Press release from Business Wire India
Source: SK C&C India
Thursday, October 01, 2009 11:42 AM IST (06:12 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Information technology, Telecommunications; Technology
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SK C&C to Facilitate Reliance 3G Roll Out
New Delhi, Delhi, India, Thursday, October 01, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- Reliance, to roll out 3G communication services- Signed an agreement with SK for the 3G strategy consulting project
- 3G technology consulting for IP backbone network and wireless mobile Internet to process voice calls and high capacity data
- Expected to pave ways to various value-added services including video, wireless Internet and mobile banking services
SK C&C India (CEO Kim Shin Bae, www.skcc.com), an affiliate company of SK Group, a Fortune 100 conglomerate, and Reliance Communications has entered into a partnership agreement on September 22nd 2009 with Reliance Communication (RCOM) to facilitate the roll-out of network and services on next generation 3G/4G platform.
Reliance will utilize the knowledge and expertise of SK C&C, a systems service provider to SK Telecom, to build IP backbone network to process voice communication and data and develop plans to optimize the design of base stations for efficient linkage. Under this agreement, Reliance will gain to know-how and knowledge of the "best practice" at SK Telecom to enhance the quality of its services by building a high-capacity, integrated (wireless and wire line) and convergent (voice, data and video) digital network for 3G Network and WiMax.
Founded in 1953, SK Group is the third largest conglomerate in Korea with diverse interests in Information and Communication, Energy and Trading and Engineering sectors. SK Telecom is regarded among the top MNOs in the world in terms of advanced technology and services that it offers to its customers. SK Telecom, with a 50% plus market share in Korea and SK C&C became the first in the world to succeed in commercializing CDMA and in 2002, and tie first in the world to deploy 3G services based on CDMA. Recently it also introduced a much more advanced version of mobile telemetric services where mobile communication is combined into automobiles to provide road guidance services, location tracking as well as remote car checkup and control services, mobile linked entertainment service.
Commenting on the signing of this agreement, Mr. Manish Prakash, Head of International Business at SK C&C (Korea) commented "At SK we are excited about this partnership with Reliance ADA Group and looking to build a deeper relationship for a wide range of cooperation in areas of technology and operations in the 3G environment. This agreement is a significant step in that direction." Senior executives at Reliance are highly optimistic of the new partnership and believe that it shall be the stepping stone to a long standing relationship.
A new world of communication will unfold where mobile phone users will be able to chat with their friends in remote places while looking at their faces, and also watch movies, music videos, and use the Internet to transfer money through mobile banking service. 3G mobile communication uses 2 giga hertz waves with transmission speed ranging from 128Kbps to 2Mbps enabling the users to exchange moving pictures. Mobile phone users, who had only been able to talk on the phone, will be able to see the faces of the ones they talk to. Also, various video contents in color such as music video, Internet broadcasting, comics, and news will be provided in real time.
About SK C&C and SK Group
SK C&C, an affiliate of SK Group recording $1billion sales last year, is a total IT service company providing consulting services, system installation, IT outsourcing and future Ubiquitous technologies and services. SK Group (FY'08 Revenue: $83.5 billion), a Fortune 100 conglomerate, is engaged in a wide range of business areas including IT, mobile communication, energy, engineering and chemical.
In particular, SK Group, which ranks number 3 in the business world in Korea, shows very similar growth path as that of Reliance Group. SK Group was founded in 1953 under the name of Sunkyong Textile Limited and expanded business to petrochemical, refined oil and gas, completing the vertical integration and in 1994 jumped into mobile telecommunication, communication, bioscience, and entertainment business areas.
In 2007, SK C&C established its subsidiary, SK C&C India, to pursue development of various telecommunication VAS models based on advanced mobile communication services. Its mission will also include exploring global markets such as in US and Europe through collaborating with IT services companies in India in the mobile communication and outsourcing sector.
About Reliance Communications
Reliance Communications is India's foremost and truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The company has a customer base of over 80 Million and ranks among the top 10 telecom companies in the world by number of customers in a single country. Reliance Communications corporate clientele includes 2,100 Indian and multinational corporations, and over 800 global, regional and domestic carriers.
RCOM has established a pan India, next generation, integrated (wireless and wireline) and convergent (voice, data and video) digital network that is capable of supporting best-of-class services spanning 20,000 towns and 500,000 villages. RCOM owns and operates the world's largest next generation IP enabled connectivity infrastructure comprising over 175,000 kilometers of fiber optic cable systems in India, USA, Europe, Middle East and the Asia Pacific region.
CONTACT DETAILS
Manisha Chaudhry, Value 360 Communications, +91 9899797810, manisha@value360india.com
KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, MARKETING, BUSINESS SERVICES, IT, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TECHNOLOGY
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
BWI: Bajaj Capital Wins CNBC TV 18 Award as Best Performing National Financial Advisor – Retail’09
Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Bajaj Capital Ltd.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 05:25 PM IST (11:55 AM GMT)
Editors: General: People; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Banking & financial services, Business services, Financial Analyst, Media & entertainment, Retailers
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Bajaj Capital Wins CNBC TV 18 Award as Best Performing National Financial Advisor - Retail'09
Excellence in Performance and Leadership Recognized
New Delhi, Delhi, India, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- Bajaj Capital, one of India's leading Investment Advisory and Financial Planning companies, has won the award for the 'Best Performing National Financial Advisor - Retail' at the CNBC TV18 Financial Advisor Awards 08-09 held in Hotel ITC Central Sheraton and Towers, Mumbai on September 24, 2009. Mr. Rajiv Deep Bajaj, Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Bajaj Capital accepted the award on behalf of the company. The awards ceremony was attended by representatives from the financial services industry, banking community, government and other leading industry professionals.
Commenting on the accolade, Mr. Bajaj said, "I feel proud to accept this prestigious award as it acknowledges the contribution of our company in the field of financial advisory for over four decades. This has come to us at a time when the financial services industry has been going through a rough patch and getting this recognition at this juncture holds even greater value. Therefore, I dedicate this award to all our 8 lakh investor clients and assure them that we will keep our commitment of providing the need based advice to help them plan their future better".
In its 3rd edition, the CNBC TV18 Financial Advisor Awards in partnership with UTI MF recognize the best financial advisors across the country in various categories like IFA, national distributors, regional distributors and banking, acknowledging their contribution in creating and preserving wealth and distributing expert & productive financial advice. Over 10,000 Financial Advisors participated in these awards, which is up from 2,500 in the previous edition.
There has recently been a significant change in the regulatory norms for financial advisors. Bajaj Capital has been at the forefront of this and has been the first one to launch fee-based advisory packages in the country.
About Bajaj Capital Ltd.
Bajaj Capital Ltd. (SEBI-approved Category I Merchant Bankers) is one of India's premier Investment Advisory and Financial Planning companies, offering personalized services to individual investors, corporate houses, institutional investors, Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) and High Networth clients, among others. As one of India's largest distributors of financial products, the company offers a wide range of investment products such as mutual funds, life and general insurance, post office schemes, etc., offered by reputed public, private and government organizations. For more information, please visit the website www.bajajcapital.com.
CONTACT DETAILS
Rashi Tarika, Manager - Corporate Communications, Bajaj Capital Ltd., +91 9818832926, rashit@bajajcapital.com
KEYWORDS
PEOPLE, MARKETING, BANKING, BUSINESS SERVICES, Financial Analyst, MEDIA, RETAIL
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Source: Bajaj Capital Ltd.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 05:25 PM IST (11:55 AM GMT)
Editors: General: People; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Banking & financial services, Business services, Financial Analyst, Media & entertainment, Retailers
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Bajaj Capital Wins CNBC TV 18 Award as Best Performing National Financial Advisor - Retail'09
Excellence in Performance and Leadership Recognized
New Delhi, Delhi, India, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- Bajaj Capital, one of India's leading Investment Advisory and Financial Planning companies, has won the award for the 'Best Performing National Financial Advisor - Retail' at the CNBC TV18 Financial Advisor Awards 08-09 held in Hotel ITC Central Sheraton and Towers, Mumbai on September 24, 2009. Mr. Rajiv Deep Bajaj, Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Bajaj Capital accepted the award on behalf of the company. The awards ceremony was attended by representatives from the financial services industry, banking community, government and other leading industry professionals.
Commenting on the accolade, Mr. Bajaj said, "I feel proud to accept this prestigious award as it acknowledges the contribution of our company in the field of financial advisory for over four decades. This has come to us at a time when the financial services industry has been going through a rough patch and getting this recognition at this juncture holds even greater value. Therefore, I dedicate this award to all our 8 lakh investor clients and assure them that we will keep our commitment of providing the need based advice to help them plan their future better".
In its 3rd edition, the CNBC TV18 Financial Advisor Awards in partnership with UTI MF recognize the best financial advisors across the country in various categories like IFA, national distributors, regional distributors and banking, acknowledging their contribution in creating and preserving wealth and distributing expert & productive financial advice. Over 10,000 Financial Advisors participated in these awards, which is up from 2,500 in the previous edition.
There has recently been a significant change in the regulatory norms for financial advisors. Bajaj Capital has been at the forefront of this and has been the first one to launch fee-based advisory packages in the country.
About Bajaj Capital Ltd.
Bajaj Capital Ltd. (SEBI-approved Category I Merchant Bankers) is one of India's premier Investment Advisory and Financial Planning companies, offering personalized services to individual investors, corporate houses, institutional investors, Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) and High Networth clients, among others. As one of India's largest distributors of financial products, the company offers a wide range of investment products such as mutual funds, life and general insurance, post office schemes, etc., offered by reputed public, private and government organizations. For more information, please visit the website www.bajajcapital.com.
CONTACT DETAILS
Rashi Tarika, Manager - Corporate Communications, Bajaj Capital Ltd., +91 9818832926, rashit@bajajcapital.com
KEYWORDS
PEOPLE, MARKETING, BANKING, BUSINESS SERVICES, Financial Analyst, MEDIA, RETAIL
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BWI: MindTree Launches Multi-Channel Commerce Solution Portfolio for Retailers in Australia
Press release from Business Wire India
Source: MindTree
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 05:11 PM IST (11:41 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Information technology, Retailers; Technology
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MindTree Launches Multi-Channel Commerce Solution Portfolio for Retailers in Australia
New Solutions Create Synergies between Online and in-Store Shopping for Enhanced Customer Experience
Sydney, Australia, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- MindTree Ltd, a global IT Solutions Company, today announced expansion of its service offerings for the retail market in Australia, and introduced new Multi-Channel Commerce Solutions. Designed to help retailers adopt a more customer-centric strategy, MindTree's offerings synchronize the critical operations, customer information and management systems of online and in-store shopping venues so that consumers can realize a seamless, channel-agnostic purchasing experience.
The MindTree Multi-Channel Commerce Solutions leverage the company's multi-channel commerce framework and its e-commerce implementation expertise to significantly reduce development time and effort, and improve time to market. With multi-channel commerce capabilities, retailers are able to enhance the customer experience and focus on order fulfillment of both online and in-store shoppers. Key benefits of the MindTree Multi-Channel Commerce Solutions include:
-- A unified view and management of customer, inventory and order data across multiple channels
-- Increased customer loyalty through cross-channel loyalty programs
-- Personalized shopping experiences using techniques such as guided selling systems and decision trees
-- Consistent brand, product, price and promotional information across all channels
"The e-commerce market in Australia has huge potential to leapfrog into using emerging technologies," said MindTree Vice President and Head, Retail Industry Group, Babuji Abraham. "As e-commerce gains traction in this market, a critical success factor for retailers will be the ability to align their in-store and online operations. With our new Multi-Channel Commerce offering, MindTree is helping retailers take the next step with a solution that enables the various channels to be integrated and managed as a whole, to provide consumers a pleasant shopping experience."
MindTree follows a consulting-led methodology to understand its customers' unique needs and deliver solutions. MindTree assesses a retailer's IT systems and processes, identifies unique problem areas, and delivers a high-level solution roadmap through customized workshops. For more details on the MindTree workshops, please visit:
www.mindtree.com/retail-workshop.
MindTree's dedicated Retail Industry Group delivers technology solutions across the retail value chain spanning marketing, merchandising, supplier collaboration, warehouse and store management. MindTree has developed solutions and frameworks on retail analytics, multi-channel integration, mobile commerce, master data management and RFID. Having partnered with retail leaders across the globe, MindTree provides dedicated Centers of Excellence for Oracle Retail, IBM WebSphere, Microsoft Dynamics, Mainframe and System I, SAP-IS-Retail, and Testing. MindTree offers services ranging from consulting, application development and maintenance, independent testing, infrastructure management and tech support, to package implementation and support.
About MindTree
MindTree Ltd. is a global IT Solutions company specializing in IT Services, Independent Testing, Infrastructure Management and Technical Support (IMTS), Knowledge Services and Product Engineering, which comprises R&D Services and Software Product Engineering. MindTree partners with its clients to create a transparent, value-based relationship. Our people build innovative solutions in a wide range of technology domains that enable our customers to succeed in their business goals.
MindTree was ranked 45th among the leaders in IAOP's 'The 2009 Global Outsourcing 100'. The Company is publicly listed in India. Please visit us at www.mindtree.com.
Safe Harbor
Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks, and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. We do not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by us or on our behalf.
CONTACT DETAILS
Ashwini Rajeswara, MindTree, +91 (80) 67064000, ashwini_rajeswara@mindtree.com
KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, MARKETING, BUSINESS SERVICES, IT, RETAIL, TECHNOLOGY
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Source: MindTree
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 05:11 PM IST (11:41 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Information technology, Retailers; Technology
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MindTree Launches Multi-Channel Commerce Solution Portfolio for Retailers in Australia
New Solutions Create Synergies between Online and in-Store Shopping for Enhanced Customer Experience
Sydney, Australia, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- MindTree Ltd, a global IT Solutions Company, today announced expansion of its service offerings for the retail market in Australia, and introduced new Multi-Channel Commerce Solutions. Designed to help retailers adopt a more customer-centric strategy, MindTree's offerings synchronize the critical operations, customer information and management systems of online and in-store shopping venues so that consumers can realize a seamless, channel-agnostic purchasing experience.
The MindTree Multi-Channel Commerce Solutions leverage the company's multi-channel commerce framework and its e-commerce implementation expertise to significantly reduce development time and effort, and improve time to market. With multi-channel commerce capabilities, retailers are able to enhance the customer experience and focus on order fulfillment of both online and in-store shoppers. Key benefits of the MindTree Multi-Channel Commerce Solutions include:
-- A unified view and management of customer, inventory and order data across multiple channels
-- Increased customer loyalty through cross-channel loyalty programs
-- Personalized shopping experiences using techniques such as guided selling systems and decision trees
-- Consistent brand, product, price and promotional information across all channels
"The e-commerce market in Australia has huge potential to leapfrog into using emerging technologies," said MindTree Vice President and Head, Retail Industry Group, Babuji Abraham. "As e-commerce gains traction in this market, a critical success factor for retailers will be the ability to align their in-store and online operations. With our new Multi-Channel Commerce offering, MindTree is helping retailers take the next step with a solution that enables the various channels to be integrated and managed as a whole, to provide consumers a pleasant shopping experience."
MindTree follows a consulting-led methodology to understand its customers' unique needs and deliver solutions. MindTree assesses a retailer's IT systems and processes, identifies unique problem areas, and delivers a high-level solution roadmap through customized workshops. For more details on the MindTree workshops, please visit:
www.mindtree.com/retail-workshop.
MindTree's dedicated Retail Industry Group delivers technology solutions across the retail value chain spanning marketing, merchandising, supplier collaboration, warehouse and store management. MindTree has developed solutions and frameworks on retail analytics, multi-channel integration, mobile commerce, master data management and RFID. Having partnered with retail leaders across the globe, MindTree provides dedicated Centers of Excellence for Oracle Retail, IBM WebSphere, Microsoft Dynamics, Mainframe and System I, SAP-IS-Retail, and Testing. MindTree offers services ranging from consulting, application development and maintenance, independent testing, infrastructure management and tech support, to package implementation and support.
About MindTree
MindTree Ltd. is a global IT Solutions company specializing in IT Services, Independent Testing, Infrastructure Management and Technical Support (IMTS), Knowledge Services and Product Engineering, which comprises R&D Services and Software Product Engineering. MindTree partners with its clients to create a transparent, value-based relationship. Our people build innovative solutions in a wide range of technology domains that enable our customers to succeed in their business goals.
MindTree was ranked 45th among the leaders in IAOP's 'The 2009 Global Outsourcing 100'. The Company is publicly listed in India. Please visit us at www.mindtree.com.
Safe Harbor
Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks, and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. We do not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by us or on our behalf.
CONTACT DETAILS
Ashwini Rajeswara, MindTree, +91 (80) 67064000, ashwini_rajeswara@mindtree.com
KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, MARKETING, BUSINESS SERVICES, IT, RETAIL, TECHNOLOGY
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BWI: PlaySpan's Monetization 2.0 Forum at GDC Austin Delivers Powerful Insights on Digital Goods Industry
Press release from Business Wire India
Source: PlaySpan India Pvt Ltd
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 02:50 PM IST (09:20 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest, Entertainment; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Banking & financial services, Business services, Information technology; Technology
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PlaySpan's Monetization 2.0 Forum at GDC Austin Delivers Powerful Insights on Digital Goods Industry
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- More than a week after PlaySpan's Monetization Forum at GDC Austin, the industry is still abuzz about the standing room only gathering of some of the interactive entertainment industry's most influential executives who participated in the half day forum designed to help publishers and game developers tackle some of the toughest questions around monetization of games on mobile, social networks, virtual worlds, casual games, and MMOs.
Among the gathering of more than 220 people were notable speakers including CEOs from Playdom, IMVU, K2 Network, RockYou, as well as many senior level executives from Turbine, Inc., EA, Linden Lab, Zynga, MySpace, Nonoba, and others, who shared their knowledge about the present state of the industry.
"There is a marriage that has got to take place between those that are monetization machines and are smaller, and those that are really huge, but they don't monetize as well per user, and somehow those are going to have to start figuring out how to get together in the next couple years," Cary Rosenzwig, CEO of IMVU, Inc.
Craig Alexander, VP of Product Development at Turbine, Inc. also commented that: "The drive to move towards a new monetization model has been the desire to offer more flexibility and choice to our consumers."
Some of the session highlights included a presentation from Nonoba Founder Chris Benjaminsen, who delivered a monetization demo on the company's micropayment solution for Flash Games called GameRise; and a much anticipated presentation by Turbine Executive Producer, Fernando Paiz, about the challenges of transitioning a popular subscription-based MMO, Dungeons and Dragons Online, into a hybrid microtransaction/subscription-based business model.
PlaySpan Founder & CEO Karl Mehta also shared results from two recent studies on digital goods purchases and sales behavior across multiple genres and platforms.
According to Frank N. Magid Associates, 12% of those surveyed in US purchased virtual goods last year and in order to deliver virtual goods and digital goods to mainstream America, the industry's goal is to take that number to 25% in 2010.
According to another VGMarket Survey that PlaySpan conducted, 10% of 55-64 year olds have purchased virtual goods, with the largest group of buyers being women ages 25-34 years.
"We are thrilled by the attendance at our forum, the quality of presentations, and level of crowd interaction. This is clearly an area that many in the industry are interested in knowing more about and we look forward to working with many of these companies and helping them uncover ways to successfully monetize their games, apps, and virtual goods," said Karl Mehta, Founder & CEO of PlaySpan Inc.
"It was a great event with a broad set of speakers that tackled the monetization subject from many interesting angles," said Monty Sharma VP of Product Management and Marketing at Vivox. "I would most certainly go again."
The PlaySpan hosted forum was made possible by the Game Developers Conference organizers, as well as media sponsors Digital Media Wire, Mashable, and Virtual Goods News. PlaySpan would like to thank each of them for their contributions to a successful and memorable event.
To view the video of Mr. Mehta's opening remarks, and full presentations from each of the sessions, please visit: http://corp.playspan.com/gdc/recordings.html
About PlaySpan, Inc.
PlaySpanT is the leader in monetization solutions for over 1,000 online games, virtual worlds, and social networks. PlaySpan's patent-pending in-game virtual goods commerce and micropayment platform enables game publishers and developers to generate new revenues, acquire new users, and extend the loyalty of existing users.
PlaySpan also offers global payment solutions through its subsidiary PayByCash® with 85 payment methods in 180 countries. The ULTIMATE GAME CARD® is used by consumers to pay for 300 multiplayer games and around 700 games on popular social networking sites. It is available in about 45,000 retail locations across North America and growing rapidly worldwide.
Social network payment solutions are available through Spare Change©. Acquired by PlaySpan in April 2009, Spare Change is the first and leading payments platform designed specifically for social networks. Featured on over 700 applications, across Facebook, MySpace and Bebo, Spare Change empowers developers to successfully monetize their applications through micro payments. The Spare Change platform enables users to make safe, convenient, and friendly 1-click purchases through a variety of funding sources.
PlaySpan is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Virginia, Ohio, and Mumbai. Investors include Easton Capital, Menlo Ventures, STIC and Novel TMT Ventures. The company has recently won the 2009 OnHollywood Category Award for Best Gaming Company.
For more information about PlaySpan visit: http://corp.playspan.com
For more information about Spare Change visit: www.sparechangepayments.com
CONTACT DETAILS
Vinayak Rao, PlaySpan India Pvt Ltd, +91 9820045958, Vinayak.rao@playspan.com
KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, ENTERTAINMENT, MARKETING, BANKING, BUSINESS SERVICES, IT, TECHNOLOGY
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Source: PlaySpan India Pvt Ltd
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 02:50 PM IST (09:20 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest, Entertainment; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Banking & financial services, Business services, Information technology; Technology
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PlaySpan's Monetization 2.0 Forum at GDC Austin Delivers Powerful Insights on Digital Goods Industry
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- More than a week after PlaySpan's Monetization Forum at GDC Austin, the industry is still abuzz about the standing room only gathering of some of the interactive entertainment industry's most influential executives who participated in the half day forum designed to help publishers and game developers tackle some of the toughest questions around monetization of games on mobile, social networks, virtual worlds, casual games, and MMOs.
Among the gathering of more than 220 people were notable speakers including CEOs from Playdom, IMVU, K2 Network, RockYou, as well as many senior level executives from Turbine, Inc., EA, Linden Lab, Zynga, MySpace, Nonoba, and others, who shared their knowledge about the present state of the industry.
"There is a marriage that has got to take place between those that are monetization machines and are smaller, and those that are really huge, but they don't monetize as well per user, and somehow those are going to have to start figuring out how to get together in the next couple years," Cary Rosenzwig, CEO of IMVU, Inc.
Craig Alexander, VP of Product Development at Turbine, Inc. also commented that: "The drive to move towards a new monetization model has been the desire to offer more flexibility and choice to our consumers."
Some of the session highlights included a presentation from Nonoba Founder Chris Benjaminsen, who delivered a monetization demo on the company's micropayment solution for Flash Games called GameRise; and a much anticipated presentation by Turbine Executive Producer, Fernando Paiz, about the challenges of transitioning a popular subscription-based MMO, Dungeons and Dragons Online, into a hybrid microtransaction/subscription-based business model.
PlaySpan Founder & CEO Karl Mehta also shared results from two recent studies on digital goods purchases and sales behavior across multiple genres and platforms.
According to Frank N. Magid Associates, 12% of those surveyed in US purchased virtual goods last year and in order to deliver virtual goods and digital goods to mainstream America, the industry's goal is to take that number to 25% in 2010.
According to another VGMarket Survey that PlaySpan conducted, 10% of 55-64 year olds have purchased virtual goods, with the largest group of buyers being women ages 25-34 years.
"We are thrilled by the attendance at our forum, the quality of presentations, and level of crowd interaction. This is clearly an area that many in the industry are interested in knowing more about and we look forward to working with many of these companies and helping them uncover ways to successfully monetize their games, apps, and virtual goods," said Karl Mehta, Founder & CEO of PlaySpan Inc.
"It was a great event with a broad set of speakers that tackled the monetization subject from many interesting angles," said Monty Sharma VP of Product Management and Marketing at Vivox. "I would most certainly go again."
The PlaySpan hosted forum was made possible by the Game Developers Conference organizers, as well as media sponsors Digital Media Wire, Mashable, and Virtual Goods News. PlaySpan would like to thank each of them for their contributions to a successful and memorable event.
To view the video of Mr. Mehta's opening remarks, and full presentations from each of the sessions, please visit: http://corp.playspan.com/gdc/recordings.html
About PlaySpan, Inc.
PlaySpanT is the leader in monetization solutions for over 1,000 online games, virtual worlds, and social networks. PlaySpan's patent-pending in-game virtual goods commerce and micropayment platform enables game publishers and developers to generate new revenues, acquire new users, and extend the loyalty of existing users.
PlaySpan also offers global payment solutions through its subsidiary PayByCash® with 85 payment methods in 180 countries. The ULTIMATE GAME CARD® is used by consumers to pay for 300 multiplayer games and around 700 games on popular social networking sites. It is available in about 45,000 retail locations across North America and growing rapidly worldwide.
Social network payment solutions are available through Spare Change©. Acquired by PlaySpan in April 2009, Spare Change is the first and leading payments platform designed specifically for social networks. Featured on over 700 applications, across Facebook, MySpace and Bebo, Spare Change empowers developers to successfully monetize their applications through micro payments. The Spare Change platform enables users to make safe, convenient, and friendly 1-click purchases through a variety of funding sources.
PlaySpan is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Virginia, Ohio, and Mumbai. Investors include Easton Capital, Menlo Ventures, STIC and Novel TMT Ventures. The company has recently won the 2009 OnHollywood Category Award for Best Gaming Company.
For more information about PlaySpan visit: http://corp.playspan.com
For more information about Spare Change visit: www.sparechangepayments.com
CONTACT DETAILS
Vinayak Rao, PlaySpan India Pvt Ltd, +91 9820045958, Vinayak.rao@playspan.com
KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, ENTERTAINMENT, MARKETING, BANKING, BUSINESS SERVICES, IT, TECHNOLOGY
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BWI: HCC Ties Up with AMEC for Independent Nuclear Technology Services
Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Hindustan Construction Co. Ltd (HCC)
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 02:30 PM IST (09:00 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Construction, Energy companies, Heavy industries, Real estate
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HCC Ties Up with AMEC for Independent Nuclear Technology Services
Opens Doors for Indian Nuclear Industry to Access State-of-the-Art Engineering Technology Consulting and World Class Project Management Practices
New Delhi, Delhi, India, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- HCC, India's leading engineering construction company, has signed a MoU with the international engineering and project management company AMEC plc (AMEC) to jointly explore the application of consulting and EPC services for the establishment of nuclear power plants in India. HCC, known for its civil engineering capabilities in nuclear power plant construction, has built over 50 per cent of India's installed nuclear capacity. This tie-up will further strengthen HCC's capabilities to execute services in the field of mechanical and electrical components of nuclear power plants by sourcing the latest prevailing global technologies through AMEC.
AMEC has a 50-year history of delivering highly complex new build programmes in the nuclear sector. From construction of the some of first civil nuclear power plants in the world to development of the latest Generation IV designs, AMEC has broad experience of various reactor technologies, and is wholly independent of vendors. AMEC has significant international experience in the nuclear sector and will bring world-class design, safety and project/programme management experience to support the development of new nuclear projects in India.
"We are delighted to have the opportunity to join India's exciting nuclear new build programme. This mutually advantageous partnership is an evidence of the beginning of a new nuclear era in India and we are proud to be part of it," commented Mr. Didier Pfleger, Chief Operating Officer, Power and Process, AMEC.
Announcing the tie-up, Mr. Ajit Gulabchand, Chairman & Managing Director, HCC said: "This partnership will enhance India's ability to implement the new generation of nuclear power technologies. HCC is the country's leading player in nuclear power plant construction. AMEC, with its globally benchmarked nuclear technology experience, is the ideal partner to help catapult India to the cutting edge of nuclear power generation. Our partnership will provide flexible and technology-independent platforms to reduce the cost of building new nuclear power plants in India."
"AMEC has world-class technical and engineering capability across all disciplines in the nuclear sector. Our independent technology expertise allows us to provide leading edge solutions that will assist India in bringing new technologies to its nuclear sector," said Mr. Tim Small, Director Global Markets & Strategy, Power and Process, AMEC.
India is the sixth-largest electricity generating country with a total installed capacity of about 100,000 MW with 2.5 per cent being contributed by its nuclear sector. The Government of India has embarked on mega plans to enhance the current installed nuclear power capacity of 4120 MW to 20,000 MW by 2020 and to 63,000 MW by 2032. Out of 63,000 MW envisaged 40,000 MW or more capacity of light water reactor, in technical collaboration with other countries, is planned. "HCC-AMEC combine will play a crucial role in the fast track development of this capacity," added Mr. Gulabchand.
About HCC:
HCC is a leading engineering, construction and infrastructure development company with a rich heritage of experience. The company specializes in large-scale infrastructure development deploying new age construction technologies. The Company has managed and executed several technically complex and high value projects across segments like transportation, hydro & nuclear power generation, marine, irrigation & water supply projects as well as integrated urban development and management. (Please visit: www.hccindia.com)
Contacts:
Jimmy Mogal, +91 22 2571 5906, jimmy.mogal@hccindia.com
Sandeep Sawant, +91 22 2571 5932, sandeep.sawant@hccindia.com
Kapil Sabharwal, +91 9811559835, ksabharwal@comma.in
About AMEC:
AMEC (LSE: AMEC) is a focused supplier of high-value consultancy, engineering and project management services to the world's energy, power and process industries. With annual revenues of over £2.6 billion, AMEC designs, delivers and maintains strategic and complex assets for its customers. AMEC's Natural Resources, Power and Process and Earth and Environmental businesses employ over 21,000 people in more than 30 countries globally. For more information please see www.amec.com.
Contacts:
Tereza Urbankova, +44 7812 961708, tereza.urbankova@amec.com
Harold Ashurst, +44 7714 709150, harold.ashurst@amec.com
CONTACT DETAILS
Kapil Sabharwal, Comma Consulting, +91 9811559835, ksabharwal@comma.in
KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, MARKETING, BUSINESS SERVICES, CONSTRUCTION, ENERGY, HEAVY INDUSTRIES, REAL ESTATE
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Source: Hindustan Construction Co. Ltd (HCC)
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 02:30 PM IST (09:00 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Construction, Energy companies, Heavy industries, Real estate
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HCC Ties Up with AMEC for Independent Nuclear Technology Services
Opens Doors for Indian Nuclear Industry to Access State-of-the-Art Engineering Technology Consulting and World Class Project Management Practices
New Delhi, Delhi, India, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- HCC, India's leading engineering construction company, has signed a MoU with the international engineering and project management company AMEC plc (AMEC) to jointly explore the application of consulting and EPC services for the establishment of nuclear power plants in India. HCC, known for its civil engineering capabilities in nuclear power plant construction, has built over 50 per cent of India's installed nuclear capacity. This tie-up will further strengthen HCC's capabilities to execute services in the field of mechanical and electrical components of nuclear power plants by sourcing the latest prevailing global technologies through AMEC.
AMEC has a 50-year history of delivering highly complex new build programmes in the nuclear sector. From construction of the some of first civil nuclear power plants in the world to development of the latest Generation IV designs, AMEC has broad experience of various reactor technologies, and is wholly independent of vendors. AMEC has significant international experience in the nuclear sector and will bring world-class design, safety and project/programme management experience to support the development of new nuclear projects in India.
"We are delighted to have the opportunity to join India's exciting nuclear new build programme. This mutually advantageous partnership is an evidence of the beginning of a new nuclear era in India and we are proud to be part of it," commented Mr. Didier Pfleger, Chief Operating Officer, Power and Process, AMEC.
Announcing the tie-up, Mr. Ajit Gulabchand, Chairman & Managing Director, HCC said: "This partnership will enhance India's ability to implement the new generation of nuclear power technologies. HCC is the country's leading player in nuclear power plant construction. AMEC, with its globally benchmarked nuclear technology experience, is the ideal partner to help catapult India to the cutting edge of nuclear power generation. Our partnership will provide flexible and technology-independent platforms to reduce the cost of building new nuclear power plants in India."
"AMEC has world-class technical and engineering capability across all disciplines in the nuclear sector. Our independent technology expertise allows us to provide leading edge solutions that will assist India in bringing new technologies to its nuclear sector," said Mr. Tim Small, Director Global Markets & Strategy, Power and Process, AMEC.
India is the sixth-largest electricity generating country with a total installed capacity of about 100,000 MW with 2.5 per cent being contributed by its nuclear sector. The Government of India has embarked on mega plans to enhance the current installed nuclear power capacity of 4120 MW to 20,000 MW by 2020 and to 63,000 MW by 2032. Out of 63,000 MW envisaged 40,000 MW or more capacity of light water reactor, in technical collaboration with other countries, is planned. "HCC-AMEC combine will play a crucial role in the fast track development of this capacity," added Mr. Gulabchand.
About HCC:
HCC is a leading engineering, construction and infrastructure development company with a rich heritage of experience. The company specializes in large-scale infrastructure development deploying new age construction technologies. The Company has managed and executed several technically complex and high value projects across segments like transportation, hydro & nuclear power generation, marine, irrigation & water supply projects as well as integrated urban development and management. (Please visit: www.hccindia.com)
Contacts:
Jimmy Mogal, +91 22 2571 5906, jimmy.mogal@hccindia.com
Sandeep Sawant, +91 22 2571 5932, sandeep.sawant@hccindia.com
Kapil Sabharwal, +91 9811559835, ksabharwal@comma.in
About AMEC:
AMEC (LSE: AMEC) is a focused supplier of high-value consultancy, engineering and project management services to the world's energy, power and process industries. With annual revenues of over £2.6 billion, AMEC designs, delivers and maintains strategic and complex assets for its customers. AMEC's Natural Resources, Power and Process and Earth and Environmental businesses employ over 21,000 people in more than 30 countries globally. For more information please see www.amec.com.
Contacts:
Tereza Urbankova, +44 7812 961708, tereza.urbankova@amec.com
Harold Ashurst, +44 7714 709150, harold.ashurst@amec.com
CONTACT DETAILS
Kapil Sabharwal, Comma Consulting, +91 9811559835, ksabharwal@comma.in
KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, MARKETING, BUSINESS SERVICES, CONSTRUCTION, ENERGY, HEAVY INDUSTRIES, REAL ESTATE
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BWI: Interactive E-Learning Software Helping to Propel Harbinger Knowledge Products to the Head of the Class
Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Harbinger Knowledge Products
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 02:07 PM IST (08:37 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Education & training, Information technology; Technology
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Interactive E-Learning Software Helping to Propel Harbinger Knowledge Products to the Head of the Class
Indian Company Enjoying Rapid Sales Growth of its cutting-edge Technology
Pune, Maharashtra, India, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- The worldwide recession has taken its toll on countless businesses in almost every sector of the economy over the past two years. But one local company, Harbinger Knowledge Products, has actually enjoyed sharp growth despite the strong economic headwinds.
Harbinger has quietly but steadily become a global leader in a special niche of the software industry - interactive e-learning products for corporations and educators. In the past year alone, the company, whose U.S. headquarters is in Redmond, has seen its revenue jump 50 percent and has expanded its worldwide workforce by 35 percent.
Fortune 500 corporations to universities and online colleges to police departments and even the U.S. Army have started deploying Harbinger's products. Among its customers are MetLife, Chase, Honda Canada, Abbot Laboratories, University of Kansas Medical Center, Indiana University, Kaplan University and the Los Angeles Police Department, to name a few.
Recently, Deloitte LLP named Harbinger one of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in the Asia Pacific Region and one of the 50 fastest growing tech firms in India, where its global headquarters is located.
Vikas Joshi, chairman and managing director of the Harbinger Group, said the company's cutting-edge products are addressing a growing demand for interactivity in educational and training software.
"E-learning is going through a sea change, both in terms of higher-education and corporate training programs," he said. "Static, one-way educational and training software is rapidly being replaced by interactive products that really engage students and employees and increase their retention."
Seema Chaudhary, president of Harbinger Knowledge Products, said interactivity is a key enabler for communicating ideas effectively. "Harbinger's cutting-edge technology unlocks the potential of interactivity to revolutionize the online educational experience for millions of people," she said.
The company's leading product Raptivity is a software that enables instructors to create highly interactive eLearning content with games, simulations, 3D objects, videos and even "virtual worlds" that bring subjects to life. The games test a student's retention of the content presented in the course and are modeled after popular TV game shows to bring the content to life.
"Interactivity makes learning fun and exciting for students, but even more importantly, our next-generation e-learning software serves as a much more effective way to ensure students are understanding and retaining the information being presented," Chaudhary said.
While e-learning software sales continue to rise, Harbinger is also leveraging its technology to move into two new market segments - presentation products and Web development products. Chaudhary says both sectors offer strong growth potential for the company and its state-of-the-art interactive technology.
Harbinger has already released products for both new markets. The presentation solution is called YawnBuster, which is designed to bring PowerPoint slides alive with group activities, such as audience polls, games, group exercises and competitions. And TeemingPod is a new product that enables Web sites to create more social interaction through such things as real-time user discussions, opinion polls, viewer rankings and do other things together.
Harbinger sees no letup in sales and revenue growth in the coming year, despite the sluggish economy. To meet rising product demand, the company has expanded its office in Pune, India and opened a new office in the United Kingdom, which will serve clients in Europe. The company is also upgrading its channel management programs to handle product distribution in 45 countries and manage future growth.
About Harbinger Knowledge Products
Harbinger Knowledge Products is recognized as a global leader in interactivity solutions for knowledge-sharing applications, including learning, presentation and web development. Harbinger Knowledge Products is a part of Harbinger Group, which serves customers in over 45 countries through its offices in Pune (India), Redmond (WA, USA), San Jose (CA, USA), Pleasanton (CA, USA), London (UK) and through its partner network worldwide. Harbinger's patent-pending technology and sound thought leadership have resulted in groundbreaking products, including market-leading Raptivity, innovative YawnBuster and cutting-edge TeemingPod. For more information, please visit www.harbingerknowledge.com.
CONTACT DETAILS
Varsha Marathe, Aspire Communications, +91 9370220270, marathe.varsha@gmail.com
KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, MARKETING, BUSINESS SERVICES, EDUCATION, IT, TECHNOLOGY
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Source: Harbinger Knowledge Products
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 02:07 PM IST (08:37 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Education & training, Information technology; Technology
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Interactive E-Learning Software Helping to Propel Harbinger Knowledge Products to the Head of the Class
Indian Company Enjoying Rapid Sales Growth of its cutting-edge Technology
Pune, Maharashtra, India, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- The worldwide recession has taken its toll on countless businesses in almost every sector of the economy over the past two years. But one local company, Harbinger Knowledge Products, has actually enjoyed sharp growth despite the strong economic headwinds.
Harbinger has quietly but steadily become a global leader in a special niche of the software industry - interactive e-learning products for corporations and educators. In the past year alone, the company, whose U.S. headquarters is in Redmond, has seen its revenue jump 50 percent and has expanded its worldwide workforce by 35 percent.
Fortune 500 corporations to universities and online colleges to police departments and even the U.S. Army have started deploying Harbinger's products. Among its customers are MetLife, Chase, Honda Canada, Abbot Laboratories, University of Kansas Medical Center, Indiana University, Kaplan University and the Los Angeles Police Department, to name a few.
Recently, Deloitte LLP named Harbinger one of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in the Asia Pacific Region and one of the 50 fastest growing tech firms in India, where its global headquarters is located.
Vikas Joshi, chairman and managing director of the Harbinger Group, said the company's cutting-edge products are addressing a growing demand for interactivity in educational and training software.
"E-learning is going through a sea change, both in terms of higher-education and corporate training programs," he said. "Static, one-way educational and training software is rapidly being replaced by interactive products that really engage students and employees and increase their retention."
Seema Chaudhary, president of Harbinger Knowledge Products, said interactivity is a key enabler for communicating ideas effectively. "Harbinger's cutting-edge technology unlocks the potential of interactivity to revolutionize the online educational experience for millions of people," she said.
The company's leading product Raptivity is a software that enables instructors to create highly interactive eLearning content with games, simulations, 3D objects, videos and even "virtual worlds" that bring subjects to life. The games test a student's retention of the content presented in the course and are modeled after popular TV game shows to bring the content to life.
"Interactivity makes learning fun and exciting for students, but even more importantly, our next-generation e-learning software serves as a much more effective way to ensure students are understanding and retaining the information being presented," Chaudhary said.
While e-learning software sales continue to rise, Harbinger is also leveraging its technology to move into two new market segments - presentation products and Web development products. Chaudhary says both sectors offer strong growth potential for the company and its state-of-the-art interactive technology.
Harbinger has already released products for both new markets. The presentation solution is called YawnBuster, which is designed to bring PowerPoint slides alive with group activities, such as audience polls, games, group exercises and competitions. And TeemingPod is a new product that enables Web sites to create more social interaction through such things as real-time user discussions, opinion polls, viewer rankings and do other things together.
Harbinger sees no letup in sales and revenue growth in the coming year, despite the sluggish economy. To meet rising product demand, the company has expanded its office in Pune, India and opened a new office in the United Kingdom, which will serve clients in Europe. The company is also upgrading its channel management programs to handle product distribution in 45 countries and manage future growth.
About Harbinger Knowledge Products
Harbinger Knowledge Products is recognized as a global leader in interactivity solutions for knowledge-sharing applications, including learning, presentation and web development. Harbinger Knowledge Products is a part of Harbinger Group, which serves customers in over 45 countries through its offices in Pune (India), Redmond (WA, USA), San Jose (CA, USA), Pleasanton (CA, USA), London (UK) and through its partner network worldwide. Harbinger's patent-pending technology and sound thought leadership have resulted in groundbreaking products, including market-leading Raptivity, innovative YawnBuster and cutting-edge TeemingPod. For more information, please visit www.harbingerknowledge.com.
CONTACT DETAILS
Varsha Marathe, Aspire Communications, +91 9370220270, marathe.varsha@gmail.com
KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, MARKETING, BUSINESS SERVICES, EDUCATION, IT, TECHNOLOGY
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BWI: Zedo Celebrates its 10th Year in Ad Serving
Press release from Business Wire India
Source: ZEDO, Inc
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 12:54 PM IST (07:24 AM GMT)
Editors: Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Information technology; Technology
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Zedo Celebrates its 10th Year in Ad Serving
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- ZEDO, Inc., the largest privately held ad server in the US, celebrates its 10th anniversary today. ZEDO has grown from a San Francisco startup to a major player in Internet advertising.
ZEDO's vision, from its inception, has been to help publishers increase their revenue. ZEDO started with a unique concept of selfTargeting(TM) where a user could choose the type of ads they preferred. Since then ZEDO has expanded to offer a full publisher ad serving platform, extensive APIs, a self service system, video ad serving, ad serving on iPhones, an ad network optimization suite and innovations in high CPM ad formats. ZEDO today has 5 software development and customer service centers in the US, Russia and India. ZEDO serves over 1,000 customers globally.
Roy de Souza, Founder & CEO stated, "I congratulate and thank the ZEDO team and alumni for building high quality technology and offering high quality customer service. The ZEDO team has proven that it can innovate and introduce advanced advertising technologies to exceed customer expectations." "The future is ever brighter for Internet advertising and for ZEDO. Internet advertising continues to grow rapidly both in the US and in the markets that ZEDO serves across Europe, Australia and India. Major publishers are switching to ZEDO for ad serving because ZEDO's technology is focused on innovation to help publishers increase revenue in every way possible. The new ZEDO Ad Network is also seeing dramatic growth and generating higher CPMs for publishers every day."
Roy de Souza added, "I would also like to extend my appreciation to ZEDO's customers. I thank you for choosing ZEDO and am very happy that we are working together to build big businesses in the still early days of this high growth Internet advertising opportunity. There is much more for us to do. We have only just begun."
About ZEDO
ZEDO, Inc. is an Internet ad serving company that has been offering a variety of products and services to web sites, advertisers and networks for 10 years. ZEDO, now the largest privately held ad server in the US, focuses its technology on maximizing revenue for web publishers. ZEDO sits in the premium sector of the Internet advertising landscape and believes that technology can increase the quality of ad impressions and therefore the revenues that publishers earn from advertising.
ZEDO offers several technologies to increase publisher revenue including: cutting edge behavioral targeting, ad network optimization that calculates which ad network will pay the publisher the most, ad serving in flash video players, a widely acclaimed easy to use ad serving UI, a self service advertising technology and new formats to attract advertisers in any market conditions.
ZEDO is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Mumbai, Goa, Pune and St. Petersburg.
For more information visit www.ZEDO.com or call 415.348.1975.
CONTACT DETAILS
Savio Fernandes, PR Head, ZEDO, Inc, +91 98196 21041, savio@zedo.com
KEYWORDS
MARKETING, BUSINESS SERVICES, IT, TECHNOLOGY
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Source: ZEDO, Inc
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 12:54 PM IST (07:24 AM GMT)
Editors: Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Information technology; Technology
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Zedo Celebrates its 10th Year in Ad Serving
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- ZEDO, Inc., the largest privately held ad server in the US, celebrates its 10th anniversary today. ZEDO has grown from a San Francisco startup to a major player in Internet advertising.
ZEDO's vision, from its inception, has been to help publishers increase their revenue. ZEDO started with a unique concept of selfTargeting(TM) where a user could choose the type of ads they preferred. Since then ZEDO has expanded to offer a full publisher ad serving platform, extensive APIs, a self service system, video ad serving, ad serving on iPhones, an ad network optimization suite and innovations in high CPM ad formats. ZEDO today has 5 software development and customer service centers in the US, Russia and India. ZEDO serves over 1,000 customers globally.
Roy de Souza, Founder & CEO stated, "I congratulate and thank the ZEDO team and alumni for building high quality technology and offering high quality customer service. The ZEDO team has proven that it can innovate and introduce advanced advertising technologies to exceed customer expectations." "The future is ever brighter for Internet advertising and for ZEDO. Internet advertising continues to grow rapidly both in the US and in the markets that ZEDO serves across Europe, Australia and India. Major publishers are switching to ZEDO for ad serving because ZEDO's technology is focused on innovation to help publishers increase revenue in every way possible. The new ZEDO Ad Network is also seeing dramatic growth and generating higher CPMs for publishers every day."
Roy de Souza added, "I would also like to extend my appreciation to ZEDO's customers. I thank you for choosing ZEDO and am very happy that we are working together to build big businesses in the still early days of this high growth Internet advertising opportunity. There is much more for us to do. We have only just begun."
About ZEDO
ZEDO, Inc. is an Internet ad serving company that has been offering a variety of products and services to web sites, advertisers and networks for 10 years. ZEDO, now the largest privately held ad server in the US, focuses its technology on maximizing revenue for web publishers. ZEDO sits in the premium sector of the Internet advertising landscape and believes that technology can increase the quality of ad impressions and therefore the revenues that publishers earn from advertising.
ZEDO offers several technologies to increase publisher revenue including: cutting edge behavioral targeting, ad network optimization that calculates which ad network will pay the publisher the most, ad serving in flash video players, a widely acclaimed easy to use ad serving UI, a self service advertising technology and new formats to attract advertisers in any market conditions.
ZEDO is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Mumbai, Goa, Pune and St. Petersburg.
For more information visit www.ZEDO.com or call 415.348.1975.
CONTACT DETAILS
Savio Fernandes, PR Head, ZEDO, Inc, +91 98196 21041, savio@zedo.com
KEYWORDS
MARKETING, BUSINESS SERVICES, IT, TECHNOLOGY
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
BWI: VMAP by TechPassion now Part of Altair’s HyperWorks Enabled Community
Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Altair HyperWorks
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:00 AM IST (04:30 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Information technology; Technology
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VMAP by TechPassion now Part of Altair's HyperWorks Enabled Community
Altair Diversifies its HyperWorks Platform with Leading NVH Technology
Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- Altair (www.altair.com), a global provider of technology and services empowering client innovation and decision making, today announced the addition to its HyperWorks Enabled Community (HWEC) of VMAP from TechPassion, an engineering product company building the next generation software tools used by product design teams. HyperWorks users can now download and use the latest version of VMAP at no incremental cost using their existing HyperWorks software license system on the HWEC website at www.hyperworkscommunity.com. This brings the total number of applications available under the HyperWorks platform to 53 including 25 third-party software applications such as VMAP.
"TechPassion is pleased to join Altair's HyperWorks Enabled Community. We look forward to expanding the adoption of VMAP into the Altair customer base through this creative and unique partnership model. " said Dhanushkodi Mariappan, CEO of TechPassion. "Altair's RADIOSS solver has become the market leading analysis software in the Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH) sector. VMAP is a complimentary solution which allows customers to create better products by integrating their testing and analysis processes."
TechPassion's VMAP bridges the gap between virtual prototyping and physical testing and experimentation in the product design cycle. It is used by customers to perform vibration testing and correlation of simulation and experimental results. VMAP significantly improves productivity of product design teams by not only cutting costs and development time but also intangibles associated with inaccuracies in design. The TechPassion solution also includes a seamless integration with Altair's popular HyperMesh application. This tight integration provides transparent data exchanges and allows Altair customers to interact with VMAP from within the HyperMesh environment they are familiar with.
To date, over 200 companies worldwide have joined the HyperWorks Enabled Community, maximizing their current investment in HyperWorks licenses by giving their engineers and designers access to a growing pool of leading technology solutions.
HyperWorks is a suite of enterprise analytic applications that includes statistical, database, visualization and simulation software to help companies make better business decisions. Its patented HyperWorks Units licensing technology allows users to transparently share software licenses globally across a broad suite of applications.
"Altair is excited about this new partnership, it provides our customers a flexible, easy to use and cost effective solution for managing their vibration testing processes and correlating their test results with their computer simulations", said Michael Humphrey, Vice President of Altair's Global Partner Programs. "The integration between VMAP and HyperMesh is a significant differentiator and demonstrates TechPassion's commitment to creating software which is easy for customers to use."
About TechPassion
TechPassion is an ISO Certified engineering Product Company building the next generation software tools used by product design teams in industries such as automotive, aerospace, energy, civil structures. TechPassion's product, VMAP is used by customers to perform vibration testing and correlation of simulation and experimental results thereby shrinking product development time. TechPassion is also engaged in the business of engineering services, offering design engineering services to customers who develop new products like automobile components, aerospace components and energy system like wind turbines. From concept development to prototype testing, TechPassion provides end-to-end solutions. To learn more, please visit www.techpassiontech.com.
About Altair
Altair Engineering empowers client innovation and decision-making through technology that optimizes the analysis, management and visualization of business and engineering information. Privately held with more than 1,300 employees, Altair has offices throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asia/Pacific. With a 20-year-plus track record for product design, advanced engineering software and grid computing technologies, Altair consistently delivers a competitive advantage to customers in a broad range of industries. To learn more, please visit www.altair.com.
About the HyperWorks Enabled Community Program
HyperWorks uses a subscription-based software licensing model, where software licenses float across the enterprise, and customers can use floating licenses to access a broad suite of Altair developed and third party software applications. Customers benefit from unmatched flexibility and access, resulting in maximum software utilization, productivity and ROI. For more information about the HyperWorks Enabled Partner Program, visit www.hyperworkscommunity.com.
CONTACT DETAILS
Rony Rajan, 20:20 MEDIA, +91 9980162010, rony@2020india.com
KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, MARKETING, BUSINESS SERVICES, IT, TECHNOLOGY
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Source: Altair HyperWorks
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:00 AM IST (04:30 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Information technology; Technology
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VMAP by TechPassion now Part of Altair's HyperWorks Enabled Community
Altair Diversifies its HyperWorks Platform with Leading NVH Technology
Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- Altair (www.altair.com), a global provider of technology and services empowering client innovation and decision making, today announced the addition to its HyperWorks Enabled Community (HWEC) of VMAP from TechPassion, an engineering product company building the next generation software tools used by product design teams. HyperWorks users can now download and use the latest version of VMAP at no incremental cost using their existing HyperWorks software license system on the HWEC website at www.hyperworkscommunity.com. This brings the total number of applications available under the HyperWorks platform to 53 including 25 third-party software applications such as VMAP.
"TechPassion is pleased to join Altair's HyperWorks Enabled Community. We look forward to expanding the adoption of VMAP into the Altair customer base through this creative and unique partnership model. " said Dhanushkodi Mariappan, CEO of TechPassion. "Altair's RADIOSS solver has become the market leading analysis software in the Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH) sector. VMAP is a complimentary solution which allows customers to create better products by integrating their testing and analysis processes."
TechPassion's VMAP bridges the gap between virtual prototyping and physical testing and experimentation in the product design cycle. It is used by customers to perform vibration testing and correlation of simulation and experimental results. VMAP significantly improves productivity of product design teams by not only cutting costs and development time but also intangibles associated with inaccuracies in design. The TechPassion solution also includes a seamless integration with Altair's popular HyperMesh application. This tight integration provides transparent data exchanges and allows Altair customers to interact with VMAP from within the HyperMesh environment they are familiar with.
To date, over 200 companies worldwide have joined the HyperWorks Enabled Community, maximizing their current investment in HyperWorks licenses by giving their engineers and designers access to a growing pool of leading technology solutions.
HyperWorks is a suite of enterprise analytic applications that includes statistical, database, visualization and simulation software to help companies make better business decisions. Its patented HyperWorks Units licensing technology allows users to transparently share software licenses globally across a broad suite of applications.
"Altair is excited about this new partnership, it provides our customers a flexible, easy to use and cost effective solution for managing their vibration testing processes and correlating their test results with their computer simulations", said Michael Humphrey, Vice President of Altair's Global Partner Programs. "The integration between VMAP and HyperMesh is a significant differentiator and demonstrates TechPassion's commitment to creating software which is easy for customers to use."
About TechPassion
TechPassion is an ISO Certified engineering Product Company building the next generation software tools used by product design teams in industries such as automotive, aerospace, energy, civil structures. TechPassion's product, VMAP is used by customers to perform vibration testing and correlation of simulation and experimental results thereby shrinking product development time. TechPassion is also engaged in the business of engineering services, offering design engineering services to customers who develop new products like automobile components, aerospace components and energy system like wind turbines. From concept development to prototype testing, TechPassion provides end-to-end solutions. To learn more, please visit www.techpassiontech.com.
About Altair
Altair Engineering empowers client innovation and decision-making through technology that optimizes the analysis, management and visualization of business and engineering information. Privately held with more than 1,300 employees, Altair has offices throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asia/Pacific. With a 20-year-plus track record for product design, advanced engineering software and grid computing technologies, Altair consistently delivers a competitive advantage to customers in a broad range of industries. To learn more, please visit www.altair.com.
About the HyperWorks Enabled Community Program
HyperWorks uses a subscription-based software licensing model, where software licenses float across the enterprise, and customers can use floating licenses to access a broad suite of Altair developed and third party software applications. Customers benefit from unmatched flexibility and access, resulting in maximum software utilization, productivity and ROI. For more information about the HyperWorks Enabled Partner Program, visit www.hyperworkscommunity.com.
CONTACT DETAILS
Rony Rajan, 20:20 MEDIA, +91 9980162010, rony@2020india.com
KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, MARKETING, BUSINESS SERVICES, IT, TECHNOLOGY
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BWI: Taj Enlighten Film Society Presents Documentary Film Festival
Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Taj Enlighten Film Society
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 11:50 AM IST (06:20 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest, Entertainment; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Media & entertainment
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Taj Enlighten Film Society Presents Documentary Film Festival
Presented by 'Brooke Bond Taj Mahal'- 'The Documentary Film Festival' would be Held at Cinemax and Metro Big Cinemas from 4th October -25th October
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- Brooke Bond Taj Mahal presents Documentary Film Festival at Taj Enlighten film Society. The Documentary Film Festival' would be held at Cinemax and Metro Big Cinemas from 4th October - 25th October.
'Flow' is the first film of the festival. Shekhar Kapur shared on his blog - "For those of you that have not heard of Irena Salina, look out for her name. She has just made a terrifying, informative, well researched documentary on the future of fresh Water resources on our Planet."
The other film is 'War and Peace'-arguably the best documentary India has ever produced. Filmmaker Anand Patwardhan would be present to discuss 'War and Peace' with the audiences at the Taj Enlighten Film Society.
Anand Patwardhan says that "I am excited by the decision by the Taj Enlighten Film Society to begin screening documentaries and am honored that our "War and Peace" will flag this off next month. Taj Enlighten has already brought us some world classics in fiction and extending this to the documentary is an idea whose time has come. Already in the West people like Michael Moore have proved that the documentary can be as exciting, entertaining and perhaps even more important than fiction and I see no reason why the Indian public, once exposed, will think otherwise."
A workshop on documentary filmmaking would be conducted and newer filmmakers would also be given a platform to make and screen their documentaries during the festival.
"Our association with Enlighten Film Society resonates our spirit of excellence: we at Taj Enlighten Society offer a platform to the best in the world of cinema," said Arun Srinivas, Category Head - Beverages, HUL.
There are two other films that are going to be screened at the Festival. One of them is the Award winning film One Crazy Ride made by Gaurav Jani about a motorcycle expedition on uncharted roads across the Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh, situated in North-east India. Rakesh Sharma's controversial film 'Final Solution' is also part of the festival.
About Taj:
HUL is India's largest Fast Moving Consumer Goods Company, touching the lives of two out of three Indians. HUL's mission is to "add vitality to life" through its presence in over 20 distinct categories in Home & Personal Care Products and Foods & Beverages. The company meets everyday needs for nutrition, hygiene, and personal care, with brands that help people feel good, look good and get more out of life. For more information visit www.hul.co.in
About Enlighten:
Enlighten Society is India's biggest film society and a cultural NGO dedicated to spreading world cinema. Enlighten Film Society curates world class film festival in India is associated with International festivals across the world. For more information visit www.enlighten.co.in
CONTACT DETAILS
Tanvi Shah, Taj Enlighten Film Society, +91 9870090105, tanvishah@enlighten.co.in
KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, ENTERTAINMENT, MARKETING, MEDIA
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Source: Taj Enlighten Film Society
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 11:50 AM IST (06:20 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest, Entertainment; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Media & entertainment
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Taj Enlighten Film Society Presents Documentary Film Festival
Presented by 'Brooke Bond Taj Mahal'- 'The Documentary Film Festival' would be Held at Cinemax and Metro Big Cinemas from 4th October -25th October
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- Brooke Bond Taj Mahal presents Documentary Film Festival at Taj Enlighten film Society. The Documentary Film Festival' would be held at Cinemax and Metro Big Cinemas from 4th October - 25th October.
'Flow' is the first film of the festival. Shekhar Kapur shared on his blog - "For those of you that have not heard of Irena Salina, look out for her name. She has just made a terrifying, informative, well researched documentary on the future of fresh Water resources on our Planet."
The other film is 'War and Peace'-arguably the best documentary India has ever produced. Filmmaker Anand Patwardhan would be present to discuss 'War and Peace' with the audiences at the Taj Enlighten Film Society.
Anand Patwardhan says that "I am excited by the decision by the Taj Enlighten Film Society to begin screening documentaries and am honored that our "War and Peace" will flag this off next month. Taj Enlighten has already brought us some world classics in fiction and extending this to the documentary is an idea whose time has come. Already in the West people like Michael Moore have proved that the documentary can be as exciting, entertaining and perhaps even more important than fiction and I see no reason why the Indian public, once exposed, will think otherwise."
A workshop on documentary filmmaking would be conducted and newer filmmakers would also be given a platform to make and screen their documentaries during the festival.
"Our association with Enlighten Film Society resonates our spirit of excellence: we at Taj Enlighten Society offer a platform to the best in the world of cinema," said Arun Srinivas, Category Head - Beverages, HUL.
There are two other films that are going to be screened at the Festival. One of them is the Award winning film One Crazy Ride made by Gaurav Jani about a motorcycle expedition on uncharted roads across the Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh, situated in North-east India. Rakesh Sharma's controversial film 'Final Solution' is also part of the festival.
About Taj:
HUL is India's largest Fast Moving Consumer Goods Company, touching the lives of two out of three Indians. HUL's mission is to "add vitality to life" through its presence in over 20 distinct categories in Home & Personal Care Products and Foods & Beverages. The company meets everyday needs for nutrition, hygiene, and personal care, with brands that help people feel good, look good and get more out of life. For more information visit www.hul.co.in
About Enlighten:
Enlighten Society is India's biggest film society and a cultural NGO dedicated to spreading world cinema. Enlighten Film Society curates world class film festival in India is associated with International festivals across the world. For more information visit www.enlighten.co.in
CONTACT DETAILS
Tanvi Shah, Taj Enlighten Film Society, +91 9870090105, tanvishah@enlighten.co.in
KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, ENTERTAINMENT, MARKETING, MEDIA
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BWI: Software Magazine Ranks Proteans Software as one of the World’s Largest Software Companies
Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Proteans Software Solutions
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:00 AM IST (04:30 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Information technology, Media & entertainment, Publishing & printing; Technology
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Software Magazine Ranks Proteans Software as one of the World's Largest Software Companies
Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- Proteans today announced its inclusion on the Software Magazine's Software 500 ranking of the world's largest software and service providers, now in its 27th year.
Proteans participating for the first time in this survey was ranked 461, with an impressive growth rate of 62.7%.
"This ranking as one of the World's largest Software Companies raises the bar on Proteans capability in the highly competitive outsourced product development space to deliver consistently on customer's objectives and drive revenues," says Sudhakar Gorti, CEO of Proteans Software Solutions.
"The 2009 Software 500 results show that revenue growth in the software and services industry was healthy, with total Software 500 revenue of $491.3 billion worldwide for 2008 representing 8.8% growth from the previous year," says John P. Desmond, editor of Software Magazine and Softwaremag.com.
"The Software 500 helps CIOs, senior IT managers and IT staff research and create the short list of business partners," Desmond says. "It is a quick reference of vendor viability. And the online version to be posted soon at www.Softwaremag.com is searchable by category, making it what we call the online catalog to enterprise software."
The Software 500 is a revenue-based ranking of the world's largest software and services suppliers targeting medium to large enterprises, their IT professionals, software developers and business managers involved in software and services purchasing.
Some 44 percent of the 2009 Software 500 companies are privately held.
The ranking is based on total worldwide software and services revenue for 2008. This includes revenues from software licenses, maintenance and support, training and software-related services and consulting. Suppliers are not ranked on their total corporate revenue, since many have other lines of business, such as hardware. The financial information was gathered by a survey prepared by King Content Co. and posted at www.Softwaremag.com, as well as from public documents.
About Digital Software Magazine, the Software Decision Journal, and Softwaremag.com
Digital Software Magazine, the Software Decision Journal, has been a brand name in the high-tech industry for 30 years. Softwaremag.com, its Web counterpart, is the online catalog to enterprise software and the home of the Software 500 ranking of the world's largest software and services companies. Software Magazine and Softwaremag.com are owned and operated by King Content Co.
Software 500 Contact:
Tracy Kunichika
Software 500 Project Leader
Tracyk@softwaremag.com
About Proteans
Proteans (www.proteans.com) is focused in Outsourced Product Development space catering to R&D organizations of Fortune 1000 companies, software vendors (ISVs), software-as-a-service (SaaS) and internet companies globally. Proteans comes in as a software R&D partner, and delivers architecture, design, development, testing, user interface design, performance engineering, release, and sustenance services, depending on specific customer needs. Proteans utilizes Distributed Agile methods and best practices to deliver value to its customers.
CONTACT DETAILS
Ram Kumar, Proteans Software Solutions Ltd, +91 (80) 67174317, pr@proteans.com
KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, MARKETING, BUSINESS SERVICES, IT, MEDIA, PUBLISHING, TECHNOLOGY
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Source: Proteans Software Solutions
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:00 AM IST (04:30 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Information technology, Media & entertainment, Publishing & printing; Technology
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Software Magazine Ranks Proteans Software as one of the World's Largest Software Companies
Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- Proteans today announced its inclusion on the Software Magazine's Software 500 ranking of the world's largest software and service providers, now in its 27th year.
Proteans participating for the first time in this survey was ranked 461, with an impressive growth rate of 62.7%.
"This ranking as one of the World's largest Software Companies raises the bar on Proteans capability in the highly competitive outsourced product development space to deliver consistently on customer's objectives and drive revenues," says Sudhakar Gorti, CEO of Proteans Software Solutions.
"The 2009 Software 500 results show that revenue growth in the software and services industry was healthy, with total Software 500 revenue of $491.3 billion worldwide for 2008 representing 8.8% growth from the previous year," says John P. Desmond, editor of Software Magazine and Softwaremag.com.
"The Software 500 helps CIOs, senior IT managers and IT staff research and create the short list of business partners," Desmond says. "It is a quick reference of vendor viability. And the online version to be posted soon at www.Softwaremag.com is searchable by category, making it what we call the online catalog to enterprise software."
The Software 500 is a revenue-based ranking of the world's largest software and services suppliers targeting medium to large enterprises, their IT professionals, software developers and business managers involved in software and services purchasing.
Some 44 percent of the 2009 Software 500 companies are privately held.
The ranking is based on total worldwide software and services revenue for 2008. This includes revenues from software licenses, maintenance and support, training and software-related services and consulting. Suppliers are not ranked on their total corporate revenue, since many have other lines of business, such as hardware. The financial information was gathered by a survey prepared by King Content Co. and posted at www.Softwaremag.com, as well as from public documents.
About Digital Software Magazine, the Software Decision Journal, and Softwaremag.com
Digital Software Magazine, the Software Decision Journal, has been a brand name in the high-tech industry for 30 years. Softwaremag.com, its Web counterpart, is the online catalog to enterprise software and the home of the Software 500 ranking of the world's largest software and services companies. Software Magazine and Softwaremag.com are owned and operated by King Content Co.
Software 500 Contact:
Tracy Kunichika
Software 500 Project Leader
Tracyk@softwaremag.com
About Proteans
Proteans (www.proteans.com) is focused in Outsourced Product Development space catering to R&D organizations of Fortune 1000 companies, software vendors (ISVs), software-as-a-service (SaaS) and internet companies globally. Proteans comes in as a software R&D partner, and delivers architecture, design, development, testing, user interface design, performance engineering, release, and sustenance services, depending on specific customer needs. Proteans utilizes Distributed Agile methods and best practices to deliver value to its customers.
CONTACT DETAILS
Ram Kumar, Proteans Software Solutions Ltd, +91 (80) 67174317, pr@proteans.com
KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, MARKETING, BUSINESS SERVICES, IT, MEDIA, PUBLISHING, TECHNOLOGY
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BWI: YOU SCOD18 Rolls out SeaChange Platform for On-Demand TV
Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Business Wire
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:41 AM IST (05:11 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Entertainment; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Electronic appliances & components, Information technology, Telecommunications; Technology
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(BW)(MA-SEACHANGE)(SEAC)YOU SCOD18 Rolls out SeaChange Platform for On-Demand TV
YOU Multiplex Digital Cable Offering Debuts with 3,000 Hours of Movies and TV Shows
Acton, Massachusetts, United States and Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) --
CONTACT DETAILS
CONTACTS :
SeaChange PR
Jim Sheehan, 1-978-897-0100 x3064
jim.sheehan@schange.com
or
SeaChange IR
Martha Schaefer, 1-978-897-0100 x3030
martha.schaefer@schange.com
KEYWORDS
ENTERTAINMENT, MARKETING, ELECTRONICS, IT, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TECHNOLOGY
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Source: Business Wire
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:41 AM IST (05:11 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Entertainment; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Electronic appliances & components, Information technology, Telecommunications; Technology
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(BW)(MA-SEACHANGE)(SEAC)YOU SCOD18 Rolls out SeaChange Platform for On-Demand TV
YOU Multiplex Digital Cable Offering Debuts with 3,000 Hours of Movies and TV Shows
Acton, Massachusetts, United States and Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) --
One of India's largest ISPs YOU Telecom has debuted its digital cable television service featuring world-class on-demand offerings based on software and servers from SeaChange International (Nasdaq: SEAC). Dubbed YOU Multiplex, the on-demand entertainment service is available to YOU SCOD18 subscribers in Mumbai and will be introduced in Bangalore and Vizag later this year, ultimately reaching more than two million viewers amid one of Asia Pacific's fastest growing digital cable television markets*.
Consisting of 3,000 hours of domestic and international action, romance, drama, comedy and classic movie titles, YOU Multiplex leverages the Scheduled TV content management platform from SeaChange, the company responsible for delivering billions of on-demand streams annually for cable and IPTV operators across Asia Pacific and the world.
"We wanted our cable television venture to come out of the gate with services that easily matched or eclipsed the incumbent offering, and SeaChange afforded us the strategic ability to compete for consumers' on-demand desires," said E.V.S. Chakravarthy, CEO, YOU Telecom. "Not only are we launching a unique service with YOU Multiplex, but the scalability of the SeaChange platform is allowing us to do so market-by-market in a controlled manner. YOU Multiplex introduces a high-quality experience for consumers and gives the stakeholders a secure and profitable venue for their content."
"SeaChange is pleased that YOU Telecom is joining the growing ranks of cable and IPTV operators in Asia Pacific who are switching on VOD," said Lincoln Owens, director of broadband, Asia Pacific, SeaChange. "India in particular is a very promising digital television market that's highly competitive and fragmented, making on-demand a powerful differentiator in the battle to attract subscribers and reduce churn."
Television companies have been on-air with SeaChange solutions for more than 10 years in India. The Company is dedicated to supporting the special requirements of the region's television industry and applying its unique resources towards developing digital tier opportunities in IPTV, on-demand and advertising. SeaChange's India team has offices in Mumbai and Delhi and leverages SeaChange support and product development facilities across Asia. SCaT India demonstrations (Oct. 7-9, Mumbai) in SeaChange booth A-1b will feature on-demand and advertising systems and applications deployed by YOU Telecom and other cable and IPTV operators across India.
About YOU Telecom
YOU Telecom is a category 'A' ISP and India's first ISO accredited broadband service provider. One of the leading independent ISPs in India, YOU offers high speed Internet, voice and video services through cable modem platform to residential, SME and corporate customers in 11 cities. As a part of its growth plans, YOU is rapidly expanding its presence in other cities across the country.
YOU Telecom forayed into digital cable business in early 2008 and its services are available in Mumbai, Bangalore, Vizag and Dharwad. In Mumbai, YOU formed a JV with a consortium of cable distributors called SCOD18. YOU-SCOD18, the new entity is a multi service operator (MSO), which consolidated cable operators in the metropolis. YOU currently offers video services to a large number of homes in the four operational cities. For more information visit www.youtele.com.
About SeaChange
SeaChange International is a leading provider of software applications, services and integrated solutions for video-on-demand (VOD), digital advertising, and content acquisition monetization and management. Its powerful open VOD and advertising software and scaleable hardware enable cable and telco operators, as well as broadcasters, to provide new on-demand services and to gain greater efficiencies in advertising and content delivery. With its Emmy Award-winning and patented technology, thousands of SeaChange deployments are helping broadband, broadcast and satellite television companies to streamline operations, expand services and increase revenues. Headquartered in Acton, Massachusetts, SeaChange has product development, support and sales offices around the world.
* SNL Kagan forecasts India's digital cable subscriber growth to increase over 200% to hit 9.3 million by 2014, making it the third-largest market behind China and South Korea.
CONTACT DETAILS
CONTACTS :
SeaChange PR
Jim Sheehan, 1-978-897-0100 x3064
jim.sheehan@schange.com
or
SeaChange IR
Martha Schaefer, 1-978-897-0100 x3030
martha.schaefer@schange.com
KEYWORDS
ENTERTAINMENT, MARKETING, ELECTRONICS, IT, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TECHNOLOGY
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BWI: Stella Artois World Draught Master Comes to India
Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Stella Artois
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 06:07 PM IST (12:37 PM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest, Entertainment, Food & drink; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Media & entertainment
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Stella Artois World Draught Master Comes to India
The Search is On for the Next World Draught Master Culminates in a Dramatic New York City Final
New Delhi, Delhi, India, Tuesday, September 29, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- Imagine a battle royale of the best bartenders from around the world sans their jugular acts or fire antics! It is quite hard to believe but that's what Stella Artois World Draught Master competition is all about. Started in 1987, it is the only bartending competition in the world that involves some of the biggest names from behind the bar demonstrating the art of pouring the perfect Stella Artois.
In towns and cities around the world, the 13th annual search for the Stella Artois World Draught Master has begun. A record number of bartenders from more than 32 countries will compete in this year's competition, striving to complete the time honoured Stella Artois 9-Step Pouring Ritual to perfection. The competition's final will culminate in one of New York's most iconic buildings on 5th Avenue: The New York Public Library.
For the first time in the competition's history, Stella Artois connoisseurs of India will be able to participate the competition. The participants could register via a ground-breaking digital application: "My Quest." Housed on the World Draught Master website, "My Quest" will enable entrants to capture and share their own personal takes on perfection by uploading photographs that epitomise perfection from a selection of contemporary categories, ranging from design to sport to film.
One lucky winner from India will be selected to compete against the world's best bartenders in the dramatic final event in New York.
After 12 annual World Draught Master Competitions, the contest continues to evolve as it grows in success and stature. This year, New York Fashion Designer Tim Hamilton, winner of the 2009 Swarovski CFDA Menswear designer of the year award, has been commissioned to create a unique trophy that embodies the ideals of the competition. Hamilton's passion for perfection in craftsmanship echoes the Stella Artois dedication to quality and superior beer experiences, making him the ideal partner for the brand. Hamilton will also create a limited edition Chalice glass, the brand's iconic glassware which is integral to the perfect experience of a Stella Artois®.
About the 9 step pouring ritual
The 9 step pouring ritual starts with the "purification" of the special Stella chalice which is cleaned and rinsed in a unique manner. Then comes the ritual of "sacrifice", which involves opening the tap in one quick action and letting the first few drops of beer flow away. This is followed by the "art of alchemy" in which the bartender holds the just under the tap at a 45 degree angle without touching the tap. With "the head", one lowers the glass to allow the natural formation of the foam head. With "removal", the bartender closes the tap quickly and moves the glass away so beer doesn't dip in the glass. While the head foams up and overflows the side of the glass, "the beheading" of the foam takes place smoothly and gently with a head cutter. Then comes "the judgement", where the perfect call is taken for the amount of foam in the chalice, which is about 2 fingers. Then comes the "cleansing" bit, where the bottom and the sides of the glass are cleaned properly. The final "bestowal" is the presentation of the perfect Stella Artois on a clean beer coaster with the logo facing the consumer.
HISTORY
It all began in the Belgian city of Leuven with a brewery called Den Horen (The Horn) and a fine brewing tradition dating back to 1366. In 1717, master brewer Sebastian Artois purchased the brewery and now over 600 years later Stella Artois is the number 1 Belgian beer in the world and present in over 80 countries. For the past 12 years Stella Artois has searched continents to bring the best bartenders together to compete and prove themselves in the 9-Step Pouring Ritual, demonstrating their dedication to the craft in order to be crowned World Draught Master.
About Stella Artois
Stella Artois® is part of a Belgian brewing tradition dating back to 1366. It is the number one Belgian beer in the world and is present in over 80 countries. Stella Artois® is a bottom filtered, blonde pilsner. It is thirst quenching with a malty middle and crisp finish delivering a full flavour and a hint of bitterness. Stella Artois® is best enjoyed served between 3 and 5 degree Celsius and should be served in the unique Stella Artois® Chalice Glass according to the 9 Step Pouring Ritual to guarantee a perfect experience of this gold standard lager.
CONTACT DETAILS
Manisha Chaudhry, Precision PR & Media, +91 9899797810, manisha@precisionpr.org
KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, ENTERTAINMENT, FOOD, MARKETING, MEDIA
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Source: Stella Artois
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 06:07 PM IST (12:37 PM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest, Entertainment, Food & drink; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Media & entertainment
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Stella Artois World Draught Master Comes to India
The Search is On for the Next World Draught Master Culminates in a Dramatic New York City Final
New Delhi, Delhi, India, Tuesday, September 29, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- Imagine a battle royale of the best bartenders from around the world sans their jugular acts or fire antics! It is quite hard to believe but that's what Stella Artois World Draught Master competition is all about. Started in 1987, it is the only bartending competition in the world that involves some of the biggest names from behind the bar demonstrating the art of pouring the perfect Stella Artois.
In towns and cities around the world, the 13th annual search for the Stella Artois World Draught Master has begun. A record number of bartenders from more than 32 countries will compete in this year's competition, striving to complete the time honoured Stella Artois 9-Step Pouring Ritual to perfection. The competition's final will culminate in one of New York's most iconic buildings on 5th Avenue: The New York Public Library.
For the first time in the competition's history, Stella Artois connoisseurs of India will be able to participate the competition. The participants could register via a ground-breaking digital application: "My Quest." Housed on the World Draught Master website, "My Quest" will enable entrants to capture and share their own personal takes on perfection by uploading photographs that epitomise perfection from a selection of contemporary categories, ranging from design to sport to film.
One lucky winner from India will be selected to compete against the world's best bartenders in the dramatic final event in New York.
After 12 annual World Draught Master Competitions, the contest continues to evolve as it grows in success and stature. This year, New York Fashion Designer Tim Hamilton, winner of the 2009 Swarovski CFDA Menswear designer of the year award, has been commissioned to create a unique trophy that embodies the ideals of the competition. Hamilton's passion for perfection in craftsmanship echoes the Stella Artois dedication to quality and superior beer experiences, making him the ideal partner for the brand. Hamilton will also create a limited edition Chalice glass, the brand's iconic glassware which is integral to the perfect experience of a Stella Artois®.
About the 9 step pouring ritual
The 9 step pouring ritual starts with the "purification" of the special Stella chalice which is cleaned and rinsed in a unique manner. Then comes the ritual of "sacrifice", which involves opening the tap in one quick action and letting the first few drops of beer flow away. This is followed by the "art of alchemy" in which the bartender holds the just under the tap at a 45 degree angle without touching the tap. With "the head", one lowers the glass to allow the natural formation of the foam head. With "removal", the bartender closes the tap quickly and moves the glass away so beer doesn't dip in the glass. While the head foams up and overflows the side of the glass, "the beheading" of the foam takes place smoothly and gently with a head cutter. Then comes "the judgement", where the perfect call is taken for the amount of foam in the chalice, which is about 2 fingers. Then comes the "cleansing" bit, where the bottom and the sides of the glass are cleaned properly. The final "bestowal" is the presentation of the perfect Stella Artois on a clean beer coaster with the logo facing the consumer.
HISTORY
It all began in the Belgian city of Leuven with a brewery called Den Horen (The Horn) and a fine brewing tradition dating back to 1366. In 1717, master brewer Sebastian Artois purchased the brewery and now over 600 years later Stella Artois is the number 1 Belgian beer in the world and present in over 80 countries. For the past 12 years Stella Artois has searched continents to bring the best bartenders together to compete and prove themselves in the 9-Step Pouring Ritual, demonstrating their dedication to the craft in order to be crowned World Draught Master.
About Stella Artois
Stella Artois® is part of a Belgian brewing tradition dating back to 1366. It is the number one Belgian beer in the world and is present in over 80 countries. Stella Artois® is a bottom filtered, blonde pilsner. It is thirst quenching with a malty middle and crisp finish delivering a full flavour and a hint of bitterness. Stella Artois® is best enjoyed served between 3 and 5 degree Celsius and should be served in the unique Stella Artois® Chalice Glass according to the 9 Step Pouring Ritual to guarantee a perfect experience of this gold standard lager.
CONTACT DETAILS
Manisha Chaudhry, Precision PR & Media, +91 9899797810, manisha@precisionpr.org
KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, ENTERTAINMENT, FOOD, MARKETING, MEDIA
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BWI: Endeavour Software Technologies and Gasshead Collaborate to Develop Anesthesia Clinical Tutor & calculator (ACTc)
Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Endeavour Software Technologies
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 04:09 PM IST (10:39 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Healthcare, biotechnology & pharmaceutical, Information technology, Telecommunications; Technology; Healthcare
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Endeavour Software Technologies and Gasshead Collaborate to Develop Anesthesia Clinical Tutor & calculator (ACTc)
Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Tuesday, September 29, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- -- To better manage workflow through ACTc
-- ACTc, a primary reference tool, used by all clinicians
Endeavour Software Technologies, a leading Enterprise Mobile Consulting and mobile application/product development services provider, today announced their collaboration with Gasshead for the development of Anesthesia Clinical Tutor and Calculator (ACTc). This tool will enable clinicians to understand the multiple nuances of anesthesia sciences, to improve workflow, to make educated decisions and to become better clinicians.
This mobile application bridges the gap between clinical anesthesia and reference books and practical functioning. This application on Windows Mobile and Palm simplifies and guides the anesthetists by assembling easy to use interactive tools, performs all complex calculations and gives instant results with guided explanations to ensure coverage of critical points.
Endeavour helped with higher level of coding and support and Version 3.0, the first commercial version of this software was launched. ACTc is a primarily an anesthesia learning tool. Its appeal is that it not only deals in fundamentals of anesthesia learning, but also helps to assimilate more advance considerations. In next version, a great emphasis will be placed on increasing understanding via graphical tools and improved tools to enhance work flow and data retrieval with an added benefit of Clinical Networking. To further the educational experience of ACTc, this new feature will provide clinicians with the ability to share case knowledge, provide feedback on other clinician's case management, and ask detailed anesthesia related questions.
"We are very excited to be associated with Gasshead and provide support to their vision of using handheld devices to harness medical knowledge & thus become information driven enterprise." said Mr. Manish Garg, COO, Endeavour Software Technologies. "Learning the art of anesthesia requires a solid understanding of the science of Anesthesia. While in training, practitioners are easily impressed by the breadth of information they must master. ACTc helps simplify and guide this task by assembling easy to use, interactive tools performing all complex calculations giving instant results with guided explanations to ensure teaching of critical points." He added further.
Speaking on this occasion, Anthony Young, CEO, Gasshead said, "We are very excited at this partnership with Endeavour as they completely understand the dynamics of our industry and are thus uniquely positioned to address those needs effectively. We found them to be extremely professional & meticulous." Our demand of attention to detail matches Endeavour's desire to satisfy their clients' high expectations. Hence, we have worked with them exclusively in order to provide a product of the highest caliber.
ACTc helps patient with their data to set up screen and Case Fluid/ Drug Customizer. Inhalation screens and MAC calculators for age, temperature, time constants (Context Sensitive Decrement Times), MAC multiples, MH (Malignant Hyperthermia) - approved by US and Canadian MH Associations, Adult and pediatric drug databases plus drip calculator, Fluid requirements calculator, Vital statistic page (pediatrics), Regional anatomical Images - Spinal and epidural guides, Local anesthetic information, Regional opiates information. Blood and resuscitation calculators, and Calculation database with complete reference & recommended readings.
This will help in migration of the product to a web based format for available access for any device with internet access. Not only will this appeal to larger groups but enable up to date changes of the program and data, current and timely communication mediums, and decrease need for individual resident program development. It has greater emphasis on graphical presentation to enhance understanding and incorporate greater case planning.
Our goal is to work toward ACTc being the primary clinical anesthesia tool/reference used by all clinicians.
About Endeavour Software Technologies
Endeavour Software Technologies, a ISO 9001-2000 certified company founded in 2002 by a group of five people, four out of which found IIT-Kanpur as their common ground while pursuing engineering degree, the fifth member joining the venture as a co-founder when the team realized the aspirations and dreams being shared across all five individuals. Endeavour as a company provides niche services on Enterprise Mobile Consulting and mobile application/product development services. It helps conceptualizing and enabling a Mobile Strategy to its clients. It also Analyze customer's mobility landscape, Recommend a mobility roadmap and Execute around mobile solution development.
It helps its customers make sense of the plethora of choices in the handheld technology space and the Mobile Phones/PDAs market, crystallize solution requirements, select appropriate hardware and design, build, test and roll out industry strength mobile-hand-held solutions. It helps extend the wired application to the wireless space. Over the last 6 years it has providing cutting edge solutions to global businesses out of its development center in Bangalore and offices at London & Austin. Over last six years Endeavour has served its customers in different verticals such as Manufacturing, Retail, Market Research, Healthcare, Insurance, and Banking.
For more information on Endeavour, please visit http://www.techendeavour.com.
About Gasshead
Gasshead.com started on a grass roots level to build clinical tools for the anesthesia professional. Built by clinicians for clinicians, Anesthesia Clinical Tutor & Calculator (ACTc) bridges the gap between clinical anesthesia reference books (converted to a PDA format) and practical functioning software. Its current goal is to improve and provide this information across multiple platforms with its current iPhone release.
ACTc is a product of the efforts of anesthesia providers from several countries. ACTc is a collection of common and uncommon tools that anesthetists have used in developing their own clinical practice. It not only presents valuable anesthetic focused information, but also shows the process used in generating that information.
ACTc never stops growing and evolving meeting Gasshead's goal in bringing theory to Life.
CONTACT DETAILS
Preeti Gupta, Pragma Communication, +91 9448905196, +91 (80) 25725741, preeti@pragmacommunication.com
KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, MARKETING, BUSINESS SERVICES, HEALTHCARE, IT, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TECHNOLOGY, HEALTHCARE
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Source: Endeavour Software Technologies
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 04:09 PM IST (10:39 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Healthcare, biotechnology & pharmaceutical, Information technology, Telecommunications; Technology; Healthcare
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Endeavour Software Technologies and Gasshead Collaborate to Develop Anesthesia Clinical Tutor & calculator (ACTc)
Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Tuesday, September 29, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- -- To better manage workflow through ACTc
-- ACTc, a primary reference tool, used by all clinicians
Endeavour Software Technologies, a leading Enterprise Mobile Consulting and mobile application/product development services provider, today announced their collaboration with Gasshead for the development of Anesthesia Clinical Tutor and Calculator (ACTc). This tool will enable clinicians to understand the multiple nuances of anesthesia sciences, to improve workflow, to make educated decisions and to become better clinicians.
This mobile application bridges the gap between clinical anesthesia and reference books and practical functioning. This application on Windows Mobile and Palm simplifies and guides the anesthetists by assembling easy to use interactive tools, performs all complex calculations and gives instant results with guided explanations to ensure coverage of critical points.
Endeavour helped with higher level of coding and support and Version 3.0, the first commercial version of this software was launched. ACTc is a primarily an anesthesia learning tool. Its appeal is that it not only deals in fundamentals of anesthesia learning, but also helps to assimilate more advance considerations. In next version, a great emphasis will be placed on increasing understanding via graphical tools and improved tools to enhance work flow and data retrieval with an added benefit of Clinical Networking. To further the educational experience of ACTc, this new feature will provide clinicians with the ability to share case knowledge, provide feedback on other clinician's case management, and ask detailed anesthesia related questions.
"We are very excited to be associated with Gasshead and provide support to their vision of using handheld devices to harness medical knowledge & thus become information driven enterprise." said Mr. Manish Garg, COO, Endeavour Software Technologies. "Learning the art of anesthesia requires a solid understanding of the science of Anesthesia. While in training, practitioners are easily impressed by the breadth of information they must master. ACTc helps simplify and guide this task by assembling easy to use, interactive tools performing all complex calculations giving instant results with guided explanations to ensure teaching of critical points." He added further.
Speaking on this occasion, Anthony Young, CEO, Gasshead said, "We are very excited at this partnership with Endeavour as they completely understand the dynamics of our industry and are thus uniquely positioned to address those needs effectively. We found them to be extremely professional & meticulous." Our demand of attention to detail matches Endeavour's desire to satisfy their clients' high expectations. Hence, we have worked with them exclusively in order to provide a product of the highest caliber.
ACTc helps patient with their data to set up screen and Case Fluid/ Drug Customizer. Inhalation screens and MAC calculators for age, temperature, time constants (Context Sensitive Decrement Times), MAC multiples, MH (Malignant Hyperthermia) - approved by US and Canadian MH Associations, Adult and pediatric drug databases plus drip calculator, Fluid requirements calculator, Vital statistic page (pediatrics), Regional anatomical Images - Spinal and epidural guides, Local anesthetic information, Regional opiates information. Blood and resuscitation calculators, and Calculation database with complete reference & recommended readings.
This will help in migration of the product to a web based format for available access for any device with internet access. Not only will this appeal to larger groups but enable up to date changes of the program and data, current and timely communication mediums, and decrease need for individual resident program development. It has greater emphasis on graphical presentation to enhance understanding and incorporate greater case planning.
Our goal is to work toward ACTc being the primary clinical anesthesia tool/reference used by all clinicians.
About Endeavour Software Technologies
Endeavour Software Technologies, a ISO 9001-2000 certified company founded in 2002 by a group of five people, four out of which found IIT-Kanpur as their common ground while pursuing engineering degree, the fifth member joining the venture as a co-founder when the team realized the aspirations and dreams being shared across all five individuals. Endeavour as a company provides niche services on Enterprise Mobile Consulting and mobile application/product development services. It helps conceptualizing and enabling a Mobile Strategy to its clients. It also Analyze customer's mobility landscape, Recommend a mobility roadmap and Execute around mobile solution development.
It helps its customers make sense of the plethora of choices in the handheld technology space and the Mobile Phones/PDAs market, crystallize solution requirements, select appropriate hardware and design, build, test and roll out industry strength mobile-hand-held solutions. It helps extend the wired application to the wireless space. Over the last 6 years it has providing cutting edge solutions to global businesses out of its development center in Bangalore and offices at London & Austin. Over last six years Endeavour has served its customers in different verticals such as Manufacturing, Retail, Market Research, Healthcare, Insurance, and Banking.
For more information on Endeavour, please visit http://www.techendeavour.com.
About Gasshead
Gasshead.com started on a grass roots level to build clinical tools for the anesthesia professional. Built by clinicians for clinicians, Anesthesia Clinical Tutor & Calculator (ACTc) bridges the gap between clinical anesthesia reference books (converted to a PDA format) and practical functioning software. Its current goal is to improve and provide this information across multiple platforms with its current iPhone release.
ACTc is a product of the efforts of anesthesia providers from several countries. ACTc is a collection of common and uncommon tools that anesthetists have used in developing their own clinical practice. It not only presents valuable anesthetic focused information, but also shows the process used in generating that information.
ACTc never stops growing and evolving meeting Gasshead's goal in bringing theory to Life.
CONTACT DETAILS
Preeti Gupta, Pragma Communication, +91 9448905196, +91 (80) 25725741, preeti@pragmacommunication.com
KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, MARKETING, BUSINESS SERVICES, HEALTHCARE, IT, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TECHNOLOGY, HEALTHCARE
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BWI: Sabse Technologies Inc. Acquires Mobivox for its Robust Voice-Activated Services Platform
Press release from Business Wire India
Source: SabSe Technologies Inc.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 03:41 PM IST (10:11 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Information technology, Telecommunications; Technology
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Sabse Technologies Inc. Acquires Mobivox for its Robust Voice-Activated Services Platform
Entrepreneurial VoIP Firm to Add Mobivox Voice-User Interface to its Telephony-as-a-Service (TAAS) Platform for Operators
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Tuesday, September 29, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- Sabse Technologies Inc., an innovative Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Services Company, today announced it is acquiring Montreal-based Mobivox for its market leading voice-activated services and solutions platform.
The acquisition, coming only two months after its acquisition of Jaxtr, will enable Sabse's global network of carrier partners to rapidly deploy voice-activated services to their customers.
Sabse Technologies is led by entrepreneurs Yogesh Patel, who serves as CEO, and Sabeer Bhatia, its Chairman. The company has combined a robust infrastructure and enhanced voice services set - including mobile VoIP, Hosted PBX and audio conferencing - into a market-leading telephony-as-a-service (TAAS) platform that its partners around the world are deploying to improve ARPU and customer retention.
Eric Reiher, who founded Mobivox in 2005, said: "We're very proud that Sabse Technologies values so highly the voice-services-development environment we've carefully nurtured. We look forward to working closely with Yogesh and his team to bring voice-activated services to carriers and theirs customers around the world."
The Mobivox platform and patent portfolio adds to Sabse's offering by providing a proven voice- interface-programming language, in-the-cloud contact book storage along with network-agnostic telephony integration. Additionally, Mobivox brings a very deep team of speech developers that combined bring more than 100 years of expertise. The Mobivox Voice User Interface (VUI), available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese languages, is used by partners around the world.
Patel, who co-founded Sabse in 2007 and holds many patents himself, views the Mobivox VUI as the superior platform to VoiceXML and CCXML. He added "Our carrier partners have already deployed Sabse's TAAS platform and demonstrated repeated interest in bringing to market VUI-powered services."
Sophie Forest of BrightSpark, one of the earliest venture-capital backers of Mobivox, said: "It's gratifying to see that Mobivox accomplished so many of its goals from day one. Mobivox changed the way people thought of VoIP, with the help of its easy-to-use, natural speech interface. We're excited that our efforts have been recognized by two very successful international entrepreneurs like Yogesh and Sabeer."
Sabeer, co-founder of Hotmail' added, "Using Mobivox's phone to Skype combined with Jaxtr's free telephony platform, Sabse is on a fast track to become the largest free telephony provider from mobile to mobile and mobile to IM in the world."
About SabSe Technologies Inc.
Based in Mountain View, CA, SabSe Technologies was co-founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Yogesh Patel. SabSe's Telelphony-as-a-Service (TAAS) platform enables its carrier partners to deploy innovative consumer and small business applications around the world. Sabse operates two brands: Sabsebolo.com (audio conferencing, hosted PBX, fax-to-email) and Jaxtr.com (the world's leading free telephony provider).
About Mobivox
Mobivox provides its partners and customers a host of voice-activated mobile value-added services, including worldwide inbound and outbound calling, group communication and voice-to-text services. Its voice-activated mobile services platform seamlessly combines an optimized voice user interface; rich "in-the-cloud" contact storage; and a comprehensive, network-agnostic telephony infrastructure. Carriers and communities alike rebrand and resell these services to enhance revenue generation and user retention, while leverage existing investments in contact or customer databases, and in proprietary networks.
CONTACT DETAILS
Archana Pradhan, Sampark PR, +91 9820330505, archana.pradhan@sampark.com, archana.sampark@gmail.com
KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, MARKETING, BUSINESS SERVICES, IT, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TECHNOLOGY
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Source: SabSe Technologies Inc.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 03:41 PM IST (10:11 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Information technology, Telecommunications; Technology
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Sabse Technologies Inc. Acquires Mobivox for its Robust Voice-Activated Services Platform
Entrepreneurial VoIP Firm to Add Mobivox Voice-User Interface to its Telephony-as-a-Service (TAAS) Platform for Operators
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Tuesday, September 29, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- Sabse Technologies Inc., an innovative Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Services Company, today announced it is acquiring Montreal-based Mobivox for its market leading voice-activated services and solutions platform.
The acquisition, coming only two months after its acquisition of Jaxtr, will enable Sabse's global network of carrier partners to rapidly deploy voice-activated services to their customers.
Sabse Technologies is led by entrepreneurs Yogesh Patel, who serves as CEO, and Sabeer Bhatia, its Chairman. The company has combined a robust infrastructure and enhanced voice services set - including mobile VoIP, Hosted PBX and audio conferencing - into a market-leading telephony-as-a-service (TAAS) platform that its partners around the world are deploying to improve ARPU and customer retention.
Eric Reiher, who founded Mobivox in 2005, said: "We're very proud that Sabse Technologies values so highly the voice-services-development environment we've carefully nurtured. We look forward to working closely with Yogesh and his team to bring voice-activated services to carriers and theirs customers around the world."
The Mobivox platform and patent portfolio adds to Sabse's offering by providing a proven voice- interface-programming language, in-the-cloud contact book storage along with network-agnostic telephony integration. Additionally, Mobivox brings a very deep team of speech developers that combined bring more than 100 years of expertise. The Mobivox Voice User Interface (VUI), available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese languages, is used by partners around the world.
Patel, who co-founded Sabse in 2007 and holds many patents himself, views the Mobivox VUI as the superior platform to VoiceXML and CCXML. He added "Our carrier partners have already deployed Sabse's TAAS platform and demonstrated repeated interest in bringing to market VUI-powered services."
Sophie Forest of BrightSpark, one of the earliest venture-capital backers of Mobivox, said: "It's gratifying to see that Mobivox accomplished so many of its goals from day one. Mobivox changed the way people thought of VoIP, with the help of its easy-to-use, natural speech interface. We're excited that our efforts have been recognized by two very successful international entrepreneurs like Yogesh and Sabeer."
Sabeer, co-founder of Hotmail' added, "Using Mobivox's phone to Skype combined with Jaxtr's free telephony platform, Sabse is on a fast track to become the largest free telephony provider from mobile to mobile and mobile to IM in the world."
About SabSe Technologies Inc.
Based in Mountain View, CA, SabSe Technologies was co-founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Yogesh Patel. SabSe's Telelphony-as-a-Service (TAAS) platform enables its carrier partners to deploy innovative consumer and small business applications around the world. Sabse operates two brands: Sabsebolo.com (audio conferencing, hosted PBX, fax-to-email) and Jaxtr.com (the world's leading free telephony provider).
About Mobivox
Mobivox provides its partners and customers a host of voice-activated mobile value-added services, including worldwide inbound and outbound calling, group communication and voice-to-text services. Its voice-activated mobile services platform seamlessly combines an optimized voice user interface; rich "in-the-cloud" contact storage; and a comprehensive, network-agnostic telephony infrastructure. Carriers and communities alike rebrand and resell these services to enhance revenue generation and user retention, while leverage existing investments in contact or customer databases, and in proprietary networks.
CONTACT DETAILS
Archana Pradhan, Sampark PR, +91 9820330505, archana.pradhan@sampark.com, archana.sampark@gmail.com
KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, MARKETING, BUSINESS SERVICES, IT, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TECHNOLOGY
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BWI: Novosales.com, World’s First Virtual Business Desktop to Power SMEs in India
Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Novoally Software
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 02:45 PM IST (09:15 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Information technology; Technology
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Novosales.com, World's First Virtual Business Desktop to Power SMEs in India
New Delhi, Delhi, India, Tuesday, September 29, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- In a world's first of its type, Novoally Software launches a virtual computer, which lives on the internet and provides a desktop for all the business computing needs of Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs). This system, which opens via a web-browser, empowers businesses with the power of full-fledged enterprise computing, at a fraction of the costs and without the need of any server or expensive hardware/software. The company also offers Novoquick.com, which is a free version for small and new businesses.
As personal computers come with pre-installed programs, this online business computer comes with programs to manage sales, purchase, inventory, manufacturing, accounts, reporting etc. The system leverages any-time convenience of internet allowing users to securely access their business data from anywhere in the world. The access is secured by 256 bit SSL, the most powerful encryption commercially available today.
As the servers reside at Novoally Software's data-centers, the business owners are finally freed of the hassles of buying and maintaining expensive server hardware and software. With this system, all that's needed is a web-browser & an internet connection, and any business can become future ready in a fraction of time and cost compared to traditional Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions.
"Our motto is to empower Indian SMEs with the same computing depth as any world-class ERP system, allowing them to leverage the power of IT without getting burdened by complexities and cost", says Gaurav Jain, the company's CEO. For as less as Rs. 666/- per user, the businesses can start reaping the benefits of lean inventory, controlled workflows, enhanced productivity and gain crisp insights into their business.
About Novoally Software:
The company was founded in year 2006, by a group of IITians, with the vision of providing world class business systems, tailored for the special needs of SMB (Small and Medium Business) in Asian markets.
To see more details visit http://www.novoally.com.
CONTACT DETAILS
Viabhav Kumar, President, Business Development, Novoally Software, +91 9891580626, vaibhav@novoally.com
KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, MARKETING, BUSINESS SERVICES, IT, TECHNOLOGY
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Source: Novoally Software
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 02:45 PM IST (09:15 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Information technology; Technology
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Novosales.com, World's First Virtual Business Desktop to Power SMEs in India
New Delhi, Delhi, India, Tuesday, September 29, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- In a world's first of its type, Novoally Software launches a virtual computer, which lives on the internet and provides a desktop for all the business computing needs of Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs). This system, which opens via a web-browser, empowers businesses with the power of full-fledged enterprise computing, at a fraction of the costs and without the need of any server or expensive hardware/software. The company also offers Novoquick.com, which is a free version for small and new businesses.
As personal computers come with pre-installed programs, this online business computer comes with programs to manage sales, purchase, inventory, manufacturing, accounts, reporting etc. The system leverages any-time convenience of internet allowing users to securely access their business data from anywhere in the world. The access is secured by 256 bit SSL, the most powerful encryption commercially available today.
As the servers reside at Novoally Software's data-centers, the business owners are finally freed of the hassles of buying and maintaining expensive server hardware and software. With this system, all that's needed is a web-browser & an internet connection, and any business can become future ready in a fraction of time and cost compared to traditional Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions.
"Our motto is to empower Indian SMEs with the same computing depth as any world-class ERP system, allowing them to leverage the power of IT without getting burdened by complexities and cost", says Gaurav Jain, the company's CEO. For as less as Rs. 666/- per user, the businesses can start reaping the benefits of lean inventory, controlled workflows, enhanced productivity and gain crisp insights into their business.
About Novoally Software:
The company was founded in year 2006, by a group of IITians, with the vision of providing world class business systems, tailored for the special needs of SMB (Small and Medium Business) in Asian markets.
To see more details visit http://www.novoally.com.
CONTACT DETAILS
Viabhav Kumar, President, Business Development, Novoally Software, +91 9891580626, vaibhav@novoally.com
KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, MARKETING, BUSINESS SERVICES, IT, TECHNOLOGY
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Monday, September 28, 2009
BWI: Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Successfully Holds First Unreserved Public Equipment Auction in India
Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Ritchie Bros.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 12:49 PM IST (07:19 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Information technology, Media & entertainment, Retailers; Technology
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Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Successfully Holds First Unreserved Public Equipment Auction in India
Company Welcomes New Customers to First Ever India Auction
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, Tuesday, September 29, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (NYSE and TSX: RBA), the world's largest industrial auctioneer, successfully held its first unreserved public equipment auction in India on Friday, September 25, 2009. An international crowd of bidders, both on-site and online, purchased hundreds of equipment items for more than Rs. 17,43,40,000 at the one day unreserved sale in Hyderabad.
"It was a great auction," said Sameer Malhotra, Country Manager for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers. "We welcomed hundreds of visitors to the auction site, of which more than 200 registered to bid. Even though we welcomed so many new customers, they felt comfortable placing bids and clearly came to Hyderabad to buy equipment. Everyone at the auction, including our own staff, enjoyed the excitement of the first ever Ritchie Bros. auction in India and this resulted in a fantastic atmosphere."
Bidders participated in the unreserved public auction from all over India, as well as many other countries around the world. Customers from as far away as the United Arab Emirates, Japan, Lebanon, Singapore, Thailand and Canada purchased trucks and equipment at the auction.
"This auction proves that the Indian market is ready for our unreserved equipment auctions," said Guylain Turgeon, Managing Director for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers. "People came in great numbers and were very excited to be part of the event. In the 30 years I've been working at Ritchie Bros., I've never experienced such overwhelming reactions from a crowd as I've experienced at our first auction in India.
"The bidders had no problem keeping up with the fast pace of the auctioneer and our bid catchers. It's pretty unique that so many new bidders participated so actively in a first-ever Ritchie Bros. auction in a country. Many of them successfully became the highest bidder and purchased equipment and trucks at fair market value. We're looking forward to conducting another unreserved public auction in India soon."
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, established in 1958, conducts hundreds of unreserved auctions each year around the world. At an unreserved auction, there are no minimum bids or reserve prices. Every item is sold to the highest bidder on auction day, regardless of price.
About Ritchie Bros.
Established in 1958, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (NYSE and TSX: RBA) is the world's largest industrial auctioneer, selling more equipment to on-site and online bidders than any other company in the world. The Company has over 110 locations in more than 25 countries including 39 auction sites worldwide. Ritchie Bros. sells, through unreserved public auctions, a broad range of used and unused industrial assets, including equipment, trucks and other assets utilized in the construction, transportation, agricultural, material handling, mining, forestry, petroleum and marine industries. The Company maintains a web site at www.rbauction.com and sponsors an equipment wiki at www.RitchieWiki.com.
Investors and potential investors should note that this information may not be indicative of the overall financial performance of the Company for this or any period.
CONTACT DETAILS
Sameer Malhotra, Country Manager, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, +91 (11) 41414444, smalthotra@rbauction.com
Alexander Ypeij, Communications Specialist Europe, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, +31.765.242.600, aypeij@rbauction.com
Kim Schulz, Manager, Corporate Communications, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, +1.604.788.5379, kschulz@rbauction.com
KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, MARKETING, BUSINESS SERVICES, IT, MEDIA, RETAIL, TECHNOLOGY
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Source: Ritchie Bros.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 12:49 PM IST (07:19 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Information technology, Media & entertainment, Retailers; Technology
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Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Successfully Holds First Unreserved Public Equipment Auction in India
Company Welcomes New Customers to First Ever India Auction
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, Tuesday, September 29, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (NYSE and TSX: RBA), the world's largest industrial auctioneer, successfully held its first unreserved public equipment auction in India on Friday, September 25, 2009. An international crowd of bidders, both on-site and online, purchased hundreds of equipment items for more than Rs. 17,43,40,000 at the one day unreserved sale in Hyderabad.
"It was a great auction," said Sameer Malhotra, Country Manager for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers. "We welcomed hundreds of visitors to the auction site, of which more than 200 registered to bid. Even though we welcomed so many new customers, they felt comfortable placing bids and clearly came to Hyderabad to buy equipment. Everyone at the auction, including our own staff, enjoyed the excitement of the first ever Ritchie Bros. auction in India and this resulted in a fantastic atmosphere."
Bidders participated in the unreserved public auction from all over India, as well as many other countries around the world. Customers from as far away as the United Arab Emirates, Japan, Lebanon, Singapore, Thailand and Canada purchased trucks and equipment at the auction.
"This auction proves that the Indian market is ready for our unreserved equipment auctions," said Guylain Turgeon, Managing Director for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers. "People came in great numbers and were very excited to be part of the event. In the 30 years I've been working at Ritchie Bros., I've never experienced such overwhelming reactions from a crowd as I've experienced at our first auction in India.
"The bidders had no problem keeping up with the fast pace of the auctioneer and our bid catchers. It's pretty unique that so many new bidders participated so actively in a first-ever Ritchie Bros. auction in a country. Many of them successfully became the highest bidder and purchased equipment and trucks at fair market value. We're looking forward to conducting another unreserved public auction in India soon."
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, established in 1958, conducts hundreds of unreserved auctions each year around the world. At an unreserved auction, there are no minimum bids or reserve prices. Every item is sold to the highest bidder on auction day, regardless of price.
About Ritchie Bros.
Established in 1958, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (NYSE and TSX: RBA) is the world's largest industrial auctioneer, selling more equipment to on-site and online bidders than any other company in the world. The Company has over 110 locations in more than 25 countries including 39 auction sites worldwide. Ritchie Bros. sells, through unreserved public auctions, a broad range of used and unused industrial assets, including equipment, trucks and other assets utilized in the construction, transportation, agricultural, material handling, mining, forestry, petroleum and marine industries. The Company maintains a web site at www.rbauction.com and sponsors an equipment wiki at www.RitchieWiki.com.
Investors and potential investors should note that this information may not be indicative of the overall financial performance of the Company for this or any period.
CONTACT DETAILS
Sameer Malhotra, Country Manager, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, +91 (11) 41414444, smalthotra@rbauction.com
Alexander Ypeij, Communications Specialist Europe, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, +31.765.242.600, aypeij@rbauction.com
Kim Schulz, Manager, Corporate Communications, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, +1.604.788.5379, kschulz@rbauction.com
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BWI: LSI Enhances Flagship Engenio 7900 Storage System
Press release from Business Wire India
Source: LSI Corporation
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 12:24 PM IST (06:54 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Electronic appliances & components, Information technology; Technology
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LSI Enhances Flagship Engenio 7900 Storage System
New High-density Enclosure, Solid-state drive Support and iSCSI Host Interface Increase Operational Efficiency in both Physical and Virtual Environments
Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Tuesday, September 29, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today enhanced the LSIT Engenio® 7900 storage system with a state-of-the-art, high-density SATA drive enclosure, solid-state drive (SSD) support and iSCSI host interface support. Advanced storage monitoring and reporting capabilities are also available for LSI storage systems through Tek-Tools Storage Profiler®. Together, these enhancements are designed to help customers optimize storage performance, reduce operational costs and more efficiently manage both physical and virtual environments.
"Cost-effective midrange storage is becoming the centerpiece of the data center, helping IT managers confront soaring data growth, escalating energy bills and flat budgets," said Phil Bullinger, executive vice president and general manager, Engenio Storage Group, LSI. "The Engenio 7900 system incorporates innovative features that help customers lower costs, improve energy efficiency and realize the full benefits of virtualization technology."
The Engenio 7900, based on the seventh-generation system architecture from LSI, is the flagship member of the LSI Engenio family of modular storage systems. The system provides scalability and adaptability features that protect overall storage investments and support large-scale virtualization and consolidation projects. New features and enhanced capabilities include:
-- The high-density Engenio DE6900 SATA drive enclosure, which is capable of housing 60 3.5-inch SATA drives in a 4U space. The enclosure's front-loading drive drawers are designed to be easily serviceable and maintain data availability by keeping drives online while the drawer is open. The enclosure provides 2.8 times greater density compared to the current sixteen-drive enclosure, enabling a 480TB system to reside within a standard 19-inch rack. The increased density reduces power consumption by more than 30 percent and floor space by more than 65 percent.
-- Support for enterprise-class STEC ZeusIOPS SSDs, which can deliver nearly 80 times the IOPS (input/output operations per second) performance of traditional drives, enabling a new tier of storage for the most demanding workloads. Using SSDs can lower power consumption by up to 80 percent and reduce the required amount of rack space while delivering equal performance on an IOPS basis.
-- Support for tiered storage area networks (SAN-tiering) via multi-protocol SAN connectivity which enables the concurrent intermixing of a new dual-ported 1Gb/s iSCSI host interface card with 4Gb/s and 8Gb/s Fibre Channel host cards. Mixing Fibre Channel and iSCSI host cards allows less-demanding applications to run on servers using lower-cost iSCSI interfaces, producing as much as a 57 percent savings in infrastructure costs. Multi-protocol SAN connectivity is also available on the recently introduced Engenio 4900 storage system.
-- Deeper visibility into the performance and capacity utilization of Engenio storage systems using an enhanced version of Tek-Tools Storage Profiler. Leveraging the advanced monitoring and reporting capabilities of Storage Profiler, IT managers can create a holistic view of their virtual and physical environment to identify and resolve problems in real-time and increase operational efficiency.
The LSI Engenio 7900 storage system is currently available to OEM customers. More information is provided at www.lsi.com/Engenio7900.
About LSI
LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) is a leading provider of innovative silicon, systems and software technologies that enable products which seamlessly bring people, information and digital content together. The company offers a broad portfolio of capabilities and services including custom and standard product ICs, adapters, systems and software that are trusted by the world's best known brands to power leading solutions in the Storage and Networking markets. More information is available at www.lsi.com.
Editor's Notes:
-- All LSI news releases (financial, acquisitions, manufacturing, products, technology, etc.) are posted on the company's external website, http://www.lsi.com.
-- LSI, the LSI & Design logo and Engenio are trademarks or registered trademarks of LSI Corporation.
-- All other brand or product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
CONTACT DETAILS
Rony Rajan, 20:20 MEDIA, +91 9980162010, rony@2020india.com
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CONSUMER, MARKETING, BUSINESS SERVICES, ELECTRONICS, IT, TECHNOLOGY
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Source: LSI Corporation
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 12:24 PM IST (06:54 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Electronic appliances & components, Information technology; Technology
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LSI Enhances Flagship Engenio 7900 Storage System
New High-density Enclosure, Solid-state drive Support and iSCSI Host Interface Increase Operational Efficiency in both Physical and Virtual Environments
Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Tuesday, September 29, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today enhanced the LSIT Engenio® 7900 storage system with a state-of-the-art, high-density SATA drive enclosure, solid-state drive (SSD) support and iSCSI host interface support. Advanced storage monitoring and reporting capabilities are also available for LSI storage systems through Tek-Tools Storage Profiler®. Together, these enhancements are designed to help customers optimize storage performance, reduce operational costs and more efficiently manage both physical and virtual environments.
"Cost-effective midrange storage is becoming the centerpiece of the data center, helping IT managers confront soaring data growth, escalating energy bills and flat budgets," said Phil Bullinger, executive vice president and general manager, Engenio Storage Group, LSI. "The Engenio 7900 system incorporates innovative features that help customers lower costs, improve energy efficiency and realize the full benefits of virtualization technology."
The Engenio 7900, based on the seventh-generation system architecture from LSI, is the flagship member of the LSI Engenio family of modular storage systems. The system provides scalability and adaptability features that protect overall storage investments and support large-scale virtualization and consolidation projects. New features and enhanced capabilities include:
-- The high-density Engenio DE6900 SATA drive enclosure, which is capable of housing 60 3.5-inch SATA drives in a 4U space. The enclosure's front-loading drive drawers are designed to be easily serviceable and maintain data availability by keeping drives online while the drawer is open. The enclosure provides 2.8 times greater density compared to the current sixteen-drive enclosure, enabling a 480TB system to reside within a standard 19-inch rack. The increased density reduces power consumption by more than 30 percent and floor space by more than 65 percent.
-- Support for enterprise-class STEC ZeusIOPS SSDs, which can deliver nearly 80 times the IOPS (input/output operations per second) performance of traditional drives, enabling a new tier of storage for the most demanding workloads. Using SSDs can lower power consumption by up to 80 percent and reduce the required amount of rack space while delivering equal performance on an IOPS basis.
-- Support for tiered storage area networks (SAN-tiering) via multi-protocol SAN connectivity which enables the concurrent intermixing of a new dual-ported 1Gb/s iSCSI host interface card with 4Gb/s and 8Gb/s Fibre Channel host cards. Mixing Fibre Channel and iSCSI host cards allows less-demanding applications to run on servers using lower-cost iSCSI interfaces, producing as much as a 57 percent savings in infrastructure costs. Multi-protocol SAN connectivity is also available on the recently introduced Engenio 4900 storage system.
-- Deeper visibility into the performance and capacity utilization of Engenio storage systems using an enhanced version of Tek-Tools Storage Profiler. Leveraging the advanced monitoring and reporting capabilities of Storage Profiler, IT managers can create a holistic view of their virtual and physical environment to identify and resolve problems in real-time and increase operational efficiency.
The LSI Engenio 7900 storage system is currently available to OEM customers. More information is provided at www.lsi.com/Engenio7900.
About LSI
LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) is a leading provider of innovative silicon, systems and software technologies that enable products which seamlessly bring people, information and digital content together. The company offers a broad portfolio of capabilities and services including custom and standard product ICs, adapters, systems and software that are trusted by the world's best known brands to power leading solutions in the Storage and Networking markets. More information is available at www.lsi.com.
Editor's Notes:
-- All LSI news releases (financial, acquisitions, manufacturing, products, technology, etc.) are posted on the company's external website, http://www.lsi.com.
-- LSI, the LSI & Design logo and Engenio are trademarks or registered trademarks of LSI Corporation.
-- All other brand or product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
CONTACT DETAILS
Rony Rajan, 20:20 MEDIA, +91 9980162010, rony@2020india.com
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CONSUMER, MARKETING, BUSINESS SERVICES, ELECTRONICS, IT, TECHNOLOGY
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BWI: Roamware Solution Achieves Deployment Milestone
Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Roamware Inc.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 11:43 AM IST (06:13 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Information technology, Telecommunications; Technology
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Roamware Solution Achieves Deployment Milestone
Network Traffic Redirection Solution Now Benefits More than Two Hundred Operator Networks
San Jose, California,, United States, Tuesday, September 29, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- Roamware, Inc., a global leader in mobile roaming software and solutions, today announced that its market leading solution Network Traffic Redirection (NTR) solution, now benefits more than 200 mobile networks globally. The figure is a milestone for Roamware which has nearly 400 mobile operator networks customers worldwide.
Roamware's Network Traffic Redirection (NTR), is an innovative solution that enables mobile operators to proactively influence their outbound roamers' choice of mobile networks when roaming. This service enables operators to direct roamers to their preferred partners, assuring service quality for their subscribers and allowings operators to retain revenues within operator groups.
John Jiang, EVP & Chief Technical Officer at Roamware, said "Our philosophy with products has not just been to offer solutions but also to ensure that the customers experience continuous return on their investment. While we pioneered the solution and hold patents around NTR, we are continuously adding value to the original solution in form of value-added module that further extends the returns from the solution. "
Richard Grohol, EVP for Worldwide Field Operations at Roamware Inc., commented, "NTR has been around for several years but we are still experiencing sustained demand for the solution. We have a number of customers upgrading to the latest version 6.1 and also subscribing to the OTA-integrated redirection and Advanced Subscriber Profiler value-added modules that we have introduced."
About Roamware Inc
Roamware Inc. is the leading provider of roaming and mobile financial services solutions.
The company is the global leader in mobile roaming solutions with an estimated 60% market share of the voice and data roaming segments for GSM, 3G and CDMA technology platforms. Roamware m-commerce and mobile banking solutions have been successfully deployed by major banks and global operators around the world, including: Vodafone, Permanent TSB and Bank of Ireland. Its solutions range from credit transfers, international remittance, person to person transactions to top-up and bill payment. Roamware solutions are deployed across 140 countries with over 380 global mobile operator networks as customers. The company is headquartered in San Jose with operations in Brussels, Bangalore, Mumbai, New Delhi Singapore, Dublin, Johannesburg, Amman and Hong Kong.
For more information about Roamware, please visit: http://www.roamware.com
CONTACT DETAILS
Michelle Sabolich, US - Atomic PR, +1 415 402 0230, Michelle.Sabolich@atomicpr.com
Vojtech Horna, Europe - Atomic PR, +44 (0)20 7282 2901, Vojtech.Horna@atomicpr.com
Ameya Sirur, Asia - Gutenberg PR, +91 (22) 26055745, ameya@gutenbergpr.com
Abraham Punnoose, VP - Marketing and Business Development, Roamware Inc, +91 9967927777, Abraham.punnoose@roamware.com
KEYWORDS
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Source: Roamware Inc.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 11:43 AM IST (06:13 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Information technology, Telecommunications; Technology
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Roamware Solution Achieves Deployment Milestone
Network Traffic Redirection Solution Now Benefits More than Two Hundred Operator Networks
San Jose, California,, United States, Tuesday, September 29, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- Roamware, Inc., a global leader in mobile roaming software and solutions, today announced that its market leading solution Network Traffic Redirection (NTR) solution, now benefits more than 200 mobile networks globally. The figure is a milestone for Roamware which has nearly 400 mobile operator networks customers worldwide.
Roamware's Network Traffic Redirection (NTR), is an innovative solution that enables mobile operators to proactively influence their outbound roamers' choice of mobile networks when roaming. This service enables operators to direct roamers to their preferred partners, assuring service quality for their subscribers and allowings operators to retain revenues within operator groups.
John Jiang, EVP & Chief Technical Officer at Roamware, said "Our philosophy with products has not just been to offer solutions but also to ensure that the customers experience continuous return on their investment. While we pioneered the solution and hold patents around NTR, we are continuously adding value to the original solution in form of value-added module that further extends the returns from the solution. "
Richard Grohol, EVP for Worldwide Field Operations at Roamware Inc., commented, "NTR has been around for several years but we are still experiencing sustained demand for the solution. We have a number of customers upgrading to the latest version 6.1 and also subscribing to the OTA-integrated redirection and Advanced Subscriber Profiler value-added modules that we have introduced."
About Roamware Inc
Roamware Inc. is the leading provider of roaming and mobile financial services solutions.
The company is the global leader in mobile roaming solutions with an estimated 60% market share of the voice and data roaming segments for GSM, 3G and CDMA technology platforms. Roamware m-commerce and mobile banking solutions have been successfully deployed by major banks and global operators around the world, including: Vodafone, Permanent TSB and Bank of Ireland. Its solutions range from credit transfers, international remittance, person to person transactions to top-up and bill payment. Roamware solutions are deployed across 140 countries with over 380 global mobile operator networks as customers. The company is headquartered in San Jose with operations in Brussels, Bangalore, Mumbai, New Delhi Singapore, Dublin, Johannesburg, Amman and Hong Kong.
For more information about Roamware, please visit: http://www.roamware.com
CONTACT DETAILS
Michelle Sabolich, US - Atomic PR, +1 415 402 0230, Michelle.Sabolich@atomicpr.com
Vojtech Horna, Europe - Atomic PR, +44 (0)20 7282 2901, Vojtech.Horna@atomicpr.com
Ameya Sirur, Asia - Gutenberg PR, +91 (22) 26055745, ameya@gutenbergpr.com
Abraham Punnoose, VP - Marketing and Business Development, Roamware Inc, +91 9967927777, Abraham.punnoose@roamware.com
KEYWORDS
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BWI: ‘Bigg Boss’ Gets Bigger with ‘Big B’ Playing ‘Pop Philosopher’
Press release from Business Wire India
Source: COLORS
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 11:05 AM IST (05:35 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest, Entertainment, People; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Media & entertainment
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'Bigg Boss' Gets Bigger with 'Big B' Playing 'Pop Philosopher'
Bigg Boss' on Colors, starting October 4th from 9.00 to 10.00 p.m. - Everyday!
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Tuesday, September 29, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- After keeping millions of Indian households glued-on to 'Bigg Boss Season 2' last year, COLORS (a Viacom18 brand), India's most popular channel, today announced the launch date of 'Bigg Boss' season 3 - the show starts airing on October 4th at 9.00 p.m., everyday.only on COLORS. And this year, 'Bigg Boss' gets even bigger, with the big boss of bollywood, Amitabh Bachchan, playing 'Pop Philosopher'. Mr.Bachchan will be appearing on the show, twice every week - on Fridays and Saturdays. Big Boss Season 3 will also make its presence felt on television through a special music trailer with a song sung by none other than Big B Amitabh Bachchan himself set to music by the talented musical duo Vishal-Shekhar.
Speaking of the development, Rajesh Kamat, Chief Executive Officer - COLORS, said, "Our channel share and reach in the 9.00 to 10.00 p.m. block has increased significantly over the last 6 weeks. With 'Bigg Boss' at this time slot, we're confident of further strengthening our position in this block, leading to a wider gap between COLORS and the other players in the GEC category." He further added, "It is our honour to have Mr.Bachchan on-board and we look forward to him providing his inimitable touch to one of our most popular format shows."
In this season of Bigg Boss, Mr. Bachchan will be playing the role of 'Pop Philosopher' - a unique concept that will be one of the differentiators of this season. As 'Pop Philosopher', Big B will bridge the gap between 'Bigg Boss' participants and viewers - through contextualising events, simplifying emotions and most importantly, analysing developments that happen within the 'Bigg Boss' house.
Every Friday, Mr. Bachchan will be interacting with all housemates and announcing the eviction. Further, every Saturday, Mr. Bachchan will be talking to the evictee for an hour - trying to analyze and de-code his/her emotional journey in the Bigg Boss house.
Talking of his association with 'Bigg Boss', Mr. Bachchan commented, "This is one show that has intrigued me immensely as a viewer - its format, its contestants and the psychological battle within the house. That intrigue, coupled with the unique concept that COLORS shared with me for this season, excited me to be a part of 'Bigg Boss' this year." He further added, "I am looking forward to my role that gives me the unique opportunity to help viewers decode emotions and comprehend simple philosophies of life (without getting philosophical)."
Talking about this season, Ashvini Yardi, Programming Head - COLORS, added, "There have been many new elements added in this season of 'Bigg Boss' that are sure to make this season, even bigger and better. Apart from an interesting mix of 'housemates' (that have been chosen, based on our viewers' choice), Mr.Bachchan's presence twice a week in an exciting role, will make for compelling viewing."
On this occasion Mr. Deepak Dhar MD Endemol India says: "We are immensely proud of our property Big Boss, this is the third season running and with Mr. Bachchan on board this season we have raised the bar up for reality shows in India.With this new addition to Big Boss we are sure to revolutionize reality TV."
'Bigg Boss' presents the unique combination of reality and real unscripted drama. It is the ultimate reality show where 14 handpicked strangers are locked in a house, for close to 85 days - with 35 cameras following their every move 24x7 and Bigg Boss, the ultimate authority in the house who ensures that their stay is anything but comfortable. As the 14 hand picked contestants vie with each other to survive in the Bigg Boss house, irritation, backbiting and backstabbing reach its prime. This is one show that brings out the best and the worst side of contestants.
Last year, on Season 2 of Bigg Boss, 70 million viewers watched the show over a period of 3 months.
DON'T FORGET TO TUNE-IN FOR 'BIGG BOSS' Season 3 ON COLORS STARTING OCTOBER 4th AT 9.00 P.M.
About 'COLORS'
'COLORS' is Viacom18's (a 50/50 joint venture operation in India between Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B) and the Network18 Group) flagship brand in the entertainment space in India. A combination of 'emotions' and 'variety', COLORS launched on 21st July 2008 offers an entire spectrum of emotions to its viewers. From Fiction shows to Format shows to Reality shows to Blockbuster Movies - the basket contains all 'Jasbaat Ke Rang'. 'COLORS' is dedicated to promoting 'Cohesive viewing', through programmes like Sabki Jodi Wohi Banata.Bhagyavidhata, Maat Pita Ke Charnon Mein.Swarg, Jai Shri Krishna, Balika Vadhu- Kacchi Umar Ke Pakke Rishtey, Jeevan Saathi, Meri Ghar Aayi Ek Nanhi Pari, Uttaran, Na Aana Is Des Laado, Fear Factor - Khatron Ke Khiladi Level 2, Bigg Boss Season 3, Chhote Miyan Chapter 2 & I00 % amongst others. 'COLORS' is a pay channel and is available as a part of the 'One Alliance' bouquet.
About Viacom 18 Media Pvt. Ltd.
Viacom 18 Media Pvt. Ltd. is a 50/50 joint venture operation in India between Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B, world's leading entertainment content company, comprising brands like BET, MTV Networks and Paramount Pictures) and the Network18 Group, (one of India's leading full play media conglomerates with interests in television, internet, filmed entertainment, mobile content & allied businesses, comprising brands like CNBC TV18, CNBC Awaaz, Newswire18, moneycontrol.com, CNN-IBN, IBN 7, Homeshop18 and E18 amongst others). The joint venture includes leading brands across television, film and digital media to build one of India's leading multimedia entertainment powerhouse. Viacom 18 Media Pvt. Ltd. includes the vibrant youth brand - MTV, the fastest growing kids channel - Nick, India's only International Music & Lifestyle channel - Vh1 , Studio18, a new-age motion picture brand that produces, acquires and distributes Hindi films and 'COLORS' the new Hindi general entertainment channel.
Viacom18 brings together the unique strengths of two formidable partners, thus forming an entertainment conglomerate that will have a competitive advantage in serving the needs of both viewers and advertisers.
About Endemol India Private Limited
Launched in February 2006, Endemol India is the first Asian subsidiary of Endemol N.V. Since its launch, Endemol India has seen rapid growth in the Indian market and has cemented its place in the Indian television industry through formats like 'Big Brother', 'Fear Factor India', 'Deal Ya No Deal' and 'Heart Beat'. Additionally, Endemol India has created and produced local blockbuster formats such as 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge', 'Mission Ustaad', "Jo Jeeta Wohi Superstar' and 'The Great Indian Laughter Champions'. The content that Endemol India creates comprises Scripted, Non-scripted and Digital Media.
About Endemol
Founded in 1994, Endemol is a global leader in entertainment programming, having established itself as the largest independent TV, cross platform and digital production company in the world. The company produces worldwide hits like Fear Factor Extreme, Big Brother, Deal or No Deal, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Star Academy and Wipeout.
Endemol comprises a global network of companies that spans 25 countries on five continents including the USA, the UK, Spain, Italy, France, Germany and the Netherlands, as well as Latin America, India, South Africa and Australia.
Endemol produces premium entertainment for the world's major broadcasters and digital media platforms - including mobile and internet - as well as creating bespoke branded entertainment for the world's major advertising agencies and brands. The company annually distributes approximately 36,000 hours of programming from over 500 different shows in almost 60 countries. Their digital successes include over 300 million online video views - just for Big Brother in 2008. Endemol is also behind numerous award winning original digital productions among many other growing online accomplishments.
The company's creative teams around the world are continuously developing new entertainment properties that are shared across the Endemol network. Endemol currently has a growing library of over 2000 titles covering all genres including entertainment, game shows, reality TV, kids programming, animation, comedy and drama.
Media Contacts:
COLORS
Sonia Huria - Manager, Communications
COLORS
+91 989244 7777
sonia.huria@viacom18.com
Margerie Ferrao - Exécutive, Communications
COLORS
+91 9820003731
Margerie.ferrao@viacom18.com
Gina Ghosh
IPAN Hill & Knowlton
+91 98197 45154
gina.ghosh@ipan.com
Shilpi Saire Deshpande
IPAN Hill & Knowlton
+91 9920787090
shilpi.deshpande@ipan.com
Prerna Gulati
IPAN Hill & Knowlton
+ 91 99203 04305
prerna.gulati@ipan.com
Hinjal Veera
IPAN Hill & Knowlton
+91 9892745252
hinjal.veera@ipan.com
Endemol
Cindrella Prakash
vitcom consulting
+91 9821718951
cindrella.prakash@vitcomconsulting.com
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Source: COLORS
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 11:05 AM IST (05:35 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest, Entertainment, People; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Media & entertainment
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'Bigg Boss' Gets Bigger with 'Big B' Playing 'Pop Philosopher'
Bigg Boss' on Colors, starting October 4th from 9.00 to 10.00 p.m. - Everyday!
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Tuesday, September 29, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- After keeping millions of Indian households glued-on to 'Bigg Boss Season 2' last year, COLORS (a Viacom18 brand), India's most popular channel, today announced the launch date of 'Bigg Boss' season 3 - the show starts airing on October 4th at 9.00 p.m., everyday.only on COLORS. And this year, 'Bigg Boss' gets even bigger, with the big boss of bollywood, Amitabh Bachchan, playing 'Pop Philosopher'. Mr.Bachchan will be appearing on the show, twice every week - on Fridays and Saturdays. Big Boss Season 3 will also make its presence felt on television through a special music trailer with a song sung by none other than Big B Amitabh Bachchan himself set to music by the talented musical duo Vishal-Shekhar.
Speaking of the development, Rajesh Kamat, Chief Executive Officer - COLORS, said, "Our channel share and reach in the 9.00 to 10.00 p.m. block has increased significantly over the last 6 weeks. With 'Bigg Boss' at this time slot, we're confident of further strengthening our position in this block, leading to a wider gap between COLORS and the other players in the GEC category." He further added, "It is our honour to have Mr.Bachchan on-board and we look forward to him providing his inimitable touch to one of our most popular format shows."
In this season of Bigg Boss, Mr. Bachchan will be playing the role of 'Pop Philosopher' - a unique concept that will be one of the differentiators of this season. As 'Pop Philosopher', Big B will bridge the gap between 'Bigg Boss' participants and viewers - through contextualising events, simplifying emotions and most importantly, analysing developments that happen within the 'Bigg Boss' house.
Every Friday, Mr. Bachchan will be interacting with all housemates and announcing the eviction. Further, every Saturday, Mr. Bachchan will be talking to the evictee for an hour - trying to analyze and de-code his/her emotional journey in the Bigg Boss house.
Talking of his association with 'Bigg Boss', Mr. Bachchan commented, "This is one show that has intrigued me immensely as a viewer - its format, its contestants and the psychological battle within the house. That intrigue, coupled with the unique concept that COLORS shared with me for this season, excited me to be a part of 'Bigg Boss' this year." He further added, "I am looking forward to my role that gives me the unique opportunity to help viewers decode emotions and comprehend simple philosophies of life (without getting philosophical)."
Talking about this season, Ashvini Yardi, Programming Head - COLORS, added, "There have been many new elements added in this season of 'Bigg Boss' that are sure to make this season, even bigger and better. Apart from an interesting mix of 'housemates' (that have been chosen, based on our viewers' choice), Mr.Bachchan's presence twice a week in an exciting role, will make for compelling viewing."
On this occasion Mr. Deepak Dhar MD Endemol India says: "We are immensely proud of our property Big Boss, this is the third season running and with Mr. Bachchan on board this season we have raised the bar up for reality shows in India.With this new addition to Big Boss we are sure to revolutionize reality TV."
'Bigg Boss' presents the unique combination of reality and real unscripted drama. It is the ultimate reality show where 14 handpicked strangers are locked in a house, for close to 85 days - with 35 cameras following their every move 24x7 and Bigg Boss, the ultimate authority in the house who ensures that their stay is anything but comfortable. As the 14 hand picked contestants vie with each other to survive in the Bigg Boss house, irritation, backbiting and backstabbing reach its prime. This is one show that brings out the best and the worst side of contestants.
Last year, on Season 2 of Bigg Boss, 70 million viewers watched the show over a period of 3 months.
DON'T FORGET TO TUNE-IN FOR 'BIGG BOSS' Season 3 ON COLORS STARTING OCTOBER 4th AT 9.00 P.M.
About 'COLORS'
'COLORS' is Viacom18's (a 50/50 joint venture operation in India between Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B) and the Network18 Group) flagship brand in the entertainment space in India. A combination of 'emotions' and 'variety', COLORS launched on 21st July 2008 offers an entire spectrum of emotions to its viewers. From Fiction shows to Format shows to Reality shows to Blockbuster Movies - the basket contains all 'Jasbaat Ke Rang'. 'COLORS' is dedicated to promoting 'Cohesive viewing', through programmes like Sabki Jodi Wohi Banata.Bhagyavidhata, Maat Pita Ke Charnon Mein.Swarg, Jai Shri Krishna, Balika Vadhu- Kacchi Umar Ke Pakke Rishtey, Jeevan Saathi, Meri Ghar Aayi Ek Nanhi Pari, Uttaran, Na Aana Is Des Laado, Fear Factor - Khatron Ke Khiladi Level 2, Bigg Boss Season 3, Chhote Miyan Chapter 2 & I00 % amongst others. 'COLORS' is a pay channel and is available as a part of the 'One Alliance' bouquet.
About Viacom 18 Media Pvt. Ltd.
Viacom 18 Media Pvt. Ltd. is a 50/50 joint venture operation in India between Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B, world's leading entertainment content company, comprising brands like BET, MTV Networks and Paramount Pictures) and the Network18 Group, (one of India's leading full play media conglomerates with interests in television, internet, filmed entertainment, mobile content & allied businesses, comprising brands like CNBC TV18, CNBC Awaaz, Newswire18, moneycontrol.com, CNN-IBN, IBN 7, Homeshop18 and E18 amongst others). The joint venture includes leading brands across television, film and digital media to build one of India's leading multimedia entertainment powerhouse. Viacom 18 Media Pvt. Ltd. includes the vibrant youth brand - MTV, the fastest growing kids channel - Nick, India's only International Music & Lifestyle channel - Vh1 , Studio18, a new-age motion picture brand that produces, acquires and distributes Hindi films and 'COLORS' the new Hindi general entertainment channel.
Viacom18 brings together the unique strengths of two formidable partners, thus forming an entertainment conglomerate that will have a competitive advantage in serving the needs of both viewers and advertisers.
About Endemol India Private Limited
Launched in February 2006, Endemol India is the first Asian subsidiary of Endemol N.V. Since its launch, Endemol India has seen rapid growth in the Indian market and has cemented its place in the Indian television industry through formats like 'Big Brother', 'Fear Factor India', 'Deal Ya No Deal' and 'Heart Beat'. Additionally, Endemol India has created and produced local blockbuster formats such as 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge', 'Mission Ustaad', "Jo Jeeta Wohi Superstar' and 'The Great Indian Laughter Champions'. The content that Endemol India creates comprises Scripted, Non-scripted and Digital Media.
About Endemol
Founded in 1994, Endemol is a global leader in entertainment programming, having established itself as the largest independent TV, cross platform and digital production company in the world. The company produces worldwide hits like Fear Factor Extreme, Big Brother, Deal or No Deal, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Star Academy and Wipeout.
Endemol comprises a global network of companies that spans 25 countries on five continents including the USA, the UK, Spain, Italy, France, Germany and the Netherlands, as well as Latin America, India, South Africa and Australia.
Endemol produces premium entertainment for the world's major broadcasters and digital media platforms - including mobile and internet - as well as creating bespoke branded entertainment for the world's major advertising agencies and brands. The company annually distributes approximately 36,000 hours of programming from over 500 different shows in almost 60 countries. Their digital successes include over 300 million online video views - just for Big Brother in 2008. Endemol is also behind numerous award winning original digital productions among many other growing online accomplishments.
The company's creative teams around the world are continuously developing new entertainment properties that are shared across the Endemol network. Endemol currently has a growing library of over 2000 titles covering all genres including entertainment, game shows, reality TV, kids programming, animation, comedy and drama.
Media Contacts:
COLORS
Sonia Huria - Manager, Communications
COLORS
+91 989244 7777
sonia.huria@viacom18.com
Margerie Ferrao - Exécutive, Communications
COLORS
+91 9820003731
Margerie.ferrao@viacom18.com
Gina Ghosh
IPAN Hill & Knowlton
+91 98197 45154
gina.ghosh@ipan.com
Shilpi Saire Deshpande
IPAN Hill & Knowlton
+91 9920787090
shilpi.deshpande@ipan.com
Prerna Gulati
IPAN Hill & Knowlton
+ 91 99203 04305
prerna.gulati@ipan.com
Hinjal Veera
IPAN Hill & Knowlton
+91 9892745252
hinjal.veera@ipan.com
Endemol
Cindrella Prakash
vitcom consulting
+91 9821718951
cindrella.prakash@vitcomconsulting.com
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