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SAN RAMON and FREMONT, Calif., June 10 /PRNewswire/ — DeviceLock, Inc., a worldwide leader in endpoint device access control, and Lexar Media, a leading global provider of memory products for digital media, today announced the general availability of a multi-layered, centrally managed endpoint security package. The bundle includes DeviceLock software and the Lexar Media SAFE PSD S1100 usb flash drive. After a number of successful pilot installations, DeviceLock is extending its availability by offering a bundled solution to customers worldwide.
One such customer is Armanino McKenna, a California-based accounting and business consulting firm. “Accountants are always moving between the firm’s and clients’ offices. Sometimes we work at home, so flash drives are a great convenience,” explains Doug Miller, director of IT at Armanino McKenna. “But we’re also dealing in data protected by numerous state, federal, and international privacy laws. We have the best of two worlds by using DeviceLock software in combination with hardware-encrypted devices. If these usb drives are lost or stolen, the contained data is protected. And we have DeviceLock for centralized management of local ports and drives on employee PCs, so that unauthorized devices cannot be used.”
“There is a natural complementary relationship between DeviceLock software and Lexar’s enterprise-class SAFE PSD S1100 usb flash drive. The hardware encryption ensures that any data that has been downloaded to the drive cannot be penetrated by an unauthorized person,” adds Brad Anderson, director of product marketing at Lexar Media. “DeviceLock provides the centralized control and internal policy enforcement via usb ensuring that only authorized devices will be granted access, and only to the specified users.”
DeviceLock software prevents employees from using their personal devices to siphon off valued information beyond the scope of their jobs and outside the guidelines of IT security policy. Featuring a comprehensive central management platform that is fully integrated with Microsoft Active Directory(R) Group Policy, DeviceLock software enables security administrators to precisely control, monitor, shadow-copy, log, and analyze end-user access to all types of devices and local ports on their workstations. It also automatically blocks operations of any hardware keyloggers — devices that covertly track user keystrokes — thereby capturing passwords, user IDs, credit card numbers, and other private information. The software proactively protects against data leakage via the local ports as well as corporate network infiltration by computer viruses, spyware, or other malicious software known as malware. This added layer of protection significantly reduces business risks resulting from insider errors, malicious actions, or negligence.
“This alignment with Lexar is welcomed by customers like Armanino McKenna, because it simplifies their job of putting together a full data security approach,” explains David Matthiesen, director of sales at DeviceLock, Inc. “It’s a continuation of our strategy to work with encryption providers and device makers to offer the best and most secure solution to protect against data leakage.”
Learn more about DeviceLock software at , and the Lexar SAFE PSD S1100 usb flash drive at .
Availability
The DeviceLock/Lexar SAFE (Secure Access For Enterprise — Personal Storage Device) PSD bundled solution is available immediately directly from DeviceLock, and through select channel partners.
About DeviceLock, Inc.
Since its inception in 1996 as SmartLine Inc, DeviceLock, Inc. has been providing well-integrated and cost-effective endpoint security solutions. With more than three million computers installed in over 55,000 organizations worldwide, DeviceLock has a vast range of enterprise customers that include financial institutions, state and federal government agencies, classified military networks, telecommunications companies, and educational institutions. DeviceLock has international offices in California (U.S.), London (U.K.), Ratingen (Germany), Moscow (Russia) and Milan (Italy).
About Lexar Media, Inc.
Lexar Media is a leading marketer and manufacturer of NAND flash and DRAM memory products under the Lexar and Crucial brand names. Lexar also sells flash memory products under the Kodak brand. For more information about Lexar, visit . For more information about Crucial products, visit , or . Lexar Media, Inc. is a subsidiary of Micron Technology, Inc., and Lexar Media is a division of Micron Europe Limited, a division of Micron Semiconductor Asia Pte. Ltd., and a division of Micron Japan, Ltd.
About Micron Technology, Inc.
Micron Technology, Inc. is one of the world’s leading providers of advanced semiconductor solutions. Through its worldwide operations, Micron manufactures and markets DRAMs, NAND flash memory, CMOS image sensors, other semiconductor components, and memory modules for use in leading-edge computing, consumer, networking and mobile products. Micron’s common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the MU symbol. To learn more about Micron Technology, Inc. visit .
COPYRIGHT (C)2008 DeviceLock, Inc. All rights reserved. DeviceLock(R) and the DeviceLock logo are registered trademarks of DeviceLock, Inc. Lexar and the Lexar logo are trademarks of Lexar Media, Inc., a subsidiary of Micron Technology, Inc. All other product names, service marks, and trademarks mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners.
DeviceLock Media Contacts:
Julie Parayno/Corey Oiesen
Dovetail Public Relations
1-408-395-3600

Lexar Media Contact:
Scott Meaney
DBA Public Relations
1-212-388-1400

DeviceLock, Inc.

SAN JOSE, California, June 9 /PRNewswire/ —

- The radio chip enables long range, low power, wireless connectivity for
IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today the availability of
the AT86RF212 800/900 MHz IEEE 802.15.4(TM) RF transceiver for low power
wireless applications, including ZigBee(R).

The AT86RF212 offers an industry best RF performance with a link budget
of up to 120 dB in the 800 MHz and 900 MHz ISM bands available in Europe and
North America, respectively. The link budget is the result of the -110 dBm
sensitivity offered by the device and the maximum output power of 10 dBm.
The extremely high link budget combined with the reduced path loss in the
800/900 MHz enables long range wireless communication without the use of
costly external LNA or PA.

Designing products with the AT86RF212 chipset enables battery operated
devices to run for many years on a single battery because of the AT86RF212’s
low current consumption in both active and in sleep mode. The current
consumption in receive mode is 9 mA and the consumption in transmit is 17 mA
at a power output level of 5 dBm. The sleep mode current consumption is down
to 0.2 uA.

“Selecting a 800/900 MHz radio chip for your wireless applications gives
you a range benefit of nearly 3 times compared to a 2.4 GHz device due to the
reduced path loss on the lower frequencies,” said Magnus Pedersen, Director
of Wireless MCU Product Marketing at Atmel. “Adding the benefit of the
extremely high link budget of the AT86RF212, the device outperforms most
solutions available in the industry today by as much as 10 times the range.
This has been confirmed by initial range tests performed by our partner
MeshNetics, showing an outdoor range of about 6 km without the use of any
external LNA’s or PA’s,” he added.

“Atmel is our long-standing silicon partner, and we are pleased to pair
their best-in-class AT86RF212 transceiver with our BitCloud ZigBee PRO
Feature Set software on our ZigBit 900 RF module for sub-1 GHz band,” said
Alexey Rybakov, Managing Director of MeshNetics’ ZigBit Business Unit.
“MeshNetics is a ZigBee House that offers easy-to-integrate RF modules,
ZigBee software and engineering services for OEMs and system integrators. By
using the industry-leading silicon from Atmel, we can offer our customers
high quality ZigBee modules and development tools.”
To support the wide range of wireless applications requested by the
market, AT86RF212 handles multiple data rates. The 20/40 Kbit/s and 100/250
Kbit/s supported by the device is compliant to IEEE 802.15.4-2006. High speed
data rates such as 200/400/1000 Kbit/s are also supported enabling wireless
applications demanding more bandwidth.

Security is handled by an AES 128-bit onboard hardware engine. The
security engine improves the overall system power efficiency and timing. The
stand-alone 128-bit AES engine can be accessed in parallel to all PHY
operational transactions and states using the SPI interface. Atmel wireless
solution is made of radio devices and microcontrollers such as AVR(R)
offering the best-in-class combination of performance and low power
consumption required for such applications. A set of firmware and
applications notes has been prepared for AT86RF212 to shorten time to market
for the Atmel customers. This includes low-level drivers for simple wireless
applications, IEEE 802.15.4 MAC for standard compliant solutions as well as
solutions for ZigBee. Updated firmware and documentation are available from
the web pages of Atmel and partners.

Availability and Pricing

Samples of the new AT86RF212 are available now in Pb-free QFN32 packages,
measuring only 5mm x 5 mm. Pricing starts at US $3.21 in 10k-piece
quantities.

Footnote
LNA = Low Noise Amplifier
PA = Power AmplifierIEEE = Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers
AES = Advanced Encryption Standard
SPI = Serial Peripheral Interface
PHY = Physical medium
ZigBee = Low Power Wireless communication protocols defined by the ZigBee
Alliance

About Atmel

Atmel is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of
microcontrollers, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio
frequency (RF) components. Leveraging one of the industry’s broadest
intellectual property (IP) technology portfolios, Atmel is able to provide
the electronics industry with complete system solutions focused on consumer,
industrial, security, communications, computing and automotive markets.

(C) 2008 Atmel Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Atmel(R), logo and
combinations thereof, AVR(R) and others, are registered trademarks or
trademarks of Atmel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other terms and product
names may be trademarks of others.

Information:
Detailed information about AT86RF212 can be retrieved at:
http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card.asp?PN=AT86RF212
Product information on Atmel’s AVR can be retrieved at
http://www.atmel.com/avr

Press Contacts:
Philippe Faure, Marketing Communications Director - Microcontrollers
Tel: 33-2-40-18-18-87, Email: philippe.faure@atmel.com

Helen Perlegos, Public Relations
Tel: 1-408-487-2963, Email: hperlegos@atmel.com

Web site: http://www.atmel.com/avr

Atmel Corporation

AKRON, Ohio, June 4 /PRNewswire/ — Knotice Ltd., a provider of software and marketing services for engaging today’s digital consumers, today announced its Concentri(TM) software platform has been selected by GameSnake.com — the leading social network for sports and recreation enthusiasts — to further enhance their member experience by extending the online experience to mobile devices and email inboxes. GameSnake founding partner and Business Manager Andrew Holland said he is enthusiastic about enhancing the service’s core vision by communicating with members more quickly and providing additional networking opportunities, especially via the mobile channel.
“GameSnake has always had highly developed segmentation capabilities to support the variety of different sports and activities individuals enjoy,” Holland said. “Knotice’s Concentri platform is the only platform uniquely able to support both this type of complex segmentation and delivery of mobile and email content to members in real time.”
Matching players of varying degrees of athletic ability together, GameSnake is based on members identifying their location and activity preferences, then getting together and competing in pickup games, or forming teams within their communities. Members are able to identify over 100 different sports or activities they enjoy, and GameSnake matches the profiles with other profiles that share common interests.
Once a game is formed, Concentri(TM) communicates to the profiles in the database, through bi-directional texting or email, the time, location and participants while giving members the opportunity to accept or decline the invitation to the game, or contact other participants and discuss details.
Knotice Co-Founder and CEO Brian Deagan said he believes GameSnake’s members will benefit from the brand new mobile capabilities offered through use of the Concentri(TM) platform.
“GameSnake users are an active bunch, and Concentri is able to communicate with them while they’re out and about, providing real time information about new games, or changes to existing games,” Deagan said. “Concentri’s cross-channel capabilities will keep GameSnake members informed and engaged in their personal passions and the GameSnake brand.”
About the Concentri Platform - Soup-to-Nuts Campaigns in One Package
Concentri is a simple and powerful platform for creating and managing highly relevant, multi-stage campaigns and services across web, mobile and email channels. With Concentri(TM), marketers can easily reach today’s digital consumers to grow revenue and enhance brand engagement while maintaining a consistent brand experience, cutting production cycles from weeks to days and reducing other related costs by as much as 50%.
About Knotice
Knotice provides marketing and software solutions for Personal Relevance Marketing (PRM) — marketing communications tailored to individual consumers based on their own preferences — through web, mobile and email technologies. Knotice’s solutions give companies a competitive edge by creating strong brand relationships with customers through consistent and personally relevant marketing that is customized to each consumer across multiple marketing media.
Integrating marketing campaigns over web, mobile and email allows major marketers to deliver a consistent brand message regardless of how it reaches the consumer. Brands create a bond with the consumer by showing that they respect individual preferences not only in product, but in how they prefer to receive offers and communications. For more information visit .
About GameSnake.com
The GameSnake mission is to encourage participation in sports by bringing athletes together online to promote pickup Games and teams within their communities. GameSnake is a free online service that matches players with pickup Games and teams in over 80 sports. GameSnake uses a player’s age, gender, location and sports preferences to match them with Games and teams happening on the courts, fields and facilities in their area. GameSnake also offers team managers a suite of tools they can use to start and manage their team roster, team Games and schedules. GameSnake has also added features to cater to athletes with disabilities. Athletes with disabilities can connect with other athletes and Games that cater to their disabilities. For more information visit .
Knotice Ltd.

ST. LOUIS, June 3 /PRNewswire/ — The hiring of full-time accounting and finance professionals in the St. Louis area is expected to increase in the third quarter of 2008, according to the most recent Robert Half International Financial Hiring Index. Seven percent of chief financial officers (CFOs) surveyed plan to add staff during the quarter and 5 percent anticipate reductions in personnel. The net 2 percent increase is up one point from the area’s second-quarter 2008 forecast and two points above the national average.
The local results reflect a two-quarter rolling average based on interviews with 200 CFOs from a stratified random sample of companies in the St. Louis area with 20 or more employees; 1,400 CFOs were queried for the national data. (To view the national results, visit .) The studies were conducted by an independent research firm and developed by Robert Half International, the world’s largest staffing services firm specializing in accounting and finance. Robert Half has been tracking financial hiring activity in the United States since 1992.
“While the job market has become more competitive in a number of fields, demand for skilled accounting and finance professionals is holding steady,” said Max Messmer, chairman and CEO of Robert Half International. “In fact, for many key positions, it remains a challenge to find experienced candidates.”
Robert Half International was founded in 1948 and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Its financial staffing divisions include Accountemps(R), Robert Half(R) finance & Accounting and Robert Half(R) Management Resources, for temporary, full-time and senior-level project professionals, respectively. The company has more than 360 staffing locations worldwide and offers online job search services on its divisional websites, all of which can be accessed at .
Robert Half International

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 28 /PRNewswire/ — Radically changing the game for sales-related analytics, Xactly Corporation, the leader in on-demand sales performance management, today announced Xactly Analytics, the market’s first on-demand application to deliver rich analytics capabilities on top of comprehensive and reliable post-sales data. Xactly Analytics is revolutionary in bringing together all the data necessary for ongoing visibility and meaningful analysis of an organization’s commissions spend, selling patterns, sales rep and team performance, product performance, and sales plan effectiveness to enhance business strategies and maximize sales performance.
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“In the world of on-demand applications, analytics capabilities typically are not robust. Xactly Analytics delivers rich analytic capabilities on top of post-sales data, and provides a real differentiator for their offering,” said Henry Morris, senior vice president, Worldwide Software and Services Research, IDC. “By pairing Xactly Analytics with the company’s existing open APIs to effectively aggregate data, as well as its modeling capabilities allowing companies to simulate compensation scenarios, Xactly now offers a powerful end-to-end on-demand solution for Sales Performance Management.”
Post-sales data — including factual data on what was sold, by whom, through what channels, at what price and how each sale was compensated — is the most accurate source of information for measuring sales performance. But until now, this information has been fragmented across multiple, difficult-to-access backend systems, including systems for order entry, HR, pricing and products.
Xactly’s flagship Xactly Incent sales compensation management application, however, aggregates this information and more into a single, secure on-demand repository as part of the process of accurately calculating a customer’s incentive compensation. Xactly Analytics taps into this unique set of post-sales data to power pre-built analytics, metrics, ad-hoc reporting, and Web-based executive dashboards and scorecards targeted to the sales performance analysis needs of sales and finance management.
“Xactly Analytics is core to our vision for on-demand sales performance management. Numerous business processes are dependent on the reliable, post-sales data we bring together from managing a company’s incentive compensation — from strategic selling to price management to quota and territory management,” said Karen Steele, vice president of marketing, Xactly. “In what we view as nothing less than a paradigm shift for analytic offerings, Xactly combines a rich data set integrated transparently behind the scenes and used to calculate commissions, an analytical data model optimized for sales performance management, and robust analytical tools and pre-defined metrics delivered on-demand through a true, multi-tenant architecture. It leverages data you can trust, thereby delivering insights you can trust — and it’s all in the hands of the business user, requiring no intervention from IT.”
Added Steele, “The delivery of Xactly Analytics represents a significant step along our aggressive roadmap for delivering comprehensive on-demand functionality for total sales performance management.”
Xactly Analytics is a fully on-demand, Web-based application delivering a complete range of data exploration and analysis capabilities that would ordinarily require significant time and IT resources to develop. Xactly Analytics provides unified, authoritative views of key sales performance management metrics, including sales incentive analysis, product performance analysis, and sales performance analysis by sales team, product or region. It includes automated data-workflow processes that transform and aggregate business data brought together by Xactly Incent to provide executives, sales managers and finance managers with better visibility into incentive spend that has not previously been possible with traditional Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) products.
As a pure on-demand SaaS application, Xactly Analytics requires no costly set-up or lengthy deployment time. As soon as a subscription is acquired, customers’ data residing within Xactly Incent is aggregated and made available through pre-built dashboards and reports. In forthcoming releases later this year, Xactly Analytics will also leverage data from external sources, such as sales pipeline and expense management systems, to enable an even wider range of analysis, building upon incentive spend analytics with metrics on cost of sales, margin and profitability.
“Xactly Analytics can help free our sales and finance management from having to laboriously chase down sales performance metrics currently buried in spreadsheets or locked up in IT-controlled systems — and that is truly game-changing,” said Erik Fike, field sales operations, NetQoS. “We believe having the ability at our fingertips to gain insights into our sales performance — on-demand, around the clock, and based on factual post-sales data — will be an incalculable advantage over having to only rely on pre-sales data to drive sales performance.”
Availability
Currently in Beta release, Xactly Analytics is scheduled for general availability in early June 2008.
About Xactly Corporation
Xactly Corporation is the market leader in on-demand sales performance management. The company’s flagship product, Xactly Incent, enables sales and finance executives to design, implement, manage, audit and optimize sales compensation management programs easily and affordably. Xactly solutions automate the process of aggregating data from disparate systems into a secure, hosted repository, and enable companies to leverage this business data, which is the lifeblood of sales performance management. Xactly helps companies improve operational performance, optimize sales effectiveness, proactively manage risk and compliance, and maximize profits. The Xactly family of products is used by sales and finance executives, compensation analysts, sales operations and sales professionals across a variety of industries, ranging from SMBs to large enterprises. For more information, visit or call 1-866-GO-XACTLY.
(C) 2008 Xactly Corporation. All rights reserved. Xactly, Xactly Incent, Xactly Rewards, and “Incent right. Sell more.” are trademarks or registered trademarks of Xactly Corporation.
Media Contacts:
Samantha Moore
Xactly Corporation
Tel: 408-200-0675
Email:

Kristin Reeves
Blanc & Otus Public Relations
Tel: 415-856-5145
Email:

Xactly Corporation

CANNES, France, May 29 /PRNewswire/ — Global ABS 2008 — Lewtan Technologies, Inc., provider of ABSNet, the industry’s leading source for asset-backed securities surveillance data, analytics, software, and content for the global securitisation industry, today announced the availability of the Global ABS Portal, which provides free access to the most recent remittance reports and original prospectuses for public European securitisations.
“Having a free centralized point of access to public deal information will enable investors and regulators to easily access crucial information about public European securitisations,” said Ira Keller, CEO of Lewtan. “Prior to Lewtan’s Global ABS Portal, the only option available to find this information in one location was through commercial vendors.”
Lewtan has extensive experience delivering effective, reliable financial- data portals, including its flagship ABSNet portal, a deal performance database that tracks, among other data, more than 17,000 European asset-backed securities. The Global ABS Portal leverages ABSNet’s sourcing infrastructure to offer original prospectuses and remittance reports. The data accessed through the portal will be updated as new reports are published.
Portal Helps Industry Cope with Evolving Market Conditions, Regulatory Changes
Lewtan chose to launch the Global ABS Portal at Global ABS 2008 in support of the tremendous time and effort that the European Securitisation Forum (ESF) has spent in promoting transparency in the European market. Also, the most important players in the global securitisation industry attend Global ABS, making it the ideal platform for introducing a new service to the industry.
“Lewtan recognizes the changing market environment and evolving business model,” said Ira Keller. “For many years, we have fielded products and services that support transparency, and this free portal extends our commitment to serving the industry as a partner that can be counted on to provide access to the information and tools investors and issuers need to conduct business in an ever-changing regulatory environment.
“The subprime contagion that began in the US has caused the global structured finance community to reassess issues of surveillance and transparency,” said Keller. “The European market is struggling with ever- increasing regulatory scrutiny. MiFID, MAD, and similar types of regulatory scrutiny will result in an increased need for transparency and the creation of ‘best practices’ throughout the industry. In the US market, the SEC’s EDGAR database and the increased disclosures provided under Reg AB provide data availability for public deals. We believe that the Global ABS Portal provides similar data availability to participants in the European market.”
About Lewtan
Through offices in North America and Europe, Lewtan Technologies, Inc., offers a wide range of content- and technology-based solutions to members of the global asset-securitisation industry, including issuers, investors, underwriters, servicers, credit enhancers, and rating agencies representing more than 400 institutions worldwide. The company has twice been named Global Technology Provider of the Year by International Securitisation Report, and it received the Innovation Award and commendations for client service and best-in-class surveillance tool in Money Market’s 2007 Securitisation Review & Survey Technology Awards. More information is available at .
Lewtan Technologies, Inc.

LAS VEGAS, May 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — The Estate Vault (Pink Sheets: TEVI), world leader providing document storage and retrieval systems, today announced that it has partnered with Smartterm.ca, a provider of online term and critical illness insurance in Canada.
“Smartterm.ca is a new and innovative player in the online term insurance market in Canada. What is exciting about their application is that they are one of the few online insurance distributors to provide a complete front-end to back-end consumer driven term insurance application!” said Boyd Soussana, CEO, The Estate Vault. “They clearly understand where the market is heading in terms of online insurance applications and want a seamless and easy process for their customers. They also provide group benefits and travel insurance which is a growing segment in the Canadian market. Our agreement is that all policies purchased through the Smartterm.ca insurance portal will have The Estate Vault attached to it. This provides a meaningful advantage to Smartterm.ca as it begins to deploy its branding strategy. We are excited about this partnership with one of the unique providers of insurance products in Canada.”
The Estate Vault’s Platform provides businesses of all kinds the ability to provide a truly unique value added service to their current product offering. The My Money Management component allows consumers the ability to not only view all of their financial information on one page but also will give them a true net worth statement in real time that includes items that cannot be aggregated like home furnishings or stamp collections. The Estate Vault offers more than document storage and truly provides a holistic view of an individual’s personal and financial life.
About Smartterm.ca
Smartterm.ca’s goal is to set a standard that is industry wide. To provide the best of both worlds as a web based corporation with human interaction. To hear what our clients are asking for, to build on this by providing new products at a competitive price with compassion and care. And finally, to make this process easy and transparent. Through the SMARTTERM CALCULATOR, individuals can simply choose the type of coverage they wish along with the premium they can afford. There is no catch. It is simply put “SMART”.
The Smartterm.ca needs analysis calculator will help guide individuals as to the amount of insurance they might require to meet their current and future needs. Smartterm.ca provides an extensive description of all of their products and a toll free number to answer any questions.
Individuals may apply for coverage online in under 5 minutes.

About The Estate Vault, Inc.

The Estate Vault, Inc. was developed to overcome the daunting task of keeping financial, personal and legal documents up to date and in one place. Together with its strategic product partners The Estate Vault has wrapped up its unique service offering with a Credit Card Registry, Home Inventory Listing, Identity Theft insurance and an online Legal Documents and Will Creator.
The Estate Vault intends to become the leader in value added products to the financial services industry by providing a product and service at a low price point and then leveraging patent pending technology known as IntelliAD and IntelliBrand to maximize brand awareness.
For additional information go to

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The statements contained in this release and statements that the company may make orally in connection with this release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements, since these forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could significantly and adversely impact the company’s business Therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from those made in forward-looking statements.
Contact: Investor Relations
Robert Gartzman
1-866-405-3256 ext 705

The Estate Vault

TOKYO, May 19 /PRNewswire/ —

- Survey reveals that all of the respondents experienced benefits from
obtaining the “XML Master Professional” certification.

From today, the XML technology Certification Committee will release the
results of an online survey administered to individuals who obtained the “XML
Master Professional” certification, a higher-level certification in the XML
Master program.

The survey was conducted between Thursday, April 10, 2008 and Monday,
April 21, 2008, among individuals who passed the latest version of the “XML
Master Professional” certification examination. 68 individuals responded to
the survey.

Regarding the survey results, for the question regarding the benefits of
obtaining the “XML Master Professional” certification (multiple responses
possible), 90% selected the response “I gained knowledge regarding XML and
XML-related technology,” 65% selected the response “It helped me build
confidence in my knowledge about XML and XML-related technology,” 31%
selected the response “I received a bonus from my company,” 29% selected the
response “I received a higher evaluation at my company,” 28% selected the
response “It helped me with my work duties,” and 6% selected the response “I
received a pay raise.” All of the survey respondents selected one or more of
the above benefits of obtaining the certification.

As for the difficulty of the exam, a majority of the respondents (54%)
selected the response “It was more difficult than I had expected.” For the
question, “Were the examination questions practical?” 80% of the 50
respondents selected the response “The questions were practical,” excluding
the individuals who responded that they did not know because they do not use
XML/XML-related technology in their work duties.

The details of the survey results can be viewed at the following website:
http://www.xmlmaster.org/en/survey/professional/result.html

About the XML Certification Program (XML Master)

The “XML Master” is a professional certification officially launched in
August 2001. The primary objective of the “XML Master” is the broad-based
development of professionals having XML skills. To date, more than
16,000 professionals throughout the world have become XML Masters.

For more, please see: http://www.xmlmaster.org/en/

Contact:
Kaoru Shima
XML technology Certification Committee
TEL: 81-3-5718-1297
For news article usage: office@xmlmaster.org
Web site: http://www.xmlmaster.org/en/

Web site: http://www.xmlmaster.org/en
http://www.xmlmaster.org/en/survey/professional/result.html

XML technology Certification Committee

NOERRESUNDBY, Denmark, May 19 /PRNewswire/ —

- Remote Monitoring of Elderly People Suffering From CHF, COPD, Diabetes
and Other Chronic Diseases now Becomes Easier and More Effective With a New
Interactive Telehealth Monitor Based on GSM/GPRS Mobile phone Technology.

RTX Healthcare today announced a new member to the family of interactive
telehealth monitors, which allows healthcare system integrators and disease
management companies to effectively monitor patients at home. The RTX3371
GSM/GPRS Telehealth Monitor collects vital signs wirelessly from external
devices and subjective patient information from patient questionnaires and
transmits the data directly to the system integrator or disease management
company’s own clinical information system. The collected vital signs include
weight, blood pressure, blood glucose, peak flow, SpO2, ECG, blood
coagulation and others. All external devices are products from major third
party medical device manufacturers.

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Bjarne Flou, CEO of RTX Healthcare says: “Expanding our product portfolio
to include a GSM/GPRS mobile phone technology enabled Telehealth Monitor is a
natural next step in the progression of our vision to become the preferred
supplier of telehealth equipment. Our Telehealth Monitors are extremely
simple and intuitive to use for elderly patients. Furthermore, the
flexibility of the device and our business model, where RTX Healthcare sell
the RTX3371 Telehealth Monitor for a one-off fee without a proprietary
backend, makes our monitors an easy and preferred choice for telehealth
providers”. Bjarne Flou continues: “The RTX3371 GSM/GPRS Telehealth Monitor
is the second member of a family of telehealth monitors, which also include
the RTX3370 monitor with built-in PSTN landline phone modem”.

About RTX Healthcare A/S

RTX Healthcare focuses entirely on helping people suffering from chronic
diseases to live a better and longer life with their disease. RTX Healthcare
specializes in the development and manufacturing of wireless medical devices
for remote monitoring. It is RTX Healthcare’s vision to be known and
recognized as a market leader in the healthcare industry at delivering the
most appropriate and cost-effective telehealth solutions. RTX Healthcare is a
subsidiary company of RTX Telecom A/S, which is based in Denmark with offices
in California and Hong Kong. RTX Telecom A/S is listed on the Nordic Stock
Exchange, Copenhagen (OMX). For further information, please visit:
http://www.rtx.dk.

RTX Healthcare media contact:

Europe, Bjarne Flou, CEO,
Tel.: 45-9632-2300,
E-mail: bf@rtx.dk. USA,

Anthony Taroni,
Sales Director,
Tel.: 1-(408)-441-8600,
E-mail: ata@rtxamerica.com

RTX Healthcare A/S

MADISON, Wis., May 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Sonic Foundry, Inc. , the recognized market leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge management, today announced the winners for its fourth annual Rich Media Impact Awards program. The winners were recognized at a special awards dinner during UNLEASH 2008, the second annual Mediasite user conference.
Launched to recognize excellence in the practical and creative integration of its webcasting platform in education, business, health and government, the awards honor organizations that have demonstrated measurable improvements in accessibility, cost savings, efficiency and productivity through Mediasite.
“We congratulate the winners and thank them for the important role they play in setting the standard for what can be accomplished with Mediasite,” Rimas Buinevicius, chairman and CEO of Sonic Foundry. “What these organizations are doing to advance rich media is admirable and we are proud to honor them for their contribution.”
2008 Rich Media Impact Award Winners
Excellence in Education Award recognizes a higher education institution that enhanced learning and outreach through rich media. The 2007 winner is Technische Universiteit Delft - Netherlands.
Enterprise Award recognizes an organization who improved its business outcomes through rich media communication. The 2007 winner is Prudential Financial.
Facility Design Award: recognizes a professional AV design or consulting firm that created innovative rich media rooms and facilities. The 2007 winner is Shen Milsom & Wilke for the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.
Global Reach Award: recognizes any successful initiative that reached the international community through rich media. The 2007 winner is Rush University Medical Center Department of Ophthalmology.
Government Award: recognizes a local, state or federal government initiative that implemented rich media for training and outreach. The 2008 winner is the Oklahoma Merit Protection Commission.
Healthcare Award: recognizes an organization that implemented rich media to benefit health and wellness. The 2008 winner is Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global health Education.
Rapid ROI Award: recognizes an organization that used rich media to quickly achieve a measurable ROI in its training, communications or outreach initiatives. The 2008 winner is the University of Wisconsin La Crosse Educational Technologies.
Scholastic Achievement Award: recognizes a school district or other organization serving the K-12 educational community that harnessed the power of rich media to improve communication, learning and outreach. The 2008 winner is Memphis City Schools.
For a full list of winners and finalists, as well as their Mediasite presentations visit .
Since its introduction in 2003, Sonic Foundry’s Mediasite has set the standard as a transformational communication medium for delivering critical information and sharing knowledge. The patented Mediasite webcasting and content management system quickly and cost-effectively automates the capture, management, delivery and search of rich media presentations that combine audio, video and accompanying graphics for live or on-demand viewing.
About Sonic Foundry(R), Inc.
Founded in 1991, Sonic Foundry is the recognized market leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge management, providing education and training solutions and services that link an information-driven world. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, the company has received numerous awards including the 2007 Frost & Sullivan Global Market Leadership Award, Ziff Davis Media’s Baseline Magazine’s sixth fastest-growing software company with sales under $150 million and Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500. Named a Bersin & Associates 2007 Learning Leader, Sonic Foundry’s webcasting and knowledge management solutions are trusted by education institutions, Fortune 500 companies and government agencies for a variety of critical communication needs. Sonic Foundry is changing the way organizations communicate via the web and how people around the globe receive vital information needed for education, business, professional advancement and safety. Product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of Sonic Foundry, Inc. or their respective owners.
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