MegaTuxedos.com is Now Offering Affordable Tuxedos for All Occasions
LOS ANGELES, June 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Every man deserves to look and feel great at all of life's most important occasions. From prom tuxedos during high school to wedding tuxedos on that special day, everyone should take that little bit of extra time to find an outfit that perfectly complements their own unique personality. For those that would like some of the leading men's tuxedos without the hefty price tag or hassle of pushy salespeople, MegaTuxedos.com is now offering a full line of cheap tuxedos that will have men enjoying formal events like never before.
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Marvell Extends Leadership with Worldwide Adoption of Its WCDMA Solutions with Samsung's New GALAXY Xcover Android Smartphone
Marvell's PXA968 mobile platform offers high-performance, cost-effective multimedia processing for Samsung's GALAXY Xcover (GT-S5690)
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) today announced that its industry leading Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) single-chip solution, the PXA968, is powering the new, rugged Samsung GALAXY Xcover (GT-S5690). The new Samsung GALAXY Xcover is the latest device to leverage Marvell's PXA968, which is now in devices shipping in more than 20 countries, and has been certified on all major carrier networks, including Orange, Deutsche Telekom, Telecom Italia, and Hutchison. This certification is a major milestone in global mobility, giving customers and partners confidence that devices leveraging Marvell's turnkey PXA968 are built on a proven, global technology platform that is already delivering superior multimedia performance with exceptional battery life to millions of consumers in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa.
"Samsung is one of the most successful mobile manufacturer in the world - its selection of Marvell as a strategic partner for its latest WCDMA smartphones validates our leadership in providing innovative, robust and integrated silicon platforms for leading global mobility standards, whether its TD-SCDMA, WCDMA or LTE," said Weili Dai, Co-Founder of Marvell. "Today, we live and work in a world that connects every aspect of the digital lifestyle, utilizing social media, social networking, mobile gaming and mobile TV features all in one device. Powered by Marvell's industry leading PXA968 single-chip WCDMA solution, I believe Samsung's new GALAXY Xcover smartphone will be just the beginning of mass deployment of advanced WCDMA-based smartphones throughout the world, providing consumers around the world access to an affordable, rugged, high-performance Android smartphone."
"Pre-certified silicon platforms give mobile device makers confidence that their products will operate with ease on critical carrier networks, ultimately enabling them to bring new devices to market more efficiently," said Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies. "As device makers face increasing pressure to deliver devices that can operate on various global bandwidths, a total silicon solution that is certified by major operators across continents is a significant advantage for OEMs, significantly impacting the selection of a semiconductor platform."
About the Samsung GALAXY Xcover GT-S5690
Engineered with materials designed to protect it from wear and tear, the Samsung GALAXY Xcover is the ideal smartphone for active users. The GALAXY Xcover is waterproof to a depth of one meter (max 30 minutes) and IP67 compliant, making it airtight to protect against dirt and water damage. Added resilience is enabled through a reinforced display. The GALAXY Xcover sports a strong anti-scratch screen made from tempered glass, which is four to five times tougher than regular glass.
Additional product specifications:
-- 800MHz Marvell PXA968 processor
-- Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" operating system and Google(TM) Mobile
Services
-- High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) 7.2/ High-Speed Uplink Packet
Access (HSUPA) 5.76, Wi-Fi b/g/n and Bluetooth v3.0? HS.
-- 3.65 inch Half-size Video Graphics Array (HVGA) TFT LCD screen
-- 3 megapixel auto-focus camera with LED flash.
About Marvell's PXA968
The Marvell PXA968 multimedia focused platform includes the PXA968 800MHz/1GHz chip set, which supports WCDMA HSPA, GSM/EDGE, high performance applications processing and 720p Encode / Decode of multimedia content. It also includes Marvell's PM8607 integrated audio and power management and Marvell's RF830 WCDMA RF transceiver. The platform also incorporates the Marvell Avastar 88W8787 Wi-Fi system on chip (SoC), an 802.11n-compliant solution with Bluetooth 3.0 and FM combination radio that offers exceptional range through its support of beamforming technology for crystal clear audio quality. Support for Mobile Hotspot capabilities also is included.
The PXA968 runs the Android Gingerbread operating system, with availability of the Android Ice Cream Sandwich and Dual SIM Dual Standby (DSDS) by second half of 2012. The platform also supports up to a 3.5-inch HVGA capacitive touch screen interface and can have a 3 megapixel camera, video, geotagging and social networking applications built in.
About Marvell
Marvell is a world leader in the development of storage, communications, and consumer silicon solutions. Marvell's diverse product portfolio includes switching, transceiver, communications controller, wireless, and storage solutions that power the entire communications infrastructure including enterprise, metro, home, and storage networking. As used in this release, the term "Marvell" refers to Marvell Technology Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries. For more information, visit Marvell.com.
About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2011 consolidated sales of US$143.1 billion. Employing approximately 206,000 people in 197 offices across 72 countries, the company operates two separate organizations to coordinate its nine independent business units: Digital Media & Communications, comprising Visual Display, Mobile Communications, Telecommunication Systems, Digital Appliances, IT Solutions, and Digital Imaging; and Device Solutions, consisting of Memory, System LSI and LED. Recognized for its industry-leading performance across a range of economic, environmental and social criteria, Samsung Electronics was named the world's most sustainable technology company in the 2011 Dow Jones Sustainability Index. For more information, please visit http://www.samsung.com.
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Game Insight Announces Dragon Eternity Cross Platform MMO For IOS, Android And Web
Innovative and Content-Packed Free-to-Play MMO to Bring the Saga of Adan to Mobile and Web Players Worldwide
MOSCOW and SAN FRANCISCO, June 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Game Insight, a world leader in developing and publishing mobile games, has revealed its new free-to-play, cross-platform massively multiplayer online (MMO) game, Dragon Eternity. This exciting fantasy-themed online game will offer tons of quests to conquer and a vibrant world to explore.
In Dragon Eternity, players join one of two opposing factions as fledgling adventurers in service of their nation; Vaalor or Sadar. The lush fantasy realm of Adan is at war, beseiged by armies of monsters, bandits, and even darker forces that dwell in ancient dungeons. These savage foes guard vast treasures and riches, lying in wait for any would-be heroes foolish enough to explore the dangerous depths.
"Dragon Eternity is, by far, one of the most ambitious and exciting projects we've taken on," said Alisa Chumachenko, CEO at Game Insight. "Our experience developing and publishing titles for multiple platforms on a global scale has given us a unique toolset to bring players an incredible gaming experience on their platform of choice."
Dragon Eternity challenges players to take up their weapons and take on hundreds of quests and battle hundreds of enemies, including elite-class and epic-level boss monsters. Fortunately, over time, players can acquire dozens of sets of rare armor and items, master multiple schools of magic, and lead a beastly menagerie of companions into battle, including fire-breathing dragons.
Aside from offering hundreds of quests and monsters to conquer, Dragon Eternity will also include a full suite of non-combat crafting professions, multiple tiers of player-versus-player (PvP) head-to-head battles, rare item collections, and numerous social elements, such as the ability to buy and sell items on an auction house, as well as to form long-term player clans. Though Dragon Eternity is still in development and will ultimately offer simultaneous, cross-platform multiplayer on Android and iOS devices as well on Web, the Web version of the game is currently in open beta and has already garnered more than 1 million beta testers worldwide.
About Game Insight
Founded in 2010, Game Insight is a global leader in mobile and social mobile gaming with focus on both development and publishing of top-quality titles. The company's portfolio of games serves all major platforms, including iOS, Android, social, and Web. All titles are released worldwide with localization in 17 languages. Original IPs are created and developed by Game Insight's internal network of more than 300 developers, with external publishing opportunities for valued partner studios. The company is headquartered in Moscow, Russia with additional publishing offices in San Francisco, CA. Find more information on Game Insight at the official Web site: http://www.game-insight.com/
Allot and PeerApp Win Interop Tokyo 2012 'Best of Show' Award
Joint video caching solution nominated by NTT-AT wins performance optimization award
NEWTON, Massachusetts and HOD HASHARON, Israel, June 25, 2012/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
PeerApp [http://www.peerapp.com ], the leading provider of transparent caching
platforms for Internet content delivery and Allot Communications Ltd.
[http://www.allot.com ] (NASDAQ: ALLT [http://www.irconnect.com/allt/pages/stock-quote.html
]) a leading provider of service optimization and revenue generation solutions for fixed
and mobile broadband service providers worldwide, today announced that a joint solution
comprising their respective technologies was nominated by NTT Advanced Technology (NTT-AT)
and subsequently won a 'Best of Show' Award in the Performance Optimization category at
Interop Tokyo. Allot and PeerApp were selected from among over 200 vendors who submitted
entries for this year's awards, for improving service quality and reducing network
congestion for over-the-top (OTT) content delivery
The joint solution was designed and submitted by NTT Advanced Technology (NTT-AT), a
member of the NTT Group. NTT-AT integrates state-of-the-art technologies to provide
leading solutions for network operators. The award-winning solution leverages the Allot
Service Gateway [http://www.allot.com/Service_Gateway_Sigma.html ]'s actionable network
intelligence from traffic statistics per application, subscriber, content, and network
location, as well as PeerApp's UltraBand Transparent Caching platform
[http://www.peerapp.com/Products/transparentcaching.aspx ] which speeds content delivery
and reduces network load by automatically detecting popular content and delivering it from
the network edge.
Together, the products comprised NTT-AT's "traffic steering and streaming cache
solution" which dynamically and intelligently directs multimedia network traffic and
caches it for superior delivery quality and reduced network congestion. The judges praised
the solution for its ability to improve service quality without sacrificing any other
service performance.
PeerApp and Allot also demonstrated a successful operation of ShowNet, a live network
at Interop in which products from all participating vendors demonstrated interoperability
with one another. Both the Allot Service Gateway and PeerApp's UltraBand successfully
demonstrated IPv6 operation and IPv4-to-IPv6 migration. The demonstration proves that
these products will perform successfully as operators migrate their networks into the
future.
"We have worked hard on our own and with our partners to develop a transparent caching
solution that improves content delivery for both operators and subscribers," said Samuel
Bachar, PeerApp's Vice President of Products and Marketing. "This award recognizes the
benefits our product brings to operators, along with our ability to collaborate
productively with leading companies in our space."
"Operators are in search of solutions than can create an opportunity out of the deluge
in bandwidth consumption and generate revenue from OTT applications," said Lior Moyal,
Allot's VP of Business Development. "This award further validates our investment in
technology partnerships that generate new value-added services for operators and increase
quality of experience for their subscribers. Combined with our recent acquisition of
Ortiva, we now offer the most comprehensive solution in the market to meet the increasing
challenge from OTT video, which is the single largest application on service providers'
networks."
Allot Communications Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALLT) is a leading provider of intelligent
solutions to optimize and monetize over-the-top traffic in fixed and mobile broadband
networks and in large enterprises worldwide. Allot's scalable, carrier-grade solutions
leverage dynamic actionable recognition technology
[http://www.allot.com/Dynamic_Actionable_Recognition_Technology.html ](DART) to provide
traffic analytics, policy enforcement and video optimization. Allot enables value-based
services and charging models that are vital for network operators to deliver a
consistently great user experience, contain costs and maximize revenues from network
usage. For more information, please visit http://www.allot.com.
About PeerApp Ltd.
PeerApp enables network operators to meet the exploding consumer demand for
over-the-top multimedia and data content. Our UltraBand multiservice transparent caching
platform enhances subscribers' quality of experience, improves network efficiency and
optimizes content delivery networks by delivering both managed and unmanaged video, audio,
file-sharing, software updates, and peer-to-peer traffic from the network edge. PeerApp is
the acknowledged leader in transparent caching, with systems commercially deployed by
hundreds of operators worldwide. PeerApp is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts, USA.
For more information, visit http://www.peerapp.com.
Media contacts:
Allot Communications
Jonathon Gordon
Director of Marketing
Tel: +972-9-7628423
jgordon@allot.com
PeerApp Ltd.
Josh Adelson
Director of Marketing
+1-(617)-795-0977
media@peerapp.com
TalentBin Completes Integration With Avature CRM to Expand Social Sourcing Capabilities
TalentBin's Talent Search Engine Extends the Reach of Avature's Renowned Social CRM Beyond Job Boards, Scouring the Professional Web to Discover Top Talent With Highly-Specific Skills and Experience
SAN FRANCISCO, June 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TalentBin, the talent search engine that turbo-charges talent discovery across the web, today announced full integration with Avature CRM(TM), a Web 2.0 platform designed for social networking, recruiting and referral management. The partnership will make TalentBin available immediately to Avature's customer base of over 200 leading companies. The addition of TalentBin to Avature's social recruiting "web sources" extends the reach of its social sourcing capabilities beyond Google search and active candidates on job boards, to now include the most comprehensive search and discovery of passive candidates online. While TalentBin has previously been available as a web application and Google Chrome plug-in, this marks the launch of its partner program, as the first of its integrations with enterprise CRM, HRIS, or Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS).
Already serving the social media recruiting needs of over 100 companies such as Intuit, Groupon, Dolby, and Yahoo!, TalentBin's Talent Search Engine identifies and interprets the "professional exhaust" of candidates' activities across social media and industry-specific web communities, and merges the pertinent career information (skills, expertise, etc.) into a single unified web resume, to help recruiters discover, research, and engage with the best talent the web has to offer. By incorporating the TalentBin candidate information into Avature CRM, recruiters and hiring managers can discover and engage more effectively with an even larger pool of prospective hires, using world class recruiting CRM functionality to track and manage that engagement.
"With TalentBin, Avature customers can break away from the herd and identify talent based on meaningful social activity," commented Dimitri Boylan, CEO of Avature. "They can also personalize engagement with passive candidates based on their social data to build high quality talent pipelines. We are confident that our partnership adds a new dimension for Avature users - allowing them to remain on the forefront of social sourcing for competitive advantage."
As part of the talent discovery process, TalentBin aggregates a candidate's implicit professional activity: the information they share across social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Meetup, Quora, and more. This, coupled with industry-specific social communities like Github, Sourceforge, and Bitbucket for software engineering, for example, bolsters passive professional profiles with vital information on skills and expertise. The result is a more complete and accurate 360-degree view of a candidate, covering professional skills to personal interests, all essential information to determining ideal job fit. TalentBin then takes it one step further, compiling all contact information such as email addresses, Twitter handle, and more to help facilitate direct candidate engagement.
"In the race for talent, it is not enough to set some bait in the hope of attracting new hire candidates to you - rather, increasing numbers of corporations are realizing that they need to go out and hunt for the people that fit their specific job requirements," explained Pete Kazanjy, Co-Founder of TalentBin. "As a pioneer and industry leader in social sourcing, Avature was a natural partner for TalentBin's talent search engine. We're excited to play a role in expanding candidate pipelines and accelerating the process of talent discovery for Avature users, to ultimately help companies better compete in today's market."
"We're always looking for ways to connect with innovative, motivated, creative professionals since talent is at the core of what we do - revolutionizing travel through the power of technology," said Stacey Schut, Program Manager, Strategic Talent Sourcing at Expedia, the world's leading online travel company. "With the addition of TalentBin's web talent search into Avature, we are able to more quickly and effectively discover and cultivate the kind of technical talent that is rarely found where the rest of the talent acquisition world is already looking. It's the kind of edge that our Talent Engagement team loves to take advantage of."
TalentBin offers an API for seamless integrations with software partners, and already has over 200 million candidate profiles cultivated from over thirty professional social media communities, and steadily growing.
To make TalentBin a part of your talent sourcing and acquisition strategy, visit http://www.talentbin.com.
About Avature
Launched in 2008 by Dimitri Boylan, co-founder and former CEO of HotJobs.com, Avature's flagship product, Avature CRM, is a flexible enterprise platform for Global Talent Acquisition and Talent Management. Avature brings innovative Web 2.0 social solutions to recruiting, internal mobility, and performance challenges. Avature was cited as a Gartner "Cool Vendor in HCM 2010," and has over 200 customers, of which 43 are Fortune 500. Avature has offices in Charlotte, Chicago, Portland, London, Munich, Melbourne, and Buenos Aires. Learn more at http://www.avature.net.
About TalentBin
Based in San Francisco, TalentBin is focused on turbo-charging talent acquisition for recruiters and hiring managers with its talent search engine, turning the web into a virtually endless talent sourcing database. By crawling targeted professional networking sites to cull together composite web resumes - adding vital skills and expertise to traditionally sparse profiles - it helps make fast and definitive job matches. TalentBin has aggregated over 200,000,000 professional profiles to date, and provides user access from anywhere as a web application, as a browser plug-in for Google Chrome, or within existing Recruiting CRM, ATS, or HRIS system through an API. With staff hailing from VMWare, eBay, and LinkedIn, TalentBin is funded by First Round Capital, Charles River Ventures, and Ron Conway's SV Angel. For more, visit http://www.talentbin.com.
TV's Long Island Medium Theresa Caputo Channels The Dearly Departed Negotiator In New Priceline.com TV Spot
NORWALK, Conn., June 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Her work connecting the dead with grieving relatives often makes for tear-jerking TV, but Long Island medium Theresa Caputo will show off her humorous side in a new priceline.com TV spot that starts airing this week. In the spot, Caputo helps a grieving priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) hotel customer re-connect with The Priceline Negotiator, a character played by William Shatner. In another TV spot aired earlier, priceline.com placed its Negotiator character aboard a bus that plummeted off a bridge.
It's a good thing Caputo was able to reach the Negotiator, because he has an urgent message for priceline.com customers. Priceline.com's hotel reservation service just launched Express Deals®, a speedy, no-bid hotel reservation service that offers more information, more choices and discounts of up to 45% over published rates. With Express Deals®, customers see the star level neighborhood, included amenities (pool, gym, etc.), guest satisfaction scores, and a significantly discounted price. Some hotels will allow customers to choose their bedding type (1 king, 2 doubles, etc.). The name of the hotel is revealed after the booking is completed. Express Deals® was created for customers who needed specific amenities, but still want their priceline.com discount.
Caputo is entering the third season of her TLC show "Long Island Medium". The show follows her life as a psychic medium and the unique challenges it creates for Larry, her husband of 22 years, and their two children. "It was a blast doing this spot," said Caputo. "The hardest thing about comedy is delivering those lines with a straight face. But it is the Negotiator, after all, and his sole concern, wherever he is, is saving people money on their priceline.com hotel rooms."
"Given the 'status' of the Negotiator, Theresa Caputo was a natural choice to help us continue the narrative of this campaign," said priceline.com's Chief Marketing Officer Brett Keller. "It was a pleasure working with Theresa and we hope her fans enjoy seeing this side of her."
With the launch of its new hotel service http://www.priceline.com/hotels/, priceline.com now offers three distinct booking options. With all three options, customers are guaranteed to get the best price.
-- Retail Hotels. Choose from over 165,000 retail-price hotels, including
the most luxurious 4-star and 5-star properties, located all over the
globe and backed by priceline.com's Best Price Guarantee. This option
is perfect for travelers who are joining up with business associates at
a specific hotel, or have a favorite place to stay. Hotel descriptions
include amenities, photos, maps, plus review and satisfaction scores
from customers who have stayed at the hotel. Thousands of hotels are on
sale every day, with special rates and juicy freebies like free
breakfast, and free Internet. Many offer free cancellations and a "pay
when you stay" option that allows priceline.com customers to pay for
their rooms at checkout. And here's how priceline.com's Best Price
Guarantee works: Any customer who finds a better online price within 24
hours can contact priceline.com to receive a refund for 100% of the
difference.
-- Express Deals®. This is the newest option for travelers who need
specific amenities, like a pool or business center, and want a discount
of up to 45%, but prefer not to bid to get their rooms. Express Deals®
is the speedy way to a great deal from thousands of hotels around the
globe, and takes just seconds to book. Customers view a page that
includes amenities (pool, gym, on-site restaurant, etc.), star level,
neighborhood, guest satisfaction scores on a 1-10 scale, and a price
that's already been discounted up to 45%. In many cases, customers can
choose their bedding type (1 king, 2 doubles, etc.). After saying yes
to the discounted price, the reservation is made and the name of the
specific hotel is revealed. Express Deals® is covered by
priceline.com's Big Deal Guarantee. If a customer books an Express
Deals® hotel room and finds a better price any time up until the day
before check-in, priceline.com will match that price and give the
customer $25.*
-- Name Your Own Price®. The king of savings is still here for savvy
negotiators who like to trade a little hotel flexibility for the
hands-down best hotel deals available online - up to 60% off published
prices. Tens of thousands of hotels around the world participate in
priceline.com's popular Name Your Own Price® service. Travelers pick
their city, dates, star level and neighborhood. A new feature added to
Name Your Own Price® guarantees the amenities guests will receive with
their hotel. After a guest makes a bid, priceline.com tries to find a
hotel willing to sell a room for that price. If a room is available,
it's booked immediately at the guest's desired price. Priceline.com is
the only online hotel reservation service to offer a Name Your Own
Price® option for hotels in cities around the world. Customers who use
priceline.com's Name Your Own Price® hotel service for their
reservations are also covered by priceline.com's Big Deal Guarantee.
Mobile-equipped travelers can book their hotel rooms using priceline.com's Hotel Negotiator app for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android. Hotel Negotiator offers an additional booking service called Tonight Only Deals, where specific named hotels are made available to travelers for check-in that night at savings of up to 35% off published rates. The Priceline Hotel Negotiator app can be downloaded from free from the iTunes store http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/priceline-hotel-car-negotiator/id336381998?mt=8&uo=4 or Android market https://market.android.com/details?id=com.priceline.android.negotiator.
*Priceline's Big Deal Guarantee covers hotels of at least two stars or higher. The $25 will be paid as a refund to the customer's credit card. For full details and restrictions, visit http://travela.priceline.com/promo/big_deal_guarantee.html.
About The Priceline Group
The Priceline Group (Nasdaq: PCLN) is a leader in global online hotel reservations, with over 235,000 participating hotels worldwide. The Group is composed of four primary brands - Booking.com, priceline.com, Agoda.com and Rentalcars.com - and several ancillary brands. The Priceline Group provides online travel services in over 175 countries in Europe, North America, South America, the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East and Africa.
Booking.com is the number one online hotel reservation service in the world, offering over 205,000 hotels (as of May 9, 2012), and is available in 41 languages. More recent hotel counts are available on the Booking.com website.
Priceline.com gives leisure travelers multiple ways to save on their airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, vacation packages and cruises. In addition to getting compelling published prices, travelers can take advantage of priceline.com's famous Name Your Own Price® service, which can deliver the lowest prices available. Agoda.com is an Asia-based online hotel reservation service that is available in 37 languages. Rentalcars.com is a multinational car hire service, offering its reservation services in over 4,000 locations. Customer support is provided in 38 languages.
SOURCE Priceline.com
Priceline.com
CONTACT: Brian Ek, +1-203-299-8167, brian.ek@priceline.com, or Investor Relations, Matthew Tynan, +1-203-299-8487, matt.tynan@priceline.com
Marvell affirms its leadership in China's TD-SCDMA standard with introduction of the Samsung's new Galaxy i8250 powered by Marvell's PXA920H Single-Chip Solution
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) today announced Samsung has released its new Android- smartphone for China Mobile powered by Marvell's PXA920H Single-Chip solution, an advanced, highly integrated 3G platform with TD-SCDMA and GSM/EDGE communication support designed for multimedia-centric handsets. Samsung's new Galaxy i8250 smartphone represent an extension of Marvell's continued strategic collaboration for the TD market; the latest device is designed to bring the connected lifestyle to China's growing consumer base. Samsung's latest Galaxy handset also feature the Marvell® Avastar® 88W8787 wireless chipset, the first high-performance 802.11n multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) Wi-Fi + Bluetooth + FM radio combination, as well as Marvell's RF838, a single-chip 2G/3G dual-mode TD-SCDMA radio frequency transceiver that enables the highest performance and thinnest form factor for consumers. The Galaxy i8250 is available now through China Mobile, the largest mobile carrier in the world with more than 650 million subscribers.
"As the number one smartphone manufacturer in the world, Samsung has been investing in the China 3G TD-SCDMA market for almost a decade. I am so proud to see that through Marvell's close collaboration with Samsung in the last couple of years, we are honored to support Samsung with our most cutting-edge, first field-proven smartphone technology through a broad range of solutions with superior performance and the most reliable connectivity," said Weili Dai, Co-Founder of Marvell. "Now, Samsung is able to extend its leadership in the TD-SCDMA market. I believe that Samsung's broad range of TD-SCDMA product offerings will accelerate the mass adoption of high performance, high quality and cost-effective smartphones to benefit hundreds of millions of consumers in China."
Samsung's new Galaxy i8250, powered by Marvell's PXA 920H (1 GHz), features a 4.0-inch WVGA screen and a 5 megapixel camera. The Galaxy i8250 is the latest mobile device to leverage Marvell's PXA920 family of solutions, a leader in the TD-SCDMA market. Powering more than two dozen smartphones and tablets, the PXA920 family has enabled the mass market adoption of affordable, innovative mobile TD devices by millions of consumers throughout China. Following Marvell's long-standing collaboration with China Mobile in developing the TD-SCDMA standard, the PXA920 family was certified by the telecom provider, giving consumer electronics manufacturers confidence that devices leveraging Marvell's market-leading solutions are built on a proven technology platform that is already delivering high-performance, low power devices to China Mobile's 650 million subscribers.
Marvell is a world leader in the development of storage, communications, and consumer silicon solutions. Marvell's diverse product portfolio includes switching, transceiver, communications controller, wireless, and storage solutions that power the entire communications infrastructure including enterprise, metro, home, and storage networking. As used in this release, the term "Marvell" refers to Marvell Technology Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries. For more information, visit Marvell.com.
About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2011 consolidated sales of US$143.1 billion. Employing approximately 206,000 people in 197 offices across 72 countries, the company operates two separate organizations to coordinate its nine independent business units: Digital Media & Communications, comprising Visual Display, Mobile Communications, Telecommunication Systems, Digital Appliances, IT Solutions, and Digital Imaging; and Device Solutions, consisting of Memory, System LSI and LED. Recognized for its industry-leading performance across a range of economic, environmental and social criteria, Samsung Electronics was named the world's most sustainable technology company in the 2011 Dow Jones Sustainability Index. For more information, please visit http://www.samsung.com.
Marvell, the M logo and Avastar are registered trademarks of Marvell and/or its affiliates. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
For Further Information Contact:
Marvell Media Relations
Daniel Yoo Kim Anderson
Tel: 408-222-2187 Tel: 408-222-0950
yoo@marvell.com kimander@marvell.com
SOURCE Marvell
Hughes HX System Employs New IPoS-B Open Satellite Standard
Enhancements Include Mesh Networking, Mobility Support, Increased Capacity and Bandwidth Efficiency
GERMANTOWN, Md., June 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), the global leader in broadband satellite networks and services today announced that its HX System employs the new IP-over-Satellite 1008-B air interface standard (IPoS-B), which was recently approved by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). Hughes has led the effort in developing the IPoS standard, originally approved by TIA in November 2003 and subsequently by ETSI and ITU, which is the most widely deployed in the satellite networking industry.
"Hughes is committed to standards-based technology to provide the most advanced, proven solutions to our customers," said Pradman Kaul, president of Hughes. "We are proud to work with our peer members at TIA to continually push the satellite industry's technology envelope and bring ever higher performance fixed and mobile services to market, to the benefit of all users--consumers, enterprises, and governments alike."
IPoS-B follows the IPoS.v2 update issued in 2006 which incorporated the DVB-S2 standard, and includes the following new features:
-- Mesh communication with peer-to-peer, direct single-hop and
mesh-specific timing synchronization
-- Direct sequence spreading to small antennas in a mobile environment
-- Video Broadcasting - Second Generation (DVB-S2)-compliant modulation and
coding
-- Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM) and Constant Coding Modulation
(CCM) on the outroute
-- Adaptive Inroute Selection (AIS) of coding rate
-- Mobility support
-- Inroute control signaling security
-- Closed Loop Timing (CLT)
TIA is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) as a standards developing organization. Hughes also adheres to standards set by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and ITU.
About Hughes Network Systems
Hughes Network Systems, LLC (Hughes) is the world's leading provider of satellite broadband for home and office, delivering innovative network technologies, managed services, and solutions for enterprises and governments globally. HughesNet(®) is the #1 high-speed satellite Internet service in the marketplace, with offerings to suit every budget. To date, Hughes has shipped more than 2.8 million systems to customers in over 100 countries, representing over 50 percent market share. Its products employ global standards approved by the TIA, ETSI and ITU organizations, including IPoS/DVB-S2, RSM-A, and GMR-1.
Headquartered outside Washington, D.C., in Germantown, Maryland, USA, Hughes operates sales and support offices worldwide, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), a premier global provider of satellite operations and digital TV solutions. For additional information about Hughes, please visit http://www.hughes.com.
Award Winning Novel, TRACES OF BLISS, Free at On-Line Booksellers
The electronic edition of Traces of Bliss, the First Place Winner of the International Latino Book Awards is Free at Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com, iTunes from June 25 to July 8, 2012
MONARCH BEACH, Calif., June 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Libros Publishing.
As a tribute to her growing number of fans, Cecilia Velastegui, award-winning author of Traces of Bliss, will offer the electronic edition for free from June 25 to July 8 at all on-line retailers. "I want to share my recent good fortune with my readers. On June 5th, Traces of Bliss won First Place in Popular Fiction at the International Latino Book Awards ceremony in New York City. I was incredibly honored to receive the award since it was in competition with some of my favorite novels: The Map of Time, Say Her Name, and Outside the Bones. Traces of Bliss is also the June selection of the national Las Comadres and Friends Latino Book Club. I invite my readers to participate in the national teleconference on June 25th at 8 p.m. EDT. http://www.lascomadres.org."
Traces of Bliss continues to receive critical acclaim. Kirkus Indie Review wrote, "It is a beautifully written story of love, loss, and opportunity. Velastegui's psychological thriller is a dark tale of angst and redemption spanning centuries." Additionally, ForeWord Review gave it a Five Stars out of five review, "Traces of Bliss is full of surprises, switchbacks, and skillfully evoked vignettes of an ancient world of supernatural events that bleed into present-day reality. Its focus on strong but otherworldly females will remind some readers of books of Isabel Allende and Margaret Atwood, while its blend of everyday happenings with step-through visions from the world of ghosts and spirits is reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. Velastegui spins her lush tale with a sense of the sacredness of inner vision. Hers is a celebration of language that readers have come to expect from Latin American writers; Velastegui deserves to be recognized as a distinguished member of that group." http://www.TracesofBliss.com.
Velastegui's debut novel, Gathering the Indigo Maidens, which details the proliferation of Spanish Colonial art theft and human trafficking, was also a finalist in six fiction categories at the International Latino Book Awards. Velastegui donates the proceeds of this novel to the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force. http://www.CeciliaVelastegui.com
Priceline.com's Hotel Reservation Service Expands Again, Now Offers Three Different Ways To Get The Right Hotel Room At The Right Price
NORWALK, Conn., June 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) announced today the launch of its expanded hotel service that gives travelers three different options for booking and saving money on thousands of hotels around the world. Each booking option is specifically tailored to meet travelers' itinerary and savings requirements. With all three options, customers are guaranteed to get the best price.
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include amenities, photos, maps, plus review and satisfaction scores
from customers who have stayed at the hotel. Thousands of hotels are on
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-- Express Deals®. This is the newest option for travelers who need
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"Priceline.com recognizes that every trip is unique and a traveler's hotel and savings requirements may be different depending on the itinerary," said Tim Gordon, priceline.com's Senior Vice President, Hotels. "A traveler going to a reunion probably needs a particular hotel, making our Retail option the right choice. A family traveling with children might want a pool, but there's still the budget to consider, so they'll most likely want Express Deals®. A vacationing couple with hotel flexibility can save big and still stay in a luxurious 4-star hotel by going Name Your Own Price®. Priceline.com now has its hotel customers covered no matter what kind of trip they're taking, or what their hotel requirements may be, and all customers are guaranteed to get the best price."
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Mobile-equipped travelers can book their hotel rooms using priceline.com's Hotel Negotiator app for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android. Hotel Negotiator offers an additional booking service called Tonight-Only Deals, where specific named hotels are made available to travelers for check-in that night at savings of up to 35% off published rates.
*Priceline's Big Deal Guarantee covers hotels of at least two stars or higher. The $25 will be paid as a refund to the customer's credit card. For full details and restrictions, visit http://travela.priceline.com/promo/big_deal_guarantee.html.
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The Priceline Group (Nasdaq: PCLN) is a leader in global online hotel reservations, with over 235,000 participating hotels worldwide. The Group is composed of four primary brands - Booking.com, priceline.com, Agoda.com and Rentalcars.com - and several ancillary brands. The Priceline Group provides online travel services in over 175 countries in Europe, North America, South America, the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East and Africa.
Booking.com is the number one online hotel reservation service in the world, offering over 205,000 hotels (as of May 9, 2012), and is available in 41 languages. More recent hotel counts are available on the Booking.com website.
Priceline.com gives leisure travelers multiple ways to save on their airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, vacation packages and cruises. In addition to getting compelling published prices, travelers can take advantage of priceline.com's famous Name Your Own Price® service, which can deliver the lowest prices available. Agoda.com is an Asia-based online hotel reservation service that is available in 37 languages. Rentalcars.com is a multinational car hire service, offering its reservation services in over 4,000 locations. Customer support is provided in 38 languages.
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Silicon Meets Stone in New 4 Inch Wide Micro-Tower PC
"Tiki" shrinks a powerful PC to gaming console size
MEDFORD, Ore., June 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- PC maker Falcon Northwest intends to change the perception of how big a powerful PC needs to be with their new Tiki "micro-tower". At only 4" wide and 13" tall, Tiki is roughly the size of an original XBOX game console. Inside Tiki packs the fastest NVIDIA GeForce® graphics cards, the fastest Intel 3rd Generation Core(TM)-i7 "Ivy Bridge" quad-core CPUs, 16 gigabytes of memory, and up to four terabytes of storage. It's even got a liquid cooling system.
"Tiki is a showcase of how far the PC industry has come in just the past year," said Kelt Reeves, president of Falcon Northwest. "CPUs and graphics cards have taken massive leaps in performance and power efficiency. Tiny solid-state storage has become affordable, and the miniaturization of motherboards all mean that your average tower PC is now much bigger than it really needs to be. With Tiki, we solved the heat and noise challenges involved in getting rid of all that excess space."
Making a desktop PC this thin presented a new design challenge: it's fairly easy to knock over with a stray elbow or by a pet. So Falcon custom cut Tiki's base out of solid granite. Tiki is the first PC ever to ship with 6 pounds of natural stone as standard equipment. The polished granite base gives Tiki both stability and a uniquely high-end style.
"Tiki is just freaking awesome!" said Ujesh Desai, Vice President of Product Marketing at NVIDIA, "It's great working with partners like Falcon that can take our new Kepler-based GeForce cards and show them off in such an elegant way. I can't wait to get a Tiki on my desk!"
Available today, Tikis will be custom built to order and begin shipping in early July. Pricing starts at under $1,900 for basic configurations and ranges to almost $5,000 for custom painted, fully-loaded builds.
About Falcon Northwest
The oldest of the boutique PC manufacturers, Falcon Northwest has been custom designing high-end PCs since 1992. Often credited with the creation of the Gaming PC, Falcon also serves military, business, and digital content creation markets. Falcon remains focused on building desktops and laptops that are customized for each client, including custom paintwork.
Webroot and F5 Networks Join Forces to Enhance Application Security for Enterprise Customers Worldwide
Integration of Webroot's IP Reputation Services to Power F5's IP Intelligence Offering
BROOMFIELD, Colo., June 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Webroot, a leader in delivering Internet security as a service, today announced a partnership with F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN). F5 will integrate Webroot's IP Reputation Services into its Traffic Management Operating System (TMOS) to provide enterprise customers with the best protection against rapidly evolving Internet-based threats. The rollout also enhances application performance and availability and develops stronger context-based security.
The first F5 product to take advantage of this capability is F5's Application Security Manager (ASM) product, a key component of F5's Application Security and Data Center Firewall Solutions. In addition, F5's community of developers can now access Webroot's IP intelligence through the TMOS platform via F5's iRules technology to get additional leverage across a variety of use cases.
"Applications running across networks encounter a wide range of security challenges," said Mark Vondemkamp, Senior Director of Product Management, F5 Networks. "IT managers don't want the complexity of managing different single-purpose appliances. By integrating the industry's most comprehensive IP Reputation intelligence into our product platform, our customers can take advantage of added protection against malicious sites without any extra management burden."
The integration of IP intelligence into TMOS will provide F5 customers with better visibility into the context of inbound connections and control over their network resources by identifying inbound requests from malicious IPs and stopping known malicious traffic before it enters the network. This drives better network performance and security. F5 customers also gain visibility on outbound communication from infected endpoints to malicious IP addresses controlled by botnet command and control operations so that they may shut down those connections.
"We are excited to join forces with F5 Networks, which shares Webroot's mission of making security management easier for today's busy IT professionals," said Craig Whetstone, senior director of Strategic Alliances, Webroot. "Together with F5 and its community of developers, we can help their customers address the challenge of securely delivering critical business applications backed by up-to-the-minute protection against today's rapidly evolving Internet threats."
Webroot's IP Reputation Service consolidates IP threats from the Webroot Intelligence Network and publishes a dynamic data set of high-risk IP addresses. It delivers updated threat data within minutes and protects against attacks from multiple threat sources. Armed with the latest intelligence and predictive risk analysis for IPs, it reveals inbound and outbound communication with malicious IPs and enables flexible policy reporting and implementation. Features of Webroot's IP Reputation Service include:
-- Comprehensive and dynamic threat coverage: Webroot's IP Reputation data
is comprised of millions of malicious IP addresses and is continuously
updated to address the highly dynamic nature of IP threats such as
botnets and web attacks.
-- Extreme accuracy: Advanced machine learning enables high volume and
extremely accurate disposition of malicious IPs.
-- High performance: Lightweight cloud services have an uptime record near
100% with minimal latency.
-- Flexible deployment: A high-performance web-based API that includes
production-quality sample code to enable partners to quickly integrate
the service into their solutions and perform other high-end functions.
TMOS is the universal product platform shared by F5's BIG-IP product portfolio, which is ICSA-certified as a network firewall. F5's IP Intelligence services are also available on shipping BIG-IP appliances, BIG-IP Virtual Edition, and VIPRIONs using F5's iRules technology.
About Webroot
Webroot delivers cloud-based endpoint security solutions for businesses as well as home and mobile users. Webroot SecureAnywhere provides the lightest, fastest and most effective approach to endpoint security powered by a single, cloud-based threat analysis and management engine. The company also licenses the security intelligence that it generates to strategic partners including Cisco, Microsoft, F5 Networks, Palo Alto Networks, Juniper Networks, and Sourcefire. Founded in 1997, privately held Webroot is headquartered in Colorado with operations across North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region. For more information, visit http://www.webroot.com or call 800.772.9383. Read the Webroot Threat Blog: http://blog.webroot.com. Follow Webroot on Twitter: http://twitter.com/webroot.
iSoftStone to Acquire Abovenet International, a Canadian BI Solution and Services Provider
The acquisition should expand iSoftStone's Business Intelligence and Data Service offerings to help clients manage and process information more effectively and intelligently.
BEIJING, June 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- iSoftStone Holdings Limited ("iSoftStone," NYSE: ISS), a leading China-based IT services provider, today announced that it has completed a definitive agreement to acquire Abovenet International Inc. ("Abovenet International"), a business intelligence ("BI") and data management services provider based in Toronto, Canada. The acquisition is expected to further strengthen iSoftStone's strategy and capabilities in business intelligence and big data.
Mr. T.W. Liu, Chairman and CEO of iSoftStone, said, "This acquisition will boost our already extensive business intelligence and data services with more advanced capability and greater geography coverage. We are looking forward to working closely with our new colleagues to deliver more value-added BI and data services to our clients around the world."
Mr. Pneuma Lin, Founder and CEO of Abovenet International, said, "We are excited to be part of iSoftStone. By combining our strengths with iSoftStone's vertical domain knowledge, technical capabilities, and global presence, we expect to offer more and better services to our clients and help strengthen iSoftStone's leading position in greater China and the global market."
The acquisition is subject to closing conditions. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
About Abovenet International Inc.
Founded in 1996 in Toronto, Canada, Abovenet International Inc., provides solutions and services that help companies migrate, integrate, analyze, and manage their massive data bases. Abovenet International's solutions and services cover banking and investment, retail, telecom, multimedia, and manufacturing industries. For more information, please visit: http://www.abovenet.ca
About iSoftStone Holdings Limited
iSoftStone Holdings Limited (NYSE:ISS) is a leading China-based IT services provider serving both greater China and global clients. iSoftStone provides an integrated suite of IT services and solutions including consulting & solutions, IT services, and business process outsourcing services. The company focuses on industry verticals that include technology, communications, banking, financial services, insurance, energy, transportation, and public sectors.
iSoftStone safe harbor statement
This news 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, and as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include our outlook for the continued success of our strategy (including the success of our focus on enhancing service capabilities, industry vertical focus, and geographic balance) and our ability to make continued long-term investments, particularly in light of a challenging global economic environment and slowdown of the China economy.
Our forward-looking statements are not historical facts but instead represent only our belief regarding expected results and events, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and outside of our control. Our actual results and other circumstances may differ, possibly materially, from the anticipated results and events indicated in these forward-looking statements. In addition, we may not meet our financial outlook for the second quarter and year 2012, continue to realize operational and delivery efficiencies and continued strong client demand or achieve a diversified revenue base, effectively capitalize on our growth opportunities and strategies, enter targeted markets, or otherwise grow our business in the manner planned, successfully complete planned acquisitions or strategic investments or recognize the anticipated benefits of our acquisitions and strategic investments, on a timely basis or at all. Our customers may vary their purchasing patterns in response to the economic environment in Greater China and globally. In addition, other risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ from what we currently anticipate include: our ability to effectively manage our rapid growth; intense competition from China-based and international IT services companies; our ability to attract and retain sufficiently trained professionals to support our operations; and our ability to anticipate and develop new services and enhance existing services to keep pace with rapid changes in technology and in our selected industries. For additional information on these and other important factors that could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects, please see "Risk Factors" that begins on page 7 of our 2011 Annual Report on Form 20-F that we filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on April 27, 2012, which can be found on our website at http://www.isoftstone.com and at http://www.sec.gov.
All projections in this news release are based on limited information currently available to us, which is subject to change. Although these projections and the factors influencing them will likely change, we undertake no obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by law. Such information speaks only as of the date of this release.
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Sony's Next Generation Set-top Box With Google TV(TM) Arrives July 22
Internet Player's Versatile Remote Control and Library of Apps Customizes the Home Entertainment Experience
SAN DIEGO, June 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Electronics Inc. today announced the availability and pricing of the NSZ-GS7 Internet Player with Google TV(TM), originally introducedinJanuaryatCES. Powered by Google TV, the Internet Player will be available at retailers nationwide on July 22, priced at $199. Pre-orders begin on June 25, 2012 at http://www.sony.com/sonygoogletv.
"Expanding the reach and interoperability of the powerful Android platform with Sony's smartphones, tablets and renowned Audio & Video products, we are proud to continue our relationship with Google through the introduction of the new Google TV set-top-box," said Phil Molyneux, president and chief operating officer of Sony Electronics. "Entertainment content is available through so many channels and sites, and Google TV helps consumers easily find what they want to watch, listen to or play using familiar search engine technology, enhancing the viewer experience. TV will never be the same."
In addition to the NSZ-GS7 Internet Player, Sony's newest Internet Blu-ray Disc(TM) player with Google TV, the NSZ-GP9, will be available at retailers in time for the holiday season, priced at $299. The NSZ-GP9 player features Sony's proven Blu-ray Disc technology coupled with the robust Google TV platform.
Global Expansion of Google TV Platform
In 2010, Sony helped pioneer the Internet-TV convergence as one of the first manufacturers to launch products powered by Google TV. With the new NSZ-GS7 Internet Player with Google TV, Sony will also be the first manufacturer to launch Google TV products outside of the United States, initially starting with the United Kingdom in July, followed later by Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Netherlands, Brazil, and Mexico. The NSZ-GP9 Blu-ray Disc player with Google TV will be available this fall in the United States, followed later by Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Netherlands.
Customized Entertainment Made Easy
Sony's evolution of hardware to complement the continually updating Google TV is the next step in the future of home entertainment convergence. Sony's NSZ-GS7 and NSZ-GP9 bring the best of Google to your TV, with new experiences arriving every day through the Google Chrome(TM) browser; thousands of supported mobile apps in the Google Play(TM) Store, including hundreds optimized for TV; YouTube(TM) with 72 hours of video being added every minute; and a global community of developers from around the world. Google TV's cross search functionality shows viewers all content sources available from broadcast providers* and the Internet to deliver customized video results on demand.
Both new products come complete with a redesigned remote control equipped with a backlit QWERTY keyboard, a touch pad for easy operation and a three-axis motion sensor to enjoy games. Additionally, the Bluetooth® remote control can also be utilized as a universal remote to control connected devices such as TV, set- top-box and A/V receivers - the NSZ-GP9 Blu-ray Disc player even incorporates voice search capabilities.
* Must be connected to a set top box for cable TV or satellite broadcasting in the U.S for TV integration.
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Sony Electronics
CONTACT: Rob Manfredo, Sony Electronics Inc., +1-201-930-6032, rob.manfredo@am.sony.com; Ray Hartjen, Sony Electronics Inc., +1-408-352-4818, ray.hartjen@am.sony.com
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CTIA-The Wireless Association® Statement on the Data Security and Breach Notification Act
WASHINGTON, June 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (PA) introduced the Data Security and Breach Notification Act (S. 3333), CTIA-The Wireless Association's Vice President of Government Affairs Jot Carpenter said:
"CTIA welcomes the introduction of Senator Toomey's bill. By advancing a proposal that offers a comprehensive, uniform approach to data security and breach notification, Senator Toomey demonstrates that it is possible to protect consumers while providing clear, consistent guidelines to businesses."
CTIA-The Wireless Association® (http://www.ctia.org) is an international organization representing the wireless communications industry. Membership in the association includes wireless carriers and their suppliers, as well as providers and manufacturers of wireless data services and products. CTIA advocates on behalf of its members at all levels of government. The association also coordinates the industry's voluntary best practices and initiatives, and sponsors the industry's leading wireless tradeshows. CTIA was founded in 1984 and is based in Washington, D.C.
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Glory Foods Summer Recipe Contest Launches Via Social Media
Participants Can Submit Unique Dishes Made with Products from Glory Foods to Win Cash and Prizes
COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Glory Foods is inviting cooks from across the nation to take part in its Summer Recipe Contest via social media.
Participants can submit original Glory Foods recipes to the brand's Facebook page at http://www.Facebook.com/gloryfoods. Here, all recipes will be displayed and voted on by fans. Recipes can be submitted in any category, including appetizers, main dishes, salads and desserts.
All recipes received will be used to create a Glory Foods PDF cookbook, which will be delivered by email to each contest entrant.
The Summer Recipe Contest ends Tuesday, July 31, with the results being announced Wednesday, Aug. 1. The first place winner will receive a Visa gift card worth $300 and a Glory Foods Deluxe Gift Basket. The second and third place winners will receive gift cards worth $150 and $75 respectively.
"The Summer Recipe Contest is a way to celebrate the essence of Glory Foods with people who are as passionate as we are about great food," said Dan Charna, vice president of operations for Glory Foods. "Since Glory Foods has a diverse selection of products - from our Seasoned Southern Style canned vegetables and ready-to-use fresh produce to our hot sauces and seasoned cooking bases - we know we will get creative recipes reflecting our down-home flavors."
About Glory Foods
Glory Foods is the category leader in Southern-style, heat-and-serve products including seasoned canned vegetables, cooking bases, hot sauces and fresh greens. Its Southern-style vegetables and side dishes are staples in American homes and offer convenient meal planning solutions for busy families. For more information about Glory Foods, visit http://www.gloryfoods.com, on Facebook at http://www.Facebook.com/gloryfoods, Twitter at http://www.Twitter.com/gloryfoods and YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/gloryfoods.
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Glory Foods
CONTACT: Erin Barrett, The Brandon Agency, +1-843-916-2000, ebarrett@thebrandonagency.com; Johanna D. Wilson, The Brandon Agency, +1-843-916-2000, jwilson@thebrandonagency.com
Online pledge asks people to share their passion and knowledge of the outdoors with a new generation of explorers
SAN LEANDRO, Calif., June 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The North Face today challenged people across the country to get outside, and take someone with them. Launching today on The North Face Facebook page and TheNorthFace.com, Role Models is an online pledge where people commit to taking someone outdoors this summer, helping to start a global movement of outdoor exploration.
"If you've never had anyone show you how to tie a safe figure eight knot for climbing, set up a tent, or even understand how much water you need for an overnighter, getting outside for the first time can be daunting," said Ann Krcik, director of Outdoor Exploration for The North Face. "Our goal with Role Models is to empower all of those outdoor enthusiasts to share their passion and their knowledge to create a new generation of explorers. Think about who taught you an appreciation for the outdoors, then pay it forward."
By taking the Role Models pledge and sharing photos, you'll be entered to win The North Face gear that will help you get outdoors more often. The North Face will also be donating $1 per pledge (up to $10,000) to the Children & Nature Network, a non-profit organization dedicated to fighting Nature Deficit Disorder.
"We teach our kids manners, to be kind to others - always leading by example. We have a responsibility to be Role Models for them in the outdoors as well, because if they don't learn a passion for exploration or an appreciation for the world's wild places from us, who will they learn it from?" said Kit DesLauriers, world-renowned skier and mother of two.
DesLauriers and other The North Face athletes have pledged to be Role Models this summer and are part of the Role Models Clinic Tour, traveling to The North Face and REI stores across the country through the fall to give tips and advice on how to get outside as a family.
About The North Face®
The North Face, a division of VF Outdoor, Inc., was founded in 1968. Headquartered in San Leandro, California, the company offers the most technically advanced products in the market to accomplished climbers, mountaineers, snowsport athletes, endurance athletes, and explorers. The company's products are sold in specialty mountaineering, backpacking, running, and snowsport retailers, premium-sporting goods retailers and major outdoor specialty retail chains.
Press Contacts:
Jessica B. Lange
The North Face
510.618.2734
jessica_b_lange@vfc.com
Paige Boucher
Inside Out PR for The North Face
970.291.4155
paige@insideout-pr.com
Asphalt 7: Heat Hits the Top of the App Store in Record Time!
PARIS, June 22, 2012/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Asphalt 7: Heat, the latest edition of Gameloft's best-selling franchise, has reached
top spot in the App Store's top paid apps rankings in 17 countries on iPhone, and 51
countries on iPad.
Within the category of games, Asphalt 7: Heat also reached the first position in the
ranking of the best paid games on the App Store on iPhone in 47 countries and 57 countries
on the iPad. Consumers' rates are exceptional from 4.5/5 to 5/5 in most countries in the
world.
Asphalt 7: Heat is an adrenaline-fuelled car-racing game where players compete in
ruthless showdowns at breakneck speeds across the world, from London to Rio de Janeiro,
while behind the wheel of 60 cars from prestigious marques including Lamborghini, Ferrari,
Aston Martin, BMW and Audi.
" We're thrilled to see the enthusiastic welcome Asphalt 7: Heat has received all over
the world. Throughout development, our production teams have invested a great deal of
passion and determination to bring technical and graphical innovation and togive life to
the intensity of high-speed racing, while still delivering a compelling and engaging
experience for everyone. The dazzling start of this latest instalment of Asphalt, a
best-selling franchise with more than 50 million downloads since launch, crownsthe series
as thebenchmark racing game for smartphones and tablets," said Julien Fournials, Senior
Vice President Production at Gameloft.
Asphalt 7: Heat has also been awarded Apple's " Editor's Choice " this week.
It will be available on Android on June 25.
About Gameloft:
A leading global publisher of digital and social games, Gameloft(R) has established
itself as one of the top innovators in its field since 2000. Gameloft creates games for
all digital platforms, including mobile phones, smartphones and tablets (including
Apple(R) iOS and Android(R) devices), set-top boxes, connected TVs and consoles. Gameloft
partners with leading international brands such as UNO(R), Spider-Man(R), James Cameron's
Avatar(TM), Ferrari(R) and Sonic Unleashed(R). Gameloft also operates its own established
franchises, such as Real Football, Asphalt(TM), Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation and
N.O.V.A. 3: Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance(R). Gameloft is present on all continents,
distributes its games in 100 countries and employs over 4,500 developers.
Gameloft is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange (ISIN: FR0000079600, Bloomberg: GFT FP,
Reuters: GLFT.PA). Gameloft's sponsored Level 1 ADR (ticker: GLOFY) is traded OTC in the
US.
Bureau van Dijk further enhances its Mint range of streamlined business intelligence
Bureau van Dijk (BvD), one of the world's leading business information publishers, is
adding further enhancements to its Mint product range. New features, including the
addition of Strategic Searches to help users target companies more creatively, will be
available from 24th June. BvD will be demonstrating these new features at the Data
Marketing Show - part of the Marketing Week Live event at London's Olympia on 27th and
28th June.
BvD's Mint range offers company information and business intelligence with a
streamlined interface and is widely used in the sales and marketing environment. Users can
create targeted lists for campaigns and refresh and enrich their in-house data via CRM
integration. BvD did a major revamp of the Mint interface at the end of 2011.
BvD has now incorporated searches for more strategic targeting, all with the aim of
identifying potential business opportunities. They include options to find companies with
consistent growth; by year end and companies who are affected by recent M&A activity.
There's also the option to search for companies who are investment backed, suggesting more
aggressive growth targets and budget availability. In addition, BvD has further developed
its unique "SegMintation" function where users can create fast segmentation reports on
their search results to see how they breakdown by SIC code, region and turnover.
"The response to our new Mint has been extremely positive," said Tony Pringle, BvD's
UK managing director, "the new interface is fast and easy to use and really popular with
users. Some of the new enhancements are a result of feedback - we really appreciate our
users suggesting what they'd like to see on our products. We're seeing an increased
interest in international data, especially for CRM integration, and we've now launched the
new Mint interface on the global and European versions of Mint."
Mint was originally launched in 2004. The range includes a dedicated Mint for the UK
plus global, European and other regional versions. BvD offers a free trial scheme so users
can try Mint in their own environment. You can register for a free trial on bvdinfo.com
[http://www.bvdinfo.com ].
Photographs of Tony Pringle and screenshots of Mint are available on request.
About Bureau van Dijk
Bureau van Dijk (BvD) is one of the world's leading business information publishers.
It has three product ranges: The classic range includes the market leading Fame, Amadeus
and Orbis. These products give users a vast range of searching and analysis options and
detailed financial information. The Mint range offers streamlined searching - ideally
suited to a business development environment. The Catalysts - this new range tailors BvD's
products and data for specific research projects including company valuations, transfer
pricing, procurement, credit analysis and compliance.
Source: Bureau van Dijk (BvD)
Press contact: Louise Green, Group marketing director, louise.green@bvdinfo.com , +44(0)20-7549-5012, Bureau van Dijk, bvdinfo.com , +44(0)20-7549-5000
VoX Communications Adds Low Cost Fixed Price Calling Plans To United Kingdom Mobile Callers Using Its Android Mobile VoIP App
100, 250 AND 500 MINUTE PLANS ARE THE LOWEST PRICED CALLING TARGETING TRAVELLERS TO THE LONDON OLYMPICS FOR 2012
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., June 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Pervasip Corp.'s (OTCQB: PVSP) wholly-owned subsidiary, VoX Communications, a cloud-based voice and video communications solutions, apps and services provider, has now added fixed priced calling plans to the United Kingdom via its Android mobile voice app available in Google Play. The fixed priced plans include calling to mobile phones in the United Kingdom at prices that are significantly lower than prices charged by other competitive carriers.
VoX's Chief Marketing Officer, Barry MacCheyne, noted, "We have added the United Kingdom to our fixed priced low cost calling plans as we intend to heavily market to people travelling to the Olympics in July. We have engaged a marketing partner to target this audience and believe that we have a compelling calling plan for people that want to call the UK from anywhere in the world using their Android phone. They can now do so without using their carrier minutes or worrying about roaming charges."
A VoX user can subscribe entirely on the phone and choose a U.S. phone number without leaving the interface, which makes the sign up process more elegant than many competitors. The Mobile VoIP paid plans for the United Kingdom start at $6.95 for the 100-minute plan, which is a low cost of entry for a high quality and reliable VoIP service offering. VoX also offers 250 minutes for $14.95 and 500 minutes for $29.95. These plans INCLUDE calls to mobile phones which are typically a higher price than calls to land lines. New subscribers can download the app for a free 60-minute trial and make calls to any country on the unlimited calling list or sign up for a United Kingdom specific plan.
Price comparison of calling rates to
mobile phones in Britain:
VoX Mobile 7 cents a minute
ATT 28 cents a minute
Verizon 20 cents a minute
Vonage 28 cents a minute
Skype 20 cents a minute
The VoX Mobile VoIP Android App can be viewed or downloaded here:
VoX Communications delivers VoIP and video telephone service anywhere in the world that has a stable broadband connection. It recently entered the mobile VoIP services and applications arena so that its VoIP can utilize any 3G/4G or WiFi connection. VoX differentiates itself through a unique combination of high quality voice services, flexible back-office capabilities and automated provisioning systems that enable a quick turn-up for app users who are looking for a second mobile phone line or low-cost international calling, without using any voice-plan minutes from their mobile phone carrier. It offers a feature-rich, low-cost, high-quality alternative to traditional wireless phone services. For more information, please visit http://www.voxcorp.net.
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For further information:
AT PERVASIP:
Paul H. Riss
Chief Executive Officer
Ph: 212-404-7633
phriss@pervasip.com
Brookstone fits crisp, bright HD projection in the palm of your hand with the HDMI Pocket Projector
The latest ultra portable micro-projector provides portability with performance through Texas Instruments DLP Technology
MERRIMACK, N.H., June 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Brookstone, the multichannel specialty retailer and product development company, today introduced the Brookstone HDMI Pocket Projector, a rechargeable, portable device that projects movies, presentations and games with a crisp image up to 60" on any flat surface. The new HDMI Pocket Projector uses an 85 lumen LED light source and advanced DLP technology to deliver a bright, clear 1080p HD image.
Portability with performance
The Brookstone HDMI Pocket Projector is powered by Texas Instrument's DLP and utilizes the same technology found in the world's largest projectors, except it is now optimized to fit the smallest form factor. Combining a bright LED light source, fully integrated speakers, and onboard battery power, Apple®, Android(TM), and Windows® smartphones or tablets are immediately transformed into a crisp, high-definition viewing experience. Get the most out of all HDMI-supported devices by easily connecting a computer, video player, game console, digital camera and more.
With more than two hours of battery life and built in audio, movies and games are truly portable. The Brookstone HDMI Pocket Projector provides the same brightness and detail when running on the battery as when it is plugged in.
High-definition everywhere
Because the Brookstone HDMI Pocket Projector doesn't sacrifice performance with its portability, it can provide a crisp, high-definition viewing experience in a variety of situations:
-- Business: The Brookstone HDMI Pocket Projector is ideal for the
traveling salesperson who needs to present a presentation on any surface
with a moment's notice.
-- Home: With the Brookstone HDMI Pocket Projector, family movie night can
happen on the large wall in the living room or on the side of the tent
during a camping trip.
-- Dorm: Students can create the ultimate gaming center in their dorm room
and play Xbox® or PS®( )games with the Brookstone HDMI Pocket
Projector.
"Brookstone is committed to working with technology leaders to design and bring to market innovative solutions to enhance our everyday living," said Steve Schwartz, Vice President of Merchandising & Product Development for Brookstone. "The new HDMI Pocket Projector builds on Brookstone's line of exceptional quality, high-tech solutions for business and entertainment."
"We are tremendously enthusiastic about once again partnering with Brookstone by bringing the HDMI Pocket Projector to market," said Frank Moizio, Manager of the DLP Pico Business at Texas Instruments. "Because of its incredibly small size and tremendous image quality, you can buy this for work and take home for play. This device creates the movie theater experience from your smartphone or tablet."
Brookstone HDMI Pocket Projector features:
-- Super bright, 85 lumen LED lamp with 20,000 hours of life
-- 854x 480 (WVGA), 1080p HD projected image with a 16:9 Aspect ratio
-- Two 1-watt speakers and 3.5 mm Aux audio output
-- Two hour rechargeable 3500mAh battery
-- 5V USB charging output for smart phones
-- Product includes a three foot HDMI cable, a Micro HDMI adapter and a
Mini HDMI adapter. (Apple devices require an Apple Digital AV adapter
that is sold separately).
The HDMI Pocket Projector will be available at Brookstone stores and online July 1, 2012 for $299.99. Pre-orders can be placed now at http://www.brookstone.com/hdmi-pocket-projector. The micro projector includes a three foot HDMI cable, a Micro HDMI adapter and a Mini HDMI adapter. Apple devices require an Apple Digital AV adapter (sold separately).
About Brookstone
Brookstone is a multichannel lifestyle specialty retailer and product development company. Brookstone operates 300 stores nationwide and in Puerto Rico. Typically located in high-traffic regional shopping malls and airports, the stores feature unique and innovative consumer products. Brookstone also operates an e-commerce business that includes the Brookstone catalog and Brookstone.com. Fans of Brookstone are encouraged to Like Brookstone on Facebook, follow on Twitter or pin on Pinterest.
About Texas Instruments DLP Products
Since 1996, Texas Instruments' award-winning DLP technology has powered the world's top display devices to deliver higher resolution images rich with color, contrast, clarity and brightness for a wide range of applications, including intelligent display technology. With DLP's intelligent display capability, users can interact with content in a diverse range of applications, such as automotive, medical and interactive projection. DLP's technology spans movie theaters (DLP Cinema®) and large-scale, professional venues; in conference rooms, classrooms, and home theaters; and with DLP Pico(TM)-enabled mobile devices, the ability to display images from the palm of your hand. Every DLP chip features an array of up to 8 million microscopic mirrors that switch at ultra-high speeds. With this speed advantage, DLP enables applications unheard of by competing display technologies. To learn more about DLP technology, please visit http://www.DLP.com, or follow DLP on Twitter at http://www.Twitter.com/TI_DLP.
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Brookstone
CONTACT: Media: Angela Corsi Leon, Brookstone@airfoilpr.com, +1-248-304-1445
Free eBay Seller Webinar -- Branding Your eBay Business
Learn What a Brand Is and How to Develop Yours
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Page Mage Inc. along with eBay Radio, Outright, Stamps.com and Terapeak will be hosting a free webinar for eBay® sellers to learn the basics of branding your eBay business and walk away with steps they can take immediately to improve their own brand. The webinar will be presented by Chris Taylor, Vice President of Marketing for Page Mage, and Kat Simpson, eBay Education Specialist with That Kat Consulting.
The e-commerce competition is fiercer than ever. You are competing against millions of other sellers not just in the eBay Marketplace but across the Internet. Building their brand, standing out, and looking credible is more important than ever to succeed. Shoppers don't just see you as a product provider, they see you as a service provider. This means you need to sell your business along with your products. In this packed webinar, you will learn:
-- What is a brand?
-- Why is it important?
-- How do you evaluate your brand?
-- How do you improve your business' brand?
Registrants will receive a checklist to help them take action and start improving their brand immediately.
Presented by Chris Taylor, VP Marketing for Page Mage and Kat Simpson, a noted e-commerce speaker, educator and entrepreneur. Chris won the 2011 Ecosystem Champion Award from eBay and has been in sales and marketing for over 20 years. He is also a former board member of the Silicon Valley Branch of the American Marketing Association. Kat is an Education Specialist trained by eBay. She's been an e-commerce merchant for over 10 years, maintaining stores on eBay, Addoway, Bonanza, Buy.com and iOffer. Kat is hostess of the popular e-commerce podcast, FBA Radio.
Participants will be able to ask questions throughout the presentation. The webinar is for eBay sellers of all sizes and levels. Everyone who registers will receive a link to the webinar recording after it's completed. Please sign up whether you can participate live or not.
What: Free webinar, "Branding Your eBay Business"
When: Thursday, June 28 at 11:00 a.m. PT / 2:00 p.m. ET (Registrants will receive a link to the webinar recording afterwards.)
About Page Mage
Page Mage was founded in 2008. We are transforming the way sellers market their products on eBay. Page Mage provides easy to use eBay Tools for creating better listings and bigger profits. Our new Billboards eBay App Center application lets you create breakthrough eBay listing designs to stand out from your competition, look more credible and professional, improve selling performance, and increase confidence among buyers. It's Top 10 "Most Popular" in the eBay Apps Center and it's completely free.
About Outright
Outright has one goal: to make bookkeeping as simple as possible so the self-employed can spend as little time as possible on the least enjoyable part of running a business. Outright's easy-to-use online accounting solution automatically brings together all of your sales & expenses in one place so you always know what's going on with your business and are ready come tax time. No math, no manual entry, no paper work. Outright integrates with eBay & PayPal, e-commerce accounts, and, of course, your Bank and Credit Card Accounts so you can stay up to date effortlessly and instead focus on doing what you love.
About eBay Radio
The host of eBay Radio is Jim "Griff" Griffith, eBay's Dean of Education and author of the Official eBay Bible. eBay Radio broadcasts (eBay Radio; eBay Radio's Ask Griff & Lee; and eBay Town Hall) feature helpful guidance, advice, and information from eBay team leaders and guest experts along with hot eBay topics, news direct from eBay, and your calls!
About Stamps.com
Stamps.com (Nasdaq:STMP) is a leading provider of Internet-based postage services. Stamps.com's service enables small businesses, high-volume shippers, enterprise shippers, and consumers to print U.S. Postal Service-approved postage with just a PC, printer and Internet connection, right from their home or office. The Company targets its services to small businesses and home offices, and currently has PC Postage partnerships with Avery Dennison, Microsoft, HP, USPS and others.
About Terapeak
Terapeak is a leader in ecommerce market research and payment analytics, and is the sole authorized re-licensor of eBay data globally. The company provides custom insights and SaaS technology-enabled solutions to e-commerce merchants around the world.
Currently aggregating over 20% of all online commerce sales data, Terapeak helps merchants make faster, more-profitable business decisions based on real-time market trends, pricing, and transaction data.
Brookstone Virtual Keyboard puts a laser lightshow in your pocket
Rechargeable, portable laser keyboard works overtime for easy, fun typing on a smartphone or tablet
MERRIMACK, N.H., June 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Brookstone, the multichannel specialty retailer and product development company, today introduced the Brookstone Virtual Keyboard, a full QWERTY laser keyboard for easier typing on smartphones and tablets.
Small enough to fit on a keychain, the Brookstone Virtual Keyboard connects to your phone or tablet via Bluetooth and projects a laser keyboard onto any flat surface. CTX patented laser technology and built-in laser optics make composing emails and blog posts on a smartphone or tablet simple and fast.
The keyboard of the future is everywhere
The Brookstone Virtual Keyboard features a rechargeable lithium-ion battery for more than two hours of continuous typing on the go:
-- Business Travel: Compose emails and edit documents on the plane without
paying for an extra carry on for your laptop.
-- Home: Turn the kitchen table into a virtual home office during the day
without bulky laptops and cords to clean up before dinner.
"Our commitment to designing innovative and unique technology products that enrich our lives has never been more apparent than with the Brookstone Virtual Keyboard," said Steve Schwartz, Vice President of Merchandising & Product Development for Brookstone. "Not only is this keyboard remarkable for its compact design, it's a great combination of Bluetooth and laser technology that's fun, easy and convenient to use."
Brookstone Virtual Keyboard features:
-- 72 key, full-size QWERTY keyboard
-- Lithium-ion battery with more than two hours of battery life via
rechargeable micro USB
-- Works with most Bluetooth devices including smartphones, tablets,
computers and more
The Brookstone Virtual Keyboard will be available in Brookstone stores and online in August, 2012 for $99.99.
About Brookstone
Brookstone is a multichannel lifestyle specialty retailer and product development company. Brookstone operates 300 stores nationwide and in Puerto Rico. Typically located in high-traffic regional shopping malls and airports, the stores feature unique and innovative consumer products. Brookstone also operates an e-commerce business that includes the Brookstone catalog and Brookstone.com. Fans of Brookstone are encouraged to Like Brookstone on Facebook, follow on Twitter or pin on Pinterest.
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CONTACT: Angela Corsi Leon, Brookstone@airfoilpr.com, +1-248-304-1445
Ortigra The Family Friendly Search Engine Brings in 300,000 Searches in 7 days
LONDON, June 22, 2012/PRNewswire/ --
Ortigra.com the New Search Engine Launched on 11th June is gaining popularity rapidly.
The family friendly search engine has surpassed over 300,000 searches in just over 7 days.
The threshold has meant that Ortigra has sponsored 3 children in the third world with
Child Hope and searches continue to take place. The platform takes advantage of
specialized features which include family safe browsing, social search and quick view
which allows users to view up to 10 webpages in one.
Marcel Gashi Director Says "Ortigra is about giving individuals an alternative, whilst
at the same time offering users the ability to make a difference with our Search & Sponsor
mission, we are grateful to everyone who is helping us make a change in the third world,
many just do not have that disposable income that they once had where donations could be
given to charities, but now Ortigra offers a new way of donating to charity whilst at the
same time having a family safe browsing experience all this is achieved by allowing
individuals to change their browsing habit."
Launched into public beta on the 11th June 2012 the search engine has experienced a
large user base in Europe and the US. The search platform is considered family friendly as
web indexes are filtered out from the results. The Search & Sponsor campaign was set-up by
Ortigra whereby every 100,000 searches Ortigra will sponsor a child in the third world.
Children sponsored will benefit from education fees & books, food, medical treatments and
security for the next year. Child poverty is still a major issue, with one in six children
die before the age of 5, 10million are on the brink of starvation, and over 4 million are
living with HIV/Aids. The recent milestone in popularity of Ortigra has meant that 3
children to date are sponsored by the search platform.
Rajesh Mistry - CTO "We are dedicated to advancement and offering an alternative, the
web is about innovation and giving people choices, Ortigra is very committed to offering a
more refined and safe search experience, This means that there is a lot of change to keep
up with. It is also crucial to consider how changes will nourish through into Ortigra's
upcoming reputation comparative to that of its competitors."
The search engine is in development of "oSafe"; a filtering protocol which will allow
users to filter results based upon their belifs and what they deem is unsuitable, oSafe is
not only aimed at families and religious communities but also businesses who want to
increase the productivity of their employees. On average in the US there is over
$759billion lost in the economy per year because of employees spending several hours on
social networks. oSafe will firstly be introduced to organisations across the UK during
the start of September, where schools and employers will have the ability to restrict
website and keywords through the oSafe DNS in real-time.
Marcel Gashi - Director "Ortigra started development in Amsterdam back in 2010 as a
project with I'mhalal.com the Islamic search platform that gained popularity over 3million
households. Since im'halal withdrew from the market, for the 3million users we hope that
Ortigra will be the alternative who want to filter out results from their household. We
saw a niche not just in regards to parental additions but for also values that extend to
ones belifs. I would like to stress that Ortigra is against censoring the internet, but
our aim is focused in offering a service for families that sense of security when browsing
the web. A search platform is very much a map, if you can't locate something on a map;
rarely will you navigate yourself to the destination."
The platform is also developing semantic features which will behave in such a way to
improve search accuracy it will understand the users search phrase as a query rather than
a phrase. The company also has a social network on the way which will enable networking
between communities, individuals and businesses.
About Ortigra: Ortigra started development in Amsterdam for the last 18 months ; the
company has worked on various technologies and has several patents pending. Key advances
include semantic dynamic reload function, smart DNS control for institutions and unique
compression tool for indexing search pages. Ortigra first launched in beta on 7th November
2011 with 20,000 active beta users. The company is currently working on a transition in
moving the search platform to 100% clean energy servers, which should take effect on the
02/07/2012.
A Mobile POS Solution Increases Poolside Food and Drink Sales at the Gaylord Hotels
Gaylord Hotels® has implemented a mobile point-of-sale (POS) solution from Daily Systems, for poolside ordering and payment that provides prompter and more personalized service
PASO ROBLES, Calif., June 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Gaylord Hotels, a pioneer in the hotel and convention industry with a collection of five award-winning resort and convention centers across the U.S., was looking for a cost-efficient solution that would enable it to provide more attentive and personalized service to its guests. The hotels offered poolside service and with acres of pool area to cover, servers spent a lot of time walking between the pools, bar, and kitchen to enter and check on orders, and process payments. This resulted in long wait times and had a negative impact on sales and customer satisfaction.
Daily Systems teamed up with SkyWire Media to provide a wireless POS solution based on the Instant Guest Response software. The solution has all the features of a stationary POS system but fits in the palm of a hand. The mobile POS device is fully integrated with Gaylord's existing POS system, enabling real-time tracking of the orders and open checks. The servers use the iPod touch in combination with Daily Systems' iAPS sled, which is a unique all-in-one solution with a bar code scanner, credit card reader, smart card reader, and receipt printer.
"The poolside ordering and payment solution significantly enhances the productivity of the servers, and guests spend less time waiting," says Thomas Castleberry, COO at SkyWire Media. "The cutting-edge mobile POS solution is also a factor in creating the impression that the Gaylord Hotels is a technologically savvy and modern company."
"In today's business, time is money," says Rene Oliver, CEO and President of Daily Systems. "The iAPS Sled mobile POS device enables businesses to provide more timely, accurate and better overall customer service."
Daily Systems®, LLC
Daily Systems is the inventor of the iAPS sled, which adds scanning, card swiping and printing for iPhone and iPod touch - enabling secure mobile payments from any location. Daily Systems was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in California. For more information, visit http://www.dailysystems.com.
SkyWire® Media, Inc.
SkyWire® Media, Inc., a global SMS text marketer, mobile content enabler, and mobile application developer, was voted "Technology Startup of the Year" by the Technology Business Alliance of Nevada (TBAN). Its powerful technology core is able to personalize and distribute rich content to mobile devices for marketing or service provider models. SkyWire® Media services nearly any industry, including banking, hotel and hospitality, restaurant, food and beverage, retail, religious, entertainment, educational, and sports. For more information, visit http://www.skywiremedia.com.
Contact information
Daily Systems®, LLC
Rene Oliver, CEO and President, 866.404.1412 x105, pr@dailysystems.com
SkyWire® Media, Inc.
Text 'SKYWIRE' to 56242, Sales 866.514.5888
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SES Gathers Momentum in Asia Pacific With Further Significant Fleet Investment
BETZDORF, Luxembourg, June 22, 2012/PRNewswire/ --
The increasing popularity of direct-to-home (DTH) satellite television and the growing
demand for High Definition (HD) broadcast content across Asia-Pacific are driving the
demand for satellite capacity in the region.
With the number of satellite TV [http://www.onastra.com/2124/en ] channels offered by
DTH platforms in Southeast Asia projected to reach 1,600 by 2016, leading global satellite
operator SES is ramping up investment activities in Asia-Pacific to meet the increasing
demand for satellite capacity.
SES' current committed investment in Asia includes SES-8, which is due to launch in
the first quarter of 2013. The satellite will deliver vital expansion capacity to thriving
Asian video neighbourhoods in South Asia and Indochina. SES-8 will be the first
geostationary satellite launched by SpaceX on a Falcon 9 rocket.
Additionally, SES is looking for further growth opportunities and sees the potential
to invest in one to two additional satellites to deliver increased satellite capacity and
coverage in Asia-Pacific beyond 2014. The new satellites will help fuel the growth in the
pay TV markets and the maritime industry in the region.
"SES has experienced considerable growth in the emerging markets of Asia-Pacific,
Latin America and Africa in the past year, which contributed 24 per cent of total revenue
in 2011. By making these substantial investments to meet demand for satellite capacity in
Asia-Pacific, we hope to grow with our customers and continue to be the partner of choice
for broadcasters, governments, businesses and communities here," said Deepak Mathur,
Senior Vice President, Commercial, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, SES
About SES
SES is a world-leading satellite operator with a fleet of 50 geostationary satellites.
The company provides satellite services [http://www.ses.com/4232583/en ] to broadcasters,
such as HD TV [http://www.onastra.com/278192/hdtv ] and digital TV
[http://www.onastra.com/161743/digital-tv ], allowing internet access while offering a
number of TV channels; content and internet service providers, mobile and fixed network
operators and business and governmental organisations worldwide.
SES stands for long-lasting business relationships, high-quality service and
excellence in the broadcasting industry. The culturally diverse regional teams of SES are
located around the globe and work closely with customers to meet their specific satellite
bandwidth and service requirements.
SES (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) holds participations in Ciel
in Canada and QuetzSat in Mexico, as well as a strategic participation in satellite
infrastructure start-up O3b Networks. Further information under: http://www.ses.com.
PR Contact:
Markus Payer
Market Communication & PR
Chateau de Betzdorf
L-6815 Betzdorf
Luxembourg
+352-710-725-500 http://www.ses.com