The Imaging Source announces a family of server-side components for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 to generate invoices as PDF and other industry standard file formats.

Charlotte, NC, August 13, 2008 - Increasingly, the centralized creation and management of documents is an integral part of enterprise software. In modern server-based architectures, invoices, business reports and mission critical documents are created, printed and e-mailed by one centralized server.

With its latest software product, TX Text Control .NET Server 14.0, The Imaging Source brings to market a family of components for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, which can be used to create documents from MS Word compatible templates and content from databases. The resulting document can be printed or saved to Adobe PDF.

The components, which have been designed specifically for Microsoft Visual Studio, allow documents to be created on one centralized server. According to the manufacturer, the advantage herein is that documents can be centrally managed, created on demand, when they are needed, thus ensuring the document's data is always up to date. The resulting documents can then be printed or e-mailed, as the application demands.

The components were authored for server-side solutions, such as ASP.NET web applications or web services. During the development of the components, great emphasis was placed on their performance, stability and reliability.

TX Text Control .NET Server 14.0 supports all industry standard formats, such as Office Open XML (DOCX), MS Word (DOC), Rich Text Format (RTF) and HTML. Consequently, templates which currently exist and are stored as DOC files can be used.

For more information, have a look at:

http://www.textcontrol.com/products/dotnet_server/
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Global leader in ITIL services announces launch of Support Services Division
Reading, UK – August 13, 2008. Pink Elephant today announced the launch of the Support Services division in the UK, which sees a return to the conceptual roots of the original company. Over 20 years ago in the Netherlands the Pink Elephant brand was conceived based upon the premise of providing intelligent, motivated, service-oriented individuals who could deliver outstanding levels of IT support to the client base. Since that time there have been continued and frenetic technological advances with products and formalisation of the roles within the IT Services environment, but we still see that many large organisations outsource HR and recruitment of IT to agencies.

In principle, like any non-core business function this makes sense: take away the time and cost of recruiting people into the right roles, the headache of advertising, sorting through applications, the lengthy and time-consuming interview and selection process. ‘It is understandable’, explains Alan McCarthy, Director, Pink Elephant EMEA. ‘However what we find is that this method of selection is based primarily on CV word matching, and what we continually see is a lack of understanding of what is required with regards to qualifications, skills and experience in service management.’

The personnel provided to clients by Pink Elephant UK’s Support Services division are all employed by Pink Elephant and begin with a formal induction course to ensure they understand the core values of the organisation and what is expected of them as an individual and as a team player. This foundation is built upon by ensuring their service orientation is complimented with formal IT Service Management education. Pink Elephant believes that you can train professionals to acquire a range of valuable technical skills required to match the environment, however, what can be more difficult to teach is a fundamental service ethos. This ethos tends to come naturally to some people and this is what Pink Elephant looks for in its people.

“By using Pink Elephant to support your IT services, you will be guaranteed a level of service not offered by any freelance or contract personnel,” adds Alan McCarthy. “Our people will be trained in ITIL and will always be looking for ways to improve the service, to go the extra mile for the customer. Our service also gives you the distinct advantage of always having the support cover you need, with sick, holiday and shift patterns calculated into the number of hours cover required.”

For further information on this service and how it could benefit your IT organisation, please contact Pink Elephant on               + 44 (0) 118 903 6820        or email [email protected].

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About Pink Elephant

Pink Elephant is the world leader in IT management best practices, offering conferences, education and consulting services to public and private businesses globally, many listed in the Fortune 500. The Company specialises in improving the quality of IT services through the application of recognised frameworks, including the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). For more information, visit www.pinkelephant.com

ITIL® is a Registered Trade Mark and a Registered Community Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce, and is Registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office.

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Charlotte, NC, August 12, 2008 - The Imaging Source, a multi-national manufacturer of imaging hardware and software for astronomy, is now offering amateur astro-photographers a fantastic chance to win one of their renowned telescope cameras (DMK 21AU04.AS).

The DMK 21AU04.AS monochrome telescope camera has a resolution of 640x480, maximum exposure of up to 60 minutes and can capture up to 60 fps. Other monochrome and color models are available at resolutions of 1024x768 and 1280x960, with and without an IR cut filter. All telescope cameras ship with either a USB 2.0 or FireWire connector and deploy low noise CCD chips from Sony.

In "Sky & Telescope", Sean Walker wrote:

"The Imaging Source [CCD imager] is a well-designed, versatile camera that is a natural progression for planetary astro-photographers looking to upgrade from a consumer webcam. The camera control software IC Capture.AS seems to be a mature program itself, complementing the camera perfectly."

The winner of the competition will also receive a copy of the camera control software "IC Capture.AS", with which all cameras parameters can be set and singular images and sequences written to disk. The resulting uncompressed AVI files can be loaded into RegiStax and similar software for post-acquisition processing.

Getting started is simply a matter of connecting the telescope camera to a PC, installing the shipped software and within minutes amateur astronomers will be capturing images of the night sky.

To be in which a chance of winning, all interested parties have to do is go to the following web site and answer one simple question. But they should hurry as the competition closes on September 03, 2008!

- http://www.AstronomyCamerasCompetition.com


About The Imaging Source
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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. In 2007, The Imaging Source released a series of cameras designed specifically to meet the needs of amateur astro-photographers. The new astronomy cameras leverage the years of experience gathered in the aforementioned fields, to bring amateur astro-photographers highly affordable, robust and stable astronomy cameras for their telescopes.


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Astronomy Camera - DMK 21AF04.AS

- http://www.astronomycameras.com/en/assets/TIS_Astro_Cams_Photo.tif
- http://www.astronomycameras.com/en/assets/TIS_Astro_Cams_Photo_Cd_Family.tif

Photos Captured With Astronomy Cameras

- http://www.astronomycameras.com/en/products/sample-images.htm

Photos Showing Astronomy Cameras "In Action"

- http://www.astronomycameras.com/en/products/rigs.htm

IC Capture.AS CD:

- http://www.astronomycameras.com/en/assets/TIS_Astro_Cd.tif

IC Capture.AS Screenshots:

- http://www.astronomycameras.com/en/assets/IC_Capture_AS_Screenshot_01.tif
- http://www.astronomycameras.com/en/assets/IC_Capture_AS_Screenshot_02.tif
- http://www.astronomycameras.com/en/assets/IC_Capture_AS_Screenshot_03.tif
- http://www.astronomycameras.com/en/assets/IC_Capture_AS_Screenshot_04.tif

The Imaging Source Astronomy Cameras Logo (Black on White)

- http://www.astronomycameras.com/en/assets/TIS_Astro_Cams_Logo.eps

The Imaging Source Astronomy Cameras Logo (White on Black)

- http://www.astronomycameras.com/en/assets/TIS_Astro_Cams_Logo_Inverse.eps


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London, Report Buyer, 06.08.2008: Quality not quantity will be the most considered factor when biofuels are being considered for production and use, says a new report. There will be a high premium placed on carbon savings and sustainability credentials for biofuels, making second generation biofuels an attractive investment proposition, according to ‘The European Biofuels Challenge - Developments in European Union Policy and Industry Drivers’.

Second generation biofuels have the important characteristic that they are not produced from food crops. They are made from non-food sources, agricultural wastes or plants like algae, which grow on water and do not compete with food crops for land.

The publication finds that only products with the most sustainable certification and standards will be able to sell at a premium. Similarly subsidies to non-sustainable products will cease, it says. There has already been significant investment in second generation biofuels plants in several countries within the EU, notably those that are trying to produce cellulosic ethanol and biofuel from algae.

The European Union has been under pressure from environmental groups who have been actively campaigning for it to reconsider its energy policies as biofuels made from food crops like corn or beet which have been implicated in the global rise of food prices as well as harming the environment.

“There is an increasing awareness that all biofuels are not equal. Research is pointing out that second generation biofuels could offer great benefits in the quest for alternative energy,” said Urmila Doraswami, the report’s author. “The biofuel industry is also taking its lead from the fact that ‘better’ biofuels need to be prioritised over ‘more’ biofuels and investment is reflecting this trend,” she added.

“The European Biofuels Challenge - Developments in European Union Policy and Industry Drivers” is a critical review of the debate concerning large-scale biofuel use and is available as a free download at http://www.reportbuyer.com/go/RBY00011.

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CAMBRIDGE, UK – July 30, 2008 – Home femtocells are allowing mobile operators to deliver a personal 3G signal that will unleash the full potential of the latest phones, according to a new briefing paper from leading femtocell developer ip.access.   The combination of excellent voice quality, higher data speeds, longer battery life, plus simple connectivity and lower costs means that femtocells are now set to enable the very best user experience – positioning 3G phones to become the hub of in-home entertainment and internet connectivity.

UK-based pioneer in cellular-over-IP, ip.access, has today released its new briefing paper for mobile network operators –“Introducing 3G femtocells successfully to the home” – which explores how innovative mobile operators can create exciting new femtocell-based offerings that will revolutionise the way that customers use a mobile phone at home. The new handbook draws on ip.access’ extensive experience in deploying capacity and coverage solutions for leading mobile operators, and provides guidance on how best to sell and deploy femtocells in the home environment.  Key topic areas covered include: typical customer usage profiles and end user benefits; adoption sweetspots; next generation ‘Connected Home’ femtocell applications; operator service benefits and business cases; industry analyst viewpoints; technical implementation success factors, and much more.

Dr Andy Tiller, VP Marketing for ip.access and author of the briefing paper, explains the benefits to target customers and the type of services they will be able to enjoy in the femtocell-connected home:  “Femtocells provide so much more than simply a better signal indoors. Families can benefit from streamlined and money-saving in-home data and voice packages, while the technical and social connectivity provided by femtozone services unlocks new possibilities to make the mobile phone the key interface to home entertainment – both online and offline.”
The briefing paper is now available for download from the ip.access website:
http://www.ipaccess.com/femtocells/femtocells_into_home.php
For more information about ip.access’ femtocell solutions, please visit:
http://www.ipaccess.com/femtocells/femtocells.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 and solve in-building access problems for mobile operators, opening up new revenue streams while defending existing business.

ip.access is the company behind the Oyster 3G™ femtocell, winner of numerous industry awards including the Best Radio Access Product at the 2007 Global Mobile Awards. The Oyster 3G dramatically increases 3G cell capacity and coverage; improves quality of experience; and drives down costs. Oyster 3G is ready for today’s mobile networks and tomorrow’s IMS infrastructure.

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

With more than 35 live networks around the world and many more being deployed, 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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Charlotte, NC, July 23, 2008 - The Imaging Source, an international manufacturer of imaging hardware and software for astronomy, is now offering amateur astro-photographers a series of highly affordable, low noise telescope cameras to capture high quality images of the night sky.

The telescope cameras ship in blue and black anodized aluminum and zinc housing, measure 50 mm x 56 mm and weigh only 260 g. The included nose piece is mounted onto a C/CS mount on the front of the telescope camera. On the rear, a USB 2.0 or FireWire connector is available (model specific). A threaded tripod adapter on the bottom rounds off the exterior of the telescope camera.

Monochrome and color types are available with and without an IR cut filter in three resolutions: 640x480, 1024x768 and 1280x960. The cameras deploy low noise CCD chips from Sony, which have an exposure time of up to 60 minutes and a maximum frame rate of up to 60 fps.

The telescope cameras ship with the camera control and acquisition software "IC Capture.AS", which allows image sequences and singular images to be saved to disk. Furthermore, using the highly intuitive graphical user interface, all camera parameters, such as exposure, sensitivity and frame rate, can be set.

In the British magazine "Astronomy Now", Nick Howes wrote:

"The Imaging Source have delivered cameras and software that offer the serious Solar System imager a product which will deliver outstanding results for years to come."

Similarly, in the American magazine "Sky & Telescope", Sean Walker wrote:

"The Imaging Source [CCD imager] is a well-designed, versatile camera that is a natural progression for planetary astro-photographers looking to upgrade from a consumer webcam. The camera control software IC Capture.AS seems to be a mature program itself, complementing the camera perfectly."

The telescope cameras are available worldwide and start at only USD 350.00 or EUR 290.00 (without shipping and sales tax). They can be purchased online and from an international network of dealers. To learn more about The Imaging Source telescope cameras, download "IC Capture.AS" and see hundreds of sample images, please take a look at:

- http://www.AstronomyCameras.com
- http://www.AstronomyCamerasBLOG.com


About The Imaging Source
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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. In 2007, The Imaging Source released a series of cameras designed specifically to meet the needs of amateur astro-photographers. The new telescope cameras leverage the years of experience gathered in the aforementioned fields, to bring amateur astro-photographers highly affordable, robust and stable telescope cameras for their telescopes.


Product Photos, Screenshots And Logos
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Astronomy Camera - DMK 21AF04.AS

- http://www.astronomycameras.com/en/assets/TIS_Astro_Cams_Photo.tif
- http://www.astronomycameras.com/en/assets/TIS_Astro_Cams_Photo_Cd_Family.tif

IC Capture.AS CD:

- http://www.astronomycameras.com/en/assets/TIS_Astro_Cd.tif

IC Capture.AS Screenshots:

- http://www.astronomycameras.com/en/assets/IC_Capture_AS_Screenshot_01.tif
- http://www.astronomycameras.com/en/assets/IC_Capture_AS_Screenshot_02.tif
- http://www.astronomycameras.com/en/assets/IC_Capture_AS_Screenshot_03.tif
- http://www.astronomycameras.com/en/assets/IC_Capture_AS_Screenshot_04.tif

The Imaging Source Telescope Cameras Logo (Black on White)

- http://www.astronomycameras.com/en/assets/TIS_Astro_Cams_Logo.eps

The Imaging Source Telescope Cameras Logo (White on Black)

- http://www.astronomycameras.com/en/assets/TIS_Astro_Cams_Logo_Inverse.eps


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EMail : Info[at]TheImagingSource[dot]com
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LONDON, UK – July 17 2008 – VeriFone Holdings Inc. (NYSE: PAY) today announced that its contactless payment solution was honoured at the recent European Retail Solutions Awards (ERSA) 2008.The Payment Solution Award cited the installation of the first fully-integrated contactless payment system within a UK retail environment and was jointly awarded to sandwich retailer EAT and solution providers VeriFone, Commidea and Common Sense EPoS.   

Using a VeriFone Vx 510 countertop payment system running Commidea’s pre-certified Ocius software combined with VeriFone’s contactless reader, the integrated solution was developed to offer customers at EAT with options to pay in the way that suits them best, by cash, contactless card, or via Chip and PIN.  For contactless transactions of £10 and under, customers can pay simply by waving a ‘touch and go’ card against the contactless reader – the whole process takes less than a second.

The contactless system has proved popular and has dramatically reduced queue waiting times, allowing customers to pay quickly and conveniently.  “The quick service retail sector is an ideal environment to realise the advantages of contactless payment technology,” said Debbie Mitchell, marketing director for VeriFone EMEA. “We’re proud to have been instrumental in delivering this exciting solution for EAT, in partnership with a great team.”
   
EAT’s first integrated contactless solution was installed at its Moorgate branch, London. Since then, 200 VeriFone contactless readers have been installed in EAT stores in the greater London area, with an additional 200 readers expected to be deployed in the near future.


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About VeriFone Holdings, Inc. (www.verifone.com)
VeriFone Holdings, Inc. (“VeriFone”) (NYSE: PAY) is the global leader in secure electronic payment solutions. VeriFone provides expertise, solutions and services that add value to the point of sale with merchant-operated, consumer-facing and self-service payment systems for the financial, retail, hospitality, petroleum, government and healthcare vertical markets.  VeriFone solutions are designed to meet the needs of merchants, processors and acquirers in developed and emerging economies worldwide.

Regional Contact:
Laurel Wolfe
VeriFone EMEA
Tel: +44 1895 275275
Email: laurel_wolfe[at]verifone.com

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EvokedSet PR for VeriFone EMEA
Tel: +44 870 285 1650
Email: verifone[at]evokedset.com

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Charlotte, NC (July 17, 2008) - The Imaging Source - a multi-national manufacturer of industrial cameras - has just announced a new series of cost effective LED lighting modules, which seamlessly integrate with The Imaging Source USB, FireWire and GigE camera.

- Very bright LEDs
- Direct connection to the camera
- All parameters can be set via the shipped software, IC Capture and IC Imaging Control or by custom built software
- Compatible with The Imaging Source USB CCD cameras
- Compatible with The Imaging Source FireWire cameras
- Compatible with The Imaging Source GigE cameras

All cameras manufactured by The Imaging Source ship with IC Capture and IC Imaging Control. The former is an end-user application, with which it is possible to set all cameras parameters, save singular images and image sequences and display live video streams. IC Imaging Control is an SDK, which consists of a .NET component, ActiveX control and C++ class library for Windows XP and Windows Vista.

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Charlotte, NC, July 09, 2008 - TX Text Control has been setting the standard in the software component industry for more than seventeen years. Today, The Imaging Source - the manufacturer of these word processing components - has just announced version 14.0 with many improvements and much technical innovation.

Demand from the component's customer base to add support for MS Word standard Office Open XML (DOCX) has been strong. The latest version of TX Text Control now offers these ISO ratified format as one of its many supported file formats. In addition to the new XML based MS Word format, legacy Word formats, such as Word 97 and 2003, Rich Text Format (RTF) and HTML are also supported. Furthermore, Adobe PDF documents can be created and saved.

TX Text Control 14 has been optimized for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, supports the newest .NET framework 2.0 and 3.5 and ships in 64 bit and 32 bit versions for all current Windows editions.

After a long and highly successful development cycle, the heart of the word processing components now boasts a number of new features:

Document sections with various page formats and different headers and footers are supported. MS Word formatted documents and templates, which contain mail-merge fields can be created. All the typical fields of Microsoft's Office packet are now supported by TX Text Control as default.

The server functionality has also been extended to include the new MailMerge component, with which MS Word templates can be populated with data from a database. This allows print-ready documents to be created on the server. The server version of TX Text Control ships with a freely distributable template designer.

Customers of previous TX Text Control versions can update to the current version 14.0 for a special update price. Owners of a valid subscription license can update to the current version free of charge. For more information, see:

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Cambridge, UK, 23 June 2008 – ip.access (www.ipaccess.com), the multi-award winning developer of femtocell and picocell solutions, has developed new 3G Home Routing™ technology that connects 3G phones into a home network via its Oyster 3G femtocell.

3G Home Routing uses the Oyster 3G to provide a real-time “bridge” between the user’s home network and any 3G handset, enabling a new generation of entertainment and communications applications for consumers, and allowing them to use their mobile phone in new and exciting ways at home.

Using a femtocell, a 3G phone can connect directly to a home network, enabling new applications such as streaming live video from a home media server to the handset, using the phone to browse the music on the home server and select tracks to play, or displaying a slideshow of phone photos on the TV.

“Femtocells can open up these applications to any 3G handset quickly and easily, putting your mobile phone at the heart of your connected home,” said ip.access VP of Marketing, Dr. Andy Tiller.  “Our femtocell-powered 3G Routing technology means there’s no need to have a special WiFi-enabled phone, and you don’t have to spend time configuring any settings either.”

Because all the data traffic is routed locally over the femtocell, the end-user benefits from full HSDPA data rates for all their connected home applications.  3G Home Routing removes the delay associated with carrying data traffic from the phone over the mobile operator’s core network and back, which also saves costs for the operator.

“Femtocells can offer consumers more than just better 3G coverage at home,” said Tiller.  “We believe that connected home applications and other ‘femtozone’ services will become compelling reasons for consumers to adopt femtocells.”

ip.access is demonstrating its 3G Home Routing technology at Femtocells Europe 2008, which is being held alongside the Femto Forum plenary meeting at the Sheraton Skyline Hotel at Heathrow, from 23-25th June.  As a founding board member of the Femto Forum, ip.access is actively promoting industry-wide initiatives to encourage the development of femtocell applications.


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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 and solve in-building access problems for mobile operators, opening up new revenue streams while defending existing business.

ip.access is the company behind the Oyster 3G™ femtocell, winner of numerous industry awards including the Best Radio Access Product at the 2007 Global Mobile Awards. The Oyster 3G dramatically increases 3G cell capacity and coverage; improves quality of experience; and drives down costs. Oyster 3G is ready for today’s mobile networks and tomorrow’s IMS infrastructure.

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

With more than 35 live networks around the world and many more being deployed, 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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Companycare Communications
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Oslo, Norway, June 10th 2008: Gintel AS and Network Norway announced today that Network Norway’s flagship Mobile Office solution has been enhanced with the addition of VPN capabilities and new services.

Network Norway’s flagship Mobile Office solution is experiencing unprecedented demand with sales far above expectations in the two months since launch. Virtual Private Network (VPN) features allow users to implement private numbering and charging plans, increasing flexibility and customization.

Much of Network Norway’s success has come from the small and medium enterprise market, with users quickly recognizing the benefits of hosted telephony services. Easy VPaBX is delivered with an integrated service composition tool that dramatically changes the way in which operators compose and deliver services to enterprise customers.

Network Norway has been able to rapidly add new services to their portfolio, strengthening their offer and ensuring that customers are given uniquely differentiated service packages, thanks to the service composition tools provided by Gintel AS. The VPN service builds on this success and introduces a new level of service richness.

“Easy Virtual PaBX provides us with a strong core solution to deliver hosted PaBX services to our customers. More than this, its unique service composition tools allowed us to create differentiation from day 1 and to introduce more features and services to the market. Having invested in Easy Virtual PaBX, we know that we can continue to innovate in the future and evolve our portfolio to create a market-leading position”, said Ingvild Myhre, CEO of Network Norway.

Gintel’s solution Easy Virtual PaBX and VPN provide the platform for their flagship Mobile Office service offering. “We chose the Gintel solution because it enables us to offer better solutions, giving both higher value and more flexibility to our business subscribers,” adds Myhre.

“This solution is state-of-art, future-proof, and ensures that we can provide a superior platform for our Mobile Office solution, including future services and network expansions” says Geir Lovnes, Network Norway Chief Technology Officer.

“Gintel is pleased to work with Network Norway in this highly competitive market. Our solution allows Network Norway to offer a superior service to their customers, and gives significantly more flexibility to customers than competitive offerings” says Norton Lokken, Sales Director at Gintel.

About Network Norway (www.networknorway.com): Network Norway is Norway’s new provider of telephony services, with over 20 years of experience in the business segment. Making your work day easier is Network Norway’s goal – tailored to your needs. Contact: Ingvild Myhre, Managing Director,             +47 900 38 442       .

About Gintel (www.gintel.com): Gintel is a leading provider of value added service applications to network operators and service providers enabling them to offer innovative and highly competitive services to the highly profitable business subscriber segment.
Contact: Norton Lokken, Sales Director,             +47 932 34 810        norton.lokken[at]gintel[dot]no


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The 2008 ‘MDAs’ from the Mobile Data Association will recognise those UK companies and individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the uptake and success of mobile data over the last 12 months.

In an industry which continues to push the boundaries of technical excellence and commercial success, the ‘MDAs’ aim to provide the UK mobile data industry with much-deserved recognition.

The eight award categories in the 2008 ‘MDAs’ are:

- Best Messaging Application
- Best Consumer Mobile Data Application
- Best Corporate Mobile Data Application
- Best Network (text vote)
- Best Mobile Internet Use
- The MDA Green Award
- The MDA Personal Achievement Award
- Chairman’s UK Mobile Innovation Award

Results will be announced at the awards ceremony which takes place at the Painter’s Hall, London on the afternoon of July 1st.

Event attendance costs

For MDA members there will be a cost of £30.00 + VAT to cover the lunch
Non Members £50.00 + VAT

If you wish to attend please register online at http://www.mdaawards.org/index.php?btnid=booktable by 20th June stating the number of places you require and names of the attendee’s.

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Switch Communications
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June 2, 2008, Manno Switzerland – NemeriX, a leading fabless semiconductor company specializing in ultra low power, high-performance A-GPS solutions for GPS and location-based service (LBS) products, today announced a partnership with Partron, a leading component manufacturer serving the mobile phone and PND markets, to incorporate NemeriX’s high-performance GPS solutions into Partron’s components.
 
Based in Korea, Partron designs, manufactures and supplies RF modules, GPS components, VGA camera modules, antennas and other components to handset and PND manufacturers.  Launched in 2003, Partron was founded by the technologists who led RF-development for the mobile communications division of Samsung Electro-Mechanics.  Since its founding, Partron has become one of the world’s premier manufacturers of RF modules.

By leveraging NemeriX’s chipsets, Partron has significantly enhanced the performance and efficiency of its GPS modules - which are featured in approximately 70% of all PNDs sold in Korea and China.  The enhancements delivered from its partnership with NemeriX will help Partron increase its PND market-share on a global basis, and also provide a competitive advantage for Partron’s components in mobile phone markets.

“We’ve selected NemeriX because of the quality of their products, and because their technical support is first rate,” said Steven Cho, Senior Sales Manager for Partron.  “The NemeriX chipsets integrate seamlessly with our GPS offerings, and NemeriX’s low-power design provides a power savings of more than 60% compared to some of the other GPS chipsets we’ve evaluated.”
   
“Partron’s innovation and technical leadership in developing RF solutions for mobile phones, PNDs and base stations is widely recognized by our customers, and by many of the companies we seek to do business with,” said Lew Boore, VP of Marketing for NemeriX.  “We’re thrilled to work with Partron, and we look forward to a lasting and successful partnership together.” 

About NemeriX
Founded in April 2002, NemeriX S.A. (Manno, Switzerland) is a venture-backed fabless semiconductor company specializing in ultra low power GPS and LBS integrated circuits, software and firmware for GPS and wireless applications. With the release of NX4, NemeriX has four generations of low-power, high performance, stand-alone, hosted, A-GPS experience.  NemeriX’s devices enable battery¬ powered location determination anywhere, anytime, facilitating the design and manufacture of truly differentiated products and an enhanced consumer experience. 
NemeriX’s investors include Atila Ventures, Auriga Partners, Oak Investment Partners, PolyTechnos Venture-Partners, and Vi Venture Incubator.  For more information about NemeriX, please visit www.nemerix.com.

About Partron
Launched in 2003, Partron was founded by the technologists who led RF-development for the mobile communications division of Samsung Electro-Mechanics.  Since its founding, Partron has become one of the world’s premier manufacturers and supplier of components, such as RF modules, VGA camera modules, antennas and GPS modules, to handset and PND manufacturers.  For more information, please visit: http://www.partron.co.kr/eng/company/company_core.php


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May 28, 2008, Manno Switzerland – NemeriX, a leading fabless semiconductor company specializing in ultra low power, high-performance A-GPS solutions for GPS and location-based service (LBS) products, today announced that it has been granted a patent for its new single-chip multi-band GNSS RF receiver technology that enables GNSS devices to acquire parallel signals in all frequency bands from the GPS, GLONASS and Galileo systems.  The patent – number US7'358'896 – covers NemeriX’s fully programmable single frequency synthesizer innovation and has been awarded in the US.

The highly integrated receiver reduces silicon size and optimises cost by enabling a single RF front-end receiver to synchronously acquire up to three different frequency bands – eliminating the need to implement three parallel receivers.  With the ability to program the frequency synthesizer and to easily tune the three receiving channels, including filtering levels and frequency plans, NemeriX’s solution provides maximum flexibility for end applications and allows NemeriX’s customers to serve different markets with the same device.

Originally developed to address the high-end and space market, this innovation from NemeriX will allow customers to efficiently address future consumer applications, as new services in different bands – such as L2C – are released to support improved performance for commercial GPS/GNSS applications.

“By providing a highly integrated solution for multi-band signal environments, NemeriX is ready to deliver the next wave of GNSS performance,” comments NemeriX VP Marketing Lew Boore. “This latest technology innovation from NemeriX provides our customers with a future-proof platform for a greatly enhanced user experience, increased availability and accuracy for high demand applications, including emerging location based services such as pedestrian navigation and mobile social-based networking.”


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About NemeriX
Founded in April 2002, NemeriX S.A. (Manno, Switzerland) is a venture-backed fabless semiconductor company specializing in ultra low power GPS and LBS integrated circuits, software and firmware for GPS and wireless applications. With the release of NX4, NemeriX has four generations of low-power, high performance, stand-alone, hosted, A-GPS experience.  NemeriX’s devices enable battery¬ powered location determination anywhere, anytime, facilitating the design and manufacture of truly differentiated products and an enhanced consumer experience. 
NemeriX’s investors include Atila Ventures, Auriga Partners, Oak Investment Partners, PolyTechnos Venture-Partners, and Vi Venture Incubator.
For more information about NemeriX, please visit www.nemerix.com

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