Great Uncle Bulgaria Launches Campaign to Save British Kids’ TVLONDON - Great Uncle Bulgaria, leader of the Wombles and one of British kids’ TV’s greatest icons, is leading a campaign to save British-made children’s television in the UK. Spirent Communications Adds Industry’s Most Advanced Scalable Application Protocol Emulation for Quality of Experience TestingLAS VEGAS - Vast Range of Scenarios, User Transactions Added to Latest Version Spirent Avalanche Spirent Communications Adds Vulnerability Assessment Testing to Spirent Avalanche PlatformLAS VEGAS - Enhancement Allows for Assessment of Virtually Any Negative Traffic, Application Network Layer Testing from Single Unit Spirent OnDEMAND Data Center Testing Offers a Unified Suite of Services to Ensure Deployment of Green, High Availability NetworksLAS VEGAS - Spirent’s Award Winning Solutions, Services Mitigate the Risk of Migration to New, Advanced Data Centers Spirent Communication’s Holistic Testing Approach Prepares Enterprises for Dynamic, Terabit-Capacity Data CentersLAS VEGAS - Spirent Data Center Testing Solutions Deliver the Industry’s Only Unified Layer 2-7 Test Architecture for High Performance Virtualized, Eco-Friendly Networks Yammer Reveals to Digital Agency Zeta: ‘We Want to cut the Amount of Email you get in Half’POOLE, England - In an exclusive interview conducted for digital agency Zeta, Yammer CEO David Sacks, reveals how the business-focused social networking tool is designed to increase communication, while decreasing email traffic. Inspired by Twitter and Facebook, Yammer can help business users communicate more effectively at work. Regional Landscaping Industry Remains UpbeatABU DHABI, UAE - The regional outdoor architecture and landscaping industry remains upbeat about the outlook for the future of the industry with many companies confirming their presence at the Gulf Landscaping event in Abu Dhabi. The Gulf Landscaping exhibition runs from the 9th - 10th November at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre and is an opportunity for companies in this industry to network and do business with buyers and decision makers from across the Middle East. Texas Instruments demonstrates eight channels of H.264 main profile encoding at D1 resolution on a single processor at IFSEC for lower cost surveillance applicationsHOUSTON - Developers benefit from lower cost per channel, system savings and simplified hardware design for NVRs, DVSs and DVRs Cognizant and SAP Announce Global Services PartnershipORLANDO, Florida - Companies Expand Collaborative Relationship and Global Footprint Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH), a leading provider of global IT and business process outsourcing services, and SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced a global services partnership in an effort to deliver increased business value by streamlining their engagement and enabling both companies to respond quickly to the ever-changing needs of their customers. The announcement was made at SAPPHIRE(R) 2009, being held in Orlando, Florida, May 11-14. Spirent Communications Advances Virtualization and Cloud Computing With Data Center Performance TestingSUNNYVALE, California - Spirent TestCenter(TM) Virtual is the Industry’s First Single Application Solution to Benchmark Layer 2-7 Performance Across All Elements of a Data Center Danish Online Shoppers Shop Easily From the US, Thanks to Borderlinx and Post DanmarkBRUSSELS - International e-Commerce Service Lets People Import Goods From the US as Easily as Buying From Local Web Site and Have Them Delivered to Their Door GamesPlaza.mobi Taps Into Worldwide Casual Games PotentialROTTERDAM, The Netherlands - BoosterMedia has released GamesPlaza.mobi, a casual gaming platform targeting mobile gamers and game developers internationally. GamesPlaza.mobi offers a growing selection of free-to-play mobile games based on Flash technology. The mobile portal, with over 10 localized versions in several languages, features puzzles, brain trainers, classic arcade and action games for Flash Lite enabled handsets. Zendesk Secures Series A Funding from CRV and Opens U.S. Headquarters in Mission to Spread Good Karma to Help Desks EverywhereBOSTON - Zendesk to introduce integration with Tactile CRM at June London meetup Inspiring the help desk 2.0 movement through a focus on enlightened customer support, Zendesk has secured series A venture capital financing from Charles River Ventures. Zendesk’s (www.zendesk.com/) SaaS (software as a service) help desk system has been providing tender loving customer care to companies since 2007 and has now passed the 1,000 customer mark, including nearly 200 in the UK such as Conde Nast Publications, John Lewis plc and the Environment Agency. The financing will be used to expand operations and painless customer support to organizations worldwide, starting with a new U.S. headquarters in Boston. Scandinavian Start-up Zendesk Goes Global With Series A Funding From CRV and New U.S. Headquarters in Mission to Spread Good Karma to Help Desks EverywhereCOPENHAGEN - Zendesk’s help desk in the cloud brings tender loving customer care to 1,000 organizations European Union Makes History by Banning Trade in Seal ProductsSTRASBOURG, France - Humane Society International Applauds Major Victory for Seals Humane Society International congratulated the European Parliament for voting overwhelmingly in favour of a strong ban on trade in seal products. Courion Selected by SC Magazine Europe as 2009 Best Identity Management SolutionMANCHESTER, England - Enterprise Provisioning Suite Awarded Best in Category Courion(R) Corporation (www.courion.com/), leaders in access governance (www.courion.com/solutions/access-assurance.html), provisioning (www.courion.com/solutions/user-access-provisioning.html) and compliance (www.courion.com/solutions/access-compliance-management.html), today announced that its Enterprise Provisioning Suite (www.courion.com/products/access-assurance-products.html) has been recognised as Best Identity Management Solution at the SC Magazine Awards Europe 2009 in London. A panel of judges comprising chief security officers and high level IT security executives from a wide breadth of industries, including representatives from Deloitte and KPMG, reviewed more than 300 entries before choosing the winners. Dot Eco LLC Supports Roz SavageLOS ANGELES - Dot Eco LLC is proud to support Roz Savage, the British ocean rower and environmental campaigner, in her upcoming effort to row solo across the Pacific. Roz’s boat, the Brocade, will bear the “Dot Eco” logo on this historic voyage. Roz will also be featured in a video profiling outstanding supporters of “.eco” including Al Gore, Carl Pope and Roger Moore. Buongiorno Launches HelloTxt, the Innovative Aggregating Product for Social Networks and MicroblogsLONDON and MILAN - Allows Users to Send and Read Status Updates Across all the Main Microblogs and Social Networks Simultaneously - Acting as a Communication hub ArrivedOK Flight Arrival Tracker Gets Localized for Japanese, Russian Markets, Lets Air Travelers Alert Others About Their Personal Landing by Email, SMS, Twitter, BlogsAUSTIN, Texas - www.arrivedok.mobi Flight Tracker and Arrival Messenger Selected as an Official Honoree In The 13th Annual Webby Awards, Gets Localized For Japanese and Russian Markets, Available for the Rest of the World now I say…Jeeves is Back!LONDON - Due to Popular Demand, Ask Jeeves Returns to the UK, With More Answers Than Ever Before DediPower Supports Innovative Real Time Social Media Aggregation WebsiteREADING, England - As Britain is engulfed in the Twitter revolution, Tweetmeme is keeping everyone updated on the hottest topics, changing the way we communicate. Tweetmeme, a Twitter aggregator, is the brainchild of fav.or.it, a cutting edge social media company. DediPower Managed Hosting, a leading UK provider of managed hosting and data centre solutions, is delivering Tweetmeme with co-location services in its enterprise class data centres. MySkip, The Reuse Site, Unveils UK’s First Ever Nationwide Infrastructure to Support CharitiesLONDON - MySkip.com Helps Small Non-Profits Survive Recession by Connecting Charities With the Community via Donors at www.myskip.com VICTORY RECORDS Signs OTEP to Recording, Merchandising and Publishing DealCHICAGO - ‘Smash The Control Machine’ in stores August 18th, 2009 VICTORY RECORDS has signed Los Angeles recording artist OTEP. OTEP’s all encompassing musical approach coupled with her shaman like artistic qualities and other creative musings have lead to over half a million albums sold over the course of three studio albums. Singer, songwriter, renegade Otep Shamaya describes the band’s music as … “a total and complete mutiny on the senses. We are a fusion band by nature, inspired by many styles and tones from a variety of musical genres- rock, punk, metal, hip-hop, spoken word, jazz and classic rock. We never allow the antiquated limits of a genre confine or restrict us. Our music is universal and does not belong nor can it be contained in a nice, neat, little box.” nomee(TM) Previews New Beta Tool to Deliver All-in-One Control of Your Social NetworksSAN FRANCISCO - Powered by Adobe(R) Air(TM), nomee tames the chaos of Web-based networking by centralizing access and updates for more than 100 social sites Keeping It Real… ‘Offline’ Communications Still Key to Connecting With ‘Digital Generation’LONDON - ‘A Beta Life - Youth’ reveals the overall driver for young people is a Think You Can Make This World a Better Place?LONDON - Join One Young World’s Search for 1500 Future Leaders Today & Change Young people need a voice. The impending G20 Summit, in London ‘Anti-Eco’ Music ViralLONDON - April 1st 2009 is Energy Wasting Day - www.energywastingday.com Wannabe celeb Dan Power is releasing the World’s first ever ‘anti-eco’ IT Management Students Aiming for Boardroom, Poll RevealsLONDON - 80% of ITMB Students Want CIO and CEO Posts - 90% are Hoping to Spend Time Abroad Premier Farnell to Announce Much Anticipated Winners of Live EDGE - Electronic Design for the Global Environment - During Virtual Communications Technology Conference on 2 AprilLONDON - Conference Attendees Will Have Access to the Latest Information ArrivedOK Flight Arrival Tracker Lets Air Passengers Notify Others About Their Personal Landing by SMS, Email, Blogs, TwitterAUSTIN, Texas - www.arrivedok.mobi Announces Public Beta Testing ArrivedOK (www.arrivedok.mobi/hello), the personal flight arrival Nimbuzz iPhone app Bridges 3G VoIP GapROTTERDAM, The Netherlands - VoIP Over 3G, Skype Out, SIP Calling, and Twitter Support Make Hitched.co.uk Propose a New Wedding Role - Chief TwitterLONDON - One of the many challenges when getting hitched is who to Discussion on The Finance Crisis and Rescue: What Went Wrong? Why? What Lessons Can Be Learned?TORONTO and LONDON - With world markets and the global economy still in turmoil, an event to |