Precise Launches Online PR and Social Media Measurement

September 3rd, 2009 LONDON - - Two-Thirds of Global Online Population Visits These Sites Each Month - "Time Spent" on These Sites Growing Three Times Faster Than Overall Internet Rate, Now Accounting for Almost 10 Percent of all Internet Time - The Biggest Increase in Visitors to These Sites Were 35-49 Year Olds LONDON, September 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Now visited by over two-thirds (67 percent) of the global* online population, "Member Communities," which includes both social networks and blogs, has become the fourth most popular category online - ahead of personal email. It is growing twice as fast as any of the other four largest sectors (search, portals, PC software and email), according to The Nielsen Company's "Global Faces and Networked Places," a comprehensive report published today revealing the new global footprint of social networking.

August 12th, 2009 GLASGOW - In the future social sites will cease to become a place on the internet and start becoming the internet itself. That's the key conclusion from an authoritative industry report, "End of the beginning for social media", published by social media agency Yomego.

July 15th, 2009 LONDON - - Facebook.com is Turkey's Most Popular Social Networking Site with More than 13 Million Visitors in May 2009 comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a report examining the usage habits of Internet users in Turkey, based on data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service.

July 15th, 2009 LONDON - - Social Media Metrics Monitors and Analyses Over 20 Million Blogs, 5 Million Forum Posts, and 30,000 Online News Sources, Social Networks and Microblogs PR Newswire (www.prnewswire.com/) today announced the launch of Social Media Metrics (www.prnewswire.com/mnr/prnewswire/38671/docs/38671-Social_Media_Metrics.pdf) across their EMEAi regions, a powerful new intelligence tool powered by Sentiment Metrics (www.sentimentmetrics.com/) that enables communications professionals and marketers to monitor, analyse and measure the impact of what is being said about an organisation, brand, spokesperson or competitor across the social media landscape. (Due to the length of the pdf URL, it may be necessary to copy and paste this hyperlink into your Internet browser's URL address field.

July 8th, 2009 LUND, Sweden and WASHINGTON DC - Precise Biometrics has been awarded orders worth more than 6,1 million US dollar to supply fingerprint readers and software to the US Government, as a step in continued deployment of Precise Match-on-Card(TM) in multiple agencies. Delivery will start immediately and the order will be delivered and invoiced before end of 2009.

June 3rd, 2009 TORONTO - Launches New Products So Companies Can Monitor More Than Just Social Media Conversations Sysomos Inc. today unveiled two new services that leapfrog current offerings in the social media analytics universe: Sysomos MAP and Sysomos Heartbeat intuitively and elegantly offer real-time access to an extensive database of social and traditional media conversations, as well as detailed information about sentiment, geo-demographics and key influencers.

May 28th, 2009 STOCKHOLM - The British Red Cross are asking people to pledge their support to refugees by collectively 'changing their online status' across all social networks, instant messenger and email during Refugee Week (15th-21st June). This is the first time that a charity has created an online movement to pledge support and tackle discrimination via online profiles.

May 18th, 2009 LONDON - Precise, the leading provider of media intelligence services, and the PRCA, the trade association for public relations consultancies and leading in-house communications teams in the UK, have announced a partnership to provide PRCA members with access to Precise's services. As the PRCA's official Media Intelligence Partner, Precise will be the only organisation that the PRCA recommends to organisations for media analysis, monitoring and forward planning.

April 26th, 2009 LONDON - Precise, the leading media intelligence provider, announces the launch of its broadcast monitoring service. Whilst Precise has monitored and analysed the impact of print and online media coverage on behalf of leading corporate, financial, PR and public sector clients for a number of years, the company is now able to seamlessly integrate broadcast content into its range of monitoring and analysis services.

March 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Precise, the leading provider of media intelligence data, today announced the launch of its new social media monitoring service. Whilst Precise has been involved for some time in monitoring social media content on behalf of its clients, the new service is a breakthrough in terms of genuinely addressing the issues of identifying and tracking influence.

April 22nd, 2009 NYC mayor launches online ad blitzNEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg's campaign ads are already all over television and radio, and now they'll be popping up online as well. Bloomberg campaign officials say the ads are designed to be activated by keywords.

August 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study has determined that type 1a supernovae will have to be taken into account if astronomers are to use them for more precise measurements of cosmic distances and dark energy that is accelerating the expansion of the universe. The discovery of dark energy, a mysterious force that is accelerating the expansion of the universe, was based on observations of type 1a supernovae.

March 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The European Space Agency's (ESA's) has launched its Earth explorer satellite GOCE (Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer), which will map Earth's gravity field in unprecedented detail. Launched from the Russian Cosmodrome Plesetsk, GOCE is the first satellite mission within the framework of the Living Planet Programme of ESA.

September 1st, 2009 Study finds Web no equalizer for civic engagementNEW YORK — Unlike some people have hoped, the Internet hasn't led to big changes in the socio-economic makeup of Americans engaged in civic activities, a new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project finds. As in offline politics, people who participate in online civic life — by contacting government officials, making political or charitable donations or signing petitions, for example — tend to be richer and better educated.

August 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - British researchers are working on developing intelligent harvesting robots that may soon minimise wastage and solve an impending problem of labour shortage for UK farmers. Annual waste for certain crops can be up to 60pct - which can mean up to 100,000 pounds of lost revenue for an average farm.

October 1st, 2009 EU unveils more precise satnav systemBRUSSELS — The European Union has unveiled an updated satellite navigation system that is up to five times more precise than the current GPS system. EU Transport Commissioner Antonio Tajani says the EGNOS system will allow for far more intricate applications ranging from pinpointing agricultural spraying to helping to guide blind people in their everyday lives.

September 15th, 2009 DAV seeks participates in online 'march'WASHINGTON — The Disabled American Veterans service organization is encouraging veterans and others to march in Washington — online at least. In what it dubs the "Million Claims March," the advocacy group is using social networking sites to encourage veterans to participate online in chats starting Tuesday about the backlog in disability claims at the Veterans Affairs Department and other veterans issues.

April 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Rocket launches in future may require more stringent regulation to minimise damage to the ozone layer of the Earth's atmosphere, according to a new study. Today, just a handful of NASA space shuttle launches release more ozone-depleting substances in the stratosphere than the entire annual use of CFC-based medical inhalers used to treat asthma and other diseases in the US, said Darin Toohey, professor of Colorado University at Boulder (CUB) atmospheric and oceanic sciences department.

April 17th, 2009 NEW YORK - In another step in its transformation from an online jumble of amateur videos to a destination for mainstream TV programs and movies, YouTube said Thursday that it had signed deals with Hollywood studios to showcase thousands of TV episodes and hundreds of movies on its Web site. Google, which owns YouTube, said it might eventually bring another innovation to the site: payment for some premium content.

September 10th, 2009 AT&T launches an online video site like HuluDALLAS — AT&T Inc. on Thursday unveiled a Web site that offers free access to TV shows and movies.