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OmniVision Launches Cost-Effective, High-Performance HD LCOS Solution for Pico Projection Systems

OVP7200 AND OVP921 ENABLE COMPACT DESIGN FOR NATIVE 720P HD VIDEO DISPLAYS IN MOBILE AND AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- OmniVision Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OVTI), a leading developer of advanced digital imaging solutions, today announced a new complete liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) chipset solution for low-cost, low-power and high-definition (HD) pico projection systems. The single-chip LCOS panel OVP7200 displays native 720p HD video, while its companion chip, the OVP921, provides advanced image processing and a host of other features that simplify system design, save space and reduce power consumption. The combination of these features makes the OVP7200 and OVP921 chipset a highly attractive solution for next-generation projection systems in automotive and mobile applications.

"With demand increasing for pico projection systems in mobile devices and head-up displays for automotive applications, we believe that we're entering an exciting era with growing market potential," said Raymond Sun, senior manager, LCOS business at OmniVision. "The new OVP7200 and OVP921 chipset provides our customers with an easy-to-integrate, complete display system solution, enabling faster time-to-market."

The OVP7200 is a single panel, color field sequential LCOS device that has a native resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels, with a diagonal measurement of 0.37-inch. It uses all-digital technology to drive the liquid crystal, resulting in stable, reproducible image quality. The OVP7200 panel is large enough to couple well with LED light sources, yet small enough to meet the demands of compact projection systems for mobile applications.

The OVP921 companion chip provides enhanced system performance without the need for external memory or image processor. It has built-in keystone correction, frame rate conversion, video input scaling, interface to LED controller and an embedded microcontroller. The OVP921 can accept video data from three different signal inputs: 24-bit RGB, MIPI or USB.

The OVP7200 and OVP921 are currently sampling, with volume production expected to begin in the second quarter of 2013.

About OmniVision
OmniVision Technologies (NASDAQ: OVTI) is a leading developer of advanced digital imaging solutions. Its award-winning CMOS imaging technology enables superior image quality in many of today's consumer and commercial applications, including mobile phones, notebooks, tablets and webcams, digital still and video cameras, security and surveillance, entertainment devices, automotive and medical imaging systems. Find out more at http://www.ovt.com.

        Safe-Harbor Language
Certain statements in this press release, including statements regarding the expected benefits, performance, capabilities, and potential market appeal, as well as anticipated timing of mass production, of the OVP7200 and OVP921 are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties, which could cause the forward-looking statements and OmniVision's results to differ materially, include, without limitation: potential errors, design flaws or other problems with OVP7200 and OVP921, customer acceptance, demand, and other risks detailed from time to time in OmniVision's Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to, OmniVision's annual report filed on Form 10-K and quarterly reports filed on Form 10-Q. OmniVision expressly disclaims any obligation to update information contained in any forward-looking statement.

OmniVision® and the OmniVision logo are registered trademarks of OmniVision Technologies, Inc.

SOURCE  OmniVision Technologies, Inc.

OmniVision Technologies, Inc.

CONTACT: Medai contact, Martijn Pierik, Impress Labs, +1-602-366-5599, martijn@impresslabs.com, or Company Contact, Scott Foster, OmniVision Technologies, +1-408-567-3077, sfoster@ovt.com, or Investor Relations, Mary McGowan, Blackburn Communications, +1-408-653-3263, invest@ovt.com

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

TCL Multimedia Launches Google Super-Smart TV MoVo

Becomes the First Television Enterprise to Launch the Google TV

HONG KONG, Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TCL Multimedia Technology Holdings Limited ("TCL Multimedia" or "the Group", HKSE stock code: 01070) is pleased to announce that TCL and the world's leading semiconductor chip manufacturer Marvell jointly launched Google Super-Smart TV MoVo at the 46(th) Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas, the United States of America. This move makes the Group the first television enterprise in China to launch the integrated TV sets of Google TV.

Based on Google's powerful search engine and combining TCL's proprietarily developed PBO (Personal Box Office, commonly known as the "Lazy TV") innovative technology, MoVo can automatically identify a user with its motion sensor-transmitter and proactively comprehend the user's preference by analyzing his behavior and habit. Its content recommendation engine can integrate the user analysis and its content searching module to recommend automatically exciting content that accommodates the user's preference. In so doing the user can enjoy a real "Lazy TV" super smart experience without operating a remote control or initiating voice recognition. This better serves the current needs of busy consumers and brings TVs back to the centre of home entertainment.

Ms. Weili Dai, co-founder of Marvell, said, "As the world's leading semiconductor chip manufacturer, we provide customers with critical core components and modules. Our cooperation with the world's leading home appliance brand TCL this time has been progressing very smoothly. We look forward to kicking start all-round cooperations with TCL on product development and business development in the future, and explore new models of cooperation together."

TCL Multimedia has always been committed to research and development of Internet TV. In as early as 2010, TCL launched in China the first Internet LCD TV based on Android operating system. The launch of Google TV MoVo this time marks a major breakthrough by TCL in research and development of Internet Smart TV. This will have a significant impact on the future development of smart TV in China.

Mr. Li Dongsheng, Chairman of TCL, said, "The development of smart TV in the future will call for more powerful network services and interactive functions to meet personalized needs of consumers. Through our strategic cooperation with the world's leading high technology companies, especially Marvell, Google, and other IT enterprises, the Group plays an active role in rapid growth of the smart TV industry. The cooperative partnership of TCL with Marvell this time will allow us to complement each other, and helps enhance core competences in products to achieve a win-win situation."

        About TCL Multimedia
     

Headquartered in China, TCL Multimedia Technology Holdings Limited (HKSE stock code: 01070) is one of the leading players in the global TV industry. TCL Multimedia is engaged in the research and development, manufacturing and distribution of consumer electronic products comprising television and audio visual products. Its ultimate shareholder is TCL Corporation. According to the latest DisplaySearch report, the Group's global LCD TV market share increased from 5.0% in the second quarter of 2012 to 6.7% in the third quarter of 2012, thereby lifted its global ranking to the fourth. The Group has maintained its No.1 position in the LCD TV market in China with a market share of 18.7%.

For more information, please visit its website: http://multimedia.tcl.com.

SOURCE  TCL Multimedia Technology Holdings Limited

TCL Multimedia Technology Holdings Limited

CONTACT: At iPR Ogilvy Ltd., Juliana Li, +852-2169 0467, juliana.li@iprogilvy.com, or Veronica Hui, +852-3170-6752, veronica.hui@iprogilvy.com

Web Site: http://multimedia.tcl.com

New Integrated Offering from RF Code and Server Technology Simplifies Monitoring /Managing of Data Center Power Usage and Environmental Conditions

Server Technology's Sentry Power Manager solution now supports sensor information from RF Code's sensors

AUSTIN, Texas and RENO, Nev., Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- RF Code and Server Technology today announced an integrated data center solution making it significantly  easier to monitor and manage the factors that impact the efficient, fiscally-smart running of a data center.

The joint offering is an integration of RF Code's wire-free Sensor Manager  solution with Server Technology's Sentry Power Manager (SPM) data center power monitoring solution via an SPM API integration. information gathered from RF Code's sensors flows into SPM software, providing a consolidated view of power and environmental data. RF Code monitors and sends to SPM data about:

    --  Temperature, humidity, air pressure fluid detection and more
    --  Door open and close for greater security
    --  Trending and alarming related to temperature, humidity, air pressure and
        dew point
[Click here to view an on-demand webinar about the new solution.]

"From the CIO and CFO down, everyone involved with data center and facilities operations is concerned about the rising cost of power and cooling and the impact environmental conditions can have on data availability or uptime - whether from a bottom line, availability, operations, risk or compliance perspective," said Richard Jenkins, vice president, marketing, RF Code. "This solution empowers executive and operational decision makers to make critical financial and business continuity decisions to increase data center efficiency."

"Our joint integration advances our belief that the best of both worlds is often found by combining the best of solutions," said Calvin Nicholson, Server Technology's senior director of software and firmware. "RF Code's differentiated, wire-free solution maps perfectly to our emphasis on intelligent monitoring of the power  that  affects usage, efficiency and cost. We share this view of capable simplicity, which is demonstrated in the solutions we together bring to market."

For more information about the integrated solution, please contact dgould@rfcode.com or Joshua.schaap@servertech.com or visit http://www.rfcode.com or http://www.servertech.com

About RF Code, Inc.
RF Code is a provider of active IT asset management and environmental and power monitoring solutions as well as a leader in providing technology used by third parties to enhance their DCIM, BMS, ERP, EAM and other solutions. The company's unique active RFID-based solutions provide IT professionals with a more efficient, cost-effective approach to managing IT assets and keeping technology environments in an optimal state. RF Code's fully automated, wire-free solutions significantly reduce costs, eliminate manual labor, and deliver an immediate return on investment. Recently, the company received a Product of the Year award from Searchdatacenter.com. http://www.rfcode.com

RF Code and the RF Code logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of RF Code Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

About Server Technology
Server Technology's experts produce the highest quality rackmount power distribution and monitoring solutions that help manage power capacity, reduce downtime and improve energy efficiency. Our extensive selection of Sentry CDUs is 100% performance tested for reliability and accuracy and is adaptable, enabling quick delivery of solutions that meet customer-specific requirements.

SOURCE  Server Technology Inc.

Server Technology Inc.

CONTACT: Joan Osleeb for RF Code, +1-512-439-2245 or +1-512-789-6168, josleeb@rfcode.com; or Julie Brown, for Server Technology, +1-775-284-2000, ext. 328, julie.brown@servertech.com

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

NICE Utilizes Voice Biometrics Technology to Expand Fraud Prevention Suite to Contact Centers

The solution enables businesses to better protect the phone channel from fraudsters, thereby reducing fraud losses and protecting customers

RA'ANANA, Israel, January 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

    NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE) today announced the launch of its Contact Center Fraud
Prevention solution, which tracks fraud patterns and screens all phone interactions for
fraud against a watch list of known fraudsters. The solution brings together NICE
Actimize's extensive expertise in fraud with NICE's years of experience in the contact
center. The solution can be deployed as a standalone contact center solution or as part of
the NICE Actimize enterprise fraud offering.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY9ghs0wous

    Organizations can reduce fraud-related losses without creating service hurdles or
compromising customer experience by adopting a multi-layered approach, which includes
non-intrusive voice biometrics technology, speech and transactional analytics, and
real-time capabilities.

    Aite Group claims that fraud in the contact center is on the rise and, while many
businesses have recognized the need to protect customer data and secure online
transactions, the phone channel has become a target for fraud. Datamonitor estimates that
20 percent of people who are defrauded will leave the institution at which this occurred.

    Fraudsters often use social engineering by leveraging information available on social
networks, enabling them to manipulate and trick customer service agents who continue to
verify caller identity through traditional means.

    "Preventing fraud losses and protecting clients' personal information are essential
goals for enterprises and contact centers. Unfortunately, most agents do not have tools to
help them identify fraudsters, which puts the enterprise and customers at risk," said
Donna Fluss, President, DMG Consulting LLC. "Social media represents a goldmine for
fraudsters. Almost every person has a digital footprint, which can be mined for nefarious
purposes. Every public and private organization needs to equip their agents and other
employees with tools and best practices to prevent losses."

    NICE's Contact Center Fraud Prevention solution enables businesses to pinpoint
fraudulent callers according to their unique voice print by using voice biometrics to
automatically cross-reference each call with a suspicious watch list of known fraudsters.
The solution also implements NICE Interaction Analytics to identify fraud patterns and
social engineering attempts based on speech analytics, emotion detection, talk patterns,
and interactions. For example, shouting at the agent or trying to change an address or
phone number could be part of a fraudulent behavior pattern, and certain keywords may
raise a red flag. Telephony and other contextual data, such as IVR events, caller location
and ANI matching, also known as caller ID, are also examined to determine potential fraud.

    The NICE solution guides the agents in real time to appropriately handle high-risk
interactions, and provides an end-to-end fraud management solution that prioritizes high
risk interactions for investigation before transactions are authorized. The solution
leverages the industry proven NICE Actimize Risk Case Manager, which is a complete
investigation and workflow tool used to open an investigation ticket following
identification of a fraud attempt, including playback of suspicious interactions.

    By focusing on high-risk interactions, companies can channel their resources more
efficiently, thereby reducing their operating costs and cutting their fraud losses.
Furthermore, companies can offer better service to legitimate customers by streamlining
operations for safe interactions without compromising their early fraud detection and
proactive contact with customers.

    "The contact center is a prime target for fraudsters and enterprises must be prepared
to ensure that this area of their business is as well protected as online transactions. By
leveraging our contact center best practices with our fraud prevention practice, we were
able to create an end-to-end solution that offers proactive fraud detection, real-time
guidance, and integrated fraud case management," said Yochai Rozenblat, president of the
NICE Enterprise Group. "We believe that our advanced fraud prevention technology will help
businesses boost their reputations, protect their customer base, and significantly reduce
fraud losses."

    To learn more about NICE's Contact Center Fraud Prevention solution, watch this video
clip [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY9ghs0wous ].

    About NICESystems

    NICE (NASDAQ: NICE) is the worldwide leader of software solutions that deliver
strategic insights by capturing and analyzing mass quantities of structured and
unstructured data in real time from multiple sources, including phone calls, mobile apps,
emails, chat, social media, and video. NICE's solutions enable organizations to take the
Next-Best-Action to improve customer experience and business results, ensure compliance,
fight financial crime, and safeguard people and assets. NICE solutions are used by over
25,000 organizations in more than 150 countries, including over 80 of the Fortune 100
companies. http://www.nice.com.

    Trademark Note: NICE and the NICE logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of NICE
Systems. All other marks are trademarks of their respective owners. For a full list of
NICE Systems' marks, please see: http://www.nice.com/nice-trademarks.

    Forward-Looking Statements

    This press release contains forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements,
including statements made by Messer Rozenblat, are based on the current expectations of
the management of NICE-Systems Ltd. (the Company) only, and are subject to a number of
risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results or performance of the Company
to differ materially from those described herein, including but not limited to the impact
of the global economic environment on the Company's customer base (particularly financial
services firms) and the resulting uncertainties; changes in technology and market
requirements; decline in demand for the Company's products; inability to timely develop
and introduce new technologies, products and applications; difficulties or delays in
absorbing and integrating acquired operations, products, technologies and personnel; loss
of market share; pressure on pricing resulting from competition; and inability to maintain
certain marketing and distribution arrangements. For a more detailed description of the
risk factors and uncertainties affecting the company, refer to the Company's reports filed
from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's
Annual Report on Form 20-F. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release
are made as of the date of this press release, and the Company undertakes no obligation to
update or revise them, except as required by law.

    NICE Actimize Media Contact

    Cindy Morgan-Olson, +1-212-851-8842, cindy.morgan-olson@actimize.com

    Corporate Media Contact

    Erik Snider, +1-877-245-7448, erik.snider@nice.com

    Investors

    Marty Cohen, +1-212-574-3635, ir@nice.com, ET

    Anat Earon-Heilborn + 972-9-775-3798, ir@nice.com, CET

NICE Systems Ltd.

Sidra Medical and Research Center Selects Sword Achiever as its Safety Risk Management System and Accreditation Management Software Vendor

LONDON, January 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

    The Challenge

    Sidra Medical and Research Center is a hospital, research and education institution
currently under construction in Doha on Qatar Foundation's 2,500-acre Education City
campus. It will initially have around 400 beds with infrastructure to enable expansion to
550 beds in a subsequent phase. As an ultramodern, all-digital academic medical center
that has been designed and planned to the best international standards in sciences, Sidra
set about the procurement of a Governance Risk and Compliance Management (GRC) enterprise
solution, to control risks that might adversely affect realization of Sidra's vision for
health care.

    The Solution

    GRC covers a broad range of risks typically entailing financial, information
technology, and legal issues. Sidra's goal is to prioritize risks, justify funding for
remediation, and use policy to guide operational teams in corrective actions. The crucial
value of GRC is in controlling legal and regulatory compliance risks, for these can
trigger substantial penalties and even threaten viability of a business.

    The Sword Achiever GRC solution, AchieverPlus, offers Sidra a platform which enables
the management of controls relating to process, operations, and management; a subset
addresses technical controls. It extends the executive dashboard concept providing senior
management with snapshot views furnished by IT into Sidra Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
goals and results which will provide corporate wide Governance, Compliance and Safety Risk
Management overview across the facility.

    By implementing AchieverPlus, Sidra can bring all the elements of risk together in a
single, enterprise-wide solution to ensure that they are focusing accurately on the risk
in the organisation across all business functions. The aim is to ensure that corporate
performance and business planning can be risk-adjusted based on real information to give
the true reflection of the level of risk within the organization.

    The Benefits

    The deployment of Sword Achiever's GRC software solution, AchieverPlus, will provide
Sidra with:

       
        - The ability to streamline the process of risk assessment by enabling Sidra
          to assess risk once and satisfy many requirements simultaneously
        - The tools necessary to eliminate the complexities of historic risk management
          by making the management of risk a part of everyday business
        - The ability to quickly adapt Sidra Governance Risk Compliance (GRC) framework
          to meet ever-changing requirements while minimizing impact to the business operations
        - A central portal for access to organization-wide risk information that is
          actionable by the right people at the right time up, down, and across the organization
        - The ability to utilize one solution to easily adapt to the organization's
          unique GRC challenges including clinical risk methodologies
        - The ability to monitor, measure and manage technical control effectiveness to
          corporate security policies
        - The ability to map security issues to business applications and roll-up risk
          across the enterprise
        - A comprehensive risk repository to enable Sidra to access centralized
          compliance reporting in one location

    The core benefit of the AchieverPlus GRC software solution is to gather risk across
the various business units within Sidra to ensure that management has an overview of key
risk issues facing the organization. This includes financial risk, operational risk,
clinical risk, legal risk, human resources and also covers compliance and governance
issues that the organization has to adhere to.

    About Sword Achiever

    Achiever Plus from Sword Achiever has proven success, being used in a wide spectrum of
industries across the globe, for many years. These customer's needs are as diverse as the
industries they come from, but they all have multiple Governance, Risk and Compliance
demands placed upon them and the common factor is the benefit gained from having a single
integrated GRC management system.

    Achiever Plus provides a unified Governance Risk and Compliance platform, across the
enterprise, delivering governance through the application of best practice, risk
management through monitoring and automatically alerting the business to highest areas of
risk and cost, and adherence to multiple areas of compliance management.

    All this within a single integrated system that provides simple role-based access,
fast user take-up and effective transparency and control across the business.

    About Sidra Medical and Research Center

    Sidra Medical and Research Center will be a groundbreaking hospital, research and
education institution, focused on the health and wellbeing of women and children
regionally and globally. Currently under construction in Doha, Qatar, Sidra will be a
fully digital facility, incorporating the most advanced information technology
applications in clinical, research and business functions. Sidra will initially have
around 400 beds with infrastructure to enable expansion to 550 beds in a subsequent phase.

    Sidra represents the vision of Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser who serves as its
Chairperson. The high-tech facility will not only provide world-class patient care but
will also help build Qatar's scientific expertise and resources. Sidra will be funded by a
US$7.9 billion endowment from Qatar Foundation, one of the largest endowments of its kind
in the world.

    Sidra is part of a dynamic research and education environment in Qatar that includes
leading international institutions, such as: Sidra's academic partner Weill Cornell
Medical College in Qatar, and Qatar Science and Technology Park. Through strong
partnerships with leading institutions around the world, Sidra is creating an intellectual
ecosystem to help advance scientific discovery through investment in medical research.

    Sidra will have a unique working structure with inter-professional collaboration at
the heart, providing the best holistic care for patients and an unparalleled learning
environment for its medical professionals. Sidra will combine the best in design,
technology, operations and practices from medical centers around the world - to offer its
employees an environment that is at once familiar and extraordinary.

    For further information, please contact:

    Sword Achiever

    Please visit: http://www.sword-achiever.com

    Email: info@sword-achiever.com

Sword Achiever

CONTACT: Sidra Medical and Research Center, Khalid Al Mohannadi, Email: kalmohannadi@sidra.org, Tel: +974-4404-2333; Rakiya Farah, Email: rfarah@sidra.org,  Tel: +974-4404-2366

Europcar Increases Online Bookings by 15% with Webtrends

LONDON, January 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

          Webtrends Optimize helps global car giant increase conversions and sale of

                                         add-ons

    Europcar [http://www.europcar.co.uk ] has experienced an increase in online visitor
conversions of 15% following implementation of Webtrends Optimize
[http://webtrends.com/products/optimize ] and working alongside the team of Optimize
consultants at Webtrends [http://www.webtrends.com ], the global leader in digital
marketing optimisation and relevance through real-time, unified analytics and customer
intelligence.

    Since choosing Webtrends Optimize, Europcar, the Paris-based car rental giant, has
also achieved its goal of increasing the purchase of extras and add-ons at check-out,
experiencing a 12% increase in sales.

    Using Optimize, an A/B and multivariate testing
[http://webtrends.com/products/optimize/testing ] and targeting
[http://webtrends.com/products/optimize/targeting ] solution that uncovers the best
combination of content to drive the highest rates of customer response, Europcar
identified the landing page and purchase process as areas requiring optimisation.
Segmentation was also introduced in tests across multiple geographies in Europe and the
USA to explore how different cultures engaged with the Europcar website.

    Catrena Blanco, Head of User Experience, Europcar, comments: "This entire optimisation
process has been a real team effort from both parties. The guys at Webtrends are like an
extension of my internal team here at Europcar. The quality of our relationship and this
collaborative approach has been the key to delivering a successful testing strategy."

    "To see an uplift of 15% in conversions and a 12% rise in add-ons is more than we had
expected when we started optimisation," added Catrena. "It's proof that A/B and
multivariate testing works and delivers a healthy ROI for online sales. We look forward to
continuing to work with Webtrends and running further testing campaigns to improve the
Europcar websites and the experience of our online customers."

    Nick Sharp, Vice-President & General Manager EMEA, Webtrends, comments: "Working with
an international brand like Europcar, with thousands of online customers, is an exciting
project for Webtrends. Europcar, like so many global brands, recognise the need for
optimisation, targeting and testing across their online platforms, not only to help drive
an increase in revenue, but more importantly to ensure the customer experience is as
friendly and streamlined as possible."

    Webtrends Optimize combines a complete selection of test types, including A/B and
multivariate. Advanced segmentation enables companies to identify and target their most
valuable audience with customised campaigns, offering the most relevant content in
real-time, thus increasing conversions.

    More information on Webtrends Optimize can be found here
[http://webtrends.com/products/optimize ].

    About Webtrends Inc.

    Webtrends power digital marketing success and are at the forefront of real-time
digital marketing relevance and customer experience management through unified customer
intelligence. Our industry-leading analytics and optimisation solutions, delivered across
mobile, social and web enables marketers to optimize campaigns, maximize customer lifetime
value and deliver highly relevant digital brand experiences in so much more than just
real-time.

    Webtrends dramatically improve digital marketing results for more than 3,500 global
brands including, Alitalia [http://webtrends.com/expertise/customer-stories/alitalia ],
Lloyds Banking Group, Lastminute.com,
[http://webtrends.com/2012/09/lastminute-com-snaps-up-webtrends-for-website-optimisation ]
Barclays, HSBC, ASOS, Orange, T-Mobile, Microsoft, BMW, Toyota, Play.com, AllSaints, The
Telegraph, and many more.

    Webtrends is headquartered in North America. The Webtrends EMEA head office is in
Staines(UK) with regional offices in Germany [http://www.webtrends.de ], France
[http://www.webtrends.fr ] and Italy [http://italia.webtrends.com ].

    Web: http://www.webtrends.com

    Twitter: @webtrends [http://www.twitter.com/Webtrends ]

    Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/webtrendsemea

    LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/webtrends-emea

http://www.webtrends.com

CONTACT: Media Contacts: Nadine ter Meulen, Marketing Director, Webtrends EMEA & Australia, nadine.termeulen@webtrends.com, +44-(0)1784-415-700

Osprey® 100e Video Capture Card with Latest PCI Express® Technology Now Available From ViewCast

Switchable Inputs and Low-Profile Form Factor Add Flexibility to Osprey Line

PLANO, Texas, Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Capturing video-only camera feeds simply and cost-effectively is made possible with the Osprey® 100e from ViewCast Corporation (OTCBB: VCST), a developer of industry-leading solutions that help companies deliver video to broadband and mobile networks. The low-profile, single-channel Osprey 100e is optimized with the latest PCI Express® (PCIe) technology for compatibility with current computer architecture.

Built with PCIe Standard for High Quality

For significantly higher transfer speeds and low latency, ViewCast designed the Osprey 100e with the PCIe bus standard. The format of the Osprey 100e not only enhances video capture, but also eases incorporation with newer computers. With PCIe x1 connectivity, the Osprey 100e fits all PCIe slots. The Osprey 100e stands out as one of the few professional-quality PCIe capture boards offered at an affordable price.

"For video-only capture from a standard analog source, the Osprey 100 is a longtime favorite of our budget-conscious customers," said John Hammock, President and CEO of ViewCast. "The introduction of the Osprey 100e model allows our security, enterprise, government and OEM systems integrator customers a smooth transition to new computer architectures with the same ViewCast reliability they're accustomed to."

Board Design Offers More Flexibility

The Osprey 100e card captures full-frame video at 30 frames per second at full standard-definition resolution. The single-channel capture card has four switchable inputs, including one for S-Video. For additional input options, users can integrate multiple Osprey 100e cards in a single system or mix and match other Osprey cards. With advanced capture capability from video-only camera feeds, the Osprey 100e is ideal for a diverse array of applications, including ATM, security, surveillance, medical imaging and scientific equipment, enabling live streaming and video on demand. The card's low-profile design allows for a fit into even small form factor computers.

The Osprey driver supports Microsoft® DirectShow® API. A Linux OS driver will be available through the open source community in early 2013.

For more information on the latest Osprey products, please visit: http://www.viewcast.com

About ViewCast

ViewCast enables anyone to deliver video whenever, wherever. With more than 400,000 Osprey® video capture cards and thousands of Niagara® streaming systems deployed globally, ViewCast is at the forefront of the video industry.

ViewCast (http://www.viewcast.com) is headquartered in Plano, Texas, USA, with sales and distribution channels located globally.

ViewCast, Niagara SCX, Osprey, SimulStream, and Niagara are trademarks or registered trademarks of ViewCast Corporation or its subsidiaries. All other products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

    ViewCast Contact:    PR Agency Contact:                  Investor Contact:
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    Vice President of
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    Tel: +1 (972)
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SOURCE  ViewCast Corporation

ViewCast Corporation

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

Intersec Joins Forces with Alcatel-Lucent for Worldwide Location-Based Advertising Campaigns

PARIS, January 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

          Intersec IGLOO and Alcatel-Lucent's Optism(TM) enable brands and retailers

                  to better target customers and drive in-store traffic

    Intersec [http://www.intersec.com ], a leading value-added software provider for
mobile and integrated operators, announced today it signed a global partnership agreement
with Alcatel-Lucent for the creation of a GeoMarketing service. This service will enable
mobile operators to connect brands and retailers to consumers via the mobile based on
their permission, preferences and location to drive in-store traffic.

    Alcatel-Lucent's Optism(TM) Mobile Marketing [http://www.optism.com ] solution will be
embedded with IGLOO, Intersec's Geolocator, to extend its targeted advertising solution
with geolocation. Operators will be empowered to capture the value of a booming market:
the real-time global location-based marketing and advertising market is forecasted to grow
at a CAGR of 90% (source: Berg Insight).

    IGLOO [http://www.intersec.com/frintersec-geolocator_18.php ] collects and aggregates
in real-time the anonymised network data (Circuit Switch, Packet Switch, WiFi, Indoor
Location) to provide efficient "in area" and "proximity" detection of all opt-in
subscribers at a defined moment of the day. Thanks to a seamless integration,
Alcatel-Lucent's Optism(TM) gathers and analyzes this location data to provide customers
with relevant offers to drive in-store traffic. The cross-Operator solution enables
multiple brands and retailers across several countries to deliver walk-in rewards,
location-based targeted coupons and deals and post shopping surveys.

    Thomas Labarthe, VP Mobile Commerce at Alcatel-Lucent commented, "Optism(TM)
[http://www.optism.com ] is currently deployed in 10 major markets. We connect brands in a
very targeted and engaging way with consumers. In order to expand to geo-based offers and
coupons, we were looking for a 'device-agnostic' solution that was able to aggregate all
of the location data that the network was seeing, both passive and active sources, both
for in-store as outdoor proximity campaigns. By integrating Intersec IGLOO into
Optism(TM), brands and retailers can leverage all the existing Optism(TM) tools to define
their campaigns including location as qualification criteria."

    "We are proud to bring Intersec [http://www.intersec.com ]'s market-leading
geolocation aggregation technology to such a reference in the industry like
Alcatel-Lucent. With this collaboration and integration with Optism(TM), we will be able
to provide one of the most efficient location-based advertising solutions available for
brands looking to communicate with their consumers via mobile devices," added Yann
Chevalier, Intersec CEO.

       
        Press contact: Intersec

        Charlotte Loubet
        Marketing Director
        charlotte.loubet@intersec.com
        +33-1-55-70-33-56

        éclat Marketing for Intersec

        Kim Smith/Dave Wedderburn
        intersec@eclat.co.uk

        About Intersec

        http://www.intersec.com

Intersec

Good Technology Unveils Seven More Mobile Enterprise Apps Secured by Good Dynamics

New applications boost employee productivity and collaboration with document editing and management, time and email management capabilities

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Good Technology, the leader in secure enterprise mobility solutions, today announced seven new additions to its Good Dynamics® ecosystem of third-party business productivity applications. These additions include apps to edit Microsoft Office and Adobe files, collaboration software from Thomson Reuters, and app development software to help enhance productivity. Each of these enterprise apps were developed leveraging the Good Dynamics® mobile application platform and patent-pending Good Dynamics AppKinetics(TM) technology that enables the secure exchange of data within and between mobile applications. The new mobile applications augment business worker collaboration while safeguarding enterprise data at rest and in transit through a secure, end-to-end workflow.

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A survey by CIO Custom Solutions Group reports that knowledge workers spend 28 hours per week writing emails, searching for information and collaborating internally(1). With two-thirds of the North American and European workforce reporting that they work outside of their corporate office at least occasionally every month, according to Forrester Research, Inc., it's imperative that business leaders initiate programs that keep their workforce productive and connected while mobile and remote(2).

With Good Dynamics AppKinetics, developers can engineer apps to securely exchange information within and between applications on a single device without jeopardizing data security, employees' confidentiality or user experience. This app-to-app interoperability allows companies to create secure, end-to-end workflows amongst a broader ecosystem of popular, business productivity applications that can aid business processes and augment employee collaboration, which ultimately increases customer service and satisfaction.

"In today's BYO environment, employees not only want to bring their personal devices to work, but also the business applications they know and use in their personal lives. Enterprise workers just want to get their jobs done and when IT tries to 'restrict' access to certain apps, employees often find ways around those policies in order to utilize the apps they prefer," said Herve Danzelaud, vice president, Business Development and Alliances, Good Technology. "Our growing ecosystem of secure, third-party, enterprise apps include the most popular apps in the app stores today--the ones employees are already using.  Thanks to the Good Dynamics ecosystem, IT can now say 'yes!' to employees and boost productivity while protecting enterprise data."

New Additions to the Good Dynamics Ecosystem of Enterprise Apps

The new additions to Good's rapidly growing ecosystem of business productivity applications are available now in the Apple Store and encompass the following business productivity categories:

Document Editing/Annotation

    --  Picsel SmartOffice for Good Technology - Offering support for Good for
        Enterprise(TM) and Good Share(TM), this visually stunning enterprise
        application allows mobile workers to create, view, edit, print and share
        Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF documents securely without exposing
        corporate data or risking personal privacy.

    --  Thomson Reuters Pitchboard - A new solution that enables the seamless
        delivery and return of pitch book iterations and edits between
        colleagues working on desktops in the office, as well as iPad(®) users
        updating documents while on the road. In addition, desktop users can add
        related content to the document to view on an iPad including news,
        research and company information to ensure that users are always
        prepared for meetings and calls.

    --  Office² Pro for Good - An all-in-one Office editing suite that's been
        secured by Good Dynamics. Office² Pro for Good works seamlessly with
        the Good for Enterprise and Good Share applications and lets mobile
        users collaborate on Microsoft Office compatible files securely on their
        iPad or iPhone.
Time Management

    --  DTE Axiom for iOS - Good Technology Edition - This enterprise-grade app
        from Advanced Productivity Software allows law firms and other
        service-related professionals to securely enter and edit time
        information from any location on their iPad or iPhone. The app has
        undergone a rigorous certification process to be available to all
        customers.
Mobile Enterprise App Development

    --  MicroStrategy Mobile for Good - An application development platform that
        boosts an organization's productivity by enabling enterprises to build a
        variety of necessary mobile applications that can deliver workflows,
        transactions, mobile operations, system access, multimedia and business
        intelligence.**
Document and Email Management

    --  Autonomy WorkSite Mobility for Good - An intuitive and market leading
        document and email management system from Autonomy, an HP company, that
        improves customer service by letting employees communicate quicker and
        increases compliance through granular record keeping.
Developers interested in enrolling in the Good Dynamics Developer Network program can find more information at http://www.good.com/products/good-dynamics.

Good Dynamics is currently available for iOS and Android. For additional information on the feature sets in Good Dynamics for iOS and Android, please visit
http://media.www1.good.com/documents/good_dynamics_ds.pdf.

**Note: MicroStrategy Mobile for Good is not distributed via Apple App Store, but directly to Enterprises**

About Good Dynamics AppKinetics(TM)
Good Dynamics AppKinetics(TM) is a patent-pending technology that builds upon Good Technology's unique 'containerization' model to enable the secure and seamless exchange of data between multiple Good Dynamics(TM) applications--whether developed by Good Technology, an ISV or enterprise.  Good Dynamics AppKinetics also allows Good Dynamics applications to securely exchange information with Good for Enterprise(TM), Good Technology's award winning secure email and collaboration solution.

About Good Technology
Good Technology, the leader in secure enterprise mobility solutions, creates a world where employees can securely connect, communicate, and collaborate using their personal iOS, Android, and Windows Phone devices. A world where IT can manage mobile apps, devices and enterprise data simply and safely to increase overall business productivity. A world where business information can travel wherever it needs to go, without putting sensitive enterprise or personal data at risk. Good Technology's customers include more than 4,000 organizations worldwide, including FORTUNE 100(TM) leaders in financial services, healthcare, retail, telecommunications, manufacturing, legal, and government.  Learn more at http://www.good.com.

©2012 Good Technology Corporation and its related entities. All use is subject to license terms posted at http://www.good.com/legal. All rights reserved. GOOD, GOOD TECHNOLOGY, the GOOD logo, GOOD FOR ENTERPRISE, GOOD FOR GOVERNMENT, GOOD FOR YOU, GOOD DYNAMICS, SECURED BY GOOD, GOOD MOBILE MANAGER, GOOD CONNECT, GOOD SHARE, and GOOD DYNAMICS APPKINETICS are trademarks of Good Technology Corporation and its related entities. All third-party trademarks, trade names, or service marks are the property of their respective owners. Good's technology and products are protected by issued and pending U.S. and foreign patents.

iPad and, iPhone and iPod touch are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Android is a trademark of Google Inc. ©2012

(1) "Pleasing the crowd: how social business solutions can build a successful social workplace," by CIO Custom Solutions Group, October 2012.

(2)"Aim To Empower The Anytime, Anywhere Workforce," Forrester Research, Inc. May 2012.

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CONTACT: Brian Kemp, good@sparkpr.com

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

The World's First/Largest 4K OLED TV Panel Makes Its Debut at CES

AU Optronics showcases several large-sized 4K Ultra HD TV Panels

HSINCHU, Taiwan, Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In response to the coming era of 4K Ultra HD, AU Optronics Corp. ("AUO" or the "Company") (TAIEX: 2409; NYSE: AUO) today announced that its OLED panel, jointly developed with Sony Corporation (Sony), is used in Sony's prototype 4K OLED TV, which is on display at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The 56-inch 4K OLED TV Panel is the world's first and largest((*)) OLED TV panel in size, and is the first in the world((*)) to have achieved 4K (3840x2160) resolution. Having successfully strengthened its 4K Ultra HD technology, AUO is also showcasing several large-sized 4K Ultra HD TV panels during CES to meet the trend for super large TVs.

"AUO announced its 14-inch Full HD OLED TV panel in 2009, and in 2011 showcased a 32-inch Full HD OLED TV that was only 3mm thick. We are delighted to have successfully assisted our customer in developing the world's largest 56-inch 4K OLED TV panel. With the combination of AUO's long-term dedication in technology R&D and brand customers' know-how of market trends, we believe that the time will come for the commercial production of large-sized OLED TVs," said Mr. Paul Peng, President of AU Optronics.

During CES, AUO will invite specific customers to see its 65-inch 4K Ultra HD LCD TV panel, which not only realizes an ultra fine 4K resolution, but also has a super narrow bezel of less than 10mm for viewers to enjoy nearly boundless, spectacular, and excellent viewing experiences.

In addition, AUO's 55-inch 4K Ultra HD LCD TV panel is equipped with Wide Color Gamut (WCG) technology for color saturation as high as NTSC 96 percent. The panel features a 4K resolution of 3840x2160, capable of presenting the most vivid and lifelike images, and recovering their true colors.

AUO has devoted itself to continuously developing advanced panel technologies to provide customers with various product choices. In terms of the large-sized 4K Ultra HD image technology, AUO has developed several value-added products, including a 65-inch 4K LCD TV panel with a super narrow bezel, and a 55-inch 4K LCD TV panel with Wide Color Gamut. All of the products will be able to support brand customers in meeting the diverse product demands in different market segments.

    * Based on the
     available market
     research information
     as of January 9, 2013.
ABOUT AU OPTRONICS

AU Optronics Corp. (AUO) is one of the world's leading providers of optoelectronic solutions. AUO offers a full range of panel sizes and comprehensive applications ranging from 1.2 inches to 71 inches. Based on its profound R&D and manufacturing experience, AUO continues to develop advanced display technologies of the next generation. AUO extended its market to the green energy industry in 2008. By building a vertically integrated high-efficiency solar value chain, AUO provides its customers with high-efficiency solar solutions. AUO now houses a staff of more than 45,000 employees, with global operations in Taiwan, Mainland China, the U.S., Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the Netherlands, Czech and Slovakia. Additionally, AUO is the first pure TFT-LCD manufacturer to be successfully listed at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). AUO has also been named to Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for three consecutive years from 2010 to 2012. AUO generated NT$378.5 billion (US$ 13.03 billion) in sales revenue in 2012. For more information, please visit AUO.com.

    * 2012 year end revenue
     converted at an
     exchange rate of
     NTD29.05 : USD 1.

        Safe Harbor Notice
     

AU Optronics Corp. ("AUO" or the "Company") (TAIEX: 2409; NYSE: AUO), a global leader of TFT-LCD panels, today announced the above news. Except for statements in respect of historical matters, the statements contained in this Release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements were based on our management's expectations, projections and beliefs at the time regarding matters including, among other things, future revenues and costs, financial performance, technology changes, capacity, utilization rates, yields, process and geographical diversification, future expansion plans and business strategy. Such forward looking statements are subject to a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties that can cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements, including risks related to the flat panel display industry, the TFT-LCD market, acceptance of and demand for our products, technological and development risks, competitive factors, and other risks described in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in our Form 20-F filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on April 27th, 2012.

SOURCE  AU Optronics Corporation

AU Optronics Corporation

CONTACT: Freda Lee, Corporate Communications Division, +886-3-500-8800 ext. 3206, fax +886-3-577-2730, freda.lee@auo.com, and Yawen Hsiao, Corporate Communications Division, +886-3-500-8800 ext. 3211, fax +886-3-577-2730, yawen.hsiao@auo.com

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

CTIA-The Wireless Association® and IFA to Partner and Produce First Borderless Trade Show in 2014

        CTIA and IFA Shows to Create Global Borderless Platform for Mobile, Consumer Electronics, Home Appliance Industries
     

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- CTIA-The Wireless Association® and IFA, the world's largest trade show for consumer electronics and home appliances, today announced that they will create the world's first "borderless" trade show in 2014. The partnership will produce the first global platform of its kind for retailers, buyers, distributors, manufacturers, vendors and carriers to launch the next generation of new products and services for work, home and play. This partnership combines CTIA's expertise in mobility and IFA's leadership in consumer electronics and home appliances markets.

The two organizations have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) as the first step in creating this borderless trade show.

The CTIA Super Mobility Show will take place September 9, 10 & 11 at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas and IFA will take place September 5-10 at the Messe Berlin Fairgrounds in Berlin, Germany.

"The CTIA and IFA partnership reflects today's borderless and diverse wireless ecosystem, across time zones, across industries and across audiences. Together with IFA, we're driving the trends that are defining the global marketplace," said Rob Mesirow, CTIA vice president and show director.

"Mobility and wireless connectivity are the future of the consumer electronics and home appliances on display at IFA. Additionally, we will shorten the distance for US retailers, consumers and media to the global product launches that take place at IFA in time for the holiday retails season," said Jens Heithecker, executive director of IFA. "Regardless of location or time zone, the two events will create a transatlantic alliance that connects attendees, exhibitors, media, keynotes and speakers."

Companies of all sizes throughout the wireless ecosystem and across the globe are enthusiastic about the alliance and recognize the opportunities that Super Mobility Week offers.

"Wireless technology is borderless, and therefore we require platforms that support the global appeal of our products. The IFA and CTIA alliance provides us with an integrated opportunity to showcase our products to the world," said Bryan Biniak, vice president & general manager, Global Partner & Application Development, Nokia.

"With the new super show and now the IFA partnership, CTIA once again demonstrated its leadership by revolutionizing the show experience for attendees and exhibitors. Regardless of a company's size or location, the alliance between the two shows will mean everyone has an international platform to announce new products and services," said Gary A. Rayner, founder & CEO, LIFEPROOF.

"CTIA has become an industry bellwether for the wireless world and their partnership with IFA shows they understand that wireless technology transcends borders. The 'Super Mobility Week' in September 2014 means we'll have a platform to show our products to the world," said Selina Lo, president and CEO, Ruckus Wireless.

The alliance between CTIA and IFA will begin at CTIA 2013 on May 21-23 at the Sands Expo Convention Center in Las Vegas.

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LinkedIn:  http://www.ctiashows.com/linkedin

Twitter:  http://www.ctiashows.com/twitter (@CTIAShows)

About CTIA Shows

CTIA Shows bring together all industries advanced by wireless technology for intense business, learning and networking. CTIA 2013 ® takes place May 21-23, 2013 at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas and MobileCON 2013(TM) takes place Oct. 16-18, 2013 at the San Jose Convention Center in Silicon Valley. Visit http://www.ctiashows.com.

About CTIA

CTIA-The Wireless Association® (http://www.ctia.org) is an international organization representing the wireless communications industry. Membership in the association includes wireless carriers and their suppliers, as well as providers and manufacturers of wireless data services and products. CTIA advocates on behalf of its members at all levels of government. The association also coordinates the industry's voluntary best practices and initiatives, and sponsors the industry's leading wireless tradeshows. CTIA was founded in 1984 and is based in Washington, D.C.

About IFA

IFA, http://www.ifa-berlin.com, is the world's largest consumer electronics and home appliances tradeshow.  Now reaching its 52nd edition, it has become the premier venue for global product introductions and business development.  For more information visit http://www.ifa-berlin.com

SOURCE  CTIA-The Wireless Association

CTIA-The Wireless Association

CONTACT: Amy Storey, astorey@ctia.org, +1-202-736-3207, Fleishman-Hillard for CTIA Shows: Erin Hazard, erin.hazard@fleishman.com, +1-202-828-9725; Nicole von der Ropp, IFA, vonderRopp@messe-berlin.de, 49 (030) 3038 2217, Steve Leon, sl@showstoppers.com, 512-288-0950

Web Site: http://www.ctia.org

TCL Debuts MoVo with Google TV; Partners on Marvel's "Iron Man 3"

MoVo Product Recognizes User's Identity and Tailors Viewing Experience

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show, TCL, the largest television manufacturer in China and seventh biggest mobile device maker in the world, debuted a wide range of products for U.S. consumers including TCL MoVo with Google TV, a new technology that automatically recognizes individual family members and tailors the viewing experience to their preferences. The company also announced that TCL products, including the HD China Star 3D TV, will be featured in the upcoming film, Marvel's "Iron Man 3."

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"TCL is poised and ready to show U.S. consumers the most advanced technologies we are bringing to millions of other homes around the world," said Dongsheng Li, chairman of TCL Corporation. "Now that we've established ourselves through online sales with leading U.S. retailers like Amazon, Best-Buy and Costco, we're focused on increasing our in-store presence and kicking off a new global marketing campaign. The partnership with Marvel Studios on Marvel's "Iron Man 3" is one example of how we'll share our products with U.S. consumers in 2013."

Powered by the award-winning Marvell® ARMADA® 1500 series system-on-chip platform, TCL is among the first to offer both a Smart TV and set-top box with the latest Google TV platform. MoVo incorporates Google TV's advances, including Voice Search and PrimeTime, an application that will search over 100,000 movies and television episodes across multiple video services including Google Play. With TCL's Personal Box Office (PBO) technology, family members just need to press the power button and personally-tailored, commercial-free content streams from the MoVo set.

"By leveraging Marvell's award-winning technology and the most current Google TV platform, TCL will deliver innovative Smart TV solutions on a global scale that incorporate voice recognition, advanced multimedia search and discovery, and the very best Marvell has to offer in video, sound and connectivity, all at an affordable price. Our work with TCL and Google delivers game-changing entertainment experiences for consumers around the world that will drive the Smart TV market forward at a rapid pace," said Weili Dai, Co-Founder of Marvell. "Marvell is very proud to see our innovation, commitment, and hard work with Google and our partner companies lead to the milestone of TCL's new Smart TV product with the most current Google TV platform. Google and Marvell share a passion for improving the way the world enjoys entertainment, and we are thrilled to see companies such as TCL, and many others to follow, leverage this opportunity to the fullest in their newest TVs and devices."

In addition to the TCL MoVo with Google TV, TCL is showcasing a variety of smartphones, tablets and televisions at their CES booth (#9825 in the LVCC Central Hall) under the TCL and Alcatel ONE TOUCH brands.

        TCL Branded Products
     

The iCE SCREEN(TM) is a multi-touch, extremely lightweight (13 lbs) TV that offers users a tablet-like experience, instant access to social media and Google Play, and a host of intelligent cloud applications to help aid in the enjoyment of games, music and photos, as well as movies and TV shows. Users can orient the 24-inch screen horizontally for TV viewing or vertically to create a virtual jukebox or play an arcade game.

Already honored with a 2013 iF Design award, the TCL V101(TM) is a uniquely-designed smart TV with a front panel between the screen and speaker mesh to give it a stylish, modern look. Packed with a quality display and sound system in a mere 11.5mm side profile, the V101 also has a WiFi speaker embedded in the stand to enhance sound quality.

With over 36 square feet of screen real estate, the 110-inch Ultra HD China Star 3D TV(TM) is not only big, it's heroic. Tony Stark's Smart TV choice in the next installment of Marvel Studio's blockbuster franchise, Marvel's "Iron Man 3," the Ultra HD China Star 3D TV(TM) features active 3D technology, multi-touch, intelligent and dynamic backlight, and an ultra-high brightness of 800 nits. Marvel's "Iron Man 3" releases in theaters May 3, 2013.

        Alcatel ONE TOUCH Branded Products
     

TCL is debuting three new Alcatel ONE TOUCH smartphones at CES this year: an ultra-light smartphone with a 4.7" IPS display called the ONE TOUCH Idol(TM); the thinnest smartphone yet at 6.45 mm, the ONE TOUCH Idol Ultra(TM);and the  first phone tofeaturethe MediaTek MT6589 quad-core chipset, the ONE TOUCH SCRIBE HD(TM).

Also announced at CES were a WiFi 4G LTE internet key called ONE TOUCH Link W800(TM), the ONE TOUCH EVO7 HD(TM), a WiFi 7 inch tablet that can be upgraded to 3G /4G connectivity thanks to removable a 3G/4G module, and two other tablet models: the ONE TOUCH TAB7 HD(TM) and the ONE TOUCH TAB8 HD(TM).

About TCL
Founded in 1981, TCL is one of the largest consumer electronics enterprises in China with a global presence. TCL Corporation has three listed companies: TCL Corporation (SZ.000100), TCL Multimedia (HK.1070) and TCL Communication (HK.2618). Currently, TCL Corporation has set up four business units - TCL Multimedia Holdings, TCL Communication Holdings, China Star Optoelectronics Technology and TCL Home Appliances Group, as well as six business groups - System Technology Unit, Techne Group, Emerging Business Group, Investment Group, Logistic & Service Group and Real Estate Group. TCL employs more than 60,000 people and has more than 40 sales offices around the world, as well as 15 R&D centers, spread across China, United States, France, and Singapore, and 20 manufacturing bases and selling products under TCL, Thomson, and Alcatel ONE TOUCH brands. In 2011, TCL Corporation achieved global sales of RMB 60.834 billion, and reach the TCL LCD TV ranking 5th globally. In 2012, the brand value of TCL had exceeded RMB 58.326 billion, continuing to hold the No. 1 TV brand position in China today. In Dec. 2012, TCL announced that they expect to exceed 15 million LCD/LED TV shipments in 2013, thus entering the list of the world's first tier of TV manufacturers. For more information visit http://www.tcl.com.

About ALCATEL ONE TOUCH
ALCATEL ONE TOUCH is a brand within TCL Communication, an international multicultural company which designs, develops, and markets globally a growing range of mobile and Internet devices. One of the fastest growing of the world's top ten mobile phone manufacturers, TCL Communication makes access to mobile technology simple, designing their products around individual's lifestyles, enabling the end users to do more. TCL Communication is a public company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (2618.HK) and part of TCL Corporation, one of the largest consumer electronics companies in the world.  For more information, please visit http://www.alcatelonetouch.com.

About Marvell Technology Group
Marvell Technology Group (NASDAQ: MRVL) is a world leader in the development of storage, communications and consumer silicon solutions. Technology Group's diverse product portfolio includes switching, transceiver, communications controller, wireless and storage solutions that power the entire communications infrastructure, including enterprise, metro, home and storage networking. For more information, visit http://www.marvell.com.

About Marvel Entertainment
Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world's most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of over 8,000 characters featured in a variety of media over seventy years.  Marvel utilizes its character franchises in entertainment, licensing and publishing.  For more information visit http://www.marvel.com. 

About Marvel's "Iron Man 3"
Marvel's "Iron Man 3" pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy's hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?

Starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Stephanie Szostak, James Badge Dale with Jon Favreau and Ben Kingsley, Marvel's "Iron Man 3" is directed by Shane Black from a screenplay by Drew Pearce & Shane Black and is based on Marvel's iconic Super Hero Iron Man, who first appeared on the pages of "Tales of Suspense" (#39) in 1963 and had his solo comic book debut with "The Invincible Iron Man" (#1) in May of 1968.

Marvel's "Iron Man 3" is presented by Marvel Studios in association with Paramount Pictures and DMG Entertainment. Marvel Studios' President Kevin Feige is producing and Jon Favreau, Louis D'Esposito, Charles Newirth, Victoria Alonso, Stephen Broussard, Alan Fine, Stan Lee and Dan Mintz are executive producers. The film releases May 3, 2013, and is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

Media Contacts:

Tom Heffernan
TCL North America
949-873-3779
tom.heffernan@tcl.com

Matthew Ashworth
Porter Novelli for TCL                                   
206.293.3580                                     
matthew.ashworth@porternovelli.com

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Walmart and Straight Talk to offer the iPhone on its $45 No Contract Unlimited Plan

Retailer providing no-interest special financing on the iPhone 4 and iPhone 5 for only $25 a month

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Walmart and Straight Talk Wireless, America's largest and top rated no-contract cell phone provider, today put the power back in the hands of customers with an industry game changing offer. Starting on January 11, 2013 in more than 2,000 Walmart stores and online at Walmart.com, customers now have access to the iPhone 5 and iPhone 4 on  Straight Talk's $45 no contract unlimited talk, text and data plan. To make this offer even more affordable, Walmart will be offering customers who purchase the phone in the store, a no interest fixed-monthly payments special financing offer for only $25 a month with a Walmart Credit Card.

The Straight Talk wireless no contract plan, exclusive to Walmart, saves consumers on average $950 a year when they switch from conventional contract plans with similar unlimited plans. To learn more about how Straight Talk Wireless saves consumers $950 a year, please visit: http://www.straighttalk.com.

"We are thrilled to be bringing the remarkable iPhone 5 to customers looking for one of the most advanced smartphones with one of the most affordable No Contract plans ever," said F.J. Pollak, CEO and President, TracFone Wireless. "The advanced iPhone 5 with our unlimited $45 monthly plan and Walmart's $25 special financing offer is a marriage made in heaven - making it the most affordable premium smartphone offer in America. With this exclusive offer the last reason for not purchasing the No Contract Straight Talk plan is gone."

"We believe customers shouldn't have to choose between saving money and having the latest technology," said Seong Ohm, senior vice president of Entertainment for Walmart U.S. "Now customers can have the coveted iPhone with unlimited talk, text and data without a contract for $70 a month thanks to our exclusive Straight Talk plan and industry first financing offer."

Pricing and Details for iPhone

The Apple iPhones for Straight Talk will be available for purchase at the following prices:

    --  iPhone 5 will be available in black and white for $649 for the 16GB
        model only
    --  iPhone 4 will be available in black and white for $449 for the 8GB model
        only
Walmart will offer a special financing on the purchase of the phone for $25 a month with a Walmart Credit Card on these select models. GE Capital Retail Bank is the issuer of the Walmart Credit Cards.

Pricing for the Straight Talk no-contract plans include:

    --  $45 - No Contract Monthly Plan with Unlimited Nationwide Talk, Text, and
        Data.
    --  $60 - No Contract Monthly Plan with Unlimited Nationwide Talk, Text, and
        Data PLUS Unlimited International Calling to more than 1,000
        destinations in Mexico, Canada, India, and in other countries.
iPhone 5 is the thinnest and lightest iPhone ever, completely redesigned to feature a stunning new 4-inch Retina display; an Apple-designed A6 chip for blazing fast performance; and ultrafast wireless technology--all while delivering even better battery life. iPhone 5 comes with iOS 6, the world's most advanced mobile operating system with over 200 new features including: the all new Maps app; Facebook integration; Passbook organization and even more Siri features and languages. For more information on iPhone 5, please visit: http://www.apple.com/iphone.

For more information see: http://www.straighttalk.com and http://www.walmart.com/iphone

About Straight Talk Wireless
Straight Talk Wireless® is a brand of TracFone Wireless, Inc., America's largest no-contract cellular service provider with over 21.6 million subscribers, and a subsidiary of America Movil S.A.B. de C.V. ("AMX") (BMV: AMX; NYSE: AMX; Nasdaq: AMOV; LATIBEX: XAMXL). AMX is the leading provider of wireless services in Latin America. As of September 30, 2012, it had 255.9 million wireless subscribers -- more wireless customers than AT&T and Verizon combined -- and 62.8 million fixed revenue generating units in the Americas.

About Walmart
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) helps people around the world save money and live better - anytime and anywhere - in retail stores, online, and through their mobile devices.  Each week, more than 200 million customers and members visit our 10,400 stores under 69 banners in 27 countries and e-commerce websites in 10 countries. With fiscal year 2012 sales of approximately $444 billion, Walmart employs more than 2.2 million associates worldwide. Walmart continues to be a leader in sustainability, corporate philanthropy and employment opportunity. Additional information about Walmart can be found by visiting http://corporate.walmart.com, on Facebook at http://facebook.com/walmart and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/walmartnewsroom. Online merchandise sales are available at http://www.walmart.com and http://www.samsclub.com.

SOURCE  Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

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CONTACT: Walmart Media Relations, +1-800-331-0085, http://walmartstores.com/reporter

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

Redesigned HomeFoodSafety.org Offers Simple Food Safety Solutions, Including Kitchen Safety Quiz, RD Recipes And New Mobile App

        Redesigned site is hallmark of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and ConAgra Foods' Home Food Safety Program
     

CHICAGO, Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The redesigned HomeFoodSafety.org has been launched by the Home Food Safety program - a collaboration between the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and ConAgra Foods. The redesign features improved navigation that highlights simple steps to reduce people's risk of food poisoning in the home, as well as a new RD Recipes video series.

"It's extremely important to keep food safety in mind, especially when one in six people is sickened by food poisoning every year in the U.S.," said registered dietitian and Academy Spokesperson Marisa Moore. "You can reduce your risk of food poisoning and keep your food and family safe with simple steps from the Home Food Safety program, and the newly redesigned HomeFoodSafety.org."

The site features new articles, tips and downloadable tools organized in four simple safety steps to reduce your risk of food poisoning:

    1. WASH         : Wash hands often
    2. SEPARATE         : Keep raw foods and ready-to-eat foods separate
    3. COOK         : Cook to proper temperatures
    4. REFRIGERATE         : Refrigerate promptly at 40 degrees or below.
"Safe food handling in the home is extremely important, especially for those who may be more vulnerable to food poisoning, including older adults, infants, young children and pregnant women," said Barbara J. Ivens, MS, RD, FADA, senior nutrition director at ConAgra Foods. "HomeFoodSafety.org offers Americans the tools they need to help reduce the risk of food poisoning in the home."

New Features: RD Recipes and Is My Food Safe? App

The redesigned site also features the new RD Recipes video series - tasty recipes designed with the food and nutrition expertise of a registered dietitian.

"RD Recipes provides consumers with the tools they need to safely spice up any menu, while providing the nutrition needed to fuel any family," Moore said.

The first two RD Recipes in the series include downloadable recipe cards and videos from Marisa Moore for "Kale with Toasted Walnuts" and "Chipotle Lime Shrimp Tacos with Avocado Salsa." These RD Recipes are highlighted at http://www.HomeFoodSafety.org/RDrecipes. New RD Recipes will be added frequently.

The site also features the Home Food Safety program's new mobile app, Is My Food Safe? for Apple and Android devices. The app can be downloaded from http://www.HomeFoodSafety.org/app.

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and ConAgra Foods' Home Food Safety program is dedicated to raising consumer awareness about the seriousness of food poisoning and providing solutions for easily and safely handling food in their own kitchens. More information can be found at http://www.homefoodsafety.org.

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly the American Dietetic Association) is the world's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals. The Academy is committed to improving the nation's health and advancing the profession of dietetics through research, education and advocacy. To locate a registered dietitian in your area, visit the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics at http://www.eatright.org.

ConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE: CAG) is one of North America's leading food companies, with brands in 97 percent of America's households. Consumers find Banquet, Chef Boyardee, Egg Beaters, Healthy Choice, Hebrew National, Hunt's, Marie Callender's, Orville Redenbacher's, PAM, Peter Pan, Reddi-wip, Slim Jim, Snack Pack and many other ConAgra Foods brands in grocery, convenience, mass merchandise and club stores. ConAgra Foods also has a strong business-to-business presence, supplying frozen potato and sweet potato products as well as other vegetable, spice and grain products to a variety of well-known restaurants, foodservice operators and commercial customers. For more information, please visit us at http://www.conagrafoods.com.

SOURCE  Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

CONTACT: Ryan O'Malley, Allison MacMunn, 800/877-1600, ex. 4769, 4802, media@eatright.org

Web Site: http://homefoodsafety.org/

LG Shows Its First OLED TV With Curved Screen

New OLED TV Underscores LG's Status as Technology and Design Frontrunner

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- LG Electronics (LG) today demonstrated its continued OLED TV market leadership with a revolutionary curved model, the EA9800, shown for the first time here today at the 2013 International CES. Featuring proprietary WRGB technology, the incredibly thin display features a dramatic curved design and a vivid picture quality that is practically indiscernible from colors found in nature.

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The unique new EA9800 model features the industry's very first curved screen ergonomic design with full CINEMA 3D support. With a gentle inward flex, the entire screen surface is equidistant from the viewer's eyes, removing the problem of screen-edge visual distortion and detail loss. Availability and pricing were not announced.

"LG is the first to launch the 55-inch OLED TV," said Havis Kwon, President and CEO of LG's Home Entertainment Company. "We believe our new OLED TVs offer the ultimate viewing experience, surpassing anything seen before. The new curved model complements our core OLED TV family with a unique design that capitalizes on the thinness of the screen and the aesthetic beauty of OLED TV."

LG's OLED TVs produce astoundingly vivid and realistic pictures, thanks to superior WRGB technology. This unique Four-Color Pixel system features a white sub-pixel, which works in conjunction with the conventional RGB setup to create the perfect color output. The built-in Color Refiner delivers even greater tonal enhancement, resulting in images that are more vibrant and natural than anything seen before. The 55-inch OLED TV also offers an infinite contrast ratio, which maintains optimal contrast levels regardless of ambient brightness or viewing angle. To complement the infinite contrast ratio and enable the richest color and deepest black expression, the High Dynamic Range (HDR) algorithm has been incorporated. This technology also ensures contrast ratio consistency and maximum color separation.

As OLEDs generate their own light, there is no need for a separate backlight, enabling LG OLED TVs to boast a significantly reduced weight and depth, and a stylish, minimal appearance. The EA9800's streamlined, ultra-modern design and curved screen remove any hint of visual distraction to maximize the viewing experience. Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) has been implemented to further reduce unit weight and add additional strength to the beautifully curved screen. The OLED TV's sleek styling and slim profile complement the stunning images brought about by LG's WRGB technology, helping to create what is truly the ultimate immersive viewing experience.

LG's Paper Slim design effectively unifies screen and stand into a seamless aesthetic entity. Meanwhile, CINEMA SCREEN Design elements result in a narrow screen bezel which is practically invisible to the naked eye. A minimal bezel helps to produce a truly immersive 2D and 3D viewing experience. For installation versatility, the new model also ships with an easy-to-mount wall bracket that allows a single person to complete the entire installation. With less than a one-inch gap between wall and TV, LG's design masterpiece can now be displayed like a true work of art.

Additionally, Smart Touch Control further differentiates LG's OLED TV designs from competing models. This new feature results in a more attractive appearance and a better control experience. Located below the screen, the sliding touch key provides the user with an intuitive and elegant way to control the OLED TVs basic functions, such as changing channels and volume, and powering on or off.

LG's OLED TVs combine the company's industry-leading CINEMA 3D technology with Smart TV capabilities, creating the most immersive and comprehensive home entertainment experience possible.

About LG Electronics, Inc.
LG Electronics, Inc. (KSE: 066570.KS) is a global leader and technology innovator in consumer electronics, mobile communications and home appliances. With 117 operations around the world, LG achieved global sales of USD 49 billion (KRW 54.26 trillion) in 2011. LG comprises four business units - Home Entertainment, Mobile Communications, Home Appliance, and Air Conditioning & Energy Solution - and is one of the world's leading producers of flat panel TVs, mobile devices, air conditioners, washing machines and refrigerators. LG Electronics is a 2012 ENERGY STAR(®) Partner of the Year. For more news and information on LG Electronics, please visit http://www.LGnewsroom.com.

About LG Electronics Home Entertainment Company
The LG Electronics Home Entertainment Company is a global top player in televisions, monitors, commercial displays, audio video systems, personal computers and security systems. The company constantly pushes technological boundaries to create feature-rich devices with stylish designs that meet global consumer needs. LG's consumer products include CINEMA 3D Smart TVs, OLED TVs, IPS monitors, home theater systems, Blu-ray Disc(TM) players, car audio video systems, mouse scanners and external storage devices. LG's commercial products include digital signage, video conferencing systems and IP security cameras.

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CONTACT: John Taylor, LG Electronics, +1-847-828-2777, john.taylor@lge.com; or Ted Maass, LG-One, +1-312-397-6014, ted.maass@lg-one.com

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

Fans Invited To Tweet To Unlock Exclusive Video Message From 3rd Annual ACM Fan Jam Host Brad Paisley

48th ANNUAL ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS FAN JAM REMOTE & POST-AWARDS CONCERT TO BE HELD FROM THE ORLEANS ARENA IN LAS VEGAS SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 2013

ENCINO, Calif., Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Academy of Country Music has announced that starting today, fans can tweet to unlock a special message from Brad Paisley, host of the 3(rd) Annual ACM Fan Jam, delivered immediately after tweeting by visiting the ACM Social Splash page at http://www.ACMsocialsplash.com.

As announced this morning, Brad Paisley will host the 3(rd) Annual ACM Fan Jam, taking place at The Orleans Arena Sunday, April 7(th), 2013. This live remote location gives country music lovers the ultimate fan-pass to be a part of the 48(th) ANNUAL ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS co-hosted by Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan!  Throughout the three-hour Awards telecast from MGM Grand, there will be live ACM Fan Jam performances, via remote from The Orleans Arena, by Brad Paisley and other top-tier music acts.  The ACM Fan Jam continues after the Awards telecast ends, with performances by Brad Paisley and friends. Details and other participating talent will be announced soon. 

Country Music's Party of the Year®, the 48(th) Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, will broadcast LIVE from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Sunday, April 7(th), 2013 at 8:00 PM live ET/delayed PT on the CBS Television Network.

For event updates, ticket on-sale dates and hotel information, please visit http://www.ACMcountry.com.  Country fans may sign up for the ACM A-List for FREE at http://www.ACMcountry.com.  ACM A-Listers will receive the ticket purchase pre-sale code and information on discounted room rates at MGM Grand and The Orleans Hotel and Casino, based on availability.

For more information on the ACM Awards and all ACM events, visit http://www.ACMcountry.com, like us on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter at @ACMawards for more immediate updates! 

        About the Academy of Country Music Awards
     

The 48(th) Academy of Country Music Awards is dedicated to honoring and showcasing the biggest names and emerging talent in the country music industry.  The show is produced for television by dick clark productions and will be broadcast LIVE from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Sunday, April 7, 2013 at 8:00 PM live ET/delayed PT on the CBS Television Network.  Orly Adelson, R.A. Clark and Allen Shapiro are executive producers.  Barry Adelman is producer, and Bob Bardo is the executive in charge of production. Bob Romeo is executive producer for the Academy of Country Music. 

SOURCE  Academy of Country Music

Academy of Country Music

CONTACT: Academy of Country Music, Brooke Primero, +1-818-788-8000, brooke@acmcountry.com; or for Brad Paisley, Darlene Bieber, Schmidt Relations, +1-615-851-4917, darlene@schmidtpr.com

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

TEMIS Named SIIA CODiE Award Finalist for Best Semantic Technology Solution

Luxid(R) Content Enrichment Platform Earns Prestigious Content Industry Recognition

WASHINGTON, D.C. and NEW YORK, January 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

    TEMIS, leading provider of semantic content enrichment solutions, today announced its
flagship Luxid(R) Content Enrichment Platform was named a finalist for the 2013 SIIA
Content CODiE Awards for "Best Semantic Technology Solution."

    Serving as the pre-eminent awards program for the software and information industries,
the SIIA CODiE Awards [http://siia.net/codies/2013 ] have been honoring excellence for 27
years. This year's program has 75 categories organized by industry focus in Content,
Education and Software.

    Finalists in the Content categories represent the best products, technologies, and
services created by or for media, publishers, and information services providers. CODiE
Award winners will be announced during a special luncheon on January 31 in New York City
during the SIIA's annual flagship conference for information industry leaders, IIS 2013:
Breakthrough.

    In 2010, TEMIS won the CODiE Award for "Best Business Intelligence or Knowledge
Management Solution." This year, TEMIS was selected for its excellence in the "Best
Semantic Technology Solution" category. This award recognizes the Best Semantic Technology
Platform specifically designed for media, publishers & information providers. Nominees
include solutions that range from automated tagging and analysis to semantic advertising
and content enrichment that can be industry focused (e.g. scientific) or designed for
general or broad information.

    "Best Semantic Technology Platform is a new CODiE Award category that recognizes
excellence in solutions that provide fluidity to searches and systems operations. These
products help media, publishers, and information providers interact in a more intelligent
and responsive way," said SIIA Content Division Vice President Kathy Greenler Sexton. "We
were excited to see such creative and effective solutions nominate and become finalists in
this new category."

    "We are honored by this CODiE nomination that recognizes TEMIS's strong commitment to
meet the evolving challenges facing the information industry," said Guillaume Mazieres,
Executive Vice President North American Operations, TEMIS. "The Luxid(R) platform is
widely chosen by leading publishers and information providers worldwide to extract
targeted knowledge from their digital assets and enhance their end user experience and
engagement."

    Structure your unstructured content with Luxid(R)

    The shift to digital has presented information providers with new business
opportunities and customer expectations. In this context, semantic content enrichment has
emerged as a genuinely game-changing capability for competing effectively:

       
        - Luxid(R) makes content more compelling

    Semantic content enrichment enhances the audience's experience in discovering,
navigating and analyzing content. Semantics boosts content findability and discoverability
through improved SEO, navigational facets, links to related content, and powerful
analytics.

       
        - Luxid(R) helps develop innovative products

    Semantic enrichment promotes the efficient packaging of content into new types of
products. Topic pages and API-driven content feeds leverage structured and highly granular
semantic metadata to deliver topical collections answering the needs of targeted
audiences.

       
        - Luxid(R) boosts editorial productivity

    Semantic content enrichment automates tagging, categorization and linking, thus
reducing the effort required to accomplish tasks that were previously manual.

    About the SIIA

    The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) is the principal trade
association for the software and digital content industries, providing global services in
government relations, business development, corporate education, and intellectual property
protection to more than 700 organizations world-wide. The SIIA Content Division is one of
six industry-focused divisions, and serves the media, publishing, information services and
technology companies that drive the $462 billion content industry.
http://www.siia.net/content

    About TEMIS

    TEMIS helps organizations structure, manage and leverage their unstructured
information assets. Its flagship platform, Luxid(R), identifies and extracts targeted
information to semantically enrich content with domain-specific metadata. Luxid(R) enables
professional publishers to efficiently package and deliver relevant information to their
audience, and helps enterprises to intelligently archive, manage, analyze, discover and
share increasing volumes of information.

    Founded in 2000, TEMIS operates in the United States, Canada, UK, France and Germany,
and is represented worldwide through its network of certified partners.

    TEMIS' innovative solutions have attracted the business of leading organizations such
as AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), Agence France-Presse, BASF,
Bayer Schering Pharma, BNA (Bureau of National Affairs), BNP Paribas, CARMA International,
Editions Lefebvre-Sarrut, Elsevier, EMC, Europol, French Ministry of Defence, French
Ministry of Finance, Gannett, Karger, Invest in France Agency, Merck Serono, Nature
Publishing Group, Novartis, Philip Morris International, PSA Peugeot-Citroen,
Sanofi-aventis, Simon & Schuster, Springer Science+Business Media, The McGraw-Hill
Companies, Thieme, Thomson Reuters, Trinity Mirror plc and the U.S. Department of
Agriculture.

    http://www.temis.com
http://tagline.temis.com

TEMIS

CONTACT: TEMIS : Martine Falhon, martine.falhon[a]temis.com, Tel. +33(0)4-56-38-24-03 ; SIIA: Laura Greenback, lgreenback[a]siia.net, Tel. +1-410-533-1943

Bang & Olufsen launches new built-in sound system at CES 2013

Featuring an active and innovative built-in sound system with unique tilt functionality and acoustic balance principle which delivers luscious soundscapes in any room of choice

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Bang & Olufsen, the Danish provider of high end, custom-made audio and video products announces the launch of its latest built-in sound system at the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The integrated speaker solution is comprised of two-way active speakers (BeoLab 15), an active subwoofer (BeoLab 16) and a rack-ready amplifier (Amplifier 1) - all created specifically for in-wall or in-ceiling placement.

The new BeoLab 15/BeoLab 16 system builds on a broad spectrum of signature Bang & Olufsen capabilities to pack amazing sound into unexpected places. The active speakers harness an array of high-end components to deliver expansive audio performance from very compact constructions. The design and engineering teams have collaborated on a visual identity that is distinct but discreet, with a motorized tilt function that directs the sound where you want it when the speakers are on, then retreats to flush when no longer needed.

"The motorized tilt functionality brings a touch of magic to an in-wall, in-ceiling speaker. It offers something unexpected to the listening experience and also makes the performance and acoustical sound stage so much better," states Zean Nielsen, President of Bang & Olufsen America, Inc. "There is no doubt that the BeoLab 15/16 built-in sound solution will resonate well with the North American consumer.  Its design, custom installation and natural aluminum finish makes it second to none in its category."

Discreet power

"This active built-in sound solution was conceived for installations where people want great sound without having to find room for freestanding speakers," says Bang & Olufsen Product Manager, Michael Jensen. "The combination of two speakers and a subwoofer - all built-in, all with drivers powered by separate amps - deliver a premium sound experience throughout the room. Additionally, the motorized tilt adds a touch of practical magic to enhance the listening experience."

Innovative tilt function

The new tilt function on BeoLab 15 lets you aim high and places middle tones right where you want them. Turn on the system, and the speaker automatically tilts out to pre-set angles to direct the sound for optimal listening. Turn off the system, and BeoLab 15 tilts back to flush position.

Each and every driver in the system's active speakers is powered by its own amplifier. This allows Bang & Olufsen to pack high-performing components into compact speaker cabinets that are easy to build into most walls - and still sound amazing. The new system meets international building codes by keeping the amplifiers and speaker drivers separate. The innovative cable compensation feature automatically calibrates all cables at distances up to 328 feet to ensure optimal bass performance.

BeoLab 15 is a closed-cabinet, two-way active speaker with a ¾" tweeter and a 3" midrange, featuring tilt functionality for directing sound up to 45° from the default flush position.

BeoLab 16, the system's active subwoofer, comprises two pairs of 4" woofers in separate sealed cabinets, played in-phase using the Acoustic Balance Principle to enable deep bass without unwanted wall vibrations.

Amplifier 1 contains six separate amplifiers. Two Class D units rated at 2 x 150 watts power up the subwoofer. Each BeoLab 15 gets 150 watts for the midrange, and 45 watts for the tweeter. Adaptive Bass Linearization keeps the deep bass cultivated and crisp all the way down to 45 Hz.

The circular design is discreet but distinct. When switched off, the speakers and subwoofer are flush with the wall, and all you notice is the subtle geometrical composition by designer Anders Hermansen. Turn the music on, and the speakers' motorized tilt function magically directs sound where you want it for amazing acoustic performance. The speakers are available in matt aluminium, with fabric covers in either white or black. The subwoofer is in matt aluminum.

The new BeoLab 15, BeoLab 16 and Amplifier 1 sound solution is available at selected Bang & Olufsen stores from January 2013. Priced at $4595 for the entire solution - pair of BeoLab 15 speakers, BeoLab 16 and the Amplifier 1.

        Bang & Olufsen
      was founded in Struer, Denmark, in 1925 by Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen, two innovative, young engineers devoted to high quality audio reproduction. Since then, the brand has become an icon of performance and design excellence through its long-standing craftsmanship tradition and the strongest possible commitment to high-tech research and development.

Still at the forefront of domestic technology, Bang & Olufsen has extended its comprehensive experience with integrated audio and video solutions for the home to other areas such as the hospitality and automotive industries in recent years. Consequently, its current product range epitomizes seamless media experiences in the home as well as in the car and on the move.

For more information on Bang & Olufsen, please visit http://www.bang-olufsen.com.

Images are available free of charge from the Bang & Olufsen media center: http://mediacenter.bang-olufsen.dk. If you are a first-time visitor, please follow the instructions and register as a new user.

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Bang & Olufsen

CONTACT: Monica Gartner, PR Consultant, Bang & Olufsen America, Inc., +1-847-590-4920, mcy@bang-olufsen.dk, or Jill Porter-Schultz, Global PR Manager, Bang & Olufsen, jic@bang-olufsen.dk

Web Site: http://www.bang-olufsen.com

Bang & Olufsen partners with Audi and Fraunhofer IIS to create a revolutionary 3D sound experience in the car

A unique three-way industry cooperation between Bang & Olufsen, Audi and Fraunhofer IIS has produced a concept car that redefines expectations from car audio. The Audi Q7 uses revolutionary new 3D audio technology and will be unveiled at the 2013 Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas.

STRUER, Denmark and LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Bang & Olufsen, the global provider of exclusive high quality audio and video products, proudly announces its development in 3D sound technology in the car-audio segment, together with Audi and Fraunhofer IIS, the main inventor of mp3 and a renowned source for advanced audio technologies. Under the partnership, the 3D audio solution has been introduced in an Audi Q7 Concept Car, which will be unveiled at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in the Audi booth (North Hall, 1130).

The Bang & Olufsen Advanced Sound System is already available today as an optional feature in the Audi Q7. The Concept Car at the CES demonstrates how the next generation of the Advanced Sound System redefines what buyers can expect from an in-car audio system.

Denis Crede, head of sound system development, Audi AG: "At Audi we strive to improve the experience of music enthusiasts by consistently setting new benchmarks with our sound systems.  We believe that the introduction of 3D movies has helped to define the next major step forward for in-car sound systems: the reproduction of music in the third dimension.  The 3D acoustic dimension of music recordings is reproduced more naturally and more inspirationally than ever through 3D sound. This produces an airiness and openness of the acoustics which corresponds to human hearing. With Fraunhofer IIS and Bang & Olufsen we have partners with whom we were able to jointly realize this idea."

3D sound adds a new emotional dimension to the user experience
"Bang & Olufsen Audio Systems for cars are widely renowned for their unique ability to turn a car interior into a real high-end listening room, and with the addition of the 3D sound algorithm and associated speaker units and amplifiers in this Audi Q7 Concept Car, we add a new important emotional dimension into the listening experience. Extending beyond the small confined space of the vehicle cabin, the available sound experience now ranges all the way from a very big and open sense of space to the purist setting such as a control room of a recording studio," says Bjarne Sorensen, Senior Manager Car Concept Creation and Communication.

This unheard listening experience is based on a sophisticated approach combining the expertise of the Audi and Bang & Olufsen acoustic engineers with the 3D sound know-how of the Fraunhofer team. The new 3D sound system takes any music of the user to the third dimension by a careful analysis built on psycho-acoustic knowledge. This analysis enables the intelligent distribution of the input signal to the loudspeakers in the car creating a highly realistic three-dimensional sound impression. With no more than a push of a button on the Audi Multi Media Interface, the user can adjust the settings and produce an individual level of 3D intensity.

Harald Popp, head of the Multimedia Realtime Systems department of Fraunhofer IIS states: "Based on the know-how from our research and development in 3D audio, the Advanced Sound System of the Audi Q7 Concept Car not only creates an impressive dimensionality and spaciousness, which dissolves the geometry of the car. It also reproduces the genuine richness of the music with ultimate precision for an unrivalled music experience. We are very pleased with the opportunity to develop such a unique sound system together with Audi and Bang & Olufsen."

Listen to the technology
The concept car has 23 active loudspeakers and more than 1500 watts of amplification power, driven by a new 23 channel DSP Most amplifier. The loudspeakers have been specially selected to complement the architecture inside the car and create the unique sense of listening to music inside a concert auditorium.

    --  Two loudspeakers in the dashboard center (tweeter and broadband)
    --  Two tweeters in the dashboard (left/right) with acoustic lens technology
    --  One mid-high loudspeaker in each A pillar
    --  One tweeter in each A pillar
    --  Two loudspeakers in each front door with a woofer and a midrange
    --  Three loudspeakers in each rear door with a woofer, midrange and a
        tweeter
    --  Two surround loudspeakers in each D pillar, consisting of a tweeter and
        broadband
    --  One closed subwoofer box in the spare wheel compartment
All loudspeakers are covered by high-grade aluminum grilles that reflect the excellence inside the car. In addition, the two dashboard speakers use Bang & Olufsen's patented acoustic lens technology for accurate sound reproduction. The Acoustic Lens Technology was first fitted to the Audi A8 and its major benefit is the way it uniformly disperses high frequencies, broadening it to 180 degrees while at the same time limiting vertical reflections. This provides detailed acoustic staging from any seat of the car.

Experience it for yourself
As well as experiencing the new standards set by the Q7, you can also witness the revolutionary 3D audio technology for yourself at the listening room at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, located in the Audi booth 1130 in North Hall. The room will also contain an impressive array of Bang & Olufsen products, including:

    --  18 fully active Bang & Olufsen speakers, including seven floor standing
        BeoLab 5's and ceiling mounted BeoLab 3's, all showcasing the patented
        acoustic lens technology as seen in B&O car audio systems
    --  More than 20 KW of ICEpower amplification built in the speakers
    --  A 103" BeoVision 4 plasma TV, the ultimate in home cinema viewing
Meet our partners

Bang & Olufsen and Audi first began to cooperate in 2005 and have since introduced a number of innovations in car audio. We both share a focus on technological innovation as well as pioneering and innovative design. Now, we have teamed up with Fraunhofer IIS, a worldwide authority in the field of advanced audio and acoustic signal processing. Together we present the Audi Q7 Concept Car - a genuine landmark in car audio.

        Bang & Olufsen
      was founded in Struer, Denmark, in 1925 by Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen, two innovative, young engineers devoted to high quality audio reproduction. Since then, the brand has become an icon of performance and design excellence through its long-standing craftsmanship tradition and the strongest possible commitment to high-tech research and development.
Still at the forefront of domestic technology, Bang & Olufsen has extended its comprehensive experience with integrated audio and video solutions for the home to other areas such as the hospitality and automotive industries in recent years. Consequently, its current product range epitomizes seamless media experiences in the home as well as in the car and on the move.
For more information on Bang & Olufsen, please visit http://www.bang-olufsen.com.

        Bang & Olufsen Automotive
      offers its partners car audio systems with unprecedented sound quality and listening pleasure for the driver and passengers. In addition to the company's traditional craft skills within manufacturing and aluminium finishing, the systems incorporate the radical synthesis of emotional appeal and technological performance that has long been the hallmark of Bang & Olufsen.
Bang & Olufsen Automotive launched its first car audio system in 2005, and will continue to innovate and refine together with its partners within the automotive industry.

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        About Fraunhofer IIS
The Fraunhofer IIS Audio and Multimedia division, based in Erlangen, Germany, has been working in digital audio technology for more than 20 years and remains a leading innovator of technologies for cutting-edge multimedia systems. Fraunhofer IIS is the main inventor of mp3 and universally credited with the co-development of AAC (Advanced Audio Coding).
Through the course of more than two decades, Fraunhofer IIS has licensed its audio codec software and application-specific customizations to at least 1,000 companies. Fraunhofer estimates that it has enabled more than 5 billion commercial products worldwide using its mp3, AAC and other media technologies.
The Fraunhofer IIS organization is part of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, based in Munich, Germany. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is Europe's largest applied research organization and is partly funded by the German government. With 20,000 employees worldwide, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is composed of 60 Institutes conducting research in a broad range of research areas. For more information, contact Matthias Rose, matthias.rose@iis.fraunhofer.de, or visit http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm.

SOURCE  Bang & Olufsen

Bang & Olufsen

CONTACT: Monica Gartner, PR Consultant, Bang & Olufsen America, Inc., +1-847-347-0709 (mobile), +1-847-590-4920 (direct), mcy@bang-olufsen.dk

Web Site: http://www.bang-olufsen.com

TruCode Announces New Encoder Web Services for Integration into Healthcare IT Applications

ALPHARETTA, Ga., Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TruCode(TM), a medical coding software company, proudly announces a new encoder "cloud-based" offering for healthcare IT vendors. TruCode's Encoder Essentials is a set of web services and components that enable business partners to easily integrate encoder functionality directly into their systems without separate encoder interfaces or onsite software. The announcement was made by Thomas Golden, Co-Founder and CTO of TruCode.

"TruCode is the first company to offer complete encoder capabilities through web services, making it the encoder-inside for computer assisted coding (CAC), clinical documentation improvement (CDI), HIS, EMR and other coding technology companies," says Golden.

TruCode's Encoder Essentials have already been integrated into ChartWise (ChartWise CDI), BayScribe (v6 CAC), Dolbey (Fusion CACe), M*Modal's (Fluency for Coding(TM)), Precyse (precyseCode(TM)), and PlatoCode.

According to Robin Stults RHIA, CHC and Senior Vice President of Health Information Management at Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas, "Integrating encoders into the CAC process, versus interfacing them, is the future of coding workflow, particularly in light of new ICD-10 demands." 

"Application logistics are difficult without integrated solutions and the symbiotic nature of natural language understanding and encoder rules make it a perfect pairing.  Coders will appreciate the ease of using this type of integrated technology, and health care professionals will appreciate the concept of a solution within a solution," continues Stults.

All components needed for accurate and effective clinical coding can be embedded into web pages or any other application that can display HTML content for rapid access by coding personnel. These include such valuable resources as code books, grouping, pricing, edits, references and more, available via a broadband internet connection.

"With embedded Web Services, coders have access to coding tools wherever they need them, not just inside their encoder.  When tools are readily available, coders are more productive and more accurate in their coding.  Any system that allows codes to be assigned can benefit from adding TruCode's tools as an integral part of the solution," adds Golden.

About TruCode®   
TruCode (Alpharetta, GA) is a software company that provides an encoder application, components and web services to the hospital, consulting, and Healthcare IT marketplace.  TruCode was the first to release a complete ICD-10-CM encoder and deliver encoder components via web services.  TruCode's Encoder Essentials fully integrate into healthcare IT technologies including: Computer Assisted Coding (CAC), Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI), Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Health Information Systems (HIS) and Healthcare Business Analytics.  For more information visit: http://www.trucode.com.

For more information contact:   
Beth Friedman, BSHA, RHIT, President   
Friedman Marketing Group 
beth@tfmgcom.com
770-335-8570   

SOURCE  TruCode

TruCode

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

Validas Unveils "Wireless Waste(TM) Index" Dashboard

Introduces New Metric for Measuring Inefficiencies in Mobile Billing

HOUSTON, Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Validas, the leader in mobile analytics, has launched an interactive dashboard around the firm's introduction of a new business indice, the "Wireless Waste(TM) Index," that measures overspending on wireless billing nationally and globally. Wireless Waste(TM) is the value of the difference between what you pay for on your mobile plan and how much of it you actually use. Accessible at http://www.wirelesswasteindex.com, the Wireless Waste(TM) Index projects that American smartphone users overspent by tens of billions of dollars in 2012. Globally, Validas estimates Wireless Waste(TM) to have cost consumers over $926 billion last year.

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The dashboard allows visitors to zoom in and trend over 2012 to see monthly, quarterly and annual projections of Wireless Waste(TM) on smartphones in America and to zoom out to see all lines globally in an annualized view. With their often-expensive data plans, smartphones rack up the most Wireless Waste(TM), according to Validas: $45 billion across 130 million American smartphone lines. When all of America's 330 million wireless lines are included, the 2012 Wireless Waste(TM) number increases only comparably slightly to $52.8 billion. "This was why we included just smartphones for the high depth, domestic section of the Index," said Tom Pepe, CEO of Validas. "We wanted to target in on the most inefficient part of the domestic wireless market so that people understand their risk category as a consumer."

The Wireless Waste(TM) Index comes out as Validas prepares to expand the fight against Wireless Waste(TM) through its free VERA service at http://www.savelovegive.com. VERA audits wireless bills to remove Wireless Waste(TM), and allows the user to either pocket their recovered dollars or pledge them towards philanthropic causes including rebuilding the Jersey Shore after Hurricane Sandy and funding global initiatives to empower underprivileged women through microfinance.

About Validas
Validas® is a mobile intelligence firm helping Fortune
500s and wireless carriers understand their "big data" in mobile via
patented software. Validas' free app, VERA, protects consumers against
billions of dollars of Wireless Waste(TM) by finding ways to lower their costs--and then gives users the power to repurpose their saved dollars towards philanthropic
causes. For more information, visit http://www.savelovegive.com.

SOURCE  Validas

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Validas

CONTACT: Dylan Breslin-Barnhart for Validas, +1-281-546-9988, dylan@validas.com

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

DFW International Airport Releases New Mobile App for Travelers

App provides information on parking, flights, shops, restaurants and amenities to handheld devices; Passengers served as beta testers

DFW AIRPORT, Texas, Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport has launched its official mobile app for smartphones, giving customers the latest information and updates about flights, parking, shops, restaurants and airport services at their fingertips. The DFW Airport mobile app, which was developed with a considerable amount of feedback from DFW customers, is now available as a free download at the iTunes App Store, Google's Android Play Store and BlackBerry App World.

"The DFW Airport mobile app represents a breakthrough in the way our customers can navigate DFW Airport," said Jeff Fegan, chief executive officer of DFW.  "This is the first airport app that notifies DFW travelers about gate changes through a push notification, and it can also help you determine parking availability or find a bite to eat in one easy solution."

The mobile app's push notification feature is a first for airport-developed apps, notifying passengers who request information about changes to flight details.

The new app contains a wide variety of customer-requested features including:

    --  Flight information and tracking
    --  Flight and gate updates with alert "push" notifications
    --  Parking availability, locations and rates
    --  Restaurant and shopping locations
    --  "Within five minutes of my gate" feature highlighting restaurants and
        shopping options located nearest your gate
"The DFW Airport mobile app has everything a passenger needs to make a trip through DFW faster and more efficient," said Ken Buchanan, executive vice president for revenue management. "And for those road warriors who need to maximize their time, the "Within five minutes of my gate" feature lets you know about the shops and restaurants that are closest to you."

More than 100 local and connecting DFW passengers served as volunteer beta testers for the mobile app over a period of two months last fall, and their feedback is incorporated into the release.

"We listened to what our customers had to say about the types of functionality they want in an airport-based mobile app, and our beta testers' contributions were invaluable," said Sharon McCloskey, vice president for marketing services at DFW.  "With 85% of DFW travelers now using smartphones, features like up-to-date parking availability will not only be innovative but really helpful for customers."

The application's launch page features quick links to Flights, Parking Availability, Parking Options, Shops, Restaurants, Services, Airport Guide, Airline Guide and a Feedback button.

The DFW Airport mobile app is currently available for the Apple iOS platform, the Google Android platform and the BlackBerry platform.

About DFW International Airport

Located halfway between the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, DFW International Airport is the world's fourth busiest, offering nearly 1,800 flights per day and serving 58 million passengers a year. DFW provides nonstop service to 148 domestic and 50 international destinations worldwide. For five consecutive years, DFW has ranked in the top five for customer service among large airports worldwide in surveys conducted by Airports Council International. For the latest news, real-time flight information, parking availability or further details regarding the many services provided at DFW International Airport, visit http://www.dfwairport.com.

(re)defining DFW International Airport

DFW International Airport's $1.9 billion Terminal Renewal and Improvement Program (TRIP) is (re)defining first class for this global gateway.  For the latest details regarding TRIP, log on to http://www.dfwairport.com/redefine.

Follow DFW International Airport On:
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http://www.youtube.com/user/DFWIntlAirport
http://www.facebook.com/dfwairport

SOURCE  DFW International Airport

DFW International Airport

CONTACT: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Public Affairs Department, +1-972-973-5555

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

Two Revolutionary Creations by i'm in World Premiere at CES 2013: The New Version of i'm Watch and the Launch of i'm Here

LAS VEGAS, January 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

    The Italian company i'm hit a first incredible success last year with the world
premiere presentation of i'm Watch, the world's first smartwatch that meanwhile has become
a cult object for technophiles. Now, the company strikes another hit in Las Vegas with
amazing innovations that will revolutionize the world of technological communication: the
new version of i'm Watch [http://www.imsmart.com/en/i-m-watch/overview ] and the launch of
a new product, i'm Here [http://www.imsmart.com/en/i-m-here/overview ]. Sophisticated Made
in Italy technology and innovative design were presented at the keynote at CES in Las
Vegas, the world's most important event dedicated to technology, electronics, design and
innovation. The many long-awaited innovations include the official presentation of the new
i'm Droid 2 operating system: the customized Android version developed by i'm Watch
engineers. These developments are the fruit of a year of research that has led to the
development of i'm Droid 2 which is downloadable from http://www.imsmart.com.

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    There will be more innovations and new functions for i'm Droid 2 presented at the
Mobile World Congress in Barcelona at which the company will be present from February 25
to 28 2013. "Evolution takes its byte!"

    The revolutionary innovations of this new operating system include: Smart tethering,
an intelligent technology that minimizes battery use; i'm Cloud, i'music, that allows you
to listen to millions of songs on-demand; i'mages, a revolutionary application that allows
your smartphone to become "the eye" of your i'm Watch, transforming it into a camera;
i'market, hundreds of apps for leisure, games, office, sport, fitness, music... Read the
complete press release here [http://www.imsmart.com/en/other/press-centre ].

    In occasion of this launch, readers can use the promo code of 50 EUR to be used on the
online store [http://www.imsmart.com/en/store ] http://www.imsmart.com/en (promo code
IMWATCH2013 - valid until January 20th 2013)

    Manuel Zanella, inventor of the i'm Watch and Massimiliano Bertolini, partner and
sales director, who were at CES together with Ennio Doris, the financial partner of the
i'm Watch project, are advocates of a new "philosophy" that brings into everyday life the
concept of Smart Living, i.e. a series of modern technologies and devices that could lead
to an improvement in the management of our daily lives.

    For this reason, on the occasion of CES and alongside these creations, i'm will
present, in a world premiere, i'm Here, the smallest, sleekest and most sophisticated GPS
tracker that promises to be a great innovation because "Smart Living" also means "Safe
Living". i'm Here [http://www.imsmart.com/en/i-m-here/overview ] is the first GPS tracker
that identifies its position and that of other people and has inside it a SIM card,
created thanks to a joint venture with another company in the group, Zeromobile. i'm Here
is a GPS tracker to wear or carry which can identify your geographical position and that
of other people. In the case of danger, it lets you make an SOS call just by pressing a
single button. Having your own geographical tracking or that of a loved one is ideal in
different situations of risk that might occur in everyday life: for mothers terrified of
losing their children at the seaside, in the shopping mall or in the hills during a hike;
for people who enjoy extreme sports like mountaineering or parachuting; for people
suffering from illnesses that cause sensory dysfunctions such as loss of orientation or
spatial awareness. All you need is to be connected and the device will quickly track the
exact position of the missing person. In the case of danger for ourselves, a simple button
will make an SOS call to someone pre-selected by us.

    Even the design is innovative; this device has all the credentials to become a new and
extremely comfortable fashion accessory. In addition to being incredibly small and
portable, you can wear i'm Here on your wrist using its strap, attach it to your jacket or
keep it in your backpack or purse and so conveniently take it anywhere with you. Ergonomic
models are available for children in fun colors designed especially for them.

    More info: http://www.imsmart.com

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i'm - http://www.imsmart.com

CONTACT: Press Office: Eleonora Cazzaro, eleonora@imsmart.com, +39-34-7414-3832, http://www.imsmart.com

HEX Debuts Axis Folio for iPad Mini and Hard Shell MacBook Cases at CES 2013

New Apple Accessories Fuse Fashion and Function for an Unmistakable Style Statement

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- HEX, award-winning fashionable techcessories brand, today announced the debut of its Axis Folio for iPad mini, and two new hard shell laptop cases at CES 2013 (Jan. 8-11). Featuring HEX's signature textiles, each new accessory offers a blend of thoughtful design and street wear sophistication that make an unmistakable style statement. CES attendees can check out the new lineup of HEX products, including a sneak peek at to-be-announced spring and summer collections, in the North Hall of the LVCC at booth #6422.

Proving that good things come in small packages, the Axis Folio for iPad mini ($69.95) is the ideal fusion of modern functionality and rich fabrics. The Axis Folio's slim design, flap pocket and built-in card slots allow users to get the most out of their mini case by removing the need for bulky wallets or money clips. Multiple viewing angles and a camera hole means users can capture and view what inspires the most with without having to press pause on their style. The Axis Folio for iPad mini is available in Torino black leather, Torino red leather, grey waxed denim with black coasted canvas trim, or charcoal with ivory pinstripe and tan faux leather trim. The HEX Axis Folio for the full size iPad ($79.95) is also available in the same fabrics.

In addition to tablet accessories, HEX is also unveiling a hard shell case for MacBook. In an innovative step, its designers combined premium waxed denim and canvas to a custom molded polycarbonate to bring texture and new appeal to laptop cases.  The hard shell MacBook cases ($59.95) are available in grey waxed denim, or blue, red and ivory cabana striped canvas.

"We want to provide consumers with products that are an extension of their personal style and reflect the fashion industry's increased adoption of the tech world," says Dan Maravilla, co-founder, HEX. "CES is the ideal platform to unveil these products and demonstrate how HEX products eliminate the need to choose between function and fashion when it comes to carrying the devices that help keep us connected."

The Axis Folio for iPad mini and hard shell cases for MacBook will be available beginning in February. For more information about any of these new products or HEX's extensive line of techcessories, visit http://www.shophex.com, or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Also check out the collection in action in the HEX Spring 2013 look book video.

About HEX
Established in 2010, HEX is proud to bring fashion forward thinking to the often mundane world of tech apparel and merchandise. With over 20 years of design roots in the fashion industry, HEX has not only come on the scene, but stolen it.  With a collection that showcases a stylish array of bags, wallets and cases, HEX has created some very innovative products, through fusing fashion with technology that will no doubt garner top-quality storage for all of your tech devices without damaging your style or street cred. We're here to serve... More information on HEX can be found on http://www.shophex.com, Facebook and Twitter.

SOURCE  HEX

HEX

CONTACT: Samantha Perez | Consumer Technology, Formula PR, Inc., Office +1-619-234-0345, Cell +1-310-947-1828, perez@formulapr.com

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

McGraw-Hill Education Unveils Suite of Adaptive Learning Products, Including First-Ever Adaptive E-Book, at 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show

New "LearnSmart Advantage" suite brings adaptive technology to new aspects of student learning experience; "SmartBook" revolutionizes reading

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at the International Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas, McGraw-Hill Education launched a suite of adaptive learning products for higher education that use advanced technological engines to improve learning and student performance. The new "LearnSmart Advantage" suite takes adaptive learning - one of the biggest trends in education in 2012 - beyond the realm of course study tools by using adaptive technology to provide more dynamic, personalized learning experiences across new aspects of the student learning experience. Included in the suite is SmartBook(TM), the world's first ever adaptive e-book, which revolutionizes college reading by focusing students' attention on the content that is most critical to their learning.

Adaptive learning is a method of education that seeks to personalize learning by using sophisticated algorithmic technology to continually assess students' knowledge, skill and confidence levels and design targeted study paths based on the resulting data to bolster students' understanding in the areas where they need to improve the most. By allowing students to focus their outside-of-class study time on the topics and concepts that are most challenging to them, adaptive learning has been shown to help students study more efficiently, develop greater proficiency and earn better grades. Adaptive learning also benefits instructors: By better preparing students for class, adaptive learning enables instructors to spend more time delving into advanced concepts and engaging students in high-level discussion.

The LearnSmart Advantage suite builds on the success of McGraw-Hill LearnSmart(TM), the company's industry leading adaptive study tool. With more than 1 million unique student users answering more than 1 billion questions through LearnSmart since its launch in 2009, McGraw-Hill Education has been able to use its unparalleled data and insights into how students learn to refine its adaptive capabilities and apply them to new areas of the learning experience - in effect creating a fully adaptive course. McGraw-Hill Education will make the LearnSmart Advantage suite available to students through instructors and institutions as well as through direct purchase.

"Since the launch of LearnSmart in 2009, we've developed a deep understanding of how personalized learning through adaptive technology helps improve student performance," said Brian Kibby, president of McGraw-Hill Higher Education. "Bringing our expertise and proven effectiveness in adaptive learning to new areas of the learning experience represents an enormous opportunity, both for McGraw-Hill Education and students, instructors and institutions across the country. With the launch of SmartBook and the rest of the LearnSmart Advantage suite, we continue to lead higher education in using adaptive technology to help improve student performance."

The following new products are joining LearnSmart in the LearnSmart Advantage suite:

    --  SmartBook - an adaptive e-book that creates a more efficient and
        effective reading experience by assessing students' knowledge and skill
        levels as they read and highlighting content that focuses their
        attention on the topics and concepts that they have yet to master.
        SmartBook represents a breakthrough achievement in reading, as it breaks
        the centuries-old tradition of books as linear experiences that presume
        to be read in their entirety, and in a pre-defined sequence, in order to
        be understood.
    --  LearnSmart Prep - a "before-the-course" adaptive resource designed to
        prepare students entering complex courses that are critical to the
        completion of their major or degree (such as Anatomy & Physiology,
        Organic Chemistry, or Majors Biology) with the knowledge and skills they
        need to be successful on day one of class. Students can also use
        LearnSmart Prep in the early weeks of a course to ensure that they are
        prepared for concepts and assignments that will come later in the
        course.
    --  LearnSmart Labs - a photo-realistic virtual lab experience that uses
        adaptive technology to enable meaningful scientific exploration and
        learning while eliminating many of the practical challenges of a
        physical lab setting. By allowing students to practice their experiments
        in a virtual lab setting, LearnSmart Labs allows students and
        instructors to maximize the valuable time spent in the physical
        laboratory. For online and blended courses, LearnSmart Labs offers the
        closest thing available to an actual physical laboratory experience,
        enabling students to put the concepts they have learned in class to the
        virtual test without requiring access to a brick-and-mortar lab.
    --  LearnSmart Achieve - a comprehensive adaptive learning system that
        pinpoints students' areas of weakness and supplies students with
        targeted content, including videos, interactive activities and
        additional readings. LearnSmart Achieve gives students on-the-spot
        tutoring at times when they may not have access to their professors and
        also provides a time management feature that guides students through the
        content and resources at a pace that is best for them.
The LearnSmart Advantage suite enables institutions to adopt adaptive learning as an institution-wide practice, creating a cycle of student performance improvement across disciplines and classes. McGraw-Hill Education also plans to offer the products in the LearnSmart Advantage suite available to students or their parents to purchase directly. The company entered the consumer market for adaptive technology in the summer of 2012 when it made LearnSmart for sale directly to students and parents.

LearnSmart Advantage Availability

    --  LearnSmart: Available immediately across more than 90 course areas.
    --  SmartBook: Available in the spring of 2013 across more than 90 course
        areas.
    --  LearnSmart Prep: Available immediately across six course areas.
    --  LearnSmart Labs: Available immediately for the following courses: Majors
        Biology, General Chemistry, Anatomy & Physiology, Microbiology, Organic
        Chemistry and Nutrition.
    --  LearnSmart Achieve: Available in beta in the spring of 2013 across more
        than 25 course areas.
All products in the LearnSmart Advantage suite will be available directly to students beginning at $19.99.

McGraw-Hill Education at CES
McGraw-Hill Higher Education will be demonstrating the LearnSmart Advantage suite at Pepcom's "Digital Experience!" event on Jan. 7. McGraw-Hill Education will be posting live tweets from the conference through its Twitter feeds (@MHEducation, @MHhighered). Additionally, Stephen Laster, McGraw-Hill Education's chief digital officer, will participate in the HigherEdTECH Summit at CES, a conference designed to bring together industry leaders to discuss how technology can positively impact higher education.

About McGraw-Hill Education
McGraw-Hill Education is a digital learning company that draws on its more than 100 years of educational expertise to offer solutions that improve learning outcomes around the world. McGraw-Hill Education is the adaptive education technology leader with the vision for creating a highly personalized learning experience that prepares students of all ages for the world that awaits.  The Company has offices across North America, India, China, Europe, the Middle East and South America, and makes its learning solutions available in more than 65 languages.  For additional information, visit http://www.mheducation.com.

Contacts:
Brian Belardi

McGraw-Hill Education

(212) 904-4827
brian_belardi@mcgraw-hill.com

Gerald Kimber White

RF|Binder for McGraw-Hill Education

(781) 455-8250
mhhighereducation@rfbinder.com

SOURCE  McGraw-Hill Education

McGraw-Hill Education

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

BusinessPartners.com Proudly Announces Launch of "Shark Tank" South Florida

BOCA RATON, Fla., Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BusinessPartners.com is proud to announce the sponsorship of its first "Shark Tank" of Palm Beach. Expanding on the format from the successful ABC reality TV show "Shark Tank" a group of elite investors from the community of Palm Beach are coming together to try and make a deal with local startups and established companies with no limit to capital available. This is just the beginning phase of launching a series of South Florida "Shark Tank" events in the spring of 2013 at the grass roots level where entrepreneurs will have the chance to pitch their business idea to top-qualified investors. You can stay up to date by checking their website and registering here:

Format:

You will be allowed a 10-15 minute presentation to a panel of qualified angel investors. This can be done by using video, power-point, written display, etc .. However, you must include financial forecasts. Each presenter has the right to ask for the terms they want.

Date:

The event is scheduled to take place in Manalapan, Florida in late April, 2013 at the Ritz Carlton.

Registration:

Registration is extremely limited at a maximum of 50 Presentations. The deadline for the first round of applications will be March 15, 2013. The 50 most promising applications will be chosen to move forward to the second round where they will be required to submit the entry fee of $299 within the 48 hours of being notified advancement into the second round. This will confirm the applicants spot. If no payment is made, the spot will be offered to the next runner up. The proceeds will go to local chosen minority businesses and conference room fees to the Ritz Carlton.  You will have to sign up for your free member account to reach the application page.

Learn more about BusinessPartners.com

BusinessPartners is a global Internet-based service that connects Entrepreneurs, Business Owners, Early Stage Companies, and Established Corporations with Angel Investors, Venture Capital Firms, Venture Capital Sources, Investment Funds, Investment Banks, Corporate Investors, Potential Business Partners, Strategic Alliances, Businesses for Sale, Business Consultants, and target data for Mergers and Acquisitions.

Media Contact Information

Kyle Trottier
Business Partners Marketing Director
+1-954-809-4513
1 West Camino Real
Suite #201
Boca Raton, Fl 33432
http://www.businesspartners.com
ktrottier@businesspartners.com

SOURCE  BusinessPartners.com

BusinessPartners.com

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

TOTSY Acquires Assets Of Mamasource

With acquisition, TOTSY grows to five million members and expands daily deal offerings

NEW YORK, Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TOTSY (http://www.TOTSY.com), a leading private sale site exclusively dedicated to delivering deals on must-haves for parents, babies and kids, announced today that the company has acquired the assets of Mamasource, Inc., a leading daily deal site for moms.

As a result of the acquisition, TOTSY will be adding the selection of high quality daily offers Mamasource members already enjoy to the great products and discounts offered on TOTSY every day. TOTSY will add over two million moms to its existing base, expanding TOTSY's membership to approximately five million members total. TOTSY will also integrate Mamasource's existing national vendor relationships and other fixed assets.

TOTSY will continue to partner with Mamapedia, which will continue to exist as a separate entity, and its MamaCares property for ongoing cross-promotional activities.

"We are delighted to welcome the Mamasource community to the TOTSY family. We look forward to providing our expanding group of member moms with the best daily deals and products. We feel adding Mamasource's curated list of national daily deals from trusted retailers and service providers will enhance our user experience and help us meet our goal of making moms' lives as easy as possible," commented Guillaume Gauthereau, Co-founder and CEO of TOTSY.

"The combination of TOTSY and Mamasource creates an amazing opportunity for moms and families to enjoy greater access to even more exclusive deals and products.  Mamasource has a long history of connecting our moms with high quality, high value merchants and products.  Joining the TOTSY team further enhances Mamasource's ability to continue to serve our mom and family community," commented Marc West, CEO of Mamasource.

Since its founding in 2009, TOTSY has been recognized as one of the fastest growing digital media companies in the U.S. In the past year, the company has been named as one of Forbes's Most Promising American Companies, one of AlwaysOn's OnMedia Top 100 Private Companies, and a NY regional finalist for the Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award. TOTSY continues its commitment to being the only green private sale site in the world by maintaining the corporate social responsibility practices applied at the company's founding and planting a tree for each family that shops on the site.

About TOTSY
Headquartered in New York, TOTSY is a privately held company dedicated to providing its members with access to essential products and brands designed for expecting moms, parents, babies and kids at sample sale prices. Shopping events are designer-specific and held over a 72 hour period. Membership is free of charge and by invitation only. For more information, please visit http://www.TOTSY.com.

About Mamasource
Headquartered in Palo Alto, Mamasource is one of the largest mom focused community and commerce sites on the Internet - serving over 4M monthly members.  Founded in 2005, our core community site - http://www.Mamapedia.com and Facebook pages http://www.facebook.com/mamapedia -  are where millions of moms have come to seeking wisdom and insights from other moms.  Our commerce site, http://www.Mamasource.com is where millions of moms come to find trusted, high quality products focused on helping them to live life better.   Membership is free of charge. For more information, please visit http://www.Mamasource.com.

SOURCE  TOTSY

TOTSY

CONTACT: Esther Koo, Southard Communications, +1-212-777-2220, esther@southardinc.com

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

Intradyn Launches New Archive Operating System for Appliances

Virtual appliance and remote backup technology for email archiving provides enhanced monitoring and search features with unlimited processing and storage capabilities.

MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn., Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Intradyn, an email archiving and eDiscovery expert, has announced that its Archive Operating System (AOS) 5.2 upgrade is now available. The product offers distributed searching capabilities, one-click contact viewing and enhanced monitoring and reporting.

The new operating system allows another RazorSafe Appliance to be added on for more archiving and backup storage space without having to replace the first unit or migrate its data. The user is notified when the RazorSafe Appliance for email archiving is running low on space and prevents it from overloading.

"AOS 5.2 works with our RazorSafe Appliance to infinitely expand the storage and processing capabilities," said Adnan Olia, chief operating officer of Intradyn. "Our new federated search feature lets the user seamlessly search for data across multiple units. Our storage expansion is augmented by equivalent processing power to satisfy the need for complex eDiscovery requests."

Another feature is a one-view contact so that users can see all of their archived Outlook email contacts, regardless of when or where they are saved in the company's archiving system. The new AOS 5.2 provides added stability and resilience to the data storage system over version 5.1. It is also available for the Intradyn flagship product Orca Virtual appliance using VMware.

About Intradyn: Founded in 2001, Intradyn (http://www.intradyn.com/) is a next-generation disk-based and virtual network backup, email archiving and eDiscovery appliance provider. The Minnesota-based company offers email storage and data backup strategies to small and large businesses through the Orca Virtual Appliance and the RazorSafe Appliance. Intradyn licenses its technology to private label companies in various markets and is used worldwide in the Americas, Middle East, Europe and Asia Pacific Rim.

SOURCE  Intradyn

Intradyn

CONTACT: Adnan Olia, Intradyn, 1-800-284-4156

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

MyrtleBeachSupermall.com Opens with More Than 30 Product Categories Available to its Consumers

BENNETTSVILLE, S.C., Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- South Carolina Internet Company Lightwood Enterprises LLC today announced the opening of its online affiliate shopping mall at http://www.MyrtleBeachSupermall.com.

As an affiliate retailer, the online shopping mall suggests a variety of top-selling products within more than 30 product categories. Categories include but are not limited to apparel, electronics, sporting goods, jewelry, watches, books, music, toys, games, personal care items and home goods.

The site's purpose is to limit the amount of time required of online shoppers to research various products and internet retailers, which Founder of MyrtleBeachSupermall.com, Joey Wright, states, "is especially important when it comes to making last minute online purchases." For added convenience, visitors of MyrtleBeachSupermall.com can search available products by typing keywords into the site's search bar.

Currently, the site's homepage displays top-selling movies, books and music for fast and convenient gift giving options.

Shipping and transactions are managed by the affiliate retailers of each product, but in most instances all major credit cards are accepted and items purchased can be shipped anywhere within the United States and Canada.

For more information on this new online shopping mall, visit http://www.MyrtleBeachSupermall.com.

SOURCE  Lightwood Enterprises LLC

Lightwood Enterprises LLC

CONTACT: Media: Michelle Boyd, +1-813-247-3278

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

Hisense U-LED Debuts at 2013 CES

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On January 8 in Las Vegas, Hisense unveiled its highly-anticipated "U-LED" TV at CES, the world's largest consumer electronics exhibition.

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Building on the LED display, U-LED (the "U" is for Ultra, defining the display's superior contrast, definition and color gamut, among other features) achieves unprecedented display effects through software and hardware optimization, delivering better contrast, wider color gamut, higher definition and faster speed. At the expo, journalists found that U-LED far outperforms LED in terms of dark field, image quality and color gamut when displaying the same content.

New products on display at the 2013 CES confirmed the overall acceptance and industry wide move towards TVs that are increasingly widescreen and HD as well as application systems-intelligent. Considering the inability of large-scale commercialization of super-HD OLED and UHD TVs due to the high prices, Hisense's U-LED can match OLED TVs in terms of quality at a price only slightly higher than a LED TV's. Following the 2013 CES, Hisense's U-LED will be available in Central America to meet demands of high-end users.

Hisense's U-LED is expected to be honored with the "Display Technology Innovation Award for Year 2012" at CES.

For more information, please visit us at Hisense booth: No. 7243, Central Hall, LVCC.

Or you can visit: http://www.hisense.com, http://www.hisense-usa.com.

About Hisense:

The high-tech enterprise Hisense was founded in China in 1969 and is a world leading provider of flat panel TVs, household appliances and mobile communication devices. It is recognized as a global top 10 player by business intelligence industry and research institutions. With 17 production facilities and seven R&D centers around the globe, it has regional headquarters in Europe, North America, Australia, Africa, and Southeast Asia and its products are sold in more than 130 countries.

For more information, contact:
Fiona Xiao
PR Specialist
(86)532-8087-7003
marketing@hisense.com

SOURCE  Hisense

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Hisense