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LOS ANGELES, BEIJING and BANGKOK, Thailand, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Archer Entertainment Media Communications Incorporated http://www.archeremc.com/, announced today that is has opened a fully-staffed call center in Los Angeles as a result of numerous inquiries from Asia, Europe, and the U.S. regarding the Company's successful inauguration of Archer Media and IndiaTVLive's PIO TV (People of Indian Origin) Channel via IPTV protocol, in New Delhi, on August 17, 2006. "The Company plans to launch China Broadcast Live IPTV service in China very soon," said Michael Selsman, Archer CEO. Archer does business throughout Southeast Asia, including China, India and Thailand. Nicholas Bonavia, Archer Vice Chairman and Managing Director, said, "Archer's pioneering success in Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) places Archer Media in the forefront of the burgeoning glo... (more)

Cloud-Based Business Intelligence Reporting for the 'Masses'-It's About Time Says @indicee

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/01/09 -- Editor's Note: There are three photos and one video accompanying this news release. Indicee has launched out of Vancouver, B.C., offering to ease the pain of businesses frustrated with cutting and pasting data into spreadsheets in order to create reports. Indicee was developed by members of the founding team of Crystal Reports as a cloud-based reporting application designed to provide businesses with a faster way to mash data, create reports and share and collaborate around data. "Small to medium sized companies typically cannot meet the requirements of time and resources to purchase, install, use and manage big box, enterprise business intelligence. They have essentially been left to tend to themselves which often means spending hours mashing data in spreadsheets, with no available alternative. We created I... (more)

Skype Expands Skype for SIP Beta Program

Skype is opening up the Skype for SIP beta program to allow businesses of all sizes to utilize Skype for SIP with their existing SIP-based PBX or Unified Communications (UC) systems. By using Skype for SIP, companies can save money on calls around the world, while also changing how customers globally reach them. A company’s IT administrator just creates and registers a Skype Business Control Panel (BCP) for the organization and then follows the instructions to configure Skype for SIP to work with its existing SIP-enabled communications system. This Web-based tool allows a company to control its Skype usage from a single point and enables centralized billing, easy allocation of Skype Credit, subscriptions and online numbers to users, as well as reporting about both usage and spending. Furthermore, it gives companies the ability to manage internal employee accounts, ... (more)

TeleCommunication Systems Receives Two TMCnet.com Satellite Product of the Year Awards in 2009 for SwiftLink(R) Solutions

ANNAPOLIS, MD -- (Marketwire) -- 01/15/10 -- TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) (NASDAQ: TSYS), a leading provider of mission-critical wireless communications, today announced that two of its SwiftLink(R) products, the flyaway Satellite Access Baseband Remote (SABR) 2.4M Quad-Band VSAT Terminal and the man-packable Stingray 45-X Ultra Small Aperture Terminal (USAT) have received the 2009 Satellite Product of the Year Award from TMCnet.com. The SwiftLink deployable communications suite provides battle-tested, reliable Secret Internet Protocol Router (SIPR) and Nonsecure Internet Protocol Router (NIPR) connectivity and is designed using an EoIP (Everything-Over-IP) architecture to empower the Warfighter with seamless, secure interoperable communications in remote forward-deployed locations. "We are one of a few end-to-end providers of managed services for converged ... (more)

'Celebrity Fit Club: Boot Camp' Returns for a 7th Season With a Star-Studded Cast

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- As America embarks on a New Year full of resolutions to lose weight and make tough life changes, VH1 celebrates the new decade with a fresh season of "Celebrity Fit Club: Boot Camp." This season boasts a cast full of pop culture personalities ready to bare their bodies and souls as they dig in for the most grueling fitness program on television - designed to help them drop not only their flab, but also their emotional baggage. At the end of eight weeks, they will be lean, mean, Fit Club machines ready to face the world and show off their new hard bodies. "Celebrity Fit Club: Boot Camp" premieres on VH1 Monday, February 8 at 9:00 PM*. Battling the bulge this season are legendary R&B; bad boy Bobby Brown, Jay McCarroll (winner of "Project Runway", Season 1), KayCee Stroh ("High School Musical"), dancer and choreograph... (more)

Research and Markets: MEMS: CMOS Image Sensors Technologies & Markets - 2010 Disruptive Technologies Pave the Way to the Future of Digital Imaging Industry

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/55404e/mems_cmos_image_s) has announced the addition of the "MEMS: CMOS Image Sensors Technologies & Markets - 2010 Report" report to their offering. MEMS: CMOS Image Sensors Technologies & Markets - 2010 Disruptive technologies pave the way to the future of digital imaging industry Market trends Image sensors have come a long way since the first introduction of CCD sensor technology in the 1990s. They made a big jump in the 2000s with the introduction of CMOS sensor technology which gave birth to the low-cost, high volume camera phone market. Image sensors are now part of our everyday life: from cell-phone cameras, to notebook webcams, digital cameras, video camcorders to security & surveillance systems. In the future, new markets are also emerging such as sensors for medical applications, automoti... (more)

Light Reading Ramps Up for CTIA Wireless 2010(R)

NEW YORK, March 22 /PRNewswire/ -- UBM TechWeb's Light Reading (www.lightreading.com), the largest research-led media company serving the global communications marketplace, will have a large presence at CTIA Wireless 2010® this week. Light Reading Mobile's official CTIA Wireless 2010 news site is up and running and will provide CTIA attendees with up-to-the-minute show coverage - before, during, and after the event. Light Reading is also hosting two collocated conferences, the Tower Technology Summit, which includes an exhibit hall as well as targeted conference sessions; and Policy Control, DPI & the Mobile Packet Core. Additional activities at CTIA include Light Reading's research division, Pyramid Research, which will be speaking on the Bridging the Americas - Forging Into LATAM CTIA educational session. Light Reading and Light Reading Mobile's renowned ed... (more)

TV Adventurer, Mark Beaumont, to Face a Gruelling Row Across the Irish Sea

WEST MIDLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM -- (Marketwire) -- 06/07/11 -- Editors Note: There is a photo associated with this Press Release. Mark Beaumont became famous for his BAFTA nominated BBC documentary, 'The Man who Cycled the World', and best-selling book, which told the story of his record-breaking round-the-world bike ride. On the 9th and 10th of July, Mark will join a crew of adventurers on The Trip to Remember. The event will see the team cycle 45 miles from Dublin to Arklow; complete a night time row across the Irish Sea to Porthmadog; and finally hike 15 miles to the top of Snowdon. The 36-hour endurance event has been organised to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society whilst providing a unique challenge for its participants. Commenting on his decision to take part, Mark Beaumont said: "I am delighted to be involved in The Trip to Remember. The Irish Sea is a form... (more)

Verint Authorities to Address Customer Care, Social Media, Analytics, Quality and Processing Capacity Themes at Upcoming Events

Verint® Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: VRNT) today announced that several of its subject matter experts will participate in upcoming conferences and online events. With a focus on the customer experience and how to build Voice of the Customer (VoC) strategies and programs, they will explore the interworking and connections across customer care, social media and analytics. Additional sessions will highlight how back-office operations departments and functions can help improve processing capacity, the customer experience and ultimately the bottom line. Best practices and advances about how analytics can super charge quality programs also will be covered. Revolutionizing the Contact Center Using Speech Analytics and Chat Technologies April 3; CRMXchange Webinar Taking place April 3 at 1 p.m. ET, this online event will reveal how a leading U.S. health insurer has used speech an... (more)

Plixer Announces Netflow Analytics for Cisco Performance Routing

SANFORD, ME -- (Marketwire) -- 04/10/12 -- Plixer International, Inc., a leading provider of NetFlow-based network traffic reporting, today announced it has released Scrutinizer support for Cisco Performance Routing (PfR) metrics, developed to help optimize time-sensitive traffic through the network. The unique advantages of exporting PfR metrics for better network management via Flexible NetFlow will be discussed during a joint Cisco Systems/Plixer International webcast titled, "Cisco's Performance Routing and IP SLA with NetFlow," Tuesday, April 17th at 9am, 11am and 4pm EDT. "We are excited to be one of the first network traffic monitoring companies to support PfR. Its unique exports required our Flexible NetFlow collector to take a new approach to reporting on the data in their templates," said Michael Patterson, Product Manager, Co-Founder, Plixer International,... (more)

New Mobile Solution for Families: Be the First to Burst

BOSTON, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 06/19/12 -- Burst, a mobile solution for families, was launched today to help address a growing and persistent problem for people who struggle to find an easy and private way to share precious life moments with family, friends and loved ones. Founded by a team of successful entrepreneurs and investors, Burst is providing the next generation of family video and photo services for today's mobile and social users. With Burst users can: Capture photos and videos through the Burst mobile application on iPhone and Android devices Burst (or send) videos and photos with one simple touch to securely share moments with family and close friends Organize, store and safeguard videos and photos in the cloud at www.burst.it and access them from any internet-enabled device According to eMarketer, smartphone users will reach 106.7 million in 2012, up ... (more)

IoT & Smart Cities Stories
Dion Hinchcliffe is an internationally recognized digital expert, bestselling book author, frequent keynote speaker, analyst, futurist, and transformation expert based in Washington, DC. He is currently Chief Strategy Officer at the industry-leading digital strategy and online community solutions firm, 7Summits.
Digital Transformation is much more than a buzzword. The radical shift to digital mechanisms for almost every process is evident across all industries and verticals. This is often especially true in financial services, where the legacy environment is many times unable to keep up with the rapidly shifting demands of the consumer. The constant pressure to provide complete, omnichannel delivery of customer-facing solutions to meet both regulatory and customer demands is putting enormous pressure on...
IoT is rapidly becoming mainstream as more and more investments are made into the platforms and technology. As this movement continues to expand and gain momentum it creates a massive wall of noise that can be difficult to sift through. Unfortunately, this inevitably makes IoT less approachable for people to get started with and can hamper efforts to integrate this key technology into your own portfolio. There are so many connected products already in place today with many hundreds more on the h...
The standardization of container runtimes and images has sparked the creation of an almost overwhelming number of new open source projects that build on and otherwise work with these specifications. Of course, there's Kubernetes, which orchestrates and manages collections of containers. It was one of the first and best-known examples of projects that make containers truly useful for production use. However, more recently, the container ecosystem has truly exploded. A service mesh like Istio addr...
Digital Transformation: Preparing Cloud & IoT Security for the Age of Artificial Intelligence. As automation and artificial intelligence (AI) power solution development and delivery, many businesses need to build backend cloud capabilities. Well-poised organizations, marketing smart devices with AI and BlockChain capabilities prepare to refine compliance and regulatory capabilities in 2018. Volumes of health, financial, technical and privacy data, along with tightening compliance requirements by...
Charles Araujo is an industry analyst, internationally recognized authority on the Digital Enterprise and author of The Quantum Age of IT: Why Everything You Know About IT is About to Change. As Principal Analyst with Intellyx, he writes, speaks and advises organizations on how to navigate through this time of disruption. He is also the founder of The Institute for Digital Transformation and a sought after keynote speaker. He has been a regular contributor to both InformationWeek and CIO Insight...
Andrew Keys is Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise. He comes to ConsenSys Enterprise with capital markets, technology and entrepreneurial experience. Previously, he worked for UBS investment bank in equities analysis. Later, he was responsible for the creation and distribution of life settlement products to hedge funds and investment banks. After, he co-founded a revenue cycle management company where he learned about Bitcoin and eventually Ethereal. Andrew's role at ConsenSys Enterprise is a mul...
To Really Work for Enterprises, MultiCloud Adoption Requires Far Better and Inclusive Cloud Monitoring and Cost Management … But How? Overwhelmingly, even as enterprises have adopted cloud computing and are expanding to multi-cloud computing, IT leaders remain concerned about how to monitor, manage and control costs across hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. It’s clear that traditional IT monitoring and management approaches, designed after all for on-premises data centers, are falling short in ...
In his general session at 19th Cloud Expo, Manish Dixit, VP of Product and Engineering at Dice, discussed how Dice leverages data insights and tools to help both tech professionals and recruiters better understand how skills relate to each other and which skills are in high demand using interactive visualizations and salary indicator tools to maximize earning potential. Manish Dixit is VP of Product and Engineering at Dice. As the leader of the Product, Engineering and Data Sciences team at D...
Dynatrace is an application performance management software company with products for the information technology departments and digital business owners of medium and large businesses. Building the Future of Monitoring with Artificial Intelligence. Today we can collect lots and lots of performance data. We build beautiful dashboards and even have fancy query languages to access and transform the data. Still performance data is a secret language only a couple of people understand. The more busine...