Actiontec Introduces the Next Generation of Interactive Classrooms with Wireless Display Technology
New ScreenBeam Pro Education Edition helps educators bring curriculum to life and better engage students in the classroom
TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- COMPUTEX -- Actiontec Electronics today announced the launch of ScreenBeam Pro Education Edition, a Miracast wireless display adapter that gives schools an affordable way to create engaging, interactive classrooms for the 21(st) century. The new receiver delivers all the performance and features of Actiontec's award-winning ScreenBeam platform, along with manageability and security that schools require.
The ScreenBeam Pro Education Edition receiver is a small wireless display adapter that connects to a projector, TV, or other display and lets users wirelessly share content from a compatible laptop, smartphone, or tablet. With the ability to easily share content, educators can supplement their traditional lectures with engaging multimedia like videos, apps, educational programming, and more.
Wireless display brings a new level of interactivity to today's classrooms. Teachers are free to move around the classroom and interact with their students, while simultaneously sharing content from their tablet on the big screen, drawing the entire class into the material. This interactive learning environment increases classroom participation, enabling teachers to work more closely with students.
"ScreenBeam Pro works seamlessly with Surface Pro 2 tablets. It gives teachers the flexibility to freely teach from anywhere in the classroom," said Tim Nykke, ICT & Director of e-Learning, Thomas More College, a secondary school in South Australia.
In addition, when students are equipped with laptops or tablets, they can even interact with the material on the big screen right from their desk. For example, a student can share her work on a math problem directly from her tablet, without having to get up and write on the whiteboard.
"Schools are looking for solutions to enrich the learning process, while simultaneously managing costs. The advantage of ScreenBeam Pro is that it can be implemented in an entire school in less than a day and costs significantly less than smart whiteboards and interactive projectors," said Dean Chang, president and CEO at Actiontec Electronics.
ScreenBeam Pro Education Edition is compatible with many of the devices used in the classroom, such as: Microsoft Windows 8+ devices (including Surface tablets), Windows 7 devices (using a ScreenBeam Pro transmitter, available separately), Android devices, Wi-Fi Miracast devices, and Intel WiDi laptops, tablets, and smartphones.
The ScreenBeam receiver can be configured and added into a classroom in minutes, while also providing IT departments control over securing and configuring the device to meet their school's unique needs. For example, the receiver will only display content from approved devices, so there's no risk of students sharing content from their own smartphones without teacher approval.
Pricing and Availability
ScreenBeam Pro Education Edition is available now through select retailers for USD $99 MSRP.
For more information on how to free your content with Actiontec's ScreenBeam Pro and the ScreenBeam family, visit: http://www.actiontec.com/products/62.php or go to Actiontec's booth at COMPUTEX Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall 1 1F C0523
About Actiontec Electronics
Actiontec Electronics brings expertise and innovation to broadband solutions that let people around the world connect to their favorite content, when and how they choose. Our products - including whole home wireless solutions, wireless video and display devices, gigabit Ethernet fiber routers, and high speed VDSL gateways - are carried globally by some of the largest broadband carriers, retail and online stores. Actiontec was founded in 1993, is headquartered in Silicon Valley, and has offices worldwide. For more information, visit Actiontec.com.
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The News Funnel launches new mobile app to revolutionize news in real estate industry
Real estate news aggregator makes the largest content hub in the real estate industry available on mobile devices
NEW YORK, June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The News Funnel announced today that its mobile app is now available for download on all iOS devices. This new app will serve to provide an easy-to-use, untethered platform for real estate professionals to browse and digest the latest industry news on the go. With over 1,500 registered companies uploading their own news to the site and several thousand news feeds from media sources streaming to the site in real time, The News Funnel is the most comprehensive database for real estate news and related information on the Internet. The free site allows individual subscribers to create their very own customized news feed on several platforms including desktop, ticker, email and now mobile.
The News Funnel's mobile app harnesses the substantial resources of the site and makes them accessible anywhere, at any time. It allows users to customize the exact type of news that is relevant to them and has a crisp, clean design that makes navigating from article to article as easy as possible. The News Funnel is available in most major markets across the country.
"Our mobile app will provide subscribers with the ability to get their news on the go, whenever they want," stated Lindsey Kacher, Director of Marketing at The News Funnel. "The beauty of our site is that our news streams 24/7 so it's really simple for any real estate professional to stay connected with what's happening in their world, as it happens. Our new app simplifies the process even further for busy professionals," continued Kacher.
Subscribers of The News Funnel who utilize the site's mobile app have virtually every source of real estate news nationwide at their fingertips. The app allows them to change their preferred markets and segments within seconds to get a different news view. Everything from hard news from the media, press releases, videos, market research and events are available within users' News Funnels for free.
The first 1,000 people who download The News Funnel's mobile app will be entered to win an iPad Air. To enter, simply take a screenshot of the mobile app on your iOS device and email your screenshot to ipad@thenewsfunnel.com. One winner will be randomly selected out of the first 1,000 emails received.
The News Funnel is the largest news search engine for the real estate industry. The free site features thousands of feeds, sourced and indexed from industry-specific trade publications, major media sources, companies and professionals. In addition to search, subscribers can create customizable real estate news feeds based on their geographic markets, industry segments and areas of interest, accessible on their personalized home pages that refresh 24/7.
In addition to pulling in news from thousands of media sources, The News Funnel features Company News Channels -- web pages that are available at no charge to companies, where they can upload press releases, event notifications, blogs and market research reports, which are made available to its readers.
The News Funnel is currently available in Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami/South Florida, Memphis, Nashville, Salt Lake City, New Jersey, New York, Orlando, Pennsylvania, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Seattle, Portland, St. Louis, Las Vegas, Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Atlanta, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Phoenix, Denver, Kansas City, Charlotte and Detroit with new markets being expanded to on a regular basis.
Casio Expands Signature LampFree® Projector Lineup For The Hospitality Space
New Projectors Equipped with Fifth Generation LampFree® Technology, Built-In Memory, USB Display and Wired LAN Projection
DOVER, N.J., June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Casio America, Inc., a pioneer in the LampFree(®) projection space, is pleased to introduce a new lineup of Signature projectors. Geared for the hospitality industry, the new lineup of Signature projectors offer Casio's LASER & LED HYBRID Light Source, which combines a laser, fluorescent element and LEDs to generate high brightness. Now in its 5(th) generation, the improved LASER & LED HYBRID Light Source offers a 30 percent increase in light output for improved colors for all models in Casio's LampFree(®) portfolio in addition to an estimated 20,000 hours lifespan with minimal brightness degradation and continuous operation. The average user will save an estimated $800 after 6,000 hours of use compared to traditional mercury lamp projectors.
"Since its introduction, the Signature series has become our most popular product line with the K-12 education market. These new feature enhancements will further solidify the Signature series' popularity," said Matt Mustachio, general manager of Casio's Business Projector Division.
Weighing in at 8.6 pounds, the new Signature projectors offer a variety of features including remote operation capable through Crestron Roomview(TM), Intelligent Brightness Control, wired LAN projection and MobiShow(®). The projectors also provide a powerful 3D graphic experience as each model is fitted with a fully connectable interface, including three types of video and audio inputs, as well as HDMI, RGB and RS-232C terminals.
Equipped with 2 GB of built-in memory, the new LampFree(®) Signature projectors allow many file formats, such as PDF and QuickTime, to be stored in the projector for quick and easy playback. The can also display content from a PC by connecting the projector and PC through a USB cable, as well as a variety of languages - 10 new in main (total 23) and 8 new in USB (total 18) including Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Finnish, Turkish and Portuguese.
Casio's LampFree(®) projectors come with a standard three (3) year parts and labor warranty plus a five (5) year or 10,000 hour warranty on the LASER & LED Hybrid Light source. The new Signature models will be available in July with a MSRP starting at $919.99 through Casio's national Pro AV dealer network and authorized distributors. For additional information on Casio's full portfolio of LampFree(®) projectors, visit http://www.CasioLampFree.com.
About Casio LampFree(®) Projectors
Casio's portfolio of LampFree(®) projectors combines a laser, a fluorescent element and an LED light to deliver a mercury-free hybrid light source that lasts up to 20,000 hours while sustaining a high brightness and keeping maintenance costs to a minimum. Casio has four series of LampFree(®) projectors that are available for home, business, education and commercial applications - Slim, Signature, Pro and Short Throw. For additional information on Casio's projector series and LampFree(®) technology, please visit http://www.CasioLampFree.com.
About Casio America, Inc.
Casio America, Inc., Dover, N.J., is the U.S. subsidiary of Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, one of the world's leading manufacturers of consumer electronics and business equipment solutions. Established in 1957, Casio America, Inc. markets calculators, keyboards, digital cameras, mobile presentation devices, disc title and label printers, watches, cash registers and other consumer electronic products. Casio has strived to fulfill its corporate creed of "creativity and contribution" through the introduction of innovative and imaginative products. For more information, visit http://www.CasioUSA.com
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CONTACT: Christine Azzolino/Amanda Pecora, Coyne PR, (973) 588-2000, cazzolino@coynepr.com, apecora@coynepr.com; or S. Vander Schans, CASIO AMERICA, INC.,(973) 361-5400, svanderschans@casio.com
Fight Together or Die Alone in Crytek's Thrilling new IP, HUNT: Horrors of the Gilded Age
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany and AUSTIN, Texas, June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
Brace yourself for a spine-chilling new multiplayer experience on PC and consoles as
Crytek ventures into the shadows in "HUNT: Horrors of the Gilded Age".
An all-new IP, HUNT is a third-person action game where up to four players band
together to fend off an onslaught of bloodthirsty creatures and track down breathtaking
bosses. Featuring intense co-op gameplay, HUNT is the debut title from Crytek USA Corp.,
and will be published by Crytek as part of their growing Games-as-a-Service range. Players
won't have to wait long to take a closer look at HUNT in action, with the game going on
show at this year's E3 expo from June 10-12.
David Adams, CEO of Crytek USA Corp., said: "In HUNT: Horrors of the Gilded Age,
players will be counting their bullets and crying out for help as they delve deeper into
the shadowy world we've created. From the outset of the development process, we've poured
our imaginations into the game so that everyone who plays HUNT will discover a challenging
experience that feels fresh, captivating and rich in possibilities."
Set in the late 1800s, HUNT depicts a world where so-called myths and folklore
actually point to the terrifying truth about evil lurking just beyond the fringes of
day-to-day life. Players act as hunters willing to take up arms and risk their necks by
venturing into the deadliest of territories and facing the hideous creatures that have
overrun them.
Adding to the thrill of the hunt is a special content generation system that ensures
players never encounter exactly the same environment or set of enemies twice. As the
surprises come thick and fast, the terror of knowing that one of the game's grueling boss
battles could be just around the corner will keep everyone's pulses pounding. Defeating
bosses will require close collaboration between hunters as they attempt to figure out and
take down some truly terrifying monsters.
HUNT: Horrors of the Gilded Age is scheduled to enter Closed Beta testing on PC later
this year, and players can sign up for a chance to experience the game first at http://www.huntthegame.com
E3 2014 attendees looking to see HUNT in the flesh should visit Crytek at booth 4500
in the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Everyone can catch a first glimpse of HUNT right now by checking out a new teaser
trailer here [http://youtu.be/Xt1n5ZkZReQ ].
About Crytek
Crytek GmbH ("Crytek") is an independent company at the forefront of the interactive
entertainment industry, and is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of gaming by creating
standout experiences for PC, Xbox One, PlayStation(R)4, Wii U[TM], Xbox 360,
PlayStation(R)3, iOS and Android using their cutting-edge 3D-Game-Technology,
CRYENGINE(R).
The company's headquarters are in Frankfurt am Main (Germany). Crytek also has studios
in Kiev (Ukraine), Budapest (Hungary), Sofia (Bulgaria), Seoul (South Korea), Nottingham
(UK), Shanghai (China), Istanbul (Turkey) and Austin (USA).
Since its foundation in 1999, Crytek has consistently been recognized for excellence
in its field, earning accolades such as the 2011 Develop Award for Best Independent
Studio, and two Red Dot Design Awards (in 2010 and 2013). Its multi-award winning games
include Far Cry(R), Crysis(R) (awarded best PC Game of E3 2007 and Best Technology at the
2008 Game Developers Choice Awards), Crysis Warhead(R) (awarded Best Graphics Technology
at IGN Best of 2008 Awards), Crysis(R) 2 (awarded Best Shooter of E3 2010 and Gamescom
2010),
Crysis(R) 3, Ryse: Son of Rome and Warface (awarded Best Social/Casual/Online Game of
Gamescom 2012). For more information, please visit http://www.crytek.com.
Consumer Physics Raises $2 Million on Kickstarter for SCiO in Less Than 30 Days
Handheld Molecular Scanner Attracts More Than 10,000 Backers to Help Build the First Database of Physical Matter
MENLO PARK, Calif. and TEL-AVIV, Israel, June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumer Physics today announced that the Kickstarter campaign for SCiO, its handheld molecular scanner that will enable consumers to better understand the physical world, has raised more than $2,000,000 in less than 30 days and from more than 10,000 backers. SCiO is now the fifth most funded tech campaign in Kickstarter history, and it still has more than two weeks left before its fundraising drive ends.
"I'd like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who has supported our project," said Dror Sharon, CEO of Consumer Physics. "We have been blown away by the enthusiasm and are eager to start helping people explore the world around them."
As of today, Consumer Physics has also garnered support from more than 600 developers, hackers, makers, and researchers who have signed up to build their own apps and form factors for SCiO. With this milestone, Consumer Physics has also announced a new backer reward - all first-party non-commercial SCiO apps created by the company will be provided free of charge to all Kickstarter backers for life.
For more information on Consumer Physics and SCiO, please visit the SCiO crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter and the Consumer Physics website at http://www.consumerphysics.com/myscio.
About Consumer Physics
Consumer Physics' mission is to give people a tool to help them better understand their physical world. The company's first product, SCiO, is an affordable and sleek molecular sensor that launched on Kickstarter in April 2014. Founded by Dror Sharon and Damian Goldring in 2011, the company is backed by Khosla Ventures (http://www.khoslaventures.com). Early investors also include Dov Moran, founder of Comigo, the future TV company (http://www.comigo.com) and the inventor of the USB flash-drive, and other leading angel investors. Consumer Physics has also raised money through OurCrowd, a hybrid VC-equity crowdfunding platform (https://www.ourcrowd.com).
Marvell's Industry-Leading Smart LED Controllers Continue to Drive the Wide Adoption of Smart Lighting
Marvell's new AC/DC 88EM8189 and DC/DC 88EM8803 LED controllers further expand the company's end-to-end smart lighting platform offerings for the "Smart Life and Smart Lifestyle"
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL) today announced adding two new smart digital LED driver integrated circuits (ICs) - 88EM8189 and 88EM8803 - further expanding its end-to-end smart lighting platform into LED lamps and fixtures.
The Marvell 88EM8189 is the industry's first smart AC/DC LED controller that offers Inter-Integrated Circuit (I(2)C) control interface, integrated standby power supply for networking circuit and backward compatibility with legacy dimmers. Along with Marvell's industry-leading ZigBee controller 88MZ100, the 88EM8189 enables lowest bill of materials (BOM) for smart wireless LED bulbs, providing high-quality lighting experience at an affordable price point, accelerating consumer adoption of smart lighting around the world.
The Marvell 88EM8803 is the second generation chip based on the Marvell's intelligent DC/DC dual-channel LED controller, the Marvell 88EM8801. It offers a wide LED output range up to a maximum of 60V, 1A for each channel. The 88EM8803 integrates an I(2)C interface for wireless lighting control and low-side switches to provide low BOM cost, reducing design complexity for various lighting applications, including linear tubes, high color rendering index (CRI), warming dimming or color temper tunable lamps that require multi-string LEDs.
"With the introduction of the 88EM8189 and 88EM8803, Marvell is again raising the bar for the smart lighting industry," said Philip Poulidis, Vice President and General Manager of the Mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) Business Unit at Marvell. "Our continued innovation in this space with LED controllers along with industry-leading wireless technologies helps drive the cost of LED smart lighting down to an affordable price point for global consumers, while simultaneously delivering a great lighting experience. We are proud to lead the industry as a pioneer in LED adoption and look forward to bringing new offerings to our smart lighting platform in the future."
Based on smart digital LED driver ICs, industry-leading wireless microcontrollers (ZigBee, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth) and the Marvell Kinoma® software, Marvell offers one of the industry's broadest end-to-end, turn-key open platform including smart lamps, and gateway and software solutions that support multiple industry standards including ZigBee Light Link (ZLL), ZigBee Home Automation (ZHA), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and more. Through original device manufacturers (ODMs) and software partners, Marvell's smart lighting platform enables smart wireless bulbs and fixtures for both residential and commercial lighting.
The Marvell 88EM8189 driver chip enables the smallest driver footprint and lowest system cost to provide smart lighting for all form factor LED lighting applications, ranging from A, BR, PAR lamps to smaller GU10 and E17 bulbs. The 88EM8803 chip offers flexibility and quality for commercial and residential lighting applications where multiple string of LEDs are used, for example, linear tubes and troffers replacement, LED modules, warming dimming and color temperature tunable lamps. Both solutions provide ease of design, excellent dimming performance while significantly reducing cost of LED driver electronics, thanks to the innovations in chip architecture.
Key benefits of the Marvell 88EM8189 chip include:
-- Single-stage primary side control fly-back or buck-boost topology
-- Integrated digital interface I2C for connection to networking
microcontroller to provide digital dimming through ZigBee, Wi-Fi,
Bluetooth, PLC and other technologies
-- Integrated AC-DC converter for bias power supply to networking
microcontroller
-- Enables meeting ENERGY STAR power consumption (< 500mW standby) when
light is off
-- Backward compatible with phase cut wall dimmers worldwide
-- Reduced system BOM cost with two chip solution - 88EM8189 plus 88MZ100
Key benefits of the Marvell 88EM8803 chip include:
-- Independent control of two LED strings with dual channel DC/DC buck
converter with integrated low-side switches
-- Up to 60V and 1000mA LED output current per string and
-- 100% to 0.1% dimming with 10-bit PWM control resolution
-- I2C interface for OTP memory programming and communication protocol
support, such as ZigBee, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and power line communication
(PLC)
For more information on the Marvell 88EM8189 and the Marvell 88EM8803, please visit http://www.marvell.com/led-lighting/drivers/88EM8189/ and http://www.marvell.com/led-lighting/drivers/88EM8803/ respectively.
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.
Tegile Extends Leadership Position in Hybrid and All-Flash Marketplaces with Introduction of Third-Generation Storage Systems
In conjunction with SanDisk (NASDAQ:SNDK) and HGST, newest IntelliFlash(TM) products provide enterprise-class performance, capacity at unmatched price per gigabyte, 7-year warranty
NEWARK, Calif., June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Tegile Systems, the leading provider of flash-driven storage arrays for databases, virtualized server and virtual desktop environments, today introduced the two latest entries into its award-winning product line that perfectly balance data management, performance and economics - the T3400, which provides a flexible amount of high-density flash solid state drives (SSDs) and metadata-accelerated high-density hard disk drive (HDD) storage; and the T3800, the company's newest flagship all-flash array that eliminates the top three customer challenges associated with offerings from other all-flash vendors.
The Tegile T3800 features high-density enterprise flash SSDs designed to support mission-critical applications that require extremely high performance at low latency for extended periods of time. Issues that customers typically have with all-flash storage systems are expensive price per gigabyte, short-lived components and lack of density comparative to hard-disk drive systems have been rendered obsolete with the introduction of the T3800. In a typical mixed-application environment, Tegile achieves a 5X data reduction to realize a $1/GB street price. The array's 10PB per drive endurance allows Tegile to offer an industry-best seven-year warranty without the need for periodic wholesale system upgrades. At 55 effective terabytes (TBs) per U, the T3800 goes well beyond traditional HDD-based array density.
Tegile's previous flagship hybrid array had approximately five percent of its capacity in flash. With the introduction of the T3400, Tegile now offers a storage architecture featuring half of its capacity in flash SSDs and half in HDDs, resulting in a 20X increase in flash density over previous models. The T3400 base configuration includes 22TB of high-density flash storage and a 2.2TB metadata acceleration engine. Optional upgrades include HDD expansion shelves with either 24 or 72 raw TB; or SSD expansion shelves with either 48 or 144 raw TB.
"Tegile might be known as a hybrid storage company, but the extensibility of its architecture makes offering a leadership-class, all-flash array very simple relative to trying to add flash to a legacy architecture," said James Bagley, senior analyst at SSG-NOW. "Overcoming hesitancy of customers regarding pure-flash installations while at the same time understanding enterprises' capacity-centric requirements with hybrid offerings, places Tegile in an enviable position. No other storage system is so well balanced in leadership data management, performance and economics than Tegile's."
Tegile's latest enterprise-class arrays are built on the company's third-generation IntelliFlash technology that provides the high performance, capacity and reliability that organizations desire at a relatively low cost. Data reduction technology provides a usable capacity that's greater than the arrays' raw capacity. A no-single-point-of-failure architecture, automated snapshot and thin replication features make them more reliable than competitive alternatives.
Like its previous flash-driven storage arrays, Tegile's T3400 and T3800 feature four eight-core Xeon processors, significant memory, sizable read and write caches using flash, multiple networking interfaces, dual power supplies and hot disk spares to provide high performance at low cost. The systems' software simplifies administration and optimizes storage for various applications, including virtualization, file services and databases. All-inclusive pricing for features such as auto-snapshot, auto-replication, near-instant recovery, on or offsite failover, and virtualization management provides simplified software licensing at a fraction of the cost of storage incumbents.
"Tegile's IntelliFlash architecture effectively harnesses the low latency of our SSDs and the high capacity of our HDDs," said Ulrich Hansen, vice president of product marketing at HGST, a Western Digital company. "As a leader in transforming data center storage, we are able to support Tegile with the broadest product portfolio spanning both SSDs and HDDs in this example of a well-executed strategic relationship. With the new T3400 or T3800 systems, Tegile customers will continue to benefit from our high-quality enterprise-class hard drives and solid state drives to help meet their escalating performance, capacity and reliability requirements."
"SanDisk has been working diligently with Tegile to drive flash density upwards, while also addressing the durability needs of write-intensive environments, such as those presented by many Tegile customers," said Steve Fingerhut, vice president of Enterprise Storage Solutions at SanDisk. "The density, performance and endurance attributes of SanDisk Enterprise SSDs utilized in Tegile's all-flash arrays, deliver high-performance, high-reliability storage for the most demanding enterprise data center environments."
All Tegile products, including the T3400 and T3800, are available through Tegile's consumption-based leasing,Tegile's Agility Pricing Program, paying only for the amount of data space utilized - as low as 20.6 cents per GB a month. The program was designed for cost-conscious customers who are interested in leveraging cloud economics but who are unwilling or unable to relinquish control of their data to third-party providers at pricing competitive to Amazon S3.
"We're excited about the opportunity to provide even more flash options to our customers with the introduction of the T3400 and T3800," said Rob Commins, vice president of marketing of Tegile Systems. "Whether it's a balanced approach of high performance with high capacity of a hybrid array or sustained high performance with low latency of applications best served with flash, we have developed a range of superior product offerings that can satisfy any and all of these requirements without breaking the bank."
The Tegile T3400 and T3800 are available now through the company's reseller partners beginning today. All Tegile arrays come bundled with IntelliFlash flash optimization software and a comprehensive data management suite including snapshots, remote replication and VM-aware management tools. Additional information about Tegile's full line of flash-driven storage arrays is available at http://www.tegile.com/products
About Tegile Systems
Tegile Systems is pioneering a new generation of flash-driven enterprise storage arrays that balance performance, capacity, features and price for virtualization, file services and database applications. With Tegile's line of all-flash and hybrid storage arrays, the company is redefining the traditional approach to storage by providing a family of arrays that accelerate business critical enterprise applications and allow customers to significantly consolidate mixed workloads in virtualized environments.
Tegile's patented IntelliFlash technology accelerates performance and enables inline de-duplication and compression of data so each array has a usable capacity far greater than its raw capacity. Tegile's award-winning solutions enable customers to better address the requirements of server virtualization, virtual desktop integration and database integration than other offerings. Featuring both NAS and SAN connectivity, Tegile arrays are easy-to-use, fully redundant and highly scalable. They come complete with built-in snapshot, remote-replication, near-instant recovery, onsite or offsite failover, and VM-aware features. Additional information is available at http://www.tegile.com. Follow Tegile on Twitter @tegile.
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Broadcom Announces New Multiport 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch for Embedded Connectivity
Latest Family of StrataConnect(TM) Devices Deliver 160 Gbps Bandwidth with 10G Connectivity
TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- COMPUTEX 2014 -Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, today introduced a new family of 10 Gigabit multiport Ethernet switches, adding to Broadcom's leading StrataConnect switch portfolio. Broadcom's new system-on-chip (SoC) family is designed to improve and future proof control plane and data plane connectivity by combining 1G, 2.5G, and 10G performance and diverse and flexible input/outputs (I/Os) at very low power consumption. For more news, visit Broadcom's Newsroom.
Network equipment managers and service providers are continuously looking at high speed network technologies to serve growing bandwidth demands, while maintaining low total cost of ownership, flexibility and agility. To provide Layer 2 connectivity for 4G LTE, storage, micro-server and SMB markets, the BCM534xx StrataConnect(TM) family of products offers high performance and low latency, 160 gigabits per second (Gbps) total bandwidth, and 10 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) I/O that can be flexibly configured for diverse applications. When coupled with Broadcom's market leading PHYs, this new SoC family enables new generations of cost effective SMB switches either to aggregate uplinks or connect 802.11ac Wave 2 access points.
"Network topologies and operations have been transformed by the advent of smart Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) Switching. To respond to market trends and customer requirements, 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching is being rapidly deployed, not only to increase the speed of Ethernet to 10 Gbps but also to lower latency of Layer 2 interconnectivity," said Ram Velaga, Broadcom Senior Vice President & General Manager, Network Switch. "With high performance 10 Gbps, advanced Layer 2 functionality, low power and the flexible I/O configuration, Broadcom's new SoC family is ideal for embedded control plane, backplane, unmanaged and WebSmart switch applications."
According to a recent report by Dell'Oro Group, the Layer 2-3 Ethernet Switch market exceeded $22 billion in 2013, with most segments achieving record revenues during the year(1). The new Broadcom switch provides low-power capabilities ideal for product application areas such as SMB 10G aggregation switching, 802.11ac access point switching and high-capacity embedded Layer 2 connectivity.
The BCM534xx family integrates an ARM Cortex-A9 CPU and 10 Gigabit SerDes, consolidating the functions of multiple chips onto a single chip, resulting in dramatic improvements across the systems from heat, to cost, to power. By leveraging Broadcom's unified APIs for software reuse, the SoCs enable faster time-to-market, and integrated IPv6 support helps customers future-proof the network for next-generation datacenters.
Key Features of the BCM5340x and BCM5341x Switches
-- 160 Gbps Switching Capacity Bandwidth
-- Optional integrated ARM Cortex A9 CPU
-- Integrated 10G SerDes with diverse I/O for multiple configurations
-- Advanced single-stage ContentAware Engine for ACLs and QoS
-- Timestamping support with 1588 TC and SyncE
-- Low-power Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) support
-- Enterprise-class L2/L2+ scalability
Availability
The BCM534xx SoC family is now sampling.
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Resources
(1 )The Dell'Oro Group Ethernet Switch Quarterly Report
About Broadcom
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a FORTUNE 500® company, is a global leader and innovator in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom® products seamlessly deliver voice, video, data and multimedia connectivity in the home, office and mobile environments. With the industry's broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip solutions, Broadcom is changing the world by Connecting everything®. For more information, go to http://www.broadcom.com.
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Webroot and Plantronics Join Forces to Help Fight Viruses, Hackers and Cybercrime in the Gaming World
Industry Leaders to Provide Maximum Protection and Gameplay Performance with Innovative Cloud-based Security and Gaming Headset Bundle
BROOMFIELD, Colo., June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Webroot, the market leader in cloud-based, real-time Internet threat detection, today announced a strategic partnership with Plantronics (NYSE:PLT), a pioneer in wearable technology. This agreement will see Webroot SecureAnywhere® AntiVirus for PC Gamers bundled with the Plantronics GameCom 788 Gaming Headset to ensure PC gamers are protected with real-time security that doesn't impact performance as they enjoy gameplay in stunning, cinematic sound.
Online gaming is fun and exciting, but its popularity has made it a target for online crime. Cybercriminals are targeting gamers to gain access to their online gaming credentials, and other personal information that can be exploited for profit. Traditional, signature-based antivirus solutions are notoriously bulky, disruptive and resource hungry, making them undesirable among gamers with high performance systems. As a result gamers either disable their security, or remove it altogether.
By partnering with Webroot, Plantronics now provides highly-effective, cloud-based threat detection from Webroot that is dramatically lighter and faster than competing products. Gamers won't be interrupted by screen freezes, game lag or system crashes from traditional slow scans and security updates. Plantronics is offering a 14-day free trial of Webroot SecureAnywhere AntiVirus as a bundle with the GameCom 788 USB headset with Dolby® 7.1 surround sound technologies to provide players with state-of-the-art audio communication, and innovative, online security that doesn't compromise gameplay.
"Plantronics is committed to providing gamers with an immersive online experience. Precision audio and the ability to communicate with teammates is key," said Dorothy Ferguson, director of marketing for Plantronics Gaming. "Where Plantronics GameCom 788 with Dolby 7.1 surround eliminates sound lag when it counts most, Webroot SecureAnywhere AntiVirus enhances security without jeopardizing player performance."
"Plantronics is an industry leader that shares Webroot's dedication to research and continual improvement through innovation," said David Bennett, vice president of worldwide consumer and SMB sales at Webroot. "Because Webroot SecureAnywhere solutions fundamentally changed the way security is delivered, they only require a very small footprint allowing gaming PCs to perform at their peak. This is critical for gamers, as they often sacrifice security to maximize system performance. This partnership offers customers who demand the best for their systems, a combination of Plantronics revolutionary sound quality, and Webroot's unmatched protection against malware, identity theft and phishing attacks."
Cloud-based Webroot SecureAnywhere AntiVirus for PC Gamers offers connected gamers an alternative to the traditional security solutions that have proven ineffective against today's malware. It installs in seconds and scans most PC systems in less than two minutes. It also uses less than 4MB of RAM and its cloud-based threat detection architecture means there are no security updates or definitions to download. All users are protected against the latest threats from the moment they are discovered - anywhere in the world.
Webroot will be exhibiting at the E3 Conference on June 10 to 12, 2014 at Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California, Booth #2750. In addition to showcasing Webroot SecureAnywhere Antivirus for PC Gamers, event attendees will have opportunities to win prizes such as free copies of Webroot software and a high performance gaming system.
About Plantronics
Plantronics is a global leader in audio communications for businesses and consumers. We have pioneered new trends in audio technology, creating innovative products that allow people to simply communicate. From unified communication to Bluetooth® headsets to gaming solutions, we deliver uncompromising quality, an ideal experience, and extraordinary service. Plantronics is used by every company in the Fortune 100(TM), as well as 911 dispatch, air traffic control and various mission critical applications for those on the frontline. For more information, please visit http://www.plantronics.com or call (800) 544-4660.
About Webroot
Webroot is the market leader in cloud delivered security software as a service (SaaS) solutions for consumers, businesses and enterprises. We have revolutionized internet security to protect all the ways you connect online. Webroot delivers real-time advanced internet threat protection to its customers through its BrightCloud® security intelligence platform, and its SecureAnywhere(TM) suite of security products for endpoints, mobile devices and corporate networks. Over 7 million consumers, 1.5 million business users and 1.3 million mobile users are protected by Webroot. Market-leading security companies, including Palo Alto Networks, F5, Cisco, Aruba, NetCitadel, GateProtect, Microsoft and others choose Webroot to provide advanced internet threat protection for their products and services. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Colorado, Webroot is the largest privately held internet security company in the United States - operating globally across North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region. For more information on our products and services, visit http://www.webroot.com.
GameCom and Plantronics are trademarks of Plantronics, Inc. registered in the US and other countries. Webroot, SecureAnywhere, Webroot SecureAnywhere, BrightCloud, and Webroot BrightCloud are trademarks or registered trademark of Webroot Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.
Good Technology Redefines the Mobile Business Experience
Delivers next-gen user experience, both in cloud and on-premise, with new secure mobile collaboration app, and expanded ecosystem
NEW YORK and SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Good Technology(TM), the leader in secure mobility, today announced major new innovations that change the mobile experience for the end user, IT and line of business leaders. The new Good secure mobile collaboration app delivers a next-gen mobile business experience. Designed with a contextual, more personalized user experience, the new Good solution can be deployed via cloud, on premise or hybrid, providing flexible deployment options for organizations of all sizes. The company also announced the Good for Salesforce1 mobile app, a new Trusted Authentication Framework and an expanded Good-secured partner ecosystem. The announcements are being made today from Good Exchange in New York, the company's annual conference that gathers mobile industry leaders.
Delivering Fast, Intuitive End User Experience with the New Good Secure Mobile Collaboration App
The Good secure mobile collaboration app provides secure email, messaging, contacts, calendar, document management and browsing, bringing all relevant information business users need into one place. Users can now easily navigate across enterprise apps and tasks - with no compromise to data security. The Good secure mobile collaboration app also delivers the industry's first contextual mobile experience, where users are presented with personalized information based on their activities and contacts, such as custom alerts. The Good app is built on the Good Dynamics® Secure Mobility Platform and offers a rich set of services through the Good-secured ecosystem such as secure printing and document archiving. Using the Good Dynamics services architecture, the new Good app is the first to integrate mobile presence, pulling in current status information from Good Connect(TM) or Microsoft Lync and ensuring that reaching out to colleagues is quick and natural.
"We're setting a new benchmark for the enterprise mobile experience. Businesses of all sizes, industries and requirements want their employees to move faster and make decisions wherever they are," said Christy Wyatt, Chairman and CEO of Good Technology. "The Good Dynamics platform, new Good app and broad partner ecosystem empower organizations to mobilize their business with a best-in-class usability experience, from the cloud or on-premise, without compromising security."
The new Good app will be available for beta beginning June 30.
Delivering a Better Experience for IT with Flexible Deployment and Authentication Options
As companies move to the cloud, they are looking for a fast, convenient way to adopt business mobility. The new Good app will be available via the cloud as well as on premise. Now small and mid-sized organizations can enjoy the same enterprise-grade security thousands of global organizations count on, but with the ease and simplicity of a cloud deployment. For individual business professionals, Good also announced the commercial availability of Good Pro(TM), a secure cloud-based messaging app introduced earlier this year.
"With the rapidly changing environment of enterprise mobility, IT and business units are looking for a unified approach to secure mobile collaboration," said Chris Hazelton, research director of mobile and wireless at 451 Research. "Bringing together multiple apps into one contextual experience will increase organizational collaboration and provide true mobile productivity."
IT organizations are also looking for flexibility in utilizing the variety of technologies available for identity management. To address this, Good also announced the Good Trusted Authentication Framework that offers customers enhanced mobile security through new, innovative authentication methods. Smart cards, tokens and even biometrics can now be used in concert with the Good solution from partners such as Biometrics Associates, EyeVerify, Intercede, Mi-Token and Precise Biometrics.
Providing Line of Business Leaders with the Mobile Apps to Drive Even More Productivity
Line of business leaders are looking to further mobilize their business units to drive employee productivity and customer engagement. To address one of the most critical business processes, Good is introducing the Good for Salesforce1 app. Good for Salesforce1 brings together the leading mobile CRM app with the market's leading secure container. This unique offering enables IT departments to accelerate Salesforce1 Mobile App deployments company-wide, while complying with highly-regulated security requirements to protect sensitive corporate data on personal smartphones and tablets.
In addition, Good announced a host of new ecosystem partners that are leveraging the Good Dynamics Secure Mobility Platform to address specific needs for joint customers through secure mobile apps. New partners announced today include AirPatrol, CellTrust, Code Red, Infraware Polaris Office and InterPro, delivering enhanced functionality ranging from secure SMS and secure research management access to more sophisticated document editing and collaboration.
With the announcement of the industry's first mobile presence service, Good is launching its first server-based shared service within the Good Dynamics platform that ecosystem partners can now leverage. BoardPad, an industry-leading meeting and document collaboration solution in the Good-secured ecosystem that transforms directors' devices into highly secure digital board and meeting packs, is integrating presence to provide enhanced communication and status awareness between users. Presence information within BoardPad for Good informs users of availability of other meeting participants, updated live, with information supplied by Good Connect and Microsoft Lync.
About Good Technology
Good Technology is the leader in secure mobility, providing the leading secure mobility solution for enterprises and governments worldwide, across all stages of the mobility lifecycle. Good's comprehensive, end-to-end secure mobility solutions portfolio consists of a suite of collaboration applications, a secure mobility platform, mobile device management, unified monitoring, management and analytics and a third-party application and partner ecosystem. Good has more than 5,000 customers in 184 countries, including more than 50 of the FORTUNE 100(TM) companies. Learn more at http://www.good.com.
Statements concerning future prospects, business outlook, and product availability and plans are forward looking statements that involve a number of uncertainties and risks. This information is intended to outline our general product direction and it should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. It is not a commitment, promise or legal obligation to deliver any material, code or functionality and the development, release and timing of any features or functionality described for our products remains at Good's sole discretion.
Marvell Offers Full Range of Internet of Things Solutions with Industry's Most Complete Line of Wireless Microcontroller Platform
Low-power Wi-Fi, ZigBee, and Bluetooth microcontroller SoCs powered by Marvell EZ-Connect software platform enable OEMs to rapidly bring innovative IoT devices to the fast growing market
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) today unveiled the industry's most complete line of silicon platform solutions targeting the full range of Internet of Things (IoT) applications including: wearables, home automation, home security, personal healthcare, smart appliances, accessories and remote controls, automotive, lighting, industrial Internet, and more. The new wireless product family, featuring Marvell's EZ-Connect(TM)( )software platform, includes: the MW300 Wi-Fi microcontroller, the MB300 Bluetooth microcontroller, and the MZ100 ZigBee microcontroller. These best-in-class silicon solutions leverage Marvell's decade-long leadership in developing embedded wireless solutions, including Marvell's successful Kinoma® platform for connected devices and IoT. Marvell's new offerings are specifically designed to make it easy for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to rapidly bring new, innovative IoT applications to market.
The new system-on-chip (SoC) solutions are powered by Marvell EZ-Connect Software and supported by a vast ecosystem of partners. Marvell's EZ-Connect Software provides production-ready software for industry standard communication protocols. Complete with easy-to-use software development kits (SDKs) and application programming interfaces (APIs), the EZ-Connect Software enables developers to leverage the full potential of a built-in microcontroller on the SoC solutions. With Marvell's complete IoT platform solution, developers are able to save months of software development efforts and can focus their energy and resources on bringing innovative services and applications to consumers and end users through their IoT devices.
"Marvell is proudly powering the 'Smart Life and Smart Lifestyle' through flexible, energy-efficient platforms that enable our customers and partners to deliver new and innovative connected products in the rapidly growing Internet of Things market," said Philip Poulidis, Vice President and General Manager, Mobile and Internet of Things Business Units at Marvell. "Marvell's latest system-on-chip solutions offer unparalleled advantages for home automation, LED lighting control, remote control, healthcare monitoring and other applications. Marvell's EZ-Connect delivers the industry's highest level of integration to significantly improve performance, lower power consumption, and reduce the total bill of materials."
"Marvell's track record powering the Smart Lifestyle underscores the company's value proposition of bringing to market best-in-class technologies that fuel the proliferation of connected devices," said Larry Cornett, analyst at GigaOm and product strategy and design consultant for Brilliant Forge. "The promise of the Internet of Things is beginning to be realized, and we can expect to see more applications come online this year with companies, like Marvell, offering complete connectivity solutions at the core."
MW300 Wi-Fi microcontroller is the industry's first true single-chip SoC with 802.11n Wi-Fi and full-featured microcontroller, and features the following key benefits:
-- Low-power optimizations enabling deep low-power states and reduced
power-consumption in active modes to enable battery-powered applications
-- Very low RBOM requiring only a single crystal, QSPI flash, and antenna
with a single input power rail
-- Easy interfacing to sensors, actuators, and other components via a full
set of I/O interfaces including SPI, I2C, UART, I2S, PWM, ADC, DAC
reducing extra components and PCB footprint
-- Enable audio and video streaming in any IoT device via a powerful
Cortex-M4F CPU with DSP and Floating point support, large SRAM, and
high-speed USB 2.0 OTG interface supporting USB Video (UVC) and Audio
(UAC)
Marvell EZ-Connect Software for Wi-Fi microcontroller provides the following key benefits:
-- Easy Wi-Fi provisioning for headless devices via Marvell's proprietary
provisioning
-- Built-in integrations with leading IoT cloud-service providers and
complete set of middleware components supporting industry standard web
standards including HTTP, TLS/SSL, BSD Sockets, Web-Sockets, JSON and
XML parsers to integrate with your cloud service
-- Over-the-air (OTA) firmware upgrade support that can be added to any
application with just a few lines of code
-- Flexible communication models enabling P2P applications,
device-to-device communications, seamless integration with mobile
clients and cloud-services, and secure deployments
-- Multi-layered security enabling secure deployments and preventing
compromising of user's privacy
-- Field-tested, production quality software coupled with support for all
aspects of manufacturing including testing and certifications enable
rapid time-to-market
MB300 Bluetooth microcontroller is industry's first true single-chip SoC with dual-mode Bluetooth 4.1 support and integrated microcontroller and features the following key benefits:
-- Concurrent Bluetooth Classic and Smart operation
-- Built-in voice capability with high-resolution ADC and direct connection
to microphone
-- Very low system RBOM requiring only a single crystal and antenna
-- Easy interfacing to sensors, actuators, and other components via a full
set of I/O interfaces including SPI, I2C, UART, I2S, PWM, ADC, DAC and
ACOMP, IR, Keyscan, and Touch Button reducing external components and
PCB footprint
MZ100 ZigBee microcontroller is industry's most advanced single-chip SoC with 802.15.4/ZigBee and integrated microcontroller and features the following key benefits:
-- Industry best RF performance with 10+dB link-budget margin compared to
other solutions available in the market
-- Best co-existence with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
-- Very low system RBOM requiring only a single crystal and antenna
-- Easy interfacing to sensors, actuators, and other components via a full
set of I/O interfaces including SPI, I2C, UART, PWM, ADC, DAC and ACOMP
reducing external components and PCB footprint
-- Complete software stack supporting ZLL, ZHA and 6LoWPAN standards
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, Kinoma and the M logo are registered trademarks of Marvell and/or its affiliates. EZ-Connect is a trademark of Marvell and/or its affiliates. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
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Polk Takes Desktop Loudspeaker Sound and Style to New Heights with Hampden
Latest Speaker Solution Combines High Performance Audio with a Refined, Natural Design Aesthetic
BALTIMORE, June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- After making its public debut at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, today Polk announced the retail availability of its newest bookshelf loudspeaker, Hampden. Designed to serve as either a near-field desktop audio solution or an extension of a larger home theater system, Hampden is a sophisticated pair of speakers with Bluetooth® wireless technology that boasts impressive, room-filling sound in an attractive package.
"With Hampden, we wanted to create a home audio solution that brings great sound and increased functionality to the desktop while reflecting the retro design aesthetic seen in our recently launched Heritage Collection of personal audio accessories," said Michael DiTullo, Chief Design Officer of Sound United. "Hampden captures the essence of a classic pair of Polk speakers, featuring a timeless yet minimalist design that fits well in the home office or living room. By adding USB connectivity, Bluetooth wireless technology and compatibility with our DJ Stream App, users now have more listening options and access to an interactive element that creates a more social and sharable music playing experience."
With most desktop speakers designed to aim sound at the listener's chest, Polk takes a "laid back" approach with Hampden, angling the sound stage upward to ensure a more optimal and immersive listening experience. The system is powered by two 1-inch, soft-dome silk/polymer tweeters and two 4.5-inch polypropylene woofers with rubber surrounds. Each driver and tweeter also comes with a dedicated amplifier, creating an exceptionally natural sound and clarity throughout the frequency range. Additionally, Polk added in a fully digital amp, which bypasses a computer's digital to analog converter and handles all of the Digital Signal Processing when connected via USB.
As an additional feature, Hampden allows music streaming through multiple sources thanks to Polk's DJ Stream App. The app allows up to four people to connect to the Hampden as DJs and create a playlist from music libraries on their device. One user will serve as the DJ Host, controlling music play, while the other three function as Active DJs. While taking turns adding music to the playlist, up to 128 additional Guest DJs can view the playlist, vote on music and become an Active DJ when one of the four phones drops off or disconnects.
Hampden retails for $399.95 and is available for purchase at http://www.polkaudio.com and select retailers, including Crutchfield, Stereo Advantage and Worldwide Stereo. The DJ Stream app is also available for free download from the Apple Store and Google Play.
About Polk
Polk (http://www.polkaudio.com) is an award-winning designer and manufacturer of high-performance audio products and the largest audio brand of Sound United. Founded in 1972, Polk is the market share leader in premium home theater speakers in North America, and is a leading manufacturer of sound bars, headphones, wireless speakers, mobile and marine speakers and amplifiers, and other high-performance audio products. For more information on Sound United and its brands, visit http://www.soundunited.com. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
The Bluetooth® word mark and logos are registered trademarks owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of such marks by Polk is under license. Other trademarks and trade names are those of their respective owners.
Dirac Technology Supports Pioneer To Create Smart Loudspeakers
UPPSALA, Sweden, June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
Compact USB-powered loudspeakers featuring Dirac HD Sound(R) target computer users and decor-conscious music enthusiasts
Audio technology provider Dirac Research today announced that they have reached a licensing agreement with Pioneer Corporation. Pioneer plans to utilize the Dirac HD Sound technology to deliver superb audio playback from their next generation of loudspeakers. The first speakers to utilize the technology is the Pioneer Desk Live series, a lineup of powered speakers with a sleek, modern form factor slated for desktop computer applications as well as audio enthusiasts seeking high performance from smaller, stylish loudspeakers.
The objective of the new product line is to deliver high resolution and precise staging from a near field design using engineering innovations from Pioneer combined with Dirac's award-winning digital audio processing. These technological advances have enabled Pioneer to deliver unprecedented accuracy and musicality from an attractive lifestyle speaker lineup suited to any decor or application. The first of these new models will become available in Japan mid-July, 2014 with a succession of models and markets to follow.
"Both Dirac and Pioneer have a long history of making great audio products and we are excited for an opportunity to bring Dirac HD Sound technology to Pioneer's high performance loudspeakers," commented Steve Hase, Executive Vice President of Licensing at Dirac. "This cooperation with Pioneer and our most recent automotive venture with Volvo highlight the flexibility and diverse capabilities of Dirac's audio processing technologies," Hase added.
"Our vision is to combine the best of traditional speaker design with world class digital audio technology in an entirely new way," stated Hideki Nara, General Manager, Speaker Business planning Department, Industrial Solutions Business Division at Pioneer Corp. "By using Dirac's cutting edge solutions, we have been able to realize this vision and design loudspeakers with higher performance and increased flexibility. We consider Dirac to be a highly reliable engineering partner."
Dirac HD Sound is an advanced digital audio processing technology that utilizes impulse response and frequency response optimization. With Dirac's smart speaker concept, loudspeaker manufacturers such as Pioneer are able to increase performance and shorten the design process across a diverse range of form factors.
ARTWORK: The Pioneer Desk Live ISS-C270A-S with Dirac HD Sound will be available in mid-July
About Dirac Research AB
Dirac Research is a Swedish audio research firm specializing in high-performance digital sound optimization, room correction and sound field synthesis. The company was founded by researchers from the Signals & Systems Group of Uppsala University, Sweden. With Dirac's patented toolbox for efficient and accurate audio system optimization, customers such as BMW, Bentley, Rolls Royce and Datasat Digital Entertainment have achieved dramatically improved sound quality and a shortened time-to-market. Dirac Research maintains offices in Sweden, Tokyo, Detroit, Seoul and Shanghai. http://www.dirac.se.
Apical's Assertive Display is Now Available on the Latest Marvell Mobile Communication Processor Chipsets
LONDON, June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
Apical Ltd announces that Marvell's latest ARMADA mobile communication processors will
become the first devices to address the low cost but high performance volume market
featuring Apical's Assertive Display for an enhanced multimedia experience at lower power.
Assertive Display enables mobile devices to deliver unprecedented display quality
under all conditions. It does so by liberating the display from the restrictions of
viewing environment and removes the two major barriers in the widespread adoption of
multimedia services on mobile devices: it enables users to view videos and photos or play
games in any conditions including direct sunlight and reduces the power drawn by the
display, significantly increasing battery life.
By digitally modelling the way the eye adapts to ambient lighting, Assertive Display
delivers a high quality and seamless viewing experience to the user from a dark room to
bright outdoor light. Movies, games and photos which were previously unwatchable in
daylight can be clearly viewed. Ultimately this means a more immersive, natural and
comfortable experience where the display is always adapted to the user's own eyes. By
targeting the display to the most visually important areas, the display draws less power.
Michael Tusch, CEO Apical said: "We welcome Marvell as the latest application
processor maker to integrate Assertive Display. We're excited that smartphones and tablets
based on Marvell's processors will deliver a premium display experience at attractive cost
points."
About Apical
Apical is a leader in advanced image and video processing technology for embedded
applications. The company's Assertive products are derived from original research into the
human visual system and are designed to maximize the performance of a wide range of image
capture and display devices. Apical works primarily with OEMs and semiconductor
manufacturers for whom imaging capture and display are critical components. Apical is a
privately-held company based in the UK.
SEOUL, Korea, June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Ubitus Inc., the worldwide technology leader in cloud gaming solutions, is excited to announce the availability of KONAMI's blockbuster soccer game "Winning Eleven 2014" on Samsung Smart TVs in Korea.
Now owners of Samsung Smart TVs are able to enjoy instant access to this latest and best soccer game without the need to wait for downloads and installation, enabling consumers to enjoy powerful and exciting video gaming experience unavailable on home TV units before.
"Ubitus is committed to work with Samsung Electronics to jointly deliver exceptional gaming experience directly to consumers," said Wesley Kuo, CEO of Ubitus. "We believe Korean consumers will be amazed at how effortless it is to enjoy instant gaming experience on their Samsung Smart TVs. Select, click and ready to play, just like the way they've been enjoying video-on-demand services."
About Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in technology, opening new possibilities for people everywhere. Through relentless innovation and discovery, Samsung is transforming the worlds of TVs, smartphones, tablets, PCs, cameras, home appliances, printers, LTE systems, medical devices, semiconductors and LED solutions. The company employed 286,000 people across 80 countries with annual sales of US$216.7 billion. To discover more, please visit http://www.samsung.com
About Ubitus
Ubitus Inc. has the world's leading game virtualization technology and cloud-streaming platform. It strives to provide a more 'human oriented" gaming user experience using top-notch technology, allowing players to play the best games at any time and any place as long as they are connected to the internet. The services are compatible across devices, platforms, and networks. It doesn't matter if the player is using a smart phone, tablet, PC, or smart TV.
As one of the leaders in cloud gaming technology and game streaming services, Ubitus has entered into long-term partnerships with top-notch international game developers, becoming the agent for many classic gaming masterpieces. It has penetrated the Japanese, Korean, US, Hong Kong, and Taiwanese market. It has liaised with leading telecom service providers, online service providers, and game makers everywhere to provide services to local gamers.
The company was established in 2007, headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. It currently has more than 160 employees, and has offices in the US, Japan, South Korea, and Mainland China. Since it was established, it has been generating record-breaking achievements in the global cloud gaming market and received widespread industry recognition in the respective countries.
Nebula Systems Announces Breakthrough in Vehicle Diagnostics Technology
LONDON, June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
With photo and video content - interview opportunities available
UK-based Nebula Systems Ltd has unveiled its revolutionary new vehicle diagnostic
system 'MECH5', which allows both professional mechanics and car owners to carry out
in-depth analysis of a vehicle's electronic systems using their smartphone, tablet or
laptop like never before.
Nebula Systems believe that the unique capabilities of MECH5, as a totally cloud based
system, will change forever the way anyone, including Professional Mechanics, the
Telematics, Fleet care and Roadside Recovery industries, perform vehicle diagnostics.
The system works via a small on-board diagnostics (OBD) device which plugs into the
vehicle's diagnostic socket and is then connected securely to the MECH5 cloud. Users can
then access the wealth of information stored within all the vehicle's computer systems
(ECUs) wirelessly and remotely from anywhere in the world with an internet connection.
Andrew Steer, sales director of Nebula Systems, said: "For the first time ever any
vehicle user, from car enthusiasts to professional mechanics and independent garages, will
be able to access an incredibly low cost and powerful system which allows them to carry
out professional remote diagnostics on any electronic system within the vehicle, using an
internet connection - whether they're standing next to the car or are on the other side of
the world."
"We have designed MECH5 for different levels of involvement and anyone can use it. You
don't have to be an expert because users can dynamically contribute with known repairs and
technical information very easily, while working on cars and finding solutions."
"We're extremely proud of Mech5, it really empowers users to find out for themselves
what's wrong with their vehicle in a very simple and accessible way. MECH5 is a
subscription service, but does not require a contract. Users can dip in an out as and when
they need it, and even if out of subscription, you can still read fault code and parameter
values for free."
The company is now seeking backers through Kickstarter to raise GBP50,000 by the 20th
of June, to complete the first stage development of MECH5 and launch it later this year.
openSUSE Community Announces Partnership with Cavium to Support the ThunderX(TM) Workload Optimized Processor Family
Initial Port Developed for ThunderX to Enable Broader Community Engagement
SAN JOSE, Calif., and TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Computex - The openSUSE Community today announced a partnership with Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), in support of the ThunderX processor family. With this partnership Cavium will work with the openSUSE community to provide engineering resources along with ThunderX based reference systems for openSUSE development, optimization and support.
openSUSE has been working on ARMv8 AArch64 support for the last two years, not just within the distribution but also in its toolsets. The first AArch64 build was released in March 2013, after having developed the user mode emulation for QEMU which was submitted upstream and subsequently merged. This has enabled the Open Build Service to support AArch64, providing developers an easy way to build and package their software for the architecture; there are builds available for the current 13.1 release and regular builds of the development snapshot of the distribution.
As the openSUSE distribution is the foundation for SUSE Linux Enterprise, it offers a stable incubation environment for new technology. openSUSE believes strongly in providing choice and in addition to providing support for KVM they have been working closely with the Xen project. openSUSE has full support both for Xen and KVM hypervisors on AArch64 providing users choice when it comes to hypervisors and workloads such as Open Stack.
"The openSUSE community works closely with its peers, and working with the ARM ecosystem is able to provide an image for the Cavium ThunderX platform. This image provides all the components required to be able to deploy ThunderX on various workloads, from Big Data and Hyperscale to traditional server loads," said Vincent Untz, openSUSE Board Chair. "Cavium has been an active partner to ensure the best possible support for openSUSE on AArch64. openSUSE is greatly respected for its technology and strong development community."
"ThunderX is well suited to the workloads that customers are running today on their openSUSE deployments," said Larry Wikelius, Director Thunder Ecosystems and Partner Enablement. "As this community continues to grow we look forward to even greater acceleration of software innovation and optimization for ThunderX."
The ThunderX product family provides best in class 64-bit ARMv8 data center and cloud processors, which we believe will offer an unprecedented level of integration and industry leading ARMv8 SoC performance. With high performance custom cores, single and dual socket configurations, very high memory bandwidth, large memory capacity, integrated hardware accelerators, fully virtualized core and IO, scalable Ethernet fabric and feature rich I/O's that enable best in class performance per dollar and performance per watt. The ThunderX family includes multiple Workload Optimized SKUs that enable servers and appliances that are optimized for compute, storage, network and secure compute workloads in the cloud. The ThunderX processor family is fully compliant with ARMv8 architecture specifications as well as ARM's SBSA.
About OpenSUSE:
openSUSE is a general purpose operating system built on top of the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported openSUSE Project and sponsored by SUSE and a number of other companies.
About Cavium, Inc.
Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in enterprise, data center, cloud and wired & wireless service provider applications. Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 100 Mbps to over 100 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer and access & service provider equipment. Cavium's processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tool support, reference designs and other services. Cavium's principal offices are in San Jose, California with design team locations in California, Massachusetts, India, Taiwan and China. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com
This press release may contain forward-looking statements regarding future events that involve risks and uncertainties. Readers are cautioned that these forward-looking statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or results. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions and current expectations. Our actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions. The risks and uncertainties that could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements include but are not limited to development of new products and technologies; quality and performance of our products; whether we are successful in marketing our products; the rate at which our new products are adopted; rate of new design wins; whether we continue to develop and maintain our collaborations and relationships with our ecosystem partners; product developments by our competitors; technological advances; pricing pressures; general economic conditions; manufacturing difficulties; and other risks and uncertainties described more fully in our documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. More information about these and other risks that may impact Cavium's business are set forth in the "Risk Factors" section of our Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 2, 2014. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to us as of the date hereof and qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement, and we assume no obligation to revise or update these forward-looking statements.
Cavium Delivers Next Generation Xen Virtualization with ThunderX(TM) Family of Workload Optimized Processors
Cavium Joins Linux Foundation Xen Project as Advisory Board Member
SAN JOSE, Calif. and TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Computex - Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, today announced that Cavium's ThunderX, family of workload optimized processors will support next generation of Xen virtualization. In addition, Cavium has joined the Xen Project as an Advisory Board member. The Xen Project technology is a Collaborative Project hosted by The Linux Foundation.
The ThunderX family of processors from Cavium delivers integrated virtualization support for both compute and I/O centric workloads. The Xen optimization for the ARMv8 architecture has proven to be the high performance hypervisor technology that can deliver the full set of virtualization features with optimal performance required by scalable cloud deployments and applications. The support for what we believe will be the largest multi-core ARMv8 implementation and multi-socket cache coherency in Thunder takes the Xen virtualization capability to a whole new level of performance and features.
As a Xen Project Advisory Board member, Cavium will contribute to and help guide the Project that has been a key technology for supporting virtualization on ARM-based servers with significant optimizations specific to the underlying ARM architecture.
"Citrix is the cloud company that enables mobile work styles. Citrix and Cavium have been collaborating within the open-source Xen Project community to bring efficient and high quality Xen virtualization to ARM processors, in particular building hypervisor support for next-generation interrupt controllers based on the GICv3 architecture" said James Bulpin, Senior Director of Technology, XenServer, Citrix. "We are very happy to see Cavium joining the Xen Project Advisory Board, a move that further strengthens the Xen Project community and demonstrates Cavium's engineering commitment to it. We congratulate Cavium on the launch of their ThunderX Processor Family and eagerly anticipate system-level virtualization solutions at the hyperscale level of deployment based on this multi-core SoC."
"Xen Project virtualization is deployed in some of the largest hyperscale data centers in the industry. Our new ARM support for power optimized servers is tailor-made for scale out virtualized workloads. As a leader in ARM server architecture and design, security and networking processors, Cavium is uniquely positioned to leverage the strengths of our open software and play a key role in the future of cloud computing," said Lars Kurth, chairman of the Xen Project Advisory Board.
"Expanding our membership with the Linux Foundation is another example of Cavium's commitment to the Open Source community in general and the Xen Project virtualization solution in particular. The combination of the virtualization support at the core of the ThunderX SoC family with demonstrated advances that Xen Project software is bringing to the ARMv8 architecture is a game changer for today's large-scale data center and cloud computing environments," said Larry Wikelius, Director Thunder Ecosystems and Partner Enablement. "We look forward to working with the Advisory Board to continue Xen Project momentum in the server market."
Xen Project open source virtualization software is licensed under the GPLv2 with a similar governance structure to the Linux kernel. Designed from the start for cloud computing, the project is being used by more than 10 million users and is backed by years of development and deployment in the most demanding environments.
The ThunderX product family provides best in class 64-bit ARMv8 data center and cloud processors, which we believe will offer an unprecedented level of integration and industry leading ARMv8 SoC performance. With high performance custom cores, single and dual socket configurations, very high memory bandwidth, large memory capacity, integrated hardware accelerators, fully virtualized core and IO, scalable Ethernet fabric and feature rich I/O's that enable best in class performance per dollar and performance per watt. The ThunderX family includes multiple workload-optimized SKUs that enable servers and appliances that are optimized for compute, storage, network and secure compute workloads in the cloud. The ThunderX processor family is fully compliant with ARMv8 architecture specifications as well as ARM's SBSA.
About Cavium, Inc.
Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in enterprise, data center, cloud and wired & wireless service provider applications. Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 100Mbps to over 100Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer and access & service provider equipment. Cavium's processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tool support, reference designs and other services. Cavium's principal offices are in San Jose, California with design team locations in California, Massachusetts, India, Taiwan and China. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com
Note on Forward-Looking Statements
This press release may contain forward-looking statements regarding future events that involve risks and uncertainties. Readers are cautioned that these forward-looking statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or results. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions and current expectations. Our actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions. The risks and uncertainties that could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements include but are not limited to development of new products and technologies; quality and performance of our products; whether we are successful in marketing our products; the rate at which our new products are adopted; rate of new design wins; whether we continue to develop and maintain our collaborations and relationships with our ecosystem partners; product developments by our competitors; technological advances; pricing pressures; general economic conditions; manufacturing difficulties; and other risks and uncertainties described more fully in our documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. More information about these and other risks that may impact Cavium's business are set forth in the "Risk Factors" section of our Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 2, 2014. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to us as of the date hereof and qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement, and we assume no obligation to revise or update these forward-looking statements.
FlatFrog Presents Latest Touch Innovations Integrating Gestures and Support for Curved Screens @ Computex and SID
LUND, Sweden, June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
FlatFrog, a leading provider of multi-touch systems, announced today its latest
achievements within user interfaces and touch screens that will be demonstrated at
Computex Taipei and SID display week in San Diego.
FlatFrog Touch integrates Gesture Recognition
FlatFrog has integrated its unique in-glass touch technology with gesture recognition.
Integrated gesture recognition allows users to interact dynamically with the display,
either in close proximity or at a distance. Just as touch was a leap forward in user
interaction, the combination of touch and gestures will be the next step in the evolution
of touch screens. The gesture functionality is integrated behind the touch module,
enabling true flush, edge-to-edge designs with minimum mechanical design changes to the
customer product. The combination of touch and gestures into a single interface product
will enable new powerful user experiences and exciting application features.
FlatFrog is showcasing with lead customers our latest curved screen touch solution.
FlatFrog's in-glass touch technology detects touches by transmitting light inside the
glass cover lens independent of its shape. Touches can therefore be detected on curved and
bent cover lenses with perfect optical clarity. Curved screens help reduce reflections
that impact brightness and color and enables better readability. FlatFrog believes the use
of curved screens will be increasing prevalent in PC, monitor and TV applications - all
target markets for FlatFrog Touch.
FlatFrog ZG[TM]touch screens in up to 65" sizes
FlatFrog now offers a range of zero air gap (ZG[TM]) touch screens for displays from
20" to 65". The products are available in different versions from 2 touches up to over 40
simultaneous touches. They all offer perfect optical clarity in an ultra-thin, flush
edge-to-edge design.
Optional features include:
- Unlimited glove support
- Palm rejection
- Built-in multi-finger pressure detection
- Windows 8.1 certification
- Support for stylus with 1.5 mm tip
A range of high-volume consumer PC products can already be enabled with FlatFrog Touch
including, Tablets, PCs and Monitors. The ZG[TM] design is perfect for high-resolution
displays in computers and monitors as well as for large interactive flat panel displays
used for education, conferencing, gaming and digital signage applications.
"With our latest achievements, FlatFrog In-glass Touch technology is proven superior
to the leading projected capacitive technology in terms of flexibility and support for new
user interface functions for the PC and Large Screen market. FlatFrog Touch enables
cost-efficient scaling of display size and seamless integration of new features." said
Dhwani Vyas, CEO of FlatFrog. "FlatFrog already offers a superior performance touch
product that is now future-proof."
About FlatFrog
FlatFrog is revolutionizing the touch industry with its patented in-glass touch
technology. FlatFrog's products offers a perfect touch and viewing experience, supporting
over 40 touches with unique pressure detection in a flush, bezel-free design. FlatFrog
Touch is designed for mass production and integration into tablets, PCs and large
interactive displays. FlatFrog Laboratories AB is based in Lund, Sweden. For more
information, visit http://www.flatfrog.com
Silicon Labs' Touchstone Analogue IC Products Now Available from RS Components
RS boosts global access to Silicon Labs' broad range of low-power, high-performance analogue ICs
SINGAPORE, June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- RS Components( http://sg.rs-online.com ) (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc( http://www.electrocomponents.com ) (LSE: ECM), the global distributor for engineers, is now stocking low-power, high-performance analogue integrated circuit (IC) products developed by Touchstone Semiconductor and recently acquired by Silicon Labs to complement its embedded portfolio for the Internet of Things (IoT) market. RS will provide an inventory and logistics service for these analogue IC products in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia Pacific.
The Touchstone analogue products purchased by Silicon Labs include operational amplifiers, analogue-to-digital converters, comparators, current sense amplifiers, power management ICs, timer ICs, voltage detectors and voltage references. These devices target a wide range of IoT, industrial control, consumer electronics and instrumentation applications. The analogue products are all now available to purchase in industry-standard reels through multiple RS channels, including the distributor's online and print catalogues.
In addition to these core analogue IC products, Silicon Labs provides a selection of simple, affordable evaluation boards to expedite development time for design engineers using the range of Touchstone products. These evaluation boards too can be purchased from RS.
"Cost, performance, and fast availability are all key considerations for analogue designers," said Jonathan Boxall, Global Head of Semiconductors at RS Components. "With its recent purchase of Touchstone's assets, Silicon Labs now offers a broad portfolio of low-cost, high-performance analogue devices off-the shelf to help engineers achieve their design goals more quickly."
"RS is widely recognised for its strong semiconductor line card( http://sg.rs-online.com/web/c/semiconductors/semiconductor-development-kits ), and their customers receive excellent service worldwide throughout their sourcing and purchasing experience," said Phil DeMarie, Vice President of Global Channel Sales at Silicon Labs. "This alliance with a major distributor will enhance our opportunities to further expand our analogue IC range and give engineers more choice, easier access and a wealth of online design support through the DesignSpark engineering community."
About Silicon Labs
Silicon Labs is an industry leader in the innovation of high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs. Developed by a world-class engineering team with unsurpassed expertise in mixed-signal design, Silicon Labs' diverse portfolio of patented semiconductor solutions offers customers significant advantages in performance, size and power consumption. For more information about Silicon Labs, please visit http://www.silabs.com.
About RS Components
RS Components and Allied Electronics are the trading brands of Electrocomponents plc, the global distributor for engineers. With operations in 32 countries, we offer around 500,000 products through the internet, catalogues and at trade counters to over one million customers, shipping more than 44,000 parcels a day. Our products, sourced from 2,500 leading suppliers, include semiconductors, interconnect, passives and electromechanical, automation and control, electrical, test and measurement, tools and consumables.
Electrocomponents is listed on the London Stock Exchange and in the last financial year ended 31 March 2014 had revenues of GBP1.27bn.
Supermicro(R) Announces New NVMe Server Solutions Delivering up to 6x IOPS with New Intel(R) Solid-State Drive PCIe Family
TAIPEI, June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server, storage technology and green computing announces NVMe servers supporting the new Intel® Solid-State Drive PCIe Family at Computex this week in Taipei, Taiwan. Supermicro has early qualification and optimization of Intel's SSD PCIe family on its 1U WIO, 2U Data Center Optimized (DCO), 2U EX DP 32 DIMM, 2U TwinProâ¢, 3U 11x PCI-E slot and 4U FatTwin⢠SuperServers providing a range of NVMe solutions to meet the demands of the most data intensive applications for VDI, Very Large Database (VLDB) and Hyperscale Computing applications. These new solutions deliver up to 6x IOPS throughput improvement over existing SATA 6Gb/s SSDs. Many more application specific NVMe optimized platforms featuring the new Intel® SSD DC P3700 Series, SSD DC P3600 Series and SSD DC P3500 Series are coming soon. "Supermicro embraced NVMe technology at an early stage, positioning us with a strong suite of application optimized NVMe platforms that deliver extreme throughput with greater energy efficiency and reliability for performance critical markets," said Charles Liang, President and CEO of Supermicro. "We are currently in the process of extending NVMe across an even wider range of solutions to drive economies of scale and offer this technology as a new standard feature. Our close collaboration with Intel to support the launch of their new SSD PCIe family delivers customers an extensive selection of highly optimized NVMe solutions that will radically accelerate business as well as overall ROI." "Intel is investing in this new generation of Solid-State storage technology to enable the next revolution in computing," said Rob Crooke, Intel vice president and general manager of the Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group. "Pairing the new Intel SSD Data Center Family for PCIe with Intel Xeon processors eliminates critical constraints on data throughput, ensuring maximized utilization of resources. With partners developing a wide range of platforms optimized for our most advanced technologies, we will make a considerable impact on research, engineering, business and arts." (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnvar/20140601/93020) Supermicro NVMe Enabled Platforms 1U WIO SuperServer® (SYS-1027R-WC1NR, SYS-1027R-WC1NRT) â Dual Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v2, up to 1TB ECC DDR3, 1866MHz in 16x DIMMs, 1x PCI-E 3.0 (x16), 10x hot-swap 2.5" drive bays (2x NVMe PCIe SSD/SATA3, 8x 12Gb/s SAS3), dual port 1GbE (-WC1NR) dual port 10GBase-T (-WC1NRT), 700W Redundant Power Supplies 2U DCO SuperServer® (SYS-6028R-TDWNR) â Dual processor support, up to 1TB ECC LRDIMM, 512GB Reg. ECC DDR4, up to 2133MHz in 16x DIMMs, 4x 2.5" NVMe SSDs, 8x 3.5" hot-swap SATA3/SAS3 12Gb/s HDDs, dual port GbE, Redundant Platinum Level Power Supplies 2U EX DP 32 DIMM SuperServer® (SYS-2028UT-BTNRT, SYS-2028UT-BC1NRT) â Dual Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8800/4800/2800 v2 (15-core), up to 2TB ECC DDR3, 1600MHz in 32x DIMMs, 2x PCI-E 3.0 (x16) FH/HL slots, 1x PCI-E 3.0 (x8) MicroLP slot, 2x NVMe HDD bays and 8x hot-swap 2.5" SATA HDD bays (-BTNRT) 2x NVMe HDD bays and 8x Hot-swap 2.5" SAS3 12Gb/s (-BC1NRT), dual port 10GBase-T, 1280W Redundant Platinum Level Digital (95%+) Power Supplies 2U TwinPro⢠(2x nodes) SuperServer® 3.5" HDD/SSD bays (4x NVMe + 2x SAS3 or 6x SAS3) (X10 â SYS-6028TP-DNCR/-DNCTR/-DNCFR) 2.5" HDD/SSD bays (4x NVMe + 8x SAS3) (X10 â SYS-2028TP-DNCR/-DNCTR/-DNCFR) 3.5" HDD/SSD bays (4x NVMe + 2x SAS3 or 6x SAS3) (X9 â SYS-6027PR-DNCR/-DNCTR/-DNCFR)  2.5" HDD/SSD bays (4x NVMe + 8x SAS3) (X9 â SYS-2027PR-DNCR/-DNCTR/-DNCFR) 3U 11x PCI-E slot SuperServer® (SYS-6037R-TXRF) â Dual Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v2, up to 1TB ECC DDR3, up to 1866MHz in 16x DIMMs, 10x PCI-E 3.0 (x8), 1x PCI-E 2.0 (x4 in x8), dual port Gigabit Ethernet, 8x hot-swap 3.5" HDD Bays, 980W Redundant Power Supplies 4U FatTwin⢠SuperServer® (SYS-F627R2-FT+/-FTPT+/F72+/F72PT+) â Dual Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v2, up to 1TB ECC DDR3, up to 1866MHz in16x DIMMs, 1x PCI-E 3.0 (x16), 1x PCI-E 3.0 (x8), 1x PCI-E 2.0 (x4) in LP slots, 6x hot-swap 2.5" SATA HDDs, Front I/O 2x GbE, 2x USB 2.0, 1x VGA connector, 1280W Redundant Platinum Level (95%) Power Supplies Visit Supermicro at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan June 3rd through the 7th at the Taipei World Trade Center (TWTC), Nangang Exhibition Hall, 4th Floor, Booth #M0110. Click here for an Intel SSD PCIe family NVMe roundtable discussion with Charles Liang, Rob Crooke and James Myers hosted by Anand Shimpi of AnandTech. For more information on Supermicro's complete range of Server, Storage and Networking solutions, visit http://www.supermicro.com. Follow Supermicro on Facebook and Twitter to receive their latest news and announcements. About Super Micro Computer, Inc. Supermicro® (NASDAQ: SMCI), the leading innovator in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology is a premier provider of advanced server Building Block Solutions® for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/Big Data, HPC and Embedded Systems worldwide. Supermicro is committed to protecting the environment through its "We Keep IT Green®" initiative and provides customers with the most energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly solutions available on the market. Supermicro, SuperServer, TwinPro, Building Block Solutions and We Keep IT Green are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Super Micro Computer, Inc. All other brands, names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Supermicro® Announces New NVMe Server Solutions Delivering up to 6x IOPS with New Intel® Solid-State Drive PCIe Family
1U to 4U NVMe Enabled SuperServer® and SuperStorage Platforms Deliver Extreme Performance for VDI, VLDB and Hyperscale Computing Applications
TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server, storage technology and green computing announces NVMe servers supporting the new Intel® Solid-State Drive PCIe Family at Computex this week in Taipei, Taiwan. Supermicro has early qualification and optimization of Intel's SSD PCIe family on its 1U WIO, 2U Data Center Optimized (DCO), 2U EX DP 32 DIMM, 2U TwinPro(TM), 3U 11x PCI-E slot and 4U FatTwin(TM) SuperServers providing a range of NVMe solutions to meet the demands of the most data intensive applications for VDI, Very Large Database (VLDB) and Hyperscale Computing applications. These new solutions deliver up to 6x IOPS throughput improvement over existing SATA 6Gb/s SSDs. Many more application specific NVMe optimized platforms featuring the new Intel® SSD DC P3700 Series, SSD DC P3600 Series and SSD DC P3500 Series are coming soon.
"Supermicro embraced NVMe technology at an early stage, positioning us with a strong suite of application optimized NVMe platforms that deliver extreme throughput with greater energy efficiency and reliability for performance critical markets," said Charles Liang, President and CEO of Supermicro. "We are currently in the process of extending NVMe across an even wider range of solutions to drive economies of scale and offer this technology as a new standard feature. Our close collaboration with Intel to support the launch of their new SSD PCIe family delivers customers an extensive selection of highly optimized NVMe solutions that will radically accelerate business as well as overall ROI."
"Intel is investing in this new generation of Solid-State storage technology to enable the next revolution in computing," said Rob Crooke, Intel vice president and general manager of the Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group. "Pairing the new Intel SSD Data Center Family for PCIe with Intel Xeon processors eliminates critical constraints on data throughput, ensuring maximized utilization of resources. With partners such as Supermicro developing a wide range of platforms optimized for our most advanced technologies, we will make a considerable impact on research, engineering, business and arts."
-- 1U WIO SuperServer® (SYS-1027R-WC1NR, SYS-1027R-WC1NRT) - Dual Intel®
Xeon® processor E5-2600 v2, up to 1TB ECC DDR3, 1866MHz in 16x DIMMs,
1x PCI-E 3.0 (x16), 10x hot-swap 2.5" drive bays (2x NVMe PCIe
SSD/SATA3, 8x 12Gb/s SAS3), dual port 1GbE (-WC1NR) dual port 10GBase-T
(-WC1NRT), 700W Redundant Power Supplies
-- 2U DCO SuperServer® (SYS-6028R-TDWNR) - Dual processor support, up to
1TB ECC LRDIMM in 16x DIMMs, 4x 2.5" NVMe SSDs, 8x 3.5" hot-swap
SATA3/SAS3 12Gb/s HDDs, dual port GbE, Redundant Platinum Level Power
Supplies
-- 2U EX DP 32 DIMM SuperServer® (SYS-2028UT-BTNRT, SYS-2028UT-BC1NRT) -
Dual Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8800/4800/2800 v2 (15-core), up to 2TB
ECC DDR3, 1600MHz in 32x DIMMs, 2x PCI-E 3.0 (x16) FH/HL slots, 1x PCI-E
3.0 (x8) MicroLP slot, 2x NVMe HDD bays and 8x hot-swap 2.5" SATA HDD
bays (-BTNRT) 2x NVMe HDD bays and 8x Hot-swap 2.5" SAS3 12Gb/s
(-BC1NRT), dual port 10GBase-T, 1280W Redundant Platinum Level Digital
(95%+) Power Supplies
-- 2U TwinPro(TM) (2x nodes) SuperServer®
-- 3.5" HDD/SSD bays (4x NVMe + 2x SAS3 or 6x SAS3) (X10 -
SYS-6028TP-DNCR/-DNCTR/-DNCFR)
-- 2.5" HDD/SSD bays (4x NVMe + 8x SAS3) (X10 -
SYS-2028TP-DNCR/-DNCTR/-DNCFR)
-- 3.5" HDD/SSD bays (4x NVMe + 2x SAS3 or 6x SAS3) (X9 -
SYS-6027PR-DNCR/-DNCTR/-DNCFR)
-- 2.5" HDD/SSD bays (4x NVMe + 8x SAS3) (X9 -
SYS-2027PR-DNCR/-DNCTR/-DNCFR)
-- 3U 11x PCI-E slot SuperServer® (SYS-6037R-TXRF) - Dual Intel® Xeon®
processor E5-2600 v2, up to 1TB ECC DDR3, up to 1866MHz in 16x DIMMs,
10x PCI-E 3.0 (x8), 1x PCI-E 2.0 (x4 in x8), dual port Gigabit Ethernet,
8x hot-swap 3.5" HDD Bays, 980W Redundant Power Supplies
-- 4U FatTwin(TM) SuperServer® (SYS-F627R2-FT+/-FTPT+/F72+/F72PT+) - Dual
Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v2, up to 1TB ECC DDR3, up to 1866MHz
in16x DIMMs, 1x PCI-E 3.0 (x16), 1x PCI-E 3.0 (x8), 1x PCI-E 2.0 (x4) in
LP slots, 6x hot-swap 2.5" SATA HDDs, Front I/O 2x GbE, 2x USB 2.0, 1x
VGA connector, 1280W Redundant Platinum Level (95%) Power Supplies
Visit Supermicro at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan June 3(rd) through the 7(th) at the Taipei World Trade Center (TWTC), Nangang Exhibition Hall, 4(th) Floor, Booth #M0110.
Click here for an Intel SSD PCIe family NVMe roundtable discussion with Charles Liang, Rob Crooke and James Myers hosted by Anand Shimpi of AnandTech.
For more information on Supermicro's complete range of Server, Storage and Networking solutions, visit http://www.supermicro.com.
Follow Supermicro on Facebook and Twitter to receive their latest news and announcements.
About Super Micro Computer, Inc.
Supermicro® (NASDAQ: SMCI), the leading innovator in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology is a premier provider of advanced server Building Block Solutions® for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/Big Data, HPC and Embedded Systems worldwide. Supermicro is committed to protecting the environment through its "We Keep IT Green®" initiative and provides customers with the most energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly solutions available on the market.
Supermicro, SuperServer, TwinPro, Building Block Solutions and We Keep IT Green are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Super Micro Computer, Inc.
All other brands, names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Adda52.com Launches its iPad Version and All-new Features for Superior Poker Gaming Experience
KOLKATA, India, June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
Adda52.com, India's largest online poker site, launches all-new exciting features to
make poker gaming thrilling and fun-filled. Now players will be able to play more with the
new iPad version and win more. Adda52 poker games can be played on Apple iPad which means
gamers can now play online poker anytime and anywhere. What makes the playing task easier
is not only the mobility on the iPad but the fact that players can simply login in to the
portal from any web browser. There is no need to go to the app store and spend time
searching and downloading for apps. You can simply login from a browser on the iPad and
enjoy the same gaming experience.
The benefit of portability provided through iPad gives each player the freedom of
enjoying poker from anywhere. With iPad compatibility, players can now enjoy freeroll and
cash poker games on the go. They can make deposits, redeem money, track their account and
of course play and enjoy the game through the iPad. The iPad version of the portal
currently offers single table poker games to the players but complete functionality is in
the works with sound features, multi-tabling and tournament play.
New features added
Apart from the iPad version of Adda52.com, the online poker gaming giant has also
enhanced its gaming experience and launched an array of fantastic features. Adda52.com has
an ace up its sleeve in collaborating with banking services giant, ICICI, to provide
payment option to its users through the bank's online transactions.
A live chat facility has also been introduced at the Adda52.com website which means
players can get answers to their queries in real time. Currently, the live chat team is
accessible between Monday and Friday from 11 am to 12 Noon and 3 pm to 4 pm. During other
hours, a query/complaint/feedback can be dropped and quicker responses can be expected.
There is more news from the customer support section at Adda52.com with the introduction
of a toll free number to solve all queries. The number is 1800-3010-4488 and can be
dialled free by poker players to contact Adda52.com. To improve customer experience, the
CRM team has also extended its hours and can now be called anytime between Monday and
Friday, from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm and again from 3 pm to 7 pm.
Anuj Gupta, Founder Chairman of Adda52.com, was ecstatic about the iPad compatible
launch. "iPad is the preferred mode of surfing for the tech-savvy poker players. Keeping
that in mind, we decided to launch a iPad browser responsive version of Adda52.com so
players can play on the iPad. Playing from an iPad a player can access Adda52 without any
wires and internet issues from anywhere in the country," he said.
This is not the end; there is more fun to come on the way. Adda52.com is going to
launch its mobile version shortly which will allow players to play games with more
mobility.
About Adda52.com
Adda52 is India's largest online poker site which offers gaming interface for online
poker and rummy. Adda52 is the pioneer of online poker games in India and has the best and
most user-friendly playing software. With its customer-friendly interface players can
enjoy poker games and win cash worth lakhs regularly. So what have you been waiting for?
Go play.
CROOZ Releases Side-scrolling Action Game Balloon Kingdom for iOS Devices in 155 Countries, Including JAPAN
TOKYO, June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
CROOZ, Inc. (headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Koji Obuchi) has released BALLOON KINGDOM for iOS devices in 155 countries worldwide, including Japan. CROOZ hopes this game will attract a wide variety of players from around the world. BALLOON KINGDOM will be a marketing tool, providing CROOZ with information about player trends and attitudes that will come into play in future releases and promotional strategies.
BALLOON KINGDOM is a side-scrolling action game for iOS devices where balloon-shaped characters chase through rich unique worlds. By tapping with precise timing, players can change their character's position to avoid enemies, walls and other moving obstacles to clear each level. Its simple and intuitive gameplay allows players young and old from all over the world to have fun at any time. By linking the game with Facebook, players can also compete with friends to complete levels and collect items.
About CROOZ
CROOZ is an entertainment company. We deliver online content on a global scale, with a focus on social network games and online shopping.
Our sales make us a leading domestic provider of social applications, and we are expanding across the globe, with offices in San Francisco, Singapore, South Korea, Berlin, London and Paris. Our offerings include our first worldwide mobile app, ACR DRIFT, which we released in 135 countries and regions, and social network games such as The Knights of Avalon, Ragnabreak and HUNTERxHUNTER Battle Collection - which always rank at the top of games on Mobage, a large Japanese social gaming platform.
We also run an online shopping site, "SHOPLIST.com by CROOZ," where customers can buy fast fashion clothing - the latest catwalk trends at affordable prices - for women, men and children.
Henceforth CROOZ will continue to focus on developing native app games tailored to release on the App Store and Google Play. CROOZ will also look to expand its share of the domestic browser game market. Furthermore, CROOZ will focus on developing new businesses, along with acquisitions and capital alliances, as it accelerates business development and secures new sources of revenue.
Please watch this space for further developments from CROOZ.
Contact:
CROOZ, Inc.
Hitoshi Morikawa, Rumi Kondo
Tel: +81-3-5786-7080
Fax: +81-3-5786-7081
E-mail: pr_info@crooz.co.jp
Website: http://crooz.co.jp/en/
6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku Tokyo, 106-6138 Japan
WD® to Demonstrate First PCI Express Hard Drives at Computex 2014
SATA Express interface allows cabled connection at PCI Express speeds
IRVINE, Calif., June 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- WD®, a Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) company, and world leader in storage solutions, will be demonstrating the first PCI Express hard drives at Computex Taipei, June 3-4, 2014. Enabled with key technology partners, WD's prototype introduces the new SATA Express interface, a form of PCI Express technology, which is offered on recently launched Intel® series-9 chipset motherboard platforms. The SATA Express interface provides a roadmap for faster speeds, lower power consumption and increased flexibility for future OEM designs.
The road to the world's first demonstration of SATA Express has been in development for almost 3 years. In 2011, SATA-IO, the group responsible for charting the future of SATA, announced that it was developing a new specification that would fundamentally change the core technology behind SATA by melding it with the more advanced PCI Express computer interface. In 2013, the SATA Express specification was announced; and just one year later, WD and selected partners have realized a prototype of what is expected to be the next generation of storage technology.
By moving to PCI Express, the industry marries the world's most popular storage bus with the world's most popular computer bus. This union provides a solid growth path to innovate new capability, while preserving the ability to plug legacy SATA drives into new SATA Express based computers. In another innovation, SATA Express allows cable connections with lower costs, by removing the PCI Express Sync line via SRIS (Separate RefClock with Independent SSC), which lowers the overall cable cost.
"WD has been at the forefront of SATA technology, and we see a vibrant growth path for adoption of the future SATA Express Roadmap," said Matt Rutledge, senior vice president, storage technology, WD. "SATA will remain a standard for many years in many applications, and for customers who want to discuss a future beyond vanilla SATA, WD is ready to plan the future with them."
The SATA Express interface will be demonstrated in systems from WD's key partners at Computex to show the operational interface with their new platforms. This new SATA Express infrastructure allows customers to work with SSDs, SSHDs, and HDDs on a single common bus.
WD's demonstration prototype leverages standard AHCI drivers and is compatible with all known, currently supported client operating system releases.
"SATA Express is a breakthrough interface for internal storage. As a pioneer and leading provider of SATA Express host solutions, ASUS is glad to see exciting new devices demonstrated in the market. The SRIS-enabled SATA Express technology has been carefully engineered in selected ASUS 9 Series motherboards for great compatibility with SATA Express devices. The complete ASUS SATA Express solution together with the WD hard drive will be showcased at the ASUS booth M0410," said Joe Hsieh, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of ASUS Motherboard Business Unit and Desktop Business Unit.
"With the launch of the Intel 9 series chipset, GIGABYTE is excited to bring several new motherboards to the market that supports the very latest SATA Express technology," commented Colin Brix, Director of Marketing of GIGABYTE Motherboard Business Unit. "As an industry leader in the storage space, WD is one of the first vendors to demonstrate SATA Express devices, and GIGABYTE is thrilled to be able to demo one of their latest drives at Computex so we can show our customers just how much faster PCI Express based SATA Express is than previous generations."
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.
This news release contains "forward-looking statements," including statements relating to the estimated growth and adoption of SATA, SATA Express and PCI Express, and WD's ability to launch products which integrate such technologies. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements, including the viability and success of the SATA Express and PCI Express technologies or, even if viable, that they will be profitable or accepted by the market; the possibility that advanced technologies may be developed or brought to market faster than WD; the failure to accurately anticipate customers' changing needs and emerging technological trends; the failure by certain suppliers to develop and manufacture components, technology or production equipment for our products; the success of such technologies and or other risks detailed from time-to-time in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to, our most recent quarterly report on Form 10-Q and our annual report on Form 10-K, to which your attention is directed. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak as of the date hereof, and WD undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.
Western Digital, WD, and the WD logo are registered trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Intel is a trademark of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. ASUS is either a US registered trademark or trademark of Asustek Computer Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Other marks may be mentioned herein that belong to other companies. Not all products may be available in all regions of the world. Features and requirements are under development and may change prior to release. As used for storage capacity, one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment.
CONTACT: Heather Skinner, WD Press Relations, 949.672.7920 ,heather.skinner@wdc.com; or Bob Blair, Western Digital Investor Relations, 949.672.7834, Robert.Blair@wdc.com
Actiontec Introduces the Next Generation of Interactive Classrooms with Wireless Display Technology
-- New ScreenBeam Pro Education Edition helps educators bring curriculum to life and better engage students in the classroom
TAIPEI, June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- COMPUTEX -- Actiontec Electronics( http://www.actiontec.com ) today announced the launch of ScreenBeam Pro Education Edition( http://www.actiontec.com/products/70.php ), a Miracast wireless display adapter that gives schools an affordable way to create engaging, interactive classrooms for the 21st century. The new receiver delivers all the performance and features of Actiontec's award-winning ScreenBeam platform, along with manageability and security that schools require.
The ScreenBeam Pro Education Edition receiver is a small wireless display adapter that connects to a projector, TV, or other display and lets users wirelessly share content from a compatible laptop, smartphone, or tablet. With the ability to easily share content, educators can supplement their traditional lectures with engaging multimedia like videos, apps, educational programming, and more.
Wireless display brings a new level of interactivity to today's classrooms. Teachers are free to move around the classroom and interact with their students, while simultaneously sharing content from their tablet on the big screen, drawing the entire class into the material. This interactive learning environment increases classroom participation, enabling teachers to work more closely with students.
"ScreenBeam Pro works seamlessly with Surface Pro 2 tablets. It gives teachers the flexibility to freely teach from anywhere in the classroom," said Tim Nykke, ICT & Director of e-Learning, Thomas More College, a secondary school in South Australia.
In addition, when students are equipped with laptops or tablets, they can even interact with the material on the big screen right from their desk. For example, a student can share her work on a math problem directly from her tablet, without having to get up and write on the whiteboard.
"Schools are looking for solutions to enrich the learning process, while simultaneously managing costs. The advantage of ScreenBeam Pro is that it can be implemented in an entire school in less than a day and costs significantly less than smart whiteboards and interactive projectors," said Dean Chang, president and CEO at Actiontec Electronics.
ScreenBeam Pro Education Edition is compatible with many of the devices used in the classroom, such as: Microsoft Windows 8+ devices (including Surface tablets), Windows 7 devices (using a ScreenBeam Pro transmitter, available separately), Android devices, Wi-Fi Miracast devices, and Intel WiDi laptops, tablets, and smartphones.
The ScreenBeam receiver can be configured and added into a classroom in minutes, while also providing IT departments control over securing and configuring the device to meet their school's unique needs. For example, the receiver will only display content from approved devices, so there's no risk of students sharing content from their own smartphones without teacher approval.
Pricing and Availability
ScreenBeam Pro Education Edition is available now through select retailers for USD $99 MSRP.
For more information on how to free your content with Actiontec's ScreenBeam Pro and the ScreenBeam family, visit: http://www.actiontec.com/products/62.php or go to Actiontec's booth at COMPUTEX Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall 1 1F C0523.
About Actiontec Electronics
Actiontec Electronics brings expertise and innovation to broadband solutions that let people around the world connect to their favorite content, when and how they choose. Our products â including whole home wireless solutions, wireless video and display devices, gigabit Ethernet fiber routers, and high speed VDSL gateways â are carried globally by some of the largest broadband carriers, retail and online stores. Actiontec was founded in 1993, is headquartered in Silicon Valley, and has offices worldwide. For more information, visit Actiontec.com.
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Getac Announces T800 Rugged Tablet With 8.1-Inch Display Designed For Today's Mobile Workforce
Compact Size, Extreme Ruggedness, Advanced Wireless, Extended Battery Life and New SnapBack Add-Ons Help T800 Perform in Extreme Conditions in Australia and New Zealand
MELBOURNE, Australia, June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Getac, a leading manufacturer of rugged computers, is introducing the T800 rugged tablet to the Australia and New Zealand market. At less than 9 x 6 inches in size and boasting a brilliant 8.1-inch display, the T800 is the ideal compact rugged tablet for today's mobile workforce, and will be distributed exclusively by Synnex Australia Pty Ltd.
Combining the latest in processor and wireless technology with an ultra-rugged exterior and Getac's unique SnapBack add-on accessories, the Getac T800 is the perfect fit for use in extreme working environments including those found in the utilities, military, field service, public safety and transportation sectors. The new T800 runs Windows 8.1 Pro.
"The new compact T800 rugged tablet is a perfect device for Australia mobile workers who are seeking to increase their job productivity and efficiency in the field," said Andrew Yu, Senior Product Manager at Synnex Australia. "T800 incorporates the most advanced computing technology that will enable seamless and reliable data communication and transmission, field data collection and secure identification recognition feature. We're excited to get this new product into the hands of our customers through our extensive reseller network."
8.1 inch Display
The T800 rugged tablet features an 8.1-inch sunlight-readable display -- 34 percent larger screen area than other 7-inch tablets -- for everyone who needs the larger screen size.
Thin and Light
From the start, the T800 was engineered as a compact rugged tablet to be both thin and light. The new tablet is only 2.4cm thick, less than 22.7cm x 15.1cm in length and width, weighs just 880g, and it is designed to easily fit in one hand.
SnapBack Add-ons
Unique to the T800 is Getac's SnapBack add-ons. Created as an extension to the T800, the SnapBack add-ons make it quick and easy to add an extended battery or 2-in-1 SmartCard reader and RFID reader module. And they easily snap right on and off -- no tools necessary.
LumiBond(TM) Display Technology
The T800 uses Getac's revolutionary LumiBond technology to achieve a display that is more readable especially under sunlight, offers better contrast, and gives crisper colours than any other rugged tablet display does. By bonding the display glass with the touch panel and LCD, Getac created a single pane that is more durable and improves readability.
Flexible I/O interfaces
T800 provides extensive I/O ports options to satisfy the job needs of professionals in the field, including optional RS232, LAN, Micro SD, and one-dimensional / two-dimensional bar code reader, allowing tasks to be handled and completed impeccably anywhere, any time.
Quad-Core Performance
Inside the T800, Getac packed an incredible amount of power and advanced technology. Built with the Intel(R) Quad-core(TM) Bay Trail M N3530 2.16 GHz processor, the T800 can remain running at near full speed when other tablets processors would throttle back performance to avoid overheating.
Lasting Power
The T800 rugged tablet boasts up to 8 hours of battery life on a single charge. Additionally, you can have 8 hours SnapBack battery add-ons at the ready for potentially infinite, uninterrupted battery life. This allows you to keep working without ever shutting down your apps or the Windows OS, especially when in remote areas of Australia.
Tri-Pass-Through WiFi & GPS
Getac packed the new T800 rugged tablet with the latest technologies. It incorporates the latest 802.11ac WiFi for data-transfer speeds up to three times faster than 802.11n products have. In-house developed 8-band, 3D antenna technology boosts more reliable wireless reception and broader coverage. The T800's dedicated GPS also offers two times the search capacity, faster location positioning and improved accuracy over competitors' embedded GPS designs. For vehicle deployments, the T800 can be configured with pass-through antenna ports allowing you to simultaneously connect high-gain GPS, WWAN and WLAN roof-mounted antennae.
Built-to-Survive
The new T800 rugged tablet was built to survive. In fact, the T800 was engineered to survive 6 feet drops, shocks, spills, vibration, dust, liquid and more. The T800 has been independently tested and certified to MIL-STD 810G and IP65, and ANSI certified Sku is also available for users operating in explosive dangerous environments.
Availability
The new T800 rugged tablet will be available winter time in Australia and New Zealand with an MSRP starting at AU$1,995.
"The release of the 8.1 inch T800 rugged tablet provides a brand new choice to the field professional, filling in the gap which most 7 inch rugged tablet can't compete with. T800 delivers ruggedness, fast computing power, extensive functionalities and portability with comfortable field reading experience," Mr. Yu concludes. "We are always on the lookout for motivated partners that recognize the value that Getac solutions bring to the rugged computing industry. We are committed to working with our reseller partners to help grow their businesses."
If you are interested in Getac's T800 rugged tablet solution, or you would like to become an authorized Getac Partner, or require detailed information please visit: http://www.getac.com.au or contact your Synnex Account Manager on 1300 100 104.
FlatFrog Presents Latest Touch Innovations Integrating Gestures and Support for Curved Screens @ Computex and SID
LUND, Sweden, June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
FlatFrog, a leading provider of multi-touch systems, announced today its latest achievements within user interfaces and touch screens that will be demonstrated at Computex Taipei and SID display week in San Diego.
FlatFrog Touch integrates Gesture Recognition
FlatFrog has integrated its unique in-glass touch technology with gesture recognition. Integrated gesture recognition allows users to interact dynamically with the display, either in close proximity or at a distance. Just as touch was a leap forward in user interaction, the combination of touch and gestures will be the next step in the evolution of touch screens. The gesture functionality is integrated behind the touch module, enabling true flush, edge-to-edge designs with minimum mechanical design changes to the customer product. The combination of touch and gestures into a single interface product will enable new powerful user experiences and exciting application features.
FlatFrog is showcasing with lead customers our latest curved screen touch solution. FlatFrog's in-glass touch technology detects touches by transmitting light inside the glass cover lens independent of its shape. Touches can therefore be detected on curved and bent cover lenses with perfect optical clarity. Curved screens help reduce reflections that impact brightness and color and enables better readability. FlatFrog believes the use of curved screens will be increasing prevalent in PC, monitor and TV applications - all target markets for FlatFrog Touch.
FlatFrog ZG[TM]touch screens in up to 65"sizes
FlatFrog now offers a range of zero air gap (ZG[TM]) touch screens for displays from 20" to 65". The products are available in different versions from 2 touches up to over 40 simultaneous touches. They all offer perfect optical clarity in an ultra-thin, flush edge-to-edge design.
Optional features include:
-- Unlimited glove support
-- Palm rejection
-- Built-in multi-finger pressure detection
-- Windows 8.1 certification
-- Support for stylus with 1.5 mm tip
A range of high-volume consumer PC products can already be enabled with FlatFrog Touch including, Tablets, PCs and Monitors. The ZG[TM] design is perfect for high-resolution displays in computers and monitors as well as for large interactive flat panel displays used for education, conferencing, gaming and digital signage applications.
"With our latest achievements, FlatFrog In-glass Touch technology is proven superior to the leading projected capacitive technology in terms of flexibility and support for new user interface functions for the PC and Large Screen market. FlatFrog Touch enables cost-efficient scaling of display size and seamless integration of new features." said Dhwani Vyas, CEO of FlatFrog. "FlatFrog already offers a superior performance touch product that is now future-proof."
About FlatFrog
FlatFrog is revolutionizing the touch industry with its patented in-glass touch technology. FlatFrog's products offers a perfect touch and viewing experience, supporting over 40 touches with unique pressure detection in a flush, bezel-free design. FlatFrog Touch is designed for mass production and integration into tablets, PCs and large interactive displays. FlatFrog Laboratories AB is based in Lund, Sweden. For more information, visit http://www.flatfrog.com
PowerbyProxi Announces Advances In Resonant Wireless Charging Including First Multi-Device 7.5 Watts Resonant Charging System for Smartphones
Other new solutions include "z" height charging at 30mm and a charging bowl prototype for wearables and AA battery-powered devices
TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- COMPUTEX -- PowerbyProxi, developer of the world's most advanced and safest wireless power solutions, will demonstrate the next evolution of resonant wireless charging at Computex 2014 this week. A first for the industry is a 7.5W, highly resonant charging solution for thin-form devices, such as smartphones and phablets. The solution, which offers multi-device charging and full spatial freedom, is also expandable to power tablets up to 15W.
PowerbyProxi's integrated approach provides significant improvements over the 3.5 to 5W systems being offered today, by enabling high-speed wireless charging of multiple mobile devices. The system is designed to deliver up to 15W of power to a single tablet, or multiple smartphones and phablets. Ultimately this will be backwards compatible with the Wireless Power Consortium's (WPC) Qi standard and forward compatible to resonant v1.2.
"We continue to drive advances in wireless charging technology," said Greg Cross, CEO of PowerbyProxi. "Our contributions to the future specification of the Qi 1.2 standard, will enable better performance and more convenient solutions for consumers."
Z Height Charging at 30mm
For the first time, PowerbyProxi will also demo a wireless charging pad for mobile devices that enables vertical height charging of up to 30mm. This functioning z height distance will enable charging capabilities to be integrated into public locations like restaurants and hotels, as well as furniture and countertops. Charging can occur through materials including wood, plastic and composites along with the ability to charge multiple devices with full spatial freedom.
New Charging Bowl Expands 3D Charging Options
PowerbyProxi's new bowl transmitter with 3D charging technology has been designed to charge smaller, personal devices including wearables and devices using AA batteries. Devices can be placed in any position or orientation, even on top of each other. The bowl, which measures 100mm in diameter, offers a sleek design for office or bedside and complements PowerbyProxi's larger "family" charging box, which can accommodate multiple larger devices such as gaming controllers, cameras or toys.
PowerbyProxi will be offering the preview of its new resonant charging technologies at booth A1013a, in Exhibition Hall 1 at the Taipei World Trade Center starting on June 3, 2014. You can see a demo video from co-founder and CTO, Fady Mishriki, here.
About PowerbyProxi
PowerbyProxi is a leader in advanced, safe, wireless power solutions for consumer electronics (CE) and industrial markets. Our resonant technologies deliver a better consumer experience with full spatial freedom and multi-device charging, and solve mission-critical problems in demanding, hostile industrial environments. We license technologies and deliver modules to battery and semiconductor suppliers, OEMs/ODMs and system integrators, with proven highly resonant implementations ranging from less than one watt to multiple kilowatts. PowerbyProxi is a venture-backed company spun out of The University of Auckland--an internationally recognized leader in wireless power innovation--and holds a comprehensive portfolio of 221 patents worldwide. For more information visit: http://www.powerbyproxi.com