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Greenroom Launches Today

First Social Media Platform To Offer Live, Personal Video and Phone Conversations With Experts And Celebrities

NEW YORK, Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Greenroom, the new social media platform co-founded by Dr. Drew Pinsky that allows users to purchase live, personal conversations with experts/celebrities, launches today with NFL Star Ray Rice, Gold Medal Winner Sanya Richards-Ross, Physicist Lisa Randall, Author Jackie Collins, Web Personality iJustine, among others.

''Greenroom represents a natural progression," Dr. Pinsky said.  "Audiences want personal access, experts and celebrities want to monetize.  Greenroom delivers what everyone is looking for." 

All conversations are facilitated by a Greenroom host to ensure a seamless interaction from start to finish.  No additional hardware or software is necessary, as users only need a computer with a webcam.  Sign up is available at Greenroom.com.

Dr. Drew developed the Greenroom concept through his experience with today's most used social media platforms.  Dr. Drew wanted to "take it to the next level" for users and celebrities.

"Greenroom creates a deeper and more meaningful connection with real conversations," Dr. Drew added.

In order to create this experience, Greenroom collaborated with Control Group to define and engineer a platform that delivers a new marketplace for live video interactions.

"Control Group was recommended by New York VC's as the best development firm in the country," says Curtis Giesen, CEO and co-founder of Greenroom. "Control Group created a state-of-the-art solution for our easy and trusted conversations that did not previously exist."

Greenroom boasts partnerships with influential organizations such as the National Football League Players Association and talent agency CAA as well as charities such as Teach for America and Global Green.  The platform will feature a wide array of experts and celebrities in categories including actors, athletes, authors, musicians, doctors, lawyers and many others.

SOURCE  Greenroom

Greenroom

CONTACT: James Bruni, BRUNI PR, +1-917-331-7951, brunipr@aol.com

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

SpeakerCraft SYNERGi Wireless Music System

New Product Line Illustrates the Brand's Commitment To Dealers Who Install Whole-House Audio

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CEDIA EXPO -- An all-new SpeakerCraft SYNERGi Wireless Whole House Music System was introduced today at the 2012 CEDIA Show. The product line marks the company's latest entry into the rapidly growing wireless audio market and represents a strategic move by SpeakerCraft to support their installing dealers who are focused on existing homes.

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The simplicity of implementation coupled with the variety of application possibilities makes SpeakerCraft SYNERGi a "must have" for residential systems contractors. The system was designed from the ground up to be the leading edge of a no-new-wires retrofit solution for integrators.

"Because whole house audio has usually been associated with complicated and messy installations, it was off limits for many customers who now can experience what so many homeowners have enjoyed for the last twenty years," said Keith Marshall from SpeakerCraft. 

SpeakerCraft SYNERGi creates new sales and marketing opportunities for dealers. With jobs shifting from new homes to existing homes over the last four years, it has been difficult for dealers to present, let alone sell, hard-wired multiroom systems due to the increased labor cost and inconvenience to the client.

For dealers, SpeakerCraft SYNERGi means reducing retrofit implementation times from days to a matter of hours, depending on the number of rooms. This means two things for dealers, a new sales and marketing opportunity and greatly increased productivity for field crews.

For end-users, they can now have a whole house music system without the hassle, mess and expense of a hard-wired multi-room installation. They can save on the high cost of retro wiring plus get the job completed more quickly.

Combined, these factors make a SpeakerCraft wireless multiroom music system much more accessible to the music enthusiast and an easier sale for installing dealers.   

Each SpeakerCraft SYNERGi transmitter provides quality audio to as many as eight receivers per transmitter. The transmitter can accept inputs from four sources. And, it has three stereo analog line level 3.5 audio inputs with the fourth input switchable between 3.5mm analog and digital optical PCM audio sources. The transmitter can manage four sources simultaneously to create a four source by eight-zone multi-room system.

"The system adheres to the SpeakerCraft brand pedigree of quality audio," Marshall added. "In addition to a long list of wireless benefits, we created this new line with the same attention to sound performance that's guided our loudspeaker development process for the last two decades."  A high-quality 35 watt x 2 channel digital amplifier featuring Texas Instruments' Equibit(TM) technology is built into the SpeakerCraft SYNERGi Receiver. The receiver's amp rivals the output of quality AVRs thanks to the TI Equibit chipset.  As a result, SpeakerCraft SYNERGi can drive a wide range of loudspeakers to high levels with amazing clarity and dynamic range.

In addition, the amplified receiver is Bluetooth® enabled and allows you to stream music from Bluetooth capable smartphone, tablets and computers. This is very huge because there's a big shift away from docks to devices using Bluetooth.

The design of the amplified receiver allows for flexibility of placement. In addition to table top or shelf placement the receiver can be installed behind a wall-mounted TV and used as a utility amplifier to get better quality sound from a TV. It can also be connected to any powered subwoofer via the 3.5mm for mono sum output. The many applications for SpeakerCraft SYNERGi include wireless multi-room/multi-zone audio; wireless stereo speakers; wireless surround speakers; flat panel TV audio amp; wireless subwoofer for home theater; and computer/video game/mp3 players.

With new home construction at an all-time low, residential integrators have turned to retrofit as a key area of growth. As much as 63% of dealer's 2010 revenue was from retrofit and remodel installs, according to the 2011 CEDIA Member Benchmarking survey. Clearly moving up and major permanent upgrades are no longer the drivers of installation revenue they once were. Plus the familiarity of Wi-Fi has made previous concerns about wireless quality a non-issue in the minds of the great majority of consumers. The SpeakerCraft SYNERGi Wireless Music System is the perfect answer to the needs of today's dealer and the desire of customers.

There is a SpeakerCraft SYNERGi demo kit designed for dealers to use so they can present the benefits of wireless in the field or the in their showroom. "Our priority at SpeakerCraft is to support our integrator partners with effective merchandising and demo tools. With our Music in Minutes(TM) demo kit, SpeakerCraft dealers will be able to present an active demo," added Marshall.

The SpeakerCraft SYNERGi Transmitter and Amplified Receiver, with included remotes are supplied a remote will have a MSRP of $680. Additional amplified receivers will be priced at a MSRP of $430. The SpeakerCraft SYNERGi Wireless Music System will be on display at the CEDIA Show.  The product will be available to ship in Q1 2013.

About SpeakerCraft
SpeakerCraft, LLC has built an internationally-recognized brand of architectural loudspeakers and electronics. The company is a leader in the residential custom-installation industry and attributes this to its dedicated customer service support programs that ensure smooth and trouble-free business operations. SpeakerCraft, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nortek, Inc.

For further information about SpeakerCraft and its product lines, contact Ken Furst at ken@furstmarketing.com or (973) 655-0260. For more information, go to speakercraft.com or call us toll-free at 800.448.0976.

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SpeakerCraft

CONTACT: Media Contact, Ken Furst, furstmarketing, Voice +1-973-655-0260, or Mobile +1-201-826-7402, ken@furstmarketing.com; or Brand Contact, Jeff Francisco, VP of Product Development, SpeakerCraft, Office +1-800.448.0976, or Mobile +1-951-315-8900, jfrancisco@speakercraft.com

Web Site: http://speakercraft.com

Lockheed Martin And Raytheon Complete First Launch Exercise For Next Generation GPS Satellites

NEWTOWN, Pa., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company [NYSE: RTN] and Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] have successfully completed the first launch readiness exercise for the U.S. Air Force's next generation GPS III satellites. The exercise is a key milestone demonstrating the team remains on schedule to achieve launch availability in 2014.

The Lockheed Martin-built GPS III satellites and the Raytheon-developed next generation GPS operational control system, known as OCX, are critical elements of the U.S. Air Force's effort to affordably replace aging GPS satellites while improving capability to meet the evolving demands of military, commercial and civilian users worldwide. This is the first space and ground enterprise successfully building the ground control and space vehicles by two independent prime contractors.

The launch readiness exercise, completed over a three day period by mission operations personnel, validated the basic satellite command and control functions, tested the software and hardware interfaces and demonstrated basic on-console procedures required for space vehicle contacts during the launch and early orbit mission. The event sets the stage for the first GPS III satellite's mission readiness timeline, which includes five short-duration exercises and six, five day mission rehearsals leading up to launch.

"Completion of our first GPS III launch readiness exercise is a major milestone for the entire GPS enterprise and is a solid indictor that our space and ground segments are well synchronized," said Col Bernie Gruber, the director of the U.S. Air Force's Global Positioning Systems Directorate.

To achieve first launch availability in the 2014 timeframe, the U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin and Raytheon contracts in January of this year to provide a Launch and Checkout Capability (LCC) for launch and early on-orbit testing of all GPS III satellites. At the heart of the LCC is Raytheon's Launch and Checkout System that will provide satellite command and control capability, an integral part of OCX's support of the first GPS III launch.

"The completion of our first launch readiness exercise is an important milestone for the entire GPS enterprise," said Keoki Jackson, vice president of Lockheed Martin's Navigation Systems mission area. "This achievement is a testament to efficient planning and synchronization by the U.S. Air Force and demonstrates that we are on track to deliver critical GPS III capabilities to military, commercial and civilian users worldwide."

"This milestone represents the hard work and dedication of the entire GPS III and OCX government-industry team," stated Ray Kolibaba, a vice president of Raytheon's Intelligence and Information Systems business and GPS OCX program manager. "This is another demonstration of the rapid progress we're making on OCX development, while maintaining GPS space-ground enterprise alignment. I'm confident that we'll be prepared to support the first GPS III launch with an efficient, evolvable and secure ground control system built independently."

The GPS III team is led by the Global Positioning Systems Directorate at the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center. Air Force Space Command, based at Schriever Air Force Base, Colo., manages and operates the GPS constellation for both civil and military users.

About Lockheed Martin
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs about 120,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The corporation's net sales for 2011 were $46.5 billion.

About Raytheon
Raytheon Company, with 2011 sales of $25 billion and 71,000 employees worldwide, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning 90 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a broad range of mission support services. Raytheon is headquartered in Waltham, Mass. For more about Raytheon, visit us at http://www.raytheon.com and follow us on Twitter at @raytheon.

Note to Editors:
GPS III video and high-resolution images are available for download at http://www.lockheedmartin.com/gps

Media Contacts: 

Lockheed Martin
Michael Friedman
303-971-7255
michael.1.friedman@lmco.com

Raytheon
Kim Warth
720.292.0249
Kim.J.Warth@Raytheon.com

SOURCE  Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin

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

MobileIron Version 5 First to Deliver Mobile DLP for iOS Email Attachments and Single-System Scale for 100,000 Devices

New Release Architected for Real-World Security and Scale

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MobileIron, the leader in Mobile IT, today announced MobileIron Version 5, the first platform to solve two critical Mobile IT challenges: Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for iOS email attachments and real-world scale for global deployments.

MobileIron V5 enables Docs@Work, a secure document container that provides the industry's only mobile DLP solution for iOS email attachments. Mobile IT can now prevent corporate email attachments from being uploaded from native iOS email to consumer services such as Dropbox. MobileIron V5 also delivers the industry's most scalable architecture, supporting 100,000 devices fully configured with email, apps, Wi-Fi, VPN, and certificates per server. MobileIron V5 is the only Mobile IT platform to be purpose-built for the real-world security and scale requirements of Global 2000 companies.

"Our customers are going big with mobile, but they worry about corporate documents ending up in the consumer cloud," said Ojas Rege, VP Strategy, MobileIron. "MobileIron Docs@Work gives our customers the mobile DLP controls they need without sacrificing the native Apple email experience their end users know and love. Combined with a massive increase in scale, MobileIron V5 breaks down the last barriers to the global deployment of iOS in large, regulated industries such as financial services."

Mobile DLP

With MobileIron V5 and Docs@Work, Mobile IT can:

    --  Protect iOS email attachments
    --  Prevent unauthorized distribution of documents
    --  Provide secure access to SharePoint
    --  Control cut / copy / paste actions
    --  Store and selectively wipe documents
For more information about MobileIron Docs@Work, download the white paper Data Loss Prevention and Secure Access for Mobile Content or register for the webinar.

Real-World Scale

With MobileIron V5, Mobile IT can:

    --  Deploy 100,000 devices on a single server, 20 times more than any other
        vendor
    --  Manage multiple servers through a central console for even larger
        deployments
    --  Deliver gigabyte-sized apps without latency via MobileIron's App
        Delivery Network
    --  Manage hundreds of thousands of mobile certificates per customer
    --  Register hundreds of devices simultaneously per customer
In the last six months, MobileIron has powered:

    --  The largest mobile certificates implementation in the world, with more
        than 150,000 certificates deployed to secure identity for email, Wi-Fi,
        VPN, and web
    --  The fastest iPad rollout in the world, with 8,000 devices deployed in
        five days
"Most vendors put the burden of scale on their customers and force them to take on the cost of more hardware, more software, and more staff," continued Rege. "This brute force method is very expensive and unsustainable. MobileIron takes a completely different approach and solves real-world scale through architectural innovations in our underlying platform. We have also built the industry's first testing infrastructure for massive scale. Many vendors claim scale, but only MobileIron can test it. As a result, with MobileIron V5, we are addressing scalability needs other Mobile IT platforms have not even begun to consider. This is why the largest companies in the world use MobileIron to power their global mobility initiatives."

For more information, download the white paper Real-World Scale for Mobile IT - Nine Core Performance Requirements or join the webinar.

Use Case: Financial Services

The Financial Services industry has traditionally been quick to adopt the latest technologies, but the new generation of mobile devices and apps has been the exception for two reasons. First, security concerns have kept firms on BlackBerry devices or legacy third-party email applications . Second, no Mobile Application Management (MAM) or Mobile Device Management (MDM) vendor has been able to deliver the scale necessary to support tens of thousands of devices.MobileIron V5 gives regulated industries such as Financial Services the security and scale they need to replace their existing RIM infrastructure and legacy email containers.

About MobileIron

The leader in Mobile IT, MobileIron has been chosen by thousands of organizations that are transforming their businesses through enterprise mobility. Available as an on-premise or a cloud solution, MobileIron was purpose-built to secure and manage mobile apps, content, and devices for global companies. MobileIron was the first to deliver key innovations such as multi-OS mobile device management (MDM), mobile application management (MAM), and BYOD privacy controls. For more information, please visit http://www.mobileiron.com.

Safe Harbor Statement

This information is intended to outline MobileIron's general product direction and should not be relied on when making a purchasing decision.

SOURCE  MobileIron

MobileIron

CONTACT: Clarissa Horowitz, MobileIron, clarissa@mobileiron.com, +1-415-608-6825

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

Action-Packed Dungeon Rampage Unleashed to Players Across Facebook, DungeonRampage.com and Kongregate

Rebel Entertainment Introduces Synchronous Multiplayer Free-to-Play RPG on Multiple Platforms

BURBANK, Calif., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Dungeon Rampage, the online game from developer and publisher Rebel Entertainment, an operating business of IAC (NASDAQ: IACI), officially launches today with new and expanded free-to-play content on Facebook Platform, dedicated site DungeonRampage.com and online gaming portal Kongregate.com.

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Set against the backdrop of perilous dungeons and menacing worlds, players are able to enjoy arcade-style gameplay and synchronous online multiplayer action. Dungeon Rampage challenges players to band together, arm themselves and defeat the evil-minded minions of a vicious tyrant in this extraordinarily action-packed game.

"As a multiplayer action game that's compelling for traditional gamers as well as the new generation of online and social gamers, it's only natural that we continue to expand Dungeon Rampage across multiple platforms," said Mike Goslin, general manager, Rebel Entertainment. "We want our fans to have the ability to rampage together whenever or wherever they choose."

Since its beta launch on Facebook earlier this year, Dungeon Rampage has attracted over 3 million gamers and has become one of the most popular and top-rated games offered on the platform. Gamers from around the world have already:

    --  Played more than 6.7 million hours
    --  Battled together through more than 29 million dungeons
    --  Curb-stomped more than 2 billion monsters, minions, and bosses
    --  Looted more than 29 million treasure chests loaded with deadly weapons
        and other useful gear
    --  Pocketed more than 13 billion gold coins
"Having already proved to be a hit with gamers, Dungeon Rampage's fast-paced, synchronous play will give our players an immense combat experience," said Jim Greer, CEO, Kongregate. "Rebel Entertainment created a riveting game, and we are delighted that quality titles like this are finding a home on Kongregate."

Dungeon Rampage provides combatants with a choice of six warriors, such as the hammer-wielding Berserker, the unconventional Battle Chef and the katana-slashing Ghost Samurai -- with more to come soon. These fierce fighters are sent on a thrilling journey through the "Dungeon Games" of an evil king named Lord Dinglepus. From the lush jungles of the Royal Forest to the sulfuric depths of Crushmore Canyon, players can join other adventurers from around the world to bash, stab, shock, and even cook enemies, in a quest to topple the dreaded tyrant once and for all.

To celebrate the launch, Rebel Entertainment is hosting a "Founders' Week," in which players can sign up on any platform between now and September 11 to receive special in-game bonuses, including an exclusive character style, customizable profile add-ons and more.

To join the battle, visit Facebook at
http://apps.facebook.com/welcometothedungeon/?anxrc=PressRelease&anxrs,
http://www.DungeonRampage.com, or Kongregate at
http://www.kongregate.com/games/RebelEnt/dungeonrampage.

About Rebel Entertainment

Rebel Entertainment is an innovative online game studio located in Burbank, Calif. It currently develops and publishes social and web-based games, with plans to expand offerings to additional platforms in the near future. Comprised of a team of highly-regarded industry professionals from Disney, Zynga, Atari, Insomniac, Electronic Arts and other leading interactive entertainment companies, Rebel Entertainment is passionate about creating fun, high-quality and fantastically entertaining games. Rebel Entertainment is owned and operated by IAC (Nasdaq: IACI), a prominent media and internet company with more than 50 leading brands serving consumer audiences worldwide. For more information, please visit http://www.RebelEntertainment.com.

About Kongregate

Kongregate is a leading browser-based game site with over 16 million monthly unique visitors who spend more than 28 million hours playing per month. As part of the GameStop Corporation network, the site features a unique community and social platform including achievements, profiles, chat, messaging, forums, and levels into a cohesive and addicting experience. Kongregate shares revenue from advertising and virtual goods directly with developers who have uploaded games to the site. Advertisers include brands like Electronic Arts, Sony Pictures, Sprint, Frito Lay, Axe, Xbox 360, Nokia, and Toyota. While all games on Kongregate are free, the site also features a virtual currency called Kreds, which can be used to unlock additional features in select games. Based in San Francisco, CA, the company was founded in 2006 by brother-and-sister team Jim Greer, a game industry veteran, and Emily Greer, an interactive marketing executive.

Facebook® is a registered trademark of Facebook Inc.

Press Contacts:

Racheal Caswell / Alex Van Lepp
Wonacott Communications, LLC

(310) 477-2871, Ext. 662 / 665
rcaswell@wonacottpr.com / avanlepp@wonacottpr.com

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Rebel Entertainment

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

Astrid 2.0 Brings Shared Task Lists and Voice Recorder to iPad

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Astrid, a popular online task list, today launched its free app for iPad as well as a new Premium service. Astrid for iPad works as a standalone to-do list and syncs seamlessly with the Astrid App for iPhone and iPod touch and with astrid.com. Astrid Premium adds the ability to save voice recordings and attach files to tasks. Both free and premium accounts provide unlimited list sharing between users on any iOS device.

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Users can subscribe to the Astrid Premium service for $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year via In-App Purchase. Those with a subscription can attach files to tasks by emailing task@astrid.com and by dragging and dropping documents and images to the task on astrid.com.

Beyond attaching files, mobile users can record voice notes on the go. Astrid Premium also automatically stores the recording of the user's voice when something is dictated through the app's speech-to-text features. This feature helps remove the frustration users experience when voice transcription isn't quite right. With the audio file available, users can simply speak and go.

Premium subscribers also get a slew of other benefits, including an improved web dashboard with new ways to filter tasks, graphs to track personal or team progress, and charts to help visualize how responsibility is distributed in a shared list.

The Astrid App is available for free from the App Store on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch or at http://www.itunes.com/appstore.

SOURCE  Astrid

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Astrid

CONTACT: inquiries@astrid.com

Web Site: http://astrid.com

ONPATH and Gale Technologies Transform the Lab Automation Landscape for Network Testing

ONPATH's HorizON 2.4 and Gale Technologies' GaleForce 6.1 software together deliver an innovative new approach to managing and provisioning virtual and physical resources in the lab and data center

MARLTON, N.J., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ONPATH Technologies, the leader in scalable connectivity and monitoring solutions for high performance networks, and Gale Technologies, a leading provider of infrastructure automation software solutions that power Infrastructure as a Service for labs, enterprises, and service providers, today announced that they have successfully completed interoperability testing of ONPATH's UCS platform and HorizON 2.4 software with Gale Technologies' GaleForce 6.1 Software release.

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This interoperability of the UCS and HorizON 2.4 software with GaleForce 6.1 infrastructure automation and orchestration platform offers customers a comprehensive solution for resource management and provisioning across both physical and virtual environments. It enables them to effortlessly design, locate, schedule, connect, provision, and access all of their virtual and physical resources - including servers, networking, storage, applications, and private and public clouds. This solution can easily scale to accommodate multiple local and remote sites. Intelligent power management capabilities significantly reduce costs as well as carbon footprint.

This powerful combination extends Gale's GaleForce dynamic automated provisioning and de-provisioning software to include ONPATH's Universal Connectivity System (UCS) 3912 switch, the most scalable Layer 1 switch in the market. The UCS 3912 supports up to 576 ports of 1/10G Ethernet, as well as 40G and 100G connectivity. Coupled with ONPATH's HorizON 2.4 management and monitoring software, which delivers authentication, authorization, and auditing security features, port locking and port flapping, and on-demand diagnostics, the UCS 3912 platform delivers the most scalable, flexible, future-proof platform on the market.

GaleForce Software is used to build private and hybrid clouds within enterprise, government, technology vendor, and service provider markets. GaleForce deployments have nearly doubled in the last 4 quarters due in most part to its strong differentiated features of self-service automated provisioning of heterogeneous environments spanning across compute, network, storage, and edge devices. Together with ONPATH's UCS 3912 and HorizON software, the combined solution provides customers with a comprehensive and cost-effective solution to access and orchestrate their physical and virtual resources 24/7 from anywhere in the world. This enables them to save time and reduce capital and operating costs, while improving time-to-value for their IT environments.

"We are seeing increased adoption of this joint solution in both Fortune 500 enterprise and service provider customers", said Scott Powers, Director of Product Marketing at Gale Technologies. "We are transforming the way these companies manage their complex infrastructure by enabling them to automate both virtual and physical server, network, and storage resources - all within a single tool." 

"This partnership between Gale Technologies and ONPATH provides customers with a reliable and automated connectivity and management solution", said Gene Litt, VP of Marketing for ONPATH Technologies. "We provide them with simple access and control of the devices within their network, regardless of where those devices are located, enabling them to save time, increase the utilization of existing resources, and reduce costs."

About Gale Technologies

Gale Technologies is a provider of infrastructure automation software that allows organizations to streamline the deployment of on-premise and hybrid clouds for self-service access to infrastructure. The GaleForce software provisions physical, virtual, and public cloud resources and turns generic compute, network, and storage resources into shared converged infrastructure with fully automated end-to-end provisioning, to deliver infrastructure as a service. With open APIs and a plug-in automation framework, GaleForce provides the widest heterogeneous coverage across hypervisors, servers, and network and storage devices in the industry today - yielding rapid deployment of private and hybrid clouds for optimized CAPEX and dramatic OPEX savings. Gale Technologies is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and serves a global customer base with offices in North America and Asia. For more information, visit http://www.galetechnologies.com.

About ONPATH

ONPATH Technologies is the leading provider of scalable connectivity and monitoring solutions for high-performance networks. ONPATH's Universal Connectivity System Connectivity System and HorizON Software deliver an advanced platform that automates and secures data center and test infrastructure to help network managers conserve time, increase utilization, and save money compared to manual patching, static TAPS, SPAN ports, or complex mesh switching architectures. ONPATH currently has over one million installed ports throughout Fortune 1,000 and Government customers. For more information, visit http://www.onpathtech.com.

SOURCE  ONPATH Technologies

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ONPATH Technologies

CONTACT: Jody Bonocore, Director of Marketing Communications, ONPATH Technologies, +1-609-518-4070, jody.bonocore@onpathtech.com

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

Verizon Wireless Enhances 4G LTE Network Coverage In Syracuse Area

- Company expands local 4G LTE network for residents, businesses and visitors

- Part of ongoing nationwide deployment of high-speed data network

- 4G LTE now available to more than 75% of U.S. population in more than 370 markets

SYRACUSE, N.Y., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless recently activated new 4G LTE coverage on sites in Syracuse, Auburn, Chittenango, Cortland, Fabius, Fayetteville, Jordan, Lafayette, Mandana (south of Skaneateles), and two sites in Mexico, further expanding coverage on the high-speed wireless data network the company launched locally in August 2011.

4G LTE lets Verizon Wireless customers use their 4G LTE-enabled devices to surf the Web, post status updates and photos, share music, and download files at speeds up to 10 times faster than customers on 3G networks.

In real-world, fully-loaded network environments, Verizon Wireless customers will be able to use their 4G LTE smartphones, tablets, notebooks, laptop modems and mobile hotspots to experience average data rates of 5 to 12 megabits per second (Mbps) on the downlink and 2 to 5 Mbps on the uplink.

"We've always believed the best wireless devices deserve the best wireless network," said Gene Fassett, executive director of Network for Verizon Wireless in Upstate New York. "People everywhere are increasingly relying on their tablets, smartphones and apps to stay organized, connected and entertained. Our investment here in Upstate New York and across the country has kept us ahead of this consumer trend and underscores our belief that 4G LTE delivers the best value to customers by maximizing the performance of their wireless devices."

Verizon Wireless customers can also take advantage of HomeFusion(TM) Broadband, a solution that leverages the power and speed of the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network to deliver high-speed, in-home Internet access for residential broadband, particularly in areas where Internet options are limited or are not currently available.

Verizon Wireless has invested more than $1.4 billion on its Upstate New York network since 2000, including more than $158 million in 2011, to increase coverage and capacity on behalf of its customers.

The company's 4G LTE network is currently available to more than 75 percent of the U.S. population in more than 370 markets nationwide. 

When customers travel outside of a 4G LTE coverage area, 4G LTE devices automatically connect to Verizon Wireless' 3G network, where available, enabling customers to stay connected from coast to coast.  Verizon Wireless' 3G network is the most reliable high-speed data network in the country and allows customers in 3G coverage areas who purchase 4G LTE devices today to take advantage of 4G LTE speeds when the faster network becomes available in their area, or when they travel to areas already covered by 4G LTE. 

Visit http://www.verizonwireless.com/lte for a full list of 4G LTE markets and additional information on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network.  For street-level detail of coverage and more, please visit http://www.verizonwireless.com/4GLTE.

About Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless operates the nation's largest 4G LTE network and largest, most reliable 3G network. The company serves 94.2 million retail customers, including 88.8 million retail postpaid customers.  Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with 78,000 employees nationwide, Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE, NASDAQ: VZ) and Vodafone (LSE, NASDAQ: VOD).  For more information, visit http://www.verizonwireless.com. To preview and request broadcast-quality video footage and high-resolution stills of Verizon Wireless operations, log on to the Verizon Wireless Multimedia Library at http://www.verizonwireless.com/multimedia.

SOURCE  Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless

CONTACT: John O'Malley, +1-585.321.7264, +1-585.261.5899, john.omalley@verizonwireless.com, http://twitter.com/VZWjohno; Meredith Dropkin, +1-315.413.4293, mdropkin@mower.com

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

Toshiba Launches New Lineup of MOSFETs and Diodes for Wireless Power Transfer Applications

Schottky Barrier Diodes and Dual N-Channel MOSFETs Achieve Industry's Highest Performance in a 2mm Package

IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., (TAEC)*, a committed leader that collaborates with technology companies to create breakthrough designs, today announced the introduction of a new lineup of small signal middle power type Schottky Barrier Diodes (SBD) and dual N-channel MOSFETs for wireless power transfer applications.

The demand for wireless charging is growing rapidly. In fact, consumers want their mobile devices - including mobile phones, tablets, notebook PCs, and digital still/video cameras - to charge themselves. A new class of products are being introduced that enable consumers to achieve this goal and charge their devices without plugging them into an outlet. These wireless power transfer applications require low ON-resistance and low forward voltage products for heat suppression in order to be suitable for battery drive devices - which require low power consumption.

"Consumer demands dictate that wireless charging capabilities will soon become the rule rather than the exception," noted Talayeh Saderi, business development engineer for TAEC.  "Our new line of dual N-channel MOSFETs and SBDs was designed to help make wireless power transfer a reality without sacrificing performance - in fact, Toshiba's new solutions have achieved the highest performance in the industry in a 2mm package."

Uses for Toshiba's new lineup of MOSFETs and SBDs include backflow prevention in the 500mA USB charger line for mobile phones, contrary connection prevention for chargers, load-switching, low voltage rectification specification, bridge circuits, load switch circuits, power transmission stations for wireless power transfer, and wireless power transmission and receiving applications for mobile phones, tablet devices, notebook PCs, DSCs and DVCs.

Features include:

    --  Low Rdson such as 15.3mOhm
    --  Low VF (max): 0.45V, 0.5V, 0.57V
    --  Smaller package such as UDFN (2x2mm(2)), SOT23F (2.8x2.9mm(2)), ESC
        (1.6x0.8mm(2)), CST2B(1.2x0.8mm(2)), etc.
Toshiba has a range of specifications and package lineups to provide the optimal solutions.

MOSFET

               Polarity           Part number VDSS (V) VGSS (V)  ID (A) RDS(ON) max (mO)  Package (mm)
               --------            ----------- ------- -------    -----  ---------------  -----------
     IVGSI=2.5V       IVGSI=4.5V IVGSI= 10V
     ----------       ---------- ----------
                                  SSM3J328R       -20        +/-8   -6  39.7         29.8           -   SOT-23F (2.8x2.9x0.8)
                                  ---------       ---        ----  ---  ----         ----         ---   --------------------
                                 SSM6J501NU       -20        +/-8  -10    19         15.3           -   UDFN6B (2.0x2.0x0.75)
                                 ----------       ---        ----  ---   ---         ----         ---   --------------------
        Pch              1in1    SSM6J502NU       -20        +/-8   -6  28.3         23.1           -   UDFN6B (2.0x2.0x0.75)
                                 ----------       ---        ----  ---  ----         ----         ---   --------------------
                                  SSM3J332R       -30       +/-12   -6    72           50          42  SOT-23 F (2.8x2.9x0.8)
                                  ---------       ---       -----  ---   ---          ---         ---   ---------------------
                                  SSM3J334R       -30       +/-20   -4     -          105          71   SOT-23F (2.8x2.9x0.8)
                                  ---------       ---       -----  ---   ---          ---         ---   --------------------
                         2in1     SSM6P49NU       -20       +/-12   -4    76           56          45   UDFN6 (2.0x2.0x0.75)
                         ----     ---------       ---       -----  ---   ---          ---         ---    -------------------
        Nch              1in1     SSM3K333R        30       +/-20    6     -           42          28   SOT-23F (2.8x2.9x0.8)
        ---              ----     ---------       ---       -----  ---   ---          ---         ---   --------------------
                         2in1     SSM6N55NU        30       +/-20    4     -           64          46   UDFN6 (2.0x2.0x0.75)
                         ----     ---------       ---       -----  ---   ---          ---         ---    -------------------
SBD

     Type Part number VR (V) IO (A) VF @ IO(V) IR @ VR=30V (mA)           Package (mm)
     ---- ----------- -----  -----   --------- ---------------             -----------
             CES521                0.2 0.5(max)                30  ESC (SOD-523) (1.6x0.8x0.6)
             ------                ---  -------               ---  --------------------------
     1in1   CBS05F30               0.5 0.45(max)               50    CST2B - (1.2x0.8x0.38)
            --------               --- --------               ---     ---------------------
            CUS08F30       30      0.8 0.45(max)               50 USC (SOD-323) (2.5x1.25x0.9)
            --------               --- --------               ---  ---------------------------
            CUS10F30                 1 0.5(max)                50 USC (SOD-323) (2.5x1.25x0.9)
            --------               ---  -------                --- ---------------------------
     2in1   CVJ10F30                 1 0.57(max)                50     UFV - (2.0x2.1x0.7)
     ----   --------               --- --------                ---     ------------------
Pricing and Availability

Toshiba's lineup of dual N-channel MOSFETs and SBDs is currently available.  For datasheets, samples, and pricing please contact your Toshiba representative.

*About Toshiba Corp. and TAEC

Through proven commitment, lasting relationships and advanced, reliable electronic components, Toshiba enables its customers to create market-leading designs. Toshiba is the heartbeat within product breakthroughs from OEMs, ODMs, CMs, VARs, distributors and fabless chip companies worldwide.  A committed electronic components leader, Toshiba designs and manufactures high-quality flash memory-based storage solutions, solid state drives (SSDs), hard disk drives (HDDs), discrete devices, advanced materials, medical tubes, custom SoCs/ASICs, imaging products, microcontrollers and wireless components that make possible today's leading smartphones, tablets, MP3 players, cameras, medical devices, automotive electronics, enterprise solutions and more.

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. is an independent operating company owned by Toshiba America, Inc., a subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, Japan's largest semiconductor manufacturer and the world's third largest semiconductor manufacturer (Gartner, 2011 Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue, March, 2012).  Toshiba Corporation was founded in 1875 and today has over 554 subsidiaries and affiliates, with 210,000 employees worldwide. Visit Toshiba's web site at http://www.toshiba.co.jp/index.htm.

© 2012 Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. All rights reserved.

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

Editor's Note:  Images available for download from: 

http://www.toshiba.com/taec/news/press_releases/2012/lgss_12_645.jsp

AGENCY CONTACT:
Dena Jacobson

Lages & Associates

Tel.: (949) 453-8080 
dena@lages.com

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Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc.

CONTACT: Rebecca Bueno, Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., Tel.: +1-949-623-3099, rebecca.bueno@taec.toshiba.com

OHK Labs Launches SportsPicker Challenge for Bragging Rights and Prizes

Free Social Media-Powered Sports Competition Site Creates March Madness Feel Year-Round

BOCA RATON, Fla., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sports fans have something new to cheer about as professional and college football swing back into action and the MLB postseason approaches: SportsPicker Challenge, a revolutionary new platform that lets friends compete for bragging rights and real prizes. Developed by OHK Labs, SportsPicker Challenge puts the excitement back in MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, NCAA football and basketball, EPL, MLS, and EUFA Champions soccer by giving Facebook friends a venue to pick winners and root for their chosen teams.

Unlike fantasy sports games, which focus on individual player statistics and distance fans from real teams, SportsPicker Challenge return sport fans to their roots, giving them an added reason to cheer for their team on game day. Players can also display their skills over time, choosing their favorite sport, inviting Facebook friends to play or joining prize challenges to make predictions on game outcomes.

SportsPicker Challenge features a unique scoring system that takes the odds into account: A victory by the favored team earns 100 points, and underdog team wins earn between 125 and 200 points, depending on the odds of winning. The player who has the most points at the end of the challenge period takes home bragging rights in their challenge and gets to flex their superior game-picking abilities.

Those who participate in prize challenges can also win large prizes, including gift cards from Amazon.com, SportsAuthority.com, BestBuy.com, ScoreBig.com and more. Three lucky football fans will take home EA SPORTS Madden NFL 13 for picking the most winners in the NFL's opening week. A sponsored challenge from ticket reseller BestBetTickets.com will be giving one football fanatic a pair of tickets to an NFL game of their choice as well. To date, OHK Labs has planned over $10,000 in prizes.

SportsPicker Challenge was inspired by SportsPicker CEO Oren Kantor, an avid sports fan who wanted to extend the excitement of March Madness beyond the tournament period. Like many sports enthusiasts, Kantor was involved in fantasy leagues and online sports prediction games, but he found those venues ultimately unsatisfying:

"With fantasy leagues, the games become meaningless, because the only thing that matters is individual player stats," Kantor said. "Also, fantasy leagues require a lot of time - players have to keep up with who is starting and make substitutions all season long. That can take the fun out of the game. With SportsPicker Challenge, it's all about team performance and the player's skill in picking winners. SportsPicker Challenge gives a bracket challenge feel to all sports."

SportsPicker Challenge enables players to set reminders for when they need to make picks, but the function is customizable to eliminate the possibility of information overload. Another key advantage to the platform's design is that, unlike many online sports prediction games, SportsPicker Challenge doesn't penalize players if they break a streak with a single bad pick. The results are cumulative over the duration of the challenge, so players' overall skills are rewarded with bragging rights among their Facebook friends and the possibility of winning valuable prizes.

SportsPicker Challenge is completely free to play, and users can access the platform via Facebook or by downloading the free iPhone app. The OHK Labs team recently wrapped up a beta testing phase that generated a lot of user excitement, and the company expects membership to grow exponentially as the sporting world heats up this fall.

Sponsorship and technology licensing opportunities are available for companies that want to capitalize on an innovative new Pick'em technology with mobile capabilities that engages audiences and offers prize contests. Learn more about OHK Labs and the new SportsPicker Challenge platform at http://www.sportspickerapp.com/.

About SportsPicker
SportsPicker is a sports prediction technology platform that enables sports fans to compete against Facebook friends or in prize challenges. With a unique points system that rewards skill and a focus on team outcomes that puts the fun back in the game, SportsPicker returns sports enthusiasts to their roots and lets them compete for bragging rights and valuable sponsored prizes. SportsPicker is a product of OHK Labs, a mobile application development studio founded and led by Oren Kantor, a sports fanatic looking to create the similar excitement of filling out March Madness bracket challenges year-round. Learn more at http://www.sportspickerapp.com.

SOURCE  SportsPicker

SportsPicker

CONTACT: Jonathan Gluskin, SS|PR, +1-847-415-9319, jgluskin@sspr.com

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

RocketPlay Partners with Zynga to Bring Social Sports-Betting to Facebook and Zynga.com

Sports Casino Delivers Engaging Second-Screen Sports Experience with Live In-Game Betting

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- RocketPlay, creators of groundbreaking social sports-betting games, today announced that it has launched Sports Casino, a social sports-betting title on Facebook and Zynga.com. Along with the game's release, RocketPlay also announced its partnership with Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA), the world's leading provider of social game services, to bring Sports Casino to the 306 million monthly active players on Zynga's network of games across Facebook and other platforms. Sports Casino is available to play at http://www.zynga.com and on Facebook at http://apps.facebook.com/sportscasino/.

(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120905/SF67914LOGO)

"Sports Casino delivers an authentic virtual sports-betting experience to social gaming and sports fans," said Mani Honigstein, CEO, RocketPlay. "We're thrilled to launch with Zynga's support, a company that has set the social gaming benchmark and will help us bring a great game to a wide range of players."

Sports Casino players enjoy an authentic Las Vegas-style sportsbook experience, placing virtual bets on global sports with real-time odds while enjoying integrated casino games such as video poker, slots, and blackjack. Players can enjoy in-game, real-time betting while competing with their friends - a perfect second-screen complement to watching live sports on television. Sports Casino arrives just in time for action-packed betting on professional and college football, baseball, and international soccer.

The game appeals to the highly sought-after male gamer demographic on Facebook, particularly as social betting games continue to grow in popularity. Though the game currently uses only virtual currency, RocketPlay has developed Sports Casino to take advantage of the rising importance of real-money gambling in the social space as opportunities arise and legal restrictions are eased.

The Zynga Platform is a social gaming platform designed to give players the most social and fun gaming experience wherever they play, while helping third-party developers of all sizes launch, promote, scale and grow their games and business.

Following Sports Casino's release, RocketPlay will continue to update the game with new features and sports, including hockey, basketball, and more.

Assets

Download the full press kit here.

About RocketPlay
RocketPlay, formerly known as Gamingo, is a leading entertainment and gaming company, bringing sports and casino games to the Web, Facebook and Mobile. Developed by an experienced team comprised of social gaming and iGaming veterans from Betfair, Kabam, 888.com, and bwin.party, the company's flagship product, Sports Casino, is the first of its kind on Facebook.  RocketPlay is funded by Pitango Venture Capital and has offices in London, San Francisco and Tel Aviv.

Official Website | Facebook | @Twitter

Media Contacts
Dustin Blackwell, TriplePoint
dblackwell@triplepointpr.com
(415) 955-8500

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(415) 955-8500

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Sports Casino

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

Content Discovery Platform nRelate Inks Deal with CBS Interactive

nRelate's Publisher Network Triples in Size in Less Than Six Months

NEW YORK, Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- nRelate, a rapidly growing content discovery company and operating business of Ask.com, an IAC (NASDAQ: IACI) company, today announced a partnership with CBS Interactive. The deal will enable nRelate's content discovery platform to provide targeted article recommendations to readers across the CBS Interactive network, and allow content owners to reach a larger audience.

This deal will place CBS Interactive properties, such as CNET, CBSNews.com and CBSSports.com in the nRelate publisher network, along with the planned addition of nearly three million handcrafted articles from the library of About.com, which Ask.com recently announced it intends to acquire. The two deals are expected to propel nRelate's reach to almost three times its current size across a wide range of mainstream media, expert content and niche sites. 

"We are always looking for ways to deliver great content to our users that align with their interests," said Zack Rogers, senior vice president, revenue operations, CBS Interactive. "nRelate's platform not only gives us another channel to do that, but also expands advertising opportunities for brands that produce content."

nRelate's content discovery platform provides about 50,000 high quality publishers with means to increase both traffic and user engagement through targeted article recommendations, as well as earn revenue when readers navigate to sponsored articles from nRelate content partners. The company's publisher partners include a range of media organizations and bloggers in categories such as food, parenting, sports, technology and DIY.

"The addition of CBS Interactive to our publisher network underscores the huge market opportunity around content discovery," said Neil Mody, founder and CEO of nRelate. "The significant growth of our network in such a short amount of time is a testament to this model's scalability for readers, traditional publishers, and any brand looking to maximize their investment in high-quality content."

About nRelate
Founded in 2009, and acquired by Ask.com in 2012, nRelate's content recommendation platform helps thousands of publishers creating quality content in topic areas like food, parenting, DIY and technology increase traffic and revenue through targeted article recommendations. Through distribution on the nRelate publisher network, content marketers can reach audiences uniquely engaged with content they trust. More information is available at http://www.nrelate.com.

About Ask.com
With more than 100 million global users, Ask.com is the leading online brand for questions and answers and an operating business of IAC (NASDAQ: IACI). Now available as a mobile service, Ask.com mobile apps have been downloaded more than two million times. More information is available at http://www.ask.com or http://blog.ask.com.

About IAC
IAC (NASDAQ: IACI) is a leading media and Internet company comprised of more than 150 brands and products, including Match.com, Ask.com, CollegeHumor, and CityGrid Media. Focused in the areas of Search, Personals, Local and Media, IAC's family of websites is one of the largest in the world, with nearly a billion monthly visits across more than 30 countries. The company is headquartered in New York City with offices in various locations throughout the U.S. and internationally. To view a full list of the companies of IAC, please visit our website at http://www.iac.com.

For further information:
Jennifer Conway Dotted Line Communications for nRelate
978-463-0289
Jennifer@dottedlinecomm.com

Suraya Akbarzad, Ask.com
510-985-7427
suraya.akbarzad@ask.com

SOURCE  nRelate

nRelate

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

HomeAway Customers Offer Vacation Properties to Gulf State Residents Devastated by Hurricane Isaac

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Austin-based HomeAway, Inc. (NASDAQ: AWAY) has organized a directory of vacation homes available for rent, many at reduced rates or free of charge, to those in need of housing whose homes were damaged by the storm. HomeAway® customers with properties located in East Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida panhandle on U.S. vacation rental sites HomeAway.com®, VRBO.com? and VacationRentals.com? have volunteered to offer their rentals to evacuees. 

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Fully furnished homes can be rented for short- and long-term stays. Individuals should contact the owners directly; more information is available on the site. For the list of available homes visit: http://community.homeaway.com/docs/DOC-2994. Thanks to the generosity of HomeAway customers, more than 50 homes are available and others are being added regularly.

Owners and property managers wishing to connect with each other to discuss the latest news on the storms and share advice and resources can visit: http://community.homeaway.com/groups/hurricane-isaa.

HomeAway CEO Brian Sharples is available for comment.

About HomeAway, Inc.

HomeAway, Inc. (NASDAQ:AWAY), based in Austin, Texas, is the world's leading online marketplace of vacation rentals, with sites representing approximately 735,000 paid vacation rental home listings throughout 168 countries. HomeAway® offers an extensive selection of vacation homes that provide travelers with memorable experiences and benefits, especially more room to relax, for less than the cost of traditional hotel accommodations. The company also makes it easy for vacation rental owners and property managers to advertise their properties and manage bookings online. The HomeAway portfolio of websites includes HomeAway.com, VRBO.com and VacationRentals.com in the United States; HomeAway.co.uk and OwnersDirect.co.uk in the United Kingdom; HomeAway.de in Germany; Abritel.fr and Homelidays.com in France; HomeAway.es, Toprural.com in Spain; AlugueTemporada.com.br in Brazil; and HomeAway.com.au in Australia.

In addition, HomeAway operates BedandBreakfast.com, the most comprehensive global site for finding bed-and-breakfast properties, providing travelers with another source for unique lodging alternatives to chain hotels. For more information about HomeAway, please visit http://www.HomeAway.com.

Media Contact:
Jordan Hoefar
Public Relations Specialist, HomeAway
512-505-1857
jhoefar@homeaway.com

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HomeAway, Inc.

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

Block Engineering Partners with the Griot Group for Quantum Cascade Laser Instrument Sales

MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Block Engineering, a leading manufacturer of Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) and FTIR spectrometers, has added the Griot Group to its family of sales representatives.

"I am delighted at our partnership with the Griot Group, a sales organization founded on the principles of delivering high technology solutions that best fit the needs of their extensive customer base in private industry as well as academia," said Scott Riggi, VP of Sales at Block Engineering.

The Griot Group has sales and administration offices located in Irvine, CA; Santa Clara, CA; and West Linn, Oregon. They will represent Block Engineering in the Pacific Northwest, the Rocky Mountain region, and the southwestern states of Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. The Griot Group was founded by its President Ron Hegge in 1963 and has been recognized as a leading high technology manufacturers' representative throughout the western United States.

"Through the addition of the sales staff at Griot Group, Block Engineering has expanded its representation across critical areas of the western region. Their business model of maintaining a sales staff consisting of technically trained engineers is precisely in line with the commercial vision for Block Engineering, a market leader in quantum cascade laser development," added Scott Riggi.

Block Engineering's CEO, Petros Kotidis, commented, "Our presence in the academic and industrial markets is growing fast and we are experiencing strong demand for our innovative infrared laser spectrometers and sources. The addition of the Griot Group is another strategic step in that direction and I look forward to our partnership."

About Block Engineering LLC:

Founded in 1956, Block Engineering, LLC is a leading manufacturer and marketer of high performance Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) and FTIR spectrometers for military, government, commercial, and industrial customers. Block's Mobile Chemical Agent Detector (MCAD) system is a fixed site, passive FTIR spectrometer offered in partnership with Northrop Grumman Corp. Block's PORTHOS (TM) is a portable, passive FTIR spectrometer system that remotely detects chemical threats as far as three miles and protects against chemical warfare agents and weapons of mass destruction. Block Engineering is also manufacturing and selling a line of unique QCL-based spectrometers, including the LaserScan Analyzer, for applications ranging from detection of explosives and liquid/solid chemical warfare agents to control of manufacturing operations and verification of surface conditions in a variety of industrial processes.

About Block MEMS LLC:

Block MEMS, LLC is an engineering and development company focusing on the R&D of high performance Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCLs) and FTIR spectrometers for military and government customers. Following the success of its commercial-off-the-shelf passive FTIR products, such as MCAD and PORTHOS, Block MEMS has applied its extensive knowledge of spectroscopy and chemical detection towards the development of its high performance QCL based spectrometers, including LaserScan (TM). LaserScan has attracted high interest in the Department of Defense for detection of explosives and liquid/solid chemical warfare agents. In addition, Block MEMS is developing a revolutionary MEMS-based, miniaturized spectrometer, ChemPen (TM), which is a low cost, FTIR chemical gas detector the size of a fountain pen.

Block MEMS and Block Engineering are affiliated through common ownership and share headquarters in Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA. For more information, visit http://www.blockeng.com.

Contact:
Mr. Scott Riggi
scott.riggi@blockeng.com
508-251-3105

SOURCE  Block Engineering

Block Engineering

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

Online Trust Forum Workshops to Tackle Mobile Security and Privacy, Threats of Botnets and Malicious Email

OTA Academy to Help Address Most Challenging Issues Impacting Commerce & User Trust

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) today announced three training workshops as part of the upcoming Online Trust Forum 2012: The Future of Online Trust & Self-Regulation. On Thursday October 4th, OTA will be hosting the OTA Academy, three full-day workshops addressing key security and privacy issues impacting every online business: The Anti-Botnet Multi-Stakeholder Workshop; The Mobile App Security & Privacy Boot Camp; and the Email Authentication & DMARC Training Academy.

Held at The Sainte Claire Hotel in San Jose, Calif., the workshops and training provide participants with the opportunity to discuss, learn and collaborate on best practices with industry experts from companies such as American Greetings, Twitter, Facebook, PayPal, Publishers Clearing House and Wells Fargo.

"Responding to feedback from the public and private sectors, the OTA Academy is tackling three of the most important privacy and security issues facing users and businesses," said Craig Spiezle, executive director and president, OTA. "Botnets affected more than one in ten computers last year; mobile privacy policies are being demanded; and forged and malicious email continues to enable phishing and identity theft.  These workshops will bring together the foremost leaders in these areas to educate participants and discuss innovative solutions."

October 4, 2012 Full-Day OTA Academy Training Sessions

Mobile App Security & Privacy Boot Camp - Designing for Privacy & Trust: Co-sponsored by the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT), the Mobile App Security & Privacy Boot Camp is designed to help mobile application developers innovate based on principles developed by the State of California with leading online app platforms including Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft.

"Mobile app developers have a direct trust relationship with their customers, and transparency about data collection and sharing practices are a critical part of that relationship.  This boot camp is designed to give developers the tools they need to build clear, effective privacy policies that enhance consumer trust," said Morgan Reed, executive director of ACT.

Email Authentication & DMARC Training Academy: Modeled off of OTA's training for the Department of Homeland Security, this curriculum-based training is designed to aid business and government agencies in the deployment, management and monitoring of email authentication and Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC).

Anti-Botnet Multi-Stakeholder Workshop: Notifying & Aiding Impacted Users: This workshop focuses on the challenges of notifying and aiding consumers who have been affected by botnets and other malware. In this initial closed door facilitated workshop, best practices from multiple stakeholders including ISPs, banks, social networks, and eCommerce will be shared.

About the Online Trust Forum 2012 - The Future of Online Trust & Self-Regulation

The 2012 Forum is an interactive combination of keynotes, practical panels and workshops addressing key issues and opportunities including mobile, privacy, security, identity and brand protection. Speakers include FTC Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, Howard Schmidt, former White House Cybersecurity Coordinator and 50 other experts and thought leaders. Register by September 14(th) for early bird savings. For more information, visit: https://otalliance.org/forum.html.

About The Online Trust Alliance (OTA)

The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) is a non-profit with the mission to enhance online trust, while promoting innovation and the vitality of the internet. OTA's goal is to educate businesses, policy makers and stakeholders while developing and advancing best practices and tools to enhance protection of users' security, privacy and identity. OTA supports collaborative public-private partnerships, benchmark reporting, meaningful self-regulation and data stewardship.  For more information, visit: https://otalliance.org. Follow us on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/otalliance.

SOURCE  The Online Trust Alliance (OTA)

The Online Trust Alliance (OTA)

CONTACT: Marina Greenwood, Activa PR for OTA, +1-415-776-535, marina@activapr.com

Web Site: https://otalliance.org

The Neat® Company Adds NeatMobile for Android to its Comprehensive Digital Filing System

New NeatMobile Android Phone App allows users to easily acquire, access, and search important information from anywhere

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Neat® Company, a leader in Digital Filing Systems for the small business and home, today announced general availability of NeatMobile® for the Android operating system.  With these new services, Android phone users will be able to access and search the information in their Neat Digital Filing Systems from virtually anywhere.  Users will also be able to immediately add documents, receipts, and business cards into their Digital Filing System using the camera on their Android smartphone.

"Consumers and small businesses alike are using an array of Internet-connected devices - not just a single laptop," says Kevin Garton, chief marketing officer of The Neat Company.  "Neat's Digital Filing System is a way for people to tie all of these systems together, making important files immediately available regardless of device.  With the addition of NeatMobile for Android, customers can continue to leverage Neat's Digital Filing System to simplify information management for the home or business."

NeatMobile for Android is a part of the Neat Digital Filing System , which consists of the Neat software platform; the company's popular scanning solutions NeatDesk® and NeatReceipts®; and NeatCloud for Web and NeatMobile for iOS.

The new NeatMobile application for Android includes the following powerful features:

    --  Acquire - Users can quickly capture important information by using the
        camera on their smartphone.
    --  Sync - NeatMobile for Android automatically synchronizes with all other
        versions of Neat's Digital Filing System including Neat's desktop
        software, NeatCloud, and other mobile devices - ensuring that all
        content is accessible from anywhere.
    --  Access - Android users can now use their mobile devices to quickly view
        all the information in a Neat Digital Filing System while on the go.
    --  Search - NeatMobile for Android leverages OCR and parsing to transform
        information in the Neat Digital Filing System into searchable data.  In
        addition to OCR and parsing, NeatMobile users can also signup for
        NeatVerify, a monthly subscription service that ensures that data taken
        from images is 99% accurate.
NeatMobile for Android will be free-of-charge to those who have subscribed to the top two NeatCloud plans.  To subscribe to a NeatCloud plan, visit http://www.neat.com/products/neatcloud.

To download the NeatMobile app for Android from the Google Play Store Click here.  You can also simply search for "Neat" on the Google Play Store to find and download NeatMobile.

NeatDesk and NeatReceipts can be purchased online at Neat.com, Apple.com and Amazon.com.  They are also available through retailers such as Staples, Office Depot, OfficeMax and Best Buy.

Editor's Note:

*NeatMobile is supported on Android versions 2.2 and higher.

About Digital Filing Systems

A digital filing system is a desktop and cloud-based repository where important documents and information can be safely stored, organized, accessed and shared.  The information can originate from analog (paper) or digital formats (PDF, JPEG, etc.) and be placed in the digital filing system by scanning, emailing, mobile device image capture or uploading.

About The Neat Company

The Neat® Company is the leading manufacturer of Digital Filing Systems for the small business and home markets.  Neat's unique combination of cloud, mobile, desktop software and hardware scanning solutions transform important documents into usable digital information.  Neat's comprehensive digital filing system helps you organize, access and share both paper and digital documents simplifying everyday tasks so you have more time to do what matters.  Neat's solutions consist of NeatDesk®, NeatReceipts®, NeatCloud®, NeatMobile®, NeatVerify® and NeatScan®.  Learn more at http://www.neat.com.

Media Contact:

Amber Lutz

215-867-8600 x26
neat@garfieldgroup.com

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The Neat Company

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

Discovery Education and Intel Expand 'Curiosity in the Classroom' to Bring Critical STEM Resources to Teachers and Students

-- Partnership Also Includes "Catch Me Being Curious" National Sweepstakes Offering the Chance to Win Vacation of a Lifetime --

SILVER SPRING, Md., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Discovery Education and Intel Corporation today announced the expansion of Curiosity in the Classroom, a partnership designed to extend learning opportunities found in Discovery Channel's groundbreaking television series CURIOSITY to teachers and students. With a critical need for free resources to ignite students' interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), the expanded website will feature new lesson plans and activities that create STEM connections across various subjects.

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CuriosityintheClassroom.com, an interactive, educational tool, contains cutting-edge curriculum examining topics such as artificial intelligence, communications, computers, nanotechnology and robotics. The site provides resources that encourage insightful conversation between educators, students and families.

Building on the website's robust collection of resources aligned to national education standards for students in grades 6-12, Discovery Education and Intel are adding an increased selection of interactive lesson plans to help boost engagement among today's digital learners. The updated site now features new topics, integrated into multidisciplinary lesson plans and activities for English/Language Arts and World History to make real world connections to STEM topics, and help students gain essential problem-solving skills.   

"Discovery Education is committed to providing educators, students and their families with resources and opportunities to explore the world around them and ignite their natural curiosity," said Mary Rollins, Discovery Education vice president. "We are pleased to expand the Curiosity in the Classroom program to include a wider variety of resources to get students excited about STEM and encourage them to pursue STEM-related careers in the future."

The partnership also features "Catch Me Being Curious," a national sweepstakes that will award a dream vacation of exploration and discovery. One grand prize winner, to be selected in December 2012, will receive a vacation for four to an exciting U.S. destination, including the Grand Canyon National Park; Boston, MA; San Antonio, TX; or Philadelphia, PA. Entrants also have the chance to win a trip to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix, AZ, an Intel Ultrabook laptop computer and Curiosity prize packs.

For more information and to enter the sweepstakes, visit CuriosityintheClassroom.com. 

About Discovery Education
Discovery Education transforms classrooms, empowers teachers and captivates students by providing high quality, dynamic, digital content for grades K-12 and community colleges. Powered by Discovery Communications (NASDAQ: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK), the number one nonfiction media company in the world, Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-based digital media, professional development, assessment tools and a passionate educator network to support districts in accelerating student achievement. Discovery Education services like Discovery Education streaming, Discovery Education Techbook and Discovery Education Higher Ed, are in more than half of all US schools and 35 countries around the world.  Explore the future of education at http://www.discoveryeducation.com.

About Intel
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world's computing devices. Additional information about Intel is available at newsroom.intel.com and blogs.intel.com.

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CONTACT: Alana Carchedi, Discovery Education, +1-240-662-2572, alana_carchedi@discovery.com

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

Livestream Enters the Switcher Market with Livestream Studio HD500: A Truly Portable All-In-One Live HD Production Switcher

Expanding its hardware offering, Livestream solidifies its position as a full-service solution for live video event production with free software version arriving early 2013

Livestream Enters the Switcher Market with Livestream Studio HD500: A Truly Portable All-In-One Live HD Production Switcher

Expanding its hardware offering, Livestream solidifies its position as a full-service solution for live video event production with free software version arriving early 2013NEW YORK, Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Livestream (Livestream.com), the market leader for live event coverage, today introduces the Livestream Studio HD500, an all-in-one broadcast quality video switcher. The new hardware product features include:

    --  Live video mixing for multi-camera productions
    --  Live audio mixing
    --  Graphics overlay and titling
    --  Digital video recorder (DVR) and player
    --  One-click live streaming in HD multi-bitrate to the award winning
        Livestream Platform
    --  Up to 5 HD/SD SDI inputs
    --  5 video outputs (HD/SD SDI, HDMI, Component, Composite, S-VIDEO)
The Livestream Studio HD500 is available for pre-order today for $8,500 at http://store.livestream.com and will start shipping October 15, 2012. Livestream will also give away five free units in September to selected producers who apply for the early release program at http://store.livestream.com.

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"A key part of our mission at Livestream is to make it easier and more affordable for producers and event owners to produce high quality HD multi-camera live streams," said Max Haot, CEO and Co-founder of Livestream. "Earlier this year, we introduced the Livestream Broadcaster hardware which made live streaming without a PC possible for single camera productions. We are thrilled to further our mission by bringing to market an all-in-one broadcast quality multi-camera switcher that is truly portable and offered at a disruptive price."

The Livestream Studio HD500 is designed to perform as a standalone, broadcast quality live video switcher when using live video output (HD/SD SDI, HDMI, Component, S-Video, Composite), and is ideal for applications such as in-venue screen broadcasting, live-to-tape production and network and local television programming, all with or without live streaming to the web.

The first product in the Livestream Studio family, Livestream Studio HD500, is a portable hardware version featuring up to 5 HD/SD SDI inputs and 5 video outputs (HD/SD SDI, HDMI, Component, Composite, S-Video). The product includes a built-in screen and Tom Bihn© bag that can be taken as carry-on luggage for producers on the go to accommodate live events both nationally and internationally. Comparable all-in-one live switcher products in the market are available for approximately $20,000 and are not fully portable, requiring separate screens and large cases that need to be checked on airlines.

In the first quarter of 2013, Livestream will also release software which will work with certified digital video input cards from Blackmagic Design© and webcams. This software will enable customers to transform their PC or Mac computer into a broadcast quality video switcher and streaming hardware device.

The soon-to-be-released software will be free to download when used with the Livestream platform. When using the free software version, the live video output- feature will be disabled. A paid version of the software, which will allow users to stream to any streaming service provider or in venue screens via the live video output, will also be made available.

About Livestream:

Livestream's mission is to connect people and live events. Livestream offers event owners a complete set of hardware and software tools to share their events with a growing community online. More than 30 million viewers each month watch thousands of live events from customers including The New York Times, Facebook, ESPN, SpaceX and Warner Bros. Records. Founded in 2007, Livestream is headquartered in New York with offices in Los Angeles, London, Ukraine and India. http://www.livestream.com.

Livestream Studio HD500 Video :

Preview :
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High Resolution Download:
http://cdn.livestream.com/pressrelease/LivestreamStudioHD500-Video.mov

Press Contact:

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Copyrights:

Blackmagic Design is copyright Blackmagic Design Pty. Ltd. 2012, all rights reserved.

Tom Bihn Bag is copyright Tom Bihn, all rights reserved.

Livestream Studio HD500 is copyright Livestream, LLC, all rights reserved.

                                                                     Livestream Studio HD500 - Technical Specifications

                                                                                   Livestream Studio HD500

    Live Video Input     - 5 simultaneous HD/SD SDI live video sources when configured for streaming or
                         recording (no live video output)
                         - Or 4 simultaneous HD/SD SDI live video sources when live video out is enabled

    Media Sources        - 4 integrated digital media sources for video & graphics playback
                         - 2 DDRs (video clip playback)
                         - 2 GFX (graphics)

    Live Video Output    5 live outputs
                         - 1 x HD/SD SDI (Program)
                         - 1x HDMI (Program)
                         - 1 x Composite (Program)
                         - 1 x Component (Program)
                         - 1 x S-Video (Program)

    Built-in Multiview   - On-screen full field rate multiview of all live inputs, Preview, Program Out, 2 GFX and 2 DDR
                         - Audio PPM overlay with peak hold feature on all inputs and outputs
                         - Resizable layout allowing hiding of all controls to maximize multiview screens
                         - Latency from SDI input to multiview: 5 Frames

    Video Switcher/Mixer - 1 x Mixer & Effects Bank (M/E) with no upstream keyer
                         - Transitions
                         - Fade (Auto transition with adjustable duration in frames, manual via on-screen T-BAR or keyboard shortcuts)
                         - Cut
                         - SMPTE Wipes**

                                    Livestream Studio HD500 - Technical Specifications

                                                 Livestream Studio HD500

    Graphics Downstream Key                                              -2 x Graphics DSK (downstream key) channels. One
                                                                         channel for GFX1 and one channel for GFX2
                                                                         -Independent or locked transition controls (fade/
                                                                         cut), positioning**, scaling**, cropping**
                                                                        - Preview on multiview

    Graphics & Titling (GFX 1 & 2)                                       -Load JPG or PNG files (full transparency support
                                                                         with PNG files)
                                                                         -Add text (set position/font/size/color) over any
                                                                         loaded image file within the GFX1 or GFX2

    Video Clip Playback (DDR 1 & 2)                                     2 x DDR sources with:
                                                                        - Eject/Load clip
                                                                        - Play
                                                                        - Pause/stop
                                                                        - Audio/Video Scrubber
                                                                        - Timecode indicator
                                                                        - Seek to timecode
                                                                        - Mark In/Mark Out (set and type in option)
                                                                        - Loop
                                                                        - Auto-play on transition

    Recording                                                           - AVI MJPEG with uncompressed audio
                                                                        - Configurable bit rate
                                                                        - Interlacing and timecode support

    Recording Capacity                                                   -~10 hours at 1080i (Using 500Gb built in Hard Drive
                                                                         with recorder set to record at 100Mbps MJPEG AVI)

    Live Streaming                                                       - HD live streaming via Gigabit/100/10 built-in
                                                                         Ethernet
                                                                        - Presets in up HD 720p
                                                                         - Multiple Adaptive Bit-Rates including mobile
                                                                         quality for playback over 3G on mobile devices
                                                                         (iPhone/Android)
                                                                         -Simultaneous MP4/AAC file archive of all bitrates
                                                                         renditions

                           Livestream Studio HD500 - Technical Specifications

                                         Livestream Studio HD500

    Audio Inputs                                                   -Up to 5 stereo inputs from SDI
                                                                   Embedded inputs with user
                                                                   selectable left/right channel from
                                                                   any of the 8 SDI embedded audio
                                                                   channels
                                                                   -4 Channels of professional
                                                                   balanced analog audio via 1/4" jack
                                                                   connectors

    Audio Outputs                                                  -Stereo out from mixer embedded in
                                                                   the SDI output
                                                                   -1 Stereo 1/8" for live headphone
                                                                   monitoring (Ability to select
                                                                   master output mix or individual
                                                                   inputs)

    Audio Mixing                                                   - Integrated multi-channel audio
                                                                   mixer for internal and external
                                                                   audio sources, outputs, stream and
                                                                   headphones
                                                                   -Incorporated video switcher follow
                                                                   feature with audio crossfade
                                                                   support when fading two video
                                                                   source

    Supported Formats                                              -HD: 720p50, 720p59.94, 720p60,
                                                                   1080PsF23.98, 1080p23.98,
                                                                   1080PsF24, 1080p24, 1080PsF25,
                                                                   1080p25, 1080PsF29.97, 1080p29.97,
                                                                   1080PsF30, 1080p30, 1080i50,
                                                                   1080i59.94 and 1080i60
                                                                   -SD: 625/25 PAL, 525/29.97 NTSC,
                                                                   525/23.98 NTSC

    Playback Media Formats                                        GFX :
                                                                  - JPEG
                                                                   -PNG image files with transparency
                                                                   support
                                                                  DDR :
                                                                  - AVI MJPEG with uncompressed audio
                                                                  - MP4 (AAC/H264)**

    Record Media Formats                                          - AVI MJPEG with uncompressed audio

    Operating System                                              - Windows 7 Professional (64 bit)

    Built-in Display                                               -Integrated 17" WUXGA+ (1920X1200)
                                                                   HD Display

    CPU                                                            - Intel "Sandy Bridge-E" Core i7
                                                                   3930K 3.2 GHz Six-Core processor,
                                                                   12MB L3 cache, 130W, Socket LGA
                                                                   2011

                                      Livestream Studio HD500 - Technical Specifications

                                                   Livestream Studio HD500

    Graphics Card                        - Nvidia GeForce GT 520 Commercial Series PCI Express graphics card

    RAM                                  - 8GB4 total DDR3 1333 MHz RAM (non-ECC) (2GB x 4 DIMM triple-channel configuration)

    Processing                           - Video: 4:2:2, 10 bit Color (REC 601, REC 709)
                                         - Audio: 48 kHz, 24-bit
                                         - SDI input to SDI output latency : 3 frames
                                         - REF IN/Genlock (Requires genlocking the two Blackmagic cards via two separate connectors)

    System Physical                      - 5.8" (D) x 12.40" (H) x 16.75" (W)
                                         - ~ 15 lbs

    Built-in Video Input/Output Cards    - Blackmagic Design DeckLink Quad (PCI): http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/decklinkquad/
                                         - Blackmagic Design DeckLink Studio (PCI): http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/decklink

    Included in the box                  - Carry-on bag
                                         - Protective screen cover panel (screw on)
                                         - Keyboard
                                         - Mouse
                                         - Power cord
                                         - 5 BNC Female to DIN 1.0/2.3 RG-59 SDI Cable (for SDI inputs on Blackmagic Quad card)
                                         - Blackmagic Cards documentation and driver CD
                                         - Warranty

** Feature not yet available but will be made available via free online software update.

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IMS Infrastructure Market Grows Nearly 40 Percent Year-over-Year in the Second Quarter, According to Exact Ventures

Huawei led market shift from VoLTE to Wireline

BURLINGAME, Calif., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In recently released report, Exact Ventures found that the IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) Core market grew nearly 40 percent in the second quarter of this year compared to the same quarter last year.  Wireline deployments in China boosted the IMS market in the second quarter, but those deployments were not strong enough for the market to increase sequentially over the first quarter of this year, which benefited from exceptionally strong voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) deployments in North America.   Based on the strength of its domestic sales, Huawei led the IMS Core market in the second quarter, followed by Nokia Siemens, Ericsson, and Mavenir, respectively.

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According to the report, the total NGN voice and IMS Core market grew only slightly quarter-over-quarter as seasonal strength in the wireless voice core market was barely able to offset sequential weakness in the legacy wireline NGN and IMS Core markets.

The service provider session border controller (SP-SBC) market has not been immune to weakness in wireline spending as it was essentially flat both sequentially and year-over-year.  "The total SBC market continues to be boosted by the enterprise SBC category (E-SBC), which continues to be fueled by strong adoption of hosted unified communications and SIP trunking services" said Greg Collins, Founder and Principal Analyst at research firm Exact Ventures.  "The E-SBC market was up nearly 20 percent year-over-year in 2Q12," he added.

About Exact Ventures
Exact Ventures is an independent market intelligence and advisory firm, publishing quarterly market analysis and forecast reports covering the NGN Voice, IMS Core, Wireless Packet Core, Evolved Packet Core, and Diameter Signaling Controller (DSC) markets. To learn more about Exact Ventures or to purchase a report, contact Greg Collins (greg@exactventures.com or +1 650 242 0080).

About the Report
Exact Ventures' NGN Voice and IMS Core Quarterly Report includes revenue, shipments and prices by vendor and for the overall market for the Wireless and Wireline Media Gateway, Wireless and Wireline Softswitch, Session Border Controller (Enterprise and Service Provider), Voice Application Server, Call Session Control Function (CSCF) and Home Subscriber Server (HSS) markets.

Contact:
Greg Collins
Email: greg@exactventures.com
Tel: +1 650 242 0080

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WRAPmail Launches New Hosting Center In Grand Cayman For Enterprise Clients

Company offers to "meet or beat" any mass email offerings on the market and upgrades affiliate program

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- WRAPmail, Inc. (OTC: WRAP) reports it has launched its new hosting center in Grand Cayman. The Company has recently added 4 Enterprise clients (its highest level of business service) in this new center. This new hosting center will only host Enterprise clients where WRAPmail's other main hosting center in the US is a shared hosting center for thousands of clients.

The center in Cayman will also be used when WRAPmail aggressively goes after the mass email market with a promise to MEET OR BEAT any price published from major email campaign vendors.

WRAPmail Enterprise is a dedicated server solution which includes full webmail, WRAPmaker, Reporting, Repeater emails and a Campaign module. Enterprise is either hosted by WRAPmail or on clients own server. The Campaign module features the ability to send multiple emails wrapped in marketing and branding information, logos and clickable graphics.

Rolv E. Heggenhougen, Chairman and CEO noted "WRAPmail's technology has a huge advantage over regular mass email solutions and that is that images show up in recipients email clients without the recipient having to right click and download images. This is where a large part of the audience is lost as they do not see anything enticing and/or they are afraid of getting a virus if they start downloading images."

WRAPmail has also upgraded the affiliate program so that every affiliate has a unique WRAPmail website to ensure affiliate credit as people browse the site and signs up. WRAPmail makes EVERY new client also an affiliate, so any business they drive will earn them 10% commission (or 25% if they upgrade to the Super Affiliate program).

"This is the fastest way we can build a sales force that does not cost anything until they produce results" commented Rolv E. Heggenhougen, Chairman and CEO.

About WRAPmail:

The basic idea behind WRAPmail is to utilize the facts that almost everyone have websites, social network site(s) and also send emails every day. These emails can become complete marketing tools and help promote, brand, sell and cross-sell in addition to drive traffic to the website and conduct research. WRAPmail is available for free (with 3rd party ads) or for a small license fee at http://www.wrapmail.com. No routines change as users simply download a toolbar or routes emails via Google or WRAPmail's servers.

WRAPmail also helps search for missing children with every email sent by free users incorporating an RSS feed from the Center for Missing and Exploited Children - see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rolv-e-heggenhougen/finding-missing-children_b_1540866.html

WRAPmail Solutions:

1.  WRAPmail PRO: Free solution with 3rd party ads.

2.  WRAPmail PRO+: Shared solution, $50/user/year, no 3rd party ads.

3.  WRAPmail Enterprise

WRAPmaker and Premade WRAPS:

More than 200 premade templates are currently available for major Network Marketing/Affiliate  Marketing/MLM companies, Real Estate Agents, Business, Scenery, Sports, Holidays and Animals with Social Network Interface and personalization (image, text and links).

Clients can also make 100% custom WRAPS in the WRAPmail dashboard using the WRAPmaker.

Advertising Network:

WRAPmail has its own advertising network  where users can advertise in other user's emails. The concept is a mix between similar models from Facebook and Google but the difference is our focus is email and not websites. An advertiser can have a free account and there's no usage requirement to become an advertiser. Advertisers simply create their ad in the WRAPmail Dashboard; pick City, State, Country and/or Industry of other users for placement of ads. WRAPmail also has a partnership with Market Leverage for utilization of their advertising inventory.

Affiliate Programs - "Make money with every email you send anyway"

The affiliate program does not only pay for new clients signing up but is also designed to share the revenue from 3(rd) party ads displayed in the free users emails.

Google:

WRAPmail is a Google Apps Vendor and also compatible with Google Analytics and Google Chrome/Gmail.

Forward looking statements and risks and uncertainties

Matters discussed in this press release contain forward-looking statements. The words "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "may," "intend," "expect," and similar expressions identify such forward-looking statements.  Expected, actual results, performance, or achievements could differ materially from those contemplated, expressed, or implied by the forward-looking statements contained herein. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to, risks and uncertainties associated with, among other things,  the impact of economic, competitive, and other factors affecting our operations, markets, products, and performance.    For more complete information regarding our business and financial condition, you may access our filings at otcmarkets.com.  The matters discussed in this press release should not be construed in any matter, shape or form as indicative of the future value of the Company's common stock or its future financial condition.

WRAPmail Investor Relations:
ir@WRAPmailinc.com
Phone: (954) 591-8742     

SOURCE  WRAPmail, Inc.

WRAPmail, Inc.

E&G Ventures Introduces Cloud9ComfortBedding.com

BROCKTON, Mass., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Massachusetts-based internet retailer of comfort bedding, E&G Ventures Incorporated, today announced the opening of its new online store at http://www.Cloud9ComfortBedding.com.

The new online store, designed to give online shoppers a convenient and user-friendly shopping experience, offers nearly 20 product categories including baby bedding, bed-in-a-bag sets, comforter sets, Egyptian cotton sheets, toppers, silk and satin sets and much more.

Visitors of http://www.Cloud9ComfortBedding.com can browse any of the product categories available or enter the specific item of their choice into the search bar. The site offers a variety of personal styles and colors for beds of all sizes. E&G Ventures plans to expand its product line in the near future to offer visitors a greater selection of high quality comfort at affordable prices.

A company representative explains, "All of our prices are extremely competitive, but we want to put quality and comfort first. There is nothing better than a good night's sleep, and we look forward to helping customers all over the country achieve this through our new online store."

Returning visitors can create a personal account for faster order processing and shipping. All items purchased can be shipped anywhere within the United States and Canada and all major credit cards are accepted.

For more information on E&G Ventures Incorporated and its new online store, visit http://www.Cloud9ComfortBedding.com.

SOURCE  Cloud9ComfortBedding.com

Cloud9ComfortBedding.com

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

Web Site: http://www.Cloud9ComfortBedding.com

U4iA Games Optimizes Delivery of Offensive Combat via Highwinds GDN

U4iA and Highwinds Collaborate to Develop Online Delivery Strategy for FPS Fans

WINTER PARK, Fla., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Highwinds(®) today announced its instrumental role in the launch and delivery of U4iA(TM) Games' inaugural title, Offensive Combat(TM), a high-energy, frenetic, free-to-play, first-person shooter game designed for multiplayer, browser-based gameplay.

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Highwinds, a global content delivery and network services company and creator of the GDN(TM) (Game Delivery Network), is providing U4iA with products and services that optimize the delivery of Offensive Combat for gamers everywhere.  Highwinds is serving in a consulting capacity to help U4iA plan a comprehensive launch event, and execute it flawlessly with Highwinds GDN.

"Our year-long effort has resulted in THE best-playing and best-looking browser game.  It's the only FPS of its kind," said Chris Archer, CCO and co-founder of U4iA.  "We needed a content delivery network with solid industry experience in working with large gaming companies, as well as indie studios like us, and with a track record of orchestrating successful launches and delivering exceptional gaming experiences.  That's Highwinds."

Offensive Combat is currently in the final stages of its closed beta phase and will enter into open beta phase later this fall.  The game features some of the most competitive multiplayer action ever seen inside a web browser, enabling players to harness their FPS skills and win the ultimate mash-up of first-person shooters.  The innovative gameplay and console-quality graphics, guided by industry veterans from Activision, Sony, and the Call of Duty and Guitar Hero franchises, offer an irreverent take on FPS archetypes, weapons and themes.  The game is being delivered over Highwinds GDN, which includes tools for quickly and reliably launching, patching, monetizing, analyzing and delivering online games, while fueling faster downloads, lower delivery costs and fewer abandonments.  Players can request a closed beta code today at http://www.offensivecombat.com.

"In the early stages of the game's development, teams from U4iA and Highwinds began working together to outline the go-to-market plan," said Steve Miller founder and CEO of Highwinds.  "The result of this collaboration, part of our GDN Launch consultative service, is that Highwinds is both confident in Offensive Combat's imminent success and also thoroughly vested in it."

GDN Launch is a service unique to Highwinds GDN, the ultimate platform for delivering online games to global audiences.  Learn more about Highwinds GDN at http://www.highwinds.com/gdn.

About U4iA Games, Inc.
U4iA Games is comprised of seasoned industry veterans with a shared ambition to create the future of gaming.  Founded in 2011 by CEO Dusty Welch and CCO Chris Archer, the company's leadership was previously credited with the creation and growth of Call of Duty, Guitar Hero and other successful titles across nearly every PC, console, handheld and mobile platform on the market today.  Together, they established U4iA Games with the primary goal of bringing core, console-quality, free-to-play games like Offensive Combat to web browsers and mobile devices all over the world.  Oh, and they enjoy partaking in "Doughnut Thursdays" every week!  For more information, visit http://www.U4iAgames.com, "like" us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/U4iAgames, follow us on Twitter at @U4iAgames, and watch us at Twitch.tv/offensivecombat.

About Highwinds Network Group, Inc.
Highwinds is a content delivery, network and cloud-based IP services business that offers a comprehensive suite of CDN solutions.  The company delivers games and rich media over its high-performance RollingThunder(®) network to millions of global users every day.  Highwinds CDN and GDN customers gain unprecedented command and control with its StrikeTracker(®) console and open APIs.  Highwinds is headquartered in Winter Park, Fla., and maintains data centers around the world.  For more information, visit http://www.highwinds.com.

Highwinds, RollingThunder and StrikeTracker are registered trademarks, and GDN is a trademark, of Highwinds Network Group, Inc.  U4iA and Offensive Combat are trademarks of U4iA Games, Inc.  All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

U4iA Games and Offensive Combat logos, and other media assets, are available at: http://www.dropbox.com/sh/asxnlgkiiputca5/qLDU-PIrMv

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CONTACT: Deborah Hamilton, +1-303-682-9439, deborah@mediamondeinc.com

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

Brainshark Puts PowerPoint in Your Pocket with Launch of SlideShark iPhone App

Now, iPhone Users Can View and Share PowerPoints on-the-Go, With Features Including 'Zoom In' for Optimal Viewing and Ability to Connect to Projectors for Presenting to Large Audiences

WALTHAM, Mass., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Brainshark, Inc., the leader in online and mobile presentations, today announced the launch of the SlideShark iPhone app - the iPhone version of its popular and award-winning SlideShark iPad app. This new, free app provides users with the unprecedented ability to view and show PowerPoints properly on the iPhone or iPod touch, zoom in to better view content, share and track presentations, and connect to projectors or TVs for presentations to larger audiences, among other features.

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SlideShark debuted last fall as an iPad-only app, addressing a problem faced by millions of business users. It enabled them to do what had previously been impossible - view and show PowerPoints on the iPad with fonts, animations, graphics and colors intact - while also providing a platform to distribute, track and manage content in the cloud. Since its launch last October, SlideShark has:

    --  Continuously netted two downloads per minute, 24x7.
    --  Been adopted by users in more than 120 different countries.
    --  Ranked among the top "Productivity Apps" in Apple's App Store.
    --  Earned top industry honors, including an Appy Award, Mobile Merit Award,
        Mobile Star Award and Network Products Guide Award, along with
        recognition as a Mashable Award finalist, Stevie Award (American
        Business Awards program) finalist, AlwaysOn OnMobile 100 member and
        more.
As iPhones continue to play a major role in enterprise mobility - with more than 90 percent of the Fortune 500 testing or deploying them, according to Apple - it's increasingly important for iPhone users to find effective productivity solutions - and the ability to access and play PowerPoints on-the-go is no exception. More than 30 million PowerPoints are created every day, according to Microsoft estimates; however, until now, iPhone users have not been able to view and manage these decks directly and reliably on their devices.

"We're thrilled to extend the benefits of SlideShark to iPhone and iPod touch users, so they can view, share, track and manage PowerPoint presentations - no matter where they are or which iOS device they're using," said Brainshark CEO Joe Gustafson. "The SlideShark iPhone app puts PowerPoint in your pocket - with a number of compelling features for business users especially tailored to the iPhone form factor."

With the SlideShark iPhone app, it's easy to view and show slides anytime, anywhere. Users have the ability to:

    --  Access content instantly and easily, from their free, secure,
        cloud-based account. Users can also download presentations to their
        iPhone, iPod touch and/or iPad for dependable, offline viewing and
        presenting.
    --  Zoom in and out while viewing and showing content using standard "pinch"
        gestures.
    --  Project presentations to a larger screen or TV with an HDMI or VGA cable
        or through Apple AirPlay (iPhone 4 and later).
    --  Set auto-play with looping for self-running presentations.
    --  Create a "Laser Pointer" effect while presenting to focus the audience's
        attention.
    --  Share links to online versions of presentations for on-demand viewing on
        any device.
    --  Track views of shared presentations with instant email alerts and
        detailed online reporting when content is viewed by others.
"As mobile devices continue to proliferate and rapidly mature, users are increasingly expecting that the devices will make their lives easier - and rightly so," said Scott Nelson, managing vice president, Gartner Research. "Apps that maximize productivity - letting users view, deliver and manage presentations from anywhere, and helping bring a desktop-like experience to the phone at their fingertips - are seeing traction in the marketplace, and helping users stay connected and conduct business efficiently."

Skincare giant Nerium International is just one company that has maximized the productivity and effectiveness of its representatives (known as "brand partners") through the use of SlideShark.

"We're rolling out SlideShark to thousands of brand partners - so they can access current information on our skincare products and give sales presentations on-the-go, from their iPads," said Dennis Windsor, Nerium president and co-founder. "We're especially excited to have SlideShark available on the iPhone now too, since everyone travels with their phones. Now, our brand partners can be even more agile - and simply whip out their iPhones to show slides during quick, impromptu conversations, or even conveniently hook up their phones to a projector to deliver formal presentations in front of groups of people."

In addition to unveiling its SlideShark app for the iPhone, Brainshark has also made it easier for all SlideShark users - whether on an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad - to increase the presentation storage capacity in their SlideShark accounts. Now, users can click directly within the SlideShark app to upgrade to SlideShark Plus, and purchase an additional 1GB of storage, on top of the 100MB they receive for free.

The SlideShark iPhone app works with all SlideShark plans, including free accounts, SlideShark Plus and the multi-user SlideShark Team Edition. For more information or to download SlideShark for the iPhone or iPad, please visit http://www.slideshark.com. The free SlideShark iPhone app is also available for download in Apple's App Store at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slideshark-powerpoint-presentations/id471369684?ls=1&mt=8.

About Brainshark, Inc.

Brainshark provides the leading cloud-based software for creating, sharing and tracking online and mobile video presentations. With Brainshark, businesspeople can easily transform static content such as PowerPoint® documents into voice-enriched video presentations that can be accessed anytime, on-demand. Customers can also obtain extensive viewing details, enabling them to measure the effectiveness of their content and follow up accordingly. Thousands of companies - including a third of the Fortune 100 - rely on Brainshark to increase the impact and reduce the cost of their sales, marketing, training and HR communications. For more information, visit http://www.brainshark.com.

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Blancco, Pioneer in Certified Data Erasure, Celebrates 15 Years of Protecting Confidential Information

Small start-up business formed in response to medical record data breach emerges as multinational company providing erasure technology for tens of thousands of IT assets daily

ATLANTA, September 5, 2012/PRNewswire/ --

    Blancco [http://www.blancco.com ], the global leader in data erasure and computer
reuse solutions, is now celebrating 15 years at the forefront of data erasure technology
and management processes. As identity theft and fraud proliferate, along with regulations
designed to prevent them, Blancco's erasure technology has become the preferred choice in
data protection for global defense, government, banking, healthcare, IT and electronics
reseller organizations. With annual growth rates of 25 to 30 percent, Blancco now has
offices in 13 countries around the world.

    To view the Multimedia News Release, please click:

    http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/prne/blancco-pioneer-in-certified-data-erasure/56591

    "The digital universe doubles every 18 months, while the types of electronic devices
multiply, issuing organizations an ongoing challenge to securely manage data erasure
processes for equipment they wish to reuse, resell or dispose," said Kim Vaisanen, CEO and
co-founder of Blancco. "With our full portfolio of erasure solutions, Blancco is committed
to working alongside businesses of all sizes to help manage these challenges with
automated erasure and centralized reporting processes."

    Blancco traces its roots to 1997 when a Finnish hospital accidentally sold a PC
containing medical records of 3000 patients. In response, Vaisanen and another young
entrepreneur created data erasure software that securely wiped hard disk drives. Today,
Blancco products erase equipment ranging from servers and PCs to smartphones and complex
data center equipment. Tens of thousands of IT assets are being erased worldwide each day.

    Additionally, Blancco has the most independent third party certifications and
approvals in the industry and recently received Common Criteria certification
[http://www.blancco.com/en/company-info/press-releases/2012/common-criteria ], an
international standard for computer security. Blancco's certifications, approvals and
recommendations indicate that its data erasure tools meet the highest criteria for
removing data, as verified by laboratory tests. They are also critical for organizations
that want to do business in a particular industry or with a government.

    "The recent growth of compliance and legislative requirements in data security
demonstrates that the management of secure data erasure will become even more critical in
the next few years," said Vaisanen. "Just as we were committed to helping organizations
manage these ever-increasing challenges over the last 15 years, we look forward to
supporting the industry's needs in the decades ahead."

    Blancco's history timeline and a short video message from Vaisanen can be seen on its
15th anniversary campaign site: http://www.blancco.com/15-years.

    About Blancco

    Blancco is the proven data erasure solution for millions of users around the globe. As
the global leader in data erasure and computer reuse solutions, Blancco offers the most
certified data erasure solutions within the industry. The company serves users across a
wide range of industries, including banking, finance, government and defense. The
company's products are highly valued by IT asset disposal professionals around the world.
Blancco operates from an extensive network of international offices and partners across
Europe, North America, Middle East, Russia, Asia and Australasia. More information is
available at http://www.blancco.com.

   
    Media Contact:
    Monica Shaw
    +1-770-367-9534
    mshaw@carabinerpr.com

    Blancco Oy Ltd.
    Mr. Kim Vaisanen, CEO and Co-Founder
    +358-50-585-2885
    kim.vaisanen@blancco.com

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AVT Unveils VendStore24: Custom Designed, Self-Service Retail Stores

Systems designed to compete with Zoom Systems

CORONA, Calif., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AVT, Inc. (Ticker: AVTC) (http://www.autoretail.com) announced today that they have developed a new and improved VendStore24 system - an automated self-serve shop that allows brands and retailers to offer products in non-traditional locations - giving shoppers an exciting and gratifying experience.

VendStore24 systems are custom designed, automated self-service retail stores that promote instant sales - and allow companies to expand distribution, enhance brand  awareness, grow revenues, and control inventory - all with a small footprint that fits in almost any location.

VendStore24 systems have the highest quality components, patented technologies, state-of-the-art hardware and software, and were developed to cost less than competitor's systems.

These powerful, compact stores can accept cash or credit cards; automatically cross sell and upsell with AVT's powerful management program; print receipts, coupons and promotional material; and provide real-time sales reports.

VendStore24 systems come with AVT's legendary and patented management system that gives unprecedented control and tracking. Now, owners and retailers can change prices on any item in an instant, offer special promotions via AVT's built-in LED screens, and develop specials that that can be customized to a micro level.

VendStore24 systems engage consumers with products as diverse as swimsuits, perfume, electronics, cosmetics and more, and can catch shoppers in unique locations such as cruise ships, hotels, airports, hospitals, colleges and malls - turning small spaces into big profits.

"Our ability to create advanced systems that cost less than our competitor's is unprecedented in the industry, and is a key reason that our company continues to grow at such rapid rates," stated Shannon Illingworth, Founder and Chairman of AVT.  "Automated Retailing is the future of shopping... and VendStore24 systems are the future of Automated Retailing."

For more information on AVT, please contact the Investor Relations Department at 877.424.3663 or visit AVT's website at http://www.autoretail.com.

About AVT:

AVT, Inc. is a low price, high quality leader offering technology solutions at 50% less than the best-known competitor. The company employs patented, state-of-the-art computer technology and highly advanced, patented software programs in their automated retailing systems, which can dispense a wide variety of items - from health products and cosmetics, to swimsuits, sunglasses and smart phones.

AVT, Inc. is a leading developer of automated and self-service retailing systems. AVT is able to work with any size company to design a custom automated retailing solution that drives traffic, increases sales, improves security, and lowers overhead. With an in-house design team, software developers, mechanical engineers and on-site manufacturing, AVT can take projects from concept to completion with speed, economy and ingenuity.

AVT's stock is traded through the OTC Bulletin Board Markets, Ticker Symbol: AVTC.OB.

For more information on AVT, custom vending, or the Automated Retailing Industry, visit http://www.autoretail.com.

SOURCE  AVT, Inc.

AVT, Inc.

CONTACT: RAH Marketing at info@rahmarketing.com

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

New Snappli Service Makes the Mobile Web Faster, Cheaper and More Secure

Company launches best-in-class data compression that could save US smartphone users $4.1Bn a year; confirms additional funding from tier 1 investors

SAN FRANCISCO and LONDON, Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobile data optimization company Snappli today announced the launch of its cloud service and iPhone app, which compresses, optimizes and secures mobile Internet data. Snappli reduces data by up to 85 percent and its proprietary "Speed Boost" technology accelerates mobile browsing by up to two times.

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As most websites and apps are not optimized for mobile Internet, smartphones use far more data than they actually need to. With an estimated 71% of US consumers still on capped mobile plans, data usage can be extremely costly both at home and when roaming. Mobile data grew 133% in 2011 and is forecast to explode in the coming years. Snappli works by not only compressing data, but by optimizing its delivery - to ensure the consumer enjoys a faster, cheaper and safer mobile web experience.

Powered by a unique, cloud-based platform built from the ground up, Snappli is the first and only service to offer video compression, a major mobile data drain. As such, it can save consumers more data - and more money - than any other service. The company estimates it could save all smartphone users in the US a staggering $4.1Bn in unnecessary data charges.

On average, Snappli users are saving $37 annually, and experiencing data reductions of up to 85% on Instagram, 77% on Facebook, 72% on YouTube and 49% on Twitter.

Eldar Tuvey, Snappli co-founder and CEO says: "Mobile Internet data will get even slower and more expensive as consumers use more data-hungry services like Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest. The operators are continuing to phase out unlimited plans and throttle usage to protect their overloaded networks. The solution is to make more intelligent use of the bandwidth we have, and this was the vision behind Snappli."

Snappli works quietly and unobtrusively - redirecting traffic via its cloud, providing:

    --  Best-in-class mobile data compression and optimization to accelerate
        browsing speeds and reduce data costs at home and when roaming
    --  Powerful monitoring and stats, to help users understand how they use
        their data in order to avoid excess charges, and;
    --  Internet security, to tackle the growing problem of mobile viruses and
        malware
Snappli has received a significant injection of capital from its founding team of entrepreneurs. In addition, Snappli has now secured a further $1M investment from top tier investors including Greylock Partners, Index Ventures and Klaus Hommels, the early investor in Skype, Facebook and Spotify.

"We see a very large global opportunity in mobile data compression and optimization. Snappli's technology and approach is disruptive, and the founding team has a proven track record innovating and building a market leader," said Greylock Partners' Asheem Chandna.

About Snappli

Snappli is a mobile data optimization company. Its cloud service and app compresses, optimizes and secures mobile Internet data, and is the first and only service to offer video compression. Snappli reduces data by up to 85 percent and its proprietary "Speed Boost" technology accelerates mobile browsing by up to two times.

The team behind Snappli includes brothers Eldar and Roy Tuvey, proven entrepreneurs who previously founded and ran ScanSafe, alongside technical co-founders John Edwards and Jim Walker. ScanSafe is the world's first and largest global cloud web security provider and was acquired by Cisco for $183M in 2010.

Snappli is based in San Francisco and London and backed by leading investors, including Greylock Partners and Index Ventures, and leading angels Klaus Hommels, Alex Zubillaga and Simon Murdoch.

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

The Snappli app is now available to download here: http://itunes.apple.com/app/snappli/id534504254?mt=8.

Contact:

Erin Lockhart, 408-334-5463, erin@epoch-pr.com

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Hoggan Scientific Announces the Launch of the the All-New HogganHealth.net, a One-Stop Shop for Global Customers Seeking Medical and Ergonomic Force Evaluation Items

Hoggan Scientific, a leading manufacturer of muscle testing products for ergonomic and medical use, is highlighting its new web presence at HogganHealth.net

NEW YORK, Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hoggan Scientific, an industry-leading manufacturer of products for both medical and ergonomic purposes, is currently spotlighting its newly relaunched website. Available at http://www.HogganHealth.net, the site provides international customers with access to a broad array of force evaluation items from both its microFET and ergoFET lines of Force Evaluation and Testing (FET) devices. Originally founded in 1961, the company recently retooled its image and has relaunched as Hoggan Scientific. It specializes in developing top-of-the-line products that eliminate the subjective nature of medical musculoskeletal and ergonomic and industrial testing to provide accurate results.

"The launch of our new website is the perfect opportunity for us to reintroduce ourselves to a brand new audience of international customers. Our site makes it incredibly easy to learn more about our muscle testing items, view their data sheets for detailed specs, make an online purchase, and even customize preferred warranty options. Our background in design and engineering and our four decades of experience in the industry help make Hoggan Scientific a top-tier manufacturer of commercial wellness and diagnostic equipment, and we're thrilled that our new website makes it easier than ever for our clients to select the products they require," said Cynthia McKenna, Director of Sales at Hoggan Scientific.

Included in the array of items for purchase on Hoggan Scientific's relaunched website are five items from the manufacturer's microFET line. Developed for use in hospitals and university medical centers, microFET items are clinically approved for fine-tuned musculoskeletal testing. The microFET2, a wireless digital handheld dynamometer, is one such invaluable item. Lightweight and portable, the microFET2 provides accurate muscle testing measurements to lead to the diagnosis and treatment of various neuromuscular disorders.

Another noteworthy product from Hoggan Scientific's collection of items for medical use, the microFET3 dual-function testing device is a portable FET product that conducts muscle and range of motion tests. Lightweight and user-friendly, the device boasts an easy-to-read LCD display that automatically calculates results. Customers can also choose to add a clinical software package or a FET data collection software package, a particular benefit for hospitals and other larger facilities.

Hoggan Scientific's newly launched website also offers its clients the opportunity to browse its ergoFET collection, which was originally inspired by an ergonomic specialist at General Motors. Rather than medical use, the ergoFET line of force gauges and sensors is designed for industrial and consumer testing, and helps enhance ergonomic procedures which in turn make companies' workplaces safer while improving their consumer products.

The ergoGLOVE is one stand-alone item from the industrially oriented collection, and helps to measure pressure points between the hand and fingers on external surfaces. The ergoGLOVE consists of thin and unobtrusive film sensors; between one and four can be used at once to measure different points. Testers can also use the ergoGLOVE in conjunction with the included mechanics gloves or finger cots, and it can also be paired with latex gloves.

In addition to several other individual ergoFET items, consumers are able to purchase the ergoPAK Portable Analysis Kit on Hoggan Scientific's new website in both standard and customizable packages, two different options that provide holistic ergonomic testing equipment. Including accelerometers, inclinometers, and other testing items, the ergoPAK is an all-in-one kit for collecting and analyzing field data under real job conditions. The build-your-own package allows customers to pick and choose their own devices, while both options make measuring velocity, force, angle, and torque eminently possible.

To view Hoggan Scientific's new website and browse its collection of testing devices, visit http://www.HogganHealth.net or dial 1-800-678-7888.

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Cynthia McKenna
Hoggan Scientific
3653 West 1987 South, Bldg. #7
Salt Lake City, UT  84104
Ph:  800-678-7888
E-mail: cindym@hogganhealth.net

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Hoggan Scientific

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EZchip Introduces NPS, a New Breed of C-Programmable NPU That Enables the Next Wave of High-Performance Smart Carrier and Data-Center Networks

YOKNEAM, Israel, September 5, 2012/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --

    News Highlights

    NPS is a new product line of NPUs that uniquely features a combination of unmatched:

   
    - Technology - 10 times smaller and faster C-programmable Task Optimized
      Processors (CTOPs)
    - Integration - NPU with 256 CTOPs, 4K threads, Traffic Manager, DPI, Security,
      Search Engine and 800G I/O in one chip
    - Performance - 400-Gigabit wire-speed packet processing
    - Flexibility - advanced services and full layers 2-7 stateful processing
    - Simplicity - easy to use C-programmable and Linux(R) operating system
    - Versatility - addressing carrier, cloud and data-center networking equipment
    - Applications - switching, routing, SDN/OpenFlow and virtualization of network
      elements, load balancing, TCP offload, firewall, VPNs, intrusion detection/prevention,
      network analytics and more

    EZchip Semiconductor Ltd. (NASDAQ:EZCH), a leader in Ethernet network processors,
today unveiled the NPS - Network Processor for Smart networks - a revolutionary network
processor (NPU) that will enable the next generation of smart high-performance carrier and
data-center equipment. Through its breakthrough architecture the NPS boosts the
flexibility and performance of traditional NPUs and CPUs to enable advanced baseline
features for carrier equipment and to scale the performance levels of data-center
equipment. NPS provides equipment vendors with a feature-proof, fully programmable, high
performance solution and expands the market addressable by EZchip's NPUs. EZchip will
present details of the NPS architecture at the Linley Tech Processor Conference on October
10-11, 2012 in San Jose, California.

    With the continuous surge of subscribers, content and applications on the net, carrier
and data-center networks are under constant pressure to operate faster and do more. This
demand for network bandwidth and intelligence produces an insatiable appetite for
processing power in networking equipment. Network-equipment vendors essentially have had a
choice of two types of processors: NPUs that provide fast layer 2-3 processing however
with complex microcode programming, and CPUs (single or multi-core) that provide flexible
C-programmable layer 4-7 processing however at reduced performance and power efficiency.
Through its breakthrough architecture, NPS breaks the barriers imposed by traditional NPUs
and CPUs. It enables extremely high-performance C-programmable layer 2-7 processing, and
provides networking vendors with an architecture that scales as more advanced services at
higher speeds are required over time.

    For carrier equipment, the NPS enables the migration of advanced layer 4-7 features
from specialized services cards to common line cards and enables the line card with new
baseline features such as application recognition and IPSec VPNs, as well as greater
velocity for adding new features. For data-center equipment, the NPS allows scaling their
performance to the required loads of the evolving data center for greater layer 2-7
capabilities within constrained power and space. It empowers data-center appliances as
well as carrier appliances with line-rate performance for applications such as load
balancing, firewall and OpenFlow/SDN (Software Defined Networks) and network
virtualization.

    The NPS is uniquely designed for data-plane processing where packet processing and
wire-speed forwarding prevail, unlike CPUs that are designed for general processing where
management functions and control-plane processing prevail. Central to the NPS are its
innovative CTOPs (C-programmable Task Optimized Processors). These processing engines
build on EZchip's extensive NPU experience and are designed specifically for data-plane
processing. The optimized design allows the integration of 256 such processors, each with
16 threads, for a total of 4K virtual processing engines. This vast number of engines is
mandatory for high-speed data-plane processing where packets are arriving at an extremely
high rate and every packet is processed. The NPS architecture is in contrast to CPUs that
have an order of magnitude fewer engines integrated into a chip because they are based on
much larger general-purpose cores, have large memory caches, designed to execute millions
lines of code, and target both data and control processing. The NPS' efficient design
allows incorporating into the chip not only a great number of cores but also EZchip's
market-proven hardware traffic manager, a task optimized memory architecture, and numerous
hardware accelerators for efficient table lookups, application recognition and security.
The end result is a very powerful network processor with superior power efficiency and
integration.

    "We are bringing to market a new breed of network processor that is architected to
address the next generation of smart high-performance carrier and data-center networks.
Leveraging the 10-years of experience with our NP family that made EZchip the leading
high-speed NPU supplier, we believe the NPS will extend and broaden our leadership for
many years to come. We are preserving NPU performance advantages, opening the L4-7 markets
for us and doubling EZchip's addressable market above and beyond serving edge routers,"
said Eli Fruchter, President and CEO of EZchip Technologies. "As for our main market of
edge routers, NPS extends our competitive advantage and leapfrogs the competition.
Combined with our future NP products, NPS can potentially increase our market penetration
in next generation edge routing by providing current and new customers with the
flexibility to adopt existing or new architectures, for basic and advanced line cards."

    "We applaud EZchip for its bold move in developing the NPS, which truly redefines the
network processor by stripping away traditional limitations," said Bob Wheeler, senior
analyst at The Linley Group. "Only the market leader could develop such a ground-breaking
product as the NPS while preserving its customers' software investments by also extending
the NP line."

    The NPS is a new product line of NPUs from EZchip. Initially, EZchip will deliver the
NPS-400 and NPS-200 products with 400-Gigabit and 200-Gigabit throughput, respectively.
Samples are planned for Q4 2013 and other derivative products will follow. EZchip
customers for the NP-2/3/4/5 products will have the option to maintain the benefits of
code portability and scale up with a future NP-6, or C-program their applications and
benefit from the new capabilities of the NPS.

    The NPS provides great packet processing simplicity and flexibility through C-based
programming, a standard toolset, support of the Linux(R) operating system, large code
space, and a run-to-completion or pipeline programming style. A comprehensive library
provides source code for a variety of applications to speed customer's design cycle. The
NPS features cores that are highly optimized for packet processing and leverage EZchip's
vast packet processing and applications experience, a market-proven traffic manager,
hardware accelerators for security and DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) tailored for
efficiency and performance, on-chip search engines including TCAM with scaling through
algorithmic extension to external low-cost low-power DRAM memory, a fabric adaptor to
enable direct connection to a chassis backplane and switch fabric, and a multitude of
interfaces providing an aggregated bandwidth of 800-Gigabits per second including 10-, 40-
and 100-Gigabit Ethernet, Interlaken and PCI Express interfaces.

    Webcast Discusses New Product Line

    EZchip will be hosting and webcasting a conference call with analysts and investors on
September 5, 2012 at 10:00am Eastern Time (7:00am Pacific Time; 5:00pm Israel Time). The
accompanying presentation is now available on the company's website. The live webcast and
presentation are available from a link in the investor relations section of the Company's
web site at: http://www.ezchip.com/investor_relations.htm. An archived webcast replay
will be available for a limited period.

    About EZchip

    EZchip is a fabless semiconductor company that provides Ethernet network processors
for networking equipment. EZchip provides solutions that scale from a few to hundreds of
Gigabits-per-second. EZchip's network processors provide great flexibility and high
performance coupled with superior integration and power efficiency for a wide range of
applications in carrier, cloud and data center network equipment. For more information on
our company, visit the web site at http://www.ezchip.com.

    This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section
27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical
facts and may include financial projections and estimates and their underlying
assumptions, statements regarding plans, objectives and expectations with respect to
future operations, products and services, and statements regarding future performance.
These statements are only predictions based on EZchip's current expectations and
projections about future events. There are important factors that could cause EZchip's
actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to differ materially from
the results, level of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the
forward-looking statements. Those factors include, but are not limited to, the impact of
general economic conditions, competitive products, product demand and market acceptance
risks, customer order cancellations, reliance on key strategic alliances, fluctuations in
operating results, delays in development of highly-complex products and other factors
indicated in EZchip's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). For more
details, refer to EZchip's SEC filings and the amendments thereto, including its Annual
Report on Form 20-F filed on March 29, 2012 and its Current Reports on Form 6-K. EZchip
undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent
occurring events or circumstances, or to changes in our expectations, except as may be
required by law.

   
    Contact:
    Daureen Green, Marketing Communications
    dgreen@ezchip.com, Tel: +972-4-959-6677

Source: EZchip Semiconductor Ltd

Digicel Group Limited Commences Tender Offer For Any And All Of Its 9 1/8% / 9 7/8 % Senior Toggle Notes Due 2015 And Up To $245 Million Of Its 8 7/8% Senior Notes Due 2015

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Digicel Group Limited ("Digicel" or the "Company") today announced that it has commenced a cash tender offer, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Company's Offer to Purchase dated September 5, 2012 (the "Offer to Purchase"), for any and all of its outstanding 9(1)/8% / 9(7)/8% senior toggle notes due 2015 (the "Senior Toggle Notes") and up to $245 million (the "maximum tender amount") of its 8(7)/8% senior notes due 2015 (the "Senior Notes" and together with the Senior Toggle Notes, the "Notes").

The tender offer documents more fully set forth the terms of the tender offer.

The Notes and other information relating to the tender offer are listed in the table below:

            Notes                CUSIP/ISIN                  Principal AmountOutstanding      Tender OfferConsideration(1)      Early Tender Premium (1)   TotalConsideration(2)
                                   Number
    ---                            ------
     Senior       25380WAB2; G27631AB9 /US25380WAB28;
     Toggle       USG27631AB90
     Notes                                                                       $415,142,000                           $996.25                     $30.00                      $1,026.25
    -------              -----------------------------------                     ------------                           -------                     ------                      ---------
     Senior       25380WAA4; G27631AA1 /US25380WAA45;
     Notes        USG27631AA18                                                 $1,000,000,000                           $995.00                     $30.00                      $1,025.00
    -------       -----------------------------------                          --------------                           -------                     ------                      ---------
(1)   Per $1,000 principal amount of Notes validly tendered and accepted.
(2)   Inclusive of the Early Tender Premium.

Holders who validly tender and not validly withdraw their Senior Toggle Notes prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 (the "Early Tender Date") will be eligible to receive a total consideration of $1,026.25 per $1,000 principal amount of Senior Toggle Notes tendered and accepted for purchase by Digicel, which includes an early tender premium of $30.00 per $1,000 principal amount of Senior Toggle Notes. Holders who validly tender their Senior Toggle Notes after the Early Tender Date and at or prior to the Expiration Time (defined below) will be eligible to receive the tender offer consideration of $996.25 per $1,000 principal amount of Senior Toggle Notes tendered and accepted for purchase by Digicel.

Holders who validly tender and not validly withdraw their Senior Notes at or prior to the Early Tender Date will be eligible to receive a total consideration of $1,025.00 per $1,000 principal amount of Senior Notes tendered and accepted for purchase by Digicel, which includes an early tender premium of $30.00 per $1,000 principal amount of Senior Notes. Holders who validly tender their Senior Notes after the Early Tender Date and at or prior to the Expiration Time will be eligible to receive the tender offer consideration of $995.00 per $1,000 principal amount of Senior Notes tendered and accepted for purchase by Digicel.

If the amount of all Senior Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn exceeds the maximum tender amount, the Company will accept for purchase Senior Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn on a pro rata basis. We will announce the results of any proration by press release promptly after the Early Tender Date or the Expiration Time, as the case may be. The Company will pay accrued and unpaid interest on all Notes tendered and accepted for payment in the tender offer from the last interest payment date to, but not including, the date on which the Notes are purchased.

The tender offer is scheduled to expire at 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on October 2, 2012, unless extended or earlier terminated by the Company (the "Expiration Time").

Tendered Notes may be withdrawn at any time on or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on September 18, 2012, unless extended by the Company (the "Withdrawal Date").

Any tender of the Notes prior to the Withdrawal Date may be validly withdrawn at any time prior to the Withdrawal Date but not thereafter except to the extent we are required by law to provide withdrawal rights. Holders who tender Notes after the Withdrawal Date will not be permitted to withdraw their tender, except to the extent required by law, and will not be entitled to receive the early tender premium.

The Company has reserved the right to (and expects to) accept for purchase all Notes then validly tendered and not validly withdrawn prior to the Early Tender Date (subject to proration in the case of the Senior Notes) on a date after the Early Tender Date and prior to the Expiration Time (the "Early Settlement Date", expected to be September 19, 2012). On the Early Settlement Date, the Company will also pay accrued and unpaid interest from the last applicable interest payment date for the Notes up to, but not including, the Early Settlement Date on the Notes accepted for purchase.

The Company's obligation to accept for purchase and to pay for Notes validly tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to the tender offer is subject to the satisfaction or waiver, in the Company's discretion, of certain conditions, which are more fully described in the Offer to Purchase, including the consummation of the concurrently announced financing transaction.

The Company has retained Citigroup Global Markets Inc. to serve as the dealer manager for the tender offer. Questions regarding the tender offer may be directed to Citigroup Global Markets Inc. at Attn: Liability Management Group, (800) 558-3745 (toll-free), (212) 723-6106 (collect). Requests for documents may be directed to Global Bondholder Services Corporation, the information agent for the tender offer, at (212) 430-3774 (collect) or at (866) 873-5600 (toll-free).

None of the Company, the dealer manager or the information agent make any recommendations as to whether holders should tender their Notes pursuant to the tender offer, and no one has been authorized by any of them to make such recommendations.  Holders must make their own decisions as to whether to tender their Notes, and, if so, the principal amount of Notes to tender.

This press release is for informational purposes only and is not an offer to purchase, a solicitation of an offer to purchase or sell the Notes or any other securities, nor shall there be any purchase of our Notes in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or purchase would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. The tender offer is being made solely pursuant to the offer to purchase and the related letter of transmittal, which set forth the complete terms of the tender offer.  Any offers of concurrently offered securities will be made only by means of a private offering memorandum.

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those reflected in the forward-looking statements. We undertake no obligation to release publicly the result of any revisions to these forward-looking statements which may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof, including, without limitation, changes in our business or acquisition strategy or planned capital expenditures, or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

About Digicel

After 11 years of operation, Digicel has 13.0 million customers across its 30 markets in the Caribbean, Central America and the Pacific. The Company is renowned for delivering best value, best service and best network.

Digicel is the lead sponsor of Caribbean, Central American and Pacific sports teams, including the Special Olympics teams throughout these regions. Digicel sponsors the West Indies cricket team and is also the title sponsor of the Digicel Caribbean Cup. In the Pacific, Digicel is the proud sponsor of several national rugby teams and also sponsors the Vanuatu cricket team.

Digicel also runs a host of community-based initiatives across its markets and has set up Digicel Foundations in Jamaica, Haiti and Papua New Guinea which focus on educational, cultural and social development programmes.

Digicel is incorporated in Bermuda and its markets comprise: Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Bermuda, Bonaire, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Curacao, Dominica, El Salvador, Fiji, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Nauru, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, St Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos and Vanuatu. Digicel also has coverage in St. Martin and St. Barts in the Caribbean.

Visit http://www.digicelgroup.com for more information.

SOURCE  Digicel Group Limited

Digicel Group Limited

CONTACT: Antonia Graham, Head of PR, +1876 564 1708 (Jamaica)

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

SmartPillo Seeks to Provide the Ultimate in Comfort and Multimedia Interactivity with New S1Pillo

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The SmartPillo Company LLC is announcing a sneak peek of their innovative "S1Pillo." The S1Pillo is a patent-pending, futuristic Bluetooth pillow that offers the ultimate in hands-free audio and phone experiences. For a limited time, The SmartPillo Company LLC is currently allowing individuals to visit http://www.indiegogo.com/S1Pillo to contribute to the vision of the S1Pillo and be one of the first owners of this innovative technology before its nationwide official release date. One hundred percent of the funding received on http://www.indiegogo.com/S1Pillo will assist with USA manufacturing and ensuring the success of a timely S1Pillo launch in approximately late 2012.

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About the S1Pillo innovative technology: The S1Pillo has embedded the latest Bluetooth technology that connects you wirelessly to your iPod, iPad, iPhone and Android devices. It has features perfect for relaxing, gaming, sound meditation, audio reading and listening to movies in surround sound. It is embedded with unbelievable-sounding HD audio speakers and a blue, illuminated LED touch button indicating active and standby mode and for answering incoming calls. Control center features: headphone/Aux jack, master volume control, USB and power button. The S1Pillo is the first to support the hearing impaired through "club effect" -- a switch that activates heavy sound vibrations throughout the amazing S1Pillo.

The S1Pillo is made of high-quality synthetic materials that look as good as leather or better. It has soft quilted side panels on top and smooth underneath with leather piping stitched around the pillow. The inner core has eco-friendly soft micro beads, which allows for flexibility to move and reshape quickly for customized support. It's a unique design, which allows for better sound circulation, vibration and comfort at the same time. The S1Pillo is made with 100% flame retardant inner materials.

The SmartPillo Company, LLC is headquartered in Charlotte, NC, and was founded by Shelton McCoy, formerly head of security for Carrie Underwood and a platinum recording artist in his teen years (with his group Divine Sounds "What People Do For Money"), he also was a former producer for a major recording artist. After spending a year at NDSU Incubator Technology Park, in Fargo, ND, he honed and developed his technological invention.

The SmartPillo Company LLC CEO Shelton McCoy's motto is, "We Make Simple Things Smart."

For more information about the S1Pillo, or for an interview with Shelton McCoy, please contact 646.423.5973 or email SmartPillo@gmail.com. Visit us at http://www.SmartPillo.com.

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SmartPillo Company LLC

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