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Thales leads the way with high assurance data protection at Infosecurity Europe 2013

Cloud data protection, enterprise key management, mobile commerce, secure communications and cyber assurance

London, UK – April 18, 2013 – Thales, leader in information systems and communications security, will be showcasing its line of high assurance data protection, mobile payments and cyber security solutions at this year’s Infosecurity Europe, 23-25 April, 2013.

Strong encryption and key management are cornerstones of today’s IT infrastructures, visit stand F30 where Thales will be demonstrating its latest solutions for:

Cloud data protection
Strong encryption and key management are recognized as the most secure and effective way of protecting data and that applies equally to the cloud as in it does the enterprise. In order for organizations to take up cloud services and migrate sensitive and high-value data to virtualized and cloud deployments, they need a high assurance, reliable key management solution that allows them to retain control of their keys, and therefore their data. The Thales portfolio protects critical data assets throughout their lifecycle – when in storage, passing over communications networks and while in use by business applications – all of which are vital aspects of a cloud security strategy. Thales is releasing the 2nd edition of its annual research report – Encryption in the Cloud. The study, produced in conjunction with the Ponemon Institute, is based on a survey of more than 4,000 business and IT managers from around the world regarding the use of encryption in the cloud.

Enterprise class key management
Thales will be demonstrating its recently launched keyAuthority 4.0 high assurance enterprise-class key management solution. The industry’s most comprehensive hardened key manager provides full support for Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP), developed by the OASIS standards body. KMIP will be a critical enabler of broad enterprise key management that can span numerous encryption use cases and cryptographic applications.

Mobile commerce
The payments world is undergoing major disruption with innovations at the point of sale (POS) such as contactless card, mobile payments and mobile point of sale (mPOS). The emergence of alternative payment providers such as PayPal, Google and Square challenging banks and traditional payment acquirers; and investment in improved fraud detection such EMV card, mobile authentication technology and new approaches to reduce the burden of compliance further impacts the market environment. Thales is a world-class expert in secure transaction solutions for payments including payment processing, EMV issuance, mobile provisioning, mobile payments and PCI DSS compliance – see how our products and services secure payments in both the new and traditional payments worlds.

Secure communications
There is an ever increasing need for higher speed communications at the same time as concern is growing over security of data in transit. Additionally secure communications in government and defence comes under specific regulation with strict certification for classified networks. Thales understands this environment and has decades of experience working with national technical authorities and regulatory bodies. The Thales Datacryptor family of programmable network encryptors carries many national and international certifications, offering that special combination of high-speed network encryption for virtually any network type and flexibility to satisfy diverse regulatory environments.

Cyber security and assurance
The risk of cyber attack has increased significantly in the past 20 years. Cyber threats come in many forms and can have a significant impact on your business ranging from denial of service to significant brand damage through loss of information. Thales’ consultancy-led approach is defined by a new compliance standard and supports delivery of CESG accredited cyber security solutions. This allows customers to manage their cyber risk exposure at a level of rigour and cost appropriate to their organisation, enabling prioritisation of cyber activities and cost-effective cyber risk reduction.

Visit Thales at stand F30, Infosecurity Europe, Earls Court, London, 23-25 April 2013.

For industry insight and views on the latest payment security and authentication trends check out our blog www.thales-esecurity.com/blogs

Follow Thales e-Security on Twitter @Thalesesecurity, LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube

About Thales e-Security
Thales e-Security is a leading global provider of data encryption and cyber security solutions to the financial services, high technology, manufacturing, government and technology sectors. With a 40-year track record of protecting corporate and government information, Thales solutions are used by four of the five largest energy and aerospace companies, 22 NATO countries, and secure more than 80 percent of worldwide payment transactions. Thales e-Security has offices in Australia, France, Hong Kong, Norway, United States and the United Kingdom. www.thales-esecurity.com

About Thales
Thales is a global technology leader for the Defence & Security and the Aerospace & Transport markets. In 2012, the company generated revenues of €14.2 billion with 67,000 employees in 56 countries. With its 25,000 engineers and researchers, Thales has a unique capability to design, develop and deploy equipment, systems and services that meet the most complex security requirements. Thales has an exceptional international footprint, with operations around the world working with customers and local partners. www.thalesgroup.com

Contact:
Dorothée Bonneil
Thales Media Relations – Security
+33 (0)1 57 77 90 89
[email protected]

Liz Harris
Thales e-Security Media Relations
+44 (0)1223 723612
[email protected]

Source: RealWire

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Digital agency Realise and Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) this week launched a new website for the asset management business.

Realise were appointed by SWIP after a competitive pitch to redesign and build www.swip.com using a new CMS, Ektron. The overall aim of the project was to create an improved user experience that could sit at the centre of SWIP’s future digital and offline campaigns.

The project commenced with an extensive customer research and planning phase, contributing to a completely redesigned information architecture and set of wireframe templates for user testing.

Realise adapted the recently refreshed SWIP brand guidelines to deliver a modern design that provides SWIP with a huge degree of flexibility for ongoing developments.

The site was planned, designed and delivered in-house by Realise, with one multi-disciplinary team ensuring a smooth delivery of the site from brief to go-live. The site, built using Ektron 8.6, features a number of bespoke tools, third party data integration and multiple-language switching.

As well as improving the customer experience, the site was also built to meet the changing demands of the client, with increased marketing agility delivered through Ektron’s drag-and-drop PageBuilder feature.

Gareth Edwards, Head of Digital, Media and Production for SWIP, says the site will be a huge step forward for the brand as it looks to digital as a way to differentiate: “When we kicked off this project we had a clear set of goals in mind, to improve the online experience for our customers and to deliver a flexible, adaptable web platform. We’ve delivered both of these goals and more. It was a real team effort, Realise and the SWIP team worked tirelessly to get this across the line, and we are all delighted with the end result.”

Fiona Proudler, Managing Director of Realise, added: “This has been an exemplary project and a joy to deliver from start to finish. A client who understood and demanded that the needs of the user and business were considered and met throughout the project. The application of a CMS that supports both the site’s authors and its visitors. And a team of researchers, UX designers, designers, developers and project managers working closely with the client at every step.”

The site can be seen at: www.swip.com

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Press Contacts
Nathan Fulwood, Realise Digital Business Development Director – [email protected]
Jim Buchanan, PR Consultant [email protected] or 07725 257194

About Realise
Realise are one of the UK’s leading digital agencies (NMA Top 100), dedicated to combining creative vision with excellent technical understanding and execution. The company’s core service offering consists of digital strategy, website design and development, online marketing and outsourced support.

Realise are located in Edinburgh and London. The Realise team is headed up by Managing Director, Fiona Proudler, Executive Creative Director, Don Smith and Chief Technical Officer, Jon Tonberg. Its clients include Channel 4, Lloyds Banking Group, Tottenham Hotspur FC and Standard Life Investments.
For more information, please visit https://www.realisedigital.com/

About SWIP

• SWIP’s ultimate parent is Lloyds Banking Group, one of the largest financial services groups in the UK.

• SWIP has a geographically diverse client base with alliances and clients in the UK, across Europe, USA and Japan.

• SWIP is one of the UK and Europe’s largest fund managers with £142.6bn funds under management (Source: Internal, as at 31 December 2012).

• SWIP has a broad client base, managing assets for Pension Funds, Charities, Local Authorities, Life Funds, Unit Trusts, OEICs, Off-Shore Funds and Specialist Funds across all major asset classes.

• SWIP is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority and is entered on their register under number 193707 (www.fsa.gov.uk).

• Investment markets and conditions can change rapidly and as such the views expressed should not be taken as statements of fact nor should reliance be placed on these views when making investment decisions. Past performance is not a guide to the future.

Source: RealWire

Bohemia acquires TerraSim, to deliver the most comprehensive game-based virtual training capability available today

Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim), the developer of the Virtual Battlespace (VBS®) series of training games, is pleased to announce that it has acquired TerraSim®, Inc. the developer of TerraTools® and several source data preparation products used to simplify simulation database development. TerraSim is the technology leader in commercial products enabling the rapid production of correlated terrain for visual, constructive, and serious game simulation systems. TerraTools supports correlation across the largest number of third party modeling and simulation runtimes. It is widely used within the VBS2 community to support complex urban environments based on procedural generation including Urban Details™ technology.

BISim is committed to extending the capability of VBS2 for tactical training and mission rehearsal, and supporting ever-larger terrain content requirements. VBS2 v2.0 introduced paging terrain, which presently supports training environments as large as 1000km x 1000km. In order to facilitate the development of such large areas, and with support for even larger areas planned, TerraSim technology will soon be tightly coupled with the existing VBS2 Development Suite to deliver a more robust and yet still easy-to-use rapid terrain development capability.

The mutual customers of BISim and TerraSim can expect significant capability enhancements as a result of this merger. For example, BISim is working to fully support PhysX by Nvidia Apex Destruction within VBS2, and TerraTools will add procedural generation of high-fidelity VBS2 destructible buildings, bridges, and tunnels to support increased runtime training fidelity. Using TerraSim’s recently developed annotated urban environment (AUE) capability; BISim will leverage procedurally generated pattern-of-life annotations to support realistic entity behaviors within VBS2. BISim will continue to work closely with TerraSim to improve the visual fidelity of procedurally generated features created by TerraTools.

TerraSim will continue to enhance TerraTools capabilities working with third parties to expand its already extensive support for modeling and simulation runtimes. They will continue to enable customers to create high fidelity networked simulations using a diverse set of runtimes while meeting their advanced training requirements. TerraSim’s highly responsive customer support group and geospatial technology team will remain intact in Pittsburgh and will take on additional technology development projects.

Peter Morrison, the CEO of BISim, said “Our acquisition of TerraSim will ultimately deliver unparalleled games-for-training capability to our users, through an even closer integration of VBS with TerraTools and improved support for procedural terrain features, such as destructible buildings.”

Dave McKeown, the CEO of TerraSim, said, “TerraSim has worked closely with BISim engineers for a number of years solving difficult technology problems for our mutual customers. This merger represents a unique opportunity for us to leverage the significant resources provided by BISim while continuing our growth as a leading technology and product development group.”

Both BISim and TerraSim are proud to serve the military simulation market, and look forward to providing tightly integrated, cutting-edge games-for-training solutions for years to come.

About TerraSim
TerraSim is a high-technology company that provides software solutions and services for advanced visual simulation and database construction using a variety of geospatial source data. TerraSim’s TerraTools® automates construction of dense urban environments for operations planning and situation assessment as well as produces exercise databases covering hundreds of one degree geocells. TerraSim also provides database construction services and advanced technology development for both civilian and military customers.

About BISim
BISim is a world leader in providing simulation technologies and integrated training solutions for government and commercial organisations. With origins in the gaming industry, BISim has repeatedly delivered high fidelity, affordable, disruptive technology into the virtual simulation domain. BISim has successfully exploited game-based technology with stunning visuals and applied this to a range of breakthrough simulation products. Our flagship product, VBS2, is employed for daily tactical training and mission rehearsal by most western militaries.

For further information please contact Tess Butler, PR Director, Bohemia Interactive Simulations, [email protected], +44 7967 157530

Source: RealWire

TV Connect Successfully Addresses the Future of Connected Entertainment

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Kroll Ontrack survey reveals that while 60 percent of respondents utilise a backup solution, they still experienced data loss

London – 28 March, 2013 – According to a recent survey of its Ontrack® Data Recovery customers, Kroll Ontrack, the leading provider of data recovery and e-disclosure products and services, found that while 60 percent of respondents had a backup solution in place at the time of data loss, the backup was not current or operating properly. As we near World Backup Day on 31 March, 2013, these findings provide key insight into the importance of diligently monitoring and verifying that a backup is successfully operating and capturing a current, accurate snapshot.

Additionally, survey results indicated that external hard drive backup was still the most used and sought after approach to backing up both business and personal data. In fact, 60 percent of respondents utilised an external drive solution, while 15 percent leveraged the cloud and 15 percent backed up to tape. Regardless of backup solution used, there are common scenarios where backups are unsuccessful and therefore not reliable after a data loss:

• External drive only connected on an occasional basis; backup not automated and instead performed on demand

• Computer not on during scheduled backup and not configured to perform at a different time

• Backup software failed

• Backup ran out of destination space

• Backup profile did not cover all of the device requiring backup

• File lost before scheduled backup

“Leveraging a data backup solution is critical for any business or individual protecting against data loss,” said Robert Winter, head of engineering, Kroll Ontrack. “However, as our recent global survey results demonstrate, even a reputable cloud or external media solution does not always provide predictable results. An effective backup solution hinges on the user or IT administrator attentively validating that the solution is functioning as expected and verifying that the backup is complete.”

Kroll Ontrack surveyed 600 recent Ontrack Data Recovery customers from North America (27 percent), Europe (58 percent) and Asia Pacific (15 percent), with one third of respondents experiencing personal data loss, and two thirds having lost business data. After experiencing data loss, 87 percent of respondents indicated they are extremely likely or somewhat likely to seek a backup solution. Of those, nearly 60 percent are seeking an external hard drive solution and roughly one fourth are looking to the cloud to protect their data. The remaining 13 percent of respondents who do not plan to seek a backup solution cited the time and expense associated with research and administration as the overwhelming barrier to consideration.

“While World Backup Day reminds us that employing, monitoring and validating an effective solution is the key component in the fight against data loss, our survey demonstrates that data loss still occurs,” said Phil Bridge, managing director, Kroll Ontrack. “Enlisting the assistance of a reputable and experienced data recovery provider when there is a data loss provides organisations and individuals with the best possible chance of recovering their important data.”

Tips for Backup Success

• Take the time to invest in a backup solution and set up a backup schedule

• Ensure backups are running regularly in accordance with the determined schedule

• Check backup reports for error indications or failure

• Test backups on a regular basis to ensure data has been accurately captured and files are intact

About Kroll Ontrack Inc.
Kroll Ontrack provides technology-driven services and software to help legal, corporate and government entities as well as consumers manage, recover, search, analyse and produce data efficiently and cost-effectively. In addition to its award-winning suite of software, Kroll Ontrack provides data recovery, data destruction, electronic discovery and document review. Kroll Ontrack is a subsidiary of Altegrity, an industry-leading provider of information solutions. For more information about Kroll Ontrack and its offerings please visit: https://www.krollontrack.co.uk and follow Kroll Ontrack on Twitter @KrollOntrackUK.

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Lord Sainsbury presents Business Weekly Award to CEO Joep van Beurden

Cambridge, UK and Sunnyvale, California, USA – 20 March 2013 – Lord David Sainsbury, Chancellor of Cambridge University, last night presented CSR plc (LSE: CSR; NASDAQ: CSRE) with the award for “Wireless Business of the Year” at the annual Business Weekly Awards. This prestigious business award recognises outstanding commercial performance in delivering wireless solutions over the last year. This is the second time that CSR has been given the award, which is voted for by a highly regarded panel of judges drawn from high-tech commerce, industry and academia.

Accepting the award at the Queens’ College ceremony on behalf of the Cambridge-headquartered semiconductor technology company, Joep van Beurden, CEO of CSR said: “This award for business excellence in wireless comes on the back of a strong year for CSR. Our annual revenue has now surpassed one billion dollars and we’ve consolidated our business to focus on high-growth consumer electronics markets where we hold a leadership position, including automotive infotainment, indoor location, low-energy wireless connectivity, high-quality voice and music, and camera and printer imaging. This award is a real testament to the drive and teamwork of our staff, investment in research and innovation, and ultimately our vision.”

The Business Weekly Awards judging panel comprises technology entrepreneurs, industry luminaries and business academics including Hermann Hauser, Sir Michael Marshall, David Cleevely, Charles Cotton, Sherry Coutu, Peter Cowley, Harriet Fear, Richard Longdon and John Snyder.

Reporting on the awards, Business Weekly said: “Wireless winner CSR is a pioneering designer and developer of silicon and software for the consumer electronics market, helping to transform the lives of motorists, photographers, music lovers, mobile phone users and other gadget-loving consumers. As demand for its products has grown and the range of devices and applications proliferated, CSR has expanded into new markets including voice, music and gaming.”

Notes to editors:
The Business Weekly Awards recognise the success of companies in Cambridge and the surrounding area. For further information about the Business Weekly Awards visit www.businessweekly.co.uk/business-awards/awards-news

About CSR
CSR is a global provider of innovative silicon and software solutions for the location-aware, media-rich, cloud-connected world. Our platforms are optimised for the automotive navigation and infotainment, digital cameras and imaging, connected home infotainment and wireless audio markets. We provide solutions to complex problems in the audio-visual, connectivity and location technology domains across a broad range of markets, with a technology portfolio that includes GPS/GNSS systems, Bluetooth®, Wi-Fi®, FM, NFC, aptX® and CVC™ audio codecs, JPEG, MPEG, H.264 imaging, PDL printing, microcontrollers, DSPs and broadband receivers. CSR’s technology solutions and market platforms enable its customers to deliver a superior user experience and are adopted by leaders in the auto, computer, home and mobile markets. More information can be found at www.csr.com. Keep up to date with CSR on our technical blog or CSR people blog, YouTube, Facebook or follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/CSR_plc.

CAUTIONARY NOTE ON FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
This press release contains certain statements (including statements concerning plans and objectives of management for future operations or performance, or assumptions related thereto) that are not historical facts and constitute ‘forward looking statements’ within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 in relation to our leadership and capabilities to succeed in high-growth consumer electronics markets, and their performance characteristics in automotive infotainment, indoor location, low-energy wireless connectivity, high-quality voice and music and camera and printer imaging, and other future events and their potential effects on CSR. These forward-looking statements can be identified by words such as ‘solutions for,’ ‘strong year,’ ‘vision,’ and other similar expressions regarding the performance characteristics of automotive infotainment, indoor location, low-energy wireless connectivity, high-quality voice and music and camera and printer imaging, and their performance characteristics in consumer electronics products, and their potential effects on CSR. Any future release of consumer electronics products containing such technology, related products or modifications to such products’ capability, functionality or features are subject to ongoing evaluation by CSR and its customers, and may or may not be implemented and should not be considered firm commitments by CSR or its customers and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. Such forward-looking statements represent the current expectations and beliefs of management of CSR, and are based upon numerous assumptions regarding CSR’s business strategies and the environment in which CSR will operate and therefore involve a number of known and unknown risks, contingencies, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond the control of CSR, including, but not limited to, those detailed from time to time in CSR’s periodic reports (whether under the caption Risk Factors or Forward Looking Statements or elsewhere), which are available at the SEC’s web site https://www.sec.gov. Each forward looking statement speaks only as of the date hereof. CSR does not undertake to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward looking statements contained herein, otherwise than required by law.

Bluetooth® and the Bluetooth logos are trademarks owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and licensed to CSR.

Wi-Fi®, Wi-Fi Alliance®, WMM®, Wi-Fi Protected Access®, WPA®, WPA2®, Wi-Fi Protected Setup™ and Wi-Fi Multimedia™ are trademarks of the Wi-Fi Alliance.

Other products, services and names used in this document may have been trademarked by their respective owners.

For more information contact:
US:
Nate Hubbell
March Communications
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[email protected]

UK:
Russell Lindsey
Rocket Communications
+44(0)845 370 7024
[email protected]

Zuora Unveils Z-Business for Media, Helping Media Companies Use Paywall 2.0 to Win in Today’s Digital Age

News International, Fairfax Media, Pearson Continue to Lead the Industry

London, UK- March 20, 2013

Summary

• Zuora, the leader in subscription commerce, billing, and finance, today announces Z-Business for Media, a relationship business management (RBM) solution that enables publishers to implement Paywall 2.0: a shift from advertiser-centric to subscriber-centric business strategies that enable growth in the digital age.

• Z-Business for Media and Paywall 2.0 enable media companies to reinvent themselves in today’s digital age through strategies such as broadening their geographical reach, offering cross content bundling, delivering multi-device experiences, and providing creative pricing. The result is more predictable, growing revenue streams built on long lasting subscriber relationships.

Reinvention of the Media Industry Will Be Driven by Paywall 2.0

• A few years ago, the media industry was on the brink of extinction. In the shift to digital, advertising spend was diverted to the Googles and Yahoo!s of the world and media advertising revenues plummeted to 1950s levels. It was assumed that people would never pay for online content, which left publishers scrambling for new sources of revenue. Reality hit hard as many popular media houses folded.

• A small handful of titles, namely Financial Times, New York Times and Wall Street Journal, took matters into their own hands and implemented basic paywalls for premium content. These companies saw a steady rise in revenue and, for the first time in years, growth in their respective subscriber bases. Their results speak volumes:
  o In 2012, the New York Times made more money from subscription and circulation revenue than advertising – for the first time ever;
  o At Financial Times, digital subscriptions exceeded print circulation for the first time and mobile now accounts for one quarter of all traffic to FT.com.

• However, a simple paywall is just the first step. In order for the media industry to thrive in this new reality, some media companies have seized the opportunity to reinvent themselves in an increasingly digital and mobile world.

• Reinvention of the media industry must start with strategies that help media companies extend, monetize and maximize subscriber relationships. With a Paywall 2.0 strategy, media companies have the opportunity to:
  o Increase their geographical reach;
  o Offer cross-title bundling;
  o Give subscribers richer, multi-device content experiences;
  o Extend products and offerings through creative content packaging and;
  o Build a predictable revenue model focused on subscriber relationships.

Z-Business for Media Enables Paywall 2.0

• Zuora Z-Business for Media is a relationship business management (RBM) solution that enables media companies to solve growth challenges and to develop, monetize, and retain subscriber relationships.

• The platform helps make Paywall 2.0 possible by delivering:
  o Pricing, billing and payments to support increased global reach including:
  • Multi-currency in over 200 currencies and;
  • Automation of global electronic payment processing.
  o Sophisticated subscription order management with support for:
  • Cross-title bundling of multiple items on a single subscription;
  • Consolidated billing for print, digital and other content formats and;
  • Ability to add or remove content items without disrupting subscriptions.
  o Support for multi-device and multi-channel experiences including:
  • Point-and-click tools for creating commerce Web pages;
  • Subscriber self-care that includes account and subscription management and;
  • Sample code libraries to enable faster time-to-market on multiple platforms.
  o Flexible product catalogs for creative content monetization with support for:
  • One time, recurring and pay-per-read charge models;
  • Creative time-based discounting rules and;
  • Multiple freemium pricing models.
  o Subscriber-centric analytics with support for:
  • Key forward looking metrics like MRR, ARR, renewals and churn;
  • Pre-built reports for insights into subscriptions, billing, cash, revenue and;
  • Ad-hoc reporting for real time access to multiple subscriber dimensions.

Industry leaders News International, Fairfax Media, Pearson and others have embraced Paywall 2.0 through the implementation of Z-Business for Media across their respective portfolios of leading publications.

Z-Business for Media is the latest example of the Zuora commitment to deliver relationship business management (RBM) to customers across a variety of industries adopting subscription-based models.

Customer and Industry Commentary

• “We’ve seen a drastic drop in advertising revenue over the past five years. Putting a paid strategy around some of our digital content was a critical step in helping us to not only survive, but to thrive in today’s digital economy,” said Andrew Lam-Po-Tang, CIO, Fairfax Media. “Z-Business for Media gives us deeper insight into our readers, helps us to forecast their behavior and ultimately helps us to create a better, more relevant customer experience.”

• “Customers are happy to pay for products and services they value. Our paid content strategy is no exception,” said Katie Vanneck-Smith, CMO, News International. “Zuora is helping us take control of our customer relationships and, unlike other systems Z-Business for Media has been designed around the future of subscription models, not the past.”

• “The digital era has brought with it the opportunity for us to redefine our relationship with our customers and the developer community,” said Tom Hall, VP Education Technology Partnerships, Pearson PLC. “Through our API datasets and our partnership with Zuora, Pearson has been able to make its content open and accessible to a whole new generation of partners.”

• “The media industry is fast waking up to the notion that it’s subscriptions – not advertising – that will drive revenue growth in the digital age,” said Amy Konary, VP in the Software Research Group at IDC. “It is essential for these companies to give their customers flexibility in pricing, allow access of their content on both traditional and mobile devices, and to measure along the way. Media companies that rely on traditional models without recognizing the way readers want to consume and pay for content today will not be able to tackle the challenges of the rapidly changing media landscape.”

• “The reconstruction of the media industry started three years ago with a handful of pioneers validating the idea that people will indeed pay for high-quality content accessed across a range of devices from a trusted brand,” said Peter Kreisky, media industry pundit and chairman of Kreisky Media Consultancy. New tools like Zuora’s are important enablers for media companies to compete more vigorously in the emerging digital economy.”

Zuora Commentary

• “As advertising shrinks as a source of revenue for magazines and newspapers, leading media companies know that subscriptions are the foundation to healthy growth,” said Tien Tzuo, CEO, Zuora, who will be speaking at the Guardian Changing Media Summit in London. “The shift to the Subscription Economy has disrupted many business models across a wide range of industries, up-ending many media companies who capitalized on the opportunities of the digital age.”

Additional Resources

• Join the Future of Media event virtually at 3pm GMT / 11am EST on March 20, 2013

• Watch Zuora CEO speak at The Guardian Changing Media Summit 2013 on March 21, 2013

• Blog: The Opportunity for Media to Reinvent Itself

• Z-Business for Media Web Page

• Z-Business for Media Online Press Kit

• Commentary from Zuora customers on YouTube

About Zuora
Zuora is the global leader in Relationship Business Management (RBM) solutions. Zuora delivers the subscription commerce, billing and finance capabilities that have become the industry standard to help companies transition to the Subscription Economy. Enterprises and emerging companies alike use Zuora’s multi-tenant cloud solution to streamline key processes, provide visibility into the metrics that matter most and serve as the financial engine of the business. Zuora services innovative customers including Informatica, Tata Communications, Box, Zendesk, DocuSign, Xplornet, Ustream and Reed Business Information. To learn more about Zuora, please visit www.zuora.com, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, join us on LinkedIn, hang out with us on Google+, or visit our blog, Z-Blog.

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Halton Housing Trust has chosen mobile workforce software from 1st Touch (www.1sttouch.com). The not-for-profit housing association, which was formed when Halton Borough Council transferred its housing stock in 2005, manages 6200 homes in the Cheshire Towns of Widnes and Runcorn. By enhancing their customer interface and responsiveness, Halton Housing Trust believes that mobile workforce software can help them to meet their main objective of ‘Improving People’s Lives’. The intention is to roll the new mobile software out across all customer facing areas of the Trust. 1st Touch is already being used by approximately 25 of the responsive repairs maintenance technicians at the Trust.

Identifying a new mobile solution
Prior to choosing 1st Touch, the Trust already had experience of mobile technology from a previous system they had used. However, the earlier software had a number of limitations. The decision was taken to identify a more flexible and scalable mobile solution that could grow with the Trust’s requirements and which was capable of being used across the organisation. 1st Touch was chosen as it has the ability to be deployed across different areas of the organisation as required. In addition, 1st Touch had already developed integration with the Trust’s new Aareon QL housing management system.

As Carole Galsworthy, Director of ICT & Business Improvement at Halton Housing Trust explains: “We were very aware of the benefits of mobile technology as our aspirational aim is to get colleagues out of the office and amongst our customers and communities and to ensure everyone is working as flexibly as possible in when, where and how they work. When we upgraded our Housing Management System to Aareon QL, we felt that this was the ideal time to review our mobile strategy. With 1st Touch, there was not only an existing integration link to Aareon but most importantly there were things that their software could deliver that we would not easily have been able do with the previous solution and which also supported where we want to be in the future.

“1st Touch also proved to be straightforward to deploy. Originally, we were going to move to 1st Touch as part of Phase 2 of our new Housing Management System implementation. However, when we looked at the responsive repairs module, we realised that we could move to it easily in Phase 1 with just a few tweaks.”

Immediate benefits
The immediate benefits of having 1st Touch in place are that Halton Housing Trust will be able to capture everything they and their customers need whilst talking with a customer in their home. Customers will also see a more comprehensive level of services available through the Trust’s employees when they meet them.

Other benefits are on hand too. As Carole Galsworthy notes, “With the new mobile system in place, we will benefit greatly from the efficiencies derived from having colleagues who do not need to return to base between each visit. This not only ensures that we can respond faster and saves a significant amount of time but it also reduces fuel and transport costs enormously.

“In addition, as 1st Touch is a real-time system, the software provides good visibility of data too, which is particularly important for our customer services colleagues who are now able to know the exact progress in the field when talking to customers.”

Carole Galsworthy also feels that the benefits will continue to add up over time. In her view, “it’s still early days but we can see that more and more benefits of the new system will appear in the future. We are mapping these benefits closely and will review them.”

More Mobile Inroads Ahead
Over the next year to eighteen months, Halton Housing Trust plans to introduce 1st Touch mobile workforce software into other business areas including: housing services, voids management, the regeneration and investment team and the estate services team as well as extending this functionality to the remainder of the construction services team. Ultimately, there could be up to 120 mobile users across the business.

As Carole Galsworthy says, “We are quite driven by mobile technology and we want to give it to whoever needs it, especially those delivering benefits to our customers. 1st Touch is working closely with us to identify these opportunities and they are taking the time to understand our business and what we are trying to achieve. We look forwards to seeing the fruits of the technology as it is adopted by new areas of the business.”

Robert Dent CEO of 1st Touch believes that Halton Housing Trust’s enterprise-wide stance will bring significant benefit to their customers. In his view, “Halton has decided to introduce mobile technology right across the organisation. Ultimately, then, all mobile staff will be able to serve their customers more responsively, whilst at the same time delivering efficiencies to the business as a whole. Indeed, it is very impressive to see such a well-integrated customer-centric approach to adopting and deploying enterprise-wide mobile technology.”

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About 1st Touch (www.1sttouch.com)
Southampton based 1st Touch, a subsidiary of Aareon AG (www.aareon.com), has enabled dozens of field workforce-based organisations to embrace new mobile technologies and so achieve significant savings, greater productivity and more cost-effective use of resources. 1st Touch Mobile delivers clear and unique benefits: – Reduced costs to organisations because airtime is minimised and the system is always available with or without airtime. – Flexibility through simple customer control over forms creation and amendment. Integration to multiple back office and other enterprise software applications, so that data is entered only once.

With its widely acclaimed mobile technology, 1st Touch has a clear focus on the Social Housing and Local Government markets. Many social housing providers and local authorities, at large, now benefit from the fast and tangible, best of breed benefits that 1st Touch mobile technology delivers to the enterprise.

To date, over 50% of the social housing market, which has deployed mobile technology, has chosen to implement 1st Touch. In local government, 1st Touch has already been adopted for a wide range of mobile workforce uses. Ready to use applications for local authority organisations include: Public Buildings, Highways/Street Services, Environmental/Waste Management, Revenues and Benefits, together with Planning Control and Trading Standards.

1st Touch software is available on a wide variety of platforms including: Windows Mobile, Apple and Android.

For further information, please contact:
Mim Claridge
1st Touch
02380 111206.
[email protected]
www.1sttouch.com

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TP-LINK Achieves £22 Million in Revenue in 2012 in the UK

New partnerships with British retailers help drive company growth and market share

Reading, UK, 20th March 2013: TP-LINK, the global provider of SOHO and SMB networking products, has announced that the company has achieved £22 million in revenue in the UK for 2012 and global company revenue of $1.47 billion. These figures demonstrate the company’s rapid growth in recent years, which is fuelled by both the launch of new products and new partnerships. The company has also recently expanded into new markets with additions to its global network of subsidiaries.

These positive figures are in-line with the latest growth of 2.7% in retail sales in the UK, announced by the British Retail Consortium (BRC), as one of the most significant increases since 2009. Retail partnerships cultivated by TP-LINK in 2012 include Tesco, Asda, Maplin, DSG and Novatech. Most recently, TP-LINK has also partnered with Richer Sounds, Britain’s largest Hi-Fi retailer, to stock and retail TP-LINK’s product range online and in stores.

TP-LINK is the clear market leader in the general ‘wireless’ market with products including powerline adapters, range extenders, wireless adapters and routers. Targeting SOHO and SMB markets, these products offer cost-effective and reliable networking solutions that ensure quick and easy access to the Internet. The TP-LINK portfolio also includes devices designed for households seeking enhanced connectivity without cables or additional wiring.

“After a successful 2012 and start of 2013 for TP-LINK, our strategy will continue to focus on fostering growth within the networking and communications industry by providing high-quality networking products that are reliable and user-friendly,” said Eric Wang, Country Manager of TP-LINK UK. “The fact that the main retailers in the UK have included the latest TP-LINK devices within their product ranges is a testament to the effort and value that we have invested, and will continue to invest, into developing stronger partnerships.”

TP-LINK has a strong presence at the global level in the networking and IT industries, ranking amongst the world’s main suppliers of WLAN devices, with market presence in over 120 countries and reaching over one billion users globally.

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About TP-LINK
TP-LINK is a global provider of SOHO & SMB networking products and the World’s No.1 provider of WLAN and Broadband CPE devices, with products available in over 100 countries to tens of millions customers. Committed to intensive R&D, efficient production and strict quality management, TP-LINK continues to provide award-winning networking products in Wireless, ADSL, Routers, Switches, IP Cameras, Powerline Adapters, Print Servers, Media Converters and Network Adapters for Global end-users.

Based on the confidence of tens of millions of customers, TP-LINK is now growing to become one of the most competitive providers of networking products with aspirations to become one of the top 3 networking brands in the world and striving for a larger global market share, while further advancing in the world of networking to better serve our most valued customers with products that make their lives easier. For further information visit https://uk.tp-link.com/ Follow TP-LINK on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TPLINK and Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/TPLINKUK?fref=ts. Visit the TP-LINK forum: forum.tp-link.com.

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Newtec Wins WTA Teleport Technology Of The Year Award

M6100 Broadcast Satellite Modulator takes home Teleport Award for Excellence 2013 at SATELLITE in Washington DC

SATELLITE 2013 Conference, Washington DC, and SINT-NIKLAAS, Belgium, 19 March 2013 The World Teleport Association (WTA) has awarded satellite specialist Newtec’s M6100 Broadcast Satellite Modulator with the prestigious accolade of Teleport Technology of the Year 2013. Newtec was praised by judges for providing the greatest contribution to the business and operational success of teleports by lowering costs, increasing efficiency, enabling new capabilities and providing access to new markets.

The Newtec M6100 Broadcast Satellite Modulator is a next generation DVB-S2, DVB-DSNG and DVB-S modulator that is ready to support the new upcoming S2 Extensions and RF Carrier ID DVB standards. It has specifically been designed for broadcast Direct to Home (DTH), primary distribution to headends and contribution of television and radio content. It can be used in conjunction with set-top boxes, professional IRD’s or professional satellite demodulators and also as a platform to play a central role in networks, helping evolve businesses through ongoing market and technology innovations.

“I am very proud of the entire Newtec team for all of the work that has gone into developing a product which is capable of winning this award, greatly respected by everyone in the industry,” said Serge van Herck, CEO of Newtec. “The M6100 attempts to cover every eventuality that a teleport operator will need in order to maximize business potential, not just now but also in the future. We are proud that it is being backed by some of the industry’s most important players.”

Since 1995, the WTA has presented annual awards to companies and individuals that have dramatically demonstrated excellence in the field of teleport operations, development and technology. Since inception the WTA has been the only trade association that focuses on the business of satellite communications from the ground up.

The M6100 is designed to evolve with the customer needs by flexibly allowing re-allocation of network resources towards different or new applications or customers. It also reduces OPEX by ensuring the delivery of the highest modulation efficiency, whilst deploying Newtec technologies including Equalink®, Clean Channel Technology™ and the new S2 Extensions. The M6100 is built to help reduce the impact of RF carrier interferences by supporting the new DVB RF Carrier Identifier (DVB-CID). It also incorporates new capabilities to deliver services over Ka-band that are much needed by teleports and their customers looking to offer new services.

For further information about the Newtec’s award-winning M6100 visit https://www.newtec.eu/products/m6100/.

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Newtec M6100 Broadcast Satellite Modulator https://newproducts.newtec.eu/new-products/detail/m6100
Latest generation DVB-S2, DVB-DSNG and DVB-S modulator designed and built ground up for multimedia contribution, broadcast direct-to-home and primary distribution to headends and towers. It is fully compliant with he installed base of satellite receivers and set op boxes and a future proof building block for any satellite network as it includes tomorrow’s technologies like S2-Extensions and DVB-CID (Carrier ID).

Meet Newtec at SATELLITE 2013, Booth C1-21
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Speaking Slots at SATELLITE 2013
Visit: https://www.satellitetoday.com/satellite2013/show-program.php?search_string=Newtec

High-Throughput and Beyond: Exploring Future Bandwidths and Applications	Monday 18 March 3:15-4:15 PM	Room 207B
Satellite Services in a Gigabit World	Tuesday 19 March 1:30-2:45 PM	Room 207B
Squeezing $$ from MHz – Examining the Latest in Spectral Efficiency and Bandwidth Optimization	Wednesday 20 March 1:45-3:00 PM	Room 201
DVB-S2: More Flexibility and Efficiency for the Future	Wednesday 20 March 4:45-5:45 PM	Room 209AB

About Newtec
Newtec (https://www.newtec.eu/) is a global industry leader, shaping the future of satellite communications. Offering state-of-the-art products and scalable, integrated solutions for broadcast, broadband access and backbone and trunking applications, Newtec helps customers achieve greater efficiency, increase performance and expand market reach.

With its passionate commitment to R&D and its strong relationship with the European Space Agency (ESA), Newtec remains in the forefront of technological development, continuing the pioneering contributions that have led to industry standards including DVB, DVB-S2, DVB RCS and iSatTV Cenelec pr EN50478.

Newtec’s worldwide customer base includes the industry’s most prestigious broadcasters, satellite operators, telcos, systems houses and broadcasting unions. Established in 1985 and headquartered in Belgium, Newtec has regional offices as well as additional R&D centres located in Stamford, Conn. (U.S.), Singapore (Singapore), Beijing (China), Dubai (UAE), São Paulo (Brazil), Berlin (Germany) and France.

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