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1289  THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] / Techno News / Toumaz Technology Announces Availability of Sensium™ Life Pebble Wireless Vital on: October 22, 2009, 06:24:06 PM
Abingdon, United Kingdom, October 22 2009 – Toumaz Technology Limited, the leading provider of ultra-low power wireless infrastructure for body monitoring solutions, today announces availability of the Sensium™ Life Pebble – a non-intrusive, body-worn wireless vital signs monitor that delivers real-time, high-quality data for healthcare applications. The Sensium Life Pebble module has been awarded a CE mark and is now available in the EU and all other countries that have adopted the CE standard for certified medical devices.

The Sensium™ Life Pebble TZ203002 is an ultra small, ultra-low power body-worn device that continuously monitors common vital signs – including ECG, heart rate, skin temperature, and physical activity – and streams data over a short range wireless link to a Sensium™ USB Network Adapter. The acquired clinical quality data is ready for incorporation into an electronic health record. The system’s SensiumSoft development software enables easy integration into larger systems.

Simple to use and robust in operation, the Life Pebble provides a powerful and flexible solution for physiological monitoring, including continuous vital sign studies, rehabilitation and assisted living programmes, and in professional sports applications. Key functionality offered by the Life Pebble device includes:

   Wireless monitoring of heart rate and activity optimised for ambulatory conditions
   Accurate electrically-derived heart rate from R to R peak measurements
   3-axis accelerometer to detect and measure physical activity
   Skin temperature sensor
   Robust data communication, even in noisy channels
   Up to 5 days’ operational use on a single hearing aid battery
   Light weight and ultra-small size (20gm with LR44 battery, excluding EKG leads)

The Life Pebble is based on new generation Sensium™ wireless technology that has been specifically designed for Body Area Networks (BANs) and non-intrusive physiological monitoring. Integrated intelligence and user programming offer a wide range of features and operating modes that can be readily configured according to application or regulatory requirements. Multiple sensor data can be transmitted continuously in raw form, or pre-processed in the Life Pebble itself to report only adverse or notable events, for example, automatic detection of falls or cardiac arrhythmias. As part of the Sensium ecosystem, multiple Life Pebbles may used in a plug-and-play body area network or integrated with other Sensium-enabled devices to provide new insights in physiology and care. A version of the Life Pebble for use in professional sports applications is in prototype.

“With the achievement of CE marking and the commercial availability of the Sensium Life Pebble, our Sensium technology is coming of age. Sensium is now being validated as a technology capable of delivering medical devices that provide clinical quality data but in form factors that offer the look, feel and experience of consumer products,” comments Keith Errey, CEO and Co-Founder of Toumaz Technology. He adds: “Sensium technology is establishing a new baseline that will have immediate and lasting impact on how we understand human physiology and how this can be democratised and placed in the hands of everyone who wishes to improve their health, change their lifestyle for the better or improve their performance in the sports and activities of their choosing.”

The Sensium Life Pebble ships with a full implementation kit, including Sensium USB Network Adapter and SensiumSoft development software. For more information about Sensium Life Pebble, please visit: http://www.toumaz.com/public/page.php?page=sensium_pebble

Members of the media interested in scheduling a briefing with Toumaz can do so by contacting Nicky Denovan at toumaz[at]evokedset[dot]com.

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About Toumaz Technology (www.toumaz.com)
Toumaz Technology Limited is the leading provider of ultra-low power wireless infrastructure for body monitoring solutions.

Toumaz’s ultra low-power smart sensor interface and transceiver platform – Sensium™ – enables non-intrusive, real-time wireless monitoring of multiple vital signs for a wide range of healthcare and lifestyle management applications. Based on Toumaz’s patented ultra-low power Advanced Mixed Signal (AMx)™ technology, the Sensium provides the enabling technology to connect the mobile individual to healthcare providers – simply, affordably and unobtrusively.

For healthcare professionals, this transforms the possibilities for pro-active monitoring and improved quality of care. For patients, it delivers new opportunities for lifestyle-compatible, personalised healthcare, as well as better therapeutic outcomes.

Press contacts:
Toumaz
Nicky Denovan
EvokedSet PR
toumaz [at] evokedset [dot] com
Phone: +44 844 870 8025
Mobile: +44 7747 017654


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1290  THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] / Techno News / tekom Annual Conference: Across Goes Convergent on: October 22, 2009, 03:46:50 PM
Karlsbad, Germany. With more than 1,600 square feet of exhibition space, Across Systems GmbH (hall 1, booth 115) will again be the largest exhibitor at the tekom Annual Conference in Wiesbaden, Germany, Nov. 4-6, 2009. With its technology partners and language service providers, the manufacturer of corporate translation management solutions will show how tightly technical editing, information management, and multilingualism are interwoven. Thanks to its variable interface architecture, the Across Language Server allows the establishment of a central platform for all corporate language resources and translation processes combined with any level of integration to interacting solutions. This enables seamless processes from the composition of a text to high-quality translation, resulting in more transparency and substantial time and cost savings in the field of multilingual product and enterprise communication.

The tekom Annual Conference is the world's most important industry event for technical communication. It combines the fields of technical documentation, information and knowledge management, language technology, and translation. By focusing on the subject of "convergence" at this year's exhibition, Across will stress how closely these areas are interlinked.

crossAuthor Linguistic Integrates Author Support
One aspect is the unification of the processes for creating product and enterprise communication on the one hand and their translation to other languages on the other. In this context, Across will present its new Across v5 product generation at the Annual Conference; currently, this is the only solution in the market that integrates full author support. In addition to showing the author the correct terminology and corresponding text segments, it also offers rule-based linguistic quality management. This ensures translation-oriented authoring, which ultimately results in a higher translation quality and minimized translation costs.

Across Synergizes with Numerous Partners
The unification of the various segments in technical communication will also be evident in the large Across Partner Area, where numerous language service providers and technology partners will feature their solutions that implement seamless processes via the open interfaces of Across, such as the seamless exchange and synchronization of content between content management systems and the Across translation environment. The range of partners includes DHW - ASIM division, E4NET, EnssnerZeitgeist, Eule, Jabro, Janus, Lots of Dots, Netzwerkstatt, Sprachenwelt, Transline, and Wohanka & Kollegen. Several other Across partners will participate with their own booths.

At this year's tekom Annual Conference, Across will feature a number of user reports and specialized lectures. Across will also participate in the technology podiums, which tekom offers for the first time this year, with two presentations.

Across v5 Introduces Business Intelligence
"Language Technology meets Business Intelligence" is the motto under which Across Systems offers its new v5 product generation. With various new modules and functionalities, Across shows how business intelligence subjects are now applied in language technology. This includes the provision of informative indicators, the automation of processes, and the smart use of language resources with text mining methods.

"More than any other system manufacturer, Across uses an integrated approach. We position our solution as a platform for all corporate language resources and translation processes," says Niko Henschen, CEO of Across. "The topics of the tekom Annual Conference reflect the trend toward convergence of authoring and translation management. Therefore, we consider it as one of the most important events for multilingual product and enterprise communication."

About Across Systems (www.across.net)
Across Systems, based in Karlsbad, Germany, and in Glendale, CA, is the manufacturer of the Across Language Server – the world's leading independent linguistic supply chain technology.

The Across Language Server is a central software platform for all corporate language resources and for controlling translation processes and workflows. The system simplifies, accelerates, and improves the management, coordination, and implementation of translations. Open interfaces enable the direct integration of corresponding systems, e.g. CMS, catalog, or ERP solutions. By using Across, translation costs can be cut drastically, and the investment in Across usually pays off in a very short time.
Across Systems GmbH:
Phone: +49 7248 925-425
info[at]across[dot]net

Press contact
Across in Europe:
good news! GmbH
Dr. Claudia Rudisch
Phone: +49 451 88199-21
Fax: +49 451 88199-29
Across[at]goodnews[dot]de
www.goodnews.de

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1291  THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] / Techno News / 74 per cent increase in businesses going online for mentoring on: October 21, 2009, 04:33:41 PM
Small businesses and entrepreneurs across the UK are going online in their droves, for mentoring and support, according to figures released by horsesmouth.co.uk, the social networking site. The website reported a 74 per cent increase in visits to the business pages and profiles on the site between July to September 2009, compared with the previous quarter, as the economic outlook improves.

The statistics also highlight that female business mentors on the horsesmouth website send 50 per cent more mentoring messages than their male counterparts, indicating that they tend to form more ongoing relationships, whereas men may give more quickfire advice.

Horsesmouth, is the world’s first social networking site for informal online mentoring, encouraging people to connect on the basis of shared experiences to help and support each other online. The site is increasingly popular with business people, enabling fledging companies and entrepreneurs the chance to benefit from free advice within a safe, hosted and moderated online environment. The mentoring all happens one-to-one and online so it can be done at anytime from anywhere.

For the second year running, horsesmouth.co.uk is launching the Mentoring Works Awards, in conjunction with Yell – the international directories business. The awards celebrate the valuable role that mentors are playing by giving up their free time and their valuable knowledge to help others starting up, growing or simply managing a business.

Yell and horsesmouth.co.uk are on the hunt for ‘inspirational mentors’, and are calling for those who have benefited from online mentoring to nominate the person or people who have supported them over the past year. Winning mentors could have done a range of things that really made a difference: given the right encouragement at the right time; helped someone through a crisis; signposted someone to fantastic resources, or passed on some great learnings from their own experiences.

MT Rainey, founder and CEO of horsesmouth.co.uk, said: “We’re delighted that more and more business people are discovering and using this unique resource. Very often people running small businesses do not have ‘networks’ or mentors outside of friends and family, so horsesmouth gives them easy and convenient access to thousands of willing and experienced mentors who they would never otherwise meet. We want to celebrate the mentors here – who are really doing it to ‘give something back’.”

Kimberley Watts-Fitzsimmons, corporate responsibility manager for Yell in the UK, added: “It’s very inspiring that as well as the increase in searches for online mentoring, there is a wealth of talented mentors on the horsesmouth site ready to help share their experiences and advice. Yell has always championed start-ups and small businesses and this is another way in which we help support UK enterprise.”

The awards are divided into three categories:
• The Yell Small Business Mentor of the Year – from adjudicated nominations
• The Editor’s Prize for Mentoring – for the best story or pearl of wisdom published on horsesmouth.co.uk; and
• The M-Factor Award – for the business mentor with the highest M-Factor rating on the horsesmouth website
The winner of the Small Business Mentor of the Year will receive £1,000, and the other award winners will each win £500. The competition opened at 12pm (noon) on Tuesday 13th October, and will close at 12pm (noon) on Thursday 31st December. The winners will be announced on 15 January, 2010. Further details can be found at http://www.horsesmouth.co.uk/publisha.content/yell/

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HORSESMOUTH MENTOR CASE STUDY
ANDREW ARMOUR
Andrew became a mentor on horsesmouth a year ago. During that time, he has used his marketing and business partnerships experience to provide business guidance to 12 mentees.
On average, he spends around 30 minutes answering questions from the mentees who are – generally – thinking of starting up a business and needing initial advice and guidance.
Andrew’s role as a mentor on horsesmouth has been rewarding in various areas – from becoming more familiar with the social media platform, to understanding problems quickly and then being able to deliver sound, succinct advice. He comments:

“Since you do not know the mentee, you are forced to think very clearly before you answer, which can be hard to do – but worthwhile. The process of advising someone in this way is quite tough and a good learning technique in terms of building responsibility for yourself… it’s a simple and contemporary way to give something back.”

Notes to editors
About horsesmouth.co.uk:
horsesmouth.co.uk, the world’s first ‘pro-social’ networking site is purpose-built for online mentoring on a wide range of topics including education, careers, health, families and relationships and is free and available to anyone over the age of 16. The site is professionally hosted, managed and moderated and all profiles, stories and weblinks are approved before posting.
Horsesmouth is a Social Enterprise and was Founded in 2008 by advertising entrepreneur and prominent media industry figure MT (Mary Teresa) Rainey, who co-founded the top five advertising agency Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R.
The horsesmouth community is growing swiftly and the site was named as one of the top 25 ‘Web 2.0’ start-ups in the UK in 2007 by The Register.
The site was initially funded by Edge, the foundation which campaigns to raise the status of practical and vocational learning, and v, the charity launched to champion youth volunteering in England. The site generates revenue from hosting partnerships with third and private sector organisations.

About Yell:
Yell is a leading international directories business operating in classified advertising markets in the UK, US, Spain and Latin America through printed, online and telephone-based media.
Yell’s principal brands include: in the UK, Yellow Pages, Yell.com and 118 24 7 in the US, Yellow Book and Yellowbook.com; and in Spain, Paginas Amarillas and PaginasAmarillas.es. All these brands are trademarks.
Yell's online image library, containing product shots and logos can be found at: www.yellgroup.com/images
www.yellgroup.com

For further information and interviews, please contact:
Katrina Suppiah/Kristina Fearnley, Publicité (for horsesmouth)
Tel: + 44 (0)20 8543 6582/+44 (0)7809 028711
Email: [email protected]/[email protected]

Demelza Fryer-Saxby, Yell Press Office
Tel: 0118 9506977 / 0783 4893174
Email: [email protected]

Jon Salmon, Yell Press Office
Tel: 0118 9506656 / 0780 1977340
Email: [email protected]

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Tel: +44 7747 017654
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1292  THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] / Techno News / TradeDoubler Rebrands The Search Works to TD Search in UK and France on: October 20, 2009, 06:20:41 PM
London, 20 October 2009 – TradeDoubler, the number one pan-European digital marketing company, today announced that The Search Works in the UK and France will be rebranded to
TD Search, effective immediately, bringing it in line with the rest of TradeDoubler’s TD Search businesses across Europe. The rebranding is the final step in the successful integration of The Search Works into The TradeDoubler Group, following one of the largest acquisitions in the online advertising industry in July 2007.

The rebranding also paves the way for future product expansion to leverage the Group’s technology investment under a single pan-European brand. In 2010, TradeDoubler will announce a number of significant developments, including the launch of its single platform to manage holistic digital marketing programmes across the major online disciplines in search, display and affiliate. The single platform will deliver more informed budget allocation, more effective campaigns and even stronger results for customers.

“Integrating the IP, sales teams, and technical expertise from one of the world’s biggest search engine optimisation companies with one of the industry’s largest online marketing companies creates a powerful solution for complex, cross-border, multi-lingual search campaigns that can be coordinated through a single point of contact,” said Simon Burgess, UK Managing Director for TradeDoubler. “TD Search has already seen great traction with notable new international search campaigns for customers such as Avis, VisitBritain and Octopus Travel in recent months. The rebranding to TD Search in the UK and France is the next step in executing against our strategy for pan-European expansion, unified product development and further internationalisation.”

TradeDoubler’s portfolio of digital expertise now spans search, display, affiliate and technology with its TD Search, TD Campaigns, TD Affiliate, TD Searchware and TD Integral businesses. The rebranding in the UK and France is a continuation of the rebranding process that began at the beginning of 2009. There are no changes to customer service or account management, other than logo and name changes at all points of contact.

With its extensive reach in 19 countries worldwide, TradeDoubler delivers 32 billion impressions per month, reaching 149 million unique users and generating 10 million leads every month. The Group offers unrivalled access to more than 76% of the European online audience through its publisher networks, which comprise more than 128,000 active website publishers and in excess of 1,800 advertisers.

About TradeDoubler
TradeDoubler is an international digital marketing company offering a range of performance-based marketing solutions. TradeDoubler's products and services provide companies with the tools and expertise to drive results online whether they are looking to generate sales, leads or traffic or drive brand awareness. Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, the company boasts a unique global reach spanning 19 countries in Europe and Japan. With a breadth of expertise across multiple industry sectors and a network of more than 128,000 website publishers, TradeDoubler helps deliver results for over 1,700 advertisers including a mix of local and international companies such as Apple Store, Dell, TeliaSonera and Kelkoo.

TradeDoubler is listed on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm Exchange. Please visit www.tradedoubler.com for further information.

For further information, please contact:
Els De Witte
Marketing Director
TradeDoubler
Tel: +44 (0)20 7798 5814
Email: [email protected]

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Tel: +44 7747 017654
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1293  THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] / Techno News / Tradeclips launches to solve digital content headache for businesses on: October 20, 2009, 03:07:03 PM
London, 19 October 2009 – Tradeclips, the world’s first full-service video, audio, text and picture media sharing site for the communications industries, has been launched. Developed by the owners of Newslink, Tradeclips offers the media and digital content community a simple, secure and cost effective way to store, manage, publish and syndicate all types of digital media files - at a fraction of the cost of traditional providers.

The service will officially be launched at an exclusive party at the newly re-furbished London Aquarium on 19th November 2009. To enquire about invitations, register here www.tradeclips.com/launch

The launch of Tradeclips responds directly to the rapid growth of digital media content in the enterprise space. For a range of agencies, from online news to digital, photo, video and PR, the need to manage digital assets, both picture and video, has become a costly and logistical headache. Gartner’s 2008 survey stated that only about half of enterprises have digital asset management (DAM) products currently in place and that about 25% intended, at the time, to add it in the near term (before the end of 2009)*.

Tradeclips is a natural extension to the Newslink service which for more than 20 years has delivered written content directly and securely to the desktops of the national news media outlets.

Tradeclips features include:
- Fast, secure upload of all digital media files, including video, audio, text, photo and support for all Microsoft Office documents
- Constant communications stream into news decision makers via Tradeclips’ own media relationships; an established database of every major UK news outlet
- Monthly hosting payment with no upload or download charges – providing potentially huge cost savings to users
- Distribution of multiple media files via Tradeclips’ unique ‘Packages’ service, which enables users to link related media files for ease of viewing by recipients
- Syndication of material to existing and new contacts at the click of a button

Tradeclips’ CEO, James Powell-Tuck said: “Whether you consume or create digital content, the explosion in images and video cannot have gone unnoticed in recent years. The rich experience of online news which uses video, images and text is now common, but managing this content is increasingly causing businesses logistical and financial headaches.”

Adding: “If you create digital content, Tradeclips is an excellent store-front which can help you monetise your asset with a ready-made national media audience. If you use digital images and video, Tradeclips will quickly become the one stop shop to source high-quality digital media content.”

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For more information about Tradeclips, or if you would like to attend the launch party, please register here: www.tradeclips.com/launch

Hayley Buery, Switch Communications, [email protected] tel: 07545 178 006

About Tradeclips
Tradeclips has been developed by a team of media messaging professionals which includes working journalists, photographers and PR professionals. They are part of the media community and understand the specific needs of those working in it, and that is why Tradeclips has been designed - to make media professionals’ lives easier.

It is the first truly dedicated online service offering those working in newspaper publishing, broadcasting, public relations and marketing a simple, secure and cost-effective way to take in, manage, store and syndicate multimedia files between colleagues, clients and other Tradeclips subscribers.

Tradeclips is part of the Wirefast group of companies, which includes Newslink, the industry-standard news and picture wire service that has built up a reputation for secure, guaranteed delivery to the UK and Irish news industry over the last 20 plus years. It has already been endorsed by the Public Relations Consultants Association (PRCA) and welcomed by publishers and broadcasters as the best way of bringing multimedia content from the media and PR industries to the attention of news decision makers.

The service is committed to bringing the same high levels of credibility, service and security to delivering new media content to the ever-changing needs of the media world – a commitment rooted in the desire to become the industry standard in digital media storage, management, publication and syndication – where the media comes for media.

About Newslink
For over 20 years, the news publishers and broadcasters have relied on Newslink for the collection of content from independent news agencies, freelance journalists and official sources. During this period, both the industry and technology have changed considerably. However the basic requirements of publishers have remained the same: that material is received by Editorial as fast as possible, in the format an editor needs, and if something goes wrong, there’s always somebody to call.

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1294  THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] / Techno News / Institute of Biomedical Engineering Win Top Innovation Prize on: October 19, 2009, 08:38:43 PM
London, United Kingdom, October 19 2009 – The Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, today announces that it has been honoured with a top prize for innovation at the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) Awards 2009. The Institute was named overall winner in the category of “Outstanding Contribution to Innovation and Technology.” The awards were announced at a gala ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on Thursday 15th October.

Now in their fifth year, the Times Higher Education Awards are the leading awards for the higher education sector, created to recognise, celebrate and reward the highest standards of excellence and talent in UK academia. This year the awards attracted over 600 entries from more than 130 higher education institutions.

The Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBE) was recognised by the panel of specially selected judges for its sheer breadth of innovation in the areas of medical diagnosis and treatment, personalised healthcare, regenerative medicine and biomedical imaging. The panel was impressed by the range of innovation achieved and its transferability into other fields.

The IBE, which opened its state-of-the-art, purpose-built facilities in 2006, combines the strengths of Imperial’s world class research schools in engineering and medicine to drive major advances in biomedical technology, and accelerate the commercial realisation of technologies to improve the lives of people around the world.

Commenting on the award win, Professor Christofer Toumazou, Director and Chief Scientist of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London said: “We are extremely proud to receive this special honour from the preeminent awards in the higher education sector. Our ambition at the Institute is to deliver breakthrough advances in technology that enable people to lead independent lives despite illness, ageing and disability, and we are thrilled that the innovation and leadership demonstrated by the entire IBE team has been recognised in this way.”

Ann Mroz, editor of Times Higher Education, said of the winning entry: “Imperial’s contribution to innovation and technology is simply too large to be ignored. The projects from the Institute of Biomedical Engineering are transforming lives in an enormous range of pioneering ways.”

For more information about current research at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, please visit: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/biomedeng

For the full list of THE Award winners, please visit: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/theawards

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Notes to editors

1. About Imperial College London
Consistently rated amongst the world's best universities, Imperial College London is a science-based institution with a reputation for excellence in teaching and research that attracts 13,000 students and 6,000 staff of the highest international quality.

Innovative research at the College explores the interface between science, medicine, engineering and business, delivering practical solutions that improve quality of life and the environment - underpinned by a dynamic enterprise culture.
Since its foundation in 1907, Imperial's contributions to society have included the discovery of penicillin, the development of holography and the foundations of fibre optics. This commitment to the application of research for the benefit of all continues today, with current focuses including interdisciplinary collaborations to improve health in the UK and globally, tackle climate change and develop clean and sustainable sources of energy.

Website: www.imperial.ac.uk

2. About the Institute of Biomedical Engineering
The Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBE) was founded to create an international centre of excellence in biomedical engineering research. Its state-of-the-art, purpose-built facilities opened in 2006.

Combining the strengths of two world class research schools in engineering and medicine, the IBE draws together scientists, medics and engineers to apply their extensive expertise to create revolutionary progress in medical diagnosis and treatment. Through this interdisciplinary approach, the IBE is delivering a world-leading combined research capability to tackle the major challenges in modern healthcare – applying advances in technology to enable people to lead independent and productive lives despite illness, ageing and disability.

The research programme is focused at the intersections between the platform technologies in science and engineering, including systems biology, materials, imaging and nanotechnology, and medical applications, such as bionics, biomechanics and tissue engineering.
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/biomedeng

PRESS CONTACT:
Nicky Denovan
EvokedSet
Email: nicky
  • evokedset.com
Tel: +44 (0)844 870 8025
Mobile: +44 (0)7747 017654

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1295  THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] / Techno News / Technopolis Launches Technopolis Online and Q3 VC Report on: October 19, 2009, 03:08:18 PM
Technopolis Online is a world class tool for international investors to find, contact and invest in Finnish high-tech companies. The database contains over 1,500 high tech companies, 155 investors and over 2,300 key people from the Finnish High-Tech ecosystem, which ranks at the top of innovation economies around the world. The key feature is the Investment Tracker, which currently lists investments, both public and private, into Finnish high tech companies from 1999 to today.
 
Will Cardwell, Director of Technopolis Development Services is clearly excited about the new service. “We started working on Technopolis Online more than a year ago with a goal to create the best information source about the Finnish high tech environment for international and local investors, as well as entrepreneurs. Inbound and outbound transparency is our singular goal, and we believe that transparency itself will lead to more international success for Finnish companies.”

A beta version of Technopolis Online was launched in April 2009: “During the closed beta, we’ve had more than 30 international investors testing Technopolis Online from over ten different countries. The feedback has been tremendous and has already resulted in a few investment cases”, Cardwell continues. For example, Nic Brisbourne of DFJEsprit in London says: “Technopolis Online is one of the best tools we have seen for building visibility for local tech markets. We use it for our initial screens on potential investment opportunities in Finland.”

One crucial element to increase the investments into Finland is to improve the fundability of companies. Technopolis has teamed up with Datamonitor’s Ovum and Business Insights databases to give Finnish companies access to world class reports and tools. With Technopolis Online, companies will get access to hundreds of reports from different high tech industries, which are worth thousands of Euros.

Q3 Report on Finnish Venture Capital Market
The Technopolis Online Q3 report is a digest of all investment activities that happened in Finland during the past quarter. The key point that the Q3 report highlights is that the amount of financing that companies raised during the last quarter was significantly less than a year ago. In Q3 2009, companies were able to raise slightly over 8 million euros, while a year ago the number was €19.3 million, which amounts to an almost 58% drop.
Finnish companies reported only two minor investments during August, leading the month to be one of the lowest months recorded in the history of venture capital in Finland. A positive signal was increased investment activity in September 2009 (€7.3 million) when compared to September 2008 (€5 million). It was the first month since April 2009 that performed better than the same month a year earlier.

Technopolis Online is accessible at www.technopolisonline.com.

Inquiries:
Artur Surov, Business Development Advisor, Technopolis Development Services +358 41 501 0732, artur.surov[at]technopolis[dot]fi

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1296  THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] / Techno News / Small-to-Medium Businesses Cut IT Costs with NX on: October 15, 2009, 04:03:28 PM
Rome, Italy – With SMBs taking the brunt of the economic downturn, more and more are looking for new ways to cut IT costs, enhance employee performance and improve customer satisfaction to establish steady productivity and growth over time. NoMachine NX offers a solution to meet their needs, providing a complete high-performance remote access and hosted application solution, at a price they can afford.

According to Spiceworks' annual survey of SMB tech departments, 39 percent of small and medium businesses reported budget cuts in 2009, averaging a 22 percent reduction in IT funding. Many companies are focusing on long-term IT investments that contribute directly to their bottom line, like reducing costs and boosting productivity. NX provides SMBs with a server consolidation and desktop virtualization solution to reduce their IT budgets by providing a unique and predictable all-inclusive, per-server pricing structure.

The cost-effective NX Small Business Server is designed for small to medium businesses with strict IT budgets, who require a product to provide access to small workgroups and branch departments. NoMachine's complete range of server products, tools and support options provide any environment the flexibility to grow with ease and adapt to changing business dynamics. Businesses can upgrade to NX Enterprise Server or NX Advanced Server to scale their network to match growth and support unlimited users and connections.

For example, Commerce Corporation, the leading distributor for manufacturers in the lawn and garden industry, chose NoMachine NX as a cost-effective remote access solution for their geographically dispersed sales reps. NX enabled their business expansion into a premier supplier of exclusive products and value-added services.

Commerce's application developer, Steve Romanow said, “NoMachine has been flexible enough to provide numerous implementation choices. As we expand our business, I am confident that NoMachine will continue to provide us with the most cost-effective, well managed, remote access, anywhere we need it, through their amazing NX technology."

Keeping travel and energy costs to a minimum are also essential ways to reduce spending for many SMBs. These cost-cutting initiatives become reality with NX, which allows employees to access centralized office-based applications from home or other remote locations, and at the same time enhance work force productivity. Its fast performance over any network guarantees maximized end user experience, and the NX Client can transform any device into a thin client, ready for remotely accessing hosted desktops on the office server.

According to a report from Forrester Research which surveyed businesses during Q2 of this year, SMBs are still depending on outsourcing IT solutions and consulting services to improve their bottom lines and provide specialized skills and knowledge, strategic tactics, a depth of experience and access to the most current technologies. NoMachine has a long list of worldwide trusted partners who understand the needs of SMBs in their industry and can deliver value-rich consulting services finely-tuned to these smaller niche companies.

Small local newspapers turn to Software Consulting Services (SCS), a valued NoMachine partner, to provide remote access to media and publishing applications on Linux-based servers via NX. They depend on SCS for a trusted solution, personalized training and communication, and a deeper understanding of the software they are using.

Founder and co-owner of SCS, Martha Cichelli said, “We include NX exclusively in all of our proposals for the Linux Server because we want to offer our customers the best solution possible.”

Software administrator for Sun Media, John Mosley said, “With Layout-8000 from SCS and NoMachine NX, everything is at our fingertips, no matter what our location, creating an easily manageable network. NoMachine NX's seamless training and setup makes it easy to use and make adjustments along the way as well.”

With all of these issues gaining importance and affecting where SMBs are headed for the future, the need for an affordable, yet high-performance hosted desktop and application delivery solution continues to grow. NoMachine NX meets the needs of these environments providing enterprise-class performance, features and tools along with small business-class flexibility and price.

About NoMachine
Based in Rome, Italy, NoMachine is the creator of award-winning NX software, an enterprise-class solution for secure remote access, application delivery, and hosted desktop deployment. Since 2001, NoMachine's mission has been to revolutionize the way users access their computing resources across the Internet to make seamless desktop access as easy and widespread as Web browsing. NoMachine provides a comprehensive software infrastructure stack, core development, and support services built around the self-designed and self-developed NX suite of advanced components. For more information about NoMachine NX technology, please visit http://www.nomachine.com.

About Commerce Corporation
Commerce Corporation, just like most of the independent garden centers it serves, is a family business spanning over 80 years and three generations. Commerce has grown a company with 450 team members, 125 dedicated sales consultants, 5 state-of-the-art distribution centers, a fleet of trucks, and a will to provide the best service in lawn & garden.

About Software Consulting Services, LLC
With over 30 years of experience serving the newspaper industry worldwide, SCS offers enterprise-wide and modular publishing solutions for advertising order entry and billing, edition design, ad dummying classified pagination, production workflow, digital asset management, editorial workflow and archiving. SCS is dedicated to continuous system development, innovative technology and reliable customer support. More than 300 newspapers in the United Sates and abroad use SCS every day.

Media Contact:
Katie Glossner
NoMachine Marketing and Public Relations
513-618-2652
glossner[at]nomachine[dot]com

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1297  THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] / Techno News / CLS Communication launches new company website on: October 14, 2009, 04:39:09 PM
Zurich. CLS Communication has launched a brand new company website (http://www.cls-communication.com)designed to provide intuitive, one-click access to information and to modernise the company's visual image.

The site offers current and prospective clients a wide range of useful information, including a uniformly designed series of PDF brochures on specific sectors and topics that are available for download. The company's online services can also be accessed using links available on the homepage: CLS e-Trans (via Order online) and myCLS (via Login). Contact pages are available for every CLS office, including those of Lexi-tech International, a recent Canadian acquisition.

About CLS Communication
CLS Communication is an international provider of multilingual communications and technology services, primarily in the fields of finance and life science. Headquartered in Switzerland, the company specialises in copywriting, translation and management of multilingual texts. CLS Communication has several hundred in-house specialists in Europe, North America and Asia as well as a global network of more than 1,500 language professionals.

Further information
For further information, please e-mail pressrelations[at]cls-communication[dot]com or use CLS Communication's online contact form.
CLS Communication AG
Dianastrasse 6
Postfach 1003
CH-8039 Zürich
Phone: +41 1 206 68 68
Fax +41 1 206 68 90
info-ch[at]cls-communication[dot]com
www.cls-communication.com

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1298  THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] / Techno News / CSR Unveils Newest SiRFstarIV Family Member on: October 08, 2009, 07:54:25 PM
LOCATION 2.0 SUMMIT, SAN DIEGO, Calif., October 8, 2009 – CSR plc., a leading provider of GPS-powered location platforms, today introduced the SiRFstarIV™ GSD4e GPS location processor, the newest member of the recently launched SiRFstarIV architecture, an innovation that promises to redefine the meaning of “location awareness” for mobile devices. Building upon the SiRFstarIV architecture’s high-performance and micro-power capabilities, the GSD4e adds a built-in CPU and innovations such as SiRFGeoRecov™ technology that are optimized to ensure continuous location awareness in a new breed of digital cameras, portable game consoles, wearable platforms and other consumer devices, without loading the host processor.

“Adding the GSD4e to our SiRFstarIV portfolio gives our customers the choice of both plug-in and host-based implementations of our breakthrough location awareness technology for greater flexibility in creating a variety of geo-aware mobile devices, furthering our vision of making location truly a part of everyday life.” said Kanwar Chadha, chief marketing officer for CSR and founder of SiRF. “And because it has a built-in processor, the GSD4e makes it easy to quickly integrate location awareness into existing platforms, enables development of innovative modules and products with customizable differentiation and provides our extensive SiRFstarIII™ customer community with a seamless upgrade path.”

Leading module vendors worldwide, including Vincotech, Navman Wireless, Kyocera, Mitsumi and SEMCO, are designing modules with the GSD4e in Q4 2009, accelerating time to market for SiRFstarIV-enabled consumer products.

The GSD4e’s innovative adaptive accuracy and SiRFGeoRecov technologies make it possible to instantly geo-tag images or videos with a camera or camcorder and improve the accuracy as better GPS information becomes available. It also enables people to locate social networking friends on a smartphone, track a jogging course with a wearable device, perform location-based searches with a laptop or netbook or find their way through buildings and urban canyons with a pedestrian navigation system. And it can do all these things in everyday environments, and in many cases even if the device has been turned off for weeks or months. Unlike other GPS solutions on the market today that many times fail to provide any location fix at all, the GSD4e ensures that devices are on the “location grid,” even in extremely low signal conditions. And the GSD4e’s sophisticated motion-sensing algorithms ensure advanced power management and stable, accurate positioning, even when standing still.

Much broader in applicability, easier to design and more flexible than host-based architectures, the GSD4e is a complete position-velocity-time (PVT) solution. It not only opens the door to a new class of location-aware consumer devices, but also raises the performance bar in the traditional GPS engine market for smartphones, GPS modules, multi-radio modules and similar applications. The GSD4e can navigate to -160 dBm and track to -163 dBm, and for smartphone customers the GSD4e offers an extraordinary 7.5-dB 3GPP pass margin and high E911 sensitivity to ensure success in virtually any handset design. It also offers a fully certified A-GPS protocol stack with quick drop-in to multiple smartphone operating systems. The GSD4e consumes only 8 mW in 1-Hz TricklePower mode, and can maintain hot-start conditions continuously in SiRFaware mode while drawing as little as 50-400 microampere. Its enhanced SiRFNavPlus navigation engine ensures seamless car and pedestrian navigation in extremely tough urban canyon and dense foliage environments.

Available in both ROM and flash supported versions, the GSD4e is the first CSR product to come with patented SiRFInstantFix™ synthetic ephemeris technology as a standard feature for even greater performance. On-chip active jammer removal, a key feature of the SiRFstarIV architecture, not only eliminates electrical noise commonly associated with the motors, LCD screens and other components commonly found in smartphones, cameras, game consoles and other consumer devices, but also pinpoints for designers much earlier in the development process the precise strength and source of these interfering signals, enabling them to be contained in the design phase rather than in later, more costly test phases. The GSD4e also supports a full range of satellite-based augmentation systems, including WAAS, EGNOS, MSAS and GAGAN.

“The ROM version of the GSD4e GPS engine has the advantage of being an extremely cost-effective, small and low-power solution with complete location capability for easy integration into space and processing resource constrained consumer devices,” said Sunil Gopinath, senior product marketing manager for CSR’s consumer business unit. “The flash version gives customers access to extra throughput of the CPU, more flexibility to customize and quick access to new, innovative algorithms from CSR, while our development tools enable them to create custom software to run on the GSD4e processor and flash memory, and thus add their own innovations.”

Gopinath explains that the GSD4e has built-in circuitry and temperature adaptive software that allows it to replace a temperature compensated crystal oscillator (TCXO) with a low-cost crystal, thus enabling bill of materials (BOM) conscious customers to design GPS into their products with the lowest BOM cost in the market today.

He also explains that the GSD4e’s integrated eFuse technology helps customers take system configuration to the next level by electronically setting custom configurations at system boot-up instead of the time consuming manual software changes inherent in current products in the market today.

The ROM version measures a 3.5 mm × 3.2 mm, and comes in a 42-ball, 0.5-mm pitch wafer level chip scale (WLCSP) package. The flash version measures 5 mm × 7.2 mm, and comes in a 103-ball, 0.5-mm pitch ball grid array (BGA) package.

The GSD4e combines RF receiver and integrated LNA, baseband circuitry, switcher and low-current LDOs on a single chip, and requires only five to six external passive components and a single SAW to provide a complete solution that occupies less than 25 square millimeters, including switcher parts.

The SiRFstarIV Advantage
The SiRFstarIV architecture core is comprised of a high-performance GPS location engine, smart location sensor interface, adaptive micro-power manager and active jammer remover, which together deliver:
• Twice the search capacity of the industry proven SiRFstarIII™ architecture, resulting in enhanced sensitivity, reduced time-to-fix and improved positional accuracy
• Advanced micro-power management and integrated switched-mode regulation that maintains hot-start conditions with minimal energy (50-400 microamperes)
• Intelligent MEMs sensor support (for accelerometers and other sensors) that improves the location experience, enabling greater contextual awareness, more sophisticated energy management and enhanced indoor positional accuracy
• Advanced DSP technology that actively searches for jammers and removes them prior to correlation for maximum GPS performance and design troubleshooting.

Availability and Pricing
The CSR SiRFstarIV GSD4e single-chip GPS engine with external flash memory is available in sample quantities this month. The ROM version will be available later this quarter. Production quantities are scheduled for the first quarter of 2010. Please contact your local CSR sales office for pricing information.

About CSR
CSR is a leading provider of multifunction connectivity and location platforms. CSR’s technology portfolio includes Bluetooth, GPS, GNSS, FM, Wi-Fi (IEEE802.11), UWB, NFC and other technologies to enable silicon platforms that incorporate fully integrated radio, baseband and microcontroller elements.

CSR’s Connectivity Centre is designed to enhance the user experience with mainstream mobile devices by intelligent integration of multiple wireless connectivity and location-awareness technologies. CSR’s Location Platforms are complemented by wireless connectivity and multimedia capabilities for high-volume mobile consumer devices and commercial applications.

CSR’s technology has been adopted by market leaders into a wide range of mobile consumer devices such as mobile phones, automobile navigation and telematics systems, portable navigation devices (PNDs), wireless headsets, mobile computers, mobile internet devices, GPS recreational devices, digital cameras, mobile gaming, plus a wide range of personal and commercial tracking applications.

CSR and SiRF merged on June 26, 2009, and SiRF Technology Holdings, Inc. became a member of the CSR group of companies.
More information can be found at www.csr.com.

press contact for SiRF in Europe
Birgit Guenther - BG.Concept
birgit.guenther[at]bgc[dot]de
+491729736361

press contact for CSR in Europe
David Marsden/Siobhan Gaffan
EML
+44 (0)20 8408-8000
csr[at]eml[dot]com

U.S:
Lori Evans
Evans Public Relations
+1 (650) 200-5891
lori[at]evanspublicrelations[dot]com

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1299  THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] / Techno News / 118 24 7 wins “Best UK Service” award on: October 07, 2009, 07:11:13 PM
118 24 7, the UK business telephone numbers and directory enquiries service from directories business Yell, has won the title of “Best UK Service” for a fourth year at major international awards for the information services industry.

The win gives the service a 100 per cent success rate for each year the category has been run in the International Directory Assistance Awards – a significant track record and a reflection of Yell’s focus over the years in establishing a high quality service run from UK call centres.

118 24 7 also clinched awards for “Best Marketing Campaign” and “Customer Service Agent of the Year” in the 2009 awards, organised by the independent industry monitor 118tracker.com.

Its win in the “Best Marketing Campaign” follows 118 24 7’s highly successful advertising campaign earlier this year across TV, radio and online, and based on the cult internet cartoon character “Magical Trevor”.

Matthew Bottomley, director of new media product marketing for Yell in the UK, said: “When you promote a service with the tag line of ‘Directory Heaven’, it is vital that the experience lives up to the billing.

“We have continued to build on our track record for excellent service, through highly effective staff training and a determined focus on always putting our callers first. Our clutch of awards in a strongly contested international event is a huge endorsement of the quality of our service and our people.”

118 24 7, which operates from call centres in Bristol and Newport, secured the “Best UK Service” award after being judged on criteria including service quality and performance management, efficiency and innovation.

The “Customer Service Agent of the Year” title went to Bristol call centre agent Kevin Allen who has worked at 118 24 7 for three years. He was cited in the submission as setting himself apart from his peers “through hard work, a positive approach, and a constant determination to improve the service.”

118 24 7’s recent “Directory Heaven” campaign was its first stand-alone advertising drive and aimed at promoting usage and awareness through emphasising the service number in a fun, highly catchy manner.

In its first weeks it generated an uplift in calls of around 70 per cent and attracted a huge following on YouTube and internet forums.

Matthew Bottomley added: “The ‘Directory Heaven’ campaign really struck a chord with our consumers. As well as being particularly successful in driving calls, the innovative way we developed our brand created a clear identity which gained strong affinity with users.”

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For more information please contact:
Yell
Jon Salmon, Yell Press Office
Tel: 0118 950 6656
Mobile: 07801 977340
jon.salmon[at]yellgroup[dot]com

Demelza Fryer-Saxby
Tel: 0118 950 6977
Mobile: 0783 4893174
demelza.fryer-saxby[at]yellgroup[dot]com

118tracker.com
Tel: 0844 357 5749
info[at]118tracker[dot]com

Notes to Editors
About 118 24 7
118 24 7 is a telephone-based information service that provides in-depth, up-to-date classified business information, business and residential listings, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. More than just a number, 118 24 7 provides essential business information such as opening hours, location details, prices and special offers or even film times and summaries*. The service is also available via SMS through TextBack.

118 24 7 is provided by Yell, a leading international directories business operating in classified advertising markets in the UK, US, Spain and Latin America through printed, online and telephone-based media. Yell’s principal brands include: in the UK, Yellow Pages, Yell.com and 118 24 7; in the US, Yellow Book and Yellowbook.com; and in Spain, Paginas Amarillas and PaginasAmarillas.es. All these brands are trademarks.

Yell's online image library, containing product shots and logos can be found at: www.yellgroup.com/images
*Film summaries only available for 118 24 7 voice service.
www.yellgroup.com

About 118tracker.com
118tracker.com is Europe's leading provider of quality conferences, awards and networking events for all aspects of the information industries. 118tracker.com was launched in 2003 before the UK de-regulation of directory enquiries. Directory enquiries has developed from just providing numbers into complete information services e.g. ask for anything, local search,
mapping, directions, mobile applications, location based services & enhanced
information. All conferences and awards reflect the current topics and ensure discussions are relevant and up-to date.

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1300  THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] / Techno News / Yell.com App now available on App store on: October 05, 2009, 06:58:48 PM
Yell today announced its Yell.com App is available on the App Store. The Yell.com App enables iPhone users to quickly and easily locate the more than two million UK local businesses available on Yell.com.

iPhone users can also choose a particular area to search, or be automatically positioned in their current location using the iPhone’s GPS functionality, helping them to quickly find surrounding local businesses.

Matthew Bottomley, director of new media product marketing, for Yell in the UK, said: “The iPhone is a highly innovative product. We are constantly looking for new ways to connect local businesses with new customers, so putting Yell.com on the iPhone is a natural thing for us to do.”

“We’re delighted that iPhone users agree – the viral take up was fantastic and resulted in the App being the number three free download within days of launch. It just goes to show how relevant local classified search remains in today’s fast moving lifestyles.”

The Yell.com iPhone App is available for free from the App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/.

To find out more information about Yell.com’s mobile services, visit http://www.yell.com/mobilephones/ on a pc, or mobile.yell.com using a mobile web browser.

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Enquiries:
Yell
Demelza Fryer-Saxby
Tel: 0118 9506977
Mobile: 0783 4893174
email: demelza.fryer-saxby[at]yellgroup[dot]com

Notes to editors:
Yell.com will offer all of its mobile services free of charge to users. Standard network charges will apply and will vary dependent on individual providers and tariff packages.
Yell’s new iPhone App should only be accessed and used by, or with the permission of the mobile phone bill payer.
In accordance with UK laws, Yell.com should not be used whilst driving.
Restrictions and conditions apply.

About Yell.com
Launched in 1996, Yell.com is a leading local search engine and major online advertising medium for UK businesses. Yell.com provides users with a direct route to finding a business or service online using keyword, type of business, or company name and location as search criteria. Users can review relevant search results and quickly determine the right business for their needs. Yell.com’s database of over two million UK business listings including 215,000
searchable advertisers (June 2009) can be accessed via the web site (www.yell.com) and mobile channels including JAVA™ and WAP services. Yell.com provides several useful features such as zoom-enabled maps with directions, closest car parks and a personal Yell.com address book facility to keep a record of regularly used businesses.

Yell.com is part of Yell, a leading international directories business operating in classified advertising markets in the UK, US, Spain and Latin America through printed, online and telephone-based media. Yell’s principal brands include: in the UK, Yellow Pages, Yell.com and 118 24 7; in the US, Yellow Book and Yellowbook.com; and in Spain, Paginas Amarillas and PaginasAmarillas.es. All these brands are trademarks.
www.yellgroup.com

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1301  THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] / Techno News / Business Link West Midlands Deploys dn:Director on: October 05, 2009, 03:26:21 PM
Data Management and Compliance Screening specialists, Datanomic Ltd, today announced that Business Link West Midlands (BLWM) has deployed its dn:Director data management application to improve the accuracy of data held in its customer relationship management (CRM) system. By significantly improving the fitness-for-purpose of data flowing into and out of the system, dn:Director is enabling BLWM to improve overall customer service levels. The system also forms a central part of BLWM’s reporting processes with Central Government, on which its funding is based.

BLWM provides an extensive range of support services and advice to anyone looking to start or grow their business within the region. Having assisted approximately 108,000 companies and 56,000 pre-starts in the region, with close to a million records of contacts alone, BLWM needed to ensure that all customer data held within its CRM system was truly fit-for-purpose. It also wanted to improve the accuracy of its reporting, the flexibility and scalability of the system, the speed of data migration and to reduce the significant and ongoing admin and financial costs associated with its existing manual system, the delays and inaccuracies from which were impacting upon customer satisfaction levels.

“We had recognised that duplicate data was an issue, which was impacting our customer satisfaction,” said James Salmon, Chief Information Officer, Business Link West Midlands. “We needed to automate certain functions that were taking significant manual resource, including ad-hoc data matching requests, validating incoming referrals and leads, analysing key data fields, weekly profiling of key data areas, data migration and consolidation. We needed a system which could meet all of these requirements, would scale with the needs of the business, while still enabling us to enhance third party data, be it from partners or Government bodies.”

Following a market evaluation of vendors, BLWM selected Datanomic’s dn:Director based on its superior functionality, ease of use and intuitive interface. The application is currently used by the Data Integrity team on behalf of the rest of the organisation.

“We believe dn:Director is the most flexible product on the market,” said Mr Salmon. “Since implementing, we were quickly able to profile our data to get a better understanding of the relevant data quality issues. We have significantly reduced duplicates in the CRM system, and dn:Director’s automation has reduced manual effort, lowering costs and enabling the team to spend time on more effective customer service. The system provides us with in-depth analysis resulting in trusted outputs and reporting processes, negating the historic issues of fields with unverified or blank data. Consequentially, we have seen an increase in relevant and verified data.”

About Business Link West Midlands
Business Link provides impartial and expert information, support and advice needed to help businesses develop and make them more successful. We can help you to improve your business performance, making it easier to move your business forward, no matter what stage your business is at. For more information please visit: www.businesslinkwm.co.uk

About Datanomic
Datanomic’s holistic approach to delivering fit-for-purpose data and screening accuracy enables its growing list of blue chip clients around the world to achieve a rapid Return on Investment, by exposing and correcting deficiencies in information their businesses rely upon, and by discovering potential regulatory and legislative compliance data issues in line with proactive risk management. Our clients come from a wide spectrum of industries including financial services, telecommunications, government, healthcare, utilities, professional services and engineering. www.datanomic.com

For further information, please contact:
Vanessa Land
Devonshire Marketing
Tel: + 44 (0)870 242 7469
Email:vanessa[at]devonshiremarketing[dot]com


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1302  THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] / Techno News / TAC is now the Buildings Business of Schneider Electric on: October 01, 2009, 06:31:05 PM
Ashby, United Kingdom – October 1, 2009. Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management and security solutions, today announced it has completed the strategic transformation and brand migration of TAC to Schneider Electric.

Schneider Electric is now uniquely poised to directly offer customers a full range of solutions across its core competencies of power, data centres, industrial automation, building management and security. This convergence enables customers worldwide to realize optimal energy and security efficiencies, and the associated savings in capital and operating expenses.

"This brand migration is more than just a name change; this is a new way of approaching our energy management business and customers' needs," said Dave Beradi, UK Managing Director of Schneider Electric's Buildings Business, formerly TAC UK. "Establishing the Buildings Business as the centre for one of Schneider Electric's core competencies is a major companywide initiative. We can now take multiple solutions from our comprehensive portfolio through one seamless customer interface to become a single-source energy management provider.”

While customers can expect a variety of new opportunities, certain things will not change. “The trusted relationships customers have come to expect from our employees will remain the same, and we will continue to deliver the highest level of expertise, products and services our customers have come to rely on,” added Beradi.

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Notes To Editors

About Schneider Electric - www.schneider-electric.com
As a global specialist in energy management, with operations in more than 100 countries, Schneider Electric offers integrated solutions across multiple market segments and has leadership positions in energy and infrastructure, industrial processes, building automation and data centres/networks, as well as a broad presence in residential applications.

Focused on making energy safe, reliable and efficient, the company's 114,000 employees achieved sales of more than 18.3 billion euros in 2008 through an active commitment to helping individuals and organisations “Make the most of their energy.”

About the Building Business of Schneider Electric - http://www.schneider-electric.com/sites/corporate/en/products-services/buildings/buildings.page

The building management and energy services business of Schneider Electric is a leading provider of solutions that deliver measurable business results to customers by enabling them to do more with less energy. With over 120 years of experience in the HVAC, energy and security arenas, the Buildings Business of Schneider Electric employs more than 8,000 people worldwide, with partners in 80 countries.

Press contacts:
Adrian Linden
EvokedSet PR
tac [at] evokedset [dot] com
Phone: 07919 967865

Copyright © 2009, Schneider Electric, All rights reserved.

For more information, contact:
Christopher Buchanan, Marketing Consultant
Schneider Electric Building Business
+44 (0)7792 234 686
christopher.buchanan[at]uk.tac[dot]com

Lynn Wolfe, Marketing Assistant
Schneider Electric Building Business
+44 (0)7717 836 775
lynn.wolfe[at]uk.tac[dot]com
www.tac.com

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