Cambridge, 9 February 2009 – ip.access (www.ipaccess.com), the leading developer of in-building wireless picocell and femtocell solutions, today announces the launch of the nano3G picocell, a next-generation 3G Access Point that transforms the provision of 3G coverage in offices, shops and other hard-to-reach places.

Using nano3G, mobile operators around the world can help business customers make better use of 3G at work. The nano3G provides a high quality 3G signal indoors that improves service quality on any 3G handset. It can be installed quickly and cost-effectively using Power over Ethernet and an existing Internet connection to backhaul the mobile network traffic.

“Knowledge workers expect and demand reliable 3G coverage and performance for accessing the Internet from their smartphones, HSPA-enabled laptops and other 3G devices, whether in the office or outdoors,” said Stephen Mallinson, CEO at ip.access. “However, delivering high-quality 3G coverage indoors is a difficult challenge for operators, as the windows and walls of office buildings absorb much of the radio energy transmitted by the outdoor network before it can reach the place where it’s needed.”

The new nano3G picocell solves this problem, delivering improved quality for voice calls as well as high-speed connectivity for access to the Internet, email and other enterprise applications on mobile devices. nano3G shares a common architecture and network integration with ip.access’ award-winning Oyster 3G™ femtocell, but has higher capacity and a larger coverage area, supporting eight simultaneous users over a range of up to 200 metres.

ip.access is the industry’s leading picocell vendor. Its nanoGSM 2G solution is already the world’s most deployed picocell, and is used by operators across the globe to deliver improved 2G in-building coverage for enterprise customers. nano3G extends these benefits to 3G networks, enabling mobile operators to provide excellent service quality to important business customers even in places where in-building coverage is impaired. Business subscribers can use their mobile phones and other 3G devices to their full potential, eliminating a major cause of churn for the operator.

“nano3G will revolutionise the use of 3G in offices, while at the same time freeing up capacity in the macro network to deliver better services to outdoor users,” concluded Mr. Mallinson.


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About ip.access
Based in Cambridge, UK, ip.access ltd (www.ipaccess.com) is a leading manufacturer of cost-effective picocell and femtocell infrastructure solutions for GSM, GPRS, EDGE and 3G. These solutions bring IP and cellular technologies together to drive down costs and increase coverage and capacity of mobile networks.

ip.access is the company behind the multi-award winning Oyster 3G™ femtocell. The Oyster 3G increases cell capacity and coverage, drives down costs and dramatically improves the 3G user experience at home.

The ip.access nanoGSM® is the world’s most deployed picocell solution. It provides GSM, GPRS and EDGE coverage and capacity for offices, shops and (using satellite backhaul) passenger aircraft, ships and remote rural areas.

With deployments in more than 35 live networks around the world and growing, ip.access is the partner of choice for operators competing in the new converged marketplace.

ip.access counts Scottish Equity Partners, Rothschild Gestion, Intel Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners, ADC, Cisco, Qualcomm and Motorola Ventures among its shareholders.


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Bremen, Germany (February 04, 2009) - Traditionally, the generation of professional looking PDF files with PHP has been a tricky programming task: A number of PHP libraries are available, which allow developers to either convert HTML documents to PDF or programmatically generate PDFs from scratch. Business documents created using the former approach are limited by the capabilities of HTML, while it is extremely tedious to get the layout of documents just right, for those, which are generated using the latter approach.

phpLiveDocx offers a solution to both these problems: Templates, which are created in a WYSIWYG environment (such as a standard word processor) are populated with structured data from PHP. The resulting document can be saved as a PDF, DOCX, DOC or RTF file. The concept is the same as with mail-merge.

The benefits to an enterprise are numerous:

- phpLiveDocx separates template and programming logic, thus a graphic designer can produce the template, while a developer can populate it. Additionally, changes to the layout of a template can be made without any changes to the programming logic.

- Using phpLiveDocx, populating a template is simply a matter of assigning a value to a text field. When PDF templates are to be populated using existing solutions, the x and y coordinates of the position at which text should inserted must be specified. It is very time-consuming to calculate these coordinates and in some cases, not possible at all.

- phpLiveDocx is the PHP5 implementation of the SOAP web service LiveDocx. As such, it is not necessary that an administrator install any further software on the server, in order to use phpLiveDocx. The complex word processing and mail-merge processes take place on the backend platform. This not only lowers maintenance costs, but also reduces the hardware requirements of the client web server.

phpLiveDocx has been authored to fit the architecture of the Zend Framework and follows its extreme simplicity philosophy.

To learn more about phpLiveDocx, read the documentation and download a number of runnable sample applications, please take a look at the following article:

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Cambridge, 2 February 2009 – ip.access (www.ipaccess.com), the multi-award winning developer of picocell and femtocell solutions, announces that Blue Ocean Wireless, the world’s first global GSM provider for the deep sea merchant maritime sector, is using their nanoGSM® system to provide mobile phone service to merchant seafarers.

Blue Ocean Wireless’ global service enables seafarers to use their existing mobile phones while at sea in exactly the same way that they would in port or on land. The ability to communicate with family and friends at sea is a real need for seafarers, who spend many months away from home.

Using the cellular signal generated by the ip.access nanoGSM picocell, crew members can use their own standard GSM phones to make and receive calls and SMS messages while on board. The nanoGSM picocell is typically installed in the accommodation areas. It is connected to a Remote Gateway which converts the cellular call into a narrowband IP signal for transmission over the satellite network, via a satellite terminal, using L, Ku or C band technology.
Importantly, the Blue Ocean Wireless system efficiently manages the operational cost by minimising the IP bandwidth used to connect to the satellite network and transmit the call. It also ensures that the satellite connection is not left “on” when there are no calls in progress.

The Blue Ocean Wireless prepaid mobile connectivity solution enhances the working experience and life on-board ship for both officers and ratings. The instant and personal access to communication provided by voice and SMS messaging leads to a happier and more productive crew. For ship owners, this helps them to attract and retain sea-going staff. An added benefit for family members is that fixed global rates for satellite connections allow for easier and more cost-effective shore to ship calls.

“We always work with industry leaders to deliver the best possible service to our customers,” said Robert Johnson, CEO of Blue Ocean Wireless. “We chose ip.access as our partner based on their expertise as the leading provider of picocell technology. The ip.access nanoGSM picocell is a reliable, high-performance product, and we are delighted to use it to deliver our global GSM service to deep sea merchant customers worldwide.”

Commenting on the news, ip.access CEO Stephen Mallinson said, “ We’re thrilled to work with Blue Ocean Wireless and be part of such a pioneering and innovative service, which for the first time brings the benefits of mobile cellular communication to seafarers who spend so much time away from friends and family. We look forward to working with Blue Ocean Wireless to develop and deliver new and exciting applications for this technology in the future”.



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About ip.access
Based in Cambridge, UK, ip.access ltd (www.ipaccess.com) is a leading manufacturer of cost-effective picocell and femtocell infrastructure solutions for GSM, GPRS, EDGE and 3G. These solutions bring IP and cellular technologies together to drive down costs and increase coverage and capacity of mobile networks.

ip.access is the company behind the multi-award winning Oyster 3G™ femtocell. The Oyster 3G increases cell capacity and coverage, drives down costs and dramatically improves the 3G user experience at home.

The ip.access nanoGSM® is the world’s most deployed picocell solution. It provides GSM, GPRS and EDGE coverage and capacity for offices, shops and (using satellite backhaul) passenger aircraft, ships and remote rural areas.

With deployments in more than 35 live networks around the world and growing, ip.access is the partner of choice for operators competing in the new converged marketplace.

ip.access counts Scottish Equity Partners, Rothschild Gestion, Intel Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners, ADC, Cisco, Qualcomm and Motorola Ventures among its shareholders.

About Blue Ocean Wireless
Blue Ocean Wireless is an Irish company with a base in the UK focused on expanding communication capability in the merchant maritime sector. Blue Ocean Wireless, founded in March, 2007 by Irish private equity firm, Claret Capital, provides, for the first time, GSM connectivity for seafarers in deep ocean water, where no other network exists. This allows users to make and receive voice calls, send and receive SMS text messages and, in time, browse the internet using their existing handsets.

Blue Ocean Wireless (BOW) works in partnership with communications industry leaders including, Altobridge, JRC, SeaCom, Smart Communications and Stratos to provide the best products to its customers.

BOW shareholders include Claret Capital, NTT Docomo, the world’s leading mobile communications company, Smart Communications, the Philippines leading mobile telecoms company, Bank of Scotland (Ireland), a subsidiary of HBOS plc and Altobridge, the Irish remote communications company.

For more information, please visit www.blueoceanwireless.com


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Charlotte, NC January 29, 2009 - The software manufacturer The Imaging Source announces the latest member of its family of word processing components.

A current trend in business software is the generation of Adobe PDF documents on the server. At a central location in a company's network, Microsoft Word templates are populated with data to produce invoices or quotations. The resulting documents can be saved in a number of formats or sent directly to the printer.

LiveDocx offers unrivaled technology to provide such document generation services over a standardized SOAP interface. Hence, different types of software, for example, ASP.NET web applications, Windows applications or applications from entirely different operating systems can access LiveDocx.

The advantages of centralized document creation are numerous: Templates can be stored and deployed from one single central location. Various types of application architectures can access LiveDocx and can thus generate or convert documents. The generated documents can be displayed directly in a web browser, using the shipped viewer, with no further plugins or extensions.

LiveDocx supports the most popular word processing formats, DOCX, DOC and RTF and the default format of TX Text Control, TXD. In addition, documents can be exported as Adobe PDF files.

The component can be tested as a web service at www.livedocx.com immediately. It does not require any further software or installation.

The Imaging Source manufactures software components and services to edit, convert, create and modify standard word processing formats, such as Open Office XML, DOC and RTF.

Product information and free support at:

More information at:

http://www.livedocx.com

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29 January 2009 - The Imaging Source - an international manufacturer of industrial cameras, video converters and frame grabbers announces today a new series of PCI-Express frame grabbers. The models ship with a number of different video inputs. Some models are available for low profile PC cases.

The Imaging Source frame grabbers are deployed for applications in which analog video signals (PAL, CCIR, NTSC, RS-170) need to be processed by a PC.

In addition to cameras, such video input devices include ultrasound and x-ray machines. Analog cameras are not only used in legacy applications. Often they are preferred for price sensitive projects, in which long cables are required.

The Imaging Source frame grabbers ship with drivers for Windows, the SDK 'IC Imaging Control' and the end-user application software 'IC Capture'. The latter is a powerful software that allows the setting of all frame grabber parameters, the display of live video stream and the acquisition of singular images and sequences.

For further details on these products visit: http://www.theimagingsource.com/en_US/products/grabbers/

About The Imaging Source
The Imaging Source is a multi-national enterprise with branches in the US, Taiwan and Germany. They have been manufacturing imaging products for scientific, industrial and medical applications for more than twenty years. The industrial cameras, converters and frame grabbers manufactured by The Imaging Source are highly robust and are designed to run for years with no maintenance.

The Imaging Source products are typically deployed in factory automation, quality inspection, medical systems, microscopy systems, life science projects and as of 2007 amateur astronomy. All imaging products manufactured by The Imaging Source ship with Microsoft Windows drivers, an SDK and powerful software for device control, display and saving of images.

Press Contact
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The Imaging Source GmbH

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Fax: +49 421 335 91 80
WWW: http://www.theimagingsource.com

EMail : Info[at]TheImagingSource[dot]com

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CAMBRIDGE, UK – January 27, 2009 – Building on their leadership in picocells and following the highly successful launch of the award winning Oyster 3G™ femtocell, ip.access is looking to hire across all product development areas.

UK-based pioneer in cellular-over-IP, ip.access, is holding a careers evening on Thursday 29th January 2009 to meet prospective employees in the following areas: Software Development Project Managers, Product Managers, Programme Managers, Software Engineers (Java, C++, Embedded C, Linux Administration) and Technical Support Engineers.

These new opportunities build upon an outstanding record of technology and business leadership for ip.access in cost-effective picocell and femtocell infrastructure solutions.
Picocells and femtocells are small cellular access points that connect to an operator’s mobile network via a broadband internet connection and solve the problem of getting good coverage inside buildings. The ip.access nanoGSM® solution is the world's most deployed picocell, helping mobile network operators improve coverage and capacity for enterprises, SMEs, planes, ships and public spaces. Their Oyster 3G femtocell provides the high quality 3G signal needed for fast data services in the home and enables the mobile phone to integrate into the connected home of the future.

Stephen Mallinson, ip.access CEO comments: “In the current economic climate, we’re in the enviable position of being able to hire the very best talent. Our success with our GSM products and the launch of the Oyster 3G femtocell form a solid platform for us to gear up for the development and delivery of our groundbreaking technology in the future.”

The careers open evening takes place at ip.access UK headquarters in Cambourne, Cambridge and sessions start at 5, 6, 7 and 8pm. Potential candidates are asked to contact [email protected] to confirm attendance.

For further information about careers at ip.access, please visit the ip.access website:

http://www.ipaccess.com/company/jobs.php and to learn more about what it’s like to be an ip.access employee, see our careers page: http://www.ipaccess.com/company/careers.php.



About ip.access (http://www.ipaccess.com)
Based in Cambridge, UK, ip.access ltd (www.ipaccess.com) is a leading manufacturer of cost-effective picocell and femtocell infrastructure solutions for GSM, GPRS, EDGE and 3G. These solutions bring IP and cellular technologies together to drive down costs and increase coverage and capacity of mobile networks.

ip.access is the company behind the multi-award winning Oyster 3G™ femtocell. The Oyster 3G increases cell capacity and coverage, drives down costs and dramatically improves the 3G user experience at home.

The ip.access nanoGSM® is the world’s most deployed picocell solution. It provides GSM, GPRS and EDGE coverage and capacity for offices, shops and (using satellite backhaul) passenger aircraft, ships and remote rural areas.

With deployments in more than 35 live networks around the world and growing, ip.access is the partner of choice for operators competing in the new converged marketplace.

ip.access counts Scottish Equity Partners, Rothschild Gestion, Intel Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners, ADC, Cisco, Qualcomm and Motorola Ventures among its shareholders.


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CAMBRIDGE, UK – January 15, 2009 – Operators looking to improve the 3G user experience in business premises have an apparent choice between using 3G picocells or alternatively adapting consumer-style femtocells to serve the enterprise. Which option is better?

UK-based pioneer in cellular-over-IP, ip.access, has released a new white paper for mobile network operators analysing the issues surrounding enterprise 3G, including user experience, cost and operational management. The “3G in the enterprise” whitepaper concludes that femtocells will serve the small office / home office market well, but that next-generation 3G picocells (sometimes called “super-femtocells”) are the best option for larger business premises.

The new whitepaper draws on ip.access’ extensive experience in deploying capacity and coverage solutions for leading mobile operators, and explores the SME market sweetspot for in-building 3G solutions. Key topic areas covered include: enterprise 3G options, next generation 3G picocells and a detailed comparison of picocells versus femtocell grid solutions.

Dr Andy Tiller, VP Marketing for ip.access and author of the whitepaper, explains the factors involved in optimal 3G deployment in the enterprise: “From cost scaling and interference issues to peak usage and configuration management, it is clear that, although femtocells are appropriate for the SOHO market, SMEs and branch offices of larger organisations are better served through 3G picocells. For both the user and the mobile operator, the next-generation 3G picocell approach provides the most reliable and cost-effective solution to 3G coverage and capacity issues.”


The whitepaper is now available for download from the ip.access website:
http://www.ipaccess.com/picocells/3G_in_the_enterprise.php



About ip.access (http://www.ipaccess.com)
Based in Cambridge, UK, ip.access ltd (www.ipaccess.com) is a leading manufacturer of cost-effective picocell and femtocell infrastructure solutions for GSM, GPRS, EDGE and 3G. These solutions bring IP and cellular technologies together to drive down costs and increase coverage and capacity of mobile networks.

ip.access is the company behind the multi-award winning Oyster 3G™ femtocell. The Oyster 3G increases cell capacity and coverage, drives down costs and dramatically improves the 3G user experience at home.

The ip.access nanoGSM® is the world’s most deployed picocell solution. It provides GSM, GPRS and EDGE coverage and capacity for offices, shops and (using satellite backhaul) passenger aircraft, ships and remote rural areas.

With deployments in more than 35 live networks around the world and growing, ip.access is the partner of choice for operators competing in the new converged marketplace.

ip.access counts Scottish Equity Partners, Rothschild Gestion, Intel Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners, ADC, Cisco, Qualcomm and Motorola Ventures among its shareholders.


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Cambridge, UK, 5 January 2009 – ip.access (www.ipaccess.com), the multi-award winning developer of picocell and femtocell solutions, has been named the number one picocell vendor in an independent study by leading technology analysts ABI Research.

Picocells are small cellular base stations used to extend mobile coverage to indoor areas where outdoor signals do not reach, such as offices, shops, aircraft cabins and ships, or to add network capacity in areas with very dense phone usage. ip.access’ nanoGSM® is the world’s most deployed picocell solution, providing GSM, GPRS and EDGE coverage and capacity for more than 35 operators across the globe.

ip.access tops the ABI picocell vendor matrix on both the implementation and innovation rankings. The study concludes that ip.access is the ‘dominating force’ in the 2G picocell market - which currently makes up the bulk of worldwide picocell shipments - and is well positioned for the future 3G picocell market based on its established femtocell technology, Oyster 3G™.

“The market for picocells is expected to continue growing at a steady pace, but is dependent on how leading picocell vendors like ip.access adapt and innovate next generation picocells with a view to reduce their total cost of ownership,” said Aditya Kaul, Senior Analyst at ABI Research and author of a new report entitled ‘Picocells - Market, Technology and Business Issues; Threats from Super Femtocells; and Opportunities in 3G Markets’.

“The picocell market has grown at a very healthy rate,” said Dr Andy Tiller, VP Marketing at ip.access. “Our nanoGSM picocells pioneered the use of IP backhaul to simplify deployment and reduce operating costs, and we have seen these concepts become widely accepted – not least with the emergence of consumer femtocells.”

According to ABI, the distinction between picocells and femtocells will blur in future. Picocells will adapt to take on femtocell attributes such as self-installation by the end customer – effectively becoming ‘super-femtocells’ with longer range and higher capacity.

“We are in full agreement with ABI’s market prediction and can definitely see a point where it will be possible to deploy a picocell (or ‘super-femtocell’) cost-effectively, even in small businesses,” continued Tiller. “ip.access believes a clear distinction will remain between consumer femtocells and picocells for the enterprise market. In our view, picocells will always be more sophisticated products than consumer grade femtocells and will provide operators greater control over radio planning, fault reporting and performance management.”


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About ip.access
Based in Cambridge, UK, ip.access ltd (www.ipaccess.com) is a leading manufacturer of cost-effective picocell and femtocell infrastructure solutions for GSM, GPRS, EDGE and 3G. These solutions bring IP and cellular technologies together to drive down costs and increase coverage and capacity of mobile networks.

ip.access is the company behind the multi-award winning Oyster 3G™ femtocell. The Oyster 3G increases cell capacity and coverage, drives down costs and dramatically improves the 3G user experience at home.

The ip.access nanoGSM® is the world’s most deployed picocell solution. It provides GSM, GPRS and EDGE coverage and capacity for offices, shops and (using satellite backhaul) passenger aircraft, ships and remote rural areas.

With deployments in more than 35 live networks around the world and growing, ip.access is the partner of choice for operators competing in the new converged marketplace.

ip.access counts Scottish Equity Partners, Rothschild Gestion, Intel Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners, ADC, Cisco, Qualcomm and Motorola Ventures among its shareholders.


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Bremen, Germany (December 12, 2008) - All FireWire and USB cameras, manufactured by The Imaging Source - an international manufacturer of industrial cameras - now ship with software for Windows Vista 64 bit. The Imaging Source was one of the pioneers in the field of machine vision to deploy DirectX for industrial image processing. Thus, this step was an easy one to make.

DirectX is a requirement when programmers wish to develop software, which is independent of the underlying hardware. There are two methods in which software can access the camera:

Programmers who choose the classical method access the hardware directly. This leads to unstable and unmaintainable software, which Microsoft will refuse to certify. Hence, it cannot be installed on Windows Vista 64 bit.
Programmers who choose the operating system method access DirectX. They do not have to know anything about the underlying hardware. Similarly, the manufacturer of the hardware does not have to think about the applications software. They simply ship a WDM Stream Class driver. This makes their hardware immediately compatible to DirectX. This is a requirement to be certified by Microsoft. Hence, the software can be installed on Windows Vista 64 bit.
The Imaging Source authors an SDK called IC Imaging Control, the goal of which is to simplify development with DirectX. All FireWire and USB cameras, which are manufactured by The Imaging Source ship with WDM Stream Class drivers and IC Imaging Control.

About The Imaging Source
The Imaging Source is a multi-national enterprise with branches in the US, Taiwan and Germany. They have been manufacturing imaging products for scientific, industrial and medical applications for more than twenty years. The industrial cameras, converters and frame grabbers manufactured by The Imaging Source are highly robust and are designed to run for years with no maintenance. The Imaging Source products are typically deployed in factory automation, quality inspection, medical systems, microscopy systems, life science projects and as of 2007 amateur astronomy. All imaging products manufactured by The Imaging Source ship with Microsoft Windows drivers, an SDK and powerful software for device control, display and saving of images.

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The Imaging Source, LLC
6926 Shannon Willow Rd.,
Suite 400
Charlotte, NC 28226
USA

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The Imaging Source, manufacturer of the word processing component TX Text Control, extends its free technical support for all customers with a new chat system for better and immediate assistance.

The Imaging Source, manufacturer of the word processing component TX Text Control, extends its free support for all users. Previously, the support engineers could be reached via telephone, e-mail and forum. To give customers the best possible support during the evaluation and development periods, also a live chat system was implemented.

To be able to develop applications in a faster and more cost-effective manner, developers more and more rely on reusable components and external knowledge. With the cycles of new technology getting shorter for a developer, it is of immense importance to obtain the best and most professional support possible.

After an intensive testing phase, the chat system was integrated in the locations of USA, Germany and Taiwan. All TX Text Control users, trial customers included, are able to use unlimited and free support. The chat system offers customers an excellent extension of immediate assistance, to resolve open issues in development effectively.

The live chat is available directly on http://www.textcontrol.com and every sub-site.

Product information and free support at:

http://www.textcontrol.com


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Ian Blackley
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http://www.textcontrol.com

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Suite 400
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New Sales and Marketing Channel Creates Economic Benefits for Buyers and Sellers

Palo Alto, CA., -December 3, 2008 – ChipStart, a semiconductor intellectual property distribution company, announced today the start of operations as a sales, marketing, and support channel providing new economies for the Semiconductor Intellectual Property (SIP) market. ChipStart currently represents Dolphin Technology, Analog Bits, WideSail Technologies, TeamEDA, and Sonics Inc.

As the use of merchant market SIP continues to become a more popular choice for developing semiconductor devices, the need is also rising for more consistent delivery and support of the SIP to the licensees. With no industry standard engagement model, this has been difficult to achieve market-wide because many SIP vendors employ various methods of sales and marketing. As a result, licensees are often forced to treat each engagement as new business model, even though the SIP is being used on the same device. Licensees often incur significant additional infrastructure costs, which makes it difficult to consistently measure the value of the SIP engagements. In these economics times, when organizations are being asked to streamline operations management, the inability to quantify the value delivered in turn places pressure on the SIP vendors to make steep business concessions.

ChipStart represents a new channel that enables a more consistent engagement model to develop market-wide for SIP, so that the value of the engagements can be more readily measured and valued. “The premise we have launched the company on is delivering a win-win engagement for both SIP vendors and their customers”, says Howard Pakosh, President and CEO of ChipStart. “Since many of the SIP providers are relatively small, we can offer affordable sales representation and marketing services that enables them to reach more customers and scale very economically. For the licensees, we offer consistent presentation and commencing of the SIP engagement so that they can streamline management and gain clearer pictures of the value the engagements bring.”

ChipStart has already attracted a number of SIP vendors for representation:

“WideSail’s error correction products require an experienced sales force with the technical know-how to develop the proper customer relationships.” says Gord Harling, President and CEO of WideSail Technologies. “ChipStart provides the international presence and expertise we need to grow our business.”

“ChipStart’s knowledge of our target markets will help us to gain the penetration we are looking for. The synergy between our two companies is amazing, and we see a long term highly successful business relationship” says Guy Haas, President, TeamEDA, Inc.

ChipStart also announced office locations throughout North America and Europe:
ChipStart LLC
228 Hamilton Ave.
3rd Floor
Palo Alto
CA 94301
Tel: (650) 461-9195
Fax: (650) 798-5001

ChipStart LLC
115 George St.
Suite 146
Oakville
ON L6J 0A2
Tel: (905) 634-6688
Fax: (905) 592-2048

ChipStart LLC
4 Talbots Drive
Maidenhead
Berks SL6 4LZ
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1628 330196


About ChipStart

ChipStart is a semiconductor intellectual property distribution company based in Palo Alto, California. ChipStart provides sales and marketing support solutions for companies that commerce semiconductor intellectual property. For more information, see www.chip-start.com
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The software component vendor The Imaging Source recently published its roadmap for the upcoming version of the word processing component family TX Text Control. Apart from the PDF/A support, the company announces a new concept for web-based document viewing and forms processing.


The software component vendor The Imaging Source recently published its roadmap for the upcoming version of the word processing component family TX Text Control.

One of the new features of the components for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 is an extension of the existing Adobe PDF export. In version 15.0, TX Text Control is able to create and save ISO conforming PDF/A documents. In recent years, PDF/A has been getting stronger in the electronic archiving market. Using TX Text Control 15.0, PDF/A documents can be automatically created or converted from other supported formats.

With the new roadmap, the software company announces a new concept for web-based document viewing and forms processing in ASP.NET. Using TX Text Control 15.0, MS Word compatible forms can be displayed and completed in any browser. The completed form can be processed server-side, printed or saved as Adobe PDF document.

The development team also improved the core functionality of TX Text Control. Page columns and structured numbered lists are planned for the next version of the successful word processing component. All documents can be imported and exported to and from Office Open XML (DOCX), MS Word (DOC) and Rich Text Format (RTF). Additionally, XHTML is going to be supported in version 15.

The final version is announced for the second quarter of 2009. Interested users can start development with the current version of TX Text Control, because TX Text Control 15.0 will be backwards compatible. For owners of a 1 Year Subscription, TX Text Control 15.0 will be available free of charge when it is released. More information at:

http://www.textcontrol.com/blog/permalink/2008120101/


Contact:

Ian Blackley
Tel: +1 704-370-0110
E-Mail: ian.blackley[at]theimagingsource[dot]com
http://www.textcontrol.com

The Imaging Source, LLC
6926 Shannon Willow Rd.,
Suite 400
Charlotte, NC 28226


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Partnership Extended Following Successful Delivery over Two Years to Scottish Enterprise’s Pioneering Proof of Concept Programme

Abingdon, United Kingdom, 2nd December 2008 – Conduit Partners Limited, the UK’s leading specialist in early stage business-building for technology-based companies, today announces that it has successfully secured an extension to its existing contract to deliver commercial services to Scottish Enterprise – Scotland’s enterprise, innovation and investment agency. The contract extension follows two years of successful delivery into the national Proof of Concept Programme.

Under the agreement, Conduit is appointed as a supplier of market consultancy and support services to projects funded by Scottish Enterprise’s Proof of Concept Programme. The new contract was secured following the success of Conduit’s facilitated market assessment workshops, which have been delivered to over 30 Scottish Enterprise-supported research projects from Scottish universities over the last two years.

Scottish Enterprise’s mission is to stimulate economic growth and develop the business environment and infrastructure throughout Scotland. Through Scottish Enterprise’s Proof of Concept Programme, Scotland’s world-renowned research is being transformed into companies with the potential to grow and become world leaders in their fields

Conduit Partners’ CEO Jon Treanor adds, “We are immensely proud to be working with a visionary organisation such as Scottish Enterprise. Establishing proof-of-market at an early
stage is fundamental for any fund looking to maximise its rate of success, and we are delighted to have the opportunity to support Scottish Enterprise’s Proof of Concept Programme projects to successful market engagement and accelerated routes to revenue.”

The establishment of a UK-wide Proof of Concept programme is currently being driven by the Department for Innovation, Universities & Skills (DIUS) and the Technology Strategy Board. Conduit Partners’ unparalleled expertise means that it is well placed to extend its leadership in commercialisation support services to all institutions across the UK. Since its founding in 2002, Conduit has delivered over 150 workshops to UK universities, and its management team was also behind one of the UK’s most successful university technology spin-out companies, Celoxica PLC.

Conduit Partners delivers a full range of commercialisation consultancy and support for early-stage companies, including proof of market assessment, IP patenting strategy, and revenue breakthrough services. From business-building to business turnaround, Conduit Partners offers proven, practical programmes that help to unlock the value from visionary IP, create sustainable competitive advantage, and successfully connect companies to their markets.


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About Conduit Partners (www.conduitpartners.co.uk)
Conduit Partners Limited is the UK’s leading specialist in early stage business-building for technology-based companies.

From business-building to business breakthrough services, Conduit Partners offers proven, practical programmes that help to unlock the value from visionary IP, create sustainable competitive advantage, and successfully connect companies to their markets.

Since its founding in 2002, Conduit Partners has delivered its full range of commercialisation consultancy and support services to leading organisations including QinetiQ, Forensic Science Service, Consensus Business Group, Finance Wales, BAE SYSTEMS, Merseyside investment fund and UCL..

Conduit has delivered over 150 workshops to universities in the UK, and its management team was behind one of the UK’s most successful university technology spin-out companies, Celoxica.



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New Marketing Resource Management (MRM) Solution Builds on Success of Industry-Leading “Equator” Marketing Procurement Software

Newbury, United Kingdom, November 11, 2008 – Marketingunity, a leader in Marketing Resource Management (MRM) software, today announced the launch of its new integrated software suite specifically designed to boost the productivity, effectiveness and performance of professional marketing teams. The MarketingunityTM MRM suite is a collaborative web-based management tool that allows marketing teams to address the increasing pressures facing marketing departments. It achieves this by instantly boosting productivity, streamlining key processes and supply chain relationships, and optimising the use of budget and resources.

The Marketingunity suite has evolved over 8 years of continuous, customer-driven product development, building on the success and heritage of the company’s market-leading Equator software – the UK’s first web-based solution for marketing print procurement. The visionary Equator product has now evolved into Marketingunity, one of the most comprehensive MRM applications on the market, spanning the entire marketing product life-cycle from project planning to campaign fulfillment. The Marketingunity suite is delivering measurable time and cost savings and ensuring the highest possible return for marketing spend for over 1200 blue-chip global enterprises today, including the AA, Centrica, and DRAFTFCB, one of the world’s largest communications agency networks.

The Marketingunity platform is a strategic management tool that provides a complete real-time view of all aspects of marketing campaigns, and allows all marketing ‘team’ members (including field staff, agencies and suppliers) to effectively communicate, collaborate and contribute. According to analyst firm Gartner, "there is substantial waste in most marketing departments with approximately 25 per cent of the marketing budget spent on producing and managing marketing programs rather than on the actual promotions/campaigns”.1 It estimates that “time-to-market for creative production or product launches may be reduced from 12 to 15 weeks to four to six weeks using MRM solutions”. Further, Gartner predicts that “by 2011, companies that leverage MRM effectively will save more than 15 per cent of their annual marketing budgets.”2

Marketingunity replaces the separate spreadsheets and inefficient planning documents commonly relied upon by marketing teams by providing a single, unified online environment. From here, teams can access rich functionality, including the ability to proactively plan, align, and execute campaigns; select and manage internal resources, agencies and suppliers; manage workflows and approvals; manage digital assets; procure goods and services cost-effectively, and ensure timely fulfillment. The result is reduced costs, administration overheads and delays, and faster time-to-market – and longer time-in-market – for campaigns.

By delivering a comprehensive framework for optimising management control, reporting and best-practice, Marketingunity also helps marketing management meet the significant growth in reporting obligations resulting from increased corporate governance (including Sarbanes-Oxley compliance in the US and FSA regulations in the UK), plus greater scrutiny by Managing and Finance Directors looking to cut costs in all areas of their business.

Chris Hopwood, Managing Director and Founder of Marketingunity, explains: “With the current downturn and threat of recession, marketers are now facing a ‘triple whammy’ of challenges: doing as much marketing as before, often with less resources and money, but with some resources now being diverted to report on and justify what it is doing. The Marketingunity suite serves a critical need by maximising the efficiency of marketing operations and resources and enabling marketing teams to demonstrate that efficiency to other areas of the business.”

He continues, “Marketing functions worldwide are today implementing Marketingunity to deliver maximum value to their organisations and gain a competitive edge. Marketingunity has been conceived as a pragmatic solution that works in the ‘real world’ and starts delivering benefits immediately, so it can be easily implemented for a specific campaign or across an entire marketing programme.”

Marketingunity is a template-driven, modular solution that can be easily scaled to support any size of organisation, and is available to be installed either in an organisation’s own data centre or provided as a fully hosted managed service.

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1. Gartner, Inc. “Establish a Marketing Operations Office”, by Kimberly Collins, August 25 2008
2. Gartner, Inc. “Use Marketing Resource Management During Economic Uncertainty to Cut Costs and Manage Resources”, by Kimberly Collins, February 22 2008


Notes to editors

Marketingunity modules:
Campaign Manager - The core project management tool that details all component resources, activities and interdependencies. Campaign Manager monitors and displays progress against a master timeline with proactive notification of actions and exceptions by email.

Digital Asset Manager - The central repository of all digital assets from components to finished artworks. Version control ensures brand control and consistency and full audit trails and access control ensure security and minimise risk.

Approval Manager - Streamlines and secures the approval process with proactive email notification and a full audit trail. Page by page approvals with full commenting reduces the overall approval process time.

Compliance Manager - Specifically designed to enable compliance teams to monitor and manage regulated documents, this module provides a full audit trail with proactive notification of actions required by email.

Procurement Manager - Saves time and money by standardising the specification process, maintaining a database of suppliers and automating the quotation process with both sides accessing the same system.

Stock Manager - Enables full control, management and monitoring of stock whether in-house or through a service provider. Authorised users can call off supplies with support for multiple delivery addresses, warehouses, bin locations and production batches.

Order Manager - Provides a 'Self-Service' facility for your end users, whether internal departments, divisions or subsidiaries or external partners, distributors or customers. They can interact directly with your services ordering both standardised and customised collateral such as co-branded campaign literature or business cards.


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About Marketingunity (www.marketingunity.com)
Marketingunity is a privately-owned Marketing software company based in Newbury, UK. Since its foundation in 1996 by Managing Director Chris Hopwood, the company has specialised exclusively on database-driven, web based business software applications. In 2000, the company launched the UK’s first Web-based suite for Marketing procurement. Since then, continuous development driven exclusively by customer and market feedback has resulted in Marketingunity – one of the most comprehensive Marketing Resource Management (MRM) suites on the market.

Marketingunity is a modular suite of collaborative, web-based marketing applications that manage marketing operations and enhance productivity and performance across the whole Marketing Value Chain for all aspects of the marketing ecosystem, including corporate in-house marketing, procurement teams, field marketing staff, external agencies and suppliers.
Marketingunity is one of the most widely used MRM solutions today and has developed an impressive blue-chip customer base with over 1,200 global organisations, including global brands from the finance, retail, telecom and travel sectors.

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Nicky Davis
EvokedSet PR
marketingunity[at] evokedset [dot] com
Phone:                +44 870 285 1650       

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