Monday, July 05, 2010

Technology Press Release – Weekly Newsletter for July 1-5, 2010

Monday, July 5, 2010


NetSuite Gathers EMEA’s Professional Services Luminaries to Spotlight Transformational Power of the Cloud

Lloyd's Register, Software AG, Accenture and Siemens to Share How Cloud Computing Reduces Costs, Boosts Productivity and Improves Quality of Service Delivery

LONDON and SAN MATEO, California, June 28, 2010 – NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), the industry's leading provider of cloud-based
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) / financial suites, today announced the
line-up of illustrious industry speakers scheduled [...]

ARCADIS Aqumen Signs Frame Contract With BT for Facility Management Services

ARNHEM, The Netherlands, June 28, 2010 – ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international design, consulting,
engineering and management services company, announced today that its
subsidiary ARCADIS AQUMEN FACILITY MANAGEMENT (AAFM) has signed a three-year
framework contract to provide services to BT (former British Telecom) in the
Benelux. AAFM is a joint venture of ARCADIS and U.K. based Carillion. The
contract [...]

FFastfill Selects Corvil for Latency Management of Their Trading Infrastructure

CorvilNet Used to Assure Application Performance
LONDON and NEW YORK, June 28, 2010 – Corvil, a provider of Latency Management Systems for electronic trading
and market data, today announced that FFastfill, a leading provider of
software and services to the financial community, is deploying CorvilNet to
optimize the performance of their suite of products, which encompass front,
middle, back [...]

Leave Your Office Without Leaving Your Business Behind

DUBAI, UAE, June 28, 2010 – What do mobile workers need most importantly? To answer this question,
they need easy access to true mobile broadband anytime, anywhere.

Mobile Working Is Getting More Popular
Today's businesses are increasingly working outside the office. According
to a forecast by analyst firm IDC, there [...]

Novatel Wireless Introduces Its LTE Embedded Modules Portfolio

In Line with Carriers' Network Roll-Out and Chipset Availability, Novatel Wireless is Announcing Readiness of the Expedite E351, Expedite E362 and Expedite E371– Its Advanced PCle Mini Cards for Next-Generation Mobile Broadband Solutions

SAN DIEGO, June 28, 2010 – Novatel Wireless, Inc., (Nasdaq: NVTL) a leading provider of wireless
broadband solutions, today introduced the Expedite(TM) E351, [...]

Novatel Wireless MiFi Honored With Meffys Award for Best Mobile Connected Device

Industry's First Intelligent Mobile Hotspot Receives Coveted Industry Recognition From Mobile Entertainment Forum

SAN DIEGO, June 28, 2010 – Novatel Wireless, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVTL), a provider of wireless broadband
access solutions, is pleased to announce that its MiFi(R) Intelligent Mobile
Hotspot has been named a Meffys award winner for "Best Mobile Connected
Device" by the Mobile Entertainment Forum [...]

MTS Wins 2010 Meffys Mobile Entertainment Award for Omlet.ru Content Portal

MOSCOW, June 25, 2010 – Mobile TeleSystems OJSC ("MTS" – NYSE: MBT), the leading
telecommunications provider in Russia and the CIS, announces that it has won
the 2010 Meffys Mobile Entertainment Award in the "Cross-Platform
Technology" category for Omlet.ru content portal.

Omlet.ru content portal was launched by MTS in the fall of
2009, offering a [...]

Bank of Brazil Selects Autonomy’s Meaning Based Computing Platform

Autonomy IDOL Increases Productivity and Enables Superior Customer Service
CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, June 28, 2010 – Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in
infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced that the Bank of
Brazil (Banco do Brasil S.A.) is using Autonomy's Meaning Based Computing
platform, IDOL, as part of a strategic [...]

Malaysian Mobile Service Operator Tune Talk Surpasses One Million Customers in Just Over 10 Months of Commercial Service

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia and WOBURN, Massachusetts, June 28, 2010 – Tune Talk, Malaysia's low-cost mobile phone operator who
targets the underserved segments of the market with super low calling rates
and exciting incentives, today announced that it has surpassed the one
million subscriber mark in its first 10 months of operation. This makes
Tune Talk one of the [...]

NetSuite Gathers EMEA’s Professional Services Luminaries to Spotlight Transformational Power of the Cloud

Lloyd's Register, Software AG, Accenture and Siemens to Share How Cloud Computing Reduces Costs, Boosts Productivity and Improves Quality of Service Delivery

LONDON and SAN MATEO, California, June 28, 2010 – NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), the industry's leading provider of cloud-based
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) / financial suites, today announced the
line-up of illustrious industry speakers scheduled [...]

A New Trendsetting Fuel Cell Alliance

SELB/ESCHENBACH, Germany, June 28, 2010 – Today H.C. Starck Ceramics and Kerafol announced their
partnership in manufacturing, sales, and distribution of high-temperature
SOFCs (solid oxide fuel cells) doped with scandium.

Because the scandium-doped zirconia used in these fuel cells
is highly conductive, scandium-doped solid oxide fuel cells have the highest
output potential of all electrolyte-supported [...]

South Africa UK Health & Fitness Partnership USN & FamouslyFit.com Sign a “Fight for Britain’s Fitness” Deal

LONDON, June 28, 2010 – South Africa's number one selling sports nutrition brand USN
and UK's FamouslyFit.com have committed to a 2 year deal in which the
companies will work together to fight for better fitness in Britain.

USN will be joining forces with Famously Fit to ensure the
online facility continues to provide [...]

Bridgewater Showcases Mobile Control Plane Solutions at Cisco Live!

LAS VEGAS, June 28, 2010 – Bridgewater Systems (TSX: BWC), the mobile
personalization company, today announced that it will showcase its ready
mobile control plane solutions for 3G and 4G networks at Cisco Live! 2010,
Cisco's annual IT and communications conference. The event is being held at
the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 27-July 1.

[...]

Bridgewater Joins the Cisco Developer Network as a Preferred Solution Developer and Completes Interoperability Verification Testing

LAS VEGAS, June 28, 2010 – Bridgewater Systems (TSX: BWC) announced
that it has joined the Cisco Developer Network as a Preferred Solution
Developer within the mobile packet core technology category. In addition the
Bridgewater(R) Policy Controller (PCRF) and Home Subscriber Server (HSS) have
successfully completed interoperability testing with the Cisco ASR 5000
mobile packet core solution for 3G [...]

Misys and Numerix Expand Global Partnership to Bring Further Innovation in Financial Instrument Creation

Improves Modeling, Pricing and Risk Management of OTC Derivatives and Structured Products

NEW YORK and LONDON, June 28, 2010 – Misys plc (LSE: MSY), the global application software and services
company and Numerix, the leading provider of cross-asset analytics for
derivatives valuations and risk management, today announced the expansion of
their global partnership and distribution agreement.
[...]

2011 Independent Games Festival Opens Submissions, Adds Mobile Category, Expands Experimental Focus

SAN FRANCISCO, June 28, 2010 – The UBM TechWeb Game Network, organizer of the industry-leading Game
Developers Conference(R) events, is pleased to announce that submissions are
now open for the 2011 Independent Games Festival — to be held at GDC 2011 in
San Francisco next March.

The longest-running and highest-profile independent video game festival,
summit [...]

Launch of Savvis Symphony Allows Clients to Configure Virtual Private Data Centers in the Cloud

Enterprise-Class Cloud Can Be Combined with Traditional Infrastructure Offerings Such as Colocation and Managed Services

ST. LOUIS, June 28, 2010 – Savvis Symphony, one of the broadest lines of cloud services on the
market, officially launches today with the release of Savvis Symphony Virtual
Private Data Center (VPDC), a new cloud computing offering from Savvis, Inc.
that provides [...]

Babylon.com Presents: Babylon Learn – A New iPhone Application

'Babylon Learn' is a Fun and Unique Language Learning Program!
NEW YORK, June 28, 2010 – After having launched a designated iPhone application, Babylon
Ltd., the international Internet Company and the world's leading provider of
language solutions and single-click dictionary (www.babylon.com/) and
translation software (www.babylon.com/), today proudly presents
Babylon Learn – the unique application for iPhone.

[...]

Northrop Grumman Discusses Capabilities in Electronic Warfare Interoperability for UAE at Defense Sensors Technology Conference

Northrop Grumman, principal VIP sponsor, presents world leading capability in airborne early warning and control

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, June 28, 2010 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) will be participating at the
Defense Sensors Technology Conference in Abu Dhabi, UAE where it will
highlight its wide range of industry-leading capabilities in electronic
warfare (EW) interoperability and [...]

Northrop Grumman Highlights Unmanned Systems Capabilities at UV Europe 2010

LONDON, June 28, 2010 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is participating in the UV
Europe conference and exhibition where it will highlight its comprehensive
capabilities and experience in unmanned systems.

Northrop Grumman is an industry leader in the ISR domain and has been in
the unmanned systems business for more than 60 years, [...]

YuuZoo Corporation Appoints Chris Taylor as New Global CEO

SYDNEY, June 28, 2010 – YuuZoo Corporation, the leading mobile media and payments group with
registered users in 164 countries, today announced that it has appointed
Chris Taylor to serve as the company's new global CEO.

Taylor, 38, has been with Telstra Corporation since 2007, most recently
as Director of Telstra Media, overseeing their [...]

Alcatel-Lucent Acquires Leading Web 2.0 API Repository ProgrammableWeb

Invests to Build a Bridge Between Service Providers, Enterprises, and Application Developers to Accelerate the Creation of Web, Mobile and Multimedia Apps

PARIS, June 29, 2010 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that it has
acquired ProgrammableWeb, the technology industry's universal source for Web
APIs (application programming interfaces) used by application developers to
build web, [...]

Rohde & Schwarz Enters a New Market Segment With Oscilloscopes

MUNICH, June 29, 2010 – Munich-based electronics specialist Rohde & Schwarz is now entering the
global oscilloscope market. With this move, the company – already a
successful international supplier of test and measurement equipment to
customers in several industries, especially wireless communications – is
expanding its T&M portfolio. "Our customers expect us to offer a complete
line of test [...]

Software Testing is Coming Home

QA Consultants Unveils State-of-the-Art Testing Facility in Toronto
TORONTO, June 29, 2010 – The Quality Assurance experts at QA Consultants (QAC) have recently gone
live with a new Toronto-based On-Shore Test Factory (testfactory.ca/ )
(OTSF).

Founded in 1994, QA Consultants ( www.qaconsultants.ca )is the
largest Software Quality Assurance and Testing consultancy in North America
and has [...]

Redknee Joins Industry Experts at Mobile Pricing Event

Redknee Highlights the Role of Policy Control and Convergent Charging on Pricing Differentiation

TORONTO, June 29, 2010 – Redknee (TSX:RKN), a leading provider of business-critical billing and
charging software and solutions for communications service providers, is
pleased to announce that it is joining industry experts from across the globe
to discuss the innovative pricing strategies that can secure [...]

ScienceDirect Reaches “10 in 10″; Celebrates Tenth Anniversary and Ten Millionth Milestone

A Decade of Solving Search and Discovery Needs of the Global Scientific Research Community

AMSTERDAM, June 29, 2010 – Elsevier (www.elsevier.com), a leading publisher of scientific,
technical and medical (STM) information, today announced it is celebrating
the tenth anniversary of ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com),
its online scientific research platform, as well as the 10 millionth
addition to the database, which is [...]

Mavenir Systems Raises US$13.6 Million in Series D Funding

Greenspring Associates Joins Existing Investors to Help Scale Mobile Cloud Services

RICHARDSON, Texas, June 29, 2010 – Mavenir Systems, provider of mobile convergence solutions, announced it
has raised US$13.6 million in its fourth round of funding. Investors for this
round include North Bridge Venture Partners, Austin Ventures, Alloy Ventures,
Greenspring Associates and Cisco. Mavenir has raised a total [...]

Xirrus 802.11n Wi-Fi Arrays Provide a Robust Wireless Network for Irene McCormack Catholic College

Irene McCormack Selected Xirrus for Their Ability to Provide More Bandwidth with Fewer Devices Than Any Other Wi-Fi Vendor

THOUSAND OAKS, California, June 29, 2010 – Xirrus(R), the Wi-Fi "Power-Play" that delivers the most coverage,
bandwidth, and user density in the industry, announced today the deployment
of Xirrus high performance 802.11n Wi-Fi Arrays throughout the Irene
McCormack Catholic [...]

Stylesight Announces Turkey’s Cem-Sel Tekstil as Exclusive Channel Partner for Localized Turkish Trend Information Services

B2B Trend Content and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Provider is First to Address and Fulfill Global Client Demand for Growing Turkish Market

NEW YORK, June 29, 2010 – Stylesight, the leading global provider of trend content, tools and
technology for the fashion and style industries, announces Cem-Sel Tekstil as
its exclusive channel partner in Turkey. Stylesight and Cem-Sel Tekstil [...]

So Just What is Google Android? Mobiles.co.uk Explains…

YORK, England, June 29, 2010 – Google Android is the mobile phone operating system produced by Google
which aims to compete with the likes of Windows Phone 7, iPhone OS 4 (iOS 4)
and Symbian3, amongst others. The latest iteration, 'Android 2.2 Froyo',
follows on from a line of dessert-based OS names: Cupcake, Donut and Eclair
to name [...]

Redstone Launches Next-Generation Business Broadband

LONDON, June 29, 2010 – IT and communications provider Redstone Managed Solutions today launched
its next-generation business broadband. The service is designed for business
customers who want more from their broadband supplier.

UK small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) may be tempted to use
residential broadband services that may not be able to provide [...]

Philips Scoops Another Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions Advertising Awards

AMSTERDAM, June 29, 2010 – Today, Philips is delighted to announce that its global Parallel Lines
campaign for Philips TVs has received the inaugural Gold Film Craft Lion at
the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival in Cannes. Parallel Lines
also received a Grand Prix for Direction, marking the second consecutive year
a Philips campaign has received the jury's [...]

Greater Precision of Perimeter Intrusion Detection Systems Lures More End Users, Finds Frost & Sullivan

LONDON, June 30, 2010 – Throughout the world, the awareness of the reliability and affordability
of perimeter protection systems has been fuelled by growing risks facing the
critical infrastructure sector and rising costs associated with manned
guarding services. This awareness has successfully paved the way to the
adoption of Perimeter Intrusion Detection Systems (PIDS).

(Logo: [...]

Bigstock Celebrates 5 Million Images

NEW YORK, June 30, 2010 – Bigstock, one of the world's premier sources of high quality,
royalty-free stock images, announced a milestone today as its collection
surpassed 5 million images.

(Logo: photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100630/NY27975LOGO )

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Bigstock is now a better choice for image buyers than ever [...]

Manolo Romero to Give Keynote at IBC2010

Full day devoted to sport, including Olympics and World Cup in 3D
LONDON, June 30, 2010 – With 2010 a big year for sport and sports broadcasting, the IBC2010
conference is dedicating a full day to the topic. Setting the agenda for the
day will be a keynote presentation from Manolo Romero, the managing director
of Olympic Broadcasting [...]

Launch of Women’s Erotainment Website VivaFem.com

VivaFem.com Offers Women Online Erotainment
'S-HERTOGENBOSCH, Netherlands, June 30, 2010 – Not so long ago, many people treated erotica and pornography like a dirty
little secret. Adult movies were kept in video stores' back rooms or sold in
seedy sex shops.

But times are changing! There has been an evolution of erotica. With the
growing [...]

MarketsandMarkets: Global Advanced Phase Change Material (PCM) Market Worth US$ 1,488.1 Million by 2015

DALLAS, June 30, 2010 – The 'Advanced Phase Change Material Market: Global Forecast (2010 -
2015)' analyzes the PCM market by materials and applications and studies the
major market drivers, restraints, and opportunities for the advanced phase
change material market in America, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.

Browse market data tables and in-depth TOC on Advanced [...]

Game Industry Luminary Bill Roper to Keynote Third Annual Game Developers Conference China

Celebrated Developer Behind StarCraft, Warcraft and Diablo to Present GDC China Keynote

SAN FRANCISCO, June 30, 2010 – Bill Roper, the Chief Creative Officer of Cryptic Studios and driving
force behind the creation of the genre-defining Warcraft, StarCraft and
Diablo series, will present a keynote presentation for the 2010 Game
Developers Conference China(TM) (GDC China). Presented by UBM [...]

RichRank Brings the Traditional ‘Rich List’ to Web 2.0

VAXJO, Sweden, June 30, 2010 – To be No.1 on a ranking list is a dream shared by many;
Getting to the top is usually accompanied by an extraordinary effort. Not on
www.richrank.com: just a few clicks and anyone can be ranked No.1.
Provided one has the wherewithal.

Good news for anyone who wants [...]

Infinity Group Closes 200 Million RMB Joint Venture Fund with the Chengdu City, China

Infinity Group Also Signs MOU of General Cooperation with Chengdu Municipal Government

TEL AVIV, Israel, June 30, 2010 – Infinity Group, the leader in cross border Chinese-Israeli-North American
equity funds, announced today the establishment of a 200 million RMB joint
venture fund with Chengdu City, China. This marks Infinity's eighth joint
venture fund in China this year. The [...]

Tagetik to Announce 2010 User Conference

A 2-day International Event to Welcome Attendees and Speakers From All Over the World and Discover the New Vision of CPM: From Corporate to 'Collaborative Performance Management'

LUCCA, Italy, June 30, 2010 – Tagetik, a global provider of Performance Management, Enterprise
Governance, Risk & Compliance and Business Intelligence software solutions,
today announced the upcoming 4th edition of [...]

New Stratecast Report Positions WeDo Technologies as Global Market Leader in Fast Growing Telecoms Revenue Assurance Market

LISBON, June 30, 2010 – WeDo Technologies, an innovator in Revenue and Business Assurance, is the
leader with a 26 percent share of the total $235 million RA market in 2009 -
according to a new report from Stratecast, "Revenue Assurance and Cost
Management Global CSP Sector Assessment."

Highlighting the continued evolution of basic [...]

Google Analytics Integrations Adds New Dimension to GatorMail’s Reporting Capabilities

GODALMING, England, June 30, 2010 – As Google Analytics has now become the de facto standard website
monitoring tool, the need for integration of email marketing and web
analytics has never been greater. GatorMail now utilises Google's API to
seamlessly integrate with analytics, offering invaluable insight to your
email marketing campaigns (www.communigator.co.uk)

As Google Analytics [...]

GoIndustry DoveBid Launches an Asset Management Solution That Helps to Unfreeze the euro 110bn in Capital That Is ‘Frozen’ in Assets

LONDON, June 30, 2010 – Today, leading global asset sales and valuations company, GoIndustry
DoveBid, is launching Go-Optimize, a unique solution that helps the world's
top manufacturing companies to get the most from their assets.

(Logo: photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100630/PH28915LOGO )
(Logo: www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100630/PH28915LOGO )

A recent report from Siemens Financial [...]

Richard Robinson Named Chief Executive Officer of Acentic

COLOGNE, Germany, July 1, 2010 – Acentic, a leading supplier of digital interactive TV (iTV) and broadband
systems for the hotel industry, announced today that Richard Robinson has
been named chief executive officer, effective July 1st. Robinson is a 20-year
veteran of the media industry, including 15 years in hotel television
technology, and has been an executive director [...]

Frost & Sullivan: Advanced Applications of Smartphone Continue to Keep its Demand High, Despite the Economic Slump

LONDON, July 1, 2010 – The smartphone market is experiencing robust growth, despite the economic
downturn. Consumers are increasingly seeking well-designed devices with
innovative features and applications such as touch screen technology,
wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) and location-based service (LBS). As it appears
that, in the next couple of years, software will play a major role in the
mobile handset [...]

Globalpark Strengthens Product Development and Leadership Teams Through Acquisition of WP-Experts

COLOGNE, Germany, July 1, 2010 – Globalpark (www.globalpark.com), a leading provider of panel
community and survey software, has acquired award-winning rich Internet
application and business portal designers, WP-Experts. The acquisition adds
manpower and expertise to the software development team, and WP-Experts' two
principals will join the Globalpark executive board.

Through the acquisition, Globalpark strengthens its [...]

ElcomSoft Reveals Internet Passwords

Full text of press release is available at https://www.elcomsoft.com/PR/einpb_100701_en.pdf

MOSCOW, July 1, 2010 – ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. announces the release of Elcomsoft Internet Password
Breaker, a tool to provide forensics, criminal investigators, security
officers and government authorities with the ability to retrieve a variety of
passwords stored on a PC. The new password recovery tool instantly reveals
cached passwords [...]

Handset Motion Sensor Market to top $1 Billion by 2014

Next Generation Motion Sensors Will Allow Developers to Explore The Heights of Their Creative Imagination

LONDON, July 1, 2010 – Motion sensing components are rapidly becoming part of the handset
architecture and these will support the development of breakthrough
applications and engaging user interface experiences. In a recent study of
handset motion sensors (www.arcchart.com/reports/sensors.asp?ref=pr)
by ARCchart, the research firm [...]

Omidyar Network Commits US$2.275M to Help Catalyze Government Transparency

REDWOOD CITY, California and LONDON, July 1, 2010 – Omidyar Network today announced US$2.275M in grants to three non-profit
organizations that strive to create more transparent and accountable
governments. Global Voices, mySociety and The XYZ Show are the latest
grantees to gain support from Omidyar Network for their use of technology in
furthering government transparency.

[...]

Jedox AG Continues its Growth in First Half of 2010

FREIBURG, Germany, July 1, 2010 – Jedox AG, developers of Palo, the leading commercial open source business
intelligence Solution for planning, reporting and analysis, increases its
licence turnover by over 100% in the first half of the year 2010 and signs 50
new customers. Some of the new customers are Swissport, Vodafone, Siemens,
Maritim Hotels, Fresenius Kabi, DVB [...]

UK Ministry of Defence Signs Scout SV Contract With General Dynamics UK

LONDON, July 1, 2010 – The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has signed a contract with South
Wales-based General Dynamics UK to deliver the Specialist Vehicle (SV) for
the British Army. The demonstration phase, which has been activated by the
signature of the contract by Peter Luff MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of
State and Minister for Defence Equipment, [...]

SetFocus Adopts Mirial Technology to Drive its “Borderless Business” Initiative

MILAN, July 1, 2010 – Mirial announced today that SetFocus, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
for Learning Solutions, chose a set of its desktop video conferencing
products to meet its growing need for delivering distance training,
recruiting remote students and staff and conducting virtual sales training
and staff meetings.

As a provider of instructor-led IT [...]

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