audio source comes within range. Both represent LG's commitment to expanding its wireless audio category to offer the most advanced products with compelling design and versatility.

For the more active listener, LG SoundPop 360, which was designed to mirror the shape of a drinking tumbler, is a cylindrical speaker that has a 360 degree range so music sounds great regardless of the listener's relative position. It's perfect for listening in large groups and the party can go well into the night with up to 20 hours of battery life.

Elevating Game Day with Enhanced Versatility and Power

Also joining the audio lineup is LG's X-Boom Theater (Model LHB675) - a home theater system with Smart TV capability that delivers enhanced audio in a space-saving design. The X-Boom Theater produces thrilling, powerful sound thanks to a pair of tower speakers that boast 1000-watt total audio output with built-in subwoofers. The accompanying 3D Blu-ray player includes LG Smart TV functionality with access to streaming services like Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Instant Video and YouTube.* The LHB675 is also compatible with LG's Music Flow family of audio products via the Multi-room mode, which allows users to send audio from a CD or USB to LG Music Flow speakers.

Sound Worthy of Tailgating

The LG Cube Speaker System (Model OM7550) exemplifies LG's expanded offerings for the sports enthusiast who wants intense sound, even away from home. A perfect complement to any tailgate party, the Cube Speaker System offers a powerful combined 1000-watt speaker and subwoofer. It features two handy USB ports and a portable audio input, as well as Multipoint Bluetooth with NFC pairing that allows users to easily stream from compatible smartphones and tablets. For added fun, multi-color LED lighting pulses to the beat of the music, while an optional tripod provides the option to place the OM7550 cube in any desired location.

The lineup of home theater solutions will be available at U.S. retailers as follows. Models and suggested pricing include:

Portable Bluetooth Speakers:

    --  P5 (NP5550) speaker: $99 (October)
    --  P7 (NP7550) speaker: $149 (Available now)
    --  SoundPop 360 speaker (To be announced)
Home Theater:

    --  LHB675: $499 (October)
Cube Speaker System:

    --  OM7550: $449 (October)
For more information regarding LG's 2015 audio lineup, please visit http://www.lg.com/us/home-audio-video.

*Wireless Internet connection & certain subscriptions required and sold separately. Content and services vary by product and are subject to change without notice. 3D TV sold separately. Viewing 3D video content may cause discomfort. Visit http://www.lg.com for details. Blu-ray is a trademark of Blu-ray Disc Association.

About LG Electronics USA.

LG Electronics USA, Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics, Inc., a $56 billion global force and technology leader in consumer electronics, home appliances and mobile communications. LG Electronics, a proud 2015 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year, sells a range of stylish and innovative home entertainment products, mobile phones, home appliances, commercial displays, air conditioning systems and solar energy solutions in the United States, all under LG's "Life's Good" marketing theme. http://www.lg.com.

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Huawei Unveils New Models of its Big Data Server Series and Spark Accelerator Prototype at Intel Developers Forum 2015

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Huawei today debuted three new models of its FusionServer series for Big Data, and a prototype of an all-in-one accelerator for Apache Spark(TM), at the Intel Developers Forum 2015, taking place in San Francisco from August 18 to 20.

The three models of the Huawei FusionServer X6800 series will allow enterprises to customize their infrastructure to meet specific Big Data needs, such as increased speed, massive storage capacity, or computing power. The X6800 is ideal for various service applications that address ever-changing service demands, such as software-defined storage (SDS), big data, service driven infrastructure (SDI) and high performance computing (HPC).

New Models

The three new models of the FusionServer X6800 are:

    --  XH628 V3 - A 4U4 balanced storage server node with the latest Intel(®)
        Xeon(®) E5-2600 v3 series processors and hard disk drive (HDD) drawers
        accommodating twelve 3.5- or 2.5-inch high-speed hard disks. Each
        chassis provides a storage capacity of up to 296 TB. The XH628 V3
        supports up to 16 DDR4 DIMMs and 4 standard peripheral component
        interconnect express (PCIe) cards. Its high storage density, easy
        management and maintenance make the XH628 V3 ideal for cloud computing,
        big data, server SAN and other services.
    --  XH622 V3 - Tailored for image rendering and HPC, each server supports
        two full-height full-length general-purpose computing on graphics
        processing units (GPGPUs), and each chassis can deliver up to 12
        trillion floating-point operations per second (TFLOPS) running
        capability.
    --  XH620 V3 - A 4U8 server, its 4U space accommodates eight compute nodes
        for twice the computing density of traditional rack servers. A single
        node provides up to 1024 GB of memory. The XH620 V3 supports 56G and the
        latest 100G enhanced data rate InfiniBand (EDR IB) cards, making it
        ideal for services like HPC and Web cache that demand high density
        computing.
Spark Accelerator
The prototype accelerator integrates computing and storage with a unique Spark-based design by focusing on the co-optimization of hardware and software components. Preliminary test results show that the prototype conducts SQL query execution up to 100 times faster than open-source Spark running on standard computer servers.

During the Intel Developers Forum, Huawei will showcase the new models of its FusionServer X6800 and the Spark accelerator prototype in booth 710 at San Francisco's Moscone Center West.

Availability
FusionServer X6800 models XH628 V3, XH622 V3 are available now, and XH620 V3 will be available in the fall. The Spark accelerator prototype will be available in the fourth quarter for proof of concept (PoC) in customer environments.

About Huawei
Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Our aim is to build a better connected world, acting as a responsible corporate citizen, innovative enabler for the information society, and collaborative contributor to the industry. Driven by customer-centric innovation and open partnerships, Huawei has established an end-to-end ICT solutions portfolio that gives customers competitive advantages in telecom and enterprise networks, devices and cloud computing. Huawei's 170,000 employees worldwide are committed to creating maximum value for telecom operators, enterprises and consumers. Our innovative ICT solutions, products and services are used in more than 170 countries and regions, serving over one-third of the world's population. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully owned by its employees.

For more information, please visit Huawei online at http://www.huawei.com or follow us on:
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New Palo Alto Networks PA-7080 Delivers Next-Generation Security At Unrivaled Scale For Service Providers And Large Enterprises

LAS VEGAS, Aug. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Palo Alto Networks® (NYSE: PANW), the next-generation security company, today announced availability of the PA-7080, the newest and most powerful addition to its family of next-generation firewalls.

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Large enterprises and telecommunications service providers are constant targets of cyberattacks. Cybercriminals seek to steal customer information from their data centers, disrupt services and leverage service provider networks as vectors for attacks on businesses and consumers.  As data centers and networks grow in capacity, speed, and complexity, a security offering that delivers prevention against cyberattacks at scale is needed.

Palo Alto Networks addresses this challenge head-on with the Palo Alto Networks security platform that consists of the Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall, Threat Intelligence Cloud, and Advanced Endpoint Protection.  The platform eliminates the security, performance, and operational shortcomings of legacy products and siloed security architectures.  It is designed to prevent successful cyberattacks while delivering scalable performance, policy automation, and orchestration.

The new PA-7080 next-generation firewall provides the power, intelligent scalability, and management simplicity that is ideally suited for implementing the platform in large enterprise and service provider environments to secure their assets and services.

Quote:

    --  "By providing industry-leading performance with the full set of Palo
        Alto Networks security capabilities enabled, the PA-7080 is architected
        to deliver safe application enablement and to prevent against
        cyberattacks at the scale needed by service providers and the largest
        enterprises; it is an integral component of a prevention-minded,
        integrated platform approach to securing these organizations' networks."
-- Lee Klarich, Senior Vice President of Product Management

The PA-7080: Prevention at Scale
The PA-7080 delivers the computing power and software architecture required to prevent today's cyberattacks across all applications in even the largest networks and datacenters. Based on a proven architecture that blends ultra-efficient software with nearly 700 function-specific processors for networking, security, content inspection, and management, the PA-7080 can deliver up to 200Gbps throughput and 100Gbps with all security capabilities enabled.

Because of the combination of power, intelligence, and simplicity, the PA-7080 is ideally and equally suited to deliver prevention at scale for:

    --  Internal data centers, where service providers and enterprises secure
        their business infrastructure;
    --  Service delivery infrastructure, where speed and scale are of utmost
        importance and threat prevention at scale is critical; and
    --  Internet gateways, where safe enablement of all applications and
        protection from known and unknown threats are critical.
The PA-7080 is designed for non-disruptive integration into large networks and minimal ongoing operational expense.  It supports virtual wire, L2 and L3 networking, high availability modes combined with simplified management, simplified licensing, and intelligent traffic management. The PA-7080 is NEBS compliant, has front-to-back cooling, and AC/DC power supply options as standard features.

The PA-7080 is joined by the PA-7050 to comprise the PA-7000 Series, which redefines high-performance network security and offers the perfect blend of power, intelligence, and simplicity that service providers and enterprises need to achieve prevention at scale.

As performance and capacity are needed, the PA-7000 Series devices will intelligently scale by automatically allocating new computing resources as they are made available when new processing cards are added.  To simplify system administration and costs, the devices are managed and licensed as single unified systems.

AVAILABILITY
The Palo Alto Networks PA-7080 is available now.

For more information on the PA-7080:

    --  Visit the PA-7000 Series page:
        https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/content/campaigns/pa-7000-series/pa-700
        0-series/index.html
    --  Register for the live webinar:
        http://go.paloaltonetworks.com/introducingpa7080
    --  Visit the Palo Alto Networks booth (#3433) at VMworld, Aug. 30 - Sept. 3
        in San Francisco
    --  Find an authorized reseller in your geography
ABOUT PALO ALTO NETWORKS
Palo Alto Networks is the next-generation security company, leading a new era in cybersecurity by safely enabling applications and preventing cyber breaches for tens of thousands of organizations worldwide.  Built with an innovative approach and highly differentiated cyberthreat prevention capabilities, our game-changing security platform delivers security far superior to legacy or point products, safely enables daily business operations, and protects an organization's most valuable assets.  Find out more at http://www.paloaltonetworks.com.

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Raritan Reinvents the Serial Console Server for IT and Network Administrators

-- Dominion SX II's new hardware and software design delivers a more responsive and easy-to-use serial console server for managing equipment from anywhere --

SOMERSET, N.J., Aug. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Raritan, a leading provider of data center management and rack power distribution solutions, today introduced the Dominion® SX II - the next-generation IP-based serial console server for remote access and control of servers, routers, switches, and other equipment with serial ports.  With faster connection to IT devices from anywhere, the SX II helps administrators resolve incidents and problems even faster.

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"By managing equipment from wherever IT experts are located, whether at the rack or miles away, companies can dramatically reduce IT support costs, staff travel time, and improve business uptime," says Richard Dominach, Director of Product Management at Raritan.  "Our SX II has a new powerful hardware platform providing better performance and new productivity features to manage IT environments, where security, high availability and costs are top concerns."

The Dominion SX II builds on the success of its predecessor - the Dominion SX, one of the most widely deployed serial console servers.  SX is used daily by IT and network administrators to manage more than a half million serial devices, including networking switches, routers, and firewalls; servers; power distribution units (PDUs); and, telecommunications gear.

Because the Dominion SX II controls IT devices through their serial ports, IT specialists can use the secure console server to monitor and manage any connected device, even when the network is down.  Should a device hang, administrators can cycle the power on individual devices using the SX II and Raritan's PX intelligent rack PDUs.

SX II: Performance, Reliability, Security, Manageability and Productivity

All thirteen SX II models come with dual-power supplies (AC or DC), dual gigabit LAN connections with automatic failover, multiple methods of at-the-rack access and optional internal modem.  Here are some of the Dominion SX II highlights:

    --  More powerful hardware platform in a 1U rack-mountable appliance.  A
        1GHz CPU engine, an eight-fold increase in RAM, and up to 8 GB of flash
        storage.
    --  Supports up to 10 sessions per port, up to 200 total serial sessions.
        Port configuration is 15 to 23 times faster, with order of magnitude
        improvements in simultaneous connections, connection speed, and serial
        processing.
    --  Full CLI access and auto configuration for fast installation and
        configuration changes.  The SX II offers complete CLI access and
        management via SSH, Telnet and web-browser, with convenient direct-port
        access methods.  Also automatic installation and configuration via USB
        stick or TFTP server.
    --  Autosensing DTE/DCE ports.  For fast installations, the SX II supports
        straight Cat5 connections to Cisco (and other compatible RJ-45 devices),
        without rollover cables.
    --  Government- and Military-grade security features.  SX II supports
        256-bit AES and FIPS 140-2 certified encryption, LDAP and Active
        Directory authentication, and IPv6 networking.
    --  Provides multiple forms of local at-the-rack access:  Traditional RJ-45
        serial port, mini-USB port for laptop connection, and a DVI- and
        USB-based KVM console for connection to a rackmount keyboard tray, or
        even a KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) switch.
    --  3G/4G cellular modem support for optional connection to an external
        modem for emergency access.
For enterprise-wide views and access to all IT equipment, Dominion SX II serial console servers - as well as Raritan's KVM-over-IP switches - can be aggregated onto a single command-and-control network with Raritan's centralized server management solution -- CommandCenter®.

SX II Availability
The Dominion SX II - which comes in 4-, 8-, 16-, 32- and 48-port models -- are available worldwide in early September through Raritan's extensive reseller channel and distributors.  The SX II is easy-to-deploy, allowing you to set up access and manage IT equipment quickly.

For more information on the Dominion SX II, visit raritan.com/sxii.

About Raritan

Raritan is a proven innovator of energy and infrastructure management solutions for data centers of all sizes.  In more than 50,000 locations worldwide, Raritan's award-winning hardware and software solutions - including intelligent rack PDUs, environment sensors, transfer switches, KVM switches, and serial console servers - provide IT and facility directors, managers and administrators with the control they need to increase power management efficiency, improve data center productivity, and enhance operations.  Based in Somerset, N.J., Raritan has offices worldwide serving customers in 76 countries.  Visit us at Raritan.com or follow us on the Raritan blog.

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Asurion Retail Solutions Partners with American Residential Warranty to Bring Consumer Electronic Protection Plans to Home Warranty Industry

Protection plan covers an unlimited number of computing and consumer electronics for ARW customers

BOCA RATON, Fla., Aug. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Asurion Retail Solutions, a division of global technology protection and support provider Asurion, is partnering with American Residential Warranty (ARW) to provide ARW customers with protection plans for home consumer electronics.

The new ARWUltimate Electronics Protection Plan, powered by Asurion, provides protection for an unlimited number of eligible devices, including computing products such as desktops, laptops, tablets, printers, routers and external hard drives; and home entertainment products such as flat panel TVs, DVD players, home theater systems and gaming systems.(1)

The ARW Ultimate Electronics Protection Plan covers both new and existing consumer electronics, and provides protection from failures due to accidental damage from handling such as cracked screens, drops and spills on key portable devices, as well as mechanical and electrical failures caused by normal wear and tear, power surges and defects.

"Our partnership with Asurion, adding protection plans on consumer electronics to our comprehensive suite of home system and appliance warranty offerings, is just our latest innovation allowing us to truly meet the real everyday needs of families in their homes," said Richard Kaufman, chief executive officer of American Residential Warranty.

"We're pleased to partner with American Residential Warranty to help bring further innovation to the home warranty industry by offering customers the option to protect their home consumer electronics with one streamlined plan," said Mamta Bhargava, vice president and general manager, Client Services, Asurion. "The Ultimate Electronics Protection Plan allows ARW customers to get their devices repaired simply and easily, allowing them to quickly get back to enjoying their electronic devices with friends and family."

Plans start at $24.99 per month(2). To learn more about the ARW Ultimate Electronics Protection Plan, visit http://www.ultimateelectronicsprotection.com.

(1)Limitations and exclusions apply. See terms and conditions for full coverage details. No claims can be filed within the first 30 days.

(2)There may be a service fee of $55 when filing a claim and a $5,000 annual aggregate claim limit.

About American Residential Warranty
American Residential Warranty (ARW), a nationally recognized leader in the home warranty industry providing customizable home protection solutions to homeowners across the United States. ARW specializes in direct-to-consumer marketing, running highly successful national multimedia campaigns including television, web, radio and print. For more information, visit http://www.americanresidentialwarranty.com.

About Asurion Retail Solutions
Asurion Retail Solutions, a division of global technology protection provider Asurion, provides America's #1 protection plans through the nation's leading retailers that are proven to increase revenue, customer satisfaction and shopper loyalty by bringing innovation, transparency, consumer choice and customization to the market. A history of industry-firsts and award winning customer service have made Asurion Retail Solutions the protection plan provider chosen by more than 50 of the country's largest retailers and rewarded with over 2.4 million 5-star consumer reviews. Available online and at over 34,000 retail storefronts, Asurion Retail Solutions is supported by 2,100+ US based employees dedicated to delighting shoppers and driving greater value for its retail partners. For more information about Asurion, including customer service ratings and reviews, please visit http://www.asurion.com.

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ShoreTel Delivers Tight Integration of Leading Business Applications with ShoreTel Connect ONSITE and CLOUD

Results are Faster Access to Business Data, Customer Insights

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of the ShoreTel Connect(TM) roll-out, ShoreTel® (NASDAQ: SHOR) today announced the integration of advanced CRM applications with deployments of ShoreTel Connect ONSITE(TM) and ShoreTel Connect CLOUD(TM). For the ShoreTel Connect roll-out, ShoreTel focused on bringing CRM integrations to the combined onsite and cloud platform, creating feature parity for customers no matter which deployment model they elect to deploy. These CRM integrations bring capabilities such as embedded call control, screen pops, click-to-call, and call activity record correlation with business data.

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ShoreTel offers a portfolio of software applications that integrate leading business applications with a company's communications platform, delivering on the promise of unified communications by increasing return on investment of both the ShoreTel UC system and a customer's existing business applications. By tying organizational communications into core business processes and workflows, these innovative solutions help to increase employee productivity, shorten response times, encourage collaboration, and improve customer satisfaction - all while providing faster access to a company's business data. ShoreTel advanced applications extend core contact center, workgroup, UC, and CRM capabilities, and powerfully combine to streamline workflows and analytics across multiple business systems.

"When ShoreTel's communications platform is tightly integrated with a company's business applications, the result is a system that is core to the organization, optimizing and streamlining the way employees work and collaborate every day," said Eugenia Corrales, senior vice president of product at ShoreTel. "With CRM integrations to ShoreTel Connect ONSITE and ShoreTel Connect CLOUD, sales professionals will find it easier to follow-up with their prospects, service teams will be more responsive to the needs of their clients, and business managers will be able to easily measure performance and quantify the returns on their investments."

ShoreTel provides seamless voice and data integration that enables businesses to enrich their customers' experience while allowing them to welcome each customer by name. With CRM integration, customers can integrate call recording, multi-party voice conferences, IVR, voicemail transcription, point-to-point SMS messaging, Presence monitoring and collaboration, enhanced dashboard and reporting and many other applications that often do not "talk" to one another and operate in silos.

Integrations are available now for ACT!, AMS 360, Desk.com(TM), Microsoft Dynamics(®), NetSuite®, Salesforce®, and Zendesk®. Moreover, the ShoreTel developed EasyPop, Web Dialer, and App Dialer solutions bring brilliant simplicity to customers requiring integration to any of the hundreds of other CRM systems in the market today.

For more information, contact ShoreTel at 1-844-746-7383.

About ShoreTel, Inc.
ShoreTel, Inc. (NASDAQ: SHOR) is a leading provider of brilliantly simple IP phone systems and unified communications solutions powering today's always-on workforce. Its flexible communications solutions for on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments eliminate complexity, reduce costs and improve productivity. Recognized for its industry-leading customer experience and support, ShoreTel's innovative business phones, application integration, collaboration tools, mobility, and contact center applications enable users to communicate and collaborate no matter the time, place or device, with minimal demand on IT resources. ShoreTel is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., and has regional offices and partners worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.shoretel.com.

Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
ShoreTel assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements included in this release. This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the federal securities laws. The forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. The risks and uncertainties include the intense competition in our industry, supply and manufacturing risks, the impact of service disruptions or security breaches, uncertainties related to global operations, uncertainties inherent in the product development cycle, uncertainty as to market acceptance of new products and services, the potential for litigation in our industry, the uncertain impact of global economic conditions and foreign exchange rates, including impact on customers' purchasing decisions, and other risk factors set forth in ShoreTel's Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2014, and in its Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2015.

ShoreTel, ShoreTel Connect, ShoreTel Connect ONSITE, ShoreTel Connect CLOUD, and the ShoreTel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of ShoreTel, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Salesforce and Desk.com are trademarks of salesforce.com and are used here with permission. Zendesk is a registered trademark of Zendesk, Inc. Microsoft Dynamics is either a registered trademark or trademark of Microsoft Corporation. NetSuite is a registered trademark of NetSuite. All other trademarks, trade names and service marks herein are the property of their respective owners.

Media contact:
Katie Maller
408-962-2786
kmaller@shoretel.com

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Owlet Baby Care Receives $7M in New Funding, Product to Launch This Fall

PROVO, Utah, Aug. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Owlet Baby Care, maker of the Smart Sock baby monitor, received an additional $7 million in funding, CEO Kurt Workman announces. The additional money comes as the company prepares for the public launch of its product this fall after two years of development and rigorous safety testing.

Of the $7 million, $6 million is from the company's Series A funding. The Series A round was led by Formation 8 (F8), with participation from Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS Shoes, out of his new fund Carpe Diem VC, and Owlet's previous investors Azimuth Ventures, ffvc, Eniac Ventures and Peak Capital. Formation 8 has a new $100-million hardware fund headed up by Lior Susan.

"We could not be happier to work with F8," Workman said. "There is no other venture capital firm that has more real world experience in hardware than F8. This is an exciting time at Owlet."

Owlet is also receiving another $1 million for participating in a government National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant. This grant and the Series A fundraising brings the total amount Owlet has raised to $9.2 million.

"There is no way that we could have raised our funds without pushing the entire company to the sole focus of creating an amazing product for parents," Owlet co-founder Jordan Monroe said. "Our new investor, Lior, was able to use the Owlet with his baby, as well as all of our competitors' products, and he fell in love with the Owlet Monitor. That was the biggest factor in making this investment happen."

The company is currently ramping up to make its Smart Sock available to the public, planned for this fall. The product is currently only available to early supporters and new supporters in limited production.

"This is going to be a crazy two years--we are planning to triple the size of the company and hopefully be in 50,000 homes by mid-2017," Monroe said.

More information about employment opportunities is available at OwletCare.com/Jobs.

The Owlet Smart Sock is the first of its kind among new smart baby monitors, aimed at giving parents peace of mind. The baby product market currently has monitors that require you to obsess over whether or not your child is OK because the monitors use only audio and video. The Owlet Baby Monitor tracks an infant's vital signs, including heart rate and oxygen levels, with the same technology used in hospitals--pulse oximetry--to alert you if your baby stops breathing, so that you have one less thing to worry about. The information from the monitor is relayed to parents' smartphones, allowing parents to check on their child from anywhere.

About Owlet Baby Care
Owlet Baby Care, Inc. was founded in 2013 by a team of passionate parents who wanted to bring themselves--and other parents around the globe--peace of mind and assurance by developing a monitor that tracks a baby's breathing and heart rate in real time. Using pulse oximetry, the same technology used in hospitals, the Owlet Smart Sock will send alerts, to the Base Station and via WiFi to a smartphone, if a baby were to stop breathing in the middle of the night or during nap time. The Owlet Baby Monitor is not a medical device. See the device in action by watching this video or visiting OwletCare.com.

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Epson Runsense SF-110 Combines Daily Activity Monitoring with GPS in New Fitness and Running Wearable

Now Shipping, Runsense SF-110 Monitors Daily Steps, Calories Burned and Distance as Well as Running Measurements Such as Pace, Laps, Altitude and More

LONG BEACH, Calif., Aug. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --Epson America, Inc. today announced the availability of Runsense(TM) SF-110 GPS watches, designed for runners, hikers and other fitness-minded individuals who wish to track their workouts and monitor their daily activities.

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The Runsense SF-110 combines the daily activity monitoring of a fitness tracker with Epson's GPS technology into one compact design that measures steps taken, calories burned, distance, pace, time, laps, altitude and more.

The lightweight and water-resistant Runsense SF-110 comes in three colors, including black, green and bright blue. Users can set three customizable screens that include up to nine real-time measurements on the easy-to-read LCD display.

"The Runsense SF-110's unique combination of features is perfect for the person with an active lifestyle who wants to understand more about their fitness and running progress," said Randy Bergstedt, Group Product Manager, Epson Active. "The product is the latest in our line of GPS running watches and reflects Epson's commitment to developing a full suite of wearables for the sports and fitness lifestyle."

Runsense SF-110 users can sync their data with the Epson Run Connect mobile app available for iOS and Android devices, or with popular running apps such as MapMyRun®, Strava(TM) and others. Users can also enable AGPS (Assisted GPS) through the Run Connect app to download the GPS satellite data directly to the watch for a faster initial GPS connection.

"Epson's Runsense GPS watches are the ideal training tool to help keep me on track of my workouts with real-time stats and feedback," said Meb Keflezighi, Olympic silver medalist and winner of the 2014 Boston Marathon, the first American male champion since 1983. "I think Runsense is the perfect companion for both the elite and casual runner looking for more insight into their activities."

Runsense SF-110 is available for a MSRP of $139 through specialty running retail shops and Epson.com. For more information, please visit: http://www.epson.com/runsense.

About Epson

Epson is a global technology leader dedicated to driving innovations and exceeding customer expectations in printing, visual communications, quality of life and manufacturing. Epson's lineup ranges from inkjet printers, printing systems and 3LCD projectors to industrial robots, smart glasses and sensing systems and is based on original compact, energy-saving, and high-precision technologies.

Led by the Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, the Epson Group comprises nearly 70,000 employees in 94 companies around the world, and is proud of its contributions to the communities in which it operates and its ongoing efforts to reduce environmental burdens.

Epson America, Inc. based in Long Beach, Calif. is Epson's regional headquarters for the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. To learn more about Epson, please visit: http://www.epson.com.

You may also connect with Epson America on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/Epson), Twitter (http://twitter.com/EpsonAmerica) and YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/EpsonAmerica).

Note: Specifications are subject to change without notice.  EPSON is a registered trademark, Epson Exceed Your Vision is a registered logomark, and Runsense is a trademark of Seiko Epson Corporation. All other product and brand names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Epson disclaims any and all rights in these marks. Copyright 2015 Epson America, Inc.

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WD Red(TM) Pro Drives Now Available In 6 TB

A Part of the Industry-leading Family of NAS Hard Drives, WD Red Pro Enables Higher Storage Density for Systems Up to 16 Bays

IRVINE, Calif., Aug 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- WD(®), a Western Digital® (NASDAQ:WDC) company, and world leader in storage solutions, today announced the expansion of its award-winning WD Red Pro hard drive line with the release of 5 TB and 6 TB capacities. The WD Red Pro family is ideal for NAS (network attached storage) systems having up to 16 drive bays and serving businesses with more expansive storage needs than the standard WD Red drives.

Shipping now, WD Red Pro 5 and 6 TB drives leverage an enhanced design and 128 MB cache to deliver data transfer rates of 214 megabytes per second (MB/s). WD's NASware(TM) 3.0 features technology promoting data protection, high NAS performance and reliable integration.

"WD is providing customers a full portfolio of high capacity NAS storage solutions (WD Red and WD Red Pro) for home, consumer and business NAS solutions," said Cindi Grace, senior vice president of WD storage technology group. "With the capacity expansion, there is now a path for customers to increase the storage density of their systems while knowing their data is protected with the most trusted and valued brand on the market."

WD Red Pro 6 TB hard drives feature the following:

Up to 16 Bay Shock Protection - Equipped with a multi- axis shock sensor, the drive automatically detects subtle shock events and, along with dynamic fly height technology, adjusts each read-write function to compensate and protect the data, further protecting the drive in large 1- to 16-bay NAS environments.

NASware 3.0 - Exclusive advanced firmware enables seamless integration, robust data protection and optimal performance for systems operating in the demanding NAS environment.

Vibration Protection - Hardware vibration compensation technology monitors the drive to correct both linear and rotational vibration in real time, further increasing drive reliability and enabling high performance in higher vibration systems caused from drive to drive vibration as well as from the high speed fans used to cool the larger systems.

Longer Warranty Coverage - Complimenting WD Red drives at a 3-year limited warranty, WD Red Pro offers longer warranty coverage with a 5-year limited warranty.

Availability and Pricing

Available now at select U.S. retailers and distributors, the WD Red Pro drive has a five-year limited regional warranty, respectively. Manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) for the WD Red Pro 5 TB drive (model #: WD5001FFWX) is $269.00 USD and $299.00 USD for 6 TB (model #: WD6001FFWX). More information about WD Red Pro hard drives including terms of the limited warranty may be found on the company website at http://www.wdc.com/en/products/internal/nas/.

About WD

WD, a Western Digital company, is a long-time innovator and storage industry leader. As a storage technology pacesetter, the company produces reliable, high-performance hard disk drives and solid state drives. These drives are deployed by OEMs and integrators in desktop and mobile computers, enterprise computing systems, embedded systems and consumer electronics applications, as well as by the company in providing its own storage products. WD's leading storage devices and systems, networking products, media players and software solutions empower people around the world to easily save, store, protect, share and experience their content on multiple devices. WD was established in 1970 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. For more information, please visit the company's website at http://www.wd.com.

Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC), Irvine, Calif., is a global provider of products and services that empower people to create, manage, experience and preserve digital content. Its companies design and manufacture storage devices, networking equipment and home entertainment products under the WD, HGST and G-Technology brands. Visit the Investor section of the company's website (http://www.westerndigital.com) to access a variety of financial and investor information.

Western Digital, WD, the WD logo, WD Red and NASware, are registered trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other marks may be mentioned herein that belong to other companies. Pictures shown may vary from actual products. Not all products may be available in all regions of the world.

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Marvell Extends its Printing Leadership by Delivering the World's Fastest and Most Highly Integrated 64-bit Quad Core System-on-Chip for the Enterprise Printer/MFP and Growing 3D Markets

Marvell's 64-bit quad-core 88PA6270 in 28nm process sets a new performance standard with over 220 ppm PDL rendering, advanced connectivity, industry-leading low power, and a 3D GPU for stunning display capabilities

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell (NASDAQ:MRVL) -- a worldwide leader in providing complete silicon solutions from mobile communications to storage, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud infrastructure, digital entertainment, in-home content delivery and Kinoma® software enabling the "Smart Life and Smart Lifestyle"-- today announced the industry's most advanced printer system-on-chip (SoC), the Marvell® 88PA6270. This 28nm performance-driven SoC integrates a quad-core ARM® Cortex-A53 (64-bit) processor running at 1.2GHz, Marvell's industry-leading 32-bit DDR3/4 memory controller, dual-channel configurable scan and print pipelines, advanced high-speed expansion options, and a high-performance Vivante® 2D/3D GPU, setting a new standard with over 220 pages per minute (ppm) page description language (PDL) rendering.

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The 88PA6270 is designed to power the industry's fastest and highest quality enterprise-class multi-function printers (MFPs) and copiers and integrates ink, laser, and LED technologies. In the past, to achieve this level of performance these products have required a separate PC-class CPU; the 88PA6270 is designed to enable OEMs to adopt a common architecture across their entire product line. The 88PA6270 also advances a new class of 3D printers with the imaging horsepower to provide high-performance object rendering and slicing, and includes the cloud and mobile connectivity required by today's mobile users.

"The 88PA6270 design platform is the new flagship product in Marvell's printer SoC family and we believe that it will establish new standards for the entire industry," said Mark Montierth, Vice President and General Manager, Marvell Printer and Customer Solutions Business Unit. "This solution reflects our passion to innovate and to collaborate with top global printer manufacturers to advance the industry. Marvell's investment in advanced integration in 28nm process enables an extremely low-cost bill of material while providing extensive connectivity options. The 88PA6270 offers unprecedented performance and feature integration to allow our customers to quickly develop their industry-leading solutions."

The 88PA6270 has received strong acceptance and has begun sampling to lead OEMs in U.S., Japan and Korea.

With Marvell's complete SDK and partnership with Global Graphics Software to provide access to the industry's highest performing rendering engines, OEMs can greatly expedite their development and greatly shorten their time to introduction. The SDK seamlessly integrates Marvell's breakthrough JavaScript Kinoma software.

Martin Bailey, CTO at Global Graphics Software, said, "Our partnership with Marvell has been hugely productive and offers printer vendors unprecedented commercial opportunity for reducing their bill of materials on the one hand and extending the range and speed of devices they can drive on the other. Our Harlequin PDL rendering software is now the fastest available across PCL, PDF, PostScript® and XPS, even in a very small footprint, and is renowned for its rendering quality. So when you combine Marvell's high performance SoC with our software, you've got the best of both worlds."

A new standard for performance in the printer industry:

    --  28nm Low Power (LP) process technology
    --  Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 (64-bit) processor with a 1MB L2 cache
    --  Page processing speeds of over 220 pages per minute, average speed
        across PDLs as measured with Global Graphics® PDL interpreters and the
        J11.ppt industry standard performance test file for 600 dpi full color
        pages.
    --  Dedicated dual-channel imaging hardware pipeline optimized to handle the
        unique and computationally intensive functions required by
        high-performance, high-quality printers and MFPs. The pipeline is
        configurable but always runs at a blazing fast 200MPixels/second.
    --  Hardware image sensor error calibration and correction, image quality
        optimization, hardware accelerated compression/decompression and native
        support for dual sided scanning and copying.
    --  A powerful Vivante GC400LT GPU provides fast, smooth 2D/3D graphics
        support.
    --  Three additional 32-bit ARM CPUs for user customization, real-time
        mechanism control, low power standby and co-processor functions.
    --  Dedicated Direct Engine Control hardware (DEC) provides real-time
        control of critical printer functions such as laser video signals or LED
        arrays, laser scanners, fusers, motors, sensors, CIS/CCD scanner
        control. DEC is also configurable to drive a wide range of 3D printing
        technologies.
    --  The quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 performance advances 3D printing by
        enabling in-product rendering and slicing, further reducing cost,
        complexity and increasing speed of 3D printers.
Designed to deliver a complete solution:

    --  Built-in security hardware to authenticate and monitor consumables. The
        88PA6270 works seamlessly with Marvell's 40nm PA800, the industry's most
        advanced and cost-effective consumables security chip.
    --  Platform and SDK support for 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, NFC, 802.3 (GigE), and
        Bluetooth 4.0 advanced connectivity.
    --  Supports Marvell's JavaScript Kinoma software, and coupled with the
        embedded GPU, enables developers to quickly develop rich graphical user
        interfaces and cloud-enabled applications.
Advanced Integrated Connectivity:

    --  1xSATA
    --  1x4, 1x1 PCIe
    --  2xUSB2.0, 1xUSB 3.0, 1xGbE
    --  3xSerial Control Channel Processors (SCCP). Each SCCP interface is
        programmable to emulate industry-standard serial interfaces or customer
        unique serial protocols.
    --  Multiple eMMC/SDIO, SPI, UART, I2S OWI and Audio DDACs
World-Class security system including:

    --  Hardware authentication, encryption and decryption for industry
        standards protocols such as: AES, 3DES, RC4, SHA256, SHA1, MD5
    --  Chain of trust for secure boot
    --  Hardware support for Marvell PA800 Consumable Security Chip
    --  Hardware Currency Detection
Low Power Operation:

    --  28nm LP process node
    --  Power islands and clock gating to minimize power consumption
    --  Intelligent activity monitoring
    --  Exceeds demanding requirements of EnergyStar® and other regional low
        power standards
The 88PA6270 Development Kit includes a fully tested hardware development environment, complete Linux Software Development Kit, detailed documentation and application notes, reference designs, a full family of wireless connectivity solutions, power management ICs, consumables security system, code security system, and Kinoma software. This kit enables customers to easily develop complete, full-featured, high-performance and cost-effective products.

The 88PA6270 further extends Marvell's broad family of printer SoCs which includes the 88PA6170, 88PA6120 and 88PA6110.

The 88PA6270 is sampling now and will be in production in 2H'15. For further information about Marvell's 88PA6270 and the rest of the Marvell Printer SoC family, visit:

http://www.marvell.com/printers/.

About Marvell
Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) is a global leader in providing complete silicon solutions and Kinoma software enabling the "Smart Life and Smart Lifestyle." From mobile communications to storage, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud infrastructure, digital entertainment and in-home content delivery, Marvell's diverse product portfolio aligns complete platform designs with industry-leading performance, security, reliability and efficiency. At the core of the world's most powerful consumer, network and enterprise systems, Marvell empowers partners and their customers to always stand at the forefront of innovation, performance and mass appeal. By providing people around the world with mobility and ease of access to services adding value to their social, private and work lives, Marvell is committed to enhancing the human experience.

As used in this release, the term "Marvell" refers to Marvell Technology Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries. For more information, please visit http://www.Marvell.com.

Marvell, the M logo and Kinoma are registered trademarks of Marvell and/or its affiliates. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

For Further Information Contact:

Marvell Media Relations

Sue Kim

Director, Corporate Communications & PR

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Cinema Without 3D Glasses Finally About to Arrive, Conquering Television at the Same Time

MUMBAI, August 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

    Anglo-American technology company, Ying Group , looks all set to pull off the biggest
set of technological breakthroughs that the world's public has never seen in the 3D space
in many decades.

    Just when people had accepted that 3D television had failed - even with the
sophisticated custom infra red 3D glasses - it comes roaring back with an upgrade to
cinema and television formats. And this time you don't need to buy new glasses, or even a
new TV set. Just bring your old TV and tune in.

    Based upon sophisticated neuro-cognitive image modelling implemented directly into the
signal itself by powerful digital transformations at the pixel on pixel level within each
remastered digital frame, the technology operates at 8K down to 1K, and is also now fully
implemented across the tablet and smartphone platforms.

    As Rosa Martinez, media executive at Ying Group explains, "It has taken our
Ying scientists and digital engineers eight years to crack the many challenges required to
bring this to the cinema screen and now also to the TV screen."

    Abhijeet Thakar, senior director at Ying Group India - the new Indian division of Ying
Group, and currently in-charge of the discussions for the first broadcast trials, comments,
"We expect an announcement by early September telling the Indian public and now also to
the world that which Indian TV station will be the first broadcaster to use EDS."

    Miles Adams, head of technology, who oversaw some of the recent tests for Indian
cinema says that, "The first Indian TV transmissions are now expected in September and if
you look at the samples here of both Hollywood content (see 'Avatar') and Bollywood
content (see Telugu trailer of 'Baahubali' and 'Dheevara' song clip from the film) then
you can see that the public has something quite special to look forward to."

    Rosa Martinez and James Ashbey, the technology's inventor, had a conversation about
the relationship between EDS and the art form of film, and its place in the hierarchy of
film production. If the Indian TV broadcast tests are successful, then North American and
European TV audiences will be next to get their chance to enjoy and evaluate the
technology, but to get an early preview, click on to see this Batman Side By Side
Comaprison EDS - https://youtu.be/HQdH9uQFimI.

    Ying Group believes that they have solved the biggest problems facing 3D
technology. As Rosa Martinez says, "3D's biggest problems were that people did not want
to wear the glasses, and they really only wanted to watch the top quality content to
justify the inconvenience of having to wear the glasses. Well EDS finally puts the
3D glasses firmly in the dustbin of history and we expect an Indian broadcaster to
broadcast the EDS versions of 'Ben-Hur' and 'Gone with the Wind', both in full EDS 3D
without glasses. I think everyone is going to remember where they were the first time they
enjoyed their first full length film in our new remastered EDS formats."

    Rosa then adds, "And of course Hollywood is going to see the biggest jump in its share
price in the last 30 years as the financial markets worldwide begin to realize that all of
those great classic films in the big film libraries can now be remastered into 3D without
glasses for the big screen and the small screen. It will be like digital discs for the
music industry, all over again, only this time the format is going to begin with a 100%
penetration - every TV set is ready for the DVD and Blu-ray discs. It took CD's, lasers
discs and DVD/Blu rays 30 years to achieve 80% penetration. EDS starts with 100%
penetration, on the first day. Global media has never seen anything like it before!"

    Miles Adams further adds, "Yes, it took us a further two years to scale things down
from the cinema to the home television and broadcast formats, but I hope the readers and
viewers agree that it was worth it."

    The Ying Group is hoping that EDS will give viewers a 2Dplus image on the computer
screens and televisions, and a full 3D image on the big cinema screens of the world and
all without glasses.

    The first new image format in the last 40 years. 

    Abhijeet Thakar says, "As an Indian I feel a swell of pride in my chest that this is
happening first here. My countrymen and countrywomen should reflect just how far we have
come in 80 years. Mahatma would have been so proud, especially because EDS comes to the
rich and poor across our vast nation, all together on the same day. Only in India should
this be broadcasted first."

    Now you can judge for yourselves 

    [1] Avatar (Ying-BBC format) https://youtu.be/Oo66obcBUJI (experimental format)

    [2] Baahubali EDS format Trailer https://youtu.be/v5WOvRY-mCU (4444 codec)

    [3] Incredible India I Colours EDS https://youtu.be/FEgwPKClRL8

    [4] Baahubali Song EDS comparison https://youtu.be/XnIq6SZF4zg 

    [5] Batman Side By Side Comaprison EDS https://youtu.be/HQdH9uQFimI 

    The Ying Group has its registered offices at the following addresses:

    Ying Group UK
5th Floor, Durkan House
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Cypress Introduces High-Throughput, Low-Power USB 3.0 Controller that Brings Seamless Gigabit Ethernet Connectivity to Laptops and Docks

New EZ-USB® GX3(TM) Controller Capitalizes on Migration to Thin USB Type-C Ports and Slimmer System Designs that Exclude Ethernet Ports

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) today announced a new high-throughput, low-power SuperSpeed USB controller that converts Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) data to USB 3.0 data. The EZ-USB(® )GX3(TM) controller targets slimmer laptop designs that include an ultra-thin USB Type-C port and no bulky Ethernet port. GX3 provides comprehensive driver support for all major operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Android and Chrome, enabling seamless plug-and-play operation via a USB 3.0 port on any system, including laptops, tablets, docking stations, IP set-top boxes and smart TVs.

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Cypress is demonstrating the EZ-USB GX3 controller, its EZ-USB SuperSpeed USB portfolio and its EZ-PD(TM) USB Type-C Power Delivery portfolio here at the Intel Developer Forum at booth number 910 in the USB Community from August 18-20, 2015.

Conventional USB 3.0 to GigE bridge solutions present designers with limited throughput performance and power management challenges. For throughput, converting GigE data packets to USB 3.0 data packets reduces the throughput of conventional USB 3.0 to GigE bridge controllers to around 700-800 Mbps. EZ-USB GX3 uses a proprietary data transfer mechanism that sends multiple GigE data packets in bursts over USB to provide 910-Mbps throughput, which is comparable to the 950-Mbps throughput of native GigE solutions. For power, it is difficult for a conventional USB 3.0 to GigE solution to support low-power modes of both the USB 3.0 and GigE standards, but GX3 offers a power-efficient solution for both with multiple power-saving modes.

"The Apple(®) MacBook(®) eliminated the Ethernet port years ago, and Ultrabooks and Chromebooks have followed suit, but consumers still want GigE connectivity to stream HD content and for other applications requiring high-bandwidth," said Mark Fu, Senior Marketing Director of the USB 3.0 product line at Cypress. "Our new EZ-USB GX3 solution seamlessly brings high-throughput GigE connectivity to any USB 3.0 system, whether via a standard USB Type-A port or the new USB Type-C port. GX3 further strengthens our SuperSpeed USB portfolio, and in conjunction with our groundbreaking, programmable EZ-PD(TM) USB Type-C Power Delivery solutions and our EZ-USB HX3 USB 3.0 Hub, Cypress can now enable a true one-cable docking solution for laptops, tablets and other portable devices."

The EZ-USB GX3 controller includes on-chip Gigabit Ethernet MAC and PHY support 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet and other advanced power management features, including Wake-on-LAN, dynamic power saving modes during idle or light traffic, and an AutoDetach feature that "soft-disconnects" the GX3 from the USB host whenever Ethernet cable is unplugged. The USB PHY and controller are fully compliant with the USB Link Power Management (LPM) policy, supporting U0, U1, U2 and U3 low-power states. Furthermore, GX3 includes an IPv4/IPv6 packet Checksum Offload Engine (COE) to reduce CPU loading, providing IPv4 IP/TCP/UDP/ICMP/IGMP and IPv6 TCP/UDP/ICMPv6 checksum and generation.

The USB Type-C standard is gaining rapid support with top-tier PC makers by enabling slim industrial designs, easy-to-use connectors and cables, the ability to transmit multiple protocols, and 100W power delivery (PD)--a significant improvement over the previous 7.5W standard. The USB Type-C standard's 2.4-mm-high connector plug is significantly smaller than current 4.5-mm USB Type-A standard connectors. It also allows for transport of USB signals and DisplayPort signals on the same connector. More information on Cypress's USB Type-C and USB power delivery solutions is available at http://www.cypress.com/Type-C.

Availability
The CYUSB3610 EZ-USB GX3 controller is now sampling and is available in a 68-pin QFN package. Additionaly, Cypress offers a USB Type-C to Gigabit Ethernet Dongle Reference Design with complete hardware design files (schematics, board layout, etc.).

About Cypress's EZ-USB Portfolio
Cypress's SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0) portfolio began with EZ-USB FX3(TM), the industry's only programmable SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0) peripheral controller. The portfolio now includes the EZ-USB CX3(TM) camera controller, the EZ-USB FX3S(TM) RAID-on-Chip controller, the EZ-USB SD3 storage controller, the EZ-USB HX3(TM) hub controller and the EZ-USB GX3 USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet bridge controller. For more information on Cypress EZ-USB SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0) solutions, please contact Cypress at usb3@cypress.com.

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About Cypress
Cypress (NASDAQ: CY) delivers high-performance, high-quality solutions at the heart of today's most advanced embedded systems, from automotive, industrial and networking platforms to highly interactive consumer and mobile devices. With a broad, differentiated product portfolio that includes NOR flash memories, F-RAM(TM) and SRAM, Traveo(TM) microcontrollers, the industry's only PSoC(®) programmable system-on-chip solutions, analog and PMIC Power Management ICs, CapSense(®) capacitive touch-sensing controllers, and Wireless BLE Bluetooth(®) Low-Energy and USB connectivity solutions, Cypress is committed to providing its customers worldwide with consistent innovation, best-in-class support and exceptional system value. To learn more, go to http://www.cypress.com.

Cypress, the Cypress logo, EZ-USB, PSoC and CapSense are registered trademarks and GX3, EZ-PD, FX3, CX3, FX3S, HX3, F-RAM and Traveo are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

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CONTACT: Samer Bahou, Cypress PR, (408) 232-4552, samer.bahou@cypress.com

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

WD Expands Its Performance Level Desktop Hard Drives To 6 TB Capacity

WD Black Hard Drives Offer Inspiring Performance for Gamers, Enthusiasts and Creative Professionals

IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- WD(®), a Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) company and a world leader in hard drives, today announced the expansion of its award-winning WD Black(TM) line of performance hard drives up to 6 TB capacity. Shipping now, the 3.5-inch, 7200 RPM drive is the perfect solution for gamers and professionals in need of high-performance desktop systems and workstations.

WD Black hard drives combine 7200 RPM spin speed, 128 MB cache, dual stage actuator technology, SATA 6 gigabits per second (Gb/s) interface, and an integrated dual processor to deliver ultimate performance in a maximum-capacity drive. The WD Black 6TB is up to 29% faster than the previous WD Black 4TB version in maximum data rate throughput and 10% faster in PCMark Vantage.

"Combining maximum system performance with generous capacity, the expansion of WD Black to 6 TB allows gamers, enthusiasts and creatives to push the boundaries of personalization without compromise," said Cindi Grace, senior vice president of WD storage technology group. "In choosing WD Black hard drives, WD desktop customers get the best possible mix of capacity, performance and reliability to handle intense desktop computing with ease."

WD Black 6 TB hard drives feature the following:

Increased Reliability -StableTrac(TM) Technology (2 TB and larger models) secures the motor shaft inside of the hard drive to increase reliability and help reduce impact due to system-induced vibrations from other components. By stabilizing the platters inside, the WD Black drive results in more accurate tracking in a particular sector during read and write operations, optimizing performance and reliability.

Increased DRAM cache - The Dynamic Cache Technology improves caching algorithms in real time to allocate and optimize cache between reads and writes. This movement of cache for read data helps to reduce congestion and increase overall performance.

Efficient dual processing - A dual-core processor offers twice the processing capability as a single-core processor to maximize drive performance for faster read and write speeds.

Industry-leading 5-year limited warranty - Compared to standard hard drives, the WD Black drive endures more strenuous and aggressive internal testing over a longer period of time, resulting in it being backed by an industry leading 5-year limited warranty.

Price and Availability

Available now through select distributors and resellers, WD Black drive is covered by a five-year limited warranty. Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) for the WD Black 5 TB drive (model # WD5001FZWX) is $264.00 USD and the WD Black 6 TB drive (model # WD6001FZWX) is $294.00 USD. More information about WD Black desktop hard drives, including terms of the limited warranty, may be found on the company website at http://www.wd.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=760.

About WD

WD, a Western Digital company, is a long-time innovator and storage industry leader. As a storage technology pacesetter, the company produces reliable, high-performance hard disk drives and solid state drives. These drives are deployed by OEMs and integrators in desktop and mobile computers, enterprise computing systems, embedded systems and consumer electronics applications, as well as by the company in providing its own storage products. WD's leading storage devices and systems, networking products, media players and software solutions empower people around the world to easily save, store, protect, share and experience their content on multiple devices. WD was established in 1970 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. For more information, please visit the company's website at http://www.wd.com.

Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC), Irvine, Calif., is a global provider of products and services that empower people to create, manage, experience and preserve digital content. Its companies design and manufacture storage devices, networking equipment and home entertainment products under the WD, HGST and G-Technology brands. Visit the Investor section of the company's website (http://www.westerndigital.com) to access a variety of financial and investor information.

Western Digital, WD, the WD logo, and WD Black are registered trademarks and StableTrac is a trademark of Western Digital Technologies, Inc.in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other marks may be mentioned herein that belong to other companies. All other brand and product names mentioned herein are the property of their respective companies. As used for storage capacity, one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. As used for transfer rate or interface, gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits per second.

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CONTACT: Heather Skinner, WD Public Relations, 949.672.7920, heather.skinner@wdc.com, or Bob Blair, Western Digital Investor Relations, 949.672.7834, robert.blair@wdc.com

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

CEVA Announces the Certification of RivieraWaves Bluetooth Smart 4.2 Platform IP

- Feature-rich RivieraWaves Bluetooth Smart 4.2 IP incorporates advanced features including data length extension, secure connection, enhanced privacy and scatternet operation

- Widely adopted by multiple licensees for various IoT, wearable and smart home applications

- Complements CEVA's portfolio of RivieraWaves Bluetooth Smart Ready 4.2 IP ("Dual Mode") and RivieraWaves Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac IP platforms

SHANGHAI, Aug. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Bluetooth ASIA 2015 -- CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of DSP and IP platforms for cellular, multimedia and connectivity, and a member of the Bluetooth® Core Specification Team, today announced that its RivieraWaves Bluetooth Smart 4.2 IP platform has been fully certified by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). Offering the lowest power consumption and most advanced feature set of any Bluetooth 4.2 IP available, the RivieraWaves Bluetooth Smart 4.2 IP platform addresses the growing need for ubiquitous wireless connectivity in a broad range of ultra-low power connected devices such as wearables, health and fitness sensors, beacons, the smart home and other devices that comprise the Internet of Things (IoT).

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This latest RivieraWaves Bluetooth Smart 4.2 IP platform has already been widely licensed and builds on the highly successful previous generations of RivieraWaves Bluetooth Smart 4.1 and 4.0 platforms which have shipped in tens of millions of devices to date from licensees including Atmel, Dialog Semiconductor and NXP. In addition to Bluetooth Smart 4.2, the RivieraWaves Bluetooth Smart Ready 4.2 ("Dual Mode") and Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac connectivity IP platforms, are also broadly licensed and can be seamlessly integrated for customers requiring multiple wireless standards in their product designs. The platforms incorporate a smart co-existence interface which handles Wi-Fi/Bluetooth traffic arbitration to avoid interference and are in production with some of the industry's leading IoT players who standardize on CEVA's RivieraWaves Connectivity IPs.

Aviv Malinovitch, vice president and general manager of CEVA's Connectivity business unit, stated: "We are delighted to extend our industry leadership in connectivity IP with our qualification of the most advanced Bluetooth Smart 4.2 IP platform available. Our IP underwent the latest and most stringent qualification process to achieve certification, providing the utmost confidence to our customers deploying our Bluetooth technology in their next-generation products."

The RivieraWaves Bluetooth Smart 4.2 IP is comprised of a hardware baseband controller, a full protocol stack from Link Layer up to GAP/GATT and a comprehensive set of Services and Profiles. A Bluetooth Smart modem can be provided for customers designing their own radio. The RivieraWaves Bluetooth Smart 4.2 IP is fully compliant with all Bluetooth Smart 4.2 required and optional features, including Data Length Extension, Secure Connection, Enhanced Privacy and Scatternet Operation. It is the second generation of RivieraWaves Bluetooth Smart IP with the full capability to simultaneously support all Central and Peripheral roles, handling several master and slave links in parallel.

The RivieraWaves Bluetooth platforms incorporate a flexible RF interface to accommodate each customer's selected RF solution. In addition, CEVA has partnered with RF IP providers including CSEM, Catena, Maxscend and others to offer low power RF solutions that are compliant with RivieraWaves Bluetooth platforms. These RF IPs are available in a number of different foundries and process nodes, offering customers a broad choice of RF options for their specific requirements.

For more information on RivieraWaves Bluetooth IP platforms, go to http://launch.ceva-dsp.com/bluetooth.

About CEVA, Inc.
CEVA is the leading licensor of cellular, multimedia and connectivity technologies to semiconductor companies and OEMs serving the mobile, consumer, automotive and IoT markets. Our DSP IP portfolio includes comprehensive platforms for multimode 2G/3G/LTE/LTE-A baseband processing in terminals and infrastructure, computer vision and computational photography for any camera-enabled device, audio/voice/speech and ultra-low power always-on/sensing applications for multiple IoT markets. For connectivity, we offer the industry's most widely adopted IPs for Bluetooth (Smart and Smart Ready), Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac up to 4x4) and serial storage (SATA and SAS). One in every three phones sold worldwide is powered by CEVA, from many of the world's leading OEMs including Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, Lenovo, HTC, LG, Coolpad, ZTE, Micromax and Meizu. Visit us at http://www.ceva-dsp.com and follow us on Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn.

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CONTACT: CEVA, Inc., Richard Kingston, 650-417-7976, richard.kingston@ceva-dsp.com; Pinnacle Marketing Communications, Andrew Town, +44 (0) 208 429 6546, andrew.town@pinnaclemarcom.com

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Oracle Helps Organizations Power Customer Experiences with Latest Releases of Oracle Service Cloud and Oracle Social Cloud

-- Enables brands to leverage social channels and self-service communities to expand customer engagements and business insights

NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- CRM Evolution -- Oracle unveiled significant new functionality within Oracle Service Cloud and Oracle Social Cloud that helps organizations deliver better customer experience and drive more informed business decisions. The new social customer service capabilities enable brands to increase social engagement and business insights via a new community self-service solution, enhanced social service and incident routing, and extended social listening and analytics capabilities to private data sources.

Today more than one in three customers prefer to contact brands through social channels rather than by phone or email (Nielsen), and the distinction between social and traditional channels is eroding. To deliver the best possible customer experience across this expanding range of traditional and digital channels, customer care organizations need to provide a positive and unified experience where and when customers want, whether they are on Twitter, Facebook, customer communities or other social networks. Through a unified and modern customer experience across channels, organizations establish a competitive advantage.

The latest release of Oracle Service Cloud includes Community Self-Service, a new approach to web self service that brings community functionality directly into the core multi-channel web experience. Oracle Service Cloud now enables organizations to deliver a seamless experience between web service and community interactions, leveraging the power of customer knowledge to improve service operations. This helps organizations streamline the customer journey and lets customers quickly find an answer, while also driving efficiencies by reducing the overall requests to the contact center.

Gartner's research indicates that investment in Peer-to-Peer Communities drives support costs down and boosts profits. In fact, in a December 2014 research note, Nine CRM Projects to Do Right Now for Customer Service, "Gartner clients who are successful in this space are still seeing on average a 20% reduction in the creation of support tickets following the introduction of peer-to-peer communities," wrote, Michael Maoz, Vice President, Distinguished Analyst, Gartner, "Clients are seeing other business benefits as well. By enabling community-based support, clients have been able to recognize new sales opportunities and increase existing customer satisfaction, resulting in increased revenue in several of these cases."

Oracle is also introducing new workflow and automation capabilities between Oracle Social Cloud and Oracle Service Cloud that empower organizations to leverage the power of social insights and engagements. Business users can now attach contextual attributes and notes generated from posts or incidents identified by Oracle Social Cloud directly to the Oracle Service Cloud. By providing more customer information and context, organizations can improve service quality, drive efficiencies and improve resolution time as social posts are shared with the appropriate agents quickly.

The improved connectivity between Oracle Social Cloud and Oracle Service Cloud includes extended social listening and analytics to enterprise private-data sources such as the new Community Self-Service capability, survey data, chat and call logs. Organizations can now listen and analyze unstructured data and gain insights with terms, themes, sentiment and customer metrics, and can view private and public data side by side in the Oracle Social Cloud Relationship Management dashboard.

"In today's hyper-competitive business environment, understanding the voice of the customer is essential to providing exceptional experiences, whether on public social networks, across communities, or within high-touch contact centers," said David Vap, group vice president, product development, Oracle. "The updates to the Oracle Service Cloud and Oracle Social Cloud help businesses listen, identify and track social conversations, enabling them to quickly and efficiently respond to customers looking for answers, which helps foster a loyal group of brand ambassadors."

The latest enhancements to Oracle Social Cloud and Oracle Service Cloud extend Oracle's commitment to help organizations leverage social channels to enhance the customer experience and build on the recent introduction of Oracle's Twitter-enriched social customer service solution. For more information, attend Stephen Fioretti's session Accelerating Success with Modern Service in the Cloud at 3:10 p.m. eastern in A204 on Tuesday, August 18 at CRM Evolution in New York and visit us at Booth 300.

About Oracle

Oracle offers a comprehensive and fully integrated stack of cloud applications and platform services. For more information about Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), visit oracle.com.

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Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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CONTACT: Diana Wong, Oracle, +1.650.506.2757, diana.wong@oracle.com; Peter Mertens, Team Oracle PR, +312.596.3515, peter.mertens@teamoraclepr.com

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Toshiba Rolls Out Wireless Power Receiver IC For Quick Charging Mobile Devices

Wireless charging of mobile devices now as fast as charging by cable

SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC)*, a committed leader that collaborates with technology companies to create breakthrough designs, today announced it has launched a new wireless power receiver IC that will enable mobile devices to be charged wirelessly as fast as if they were connected to the charger via a cable. The new TC7764WBG is compliant with Qi(TM) V.1.1.2, the wireless low power charging standard defined by the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC), which includes a dedicated specification for smartphones and mobile accessories.

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Wireless charging allows adoption of a fully insulated case free of exposed charging ports, an advantage that is stimulating demand for waterproof and dustproof smartphones and other mobile devices. However, wireless charging has not always been as fast as charging by cable. Toshiba has addressed this problem by optimizing the circuit design of the TC7764WBG compared to its predecessor products, enabling maximum output power of 5W and maximum power conversion efficiency of 95 percent(1). This will allow wireless charger makers utilizing the new IC to achieve performance as fast as that offered by cabled chargers, with added benefits.

"Once the de facto standard for charging mobile devices, cabled chargers will be gradually displaced by wireless power, which is a disruptive and effective technology for device charging today," said Deepak Mithani, senior director of the Mixed Signal Business Unit, System LSI Group at TAEC. "As we continue to expand and improve our offering of wireless power ICs, Toshiba is helping to drive broader consumer adoption and use of cable-free charging technology."

To ensure mobile device safety, the new IC integrates a protocol authentication circuit for power transfers, foreign object detection functions, under-voltage lockout (UVLO) and over voltage detection (OVLO) functions, as well as thermal shutdown function (TSD). The IC is housed in a WCSP28 package measuring just 2.4mm by 3.67mm by 0.5mm.

Availability
The TC7764WBG wireless power receiver IC is available now.

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*About TAEC

Through proven commitment, lasting relationships and advanced, reliable electronic components, Toshiba enables its customers to create market-leading designs. Toshiba is the heartbeat within product breakthroughs from OEMs, ODMs, CMs, VARs, distributors and fabless chip companies worldwide.  A committed electronic components leader, Toshiba designs and manufactures high-quality flash memory-based storage solutions, solid state drives (SSDs), hard disk drives (HDDs), solid state hybrid drives (SSHDs), discrete devices, custom SoCs/ASICs, imaging products, microcontrollers, wireless components, mobile peripheral devices, advanced materials and medical tubes that make possible today's leading smartphones, tablets, cameras, medical devices, automotive electronics, industrial applications, enterprise solutions and more.

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. is an independent operating company owned by Toshiba America, Inc., a subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, Japan's largest semiconductor manufacturer and the world's sixth largest semiconductor manufacturer (Gartner, 2014 Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Estimates, December 2014). Founded in Tokyo in 1875, Toshiba is at the heart of a global network of over 590 consolidated companies employing over 200,000 people worldwide. Visit Toshiba's web site at http://www.toshiba.co.jp/index.htm.

© 2015 Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. All rights reserved.

Information in this press release, including product pricing and specifications, content of services and contact information, is current and believed to be accurate on the date of the announcement, but is subject to change without prior notice. Technical and application information contained here is subject to the most recent applicable Toshiba product specifications.

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EASTON and Blast Motion Launch Sensor Technology for Baseball, Softball

EASTON Power Sensor Allows Players to Capture, Analyze & Improve Swing Biomechanics

VAN NUYS, Calif., Aug. 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Easton Baseball/Softball, a leading manufacturer of baseball and softball equipment, in partnership with Blast Motion, today launched the EASTON Power Sensor, the brand's first-ever precision swing motion sensor to help players of all abilities hit with more power and efficiency. 

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The EASTON Power Sensor slips over the knob of any baseball or softball bat and has been designed to capture highly accurate swing metrics and deliver advanced performance analysis. Weighing in at just 7.7 grams, the EASTON Power Sensor utilizes Bluetooth wireless technology to capture and store a wide-range of 3D data, including time to contact, swing speed, energy transfer, bat path, power, overall efficiency and much more.  All of these factors combine to provide a player with their Blast Factor, a 1-100 score that shows a player's overall swing performance and is a simple way to compare and coach proper mechanics.

"Whether it's kids, parents or coaches, today's consumers want instantaneous information to elevate their game," said Todd Harman, Executive Vice President, Easton Baseball/Softball.  "We're proud to deliver to baseball and softball enthusiasts our new EASTON Power Sensor that provides personalized swing biomechanics data, instant feedback to make real-time improvements and Blast Motion's patented video integration for playback and sharing."

The EASTON Power Sensor was developed in exclusive partnership with Blast Motion, a leader in motion capture and analysis technology. Based in Carlsbad, California, Blast Motion is defining the future of personalized motion capture technology. By leveraging Blast Motion's patented Smart Video Capture(TM) and adaptive slow-mo technology, the EASTON Power Sensor intelligently combines video and swing metrics to create a powerful new swing analysis tool that automatically detects a player's swing and clips the video to create a series of video highlights. No user editing or playback intervention is required to experience this groundbreaking functionality.

"With the launch of the EASTON Power Sensor, we're excited to offer the marketplace an industry leading baseball and softball solution that leverages Easton's extensive swing analysis knowledge and expertise," said Roger Weingarth, President and COO of Blast Motion. "This release accelerates our ability to put game changing technology in the hands of players at all levels."

Availability & Pricing

The EASTON Power Sensor is now available for $149.95 and ships with precision swing motion sensor, the bat attachment, wireless charger, and charging cable.  The EASTON Power Sensor can be purchased online at http://www.EASTON.com/power-sensor or http://www.blastmotion.com/products/baseball/  as well as authorized sporting goods and consumer electronic locations throughout the U.S. and Canada.

About Easton

Easton is a leading manufacturer of baseball and softball equipment and has the most iconic brand in these sports.  Headquartered in Van Nuys, Calif., the company manufactures bats, apparel, bags, helmets, catcher's equipment and related accessories.  The company's commitment to innovation and game-changing technologies, such as introducing the industry's first true aluminum bat, drove its growth to the No. 1 position in North America, including the No. 1 bat of choice by players in the College World Series of Omaha®, Women's College World Series® and Little League Baseball® World Series.  Performance Sports Group Ltd., the parent company of Easton, is a publicly-traded company on the New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange whose affiliates market products under the BAUER, MISSION, MAVERIK, CASCADE, INARIA, COMBAT and EASTON brand names.  Performance Sports Group is a member of the Russell 2000 and 3000 Indexes, as well as the S&P/Toronto Stock Exchange Composite Index.  For more information, visit Easton's website at http://www.EASTON.com.

About Blast Motion

Based in Carlsbad, California, Blast Motion is defining the future of personalized motion capture technology. By seamlessly identifying and integrating real-time motion metrics with video highlights, Blast Motion innovations create a contextually rich user experience that enhances the way people capture, share and compare life's actions. For additional information about Blast Motion, please visit http://www.blastmotion.com

Media Contact

Easton
Tory Mazzola
Sr. Manager, Corporate Communications
Performance Sports Group
Phone: 603-430-2111
Email: media@performancesportsgroup.com

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Patrick Gevas
Phone: (305) 347-1787 Ext. 303
Email: patrick.g@greenroomsocial.com

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EASTON and Blast Motion Launch Sensor Technology for Baseball, Softball

EASTON Power Sensor Allows Players to Capture, Analyze & Improve Swing Biomechanics

VAN NUYS, Calif., Aug. 17, 2015 /CNW/ -- Easton Baseball/Softball, a leading manufacturer of baseball and softball equipment, in partnership with Blast Motion, today launched the EASTON Power Sensor, the brand's first-ever precision swing motion sensor to help players of all abilities hit with more power and efficiency. 

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The EASTON Power Sensor slips over the knob of any baseball or softball bat and has been designed to capture highly accurate swing metrics and deliver advanced performance analysis. Weighing in at just 7.7 grams, the EASTON Power Sensor utilizes Bluetooth wireless technology to capture and store a wide-range of 3D data, including time to contact, swing speed, energy transfer, bat path, power, overall efficiency and much more.  All of these factors combine to provide a player with their Blast Factor, a 1-100 score that shows a player's overall swing performance and is a simple way to compare and coach proper mechanics.

"Whether it's kids, parents or coaches, today's consumers want instantaneous information to elevate their game," said Todd Harman, Executive Vice President, Easton Baseball/Softball.  "We're proud to deliver to baseball and softball enthusiasts our new EASTON Power Sensor that provides personalized swing biomechanics data, instant feedback to make real-time improvements and Blast Motion's patented video integration for playback and sharing."

The EASTON Power Sensor was developed in exclusive partnership with Blast Motion, a leader in motion capture and analysis technology. Based in Carlsbad, California, Blast Motion is defining the future of personalized motion capture technology. By leveraging Blast Motion's patented Smart Video Capture(TM) and adaptive slow-mo technology, the EASTON Power Sensor intelligently combines video and swing metrics to create a powerful new swing analysis tool that automatically detects a player's swing and clips the video to create a series of video highlights. No user editing or playback intervention is required to experience this groundbreaking functionality.

"With the launch of the EASTON Power Sensor, we're excited to offer the marketplace an industry leading baseball and softball solution that leverages Easton's extensive swing analysis knowledge and expertise," said Roger Weingarth, President and COO of Blast Motion. "This release accelerates our ability to put game changing technology in the hands of players at all levels."

Availability & Pricing

The EASTON Power Sensor is now available for $149.95 and ships with precision swing motion sensor, the bat attachment, wireless charger, and charging cable.  The EASTON Power Sensor can be purchased online at http://www.EASTON.com/power-sensor or http://www.blastmotion.com/products/baseball/  as well as authorized sporting goods and consumer electronic locations throughout the U.S. and Canada.

About Easton

Easton is a leading manufacturer of baseball and softball equipment and has the most iconic brand in these sports.  Headquartered in Van Nuys, Calif., the company manufactures bats, apparel, bags, helmets, catcher's equipment and related accessories.  The company's commitment to innovation and game-changing technologies, such as introducing the industry's first true aluminum bat, drove its growth to the No. 1 position in North America, including the No. 1 bat of choice by players in the College World Series of Omaha®, Women's College World Series® and Little League Baseball® World Series.  Performance Sports Group Ltd., the parent company of Easton, is a publicly-traded company on the New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange whose affiliates market products under the BAUER, MISSION, MAVERIK, CASCADE, INARIA, COMBAT and EASTON brand names.  Performance Sports Group is a member of the Russell 2000 and 3000 Indexes, as well as the S&P/Toronto Stock Exchange Composite Index.  For more information, visit Easton's website at http://www.EASTON.com.

About Blast Motion

Based in Carlsbad, California, Blast Motion is defining the future of personalized motion capture technology. By seamlessly identifying and integrating real-time motion metrics with video highlights, Blast Motion innovations create a contextually rich user experience that enhances the way people capture, share and compare life's actions. For additional information about Blast Motion, please visit http://www.blastmotion.com

Media Contact

Easton
Tory Mazzola
Sr. Manager, Corporate Communications
Performance Sports Group
Phone: 603-430-2111
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Blast Motion
Patrick Gevas
Phone: (305) 347-1787 Ext. 303
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Smartest Watch for Kids Gets Even Smarter with VTech®'s Kidizoom® Smartwatch DX

Second Generation Smartwatch Adds Higher Performance and Lots of New Features for Active Kids

CHICAGO, Aug. 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The wearable tech market for kids has exploded in the past year led by the coolest gadget for kids, the award-winning Kidizoom® Smartwatch by VTech®. Today the company announces it has outdone itself again with the next generation of its hugely successful camera watch, the new Kidizoom® Smartwatch DX. Packed with content kids crave in a durable, kid-friendly design, the Kidizoom Smartwatch DX offers a higher performance than the original Kidizoom Smartwatch with better specs including double the internal memory and improved image quality, combined with more new features than ever before, such as exciting motion-activated games, eye-catching 3D clock faces and new tools to hone basic math skills.

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"The new Kidizoom Smartwatch DX cements VTech's position as a leader in accessible and affordable kids' tech," said Chris Byrne, content director for TTPM, aka The Toy Guy®. "With its sleek, on-trend design; rich, engaging, age-appropriate content, outstanding features and ease of use, we anticipate that this will be one of the most in-demand products for the 2015 holiday season for its target audience."

Perfect for young photographers, the Kidizoom Smartwatch DX boasts double the memory of the original Kidizoom Smartwatch so kids can take more pictures and videos to share with family and friends. Plus, with a new sensor, images are brighter and sharper, for a noticeable improved image quality. The Kidizoom Smartwatch DX also has more play value than ever before with 11 entertaining games kids can play using the touch screen, as well as the ability to download more from VTech's Learning Lodge® app store. Active children who love to run, jump and dance will have fun exploring three exciting action challenges that utilize the new motion sensor, while even more games add engaging sound effects to movement. Additionally, the Kidizoom Smartwatch DX gives kids the opportunity to learn while having fun with a time telling app featuring a friendly owl that helps kids learn to tell time, a calculator so kids can work out simple math problems and a calendar feature.

Little fashionistas will appreciate the watch's new design, which provides a trendy, updated take on the blue and vivid violet colors, plus chic new retail-exclusive camouflage, pink and red offerings(1). Kids can also personalize their watch and show off their style when they choose from more than 50 strikingly fresh 3D clock faces offering fun animations, displayed in digital and analog time.

"The successful launch of our original Kidizoom Smartwatch fortified our status as a trailblazer in the children's wearable technology category," said William To, President, VTech Electronics North America. "We are extremely proud to expand our Kidizoom line with a new, affordable wearable gadget for the next generation of kids, providing more content that ever before with fun tools, new games for hours of entertainment and educational features to sharpen classroom skills. The new Kidizoom Smartwatch DX incorporates feedback from moms, and kids, and gives them even more of what they're looking for in a smartwatch."

The Kidizoom Smartwatch DX features:

    --  Durable kids' camera that captures vivid images
    --  Creative photo effects, frames and filters
    --  Video and voice recorder
    --  Generous internal memory that stores approximately 1,600 images(2) or 23
        minutes of videos(3)
    --  11 fun new games providing more play value than ever before
    --  Exciting new motion games and activities
    --  Cool new 3D clock faces with more than 50 digital and analog displays
    --  Time telling app, timer, alarm, calculator and calendar included
    --  Colorful touch screen
    --  Splash-proof, kid-friendly design
    --  Rechargeable battery
    --  Micro USB cable for data transfer and battery recharging
    --  Access to VTech's Learning Lodge for additional games, watch displays,
        photo effects and more
    --  Choice of blue, vivid violet, camouflage, pink and red colors
    --  MSRP: $64.99

The Kidizoom Smartwatch DX is available now at major retailers nationwide. For more information, visit http://www.vtechkids.com/smartwatchdx.

About VTech

VTech(®) is a world leader in age-appropriate and developmental stage-based electronic learning products for children. As a pioneer in the learning toy category, VTech develops high-quality, innovative educational products that enrich children's development and make learning fun. With a rich, almost 35 year history, VTech has not only established itself as a learning authority but also consistently remains at the forefront of innovation with multiple award-winning products such as the InnoTab(®) MAX, VTech's first children's tablet with Android((TM)) learning content, Kidizoom(®) Smartwatch, the first smartwatch for kids with a built-in camera, InnoTab(®) 3S, MobiGo(®), V.Reader(®) and V.Smile(®). The Learning Lodge(®), VTech's comprehensive app store, features a robust library of more than 800 educational and entertaining games, e-Books, music and videos with engaging age-appropriate content across the widest variety of curricula, with content expanding to offer even more titles. The company also has a broad range of award-winning infant and preschool products available in 25 different languages worldwide, with more than 100 new products introduced every year. VTech was awarded a prestigious 2015 Toy of The Year (TOTY) Award for its Go! Go! Smart Animals(®) Zoo Explorers Playset(TM). In order to further strengthen VTech's position as a learning authority, the company's Expert Panel, with esteemed experts in reading, language arts, science, math, and child development, consult on new product introductions and Learning Lodge content.

VTech Electronics North America, LLC is based in Arlington Heights, Illinois. VTech Electronics Limited is headquartered in Hong Kong with distribution globally.

For more information on VTech's additional product lines, visit http://www.VTechKids.com, http://www.facebook.com/VTechtoys on Facebook or follow @VTechToys on Twitter.

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Nicole Centinaro         

Coyne Public Relations         

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CIARA Unleashes the World's Fastest x86 Single and Dual Processor Servers: the ORION HF320 and ORION HF620

MONTREAL, Aug. 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ - CIARA, a leading provider of enterprise servers and storage, announced today that its ORION HF servers (HF320-G3 and HF620-G3) achieved a remarkable eighteen (18) SPEC CPU(TM) 2006 (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation) benchmark records. This world-renowned industry-standard benchmark suite that was established by actual end-user applications, rigorously stresses the system's CPU, memory architecture and compiler by running a series of different tests to measure the compute-intensive integer performance as well as the compute-intensive floating point performance. CIARA's complete ORION HF server line achieved top ranks in every CPU category when compared to manufacturers such as DELL, HP, Lenovo and Supermicro. 

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"CIARA's mission is to provide its customers with the highest performing reliable servers and storage solutions," said Patrick Scateni, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at CIARA. "The fact that the ORION HF has been recognized as the fastest x86 single and dual processors server in the world is a source of tremendous pride as it reflects and validates our longstanding mission to design and produce industry leading cutting-edge and high performance systems," added Mr. Scateni. 

Since its introduction to the market in 2013, the ORION HF has successfully supported organizations in such market segments as digital manufacturing, life sciences and cloud providers by dramatically improving the performance of their applications. In particular, the financial services sector has benefited greatly from significant enhanced transaction speed and reduced latency for high frequency trading.

Benchmark Grand Slam

Running the latest Intel x86 processors, the CIARA ORION HF320 and ORION HF620, currently claim #1 ranking for four of the most widely used performance benchmarks: SPECint(®)2006 (measuring integer-calculating speed common in business applications), SPECfp(®)2006 (measuring floating point-calculating speed required for scientific applications), SPECint(®)_rate2006 (measuring the throughput or rate of a machine carrying out a number of tasks) and SPECfp(®)_rate2006.

SPEC CPU(TM) 2006 Benchmark Suites:

The SPECint(®) 2006 (Compute-intensive integer performance) suite contains 12 benchmarks based upon real-world applications such as video compression, artificial intelligence, genome sequencing, discrete event simulation, quantum computing, combinatorial optimization and XML processing, to name a few. The ORION HF out-performed the competition by as much as 31%.

The SPECfp(®) 2006 (Compute-intensive floating point performance) suite is comprised of 19 benchmarks which are based on applications designed for fluid dynamics, physics, molecular dynamics, image ray-tracing, weather prediction, computational electromagnetics, structural mechanics, as well as speech recognition. In this category, the ORION HF demonstrated its superiority by scoring 29% higher than the nearest competitor.

For more information on the SPEC CPU(TM) 2006 results, please visit http://spec.org/cpu2006/results/cpu2006.html. For more information about the ORION HF server line, please visit http://www.ciaratech.com/orionhf. All ORION HF servers come with a 1 to 3 year international warranty and are currently available through CIARA or one of its authorized resellers.

About CIARA

Founded in 1984, CIARA is a global technology provider that specializes in the design, development, manufacturing, integration and support of computer products. With its vast range of products including personal computers, enterprise servers and storage, HPC systems, High Frequency Trading servers, OEM/ODM services and with a current production capacity of up to 1,000,000 systems per year, CIARA is considered to be one of the largest system manufacturers in North America. The company's products are employed worldwide by organizations small to large in the sectors of finance, aerospace, engineering, transportation, energy, government, education and defense.

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

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IBM Unveils Linux-Only Mainframe; Builds On Linux Success

Makes Largest One-Time Contribution of Mainframe Code to Open Source Community

Linux Foundation Launches First-of-Kind "Open Mainframe Project"

SEATTLE, Aug. 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- (LINUXCON NORTH AMERICA) -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a significant expansion of the mainframe's strategy of embracing open source-based technologies and open-source communities to provide clients with the most secure([1]), highest performance capabilities for an era where mainframes increasingly anchor corporate analytics and hybrid clouds.

The company is betting big on open source in the enterprise:

    --  Unveiling the most secure Linux servers in the industry - The company is
        introducing two Linux mainframe servers - called LinuxONE - that are the
        industry's most powerful([2]) and secure enterprise servers designed for
        the new application economy and hybrid cloud era.
    --  Deepening open source software enablement - IBM will enable open source
        and industry tools and software including Apache Spark, Node.js,
        MongoDB, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Chef and Docker on z Systems to provide
        clients with choice and flexibility for hybrid cloud deployments. SUSE,
        which provides Linux distribution for the mainframe, will now support
        KVM, giving clients a new hypervisor option. Canonical and IBM also
        announced plans to create an Ubuntu distribution for LinuxONE and z
        Systems. The collaboration with Canonical brings Ubuntu's scale-out and
        cloud expertise to the IBM z Systems platform, further expanding its
        reach and support.
    --  Contributing the single largest amount of mainframe code to open source
        community - The code, designed to fuel digital transformation, includes
        technology from IBM's mainframe to help enterprises identify issues and
        help prevent failures before they happen, help improve performance
        across platforms and enable better integration with the broader network
        and cloud.
"Fifteen years ago IBM surprised the industry by putting Linux on the mainframe, and today more than a third of IBM mainframe clients are running Linux," said Tom Rosamilia, senior vice president, IBM Systems. "We are deepening our commitment to the open source community by combining the best of the open world with the most advanced system in the world in order to help clients embrace new mobile and hybrid cloud workloads. Building on the success of Linux on the mainframe, we continue to push the limits beyond the capabilities of commodity servers that are not designed for security and performance at extreme scale."

LinuxONE - Industry's Most Advanced Enterprise-Grade Linux Platform

IBM is launching LinuxONE, a new portfolio of hardware, software and services solutions, providing two distinct Linux systems for large enterprises and mid-size businesses. LinuxONE Emperor, based on the IBM z13, is the world's most advanced Linux system with the fastest processor in the industry.

The system is capable of analyzing transactions in "real time" and can be used to help prevent fraud as it is occurring. The system can scale up to 8,000 virtual machines or hundreds of thousands of containers - currently the most of any single Linux system. LinuxONE Rockhopper, an entry into the portfolio, is designed for clients and emerging markets seeking the speed, security and availability of the mainframe but in a smaller package.

IBM's LinuxONE systems, available starting today, are the most secure Linux systems with advanced encryption features built into both the hardware and software to help keep customer data and transactions confidential and secure. Protected-key, available on LinuxONE, provides significantly enhanced security over clear-key technology and offers up-to 28X improved performance over standard secure-key technology([3]).

Company Enables New Open Software and Industry Tools for Mainframe

Significantly broadening options for enterprises, IBM has enabled key open source and industry software for LinuxONE and IBM z Systems, including Apache Spark, Node.js, MongoDB, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Chef and Docker. These technologies work seamlessly on the mainframe just as they do with other platforms, with compelling performance advantages while requiring no special skills.

IBM helped pioneer virtualization on the mainframe and is now offering more choices for virtualization by enabling the new LinuxONE systems to be provisioned as a virtual machine through the open standards-based KVM hypervisor, just like any Linux server. SUSE, a leading distributor of Linux, will provide initial support for KVM for the mainframe.

Canonical and IBM also announced an initiative to encourage the growth of Ubuntu Linux on z Systems. Canonical plans to distribute Ubuntu for LinuxONE and z Systems, adding a third Linux distribution. SUSE and Red Hat already support distribution. Canonical also plans to support KVM for the mainframe.

IBM Joins New Linux Foundation Project as Demand Grows for Mainframe in Open Source Community

Enabling greater access in the developer community, IBM's contribution of mainframe technologies is the largest single contribution of mainframe code from IBM to the open source community. A key part of the mainframe code contributions are IT predictive analytics that constantly monitor for unusual system behavior and help prevent issues from turning into failures. The code can be used by developers to build similar sense and respond resiliency capabilities on other systems.

The contributions will help fuel the new "Open Mainframe Project," formed by the Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux and collaborative development.  In collaboration with the Linux Foundation, IBM will support the Open Mainframe Project, a collaboration of nearly a dozen organizations across academia, government and corporate sectors to advance development and adoption of Linux on the mainframe.

"Linux on the mainframe has reached a critical mass such that vendors, users and academia need a neutral forum where they can work together to advance Linux tools and technologies and increase enterprise innovation," said Jim Zemlin, the Linux Foundation executive director.  "The Open Mainframe Project is a direct response to the demands of Linux users and the supporting open source ecosystem to address unique features and requirements built into mainframes for security, availability and performance."

IBM Provides Access to LinuxONE Developer Cloud at No Cost

With today's announcement, IBM is also providing unprecedented access to the mainframe to foster innovations by developers in the open source community. IBM is creating the LinuxONE Developer Cloud to provide open access to the development community. The cloud acts as a virtual R&D engine for the creation, testing and piloting of emerging applications including testing linkages to engagement systems, mobile applications and hybrid cloud applications.

Marist College and Syracuse University's School of Information Studies plan to host clouds that provide developers access to a virtual IBM LinuxONE at no cost. As part of the program, IBM also will create a special cloud for independent software providers (ISVs) hosted at IBM sites in Dallas, Beijing and Boeblingen, Germany, that provide application vendors access and a free trial to LinuxONE resources to port, test and benchmark new applications for the LinuxONE and z Systems platform.

New financing models for the LinuxONE portfolio provide flexibility in pricing and resources that allows enterprises to pay for what they use and scale up quickly when their business grows. The new LinuxONE systems are available today.

For more information on the IBM LinuxONE Systems Portfolio, visit http://www.ibm.com/linuxone and follow the conversation at #IBMz, #LinuxONE and #LinuxCon

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ADP
ADP, a cloud-based provider of human resource services for more than 630,000 businesses, uses Linux on z Systems to help process payroll, benefits and other key employee services for more than 36 million people worldwide.

"ADP is running some of the most critical and sensitive operations for our customers - no one wants to miss a paycheck. Linux on z Systems gives us the ability to manage large amounts of data and transactions with speed and security while ensuring our system is always available even when demand spikes. The Linux environment also gives us options for exploring new open-source software and tools that may enhance our IT operations." - Greg Levine SVP Infrastructure & Operations for ADP

SinfoníaRx
SinfoníaRx, a health-care company originally developed by researchers and faculty at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, has been using Linux on z Systems for almost three years. SinfoníaRx helps providers and their patients better manage care by looking at a patient's full list of prescriptions to identify safety issues, gaps in care and better treatment options.

"We serve more than 5 million patients who often have 10 to 15 prescriptions from multiple doctors and pharmacies. By using Linux on IBM z Systems, we have the processing speed we need to quickly analyze a complex list of prescriptions and gain insights for improving patient treatment and outcomes. We also have an IT environment that's both flexible for developing applications and capable of scaling up without interruption as we add more patients." - Kevin Barber, SinfoníaRx CIO.

SUSE
"Open source is about choice for customers, in software, hardware infrastructure, support and services. SUSE continues to innovate with IBM on new solutions and initiatives including LinuxONE, KVM for IBM z Systems and the Open Mainframe Project to expand enterprise horizons and multiply opportunities. Extending and adapting the open source ecosystem can only help clients succeed." - Michael Miller, SUSE vice president of global alliances and marketing.

Canonical
"The largest enterprises in the world count on Ubuntu as their platform for scale-out applications, private and public clouds. With the expansion of Ubuntu support to IBM z Systems and LinuxONE, IBM mainframe customers will benefit from Ubuntu's ecosystem of scale-out and cloud solutions. IBM and Canonical teaming to bring Ubuntu to z Systems allows customers to leverage the speed and security of z Systems, and the open-source software and tools of Ubuntu, to enhance the IT operations for a new universe of customers." - Jane Silber, CEO of Canonical

MariaDB
"As the one default database platform for leading Linux distributors, including Red Hat and SUSE, MariaDB is excited to support IBM LinuxONE. With Linux on IBM z growing at twice the rate of the Linux market overall, there is clear customer demand for open source solutions on IBM's highly scalable and secure platform. These qualities align perfectly with MariaDB's true open source model, which leverages Community innovations to provide best-in-class scalability, improved performance, and security, for on---premise, hybrid and cloud applications." - Patrik Sallner, CEO of MariaDB

MongoDB
"We are committed to make MongoDB available on all major platforms and are excited to add support for IBM z Systems' enterprise grade Linux and LinuxONE platform. This announcement is a leap forward for customers who want to deploy modern, mission-critical applications built with MongoDB and take advantage of the performance, scalability and security of IBM's mainframe hardware products." - Eliot Horowitz CTO & Founder, MongoDB

Chef
"We're experiencing rapid and accelerating adoption of Chef within the enterprise, making integration with IBM z Systems an important feature for our platform. We're excited to collaborate with IBM on their support for open source technology and to ensure an awesome Chef and IBM user experience for years to come." - Matt Ray, Director of Partner Integration, Chef

2ndQuadrant
"2ndQuadrant is excited by combining the world's most advanced open source database, PostgreSQL, with the world's most efficient, trusted and secure server, the IBM z13. The results of up to 2X throughput performance far exceed our goal, and we are pleased to partner with IBM for supporting IBM's customers." - Simon Riggs, CTO & Founder, PostgreSQL Development at 2ndQuadrant

([1]) Based on Common Criteria EAL5+ security rating for z Systems mainframe, U.S. National Vulnerability Database, Solitaire CX Study and ITIC Study.

([2]) Based on IBM tests that showed LinuxONE can perform 30 billion RESTful web interactions/day with Dockerized Node.js and MongoDB, driving over 470K database read and writes per second.

([3]) Based on IBM tests of the LinuxONE system compared to standard secure-key technology.

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Maclocks Releases the First Double Locking iPad Enclosure Kiosk

Designed for highly populated public areas such as banks and hotel lobbies, DoubleLock is being called "The World's Most Secure iPad Enclosure Kiosk", and will have a unit ready for Apple's newest iPad Mini 4.

AUSTIN, Texas, August 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

    Kiosk manufacturer Maclocks today announced the innovative DoubleLock Kiosk which will
soon hold the highly anticipated iPad Mini 4 and the yet to be released iPad Pro. The new
kiosk has upped the industry expectations for "securing devices" with its dual locks and a
rock solid frame. The extra security and practicality of this iPad Enclosure
[http://www.maclocks.com/ipad-enclosure-ipad-mount-ipad-kiosk.html ] makes it the perfect
solution for the hospitality industry.

    This exceptionally tough enclosure turns the iPad into a secured informational kiosk
or digital signage screen, which provides a stylish solution for hotels looking to
modernize. "We have had so many requests from large hotel chains looking to integrate
tablet kiosk
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s, it was obvious we needed an enclosure that
offered strong security in a subtle design," said Alexander Gad, Maclocks Founder and CTO.

    Maximizing the tablet's convenience without compromising on appearance or
functionality is what hotels demand for self-service kiosks, which guests now rely on for
more functions than ever (providing local directions, planning itineraries, printing
boarding passes, etc.).

    Maclocks DoubleLock iPad Enclosure Kiosk
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is extremely lightweight yet durable and
allows for full cable management. It is fully tamper proof, made of high grade industrial
strength aluminum and includes a unique double lock and a recessed frame.

    It is available with a variety of mounts, stands and kiosks, including the Wall Mount,
Counter Kiosk and Floor Stand. Customers have their choice of a Mini or Full size
enclosure, so it accommodates a range of iPads and tablets.

    About Maclocks 

    Maclocks [http://www.maclocks.com ] is a worldwide leader in designing and
manufacturing security and display solutions for Apple devices.

       
         
        Contact: 
        Meira B. Levison 
        Online Marketing and PR Manager 
        +1-512-333-2006 

     

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Batteroo Looks to Save Our Planet by Extending Battery Life

Batteriser reduces, prevents environmental harm by increasing the lifespan of batteries

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Billions of alkaline batteries used every year are causing environmental harm due to greenhouse gases emitted during battery production, transportation, environmental effects of mining for battery materials, inefficient battery recycling methods and the disposal of battery waste into landfills, say experts at Batteroo Corporation.

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Crafted from stainless steel at less than .1 millimeters thin, Batteriser is a reusable sleeve that slips on over new or most "used" batteries, and instantly taps into the up to 80 percent of remaining energy that is usually thrown away. Available for AA, AAA, C- and D-cell batteries, Batteriser has been tested and proven compatible on a variety of battery-operated home and office gadgets, including wireless keyboards, noise-canceling headphones, Xbox and Wii controllers, TV remote controls, walkie-talkies, digital scales, electronic toothbrushes, portable radios, flashlights and blood pressure monitors.

Every year, more than 15 billion batteries end up in landfills. By the time they reach this final destination, they have already created a significant carbon footprint. Greenhouse gas emissions from sourcing raw materials and factory production, in addition to the transportation of batteries to retail outlets around the world, result in potentially hazardous implications for the planet. Greenhouse gas emissions are a major environmental concern due to their potential effect on global climate change.  Battery production and manufacturing was listed as a major source of greenhouse gas emissions in a 2010 study conducted by the California Department of Resources Recycling.

In addition to greenhouse gas emissions, another source of environmental harm comes from the mining of metals used in the production of disposable batteries. The environmental effect of mining is generations of chemical waste, excavation of the earth, and reduction of metallic resources, iron (steel), zinc and manganese in particular, that could be used for other much needed purposes.

Steel, zinc and manganese are not the only materials found in batteries. Batteries also contain potassium, graphite, copper, nickel, PVC, nylon and paper. Current recycling processes can only recover steel, zinc and manganese, with recycling technologies that vary depending on location affecting the percentage of material that is recoverable. Proven, cost-effective and safe recycling processes are not universally available for alkaline batteries. Additionally, many communities simply don't offer any means for collection or recycling of alkaline batteries, resulting in less than 2 percent of all batteries produced being recycled.

"The number of batteries that end up in landfills result in a significant impact on our planet and environment," said Batteroo cofounder Dr. Bob Roohparvar. "Sadly, significant number of disposable batteries end up in landfills with up to 80% of their energy remaining within them. If you line up all the disposable batteries that are thrown away each year, this would wrap around Earth 18.5 times every year! The easiest solution is to use fewer batteries. The Batteriser reduces and prevents environmental harm by increasing the lifespan of batteries, thus providing a solution where fewer batteries are produced and fewer batteries are thrown out in landfills." Additional information about how Batteroo is saving the world by saving battery life is Batteriser available at http://www.batteriser.com.

About Batteroo
Batteroo Corporation is an innovator of intelligent power management and delivery systems (Batteriser). It is a sleeve that makes contact with the positive and negative ends of a common battery to access its untapped energy at a highly efficient regulated system voltage. Batteriser can extend the life of disposable alkaline batteries by up to 800 percent, saving consumers money and saving landfills from toxic battery waste which would result in soil contamination and a laundry list of negative environmental impacts. Batteriser has been tested and proven compatible on a variety of battery-operated home and office gadgets, including wireless keyboards, noise-cancelling headphones, Xbox and Wii controllers, TV remote controls, walkie-talkies, digital scales, electric toothbrushes, toys, portable radios, flashlights, and blood pressure monitors. The company was cofounded by Bob Roohparvar, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, who holds more than 20 patents in his 30-year career in power management, semiconductors, and consumer products, and Frankie Roohparvar, well known executive who holds more than 500 patents. For more information visit http://www.batteriser.com.

Contact
Dan Miller
JPR Communications
dan@jprcom.com
818-798-1473

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Acronis Launches New Acronis True Image - The Fastest Universal Full Image Backup Solution for Individuals, Families and Home Office Users

Provides Users with Complete Cloud and Local Data Protection with New Support for Android, iPhone, and iPad Devices and Windows Tablets, Optimized for Window 10

BURLINGTON, Mass., Aug. 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Acronis(®), the global leader in new generation data protection, today announced the release of Acronis True Image Cloud and Acronis True Image 2016 - the newest versions of its leading backup solution for individuals, families and home office users. Acronis True Image is the industry's fastest universal full image backup solution. The new Acronis True Image Cloud provides complete protection both locally and in the cloud - including pictures, videos, documents, applications, passwords, settings, contacts, events, and an entire computer. Acronis True Image Cloud features multi-device and new mobile device support - including Android, iPhone, and iPad devices and Windows tablets - a new easy-to-use online dashboard that lets users manage all devices from a single place, unlimited cloud storage and new personal archiving.

Acronis True Image Cloud Solves Today's Biggest Backup Pains

Acronis True Image Cloud provides complete protection against data loss disasters and mishaps, including accidental file deletions and user errors, as well as damaged devices, loss and theft. Acronis True Image Cloud makes it easier than ever to:

    --  Protect all devices - PCs, Macs and newly expanded support for Android,
        iPhone, and iPad devices, and Windows tablets, extends protection to the
        world's most popular computers, laptops, and mobile devices in use
        today.
    --  Manage multiple device backups in one place - new online dashboard is an
        easy-to-use management console that allows a single user to manage the
        backup and recovery of multiple devices from one place - with the
        ability to access it from any device and location via a web browser.
    --  Store and archive data in the cloud- unlimited cloud space and the new
        personal archiving capability for moving large and rarely used files to
        the secure Acronis Cloud makes sure that users never run out of storage,
        while freeing-up hard drives to keep computers running smoothly. Users
        can access and view archived files from any device and can archive data
        by type and size.
Full Image Backup Technology Protects Everything

Powered by the Acronis AnyData Engine - a set of powerful data protection technologies that capture, store, recover, control, and access any data from any location - the award-winning Acronis True Image features full image technology that ensures users never lose data by protecting everything with the ability to restore only what is needed - from a single lost file to an entire computer. The new Acronis True Image features the following technology benefits:

    --  Speed - Saves time with the fastest backup and restore in the industry
        both locally and in the cloud - up to 50% faster than the competition.
    --  Safety, security, privacy - Ensures that data is always secure with a
        user-defined private key that uses AES-256 encryption and secure
        communication channels, securing data in transit and in the cloud. Only
        the owner of data can access and manage data protected in the Acronis
        Cloud, using a password.
    --  Flexible storage options - Backup data to multiple sources and
        destinations, including a local drive, external drive, local or remote
        network, and the Acronis Cloud, as well as 3(rd) party cloud storage
        destinations available through local file system integration. Different
        backup plans may be setup for full system backup, specific files and/or
        folders.
    --  Optimized for Windows 10 and the most recent Mac OS X operating systems
        - Always stay up to date and compatible with the latest operating
        systems.  Also includes support for Master Boot Record (MBR) and GUID
        Partition Table (GPT), BIOS and Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
        (UEFI), and WIMBoot.
    --  Real-time release updates - Get the latest technology updates with a
        cloud subscription model that ensures users get immediate access to
        every new release.
Acronis True Image 2016

Acronis True Image 2016 is now available for local-only backup and recovery. Acronis True Image 2016 provides entire computer backup and bare-metal restore, and/or migration to new computers using a local hard drive. The new 2016 edition also brings back the 'try& decide' capability, providing a controlled, temporary environment to safely test new software, drivers, and system configurations. Acronis True Image 2016 is also powered by the Acronis AnyData Engine.

"The new Acronis True Image combines the most advanced technology for backup with an extremely easy and intuitive user experience to provide complete data protection - from pictures, videos and precious personal information to applications and entire computer systems," said Serguei Beloussov, Co-Founder and CEO at Acronis. "It's the only solution on the market that gives users complete freedom to protect their data anywhere - in the cloud, locally or a mix of both - on any device."

Availability and Pricing

The Acronis True Image family of products is available at the pricing below:

    --  Acronis True Image Cloud with unlimited cloud backup & archiving space:
        --  $99.99 per year for one computer and five devices
        --  $169.99 per year for three computers and ten devices
        --  $199.99 per year for five computers and fifteen devices
    --  Acronis True Image 2016 for local only backup and restore:
        --  $49.99 for one computer
        --  $79.99 for three computers
        --  $129.99 for five computers
For more information, a free trial, or to buy the new Acronis True Image solutions, visit http://www.acronis.com/en-us/personal/. Acronis True Image is also available at major retailers.

For More Information on Acronis:

    --  Follow @Acronis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/acronis
    --  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/acronis
    --  Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acronis
    --  Subscribe to the Acronis Blog: blog.acronis.com/
About Acronis

Acronis sets the standard for New Generation Data Protection with backup, disaster recovery, and secure file sync and share solutions supporting hybrid cloud environments. Powered by the AnyData Engine and set apart by its image technology, Acronis delivers easy, complete and safe file access and sharing as well as backup and recovery of all files and entire systems across any environment--virtual, physical, cloud and mobile. Founded in 2003, Acronis protects the data of over 5 million consumers and 500,000 businesses in over 130 countries. For additional information, please visit http://www.acronis.com.

Acronis(®) and the Acronis logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Acronis International GmbH in the United States and/or other countries. Microsoft, Windows, and Surface are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Mac(®), Iphone(®), iPad(®) and OS X(®) are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.

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SOURCE  Acronis

Acronis

CONTACT: Pete Wermter, pete.wermter@acronis.com

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

Acal BFi Introduce the Award-winning Nano Spider From OriginGPS

WOKINGHAM, England, August 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

     Award-winning miniature module makes it possible for manufacturers to bring accurate

                                 GPS to tiny devices  

    Acal BFi
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European leader in advanced technology solutions, are pleased to introduce the
award-winning and world's smallest GPS module from OriginGPS
[http://www.acalbfi.com/uk/suppliers/ORG?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=OriginGPSaward ]
to the European market.

    The Nano Spider
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is a
fully integrated, highly sensitive GPS receiver module. Measuring only 4.1 x 4.1 x 2.1mm
and with minimal power consumption, it is ideal for smart watches, wearable devices,
trackers, and digital cameras. A double-sided circuit design reduces footprint size and
makes the Nano Spider 47 percent smaller than previous solutions.

    The module has recently been awarded a prestigious Electron d'Or 2015 by the French
magazine ElectroniqueS in the embedded category for its small form factor and multilayer
design. The Electron d'Or 2015 award winners are chosen by an independent jury of
recognised experts in the electronics industry and are selected from products released in
the year leading up to the awards.

    "It is an honour to receive an award of such distinction for a design that exemplifies
all that OriginGPS stands for," said Gal Jacobi, CEO of OriginGPS. We are committed to
providing high-quality GPS and impeccable accuracy to the small devices of our time."

    "OriginGPS brings a service that is necessary for the technology of today to come to
fruition," said Matthias Beuther, European Product Manager - Wireless Products at Acal
BFi. "Its combination of miniscule size and tremendous power is something we are proud to
bring to the European market. We congratulate OriginGPS on their recent award and believe
it was well-deserved."

    Offering accuracy of approximately one metre, the Nano Spider achieves a rapid time to
first fix (TTFF) of less than one second, and tracking sensitivity of -163dBm. The module
achieves a state of near continuous availability by detecting changes in context,
temperature and satellite signals. By maintaining and opportunistically updating its
internal fine time, frequency, and satellite data, the Nano Spider consumes mere
microwatts of battery power.

    The module also features OriginGPS' proprietary Noise Free Zone (NFZ(TM)) system.
Increasing noise immunity even under marginal signal conditions, it allows the module to
provide high accuracy in dense urban areas, under thick foliage, or when the receiver
rapidly changes position.

    Notes to editors: 

    About Acal BFi 

    Acal BFi is a European leader in advanced technology solutions, providing marketing,
engineering, design, manufacturing and custom services and the only such provider with an
infrastructure to deliver a broad complementary range of specialist products and bespoke
solutions across Europe.

    Serving all industrial sectors and operating with focused strategic business units
covering all electronic and photonics technologies.

    Acal BFi is part of the Acal Plc Group - The Acal plc group has completed seven
acquisitions in the last four years. Acal's long term strategy is to gain significant
additional market share through both organic growth and acquisition and to further enhance
its value adding capabilities.

    Acal has operating companies across Europe including the UK, Germany, France, Benelux,
Italy, Poland, Spain and the Nordic region. Additionally, Acal has operating companies in
India, USA, Asia (China and South Korea) and Africa (South Africa).

    http://www.acalbfi.com [http://www.acalbfi.com ]

    About OriginGPS 

    OriginGPS is a world-leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of miniaturized GNSS
modules ("Spider" family), antenna modules ("Hornet" family) and antenna solutions.
OriginGPS introduces unparalleled sensitivity and noise immunity by incorporating its
proprietary Noise Free Zone technology for faster position fix and navigation stability
even under challenging satellite signal conditions.

    For more information visit us at http://www.origingps.com

Acal BFi and OriginGPS

CONTACT: Acal BFi: Amelia Morgan-Giles, Tel: +44-(0)1189-029629, Email: amelia.morgan-giles@acalbfi.com. OriginGPS: March Communications, James Gerber/Kacey Albertine, +1-617-960-9875, origingps@marchpr.com, marketing@origingps.com

Polyera Announces World's First Flexible Display Product

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Polyera today announced the release of the Wove(TM) Band, the world's first flexible display product. The Wove Band features a flexible display which can either be flat or wrap around a wrist. Submissions for free developer units will open in September with the first units shipping in December to a select group of artists and developers. A commercial launch is planned for mid-2016. Additional details will be available at http://www.wove.com. The Wove Band is made possible by Polyera Digital Fabric Technology(TM) and E Ink® flexible electronic ink film.

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Polyera Digital Fabric Technology(TM) is a unique set of materials, tools, and know-how designed to enable the production of flexible electronic products at scale. This platform is the result of 10 years of development, spanning fundamental science, engineering, and design. Most attempts at making flexible displays have relied on traditional electronics materials, such as silicon, being deposited on plastic substrates. This approach allows the creation of products with fixed curved screens, but the brittleness of these electronics layers makes them unsuitable for products which are dynamically flexible such as the Wove Band.  Polyera Digital Fabric Technology, by contrast, uses proprietary electronic materials to enable displays that are flexible, robust, and can be manufactured in traditional display fabrication plants with minimal capital investment. The Polyera Digital Fabric Technology platform also addresses the integration of these displays into end products, by incorporating proprietary engineering and design solutions.

The Wove Band will feature a flexible, low-power touch display combining Polyera Digital Fabric Technology with E Ink's flexible and reflective electronic ink film. E Ink's film has been proven in production and used in millions of displays. The bi-stable nature of E Ink's electronic ink allows displays to consume no energy while holding a static image. The combination of Polyera's and E Ink's technologies enables the Wove Band to have a display which is both large and always-on, while consuming less power than smartwatches with far smaller displays. 

Beyond the Wove Band, Polyera is actively working on a variety of flexible electronics components, such as flexible OLED displays, flexible sensors and flexible logic circuits, which will enable devices delivering unprecedented form factors and experiences.

About Polyera
Polyera is a flexible electronics company. Since 2005, Polyera has been on a mission to bring next-generation flexible electronics to the world. Polyera has developed deep and unique expertise spanning science, engineering, and design focused on flexible electronics. Polyera Digital Fabric Technology(TM) is a unique set of materials, tools, and know-how designed to enable the production of flexible electronics products at scale. This platform is enabling the Wove(TM) Band, the world's first flexible display product. Learn more at http://www.polyera.com.

For More Information
Polyera: http://www.polyera.com
Wove: http://www.wove.com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/polyera-corporation
Twitter: @polyera
Public Relations: media@polyera.com
Investor Relations: investors@polyera.com

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Birch Launches Enhanced Customer Portal for TotalCloud® PBX

Company's Feature-Rich BirchConnect(TM) Portal Delivers Powerful Capabilities for Growing Businesses

ATLANTA, Aug. 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Birch Communications, Inc., ("Birch") a leading nationwide provider of communications, network and cloud services to small, mid-sized, enterprise and wholesale businesses, announced today that its enhanced BirchConnect customer portal for TotalCloud PBX is now live to customers. The new TotalCloud PBX dashboard features a clean, modern user interface with a high degree of user customization, enabling customers to scale their phone system features to their business needs, on-demand.

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BirchConnect's new TotalCloud PBX dashboard provides instant visibility into a customer's most important information to help them manage business-critical functions of their cloud-based phone system with ease, resulting in more enterprise efficiency, faster performance and a rich user experience. In addition, customers can access the portal 24/7 from nearly any device.

"We are passionate about our customers and this streamlined portal reflects our determination to place a new level of control in their hands," said Christopher Ramsey, Senior Vice President and Chief Sales Officer at Birch. "The new dashboard is designed to give customers the flexibility to quickly modify some of their most valuable features in real-time as their business needs evolve." 

The new dashboard features a new, easy-to-use, highly-intuitive interface with increased performance.  It includes comprehensive online self-service tools, allowing business owners to create and edit seat profiles and phones, auto attendants and hunt groups, set up and modify calling features such as call forwarding, view call capacity, and much more.

"The new portal has been enriched with strong emphasis on providing the best user experience and improving the performance of real-time processing of voice features.  This will allow customers to take more control of managing their voice features and scale their services quickly with their evolving business," said Ashish Parikh, Director of Software Development at Birch.

To access the customer login page for BirchConnect, visit birchconnect.com. 

About Birch Communications

Birch Communications, Inc. is a leading communications, network, cloud and IT solutions provider. Recognized for exceptional customer experience, Birch delivers cost-effective solutions that assist small, mid-sized, enterprise and wholesale businesses to increase their productivity. Its industry-leading product portfolio is available nationwide and includes Metro-Fiber, Metro-Ethernet, unified communications (UC), hosted phone systems, hosted data centers, and hosted file storage services. For more information, visit birch.com.

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CONTACT: Tim Phelps, Director of Marketing Communications, Birch Communications, Inc., 816-300-1456, tim.phelps@birch.com

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

LNG Project and Tech Updates From EPCs and Operators (28 - 30 September, Barcelona)

LONDON, August 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

    The 10th Annual Global LNG Tech Summit will deliver updates and lessons learned from
LNG projects around the world. The final agenda has just been released.

    Download the brochure here - http://lngeu.wtginternational.com/downloadPDF_if.asp

    The summit's theme is technology for cost reduction and project optimisation. Key
focuses include the opportunities of small scale LNG and developments in the first FLNG
projects.

    Key sessions:

       
        - FLNG unique applications from VP & FLNG Programme Manager, Javid Talib at Black &
          Veatch currently executing several FLNG projects including Exmar Pacific Rubiales
          Barge LNG and Golar's GoFLNGs using Moss LNGC conversion
        - A plenary talk on optimising modular construction projects from Bechtel. The speaker
          has recently been working on Chevron's Wheatstone project
        - Andre Mullan from Inpex talks about how IT can optimise LNG projects. He'll draw on
          his experience with the Ichthys LNG project - effectively 3 mega-projects rolled into
          one
        - Vopak on their LNG break-bulk development at Gate Terminal and how this will
          revolutionise the small scale supply chain, speeding up movement around Europe
        - Barry Worthington, Executive Director of USEA gives an update on US activities and
          explores how this will affect European and Asian market
        - BP discuss their safety concerns for FLNG, which sets up an interesting contrast to
          their rival Shell's more active approach in the space. Shell's former General Manager
          for Gas Technology is also on the programme.

    The summit takes place at the Hesperia Tower Hotel & Convention Center in Barcelona on
the 28 - 30 September 2015.

    Press passes are available upon request.

    For more information visit http://www.lngsummit.com

WTG Events

CONTACT: Josh Lowth, +44(0)20-7202-7605, josh.lowth@wtgevents.com

CIARA Unleashes the World's Fastest x86 Single and Dual Processor Servers: the ORION HF320 and ORION HF620

MONTREAL, August 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

    CIARA, a leading provider of enterprise servers and storage, announced today that its
ORION HF servers (HF320-G3 and HF620-G3) achieved a remarkable eighteen (18) SPEC CPU(TM)
2006 (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation) benchmark records. This world-renowned
industry-standard benchmark suite that was established by actual end-user applications,
rigorously stresses the system's CPU, memory architecture and compiler by running a series
of different tests to measure the compute-intensive integer performance as well as the
compute-intensive floating point performance. CIARA's complete ORION HF server line
achieved top ranks in every CPU category when compared to manufacturers such as DELL, HP,
Lenovo and Supermicro.

    "CIARA's mission is to provide its customers with the highest performing reliable
servers and storage solutions," said Patrick Scateni, Vice President of Sales and
Marketing at CIARA. "The fact that the ORION HF has been recognized as the fastest x86
single and dual processors server in the world is a source of tremendous pride as it
reflects and validates our longstanding mission to design and produce industry leading
cutting-edge and high performance systems," added Mr. Scateni.

    Since its introduction to the market in 2013, the ORION HF has successfully supported
organizations in such market segments as digital manufacturing, life sciences and cloud
providers by dramatically improving the performance of their applications. In particular,
the financial services sector has benefited greatly from significant enhanced transaction
speed and reduced latency for high frequency trading.

    Benchmark Grand Slam 

    Running the latest Intel x86 processors, the CIARA ORION HF320 and ORION HF620,
currently claim #1 ranking for four of the most widely used performance benchmarks:
SPECint(R)2006 (measuring integer-calculating speed common in business applications),
SPECfp(R)2006 (measuring floating point-calculating speed required for scientific
applications), SPECint(R)_rate2006 (measuring the throughput or rate of a machine carrying
out a number of tasks) and SPECfp(R)_rate2006.

    SPEC CPU(TM) 2006 Benchmark Suites: 

    The SPECint(R) 2006 (Compute-intensive integer performance) suite contains 12
benchmarks based upon real-world applications such as video compression, artificial
intelligence, genome sequencing, discrete event simulation, quantum computing,
combinatorial optimization and XML processing, to name a few. The ORION HF out-performed
the competition by as much as 31%.

    The SPECfp(R) 2006 (Compute-intensive floating point performance) suite is comprised
of 19 benchmarks which are based on applications designed for fluid dynamics, physics,
molecular dynamics, image ray-tracing, weather prediction, computational electromagnetics,
structural mechanics, as well as speech recognition. In this category, the ORION HF
demonstrated its superiority by scoring 29% higher than the nearest competitor.

    For more information on the SPEC CPU(TM) 2006 results, please visit
http://spec.org/cpu2006/results/cpu2006.html. For more information about the ORION HF
server line, please visit http://www.ciaratech.com/orionhf. All ORION HF servers come
with a 1 to 3 year international warranty and are currently available through CIARA or one
of its authorized resellers.

    About CIARA 

    Founded in 1984, CIARA is a global technology provider that specializes in the design,
development, manufacturing, integration and support of computer products. With its vast
range of products including personal computers, enterprise servers and storage, HPC
systems, High Frequency Trading servers, OEM/ODM services and with a current production
capacity of up to 1,000,000 systems per year, CIARA is considered to be one of the largest
system manufacturers in North America. The company's products are employed worldwide by
organizations small to large in the sectors of finance, aerospace, engineering,
transportation, energy, government, education and defense.

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

       
         
        Patrick Lamothe, Marketing Coordinator 
        +1-(514)745-4540 ext. 5320 

     

CIARA