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Net Insight Creates Opportunity In The New Video Landscape With Its Solutions For Service-Aware Media Networks

Net Insight’s unique SAMN approach meets the call for smarter delivery of IP video so service providers can enter the OTT-value-chain and capitalize on the new media trends

STOCKHOLM, Sweden – 29 February 2012 - Net Insight, a leading provider of efficient and scalable transport solutions for media, IP and broadcast networks, unveils key industry insights outlined in a recent analyst white paper by an independent research firm. The white paper provides an overview of how service providers can capitalize on the many emerging business opportunities developing from today’s changing video and media landscape. It recommends utilizing a service aware media network (SAMN) architecture to drive revenue opportunities in video production, distribution and delivery over existing IP networks.

The white paper “New Video Landscape Dynamics Require Smarter Delivery of IP Video,” explores how today’s new video landscape opens up opportunities for IP service providers to become part more

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Protecode Announces Tools to Accelerate Embedded Development in German Market

OTTAWA, CANADA & NUREMBERG, GERMANY – February 28, 2012 – Protecode, the leading provider of easy-to-adopt, easy-to-use open source license management solutions, today announced expansion of its presence in Europe through a new German distributor, Embedded Tools. With more than 20 years experience in the German market, Embedded Tools provides leading edge software development tools for embedded systems, giving customers the solutions they need to develop their products quickly and efficiently. Protecode will showcase its open source software management suite at Embedded World 2012 in Nuremberg, in Hall 4, Booth 4-127, February 28-March 1. Protecode CEO, Mahshad Koohgoli, will speak on the topic of leveraging open source software in embedded development on March 1st at 3:30pm at the conference.

Protecode System 4TM addresses license management at different stages of a software development process, implementing an end-to-end solution for a complete Open Source Software Adoption Process (OSSAP). Complexity of software more

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Maxcom Deploys Envivio Encoders to Power Mexico’s First OTT, IPTV and VOD Streaming Service

Envivio Multi-Profile Encoder Provides Live and On-Demand Video Anytime, Anywhere

South San Francisco, February 27, 2012 – Envivio, a leading provider of live and on-demand multi-screen IP video processing and delivery solutions, today announced a new deployment with Maxcom, a leading integrated telecommunication services operator in Mexico. Maxcom selected Envivio’s 4Caster™ C4 Gen III encoders to power Yuzu, its new live and on-demand over-the-top (OTT) streaming service. Yuzu currently offers 24 live channels and 1,300 on-demand assets to PCs, Macs, iPads and iPhones. Maxcom plans to nearly double the number of channels and video-on-demand (VOD) assets by the end of this year.

Envivio offers the industry’s leading encoding/transcoding solutions developed specifically for multi-screen delivery. The versatile 1-RU 4Caster platform performs a variety of functions including: multi-profile encoding, transcoding, packaging, encryption and publishing within a single system that delivers broadcast-quality TV, HTTP streaming and 3GPP mobile video. The Envivio more

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Cortado Connector for RightFax Enables OpenText Customers To Send Faxes with Smartphones and Tablets

The partnership between OpenText and Cortado integrates mobile devices into the IT environment resulting in further BYOD options

Denver – February 22, 2012 − OpenText, a global market leader for fax solutions, and cloud desktop provider Cortado announce the release of the Cortado Connector for RightFax. The Connector, jointly developed by Cortado and the Canadian company OpenText, allows RightFax customers to send faxes directly from iPads, iPhones, Android and BlackBerry smartphones via their fax server solution.

To use the integrated solution, customers simply require a RightFax server running in conjunction with both the Cortado Connector for RightFax and the Cortado Corporate Server. This combination makes it possible to not only send mobile faxes, but also to access files with a smartphone or tablet, view database reports, or print. In the back end, the Cortado Corporate Server acts as a Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution while providing secure more

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Cortado completes its Cloud Desktop offering with an HTML5 client, enabling secure and scalable access to corporate resources with any device from iPads to PCs

Cortado steps up to the bring your own device (BYOD) pressefoto_html5_client.jpgand consumerization challenges

Denver – February 22, 2012 − Cortado, the leading innovator of the business class of cloud desktop services, today releases the HTML5 client of its cloud desktop solution Cortado Corporate Server for browser-enabled devices. In addition to iPads, iPhones, Android and BlackBerry devices, now notebooks, PCs, Macs, and other web-enabled devices can be quickly and securely integrated into the corporate IT environment. Regardless of the device, users receive the same form of remote access to corporate resources and can securely access central data, manage documents and edit files.

The number of employees who use their private smartphones, tablets, or Macs for business purposes continues to grow. This has IT managers facing the challenge of securely and easily integrating different devices, from different manufacturers, with completely different security and operating concepts into their IT more

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Net Insight AB: YEAR-END REPORT 2011

Net Insight AB [publ] Corporate Reg. No 556533-4397

Fourth Quarter 2011
· Net Sales of SEK 80.3 million (88.1) a decrease of 8.9% compared to the same period previous year. In comparable currencies the decrease was 7.6%.

· Operating earnings of SEK 16.1 million (15.7), corresponding to an operating margin of 20.0% (17.8).

· Earnings per share of SEK 0.06 (0.05).

· Total cash flow of SEK 0.8 million (31.6).

January - December 2011
· Net sales of SEK 294.5 million (287.7) corresponding to a growth of 2.4% compared to the same period previous year. The growth rate in comparable currencies amounts to 7.8%.

· Operating earnings of SEK 42.8 million (43.1), corresponding to an operating margin of 14.5 % (15.0).

· Earnings per share of SEK 0.13 (0.26), decrease is related to a positive one time effect in 2010.

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Alteva Partners with Parallels to Provide Hosted VoIP Services to Cloud Services Customers

Alteva Partners with Parallels to Provide Hosted VoIP Services to Cloud Services Customers

Implementing Hosted VoIP with Parallels Automation Offers Affordable Solutions for SMBs

ORLANDO, FL and PHILADELPHIA, PA– February 16, 2012 – Alteva, a leading cloud-based Unified Communications (UC) solution provider and subsidiary of Warwick Valley Telephone Company (NASDAQ: WWVY) (referred to as WVT Communications Group), today announced its new partnership with Parallels, the hosting and cloud services enablement leader. The announcement was made in Orlando during Parallels Summit 2012, an event that attracts a global audience of over 1,200 leading participants from across the cloud and hosting industry.

Through the APS BroadSoft beta program, Parallels will provide its customers access to a turn-key hosted VoIP white label solution. The APS BroadSoft beta program is a way to jumpstart the on-boarding of new clients for the Parallels community and will provide SMB customers with a more

Porticor Launches to Deliver Industry’s Highest Levels of Trust and Security for Protecting Data in the Cloud

With Security Issues Around Cloud Encryption Keys Unaddressed, Information Security Experts Launch Porticor to Deliver First Cloud Encryption and Homomorphic Key Management Solution

TEL AVIV, Israel – Feb. 15, 2012 – Porticor®, the leading cloud data security company delivering the only cloud-based data encryption solution that infuses trust into the cloud by ensuring customer keys are never exposed, today formally launched to make available the industry’s first solution combining data encryption with patented key management to protect critical data in public, private and hybrid cloud environments.

Since Porticor uniquely addresses the fundamental cloud security issue of data encryption with keys managed in the cloud, companies are now assured that their private data stored in the cloud across a variety of storage types, including virtual disks, databases, distributed storage and file systems, is fully protected.

“Many organizations have already realized the advantages of cloud infrastructure, but security hazards more

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Porticor Unveils Virtual Private Data System, Industry’s First Encryption and Key Management Solution Protecting Cloud Data

Customers Secure Data with Cloud-based Encryption Built for Homomorphic Key Management that Delivers Security and Trust of On-Premise Data Protection Systems for the Cloud

TEL AVIV, Israel – Feb. 15, 2012 – Porticor®, the leading cloud data security company delivering the only cloud-based data encryption solution that infuses trust into the cloud by ensuring customer keys are never exposed, today introduced the Porticor Virtual Private Data™ (Porticor VPD™) system, the industry’s first solution combining data encryption with patented key management to protect critical data in public, private and hybrid cloud environments.

Until today, the requirements for securing company and customer private data stored in the cloud were not fully met, due to the issue of keys stored in the cloud not being addressed. Now, enterprises can leverage Porticor’s patent-pending homomorphic split-key encryption technology to ensure the privacy of data stored in the cloud, and benefit from the industry’s more

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Send a Heart to Facebook Friends and Help Provide Solar Power to Two Kindergartens in Guatemala

abwlogo.JPGmick-village-light-sm-prt-2281.JPGToonUps Challenges Facebook Gamers to Send Valentine Hearts

PHILADELPHIA – February 14, 2012 – ToonUps today announced that they will fund the installation of solar powered generators to light two Guatemalan schools in villages that have never had electric power. ToonUps has challenged their players to send 50,000 virtual hearts from within their A Better World Facebook game. The game allows players to send digital hearts themed around love, friendship, fun, and good will to friends, family, and loved ones. If A Better World players meet the goal by February 29, ToonUps will fund this initiative to light up the lives of Guatemalan kindergarten students.

The challenge is the latest in their “Reach the Stars” initiative that encourages its Facebook gamers to do good for others. Reaching the 50,000 mark will unleash funds that can more

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