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ARI Announces Integration of WebsiteSmart(TM) with CycleTrader.com

Integration enables WebsiteSmart(TM) subscribers to automatically upload vehicle inventory

MILWAUKEE, Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ARI Network Services, Inc. (OTCBB: ARIS), a leader in creating, marketing, and supporting SaaS and DaaS solutions that connect consumers, dealers, distributors, and manufacturers in selected vertical markets, announced today that ARI has been named an official inventory feed provider for CycleTrader.com. CycleTrader.com is one of the nation's most popular classified sites to buy and sell new and used motorcycles.

The integration with CycleTrader is an optional add-on to ARI's WebsiteSmart solution. Dealers can now easily synchronize inventory listings between their ARI website and CycleTrader. The integration also includes the ability to upload inventory to ATVTrader.com, PWCTrader.com and SnowmobileTraderonline.com.

"We're excited to provide our WebsiteSmart customers with the ability to automatically upload inventory to CycleTrader," said Brad Smith, Director of Product Management at ARI. "The integration will help ARI customers save valuable time and sell more products. We're confident that dealers will welcome this addition and will quickly see direct bottom-line results."

"We had been uploading our bike inventory to CycleTrader manually. When ARI presented us the option to integrate our website with CycleTrader, we jumped at the opportunity," said Matt Mechling, owner of Interstate Cycle, Inc., Cornelius, N.C. "WebsiteSmart's new integration has not only improved the accuracy of our listings and our overall efficiency, but has also saved us a great deal of time and effort. That means that our bikes hit CycleTrader faster, and that translates into quicker sales."

About Cycle Trader
CycleTrader is the premier online powersports marketplace. With more than 170,000 vehicles available, CycleTrader offers the widest selection of powersports vehicles online, connecting buyers and sellers to new and used motorcycles, ATVs, PWCs, and snowmobiles. CycleTrader is a division of Dominion Powersports, a subsidiary of Dominion Enterprises. For more information, visit http://www.CycleTrader.com. 

About ARI
ARI Network Services, Inc. ("ARI" or the "Company") is a leader in creating, marketing, and supporting software, software as a service ("SaaS") and data as a service ("DaaS") solutions that enhance revenue and reduce costs for our customers. Our innovative, technology-enabled solutions connect the community of consumers, dealers, distributors, and manufacturers to help our customers efficiently service and sell more whole goods, parts, garments, and accessories ("PG&A") worldwide in selected vertical markets that include power sports, outdoor power equipment, marine, and white goods. We estimate that approximately 18,000 equipment dealers, 125 manufacturers, and 150 distributors worldwide leverage our technology to drive revenue, gain efficiencies and increase customer satisfaction.

For more information on ARI, please visit http://www.arinet.com.

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For more information, contact:
Jon Lintvet, Chief Marketing Officer
Phone: (757) 233-8357
Email: Lintvet@arinet.com

Investor Contact:
Joe Dorame, Robert Blum, Joe Diaz
Lytham Partners, LLC
Phone: (602) 889-9700
Email: aris@lythampartners.com

SOURCE  ARI Network Services, Inc.

ARI Network Services, Inc.

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

Myriad Interactive Media Acquires Social Media Technology

Myriad Interactive Media Inc. completes Social Media Technology Acquisition

TORONTO and LAS VEGAS, Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Myriad Interactive Media, Inc. (OTCQB: MYRY) CEO Derek Ivany is pleased to announce the Company has acquired a unique social media technology called Mingle from a technology firm based in Toronto, Canada.

"We are excited to announce that we've completed the letter of intent to acquire this innovative social media application that combines popular social media networks like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and YouTube into one place.  This will allow for seamless integration and ease of use for corporate clients looking for both, an all-in-one solution for social media management, and a unique search engine optimization tool equipped with sophisticated analytics."

The application also allows users to connect photo sharing sites like Flickr and Facebook Albums, high definition video from Vimeo and quality blogging & seo solutions powered by Wordpress.  Myriad plans to integrate Pinterest and some other popular social sharing solutions in the near future.

Myriad's CEO who praised the technology and the need for quality social media marketing for small business says, "Social media continues to dominate headlines. We plan to join those headlines for all the right reasons when we officially launch this new exciting application."

Ivany says, "Myriad is making final development and coding upgrades to the acquired software and we plan to unveil this new innovative application within the next month.  With similar applications approaching valuations between $500-million and still rapidly growing, we know we are in the right space." 

Myriad also plans to unveil a presentation of the technological features within the next couple of weeks. "We have worked very hard to close this deal and with very favorable terms for our investors. In the past we have provided development expertise to the staff at Mingle, which definitely helped in making a smooth and friendly transaction for both parties."

About Myriad Interactive Media, Inc.

Myriad Interactive Media is an interactive marketing and development firm based in Toronto, Canada. Myriad designs and develops customized marketing plans, social media marketing campaigns, pay per click, and search engine marketing. Our company also develops in house web & mobile applications.

Myriad Interactive Media Inc. is a public company quoted on the OTCQB under the symbol MYRY.  For more information, please visit us at http://www.myriadim.com

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Contacts:

Myriad Interactive Media Inc.

http://www.myriadim.com
Investor Relations: 1-800-427-1103
info@myriadim.com
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SOURCE  Myriad Interactive Media, Inc.

Myriad Interactive Media, Inc.

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

TOA Technologies to Highlight Field Service Management Solutions for Cable Operators of All Sizes at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo

Global provider of mobile workforce management software will demonstrate how to build highly efficient field workforces that extend superior customer service from the sales floor to the customer's door

CLEVELAND, Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TOA Technologies will demonstrate its applications for better mobile workforce and customer experience management at the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) Cable-Tec Expo, October 17-19 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. Exhibiting at booth 904, TOA Technologies will show that sophisticated field service management is within reach for cable operators of all sizes.

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At the expo, TOA Technologies will showcase the latest addition to its ETAdirect suite of mobile workforce management solutions. Launched globally in June 2012, ETAdirect Professional distills the power of ETAdirect Enterprise in an affordable application that can deploy in only four weeks. For small and mid-size cable operators, ETAdirect Professional offers a fast, yet powerful solution to increase field workforce productivity, reduce costs and enhance customer service.

"Our goal is to enable the cable industry to provide Service Everywhere(TM)," said Yuval Brisker, co-founder and CEO of TOA Technologies. "To us this means that it doesn't matter where you are or what device you are using - it is all about availability and advanced tools connecting people to provide the ultimate in customer service everywhere."

"TOA has a long history of partnering with the leading MSOs, enabling streamlined operations with an easy to deploy, easy to manage and easy to use solution. For example, seven of the top 11 U.S. pay TV providers depend on our sophisticated field service management solutions to drive results in their business and stay competitive. With ETAdirect Professional, we've extended the best practices learned by partnering with large enterprises like DISH Network, Cox Communications, Bright House Networks and Suddenlink to mid-sized, small and regional cable operators."

"Now, organizations of any size can achieve more efficient field services using our patented, time-based and predictive technology. TOA's ETAdirect is the only mobile workforce management solution that measures time to create performance pattern profiles for each individual field employee. These profiles are then applied to predict, with a high degree of accuracy, when an appointment will occur. The result is truly optimized workforces that are more efficient, achieve cost savings and deliver more satisfied customers due to shorter appointment windows and consistent communication throughout the entire process."

At booth 904, TOA Technologies' experts will be available to consult with operators on how they can leverage the power of cloud-based, predictive, context-aware technology to improve the productivity of their field services and create a superior experience for their customers.

The company's representatives will also participate in SCTE's educational track. In the panel session, "Next Generation Training," Michael Wierzbowski, vice president of solution innovation at TOA Technologies, will discuss how to enable and educate the mobile workforce with the most effective training tools for the changing cable landscape. This session, designed to help operations leaders realize the maximum potential of field workforces through the use of technology, is scheduled for Friday, October 19, 2:30 - 3:45 p.m. in room W311A.

TOA Technologies will also be represented at the Communications Technology Platinum Awards breakfast. TOA is one of four award finalists in the OSS/BSS deployment category; winners will be announced at the event. Platinum Awards are presented for excellence in technology innovation, implementation and marketing in the highly competitive broadband communications technology arena.

For more information about TOA Technologies and its proven solutions, visit http://www.toatech.com.

About TOA Technologies
TOA Technologies is the leading provider of mobile workforce management applications. ETAdirect, TOA's patented platform, improves customer service while dramatically reducing operational costs and delivering immediate and lasting return on investment. As the industry's only complete on-demand solution, ETAdirect uses time-based pattern recognition and predictive analytics to provide the most advanced and accurate field service management application on the market. ETAdirect reduces customer wait times while increasing field workforce efficiency. TOA's solutions are cloud-based, quickly deployed, highly configurable and easily integrated with existing CRM, ERP and other solutions.

Across four continents, ETAdirect manages mobile workforces for some of the world's most recognizable global brands in the satellite/cable/broadband, telecom, utilities, insurance, home services and retail industries. Named Best of Breed and a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Field Service Management, 2011, TOA Technologies is headquartered in the United States and has offices throughout Europe, Latin America and Australasia.

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216.902.8547
kayleigh.fitch@toatech.com

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Revolutionary Mouse Design Nominated for "Best Work Environment Product"

STOCKHOLM, October 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

    Penclic AB has been nominated for the Swedish Best Work Environment Product Award
[http://www.duochjobbet.se/tavling/vilken-arbetsmiljoprodukt-ar-bast ], which will be
presented by Swedish Trade Journal Du & Jobbet at this year's edition of the Working Life
convention [http://workinglife.se ], held at Stockholm Waterfront on October 17th. The
nominees have been singled out by user voting on the Du & Jobbet website.

    Penclic is nominated with its innovative Penclic computer mouse
[http://www.penclic.se/penclic-mus/penclic-mouse/?lang=en ], a complete rethink of the
traditional mouse device. Similar in shape to a standing pen in a holder, the Penclic
mouse allows a more natural and relaxed working position, which results in significantly
reduced tension and wear on arm muscles and shoulders, often ascribed to extensive work
with computer mice.

    "We are very happy to have been nominated," says Penclic CEO, Stina Wahlqvist. "Apart
from being a welcomed recognition of our long and hard labour with the product, the
nomination also presents an excellent opportunity to increase awareness about our device's
many advantages over the traditional mouse, both ergonomically and precision-wise."

    The Penclic mouse's ergonomic benefits are achieved by eliminating the need for the
unnatural, twirling arm movements associated with traditional mice. The pen-shaped design
extends the body's natural movements, allowing the user to work with the underarm kept
linear, in a rested, flat position against the work surface.

    But the advantages go beyond ergonomics. The device not only looks, feels and moves
like a pen, but it also has a pen-like grip that provides a level of precision that makes
it well-suited for demanding creative tasks such as photography, design and architecture.
Advanced technology in combination with the ergonomic design delivers fast and precise
cursor movements with minimal effort and hand motion.

    The Penclic mouse is compatible with all operating systems that support HID 1.1, among
these Windows XP, MacOS X and Linux/BND. It is available in two models: with USB
connection and wireless.

    The Best Work Environment Product Award, being held for the first time, looks to
recognise and reward innovations that contribute to a better and safer work environment.
The winner will be announced at the prize ceremony at Stockholm Waterfront on Wednesday,
October 17th at 11.55am.

    For further information about Penclic, please contact:

    Penclic at +46-8-544-98-995, contact@penclic.se, http://www.penclic.se

Penclic AB

TagLikeMe Corp.'s Planned News Product Introduction Seen As Step Toward Major Revenue Opportunities

LONDON, Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TagLikeMe Corp.'s ("TagLikeMe" or "the Company") (OTCQB:TAGG, Frankfurt M6C1; WKN A1JZ03), plans to introduce a new, socially enabled news product to be integrated with its social search and sharing platform TagLikeMe.com, are revealing what management believes is a direct path to significant revenue opportunities for the Company.

TagLikeMe.com is a new, shared social information network that allows individuals or groups to search, tag (or bookmark) and share all forms of digital content privately or publicly using cloud based technology. Its next-generation search and share technology has powerful features for collaborating search and sharing all online digital content from a single location.

The Company's planned news product, which could allow individuals to monitor, interact with and even shape the publishing of news and trending information, is expected to be the first of its kind in the social media space.

"What TagLikeMe plans to bring to the news arena is something very different and potentially very, very lucrative," states Richard Elliot-Square, President and CEO of TagLikeMe Corp. "Our core product is meant to bring people together over searching and sharing. It's a logical next step to share what you find with a much bigger audience - namely the world. We have envisioned a new kind of socially integrated news service; one that is influenced by and indexed to what news people want indexed to social relevance."

"Imagine an instant visual blog, where you could scan images from hundreds of trending stories and then select items of interest to receive all relevant information - blogs, videos, social media and search engine data - all at once. That's a tremendously powerful thing."

"We are convinced that the news and publishing product can become one of the Company's major revenue sources," adds Elliot-Square. "It can be monetized simply through the use of advertising space - even incorporating simple conventional concepts such as Google adwords, which would work perfectly in this framework."

Several leading web social properties have recently announced paid sponsorship for news publishing within sites as a means of developing revenue. Facebook already sells news advertising and just announced sponsored ads in Facebook newsfeeds.

Management expects to announce the introduction of the news product for both TagLikeMe.com and in mobile app versions of TagLikeMe, which are emerging on all three mobile platforms in Q4 2012.

About TagLikeMe Corp.

TagLikeMe Corp. owns and operates TagLikeMe.com, an Internet services platform that combines the most commonly used functions of search and social media interaction in one destination. TagLikeMe.com allows individuals to search the Internet by using the top three search engines of Yahoo(TM), Bing(TM) and Google(TM), in addition to viewing related activities from popular social media based sites such as Facebook(TM), YouTube(TM), Twitter(TM) and Wikipedia(TM) in a single search inquiry. It also gives searchers the opportunity to connect, chat and share with others worldwide that might be searching similar topics. This adds a much-needed human element to search and online social interaction.

For more information see http://www.TagLikeMeCorp.com.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information

This press release may contain certain "forward-looking statements" relating to the business of TagLikeMe Corp.. All statements, other than statements of historical fact included herein are "forward-looking statements" including statements regarding the advantages of TagLikeMe's products and services, anticipated advantages resulting from the merger, whether funding anticipated from completing the merger will result,, successful completion and development of the social media component of the business and its market acceptance, the business strategy, plans and objectives of the Company and TagLikeMe Corp.; and any other statements of non-historical information. These forward-looking statements are often identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "believes," "expects", "intended" or similar expressions, involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, they do involve assumptions, risks and uncertainties, and these expectations may prove to be incorrect. Investors should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. The Company's actual results and ultimate corporate actions could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of factors, including the perception of investors of the newly merged company and their willingness to fund this newly public company, the demand for a social media site and viability of it for advertising, new products and services developed by other companies, market share garnered by competitors, ability to maintain customer and vendor relationships, and those factors discussed in the Company's periodic reports that are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available on its website (http://www.sec.gov), among other factors. All forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by these factors. Other than as required under the securities laws, the Company does not assume a duty to update these forward-looking statements.

SOURCE  TagLikeMe Corp.

TagLikeMe Corp.

CONTACT: Investor Relations, +44.207.290.6919

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

Skyera Introduces Full Software Suite

SEOS solid-state operating system simplifies enterprise storage

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Skyera Inc., founded by an executive and engineering team with unsurpassed backgrounds in the solid-state, storage and networking arenas, today introduced its SEOS(TM) solid-state operating system that optimizes the hardware, storage and data management capabilities of its purpose-built Skyhawk enterprise storage system.

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Unlike other Flash storage software offerings, many of the SEOS performance features are integrated directly into the system hardware, eliminating overhead and increasing overall performance. Skyera's vertically integrated hardware/software stack minimizes communication and workflow between the system, RAID and Flash controllers, and eliminates the unnecessary APIs found between typical off the shelf storage operating system layers.

"Skyera's innovation - and thus the source of its differentiation - is that it is able to tightly integrate up and down the technology stack, which is different to typical flash implementations and results in improved overall system performance" said Mark Peters, senior analyst at Enterprise Storage Group. "The combination of hardware, storage and data management through an operating system that is designed to bring out the best in each truly does make the sum greater than its parts."

SEOS comprises three distinct stack-aware technology management layers: solid-state hardware, storage, and data.

Solid-state hardware management

The SEOS solid-state hardware management layer is more than the typical Flash translation layer. Features like hardware compression and de-duplication provide performance-critical functionality, while the proprietary RAID-SE offers better reliability than RAID-6 with three times less writes to the Flash storage to minimize wear. Additional hardware management features include AES encryption, adaptive reads/writes, and Flash physics manipulation.

Storage Management

Skyera has simplified storage management Quality of Service administration, set up and maintenance with the introduction of three easy-to-understand storage pools, each offering different Service Level Agreements. LUNs created in the Gold pool will support capacity "reserved" for each LUN and I/O bandwidth up to Skyhawk's physical capacity. Silver pool LUNs will support "reserved" capacity with a "best-effort" per-LUN I/O bandwidth. Bronze pool storage capacity and I/O bandwidth is provisioned on a best-effort basis. Additionally, thin provisioning allows sufficient capacity for servers while reducing file system management on the host side. SEOS also supports dynamic LUN resizing, Flash data recovery, wear-leveling, as well as full performance and usage statistics.

Data Management

SEOS provides advanced data management capabilities to satisfy the exacting requirements of next-generation enterprise computing. By integrating data management tools into the stack, Skyera ensures business-critical information remains as accessible and secure while maximizing application response times. SEOS data management features include no overhead instant snapshots, consistency groups, writeable clones, data encryption at rest. In addition, a robust GUI and CLI interfaces are provided for both storage and data management.

"We meant it when we said that we were developing a mainstream enterprise solid-state storage solution from the ground up," said Radoslav Danilak, CEO and co-founder of Skyera. "A true solid-stage storage solution must be more than simply sticking Flash media and controllers in a box. We understand the expectations that companies today have for their storage systems and we plan on exceeding those expectations with Skyhawk. With the announcement of our SEOS solid-state operating system, we have combined hardware, storage and data management into a truly revolutionary solution that provides the best performance, cost and power consumption attributes."

Skyera will be demonstrating Skyhawk and the SEOS solid-state operating system at Storage Network World in Booth 413, October 17(th) and 18(th) in Santa Clara, CA. For more information or to arrange an evaluation, contact Skyera at (408) 954-8100, or via email at sales@skyera.com.

Follow Skyera:
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http://www.youtube.com/skyerainc

About Skyera

Skyera Inc. is an emerging provider of enterprise solid-state storage systems designed to enable a large class of applications with extraordinarily high performance, exceptionally lower power consumption and cost effectiveness relative to existing enterprise storage systems. Founded by the executives who previously developed the world's most-advanced flash memory controller, Skyera is backed by key technology and financial partnerships designed to position it at the forefront of the hyper growth in the solid-state storage sector. The company was featured in the Gartner report "Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2012" and was chosen by Flash Memory Summit as a Best of Show award winner for 2012 in the category of Most Innovative Flash Memory Enterprise Business Application. For more information about the company, visit skyera.com.

CONTACT:
Mark Smith
JPR Communications
818-884-8282, ext. 22
marks@jprcom.com
Skype: jprmark

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Prophet Acquires Digital Firm, Supporting Global Capabilities Growth

LONDON, Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Prophet has acquired the digital agency, Material Group, a move that is expected to further enrich its capabilities and help drive continued growth in the U.K.

The Chicago-based digital design and development studio designs and activates social media initiatives, websites, mobile apps, and touch screen kiosks. Its clients have included Samsung, McDonald's, SC Johnson, Starbucks, and Electronic Arts.

The acquisition reflects Prophet's growing digital fluency and expertise. This encompasses digital strategies in and of themselves, as well as digital's role as a lens for viewing "big picture" client issues, said Michael Dunn, Chief Executive Officer of Prophet.

He added: "Digital fluency is key to ensuring digital is doing the job of advancing customer engagement and encouraging shared storytelling. It also helps inform its use as a sales channel, and informs thinking about return on digital investments."

Rune Gustafson, head of Prophet's EMEA operations, noted: "Our business and brand-driven approach is geared to help our clients exploit new avenues for growth. Material Group and its capabilities will have a strong impact in our London office."

Prophet is a strategic brand and marketing consultancy with offices around the world including Zurich, Berlin and London.  It helps leading companies better leverage their brands and marketing to grow and transform their business. Prophet has worked with such preeminent clients as eBay, BWM, Zurich Financial and Swarovski on a broad scope of projects in its areas of expertise: brand, marketing, innovation, design, digital and analytics.

Media contact: Johanna Hennig, jhennig@prophet.com; +49 30 847 107 815

Prophet

Panasas Signs Technology Partnership With Hortonworks

Joint Agreement to Accelerate Adoption of Hadoop in the High Performance Technical Computing Markets

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Panasas, Inc., the leader in high performance parallel storage for technical computing applications and big data workloads, today announced a technology partnership with Hortonworks, a leading commercial vendor promoting the innovation, development, and support of Apache Hadoop.  As part of the agreement, Panasas will become a member of the Hortonworks Technology Partner Program, which was formed to accelerate the growth of a vibrant Apache Hadoop ecosystem through technology collaboration, technical support, joint testing and evangelism.

"Panasas is eager to work with Hortonworks, a premier company in the space, to develop technologies that will allow the rapid adoption of Apache Hadoop in technical computing markets," said Barbara Murphy, chief marketing officer at Panasas. "Our shared purpose is to help our customers obtain business value from their data quickly and easily."

The two companies will work together to ensure compatibility between the Hortonworks Data Platform and Panasas parallel storage products, as well as on future technologies, to improve the ability to move data on and off dedicated Hadoop clusters to a highly available, long-term storage appliance like Panasas® ActiveStor(TM). Panasas has delivered high performance storage systems to big data markets since 2004 and is currently working on enhancements to Apache Hadoop to improve interoperability with external storage.

"The rapid adoption of Hadoop in technical computing environments is driving the need for greater interoperability between various storage platforms, file systems and Hadoop applications," said Mitch Ferguson, vice president of business development at Hortonworks. "Panasas is an established leader in parallel file systems and the expertise it will bring to Hadoop will be invaluable."

About Panasas
Panasas, Inc., the leader in high performance parallel storage for technical computing applications and big data workloads, enables customers to rapidly solve complex computing problems, speed innovation and accelerate new product introduction. All Panasas storage products leverage the patented PanFS(TM) storage operating system to deliver superior performance, data protection, scalability and manageability. Panasas systems are optimized for demanding storage environments in the bioscience, energy, finance, government, manufacturing, and university markets. For more information, visit http://www.panasas.com.

About Hortonworks
Hortonworks is a leading commercial vendor of Apache Hadoop, the preeminent open source platform for storing, managing, and analyzing big data. Our distribution, Hortonworks Data Platform powered by Apache Hadoop, provides an open and stable foundation for enterprises and a growing ecosystem to build and deploy big data solutions. Hortonworks is the trusted source for information on Hadoop and together with the Apache community, Hortonworks is making Hadoop more robust and easier to install, manage, and use. For more information, visit http://www.hortonworks.com.

©2012 Panasas, Inc. Panasas, the Panasas logo, PanFS, and ActiveStor are registered trademarks or trademarks of Panasas, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective holders.

SOURCE  Panasas, Inc.

Panasas, Inc.

CONTACT: James McIntyre, McClenahan Bruer Communications, +1-503-546-1000, panasas@mcbru.com

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

Clustrix and GoGrid Partner to Combine the Elasticity of the Cloud with the Power of a Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS)

Best-of-breed companies share a commitment to performance, reliability, flexibility, and transparency

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Clustrix, the scale-out SQL database for Big Data applications, and GoGrid, a leading cloud infrastructure company, today announced a partnership to make it easier for customers worldwide to use Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solutions.

"GoGrid has a similar transparent approach to its pricing and services as well as a distributed, high-performance cloud," said Robin Purohit, CEO of Clustrix. "The timing of this partnership is perfect as we recently introduced a Flash-storage-based (SSD), fault-tolerant and self-healing distributed architecture to extend Clustrix's scalability, performance, and availability to the cloud. Then we added on-demand database administration (DBA) coupled with a simplified pricing structure. Now, customers will have the best of both worlds: the elasticity of the GoGrid cloud plus the power of the Clustrix DBaaS."

"It's rewarding to partner with a company like Clustrix that shares so many of our core values, including giving buyers and users of our offerings the benefit of predictability, superior performance, and reliability," said John Keagy, CEO and founder of GoGrid. "By providing the scalability and flexibility of a cloud-based business model, we help our partners better service the needs of customers."

About the Clustrix and GoGrid Partnership
The partnership provides customers with a new flexible and integrated platform for the deployment and delivery of transactional web-scale applications and Big Data solutions providing unprecedented performance, scale, and fault tolerance -- all within the GoGrid cloud.

Multiplicative benefits derive from combining collocated Clustrix scale-out database appliances with GoGrid's industry-leading cloud architecture. This partnership allows cloud applications to obtain secure, seamless, low-latency access to private dedicated MySQL-compliant Clustrix database clusters of massive scale and automated fault tolerance and self-healing capabilities.

Together, the GoGrid and Clustrix combination delivers the highest end-to-end performance, scalability, and availability, which results in a superior quality of service from front-end web servers, to applications, to back-end databases/models.

This new DBaaS offering is available immediately on a monthly subscription basis with Clustrix's DBA-on-Demand support and its included database backup service. For more information on the Clustrix DBaaS, visit: http://www.clustrix.com

About GoGrid
GoGrid is the world's #1 pure-play infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider specializing in Public Cloud and Private Cloud infrastructure solutions. Currently powering thousands of customers globally, GoGrid makes complex infrastructure easy by enabling businesses to revolutionize their IT environments with the cloud. In just minutes, GoGrid customers can deploy and begin managing applications and workloads on our proven, secure, and reliable Public Cloud platform. With GoGrid's Public Cloud and Private Cloud offerings, sysadmins, developers, and IT professionals create, deploy, and control cloud environments and complex virtual and physical server networks with full administrative control; with GoGrid's Private Cloud customers utilize a private, hosted and managed, single-tenant environment with zero capital expenditure. To further leverage the GoGrid cloud, the GoGrid Exchange provides users with an evolving ecosystem of cloud solutions from GoGrid's partner community. GoGrid is proud to have been recognized as a "Visionary" two years in a row by Gartner and as a "Champion" by Info-Tech Research Group in 2011 and 2012. For more information, please visit http://www.gogrid.com.

About Clustrix
Clustrix is the scale-out SQL database for Big Data applications. Clustrix provides a radically simple SQL database that enables applications to scale to unlimited users, transactions and data, while eliminating database sharding and automating fault tolerance. More than 125 Clustrix nodes are in production in web applications around the globe, with more than 500 billion transactions per month running through Clustrix databases worldwide. Customers include Symantec, AOL, MakeMyTrip, Photobox, and Massive Media.

Clustrix has its headquarters in San Francisco, with branch offices in Seattle and London. It was founded and is led by executives from companies such as Isilon, AOL, HP, Mercury Interactive and VERITAS, and it is backed by Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) and ATA Ventures. To learn more about Clustrix, visit http://www.clustrix.com, http://www.facebook.com/clustrix or http://www.twitter.com/clustrix/.

Clustrix is trademarked in the U.S. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. Other product or company names mentioned may be trademarks or trade names of their respective companies.

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CONTACT: Clustrix: Leigh Anne Varney and Lisa Sheeran, Varney Business Communication, la@varneybusiness.com; sheeran@earthlink.net, +1-415-387-7250; GoGrid: Michael Sheehan. +1-415-869-7446, pr@gogrid.com

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

Booking.com Enables Passbook on Latest Release of iPhone App

Booking.com customers can now access their bookings all in one place from their iPhone or iPod touch

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Booking.com announces today that the latest release of its iPhone app has a new feature: Passbook. Passbook allows users to easily access their hotel and accommodation bookings, along with entry tickets, boarding passes and much more all in one place. Adding Passbook to the app builds upon the seamless multi-device experience Booking.com strives to deliver to its growing base of over 10 million iPhone and iPod touch users. The latest version of the Booking.com iPhone app was released today and can be downloaded for free from the iTunes store.

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"I am very pleased that we can offer our iPhone users Passbook to conveniently book and manage their stay. We already see today that over 54 percent of people visiting our mobile website with iOS 6 use Passbook, so we believe our new app will greatly contribute to their overall booking experience," said Darren Huston, Chief Executive Officer Booking.com. "Today, we already have more than 10 million mobile app users who can potentially benefit from Passbook and that number is growing rapidly."

Passbook

Customers can now add their booking confirmations to Passbook. Because Passbook is both time and location aware, confirmations and tickets show up on the customers' iPhone Lock Screen when and where needed. A user only needs to swipe to access them. Passbook is one of the newest features available in Apple's recently released iOS 6 operating system.

Easier, faster booking on the go

Booking.com customers can access searched and viewed hotels and destinations at any time on any device. Once signed-in to their account, information gets stored in the cloud which allows customers easier and faster booking.

Huston added: "Our data and research show that people are increasingly using multiple devices to search, book, and enjoy accommodations. Either at home, at work, or while traveling. We focus our efforts on creating the best seamless user experience for our customers, so we can support them end-to-end regardless of the devices they choose to use on their journey."

Booking.com has recently added a lot of new functionalities to the app that help customers once the booking is done:

    --  Booking modifications can easily be done by clicking on the button which
        automatically connects to Booking.com's customer service available in 41
        languages.
    --  Customers will receive a push notification just before their stay to
        have easy access to their booking confirmation.
    --  Once the guest has arrived, they don't need an internet connection to
        see everything they need: the accommodation address, phone number and
        all other booking information is easily accessible on their mobile
        device.
    --  When connected to the Internet, guests can easily use the integrated
        route planner upon their arrival to find their way the easy way.
    --  Upon check-in, guests can just show their Passbook or digital
        confirmation to facilitate a simple paperless check-in.
iPhone, iPod touch, Passbook and iTunes are trademarks of Apple, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. More information about Booking.com's iPhone app can be found here.

About Booking.com

With over 15 years of experience and over 4,500 dedicated employees in over 70 offices worldwide, Booking.com is the world's leading online hotel and accommodation reservation company.  Booking.com B.V., part of the Priceline Group (NASDAQ: PCLN), owns and operates Booking.com(TM), attracting over 30 million unique visitors each month via the Internet from both leisure and business markets around the globe.

Established in 1996, Booking.com guarantees the best prices for any type of property, ranging from small independents to five-star luxury. The Booking.com website is available in 41 languages, offers over 244,000 hotels in 177 countries and includes over 17 million real reviews from real guests. Guests do not pay booking fees - ever. The company has its own in-house 24/7 available customer service team to assist guests in the best possible way. The most recent information about the company is available on http://www.booking.com.

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CONTACT: Anoeska van Leeuwen, Director Corporate Communications of BOOKING.COM B.V., + 31 20 715 8476, mediarelations@booking.com

Good Technology Enhances Mobile Collaboration Solution with Secure File Sharing, SharePoint Access and Instant Messaging for Mobile Enterprises

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Good Technology(TM), the leader in secure enterprise mobility, today announced two new additions to its Mobile Collaboration solution--Good Share(TM) and Good Connect(TM)--which allow mobile workers to access SharePoint and other corporate file shares, send secure instant messages, edit documents and send and receive email, all in a seamless, secure workflow.  Together with the Good Dynamics® ecosystem of secure business productivity applications, Good's Mobile Collaboration solution allows enterprise IT leaders to effectively:

    --  Increase employee productivity with a secure, end-to-end mobile
        collaboration workflow.
    --  Provide flexibility and app choice to mobile workers, without
        compromising data security.
    --  Reduce the cost and complexity of managing collaboration apps by using a
        single, integrated infrastructure.
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"There's no question that today's workforce is mobile. Enterprises looking to make their employees more productive and effective, better communicate with partners and service their customers need a new approach to collaboration that emphasizes mobility, productivity, and real-time access from any device," said John Herrema, SVP Corporate Strategy, Good Technology.  "With the addition of Good Share and Good Connect, Good now provides the only complete mobile collaboration solution that is fully secure and compliant."

Good's improved Mobile Collaboration solution includes:

    --  Good Share: A secure mobile file sharing and data syncing technology
        that builds on the Copiun TrustedShare(TM) technology to enable business
        workers to easily access, sync and share enterprise information located
        on SharePoint or other file repositories from anywhere, at any time,
        using their mobile phone or tablet.
    --  Good Connect: An instant messaging client that safely and securely
        routes instant messages from behind the firewall, to mobile devices
        using FIPS-certified AES encryption libraries to protect sensitive
        business communications. Good Connect lets employees collaborate with
        colleagues in real-time, as well as view availability, send and receive
        secure instant messages, initiate a phone call or send a secure email
        with just one tap.
    --  Good for Enterprise(TM): Good's award-winning secure email and browser
        application, seamlessly interoperates with Good Share and Good Connect,
        to provide workers with secure access to corporate email and PIM data,
        Intranet portals, and Web-based enterprise apps.
    --  Good Dynamics Partner Apps: Built on the Good Dynamics® platform, the
        Good Dynamics ecosystem of partner applications provide secure, managed
        productivity applications that extend Good's Mobile Collaboration
        solution to include document editing, PDF annotation, and public cloud
        storage.  Leading productivity applications such as iAnnotate, Picsel,
        Good Reader(1), Box and NetDocuments leverage Good Dynamics
        AppKinetics(TM) - Good's patent pending app-to-app secure data exchange
        technology - to enable seamless workflow and data protection.
"As the leading publisher of consumer enthusiast magazines such as Black Belt, Yoga Journal, and Backpacker, collaboration is critically important, and Good makes it easy for our employees to consult with their colleagues, ignite discussions, work on deliverables with a team, and share materials from anywhere with just a few clicks from a mobile device," said Nelson Saenz, Vice President of IT for Active Interest Media. "When employees are traveling, keeping pace with regular deadlines and staying connected to company resources is essential. Good's collaboration solutions allow us to increase mobile worker productivity while keeping our data secure."

Good's Mobile Collaboration solution makes it easy for IT to empower employees with productivity applications that enhance real-time communication and collaboration, while protecting corporate data. For example, using the Good Mobile Collaboration solution, an employee can access a document on SharePoint from their tablet, send an instant message to a colleague to ask a quick question about a particular detail within the document, then edit and email the updated file to a customer or prospect, all within a unified, secure workflow.

In today's BYOD world, having a single solution that increases employee collaboration, productivity and real-time business insight - while also protecting enterprise data across applications, networks and devices - is a win-win. For more information on Good's Mobile Collaboration solution, please visit: http://www1.good.com/mobility-management-solutions/secure-mobile-collaboration

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 rights reserved. Good, Good Technology, the Good logo, Good for Enterprise, Good for You, Good Dynamics, Secured by Good, Good Connect, Good Mobile Manager, 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 may be claimed as the property of their respective owners. Good's products and technology are protected by U.S. patents and various other foreign patents. Other patents pending.

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

(1) Good Reader is a product of Good.iWare, not a product of Good Technology

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CONTACT: Siobhan Lyons, Good Technology, 430 N. Mary Ave. Suite 200, Sunnyvale, CA 94085

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

D-Link Introduces New DOCSIS 3.0 and PacketCable-Integrated Gateways to Round Out Robust Solutions for Cable MSOs

DOCSIS 3.0 Solutions Offer Rapid Data Transfers, Real-Time HD Media Streaming, Maximum Internet Bandwidth, Wireless Capabilities, and VoIP for Complete Home and Small Business Networking

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- D-Link, the cost-effective standards-based unified networking solutions provider for consumers, small and medium-sized businesses, and service providers, today introduced the D-Link(®) DCM-702 Wireless N 2x2 Concurrent DOCSIS 3.0 Gateway and the PacketCable 2.0-compliant D-Link(®  )DCM-704 Wireless N DOCSIS 3.0 eMTA Gateway to expand its complete solutions for home and small business networking. Delivering state-of-the-art performance, the new Gateways provide wired and wireless connections, real-time HD media streaming, gaming, and maximum Internet bandwidth for users with multiple computers and network-enabled devices running several applications at once.

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The DCM-704 Gateway provides two NCS or SIP VoIP connections and simultaneous high-speed cable Internet to provide primary-line voice quality without dropped calls, while also supporting all key CLASS features for increased customer control of phone calls. Additionally, operation over the Cloud via the mydlink.com portal and TR-069 technical specification gives cable MSOs remote visibility to devices within the home or small business to easily operate and quickly troubleshoot when needed.

"The D-Link DOCSIS family allows cable MSOs to integrate several revenue-generating services onto one platform and operate them with simplicity," said Eli Gavra, senior vice president, Service Provider Business Unit, D-Link Systems, Inc. "The remote capabilities give them the ability to provide a consistent user-experience throughout the home or small business without drilling into walls. It also creates a modular expansion for future new revenue streams."

The DCM-702 and DCM-704 Gateways are equipped with four Gigabit Ethernet ports for ultra-fast wired networking, coupled with Wireless N/2x2 Concurrent for exceptional wireless range and speed. They increase download speeds at up to eight times more than DOCSIS 2.0 for quick and convenient file sharing, audio and video streaming and downloads, Internet TV access, and uploading websites(1), reducing network congestion for more efficient and effective broadband connections. Both modems are also backward compatible with DOCSIS 2.0 and 1.0 standards.

The two new Gateways establish a family of D-Link DOCSIS 3.0 solutions that also includes the current D-Link DCM-301 (DOCSIS 3.0 Modem), which delivers the same superior baseline performance and increased download speeds as the new Gateways.( )The DCM-301 offers fast speeds to support the integration of multi-media services, providing homes and small businesses with a complete technology for entertainment, data transfer, and wired networking.

Committed to providing cable MSOs with industry-leading home and small business networking equipment, D-Link is showcasing its current cable solutions at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo(®) 2012 in Orlando Oct. 17-19 (booth #2512). This includes the new DOCSIS family, IP cameras, access points, storage devices, entertainment solutions, and more.

Availability
The DCM-702 and DCM-704 Gateway solutions are currently available via direct purchase from D-Link, and will be on display at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2012 in Orlando Oct. 17-19 (booth #2512).

About D-Link
D-Link is the global leader in connectivity for home, small business, mid-to large-sized enterprise environments, and service providers. An award-winning designer, developer, and manufacturer, D-Link implements and supports unified network solutions that integrate capabilities in switching, wireless, broadband, storage, IP Surveillance, and cloud-based network management. For more information visit http://www.dlink.com or connect with D-Link on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/dlink) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/dlink).

D-Link and the D-Link logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of D-Link Corporation or its subsidiaries. All other third-party marks mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright © 2012 D-Link. All Rights Reserved.

Maximum wireless signal rate derived from IEEE Standard 802.11n specifications. Actual data throughput will vary. Network conditions and environmental factors, including volume of network traffic, buildings materials and construction, and network overhead, lower actual data throughput rate. Environmental factors will adversely affect wireless signal range.

(1)Speeds may vary with Cable Service Operator. Please contact your cable provider for more information.

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CONTACT: Denise Keddy of D-Link Systems, Inc., +1-714-885-6318, denise.keddy@dlink.com, or Cheryl Seaberg of Walt & Company, +1-408-369-7200, ext. 2981, cseaberg@walt.com

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

Epson's Two New Perfection Photo Scanners Deliver Exceptional Scan Quality and Easy Scan-to-Cloud Functionality

Epson Perfection V37 and V370 Photo Scanners Allow Photo Enthusiasts, Families and Creative Hobbyists to Access, Share and Organize Scanned Documents Anywhere and Anytime

LONG BEACH, Calif., Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Epson America, Inc. today introduced two new additions to its award-winning line of Epson(®) Perfection(®) scanners - the Epson Perfection V37 and Epson Perfection V370 Photo scanners. The new products give photo enthusiasts, families and creative hobbyists an affordable scanning solution with 4800 x 9600 dpi optical resolution for incredible detail and clarity.  In addition to offering leading scan quality, the new models also provide easy scan-to-cloud capabilities to scan, access, organize and share documents directly through cloud services like Google Docs, MS SharePoint(®), Evernote(®), and other leading providers.(1)

"Epson's latest Perfection scanners are built to perform, delivering versatile, high-quality solutions whether scanning to create eye-catching scrapbook pages or to simply digitize and store your most important photos and documents," said Stacey Tieu, product manager, Photo Scanners, Epson America, Inc. "Furthermore, Epson's latest scanners cater to today's increasingly mobile lifestyles, giving consumers an even more value-packed solution with scan-to-cloud capabilities to access documents on their mobile device, anytime and from anywhere."

The Epson Perfection V37 and V370 Photo scanners both offer exceptional scan quality, along with a high-rise 180-degree lid for scanning oversized artwork, 3D objects, photo albums and documents.  For added performance and flexibility, the Epson Perfection V370 Photo includes a built-in 35mm Transparency Unit for scanning mounted slides, negatives and film strips.

Additional features and benefits featured on the new Perfection models include:

    --  ArcSoft(®) Scan-n-Stitch Deluxe Software - allows users to easily scan
        legal, A3 and other large-size pages, section by section, then
        automatically stitches all portions together.(2)
    --  Epson's Easy Photo Fix(®) Technology - allows users to restore color
        from old/faded prints, remove dust from scanned film or slides, and
        reduce graininess.
    --  Scan-to-cloud with Document Capture Software - easily scan documents
        directly to a range of cloud services including Google Docs, MS
        SharePoint, Evernote and more to access documents from multiple mobile
        devices or share with others.
    --  ReadyScan(®) LED Technology - enables fast scan speeds, eliminates
        warm-up time and decreases power consumption; ReadyScan LED technology
        is also mercury-free.
    --  One-Touch Performance - four customizable buttons allow for convenient
        one-touch scanning, copying, scan-to-email and creating PDFs.
    --  Compatibility - with all leading operating systems including the newest
        versions of Microsoft(® )Windows(®) and Mac(®) OS X.
For videos demonstrating the various scanning features with the Epson Perfection scanners, visit Epson's YouTube channel and more information is available online at Epson.com.

Pricing and Availability
The Epson Perfection V37 (MSRP $89.99) and Epson Perfection V370 Photo (MSRP $119.99) are now available exclusively from Epson.com, and will be available at Staples in mid-November.  Both models include Epson's one-year limited warranty.

About Epson
Epson is a global imaging and innovation leader whose product lineup ranges from inkjet printers and 3LCD projectors to sensors and other microdevices. Dedicated to exceeding the vision of its customers worldwide, Epson delivers customer value based on compact, energy-saving, and high-precision technologies in markets spanning enterprise and the home to commerce and industry. Led by the Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, the Epson Group comprises more than 75,000 employees in 97 companies around the world, and is proud of its ongoing contributions to the global environment and the communities in which it operates. To learn more about Epson, please visit http://global.epson.com.

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

Epson, Easy Photo Fix, Perfection and ReadyScan are registered trademarks.  Epson Exceed Your Vision is a registered logomark of Seiko Epson Corporation .  Mac is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.  All other product and brand names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies.  Epson disclaims any and all rights in these marks.  Copyright 2012 Epson America, Inc.  8/12

[1] Some applications, cloud services (including MS SharePoint and Evernote) and/or functions may not be supported under Mac OS.

(2) Available for Windows(®) only.

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Epson

CONTACT: Caroline Zubieta, Epson America, Inc., +1-566-290-4026, caroline_zubieta@ea.epson.com, or Mei Antonio, Walt & Company, +1-408-369-7200, ext. 1063, mantonio@walt.com

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

Broadcom Demonstrates Next Generation VDSL2 Residential Gateway Platform at BBWF

5-band Bonding, G.vector and 5G WiFi Combine to Deliver Up to Four Times the Throughput

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Broadband World Forum (BBWF)

News Highlights:

    --  Delivers 5-band VDSL2 bonding and G.vector with 5G WiFi on a single
        platform
    --  Enables new applications and services for whole-home triple play
        connectivity and automation
    --  Delivers reliable high quality HD video content to multiple wireless
        devices
Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, today announced its next generation VDSL2 residential gateway platform. The multi-mode BCM63168 ADSL2+/VDSL2 Integrated Access Device (IAD) combines 5-band bonding, G.vector, G.inp, ADSL fallback, Gigabit routing and dual-band concurrent Wi-Fi on a single platform. Delivering up to four times the throughput, Broadcom's xDSL platform enables carriers to deliver new, higher bandwidth triple play services to and throughout a subscriber's home. Visit http://www.broadcom.com to learn more.

Digital content consumption is on a rapid rise as consumers watch video on more devices and in more places around the home. By combining the BCM63168 with the BCM4360 5G WiFi solution based on the IEEE 802.11ac standard, Broadcom enables carriers to reliably deliver high quality HD video content concurrently to a variety of wireless devices such as tablets, smartphones, PCs and connected TVs throughout the home. For more information on 5G WiFi, visit http://www.5gwifi.org.

Broadcom will demonstrate its latest residential gateway platform at the BBWF Conference in Amsterdam October 16-18.

Key Features:

    --  Broadcom's BCM63168 xDSL IAD SoC with BCM4360 5G WiFi chip enables
        carriers to meet the growing demand for triple play services with
        significant performance, cost, size and power advantages. Features
        include:
        --  Advanced VDSL2 physical layer rates with G.vector, G.inp and 5-band
            channel bonding
        --  Dual-band concurrent WiFi for high performance data and triple play
            connectivity
        --  Multi-port Gigabit Ethernet routing for networked clients
        --  Remote home management with TR-069
        --  OSGi and JVM support with integrated DECT ULE and Zigbee for home
            automation
Availability
The Broadcom® BCM63168 xDSL IAD SoC with BCM4360 5G WiFi chip is available today.

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Quotes:

Gordon Yang, President, ZyXEL Communications Corporation:

"ZyXEL is committed to providing reliable, end-to-end and fully-converged solutions to meet carriers' needs around the world. With Broadcom's technology, ZyXEL is providing carriers the ability to offer subscribers new advanced VDSL2 bonding solutions for IPTV triple-play services."

Thomas Huang, Vice President of Service Provider Business Unit, D-Link Corporation:

"We are pleased to work with Broadcom to build the next generation of CPE equipment that includes a wide range of features like Wi-Fi, 5-band bonding and PON. Broadcom's ability to achieve a high level of integration enables the deployment of higher performing triple play services at lower costs to reduce service providers' operation expenses and improve ARPU."

Jeff Heynen, Directing Analyst, Broadband Access and Video, Infonetics

"Bonding and G.vector allows carriers to get more out of their copper networks to support new and advanced services like streaming IPTV content to multiple screens in the home. VDSL CPE unit shipments are set to grow from 19.5 million this year to nearly 34 million by 2016*."

Greg Fischer, Broadcom's Vice President & General Manager, Broadband Carrier Access

"Committed to breakthrough performance and innovation, Broadcom ushers in the next generation of xDSL gateway designs with G.vector and 5-band bonding together with our market leading 5G WiFi. Now carriers can deliver even more high-bandwidth services to their subscribers and throughout the connected home."

About Broadcom
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a FORTUNE 500® company, is a global leader and innovator in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom® products seamlessly deliver voice, video, data and multimedia connectivity in the home, office and mobile environments. With the industry's broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip and embedded software solutions, Broadcom is changing the world by Connecting everything®. For more information, go to http://www.broadcom.com.

Broadcom®, the pulse logo, Connecting everything®, and the Connecting everything logo are among the trademarks of Broadcom Corporation and/or its affiliates in the United States, certain other countries and/or the EU. Any other trademarks or trade names mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

*Infonetics' 2Q12 Broadband CPE and Subscribers Report

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Aricent Enhances World-class Testing Portfolio by Unveiling a State-of-the-Art WiFi Testing Facility

Advanced WiFi Test Lab provides comprehensive testing services supported by qualified domain expertise

EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J. and AMSTERDAM, Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Aricent Group, a global innovation and technology services company, today announced the addition of WiFi testing and pre-certification services to its advanced telecom testing portfolio. "Testing for WiFi" is the most comprehensive service of its kind, helping WiFi equipment manufacturers, service providers and device makers save significant resources by providing a world-class test facility along with highly qualified domain expert support. The WiFi Test Lab also offers remote access for optimal accessibility from anywhere in the world.

Equipped with extensive test equipment, test suites, test tools, and covering all aspects of WiFi, the lab gears WiFi equipment towards "deployment readiness". As a comprehensive WiFi testing facility, the lab offers testing services spanning across protocol conformance, interoperability, performance, stress, security, scripting, automation and pre-certification. The lab undergoes constant innovation based on feedback from organizations such as the Wi-Fi Alliance, in which Aricent is a member, to continue to be the most advanced WiFi testing facility. Aricent is a leading player in powering WiFi networks and devices with its innovative software frameworks for WiFi offload, Hotspot 2.0, WLAN controllers and Access Points, optimized for leading multi-core processors and WLAN silicon. Aricent now brings this deep expertise into the WiFi testing domain through its outstanding test lab.

According to a study from Kelton Research, there are over 450 million WiFi users worldwide. This number is increasing daily as mobile networks are beginning to struggle with managing bandwidth demands and as consumers and mobile connectivity are starting to become heavily reliant on short- and long-range WiFi technologies. Concurrently, with the growing popularity of mobile devices such as smart phones, tablets and eReaders, we are launching Aricent's WiFi Test Lab at a time when equipment manufacturers, service providers and device makers need support to get their products as close to deployment-ready as possible in order to maintain a competitive edge.

"We are seeing a significant uptick in the deployment of WiFi networks and devices globally. Ensuring products are well tested and interoperable with the existing communications ecosystem is a top priority for all players in this growing market," said Sridhar Raju, Assistant Vice President and Head of the Wireline Communications Practice at Aricent. "With 'Testing for WiFi', we provide significant innovation in the critical area of testing and look forward to helping WiFi device makers and equipment manufacturers deliver high quality and differentiated products in a cost-effective manner."

To learn more about "Testing for WiFi", visit http://www.aricent.com/services/testing-wifi.html.

About the Aricent Group

The Aricent Group is a global innovation and technology services company that helps clients imagine, commercialize, and evolve products and services for the connected world. Bringing together the communications technology expertise of Aricent with the creative vision and user experience prowess of frog, the Aricent Group provides a unique portfolio of innovation capabilities that seamlessly combines consumer insights, strategy, design, software engineering, and systems integration. The client base includes communications service providers, equipment manufacturers, independent software vendors, device makers, and many other Fortune 500 brands. The company's investors are Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Sequoia Capital, The Family Office, Delta Partners, and The Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board.

For more information, please visit http://www.aricent.com
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CONTACT: Johnny Truong, Sonus PR for Aricent Group, +1-415-830-4530, johnny.truong@sonuspr.com

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

ARRIS Debuts Game Changing Family of Touchstone® Wireless Voice and Data Gateways Capable of Bonding 16 & 24 Downstream Channels

Complete Portfolio Gives Operators Options for MoCA® and Wi-Fi® Home Networking, Telephony and Near 1 Gigabit Data Speeds to Enable TV Everywhere

SUWANEE, Ga., Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ARRIS Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARRS) todayannounced its next generation DOCSIS® 3.0 wireless in-home network gateways capable of delivering video and data at near 1 Gigabit speeds. Cable operators can use these gateways to provide subscribers with high bandwidth, triple play and multiscreen services.  The gateways will be on display at ARRIS booth #2802 during SCTE Cable Tec Expo in Orlando, October 16-19, 2012 and will be available in Q1, 2013 to start customer certifications.

The newest Touchstone voice and data devices provide flexible options for 16x4 and 24x8 channel bonding.  The gateways includes Intel(®) PUMA(TM)6 and Intel PUMA6 media gateways Intel Puma 6-MG); MaxLinear's Full Spectrum Capture(TM) front end receivers; and Celeno's CLR260 3x3:3 (MIMO) Wi-Fi technology with beam forming in both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands. This new family of next generation gateways delivers multiple home networks for carrier class distribution of all IP video, data and voice:

    --  Model DG2470:  24x8  Data Gateway with Dual Band Concurrent Wireless and
        integrated MoCA
    --  Model TG2472:  24x8 Telephony Gateway with Dual Band Concurrent Wireless
        and integrated MoCA

    --  Model DG1660:  16x4 Data Gateway with Dual Band Concurrent Wireless
    --  Model DG1670:  16x4 Data Gateway with Dual Band Concurrent Wireless and
        integrated MoCA

    --  Model TG1642:  16x4 Telephony Gateway with Single Band Wireless
    --  Model TG1662:  16x4 Telephony Gateway with Dual Band Concurrent Wireless
    --  Model TG1672:  16x4 Telephony Gateway with Dual Band Concurrent Wireless
        and integrated MoCA
Cable operators choosing the appropriate ARRIS Touchstone gateways can:

    --  Deliver the next step in TV Everywhere services and high speed
        connectivity
    --  Offer the home or small office subscriber with a business class wireless
        solution
    --  Increase ARPU and retention with multiple services like triple play,
        wireless home hotspots and home automation
    --  Ensure the integrity of subscriber data with multiple options in
        wireless security
    --  Deploy a carrier grade MoCA network for Video and IP distribution in the
        home
"With every device consumers add to their in-home networks, the demand for bandwidth must be met. Consequently, speed leadership is a pillar of our customers' competitive position," said Derek Elder, SVP and GM of the ARRIS Touchstone CPE Division. "ARRIS has been the world leader in DOCSIS CPE for years because we understand that one product cannot serve all of the application needs of service providers. We are announcing today a complete portfolio of DOCSIS 3.0 voice and data gateways designed to assure that our customers deploy precisely the right bandwidth and services for each application with the best in-home wireless coverage and performance."

About ARRIS
ARRIS is a global communications technology company specializing in the design, engineering and supply of communications and IP technologies that support broadband services for residential and business customers around the world. The company supplies broadband operators with the tools and platforms they need to deliver and monitor advanced video, data and voice subscriber services, including whole home video across multiple screens, ultra high-speed data, personalized advertising and carrier-grade telephony.  Headquartered near Atlanta, in Suwanee, Georgia, USA, ARRIS has R&D centers in Beaverton, OR; Chicago, IL; Cork, Ireland; Kirkland, WA; Redwood City, CA; Shenzhen, China; State College, PA; Tel Aviv, Israel; Wallingford, CT and Westborough, MA, and operates support and sales offices throughout the world. Information about ARRIS products and services can be found at http://www.arrisi.com.

SOURCE  ARRIS Group, Inc.

ARRIS Group, Inc.

CONTACT: Alex Swan, ARRIS Media Relations, +1-678-473-8327, alex.swan@arrisi.com

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

Qualcomm Atheros Hybrid Networking Chipset Enables AVM Combination Range Extender and Energy Management Device

-- AVM FRITZ! Powerline 546E Extends Range of the Home Network While Providing Automation and Remote Energy Management --

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Qualcomm Technologies Inc. (QTI) today announced that the hybrid networking technology of its networking and connectivity subsidiary, Qualcomm Atheros Inc., will power AVM's FRITZ! Powerline 546E solution. The AVM FRITZ! Powerline 546E combines HomePlug powerline communication (PLC), Wi-Fi, two Ethernet connections, and an intelligent power socket to provide up to 500 Mbps of home networking performance along with home automation, energy management and control capabilities.

The 546E user interface displays an overview of the entire powerline communication network, while the integrated power socket enables devices to be connected, with energy use measured and recorded at the same time. The Qualcomm Atheros chipset, which includes the AR9341 Wi-Fi and AR7420 HomePlug powerline chips, is at the heart of the system, extending the Wi-Fi coverage inside the home. The 546E also enables consumers to access and control appliances using up to 16 amps via their smartphone, tablet or other network-connected computing device. This provides the opportunity for consumers to monitor and control energy use and, ultimately, save money.

Qualcomm Atheros has enabled the seamless combination of wired and wireless products with the introduction of its Hy-Fi(TM) technology, which provides a true plug-and-play experience for the consumer when expanding the home network.

"Qualcomm Atheros' collaboration with AVM reinforces our commitment to advancing home connectivity through the combination of our leading Wi-Fi and HomePlug PLC technologies," said John Marcolini, senior director of product management, Qualcomm Atheros. "We are providing a true plug-and-play, whole home connectivity experience with our Hy-Fi technology, enabling consumers to realize the full potential of their mobile devices from anywhere in the home."

With data rates of up to 500 Mbps with HomePlugAV, the 546E supports bandwidth-intensive applications such as Internet TV and video-on-demand (VOD) services. Both PLC and Wi-Fi are individually encrypted for secure data transfer; devices with Ethernet can also be accessed via the home network.

"AVM employs tried-and-tested products and transmission technologies for home network use in its smart home designs," said Gorden Haberla, powerline product manager, AVM. "Qualcomm Atheros' expertise with hybrid networking connectivity provides significant advantages for home networking and intelligent home communication, bringing added energy cost savings to consumers."

For more information, please visit Qualcomm Atheros' Broadband World Forum exhibit, booth B7 at the Grand RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre, Amsterdam, October 16-18, 2012.

About Qualcomm Technologies Inc.

Qualcomm Technologies Inc. (QTI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), is redefining the way people incorpo­rate wireless devices and services into everyday life. QTI and its subsidiaries operate substantially all of Qualcomm's research and development activities, and product and services businesses, including Qualcomm's semiconductor business, QCT. QTI's developments enable opportunities across the wireless and wired value chains by making devices and networks faster, content richer and communications more personal and affordable to people everywhere. For more information, go to http://www.qualcomm.com.

Qualcomm is a registered trademark of Qualcomm Incorporated. Atheros is a registered trademark of Qualcomm Atheros Inc. Hy-Fi is a trademark of Qualcomm Atheros Inc. All other registered and unregistered trademarks are the property of Qualcomm Incorporated, Qualcomm Atheros Inc. or their respective owners and used with permission. Registered marks owned by Qualcomm Incorporated and Qualcomm Atheros Inc. are registered in the United States and may be registered in other countries.

Qualcomm Contacts:
Laurie Falconer, Qualcomm Atheros
Phone: 1-408-616-3036
Email: laurief@qualcomm.com

Tina Asmar, Corporate Communications
Phone: 1-858-845-5959
Email: casmar@qualcomm.com

Warren Kneeshaw, Investor Relations
Phone: 1-858-658-4813
Email: ir@qualcomm.com

SOURCE  Qualcomm Technologies Inc.

Qualcomm Technologies Inc.

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

Qualcomm Atheros Broadens HomePlug Portfolio with Introduction of New AV2 Chipset

--QCA7450/AR1540 Delivers over 500 Mbps Performance over Powerline for Carrier-Grade Multi-Room HD Streaming and 3D Gaming Class Applications--

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI) today announced that its networking and connectivity subsidiary, Qualcomm Atheros, Inc., introduced the first in a family of HomePlug(TM) AV2 (HPAV2) compliant solutions at Broadband World Forum. The new QCA7450/AR1540 chipset will enable consumers to use their homes' existing power outlets to improve coverage and multimedia streaming performance, with ultra-high speed connectivity of more than 500 Mbps.

The new HPAV2 specification extends the performance of HomePlug AV by up to seven times and improves overall network efficiency through multiple innovations. The extension of HomePlug's operating frequency bandwidth from 30MHz to 85MHz and the introduction of multiple profiles (SISO and MIMO) create the opportunity to achieve data rates of more than one gigabit per second. When incorporated into devices such as broadband gateways, retail routers and hybrid range extenders, the QCA7450/AR1540 provides a robust networking foundation, helping to prepare the home network for carrier-class services. 

The QCA7450/AR1540 chipset reference design also features a SmartLink Plus option that enables transmission of powerline signals on multiple wires, potentially extending connectivity range in the home by up to 50 percent. This innovation improves performance over the previous generation of SmartLink-enabled products while reducing overall design complexity and the bill of materials.

"The release of the QCA7450/AR1540 chipset is the first step in introducing HPAV2 devices, enabling HomePlug solutions to deliver optimum performance for today's new and emerging applications, such as 3D video, interactive gaming and multi-screen HD viewing," said Dan Rabinovitsj, senior vice president and general manager, networking business unit, Qualcomm Atheros. "As the industry embraces HPAV2 technology, we can expect gigabit-capable HomePlug powerline solutions to be introduced by our partners and customers."

QCA7450/AR1540 hardware/software development kits are now sampling worldwide, with volume shipments of the chipset expected later this year. For more information, please visit the Qualcomm Atheros exhibit at Broadband World Forum, booth B7 at the Grand RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre, Amsterdam October 16-18, 2012.

About Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), is redefining the way people incorporate wireless devices and services into everyday life. QTI and its subsidiaries operate substantially all of Qualcomm's research and development activities, and product and services businesses, including Qualcomm's semiconductor business, QCT. QTI's developments enable opportunities across the wireless and wired value chains by making devices and networks faster, content richer and communications more personal and affordable to people everywhere. For more information, go to http://www.qualcomm.com.

Qualcomm is a registered trademark of QUALCOMM Incorporated. Atheros is a registered trademark of Qualcomm Atheros, Inc. All other registered and unregistered trademarks are the property of QUALCOMM Incorporated, Qualcomm Atheros, Inc., or their respective owners and used with permission. Registered marks owned by QUALCOMM Incorporated and Qualcomm Atheros, Inc. are registered in the United States and may be registered in other countries.

Qualcomm Contacts:
Laurie Falconer, Qualcomm Atheros
Phone: 1-408-616-3036
Email: laurief@qualcomm.com

Tina Asmar, Corporate Communications
Phone: 1-858-845-5959
Email: casmar@qualcomm.com

Warren Kneeshaw, Investor Relations
Phone: 1-858-658-4813
Email: ir@qualcomm.com

SOURCE  Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

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

Diary of a Wimpy Kid eBooks Available October 30th on Storia®, the Teacher-Recommended e-Reading App From Scholastic

Full backlist available on October 30th with 7th and newest title coming November 13th

NEW YORK, Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL), the global children's publishing, education and media company, today announced an agreement with Abrams Publishing to offer the full backlist and new titles of the blockbuster children's bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series on Storia(®), the teacher-recommended eReading app for kids.  The first six books can be purchased through Storia® and Scholastic Book Clubs beginning on October 30th, 2012.  The 7(th) title, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Third Wheel, will be available for simultaneous release with the hardcover on November 13, 2012.

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Available for free download on PC and iPad (and this fall on Android tablets and smartphones), the Storia eReading app is designed to captivate kids while helping them become better readers. Storia comes with five FREE titles to sample and offers more than 2,000 titles for kids from toddlers through teens, about 350 of which are enriched with vocabulary and comprehension activities and video. Storia has been recognized by Warren Buckleitner with the Editor's Choice Award for children's eBook apps in Children's Technology Review, and received glowing reviews in The New York Times and School Library Journal.

"Diary of a Wimpy Kid has been a runaway bestseller in Scholastic Book Clubs and Scholastic Book Fairs for years and we are thrilled to be able to now offer these kids' must-reads as ebooks on Storia," said Jenny Frost, SVP, ePublisher and eBook Strategy, Scholastic Book Clubs and eCommerce. "November 13(th) will be a big day in schools nationwide as kids clamor for the newest Wimpy Kid title and we will be there for them with the touch of a button to download Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Third Wheel on the digital device of their choice."

"It was important to Jeff Kinney and to Abrams that our Wimpy Kid e-books offer the same visual experience as the print books," said Michael Jacobs, President and CEO of Abrams. "We are pleased that our respective digital teams worked together to faithfully reproduce the print books' familiar diary layout and illustrations in e-book format. We know readers will also enjoy the additional digital enhancements."

The Diary of a Wimpy Kid ebooks will be sold through Storia for $7.99.

Scholastic is currently working with several other top publishers to offer their front- and backlist titles on Storia.

For more information about Scholastic, visit our media room at http://mediaroom.scholastic.com.

The online press kit for Storia is available at: http://mediaroom.scholastic.com/storia.

About Abrams

Founded by Harry N. Abrams in 1949, ABRAMS was the first company in the United States to specialize in the creation and distribution of art and illustrated books. Now a subsidiary of La Martiniere Groupe, the company publishes visually stunning illustrated books in the areas of art, photography, cooking, interior and garden design, craft, architecture, entertainment, fashion, sports, and pop culture, as well as children's books and general interest titles. The company's imprints include Abrams, Abrams ComicArts, Abrams Image, Abrams Books for Young Readers, Amulet Books, Abrams Appleseed, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, and STC Craft/Melanie Falick Books. Abrams also distributes books for The Vendome Press, Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate, Royal Academy of Arts, Booth-Clibborn Editions, Five Continents, and others.

SOURCE  Scholastic

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Scholastic

CONTACT: Sara Sinek, +1-212-343-6899, ssinek@scholastic.com, or Nadia Almahdi, +1-212-343-6635, nalmahdi@scholastic.com, or Jason M. Wells office: +1-212-229-8826, mobile: +1-646-456-5446, jwells@abramsbooks.com

Apps Done Right - iVUE AppSuite Increases Employee Mobility, Decreases Costs for Utilities

LAKE SAINT LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- National Information Solutions Cooperative (NISC) has released iVUE(® )AppSuite, a mobile app designed to give iVUE users access to timely operational information over an Apple iPad.

Currently, the iVUE AppSuite harnesses operations in mobile workforce, outage management, map viewer and automated vehicle location (AVL). As everyday business is changing, NISC's research, development and quality (RDQ) team is building more features into iVUE AppSuite. "Apps are an exciting new software category for our Members and Customers," said Dan Wilbanks, Chief Operating Officer and Vice President, RDQ.

According to Wilbanks, NISC has developed iVUE AppSuite to initially include high demand service-focused engineering and operations functionality. "We're now working to include more applications for iVUE AppSuite designed to provide fast and easy access to accounting, billing and customer solutions within iVUE."

NISC's development of iVUE AppSuite included a real world beta test at several sites. One participating utility says that iVUE AppSuite has empowered its on-call supervisors. "By providing data and information real-time at their fingertips, they are able to make better decisions for our line crews who are responding to our members," said Thomas Musick, Director of Operations at Pioneer Electric Cooperative, Piqua, Ohio. "The apps are quick to access and are user-friendly, making information more easily accessible than in the past. This also helps us communicate more effectively."

During iVUE AppSuite development, NISC focused on usability, security and integration with the iVUE enterprise software. "Our goal is to develop high-value, integrated solutions that are easy for our users to incorporate into their everyday lives," said Tracy Hudson, Product Line Manager at NISC. "Whether our users are in the field or at a meeting -- the new iVUE AppSuite helps them get their job done when they need to, and do so without a big learning curve."

Response from NISC's iVUE AppSuite test sites has been positive, with strong interest in the next release. "NISC has introduced technology that lets us access information in a more convenient and cheaper way," said Bradley Smith, Field Services Representative, Northwestern Rural Electric Cooperative, Cambridge Springs, Pa. "We are anxious to see what the future holds and can see a time, in the not-too-distant future when all of our daily operations flow through the AppSuite in one way or another."

For more information, contact:
Jeff Almen | NISC Media Representative
703.626.1544 | jeff.almen@nisc.coop
http://www.iVUEAppSuite.coop

SOURCE  NISC

NISC

Web Site: http://www.nisc.coop

Birch Completes Acquisition Of DayStar Communications Assets

Purchase of facilities-based CLEC represents 16th acquisition

ATLANTA, Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Birch Communications, a leading IP-based telecom and managed services provider to small- and medium-sized businesses, announced today that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of the assets of DayStar Communications ("DayStar").  DayStar was a facilities-based telecommunications service provider that served customers throughout several major markets in southwest Florida and other areas of the southeastern United States.  This transaction marks the 16(th) acquisition Birch has completed since 2006.

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"Today is yet another significant step forward as we advance our multi-year 'tuck-in' acquisition strategy designed to build customer density throughout our 38-state footprint," said Vincent M. Oddo, Birch president and CEO. "Through this acquisition, Birch continues its recent expansion into southwest Florida.  DayStar's Metaswitch-based facilities network, and many thousands of business customers, fit very well into our growing facilities-based enterprise."

"We are proud to welcome the former Daystar customers into the Birch family, and look forward to introducing them to our award-winning customer service," said Chris Aversano, Birch chief operating officer. "We are also excited to introduce the former DayStar customers to our expanded portfolio of leading-edge IP-based services. In the months and years to come, we plan to continue the expansion of our service footprint, and the scope of the products and services we offer to stay ahead of the needs of our business customers."

"We're excited to add the DayStar markets to our growing network service area through this highly-accretive acquisition.  As a result of this asset acquisition, Birch added several jobs in those southwest Florida markets, as well as in our Customer Operations Center in Macon, Georgia," said Edward James, Birch chief financial officer.  "True to our model, our integration activities are substantially complete and full integration will be completed within the next 90 days." 

About Birch Communications

Headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., Birch Communications provides managed communications and information technology services to a target market of small and medium-sized businesses in select metropolitan areas within 38 states across the United States.  Birch services include local and long distance voice, broadband Internet access, T1, PRI, bonded T1, mobile voice and data, e-mail, voicemail, prepaid, and many other communications and information technology services.  Birch voice and data services are, in most cases, delivered using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology on the company's secure IP-Network rather than over the public Internet. 

According to Inc. 500|5000 magazine in its 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 and 2004 rankings, Birch is one of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States.  In 2010, Birch was also named the 7(th) fastest growing private business in Atlanta, and in 2011 as one of the Top 100 Private Companies in Atlanta, by the Atlanta Business Chronicle.  Please visit http://www.birch.com for more information.

SOURCE  Birch Communications

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Birch Communications

CONTACT: Greg Corwin, +1-816-300-1686, greg.corwin@birch.com

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

Bloom's iPhone App Inspires and Connects Consumers with Local Beauty Pros

OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloom.com is expanding its social beauty network with a free mobile app that allows beauty enthusiasts to discover the hottest beauty trends, products and professionals.

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Users can explore beauty trends served up in a variety of categories, like Hair, Makeup, and Celebrities, and then save their favorites to personalized LookBooks. Trendsetters on Bloom's Social Beauty Network provide real-time inspiration by snapping photos of their own looks and tagging the products they used. In the next version, consumers will be able to purchase those products directly through the mobile app.

"Consumers are always looking for the hottest trends and inspiration. Until now, there hasn't been one beauty-focused place that organizes inspiring looks and connects them to the products and professionals that help you achieve them," says Bloom Founder, Julie Mahloch. "Now you can search specific looks and learn how to get them. For example, if you have a wedding or a holiday party coming up, Bloom's mobile app allows you to flip through photos tagged to 'Updos' or 'Dramatic Eyes,' and shows you which products will create the looks that inspire you. If it's a look that requires professional assistance, the Beauty Trends App will help you find a top local pro who can create it for you." 

Bloom recognized the need for a platform that brings the top beauty professionals and beauty-loving consumers together. It responded with a mobile app that serves both, allowing users to see the work of beauty professionals and search for local pros by the services they provide. Users can even call professionals directly from the Bloom Beauty Trends App to book appointments.

The new mobile application is currently available on the Apple Store and is compatible with most Apple devices. Bloom.com also plans to release a version of the Beauty Trends App to the Android market.

For more information on Bloom.com and the Bloom Beauty Trends App, please contact Carrie Chambers at 402-614-2918 x115 or email carriec@bloom.com. You can also contact Chief Marketing Officer, Nick Hudson at nick@bloom.com.

SOURCE  Bloom.com

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Bloom.com

CONTACT: Carrie Chambers or Nick Hudson, +1-402-614-2918 x115, carriec@bloom.com or nick@bloom.com

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

Blings(TM) Indiegogo.com crowd-funding project lights up iPhone and Android Interactive Sneakers

Beauty and brains come together for state-of-the-art fashion

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Blings, Inc. releases details for its crowd-funding project on Indiegogo.com for intelligent lighted shoes. Blings are the world's first illuminated shoes that will interact with an iPhone or Android device. The idea was to bring together the elements of style, functionality and technology into a coherent product that can be worn anywhere, which will stand out in a crowd.

To communicate with the Blings, simply pair them with an iPhone or Android device via Bluetooth, then download and install the free App and they're ready to go.

Once the App has been launched, it will give you several options on how to control the Blings. Press the "ON" button to turn all the lights on. Press the "Preset" button to cycle through the programmed sequences. Press the "Music" button and the Blings will react to audio or your step.

However, one of the coolest features is when you receive a call, the blue lights will flash continuously until you pick up or the phone stops ringing and when you get a text message, the blue light will flash the word "TEXT" in Morse code three times.

Blings are equipped with blue LEDs in the heel and orange EL (Electroluminescent) lighting along the sides.

"Ever since I first saw 'TRON' as a child, I've been fascinated by the computers, technology and fashion in that movie," said Victor Wong, CEO, Blings. "I am glad to have the opportunity to merge high-tech and fashion into something new and cool."

Blings are made from the highest quality materials including an all leather upper section. The EL lighting is extremely flexible and waterproof. The LED lights are embedded into the sole of the shoe, making Blings very durable and capable of being worn daily.

A push button switch on the brain in the tongue of the shoe allows the user to select various functions and presets for the Blings so they can be used without a smart phone.

Blings will be offered in all standard sizes for both men and women as well as in white and black colors.

Complete information is available at: http://www.BlingsShoes.com or on Indiegogo at http://igg.me/p/252684?ap4462 .

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SOURCE  Blings, Inc.

Blings, Inc.

CONTACT: Victor Wong of Blings, +1-512-293-2697, press@BlingsShoes.com

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

PacSun Will Make Waves with New Highly-Customized Ecommerce and Mobile Sites on the Demandware Platform

Enlists Lyons Consulting Group for Ecommerce Development and Support

CHICAGO, Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- PacSun, a leading retailer of authentic California lifestyle men's and women's clothing, has partnered with Lyons Consulting Group to upgrade both their ecommerce and mobile sites. 

PacSun had outgrown its previous platform and needed a more scalable solution in order to support its growth and provide the shopping capabilities that their shoppers have come to expect.

Lyons Consulting Group, the premier ecommerce strategy, design, development, hosting and support firm, migrated the site onto the more robust Demandware platform and added several custom features, including thirteen 3(rd) party integrations such as Gigya Social Sign in and Visa V.Me. Through this process, lyonscg produced a more flexible front-end, improved content manageability, all while creating a fun, engaging, and intuitive shopping experience when browsing either the ecommerce or mobile sites.

In addition to updating their online presence, PacSun improved their in-store presence as well. Lyons Consulting Group created a customized iPad website that allows sales associates in the stores to purchase merchandise for customers when the desired product is not available in the store. 

"Because our target demographic is extremely tech-savvy, our ecommerce and mobile channels are critical to our overall business strategy," said Mondy Beller, Vice President of ecommerce. "We couldn't be happier with selecting Lyons as our ecommerce integration partner. Lyons has exceeded our expectations in terms of speed, accuracy and overall partnership." 

"We have worked with hundreds of online retailers just like PacSun and are extremely familiar with the Demandware platform," said Rich Lyons, President and CEO of Lyons Consulting Group. "This project is right up our alley and we are thrilled to have PacSun as our client."

The new site launched on September 27, 2012, and is supported by Lyons Consulting Group's 24/7 in-house support center.

About PacSun
Founded in 1980 in Newport Beach, CA. PacSun offers authentic California lifestyle men's clothing and women's clothing. With roots in action sports, fashion, art and music from the California scene, PacSun rocks the latest in from top brands including Fox, Billabong, Hurley, Volcom, Element, DC, O'Neill, Bullhead, Kirra, RVCA , WeSC, Enjoi, Vans, Zoo York, Nike 6.0., Famous Stars and Straps, Young & Reckless, Lost, Rip Curl, Quiksilver and Roxy.

About Lyons Consulting Group
Lyons Consulting Group is the premier ecommerce strategy, design, development, hosting and support firm dedicated to help clients continually grow and succeed in their online business.  With a proven track record to deliver creative, robust and most importantly, increasingly profitable ecommerce sites, our diverse group of experts are committed to customer satisfaction and project excellence.

As the leading Magento and Demandware partner in the US, lyonscg has years of experience in ecommerce strategy, creative design, platform customization, technical development, backend integration, quality assurance, hosting and support. lyonscg understands that each client's sites and needs are unique, yet are able to deliver each and every time. Bottom Line: Lyons Consulting Group helps online businesses to realize the potential of ecommerce. Guaranteed. For more information about lyonscg or to see their extensive list of clients, visit lyonscg.com or call 312.564.3142.

SOURCE  Lyons Consulting Group

Lyons Consulting Group

CONTACT: Sara Doudt, +1-312-564-3142, sdoudt@lyonscg.com

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

Turkcell And Enterproid Partner To Deliver Dual Persona Solution For BYOD

Turkcell MaxiPRO5Android Smartphones to Include Divide Platform enabling BYOD for Mobile Professionals & Enterprise IT Departments

ISTANBUL and NEW YORK, Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Turkcell (NYSE:TKC, ISE: TCELL), the leading communications and technology company in Turkey, and Enterproid(TM), the leader in enabling Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) mobility, announced a partnership to introduce an innovative dual-persona solution to mobile devices in Turkey. The new offering, places Enterproid's popular Divide(TM) platform on all Turkcell MaxiPRO(5)Android smartphones, enabling business users to combine their work and personal lives on a single device. The commercial service for business users is offered by Corbuss Kurumsal Telekom Servis Hizmetleri A.S., a subsidiary of Turkcell.

Divide creates a separate and secure workspace on users' smartphones and tablets to help keep work and personal lives apart. This dual-persona design preserves the native device experience, secures corporate data, and ensures employee privacy. For enterprises, instead of having to control an entire device and maintain costly on-premise infrastructure, Divide provides IT administrators with a powerful, cloud-based console--Divide Manager--to manage the standardized workspace across a fleet of employee devices.  This unique solution enables mobile professionals to utilize their personal devices for work, while keeping sensitive corporate data securely within IT's control and personal data private to the individual.

"BYOD is a global movement and Turkcell is continuing to lead the market in offering innovative solutions," said Semih Inceday, General Manager at Turkcell Technology and the partnership's Executive Sponsor.   "We are proud to be bringing the advanced Divide technology into the Turkcell family of product offerings.  This will enrich the mobile experience of our business users and provide a platform for enterprises to build next-generation BYOD-based mobility strategies."

Divide comes with a suite of feature-rich business-class applications, including Email, Contacts and Calendar.  These applications preserve the same native device experience that users are accustomed to, while enabling enhanced enterprise-grade encryption and management capabilities.  In addition, the ready extensibility of the Divide platform enables the delivery of a broad range of unified communication and data services, including a virtual second business voice line, corporate directory integration, VPN integration and content management services.

"With this launch, Enterproid is excited to be part of another first in redefining business mobility.  Divide gives Turkcell customers the freedom, convenience and privacy to use a single device for both work and personal life and empowers IT with better tools to secure and manage data," said Andrew Toy, CEO of Enterproid. "By embedding Divide on the Turkcell MaxiPRO(5 )Android smartphone, Turkcell is changing the way business users and IT administrators think about mobile devices in the workplace."

About Turkcell   
Turkcell is the leading communications and technology company in Turkey, with 34.7 million subscribers and a market share of approximately 53% based on June 30, 2012 results. Turkcell is a leading regional player, with market leadership in five of the nine countries in which it operates with its approximately 65.8 million subscribers as of June 30, 2012. It has become one of the first among the global operators to have implemented HSPA+. It has achieved up to 43.2 Mbps speed using the Dual Carrier technology, and is continuously working to provide the latest technology to its customers, e.g. 84 Mbps in the near future. Turkcell reported a TRY2.6 billion (US$1.4 billion) net revenue with total assets of TRY17.4 billion (US$9.6 billion) as of June 30, 2012. It has been listed on the NYSE and the ISE since July 2000, and is the only NYSE-listed company in Turkey. Read more at http://www.turkcell.com.tr

About Enterproid, Inc.     
Enterproid helps organizations and individuals get the most out of mobile technology and corporate BYOD policies. The company's flagship Divide(TM) platform combines cloud-based management with advanced on-device technology that ensures enterprise security and control without compromising personal freedom and privacy. Founded by former mobile executives and engineers from Morgan Stanley, Enterproid is headquartered in New York, with offices in London and Hong Kong. Enterproid's investors include Comcast Ventures, Google Ventures, and Qualcomm Ventures. Learn more at http://www.divide.com, or follow on Twitter at@divide. Divide can be downloaded for free from GooglePlay and AppleAppStore.

SOURCE  Enterproid

Enterproid

CONTACT: FOR TURKCELL, CONTACT: Nihat Narin, (+90) 212.313.1244, Nihat.narin@turkcell.com.tr; or FOR ENTERPROID, CONTACT: Dara Cothran, (+1) 646.747.3596, dcothran@kaplowpr.com

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

Customized Ballots Are Ready For The November 6th Election

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Vote-USA.org, announced that its customized ballots are ready for the November 6th election. Vote-USA.org provides each voter with the ballot that will be presented to him or her at the polls. All redistricting and candidate information is ready and current. Vote-USA.org ballots and supporting pages allow voters to easily make side-by-side comparisons of candidate pictures, bios, websites, social media and, most importantly, each candidate's position on the issues. Vote-USA.org is a revolutionary one-stop-shopping website for the independent voter.

All Federal and State candidates were invited to participate and a large percentage of them have done so. The fact that all of the information is provided by the candidates, or extracted from their websites, guarantees the accuracy of the information presented. The effectiveness of this website is its customized, easy, user-friendly interface. All of the information in which a voter may be interested is only one or two clicks away, and only the information relating to a voter's own ballot decisions is presented.

Ron Kahlow, founder of Vote-USA.org stated, "Our customized ballots empower voters to choose candidates and ballot measures that best represent their interests, and not those of special interest groups. Our mission is to be the counter balance to money in politics. So, if you are tired of being bombarded with misleading and deceptive political ads, you need to visit our website. We are for the independent voter who can make his or her own decisions, not for voters who vote a straight party ticket."

Because of the enormous expected demand for information on the November 6th election, Mr. Kahlow strongly urges voters to get the information they need from Vote-USA.org as early as possible. 

Vote-USA.org is a non-partisan, non-profit organization with no political agenda.

Please contact Ron Kahlow for further information at: ron.kahlow@vote-usa.org or 703.435.3084

SOURCE  Vote USA Inc.

Vote USA Inc.

Web Site: http://vote-usa.org/

Phillip Phillips To Release Debut Album, 'The World From The Side Of The Moon,' November 19th On 19 Entertainment/Interscope Records

ALBUM PRE-ORDER AVAILABLE NOW

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- American Idol Season 11 winner Phillip Phillips will release his much anticipated debut album The World From The Side Of The Moon (19 Entertainment/Interscope Records) on November 19(th). The set, which will include his current hit single "Home," is available for pre-order  now. A deluxe version featuring three additional tracks can also be pre-ordered.

(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121015/LA93170)

Recorded at Quad Studios in New York City The World From The Side Of The Moon was produced by Gregg Wattenberg (Train, O.A.R.) with Phillips writing or co-writing the majority of the album. The Leesburg, Georgia-bred songwriter enlisted his brother-in-law Ben Neil to play guitar on a few tracks.

The same day that Phillip Phillips claimed his victory in American Idol's season 11 finale, the 22-year-old singer/guitarist released "Home," a debut single that showcases his rich, raspy vocals and masterful guitar skills-- and marked the biggest opening sales week for an Idol winner's coronation song with 278,000 downloads sold.  The track has since gone double platinum and was used as the soundtrack for the 2012 US Olympics Women's Gymnastics team as they made their London debut.

Phillips first began making music when he was 14, thanks largely to his older sister's boyfriend (and now husband), Ben Neil, who taught him how to play guitar. Phillips kept on studying guitar on his own ("mostly by playing along to the karaoke machine") and soon found himself mastering riffs from classic-rock tracks like Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" and Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train." Several years later, Phillips formed an acoustic band with his sister and brother-in-law and added singing to his repertoire. After graduating high school, Phillips began studying industrial systems technology at Albany Technical College in Georgia and continued playing music with his brother-in-law. With encouragement from his family and friends, Phillips took a break from working in his family's pawn shop and auditioned for American Idol in summer 2011--and soon found himself tearing through powerful, full-throated performances of songs by artists like Creedence Clearwater Revival, Otis Redding, and Wilson Pickett on the Idol stage.

http://www.phillipphillips.com

SOURCE  Interscope Records

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Interscope Records

CONTACT: Christine Wolff, Interscope Records, +1-212-841-8048, Christine.Wolff@umusic.com, or Leslie Fradkin, 19 Entertainment, +1-310-498-7346, Leslie.Fradkin@19entertainment.com

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

Brother Mobile Solutions Introduces Industry's First Full-Page, Direct Thermal Mobile Printing Solution for iPhone & iPad

PocketJet® 673 Mobile Printer Delivers Wireless Printing from iPhone and iPad with Brother(TM) iOS Software Development Kit

BROOMFIELD, Colo., Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Brother Mobile Solutions, Inc. (BMS) a wholly-owned subsidiary of Brother International Corporation and premier provider of products for the mobile workforce, is once again revolutionizing mobile printing with the introduction of the PocketJet® 673 mobile printer.

The first of its kind in the mobility industry, the PocketJet® 673 delivers direct thermal printing solutions compatible with only iPhone® and iPad® mobile devices.*  Sleek, lightweight and durable, it utilizes an ad-hoc Wi-Fi connection between the iOS device and the printer to produce high resolution, 8 ½ x 11 documents for printing either in an office environment or by professionals in the field.

As part of the release strategy, BMS will engage independent software vendors (ISVs), value added resellers (VARs) and enterprise application developers to fully customize the PocketJet® 673, enabling integration with enterprise applications running on iPhone and iPad devices. BMS will provide technical direction, a software development kit (SDK) and the command reference guide to fully integrate the innovative printing solution.  By utilizing PocketJet® 673 participating ISVs, VARs and enterprise application developers will have the opportunity to expand their current range of services, helping them become more competitive in the vast and growing field mobility markets utilizing the iPhone and iPad.

"As the popularity and demand of the iPhone and iPad grow beyond the consumer spectrum and into the enterprise world, companies are finding increasingly innovative ways to integrate iOS devices into their field operations," said Ravi Panjwani, vice president of Marketing and Product Management for Brother Mobile Solutions.  "The PocketJet® 673 is the first mobile thermal printer specifically designed for use only with an iPhone or iPad that delivers fast, full-page documents from virtually any location with an ad-hoc Wi-Fi connection.  It helps eliminate the time and costs associated with printing from a fixed location and gives Apple® iOS users an operational efficiency they didn't have previously."

Part of the acclaimed Brother(TM)  PocketJet® series, the PocketJet® 673 features the same compact design, fast, high-resolution output, and reliable performance that have made the series a leading choice in public safety, field service, route accounting, utilities, insurance and home healthcare vertical markets.  Like the rest of the series, PocketJet® 673 is durable, simple to operate and easy to maintain in the field, and will allow businesses to streamline operations and help realize a return on investment.

Additional PocketJet® 673 features and benefits designed for best-in-class organizations include:

    --  Print speeds up to 6 pages per minutes (ppm)
    --  Full-page letter, legal, A4 and continuous page printing means more
        customized information with larger fonts and graphics.
    --  Low maintenance costs due to highly reliable direct thermal technology
        that uses fewer moving parts than other printing technologies.
    --  Low consumable costs as there are no ink or ribbons to replace.
    --  Wide variety of media options, including printing on thermal cut sheet,
        continuous roll, and perforated roll.**
    --  Wide range of connectivity options, including USB and WLAN ad-hoc.
    --  300 dpi resolution.
    --  Support for major linear and 2D barcodes.
"We believe the custom features and ease of use associated with the PocketJet® 673 will convince enterprises already familiar with the reliability and functionality of the PocketJet® brand to more confidently expand into the iOS world," Panjwani said.  "This added to the fact that the lauded Brother(TM) RuggedJet(TM) 4" printer is also iOS compatible allows businesses of all sizes to reach iPhone and iPad markets and help increase their scope of services through advanced mobile printing technology."

Panjwani reiterates that this is not an AirPrint(TM) compatible consumer device but an enterprise grade mobile printer that requires a degree of collaboration between BMS, the developer and the customer.

PocketJet® 673 shipments will begin in December 2012. For information on how to engage in application development or become an authorized reseller, please call 800-543-6144 or visit http://www.pocketjet6.com.

About Brother Mobile Solutions

Brother Mobile Solutions, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Brother International Corporation which had revenues of approximately $1.4 billion in fiscal year 2011. Brother International Corporation and its subsidiaries employ over 1,100 people in the Americas. For more information, visit http://www.brothermobilesolutions.com.

All trademarks and registered trademarks referenced herein are the property of their respective companies. Apple®, iPhone®, and iPad® are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. AirPrint(TM) is a trademark of Apple. Windows® is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. and other countries.

*Requires download of a software development kit from the Brother Developer Center at http://www.brother.com/product/dev/mobile/ios

**Requires additional purchase

SOURCE  Brother Mobile Solutions

Brother Mobile Solutions

CONTACT: Aaron Martin, Scott Phillips + Associates, Inc., +1-312-943-9100, amartin@sphillips.com

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

UBM's 14 Business Units Join Forces to Launch UBM Future Cities, a Community for Innovation in Global Urbanization

NEW YORK, Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- United Business Media has announced the launch of UBM Future Cities (http://www.ubmfuturecities.com), a global online community for industry leaders and decision makers concerned with building, supporting, and designing the world's cities of the future. This initiative, led by UBM DeusM, is the first-ever venture to be launched as a joint project across UBM's 14 global business units.

More than 150 of the world's leading experts in urbanization and city building have signed on as guest bloggers for the Future Cities community, including: Xavier Trias, Mayor of Barcelona; Steve Lewis, CEO of Living PlanIT; Angela Brady, President of RIBA; Dan Mathieson, Mayor of Stratford, Ontario; Bill Limond, CIO of London; John Tolva, CTO of Chicago; Mathieu Lefevre, Executive Director of the New Cities Foundation; Lee Leffingwell, Mayor of Austin, Texas; Jane Henley, CEO of the World Green Building Council; Kian-Keong Chin, Chief Engineer of Transportation, LTA, Singapore; and Rick Robinson, IBM Executive Architect for Smarter Cities, among others.

The site will feature discussions around the subject of rapid urbanization and the urgent need to build new cities and retrofit old ones in a sustainable manner. A fully multimedia portal, UBM Future Cities will feature blog content, as well as video blogs, live video and audio shows, infographics, live chat discussions with urbanization experts, and more.

Nicole Ferraro, previously Editor in Chief of Internet Evolution, DeusM's largest community, has been named Editor in Chief of UBM Future Cities.

"By 2050, it's projected that 70 percent of the world's population will live in cities," says Ferraro. "There's an immediate need to have a global dialogue about building sustainable, livable cities of the future. And the 150 experts we've enlisted thus far to write for this site recognize that UBM is in the perfect position to host this conversation and to build a vibrant community around this critical subject."

The site launches in partnership with the Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS) and the Centre for London. UBM Future Cities is multi-sponsored, with backing from Dell, Intel, Microsoft, Schneider Electronics, Red Hat, OpenText, Avnet, and Fiberlink.

Contact
Amy Averbook
UBM DeusM Marketing Director
(917) 743-2693
averbook@deusm.com

About UBM DeusM
UBM DeusM (http://www.deusm.com) is an integrated marketing services company owned by UBM plc, targeting the fastest growing segment of the online publishing industry: business social media. The company is led by Managing Director Stephen Saunders, Min's Marketer of the Year 2010. He and the other UBM DeusM principals have built and delivered more than thirty successful sites and online communities over the last 2 years. UBM DeusM's service is based on a unique platform, called Community in a Box (CiaB), which employs a structured system of proven B2B Web publishing best-practices, combined with a breakthrough integrated multimedia publishing platform ("n-Server") to enable marketers to quickly and profitably set up specialized communities for their target customers.

About UBM plc
UBM plc is a leading global business media company. We inform markets and bring the world's buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print and provide them with the information they need to do business successfully. We focus on serving professional commercial communities, from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewellery traders, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. Our 6,000 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to http://www.ubm.com

SOURCE  UBM DeusM

UBM DeusM

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

Vertu Looks to the Future Following Purchase by EQT VI

LONDON, October 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

    Vertu, the market leader in luxury mobile phones, is looking forward to a bright
future following the sale of the business from Nokia to EQT VI.

    With plans in place for further investment into the business and a strong product
roadmap in development it will allow the brand to present an increased offering to both
existing and new Vertu customers.

    Vertu CEO Perry Oosting will continue to lead the business having successfully done so
since 2009. Oosting and his management team will be supported by a newly appointed
non-executive board, chaired by former Nokia Executive Anssi Vanjoki.

    "This is a logical and exciting new chapter for the Vertu brand" said Perry Oosting.
"We believe that under the ownership of EQT VI our talented workforce, management team and
non-executive board will form a formidable proposition to drive the business to the next
level".

    Nokia retains a 10% minority shareholding in Vertu.

    Vertu is the pioneer and leading manufacturer of luxury mobile phones. Created to
complement the discerning customer's lifestyle, Vertu offers tailored, luxury services in
combination with the finest in design, engineering and manufacture. With three distinct
collections- Signature, Ascent and Constellation- Vertu uses innovations in manufacturing
technology with traditional technology with traditional craftsmanship, assembling each
phone at the company's headquarters in England. Vertu is available in over 500 stores,
including over 70 Vertu boutiques, in 66 countries worldwide. For more information please
visit http://www.vertu.com

       
        For further media information, please contact:
        Louisa McCarthy, Neville McCarthy Associates
        louisa@nevillemccarthy.com
        Tel:+44(0)20-7940-2900

Vertu