Pearson School Systems Unveils Revolutionary Web Gradebook - PowerTeacher- Innovative technology is elegantly designed for simplicity and an intuitive user experience that works the way teachers work -

FOLSOM, Ca., June 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pearson School Systems today announced the launch of PowerTeacher, its new web gradebook and classroom toolset. PowerTeacher combines its newly developed gradebook- designed to work the way teachers work-with its existing teacher portal. Together, they provide a breakthrough solution that sets the new standard for design and development in web-based applications.

PowerTeacher was conceived and architected from the ground up in consultation with more than 1,000 K-12 teachers, to ensure its interface and key features were highly intuitive and able to address the unique needs and challenges facing today's teachers. This large scale collaboration with customers gave Pearson the important information it required to reach the next level in gradebook technology. PowerTeacher contains the critical tools teachers need, including information and processes for daily classroom organization.

"PowerTeacher marks an important milestone in Pearson's drive to transform educational communities through technology," said Mary McCaffrey, President, Pearson School Systems. "As a company with deep roots in the education industry, Pearson understands the critical needs of today's teachers and administrators. Our fundamental goal in developing this solution is to deliver a highly intuitive web-based gradebook that is simple, innovative, and works the way teachers work. Our preview users have told us we have more than met that goal with PowerTeacher."

As a core component of the student information system, PowerTeacher allows teachers to instantly access and report key student data such as attendance, student logs, demographic information, daily bulletins, parent contact information, guardian and health alerts, lunch counts, assistance tracking, communication tools, and classroom/individual assignments. PowerTeacher also enables progressive grading practices such as formative, summative and diagnostic grading, enabling teachers to tailor curriculum to the individual needs of each student.

Key features of PowerTeacher include: -- Revolutionary user interface -- designed by teachers for teachers -- it's intuitive and natural for the teachers' role in the classroom -- Universal access -- as an entirely web-based system, teachers and IT Staff can access PowerTeacher anytime, anywhere an Internet connection exists -- Advanced formative, summative and diagnostic grading options -- assignments can be accurately tracked and assessed, whether they count toward grades or not -- Score Inspector for quick marking -- teachers can easily enter new scores, flags and comments in the fastest manner possible -- Comment Log -- teachers can enter personalized or standard (from the comment bank) comments for individualized students or the entire class -- Ability Groups -- teachers are able to more easily manage and group students based on differing abilities within each class -- Links to teaching utilities -- teachers can manage the message and positioning of student grades -- Robust communication tools -- designed to enhance teacher, student, and parent communication

PowerTeacher will complement each of Pearson's award-winning student information systems, beginning with PowerSchool Premier. Integration with Chancery SMS and SASI will begin in the near future.

For more information on PowerTeacher, please visit the Pearson School Systems booth (#1646) during the 2007 NECC Conference from June 24 - 27 at Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA.

About Pearson Education

Educating 100 million people worldwide, Pearson Education (http://www.pearsoned.com/) is the global leader in educational publishing, providing scientifically research-based print and digital programs to help students of all ages learn at their own pace, in their own way. Virtually all students in America learn from a Pearson program at some point in their educational career. The company is home to such renowned publishing brands and businesses as Pearson Prentice Hall, Pearson Scott Foresman, Pearson Learning Group, Pearson Digital Learning, Pearson Educational Measurement, Pearson Achievement Solutions, Pearson School Systems, and others. Pearson Education is part of Pearson , the international media company. In addition to Pearson Education, Pearson's primary operations include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group.

About Pearson SchoolSystems is advancing student learning through its highly interoperable enterprise solutions for student information management. As the market leader in K12 technology innovations, Pearson School Systems supports millions of students, with a product lineup that includes PowerSchool Premier, Chancery SMS, Mac School, Win School, and SASI. Pearson Inform, the achievement data analysis and decision support tool rounds out a solution set designed to provide administrators, teachers, students, and parents with comprehensive software options that are easy-to-use and can be customized to meet a wide range of end-user needs. All Pearson products are fully supported with training and the finest customer support services in the industry. For more information, please visit http://www.pearsonschoolsystems.com/.

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Seagate Unveils One Terabyte Hard Drives as Explosive Growth of Digital Content Continues

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Seagate today announced 1 terabyte (TB) hard drives that deliver an industry-leading combination of capacity, performance and reliability for a wide range of enterprise and desktop PC applications as rampant growth of digital content continues worldwide.

This explosive growth of digital content in the home and the office is driving demand for massive amounts of hard drive storage. Businesses and consumers are generating and consuming staggering volumes of digital content -- from high-definition video, music, blogs and podcasts, to Computer Assisted Design (CAD) and other large graphics files, critical business records, archived emails, and database and file server data. Seagate is focused on delivering the industry's most advanced hard drives to satisfy the world's growing need for digital content, from the home to the hand to the car and the office.

"The need for high-capacity storage in enterprise networks and home entertainment centers is almost insatiable," said John Monroe, a research vice president at Gartner. "Historians may consider the shipment of 1TB drives as a watershed event for the industry but users will consider such devices commonplace. We believe 1TB (and larger) drives will become 'standard equipment' in, on or near virtually every television set in the world as well as in a variety of multi-user environments."

As the industry's only second-generation desktop and enterprise perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) hard drives, the Barracuda 7200.11 and Barracuda ES.2 deliver 1TB of capacity, 7,200-rpm spin speeds, average seek times of 8.5ms, caches up to 32MB and Seagate's industry-leading five-year limited warranty. Seagate's newest hard drives pack 1TB of data on just four discs to provide cool operating temperatures and low power consumption, which help extend drive life.

The Flagship of High-Capacity Enterprise Storage - Barracuda ES.2 The Barracuda ES.2 is a newly designed product optimized for demanding business-critical and nearline enterprise storage environments including: networked and tiered storage solutions, reference/compliance storage, disc-to-disc backup and restore, archiving solutions, rich media content storage and collaboration.

The Barracuda ES.2 hard drive's robust new features stand out in performance, reliability, capacity, and energy efficiency. Among them is its new RVFF (Rotational Vibration Feed Forward) system, designed to sustain performance in densely-packed multi-drive systems. The Barracuda ES.2 also boosts reliability with an industry-best unrecoverable error rate that is 10 times better than desktop class drives and a 1.2 million hour Mean Time Between Failure at full 24 x 7 data availability.

With the introduction of the Barracuda ES.2, Seagate is first to provide customers with a SAS interface option in addition to SATA. SAS offers greater levels of reliability, data integrity and performance for business-critical and nearline enterprise environments. The choice of SATA or SAS also enables greater system-design and integration flexibility for solution builders and OEMs.

"EqualLogic's customers have an insatiable demand for increasing capacities and high performance in their networked storage solutions," said John Joseph, vice president of Marketing at EqualLogic. "Seagate's strategy of offering a SAS or SATA version of a 1TB disk drive demonstrates leadership in recognizing that customers want high performance and high capacity disks for enterprise storage. Serving both needs with a single interface like SAS simplifies technology design decisions and customer choices."

Seagate's new PowerTrim(TM) technology is integrated into the Barracuda ES.2 and dynamically manages drive power consumption at all levels of activity. With PowerTrim(TM), the Barracuda ES.2 addresses the IT dilemma facing energy-constrained data centers by delivering a 20% reduction in overall drive power consumption and a best-in-class 55% reduction in watts-per-gigabyte.

Desktop Storage -- Barracuda 7200.11

Award-winning Barracuda hard drives are the industry standard for computing applications ranging from mainstream, high-performance and gaming PCs to workstations and desktop RAID. Now with over 42 million PMR Seagate drives already shipped, the proven technology and components of the 11th generation Barracuda 7200-Series hard drive enables Seagate to deliver high-volume shipments of the 1TB drive with the highest levels of quality and reliability -- essential in ensuring long drive life.

"Seagate is a valued and trusted supplier to Nor-Tech, and has always maintained the highest levels of field-proven reliability with consistent product delivery," said David Bollig, president of Nor-Tech. "We look forward to enhancing our portfolio of offerings using Seagate's new Barracuda drives that will offer even more choice and value for Nor-Tech's customers."

The Barracuda 7200.11 stands alone in performance among high-capacity desktop hard drives, with category-leading 105MB/s sustained transfer rate -- the highest ever. And with a low power rating of 8 watts at idle, the Barracuda 7200.11 is not only energy-efficient, but also operates cooler, increasing reliability. Barracuda 7200.11 also delivers industry-leading acoustics, as low as 2.7 Bels, which is nearly undetectable by the human ear.

The Barracuda ES.2 and 7200.11 will begin shipping in volume during the third quarter. The 1TB Barracuda 7200.11 will be offered at an MSRP of $399.99.

1TB Hard Drives for Consumer and Video Applications Expand High Capacity Footprint Even Further

Seagate remains the only hard drive manufacturer dedicated to the digital entertainment, security and surveillance markets with hard drives built to specifically address these unique applications. Seagate will extend its offerings in this area from the new 1TB platform and will provide details as these new products become available.

Videocast: Seagate Reaches Terabyte Milestone

To view the videocast interview featuring Marc Jourlait, Seagate vice president Global Marketing, visit http://www.podtech.net/home/3380/seagate-reaches-terabyte-milestone

About Seagate

Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of hard disc drives, providing products for a wide-range of applications, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and Branded Solutions. Seagate's business model leverages technology leadership and world-class manufacturing to deliver industry-leading innovation and quality to its global customers, and to be the low cost producer in all markets in which it participates. The company is committed to providing award-winning products, customer support and reliability to meet the world's growing demand for information storage. Seagate can be found around the globe and at http://www.seagate.com/.

Seagate and Seagate Technology are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC. The Wave logo and Barracuda are trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliates. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. One terabyte, or TB, equals 1,000 gigabytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting.

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Quantum Introduces DXi7500 Extending Data De-duplication and Replication Benefits Across the Distributed EnterpriseNew Disk-Based Backup System Provides Enterprise Scalability, Industry's First Policy-based De-duplication and Integrated Tape Creation

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Quantum Corp. , the leading global specialist in backup, recovery and archive, today announced the DXi7500 enterprise disk backup and replication system, designed to anchor a comprehensive strategy for linking backup, restore and disaster recovery protection across the distributed enterprise. With the addition of the DXi7500, Quantum's DXi-Series becomes the first disk-based backup family to extend the benefits of data de-duplication, remote replication and disk-to-tape creation across a product line that covers distributed sites, midrange environments, and primary data centers.

With a scalable capacity of up to 240 TB, performance of up to 8 TB/hour, a high-availability architecture, and a unique policy-based data de-duplication approach, the DXi7500 provides disk backup capabilities to match the needs of the most demanding enterprise data centers. And because it leverages the same integrated software layer foundation first introduced in Quantum's DXi3500 and DXi5500 disk backup appliances, the DXi7500 can also serve as a secure core repository for centralizing backup and disaster recovery from multiple distributed sites.

By eliminating redundant data, the de-duplication technology in Quantum's DXi-Series portfolio is designed to allow users to retain 10 to 50 times more backup data on fast recovery disk and use existing WANs to replicate backup between sites, reducing or even eliminating the challenge of dealing with removable media at remote sites. With this expansion of Quantum's DXi-Series portfolio, customers can now take advantage of replication and a common management interface to link the DXi3500 and DXi5500 appliances in remote offices and midrange data centers with the highly-scalable DXi7500 systems in enterprise data centers, where media management, disaster recovery, and long-term archive processes can be centralized.

"The value propositions of data de-duplication are abundantly clear, and the technology is fast becoming a requisite for customers investing in disk-based backup solutions," said Arun Taneja, founder and consulting analyst for Taneja Group. "Just when the debate between in-line and post-processing was getting interesting, Quantum introduces the DXi7500, a data de-duplication product that allows the user to choose the method based on policy -- once again letting the customer call the shots. I think the IT industry will love this flexibility."

Policy Based De-duplication and Integrated Tape Creation

Two industry-first features in the DXi7500 are designed to provide more effective centralized management of enterprise data. Other suppliers have chosen to provide either in-line de-duplication, which minimizes disk capacity requirements, or post-processing, which maximizes data ingest rates prior to de-duplication. Quantum's new policy-based de-duplication offers both options, allowing customers to determine the most appropriate de-duplication approach to best suit each application. The DXi7500 offers either in-line or post-process functionality based on the requirements of each backup job, meaning customers no longer must choose between performance and capacity allotment when deciding on a disk-based de-duplication solution. Additionally, as the first in the industry to deliver hardware-based data compression technology for open systems disk-based backup, Quantum continues to evolve this capability in the DXi7500, resulting in even better efficiencies across data reduction and system performance.

Because removable media continues to play a key role in long-term data retention and archiving for enterprise applications, the DXi7500 offers users the option of integrated tape creation, allowing removable media to be written outside the backup window without using the media server or the data center's SAN. In the DXi7500, integrated tape creation maintains full bar-code tracking with the backup application. Quantum is also working closely with Symantec to support its Direct to Tape feature in Veritas NetBackup 6.5. The Direct to Tape feature support will provide the first direct tape creation capability to be both fully automated and under the direct control of a backup software application.

"Quantum's DXi7500 signifies the first time that the benefits of data de-duplication are fully leveraged across the distributed enterprise, and while other vendors have targeted certain segments, they have a difficult time spanning a broader range of needs," said Bill Britts, executive vice president of Sales, Marketing and Service for Quantum. "Quantum has developed its DXi-Series portfolio, with the common foundation of our integrated software layer, to deliver scalability, performance and reliability advantages, as well as industry-first features, to our customers. The common software base also allows us to innovate across platforms and future methods of data protection."

DXi7500 Designed for the Enterprise

Based on a sophisticated architecture offering high availability and redundant hardware, the DXi7500 capacity and performance can be easily customized to address increasing pressure on backup windows and to enable effective replication strategies. The DXi7500 offers the flexibility to meet a broad range of configurations balancing cost, functionality and future growth considerations, with capacity points up to 240 TB in a single system.

Like Quantum's other DXi-Series disk backup and replication solutions, the DXi7500 is designed to be easy to deploy and operate. The system can be presented to the backup software as a NAS mount point (CIFS/NFS), as a VTL with either Fibre Channel or iSCSI connectivity, or across all presentations simultaneously. The DXi-Series is fully compatible with all leading backup applications and does not require that users change their existing backup methodology or infrastructure. The DXi7500 also increases customer flexibility by allowing some features, such as data de-duplication, replication and integrated tape creation, to be licensable options.

As part of a comprehensive solutions set from Quantum, the DXi7500 is supported by a suite of global service offerings. Included as standard are Quantum StorageCare(TM) onsite warranty and StorageCare Guardian, Quantum's proactive remote support solution. Warranty extensions and upgrades, as well as a full portfolio of product integration services, are optional. Quantum plans to ship the DXi7500 in fall 2007.

For more information on Quantum's DXi-Series disk backup and replication portfolio, please visit: http://www.quantum.com/Products/Disk-BasedBackup/DXi-Series/Index.aspx.

About Quantum

Quantum Corp. is the leading global storage company specializing in backup, recovery and archive. Combining focused expertise, customer-driven innovation, and platform independence, Quantum provides a comprehensive, integrated range of disk, tape, and software solutions supported by a world-class sales and service organization. As a long-standing and trusted partner, the company works closely with a broad network of resellers, OEMs and other suppliers to meet customers' evolving data protection needs. Quantum Corp., 1650 Technology Drive, Suite 700, San Jose, CA 95110, (408) 944-4000, http://www.quantum.com/.

Quantum, Quantum DXi-Series appliances, Quantum StorageCare and the Quantum logo are registered trademarks of Quantum Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

"Safe Harbor" Statement under the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This press release contains "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Specifically, without limitation, statements relating to 1) customer benefits and value to customers from using the Quantum appliance products, 2) customer demand for and Quantum's future sales of such Quantum appliance products, 3) the availability of such Quantum appliance products and 4) Quantum's future leadership position in the industry, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Safe Harbor. These statements are based on management's current expectations and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties. As a result, actual results may differ materially from the forward-looking statements contained herein. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described herein include, but are not limited to, operational difficulties, unforeseen technical limitations, unexpected material deviation in product operation, the ability of competitors to introduce new solutions that compete more successfully with our solutions, and unanticipated changes in customers' needs or requirements. More detailed information about these risk factors, and additional risk factors, are set forth in Quantum's periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to, those risks and uncertainties listed in the section entitled "Risk Factors," on pages 39 to 50 in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on February 8, 2007 and on pages 14 to 25 in Quantum's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 12, 2006; and those described in any subsequently filed reports. Such reports contain and identify important factors that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from those contained in our projections or forward-looking statement. Quantum expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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Atmel Extends CAP Family of Customizable Microcontrollers With ARM7-based ProductCAP7 Integrates FPGA Logic, Cuts IC Costs by Over 50%

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Atmel(R) Corporation announced today that it has extended its CAP family of customizable microcontroller-based System-on-a-Chip products with an ARM7 core. The new CAP7 customizable microcontroller is architecturally compatible with Atmel's broad range of off-the-shelf ARM7-based MCUs and incorporates metal programmable cell fabric (MPCF) technology to integrate up to 450K equivalent ASIC gates in a metal programmable block for custom logic netlist conversion. Atmel's flexible design flow allows an easy conversion path from FPGA netlist to the metal programmable block.

According to Atmel's marketing director, Jay Johnson, "Design engineers frequently use programmable ICs to accelerate their proprietary DSP algorithms in a gate array technology. Many choose FPGAs which represent a flexible, cost-effective solution for market-testing new products, when volumes cannot be predicted. However, once production ramp begins and controlling bill of materials is a priority, our CAP7 customizable MCUs offer a painless cost reduction path, without the typical NRE and long development cycle associated with a standard cell ASIC."

By eliminating an external FPGA, Atmel's customizable microcontrollers can reduce IC costs by at least 50%. For example, in medium volumes (50K units), a 1 to 2M gate FPGA and ARM7 MCU, 2-chip solution, market price is between $13 and $20. With unit prices under $6, CAP7 can cut the cost by more than half. In addition, with an 80MHz CAP7, designers can double performance and reduce power consumption by 90%, compared to 1 to 2 watt FPGA solutions.

Available for ARM7-based Designs. The initial CAP7 product release includes the AT91CAP7S, based on the ARM7TDMI(R) processor core. The AT91CAP7S has 160K bytes of on-chip fast SRAM and either a 250K or 450K block of metal programmable ASIC gates. Peripherals include USB device, SPI master and slave, two USARTs, three 16-bit timer counters, an 8-channel, 10-bit analog to digital converter, and a full complement of supervisory functions. Additional peripherals from Atmel's extensive IP library or customer IP may be instantiated in the MP block.

Availability and Pricing. There is a one-time charge of US $150,000 for design, mask fees, and prototypes. The CAP7 is available now for design. The AT91CAP7S250 in a 144 pin LQFP package is priced at US $5.44 for 50K unit quantities.

About MPCF. The MPCF technology offers the density and unit costs of cell-based ASICs with the quick turn around and low NREs of gate arrays. The key to the MPCF technology is an 8 transistor core cell that is only 3.2 um high and 2.0 um wide in Atmel's 130nm process, achieving densities up to 210,000 usable gates per square millimeter which is 35% more available gates than sea-of-gates technology.

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) 2007 Atmel Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Atmel(R), logo and combinations thereof, and others, are registered trademarks, or trademarks of Atmel Corporation or its subsidiaries. ARM(R), ARM7TDMI(R) and others are registered trademarks or trademarks of ARM Ltd. Other terms and product names may be trademarks of others.

Information: Atmel's AT91CAP product information may be retrieved at: http://www.atmel.com/products/AT91CAP/ Press Contacts: Barbara Bailey, Marketing Communications Manager - USA Phone: (+1) 719 540 1895, Email: bbailey@cso.atmel.com Peter Bishop, Communications Manager, Atmel Rousset, France Phone: (+33) (0) 4 42 53 61 50, Email: peter.bishop@rfo.atmel.com Veronique Sablereau, Corporate Communications Manager - Europe Phone: +33 1 30 60 70 68, Email: veronique.sablereau@atmel.com

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AT&T Inc. to Release Second-Quarter 2007 Earnings July 24

SAN ANTONIO, June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AT&T Inc. will release its second-quarter 2007 financial results on Tuesday, July 24, 2007. The company's earnings release, Investor Briefing and related materials will be available on AT&T's website at http://www.att.com/investor.relations by 8 a.m. EDT.

AT&T will also host a conference call to discuss the results at 10 a.m. EDT the same day. The conference call will be webcast live over the Internet at http://www.att.com/investor.relations and will be available for replay at the same address.

AT&T will release third-quarter 2007 results on Tuesday, Oct. 23.

Note: This AT&T release and other news announcements are available as part of an RSS feed at http://www.att.com/rss.

About AT&TAT&T Inc. is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates, AT&T operating companies, are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. Among their offerings are the world's most advanced IP-based business communications services and the nation's leading wireless, high speed Internet access and voice services. In domestic markets, AT&T is known for the directory publishing and advertising sales leadership of its Yellow Pages and YELLOWPAGES.COM organizations, and the AT&T brand is licensed to innovators in such fields as communications equipment. As part of its three-screen integration strategy, AT&T is expanding its TV entertainment offerings. Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com/.

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Altera Ships Highest-Density Member of the Cyclone III Family65-nm Device Ideal for Applications Requiring High Integration and Low Power

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Altera Corporation announced today the shipment of the EP3C120, the largest member of its new low-cost 65-nm Cyclone(R) III FPGA family. Consuming only a fraction of the power needed by other FPGAs of comparable capacity, the EP3C120 is ideal for a broad range of applications requiring both high integration and low power, such as wireless communications infrastructure, software defined radio, and video processing and imaging.

Compared to other FPGAs of similar density that typically consume more than a watt of standby power, the EP3C120 devices consume less than 200-mW standby power. Power consumption is an increasing concern among developers as both businesses and consumers look for environmentally responsible products that reduce energy consumption and costs. The low power consumption of the EP3C120 enables it to uniquely address power-sensitive applications or applications in thermally challenging environments where the heat generated by device operation cannot easily be dissipated, affecting product reliability and cost.

"We are using our first EP3C120 devices in our next-generation wireless products. These products deliver high-quality, low-latency digital, video and voice data, offering capabilities to our customers that have not been possible in the past," said Tom Freeburg, chief technical officer at MemoryLink. "The Cyclone III FPGAs offer compelling features that make them ideal for our needs, including generous memory and DSP resources as well as the lowest power consumption. This enables us to integrate greater capabilities into our products while minimizing our customers' energy costs."

"The market response to our new Cyclone III family has been tremendous," said Luanne Schirrmeister, director of marketing, low-cost products, Altera Corporation. "Applications such as software defined radio and emerging new wireless and video designs are looking for solutions that offer both high functionality and low power, all at a low cost. The EP3C120 delivers in all three of these areas and has enjoyed a very fast adoption into applications where low-cost FPGAs have traditionally not participated."

Leveraging Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC's) 65-nm low-power (LP) process, Cyclone III FPGAs offer low power, a rich supply of logic (5K to 120K logic elements), memory (up to 4 Mbits) and digital signal processing (DSP) capabilities (up to 288 DSP multipliers).

The entire Cyclone III family is supported by Quartus(R) II software version 7.1 in both subscription and the free web editions. The advanced technology and productivity features in Quartus II software allow designers to exploit the full potential of the Cyclone III family to achieve 50 percent lower power consumption compared to the previous generation family, and three speed grades faster than the nearest low-cost FPGA competitor.

Availability

The Cyclone III EP3C120 FPGA is shipping now to customers, a month ahead of schedule. For more information about Cyclone III FPGAs, please visit http://www.altera.com/cyclone3.

About Altera

Altera(R) programmable solutions enable system and semiconductor companies to rapidly and cost-effectively innovate, differentiate and win in their markets. Find out more at http://www.altera.com/.

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Editor Contact: Mark Plungy Altera Corporation 408.544.6866 newsroom@altera.com

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American Energy Group Ltd. CEO featured in exclusive WallSt.net interview

NEW YORK, June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- On June 12, Pierce Onthank, President and CEO of American Energy Group Ltd. (BULLETIN BOARD: AEGG) updated the investment community in an all-new interview with http://www.wallst.net/. Topics covered in the interview include an overview of the company and the markets it serves, recent press releases, current capitalization, and upcoming strategic and financial milestones.

To hear the interview in its entirety, visit http://www.wallst.net/, and click "Interviews." The interview can be accessed either by locating the company's ticker symbol under the appropriate exchange on the left-hand column of the "Interviews" section of the Web site, or by entering the company's ticker symbol in the Search Archive window.

About American Energy Group Ltd.

American Energy Group, Ltd. (BULLETIN BOARD: AEGG) engages in the acquisition and development of oil and gas assets. It has an 18% overriding royalty interest in the Yasin Concession in Pakistan, and a working interest in an oil and gas lease in Galveston County, Texas. http://www.aegg.net/

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http://www.wallst.net/ is owned and operated by WallStreet Direct, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Financial Media Group, Inc. The website is a leading provider of financial news, media, tools and community-driven applications for investors. http://www.wallst.net/ offers visitors free membership to its in-depth executive interviews, exclusive editorial content, breaking news, and several proprietary applications. In addition to its website, WallStreet Direct organizes investor conferences, publishes a newspaper, and provides multimedia advertising solutions to small and mid-sized publicly traded companies. We have received two hundred eighty dollars from American Energy Group Ltd. for the dissemination of this press release. For a complete list of our advertisers, and advertising relationships, visit http://www.wallst.net/disclaimer/disclaimer.asp.

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Leading Home Furnishing Retailer Improves Customer Satisfaction with UCN EchoCompany reduced expenses, improved call service recovery efforts and improved training based on need

SALT LAKE CITY, June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- With a reputation for superior customer service, a leading home furnishing retailer wanted to further improve its call center operations and customer service levels by changing the way the company monitored calls and delivered customer service. It achieved these goals by adopting an innovative, industry leading customer survey and analysis tool, Echo(TM), now available from UCN, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: UCNN) .

Selling through more than 500 retail stores nationwide, as well as print and online catalogues, this multi-billion dollar company knows its customer service efforts are critical to the organization. Its inbound call center handles customer contacts for all of the company's many brands.

Automate Quality Survey -- Reduce Head Count Reduction

Prior to implementing the Echo automated survey tool, this customer service operation had six quality monitoring staff dedicated full-time to the monitoring function, conducting about five calls per month per customer service rep (CSR). Managers noticed that quality monitors tended to focus more on how the agent aligned with the criteria defined in the monitoring form than on the customer's contact experience. In short, the voice of the customer was not reflected in the quality reports.

After implementing Echo, the operation no longer needed six full time quality monitoring people, and the number of surveys conducted per agent month went up significantly because the function was automated. "The simple idea of just asking our customers how we are performing never crossed our minds," said the head of catalogue customer service. "It was like a light bulb went off in our heads when we discovered the Echo solution and realized we could get real- time survey results from our customers. Our biggest fear, when we first implemented Echo, was that our customer satisfaction numbers would be low. Amazingly, we were doing a great job -- 97 percent overall satisfaction. Only 3 percent of our customers weren't satisfied."

The second biggest impact to the customer service operation was the ability to drill down and understand in detail why a customer was dissatisfied. The team discovered that dissatisfaction among customers was less about "being nice and professional" on the phone and more about the ability of the CSR to solve the problem quickly and effectively. The Echo tool enables managers to quickly identify which calls received a low score, then drill down just on those calls to determine root cause.

Root causes often fell into such areas as product availability issues, price discrepancies and shipping issues. With the knowledge gained from the "drill downs", managers were now in a position to recommend spot training - training that addresses specific knowledge areas, such as how to quickly determine if a product is in stock or when it will be in stock, or how to determine when a product will ship or where it is in the shipping process. "Until you know where the CSR is falling short," said the customer service manager, "you don't know how to train that rep."

By utilizing Echo, real-time feedback is channeled directly from the customer to the front-line customer service rep. As a result, the agent can self-correct based on reviewing performance "gaps" as identified by the individual Echo score in comparison to the overall team scores. Feedback directed to the company's leadership team is available through on-line reports that can be filtered by such criteria as agent, team, location or product.

One of the main reasons this retailer chose to work with the Echo product, was that the Echo team was willing to customize the system, such as questions and reports, to meet their specific needs. A lot of the bigger companies won't do that, recalled the customer service manager.

Today, every division within the customer service group is using the Echo automated survey and agent scoring system. A key lesson the customer service manager learned is that "what's important to the company may not be important to the customer." And you don't really know what's important to the customer until you ask, then listen.

About UCN, Inc.

UCN (OTCBB: UCNN) is the leading provider of all-in-one, hosted contact handling services that improve the customer contact experience and the productivity of those handling the contacts. InContact(R) includes an integrated suite of advanced contact handling applications and reporting, monitoring, recording, administration, workforce management and rep performance management applications. InControl(TM) is a unique, rapid application development tool that enables inContact customers to develop highly flexible, customized business contact handling processes in record time. To learn more about UCN visit http://www.ucn.net/.

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Former Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dick Gephardt, Joins EMBARQ Board of Directors

OVERLAND PARK, Kan., June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Embarq Corporation announced today that former leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, Richard (Dick) A. Gephardt, will join the company's board of directors.

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"Dick Gephardt has traversed America and gained practical experience around key issues that face businesses and our society," said Bill Owens, chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and lead independent director of EMBARQ. "His breadth of knowledge will enhance the diverse perspectives of our board around the leadership and growth of the company."

"We are very pleased to be enhancing a strong board of directors even further by adding someone with Dick Gephardt's unique capabilities," said Dan Hesse, chairman and CEO of EMBARQ. "As a highly-regulated company, Embarq will benefit greatly by having a board member of Dick Gephardt's stature within, and knowledge of, the American political system. He also brings a strong commitment to helping labor and management work effectively together in this era of intense global competition."

Gephardt joins a Board of Directors comprised of distinguished executive leaders from the communications, entertainment and media, finance, technology, human resources, marketing and government service arenas. With the addition of Gephardt, eight of the nine EMBARQ directors are classified as independent under NYSE listing standards.

About Dick Gephardt

Dick Gephardt is one of the great statesmen to have served our country. Shortly after he graduated from Northwestern University and the University of Michigan Law School, he began a career in public service as a grassroots organizer in St. Louis politics then moved on to serve nearly three decades in Congress, distinguishing himself as an accomplished lawmaker and leader of the U.S. House of Representatives. Mr. Gephardt ran for President of the United States in 1988 winning the Iowa caucuses and the South Dakota primary. In January 2005, he retired from the House of Representatives. Mr. Gephardt currently is a consultant to The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., a senior counsel at DLA Piper US LLP and a senior advisor to FTI Consulting Inc. Mr. Gephardt also serves as a director of United States Steel Corporation, Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. and Centene Corp.

EMBARQ Board of Directors Daniel R. Hesse is Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of EMBARQ. Peter C. Brown is Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of AMC Entertainment Inc. and American Multi-Cinema, Inc., a theatrical exhibition company with approximately $2.4 billion in annual revenues and 382 theaters with 5,340 screens in the US and internationally. Steven A. Davis is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Bob Evans Farms, Inc., a restaurant company with approximately $1.6 billion in annual revenues and 695 restaurants in 30 states. John P. Mullen is Chief Executive Officer of DHL Express Inc., an international express delivery and logistics company with annual revenues of approximately $23.5 billion and more than 125,000 employees. William A. Owens is Managing Director, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AEA Holdings Asia, a private equity commerical real estate company, former Vice Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Nortel Networks Corporation and former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff. Dinesh C. Paliwal will serve as the President, Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of Harman International, a worldwide leader in the manufacture of high-quality, high-fidelity audio and electronic products for automotive, consumer and professional use, effective July 1, 2007. The company has revenues of $3.5 billion and employs approximately 11,000 people. Stephanie M. Shern is the founder of Shern Associates LLC, a company that provides business advisory and retail consulting services. Mrs. Shern held various positions with Ernst & Young, LLP from 1969 to 2001, including Vice Chairman and Global Director of Retail and Consumer Products. Laurie A. Siegel is the senior vice president of human resources and internal communications for Tyco International, Ltd., a global, diversified manufacturing and service company, with revenues of more than $18 billion and approximately 115,000 employees in more than 60 countries. About EMBARQ

Embarq Corporation , headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, offers a complete suite of communications services. The company has approximately 20,000 employees and operates in 18 states. EMBARQ is included in the S&P 500.

For consumers, EMBARQ offers an innovative portfolio of services that includes reliable local and long distance home phone service, high-speed Internet, wireless, and satellite TV from DISH Network(R). For businesses, EMBARQ has a comprehensive range of flexible and integrated services including local voice and data services, long distance, Business Class DSL, wireless, enhanced data network services, voice and data communication equipment and managed network services.

For more information, visit embarq.com.

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NanoSensors Extends Letter of Intent to Acquire DKL International

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NanoSensors, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: NNSR.OB) , a nanotechnology development company that develops instruments and sensors to detect explosives, chemical and biological agents, announced today that it has signed an extension to its non-binding letter of intent to acquire DKL International, Inc., a privately-held company. The letter of intent, which was signed in January 2007, will now expire on August 31, 2007.

"The Company strongly believes in the merits of this transaction. We believe that the combination of DKL and our company offers an outstanding and unique opportunity to grow the combined company into a successful enterprise," stated Dr. Ted Wong, NanoSensors' CEO. Dr. Wong continued, "This extension is needed to provide the parties with additional time to finalize a definitive acquisition agreement and to allow the Company the time to raise the financing to complete this transaction."

The completion of the transaction is subject to numerous closing conditions, including the negotiation and execution of a definitive acquisition agreement, the completion of due diligence by the parties, the approval of the Board of Directors and shareholders of each entity and several other conditions. As a result of the foregoing uncertainties, there can be no assurance that a definitive agreement will be executed or that if it is, the transaction will be completed.

About DKL International

DKL International, Inc. is a supplier of passive detection technology and related products to the homeland security, defense, military, law enforcement, security, safety, and rescue markets. Patented in eighteen countries, DKL International adds SilentGuard to its initial product, the DKL International LifeGuard(TM). The LifeGuard(TM) can locate and track a standing adult at a distance of 500 meters in the open, and at shorter ranges through concrete walls, steel bulkheads, brick, earthworks, plastics, heavy foliage, water, and other barriers. The LifeGuard(TM) is used in Asia and Europe for port security, mine safety, and by law enforcement and search and rescue groups. SilentGuard is a silent and passive electronic tripwire that detects only living humans. The SilentGuard can be concealed in walls or doorways or buried underground, and can reduce the false alarms associated with other sensor systems as part of an integrated perimeter system for military, security or medical use. SilentGuard expects to install its first production systems in the spring of 2007.

About NanoSensors

NanoSensors, Inc. was incorporated in December, 2003 and is a nanotechnology development company based in Santa Clara, California. The Company's principal business is the development, manufacturing and marketing of sensors and instruments to detect explosive, chemical and biological agents, along with the management of intellectual property derived there from that will enable NanoSensors to create nanoscale devices.

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NanoSensors

CONTACT: Ted Wong, +1-408-855-0051, tlwongusa@yahoo.com, for NanoSensors;
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Vertical Branding, Inc. CEO featured in Exclusive WallSt.net Interview

NEW YORK, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 21, Nancy Duitch, CEO of Vertical Branding, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: VBDG) updated the investment community in an all-new interview with http://www.wallst.net/. Topics covered in the interview include an overview of the company and the markets it serves, recent press releases, current capitalization, and upcoming strategic and financial milestones.

To hear the interview in its entirety, visit http://www.wallst.net/, and click "Interviews." The interview can be accessed either by locating the company's ticker symbol under the appropriate exchange on the left-hand column of the "Interviews" section of the Web site, or by entering the company's ticker symbol in the Search Archive window.

About Vertical Branding, Inc.

Vertical Branding, Inc. (VBI) and its subsidiary companies comprise a consumer products branding, marketing and distribution enterprise. The Company employs a cross-platform media strategy and multi-faceted marketing approach to move its proprietary and licensed consumer products through multiple channels of distribution. These channels include multimedia (TV, print, radio and Internet) direct to consumer sales as well as traditional wholesale, retail and international distribution. VBI optimizes revenue growth and profitability by combining its proven creativity and sales expertise in packaging and messaging with the application of strategic analytical tools to track and direct marketing efforts. Current Company product categories include home improvement, personal care and beauty products. The Company continuously evaluates and develops new products that deliver strong consumer value and that are suited to the Company's marketing, distribution and sales methodologies.

About WallSt.net:

http://www.wallst.net/ is owned and operated by WallStreet Direct, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Financial Media Group, Inc. The website is a leading provider of financial news, media, tools and community-driven applications for investors. http://www.wallst.net/ offers visitors free membership to its in-depth executive interviews, exclusive editorial content, breaking news, and several proprietary applications. In addition to its website, WallStreet Direct organizes investor conferences, publishes a newspaper, and provides multimedia advertising solutions to small and mid-sized publicly traded companies. We have received two hundred eighty dollars from Vertical Branding, Inc. for the dissemination of this press release. For a complete list of our advertisers, and advertising relationships, visit http://www.wallst.net/disclaimer/disclaimer.asp.

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Omnicell Receives #1 Ranking in Mid-Year Best-In-KLAS Top 20 ReportOmniRx Decentralized Medication Dispensing Technology Cited for Excellence

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Omnicell Inc. today announced that KLAS Enterprises has awarded Omnicell the #1 ranking for Medication Dispensing Decentralized vendors in the "Mid-Year Top 20 Report." This award comes just months after Omnicell received the #1 ranking in the "Top 20: 2006 Year-End Report Card."

"Once again we are very excited to receive this honor, which validates the hard work of the entire Omnicell team to consistently deliver the best customer experience in healthcare. The KLAS name is well-respected in the healthcare industry, with providers turning to their report to help select the best healthcare information technologies for their operations," said Randall Lipps, Chief Executive Officer and President of Omnicell.

"Omnicell has distinguished itself and demonstrated their ability to consistently perform at a high level to receive this award, and pass the difficult test of being rated by those who know them best, their current live customers" said Jason Hess, Director of Research, Clinical Ancillary at KLAS.

KLAS is a leading research and consulting firm dedicated to improving the performance of healthcare information technology vendors as well as healthcare professional service firms. KLAS awards are given annually to vendors whose products score the highest in its designated category and also meets all the other award requirements.

About Omnicell

Omnicell, Inc. is a leading provider of systems and software solutions targeting patient safety and operational efficiency in healthcare facilities. Since 1992, Omnicell has worked to enhance patient safety and allow clinicians to spend more time with their patients.

Omnicell's medication-use product line includes solutions for the central pharmacy, nursing unit, operating room, and patient bedside. Solutions range from large central pharmacy "smart inventory" carousels to small handheld devices. From the point at which a medication arrives at the receiving dock to the time it is administered, Omnicell systems store it, package it, bar code it, order it, issue it, and provide information and controls on its use and reorder.

Our supply product lines provide a healthcare institution with fast, effective control of costs, capture of charges for payer reimbursement, and timely reorder of supplies. Products range from high-security closed-cabinet systems and software to open-shelf and combination solutions in the nursing unit, cath lab and operating room. . For more information, visit http://www.omnicell.com/.

About KLAS Enterprise

Founded in 1996, KLAS is the only research and consulting firm specializing in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare information technology (HIT) vendors and products. KLAS strives to improve HIT delivery by independently measuring vendor performance for the benefit of consultants, investors, vendors, and healthcare provider partners. KLAS, in concert with thousands of healthcare executives and professionals, has created a dynamic database of HIT evaluations and opinions of healthcare executives, managers, and clinicians from over 4500 hospitals and 3,000 clinics are represented in the reports, 300+ software vendors, 500+ software products and 35 service firms. The Mid-Year Top 20 Report reflects the summary of HIT product performance data collected over a 13-month period. For further information, contact KLAS Enterprises, LLC at 801-226-5120 or on the Web at http://www.healthcomputing.com/.

Omnicell, Inc.

CONTACT: Bruce Lewis of Lewis & Summers Public Relations,
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Ness Technologies Announces Expansion of Nesspro GlobalNesspro Expansion of Third-Party Software Distribution Model to be Funded Through Debt Issuance

HACKENSACK, New Jersey, June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ness Technologies, Inc. , a global provider of information technology solutions and services, today announced that it is proceeding with the planned expansion of its NessPro business line. The company will fund NessPro's global growth through issuance of long-term debt, rather than a private placement in its NessPro subsidiary, as previously planned.

NessPro is the company's line of business which sells enterprise software licenses of third-party software vendors to corporate clients in geographies which are underserved or completely uncovered by the software vendors' own sales forces. NessPro also provides a range of implementation, customization and support services around those licenses.

"We are very excited about our plans for NessPro, regarding both our expanding global reach and the anticipated beneficial impact on our future operating margins," said Sachi Gerlitz, President and CEO of Ness Technologies. "We anticipate that NessPro Global will be one of our highest margin segments. Our NessPro expansion will include organic growth in countries which we have previously penetrated as well as targeted small- or mid-sized acquisitions in new geographies."

"Based on the significant potential we see in our NessPro business, we decided not to sell a minority interest via a private placement and instead we will finance the expansion using Ness' resources," said Ofer Segev, Chief Financial Officer. "Building on the strength of our balance sheet, and particularly considering our low debt-to-equity ratio, we feel that shareholder value will be maximized by using debt for this initiative. According to our modeling, we will return significantly greater shareholder value via this strategy, even though this removes the capital gain of $0.06 per share which we planned for the second quarter of 2007."

Ness will fund this expansion and other planned acquisitions through a $50 million credit facility from commercial banks. Funds advanced from the credit facility will convert automatically to long-term loans, with an interest rate of approximately 7% and a term of up to seven years.

About Ness Technologies

Ness Technologies is a global provider of end-to-end IT services and solutions designed to help clients improve competitiveness and efficiency. Ness specializes in outsourcing and offshore, systems integration and application development, software and consulting, and quality assurance and training. With 7,500 employees, Ness maintains operations in 16 countries, and partners with numerous software and hardware vendors worldwide. For more information about Ness Technologies, visit http://www.ness.com/.

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This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements often are preceded by words such as "believes," "expects," "may," "anticipates," "plans," "intends," "assumes," "will" or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements reflect management's current expectations, as of the date of this press release, and involve certain risks and uncertainties. Ness' actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward looking statements as a result of various factors. Some of the factors that could cause future results to materially differ from the recent results or those projected in forward-looking statements include the "Risk Factors" described in Ness' Annual Report of Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 14, 2007. Ness is under no obligation to, and expressly disclaims any obligation to, update or alter its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of such changes, new information, subsequent events or otherwise.

Ness Technologies media contact: David Kanaan USA: +1-888-244-4919 Intl: +972-3-540-8188 Email: media.int@ness.com Ness Technologies investor contact: Drew Wright USA: +1-201-488-3262 Email: investor@ness.com

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Nokia Eseries Business Devices Broadly Available in U.S.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nokia today announces the availability of Nokia Eseries business devices in the U.S. through a variety of channels, allowing both business and individual users to obtain enterprise-grade dual-mode devices -- including the new Nokia E61i and Nokia E65 -- in this market.

Nokia is addressing the market demand from both businesses and individual users through complementary sales channels including IT, operator, and retail/e-tail. Business customers can now purchase fleets of Nokia Eseries devices through the IT channel, the preferred and trusted channel of businesses. Nokia supplies the devices to the IT channel through distribution agreements with Brightpoint and Ingram Micro. All approved value-added resellers (VARs) in the Nokia for Business Channel Program are authorized to resell the devices to their business customers. Today there are more than 140 approved VARs in this program in the U.S., and Nokia continues to enlist and train new participants.

"Nokia understands that businesses buy IT solutions through their trusted IT channel source, and offering mobility solutions -- including mobile devices -- via this channel is an important step in making end-to-end mobility solutions available for business customers in this market," said Yankee Group Vice President, Enterprise Applications and Mobile Solutions, Eugene Signorini. "Through the Nokia for Business Channel Program, Nokia is empowering resellers to prepare for the evolution and growth of the mobility market in North America."

For individual business users -- or simply "busy" users -- Nokia Eseries devices are available through a number of online retailers, including Dell.com, Gateway, Inc. and Mobileplanet.com. Devices are supplied to the retail channels through distribution agreements with Brightpoint and Ingram Micro.

"A complete channel ecosystem involving operators, distributors, value- added resellers and retailers is the key to unlocking the true potential of business mobility," said Ed DeArias, vice president, Americas, Enterprise Solutions, Nokia. "Nokia has now delivered on its strategy for delivering unparalleled business devices to businesses and to individuals in the U.S. market via multiple channels."

Designed to mobilize the most-used business applications and processes, Nokia Eseries business devices offer advanced voice features with superior voice quality, business email with attachment handling, and manageability with business-class device security to the most demanding business users. Nokia Eseries business devices bridge the converging worlds of mobile telephony, corporate telephony, and Information Technology (IT). Dual-mode Nokia Eseries devices with wireless LAN, including Nokia E61i and Nokia E65, are ideal for integrating into fixed corporate telephony systems with voice solutions such as Nokia Intellisync Call Connect for Alcatel, Nokia Intellisync Call Connect for Cisco, and Avaya One-X Mobile Edition for Nokia.

The combination of Nokia Eseries devices and the Nokia Intellisync Mobile Suite 8.0 mobileware platform significantly increases the potential for businesses to achieve new levels of productivity and competitive advantage. Nokia Intellisync Device Management capabilities allow businesses to comprehensively deploy, provision, secure and manage mobile device fleets, allowing over-the-air provisioning, software installation, security policy enforcement, remote device control, and easy lock and data-wipe for devices that are lost or stolen, helping protect company and personal data.

By also featuring cameras, video capabilities and music players, and giving users access to travel, weather, news, and financial information, Nokia Eseries devices let customers bridge their work and personal lives. Additional information about Nokia E61i, Nokia E65 and the entire portfolio of Nokia Eseries devices is available at http://www.nokiaforbusiness.com/. High-resolution photographs of Nokia Eseries business devices can be found at http://www.nokia.com/A4140044.

Nokia E61i and Nokia E65 are expected to retail for approximately $400, but actual price will vary by outlet.

Businesses can search for accredited members of the Nokia for Business Channel Program at http://www.nokiaforbusiness.com/channel making it easy to find qualified business mobility channel partners. The tool gives customers access to Nokia for Business Channel Program participants' credentials and contact information based on a geographic search.

Representing the industry's most complete ecosystem for delivering open mobility solutions to businesses, the Nokia multichannel distribution network is a key to the widespread adoption of enterprise mobility. As businesses of all sizes turn to experts they can trust for help in implementing mobility solutions, Nokia is enabling those VARs with products, solutions, training and financial incentives to address this growing market opportunity. Detailed program information and registration details are available online at http://www.nokiaforbusiness.com/channel.

About Nokia

Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. Nokia makes a wide range of mobile devices and provides people with experiences in music, navigation, video, television, imaging, games and business mobility through these devices. Nokia also provides equipment, solutions and services for communications networks.

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Micrel Launches New Low-Power Limiting Post Amplifier for SFP Transceivers

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Micrel Inc., , an industry leader in analog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, today launched the SY88973BL, a low-power limiting post amplifier that is designed for use in fiber optic receivers; specifically, it is ideal for 1.25Gbps and 2.5Gbps Gigabit Ethernet, 1.062Mbps and 2.125Gbps Fibre Channel, Gigabit interface converter (GBIC), Small Form Factor (SFF) and SFP transceivers, parallel 10G Ethernet, high-gain line drivers and line receivers in both the Telecom/datacom and Optical transceiver markets. The SY88973BL is another product in Micrel's wide and diverse family of post amplifiers. It is currently available in volume quantities and is priced at $3.31 for 1K quantities. A free evaluation board is also available.

"Micrel's post amplifier family has received wide customer acceptance in part because the entire line offers universally interchangeable parts," said Thomas S. Wong, vice president high bandwidth products, Micrel. "Like the rest of the post amp family, our new device is also easy to use in a wide variety of applications and data rates and meets the industry's most stringent jitter requirements."

The SY88973BL incorporates a loss-of-signal (LOS), open-collector TTL output with an external 4.75k micron to 10k micron pull-up resistor. This IC offers multi-rate capability from 622 Mbps up to 3.2Gbps operation. It also features internal 50 micron data input and low-noise 50 micron CML data output. The SY88973BL has chatter-free OC-TTL LOS output with programmable LOS sensitivity using a single external resistor. Available in a tiny 3mm x 3mm 16-pin MLF(R) package, the device operates from a single +3.3V plus or minus 10% power supply, over an industrial temperature range of -40 degrees C to +85 degrees C. For more information regarding Micrel's extensive family of limiting post amplifiers, visit the Micrel website or email the Company at: HBWHelp@micrelc.com. An overview of all of Micrel's family of Limiting Post Amplifiers can be viewed and downloaded from the Company's website at: http://www.micrel.com/_PDF/other/Post%20Amp%20Selection%20Guide.pdf .

About Micrel, Inc.

Micrel Inc., is a leading global manufacturer of IC solutions for the worldwide analog, Ethernet and high bandwidth markets. The Company's products include advanced mixed-signal, analog and power semiconductors; high performance communication, clock management, Ethernet switch and physical layer transceiver ICs. Company customers include leading manufacturers of enterprise, consumer, industrial, mobile, telecommunications, automotive, and computer products. Corporation headquarters and state-of-the-art wafer fabrication facilities are located in San Jose, CA, with regional sales and support offices and advanced technology design centers situated throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. In addition, the Company maintains an extensive network of distributors and reps worldwide. Web: http://www.micrel.com/.

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Micrel Inc.

CONTACT: Julieanne DiBene, Marketing Communications, of Micrel Inc.,
+1-408-474-1276, Julie.DiBene@Micrel.com

Web site: http://www.micrel.com/

SoftBrands Partners With TabletKiosk to Provide Mobile Software to Hoteliers

MINNEAPOLIS, June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SoftBrands, Inc. , a global supplier of enterprise application software, announced today that it has signed a distribution agreement with TabletKiosk for their portable workstation solution. SoftBrands has selected TabletKiosk's Sahara Slate PC line to launch this initiative. The units are blue-tooth/wireless Tablet PCs and run on the Microsoft Windows operating system, including Windows Vista, Windows XP Professional or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition.

Coupling the TabletKiosk product with the SoftBrands suite of products will provide SoftBrands' customers the freedom to move about the property and deliver services without being tied to a reception desk or service station. Using the Sahara Slate PC by TabletKiosk, SoftBrands' customers will be able to check-in a guest, book a spa appointment, make dining reservations, place food and beverage orders or reserve a tee-time, all the while un-tethered from a desk or station that uses a traditional PC workstation. In addition, as the units provide the full functionality of the Windows operating system, many third party applications can be accessed on Sahara throughout the property or enterprise.

"Hotels increasingly want their employees to be free to interact with guests without the confines of a desk or counter " said Steve VanTassel, senior vice president and general manager, SoftBrands hospitality. "We are very pleased to be working with TabletKiosk and Microsoft to provide the freedom and flexibility needed to help our customers further personalize their guest's experience."

"We are delighted to partner with SoftBrands and Microsoft to expand and explore new opportunities for mobile computing in the hospitality industry," said Martin Smekal, president of TabletKiosk. "The convenience of running the SoftBrands' suite of products on the Sahara Slate PC offers hospitality professionals newfound mobility while providing guests with an enhanced guest experience."

"Mobility enablement is becoming more and more important as hoteliers look for ways to increase employee productivity and improve guest service," said Matthew Shigenobu Muta, industry director for Microsoft's Worldwide Hospitality Group. "We are pleased with SoftBrands' and TabletKiosk's joint integration of Microsoft software into valuable mobility solutions that empower hospitality employees to strengthen guest relationships and generate new revenue streams."

About TabletKiosk(TM)

TabletKiosk(TM) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sand Dune Ventures Inc. a privately held technology incubator. The company produces slate style tablet PCs and UMPCs marketed through an authorized reseller channel and directly through the company website. For more information, visit http://www.tabletkiosk.com/

About SoftBrands Hospitality

SoftBrands Hospitality provides central reservation, property management and business intelligence software that can be centrally managed to support many properties within a hotel chain as well as less complex offerings that can be installed on site at an independent hotel. Our distribution service, Karyon, allows hotels to easily manage rates and inventory availability across all four Global Distribution Systems and many other online sources of demand. SoftBrands is committed to the hospitality industry and is an active member of OpenTravel, HTNG, HSMAI, HFTP, HEDNA, AH&LA, AAHOA, NBTA and PHMA.

About SoftBrands

SoftBrands, Inc. is a leader in providing software solutions for businesses in the manufacturing and hospitality industries worldwide. The company has established a global infrastructure for distribution, development and support of enterprise software, and has approximately 5,000 customers in more than 100 countries actively using its manufacturing and hospitality products. SoftBrands, which has approximately 825 employees, is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with branch offices in Europe, India, Asia, Australia and Africa. Additional information can be found at http://www.softbrands.com/

Contact Information Christina Lanier Public Relations Director, Hospitality 813.949.4153 christina.lanier@softbrands.com

SoftBrands, Inc.

CONTACT: Christina Lanier, Public Relations Director, Hospitality,
+1-813-949-4153, christina.lanier@softbrands.com, of SoftBrands, Inc.

Web site: http://www.softbrands.com/
http://www.tabletkiosk.com/

Micrel lance un nouveau postamplificateur limiteur à faible puissance pour les émetteurs récepteurs SFP

SAN JOSE, Californie, June 25 /PRNewswire/ --

Micrel Inc., (Nasdaq : MCRL), chef de file du secteur des solutions de communications analogiques, à haute largeur de bande et à circuit intégré (CI) Ethernet, a lancé aujourd'hui le SY88973BL, un postamplificateur limiteur à faible puissance conçu pour être utilisé dans les récepteurs à fibre optique. Plus spécialement, il se prête idéalement aux convertisseurs d'interface Gigabit (GBIC), aux émetteurs-récepteurs à faible coefficient de forme (SFF) et SFP, aux étages et récepteurs d'attaque de ligne à gain élevé sur Ethernet parallèle 10G, fonctionnant sur Ethernet Gigabit 1,25Gbps et Ethernet Gigabit 2,5Gbps, sur canal de fibres optiques de 1,062Mbps et 2,125Gbps autant dans les marchés d'émetteurs-récepteurs Télécom/datacom qu'émetteurs-récepteurs optiques. Le SY88973BL est un autre produit de la gamme étendue et diversifiée de postamplificateurs de Micrel. Ces dispositifs sont actuellement disponibles en grandes quantités et coûtent 3,31 $ US chacun pour des quantités d'un millier. Un circuit d'évaluation gratuit est aussi disponible.

<< La gamme de postamplificateurs de Micrel est largement acceptée par la clientèle en partie parce que toute la gamme offre des pièces universellement interchangeables >> a affirmé Thomas S. Wong, vice-président des produits à haute largeur de bande chez Micrel. << Comme c'est le cas pour le reste de la gamme de postamplificateurs, notre nouveau dispositif est aussi facile à utiliser dans une grande variété d'applications et pour de nombreux débits de transfert de données et respecte les exigences les plus strictes en matière de gigue. >>

Le SY88973BL intègre une sortie à perte de signal (LOS)à TTL et à collecteur ouvert avec une résistance externe d'appel à la source de 4,75k micron à 10k micron. Ce circuit intégré offre une capacité de débit variable de 622 Mbps jusqu'à 3,2Gbps. Il offre également une entrée de données internes de 50 microns et une sortie de données à faible bruit CML de 50 microns également. Le SY88973BL offre de plus une sortie OC-TTL LOS sans vibrations parasites avec sensibilité à la perte de signal programmable à l'aide d'une seule résistance externe. Disponible dans un boîtier minuscule MLF(R)de 3 mm x 3 mm à 16 broches, le dispositif est alimenté par un circuit unique de +3.3V à +/- 10 % et fonctionne dans une gamme de température industrielle variant de -40 degrés C à +85 degrés C. Pour de plus amples renseignements au sujet de la vaste gamme de postamplificateurs limiteurs de Micrel, visitez le site Web de la compagnie ou transmettez un courriel à l'adresse HBWHelp@micrelc.com. On peut voir un aperçu de la gamme des postamplificateurs limiteurs de Micrel sur le site Web de la compagnie à : http://www.micrel.com/_PDF/other/Post%20Amp%20Selection%20Guide.pdf .

À propos de Micrel, Inc.

Micrel Inc., est un chef de file mondial de la fabrication de solutions de CI pour les marchés analogique, Ethernet et à haute largeur de bande partout dans le monde. Parmi les produits de la compagnie, mentionnons des semi-conducteurs perfectionnés à signal mixte, analogiques et de puissance. Elle fabrique également des émetteurs-récepteurs à CI à hautes performances pour les communications, la gestion d'horloge, la commutation Ethernet et des dispositifs à couche physique. La clientèle de la compagnie comprend de grands fabricants de produits destinés aux entreprises, aux consommateurs, à l'industrie, aux communications mobiles, aux télécommunications, au secteur automobile et aux ordinateurs. Le siège social de la compagnie et les installations de fabrication de plaques se trouvent à San Jose en Californie. Les bureaux de vente et de soutien régionaux et les centres de conception de technologie de pointe se trouvent partout en Amérique, en Europe et en Asie. De plus, la compagnie s'est dotée d'un vaste réseau de distributeurs et de représentants partout dans le monde. Web: http://www.micrel.com.

Note: MLF est une marque de commerce enregistrée de Amkor Technology.

Site Web : http://www.micrel.com

Micrel Inc.

Julieanne DiBene, communications marketing, Micrel Inc., +1-408-474-1276, Julie.DiBene@Micrel.com

Sybase iAnywhere Delivers Offline-Web Mobile Inspection ToolkitNew Toolkit Enables the Rapid Creation of Mobile Forms for Survey and Inspection Applications

DUBLIN, Calif., June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sybase iAnywhere today announced the availability of a new toolkit targeted at creating mobile forms for field inspection and survey applications. The toolkit is built on the company's Information Anywhere(R) suite, which enables developers to build always available applications that provide wireless and offline access to enterprise information. The toolkit uses the offline Web capability of the suite, which enables developers to create wireless Web applications that can also run offline -- a key requirement for mobile enterprise solutions.

Mobilizing paper-based survey and inspection applications using an offline web approach is one of the ways customers have been using the Information Anywhere suite. The new mobile inspection toolkit is intended to reduce the overall project cost of creating forms-based inspection applications by providing a robust pre-built infrastructure that is easily customized. The toolkit includes a forms builder; out-of-the-box inspection workflow; open integration with existing back-end systems; and integration with analytics and reporting via a mobile dashboard interface.

"Our customers are telling us that mobile access to business process data is critical to stay ahead of the curve," said Babak Hodjat, senior director, engineering, Sybase iAnywhere. "Paper-based surveys are very costly to organizations as a result of poor data quality, low worker productivity and slow turnaround time. Automating these processes on mobile devices using wireless offline web technology has enabled our customers to be more competitive, productive and profitable by giving them access to critical information on the spot."

This mobile inspection toolkit is based on version 6.5 of M-Business Anywhere(TM), the award-winning mobile middleware that has been providing offline Web functionality to millions of users for nearly a decade. Released today, M-Business Anywhere 6.5 includes an optimized recoverable synchronization process that makes it easier to provide users a seamless online/offline experience. It also adds integrated LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) support, providing the choice of LDAP or NT Domains for single sign-on authentication.

"Being able to capture information online or offline is critical for mobile business applications," said Peter O'Blenis, vice president, product marketing, Trial Stat. "Using M-Business Anywhere, we've been able to develop a mobile solution that allows clinical researchers to easily build an entire healthcare study and deploy it to multiple sites around the world, thus reducing errors and speeding time-to-market."

Availability

For developers that want to create offline mobile Web forms, the Information Anywhere suite M-Business Anywhere 6.5 component is currently available as a free developer download at: http://www.ianywhere.com/mbusiness_download. Additional information on the mobile Web forms toolkit is available by visiting: http://www.ianywhere.com/inspections.

About Sybase iAnywhere

Sybase iAnywhere enables success at the front lines of business. The company holds worldwide market leadership positions in mobile and embedded databases, mobile management and security, mobile middleware and synchronization, and Bluetooth(R) and infrared protocol technologies. Tens of millions of mobile devices and over 20,000 customers and partners rely on the company's "Always Available" technologies, including SQL Anywhere and its Information Anywhere suite. iAnywhere is a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. .

Sybase, iAnywhere, iAnywhere Solutions, SQL Anywhere, Information Anywhere, and M-Business Anywhere are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of Sybase, Inc. or its subsidiaries. (R) indicates registration in the United States of America. The Bluetooth trademark and logos are owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of such marks by iAnywhere is under license. All other company and product names mentioned may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.

Special Note: References to Sybase iAnywhere mean iAnywhere Solutions, Inc., a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. Statements concerning iAnywhere Solutions' product market, relationships with its customers and new products are forward-looking statements that involve a number of uncertainties and risks and cannot be guaranteed. Factors that could ultimately affect such statements are detailed from time to time in Sybase's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including but not limited to its annual report on Form 10-K and its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q (copies of which can be viewed on the Company's web site).

Crystal King Sybase, Inc. (978) 287-1524 kingc@sybase.com Scott Malinowski Citigate Cunningham for Sybase, Inc. (617) 374-4223 smalinowski@cunningham.com

Sybase iAnywhere

CONTACT: Crystal King of Sybase, Inc., +1-978-287-1524,
kingc@sybase.com; or Scott Malinowski of Citigate Cunningham, +1-617-374-4223,
smalinowski@cunningham.com, for Sybase, Inc.

Web site: http://www.ianywhere.com/

Metso Renews Global IP Networking Contract With AT&T

JYVASKYLA, Finland, June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AT&T Inc. has announced that Metso, a global engineering and technology corporation that serves customers in the industries of pulp and paper, energy, and rock-and-minerals processing, has renewed a global networking contract with AT&T. Under the terms of the new agreement, AT&T will now also provide Wi-Fi access as an extension to the Remote Access Service and global networking solution that links Metso's approximately 120 sites in 23 countries.

AT&T's Virtual Private Network (VPN) solution supports Metso's locations in Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia Pacific and enables Metso to develop, deploy and easily relocate mission-critical, real-time applications on its corporate network. The network supports a broad array of applications, including e-mail, financial reporting, Web conferencing and several Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.

Metso first selected AT&T as its global networking provider four years ago when it required more flexibility from the network to adapt and grow with new applications. Pauli Nuutinen, vice president-Corporate IT Services, commented that AT&T's Internet Protocol (IP)-based VPN solution had eliminated the need for constant network bandwidth provisioning to accommodate application changes and upgrades.

"The AT&T global network infrastructure has allowed us to implement, consolidate and upgrade a number of global business applications," said Nuutinen. "We are now looking to build value added services supporting our business's needs on top of existing network infrastructure."

This AT&T news release and other announcements are available as part of an RSS feed at http://www.att.com/rss.

About Metso

Metso is a global engineering and technology corporation with 2006 net sales of approximately EUR 5 billion. Its 25,500 employees in more than 50 countries serve customers in the pulp and paper industry, rock and minerals processing, the energy industry and selected other industries. http://www.metso.com/

About AT&T

AT&T Inc. is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates, AT&T operating companies, are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. Among their offerings are the world's most advanced IP-based business communications services and the nation's leading wireless, high speed Internet access, and voice services. In domestic markets, AT&T is known for the directory publishing and advertising sales leadership of its Yellow Pages and YELLOWPAGES.COM organizations, and the AT&T brand is licensed to innovators in such fields as communications equipment. As part of its three-screen integration strategy, AT&T is expanding its TV entertainment offerings. Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com/.

(C) 2007 AT&T Knowledge Ventures. All rights reserved. AT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Knowledge Ventures. For more information, please review this announcement in the AT&T newsroom at http://www.att.com/newsroom.

AT&T Inc.

CONTACT: Niall Hickey of AT&T EMEA, +020 7663 5076,
nhickey@emea.att.com; or Gioconda Beekman of Fleishman-Hillard,
+020 7395 7068, gioconda.beekman@fleishmaneurope.com, for AT&T Inc.

Web site: http://www.att.com/
http://www.metso.com/

China's Wumart Selects Retalix Software Solutions to Support the Rapid Growth of its Retail OperationsChinese retailer will use Retalix's POS, headquarters, loyalty and promotions solutions

RA'ANANA, Israel, June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Retalix(R) Ltd. , a global provider of enterprise-wide software solutions for food retailers and distributors, announced today that Wumart Stores, Inc. (HKSE: 8277), one of the fastest growing retailers in China, has selected Retalix software solutions to replace legacy point-of-sale, chain store management and customer loyalty software systems.

Started 12 years ago as one of the first supermarket chains in China, Wumart has emerged as one of the dominant retailers in the country with 700 stores, including hypermarkets, supermarkets and convenience stores in northern, eastern and northwestern China. In the past year, Wumart acquired several domestic chains.

Wumart will install a synchronized retail solution from Retalix, which includes Retalix StoreLine point of sale (POS) and back office applications at the stores, pre-integrated with Retalix HQ StoreLine and Retalix Loyalty and Promotions at the chain's headquarters.

Wumart's selection of Retalix shows that China's retail industry is entering a new stage in the development of its IT infrastructure. To better serve their growing customer base, Chinese retailers recognize the need to adopt industry-standard retail software applications from vendors that have experience with regional and global rollouts. With Retalix, Wumart will have the ability to adopt global best practices for customer service and store operations, improve scalability and reduce the complexity of their overall IT environment.

"Wumart has always played the leading role in applying advanced information technology for the retail industry in China," said Dr. Feng Jiang Li, President of Wumart. "By implementing Retalix's solution we can draw on Retalix's best practices for the global retail business to improve our operational efficiency, and to integrate our acquisitions so that we can make the most of the synergies they bring."

"We are thrilled that the Wumart Group, China's fastest growing retailer, has selected Retalix," said Barry Shaked. "The agreement marks a major success for Retalix in the highly competitive Chinese retail market. We look forward to providing Wumart with our experience in the global retail industry."

Retalix's partner in China, Shanghai-based Rinpak Technology Ltd., will provide the domestic integration and support services to Wumart.

About Wumart

Wumart Stores, Inc., a non-state-owned Chinese enterprise, is a retail chain store operator and its ordinary shares are traded at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE: 8277). Started 12 years ago as one of the first supermarket chains in China, Wumart has emerged as one of the dominant retailers in the country with 700 stores, including hypermarkets, supermarkets and convenience stores in northern, eastern and northwestern China. In the past year, Wumart acquired several domestic chains, including Chaoshifa and MerryMart, the fourth- and fifth-largest supermarket chains in Beijing; Xinhua Stores, one of the largest and fastest growing retailers in northwest China; and Times Supermarkets, one of the leading retailers in eastern China. Wumart on the Web: http://www.wumart.com/Eng/Index.asp

About Rinpak

Rinpak Technology (SH) Ltd. is the subsidiary of Rinpak Technology Holdings Ltd., the distributor and supporting center of many international renowned solution vendors such as Raymark, Panorama and Retalix in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Rinpak not only provides integrated retail solution including logistics, stocks, retail terminal management and BI, but also focuses on enhancing enterprise's competitive edge through the implementation of our solutions. Our outstanding solutions feature Business Intelligence (BI), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Optimization (BO), Merchandize Optimization Management, Point-of-Sales (POS) and Supply Chain Management (SCM). For more information about Rinpak, please visit http://www.rinpak.com/

About Retalix

Retalix is an independent provider of enterprise-wide software solutions to retailers and distributors worldwide. Retalix solutions serve the needs of multi-national grocery chains, convenience and fuel retailers, food service operators, food and consumer goods distributors and independent grocers. The Company offers a full portfolio of software applications that automate and synchronize essential retailing, distribution and supply chain operations, encompassing stores, headquarters and warehouses. Retalix develops and supports its software through 1,500 employees in its various subsidiaries and offices worldwide. The company's International headquarters are located in Ra'anana, Israel, and its American headquarters are located in Dallas, Texas. For more information about Retalix , please visit http://www.retalix.com/

Retalix, Retalix StoreLine, Retalix HQ StoreLine and Retalix Loyalty are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Retalix Ltd. in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies, products and services mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Safe Harbor for Forward-Looking Statements: Except for statements of historical fact, the information presented herein constitutes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and U.S. federal securities laws. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Retalix, including revenues, income and expenses, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements or other guidance or outlooks expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include risks relating to Retalix's anticipated future financial performance and growth, continued roll-outs with existing customers, continued interest in Retalix's new platforms, the perception by leading retailers of Retalix's reputation, the potential benefits to food and fuel retailers and distributors, expansion into new geographic markets, and other factors over which Retalix may have little or no control. This list is intended to identify only certain of the principal factors that could cause actual results to differ. Readers are referred to the reports and documents filed by Retalix with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Retalix's Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2006, for a discussion of these and other important risk factors. Retalix undertakes no obligation to publicly release the results of any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof, or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

Retalix

CONTACT: media, Neil McGlone, Michael A. Burns & Associates,
+1-214-521-8596, nmcglone@mbapr.com; investors, Allan E. Jordan, The Global
Consulting Group, +1-646-284-9400, ajordan@hfgcg.com; Motti Gadish, Retalix
Ltd., +972-9-776-6677, Motti.Gadish @retalix.com

Web site: http://www.retalix.com/
http://www.wumart.com/
http://www.rinpak.com/

Autonomy Wins Multi-Million Dollar Contract From US Government

CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Autonomy Corporation plc , a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced that it has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract by the U.S. government. Under the terms of the deal, Autonomy will provide its Intelligent Data Operating Layer Server (IDOL) to support defence applications.

Autonomy has a long and distinguished history of collaboration with many of the world's leading government, defence and intelligence agencies, including: the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, NASA, the U.S. Air Force, the U.K. Audit Commission, the U.K. Department of Trade and Industry, the French Ministry of Defence, and the Irish Revenue Commissioners.

About Autonomy

Autonomy Corporation plc is a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise and is spearheading the meaning-based computing movement. Autonomy's technology forms a conceptual and contextual understanding of any piece of electronic data including unstructured information, be it text, email, voice or video. Autonomy's software powers the full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications including information access technology, BI, CRM, KM, call center solutions, rich media management, compliance and litigation solutions and security applications, and is recognized by industry analysts as the clear leader in enterprise search.

Autonomy's customer base comprises more than 16,000 global companies and organizations including: 3, ABN AMRO, AOL, BAE Systems, BBC, Bloomberg, Boeing, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Daimler Chrysler, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Kraft Foods, Lloyd TSB, NASA, Nestle, the New York Stock Exchange, Reuters, Shell, T-Mobile, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Autonomy also has over 300 OEM partners and more than 350 VARs and Integrators, numbering among them leading companies such as BEA, Business Objects, Citrix, EDS, IBM Global Services, Novell, Stellent, Sybase, Symantec, TIBCO and Vignette. The company has offices worldwide.

The Autonomy Group includes: Aungate, specialist in real-time enterprise governance; Virage, a visionary in rich media management and security and surveillance technology; etalk, award-winning provider of enterprise-class contact center products and Cardiff, a leader in content capture and business process management solutions.

Autonomy and the Autonomy logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autonomy Corporation plc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

For more information, please contact: Winifred Shum Autonomy (US) +1-408-542-2363 wshum@autonomy.com Edward Bridges Financial Dynamics +44-207-831-3113 edward.bridges@fd.com Ali Merifield Bite Communications ltd (UK) +44-(0)20-8834-3441 +44-(0)20-8741-1123 ali.merifield@bitepr.com Marijke Shugrue Bite Communications ltd (US) +1-212-857-9376 marijke.shugrue@bitepr.com

Autonomy Corporation UK

CONTACT: For more information, please contact: Winifred Shum, Autonomy
(US), +1-408-542-2363, wshum@autonomy.com; Edward Bridges, Financial
Dynamics, +44-207-831-3113, edward.bridges@fd.com; Ali Merifield, Bite
Communications ltd (UK), +44-(0)20-8834-3441, +44-(0)20-8741-1123,
ali.merifield@bitepr.com; Marijke Shugrue, Bite Communications ltd (US),
+1-212-857-9376, marijke.shugrue@bitepr.com

Following its Voluntary Delisting From NASDAQ in February 2007, InfoVista SA Announces its Deregistration From the SEC

PARIS, France and HERNDON, Virginia, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- InfoVista (Euronext: IFV, ISIN: FR0004031649), the leading service-centric performance management software company, today filed a Form 15F with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ('SEC') to deregister its shares and terminate its reporting obligations under the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ('Exchange Act'). InfoVista's obligations under the Exchange Act are suspended as from today. Under SEC rules, the deregistration will become effective 90 days after the filing unless there is an objection from the SEC. InfoVista plans to continue to post an English-language version of its annual report, financial statements and similar communications on its website, http://www.infovista.com.

InfoVista had previously voluntarily terminated its listing on the NASDAQ Global Market as of February 20, 2007. As announced on February 9, 2007, InfoVista's decision to delist from NASDAQ and to deregister from the SEC is based on the low trading volume of its ADSs and the increasingly high cost of maintaining dual listings on NASDAQ and the Paris Euronext stock markets. The decision does not reflect any change in InfoVista's commitment to its operations, customers or strategic development in the United States.

Press Contact Karena D'Arcy Investor Relations Manager, InfoVista +33-1-64-86-85-65 kdarcy@infovista.com Kirsten Molyneux Gavin Anderson & Company +44-(0)207-554-1400 kmolyneux@gavinanderson.co.uk

About InfoVista

InfoVista is the Service-Centric Performance Management Software Company that assures the optimal delivery of business-critical IT services. Driven by a uniquely adaptive and real-time technology foundation, InfoVista solutions improve business effectiveness, reduce operating risk, lower cost of operations, increase agility and create competitive advantage. Eighty percent of the world's largest service providers as ranked by Fortune(R), as well as leading Global 2000 enterprises, rely on InfoVista to enhance the business value of their technology assets. Representative customers include ABN AMRO, Allstream, Banques Populaires, AXA, Banque de France, Bell Canada, British Telecom, Broadwing Communications, Cable & Wireless, Com Hem, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Deloitte & Touche, Deutsche Telecom, France Telecom, Savvis Corporation, SingTel, Telefonica, and US Cellular. A Software Magazine 500 company, InfoVista stock is traded on the Eurolist by Euronext (FR0004031649). For more information about the company, please visit www.infovista.com.

InfoVista(R) is a registered trademark of InfoVista, S.A.

Infovista

Press Contact: Karena D'Arcy, Investor Relations Manager, InfoVista, +33-1-64-86-85-65, kdarcy@infovista.com. Kirsten Molyneux, Gavin Anderson & Company, +44-(0)207-554-1400, kmolyneux@gavinanderson.co.uk

InfoSpace Partners With blinkx to Offer Video Search Functionality on Award-Winning Dogpile.comUsers Can Now Search More Than 12 Million Hours of TV and Video Clips

BELLEVUE, Washington, June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- InfoSpace, Inc. , a leading developer of proprietary metasearch technologies, today formally announced a partnership with blinkx, the world's largest video search engine, to offer video search capabilities for InfoSpace's family of metasearch brands including Dogpile.com, the award-winning search engine which returns top results from Google, Yahoo!, Windows Live and Ask.com to provide users with the most relevant and useful information. As consumer demand for online video content continues to grow, the partnership allows InfoSpace to offer users the same breadth and relevancy of video search results as it does with text-based Web search results.

"Video search has become increasingly popular among today's Web searchers and this addition allows us to offer Dogpile users a more visual and interactive search experience," said Brian McManus, executive vice president of the online business unit at InfoSpace. "blinkx is a leader in the video search space and we chose them to power our offering because of their extensive video content library and advanced video search technology. blinkx also provides results from a variety of video aggregators such as Brightcove, which makes this partnership a great fit for Dogpile, as the leading metasearch site in the U.S."

In addition to this newly added video search capability, InfoSpace recently unveiled a revamped Dogpile.com site with a refreshed look and feel, enhanced usability and an improved metasearch algorithm. Based on the principle that no single search engine can deliver the most relevant results 100% of the time, Dogpile.com combines results from multiple engines to bring together the highest ranked results in one place. As a testament to the quality of the site, in 2006, Dogpile.com received the prestigious J.D. Power and Associates award, ranking it 'Highest in Customer Satisfaction Among Internet Users with Primary Search Engines/Functions' in the U.S.A.(i)

"InfoSpace has a well-established and trusted family of metasearch products, and we're delighted to provide video search capabilities to their millions of users worldwide," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. "This partnership continues to build upon the momentum for our patented conceptual search technology and further demonstrates our leadership in the online video arena."

As a pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the most intuitive way to search new forms of online content such as video. With more than 100 partners and twelve million hours of indexed video and audio content, including favorite TV moments, news clips, short documentaries, music videos, video blogs and more, blinkx uses advanced speech recognition technology to deliver results that are more accurate and reliable than standard metadata-based keyword searches. In addition to Dogpile.com, video content from blinkx is now available on InfoSpace's WebFetch, WebFetchPro, and WebCrawler sites.

About Dogpile(R)

Web metasearch engine Dogpile (http://www.dogpile.com/), ranked highest in customer satisfaction by J.D. Power and Associates, makes it easy for users to search more of the Web by drawing together the top results from the most popular search engines. Dogpile.com is part of the InfoSpace family of Web search and online directory properties.

About InfoSpace(R)

InfoSpace, Inc. is a leading developer of tools and technologies to help people discover and enjoy content and information -- whether on a mobile phone or on the PC. InfoSpace uses its proprietary metasearch technology to power a portfolio of branded Web sites, including Dogpile (http://www.dogpile.com/) and Zoo (http://www.zoo.com/), a kid-friendly search engine, and provide private-label search and online directory services to consumers on a global basis. The company's mobile platform and applications, such as InfoSpace Find It! (http://www.infospacefindit.com/), create revenue opportunities for carriers, while satisfying consumer demand for a highly relevant mobile user experience. More information can be found at http://www.infospaceinc.com/.

About blinkx

blinkx (London AIM: BLNX) is the world's most comprehensive video search engine. Today, blinkx has indexed more than 12 million hours of audio, video, viral and TV content, and made it fully searchable and available on demand. blinkx's founders set out to solve a significant challenge - as TV and user-generated content on the Web explode, keyword-based search technologies only scratch the surface. blinkx's patented search technologies listen to - and even see - the Web, helping users enjoy a breadth and accuracy of search results not available elsewhere. In addition, blinkx powers the video search for many of the world's most frequented sites. blinkx is based in San Francisco and London. Go to http://www.blinkx.com/ for more information.

(i) Footnote: *Dogpile received the highest numerical score for primary search engines in the proprietary J.D. Power and Associates 2006 Residential Online Service Customer Satisfaction StudySM based on responses from 10,787 residential customers of internet service providers, measuring 7 search engines/functions. Proprietary study results are based on experiences and perceptions of consumers surveyed June - July 2006. Your experiences may vary. Visit http://www.jdpower.com/ for more information.

This release contains forward-looking statements regarding InfoSpace's online business and its agreement with blinkx. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Factors that could affect InfoSpace's actual results include the performance under the agreement with blinkx, the progress and costs of the development of our products and services and the timing of market acceptance of those products and services including the extent of user adoption and usage of InfoSpace's metasearch offerings. A more detailed description of certain factors that could affect actual results include, but are not limited to, those discussed in InfoSpace's most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, in the section entitled "Risk Factors." Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release. InfoSpace undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, events or circumstances after the date of this release or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

Contact: Melissa Liton Weber Shandwick Worldwide for InfoSpace +1-425-452-5403 mliton@webershandwick.com Tim Turpin OutCast Communications +1-415-392-8282 tim@outcastpr.com Edward Bridges / Haya Chelhot Financial Dynamics +44-20-7831-3113 blinkx@fd.com

blinkx

CONTACT: Contact: Melissa Liton, Weber Shandwick Worldwide for
InfoSpace, +1-425-452-5403, mliton@webershandwick.com; Tim Turpin, OutCast
Communications, +1-415-392-8282, tim@outcastpr.com; Edward Bridges / Haya
Chelhot, Financial Dynamics, +44-20-7831-3113, blinkx@fd.com

Connect Closes Successful Cash Offer for Pacific Internet Limited

SINGAPORE, June 24 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Connect Holdings Limited (Connect) today announced that its voluntary conditional cash general offer (the Offer) to acquire all the issued shares of Nasdaq-listed Pacific Internet Limited (Nasdaq: PCNTF; PacNet) for US$11.00 net in cash per share, without interest, was declared unconditional in all respects and has successfully closed as of 1:00am, New York City time, on 22 June 2007, 1:00pm, Singapore time, on 22 June 2007, which marks the expiration of the initial offer period.

The depositary for the Offer has advised Connect that as of 22 June 2007, 7,200,999 shares (including 99,348 shares tendered pursuant to guaranteed delivery procedures), representing approximately 52.01% of the issued shares of PacNet (based on the latest available information provided to Connect by PacNet) had been validly tendered in and not withdrawn from the Offer. All validly tendered shares have been accepted for payment, and payment will be made promptly in accordance with the terms of the Offer.

As of 12 January 2007, being the date of Connect's initial announcement of its intention to make the Offer, Connect and parties acting in concert with it owned 4,121,287 PacNet shares, then representing approximately 29.78% of the issued share capital of PacNet.

Accordingly, as of 22 June 2007, Connect and parties acting or deemed to be acting in concert with Connect owned, controlled or have agreed to acquire an aggregate of 11,322,286 PacNet shares, representing approximately 81.78% of the issued shares of PacNet.

Concurrent with the Offer, Connect had made a proposal to all PacNet optionholders, which has also closed. As of 22 June 2007, acceptances have been received in respect of options exercisable for 189,380 shares.

Connect also announced today that a subsequent offering period that will expire at 1:00 am, New York City time, on 12 July 2007, 1:00 pm, Singapore time, on 12 July 2007. Connect will immediately accept all shares validly tendered during the subsequent offering period and will pay for the shares promptly after acceptance, in accordance with the terms of the Offer. Holders of shares tendering shares during the subsequent offering period may not withdraw their shares and cannot deliver their shares using the guaranteed delivery procedures. All other terms and conditions of the Offer remain the same.

Bill Barney, a director of Connect, said: "Connect is delighted that the Offer has been successful". Barney added: "We would like to thank all PacNet shareholders who have tendered and urge all remaining PacNet shareholders to seriously consider accepting the Offer during the subsequent offer period."

The terms and conditions of the Offer are set out in the Offer to Purchase and other materials filed by Connect with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on 2 May 2007, as amended, and are available on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov/ .

PacNet shareholders and optionholders who have questions, need assistance or require copies of the Offer to Purchase, the Letter of Transmittal or related documents should contact MacKenzie Partners, Inc., the Information Agent or Lazard Asia Limited, the Financial Adviser and Dealer Manager for the Offer at the following respective addresses and telephone numbers:

The Information Agent for the Offer is: MacKenzie Partners, Inc. 105 Madison Avenue New York, New York 10016 (212) 929-5500 (Call Collect) or Call Toll-Free (800) 322-2885 Email: tenderoffer@mackenziepartners.com The Financial Adviser and Dealer Manager for the Offer is: Lazard Asia Limited Lazard Freres & Co. LLC 3 Church Street 30 Rockefeller Plaza 14-01 Samsung Hub New York, New York 10020 #Singapore 049483 Call in Singapore.: (65) 6534 2011

This release is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to sell securities. The solicitation and offer to purchase ordinary shares of PacNet is only being made pursuant to a Tender Offer Statement on Schedule TO (including the Offer to Purchase, Letter of Transmittal and other related tender offer materials) filed by Connect with the SEC on 2 May 2007. Holders of PacNet shares should read carefully the Tender Offer Statement (and related materials), as amended from time to time, because they contain important information. Holders of PacNet shares and investors may download free copies of the Tender Offer Statement on a combined Schedule TO and Schedule 13e-3 under cover of Schedule TO, the Offer to Purchase and all other documents that Connect has filed with the SEC at the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov/ , or from MacKenzie Partners, Inc., the Information Agent for the Offer or Lazard Asia Limited, the Financial Adviser and Dealer Manager for the Offer.

The Directors of Connect (including those who may have delegated detailed supervision of this release have taken all reasonable care to ensure that the facts stated and all opinions expressed in this release are fair and accurate and that no material facts have been omitted from this release and they jointly and severally accept responsibility accordingly.

Where any information has been extracted from published or otherwise publicly available sources (including, without limitation, information relating to PacNet), the sole responsibility of the Directors of Connect has been to ensure through reasonable enquiries that such information is accurately and correctly extracted from such sources or, as the case may be, accurately reflected or reproduced in this release.

For further information please contact: Lorain Wong Tel: +852-2121-2973 Email: lorain.wong@asianetcom.com

Connect Holdings

CONTACT: Lorain Wong for Connect Holdings, +852-2121-2973,
lorain.wong@asianetcom.com

Verizon Business and SoftBank Telecom Enter Strategic Alliance

TOKYO, June 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Agreement Benefits Multinational Customers in Japan

Verizon Business and SoftBank Telecom have entered into a strategic alliance agreement that benefits multinational customers of both companies doing business in Japan.

The agreement, ratified at a signing ceremony in Tokyo, provides customers with access to the networks and capabilities of each company. John Killian, president, Verizon Business, and Shinichi Koide, senior executive vice president and chief operating officer, SoftBank Telecom, represented their companies at the event.

SoftBank Telecom is one of Japan's largest ICT (information and communication technology) solution companies. It has a nationwide, fiber-optic network of more than 13,000 kilometers. Verizon Business owns and operates one of the most expansive IP backbone networks in the world, and provides the industry's best portfolio of global IP and mobile devices, services and solutions for business, government and education customers worldwide.

Killian commented: "Japan is a key strategic market for many global businesses, as well as the headquarters location for many of the world's leading companies. For enterprises operating on a global scale, access to secure and high-quality communications infrastructure is a prerequisite for business success. This announcement is yet another demonstration of Verizon Business' commitment to assisting our multinational customers in achieving their global goals. We are delighted to join with SoftBank Telecom to deliver a seamless, high-quality communications experience that will support the evolving business needs of all our mutual customers, both within Japan and around the world."

Koide added: "SoftBank Telecom has been offering ULTINA Global Service by cooperating with various global service providers, and this partnership enables us to meet various demands from customers who are doing business globally, with more flexibility. SoftBank Telecom and Verizon Business share many similar attributes in their approach to business, not least of which is a shared belief: The client comes first. In the years ahead, we will cultivate our mutual strengths for the benefit of our customers."

About SoftBank Telecom

SoftBank Telecom is one of the largest ICT (Information & Communication Technology) solution companies in Japan with a nationwide fiber-optic network. SoftBank Telecom provides a combination of internet service, data service, voice and telephone services, and integration services to support to solve business challenges that business enterprises have. The company is a 100 percent subsidiary of SoftBank Corp. For more information, visit: www.softbanktelecom.co.jp.

About Verizon Business

Verizon Business, a unit of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ), is a leading provider of advanced communications and information technology (IT) solutions to large business and government customers worldwide. Combining unsurpassed global network reach with advanced technology and professional service capabilities, Verizon Business delivers innovative and seamless business solutions to customers around the world. For more information, visit www.verizonbusiness.com.

Web site: http://www.verizonbusiness.com http://www.verizon.com http://www.softbanktelecom.co.jp

Verizon Business

Jo Perrin of Verizon Business, +44-770-252-5868, jo.perrin@verizonbusiness.com / Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/618232.html

Verizon Business et SoftBank Telecom nouent une alliance stratégique

TOKYO, June 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Un accord qui profite aux clients multinationaux présents au Japon

Verizon Business et SoftBank Telecom ont conclu un accord d'alliance stratégique qui profitera aux des clients multinationaux des deux sociétés ayant des activités au Japon.

Grâce à ce partenariat conclu lors d'une cérémonie de signature à Tokyo, les clients auront accès aux réseaux et à l'ensemble des capacités des deux sociétés. Celles-ci étaient représentées lors de cette manifestation par John Killian, président de Verizon Business, et Shinichi Koide, senior vice-président exécutif et directeur général de SoftBank Telecom.

SoftBank Telecom est l'une des plus grandes entreprises du Japon dans le domaine des solutions fondées sur les TIC (Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication). Son réseau national de fibre optique couvre plus de 13 000 kilomètres. Verizon Business possède et exploite l'un des backbone IP les plus étendus du monde et propose le meilleur portefeuille d'appareils, de services et de solutions IP et mobiles du secteur, à l'attention des entreprises, des administrations et des institutions d'enseignement du monde entier.

<< Le Japon est un marché stratégique pour de nombreuses entreprises internationales, et est également le siège de nombreuses sociétés internationales >>, explique John Killian. << Pour des entreprises qui fonctionnent à l'échelle mondiale, avoir accès à une infrastructure de communications sûre et de haute qualité est une condition minimale pour réussir en affaires. L'annonce de ce partenariat démontre une fois de plus la détermination de Verizon Business à assister ses clients multinationaux dans la réalisation de leurs objectifs mondiaux. Nous sommes ravis de nous joindre à SoftBank Telecom pour assurer à l'ensemble de nos clients des communications de haute qualité et homogènes qui accompagneront l'évolution de leurs besoins opérationnels, au Japon et partout dans le monde. >>

<< SoftBank Telecom propose son service mondial ULTINA en coopération avec divers opérateurs internationaux, et ce partenariat nous permet de répondre avec plus de souplesse aux demandes variées de clients actifs dans le monde entier >>, indique pour sa part Shinichi Koide. << SoftBank Telecom et Verizon Business ont beaucoup de caractéristiques similaires dans leur démarche professionnelle et partagent une conviction commune, et non des moindres : donner la priorité au client. Au cours des années à venir, nous développerons nos forces mutuelles dans l'intérêt de nos clients. >>

À propos de SoftBank Telecom

SoftBank Telecom est l'un des plus grands spécialistes des solutions fondées sur les TIC (technologies de l'information et de la communication) au Japon et possède un réseau optique couvrant l'ensemble du pays. SoftBank Telecom fournit un ensemble de services pour l'internet, les données, la voix et le téléphone, ainsi que des services d'intégration qui contribuent à la solution des problèmes opérationnels rencontrés par les entreprises. La société est une filiale à 100 % de SoftBank Corp. Pour tout renseignement supplémentaire, merci de visiter le site www.SoftBanktelecom.co.jp.

À propos de Verizon Business

Verizon Business, une division de Verizon Communications (code NYSE : VZ), est l'un des principaux fournisseurs de solutions avancées destinées aux grandes entreprises et aux administrations du monde entier dans le domaine des technologies de l'information et de la communication (TIC). En associant le plus vaste réseau international, des technologies de pointe et des moyens d'assistance spécialisés, Verizon Business procure des solutions opérationnelles innovantes et complètes à ses clients partout dans le monde. Pour tous renseignements complémentaires, veuillez consulter le site : www.verizonbusiness.com/fr

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Laurent Manologlou, Hill & Knowlton, +01-41-05-44-52, laurent.manologlou@hillandknowlton.com; Frédéric Aurivel, Verizon Business, +01-70-73-78-86, frederic.aurivel@fr.verizonbusiness.com

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