Monday, September 13, 2010

Technology Press Release – Weekly Newsletter for September 6-13, 2010

Monday, September 13, 2010


An End to Motor Vehicle Collisions Now in Sight

Introducing the Mobileye C2-270(TM) – a Piece of Technology the Size of a Digital Camera Enhancing a Driver's Ability to Prevent Collisions

AMSTERDAM, September 6, 2010 – Mobileye, the global pioneer and leader in vision-based collision
prevention systems, announced today that it has launched the Mobileye
C2-270(TM), a revolutionary system featuring the EyeQ2(R) vision chip, which
detects pedestrians, [...]

Streamline.net Reveals That Only 1 in 10 Small Firms Update Their Website Daily

GLOUCESTER, England, September 6, 2010 – Streamline.net, a leading UK provider of web hosting, has revealed two
sets of new research that shows a worrying number of firms could be taking
their foot off the Internet pedal. The company's latest 'Small Business Bytes
Survey' of 2400 UK firms* finds that only 10 per cent of small firms [...]

sortingcodes.co.uk Celebrates National Payroll Week with 10% Discount on Bank Sort Codes Data

LONDON, September 6, 2010 – sortingcodes.co.uk is celebrating National Payroll Week (from 6-10
September 2010) by offering a 10% discount on all new subscriptions. Anyone
who orders a subscription to sortingcodes.co.uk during this week will pay
just GBP89 for the year, benefiting from a GBP10 saving.

sortingcodes.co.uk is a web-based payments look-up tool and [...]

‘Dibbing’ Phenomenon Set to Revolutionise the Online Auction

Dibbing.com Presents 'Backwards Bidding' Where Price Goes Down Instead of up

LONDON, September 6, 2010 – A revolutionary new auction site (www.dibbing.com/) in which items
start at their listed market price and become cheaper has been launched.
Known as 'dibbing', it works by inviting visitors to purchase credits
('dibs') at 50 pence each. A [...]

Great Wall TV Debuts on KyLinTV Europe

PLAINVIEW, New York, September 6, 2010 – China International Television Corporation (CITVC) and KyLinTV jointly
announced an agreement today whereby the entire range of channels offered by
Great Wall TV will be included in KyLinTV's European Great Wall TV package.
The move will further strengthen CITVC's partnership with KyLinTV following
on the roll-out of Great Wall TV on [...]

9% Down – UK Tackles Online Payment Fraud Head On

LONDON, September 6, 2010 – Shopping online has never been more secure for UK consumers, thanks to
strategies put in place by retailers to beat card crime, according to Retail
Decisions (ReD), the international payment fraud prevention group.

ReD forecasts that there will be fewer attempts by criminals to
fraudulently buy items from websites, [...]

The Hut Group Score Goal With Launch of INTERSPORT Store Online

LONDON, September 6, 2010 – INTERSPORT UK, the largest independent sports retailer, has
selected The Hut Group to power an end-to-end online retail store at
www.INTERSPORT.co.uk

Launching in September 2010, the store will meet the ecommerce
needs of consumers across a wide range of sports including Football, Cricket,
Running, Rugby and Racket Sports. Furthermore, www.INTERSPORT.co.uk
will [...]

OverBlog and Wikio Merge to Create the Leading Social Media Group in Europe

An Ambitious Project
PARIS, September 8, 2010 – The Wikio group, who operates the social media portal
Wikio.co.uk (wikio.co.uk/) and the blog monetisation platform
E-Buzzing, is to merge with OverBlog, Europe's leading blog platform.

A group will for the first time combine a blog network, a news
and blog portal and a monetisation platform that [...]

Bigmouthmedia Hires Fiona Robertson as Head of Affiliates and Performance

EDINBURGH, Scotland, September 8, 2010 – On the back of the recent affiliate wins, Fiona Robertson (nee
MacPherson) has been hired by bigmouthmedia to head up the Affiliates and
Performance service. As well as running the team that works on the affiliate
campaigns, Robertson will be responsible for the overall growth strategy of
bigmouthmedia's affiliate and performance offering. [...]

IVONA Text-To-Speech – Lifelike Text-to-Speech (TTS) Arrives in America

ALPHARETTA, Georgia, September 9, 2010 – IVONA(R)Text-to-Speech (TTS), creator and winner of multiple awards for
most human-sounding synthetic voices and speech output products, is proud to
announce the appointment of Craig Campbell as Director of Business
Development in the Americas. Mr. Campbell, a recognized speech evangelist
with 10-years experience, will lead IVONA's entry into the US marketplace
where he [...]

Leading Market Research Firm Positions Cognizant as a Leader in Global Testing Services

Global Vendor Analysis Cites Cognizant's Rapid Growth, Domain Depth, and Strong Process Framework

TEANECK, New Jersey, September 9, 2010 – Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH), a leading provider of consulting, technology,
and business process outsourcing services, has been ranked a leader in
enterprise application testing services in an IDC MarketScape analysis of 13
global third-party testing firms.
[...]

Displaysense Reports Empty Shops Proving an Unlikely Source of Business

BISHOP'S STORTFORD, England, September 9, 2010 – Displaysense, the UKs leading supplier of display products, has recently
seen a surge in customers ordering display items with the intention of using
them for small, short-term projects within empty high street lots.

The company first noticed the wave of customers using empty sites when
large orders [...]

ReviewPro Continues Geographic Expansion In Europe and Enters Latin American Market

The Company Now Offers its Online Reputation and Social Media Analytics Solution to Hoteliers in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal, Holland, Austria, Czech Republic, Mexico, Argentina, Cuba and the Dominican Republic

BARCELONA, Spain, September 9, 2010 – ReviewPro (www.reviewpro.com), the leading provider of online
reputation and social media management tools for the hotel sector, announced
today [...]

Mancala Networks Reinforces Management Team

GRENOBLE, France, September 9, 2010 – The privately held network technology company, Mancala
Networks (www.mancalanetworks.com), specialized in the development of
innovative IP network control and management products, today announced the
appointment of Philippe Marxgut as VP Business Development. Mr. Marxgut has
more than 20 years of experience in numerous executive IT management
positions within several large, multi-national companies. He [...]

faceVsion(TM) and Tencent Announce HD Video Communications Service for QQ Users

The New faceVsion FV TouchCam(TM) VQ1, optimized for QQ HD video calls, offers life-like 720p HD video communications experience for QQ users

BEIJING, September 9, 2010 – faceVsion Technology Inc., a market innovator pioneering HD video
communications for consumers and SMEs, has partnered with Tencent, China's
largest Internet services provider, to develop a high definition (HD) webcam
optimized [...]

MobileIron 3.0 Delivers Enterprise Mobility API for Partner Enablement

Partners Can Integrate MobileIron's Mobile Device Management, Security and Analytics Capabilities with Other Enterprise Systems and Build New Services

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, September 9, 2010 – MobileIron (www.mobileiron.com), the innovator in multi-OS
smartphone management, today announced the release of its Virtual Smartphone
Platform 3.0. The new release focuses on partner enablement and delivers a
Mobility API for channel [...]

Sisvel Announces Launch of DVB-T2 Patent Pool

Joint Licensing Program Offers Convenient Access to Essential Patents
AMSTERDAM, September 9, 2010 – At IBC today, Sisvel announced the launch of a new joint patent licensing
program, or patent pool, offering a license under patents essential to
DVB-T2, the latest standard for digital terrestrial transmission with
advanced modulation and coding techniques for highly efficient delivery of
audio, video [...]

Johnson Controls-Saft Receives ??koGlobe Award for Leadership in Automotive Lithium-ion Batteries

Johnson Controls-Saft Wins 2nd Prize at the ??koGlobe [EcoGlobe] Awards
HANOVER, Germany, September 9, 2010 – Automotive battery expert Johnson Controls-Saft was on Tuesday awarded
2nd place in the ??koGlobe awards in Category 6 "Supplier Innovation." The
judges cited driving pleasure in electric mode for 130 km, a design life of
more than ten years, and a special [...]

Muzicall Creates European First: Off-deck Ringback Tones

Swiss Customers First in Europe to Buy Ringback Tones From Direct-to-consumer Provider

LONDON, September 10, 2010 – Muzicall, Europe's leading provider of Ringback Tone (RBT) services, has
signed a deal with Fox Mobile Group, a leading distributor of mobile content,
to deliver Ringback Tones – the sound that replaces the traditional ringing a
caller hears when calling a [...]

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