Technology Press Release – Weekly Newsletter for October 4-11, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
FireID Extends Google Two-Factor Authentication
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, October 4, 2010 – FireID has seamlessly integrated support for Google's recently released
two-factor authentication offering into the FireID mobile security solution -
extending the Google offering to a broader range of mobile platforms, The
FireID solution means that businesses can have the functionality of Google's
two-factor security on a wide variety of phones [...]
LightSquared Announces Significant Financing
RESTON, Virginia, October 3, 2010 – NEWS HIGHLIGHTS:
– LightSquared Announces Closing of US$850 million UBS AG Credit Facility
– LightSquared Intends to Accelerate the Implementation of the
Cooperation Agreement with Inmarsat
– LightSquared Signs First Wholesale Agreements with Customers
[...]
Bahrain Commercial Facilities Company is First in Bahrain to Implement Protiviti’s Governance Portal for Internal Audit
Bahrain Commercial Facilities Company selected Protiviti's Governance Portal for its risk assessment, planning, and documentation capabilities
MENLO PARK, California, October 5, 2010 – Protiviti Inc., (www.protiviti.com) a global business consulting
and internal audit firm, today announced that Bahrain Commercial Facilities
Company (BCFC), a finance company, has implemented Protiviti's Governance
Portal to automate and standardize its internal audit approach [...]
blinkx Partners With KidMango to Offer Popular Children’s Cartoons, Movies and Videos
Thousands of popular cartoons, including Care Bears, Dennis the Menace and Jay Jay the Plane, are now available at www.blinkx.com
SAN FRANCISCO, October 5, 2010 – blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today
announced a partnership with KidMango, the world's largest online library of
independent, professionally produced video created for kids under the [...]
MediaTek Aims to Offer the Best Digital Home Entertainment Platform
Becoming the Strategic Partner to Provide the High Performance Total Solutions for Global Customers
HSINCHU, Taiwan, October 5, 2010 – MediaTek Inc., a leading fabless semiconductor company for wireless
communications and digital multimedia solutions, today announced a series of
digital TV SoC solutions with high resolution and performance, assisting its
customers to deliver the most competitive products for [...]
Crosscheck Networks Drives Business-Critical SOA at World’s Largest Enterprises and Government Organizations
New Capabilities for Company's Flagship XML Gateway Ease Enterprise-to-Cloud Migration; Enable Seamless Extension of SOA to the Cloud
BOSTON and BERLIN, October 5, 2010 – Crosscheck Networks, Inc. (www.crosschecknet.com) today introduced
the next generation of its flagship product, Forum Sentry v8.0, helping
organizations seamlessly migrate their enterprise SOA deployments to the
cloud while capitalizing on the cloud computing [...]
Acision Secures Additional Investment to Support Growth Strategy and Address Market Opportunities in Mobile Data
READING, England, October 5, 2010 – Acision, a world leader in mobile data, is pleased to announce it has
agreed a $100 million package of new funding to enable the company to take
full advantage of the opportunities created by the mobile data revolution.
The new investment was led by existing shareholders Access Industries, with
funding also provided [...]
Axis Introduces Industry’s First Fixed Dome Network Cameras With 3 Megapixel and P-Iris Control
LUND, Sweden, October 5, 2010 – Axis Communications announces AXIS P3346 Fixed Dome Network
Cameras to complement the successful AXIS P33 Series. AXIS P3346 is easily
installed thanks to remote zoom and focus and offers P-Iris control, HDTV
1080p and three megapixel resolution. AXIS P33 Network Cameras, designed for
efficient installation in both indoor and harsh outdoor environments,
constitute [...]
CrimsonLogic Helps Automate Qatar’s Customs System
New unified clearing system to streamline procedures and ensure accuracy
SINGAPORE, October 5, 2010 – CrimsonLogic, a leading provider of eGovernment solutions and services,
was awarded a contract in 2008 by the State of Qatar to design and implement
a nationwide eGovernment system to automate and streamline the customs
administration system. Currently in phases of implementation, the system,
upon [...]
Oracle Communications Data Model Receives Broadest and Most Comprehensive TM Forum Information Framework (SID) Certification
Latest Release Performs up to Eight Times Faster on Oracle Exadata Database Machine
Redwood Shores, Calif. ??? Oct. 4, 2010
News Facts
To help communications service providers collect and manage data to streamline their operations, Oracle has announced a new release of Oracle Communications Data Model, which helps service providers analyze multiple types of data ??? [...]
ChamonixInfo.com Launch Live Hotel Booking Service
CHAMONIX, France, October 4, 2010 – ChamonixInfo.com is an expert on all things Chamonix and the portal has
decided to make the most of this knowledge to expand the services offered on
its website by launching an online hotel booking service with live
availability.
Chamonix (chamonix.mydestinationinfo.com/) is one of the most
popular alpine resorts in [...]
Promethean Brings World’s Fastest Car to Maidenhead
BLACKBURN, England, October 4, 2010 – Promethean, the interactive learning technology provider, organised a
rare opportunity for pupils from Maidenhead and Reading to see a life size
replica of the Bloodhound Supersonic Car. They were also able to meet and
question Richard Noble OBE about the Bloodhound project, and its attempts to
set a new World Land Speed [...]
NoblePeak Vision Corp. Offers Patented Technology to Integrate Germanium Photodetectors With Silicon Circuits at the November 5, 2010 Sealed Bid Sale
WELLESLEY HILLS, Massachusetts, October 4, 2010 – Joseph F. Finn, Jr., C.P.A. ("Finn"), announced today that he is offering
for sale the patented technology to integrate germanium photodetectors with
silicon circuits at the November 5, 2010 sealed bid sale of NoblePeak Vision
Corp. assets.
NoblePeak has developed and implemented a process flow that incorporates
single [...]
Internap Performance IP Supports European Expansion of DTI(TM) Cloud Platform
DTI Cloud delivers fastest, safest cloud publishing, powered by Internap's expanded European presence for network services
SPRINGVILLE, Utah and ATLANTA, October 4, 2010 – Internap Network Services Corporation (Nasdaq: INAP), a leading provider
of end-to-end Internet business products and services, together with Digital
Technology International (DTI), a leading provider of audience-centric
multimedia publishing solutions, today announced the availability [...]
Pure360 Launch Highly Anticipated Version 7.0 of Their PureResponse Email & SMS Software
LONDON, October 5, 2010 – Pure360 is proud to launch the highly anticipated V7.0 of PureResponse
email marketing software. Detailed input from clients such as the Financial
Times and Seatwave throughout the development process means that V7.0 really
delivers to busy marketers exactly what they want from their email marketing
software.
V7.0 boasts a whole [...]
Iocea Trusts DediPower to Deliver High Value Hosting Performance for E-retailers
Visit DediPower on Stand 700 and Iocea on Stand 610 at E Commerce Expo, 19-20 October, Olympia, London
READING, England, October 5, 2010 – DediPower, the UK's fastest growing private hosting company*, delivers
full service managed hosting to e-commerce developer Iocea, which processes
over GBP millions of orders annually from leading retailers including
Hobbycraft, Wolsey and Pet Supermarket.
[...]
PopCap Launches Peggle(TM) iPhone Update
Peggle Nights(TM) Comes to the iPhone(TM) and iPod(R) Touch via new Game Upgrade
DUBLIN, October 5, 2010 – PopCap Games, the worldwide leader in casual video games, today announced
it is offering a game update to Peggle(TM) for the iPhone(TM) and iPod(R)
touch, which will include the non-stop action of Peggle Nights(TM).
With this [...]
Better, Faster, Cheaper, Happier at KPN
KPN Gains Traction and Hits Targets With New Measurement Framework Implemented With IJI
AMSTERDAM, October 5, 2010 – KPN, the leading telecommunications and ICT service provider in The
Netherlands, has partnered with Ivar Jacobson International to deliver a
successful new IT measurement framework for KPN's IT division (ITNL). The
measurement framework called 'Better, Faster, Cheaper, Happier' has built [...]
Landis+Gyr Selected by CEZ Group for Three Milestone Contracts
New Opportunities Cover ICG and Residential Sectors in Central and Eastern Europe
ZUG, Switzerland, October 5, 2010 – Landis+Gyr, the world's leading provider of integrated energy management
solutions today announced it has been selected by the CEZ Group, a Czech
utility, for three distinct energy projects. Landis+Gyr is to conduct CEZ's
first residential smart metering pilot project in [...]
Blancco v4.10 Latest Approval as HMG Infosec Product
LONDON, October 7, 2010 – Blancco, the global leader in data erasure and complete lifecycle
solutions, today announced that CESG (part of the UK Government
Communications Headquarters) has approved the latest version of Blancco's
data erasure software, HMG v4.10. Blancco is proud to announce that it has
met all of the criteria for secure erasure of magnetic media [...]
The Oracle Education Foundation Partners with the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science
Up to 2,500 Students Will Use ThinkQuest Learning Platform to Collaborate on Museum-Sponsored Projects
Redwood Shores, California, October 6, 2010
News Facts
The Oracle Education Foundation (OEF) (www.oraclefoundation.org) has partnered with The Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science (www.thebrogan.org) in Tallahassee, Florida to launch an innovative online learning initiative for students and teachers. [...]
JN Data Expands Stonebranch Footprint to Meet Demands of Merging Data Centers
Stonebranch's Indesca allows JN Data to unify multiple job scheduling silos into one end-to-end business process for complete workload automation
ATLANTA, October 6, 2010 – Stonebranch, innovator of Independent Job Scheduling Agent
(www.stonebranch.com/indesca/index.html) technology and provider of
Managed File Transfer (www.stonebranch.com/infitran/index.html)
solutions, today announced that JN Data, Denmark's leading IT outsourcer for
the banking industry, has expanded its Indesca [...]
Positive Digital Wins Two Travolution Awards 2010
LONDON, October 6, 2010 – Positive Digital (www.positive-digital.co.uk), one of the UK's
fastest-growing digital marketing agencies, has collected two prestigious
accolades at the Travolution Awards 2010.
The company was named both 'Best Agency for Website Design' for Royal
Caribbean International and Celebrity Cruises, and the creator of 'Best
Online/Desktop Application' for Royal Caribbean International's Cruise
Compass, [...]
Technology Luminaries Tapped to Keynote the Embedded Live Exhibition and Conference
The Definitive UK Event for Electronic Design Innovation and Systems Technology Development to take place October 20-21, 2010 at Earls Court in London
SAN FRANCISCO, October 6, 2010 – EE Times Group (eetimesgroup.com), a UBM company
(www.unitedbusinessmedia.com) and the daily source of essential
business and technical information for the electronics industry's decision
makers, and Reed Business Information today [...]
Savvis Reaffirms and Narrows Full Year 2010 Guidance
Company Announces Time and Date for Third Quarter Earnings Call
ST. LOUIS, October 6, 2010 – Savvis, Inc. (Nasdaq: SVVS), a global leader in cloud infrastructure and
hosted IT solutions for enterprises, today reaffirmed and narrowed its
guidance for full year 2010. Savvis expects the following:
— Revenue of US$917 to US$927 million, a [...]
IDENTEC SOLUTIONS Takes Firm Hold of Marine & Intermodal Market With Acquisition of Sattel
LUSTENAU, Austria, October 6, 2010 – IDENTEC SOLUTIONS, the global leader of active RFID and industrial
wireless sensor networks, announced today that it has acquired the assets of
Satellite Telemetry (Aust) Pty Ltd (Sattel) from container terminal operating
group DP World.
Previously a wholly-owned subsidiary of DP World, Sattel provides DGPS
based tracking and telemetry [...]
ZeniMax Media Receives US$150 Million Investment From Providence Equity Partners
Current investment supplements US$300 Million Capital Raise in 2007
ROCKVILLE, Maryland, October 6, 2010 – ZeniMax Media Inc. today announced the closing of a US$150 Million
investment by Providence Equity Partners, a leading private equity firm, in
convertible preferred stock of the Company. The proceeds will be used to fund
additional growth through increased game development, expanded publishing
operations, [...]
Parrot to Bring Integrated Internet Access to Cars, Says Frost & Sullivan
LONDON, October 7, 2010 – "One of the main challenges facing the automotive world is to obtain
continuous and affordable high-quality, high-speed data connection from the
carriers. Although easy universal access to the internet from cars may still
be long in coming to the general public, we at Parrot have already taken
major steps in that direction."
[...]
txtr and PocketBook to Develop “txtr Edition” of PocketBook eReaders
FRANKFURT, Germany, October 7, 2010 – txtr, the leading provider of white-label eReading solutions,
today announced plans to work together with PocketBook, a world leader in
electronic reading devices, to jointly develop "txtr edition" versions of
PocketBook's eReaders.
A key feature of txtr's industry-leading eReading solution is
its support for multiple channels to buy, read [...]
Reed MIDEM Partners With GSMA to Launch Connected Creativity Forum at MIPTV 2011
Jointly Developed Event to Address Needs of Mobile Media, Technology and Entertainment Community
CANNES, France, October 7, 2010 – Reed MIDEM, the organizer of leading international television and music
events (MIPTV, MIPCOM, MIDEM) and the GSMA, the organization which represents
the worldwide mobile industry and which also produces the Mobile World
Congress and Mobile Asia Congress events, today [...]
Infosys Positioned in Leaders Quadrant in Magic Quadrant for International Retail Core Banking 2010
Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute
LONDON and NEW YORK and BANGALORE, India, October 7, 2010 – Infosys Technologies Ltd, a global leader in consulting and
services, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has positioned Infosys in the
Leaders Quadrant of the recently released 'Magic Quadrant for International
Retail Core Banking (IRCB) 2010' report for [...]
MyJohannesburgInfo.com Launches Dedicated Tourists Routes
LONEHILL, South Africa, October 7, 2010 – MyJohannesburgInfo.com, part of the MyDestinationInfo.com travel network,
has launched a new section dedicated to specific travel routes. This section
offers travellers proposed itineraries for an afternoon, a weekend, or an
entire week.
These suggested trips and routes, dubbed Johannesburg Destinations
(johannesburg.mydestinationinfo.com/en/suggested-trip-routes), deal
with 10 of Johannesburg's most popular regions, [...]
Join the Conversation with Mobile Marketing
By: Dr Pieter Streicher, MD at BulkSMS.com
CAPE TOWN, October 7, 2010 – Around the world, people are increasingly conversing using
SMS, and making fewer and fewer voice calls, particularly in the youth
market. A recent Washington Post article looks at how the "texting generation
doesn't share boomers' taste for talk". Increasingly consumers are having
interactive and effective asynchronous [...]
ZSL Launches SmartPrise BI(R) and Mobile BI, the SaaS and Cloud Analytics Suite
EDISON, New Jersey, October 7, 2010 – ZSL, the Global Systems Integrator & Leading ISV headquartered at Edison,
NJ, launches SmartPrise BI(R) & SmartPrise BI(R) Mobile, the comprehensive
Business Analytics Suite built on IBM Cognos at the Impact Comes To You
(ICTY). The new Enterprise BI suite is extensively available to various smart
phones and tablets- iPhone, iPad, [...]
LightSquared Announces Chipset Partnership and Initial Device Manufacturers
RESTON, Virginia, October 7, 2010 – NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
– Qualcomm to develop mainstream chipsets enabling a diverse device
ecosystem
– Nokia to create products that access the LightSquared network
– Two additional suppliers of wireless devices – AnyDATA and BandRich
[...]
Submit a Press Release at AMEInfo.com During October for a Chance to Win a Samsung Galaxy Mobile Phone
DUBAI, UAE, October 7, 2010 – Good news for PR professionals representing companies with business
interests in the Middle East – when they submit a press release to
AMEinfo.com (www.ameinfo.com/press_release_competition/) in October
they will be entered into a free prize draw to win a Samsung Galaxy mobile
(worth approximately AED 2,999 for the 16GB model).
[...]
Twinfield Online Accounting Software Helps Goodman Jones to Spend More Time on ‘Value Add’ Service to Clients
Online Accounting System Automatically Learns as you go, Allowing Practice to Transform Service Provision and Reduce Manual Admin
CHELMSFORD, England, October 7, 2010 – Goodman Jones LLP, chartered accountants, is using Twinfield's online
accounting software
(www.twinfield.co.uk/page/766/welcome-to-twinfield-online-accounting.html)
to transform the way it operates and enhance its service to clients. The
implementation of Twinfield's online bookkeeping software
(www.twinfield.co.uk/page/870/for-accountants-in-business) now allows
the practice to [...]
MarketsandMarkets: Global Diagnostic ECG Market Worth U.S. $5.2 Billion by 2015
DALLAS, October 7, 2010 – The 'Global Diagnostic Market (2010 – 2015)', studies the global market
for diagnostic ECG by products; analyzing the major market drivers,
restraints, and opportunities for DECG market for U.S., Europe, Asia and RoW
(Rest of the World).
Browse market data tables and in-depth TOC on Diagnostic ECG Market
[...]
Mainframe is an Essential Component of Organisations’ Cloud Computing Strategies, New Study Reveals
PRAGUE, October 7, 2010 – CA Technologies today announced the results of a new independent study
revealing that 79 percent of IT organisations believe the mainframe is an
essential component of their cloud computing strategy. Over 300 IT decision
makers in ten countries responded to the CA Technologies commissioned survey,
"Mainframe – The Ultimate Cloud Platform?"
[...]
CSI Announces Strong Keynote line-up for CSI Annual 2010 Conference
NEW YORK, October 7, 2010 – As part of National Cyber Security month, Computer Security Institute is
thrilled to announce Jim Jaeger, Director, Department of Defense & Commercial
Cyber Solutions at General Dynamics as a 2010 Annual conference keynote
speaker. Mr. Jaeger is the Director for a wide range of offensive and
defensive cyber programs which support the [...]