gloStream's Electronic Medical Record gloEMR Version 6.0 Receives 2011 CCHIT Certification
EMR Solution Meets Highest Standards for Security, Functionality and Interoperability
TROY, Mich., Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- gloStream, maker of gloEMR and gloPM - the only electronic medical record and practice management software with Microsoft Office built right in - today announced that gloEMR version 6.0 has been certified by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) as a CCHIT Certified® 2011 Ambulatory EHR. gloEMR also earned additional certifications for Cardiovascular Medicine and Child Health. CCHIT is a nonprofit organization with the public mission of accelerating the adoption of health IT.
The CCHIT Certified® 2011 certification program provides a rigorous inspection of integrated EHR functionality, interoperability, and security features according to criteria independently developed by CCHIT's multi-stakeholder, expert work groups using the company's published testing methods. Testing is provided by a panel of well-trained experts. The CCHIT 2011 format tests for a variety of important EHR features, including:
-- Clinical decision support functionality
-- Ability to capture and store patient records
-- Authentication and security capability
-- Electronic prescribing and order functionality
-- Overall ease of use
-- Intuitive user interface and workflow
"Having passed CCHIT 2011 certification, gloStream has once again proven that gloEMR has met the highest standards for security, functionality and interoperability," said Mike Sappington, gloStream's CEO. "We believe this recognition is a testament to our tremendous development team that's working diligently to ensure all of our doctor clients have the most functional and easiest to use EMR technology available anywhere."
To increase buyer assurance, all fully certified products in the CCHIT Certified 2011 program undergo additional testing at live sites, and, for ambulatory EHR products, usability is rated, too. Only conditional certification is issued until live site verification is complete and, for ambulatory EHRs, all electronic prescribing certifications are in place.
While there are dozens of CCHIT 2011 certified ambulatory products, gloEMR remains one of the only locally supported CCHIT certified EMRs available. It also comes backed by a 15-Day Money Back Success Guarantee.
About gloStream
gloStream provides doctors with certified, voice-enabled electronic medical record and practice management solutions delivered and supported through a nationwide community of local technology partners. gloStream products are secure, easy-to-use applications and the only solutions on the market with Microsoft Office built right-in. gloStream partners leverage gloDNA ("gloStream Detailed Needs Analysis"), an innovative implementation process that allows gloStream to offer it's 15-Day Money Back Success Guarantee. gloStream guarantees that if it can't get a practice back to full patient load within 15 days of implementing gloEMR, the company will provide a full refund for all gloStream software and services. For more information, visit http://www.glostream.com, email info@glostream.com or call 877-456-3671.
About CCHIT
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®) is an independent, 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization with the public mission of accelerating the adoption of robust, interoperable health information technology. The Commission has been certifying electronic health record technology since 2006 and is approved by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as an Authorized Testing and Certification Body (ONC-ATCB). More information on CCHIT, CCHIT Certified® products and ONC-ATCB certified electronic health record technology is available at http://cchit.org. "CCHIT®" and "CCHIT Certified®" are registered trademarks of the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology.
SRI Sarnoff Video Stabilizers Now Bring Clear, Actionable Video to Challenging Environments
PRINCETON, N.J., Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- People and systems that rely on sharp videos often face the challenges of inclement weather, unstable vehicle motion, and long-range viewing in remote or unprotected installations. Any one of these issues can distort video and result in poor quality imagery.
To combat these imagery challenges, SRI Sarnoff has introduced the Acadia® ILS-6000(TM) hardware series of video stabilizers. Now stabilization technology previously limited to controlled environments can be deployed to outdoor, mobile, and remote installations.
"The ability to receive actionable information quickly is essential for homeland security, perimeter surveillance, military bases, and critical infrastructures," said Mark Clifton, vice president of the Products and Services Division at SRI Sarnoff. "This solution brings clear video and situational awareness to the front lines of emerging threat locations."
The Acadia ILS-6000(TM) products are designed for use with analog cameras in any surveillance location. They now bring high-quality stabilization--traditionally limited to the desktop--into the field. No training is required for installation and operation.
There are three hardware configurations in the series:
-- The rugged ILS-6000 for outdoor and vehicle-mounted installations
-- The low-profile ILS-6100 printed circuit board for original equipment
manufacturer (OEM) integration
-- The rack-mounted ILS-6200 for four- or eight-channel analog camera
systems
SRI International, a nonprofit research and development organization, performs sponsored R&D for governments, businesses, and foundations. SRI brings its innovations to the marketplace through technology licensing, new products, and spin-off ventures. SRI, commemorating its 65th anniversary in 2011, is known for world-changing innovations in computing, health and pharmaceuticals, chemistry and materials, sensing, energy, education, national defense, and more. SRI Sarnoff is well known for its broadcasting, vision, and semiconductor innovations.
SOURCE SRI International
SRI International
CONTACT: Dina Basin of SRI International, +1-650-859-3845, dina.basin@sri.com, or Lou Ann Hodges of SRI International Sarnoff, +1-609-734-2863, louann.hodges@sri.com
CHICAGO, Sept. 22, 2011/PRNewswire/ -- Network Merchants, Inc. (NMI), today announced the addition of Electronic Invoicing to its extensive suite of payment gateway solutions.
NMI's Electronic Invoicing enables Merchants to invoice customers via email and allows customers to make payment by following an embedded link. "This solution seems so obvious that you'd think most merchants already use it," says Rich Swiderski, National Sales Director at NMI. But, many companies throughout the world continue to struggle with old-fashioned invoicing procedures. "They still waste paper, stamp envelopes, and pay the cost of postage," added Swiderski.
Merchants using NMI's Electronic Invoicing system generate invoices with line by line detailed information. Invoices are automatically converted to PDFs, attached via email and sent to the customer's billing email address. Customers simply follow a link in the email to pay their open invoices. All invoices are kept within the payment gateway and can be easily retrieved or re-sent with a click of a button. There is no limit to the amount of invoices that can be sent. And, merchants don't need a website to get paid.
As for security, by sending out electronic invoices there is no need for merchants to store sensitive payment data. This allows merchants to avoid the most rigorous of PCI compliance issues.
"Everyone benefits," says NMI's Director of Product Development Nick Starai. "Merchants deliver faster and more secure invoices, customers maintain better records and since we're all striving to deal with less paper in today's world, helping reduce our carbon footprint is important for all of us."
ABOUT NMI - Network Merchants, Inc. builds payment gateways exclusively for payment professionals. With an elite team of software engineers, NMI delivers and maintains an extensive suite of payment solutions through a unique channel of distribution. This channel was conceived early on when NMI recognized the payment industry was too complicated for most companies to navigate. The resultant philosophy - NMI would not offer products to merchants directly. Instead NMI works with payment professionals including ISOs, VARs, software engineers and others who are qualified to educate merchants regarding appropriate, safe and efficient use of its products and services. Today, NMI's Affiliate Partners process transactions throughout the world.
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Slacker Radio Announces New Music Discovery Social App on Facebook at F8 Developer Conference
PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at f8, Facebook's developer conference, Slacker, Inc. announced Slacker Radio on Facebook, a new social and fully-customizable radio experience integrated with Facebook that makes it easier for people to tell their story and discover new music online with their friends.
"We're announcing Slacker Radio on Facebook as a new way for people to connect around listening to music. Facebook users who add Slacker Radio to their Timeline are able to personalize their listening experience, publish their music story to the Dashboard and discover music with their friends on Facebook," said Jonathan Sasse, senior vice president of marketing at Slacker.
Through Facebook Platform, people can share the experience of the social app with their friends, making their online experience more personal and relevant.
Slacker offers the world's most complete range of radio services. Whether it's the award-winning free Slacker Basic Radio, or the fully-loaded subscription services Slacker Radio Plus and Slacker Premium Radio, listeners enjoy a unique, custom listening experience. Slacker enables music lovers to play highly personalized music online at the Slacker web site, on connected home devices or on-the-go with Slacker Personal Radio applications. Slacker mobile applications are available for Windows Phone 7, Windows Mobile, Palm webOS, Nokia, Android, iPhone, and BlackBerry smartphones. For more information visit: http://www.Slacker.com/about.
Slacker and Slacker.com are registered trademarks of Slacker, Inc. All other trademarks and product names are the property of their respective companies.
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Media Contact:
Anders Steele
FortyThree, Inc.
831.239.0960
slacker@fortythreepr.com
Mimvi, Inc. Introduces Proprietary Mobile App Discovery Technology
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Mimvi, Inc. (OTCQB: MIMV) unveils a new mobile app discovery service, which, combined with the Company's proprietary search, recommendation and discovery technology, will revolutionize the way consumers discover and gain access to mobile apps.
The groundbreaking technology, which has been under development for several months, and is referred to internally as 'Project Jupiter,' is part of a larger 'augmented reality' (AR) endeavor for the Company that is represented by a series of internal projects code named MAARs (Mobile App Augmented Reality). Powered by Mimvi's proprietary mobile app and discovery recommendations, Jupiter represents the first of several upcoming technology announcements the Company is planning to deliver.
Currently in beta testing and scheduled for release in the coming weeks as a mobile app across both iOS and Android platforms, Jupiter's technology enables anyone with a smartphone to discover relevant mobile apps based on two primary environmental factors: what they see and where they are located. By simply pointing a smartphone's camera to any physical object, Mimvi's proprietary algorithms will process what it sees, and in conjunction with the user's location, smart phone and tablet users will then be presented with a series of meaningful mobile app recommendations.
Commenting on the breakthrough technology, Kasian Franks, Mimvi's Founder and CEO, said: "This technology has the potential to revolutionize the search industry. Not only will it change the way we discover and shop for products and services, it will provide owners of mobile devices a tool which could enhance their lives on many other levels. The economic (or revenue), social and cultural opportunities that this initiative can provide are tremendous. Everyone associated with Mimvi is very excited by this new development."
Mr. Franks went on to provide an example of how the technology could work in the real world, "The algorithms leverage environmental sensors inherent in smart devices. A smartphone user standing on a street corner anywhere in the world can point his or her phone at a particular location, for instance at a shopping mall, and up will pop mobile apps related to the stores in the shopping mall."
Mimvi views this initiative as a fundamental component of its longer term vision and strategy to spearhead the evolution of the Mobile Internet. Michael Poutre, Mimvi's President and COO, expressed his delight about the Company's latest breakthrough: "Mobile apps are the new 'websites' and eventually, just as with websites, every business and individual will have their very own mobile app. Our technology will drive the evolution of this 'megatrend,' And this is just the tip of the iceberg. It represents the first of several new Mimvi initiatives which will shake up the industry and impact our lives in meaningful ways. I believe Mimvi's proprietary technology will have a major say in the business world in the next five to 10 years. This is a very exciting time to be in the Mobile Internet industry, and Mimvi is at its forefront."
Mr. Poutre continued, "Mimvi is helping to ease the transition from the fixed Internet to the Mobile Internet. By 'easing the pain' of consumers and businesses as they transition into the mobile world, we are establishing ourselves as the 'go to' company for all things app. The release of 'Jupiter' is a continuation, and direct result, of the internal changes we have made recently, and in line with our pledge to the street and our shareholders to stay at the cutting-edge of the mobile technology and innovation curve."
For more information about Jupiter and Mimvi, see our website (http://www.mimvi.com) or contact Investor Relations at: (248)-561-7995.
About Mimvi
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Mimvi, Inc. (OTCQB: MIMV) is a pure-play search engine and recommendation technology company. Its (patent pending) proprietary search and "intelligent" recommendation algorithms enable the search and discovery of Mobile Apps, Mobile Content and Mobile Products across multiple devices and platforms, including: the iPhone, Google Android, BlackBerry and Web Apps. Services for iPad, Windows and Samsung are in the pipeline. For more information, please visit: http://www.mimvi.com
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BillFloat CEO Testifies 'Too Scared to Lend' a Growing Problem in Consumer Lending
Ryan Gilbert calls for consensus and collaboration between consumer-centric financial services innovators
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Financial services entrepreneurs are leading the charge to service the growing number of the unbanked and under-banked in America. This was the sentiment delivered in Congressional testimony today by Ryan Gilbert, CEO of BillFloat, Inc. Gilbert was invited to testify at the hearing on the availability of credit for consumers by House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Chairwoman Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.).
"The 'too big to fail' banks are today, simply put, 'too scared to lend' to worthy consumers, due to the higher costs associated with serving non-prime consumers," Gilbert told the members of the subcommittee. "There is hope, however. BillFloat represents a new breed of financial services provider. We never exploit our customers or take them for granted. And our products offer under-served, yet financially responsible, middle-income consumers reasonable fees, transparent terms, and the professional support of personnel that are compassionate and straightforward in their dealings with them."
Since 2009, BillFloat, a provider of consumer credit-for-bill payment solutions, has been helping thousands of consumers across the country avoid late fees, overdraft charges, service termination and high cost payday loans. The continued economic downturn, combined with banks contracting the amount of available credit, makes the need for services like BillFloat greater than ever.
During his testimony, Gilbert called for financial services innovators to work with Congress and regulators to pass "innovation enabling" legislation that would allow financial services innovators to launch new products without the need to rely on banks and their infrastructure. Initially, the coalition would focus on encouraging Congress to pass the Federal Financial Services and Credit Companies (FFSCC) Charter Act of 2011, introduced by Representative Joe Baca (D-Calif.).
"This group of companies epitomizes 'can do' American ingenuity at its finest," said Gilbert. "We are not asking for any federal funding, loan guarantees, or any other handouts. What we would like is a much needed and welcome platform on which financial services innovators will be encouraged to flourish and serve the underserved. Congressman Baca's bill will do just that."
Gilbert noted that the same banks that are not serving under-served consumers are not supporting technology and financial services innovators either. Of the thousands of banks in the United States, fewer than ten have made an active and concerted effort to support start-up financial service innovation efforts, and of those ten none are household names that consumers rely on every day.
"We hope to help create a more progressive regulatory environment that encourages new thinking for new products," said Rob Frohwein, CEO of Kabbage, and provider of credit to online small businesses. "At the end of the day, we all want to help the economy by enabling consumers and businesses gain access to needed resources."
About BillFloat, Inc.
BillFloat was founded in 2009 by a team of experienced financial services entrepreneurs with investment and technology backing from First Round Capital (http://www.firstround.com), PayPal (http://www.paypal.com), and Venrock (http://www.venrock.com) and angel investors. Consumers use BillFloat to pay bills and avoid late fees, overdraft charges, service termination, and high cost payday loans. Billers including utility providers, cable companies, and insurers accelerate their cash flow through BillFloat's easy to implement and secure system. The service is available on billers' websites and through financial services partners including prepaid and debit card issuers, payroll services, walk-in payment centers, and http://www.billfloat.com. BillFloat is based in San Francisco, California.
SOURCE BillFloat, Inc.
BillFloat, Inc.
CONTACT: Rob Vernon, +1-571-214-7708, rvernon@golinharris.com, for BillFloat, Inc.
AlchemyAPI Updates Service with Relation Extraction and New Sentiment Functionality
DENVER, Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- AlchemyAPI (http://www.alchemyapi.com), a leading provider of natural language processing technology, today announced new relation extraction functionality and sentiment analysis updates to its popular text-mining web service.
AlchemyAPI is a SaaS platform that enriches textual content through automated tagging, categorization, linguistic analysis, and semantic mining. Available as both a free online API and commercial subscription service, AlchemyAPI is used by news aggregators, social media monitoring companies, and contextual advertising firms world-wide to understand, organize, and monetize online content.
"Relation extraction identifies facts, events, buying signals, targeted customer sentiment, and more inside raw text," stated CEO Elliot Turner. "We are pleased to add relation extraction to AlchemyAPI's significant arsenal of text analysis capabilities."
Designed to power a new breed of customer opinion tracking, automated lead generation, document analysis and data visualization applications, AlchemyAPI's relation extraction API processes natural language, converting documents and web pages into actionable, semantically enriched "Subject-Action-Object" data.
"AlchemyAPI also now offers directional-sentiment analysis," Turner continued. "This means understanding the source of an opinion and who or what it is directed towards."
Accurately following consumer sentiment is critical for many businesses, and AlchemyAPI's ability to identify the source and target of opinion statements provides a unique advantage for a variety of use cases. This functionality incorporates AlchemyAPI's named entity extraction, for accurate identification of the "Who", "What", or "Where" of an opinion statement.
Relation extraction and new directional-sentiment are available immediately to all AlchemyAPI users.
AlchemyAPI is a leading provider of semantic tagging and content-mining solutions, helping companies world-wide enhance, understand, and better-leverage their textual information assets. The AlchemyAPI web service provides publishers with the tools and capabilities necessary to compete in today's highly-interconnected global information economy. AlchemyAPI's content-mining platform provides advanced natural language processing and information extraction capabilities not found in competing solutions.
Contact:
Media Relations: Shaun Roach
sroach@alchemyapi.com
(303) 242-8840
Saint Jude Retreats Offers Online Home Education Program
Drug and alcohol social education program with a certified instructor now available for home-based users.
AMSTERDAM, N.Y., Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Saint Jude Retreats recently added home-based online classes to its list of available services. The New York-based drug and alcohol education program now offers one-on-one professional instruction for those who cannot stay at the New York retreat facilities.
"We understand that there are people who need help with their substance use problems who are unable to leave their homes to spend time with us in our facilities," said Daniel Hidalgo, senior marketing director for Saint Jude Retreats. "Saint Jude Retreats now provides a confidential, common-sense approach through online instruction that fits into their schedule. This is the same curriculum that has saved thousands of lives over the last twenty two years."
The program is an alternative to drug and alcohol rehab and drug treatment programs. It does not use 12 steps or a disease-based philosophy to help people find a permanent solution to problematic substance use. The home program features 22 60-minute online classes with a certified Cognitive Behavioral Education(TM) (CBE) instructor. The format includes videoconferencing, email, phone conversations or a combination of these communication methods to suit each individual.
The traditional Saint Jude Retreats residential program is still available for those who prefer the concept of spending time at the retreat facilities, rather than staying at home.
CBE was researched, developed by, and is a trademark of Baldwin Research Institute, Inc., whose headquarters and research facilities are located in Amsterdam, New York. Baldwin Research Institute, Inc., the parent company of Saint Jude Retreats, currently contributes $4.5M annually to the local Montgomery County and Hamilton County economies.
About Saint Jude Retreats: Saint Jude Retreats (http://www.soberforever.net) is a drug and alcohol social education center headquartered in Amsterdam, New York. It is an effective alternative to alcoholism treatment and drug rehabilitation centers. Saint Jude Retreats has been helping people overcome alcohol and substance use through Cognitive Behavioral Education(TM) (CBE) since opening its doors in 1992. CBE and the Saint Jude Retreats program are endorsed by alcohol and drug program internationally acclaimed professionals, such as Prof. Emeritus David Hanson, PhD; Prof. David Rudy, PhD; Dr. Joy Browne and the late Joseph Vacca, PhD, among others.
SOURCE Saint Jude Retreats
Saint Jude Retreats
CONTACT: Daniel Hildalgo of Saint Jude Retreats, +1-518-842-2204
YRC Expands Service Offerings With New Mobile Tools
YRC Customers Can Now View Shipping Documents on Android and iPhone Devices
OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- (NASDAQ: YRCW) -- YRC announced it has expanded its mobile service offerings, which will allow customers to view shipping documents on the Android and iPhone through dedicated apps and on all other web enabled phones through the YRC mobile site at http://m.yrc.com. The apps and mobile site enable customers to do a variety of tasks such as tracking shipments, accessing customer service and viewing shipping documents. Customers can also read the latest YRC news through the apps and mobile site.
"The expansion of our mobile service offerings is the latest in our technology enhancements for YRC customers," said Mike Naatz, president - customer care division and chief customer officer for YRC Worldwide. "With our new mobile documents application, YRC customers can immediately access their shipping documents in our system anywhere, anytime, making the shipping process even easier for our customers."
YRC mobile capabilities include:
-- Mobile Shipping Document Application - Customers can view and email
necessary shipping documents by simply entering the PRO number and
choosing the desired documents. Customers can now view and email bills
of lading (BOL), delivery receipts (DR), weight and inspection
certificates and BOL and DR manifests from almost any mobile device.
-- Tracking - Customers have the ability to track YRC shipments anytime,
anywhere, using the PRO, BOL or PO number.
-- Service Alerts - YRC electronic alerts keep customers in the know,
giving them timely notification and the information to determine whether
corrective measures are necessary.
-- Rate Quotes - Using their mobile device, customers can obtain rate
quotes with or without a YRC account and work directly with YRC online
for additional quoting and shipment booking needs.
-- Customer Service - Connect with YRC customer service by chat, email or
one-button calling to serve all your transportation needs.
YRC, a leading transporter of industrial, commercial and retail goods, specializes in solutions for businesses across North America. Built upon the combined strength of Yellow and Roadway, and headquartered in Overland Park, Kan., YRC operates a comprehensive North America network designed to create flexible, efficient, supply chain solutions that are simply reliable. For more information, visit http://www.yrc.com
About YRC Worldwide
YRC Worldwide Inc., a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Overland Park, Kan., is a leading provider of transportation and global logistics services. It is the holding company for a portfolio of successful brands including YRC, YRC Reimer, YRC Glen Moore, Reddaway, Holland and New Penn, and provides China-based services through its Jiayu and JHJ joint ventures. YRC Worldwide has the largest, most comprehensive less-than-truckload (LTL) network in North America with local, regional, national and international capabilities. Through its team of experienced service professionals, YRC Worldwide offers industry-leading expertise in heavyweight shipments and flexible supply chain solutions, ensuring customers can ship industrial, commercial and retail goods with confidence. Please visit http://www.yrcw.com for more information.
Media Contact: Suzanne Dawson
Linden, Alschuler &
Kaplan
212-329-1420
sdawson@lakpr.com
Rugged New FCI 1.25mm Wire-to-Board System Now in Stock at Newark/element14
Designed for a range of environmentally-demanding interconnect applications: industrial control, automotive telematics, home security systems and aerospace/defense
CHICAGO, Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Newark/element14, a leading multi-channel, high-service electronics distributor in the Americas, and a business of Premier Farnell, announced today it was stocking FCI's 1.25mm-pitch wire-to-board connector series, which features a single-row design available with 2 to 20 circuit positions and suits a wide variety of industrial and consumer applications.
Products in the new series include terminals, polarized crimp housings and PCB headers in straight- and right-angle, surface-mount and through-mount configurations. It meets the European Community Industry Safety Standard and its printed circuit board header material also meets halogen-free guidelines.
"We have continued our commitment to have stock of marketing leading technology from our supplier partners like FCI," said Jeff Uden, VP Product Management, Newark/element14. "This series expands our powerful range of connectivity offerings."
An engineer from FCI is available for technical chat and the series is available for same-day shipping at Newark/element14.
About Newark/element14
Newark and its innovative online element14 engineering community, are both businesses of the global Premier Farnell Group (LSE: pfl), a leading multi-channel, high-service electronics distributor supporting millions of engineers and purchasing professionals around the world. Stocking components and test equipment from 500+ top manufacturers, Newark is known in the US, Canada and Mexico for providing the broadest electronics selection for same-day shipping. Customers do business with Newark through multiple sales channels: contact centers, a local branch network, field sales force and websites at http://www.newark.com and http://www.element14.com
OfferMobi Solidifies Leadership Position in Mobile Daily Deal Space with New Services and Features for Mobile Apps and Daily Deal Sites
Leading performance-based marketing mobile network builds on recent launch of customer acquisition platform for mobile daily deals
NEW YORK, Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- OfferMobi, the first US-based performance marketing network for mobile advertising campaigns, announced today a number of new service offerings that are now provided on the recently launched OfferMobi Daily Deal Mobile Marketing Platform.
For its clients in the social commerce, flash sale, and daily deal sectors of digital and mobile marketing, the OfferMobi Daily Deal Mobile Marketing Platform offers the following features and benefits:
-- Performance based: Daily Deal site owners, aggregators, and agencies
only pay for "actions" - not impressions or clicks.
-- Daily Deal site owners on the mobile web only pay for customer
registrations or signups.
-- Daily Deal mobile App owners only pay for downloads and installs of
their Apps on both the iOS (iPhone/iPad) and Android platforms.
-- 100% non-incentivized traffic and App downloads.
-- Local marketing capabilities: Geo-targeting, specific city/zip code
targeting.
-- Acquiring high lifetime value customers for Daily Deal companies in the
United States and globally.
OfferMobi has a network of 12,000+ Mobile publishers and App developers who run our managed performance campaigns for over 100+ brand and direct response advertisers across all mobile devices. To date, OfferMobi publishers have completed over 4.5 Million conversions for our advertisers. The Mobile Daily space is starting to heat up and will face the same challenge that these companies experienced on the Web - the challenge of inefficient customer acquisition. This is where the OfferMobi platform shines by providing high quality / high lifetime value customers for both Mobile Daily Deal sites and Apps.
Today's announcement follows the official launch of the OfferMobi Daily Deal Mobile Marketing Platform earlier this month, which debuted at The Daily Deal Media Conference in Chicago. At the event, OfferMobi co-Founder and Chairman Howie Schwartz spoke during the "Mobile Strategies" panel discussion and provided key insights to executives and decision makers from influential sectors in the Daily Deal space. Schwartz also outlined best practices on how to build high quality mobile customer acquisition for Daily Deals.
The OfferMobi team will also be in attendance at the upcoming Daily Deal Summit West to expand its footprint in this new vertical market.
"We are pleased to enter the Daily Deal industry with our new OfferMobi Daily Deal Mobile Marketing Platform," said Mark Roth, CEO of OfferMobi. "We plan to build on the recent momentum within the Mobile Daily Deal space by expanding our tried and true performance-based mobile business model to new markets, and taking our customer service to the next level."
For more information on the launch of the new OfferMobi Mobile Customer Acquisition platform for Daily Deal companies please visit http://www.offermobi.com/deals.
About OfferMobi:
OfferMobi is the first USA-based mobile affiliate network. Launched in early 2010, OfferMobi has amassed a loyal following of over 12,000 mobile publishers who are seeking performance based commissions from mobile ad campaigns they can run on their mobile sites and iOS and Android Apps. OfferMobi acts as both an agency and a performance based network for advertisers who wish to promote their mobile enabled website, App, or click to call/pay per call campaign. OfferMobi works with mobile publishers who own leading mobile destinations, popular App owners and other mobile ad networks to increase the revenue they earn from their mobile ad inventories on a performance basis. For more information, visit http://www.offermobi.com.
Media Contact:Matt RizzettaNorth 6th Agency212-334-9753mrizzetta@n6a.com
Small Businesses Can Have Their Wireless Numbers Listed in Verizon's Local Business Pages Directories and Included in 411 Directory Assistance
Listing Wireless Numbers in Verizon Directories and Nationwide 411 Enables Businesses to Target Their Local Markets and Sales
NEW YORK, Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Search is king for small businesses, and one of the most cost-effective options is a local business pages telephone directory listing to target local and regional markets. Businesses that use a wireless phone for business or want to publicize the mobile numbers of their service and sales representatives can now get their numbers listed in Verizon's local business white pages directories and included in national 411 directory assistance. The wireless numbers can be from any mobile provider, not just Verizon Wireless.
"Even in today's online world, consumers still often rely on business directories to search for service providers and stores," said Dave Lobo, manager of Verizon LiveSource Group product marketing and development. "We know that many small businesses need to stay in immediate contact with their customers, and they choose to use a wireless phone number to do this. In the hypercompetitive environment of today, businesses need to tap into any and all available resources at their disposal to build awareness, generate leads, increase sales and keep customers happy. With our 411 business listings, wireless phone numbers used by businesses are listed in our national database and the local directories of the businesses' choice, bringing them additional exposure and increasing their accessibility."
Setting up a new listing in a Verizon directory can be done in easy steps at https://www22.verizon.com/multimedia/listings. The price of a listing varies by state and can range from $1.15 to slightly under $5 per month, making the listing a highly cost-effective way for a small business to be found by local consumers.
Verizon's business directory listings are available in 12 states (California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas and Vermont) and the District of Columbia. For more information on Verizon small business services and search, go to http://www.verizon.com/smallbusiness.
For tips to capture sales with local online marketing for small businesses click here (http://cot.ag/rePpli) to read a guest post on the Verizon Small Biz Blog from one of the Verizon Author Series' featured author.
In addition to Internet, TV and phone service, Verizon also offers small businesses many cloud-based, or online, services such as encryption and security solutions, plus an easy do-it-yourself website design application, and additional discounts on supplies and shipping. Visit the Verizon Small Business Center at http://business.verizon.netfor more information.
More information on Verizon's products and services for small businesses is also available by calling 888-481-0387 or visiting http://www.verizon.com/smallbusiness.
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, NASDAQ:VZ), headquartered in New York, is a global leader in delivering broadband and other wireless and wireline communications services to consumer, business, government and wholesale customers. Verizon Wireless operates America's most reliable wireless network, with more than 106 million total connections nationwide. Verizon also provides converged communications, information and entertainment services over America's most advanced fiber-optic network, and delivers integrated business solutions to customers in more than 150 countries, including all of the Fortune 500. A Dow 30 company, Verizon employs a diverse workforce of nearly 196,000 and last year generated consolidated revenues of $106.6 billion. For more information, visit http://www.verizon.com.
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HAMBURG, Germany, September 22, 2011/PRNewswire/ --
- Transition from beta phase to live version
- Over three-million users registered already
- New trailer published
Skyrama ( http://www.skyrama.com) leaves its beta phase behind: More
than three-million registered users will move onto the live version. Now the
latest addition to the Bigpoint ( http://www.bigpoint.com) casual games
arsenal will include new expansions and special features. Get a taste of
things to come in Skyrama and feast your eyes on the new official trailer at http://www.youtube.com/bigpoint!
Skyrama lets players manage their own airport, prepare airplanes and
take care of travelers. Airport managers can now look forward to exciting
new additions to their virtual airports, such as Ramacopters and a new map
that will allow them to send their planes across the ocean to the Americas.
Now users will not only be able to see which of their friends are currently
online, but they'll also be able to try out all the new decoration items to
give their airport a more personal touch.
"We never expected to see over three-million registered users in the
start phase of Skyrama," says Tobias Reisberger, Chief Games Officer at
Bigpoint. "This clearly shows us that an online airport is just what many
casual gamers were looking for."
4G LTE Novatel Wireless U679 Turbo Stick Launches Today with Bell
Industry's most compact LTE USB modem brings speeds as fast as 75 Megabits per second today and as fast as 100 Megabits per second in the future
SAN DIEGO and MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Novatel Wireless, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVTL), a provider of wireless broadband access solutions, and Bell today announced the launch of the 4G LTE Novatel Wireless U679 Turbo Stick (also known as the Ovation(TM) MC 679 USB modem) on Bell Mobility's new 4G LTE network. The 4G LTE Novatel Wireless U679 offers Bell Mobility customers in LTE coverage areas mobile Internet download speeds as fast as 75 Megabits per second (Mbps) with typical speeds ranging between 12 and 25 Mbps and up to 100 Mbps as the platform evolves.
"The desire to leverage the latest 4G LTE speeds on-the-go is a palpable and growing trend in many markets today," said Rob Hadley, CMO, Novatel Wireless. "We are proud to launch on Bell's new 4G LTE network our cutting edge 4G LTE Novatel Wireless U679 Turbo Stick and believe Bell Mobility customers will applaud its speed, compact design and ease-of-use."
The 4G LTE Novatel Wireless U679 - the slimmest and most compact 4G LTE USB modem on the market today - comes equipped with an internal MIMO receive antenna, for optimal performance when users need it most and is backwards compatible to both Dual Carrier HSPA+ networks offering speeds up to 42 Mbps (typical between 7 and 14 Mbps) or HSPA+ offering speeds up to 21 Mbps (typical between 3.5 and 8 Mbps).
Bell's 4G LTE network is the first and only Canadian LTE network to offer customers Dual Carrier 42 Mbps speeds when outside of LTE coverage areas.
"Launching our new 4G LTE network in some of Canada's most populous areas including the Waterloo region innovation hub and the country's largest wireless market in the Toronto area, demonstrates Bell's commitment to the continued growth of the country's wireless ecosystem," said Adel Bazerghi, Senior Vice President of Products at Bell Mobility. "With award-winning innovation, proven performance and reliability associated with the Novatel Wireless design, we're excited to introduce our customers to the 4G LTE Novatel Wireless U679 - delivering 4G LTE speeds in a small and efficient form factor."
Compatible with both Windows® and Mac® operating systems, the easy to use plug-and-play 4G LTE Novatel Wireless U679 Turbo Stick is available at Bell stores and online for $59.95 on a three year term or for $199.95 with no term.
Please visit Bell.ca/LTE for more details or to purchase the device.
About Novatel Wireless
Novatel Wireless, Inc. is a leader in the design and development of intelligent wireless solutions based on 2G, 3G and 4G technologies providing wireless connectivity. The company delivers specialized wireless solutions to carriers, distributors, retailers, OEMs and vertical markets worldwide. Product lines include MiFi Intelligent Mobile Hotspots, Ovation USB modems, Expedite embedded modules, Enfora smart M2M modules, and Enfora integrated M2M solutions. These innovative products provide anywhere, anytime communications solutions for consumers and enterprises. Headquartered in San Diego, California, Novatel Wireless is listed on NASDAQ: NVTL. For more information please visit http://www.nvtl.com. (NVTLG)
This release may contain forward-looking statements, which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended to date. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. A number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements contained herein. These factors include risks relating to technological changes, new product introductions, continued acceptance of Novatel Wireless' products and dependence on intellectual property rights. These factors, as well as other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, are discussed in more detail in Novatel Wireless' filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (available at http://www.sec.gov) and other regulatory agencies.
(C) 2011 Novatel Wireless, Inc. All rights reserved. The Novatel Wireless name and logo, and Ovation are trademarks of Novatel Wireless, Inc. Other Company, product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.
About Bell
Bell is Canada's largest communications company, providing consumers and business with solutions to all their communications needs: Bell Mobility wireless, high-speed Bell Internet, Bell Satellite TV and Bell Fibe TV, Bell Home Phone local and long distance, and Bell Business Markets IP-broadband and information and communications technology (ICT) services. Bell Media is Canada's premier multimedia company with leading assets in television, radio and digital media, including CTV, Canada's #1 television network, and the country's most-watched specialty channels.
The Bell Mental Health Initiative is a multi-year charitable program that promotes mental health across Canada via the Bell Let's Talk anti-stigma campaign and support for community care, research and workplace best practices. To learn more, please visit http://www.bell.ca/letstalk.
AppTech CEO Provides Update Regarding Recent Developments
THE WOODLANDS, Texas, Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- AppTech Corp (Pink Sheets: APCX) CEO, Eric Ottens announced today the release of the Company's financials for the quarter ending 06-30-2011. "We were significantly delayed regarding the release of the financial statements because our previous CPA took a position with a corporation based in Colorado and we had to find a new accounting firm. We have retained the services of Ham, Langston and Brezina, LLP as our new CPAs and we look forward to working with them for our future accounting needs.
"We also wish to announce that we released two new game apps, 'Pool Shooter' and 'Shooter.' Both apps are available for download on iPhones and iPads. The apps sell for 99 cents each. The first game app that we released in July 2011, 'Dice Shooter,' is receiving very favorable reviews on the App Store, garnering an average of four out of five stars. We will shortly release the Pro version of Dice Shooter for 99 cents. It is a fun game and we encourage our supporters to download Dice Shooter and all of our game apps."
Forward-Looking Statements:
This 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 such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. "Forward-looking statements" describe future expectations, plans, results, or strategies and are generally preceded by words such as "may," "future," "plan" or "planned," "will" or "should," "expected," "anticipates," "draft," "eventually" or "projected." You are cautioned that such statements are subject to a multitude of risks and uncertainties that could cause future circumstances, events, or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements, including the risks that actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, and other risks identified in a company's annual report.
Fitness You Can Count On - Fleetly Launches The First App That Evaluates Your Fitness Level
Amateur triathlete creates app that lets you compare, share and compete with friends - no matter the activity - making fitness more social
NEW YORK and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Fleetly today announces the launch of a new fitness app that analyzes your goals, body, and workout history, along with the combined results of all users, to benchmark your changing Fitness Level - all while challenging you to compete for bragging rights on leaderboards. Whatever your Fitness Level or goal, Fleetly monitors your progress, plateaus and your training log - from time exercised, to weight lifted, to distance run - to provide recommendations that continually change based on your progress. The app is available today for free on the web at http://www.fleetly.com and for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch at fleetly.com/ios.
"I'm delighted to introduce Fleetly, the first app that lets you check in on your fitness and evaluate your overall Fitness Level, based on all the exercise that you do, from weight training to long distance running," said Fleetly founder Geoff Pitfield. "It helps athletes of all levels celebrate their fitness achievements in a fun, social and aspirational way."
As an amateur triathlete, Geoff was inspired to create Fleetly during his initial training. He wanted to track his progress, but nothing existed that supported the variety of activities he was doing. Like so many athletes, Geoff wanted a fun, easy way to quantify the effort he was putting into his exercise, to chart his progress and to share goals and milestones with his social network. "Along with my athletic goals," Geoff recalls, "I started chasing a product idea: could I create something fun that tracked and quantified all types of exercise?"
Meet Fleetly
Fleetly helps you set fitness goals and monitor how your personal fitness changes, based on the exercises you do. More than simply tracking your exercises, Fleetly provides an ongoing numerical rating of your current Fitness Level, which you can compare with those of friends and other active people. But Fleetly isn't all workout no play: by rewarding your efforts through peer-group recognition and keeping you motivated with challenges, leaderboards and medals, Fleetly makes fitness more social and fun.
With more than 200 HD instructional videos and more than 260 exercise instructions, Fleetly lets you find and create exercises and workouts to help you reach your goal - whether it's sport-specific, or targeted towards a particular fitness objective. From aerobics to yoga, Fleetly lets anybody, at any level, monitor and manage their fitness based on a varied range of exercises. The app is compatible with Nike+ and the Withings WiFi Body Scale.
About Fleetly
Fleetly is the creator of the first fitness app that calculates your Fitness Level based on your exercises and your body type. Fleetly founder Geoff Pitfield is an amateur triathlete who used multiple fitness tools to track and measure his training progress. When no app or device could cover a wide enough range of exercises, he created one himself.
Fleetly is a private company headquartered in Vancouver, with an office in New York.
Media Contact for Fleetly:
Mark de la Vina
Consort Partners
fleetly@consortpartners.com
Tel: +1 415 282 4795
Teradata Database: the Smartest Database for the Smartest Analytics
Innovations lead market with enhanced workload management, optimized multi-temperature data, temporal capability, security, and application portability
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the leading analytic data solutions company, today announced Teradata Database 14 a breakthrough database that makes an organization's analytics environment faster, smarter, and far more intuitive. The Teradata Database is designed to untangle complexities IT confronts in this era of big data, expanding application portfolios, security pressures, and ballooning workloads.
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With the enhancements and additions to the Teradata Database, enterprises will be able to deploy their data warehouses more quickly and deliver faster time to business value for users analytics users. They will have new power to turn complex data into dynamic solutions, calibrating it for peak performance.Also, by improving the innate intelligence built into the database, Teradata makes data warehouse operations far simpler, reducing the hands-on labor required to achieve unprecedented levels of performance.
"Teradata Database is the industry's most intelligent, high-performance database for analytics. Period," said Scott Gnau, president Teradata Labs, Teradata Corporation. "It has deep intelligence that can automate time-consuming functions across a range of tasks -- from workload management and compression decisions to virtual partition and temporal conditions. This dramatically improves the data warehouse's overall performance and manageability. Teradata has always been second to none in terms of speed and ease of use - with Teradata Database 14, we extend that leadership."
A Smarter Database for the Smartest Analytics
Running an integrated data warehouse for business intelligence takes "intelligence." In addition to the savvy business analysts and IT staff working with the system, the database itself needs intelligent automation built into its workload management, security, data migration, compression, and temporal capabilities. The Teradata Database enhances existing capabilities and adds completely new features in all of these areas.
"While most of the attention, naturally, gets focused on a new database's raw performance improvements, more often than not it's the improvements to a system's overall performance and manageability that makes the information technology world better on a daily basis," said Neil Raden, vice president and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research. "What matters most is that the database continuously achieves its objectives. Teradata continues to lead in both manageability and informing and activating business decisions."
Each new feature and enhancement in the Teradata Database have been customer-driven, each designed to support business users who are creating new value or "data equity" for their organizations with data analytics. The enhancements reflect real-world needs and priorities found in advanced analytics environments.
Workload management -
Teradata's industry-leading workload management now includes virtual partitions that allocate the system resources between groups or business units within a company. Once user priorities have been set, the Teradata Database applies "deterministic prioritization" to dynamically manage resources across the system to assure that workloads are supported appropriately. That is, low priority requests can have assigned resources diminished, while more resources can be given to address a spike in higher priority user demands. This ensures that business units with high priority projects are allocated high priority system resources (including CPUs and I/O) that they need, meeting service level agreements or business objectives.
Teradata's workload management supports companies as they strive to leverage exploding data volumes - from massive volumes of traditional data, and emerging big data generated by social media, web interactions, e-commerce, sensors, machines, and mobile devices. The Teradata Database is able to respond to new requirements to exploit diverse types of data with real-time analytics.
For example, the Teradata Database uses Virtual Partitions to divide available system resources into partitions or compartments to meet the workload needs of an application or group. This can be used, for example, to mirror a charge-back allocation of data warehouse investment, where marketing may fund and, therefore, be allocated 35 percent of the system, manufacturing may be allocated 25 percent, finance may be allocated 30 percent, and other departments may be allocated the remaining 10 percent.
But even more granular workload management can be applied to the system. In our example, marketing could define their priorities and the system administrators could define a workload management scheme to control marketing's allocation of the system to ensure that website customization gets top priority and runs as a tactical workload to ensure service level agreement attainment. In contrast, segmentation analysis receives fewer resources because it has a lower priority, in line with less stringent performance requirements. At the same time, finance can define a very different workload management scheme based on a combination of applications and the calendar, so that month-end and quarter-end closing of financial reports have top priority when needed.
Compress on Cold - The Teradata Database has enhanced the use of hybrid storage to achieve more intelligent multi-temperature data management where the "hot" data is the most frequently used and "cold" data is least used. It is the industry's only intelligent virtual storage solution that automatically migrates and compresses, or decompresses, data between drive types to achieve optimum performance and storage utilization. This keeps data from turning into dead data.
Teradata Database 14 intelligently manages data to maximize performance while optimizing the return on system resources. It automatically compresses the coldest or the least frequently used data on the system to save disk storage space. Keeping data in its natural decompressed format when it is frequently used maximizes performance by avoiding repeated decompression processing. Automatically compressing the data when it is less frequently used enables the storage of the most data at the most effective costs. No staff intervention is required with Teradata's automated self-managing design.
With big data becoming pervasive, there's a critical need for a database to be smart enough to dynamically judge how "hot" or "cold" data is for an organization. The hotter, more popular, data need to be located on the fastest storage devices while less active, cooler data can be pushed onto slower media. Cold data is compressed up to five times to keep storage costs to a minimum. With the Teradata Database, Teradata Virtual Storage increases intelligent management of data by automatically decompressing and relocating once cold data onto faster storage systems as demand for the data heats up. For example, the Teradata Database will recognize when monthly year-over-year data should be cycled in or out of archival media as needed and without laborious database administration intervention.
Enhanced temporal capability - Teradata continues to extend and enhance its time-aware, temporal capability that empowers customers to capture and track changes in the history of evolving business data. Teradata's database creates a full picture of an organization's business at any point in time -- and now, from any point on the globe.
Teradata Database temporal feature now has the flexibility to take advantage of the unique variations in global business calendars. For example, applications using time-specific data analyzed on a weekly basis, such as salary or inventory information, can automatically account for business calendars that begin a work week on Sunday in one part of the world with equivalent data from other parts of the globe where the work week starts on Monday.
Security - Security has been bolstered with new Teradata Row Level Security, permitting only those with proper authorization to access information at granular levels. For example, regional sales managers may be given access to other regions' aggregate sales figures, while withholding individual sales staff bookings and compensation. Concurrently, human resources or sales administrators could see only a ranking of individual sales staff for incentive programs, but not given any access to aggregate or regional data. The level of security can be as deep and as layered as necessary.
Application migration - application portability and data migration
Teradata has expanded its ability to easily migrate applications and data from other less performant platforms, and seamlessly manage emerging "big data" problems. Some of the capabilities include:
Teradata Database 14 additions - New features in the Teradata Database make it even easier to migrate data and associated applications from competitive databases. Teradata 14 has added several new functions and data types that ease migrations from OLTP databases, including:
-- Regular Expression Functions - eliminate the complex programming
necessary to interpret web logs and other text strings in structured
query language (SQL).
-- Date Functions - offer a shortcut that reduces programming time by
converting and manipulating information related to date and time, which
may be stored in numerous formats, into a consistent format, and
validates the data.
-- New data types (ARRAY and NUMBER data types) - Teradata is now able to
migrate, store and analyze data in additional data types or formats not
previously used by the Teradata database, without converting it. This
simplifies and speeds the migration.
Teradata Database 14 will be available in December 2011, and the beta version is now available. Teradata Database is the high performing analytical engine that powers all of the company's purpose-built platform family. This includes: Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse, the Data Warehouse Appliance, Extreme Performance Appliance, Extreme Data Appliance, and the Data Mart Appliance. In addition to the five members of the Teradata Purpose-Built Platform family, Teradata Database 14 is also available as the software only Data Mart Edition and Teradata Express for cloud computing solutions
Teradata (NYSE: TDC) is the world's leading analytic data solutions company focused on integrated data warehousing, big data analytics, and business applications. Teradata's innovative products and services empower organizations to integrate, analyze and profit from data for competitive advantage. Visit teradata.com for details.
M5 Networks Partners With Sendouts to Integrate M5 Connect(TM) by Sendouts Recruiting Software
Seamless Phone Integration for Improved Productivity and Transparency
LAS VEGAS, Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --M5 Networks, the market leader in managed, business phone solutions and Sendouts, the leading, single source provider of online recruiting software, today jointly announced the integration of M5's award winning M5 Connect CTI (Computer Telephony API) with Sendouts. M5 Connect by Sendouts seamlessly joins recruiting software and the business phone for the best possible information management and efficiency. Integrated telephony features, once only available in the call center, are now accessible to all Sendouts users. The combined solution gives management a never before available view of critical business metrics.
Sendouts web-based recruiting software helps recruiters streamline their recruiting process, increase productivity, and make more placements. The announcement was made at the 2011 National Association of Professional Services (NAPS) annual conference. M5 can be found in booth #30, while Sendouts is located in booth #6.
With M5 Connect by Sendouts, users can click-to-dial to start a call from within Sendouts recruiting software anytime a phone number is available. Note taking is automated and real time analytics are available to help measure placement, sales and customer service success.
"Sendouts helps increase productivity by putting tools right at the recruiter's fingertips," said Brent Barbara, M5's Vice President of Innovation and Integration. "M5 Connect adds perhaps the most important recruiting tool, the telephone, to the Sendouts toolbox."
"Adoption of a business system like Sendouts, depends on providing tools of value to the users," says Brian Hopcraft, President & CEO of Sendouts. "By automating call record entry and making notation an intuitive part of placing a phone call, we've simplified the job of the recruiter, while at the same time, greatly improved the system's ability to provide management a window into the activities that drive the business."
Customers immediately recognize the benefit of this integrated approach to recruiting. "Eliminating the gap between the telephone and our applicant tracking system, M5 Connect by Sendouts, makes it possible to improve the system's data and analytics, while simultaneously satisfying our recruiters need for speed and ease of use," said Jamie Schwartz, President & Chief Operating Officer of the Haley Stuart Group of companies. Haley Stuart Group provides specialized executive search and professional staffing services for select functional disciplines, markets and industries.
M5 Connect by Sendouts is an example of how leveraging a unified-desk setting, can greatly increase transparency and efficiency to drive better placements and increase sales.
Sendouts is the leading, single source provider of recruiting software for third party staffing and recruiting firms. Sendouts web-based recruiting software enables recruiting firms to streamline their recruiting process, increase productivity, and make more placements. Additionally Sendouts provides unparalleled training and support and is backed by an industry leading 98% customer satisfaction rate. Sendouts clients on average achieve an internal growth rate of 48% and increase job order fill rates by over 20%. Sendouts helps more than 1,000 firms automate and manage the entire recruiting process, from sales to final placement. For more information, visit http://www.sendouts.com or call 877-309-5222.
About M5 Networks
M5 Networks, the market leader in business phone systems, is redefining what a business phone system can do by offering a wide range of solutions for all types of businesses and needs. From managing a sales force to a call center, M5 Networks' client-focused, cloud-based solutions allow businesses to work the way they want to, while connecting them to their customers and integrating their business-critical applications. Headquartered in New York City, industry-award winning M5 Networks pioneered hosted VoIP in 2000 and today provides more than 1,800 companies with enterprise-class phone systems. For more information, please visit http://www.m5.net.
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Mediasite Brings Rocky Mountain State of the Industry Event to an Online Audience
Joint educational program between RMPCMA and MPIRMC to be offered via webcast
MADISON, Wis., Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sonic Foundry, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFO), the recognized market leader for rich media webcasting, lecture capture and knowledge management, today announced that the Rocky Mountain Professional Convention Management Association (RMPCMA) and Meeting Professionals International Rocky Mountain Chapter (MPIRMC) will use Mediasite by Sonic Foundry to webcast the inaugural State of the Industry program.
This is the first time that MPI and PCMA chapters have joined forces for educational purposes. The event was born out of the idea that different organizations with similar goals can benefit by bringing groups together to share ideas and network.
"For the five years that I've been a member of RMPCMA we've been concerned that not everyone can attend our regular education programs. We've been looking at using Mediasite to see if anyone outside the greater Denver area would dial in. We're finally there. We have the material. We have the online attendance. We're hoping to double our attendance and give members in other states the opportunity to see what's happening at the hub," said Scott Collinsworth, 2011 president of RMPCMA and director of audiovisual sales at Image Audiovisual.
Presenters include Bruce MacMillan, president and CEO of Meeting Professionals International, and Deborah Sexton, president and CEO of the Professional Convention Management Association. They will share their understanding of the state of the meetings industry and how challenges are being met; discuss trends and best practices that are moving the meetings industry forward; and address how certifications impact the meetings industry and credibility as well as future meeting trends.
The live webcast will be available to the public today 12:20 p.m. Mountain, at http://sofo.com/40a04.
Image Audiovisual a Denver, Colorado-based full-service audio-visual services company, is donating their Mediasite Recorder to webcast the conference. Mediasite by Sonic Foundry is a leading webcasting platform for hybrid events and virtual conferences. Mediasite quickly and cost-effectively automates the capture, management and delivery of rich media presentations that combine video and accompanying graphics for live or on-demand viewing.
About Sonic Foundry®, Inc.
Sonic Foundry (NASDAQ: SOFO, http://www.sonicfoundry.com) is the global leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge management, providing enterprise communication solutions for education, business and government. Powered by Mediasite, the patented webcasting platform which automates the capture, management, delivery and search of lectures, online training and briefings, Sonic Foundry empowers people to transform the way they communicate. Through the Mediasite platform and its Event Services group, the company helps customers connect a dynamic, evolving world of shared knowledge and envisions a future where learners and workers around the globe use webcasting to bridge time and distance, accelerate research and improve performance. Product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of Sonic Foundry, Inc. or their respective owners.
Certain statements contained in this news release regarding matters that are not historical facts may be forward-looking statements. Because such forward-looking statements include risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed in or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include, but are not limited to, uncertainties pertaining to continued market acceptance for Sonic Foundry's products, its ability to succeed in capturing significant revenues from media services and/or systems, the effect of new competitors in its market, integration of acquired business and other risk factors identified from time to time in its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Thrane & Thrane Signs up as Inmarsat Global Xpress(TM) Launch Manufacturer
LONDON, September 22, 2011/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
New Inmarsat service to launch with leading FleetBroadband terminal
manufacturer on board
An agreement signed today September 22nd positions Thrane & Thrane, the
leading Inmarsat FleetBroadband terminal developer, as a key launch
manufacturer for the forthcoming Inmarsat Global Xpress service. With Thrane
& Thrane on board, Inmarsat Global Xpress expects to go live in 2013 with
brand-new SAILOR terminals designed specifically for use with this
revolutionary new maritime Ka-band service.
"We are delighted to have reached this agreement with Thrane & Thrane as
it means our maritime customers will have a wider choice of terminals for
our super-fast broadband network," comments Frank Coles, Senior Director -
Maritime, Global Xpress. "SAILOR terminals have proven the most popular for
all recent Inmarsat maritime services and this makes us confident that
Thrane & Thrane's partnership will be a very positive asset as we gear up
for the launch of Global Xpress."
The introduction of state-of-the-art Global Xpress terminals will expand
an already diverse portfolio. Thrane & Thrane has shipped more than 20,000
SAILOR FleetBroadband terminals since the launch of Inmarsat's current
flagship service in November 2007, and late September 2011 the company
expects to announce the commercial availability of its new SAILOR 900 VSAT
antenna.
As a Global Xpress launch manufacturer, Thrane & Thrane is uniquely
positioned to offer high quality L-band/Ka-band combination packages in line
with Inmarsat's expectations, as well as provide Global Xpress terminals to
shipping companies and offshore operators that already understand and
recognise the SAILOR design and build quality.
"The higher data speeds and compact terminals mark Global Xpress as an
important development in the world of maritime communications," says Casper
Jensen, VP, Maritime Business Unit, Thrane & Thrane. "We are keen to use the
knowledge and experience we have acquired as a long-standing Inmarsat
manufacturer to ensure the new SAILOR terminals capture the promised speed,
reliability and flexibility of the forthcoming new service."
About Thrane & Thrane
Thrane & Thrane is the world's leading manufacturer of equipment and
systems for global mobile radio and satellite communication. Since its
incorporation in 1981, the company has established a strong position within
global mobile communication solutions based on the Inmarsat system and
today, Thrane & Thrane provides equipment for use on land, at sea and in the
air. The company's communication products are sold throughout the world
under the brands Thrane & Thrane, EXPLORER(R) SAILOR(R) and AVIATOR through
distributors and partners. Thrane & Thrane is listed on NASDAQ OMX
Copenhagen (symbol: THRAN). http://www.thrane.com.
About Inmarsat
Inmarsat plc (LSE: ISAT) is the leading provider of global mobile
satellite communications services. Since 1979, Inmarsat has been providing
reliable voice and high-speed data communications to governments,
enterprises and other organizations, with a range of services that can be
used on land, at sea or in the air. The company's services are delivered
through a global network of more than 400 distribution partners and service
providers operating in 100 countries. For the year ended 31 December 2010,
Inmarsat plc had total revenue of US$1,171.6 million (2009: US$1,038.1
million) with an EBITDA of US$696.1 million (2009: US$594.2 million). For
more information, please visit http://www.inmarsat.com.
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online press office at http://www.saltwaterpr.com
Outdoor Channel Programming Now Available On Verizon Video
Verizon Wireless Customers Get Action-Packed Programming from AMERICA'S LEADER IN OUTDOOR TV
BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and TEMECULA, Calif.,Sept. 22, 2011/PRNewswire/ -- Outdoor Channel, America's Leader in Outdoor TV, today announced that select programming from the network is now available on Verizon Video from Verizon Wireless. Verizon Wireless customers can view video of Outdoor Channel's greatest hunting, fishing and other outdoor adventures while on the go.
Season after season, Outdoor Channel airs action-packed shows that capture the excitement of the great outdoors by taking viewers on the best adventures to the most incredible destinations through the eyes of esteemed talent and renowned celebrities. Full episodes from the following series are available on Verizon Video: "Hunt Masters," "Jim Shockey's Hunting Adventures," "Jim Zumbo Outdoors," "Primos TRUTH About Hunting," "Shooting Gallery," "Shooting USA," "The Crush with Lee & Tiffany" and "Ultimate Match Fishing: All-Stars."
"As the leader in the outdoor entertainment space, Outdoor Channel continues to identify growth opportunities to share the great outdoors with a broader audience across the variety of platforms available through our distribution partners," said Tom Hornish, Chief Operating Officer, Outdoor Channel. "Our popular content is already available through top cable, satellite and telco providers, and we're thrilled to expand our offerings with Verizon Video, allowing Verizon Wireless subscribers to further enjoy the great outdoors on their mobile devices."
"Wireless technology continues to become more integrated into our daily lives and avid Outdoor Channel fans expect to replicate their home viewing experience on the go," said Randy Brown, Executive Vice President, Affiliate Sales & Marketing, Outdoor Channel. "We are excited to expand our existing Verizon relationship to provide our content to viewers exactly when they want it."
Verizon Video offers Verizon Wireless customers access to current TV episodes, live streaming of major sporting and news events, and a high-quality video experience, powered by the nation's largest 4G LTE network and largest, most reliable 3G network.
Verizon Video is now available to download from Android Market(TM) on select 4G LTE and 3G smartphones as well as under the V CAST Video brand on additional handsets. Verizon Video requires a $10 monthly subscription or customers can try the app for a 24-hour period for $3. A data package is required, and the download and use of Verizon Video incurs data usage and will be billed according to the customer's data package. For more information about Verizon Video, go to http://www.verizonwireless.com/video.
About Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless operates the nation's largest 4G LTE network and largest, most reliable 3G network. The company serves 106.3 million total wireless connections, including 89.7 million retail customers. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with 83,000 employees nationwide, Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE, NASDAQ: VZ) and Vodafone (LSE, NASDAQ: VOD). For more information, visit http://www.verizonwireless.com. To preview and request broadcast-quality video footage and high-resolution stills of Verizon Wireless operations, log on to the Verizon Wireless Multimedia Library at http://www.verizonwireless.com/multimedia.
About Outdoor Channel Holdings, Inc.
Outdoor Channel Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: OUTD) owns and operates Outdoor Channel, America's Leader In Outdoor TV, and Winnercomm Inc., an Emmy Award winning production and interactive company. Outdoor Channel offers programming that captures the excitement of hunting, fishing, shooting, off-road motorsports, adventure and the Western lifestyle and can be viewed on multiple platforms including high definition, video-on-demand, as well as on a dynamic broadband website. Winnercomm Inc. is one of America's leading and highest quality producers of live sporting events and sports series for cable and broadcast television. Outdoor Channel Holdings, Inc. also owns and operates the SkyCam and CableCam aerial camera systems which provide dramatic overhead camera angles for major sports events, including college and NFL football. For more information, please visit http://www.outdoorchannel.com.
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CONTACT: Debra Lewis of Verizon Wireless, +1-908-559-7512, Debra.Lewis@verizonwireless.com; or Tom Hornish of Outdoor Channel, +1-951-699-6991, ext. 104, thornish@outdoorchannel.com; or Nancy Zakhary of Brainerd Communicators, Inc., for Outdoor Channel, +1-212-986-6667, nancy@braincomm.com
Voip-Pal.Com Inc. Announces Free Trial on Its PointsPhone.Com Website
Smartphone mobile Apps are currently being re-deployed on iPhone and Android App Stores
BELLEVUE, Wash., Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Voip-Pal.Com Inc. ("Voip-Pal") (OTC Pink Sheets: VPLM) is pleased to announce that it will continue Free Trial services on its retail website http://www.pointsphone.com.
As Voip-Pal redesigns and incorporates its retail website, http://www.pointsphone.com, on its new North American Cloud Server and pending integration of the new PointsPhone Mobile(TM) Apps for smartphones such iPhone and Android, Voip-Pal has been offering Free Trial on its services for new users.
"We have been offering a Free Trial on our VoIP services for about a week and the response has been very positive," states Dennis Chang, President of Voip-Pal. "New users will be able to experience the quality and ease of our services now without making any initial monetary commitment. We are looking forward to converting the people who have taken advantage of our Free Trial to full time users of our services."
"The process is extremely simple. Once a new user signs up and registers, they can begin making Free calls to almost anywhere in the world. They can call from a downloaded PC Dialer or call from their cell phone or land line. They can select a local Access Number and create multiple contact numbers to call. Once registered, calls are automatically authenticated and routed. A smartphone is not necessary for the use of Access Numbers - you can use any cell phone. When we have completed our re-deployment of our PointsPhone Mobile (TM) Apps from App Stores to our new Cloud Server, smartphone users can begin using our unique Apps to make calls without using Access Numbers."
To start your Free Trial now, click on the following link and Sign Up Now!:
Voip-Pal.Com Inc. is a broadband VoIP telecom company offering local and long distance VoIP services to consumers and business owners. The company offers turnkey VoIP communication and reseller solutions for its partners. Voip-Pal.Com Inc. is also a provider of international calls using VoIP technology on the internet, smart cell phones and PC Tablets. Voip-Pal's goal is to provide a quality, high-speed and cost-effective telephone solution for the casual and business international traveler who must rely on their smartphones, laptops or tablets in order to communicate.
All statements contained in this news release, other than those identifying historical facts, constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Safe Harbor provisions as contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements relating to the Company's future expectations, including but not limited to revenues and earnings, technology efficacy, strategies and plans, are subject to safe harbors protection. Actual Company results and performance may be materially different from any future results, performance, strategies, plans, or achievements that may be expressed or implied by any such forward-looking statements. The Company disclaims any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements.
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Expedia.com Gives Away 15 Million Expedia Rewards Points to Celebrate 15-Year Anniversary
Expedia Launches "Search for the Million Point Suitcases" Facebook Scavenger Hunt; Suitcases Packed with Rewards Points and Travel Goodies: Video Cameras, Travel Journals and More
BELLEVUE, Wash., Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Expedia.com®, the world's leading online travel agency, today launched a landmark sale to commemorate the company's 15th anniversary. The 15th Anniversary Sale offers travelers discounts of up to 40% off on thousands of hotels worldwide. Expedia® is also thanking customers by awarding 15 winners one million Expedia Rewards(TM) points and a suitcase full of must-have travel accessories, via the "Search for the Million Point Suitcases" Scavenger Hunt on Facebook.
Scavenger Hunt participants will be presented with a series of clues about the location of "Expedia suitcases" hidden somewhere in the Facebook Marketplace. The Facebook Marketplace is a classified-listings forum where Facebook users buy and sell goods and services, and bestow gifts on one another. The winning participants will receive one million Expedia Rewards points to use on a dream vacation, as well as a one-of-a-kind, refurbished vintage suitcase filled with items to make travel more enjoyable, such as a video camera, travel pillow and headphones.
To be eligible, participants simply need to become a fan of Expedia on Facebook and visit the company's 15th Anniversary sweepstakes page where travelers can review contest details and prizes, and examine the clues, and then click over to the Facebook Marketplace to begin hunting.
To benefit from Expedia's 15th Anniversary Sale discounts on thousands of hotels, travelers need to book between September 22, 2011 and October 17, 2011 with travel to take place between September 22, 2011 and December 31, 2011. For more information on the Expedia 15th Anniversary Sale and its terms and conditions please visit http://www.expedia.com/anniversarysale.
"Expedia helped invent online travel when we began in 1996, and traveler enthusiasm for our services has propelled us to a position of global leadership," said Joe Megibow, vice president and general manager, Expedia.com. "So with this sale and this Facebook contest, we are saying thank you to our customers for their loyalty and partnership. It has been an amazing run for Expedia and we believe the best memories are yet to come."
One million Expedia Rewards points can be put towards high-end vacations anywhere in the world. Examples include:
-- An extravagant two week stay in a 5-star Paris hotel;
-- Six individual weekend getaways to New York City, flying business class
and staying in a 5-star hotel; and
-- Luxury family vacation in a 4-star resort and spa and first class round
trip flights to San Diego.
Expedia Rewards points can be redeemed on flights on more than 140 airlines and stays at more than 70,000 hotels, with the option of mixing and matching airlines and choosing between a wide range of national brands and independent hotels. The Expedia Rewards program launched in March of 2011 and is a first-of-its-kind program that allows members to earn points on the hotels, flights, packages and activities they book on Expedia.com. To learn more about Expedia Rewards please visit http://www.expedia.com/Rewards.
About Expedia.com
Expedia.com is the world's leading online travel site, helping millions of travelers per month easily plan and book travel. Expedia.com (http://www.expedia.com/, 1-800-EXPEDIA) aims to provide the latest technology and the widest selection of vacation packages, flights, hotels, rental cars, cruises and in-destination activities, attractions, and services. With the Expedia Best Price Guarantee, Expedia.com customers can get the best rates available online for all types of travel.
CONTACT: Adam Anderson of Expedia.com, +1-425-679-7760, adaanderson@expedia.com; or Devon Nagle of HL Group, +1-646-460-8911, dnagle@hlgrp.com, for Expedia.com
MyGoFlight Introduces the First Flight Bags Designed for the "Paperless" Cockpit - The Flight Bag PLC(TM) Series
DENVER, Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- MyGoFlight, a company focused on the iPad In Motion(TM) for aviators, introduced the Flight Bag PLC(TM) series of flight bags, designed from the ground up for the "paperless" cockpit (PLC). This augments a product line that already includes kneeboards, cases, mounts and accessories for the iPad in-flight.
"The paperless cockpit is gaining tremendous momentum as pilots in general, commercial and military aviation move to using iPads as EFB devices with airlines such as United and Alaska, which announced that their pilots will start to use iPads in-flight," said Charles Schneider, CEO of MyGoFlight. "However, the flight bags pilots carry weren't designed for the paperless cockpit. The Flight Bag PLC series of bags are the only flight bags containing a protective pouch for the iPad or similar tablet or laptop computer. They will hold all contents that conventional flight bags would carry (except the binders of paper), but more accessibly."
The three bags in the series -- the Flight Bag PLC Pro, Slim, and the Slim EX -- were all designed by pilots for pilots. They are designed to be durable, highly functional and very cool.
The Flight Bag PLC Pro is for the pilot who wants to move from a conventional flight bag to one for the "paperless" cockpit. The Flight Bag PLC Pro has a specially designed, airport-friendly protective pouch to hold an iPad, laptop computer or many other electronic flight bag devices. All of the bag's compartments are readily accessible, making it easy for pilots to find whatever they are looking for. There is room for everything a pilot needs in-flight, and the bag can also be used as an overnight bag.
The Flight Bag PLC Slim is for the pilot who is no longer carrying much paper and wants a slim, cool protective bag for their iPad or other EFB device. This is a one- pocket bag that is just an inch thick. There is also an outer pocket to hold the necessary accessories such as chargers, GPS devices, screen cleaner and the like.
The Flight Bag PLC Slim EX is similar to the Slim, but is a two-inch-thick, three-pocket bag for pilots who want to carry a bit more paper or accessories. It too has an outer pocket.
To learn more about MyGoFlight's products, visit mygoflight.com/shop-all-product. To contact MyGoFlight, send an email to info@mygoflight.com or call 303.364.7400.
About MyGoFlight
MyGoFlight provides products for the iPad In Motion(TM) for aviators. The company's goal is to help pilots be "good to go" in all phases of flight through the safe and secure use of the iPad, its flight apps, and the Internet in aviation. For more information, visit http://www.mygoflight.com.
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Disney's First Original Character for Mobile Splashes onto the App Store in 'Where's My Water?'
Developed by the team behind the top-selling JellyCar franchise, Where's My Water? follows the story of Swampy the alligator and his quest to be clean
BURBANK, Calif., Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Disney Mobile today released Where's My Water?, a fun and challenging physics-based puzzle game for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Available now on the App Store, Where's My Water? marks the debut of Disney Mobile's first original game character, Swampy, a friendly alligator on a quest to be clean.
In Where's My Water?, players guide water through subterranean layers of earth, rock, and broken pipes, and into Swampy's bathtub. The water in the game flows with life-like physics. Developed by the team behind JellyCar, the critically acclaimed squishy physics platformer, Where's My Water? features 80 levels of challenging puzzles, rich graphics, humorous effects, and a story that unfolds over time.
"Where's My Water? exemplifies Disney's approach to mobile game development, which combines a compelling story with high production value, and great gameplay," said Bart Decrem, GM of Disney Mobile. "We believe Where's My Water? is a must-have app for gamers of all ages."
Where's My Water? key features include:
-- 80 challenging levels (four chapters of 20 levels);
-- Storyline that unfolds with the gameplay;
-- Hidden "Easter eggs," bonuses and surprises that show off Swampy's
unique personality and bring the game to life!
Disney Mobile, a division of the Disney Interactive Media Group, is a leading mobile game and entertainment provider that brings the magic of Disney stories and characters, in addition to original IP, to life in new ways on mobile devices.
For more information contact: Brian NelsonDisney Interactive Media Group650-963-8051brian.nelson@disney.com
With FlyingSocial(TM), users can book travel to connect with friends around the country
SEATTLE,Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Alaska Airlines has launched a Facebook application called FlyingSocial(TM), which allows users to plan travel to visit their friends around the country. With the new app, users can view a map populated with photos of their Facebook friends located in cities Alaska Airlines flies and, with a click, can view one-way fares or mileage award levels to the closest airport near their friend's hometown. To purchase a ticket, users can simply click on 'Shop Now' and they are automatically redirected to alaskaair.com.
"Facebook is about making new connections as well as staying connected with the people you care about," said Curtis Kopf, Alaska Airlines' managing director, customer innovation & alaskaair.com. "FlyingSocial(TM) takes that a step further by making it fun and easy to visit your Facebook friends. Social media has become an integral part of many customers' lives and this tool helps them begin their travel planning directly from Facebook."
Kopf said that the airline began offering FlyingSocial(TM) on its Facebook page on August 31, and has since had more than 2,000 people access the application. To access the app, users simply visit Alaska Airlines' Facebook page.
FlyingSocial(TM) is part of the airline's ongoing effort to make travel easier and more fun using innovative technology. Earlier this year, Alaska Airlines launched a redesigned Web site to make booking travel easier, and last month rolled out a new travel app for the iPhone. The airline plans to launch an Android smartphone app later this year.
Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air, subsidiaries of Alaska Air Group (NYSE: ALK), together serve 90 cities through an expansive network in Alaska, the Lower 48, Hawaii, Canada and Mexico. Alaska Airlines ranked "Highest in Customer Satisfaction Among Traditional Network Carriers" in the J.D. Power and Associates 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 North America Airline Satisfaction Studies(SM). For reservations, visit http://www.alaskaair.com. For more news and information, visit the Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air Newsroom at http://www.alaskaair.com/newsroom.
Leading Online Patient Education Resource Extends Outreach to Include Aesthetic Physician Community
The Physician's Guide® website created to support aesthetic physician community in making informed, thorough equipment purchasing decisions.
IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The makers of the largest online network of aesthetic resources for consumers, The Patient's Guide® (http://www.patientsguide.com), announced the release of a new website, The Physician's Guide® (http://www.physicianguide.com) - an educational resource for the aesthetic physician community to coach medical professionals on the importance of investing in quality aesthetic medical equipment that deliver higher standards of patient care through safer utilization of the latest aesthetic solutions. "Despite the challenging economic times, we've seen patient demand for aesthetic procedures increase over thirty percent based on Internet search traffic," said Jasson W. Gilmore, CEO & Co-Founder of The Patient's Guide®. "The Physician's Guide provides an extensive catalog of the latest in-demand aesthetic products to guide new owners on making informed and thorough purchasing decisions that embodies the highest standard in patient care, satisfaction, research, ethics, and clinical training."
As an unbiased advocacy site promoting patient safety through better equipment, The Physician's Guide is fast becoming the most respected online resource for aesthetic device information. "There is so much marketing and hype surrounding the aesthetic laser/device industry today that it's hard for practitioners to get the straight scoop from those at the forefront of these technologies," said Eric F. Bernstein, M.D., Chairman of Board, The Patient's Guide®. "Doctors and patients alike need an unbiased source, that tells it like it is, with no marketing and no nonsense. The Physician's Guide is an extension to this mission - the no-nonsense guide to aesthetic medicine with emphasis on state-of-the-art technologies."
The Physician's Guide is a part of The Patient's Guide family of resources - the largest network of aesthetic resources online that drives in over a million visitors monthly. As more physicians are under pressure to make prudent, cost-effective equipment purchases The Physician's Guide serves to stand as the ultimate resource to support and guide new owners in aesthetic devices on making better, smarter purchasing decisions.
About The Patient's Guide®
Each month over one million visitors trust The Patient's Guide, a family of 25 niche web publications, each dedicated to a specific condition or treatment. Our visitors trust the information we provide because our information is written by the field's leading experts, with over 150 years of collective dermatology experience. And because our sites focus on their specific problem, our visitors are better able to find the answers they need.
Low-Cost Connectivity Electrifies the Smart Grid Industry
AT&T Offers Smart Meters with Pre-Paid Data Plans Directly to Utilities
DALLAS, Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- When electricity and wireless connectivity combine, utility providers can really power up their operations. Smart grids have re-energized the electric industry, spurring innovative methods for tracking energy usage, reducing costs and boosting efficiency.
To help make the future even brighter for utilities, AT&T* is providing SmartSynch's suite of smart grid products along with AT&T wireless data services on a single, affordable bill. What's more, utility companies that buy their smart meters directly from AT&T can pre-pay up to ten years of machine-to-machine (M2M) data usage on those meters.
"Prepayment of 10 years of data usage gives electricity providers assurance around their data costs," said Chris Hill, Vice President, Advanced Mobility Solutions, AT&T Business Solutions. "We're responding to the evolving needs of the utility industry by delivering a complete, affordable package of smart meters, software and cellular connectivity."
AT&T's latest smart grid offer includes:
-- Wireless Connectivity, for two-way smart grid data communication between
electric meters or routers and a utility's office
-- SmartSynch SmartMeter(TM), which monitors power usage and wirelessly
communicates day-to-day energy data as well as outage information back
to the utility company
-- SmartSynch GridRouter(TM), which acts as a hub for smart grid data,
allowing utilities to connect with any device over any network.
-- Software that gives utilities the ability to automatically monitor
millions of electric meters on a single, easy-to-use tool.
Through the combination of smart meters, wireless technology, sensors and software, utilities can closely track power grids and cut back on energy use when the availability of electricity is stretched to its limit. Consumers can also gain insight into their power consumption and, as a result, make more intelligent decisions about how they use energy.
Customers Feel the Power
AT&T and SmartSynch first announced their collaborative efforts on smart grid technology in March 2009. The two companies have successfully updated metering systems for a number of utility customers over the last few years. Building upon this relationship, SmartSynch has now licensed AT&T to sell its metering hardware and software directly to energy providers.
Texas-New Mexico Power first tried out the AT&T-SmartSynch solution soon after its launch. Since then, the Texas utility has been moving forward with replacing 240,000 electric meters with the SmartSynch SmartMeters, connected over AT&T's wireless network.
"Outdated power systems can slow down both utilities and their customers," said Neal Walker, President, Texas-New Mexico Power. "We chose to work with AT&T and SmartSynch so that we could launch a smart grid strategy quickly and cost-effectively. Instead of laying out a significant investment to build our own communication network, we've connected our smart meters to AT&T's highly secure and reliable wireless network."
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
About AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is a premier communications holding company and one of the most honored companies in the world. Its subsidiaries and affiliates - AT&T operating companies - are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. With a powerful array of network resources that includes the nation's fastest mobile broadband network, AT&T is a leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet, voice and cloud-based services. A leader in mobile broadband and emerging 4G capabilities, AT&T also offers the best wireless coverage worldwide of any U.S. carrier, offering the most wireless phones that work in the most countries. It also offers advanced TV services under the AT&T U-verse® and AT&T | DIRECTV brands. The company's suite of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in the world. In domestic markets, AT&T Advertising Solutions and AT&T Interactive are known for their leadership in local search and advertising.
Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com. This AT&T news release and other announcements are available at http://www.att.com/newsroom and as part of an RSS feed at http://www.att.com/rss. Or follow our news on Twitter at @ATT.
NetQin Mobile Launches Security Research Center to Increase Early Detection of Mobile Security Threats in the U.S.
BEIJING and SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --NetQin Mobile Inc. ("NetQin" or the company), a leading provider of consumer-centric mobile security and productivity applications, today announced the opening of the NetQin Security Research Center based in Raleigh, N.C. The Security Research Center will focus specifically on identifying and monitoring mobile security threats that could impact consumers. The Center represents NetQin's latest investment in the Americas as it expands and further enhances its industry-leading threat monitoring capabilities.
The NetQin Security Research Center is led by Dr. Xuxian Jiang, who was appointed Chief Scientist at NetQin Mobile Inc. in September 2011. Jiang is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department and a core member of the Cyber Defense Lab at North Carolina State University. Throughout his career, Jiang has published over 50 research papers in international journals and major peer-reviewed conference proceedings, and has focused his research on discovering ways to improve the privacy and security of mobile platforms and ensure the stability and safety of virtualization-based cloud computing infrastructures.
NetQin and Dr. Jiang have already co-discovered several high-risk mobile viruses in the U.S. including GingerMaster, DroidDeluxe, and the latest variant of DroidKungFu. Earlier this week, the NetQin Security Research Center announced the discovery of two new threats targeting the alternative Android market in China: DroidCoupon and AnServerBot, which researchers believe rivals the Geinimi malware in sophistication and severity.
"In working with Dr. Jiang and his team at the NetQin Research Lab, we anticipate faster and broader detection of mobile security threats than ever," said Chris Stier, Managing Director of the Americas, NetQin. "NetQin has been first to identify more than 75 percent of mobile security threats globally, and this partnership with Dr. Jiang enhances our ability to provide better protection for consumers."
As adoption of smartphones grows, so does the prevalence of mobile malware. According to Gartner, by 2013, more people in the world will access the internet on a mobile device than on a PC, which means we can expect mobile malware to become more widespread than ever in the coming years. As consumers use smartphones to bank, shop and access sensitive corporate information, the need to raise awareness about mobile security is becoming increasingly urgent. The NetQin Security Research Center will play a vital role in alerting U.S. consumers to new security threats and advising on how to ensure their personal information remains private.
"Our role and number one goal at NetQin Security Research Center is to make consumers aware of the threats that exist and ensure they have the right tools to mitigate those risks," said Dr. Jiang. "NetQin is a proven leader in mobile security, and by working together we can significantly enhance the privacy and security of widely-used mobile platforms."
About NetQin
NetQin Mobile Inc. (NYSE: NQ) is a leading global provider of consumer-centric mobile Internet services focusing on security and productivity. NetQin was one of the first companies to recognize the growing security threats targeting smartphone users and is now a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider with over 100 million registered user accounts worldwide. As a market leader in mobile security, NetQin's innovation and global significance have been widely recognized through distinctions such as the 2011 Technology Pioneer Award bestowed by the World Economic Forum. For more information on NetQin, please visit http://www.netqin.com/en
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CONTACT: Stephanie Gelo of Fleishman-Hillard, +1-212-453-2192, stephanie.gelo@fleishman.com