NetLogic Microsystems Announces the Industry's Widest Bandwidth Digital Front End Processors for 3G and 4G/LTE Base Stations.(Company overview)

NetLogic Microsystems' OP6100 family of Digital Front End (DFE) processors delivers 65MHz of occupied bandwidth, 145MHz of total bandwidth and 325MHz of pre-distortion bandwidth

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. [NASDAQ: NETL], a worldwide leader in high-performance intelligent semiconductor solutions for next-generation Internet networks, today announced the availability of the OP6100 family of digital front-end (DFE) processors which delivers 65MHz of occupied bandwidth, 145MHz of total bandwidth and 325MHz of pre-distortion bandwidth for next-generation 3G and 4G/LTE base stations, remote radio heads (RRUs) and distributed antenna systems (DAS). This dramatic breakthrough represents over 220% increase in bandwidth over competing available merchant DFE solutions, and at a fraction of the cost and power of FPGA-based solutions. In addition, the innovative OP6100 DFE processor family supports multiple standards and multiple signals in the same wide bandwidth as well as full support over non-contiguous bands, and features NetLogic Microsystems' Intelligent Self-Adaptive DFE[TM] technology.

The exponential growth in mobile data traffic in the next decade, coupled with global spectrum scarcity, are forcing service providers and operators worldwide to push the limits on capacity and throughput for their limited spectrum. This is in turn driving a need for next-generation base stations that can support dramatically wider bandwidth, significantly more signal channels and more protocols (2G/3G/4G) in each band.

By delivering the industry's widest signal bandwidth, NetLogic Microsystems' OP6100 DFE processor family enables the industry's highest spectrum efficiency through the simultaneous processing of multiple signal channels per band, as well as the multi-protocol co-existence of 4G LTE, 3G and 2G standards. This unique ability to support multiple signals and multiple protocols in a significantly wider bandwidth spectrum, coupled with the unique ability to span over non-contiguous bands, is enabling service providers to upgrade the performance and functionality of existing base stations without the time and costs associated with deploying new base stations or antennas. Moreover, the OP6100 DFE processor family greatly improves the cost and power profiles of next-generation base stations by eliminating the need for costly and very power-hungry FPGA devices and conventional DFE solutions that are traditionally used to implement DFE functionality.

"Leading service providers are seeking ultra-wideband and multi-standard, common-platform base stations for their next-generation LTE rollouts," said Behrooz Abdi, executive vice president at NetLogic Microsystems. "Our ability to push the envelope to achieve 65MHz occupied bandwidth and 145MHz of total bandwidth gives us tremendous competitive advantages in addressing these next-generation base station opportunities."

NetLogic Microsystems' unique Intelligent Self-Adaptive DFE technology that is integrated in the OP6100 DFE processor family enables the base station to calibrate in real-time to real-world environments and variations, thereby accelerating and enhancing the manageability of LTE developments for Tier One original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). In addition, this technology makes the OP6100 DFE processor family agnostic to power amplifier architectures and technologies, and supports the broadest range of Doherty, Asymmetric Doherty and Envelope-Tracking power amplifiers in LDMOS, GaN and GaAs technologies. This enables unprecedented scalability in DFE processing for OEMs across multiple platforms and base station form factors. Moreover, the best-in-class OP6100 DFE processor family from NetLogic Microsystems delivers up to 80% better transmit power efficiency over competing solutions, which enables OEMs to achieve higher data rates at much lower transmit power levels.

For more information about the OP6100 DFE processor, please contact sales@netlogicmicro.com.

About NetLogic Microsystems

NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETL) is a worldwide leader in high-performance intelligent semiconductor solutions that are powering next-generation Internet networks. NetLogic Microsystems' best-in-class products perform highly differentiated tasks of accelerating complex network traffic to significantly enhance the performance and functionality of advanced 3G/4G mobile wireless infrastructure, data center, enterprise, metro Ethernet, edge and core infrastructure networks. NetLogic Microsystems' market-leading product portfolio includes high-performance multi-core processors, knowledge-based processors, content processors, network search engines, ultra low-power embedded processors and high-speed 10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet PHY solutions. These products are designed into high-performance systems such as switches, routers, wireless base stations, security appliances, networked storage appliances, service gateways and connected media devices offered by leading original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). NetLogic Microsystems is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and has offices and design centers throughout North America, Asia and Europe. For more information about products offered by NetLogic Microsystems, call +1-408-454-3000 or visit the NetLogic Microsystems Web site at http://www.netlogicmicro.com.

NetLogic Microsystems, the NetLogic Microsystems logo, Putting Intelligence in the Network, and Intelligent Self-Adaptive DFE are trademarks of NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.

Chicago's Marcel Media Wins Two eHealthcare Leadership Awards.

Prominent Interactive Agency Recognized for Outstanding Work with NorthShore University HealthSystem

(PRWEB) November 10, 2009 -- Chicago-based strategic interactive advisory firm, Marcel Media, announced its achievements in the 2009 eHealthcare Leadership Awards for its outstanding work with NorthShore University HealthSystem. Marcel Media won a Gold Award for "Best Overall Website"and Silver Award for "Best Healthcare Content," exemplifying NorthShore's website as an authoritative source for online health information and resources. Marcel Media has partnered with the well-known Chicago-area health system to create its online marketing strategy and web 2.0 applications since 2003.

The eHealthcare Leadership Awards are presented annually by eHealthcare Strategy & Trends, a prominent Internet publication serving the healthcare industry. Marcel Media's accomplishments with NorthShore were chosen from within an overwhelming 1,100 entries. Applicants ranged from healthcare organizations, pharmaceutical/medical equipment firms, online health companies, business improvement initiatives and suppliers. Each organization had the opportunity to enter under one of 17 categories of comparable resources, size and type. This year, there were 12 different award categories, each designed to highlight the role of the Internet in achieving business objectives and goals.

Marcel Media was presented the awards during a special presentation at the 13th Annual Healthcare Internet Conference held November 2-4, 2009 in Las Vegas.

"As the demand for online health information grows, NorthShore University HealthSystem will continue to satisfy their audience's needs in useful and innovative ways. Our team is extremely proud of this accomplishment," said Kelly Cutler, Marcel Media CEO.

About Marcel Media

Marcel Media is an Inc. 5000 ranked, Chicago-based, strategic interactive advisory firm that specializes in search engine marketing, web development and custom web integration, social networking, online marketing, and analytics solutions. Since 2003, Marcel Media has worked with clients such as Ryland Homes, Hub International and NorthShore University HealthSystem to achieve their online marketing goals, and delivering award-winning campaigns. For more information visit: www.marcelmedia.com.

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Wyse Announces 'Virtualize My Classroom' Solutions - Simple, Manageable Ways To Use Today's Technology to Improve Learning.

Classroom-in-a-Box and Other Wyse Education Solutions use Virtualization and Cloud Computing to Save Teachers Time, Money and Energy

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Wyse Technology, the global leader in thin computing and client virtualization, today announced a new generation of solutions for the education environment. Wyse Technology's newest Education offerings include:

   --  Wyse Classroom-in-a-Box:  A bundled product offering based on the Wyse       Zero Client solution below, simplifies the set up, maintenance and       management of the IT infrastructure for school districts working       within budget constraints, while improving overall performance.       Classroom-in-a-Box complements Wyse's existing solutions for the       education market:   --  Wyse Zero Client Computing Solution: Delivers uncompromised experience       and performance, without the PC hassle. Wyse Zero clients work with       *Wyse WSM software installed on an existing PC, a server, or on the       new Wyse **WSM Appliance.  Students use inexpensive Wyse Zero Clients       in a Windows OS environment to run any standard Windows application,       with full-performance multimedia and 3D graphics.  Best of all, the       solution does not expose the school to application licensing and       technical issues created by existing PC-sharing approaches.   --  Wyse Thin Client Computing Solution: Uses small, silent and energy       efficient thin clients with a server running client virtualization       solutions such as Microsoft Terminal Services, Citrix XenApp, VMware       View or Citrix XenDesktop. The Wyse Thin Client Computing Solution is       its most affordable way to deliver more computers to students at a low       total cost of acquisition and ownership.    --  Wyse Web Client Solution: With more and more software accessible via a       browser, this new solution is an effective approach to deliver Cloud       or web applications and uses the Internet, rather than a local server       infrastructure. Deployable in minutes, this solution brings the       convenience and affordability of Cloud computing without the costly       maintenance of traditional desktops.    

*Wyse WSM(TM) - Provisioning Software powers maintenance-free Zero Clients, delivering full distributed PC functionality with centralized management and control. WSM uses familiar Windows OSs and applications, runs rich applications like Google Earth, and ensures that students stay focused, unable to make unwanted changes to the environment. With the click of a mouse, a teacher can reset an entire classroom of desks to a fresh, known state, ready for learning.

**The New Wyse WSM Appliance(TM), which delivers rich experience of XP Pro, Vista or Windows 7 for faculty and students. This easy-to-use appliance includes HW, OS and WSM Provisioning Software* in one unit. The WSM Appliance can power up to 25 Zero Client student workstations.

The Charter School of Morgan Hill in Morgan Hill, CA recently implemented Classroom-in-a-Box into its learning environments to reduce the amount of time teachers were spending on PC-related technical issues. As a result of the deployment, the teachers are spending significantly less time on IT tasks and are able to leverage the technology to enhance learning for their students.

"With the Classroom-in-a-Box, teachers are now spending time teaching, instead of wasting time with IT tasks. They love how easy it is to use for themselves and the students," said Paige Cisewski, Principal at Charter School of Morgan Hill. The teachers use the WSM solution to control the desktop environment. We enjoy being able to schedule content to be loaded on the machines at any given time so as classes come and go, the teachers "provision" the correct content for the specific class being taught."

"Wyse recognizes the importance of technology in the classroom and is proud to deliver solutions that solve the different needs, resources, IT infrastructure and pain points educators face," said Maryam Alexandrian, Senior VP of Worldwide Sales and Channels at Wyse. "We leverage today's virtualization and cloud computing concepts to deliver a low cost, high performance solution with the flexibility and control teachers need, with the experience that keeps students engaged."

Classroom-in-a-Box includes a WSM Appliance and three Zero Clients for $1,999. Additional clients can be added at any time for $329/device.

For more information on Wyse Education Solutions, Resources and Links, please visit, http://www.wyse.com/education

About Wyse Technology

Wyse Technology is the global leader in thin computing and client virtualization. Wyse and its partners, Citrix, IBM, Microsoft, VMware and others deliver the hardware, infrastructure software, and services that formulate the benefits of cloud computing, virtualization and Green IT. These thin computing solutions allow individuals and enterprises to access the information they need, but with better security, manageability, and at a much lower total cost of ownership than a PC. Wyse is headquartered in San Jose, California, with offices worldwide.

For more information, visit the Wyse website at http://www.wyse.com/ or call 1-800-GET-WYSE.

All brands and names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective holders.

CONTACT: Mary Devincenzi of Big Sky Communications, +1-408-436-3902, mary@bigskypr.com, for Wyse Technology

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pounds 1m web scam plot.(News)

A GANG of Ukrainian fruit pickers based in the Midlands fronted a worldwide internet scam which netted around pounds 1 million, a court heard.

At least six people, who had been living in Telford, Shropshire, were involved in fraud and money laundering using a series of false identities and bank accounts.

The alleged plot was revealed at Winchester Crown Court as part of a wider scam believed to have been masterminded by the Russian mafia and other eastern European organised crime gangs.

NetApp to Give Keynote Address at Services Industry Summit on Strategies for eService and Knowledge Management.

NetApp Senior Vice President of Global Support Rusty Walther to Deliver Keynote Address on May 22

Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP):

 What:     Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) will deliver a keynote           address entitled "Transforming a Knowledge Base into a           Knowledge Ecosystem" at the Services Industry Summit on           Strategies for eService and Knowledge Management. Rusty           Walther, senior vice president of Global Support at NetApp,           will investigate the pillars of success that are necessary to           support a true knowledge ecosystem, as well as the systems,           process, and personnel considerations and investments           necessary to transform your knowledge repository into a           self-maintaining, case-closing, cost-saving machine.  Keynote:  "Transforming a Knowledge Base into a Knowledge Ecosystem"  Speaker:  Rusty Walther, senior vice president of Global Support  Date:     Tuesday, May 22, 2007  Time:     8:45-9:45 a.m. Eastern Time  Where:    Francis Marion Hotel           387 King Street           Charleston, SC 29403  Event:    The Services Industry Summit features industry luminaries           from leading organizations who will share insights into the           hottest topics around -- eService and knowledge management --           and discuss where it's at, where it's going, and how it will           change the way you do business. 

Registration: For complete information or to register for the summit, please visit http://www.servicestrategies.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.detail/ newsid/152/RFA/home.home. (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.)

About Network Appliance

Network Appliance is a world leader in unified storage solutions for today's data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception in 1992, Network Appliance has delivered technology, product, and partner firsts that simplify data management. Information about Network Appliance[TM] solutions and services is available at www.netapp.com.

NetApp is a registered trademark and Network Appliance is a trademark of Network Appliance, Inc. in the U. S. and other countries. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.

Collaboration on demand.

To their evangelists, on-demand applications herald a new era of software. Their centrally hosted functionality, delivered over the web as a service, will free IT departments from some of the burden of managing central servers and local applications, enabling users to access their programmes and data anywhere the Internet reaches. The company perhaps most closely associated with this vision is Salesforce.com, provider of customer relationship management (CRM) tools and a software as a service (SaaS) applications platform. Its vocal CEO, Marc Benioff, and a successful stock market offering in 2004 made Salesforce hard to avoid in any conversation about web-based business applications.

But, arguably, a more intuitive use of a technology accessible through a browser is not CRM, with its focus on sales leads and customer targetting, but the sharing of information and collaboration. Indeed, analysts at IT market watcher IDC recently identified online conferencing provider WebEx (and not Salesforce) as the pioneer and leader of the on-demand market, ranking it as the number one among the top 25 on-demand software providers. The company "has settled comfortably into its role as the 900-pound gorilla of the web conferencing applications market", says IDC.

Like Salesforce, WebEx uses a multi-tenant architecture - the same core application serves every customer. That makes for a more stable business model than the doomed application service providers (ASPs) of the late 1990s in which ASPs hosted specific instances of applications for each customer.

It is easy to see how the multiple facets of web conferencing lend themselves to the SaaS model. The basics typically include shared presentation, workspace and applications, but these are now being augmented by instant messaging and the integration with video and audio conferencing, often using voice-over-IP technology to bring the whole experience onto the PC.

Aside from e-meetings and presentations, other important uses include remote training, for example around regulatory compliance or IT support, reducing much travel and increasing business flexibility and productivity. The ad hoc nature of meetings means web conferencing is particularly suited to the SaaS model because its features and benefits are available without needing to purchase, implement and manage a stack of hardware and software that is only occasionally used. "WebEx was developed for the masses not for the elite," says Shawn Farshchi, CIO and VP of technical operations at the company.

And the ranks of those masses are swelling. WebEx served its 14,000 customers with 2.2 billion online minutes in 2004. Around 60% of those conferences involved people from more than one organisation, a fact that prompts Farshchi to argue that cross-company collaboration is much harder when collaboration tools reside behind a corporate firewall.

However, that raises the thorny question of which of the two models - hosted or internal - is more secure? Steve Frost, business development manager for IP communications systems at Cisco, has no doubt. He argues that the firewall - along with other security precautions built into its networking equipment - is vital for safeguarding company data. "A customer's network which is secure internally is the most secure facility to host a meeting on, because the security policy can be controlled," says Frost. "The fact that a service is hosted in-house doesn't preclude external users." Partners and customers can access meetings via the Internet or network gateways, he adds.

The counter argument is that while security is rarely a core competency for organisations who manage their own systems, the hosted providers make it a top priority - because their business depends on it. Part of WebEx's answer to potential customers with security concerns is to reassure them that none of their documents will ever be left on its premises, thereby removing any threat from hackers. "When [customers] hang up the phone, there is nothing left in the network," says Farshchi. He adds that WebEx is the only hosted collaboration company to use third-party security audits - not least of all from the US Department of Defense, which conducts its own scans of the WebEx environment every month.

Local versus hosted

While providing the basic technical requirements for a hosted collaboration environment may be a trivial task for most organisations, they need to cater for people joining web meetings from areas with a weak Internet connection. To prevent delays, WebEx's proprietary 'Media Tone' network dynamically adjusts the image resolution depending on the user's bandwidth.

Whether or not they opt for an on-demand provider or use their own networks, analysts at Gartner note that the relative novelty of web conferencing means SaaS gives organisations a chance to try the technology without committing to long-term investments.

"The hosted model provides low barriers to entry for technology that is unfamiliar to many users and IT departments," said analysts Jeffrey Mann and Lou Latham in Gartner's rating of web conferencing vendors, which positions WebEx, Microsoft and IBM as leaders. Microsoft offers its SharePoint tools as 'on-premise' software as well as having network service providers host them. Michael O'Hara, global head of Microsoft's Communications Sector business group, which sells systems to telcos, advocates a blend of the two. While advanced functions that might be used less often, like video conferencing, are more suited to provision as an on-demand service, other more informal collaboration tools such as instant messaging and voice over IP calls should be built into everyday desktop applications, such as Microsoft's Outlook and Word, to drive adoption.

"If you look at some of the early voice services connecting people, they rely on web portals to set functions and preferences," says O'Hara. "The usage of those web portals is somewhere in the 3% to 4% range of subscribers, so our contention is that until you start to get the VoIP features and functionality out onto people's common desktop they use every day, you won't really drive the benefits and adoption of VoIP for collaboration." IBM, with its Workplace Collaboration and Web Conferencing services, takes a more polarised view.

Having investigated the opportunities for hosted collaboration, Sabine Schlig, director of IBM's software as a service and business transformation for workplace, portal and collaboration, found that the enterprise market in particular will grow much more slowly than anticipated. "Talking to customers, they liked marginal functions like web conferencing and instant messaging as an opportunity to look at software as a service but they did not see core collaboration tools such as e-learning or email viable [as a SaaS] right now," she says. "Where they would be interested in going for a SaaS platform is with the introduction to new technology where they didn't know the IT requirements or how much they would use that service."

Gauging ROI

Schlig warns that many companies have not yet defined their policies for web conferencing. When employees adopt SaaS systems, rules are driven by how it is already being used rather than a cost-based purchasing decision. This user-led adoption might attest to the usability and popularity of hosted services, but it also highlights the potential challenge to security.

A study by David Coleman, analyst with specialist research house Collaborative Strategies, found that the on-premise model "has a faster cash recovery period and a superior ROI" than hosted services charged either per minute or per user, especially as the number of users goes up. Returns can be up to 247% better on-premise over hosted over a three-year period, he says.

Hosted providers argue user experience is paramount, and they can upgrade and improve their services for subscribers with no extra cost or configuration. Nigel Dunn, UK MD of Genesys Conferencing, says that ROI calculations cannot be generalised across companies because the specific areas where savings can be made are not always well understood. He says customers like glass maker Pilkington "can easily say they are saving 90% on a meeting without travel costs", but gains like training many people simultaneously to ensure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley are harder to quantify.

In a technology sector that is rapidly growing, maturing and consolidating, many companies will still prefer hosted collaboration while they gauge their take-up of web conferencing, how easily it integrates with other systems such as CRM, and whether they will reach that tipping point where the economies of scale make it worth the upfront investment of an on-premise system. While that suggests that web conferencing may not be the application that heralds the end of software, it will play its part.

OceanLake Records 147 per cent Increase in Revenues.

SINGAPORE & MODESTO, Calif. -- Company's intense focus on South East Asia mobile operators and enterprise customers results in record quarterly revenues

OceanLake Commerce Inc. (TSX VENTURE:OLI) (www.oceanlake.com), a provider of mobile Internet-enabling software for corporate enterprises, financial institutions, solution providers and mobile operators, announced record revenues for its third quarter ending December 31, 2004. These revenues exceed the total revenues recorded by the company for the two previous financial years.

"We are very excited by the revenue results posted this quarter. We were able to accomplish this growth with the support of our Strategic Investor/Partner in South East Asia and a more robust product offering of our mScope technology," says OceanLake CEO Steven Moya. "We plan to roll out some new products in calendar Q1 that we know our current and potential customers would like to implement in their respective mobile strategies. Our new products combined with the numerous opportunities identified by our partners, will help accelerate future revenues."

Revenue for the quarter ended December 31, 2004 amounted to $320,088 compared to $129,601 for the quarter ended December 31, 2003, an increase of 147%. Total revenues for the nine months ended December 31, 2004 amounted to $420,003 compared to $220,927 for the comparative period for the prior year, representing an increase of 90%.

The company recorded a net loss of $522,437 or one cent per share for the quarter ended December 31, 2004 a reduction of $88,987 as compared to the net loss of $611,424 or two cents per share for the quarter ended December 31, 2003. The December 31, 2004 net loss includes a one time expense of $92,374 related to the Company's Sarbanes Oxley certification. Additionally, the Company incurred approximately $20,000 related to onetime legal expenses. The weakness of the US dollar relative to the Canadian dollar resulted in a loss of $60,181 for the quarter ended December 31, 2004.

The reduction in the net loss for the three months ended December 31, 2004 is mainly due to the company's increased revenues and a reduction in general and administrative expenses. The company currently has 22 employees, of which 15 are employed in research and development and customer support.

"We are enhancing our products and developing new applications while maintaining tighter control over our expenses," adds Moya. "We feel confident moving forward that with our strong partnerships and leading-edge products, we will expand our position in the rapidly growing mobile markets."

About OceanLake Inc. (www.oceanlake.com)

OceanLake (TSXV:OLI) provides mobile Internet-enabling software for corporate enterprises, financial institutions, solution providers, and telecommunications carriers. OceanLake's products, including its mScope platform, immediately enable connectivity to any existing Internet infrastructure from any Internet-enabled mobile device in real-time. OceanLake enables mobile services providers to deliver new services and content to subscribers regardless of device. In addition, mobile service providers can simplify management of content partners by using mScope, thus improving the end-user experience and cutting support and operations costs. Corporate enterprises can leverage the company's technology to extend internal applications such as sales force automation and customer relationship management to employees in the field. OceanLake's products are both device- and platform-agnostic, and can be integrated into any Web-based application for fast, easy and cost-effective deployment with no need for additional application development. OceanLake is publicly traded and has offices in Singapore, Modesto, California, and Toronto, Canada.

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