Proven Reliability for Accountants Choosing IRIS Tax Solutions for Online Filing

September 27th, 2009 MUNICH, Germany - - Cooperative Venture With usd.de AG Ensures Compliance With the Highest of Security Standards - Information to Merchants Available With Immediate Effect at www.wirecardbank.com/pci From the beginning of October 2009, Acquiring clients of Wirecard AG will have a PCI service portal available to them under the URL www.pci.wirecardbank.com, a portal managed by usd.de and which provides merchants with support concerning the disclosure and documentation processes to be complied with. In addition, competent contact persons will be available to answer questions by phone and e-mail.

July 20th, 2009 LONDON - IRIS Accountancy Practice Solutions, the market leading provider of fully integrated software and services to the accountancy sector, has been awarded a major contract to provide Titcheners, the multi-office Thames Valley accountancy practice, with an offshore outsourcing service that will open up capacity and help the firm towards its goal of becoming a top 50 firm within the next 5 years. Titcheners will outsource a major proportion of its bookkeeping, personal tax and statutory accounts work using IRIS Resourcing (www.iris.co.uk/resourcing); a comprehensive outsourcing offering operated from Chennai, India.

July 7th, 2009 BERKSHIRE, England - IRIS Accountancy Practice Solutions has announced the appointment of marketing veteran John Pattenden as Product Director. Pattenden will lead the enhancement of the current product set which includes IRIS, PTP and Drummohr solutions and develop a road map for the next generation needs of accountancy practices.

April 27th, 2009 LONDON - Strengthens Focus on Quality Product Delivery Whilst Expanding Team to Meet Demands of Increased Legislative Change IRIS Accountancy Practice Solutions today announced that in the course of the past twelve months it has doubled the size of its Development organisation, strengthening its focus on product quality, whilst significantly expanding resources to meet the demands of increasing legislative change. In line with a Group wide initiative to invest GBP20m in R&D during 2009, IRIS Accountancy Practice Solutions (www.iris.co.uk/practice) has now brought together its Engineering teams from IRIS, PTP and Drummohr and has concurrently delivered new releases of all three product lines for the new tax year.

April 15th, 2009 COLLEGE PARK, Maryland - Consequences of Moore's Law Creates Major Concerns for Government Agencies and Critical Need in the Electronics Industry DfR Solutions today announced that a cooperative of avionic companies and government agencies has asked DfR to develop a software tool for predicting integrated circuit (IC) reliability. The tool will incorporate work on semiconductor failure mechanisms done by noted industry expert Professor Joseph Bernstein of Bar Ilan University.

April 13th, 2009 LONDON - IRIS Resourcing Delivers Ground Breaking Quality of Delivery for UK Accountants Looking to Outsource IRIS, the market leading provider of software and associated services to UK accountancy firms, today announced that the ISO 9001:2000 accreditation has been renewed for its offshore outsourcing service, IRIS Resourcing. ISO 9001 is by far the world's most established quality framework, currently being used by over 3/4 million organisations in 161 countries, and sets the standard not only for quality management systems, but management systems in general.

April 7th, 2009 VIENNA, Austria - Liposuction and Breast Augmentation in one go Many women feel uncomfortable with padding around the hips and small breasts. Until recently correction required two operations: One for liposuction, the other for breast enlargement with silicon and scalpel.

April 5th, 2009 DATCHET, England - New Releases of all IRIS Accountancy Products Include: Drummohr, PTP & IRIS Practice Suite - 44% of all UK Accountancy Practices*, Receive Their new Release in Time for new Tax Year, and are Assured of Full Compliance IRIS Accountancy Practice Solutions announces the release of all IRIS Accountancy Practice software products to all IRIS customers, including major updates to Drummohr, PTP and the IRIS Practice Suite. Despite a significant number of changes to legislation, tax rates and allowances and changes to returns, the IRIS accountancy practice development teams completed rigorous testing of the April releases, on schedule, so that over 14,000 firms relying on the three IRIS families of software products to run their businesses are fully compliant from the beginning of the new tax year.

March 18th, 2009 DATCHET, England - 1.745m Returns Filed With HMRC Through IRIS Software by January Deadline - IRIS Customers Filed Almost as Many Returns As All Other Software Vendors Customers Put Together IRIS Today announced that figures released by HMRC show that returns filed online using IRIS tax software amounted to an incredible 1.745m in the run up to the January 31st 2009 deadline. Rising to the challenge of Lord Carter, for a connected online Government, by 2012, UK Accountants and Citizens filed a total of 5,759,006 returns online according to HMRC, with just over 5.4m Self Assessment returns completed for individuals.

March 10th, 2009 LONDON - The "2009 World Iris Recognition Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award," is presented to IrisGuard Inc. (IrisGuard) in recognition of its unique iris recognition technologies.

September 19th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - At a time of pink slips, salary cuts and global economic gloom, what is the best job to have? Be a chartered accountant, that's what a top group of accountants says. "There is no impact of recession on Indian chartered accountants (CAs) because no company can manage without them.

July 4th, 2009 AGRA - Indian chartered accountants can now practise in Australia with the inking of an agreement between the chartered accountants institutes of India and Australia at an event here. The agreement, signed Friday evening, will facilitate exchange of accounting professionals of the two countries.

June 28th, 2009 KOLKATA - The high-powered committee set up by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) to probe the multi-crore Satyam Computer fraud would submit its report July 9. "We will submit the report to the ministry of corporate affairs on July 9 after we finalise it at the final internal meeting of the committee on July 4 in Agra," ICAI president U.P.

September 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Indian IT major Wipro Technologies has partnered with global energy management firm Schneider Electric to market its industrial automation solutions in India. Under the agreement, Wipro will offer an additional commercial channel and outstanding project execution capability Schneider to market and deliver its state-of-the-art solutions.

August 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Researchers in South Africa have come up with a system that allows biometric data to be used to create a secret key for data encryption. Describing the new technology in the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, Bobby Tait and Basie von Solms of the University of Johannesburg have shed some light on how biometrics-fingerprints, iris pattern, etc.-can be used to encrypt and decrypt data, so that Internet users do not have to remember endless, complicated passwords.

June 22nd, 2009 AHMEDABAD - A large number of accountants have been appointed in Gujarat to calculate and maintain the record of cash and jewellery recovered from alleged conman Ashok Jadeja, police said here Monday. "With millions of rupees and jewellery being recovered from the residences of Jadeja, his agents and relatives since his arrest in Ahmedabad, keeping record of the recoveries has become a problem.

June 16th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari said Tuesday that the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) should help find solutions to regional problems and proposed a special mechanism for his country's involvement in three key areas - security, energy and trade. There was need to find concrete solutions instead of stop-gap arrangements, Zardari said while addressing the ninth SCO summit in this Russian industrial city, adding SCO must help finding solutions to regional problems, Online news agency reported.

September 30th, 2009 Pastor shoots, wounds intruder at Detroit churchDETROIT — A retired police officer-turned-pastor shot and wounded a man who broke into his Detroit church, police said Monday. Lawrence Adams went to Westside Bible Church on Sunday evening and found the intruder inside the building, said Detroit police Sgt.

April 13th, 2009 LONDON - You are chatting animatedly with someone on a dating website, but the moment you catch a whiff of his odour, you decide he is not the one for you, never mind his good looks or similar tastes. Dating websites like Basisnote, a start-up company, will soon permit you to match your odour profile with that of your prospective partner and will help you decide whether you find the smell pleasant or not.

September 19th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Corporate enterprises will have to make extra efforts to avoid fraud in their companies as no law can guarantee against it, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) president said Saturday. "No law can save companies from frauds, and Satyam is a recent example.