Bucking Industry Trend, TelcoTV09 Qualified Attendance Jumps 30 PercentRebookings Up for 2010 Event, Nokia Siemens Networks, Motorola, Occam Networks, Adtran and others Take Leadership Positions and/or Increase Space for Next Year's Show in Vegas blinkx Kick-Starts the Holiday Season With Festive Videos on Everything From Perfect Pumpkin Pies to Gift-giving GuidesFind your Fa La La's at www.blinkx.com SAN FRANCISCO, November 18 - blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, is Creating Music is Just a Quick Tap Away With the New PatternMusic App for the iPhoneSAN FRANCISCO, November 16 - Composing one's own music becomes more intuitive with the release of Cookbook Challenges ‘Good Taste’ in Defense of Free Speech and International RightsSAN FRANCISCO - If you have never heard of “Natural Harvest,” the only semen-based cookbook currently on the market, you are not alone. Despite international media attention, “Natural Harvest” (ISBN: 9781424314614) has managed to stay under the mainstream radar - but just barely. That may be about to change with a nomination for the Gourmand World Cookbook Award, a prestigious international recognition of exceptional and groundbreaking culinary literature. The 2010 Game Developers Conference Announces New Summits and Pass Options as Online Registration OpensSAN FRANCISCO - Registration is now open for the 2010 Game Developers Conference(R) (GDC 2010). GDC 2010, produced by the Think Services Game Group, returns to San Francisco on Tuesday, March 9 through Saturday, March 13, 2010 for five days of lectures, panels, summits, tutorials and roundtable discussions on a comprehensive selection of game development topics taught by leading industry experts. The first two days of the conference will feature a total of eight summits, two of which are new to the GDC lineup: the iPhone Games Summit and the Social & Online Games Summit. GDC 2010 will also play host to the GDC Expo, the GDC Career Pavilion, the 12th Annual Independent Games Festival and the 10th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards. GDC continues to serve game developer attendees with core educational one and two day tutorials and sponsored developer days. Registration and conference information is available online at the official GDC website www.gdconf.com. ThoughtWorks Studios to Demo Mingle Integration With Google Wave for Agile ALMSAN FRANCISCO - - Keynote presentation at Enterprise 2.0 conference illustrates how Google Wave can help transform IT management and Agile software development collaboration ThoughtWorks Studios’ New Mingle 3.0 Improves Team Collaboration and Program Management for Agile ALMSAN FRANCISCO - - Development teams can collaborate via enterprise IM chat that is tied to specific Mingle(R) artifacts for on-demand review, new reporting extends across multiple projects CCBR-SYNARC Expands Electronic Data Capture CapabilitiesSAN FRANCISCO - CCBR-SYNARC, the world’s leading provider of medical image analysis, biochemical marker, and clinical research center services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, announced the expansion of its Electronic Data Capture (”EDC”) capabilities for use in imaging clinical trials. blinkx CEO Suranga Chandratillake to Deliver Keynote Presentation at Medientage MunchenSAN FRANCISCO - - Chandratillake to address the role of online video in the European marketplace and beyond Sang Won Chung Joins Advisory Board of OutsparkSAN FRANCISCO - - Seasoned Industry Executive Brings Experience in Developing Micro-Transaction Models And Launching Free-to-Play Games in Asia to Leading North American Game Publisher Get Your Groove on with blinkx Music; blinkx Delivers a Universal Jukebox for Music Videos OnlineSAN FRANCISCO - - Find all of your favorite music videos, fast and free on www.music.blinkx.com Commonwealth Bank of Australia Announces 5-Year Deal With IdenTrustSAN FRANCISCO - IdenTrust Inc. today announced it has been selected by Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) for the provision of high assurance digital identities. Expertise of New MAAWG Committee Chairs Advances Efforts Against Messaging AbuseSAN FRANCISCO - The largest global industry association tackling spam and other messaging concerns, the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) has announced committee chair appointments for the coming year as it continues to develop initiatives to improve messaging safeguards. The 2009-2010 chairs will be instrumental in driving the organization’s efforts to curtail bots, spam, Web messaging abuse, mobile threats and emerging vulnerabilities. SPB Software Receives the Prestigious Smaato AwardSAN FRANCISCO - SPB Software, a leading mobile software developer, has won the prestigious Smaato Advertising Award 2009 in the “Windows Mobile Phone Software” category for its outstanding mobile television solution - SPB TV. SPB Software’s team members were happy to officially receive this honourable prize during the grand ceremony that took place in San Francisco on October 16th 2009. Air Force General to Outline New Cyber Security Defense Mission at MAAWG October MeetingSAN FRANCISCO - - Meeting Will Advance Industry Cooperation on Messaging Security Promoting global cooperation against spam and other online abuse, the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) will focus on critical technical and public policy issues at its fall meeting, including bot mitigation, Web messaging abuse, and mobile spam among other topics. U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. David B. Warner will keynote the three-day event, outlining the government’s new military cyber security defense initiative, and several invited Internet organizations will join the meeting as MAAWG works to forge closer ties among industry, government and public policy agencies. GlideTV(R) Simplifies the PC Experience in the Living RoomSAN FRANCISCO - - Introduces the perfect input device to navigate the Internet from your TV. Surge of New Titles and Partnerships in Past 90 Days Drives Significant Growth for ZinioSAN FRANCISCO - – Global Interest Accelerates Company’s Mission to Revolutionize Reading – blinkx Adds Premium Health Video to IndexSAN FRANCISCO - - The Doctor is in at www.blinkx.com blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine, today announced new partnerships with the NBC Digital Health Network, icyou, and PreOp.com. Hundreds of medical and health-related clips are now easily accessible at www.blinkx.com. Leveraging its unique AdHoc platform, blinkx will also place contextually relevant advertising against these videos. First Annual Independent Games Festival China Announces FinalistsSAN FRANCISCO - Organizers of the inaugural Independent Games Festival China (IGF China) have revealed that over 100 entries were received for the first-ever showcase of Asia-Pacific indie games, and finalists have now been decided for both the Main and Student competitions, with winners revealed next week at GDC China in Shanghai. Hellman & Friedman Announces Final Close of US$8.8 Billion Private Equity Fund; Firm Implements Management Transition PlanSAN FRANCISCO - - Philip Hammarskjold named CEO; Brian Powers becomes Chairman Hellman & Friedman LLC, a leading private equity investment firm based in San Francisco, today announced the successful closing of Hellman & Friedman Capital Partners VII (HFCP VII), an US$8.8 billion fund and the largest in the Firm’s history. With the closing of HFCP VII, Hellman & Friedman has successfully raised over US$25 billion of committed capital since its first partnership in 1987. BurrellesLuce Selects blinkx for Video Media Monitoring ServicesSAN FRANCISCO - - Pioneering media monitoring company enhances offering with blinkx’s patented search technology Min Kim to Keynote 2009 Game Developers Conference(R) ChinaSAN FRANCISCO - - Nexon VP to Share Knowledge for Successfully Adapting and Monetizing Asian Games to Western Markets Double Fusion Brings Dynamic In-Game Ads to Dead to Rights(R): RetributionSAN FRANCISCO - - First dynamic in-game agreement for NAMCO BANDAI Games America opens advertising opportunities in upcoming titles Results from Abbott’s PROSPECT Study Provide New Insight into Role of Vulnerable Plaque in Coronary Artery DiseaseSAN FRANCISCO - Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today announced primary results from its groundbreaking PROSPECT (Providing Regional Observations to Study Predictors of Events in the Coronary Tree) clinical trial. PROSPECT is the first prospective natural history study to evaluate the role of vulnerable plaque in unexpected heart attacks and the natural progression of coronary artery disease. Results were presented today during the late-breaking clinical trials session by Gregg W. Stone, M.D., professor of medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, during the 2009 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) annual meeting. InspireMD Announces the Enrollment of the 1st Patient in the MGuard(TM) Israeli Registry. InspireMD Will Also Sponsor a Satellite Program Breakfast Meeting at the TCT Conference on September 24th 2009 in the Moscone Exhibition Center in San FranciscoSAN FRANCISCO - InspireMD, developers of MGuard(TM), announced today that the first patient has been enrolled in the Israeli MGuard(TM) Registry. MGuard(TM) was successfully implanted in Natanya, Israel, at the Laniado Hospital Cath Lab, managed by Dr. Yitzhak Herz, the principal investigator for the Registry at this hospital. Abbott’s XIENCE V(R) Superior to TAXUS(R) in Key Safety and Efficacy Measures in SPIRIT IV TrialSAN FRANCISCO - At One Year, XIENCE V Demonstrates: - Statistical Superiority on Primary Endpoint of Target Lesion Failure, with a 38 Percent Reduction Compared to TAXUS Abbott’s XIENCE V(R) Demonstrates Significantly Lower Rates of MACE and Stent Thrombosis Compared to TAXUS(R) Liberte in Investigator-Initiated COMPARE TrialSAN FRANCISCO - - Independent Study of 1,800 Patients Affirms Outstanding Performance of XIENCE V vs. TAXUS Liberte Game Developers Conference China to Feature Suite of Speakers From Maxis, Blizzard, CCP Games, Dice EA, Ubisoft Chengdu and MoreSAN FRANCISCO - Game Developers Conference China (GDC China) has assembled an esteemed lineup of speakers from noted industry players including Blizzard Entertainment, creators of World of Warcraft, Maxis, creators of Spore and The Sims, Dice EA, creators of Mirror’s Edge, and many more. GDC China presented by Think Services, a division of United Business Media, will take place at the Shanghai Convention Center, October 11-13 of this year. blinkx Partners With the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to Bring Users Worldwide the Best in Canadian CultureSAN FRANCISCO - - Get your Northern exposure at www.blinkx.com blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine, today announced a new partnership with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Canada’s national public radio and television broadcast network. Clips from the station’s online video library are now easily available at www.blinkx.com. Leveraging its unique AdHoc platform, blinkx will also place contextually relevant advertising against these videos, and share resulting advertising revenue with CBC. Marvell Introduces Industry’s First 6Gb/s SATA RAID ControllerSAN FRANCISCO - - Industry Leaders Support Next Generation, High Performance, Cost Effective Computing as Market Readies for 2010 6Gb/s SATA Adoption Supermicro Presents Revolutionary Advances in Twin Server Technology at IDFSAN FRANCISCO - - Unprecedented Performance-per-Watt, per-Dollar, per-Square Foot INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM — Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a leader in application-optimized, high-performance server solutions, is showcasing its leadership in Twin server technology at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2009, Moscone Center West, San Francisco, September 22-24. Located in Gold Sponsor booth #207, Supermicro is demonstrating its 1U Twin(TM) and 2U Twin2 (Squared) SuperServers and unveiling its revolutionary new TwinBlade(TM) with 20 dual-processor (DP) blades in 7U. In addition, Supermicro CEO and president, Charles Liang, will give a 50-minute presentation entitled “Twin Technology: 1U - 0.5U - 0.35U” in Room 2003 today at 5:00pm. Brunswick Group Releases Survey Findings on New Media Usage by Investment CommunitySAN FRANCISCO - ~ Survey of Institutional Investors and Sell-Side Analysts Identifies Information Direct from Companies as Most Influential ~ ~ Impact of Blogs, Social Networks Limited but Growing ~ MitraClip(R) Therapy Data Demonstrate Significant Reduction in Mitral Valve Annulus Dimensions in High-Risk Patients With Functional Mitral RegurgitationSAN FRANCISCO - - 12-Month Data Also Demonstrate Significant Reduction in Left Ventricular Volumes Data Show Long-Term Mechanical Integrity of MitraClip(R) and Complete Healing Following Implantation of the Device for Mitral Valve RepairSAN FRANCISCO - - Results of Histopathology and Mechanical Integrity Analysis of MitraClip(R) Devices Presented at TCT 2009 MitraClip(R) Therapy Data Demonstrate Significant Left Ventricular Reverse Remodeling in Patients With Sustained Reduction of Mitral RegurgitationSAN FRANCISCO - - 12-Month Data Presented at TCT 2009 Show Significant Improvement in Left Ventricular Function with no Change in Annular Dimensions |
